Here with Me

The latest chapter, hope you like it, and as for the cooking is to Evangelion-Unit 03's "Cooking with Miriallia" check it out when you have a chance. Anyways onto the fic

3 months later

In the classroom, Kira tapped his pencil against the desk in one hand, while the other was propped up against his jaw on his knuckles. His history professor droned on and on for what was supposed to be his final lecture for the semester, and for good in Kira's case as he and Milly would be graduating in a few weeks.

Milly, that very name could cause Kira to forget all of his problems and worries. Closing his eyes, he began to think back to what he had asked Milly three months before:

Flashback

"Actually, there is something I've been meaning to ask you" Kira said as he continued to nuzzle Milly's neck while she cooked breakfast. "What's that?" Milly asked him. "I want you to stay with me. I want to wake up beside you every morning, I want you to be with me" Kira said. "Kira what are you saying?" Milly asked. "I want you to move in with me Milly, stay here, we'll make this our home, our place to live in" She could see it in his eyes that he was near begging, pleading for her to stay with him and live with him.

Kira was ready to speak again when he saw her wrap her arms around his neck and embrace him, and let her lips find his. Once the kiss was done, Kira spoke: "So I guess I can take that as a yes?" he said with a smile on his face. "If you like" Milly said with a confident smile on her features. "So you'll stay?' Kira asked. "Yes" Milly said as she rested her head on his shoulder.

Everyday since then they had both woken up together and taken turns making each other breakfast. Kira smirked thinking back to the time Milly tried making a special dinner for him back on the archangel, it was a bit rough on his stomach but it was the thought that counted. Her cooking had since improved, and not a day went by that Kira didn't think about going home to a nice, home cooked meal from her. At times it was like they were married, as said by some of his friends. Kira only smirked at this, but the thought of being married to Milly was becoming a very nice thought.

Kira watched as the other students emptied out of the classroom and to other places. Kira joined in and began his trek to the bus station. The ride home was somewhat lonely, as well as crowded, but it was over shortly and Kira walked down the street and to the entrance of his apartment.

Opening the door, he saw his girlfriend at the stove, working on her famous beef stew that she had learned to cook a lot better since that one time. "Hi honey" Kira said as he dropped his book bag on the couch and embraced her from behind as he always did.

"How was class?" Milly asked as she stirred the stew and proceeded to turn off some of the burners. "It was boring, long, made me wish I was here with you" Kira said as he kissed the top of Milly's head. "Trying to butter me up?" Milly said jokingly. "Maybe, is it working?" Kira asked. Giggling, Milly took the pot off of the oven and poured it into the to bowls that she had laid out for the both of them.

While eating, silence filled the air as the two of them ate. Kira looked over as Milly walked to the fridge and bent over to grab a soda she placed there earlier. It was while she was bent over that she had Kira's attention. Trying as hard as he could not to stare, and only focus on his stew, yet his eyes could not help but drift upward at times to Milly's rear end 'Oh God' Kira thought to himself as she continued to search for the elusive soda. At last Milly found the soft drink and walked back over to her chair beside Kira.

Kira began to focus solely on his stew, shoveling in portion after portion in an attempt to draw his attention away from his very appealing girlfriend. 'Take it slowly this time, that's what you said, be a gentleman about it' Kira said to himself in an attempt to not do something stupid with Milly, looking down he saw that he had finished his meal, and his bowl was no longer filled with the steamed carrots and chunks of beef. "Wow you finished that up pretty quick, you want seconds?" Milly asked.

"Yeah, yeah sure" Kira said to his girlfriend. He watched Milly walk back over to the pot with the remaining amount of stew and pour it into his bowl. Kira began to dig into his next batch and watched Milly leisurely eat hers, while trying not to stare at her.

Kira helped Milly with the dishes and placed them in the dishwasher. Kira walked over to the couch and turned on the TV trying to see if anything good was on, "I'm going to take a shower" Milly said tugging at the bottom of her shirt. "Okay I'll call if anything happens" Kira said. He watched as she removed her blue cotton shirt and stood there wearing only her jeans, socks and a tight fitting baby blue colored bra. Milly turned the doorknob of the bathroom but not before giving Kira an uncharacteristically sultry glance, almost like she was inviting him in with her.

