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 five: Would you? Will you?

" So, you ready to go, Akira?" Umeko asked.

Akira nodded.

" Nervous?" Umeko smiled

" Of course, I've never been to the colonies before and now I'm going there for a job!" Akira said, making sure she had her bags secure.

" I'm going to miss you again, but I'll bug my superiors into eventually moving me back to the colonies." Umeko said as they went out the apartment door.

" So, why were you sent here in the first place?" Akira asked " I mean, besides knowing that your little sister was coming to check up on you."

" Well, I kind of got into some trouble with the main office, but I'm sure they'll like you a lot more than they liked me..." Umeko said, nervously.

Akira blinked, but decided to not continue on the issue.

" So, did you take me off the apartment list today? I wouldn't want to have any confusion on my position."

" Sure did." Umeko said.

The two girls went to the apartment's parking garage and hopped into Umeko's car to take off to the shuttle port.

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.

Quatre grumbled to himself as he stalked back up to his apartment. Duo and Haruki were still there with him. They were all going to go home together. But, now, Quatre was wanting to go right then to Japan to find his Luggage Girl.

' No,' Quatre thought to himself ' Her name is Akira and I'm just returning her mangled frames...'

Quatre began to realize how ridiculous that sounded. That a millionaire would deliver something so small by himself. He also felt a little guilty that he'd take that much time off to do that after he had used the excuse of not enough time against those he knew and that poor girl who lost her...luggage...

Quatre stopped walking to think aloud.

" She just came here and got a preventers job, I saw her in the hallway on the second floor going back to the room her and Umeko were staying in...She must have come from the roof!!" Quatre said to himself, excitedly.

~~~~~f/b~~~~~~

When the elevator reached the second floor, he stepped out and started looking for room 21. He jumped as he heard the door to the stairs swing shut. He decided that someone must have just gone out the doors and calmed down. Then, he decided that someone must have been waiting for the elevator and he kept them waiting too long. He concluded that he had once again caused someone troubles and felt bad.

" I guess I spoke too soon." Quatre found apartment 21 and knocked on the door. Umeko answered and let him in.

" I knew you'd come over, Quatre." Duo said, smiling, " But you just missed Umeko's sis. She went to the roof."

" Yeah, I don't think 'Kira's feeling too well." Umeko said.

" Hmm," Quatre sat down. 'She must have felt me coming...'

~~~~~~end f/b~~~~~~

" No way! She did call her 'Kira! That must be her short name for Akira!!" Quatre thought, amazed. " And the luggage disappeared at the Preventers station where she was signing up for that engineering job!! How could I be so stupid!! It was so damn obvious!!" Quatre said, running off to his apartment, not even noticing the couple staring at him.

" It's really too bad you couldn't stay any longer. But, Duo and Quatre are taking off back to the colonies tomorrow, I'm sure they'll help you feel more at home. Maybe you can actually meet Quatre, too." Umeko said, driving down the road.

Akira perked her head and looked over at her sister.

" Quatre?" Akira said as she blinked at her sister.

" Yeah, Quatre Winner. He's in Preventers as well as being head of his dads company. You'd be lucky to snag one like that." Umeko laughed.

" You mean, Duo's partner...was Quatre!?" Akira asked in total disbelief.

" Yeah, I would have introduced you, but you kept missing each other." Umeko smiled. " Don't worry, you'll see each other." Umeko said

Akira almost had it in her mind to make Umeko turn the car around, but then reminded herself that she never wanted to see him again.

" Oh, so it was him that cancelled those dates, minus the dinner date?" Akira crossed her arms and looked out the window.

" Well...yes, but he was feeling really bad for something that had happened to him in L.A. earlier that day. He smashed some girls glasses and felt really bad. Duo said he was pretty disgusted with himself." Umeko frowned.

Akira dropped her arms to her side and held back tears, still looking out the window.

" I guess you both had a bad time in L.A.. I imagine you two were both there at about the same time. I'm surprised you two didn't see each other." Umeko chuckled.

" We...did..." Akira murmured.

" What!? Why didn't you say anything!?" Umeko asked.

" Well...I didn't...I don't know..." Akira covered her mouth as she thought

Quatre stopped in front of the door when he heard Haruki and Duo talking. He put his ear to the door.

