A/N: Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH, reviewers! The reason for my updates being so 'fast' is because it's a Valentine special thing, and I'm already a day behind. And seriously, thank you so much for the wonderful, encouraging reviews! Last notice: If the family relations of some of the characters bother some readers, I will change them. But so far, nobody has mentioned it, so I'm just guessing that it doesn't bother you wonderful readers much?

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Day 3 – Mwu's Woes: The Roadblock Called Flay Allster

"Ah, today, my senior class," Mwu began cheerfully. "We have a new student named Flay Allster! My, my, isn't our school a magnet for rich, celebrity children?" he added quirkily. "Flay, why don't you grace us with your presence?" There was an underlying sarcasm in his voice that the students detected and chuckled at.

The door slid open, and a redhead walked in, head held high, nose in the air, and just overall looking like she had better things to do than waste her high and mighty time in a low and inferior place such as a school. She was pretty… enough, and Kira Yamato's amethyst eyes widened. Lacus, who had noticed this, was startled as well as saddened. Kira hadn't looked at any girl like this before…

"I'm Flay Allster, and my father owns the Allster Company," Flay declared smugly, putting a heavy emphasis on the word 'own'. Some of the kinder girls who had thought of befriending her immediately banished those thoughts at Flay's smug and condescending tone.

"Well, Flay-"Mwu began.

"Miss Allster or Miss Flay," Flay interrupted.

"OK, Miss Flay," Mwu corrected himself, eyebrow arched. "Why don't you take a seat beside Lacus Clyne?"

As Flay stood rooted to the spot, Mwu realized he had forgotten to introduce Lacus to her. "Oh, my bad! I forgot to introduce Lacus!" Mwu chuckled, scratching his blonde head. The class let out a few chuckles. "She's the girl with pink hair."

As Flay swept past him, Mwu let out a big breath. Oh boy, her perfume was choking him! He briefly wondered what she used. Whatever it was, it was bad.

As Mwu started his lesson on graphing, he noticed the look of what could only be seduction given Kira's way by none other than Flay. He wondered if he had finally crossed over to Azrael's side of reality and looked over again after assigning the required pages. Nope, he was still on the greener side! But, no, that was bad. Mwu willed his mind for Flay and Lacus to switch places, so that Flay wouldn't be the one sending those looks. Of course, that didn't happen.

Flay still sat in her assigned seat, still not doing any work, still sending Kira Yamato those same seductive glances. And Lacus still sat in her assigned seat, still not doing any work, still looking back and forth between Flay and Kira, with a saddened glint in her eyes. And Kira Yamato still sat in his seat, still not doing any work, stealing a glance at Flay every now and then and blushing when she caught his eye. Notice the pattern?

Mwu felt like weeping. He had seen a lot of news reports and stories done on Flay Allster, and none of them looked sweet, and it certainly did not paint the girl out to be a fairy, berry picking girl that did not steal other people's boyfriends. Oh no, if what he saw and heard was right, Flay Allster got something, how she wanted it, where she wanted it, and when she wanted it. And right now, to Mwu's dismay, it looked like she wanted Kira.

That was bad…. BAD!

However, Mwu noted with some joy, that Cagari, Kira's twin sister, was glaring at the back of Flay's head with enough force and scare to make death cower into his respective corner in Hell. A poor pencil broke from the sheer force Cagari was gripping it and the girl's teeth were gritting.

"Cagari!" Mwu called.

Cagari immediately snapped up from her I-must-kill-Flay-Allster state and walked over, confused. "Yes, La Flaga-san?" she asked.

Now, Mwu was guilty to favoritism. He didn't show it outwardly, but there were certain students he couldn't help but getting attached to and favor over others. And Cagari, Kira, Athrun, and the rest of their friends were most of them. Lacus and Stellar was no surprise, them being his nieces. Cagari had a certain defiance to her, and she didn't let anyone push her around. She spoke her mind when she wanted to, regardless of time and place. Her eyes held a fire in them and her personality was fiery, and challenging. It was hard to find in a person, much less a girl, and Mwu found she provided good entertainment for the rest of the class, spouting off opinions.

"Don't worry, Cagari, you didn't do anything wrong," Mwu waved her unspoken question off. "Although I wonder why you're glaring at Miss Flay like you want to put a dagger through her skull,"

Cagari blushed but quickly regained her composure, and stuck her hands into the pockets of her cargo pants. "I don't know," she grumbled, avoiding Mwu's amused gaze.

