AN: Like I said, I started on this one right away so I wouldn't lose any of the ideas that I came up with this one! Haha!
(After the fact) Okay, so...I was stupid and procrastinated and practically lost almost everything I wanted for this chapter. Oh well!
I decided to get this up fast before my "darling" twin sister decided to chop my head off because she had nothing to read! Haha!
Like I've been saying, school starts Monday, so updates will either be once a week, twice a month, or once a month. I'll see what I can do.
Oh, and I decided to change the rating back to T because I feel that there's nothing that would be counted as M here. Except maybe language, but I don't know. It's staying at T again until I really feel that it should be changed to M.
Thanks to those who reviewed!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that deals with "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED/Destiny." All rights are reserved to Sunrise.
Flashback: "So it's all right if he stays for now?" Cagalli asked.
"Oh, yeah sure! I don't mind. Maybe we can get to know each other later," Lacus smiled. "
But, we need to keep this from Kira! If he knew, he'd go crazy!" Cagalli said in return.
"Keep what from me?" Kira asked out of the blue.
Cagalli froze up when she heard her brother's voice coming from behind her. "Oh come on! Can't I just get away with something for once?!" she thought to herself.
Chapter 10
"Cagalli?" Kira questioned, looking at the weird face his sister was making.
"Huh? Oh. NOTHING!" she giggled nervously. "I'm going to bed now. I'm tired!" She faked a yawn and dashed up the stairs. She wasn't going to let Kira know that the guy who gave her a massive hickey was staying in his house just now and in his sister's room no less.
"Don't worry, Kira. It was nothing. I just happened to have caught her when she came in and I asked her to tell me about how the club was," Lacus giggled at Kira's confused face.
"She's not hiding something is she?" Kira asked, narrowing his eyes at the stairs.
"Not that I know of," Lacus answered, putting her pointer finger up to her chin and tapped it as if she was in thought.
As Cagalli burst in through her door and slammed it shut, she let out a sigh of relief. Locking the door, she turned around and frowned. Athrun was sitting on the floor, looking through her stuff and laughing.
"What the hell are you doing?! Who said you could go through my stuff?!" Cagalli yelled, without yelling to loud.
"Well, I happened to have stumbled across some things while I was trying to make my way around your room. Like this for instance," Athrun responded, holding up a picture of a boy and a girl. They looked like they were around the age of 14.
"Hey! Give that back!" she said, jumping for the picture of her and her brother when they first found out that they were siblings. It turns out that they were put up for adoption at a young age and they were adopted by different people but somehow they still lived in the same town. When both of their adoptive parents found out they knew each other, they decided to come clean and tell them about their pasts and that they were, in fact, twins.
Chuckling, Athrun gave the picture to Cagalli. He stood up just to sit down on the bed. He had removed his coat when he entered the room and threw it on the chair in front of the bed.
"Not a very tidy person, are you?" he said.
"I am! I was just trying to find a few things last night before I left," she muttered, cleaning up her mess. "Shouldn't you be sleeping or something, anyways?"
"I can't sleep when there's something much more exciting around," he winked.
"Whatever," she frowned. "I'm going to take a shower and change into something...better." She walked to her dresser and opened a few drawers, taking at least one thing out of each.
"Hmm...I think you look just fine with what you're wearing now," Athrun smirked.
(AN: I love making Athrun a lustful beast. Yummmm! XD)
"That's not what you said earlier," she said angrily. Without bothering to look at him, she stomped into her adjoined bathroom and slammed the door.
He laughed at her childish behavior. Of course he'd say that while other guys were around. Jealousy can be such a bitch when it comes to people. There was no way in hell he was going to have her with another guy, not in his lifetime, er..., her lifetime.
Kicking his shoes off his feet onto the floor, he slid back on the the bed and laid down. Shoving his hands behind his head and crossing one foot over the other, he stared at the ceiling. He noticed the ceiling was white, unlike the yellow colored walls that surrounded the room.
"Wait! Yellow equals bright," he thought. "Sun plus yellow equals brighter!" Sitting up, he searched the room for something big enough to be able to cover at least half of the window. Figuring his coat was the best thing he could find, next to the comforter spread across the bed, he scrambled out of the bed and lunged towards the chair that he had placed the coat on. Grabbing the black article of clothing, he charged towards the window almost tripping over a few random things along the short way. He stopped in front of the window and tossed his coat onto the curtain rod before the room became any brighter.