Kira sat back on the couch and he could almost feel the beads of sweat running down his body, as he fought desperately to calm himself down and not be so turned on by all of this. Turning back to the television, he began flipping through the channels, and settling on an old horror film that he had seen many times before and wouldn't be surprised by any of the scenes, thus allowing his heart rate to return to normal.

It was at the halfway point of the film that Kira saw Milly come out of his room wearing one of his long T-shirts that extended almost past her thighs. "That's what you're wearing to bed?" Kira asked. "I haven't gotten my pajamas back from my home yet and this keeps me almost covered up, wouldn't you agree Mr. Yamato" Milly said as she slightly raised the bottom of the t-shirt, revealing more of her right thigh. Kira began to stutter at this watching Milly tease him like this.

"You are so fun to tease" Milly said as she tapped him on his nose. "Glad I could be of some amusement to you" Kira said sarcastically as he leaned back into the couch, he relaxed more when Milly wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder. "So what movie is this?" Milly asked. "The Ring" Kira replied, nonchalantly.

The film went on almost without event until the ending came on and something happened. The movie had gotten to the scene where the girl was crawling out of the TV screen, and Milly had chosen that moment to jump. "Oh my God!" Milly screamed and jumped onto Kira. Kira instinctively caught her, not knowing where his hands went. Looking down Kira saw that one of his hands had chosen to rest on Milly's panty clad rear end. Upon seeing this, Kira pulled his hand away like it was on fire. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry" Kira yelled, hoping Milly wouldn't start thinking badly of him. If anything Milly was only confused at this, she enjoyed being held by Kira like that for the brief second they were like that.

"You know it's late maybe we should just turn in?" Kira suggested. "Yeah, okay" Milly agreed. She was the first one into the bedroom, throwing back the sheets while Kira took care of some bathroom duties. Kira walked back in wearing a pair of flannel pajama pants and a white t-shirt. Crawling into bed, Kira leaned over and kissed Milly goodnight.

Their sleep continued on until Kira felt Milly stir. Opening his eyes he saw Milly on top of him, with her legs on either side of him. "Milly, what are you, I'm not touching…" Kira stuttered trying not to let his hands wander anywhere they weren't supposed to. It was then that Milly chose to speak by putting a finger to his lips. "Kira, you don't have to be afraid of me, of touching me. We love each other, and with that love comes trust and faith in each other. I trust you Kira, you don't have to worry" Milly said reassuringly. At this Kira let his right hand wander to Milly's cheek and caress it. She smiled lovingly at this, and that allowed Kira's heart to soar. His left hand trailed past her ribs, down to her thighs and to the edge of her T-shirt, slowly pulling it up. Milly had gotten the hint and grabbed the bottom of the shirt as it rose to her and finished pulling it off. Kira lay there on the bed marveling at the sight of Milly, topless in the moonlight, wearing only a sheer pair of light blue panties.

"Oh wow" Kira said in an almost dazed like state at the beautiful sight of his girlfriend baring herself to him. "You like what you see?" Milly said teasingly. Kira smirked at this and rose up and kissed Milly on the lips, bringing her down with him.

Kira continued the kiss, allowing it to become even more passionate as he let his hands start wandering across Milly's back Kira was no stranger to what Milly's body looked like, ever since that one time on the Archangel, but this was the first time that she willingly allowed him to see her and touch her like this, and Kira was relishing every caress. To him her body was perfect, delicate and smooth to the touch.

Milly giggled as she felt Kira's hand run across her panty covered rear end and give it a good squeeze, she could only imagine the look on his face as he felt the panties bunch up in his fingers. "Having fun?" Milly asked with grin on her face. "No, now I am" Kira said as he seized her and began his favorite, torturous pastime: he began tickling her.

