Chapter 4

"Where could she be?"

Asuran felt like he was wandering around the ship for hours. He went room to room and still there was no sign of Cagalli.

"Did the Archangel get bigger or something? I can't find her anywhere. Maybe she knows I'm here and doesn't want to see my face and she's probably hiding from me…Ehhhh…I don't care! I'm going to find her no matter how long it'll take me!"

With determination, Asuran went back on the hunt for Cagalli.

Meanwhile, on the deck of the Archangel…

There was a young blonde princess relaxing on the rail talking to herself. She was wearing her civilian clothes and on her left forth finger, you could see a ring glisten. Her hair was blown back by the ocean wind and her golden eyes fixed on the sparkling ocean. The dawning sunset shone over her perfect curved body figure and her beautiful face that could melt any man's heart. This one beautiful lady is none other than the princess of Orb, Cagalli Yula Attha.

Cagalli stretches out her arms towards the sky and releases a great big yawn. She's been so tired lately dealing with the Orb fleet survivors from the last battle and crying her eyes out.

"Uhhh, how did this stupid war happen? Why must we all have to suffer this again? Why must we all fight again?"

Questions continue to flow in Cagalli's head causing her to almost losing her balance and falling over the rail.

"Geez, I can't even keep my balance just by questioning myself. What the hell is wrong with me? Uhh! I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE! I'm only eighteen and people don't listen to people like me. Why should they? Is it cause of my father? I have no power or anything. I nearly got married to that disgusting purple haired moron. I signed a very stupid treaty that I so wanna destroy right now. I can't believe I got oldies that are telling me what to do and they're always giving me negative feedback on everything I say and do. Guess cause I'm a girl."

As Cagalli continues to doubt herself, little does she know that Asuran was standing right behind her. He's been standing there all this time listening to all her negative talks. Asuran was going to go up to her but decided to listen to what she was going to say. He felt very sad and guilty seeing her so sad and realized how much he hurted her. Asuran began to blame himself for all that's happened to her. But for some reason, a picture of Kira popped into his head yelling the hell outta him for blaming himself. Asuran gave a little scared look and then brushed it off. He continued to listen to every word Cagalli was saying. It took Asuran forever to find Cagalli and now it's going to take another forever to listen to her talking to herself.

Rewind to 10 minutes ago…

"Uhh! I've been wandering around for hours and still I haven't found Cagalli! Cagalli where are you? I so want to hold you right now and feel your silkiness and smell your addictive vanilla scent."

Asuran continued to wander around the ship, trying to find Cagalli. After going to room to room with no luck, a sudden thing popped into his head.

"The outside deck of the Archangel! I haven't checked out there yet," said Asuran.

He started to walk towards the deck door. But for some reason to Asuran, it was taking forever to get to that door. It's as if the door and getting further away whenever he walks closer towards it. So, using his coordinator abilities, he dashed for the deck door. He finally reached the door and swung it wide open to reveal someone he longed to see.

Asuran was about to run up to her until he heard saying something. Because the curiosity took over him, Asuran stopped where he was and leaned his ear to listen to her sweet serene voice that he hasn't heard in like forever.

Back to the present…

Asuran continued to listen to every word she was saying.

"Why was I so stupid to listen to those old grandpa's? I have more power than them! I could've simply kicked their ass all the way to space. Oh how I so want to do that to that purple freak! I hate that guy so much! How the hell was I arranged to marry him! No offence father but you got bad taste. You could've found someone else way better looking than him."

Asuran almost fell backwards by wanting to laugh at what she was saying. But his laughter immediately died out the moment he heard her say, "You could've found someone else way better looking than him."

He felt like a billion knives being stabbed right into his heart. Did she think that he wasn't good looking enough? And that she wanted someone else better looking than him? Asuran was about to go into DEEP thinking MODE until he heard his name mentioned.

"Asuran…"whispered Cagalli as she smiled just by saying his name but was quickly replaced with a sad smile.

"I wonder what you're thinking about right now. Are you going into DEEP thinking MODE like you usually do?"

By hearing what she said, Asuran smiled and let out a slight chuckle. "She knows me way to well."

"Heh, you probably are since that's the thing your really good at doing. (a picture of Asuran appeared in her mind with his heart melting smile). Cagalli shook her head and muttered, "Stupid Asuran. Why did you leave me? How could you say that we were making the situation worse? Don't you understand that there's something fishy about the Chairman? I can't believe that you didn't do anything with that Lacus impostor. Haven't you ever thought about how Lacus felt about this? You just let that impostor do what she wanted and stained Lacus' image."

By hearing about what Cagalli said about the fake Lacus, Asuran went to complete guilt and sadness mode once again. He questioned himself why he didn't do anything to stop the impostor. Why didn't he think about his ex-fiance's feelings and her reputation? It was because he believed what the Chairman said and thought that everything would be alright just by hearing him speak. Come to think of it, he couldn't believe he let Mia drag on to his arm and acted like they were meant for each other. The image of waking up beside her was so disgusting to him that he nearly wanted to kill her. He couldn't believe he didn't do anything about that either. Cagalli would've been so upset if she found out about that. But he had to tell her cause he didn't want to keep any secrets from her.

