Title: Chance
Author: Supurrkitty
Disclaimer: Yadayada...don't own nothin'...yadayadayada...
Description: Okay, I've been doing a lot of AU's to go with my original character fanfics. Like, A Lovely Mess, for one, now this.
Another what if that has to do with my fascination with destiny:
What if Akira was not a Gundam pilot and never met any of the G-boys or Haruki? Well, for one thing, she cuts her hair and gets glasses (it makes her look much younger)! But if her destiny is with Quatre, how will she meet him.
A surprisingly brief first meeting, an even more surprising second meeting, an almost trip around the world, and a chance romance make for a cute multi-chapter fic. Enjoy!
Chapter four: Almost there
" Quatre!!" Duo yelled at the sleeping blonde boy. " Quatre, wake up!!!"
Quatre opened his eyes and looked at the braided boy and turned over, pulling his blanket over his head.
" If you don't wake up, Haruki's going to be mad if I'm late!! You don't understand how women can be!!" Duo protested.
"...what's that supposed to mean..." Quatre pulled the comforter off his face and sat up.
" Nothing, if you're getting up." Duo said.
" Fine." Quatre swung his feet to the ground. He was still wearing his clothes from the day before.
Duo looked at him strangely.
" What?" Quatre half demanded.
Duo shrugged and walked out of the room.
" As long as we get going on time, I really don't care..." Duo could be barely heard from the other room.
Quatre rolled his eyes and shook his head.
Then, he remembered what he was going to do today. He quickly got dressed and took the extra suitcase he had gotten and threw on a coat and went out of the apartment. He said hi to Umeko before he went next door to the apartment complex and into the Preventers station.
" You ready to go register, 'Kira?" Umeko asked.
" Yeah, sure..." Akira yawned, still half asleep.
Umeko dragged her out the door and to the elevator. Akira leaned against the elevator and started to drift off again. The elevator stopped and the door opened. Umeko went out and Akira didn't even notice. Umeko saw Quatre and waved.
" Hey, how's it going?" Umeko asked.
" Could be better, it's a busy day for us." Quatre said, hoping she wouldn't stop him for too long.
" Yeah, same for us, too. See you later?" Umeko asked.
" Maybe. Bye." Quatre and Umeko waved bye to each other.
" See, that's..." Umeko was trying to talk to Akira, but noticed she wasn't there.
She stopped the elevator doors from shutting and tugged Akira out.
" You need to wake up, Akira. That could have been your future love!" Umeko yelled and tugged her out of the building.
" Wha-...huh?..." Akira winced at the sunlight.
" Let's just go into the Preventers station, get you registered. Have the long discussion with Lady Une over the vid-phone, and you can get back to your precious sleep." Umeko said.
" Good..." Akira said, yawning again.
Quatre stepped up to the front desk and set down the suitcase.
" Excuse me, I need to..." Quatre looked over, through a window and saw a familiar face.
" Excuse me a moment..." Quatre said, before walking away, forgetting the suitcase on the ground.
He walked through a door and into another room.
" Haruki, what are you doing here?" Quatre asked the brown-haired, Hazel-eyed, short girl.
She turned around and Quatre noticed she had a very stressed look on her face.
" What's wrong?" Quatre asked.
Haruki hugged the blonde boy.
" Quatre, it's nice to see you." Haruki said, " Do you know where Duo is?"
Quatre pulled away from her after hugging her hello. He looked down at her. He couldn't help it, he used to have a crush on her. But, Duo just moved faster than him. It took a while to get over her, but she was one of Quatre's greatest friends. Besides, her and Duo were a wonderful match for each other from Quatre's point-of-view.
" I think he's still in the apartment, why?" Quatre asked.
" I have to tell him something very important. I was going to wait for you guys to come home, but, I just can't wait anymore. I really have to talk to him!"
Quatre couldn't ignore the urgency and distress in her voice. It concerned him greatly.
Akira and Umeko walked into the building and went to the front desk.
" Hey, 'Kira here was picked out as one of the new engineers, I need to sign her up and get Une dialed on the phone, so she can get started. Did Duo send in the list yet?" Umeko asked.
" He sure did. What's her name?" The woman asked.
" Akira Satashi, ma'am." Akira said, deciding to speak for herself.
" Alright, please wait a moment while I search for it..." The woman said and started typing away at the computer.
Akira woke up enough to start noticing her surroundings.
'Nice place...' Akira thought, then she looked through a window and into another room. It was a blonde man and a small woman hugging each other. ' No way, it can't be!'
The man turned slightly and, sure enough, it was Quatre.
'Hmph,' Akira thought ' His girlfriend must be a preventer...'
Akira felt a twinge of jealousy as she looked away. But that was just ridiculous, she didn't even know the guy that well.
' What a terrible way to start off my morning!' Akira looked down and saw... The Suitcase!