Just as he was straightening out the coat to block out a little more of the sun, Cagalli came strolling out of the bathroom. She tossed her clothes from the night before into her hamper and turned around.
"What the hell are you doing to my window, ya freak?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
"It's too bright," he said, turning around to face her.
"Okay, your point?" she responded, sitting down at her desk. Reaching under her desk, she pulled out the bag that contained her work laptop. She unzipped the bag and took the laptop out and placed it on the desk. Opening the screen, she pressed the on button and waited for it to start up.
"My point? You're well aware of what my point is," he frowned. Turning back to the window, he made sure it was covered well enough for him.
"Yeah, whatever. Shouldn't you be sleeping or something?" she muttered as she typed in her password on the login window.
"Mmm," Athrun mumbled as he climbed onto the bed once he decided that he couldn't cover anymore than he already did. "You don't mind if I sleep on here, do you?"
"Knock yourself out," she said, staring at her computer screen.
He chuckled as he laid his head on the pillow. Minutes later he was fast asleep.
"No! DAMNIT!" Cagalli shouted as she banged her head against the desk countless times, causing Athrun to wake up.
"Huh wha? What's wrong?" he yawned, sitting up.
"Damnit, damnit, shit, crap!" she continued to curse. "This is bad."
There was a bang on the door and then a shout, "Cagalli?! What's wrong?! Are you okay?!" The banging continued.
"Go away, Kira! I'm fine!" she yelled back, trying to figure out her problem.
Athrun sat completely still as the handle on the door began to rattle.
"Cagalli, why is the door locked?! What are you doing in there?!" Kira yelled through the door, still rattling the handle.
"Damnit Kira! I'm working! Go the hell away!" she responded. She banged her head on the desk once more before looking at the screen again. She had figured out the problem.
The door handle stopped rattling and there was footsteps heard fading away. Kira knew he couldn't get in and if he did, his ass would be gone. Even though he was a lot stronger than she was, she'd end up winning when she was angry every time.
Cautiously standing up, Athrun walked over to stand behind Cagalli. With one hand on the back of the chair and another on the desk, he leaned over her shoulder to see what she was complaining about.
"This just can't be happening!" she whispered to herself as she tried to fix the problem.
"What's happening?" he asked, staring at the screen. There was files among files pulled up on the screen.
Without realizing who was talking to her, she spoke up, "Whoever was left to do my job while I'm on vacation screwed everything up! Everything's out of order, all of the numbers are wrong. This will take days for me to finish! I knew I should have chosen someone to look over all of this for me!"
Studying the files that were pulled up, he got an idea of what she was doing. He realized that he dealt with this kind of stuff all the time. He wasn't exactly fond of other people handling the numbers and certain files for his company. Although, when he did let someone do so, they always messed them up one way or another.
"Move, I know how to fix this," he said, pulling the chair out from under the desk.
"What?! No! I can handle this! It will just be a few days!" she retorted. "I don't need your help!"
"Believe me, I'll save you days of work. Just let me help," he said. Without waiting for a response, he picked her up and dropped her on the bed. Before she could get up, he sat down and began working on the messed up work.
"What the hell?!" she shouted, sitting up on the bed. "I said I can do it myself!"
He ignored her and continued fixing her files. Almost forty-five minutes had passed and he was already done. Cagalli stared at him with wide eyes.
"How in the hell did you do it that quick?!" she mumbled as she got off the bed.
"I'm used to doing this. Every time I leave these kind of files with someone else, they come back wrong. I've done it for years," he smiled.
"You just saved me days of work," she said, still staring at the computer screen. Everything was now completed, up to date, and most of all correct. "I don't know how to thank you."
"Oh...I could think of a few things," he started, which earned him a glare from her. "But I'll let it go. Just thanking me is good enough."
She got up from the bed and stopped in front of the chair. Without giving him a warning, she grabbed his arm and threw him out of the chair. He landed on the floor, on his stomach, with a thud.
"Was that really necessary?" he said to the floor. "You could have asked me to just get up."
Cagalli shrugged and sat down in her chair again. Not even a minute later, there was a knock on the door and a voice, this time it sounded like a woman.
"Cagalli, may I come in?" the womanly voice said from the other side of the door.
Cagalli got up and unlocked the door. Cracking it open, she saw that Lacus was at the door. Although she knew, she just had to make sure it wasn't her stupid brother trying to get in. She stuck her head out the door and looked around, Kira was no where to be found.