"No, no not that!" Milly screamed as she began to squirm as Kira tickled her mercilessly. "No clothes to protect you now" Kira whispered to her as his hands went from her ribs, to her belly, and to her feet on occasion. Her laughter was like music to Kira as his fingers continued to assault various parts of her body. This continued until Kira rolled back onto the bed bringing Milly with him. "I love you Milly" Kira said as he kissed her on her forehead, and then on her lips. "I love you too." Milly whispered as she cuddled up closer to him. Kira grabbed the scattered sheets of the comforter and threw them over the two of them and allowed sleep to overtake them.

Kira awoke in his bed to find Milly wasn't there. Rising from his bed he looked around but stopped when he heard the sound of breakfast being cooked. Walking out to the kitchen, he saw Milly back in the long T-shirt cooking up scrambled eggs, with some bacon cooking in the skillet next to it. Walking over, Kira let his head rest on her shoulder. "Morning sweetheart" Kira whispered as he let his lips travel to her ear.

"Charmer" she said back with a smile on her features as she turned off the burner to the eggs and the bacon. "I owe you a breakfast remember?" Kira asked. "I remember, but there is one favor I was wondering if you'd do for me?" Milly said as she stirred her eggs. "What's that?" Kira asked, suddenly a little curious. "Well this weekend I was going to go back and get a few things from my home back on ORB but I was considering something else." Milly said. "Oh?" Kira said raising his head. "I'd like to take you with me so I can formally introduce you to my parents" Milly said spooning another helping of scrambled eggs into her mouth. "I think I saw them back when we landed" Kira said shoveling another helping into his mouth as well. "Yeah but I was never able to introduce them to my friends at the time, so I think now would be the best time to go and meet them and let them see how great of a guy you are to me" Milly said with a smile. "Flattery will get you anywhere." Kira said as he picked up his plate and walked over to the sink, but not before goosing Milly on his way over, causing her to jump slightly.

"You better not try anything like that when we're at my parents or you'll be in a lot of trouble Mister" Milly warned with a slight smirk on her face. "Then I guess we'll just have to squeeze in as much of that as we can before we leave" Kira said as he leaned in and kissed Milly. "So you'll go?" Milly asked. "Yeah why not, I mean you can't keep me a secret forever" Kira replied as she put the last piece of bacon into his mouth.

"Okay the shuttle leaves on Friday, think you can make it" Milly asked as she cleaned up. "I just have to sit through a lecture tomorrow then we can go straight to the spaceport" Kira replied. "Okay then we can use tonight to start packing and let them know I'll be bringing you with me" Milly said putting the last plate in the dishwasher.

"Is there anything you need to do in your classes today?" Milly asked. "No, I looked over everything and today's my day off, how about you?" Kira asked. "I have a final lecture in my photography class then I'm done for the day" Milly said as she plopped down on the couch next to Kira. "K, so what do you want to do until then?" Kira asked. "I dunno, how about you?" Milly replied, a smile soon forming on her features. "This" Kira said as he leaned in and captured her lips with his. Milly hungrily replied and soon allowed herself to lay back on the couch and let Kira crawl on top of her.

Milly allowed her hands to start roaming across Kira's back, and under his T-shirt, feeling along his flesh and rubbing the muscles he had along his back and neck.

Kira felt her warm, soft hands rub along his neck and back; it was soothing and relaxing at the same time. He soon felt his shirt being pulled up over his head, with Milly's hands running along his bare chest and stomach. Her hands soon found their way back to his neck and pulled him down to her lips.

Kira wrapped his arms around her and pulled her even closer to him. These were the moments that made him happy to be alive, to be able to hold her in his arms like this, was just pure magic, his troubles, his worries, were all nonexistent at this moment in time. Kira turned over so that Milly was on top of him, and allowed his lips to continue to trail down Milly's neck, stopping only to nuzzle her and let his lips travel back up to her lips. "Hmm that feels nice" Milly sighed as her grip on Kira's neck tightened, while her hands roamed and pressed in harder.