She quickly picked it up and checked the tag. It was hers!
" Umeko!" Akira whispered, happily. " It's my bag!"
" What!? What's it doing here!?" Umeko asked.
" I don't know, but it's here!" Akira hugged the bag.
" Well, just check it for anything dangerous before you do anything..." Umeko said, not sure of what to think of the coincidence. Well, maybe she didn't really leave it in L.A.. With Akira, you could never tell.
" Alright, if you two could just wait in that room over there, Une will be on the phone shortly." The woman said.
" Thank you very much." Akira said, now in a happy mood.
Her and Umeko went into the other room as Akira looked her suitcase over.
Quatre and Haruki walked out of the office and saw Umeko just go into another room. Usually, Haruki would take the time to say hello, but not today. Haruki was in a way different mood than usual.
Quatre led her to the apartment building and they walked in and started toward the apartment.
" Oh, Quatre. I got your bags already and..." Duo was walking towards them and couldn't see well, because he was carrying a lot of luggage. But then, he caught a glimpse of Haruki and dropped his bags.
" Haruki, what are you doing here?" Duo asked and smiled at her.
Haruki started to cry and ran to Duo and hugged him.
" I have something very important to tell you..." Haruki said.
" Alright, then, we'll just sit down and talk, okay?" Duo asked, looking at her. He could tell it was something very serious.
She nodded and looked at the ground.
Duo grabbed a key and unlocked the nearby apartment, then stuffed the luggage back in.
" No more rush, Quatre. Just give us a bit." Duo said.
Quatre just nodded and walked off as Haruki and Duo went back into the apartment.
' Wait a sec.' Quatre thought to himself. ' What happened to the bag!?'
Quatre hurried over to the Preventers building.
" Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?" Umeko asked Akira as they walked out of the building.
Akira shook her head.
" Now, back to my sleep..." Akira said.
" You mean you haven't woken up, yet!?" Umeko asked.
Akira just smiled at her, holding her bag close to her side.
" C'mon, let's go get a celebration breakfast. On the go. I know the best doughnut place this way." Umeko pointed in the opposite direction of the apartments.
" Alright." Akira said and they took off.
A minute or two later, Quatre walked into the Preventers building.
He looked and he saw no bag.
" Excuse me, ma'am. There was a bag here, do you know what happened to it?" Quatre asked.
" Yes, a young girl picked it up just a few minutes ago. You just missed her." The woman said.
" What was her name?" Quatre asked.
" Um, I believe her name was Akira, sir." The woman said.
" Oh," Quatre smiled, it was the owner.
He was about to walk away, but something else nagged at his brain and he just had to ask.
" What did she look like?" Quatre asked.
" Well, she was tall, with black hair and glasses. Her hair was just above her shoulder and she was wearing a business suit." The woman said.
" Luggage Girl! She's called Akira, and it was her bag, of course!" Quatre said and the woman blinked, using a fake smile.
Quatre almost ran out the door, then he stopped. He dug in his back pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. He had written down the information on the paper. He could find Luggage Girl now. He would have to track her down.
' But, what would I say?' Quatre asked himself, ' Maybe I'd just talk to her and figure out why I'm feeling so guilty and why she wouldn't let me talk and kept apologizing to me.'
Quatre shrugged to himself and went back into the building.
" Sorry to disturb you again ma'am, but could you track down this number's address for me?" Quatre asked.
Akira hummed as they walked back to the apartment with doughnuts and Akira's long lost bag.
Akira looked in the doors of Preventers as they walked past. It was Quatre again.
' Wonder where his girlfriend went?' Akira thought, then decided she wouldn't go back into that state of mind. She didn't have to, she had doughnuts and her luggage.
But she couldn't help but feel a sense of longing for the blonde boy.
" Japan?" Quatre asked, dumb-struck.
" Yessir, in fact, a shrine." The woman said.
" No way! She must be on vacation or something..." Quatre thought out loud.
" Yeah, England can be a big tourist attraction..." The woman said.
" Well, I guess I'll just have to wait a few days." Quatre said.
The woman just nodded and watched him leave.
To be continued...
Err, yeah...
Join Supurrkitty next time as the couple starts to discover the meaning of that day in L.A..
Next time:
Quatre walked to the front office of the building happily. He had an idea. If Akira was in the building and occupying a room, she'd have to be on the listings.
" Excuse me, but could you tell me if there's an Akira Satashi in the building?" Quatre asked the lady at the desk. The woman typed and searched for the name on the computer.
" She just left today. Her name was crossed off this morning." The woman said.
" Thank you very much." Quatre said, before walking off.
How damned inconvenient! Why didn't he do that yesterday!?
' Oh yeah, that would have been way to nice of fate...' Quatre suddenly became disgusted by the world and grumpy again.
