Chapter 5 - Trust

Unkown : Where the story is going? Um...I think I have that covered, but I can tell you what it started as. 'The-most-ridiculous-way-of-getting-Athrun-on-the-Archangel!' -slumps- Ok, not really. When I first had the smallest bit of inspiration for this fic and I told my sister, that's what she labeled it. But really I was just trying to get Athrun and Kira together. Reb calls my story plot stupid but I really think I've made something. Maybe not something good, but yea.

Inuc : You're starting to act like Sora after she's suffered a failure or is unsure of herself.

Jess : Shut up! Just leave my weirdness alone! Just because you are immune to the fact that whenever I watch even a bit of anything I start acting like the characters doesn't mean you can bug me about it!

Inuc : Don't worry. I'm glad that we aren't connected that much. I hate sharing emotions and thoughts with you. -Twitchy-

Jess : That was fun.

Inuc : I was acting like Dio from Last Exile for an hour!

Jess : So? You made a good Dio-loves the last ep. but hates the fact that Alex and Dio die-

Inuc : Next!

Zer0 Touma : Yes, me too. That's why I created the colony, so they can just have fun! There are limits to it however, which will be explained in the next few chapters -can't remember which one- This chapter is funny, to me. Ok, Yzak himself is funny when he's stuck on something. Ah, when does he come in? Nvm, just read to find out. Enjoy-again, this is based on my first impressions-


They ended up eating at a normal burger joint. Athrun wasn't used to eating at these kinds of places so it took him a little while to decide what he wanted. He ended up getting a cheeseburger and a medium sized drink. Kira got a plain hamburger and a drink. Flay got a salad and a drink. Sai got a hamburger, fries, and a drink. Kuzzey got a cheeseburger and some fries, he also got a small drink. Miriallia got a cheeseburger and a small drink. Tolle on the other hand...well, he got a double cheeseburger, large fries, large drink, and a dessert.

"Tolle, don't you think you got a little too much...maybe?" Miriallia pointed out as she finished her meal. Tolle was chowing down though, and didn't hear her. She sighed.

"Don't worry Miriallia. He'll be fine. I think it's good that he gets a large meal while we're out. After all, we can order as much as we like." Kira assured her. Tolle looked about to order more when Miriallia stuffed the rest of his cheeseburger in his mouth.

"Now now Tolle, don't talk with your mouth full." She said, it looked as if Tolle was having trouble breathing, but after a minute he managed to swallow to burger.

"Miriallia! You could 'a killed me!" He shot.

"Oh, could I of? I didn't realize. After all, your mouth is always that big. I figured you could swallow it easily." She spoke in the tone of someone who was killing their worst enemy and was enjoying the pleas for mercy.

"Guys guys! Calm down. I mean, it's not like you really want to kill each other...right?" Kira tried to calm them down. Miriallia and Tolle didn't talk much after that.

Sai began asking Athrun what life was like in a PLANT. Athrun told him of what life was like and about Lacus's popularity as a singer. "That girl was famous? I didn't know that." Tolle burst in.

"Well, yea. She's really nice, good at singing, and oh yea, She's m-" Kira stepped on his foot. Athrun winced and stopped. "She's...really good...at dancing." He said while trying to nurse his foot without making it look suspicious. "Always goes to parties when she's invited."

"You sound like you go to a lot of parties too." Kuzzey commented.

"Well yea, when my father goes to a party and I'm not on...work, then I go along." He had paused before saying work, he was going to say duty, but that would sound like he was active in the war, which isn't what he wanted them to know.

"So. How do you know Kira?" Sai asked.

"Well, we went to the same preparatory school while on the moon. I left with my father when he went back to the PLANTs. I supposed-" Athrun was cut off by a noise coming from Flay's purse. She smiled nervously and opened it.

"I was hoping he'd stay quiet. I went by your room Kira. But you were already out, so I had to take him." She explained as some flying object jetted out of her bag and right onto Athrun's shoulder making happy "Birdie!" sounds.

"Huh? Birdie?" Athrun looked confused at the bird, who just cocked it's head to the side.

"You know Birdie? Did Kira have it when he went to the school or something?" Kuzzey asked.