"Well, Cagari, I'm not here to scold you, I just want to know why," Mwu explained, seeing a golden window of opportunity.

Cagari narrowed her eyes. "You have to be blind to not see the look she's giving my brother, La Flaga-san!" she whispered loudly, eyes flaring. "That's why I'd gladly stick a dagger through her skull! She's looking at him like she wants to sell herself! Which I bet she does!"

Mwu frowned and craned his neck to better see what Flay was wearing. And winced. A hot pink polyester mini-skirt and an overbearing white tube top that Mwu wondered how she wore that past the principal, but then saw a hot pink denim mini-jacket on the floor. "I wouldn't say you were too far off, Cagari," he chuckled. "But why does Flay looking at Kira like that bother you so much? Other then the fact that he's your brother, of course,"

"Because," Cagari paused. "Well…" she seemed to be debating between telling him and not telling him. "Because Lacus is head over heels in love with Kira," she finally said quietly, a twinkle in his eyes.

Mwu could have thrown a celebration right then and there out of glee. "Well Cagari, I think we could strike a deal!" he declared.

"A deal?" Cagari asked dumbly.

-

Aisha leisurely read magazines, often letting out a squeal at a gorgeous dress and a laugh here and there. As she took a sip of the finely made coffee courtesy of Andy, a familiar pink-haired girl entered into the office, speaking in an unusually bubbly and borderline irritating tone.

"Oh, Miss Clyne! Is there anything you need?" Aisha asked, looking up lazily.

A high-pitched giggle escape the girl's mouth. "Do I really look like Lacus Clyne?" she asked eagerly.

Aisha raised her eyebrows, and noticed the different clip in her hair. "Well, I suppose…" she trailed off. "Are you the other new student? Mia… Campbell?" she asked suddenly, reading the form neatly placed on the side of her desk.

"Yup! Lacus Clyne does go to this school, right?" Mia Campbell, who well, looked nearly exactly alike to the real Lacus, except her face vaguely reminded Aisha of Azrael, smiled.

Aisha nodded, fumbling around for Mia's schedule.

"Isn't she just perfect? I just simply love her songs …" Mia rambled, unaware Aisha had stopped listening completely.

Lacus was the daughter of Siegel Clyne, a rich company owner, and so it was only natural for his daughter to get a lot of public attention. Lacus was also a renowned singer, however not professionally, and Stellar, the Clynes' adoptive daughter, differed from Lacus, quiet and borderline childish, despite her age, but nonetheless talented.

"Here's your schedule, Miss Campbell! I do believe your first class is Mwu La Flaga's grade eleven Math," Aisha said, handing Mia two slips of paper. "Second floor, C-8."

"Thank you!" Mia walked out, waving.

Aisha shrugged and returned to her magazine-reading.

-

Mwu leaned back in his beloved swivel chair, reading a Sports Illustrated magazine just as someone knocked on the door. The class' chatter went completely silent as Mwu carelessly said, "Come in," figuring it was Aisha or someone delivering him some useless message or Rau coming to taunt him. So his eyes were still skimming the article when the class started to whisper, and Lacus Clyne's face was frozen in sheer surprise and shock, pencil in mid-air, body half-turned to Kira. Kira gaped like a fish, and Cagari dropped her pencil, jaw hitting the desk, and Athrun simply stared, like deer caught in headlights. Dearka's eyes widened, and vaguely wondered what kind of crazy woman had done it with Murata, while Miriallia bit her lip and surprisingly wondered the same as Dearka. Yzak and Carys Walker just about had the same reaction: "WHAT THE HELL!"

Wondering what all the fuss was about, Mwu looked up and glanced sideways, only to jump up, drop the magazine and fall promptly to the floor. "GAH!" he yelled.

"Oh my, are you OK?" the pink-haired, aquamarine-eyed girl asked, smiling overly brightly.

Mwu shakily pointed at Mia. "You-you- you're my niece!" he said, pinching his nose to make sure he hadn't gone insane. Nope. She was still there!

"Oh no! I'm Mia Campbell," Mia said sweetly, and Mwu vaguely wondered if his brother had gone mad and secretly cloned his older daughter with the personality of his younger daughter.

"Eh?" Mwu asked, glancing at the slip of paper. Aisha had scrawled a note at the bottom: Look closely! She looks like Azrael! Classifies as an overly obsessive fan, don't you think? Mwu looked up and found the note to be correct. After minutes of observation, he was able to see the similarities. He found that the rest of the class was still in a state of shock.