" But, Duo, you aren't doing this just because...?" Haruki sounded stressed.

" No, to tell you the truth, I've been planning this for a while, I even have the ring at home." Duo chuckled. " I was just too nervous..."

" I guess this isn't the most romantic way to do it, but, yes, I will." Haruki said.

" Thanks, Haruki. You won't regret it." Duo said, joyfully.

" Oh, Duo, you think too much of yourself."

Quatre knocked on the door and Duo and Haruki jumped. Duo hurried to the door and opened it.

" Oh, it's you, Quatre." Duo opened the door and let him in.

Quatre decided to leave them by themselves, but first...

" Hey, Duo, do you have Umeko's cell phone address? I need to phone her about something..." Quatre said, simply.

Duo was too distracted and happy to even question why or poke fun and Quatre knew exactly why.

Duo handed him one of Umeko's old cards, from before her demotion.

Quatre nodded his thanks and told them he'd be in his room if they needed him.

There was an eerie silence that loomed in the car as the neared the shuttle port. The silence was suddenly broken by a call on Umeko's cell phone. Umeko stumbled for it and finally answered.

" Hello?" Umeko answered.

" Hey, Umeko, it's Quatre." Quatre said.

" Oh, hey, we were just talking about you." Umeko said, cheerfully.

' They were talking about me? So, Akira knows it was me all along? I wonder what they were saying...' Quatre thought to himself.

Akira gave Umeko a questioning look. Umeko just winked at her.

" Um...so, why were you calling?" Umeko asked after silence.

" Oh, yeah. Um, do you think I could talk to Akira, please?" Quatre asked.

" Hmm, Akira huh? Well, I thought you two had never met, though?" Umeko teased.

" Please..." Quatre pleaded.

" Okay, fine, here." Umeko said and handed the phone to Akira.

This time, Akira stayed silent.

" Oh good, you're going to let me talk." Quatre laughed.

Akira chuckled a response, remembering giving him no time to talk.

" Listen, I know you feel sorry about bumping into me, but it was not your fault at all. Besides, you were the one who fell. I was just fine." Quatre said, " But, I'M sorry. I stepped on your glasses and didn't even apologize."

Akira remembered, again, the fact that she never gave him a chance to speak for himself.

" No, it was all my fault and I..." Akira began.

" No, don't start that. Let me have the satisfaction of apologizing" Quatre cut in.

" Fine." Akira sighed in response.

" So, how long did you know it was me who was Duo's partner?" Quatre asked, curiously.

" Well, that's kind of funny, because after I even ran into you in the hall I had no idea. Umeko just told me before you called." Akira laughed at herself. " What about you? When did you find out I was Umeko's sister?"

" Right before I called." Quatre said. " I don't understand why it took me so long to piece it together...I guess I was just feeling bad after the airport incident."

Akira smiled to herself, she completely understood the feeling.

" So," Quatre said, " You got the bag I left at Preventers?"

" That was you?" Akira asked, amazed. " So, not only did I bump into you, but you found my bag! And, you were one of Umeko's acquaintances, and you were in the same building and we're being assigned to the main office. What a weird set of circumstances!"

" Yeah..." Quatre thought aloud. " It's almost like someone up there was trying to get us to meet each other..."

Akira stayed silent and slightly blushed on the other side of the phone.

" H-hey..." Quatre started, nervously.

" Yes?" Akira asked, immeadiately.

" Since we're going to be in the same area and all next week..." Quatre paused.

" Yes?" Akira asked again.

" Well, I was wondering if...you know...you'd like to go do something sometime...Maybe dinner?" Quatre asked.

" You mean, like a date?" Akira asked.

Umeko looked over at her, smile across her face.

" Well,...yeah." Quatre finally said. " Would you like to go on a date? With me, of course."

Akira paused. She couldn't remember the last time she heard that, or even thought about that. It just never seemed that important and she avoided it. But, now it caught her and she couldn't help but feel warm and fuzzy. Before, she was almost certain she never wanted to see that man again. But fate went to all that trouble and failure just to set those two up, it had to be worth something

" Sure."

The end.

Great, it's done, now I can do another one! Yay! ^.~

How'd you like it? Please mail me with the subject line, Chance, and tell me what you think.

mail me at: Supurrkitty@Aol.com