"Oh, no. I created him." They all gasp. "I gave him to Kira when I left. Lacus told me he still had it, but I didn't believe it. Guess I was wrong." He smiled and held a hand out for Birdie, who jumped onto it gleefully.

"Lacus Clyne? You know her? I thought she was famous." Sai said.

"Well...I made her Haro too. Her...many Haros..." Athrun said with a slight blush on.

"Her many Haros?" Miriallia asked. Kira answered her.

"Yea. From what Athrun's told me, she has about 10. They're all as energetic as the one she had when I found her...though, it was my fault she was alone..." he said guiltily.

"Kira, stop blaming yourself for that. How were you supposed to know that that suit was with her? You were just protecting us." Miriallia said, patting Kira on the shoulder.

"Kira?" Athrun asked, a serious look in his eyes.

"We were at the wreckage spot, gathering supplies, when I spotted a mobile suit stalking in the debris. When it noticed me I shot and destroyed it." Kira seemed upset by this fact. "Only later did I find out he was just there to get Lacus's escape pod." He had made a fist and was looking angrily at the table.

"Come on Kira, let's go back to the ship. You can bring Athrun too. Maybe show him your room." Miriallia took hold of his shoulders and stood him up. "Are you coming Athrun?" she pushed Kira slightly so he would continue walking while she got Athrun. Flay took the job of directing Kira to the ship.

Athrun had this look on. He had been surprised at the news that it was Kira's fault Lacus had been alone when she'd been picked up. But the look on his face when he said it. He looked really ashamed of himself. I wonder if he feels this way after every battle where someone dies... Athrun thought as he followed the others.

When they got to the ship, Athrun was surprised at how big it actually was. "Wow..." Kira was next to him so Athrun whispered in his ear. "It never looked this big in battle" Kira just smiled a small smile and walked onto the ship with his other friends. Athrun followed close behind.

"Ensign Yamato!" Someone called.

"Ensign?" Athrun repeated. Kira sweat-dropped. Sai greeted the speaker.

"Good afternoon Captain!" He said. Athrun was now very nervous.

"Good afternoon to you too. All of you seem to be enjoying yourselves." She said when she reached them. Athrun was hiding behind Kira but still noticed that this captain, was a girl.

A female captain? he thought.

"You wanted to speak with me Captain?" Kira asked.

"Ah yes." she said, remembering her authority. "I see you brought a civilian aboard the ship. Why?"

"Oh...uh...this is my friend. Captain, this is Athrun. Athrun meet Captain Ramius." He introduced as Athrun came out from behind Kira.

"Hi." Athrun shook her hand nervously.

"It's a pleasure. But you know that civilians, no matter who's friend it is, are not allowed on the ship." She spoke to Kira again.

"Yes ma'am. But, I haven't seen him in a while and everyone insisted on returning to the ship. So I thought that maybe...it'd be alright?" He explained. The others seemed to have disappeared Athrun noticed, they seemed to fear punishment or something.

Captain Ramius kept her stiff posture and made a 'hmph' noise. "Well, tell me one thing ensign."

"Yes captain?"

She just gave him a look. Kira seemed to get it, though not even he knew how he understood.

"Oh, right. Athrun is a coordinator ma'am. Like me. But I swear captain, he's not a spy! Athrun's a trustworthy person. I've known him for almost my whole life! He-"

"That's enough...Kira." She said, abandoning her captain posture and becoming her nicer self. "Just keep an eye on him." She gave Athrun a look that made him very nervous. It was kind and held sympathy. Sympathy? What the?

"Yes ma'am. Come on Athrun." He turned and walked off, Athrun close behind.

"Your captain is a female?" He asked when they were out of earshot.

"Uh...yea...is it really that much of a surprise?" Kira answered.

"Well, no I guess. I'm just not used to it. Most of our captains are male." He kept glancing around nervously.


"That's the mess hall, we eat our meals there of course. Hey look, it's the others." Indeed, Sai, Flay, Miriallia, Tolle, and Kuzzey all seemed to have migrated to the cafeteria. "Hi guys." They all waved and asked if he'd gotten in trouble.