"Sure, come in," Cagalli replied, opening the door for Lacus.
"I heard a thud come from up here. Is everyone alright?" Lacus asked in a concerned tone, entering the room.
Once Lacus was completely inside the room, Cagalli slammed the door shut quickly and locked it.
"Yeah, we're fine. Moron over there just fell out of the chair," Cagalli shrugged and sat down in the same chair again.
"I recall you throwing me out of the chair," Athrun muttered from the floor.
"Oh my, are you alright Mr. Athrun?" Lacus said, walking over next to him to kneel down.
"Athrun, please and I'm fine, thank you. At least someone is nice," he chuckled.
"Oh, but I was nice. I could have kicked your ass if I wanted to," Cagalli smiled evilly.
Athrun rolled over onto his back and sat up. Lacus offered her hand and she helped him up to his feet. He dusted himself off and sat down on the bed, as did Lacus.
"So Athrun?" Lacus began.
"Yes, Ms. Lacus?" he replied
"Oh no, please, call me Lacus," she continued. "But I don't know if this is coincidence, but are you the owner of the Zala hotel chain?"
Athrun chuckled lightly before answering her question, "It's no coincidence, I am, in fact, the owner of the Zala hotel chain."
"You never told me that!" Cagalli shouted out of no where.
"You never asked," he shrugged.
"This is probably bothersome, but I've always wanted to stay there! I've seen pictures of rooms and the hotel itself and everything was just amazing! It seemed to good to just be a normal hotel!" Lacus ranted.
"That's what I aimed for," he laughed.
"Hey Lacus? Do you mind if I speak to him alone for a few minutes?" Cagalli asked with a little idea in mind.
"Oh, no! Go ahead! I must start dinner anyways!" she smiled. "Will you be staying, Athrun?"
"Umm...?" he started. What about Cagalli's brother? He knew he wouldn't be welcomed openly if Cagalli had to hide him.
"Don't worry, we'll come up with something to tell Kira," Lacus winked, remembering that Kira wasn't exactly fond of this man.
"I guess I'll stay then?" he replied after a moment of thought.
"Great!" Lacus cheered. "I'll call you down when it's ready." She skipped to the door, unlocked it, and skipped out.
Cagalli quickly closed the door behind her and locked it just as fast. Before she could turn around, something, or more like someone, had her pinned up against the door.
"Alone, eh?" Athrun whispered seductively into her ear. "First you want me gone, now you want me all to yourself."
"This has nothing to do with you or me," Cagalli replied, rolling her eyes. "You also have five seconds to back the hell up, unless you want an elbow below."
"What is it then?" he chuckled while he backed away from her.
Cagalli turned around and faced him and said, "I need a room in one of your hotels and somewhere amazing!"
"What for?" Athrun replied, raising an eyebrow. He plopped down on the bed and folded one leg over the other. Resting his elbow on his knee, he placed his head in his hand.
"For Kira and Lacus! They're getting married in the next few months and they've yet to choose somewhere to go for their honeymoon," she explained.
"I don't know if I can do that," he stated. He watched as her face changed from a shocked expression to a saddened one.
"Athrun! Please! You've got to do this for me!" she begged. "I'll do anything! I just want them to be happy on their honeymoon! They deserve it!"
"Anything?" he smirked.
"I'm being serious! Are you going to do it or not?!" she said.
"Alright, alright. I'll do it. I just need to know where they want to go, when they want to go, and how long they're going. Everything after that will be taken care of," he sighed. "Your happiness is all I need in return."
"THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!" she shouted with joy. She was so happy, she jumped on him and hugged him, knocking them both down onto the bed. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her close, burying his face into her neck.
"Okay! We need to start planning this right away!" she said excitedly, jumping out of his grasp.
"Okay, give me a pen and paper so I can jot this down," he laughed.
Cagalli dashed over to her desk and searched through her drawers until she found a notepad and pen. She walked back to Athrun and handed them over.
"Do you have any hotels outside the country?" she began.
"There's many outside the country. They range from Japan to France to Mexico," he stated.
"Well, I think Lacus has been bugging Kira about going to France for years now. Do you have one in Paris?" she asked.
"If I'm correct, I have two of them situated there," he answered.
"Well, you choose whichever you think is better for them, but I think Paris would be great!" she exclaimed.
"Paris it is then. When's the wedding?" he said, jotting down the details so far.
"The wedding is December 5th," she responded.