"Well uh, class, this is Mia Campbell! Apparently, the other new student!" Mwu said awkwardly. "Uh, Mia, why don't you go sit beside Lacus? As I'm pretty sure you know who that is…"

"Of course!" Mia quipped.

Mwu watched as the pink-haired girl pranced over and sat behind Lacus, who still seemed frozen in shock. And to Mwu's dismay, the new girl turned to an unsuspecting Athrun, sitting beside Cagari and began talking enthusiastically to him, completely mindless of the fuming blonde.

A groan escaped Mwu as he realized that he had a roadblock called Flay Allster standing between what would have been the easiest people he could matchmake, and two roadblocks standing between him and the soon-to-be Zala family.

"Why is life so unfair?" Mwu mumbled. Ah… the woes of Mwu La Flaga…

-

After school

Kira trudged home after a grueling basketball practice, shuddering as he remembered the evil tortures the coach had put them through. "Yamato, run properly, Yamato relax your wrist, Yamato step up, Yamato this, Yamato that…" he grumbled angrily, kicking at a stray rock. Normally he would have walked home with his friends, but Athrun had stayed behind to do make up work for Ramius-san, Lacus had avoided him the rest of the day after Math, and he was out of luck trying to find his other friends.

So the poor junior was stuck walking home alone in the February chill, grumbling. Well, at least that's how it was before a familiar redhead joined him.

"KIRA!" the clingy voice yelled as Kira suddenly gagged from having Flay attached to his neck.

"Uh… F-Flay!" Kira stuttered. "H-h-hi!"

"Kira YOU LOOK SO LONELY!" Flay exclaimed, latching herself firmly on Kira's arm, and smiling, steel gray eyes glinting with seduction that Kira failed to notice. He was so used to the pure care in Lacus' aquamarine orbs that he didn't recognize the glint in Flay's eyes. "And I'm scared to walk home alone; can you walk me home, Kira?"

"Uh… sure thing, Flay!" Kira agree, smiling. He felt jittery around Flay, almost uncomfortable, and his words seemed to get stuck in his mouth and have trouble coming out. Flay was also, well in his opinion anyway, indeed 'beautiful'. "Why is a girl like you walking home alone?"

"Oh I had to stay behind in that crazy math teacher's room for some minor help," Flay laughed, scowling at the thought of Mwu.

"La Flaga-san is a good teacher," Kira shrugged. "He's my best friend's uncle,"

Flay's eyes narrowed considerably. "That Lacus Clyne?" she spat out the name as if it was venom, but Kira didn't seem to notice.

"Yup," Kira answered. "So where did you live before this?"

"Do you have a girlfriend, Kira?" Flay asked, running her finger down Kira's arm. "That girl isn't your girlfriend, is she?"

"Lacus? Oh no, we're just close friends," Kira shrugged, surprised at the hollowness he felt somewhere deep in his mind at the words 'just close friends'.

Flay brightened. "That's great, Kira!" she quipped. "There's my house!"

Kira stopped and glanced up, jaw dropping. "That's your house!" he cried, pointing meekly at the towering mansion in front of him.

Flay giggled. "Yes you silly boy!" but her face dramatically fell. "But Kira, I'm gonna be home all alone, can you stay with me?" she begged.

"Well, uh, I have to finish my homework-"Kira was cut off.

"You can do that at my house!" Flay insisted, looking up at Kira with skillfully faked sad eyes.

"I guess it couldn't hurt. I'll just give Lacus a call," Kira shrugged. "I'm sure she wouldn't mind."

"Yay!" Flay cried, literally dragging Kira into her gigantic mansion, the familiar glint back in her gray eyes once more.

-

Clyne Residence

Stellar knelt in front of the oven, leaning against the island counter, waiting for the annoying beep that signaled the cookies finished. The image of the pot on Shinn's head made her giggle as she remembered the expression on the poor boy's face. She had to say, she liked the boy a lot. He was sweet and he made her feel safe…

RING!

Stellar snapped out of her reverie to find the phone ringing. Remembering her older sister was in the shower she stood up and skipped over to the extension in the hallway just outside the grand kitchen. "Hello? Clyne residence Stellar speaking," she said into the receiver.

"Oh! Hey Stellar! Where's Lacus?" the familiar voice of Kira Yamato asked from the other line.