"Hmm with hands like that you should consider being a masseuse." Kira said in a daze. "I'm glad you like what they can do for you, I'll have to remember to do this for you more often" Milly replied as she leaned her head in by Kira's ear.

Kira then let his hands drift down to the bottom of Milly's T-shirt and began to pull it up slowly. Milly sat up as the shirt made its way over her head, leaving her almost totally exposed to Kira, save for her panties. "Milly, you're beautiful" Kira said, leaning up to kiss Milly. He continued on letting his kisses trail down her neck, the trail between her chest, and to her stomach. Milly let one of her hands hold Kira's head in place as he continued kissing her. "Aren't you going to start tickling me like you always do?" she asked, panting heavily. Bringing her down with him so that her head rested on his chest. "No, this is better" Kira replied. "Yes it is" Milly replied back. Kissing her on her forehead, Kira leaned down to talk to his lady. "You want the shower first?" He asked.

"Yeah thanks" Milly replied getting up from Kira's embrace and picking up her T-shirt. She knew Kira's eyes were on her, watching her walk back to his room in a sultry sort of way, wearing very little. Feeling uncharacteristically mischievous, Milly turned around, and placed her hands behind her back so that Kira had an unobstructed view of her body. With a sly smile on her face, she walked backward and wiggled her finger in a "come here" gesture. Kira followed along and was ready to grab at her when he felt his arms hit the door to his bathroom, not surprisingly, he heard Milly laughing on the other side. "That was both hot and cold at the same time" Kira muttered to himself.

The next day had finally arrived and Kira found himself standing at the spaceport at Deimos, waiting for the shuttle to arrive and take he and Milly to ORB, where he would have a formal meeting with Milly's parents. He wasn't all that nervous, Milly always spoke kind of them and for them to have raised a wonderful, unspoiled daughter like Milly was a testament to how good they were.

"They're going to love you, don't worry, just be yourself." Milly said trying to calm Kira down. "You don't have to worry about that sweetheart. I'm glad you wore that dress too" Kira replied to the familiar orange dress that he had returned to Milly as a gift that one night. "I knew you'd like it, you said it yourself you loved this outfit" Milly replied spinning and letting the dress flare out around her. "You bet I do" Kira said as he embraced her and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. The shuttle came in soon after they stopped kissing and once their baggage was taken care of, Milly and Kira took their seats and watched as the shuttle took off for ORB.

The shuttle touched down in ORB shortly, with Milly and Kira exiting and going off to retrieve their luggage. "Well that was quick" Milly said wheeling her suitcase behind her. "Yeah, thankfully no mobile suits shooting at us this time" Kira joked.

Milly just rolled her eyes and smiled as Kira caught up with her, he hurried along since Milly obviously knew her way around the ORB airport, his only experience was when the Archangel touched down at a military base there.

They walked along until Kira and Milly noticed a sign with her name written on it. Looking forward Kira saw a woman with dark brown hair done up in a style similar to that of Milly's and a short man with dark blue hair standing beside her. Kira watched as Milly ran forward and hugged the other woman back while the man who must have been Milly's father joined in. Walking over, Kira placed a hand on Milly's shoulder and prepared to introduce himself.

"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Haww, I'm Kira Yamato, I'm sure Milly's told you lots of things about me" Kira said as he finished shaking the older man's hand. "She sure has, oh where are my manners, my name's Jack, and this is my wife Elice" Jack said gesturing to his wife. "It's a pleasure to meet both of you" Kira said. "Well you're probably tired from your trip, let's get you both settled in back home" Jack said as he wrapped an arm around Milly and led them to the car. Milly and Kira sat in the back while Elice and Jack took the front.

The trip was fairly long and was filled with talks of what they were doing and anticipating graduation. They finally pulled into the driveway, and Kira retrieved their suitcases from the trunk of the car.

