Disclaimer: nope, still don't own gundam seed or any of the characters
Battle For Love- Time to Leave?
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It has been a few weeks since Athrun and Cagalli met each other.
It was almost the same routine everyday; Athrun goes to Cagalli's house at 8:30 sharp, they hang out together and sometimes with Dearka, they go to Athrun's house and hang out some more, Athrun walks Cagalli back to her house around 9:00. It was the same old thing everyday, but there was one thing that changed every passing day...the feelings between Athrun and Cagalli grew stronger and stronger.
Dearka was almost sure that they were going out with each other, but every time he asked they would change the subject.
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Before Athrun left the house to pick up Cagalli his dad stopped him.
"Athrun, you have to be more careful. There have been more people trying to assassinate us these days since your grandpa is dying." Patrick Zala warned.
"Don't worry dad, I'm very careful." Athrun lied so that he can go already.
Of course as a dad even though he was never really there for his son and didn't give such a good role model as a good father, but he still wanted him to be safe so he sent a bodyguard to look after him in secret.
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That night Athrun and Cagalli were star gazing on top of a flower covered hill.
Athrun then picked a flower out of the soft soil and handed it to Cagalli.
"It looks so beautiful." Cagalli smiled.
"Not as pretty as you." Athrun smirked.
Cagalli turned her head so that Athrun couldn't see her blush.
"I wonder how many stars are up there." Athrun asked.
"Why don't you count them all and tell me?" Cagalli joked.
"Anything for you." Athrun said then actually started counting them.
When Athrun reached 300 stars after losing count 50 times already he looked over to Cagalli seeing that she had already fallen asleep on his shoulder.
"She looks like an angel." Athrun thought.
"Hi Athrun! Where should we go today?" Cagalli suddenly burst out.
"You're awake?" Athrun asked.
"When I get married, I want a lot of children." Cagalli burst out again.
Cagalli kept talking gibberish until Athrun realized that she was probably talking in her dreams.
Athrun was pretty tired, but decided that he shouldn't wake Cagalli up. After a while looking at Cagalli sleep, Athrun's eyelids suddenly got a lot heavier and soon his fatigue got the better of him.
A few hours later the sounds of the seagulls woke Athrun up. He then looked down to find that Cagalli had her head rested on his lap sleeping soundly. Athrun couldn't help but kiss her lightly on the forehead.
"I guess we were here overnight. Our parents might get worried not that I really care." Athrun said under his breath.
He carefully got up while putting her head that was on his lap down for a while and lifted her onto his back giving her a piggy back ride trying not to wake her up. Fortunately she was still sound asleep.
"You're pretty heavy." Athrun said quietly and continued walking towards Cagalli's house.
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"Huh? Why am I here? Wasn't I with Athrun?" Cagalli asked in a confused tone.
"The boy dropped you back here just a while ago." Uzumi replied.
"Uh o...I was asleep, so I might have said something stupid when I was dreaming, I always do!" Cagalli panicked.
She was about to bash her head against the wall because of her stupidity until she heard people screaming for help outside.
"People we need water! The Zala mansion is on fire! It's spreading everywhere!" A man yelled.
"There are a lot of people still trapped in there!" Another woman cried.
"Isn't Athrun in there?" Cagalli started to panic again.
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Athrun was almost back to his own house.
"I can't wait to get back home, so I can clean myself up." Athrun said.
He suddenly noticed that the air was getting thicker and it got harder to breathe. It smelled like smoke and he looked up to see a huge cloud of smog coming from where his house was located.
Athrun started to run faster and faster until he was panting for air. He stopped dead in his tracks after arriving to his house. There was fire everywhere burning everything that stood in its path. His house was almost in ruins. Firefighters were holing him back from going any closer. Water was being sprayed from all directions, but didn't seem to be helping put the fire out.
"No! This can't be!" Athrun cried as he fell to his knees.
He felt a hand on his shoulder, so he turned around seeing one of his dad's bodyguards with no wounds on him what-so-ever.
"I'm sorry Athrun. Your dad told me to protect you and during that time I got news that the mansion as well as everyone in it got attacked by a triad group most probably the red dragons. Everyone wanted the ring leader spot for ages now, but seeing that it would be given to your father they want to kill every in the family so they could take over the spot. That's why you have to go into hiding and get out of here when we get the chance." The bodyguard explained.
"I'm not going anywhere! I need to avenge my dad and everyone else that got killed today just because of the stupid triad affairs!" Athrun screamed.
"It's to dangerous Mr.Zala. Please forgive me." The body guard said as he knocked him out by punching him really hard in the stomach trying not to hurt him too much.
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"Please be okay. Please be okay. Please be okay." Cagalli kept on repeating over and over again as she ran towards the Zala mansion.
She finally arrived and saw the Zala mansion was burnt to ashes. She quickly ran to a firefighter.
"Excuse me? Were there any survivors in the Zala mansion?" She hoped he would say yes.
"I'm sorry to say that there wasn't anyone that survived, but it's still not confirmed yet." The firefighter said as he rolled the hose and carried it back to the truck.
She was scared. Her legs were trembling.
"Athrun survived. Athrun survived. Athrun survived." Cagalli kept repeating in her head as she cried with her hands covering her face.
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After Cagalli cried her eyes out she returned home to see if there was any news about the fire incident on T.V.
"We have just arrived to the scene of a terrible fire that occurred just moments ago. Excuse me Mr. Officer, but what happened here." The reported asked.
"Well it seems that someone intentionally set the Zala mansion on fire after killing everyone in it. There hasn't been any confirmation of survivors so far. It seems that this case is a murder case and these despicable people want the whole Zala family dead for some reason." The police officer explained.
Cagalli turned off the T.V.
"My dad said that Athrun dropped me off just a while ago and I live pretty far away from Athrun. Maybe Athrun wasn't even there during the whole incident." Cagalli thought to herself.
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"Ow... Where is this place?" Athrun looked around the place he was in as he rubbed his stomach trying to ease the pain.
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A/N: yep chapter 3 done! I was watching war of the worlds today so I got a little behind.
Thnx to asga, mariad, Angel of Dreams, ritachi and Jenniferseedlover for reviewing! You people are the best!
