Love...Or Something Like It....Ch.2
Captain's
POV
He sat there. Looking at her, what was he to do with her?
His only Niece now his only living relative had to be dropped on his
doorstep, at this point in the war. His brother would have killed him
if he trained her to be part of the mercenaries, like he did with
Nanashi (No-Name). She was a nice, kind, gentle girl that would have
not made the best soldier, but a pretty good one. He knew that he had
to take care of her though, her life depended on it. Nanashi and her
got along pretty well, but he knew that if she stayed here, she
wouldn't be the same sweet girl that she was before. This war would
take a piece of her, it would harden her...heck this war had done
that to mostly everyone in the colonies and on earth He
didn't want that to happen to her though. "Kayla...." his
voice seemed like a whisper, even to him. "Yes...?" She
didn't know what to call him, but tried to be polite, all that she
knew was that he was supposed to take care of her, that he was her
father's brother. "How old are you Kayla?" "I am 7
years old, um...." "Seven! You've grown up a
lot...hmmm...Nanashi is around the age of 9 or 10...."
"Um...Mr..." "Oh! Kayla, please, hmm...call me
Captain..." "Captain?" "Yes Kayla?" "I
need to use the bathroom..."
She was a sensitive girl
that cared about everyone around her, all the animals in the forest.
He didn't want her to live this life though. Against his wishes,
Nanashi had taught her how to pilot a mobile suit, and he even taught
her how to repair it when damaged. He wanted her to live a sheltered
life, away from the violence. When he saw Nanashi and her together,
well he saw a match, other people just saw two children playing. They
said that she was to young to know her mind and destiny, they said
that the Captain was just being stupid, because he loved the both of
them, like he was their father, but not quite.
Normal
POV
"Nanashi?, why does everyone in the mercenaries call you
that? Don't you know it means 'No Name'?" "I am without
a name, I always have been." He stated while repairing his mobile
suit. Kayla waited for a moment, she had now been with her uncle for
5 years, ever since the night her family died when she was 7 years
old. She had never even asked why Nanashi was named Nanashi. She
hadn't really questioned anything. "But that's impossible,
everyone has a name, at one point, I mean, you must have had a
name...." she trailed off, not wanting to say anything wrong.
Nanashi had shown her many things, and had even played with her when
she was young. He was her friend and the only person remotely to her
age, seeing that he was only a year or two older. "I'm
sorry...."Kayla whispered. He looked at her, she usually would
babble on and on, not caring if he was listening or not, because she
needed to talk to someone, but today, she wasn't herself. Maybe it
was because her uncle was sending her to a private school, so that
she would finally be sheltered from the war, or maybe it was that she
cared for him, as a friend, or maybe even more, he thought to
himself. The after thought crushed him, maybe she didn't want to
leave her uncle, and didn't care for him at all, besides who would
love a person who had no name.
"Nanashi?" Kayla called.
She hadn't seen him for 7 days, but her uncle had said that he was
around. She was leaving to the school today, and wanted to say
goodbye. Kayla hadn't realised how deep her feelings were for
Nanashi until she couldn't find him. She needed to say goodbye, and
to tell him to come and get her when the war was over. She knew that
second wish sounded very childish, but after all she was only 12.
Shaking her head, she walked around a mobile suit, only to find
Nanashi and someone she didn't no. "Nanashi..." she stopped half
way through, a blonde girl was hugging Nanashi. Captain had said that
a blonde girl was hanging around Nanashi. Kayla was crushed, how
could he do this to her? Wait, could he not love her, or even like
her? Nanashi looked up from Midii Une to see Kayla, looking like she
was just hit in the chest with a baseball bat. She looked at him,
then ran up to him, pushed Midii Une off of him, kissed him on the
cheek said goodbye very quickly then ran to where her uncle was
waiting to take her to the shuttle port. She would not see Nanashi
again, she didn't want to... he would not see her again, because
only her uncle knew where she was going, and he wouldn't tell
anyone, and Kayla was too crushed to care.
Nanashi touched his
cheek, just seconds before Kayla had been there...but now she was
gone. Midii looked at Nanashi, she didn't know who that girl was,
but she seemed to affect Nanashi in a way that she hadn't been able
to. Nanashi knew she was gone, he would never see her again, why did
he let Midii hug him? He would forever search for her, he knew
that..." Nanashi? Who was that squirt?" He didn't answer, but
walked into a field and stared up into the sky until Captain got back
from the shuttle port.