"You don't have to do that, you're our guest here Kira" Jack replied as he took the suitcases from Kira's hands. "Thanks sir, I appreciate it" Kira said as he walked over to join Milly and her mother, he held the door open for the both of them and stopped as Jack held it open himself. The house was a nice, well-furnished two level home with a fireplace and a nice kitchen. It had a total of four bedrooms, a family room, and a two-car garage. Kira continued to look around, and followed Milly into the family room.

Taking a seat next to Milly in opposite chairs, Kira watched as Jack and Elice took a seat in front of them. "So Kira Milly tells us you did a lot for her in the war?' Jack said to Kira. "I did what I could to protect her and everyone else sir" Kira said, hoping not to upset the man in front of him. "Well either way I'm glad you were able to save her and protect her" Jack said as he let his hand squeeze Elice's. 'I wasn't able to save everyone' Kira thought remembering back to Tolle, at this his features started to fall.

Milly caught this and let her hand find Kira's and gave it a reassuring squeeze.

"Well you must be tired from your journey, I'll show you to your room" Jack said rising from the chair. "Milly, would you give me a hand with dinner?" Elice asked of her daughter. Kira followed the older man out of the family room and down to the hallway.

"This is the guest bedroom, you'll be staying here for the time, now I hope I don't explain to you why you'll be staying in a separate room from Miriallia" Jack said as he folded his arms across his chest. "No sir, no explanations necessary Kira replied slightly nervous. Opening the door, Kira glanced over his room, with a bed fit for two people in the middle of the room, and a closet in one of the walls, and a large window on the wall that was straight ahead. Kira set down his suitcase in one of the corners of the room and laid back down on the bed and let his eyes rest on the ceiling, thinking back to when Milly ran to her parent's arms at the airport, how good it must have felt to be in your own parent's arms. Kira pulled out his wallet and flipped to an old photo he had of his parents back before the war, at least 3 years ago.

Kira walked out of his room and watched Milly help prepare a salad and set the plates for dinner, he then looked at Jack helping Elice cooking the pasta and preparing the sauce. 'I don't have a family like this' Kira thought gloomily to himself as he walked back into his room.

Milly sat in her room thinking back to dinner, and how gloomy Kira was for the most of it. He answered questions that her mother and father asked him, but for the most part he seemed kind of sad about something. She put the brush she was using on her hair back down on her nightstand. Determined to find out what was wrong with him, she pulled out her robe, seeing as how her current sleepwear, a pair of T-shirt shorts and a blue tank top wouldn't be good to be seen in she made a trek down to her boyfriend's chambers.

Milly knocked three times on the door before it was opened. She saw Kira standing there in a white T-shirt and his cotton flannel pants. "What's up?" Kira asked of his girlfriend. "Is something wrong? You didn't seem all that talkative at dinner" Milly asked. "No, just thinking back and thinking of how great it must be, to have parents like yours, to have a true family" Kira said as he walked back into his room.

"What are you talking about? I saw you with your parents back at ORB" Milly explained. Kira closed his eyes and thought back to that moment. "Those weren't my real parents Milly, those were my adoptive ones, my real parents are dead, but in all honesty I don't know if I'd want to speak to them if they did exist anymore" Kira said.

"Kira how could you say such a thing?" Milly asked, surprised at what she heard. "My parents, my father was a scientist named Ulen Hibiki, he was dedicated to creating the ultimate coordinator, and he found the perfect guinea pig in his unborn son" Kira said. "He experimented on many different children that he cloned through research failures, and in the end he made me, only Cagalli had a natural birth through his wife, my mother Via" Kira said, thinking back to that fateful day when he and Mu confronted Rau Le Cruesett and he discovered all of this.

"My God" Milly whispered to herself. "What happened to your parents, and any of the others…" she felt her voice trailing off at what she had heard. "I was one of many, but I was the only one to survive his experiments. I was made to be the ultimate one, the right kind of hair, skin tone, eyes, strength, the perfect, coordinator." Kira said. "My parents, were killed by Blue Cosmos extremists" Milly let all of it sink in, Kira wasn't even a normal coordinator, and his own father wanted him to be like some sort of tool, an experiment, how awful, but what had truly gotten to her was that he too lost someone to the Blue Cosmos.