"No. She's letting me stay on the ship for a little while. I think she's taken a liking to me." Athrun said this with slight pride, as if to say, 'I got some one else's captain to accept me! Ha ha!'

"Well, Kira, Why not give him the special tour? After all, he's your guest." Flay said stoically. Kira ignored her rude tone and smiled.

"Ok." He walked down the hall, apparently he knew Athrun would follow, seeing as how he was on an 'enemy' ship.


"This is my room." Kira announced after a while. He opened the door and Athrun saw that it wasn't as bad as he thought. "That's my bed, that bed's usually vacant but sometimes someone'll come in here and sleep there for the night." Birdie hopped off of Athrun's shoulder, where he had been this whole time, and flew down to sit on Kira's bed. Athrun spotted a closet across the room.

The farthest point from the door... "Um...Kira?"

"Yea?"

"Is that?"

"That's my closet. Oh, yea, that's where I called you from." He sweat-dropped. Athrun had to admit that the living quarters weren't that bad, they might even be better than the ZAFT quarters.

"Your room is...nice." He sat on Kira's bed, next to Birdie. Kira smiled and sat on the bed opposite his. Athrun saw a photo and picked it up. In the picture were Kira and Athrun. He picked it up and looked at it. Kira, now laying on his back, didn't notice Athrun pick up the picture. "Is this..."

"Huh?" Kira turned his head and saw Athrun had the picture. "Oh. Yea, I still have it. See, I always start to think that maybe I should just fight you, ya know, without caring if you live or die." Athrun looked at him like he was crazy and he couldn't believe that he's actually just said that. "But then...I saw that picture. You smiling, me smiling...and I couldn't do it. You see, if you were dead, then Lacus would be sad, I'd be sad, a lot of people would be sad. And I would've lost my best friend." He said, staring at the roof of the bed.

Athrun looked down at the picture and thought of crying, but he held back tears. "I decided long ago..." he started. Kira looked over at him. "To fight like that." Kira's eyes widened. "But...you didn't. And for sake of telling the truth...I couldn't kill you." Athrun seemed to be really trying to not cry. "But the fact that I even decided too, even though I couldn't, it makes me angry." He set the picture on the table, before he accidentally crushed it.

"Athrun...The war makes me angry." He said bluntly. Athrun looked up at him, no longer seeming to want to cry. "I hate it. All of it. Everything that has to do with war." Kira looked at the ceiling again. "You see that paper flower...on the table?" Athrun looked.

"Yea"

"When we brought aboard civilians...ok, when I brought aboard civilians, I met a little girl. She made that for me, as a thank you for protecting them." At this point Kira's face became the same as when he spoke of when they found Lacus. "But then...in that battle when we were entering Earth's atmosphere...she died. I failed to protect them and the civilian rescue pod was destroyed." Tears did come out of Kira's eyes. They slid down his face and hit the bed below.

Athrun suddenly had a flashback of that battle. He had returned to outside the atmosphere, the whole fleet had been destroyed and the Archangel was descending towards earth. But Yzak hadn't been ready to let Kira get away. He had flown down and was battling Kira when a civilian pod floated between them on it's way towards Earth.

Athrun hadn't cared much about it when it happened, but Yzak had destroyed the pod. He now had that moment in his mind, when Kira's Strike Gundam had flown towards the pod, only to be blown backwards when it exploded. Athrun remembered thinking, for a split second, that maybe Kira wasn't going to survive the atmosphere's heat, but then it had passed out of his thought...

"Kira..." Athrun said softly. But he couldn't think of what to say, so he stopped. Soon Kira remembered who was in the room and stopped crying, wiping his eyes frantically to wipe away the tear stains.

"Sorry about that...shall we continue the tour?" he stood up, gesturing towards the door.

Kira showed Athrun a great part of the ship. It amazed Athrun how trusting Kira was with the information he was being told. "Athrun's a trustworthy person!" Athrun smiled, but it was a sad smile. Kira thought more of Athrun than Athrun thought of Kira.

Before today, Athrun had seriously thought of Kira as nothing more than an enemy now. But Kira had always regarded him as a friend, a true and trustworthy friend.