"Do you know when they want to leave and how long they're planning on staying?" he asked, continuing with his details on the paper.
"I'm really not sure about that," she mumbled. "I know! Why don't we tell them at dinner about it?!"
Athrun froze in the middle of his writing and said, "Is that really a good idea? You've been trying to hide me from your brother and now you're practically giving me away."
"He won't know it's you..," she trailed off. "Wait, you know I told him, don't you?! You've been reading my mind again, haven't you?!"
"Uhh...?" he muttered. "I think we should tell them tonight. That's a good idea!" No way was he going to admit to reading her mind.
"Fine," she said, narrowing her eyes at him. "We just need to figure out what to do with you."
As if someone was reading her mind, pun intended, a knock was heard on the door. Cagalli got up and stood in front of the door.
"Who is it?" she said, raising her voice without actually shouting.
"It's Lacus. I came up with an idea!" she responded, though it sounded muffled due to the door.
Cagalli unlocked the door and pulled Lacus in. She slammed the door behind them and locked it again.
"Well, Kira should be home within the next hour. So I think we should just pretend that Athrun came over before then," Lacus began.
"Where did he go anyways?" Cagalli interrupted.
"I sent him off to run some errands for me. Anyways! Athrun, do you go by a different alias sometimes? If not, we'll need to make up a name for you to go by. Kira won't be pleased if he knows who you really are," Lacus continued.
"Occasionally I go by Alex Dino if I ever have to go out in public," he replied, jotting down a few ideas for Kira and Lacus' honeymoon. He had to make it perfect, not only for Kira and Lacus, but also for Cagalli. This was her idea after all.
"Perfect! I'm going to call Kira to see where he is. I'll be back shortly," Lacus said, unlocking the door and walking out, making sure to close it behind herself.
"You didn't use that name when I first met you and you were in public then!" Cagalli said, looking at him.
"It must have slipped my mind then," Athrun shrugged. "Does this look good to you?"
She yanked the notepad out of his hand and read all of his ideas. Her eyes widened at what she read. "He really didn't need to pretty much plan out their whole honeymoon," she thought.
"Don't worry, I was just thinking of giving them some things to do. They can take it or leave it as they please," he chuckled.
Cagalli turned her attention from the notepad to Athrun. She glared at him before narrowing her eyes into slits. He had read her mind again and she knew it. As she was about to toss the notepad straight at his head, a knock was heard and the door was opened.
"Alright, Kira should be home in about 20 minutes. Let's move down to the living room," Lacus said. "Don't worry though, the light from the sun doesn't hit the living room at this time of day. Although it should be dark enough for you to enter the kitchen by the time dinner is ready."
Athrun nodded his head in return and stood up. He walked around the bed and stopped in front of the window and yanked his coat off of it. He walked over to the bed again to place his shoes back on his feet and then exited the room after Lacus. Before leaving the room, though, he yoinked the notepad from Cagalli, ripped the page off, and handed the notepad back.
"Coming?" he smiled.
"Unfortunately," she mumbled as she walked around him and out the door.
They both descended the stairs one after the other into the living room where Lacus was waiting. Lacus took Athrun's coat and placed it on the back of an armchair. She told them both to sit down and left to get some drinks. A couple minutes later she returned with some lemonade and sat down with them.
"Kira should be home any minute. Act normal and just follow my lead," Lacus said.
"Jeez, you seem more worried about it than I am. I don't mind if he beats Athrun down with whatever random object he can find this time," Cagalli shrugged, leaning back into her chair.
"Did she forget what I am or something?!" Athrun thought, looking at Cagalli with a 'Say what?!' face.
"Cagalli, don't be so mean. He is your guest," Lacus scolded before taking a sip of her lemonade.
"Wait! What do you mean this time?!" Athrun said, actually thinking about Cagalli's words. He stared at her with the same face as before.
"Huh? Oh. Last time I brought Yuna over, he decided to put his hand in the wrong place and Kira beat the crap out of him with the tray over there and when that didn't do enough damage for him, he broke the coffee table and started beating him with the leg of the table," Cagalli explained and took a sip of her drink.
"Over protective type, eh?" Athrun chuckled nervously. Although he could over-power Kira in a heartbeat, he wasn't willing to do that to his love's only brother and from what he knows, only family member as of now.
"Very. Hence the reason I had to sneak you in earlier. We were lucky it was only Lacus who caught us and not him," Cagalli said, taking another sip.