"I'll understand if you hate me now Milly, I'm not even a natural coordinator, I'm a freak, a lab rat made in a test tube" Kira said turning away, unable to face the girl he loved. Surprisingly, he felt a pair of hands on his face guiding him back to her. Looking back he saw Milly embrace him. "You're still Kira Yamato, and I wouldn't have you any other way" Milly said to Kira, at this he relaxed, she hadn't been disgusted with him. "Kira, don't ever think you have to carry the burden with you alone, I'll be with you always" Milly said as she let her hands roam across Kira's back. Kira let his own arms embrace Milly. Moving away, Kira leaned in and let his lips meet hers as they fell back onto the bed, still in an embrace.

The next morning, Elice looked in on Kira's room and saw Milly asleep in Kira's bed, and in his arms. Seeing as how she was still decent, Elice smiled and walked away, preferring to allow her daughter to wake up on her own.

4 months later

Milly was currently going over a shopping list and a request sent in by her editor for some photos she'd have to have done by the end of the month. Once graduation was over she had taken on an apprenticeship with another photographer. She had learned all she had to know and used her experience to sign on with a magazine to do photo shoots at various places. From streets to countries, but for now she was doing small tasks around the colony of Deimos.

Kira had graduated and started an internship at an engineering plant called Initech and so far Kira had only found work in the mailroom but was being offered a position with much better pay. That much had let her feel a little better knowing that they could both put food on the table and not just her.

She looked up and saw Kira walk through the door and set down some things from the store on the table, and then walk over give her a peck on the cheek. "Hey sweetheart" Milly said as Kira began to unpack the groceries. "Hey sweetie" Kira replied unloading the last product. "How was work?" She asked. "Oh the usual, Boss annoys me, and I have to put up with a guy named Milton who threatens to burn down the plant" Kira said nonchalantly as he plopped down on the couch and popped open a sod. "This doesn't bother you any?" Milly asked. "No, because I hear it all the time" Kira said. "Oh I'll be starting the new position next week, that means some better pay too." Kira said. "That's a relief." Milly said as she sat down next to Kira.

"Wow, we've really gone a long way from the war haven't we?" Kira asked as he felt Milly's head rest on his shoulder. "Yeah, we sure have" she replied. Reaching into his pocket, Kira began to speak as he pulled his hand and his pocket's contents out.

"I'd like to go even further" Kira said. Looking down Milly saw a velvet box resting in his hands; this alone caused Milly's eyes to shine like stars, her breath was caught when she saw him pull open the box and reveal a diamond ring, that had to be at least 4 carrots. "Miriallia Haww, will you marry me?" Kira asked, silently praying that she would say yes.

Hours seemed to take the place of seconds as Kira waited for an answer, and he watched as Milly let her hands travel to the box and held it in front of her, looking at the beauty and it's delicate features, a smile soon found it's way to her lips, as tears formed in her eyes. "I would have said yes, even if you didn't have a ring, Yes I'll marry you." Milly said, as tears fell from her eyes and her smile was the brightest thing in the room.

At this Kira lifted her up and spun her around the room as he reveled in her happiness and let her down to embrace her, thinking how nothing could spoil this moment, and how soon, very soon he would more happy than anyone else in the colony.

Later on, as Kira lay sleeping, and after everyone had been called up and informed and congrats were said, he found himself thinking back to the final battle he had with Raww Le Kluese, before he had killed Fllay.

Flashback

"You are something that should not exist! If others found out, they'd want to be just like you!" Raww yelled to Kira. " That may be true, but my power is not all I have" Kira yelled back.

"And who will understand that! NO ONE WILL!"

End Flashback

Kira could only think back and think of only one thing: 'Raww le Kluese was wrong, someone does understand'. Kira then looked over to the sleeping form of his fiancé' and kissed her on the cheek, earning a soft smile from her, and then allowed himself to drift off and think of what the future held.

Well that's the end of the latest chapter and one more to go, lemme know what ya think, R&R