"Come to think of it, you coordinators must be really dumb to think that Lacus would act and dress like that. I mean like, would Lacus really dress into something way to revealing? Would she ever encourage soldiers to fight? I don't think so. I just still can't believe you, Asuran, of all people, you didn't do anything to stop it. I'm very upset with you."

Then without thinking that anyone was around, Cagalli shouted at the top of her lungs,

"ASURAN YOU STUPID IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH? AND HOW MUCH IT PAINS ME NOT TO SEE YOU GIVE ME YOUR SMILES AND HUGS! I MISS YOU! WE MISS YOU! I LOVE YOU ASURAN ZALA! YOU IDIOT!"

Asuran couldn't believe what she just said. "She loves me?" After having to hold himself down for sometime, Asuran finally walked towards Cagalli silently and wrapped his arms around her slim waist.

" I love you too, Cagalli."

...gasps... (Cagalli turns her head and gives a gigantic shocked and confused expression)

"...Asuran! When did you come aboard? How long have you been standing there? and whe-... I...I don't want to see you! How dare you show your face after what you've said and done? (she struggled to get out of his grasp but it was no use)

"Cagalli! Please listen to me!" Asuran struggled to say as Cagalli tried again to squirm around trying to get out of his grasp. "I understand that your really angry with me, you have every right to be angry with me. I know what your feeling and I'm really sorry for what I did to you. I didn't realize how you felt until Kira told me during the battle. I didn't realize that I hurt you deeply and how you had to go through so much because of me. I should've done something to stop Mia from impersonating Lacus. I didn't think about how Lacus felt and how much damage it would've caused to her reputation. It was because I believed in the Chairman's words. I believed that what he said was right and was so stupid not to realize that something was wrong. I should've seen it, the dinner he made me have with Mia, the new MS he gave me, appointing me to FAITH and everything he did. I should've seen that there was something wrong. But I was too selfish to realize anything. To make matters worse, I hurt the one person I truly love. That one person that I truly love is you, Cagalli."

Hearing all of Asuran's speech made Cagalli develop some tears in her eyes. She stopped struggling and relaxed herself. Asuran felt her relaxed herself and stopped the struggle, so he continued to speak.

"I'm really sorry for hurting you Cagalli. I'm sorry that I left you and I wasn't there to lend you any support or stop your marriage. If I hadn't have left, you would've never had to be forced to sign the treaty or marry that purple haired bastard. I am grateful that Kira came to save you before you married that no good purple yapping bastard. The person you're supposed to marry is me Cagalli. I'm the one for you and you're the one for me. We're destined to be with each other for eternity. We were destined to meet on that island and develop this relationship we have now. I gave you that ring so you wouldn't forget me and to let you know that I would be back for you so we could spend our lives with each other. I'd do anything for you. I'm sorry Cagalli, please forgive me "

Asuran formed tears in his eyes and they began to pour out. Cagalli felt his tears on her soft, silky skin. She too was crying and felt very touched on what he said. But still, that's not going to make Cagalli Yula Attha forgive him so easily.

Asuran's arms were still wrapped around Cagalli's waist. He doesn't ever want to let her go, having the feeling that if he does, Cagalli would run away from him. He held her tighter. Cagalli feeling that his arms went a little tense and squeezing her a little. She slowly lifted her arms and placed her hands on top of his.

Feeling her hands on top of his, Asuran began to cry even more. Cagalli's tears fell from her eyes again as she looked out to the sea. After a moment of silence, Cagalli finally let herself speak.

"There's more to your story isn't there? What else had happened while you were back at PLANT?" Cagalli said as she continued to look out to sea and teared once more hoping not to hear anything that would hurt her deeply.

Asuran knew what she meant when she asked those questions. She wanted to know about the imposter Lacus, Mia Campbell. He knew that he had to tell her about Mia. He already hurted her enough and lying to her would make matters even worse for his beloved. He took a deep breath and began to speak.

"The Lacus that I assume all of you saw is Mia Campbell. Lacus has a great influence towards the people. The Chairman knew this so he made Mia look like Lacus because Mia was a huge fan of Lacus and has a voice almost like Lacus'. The Chairman made this Lacus in order to have the people of PLANT to believe in him and trust him. He needed power and he knew that Lacus was the perfect person who had that. Mia was doing what she was told. She enjoyed being Lacus and was only doing this because the Chairman asked her too and because Lacus hasn't been around. She was only doing this act cause she was a huge fan of Lacus and was only doing it for a little while. Or so I thought that she was doing this for a short moment. Mia thinks she's the real Lacus now. She won't give it up."

"There's more to this, Asuran. Something happened between you two," as Cagalli hands suddenly gripped onto Asuran. He felt her actions and her tears on his hands.