The trio sat in silence for a bit until they heard a click and a slam coming from the foyer. They also heard the rattle of keys being dropped and footsteps coming towards them. They all turned their attention to where the footsteps were coming from.
"Hey guys, I'm home," Kira greeted as he entered the living, carrying a few bags with him. "Who's that?"
"This is Mr. Alex Dino. He's one of Cagalli's friends," Lacus introduced. "I met to tell you about him coming over on the phone, but it must have slipped. He just arrived a little while before you."
Athrun got up and extended his hand to Kira. "It's nice to meet you, Mr. Yamato," he smiled.
Kira took Athrun's hand and shook it. As they let each other's hands go, Lacus walked over and helped Kira take the bags to the kitchen. They returned moments later and they all sat down in the living.
"So, how do you know Cagalli?" Kira asked as he threw his arm around Lacus, who was seated next to him.
"I used to work with her at one point. We met again not too long ago and we've been talking through email since then," Athrun replied, nonchalantly.
"Ah. How long have you know each other?" Kira continued.
"I think about a year or two," Athrun answered. "Cagalli?"
"Huh?" Cagalli said. She hadn't been listening to the conversation at all. She just wished he'd leave already. She was sick of dealing with him.
"How long have we known each other?" Athrun said, repeating Kira's question.
"I think about a year and some odd months. I don't know. I don't keep track," she answered quickly.
Lacus looked at Cagalli and scolded her with her eyes. Cagalli could tell that Lacus was telling her to stop being so rude to him, though she really didn't care.
"I think dinner's almost ready," Lacus said, standing up. "Why don't you come help me, Cagalli? Let's let these two get to know each other a bit."
Lacus walked over to Cagalli and grabbed her hand, pulling her out of the chair. She dragged her off into the kitchen.
"Hey! What the?!" Cagalli yelled, almost stumbling over herself.
When they entered the kitchen, Lacus let go of Cagalli's hand and smiled at her before tended to the food.
"Lacus! We can't leave Kira in there with him!" Cagalli whispered. "He's been staring at Athrun with this weird face."
"Just leave it, Cagalli," Lacus replied, taking the chicken out of the oven. "If we hear something, we'll do something about it."
Cagalli sighed as she took the plates and silverware out of the cupboards and began setting the table.
The boys smiled at the retreating girls before turning back to each other. Athrun's face still held a smile while Kira's face now held a frown.
"Who are you really?" Kira asked calmly. He leaned forward and rested his arms on his knees. Hands clasped, he stared at Athrun.
"I'm Alex Dino, Mr. Yamato. Who else would I be?" Athrun responded.
"Cut the crap. I know who you are. Not many people have blue hair and green eyes," Kira replied, trying to contain his anger. "This must be Cagalli's doing. That's why he's not telling me who he actually is," he thought.
"I'm sorry?" Athrun asked, trying to sound confused.
"You're Athrun Zala, I know it. I looked you up the other day on the internet," Kira said, now glaring at him.
"Who?" Athrun asked, sounding even more confused.
"I'm not easily fooled, Mr. Zala," Kira replied firmly.
"Lacus! Hurry! Go and distract them! Kira knows about Athrun!" Cagalli exclaimed.
"What?" Lacus said a little worried. "What's Athrun saying?"
"He's completely denying it but Kira won't back down. Go tell them dinner is ready!" Cagalli said, walking back into the kitchen. She had been hiding behind the wall closest to the living room to make sure nothing when wrong.
"Just calm down, Cagalli," Lacus said placing the chicken onto the table.
"Come on Lacus! Go! Go! Go!" Cagalli almost yelled.
"Okay, I'm going. Calm down," Lacus said exiting the kitchen. She sighed as she entered the living room to find Kira whispering about something to Athrun.
"Dinner's ready," Lacus said.
Athrun and Kira stood up together. Kira motioned for Athrun to go before him. As Athrun walked by Kira, Kira whispered, "I'm not done with you," before following after into the kitchen. Cagalli had already finished putting everything on the table as they entered and took their seats.
They ate in silence the whole time. Kira kept glaring at Cagalli and Athrun while they both kept their heads down and their eyes in the plates. Lacus was looking at everyone, she knew this wasn't going to turn out well very soon. Finally fed up with staring at the same thing, Cagalli lifted her head to find her brother staring, more like glaring, at her.
"What the hell are you staring at me for?!" Cagalli said, irritated. She hated it when people stared at her. It was like they were inspecting her.