Author: Supurrkitty
Disclaimer: Yadayada...don't own nothin'...yadayadayada...
Description: Okay, I've been doing a lot of AU's to go with my original character fanfics. Like, A Lovely Mess, for one, now this.
Another what if that has to do with my fascination with destiny:
What if Akira was not a Gundam pilot and never met any of the G-boys or Haruki? Well, for one thing, she cuts her hair and gets glasses (it makes her look much younger)! But if her destiny is with Quatre, how will she meet him.
A surprisingly brief first meeting, an even more surprising second meeting, an almost trip around the world, and a chance romance make for a cute multi-chapter fic. Enjoy!
Chapter four: Almost there
" Quatre!!" Duo yelled at the sleeping blonde boy. " Quatre, wake up!!!"
Quatre opened his eyes and looked at the braided boy and turned over, pulling his blanket over his head.
" If you don't wake up, Haruki's going to be mad if I'm late!! You don't understand how women can be!!" Duo protested.
"...what's that supposed to mean..." Quatre pulled the comforter off his face and sat up.
" Nothing, if you're getting up." Duo said.
" Fine." Quatre swung his feet to the ground. He was still wearing his clothes from the day before.
Duo looked at him strangely.
" What?" Quatre half demanded.
Duo shrugged and walked out of the room.
" As long as we get going on time, I really don't care..." Duo could be barely heard from the other room.
Quatre rolled his eyes and shook his head.
Then, he remembered what he was going to do today. He quickly got dressed and took the extra suitcase he had gotten and threw on a coat and went out of the apartment. He said hi to Umeko before he went next door to the apartment complex and into the Preventers station.
" You ready to go register, 'Kira?" Umeko asked.
" Yeah, sure..." Akira yawned, still half asleep.
Umeko dragged her out the door and to the elevator. Akira leaned against the elevator and started to drift off again. The elevator stopped and the door opened. Umeko went out and Akira didn't even notice. Umeko saw Quatre and waved.
" Hey, how's it going?" Umeko asked.
" Could be better, it's a busy day for us." Quatre said, hoping she wouldn't stop him for too long.
" Yeah, same for us, too. See you later?" Umeko asked.
" Maybe. Bye." Quatre and Umeko waved bye to each other.
" See, that's..." Umeko was trying to talk to Akira, but noticed she wasn't there.
She stopped the elevator doors from shutting and tugged Akira out.
" You need to wake up, Akira. That could have been your future love!" Umeko yelled and tugged her out of the building.
" Wha-...huh?..." Akira winced at the sunlight.
" Let's just go into the Preventers station, get you registered. Have the long discussion with Lady Une over the vid-phone, and you can get back to your precious sleep." Umeko said.
" Good..." Akira said, yawning again.
Quatre stepped up to the front desk and set down the suitcase.
" Excuse me, I need to..." Quatre looked over, through a window and saw a familiar face.
" Excuse me a moment..." Quatre said, before walking away, forgetting the suitcase on the ground.
He walked through a door and into another room.
" Haruki, what are you doing here?" Quatre asked the brown-haired, Hazel-eyed, short girl.
She turned around and Quatre noticed she had a very stressed look on her face.
" What's wrong?" Quatre asked.
Haruki hugged the blonde boy.
" Quatre, it's nice to see you." Haruki said, " Do you know where Duo is?"
Quatre pulled away from her after hugging her hello. He looked down at her. He couldn't help it, he used to have a crush on her. But, Duo just moved faster than him. It took a while to get over her, but she was one of Quatre's greatest friends. Besides, her and Duo were a wonderful match for each other from Quatre's point-of-view.
" I think he's still in the apartment, why?" Quatre asked.
" I have to tell him something very important. I was going to wait for you guys to come home, but, I just can't wait anymore. I really have to talk to him!"
Quatre couldn't ignore the urgency and distress in her voice. It concerned him greatly.
Akira and Umeko walked into the building and went to the front desk.
" Hey, 'Kira here was picked out as one of the new engineers, I need to sign her up and get Une dialed on the phone, so she can get started. Did Duo send in the list yet?" Umeko asked.
" He sure did. What's her name?" The woman asked.
" Akira Satashi, ma'am." Akira said, deciding to speak for herself.
" Alright, please wait a moment while I search for it..." The woman said and started typing away at the computer.
Akira woke up enough to start noticing her surroundings.
'Nice place...' Akira thought, then she looked through a window and into another room. It was a blonde man and a small woman hugging each other. ' No way, it can't be!'
The man turned slightly and, sure enough, it was Quatre.
'Hmph,' Akira thought ' His girlfriend must be a preventer...'
Akira felt a twinge of jealousy as she looked away. But that was just ridiculous, she didn't even know the guy that well.
' What a terrible way to start off my morning!' Akira looked down and saw... The Suitcase!