Stellar frowned and double-checked the caller ID. It read: 789-0649 Allster Residence. "Uh… she's not available at the moment, Kira-"Stellar was interrupted as Lacus, in her fluffy pink bathrobe came down the hallway, towel-drying her hair.

"Who is it?" Lacus asked, glancing at the caller ID. "Allster residence? Why would they be calling us?"

Stellar clamped her hand down on the receiver. "It's Kira," she said, confused.

Lacus face went stony. "Tell him I'm not there," she said.

"Oh, uh… alright," Stellar nodded. "Hello? Kira?"

"Hi, what happened?" Kira asked.

Stellar looked at Lacus, who was frantically waving her arms no. "Just the dogs," she lied, forgetting that they hadn't had a dog since one got run over by the lawn mower.

"…But you don't have a dog," Kira said suspiciously. "Stellar, is Lacus avoiding me?"

"No," Stellar said hastily. "Would you like to leave a message?"

"Um… sure, yeah, I'm at Flay's, and I won't be able to come over for studying today," Kira said uncertainly. "Are you sure Lacus' not avoiding me?"

"No, Kira, why would she do that?"

A pause.

"Kira?"

A rustle of movements could be heard and a shrill girl's voice was heard on the line and Stellar frowned.

"Kira's busy right now so bug off!" the girl snapped.

"Huh? Please tell Kira that I tell him bye," Stellar said slowly, surprised by the girl's snappy tone of voice as she put the phone down. She turned to Lacus. "Why didn't you want to talk to him?" she asked.

Lacus shrugged, back facing her sister as she pretended to be fussing with her hair. "It's nothing," she lied.

Stellar went to face Lacus, peering under the girl's bangs. "If it's nothing, how come you can't face me and say it?" she asked.

Lacus bit her lip. "You should've seen the looks she gave him!" she finally cried out, the little green thing people refer to as 'jealousy' rearing its head even within the one and only Miss lacus Clyne. "It was- it was- it was-"

Stellar tilted her head. "It was…?"

"It was infuriating!" Lacus cried finally, lips pursed into a thin line. "Infuriating might not even cut it! It was absolutely revolting! It is just so sickening! Especially since they just met! How can she do that? How can she do that to my Kira-"Lacus stopped.

Stellar smiled innocently. "What?" she asked.

"You cannot tell anyone I have just said that, OK?" Lacus said. She had no idea what had possessed her so to say those two words! However… Lacus repeated the two words in her head, hesitantly at first. But as she repeated it more and more, the longing in Lacus' heart grew, and the more it sounded so… so right.

My Kira… Lacus thought longingly.

-

Allster Residence

"Well, it's like this," Kira began again, pencil poised. He had been trying to teach Flay graphing, but the redhead simply didn't seem to grasp the concepts, and kept relating the graphing to something else entirely.

"Kira? Can we do this later?" Flay whined, slouching in her chair and crossing her arms. "This is so boring!"

"Uh, well… I guess," Kira shrugged.

Flay sat up and leaned forward, head in hands. Her lips formed a pout as she asked, "Kira, am I ugly?"

As much as everyone would have loved to oppose, Kira couldn't. "Uh… no, of course not!" he said, face a ripe red. "Why- why would you think that?"

Flay traced a circle on Kira's palm. "Well… because Kira," she willed tears to well in her eyes. She bit her trembling bottom lip. "Y-your friend Lacus told me that, that, I looked ugly and that, and that I sell myself!" she blurted out.

Kira's eyes widened. "Lacus said that?" he asked, bewildered.

Flay nodded tearfully and inwardly smirked. No one will stand in my way, she cackled. She wiped a fake tear and looked up at Kira. "Y- You'll talk to her for me, won't you? It's just so hurtful, Kira! How could anyone say that to me?"

Kira grasped Flay's hand. "Don't worry Flay. I don't know what's gotten into Lacus, but I'll talk to her if it makes you happy." He promised.

"Thank you, Kira!" Flay sniffled. She got up from her chair and grabbed Kira's hand, and pulled him into the large living room. "Now close your eyes, Kira Yamato, I want to show you something…"

Poor Kira had no idea what was brewing in Flay's mind… but two things were for sure: it would not be a good thing for Mwu, and it would result in a major heartbreak for Lacus…

-

A/N: Oh no! What's Flay doing? You can probably guess though, right? Poor Mwu... he has Flay Allster standing between Kira and Lacus!