"I know you know perfectly well why I'm staring at you," Kira said, anger evident in his voice.
"Actually, I have no idea why the hell you're staring at me!" Cagalli yelled. Her grip on her fork tightened.
"You know!" Kira yelled back, standing up. His chair was pushed over to the floor due to the force of him darting up.
"Care to enlighten me, jackass?!" Cagalli replied, also pushing her chair over.
Lacus and Athrun looked from each other to the twins and back. They weren't quite sure what was going to happen, but they knew it wasn't going to be good. Something was bound to happen.
"Maybe it's the fact that you decided to invite the idiot that almost raped you to my house!" Kira shouted.
All three of them were taken aback. Cagalli quickly regained herself and shouted, "This idiot isn't that idiot! That's pretty freakin' obvious!"
"Umm...?" Athrun started. "I don't think I'm an idiot."
"SHUT UP!" the twins yelled in reply. Athrun sat back in his chair and shut his mouth. One of them ganging up on him was bad enough, but two was much worse.
"Don't tell him to shut up!" Cagalli yelled at her brother.
"I'll do as I please!" Kira shouted. "I can't believe you invited him here!"
"This is Athrun Zala! This is Alex Dino! There's a difference here!" Cagalli replied.
"I'm not stupid! That's obviously Athrun Zala! They look exactly alike!" Kira said.
"What does looks have to do with anything?! Many people look alike! In fact, I saw someone who looked like Lacus the other day!" Cagalli yelled.
"WHAT?!" Athrun shouted in his mind. "There's only one person that looks like Lacus and that's Meer. She couldn't have? Could she?! Oh shit! I've got to ask her about that later. Meer's probably up to no good."
"That's not the point! The point is this is Athrun Zala! The big dumb asshole who tried to rape my sister! My poor, innocent sister!" Kira shouted.
"Excuse me?! Innocent?!" Cagalli said before she jumped over the table, aiming her fork at his head. "I'm not innocent!" She landed on top of him on the floor.
Athrun and Lacus darted out of their chairs to go stop the fighting twins. During which Kira was able to knock the fork out of Cagalli's hand. So she resorted to punching him instead. Kira was able to grab a hold of her wrists, but Cagalli continued to fight back, struggling to get out of his grip.
Athrun ran around the table tried to pry Cagalli off of Kira while Lacus stood by.
"LET GO OF MY, ZALA! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!" Cagalli yelled, now fighting against both boys.
"I told ya it was Athrun!" Kira shouted from under his sister, still gripping her wrists.
"Who cares who he is! I'm going to kill you!" Cagalli yelled.
Athrun was finally able to pull Cagalli off of Kira. She began clawing at his arms that were wound tightly around her waist, but his grip wouldn't loosen one bit. Meanwhile, Lacus helped Kira get up off the floor.
"Please take her into the other room," Lacus calmly said over the commotion.
Athrun nodded his head and dragged Cagalli out of the dining area.
"Stop Athrun! Let me go!" Cagalli said angrily, still fighting to get out of his grip.
"Cagalli, stop! I'm not letting you go until you calm down!" Athrun said into her ear. He dragged her into the living room and tossed her down on the couch.
"Now sit and calm down," he commanded. "And don't bother trying to run, we'll know how that will end up."
"Screw you, Zala!" she spat in return. She tried to get up only to be pushed back down by Athrun.
"Do that again and I'll sit on you," he replied.
"You wouldn't," she whispered, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"I would," Athrun smirked.
As Cagalli was about to make another run for it, Kira and Lacus entered the living room. When she saw Kira, she took her chances for real this time and scrambled up. As she rounded the couch, Athrun caught her again by the waist and held her firmly.
"Stop it, Cagalli!" Athrun yelled.
"Cagalli," Lacus warned.
Cagalli instantly stopped when she heard the tone in Lacus' voice, she had never heard that before and she wasn't going to take her chances.
"We're all going to sit down and we're going to talk like civil human beings. Kira will leave Athrun alone and Cagalli will leave Kira alone. No more arguments tonight," Lacus commanded.
Kira and Lacus sat on one couch next to each while Athrun carried Cagalli around and threw her down on the other couch across from Kira and Lacus. He took his seat next to Cagalli and they all looked at each other. Although the fighting had ceased, Kira and Cagalli were still staring at each other, Kira occasionally turning his attention over to Athrun and back to Cagalli.