"Yes something did happen between us." Cagalli closed her eyes and tears fell as she thought about what had happened. Hoping that something she's thinking about didn't happen.

"I woke up and noticed that she was right beside me asleep…B..But nothing happened. Trust me Cagalli. Nothing happened between us. It was just…She thinks that Lacus and me are still engaged and so she did what she thought Lacus would do. But nothing happened. Trust me Cag-..."

"How do I know that what your saying is true?" Cagalli interrupted. How do I know that after all that has happened that your not just here to give us another of your "your making the situation worse" thing. Huh? Tell me!" as tears flowed out.

"I am telling you the truth. If I wasn't telling you the truth then why would I be here crying and spilling my heart out? Cagalli, I came back just to see your beautiful face."

"You're lying!" screamed Cagalli. She began to struggle to get out of his grasp. But Asuran's grip didn't budge one bit. She turned around and started crying into his chest. Asuran felt her tears through his shirt. He too began to cry for all the things that he did to her. Cagalli began to pound at his chest and Asuran didn't care cause he deserved it.

"You're so stupid!" Asuran gave her a tighter hug as he inhaled her sweet vanilla scent in her hair. "I'm so sorry, Cagalli my princess. I would make everything up to you. All I need is you to command me what to do and I'll do it. I'm sorry for everything that you went through because of me."

Asuran and Cagalli parted from each other but their noses nearly touched one another. Cagalli still had tears left in her eyes and Asuran simply wiped them away with his thumb. His emerald eyes met with her golden eyes. They were looking at each other's eyes and Asuran cupped her face with his hands and drew her even closer.

"I'll protect you for real this time. I'll be with you no matter what. This is a promise that I know I'll keep. I love you Cagalli" Asuran drew her face closer to his and he planted the most passionate kiss on her lips. Cagalli was surprised with his actions and that he told her that he loved her and at the same time, longed to taste his lips. She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck while Asuran wrapped one arm around her waist and the other cupping her face. Little did they know that somebody was watching the whole thing that happened.

"Awwww… that was just sweet," cried Captain Walfeld as he took a tissue to wipe his tears.

"Yes! That was so sweet," said Captain Ramius trying to hide away her tears.

"I knew that they would patch things up. They're meant for each other," said Lacus as she wiped her eyes with a tissue.

"Yeah they are meant for each other. But I don't think that Cagalli is going to let him go that easily. Something tells me that Asuran is going to get something very soon," said Kira as he just kept staring at them.

"What do you mean Kira? How do you know that something is going to happen to Asuran?" asked Lacus as the others looked at Kira confused.

"Let's just say that it's a twin thing," said Kira with a slight smirk on his face as he continued to look at his sister and his best friend.

The others just stared at Kira oddly. But quickly shrugged it off and continued to look at the Asuran and Cagalli.

After what seemed like forever, Asuran and Cagalli parted their lips from each other.

SLAP!

Everyone back at the bridge fell backwards.

"Holy crap! Did I just see what I thought I saw?" asked Captain Walfeld as he fell back and shocked at the same time.

"I told ya that something was going to happen to Asuran," as Kira was lying on the floor laughing his ass off.

"Oh my!" said Lacus.

"I guess twins can sense what each other's motives are," said Captain Ramius as she laughed too. Soon everybody on the bridge started to laugh.

Asuran was stunned as he fell two steps back. He held is cheek and felt the sting and redness of the slap that Cagalli just gave him. Her slap was so hard that it felt like a leather belt lashing your hand a billion times. Except that Cagalli's slap was a trillion times worse. Asuran just stared at her golden eyes and saw a totally different Cagalli. Her expression suddenly changed again and it was lightened a little.

"That's for being so stupid and don't think that I've forgiven you completely," said Cagalli as she came closer to Asuran.

Asuran closed his eyes and prepared himself for another slap. After a minute, he didn't receive Cagalli's deadly slap. He opened his eyes and saw Cagalli standing there smiling.

He was confused and was scared for a while. Cagalli then suddenly went up to his face and…

"And this is for telling me that you love me." Cagalli wrapped her arms around his neck and delivered a passionate kiss. Asuran was shocked. First she slapped him and now she's kissing him. Without taking any chances of doing or saying anything that he might regret, Asuran returned the kiss but made it even more passionate.

They kissed until they were ready to give up but neither both of them wanted to stop this moment; The moment that they're finally back together in each other's arms.

END

A/N: Aite! I'm finished! Took me forever to type this out due to less time. Yepz! I typed all of this out today and uploaded all of it today! Hope ya guyz enjoyed it! Rememba! NO FLAMES! If you flame me, I'll just take it that your just jealous and pissed cause you can't produce anything good. Well no one is a best writer so lay off! Don't flame me or other authors just because you don't like the way we wrote the story. If you don't like the way we writet, then lets see you come up with something good. Remember, stories that we write are all produced by our own imagination. It doesn't have to be exactly from the show. Do everybody a favor and don't flame. PLEASE! :'(

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