She quickly picked it up and checked the tag. It was hers!
" Umeko!" Akira whispered, happily. " It's my bag!"
" What!? What's it doing here!?" Umeko asked.
" I don't know, but it's here!" Akira hugged the bag.
" Well, just check it for anything dangerous before you do anything..." Umeko said, not sure of what to think of the coincidence. Well, maybe she didn't really leave it in L.A.. With Akira, you could never tell.
" Alright, if you two could just wait in that room over there, Une will be on the phone shortly." The woman said.
" Thank you very much." Akira said, now in a happy mood.
Her and Umeko went into the other room as Akira looked her suitcase over.
Quatre and Haruki walked out of the office and saw Umeko just go into another room. Usually, Haruki would take the time to say hello, but not today. Haruki was in a way different mood than usual.
Quatre led her to the apartment building and they walked in and started toward the apartment.
" Oh, Quatre. I got your bags already and..." Duo was walking towards them and couldn't see well, because he was carrying a lot of luggage. But then, he caught a glimpse of Haruki and dropped his bags.
" Haruki, what are you doing here?" Duo asked and smiled at her.
Haruki started to cry and ran to Duo and hugged him.
" I have something very important to tell you..." Haruki said.
" Alright, then, we'll just sit down and talk, okay?" Duo asked, looking at her. He could tell it was something very serious.
She nodded and looked at the ground.
Duo grabbed a key and unlocked the nearby apartment, then stuffed the luggage back in.
" No more rush, Quatre. Just give us a bit." Duo said.
Quatre just nodded and walked off as Haruki and Duo went back into the apartment.
' Wait a sec.' Quatre thought to himself. ' What happened to the bag!?'
Quatre hurried over to the Preventers building.
" Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?" Umeko asked Akira as they walked out of the building.
Akira shook her head.
" Now, back to my sleep..." Akira said.
" You mean you haven't woken up, yet!?" Umeko asked.
Akira just smiled at her, holding her bag close to her side.
" C'mon, let's go get a celebration breakfast. On the go. I know the best doughnut place this way." Umeko pointed in the opposite direction of the apartments.
" Alright." Akira said and they took off.
A minute or two later, Quatre walked into the Preventers building.
He looked and he saw no bag.
" Excuse me, ma'am. There was a bag here, do you know what happened to it?" Quatre asked.
" Yes, a young girl picked it up just a few minutes ago. You just missed her." The woman said.
" What was her name?" Quatre asked.
" Um, I believe her name was Akira, sir." The woman said.
" Oh," Quatre smiled, it was the owner.
He was about to walk away, but something else nagged at his brain and he just had to ask.
" What did she look like?" Quatre asked.
" Well, she was tall, with black hair and glasses. Her hair was just above her shoulder and she was wearing a business suit." The woman said.
" Luggage Girl! She's called Akira, and it was her bag, of course!" Quatre said and the woman blinked, using a fake smile.
Quatre almost ran out the door, then he stopped. He dug in his back pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. He had written down the information on the paper. He could find Luggage Girl now. He would have to track her down.
' But, what would I say?' Quatre asked himself, ' Maybe I'd just talk to her and figure out why I'm feeling so guilty and why she wouldn't let me talk and kept apologizing to me.'
Quatre shrugged to himself and went back into the building.
" Sorry to disturb you again ma'am, but could you track down this number's address for me?" Quatre asked.
Akira hummed as they walked back to the apartment with doughnuts and Akira's long lost bag.
Akira looked in the doors of Preventers as they walked past. It was Quatre again.
' Wonder where his girlfriend went?' Akira thought, then decided she wouldn't go back into that state of mind. She didn't have to, she had doughnuts and her luggage.
But she couldn't help but feel a sense of longing for the blonde boy.
" Japan?" Quatre asked, dumb-struck.
" Yessir, in fact, a shrine." The woman said.
" No way! She must be on vacation or something..." Quatre thought out loud.
" Yeah, England can be a big tourist attraction..." The woman said.
" Well, I guess I'll just have to wait a few days." Quatre said.
The woman just nodded and watched him leave.
To be continued...
Err, yeah...
Join Supurrkitty next time as the couple starts to discover the meaning of that day in L.A..
Next time:
Quatre walked to the front office of the building happily. He had an idea. If Akira was in the building and occupying a room, she'd have to be on the listings.
" Excuse me, but could you tell me if there's an Akira Satashi in the building?" Quatre asked the lady at the desk. The woman typed and searched for the name on the computer.
" She just left today. Her name was crossed off this morning." The woman said.
" Thank you very much." Quatre said, before walking off.
How damned inconvenient! Why didn't he do that yesterday!?
' Oh yeah, that would have been way to nice of fate...' Quatre suddenly became disgusted by the world and grumpy again.