"Why don't you tell them what you have planned now?" Athrun whispered, leaning over to her ear.
"What?" Cagalli said, confused.
Athrun sighed and took the piece of paper out of his pants pocket and unfolded it. He shoved it into her face.
"This," he said, referring to the ideas written on the piece of paper.
"Oh, right," Cagalli whispered back taking the paper into her hands. She read the paper real quick and then cleared her throat.
"Lacus, have you decided on what you're doing for your honeymoon yet?" Cagalli asked, now ignoring her brother.
"No, we're still looking. We haven't found anywhere interesting yet and Kira won't let me look outside the country," Lacus said, glaring at Kira.
"Well, um...?" Cagalli started, looking at the paper.
"Go ahead, tell them," Athrun whispered into her ear.
"Here," Cagalli said handing the paper to Lacus. "It's more or less for you since Kira's a jerk."
Lacus read the paper and her eyes lit up with excitement. She showed Kira the paper and he was shocked.
"Cagalli?! Are you serious?!" Lacus said, excited.
"Yeah, I want you guys...Well, mostly you since Kira's still a jerk, to enjoy your honeymoon," Cagalli replied. "When I found out about Athrun owning the hotels, I asked him to help and he agreed. So everything written on there is what he wrote."
"Athrun, you'll really do this for us?!" Lacus said, even more excited. She always wanted to go to Paris and she was finally getting her chance to do so.
"Yes-" Athrun started.
"Even though Kira doesn't deserve it now because he's a jerk!" Cagalli interrupted, glaring at her brother.
Kira didn't bother opening his mouth, his eyes said it all.
"Anyways, yes. You can stay at the hotel for as long as you want without worrying about paying for anything. Don't worry, I'll make sure of it," Athrun smiled. "Although I can't help you with the flights."
"Oh! We can book that ourselves. It's okay!" Lacus responded.
"Actually, I can just lend you my private jet to make it easier on yourselves if you'd like. I never use the thing anyways," Athrun shrugged.
"You really don't have to do all of this for us, Athrun! We barely know you and I don't want to make it seem we're taking advantage of you!" Lacus replied.
"No, no. I insist. Cagalli wants you both to be happy," Athrun said. He wanted them to be happy just so Cagalli could be happy. Hell, he'd even fly over there himself if something goes wrong and personally take care of it himself if he had to just to keep them happy while away.
"No! I want Lacus to be happy. Screw Kira!" Cagalli yelled.
"Screw you too!" Kira finally said after a little while.
"Kira! Cagalli! What did I say?!" Lacus commanded. "No more arguing! And Kira, thank Athrun for all of this. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have such a lovely honeymoon!"
Kira sighed and stood up. He figured he'd be nice to this idiot just this once to make Lacus happy. He knew she wanted a honeymoon like this and if it was being handed to them on a silver platter like this, he'll gladly take it to make his fiancé happy. He extended his hand to Athrun.
"Thanks for all of this," he mumbled.
Athrun took his hand and shook it. "Anytime. I'm only glad to help," he replied.
Cagalli rolled her eyes and stood up. "Come on Athrun, you have to get going now," she said. She quickly went up to her room to grab a coat and her phone and came back to the living room.
"It was nice meeting you both. I'm sorry for the commotion," Athrun said, shaking both Kira and Lacus' hand before grabbing his coat that was hanging on the back of the chair.
"It's alright. I know it wasn't intended," Lacus smiled sweetly.
Everyone walked to the door where Cagalli grabbed the keys to Athrun's car.
"Where are you going?" Kira asked, annoyed.
"I'm dropping him off, how do you expect him to get home if I don't?" Cagalli replied.
"Walk?" Kira responded, raising an eyebrow.
Cagalli rolled her eyes and walked out the door and said, "I'll be back soon."
Athrun followed after her and said, "Once again, it was nice meeting you both. Have a nice evening!"
"It was nice meeting you too, Athrun! Hope to see you again!" Lacus waved goodbye.
"I don't," mumbled Kira, which received an elbow to the stomach from Lacus.
AN: 'Kay. I know I'm really late! That's why I made this a little longer for you guys! Haha. The next chapter should be up soon. I won't give a time limit because I'm not sure. It will be sometime this month, though I think.
Please excuse all grammatical errors and such.
I need your opinions though. How many chapters do you think this should be? I really have no idea how long it should be. I think if I set a chapter limit, I'll know how much to type in my upcoming chapters.