Title: Annoying Habit
Author: Nekocin
Type: One-shot, Alternative Universe
Words: 547
Genres: General, Mild Humor
Warnings: OoC, cliche, fluff
Pairings: None
Additional notes: side-fic to "Hear the Beating"
Dedicated to: "Hear the Beating" reviewers! (Love you!)
Disclaimer: Gundam Seed doesn't belong to me. Mentioned anime series do not belong to me either.
Author's notes: :cries: Such a stupid, over-used plot bunny! :cries:
Summary: In order to allow Lacus confessing to her brother, Cagalli is generous enough to watch Athrun and is stuck with him and his annoying habit.

The show has barely started when-

Click!

-the channel is changed

She twitches.

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"While I was away you didn't cheat on me, did you, 'Gure-san?" A flowery background intensifies the innuendo. Are they really together one might think.

"I wouldn't do that when I have a man like you," It would seem like there's something hidden behind those words-

"Yosh!" -until both characters give each other a thumbs-up, startling everyone. "Wha?"

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Click!

She twitches again, unconsciously shaking in anger directed at the person sitting on the couch next to hers.
He, however, is completely oblivious of it and lets out a bored sigh before clicking away.

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"-destroy you with my strongest attack! PEGASUS REISEIKE-!" Some guy in strange armor shouts out and punched forwar-

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Click!

She could hear her teeth gnashing--

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"Ne, did you get your grip right this time?" the little boy smirks cockily.

'That little punk!' runs through the opponent's mind and makes an ugly face as he prepares his serve-

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Click!

The book, which she's trying to finish, starts shaking.

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"Bibi-kun," the dark-haired boy smirks.

"-TEME, SASUKE!" the blonde kid screams, but the other just smirks arrogantly before continuing his way.

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Click!

GRRR...oh, god, she's growling now.

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"I'm—cadet Rafiru, your highness," the girl with the pointy ears introduces herself monotonously.

"A-ah, Rafiru—just call me Jinto,"

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Click!

She could hear steam coming out of her ears...

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"—I know exactly who did this! The culprit is—YOU!" the unconscious detective 'murmurs' and the little boy holding his voice-changing bowtie pushes the limp arm--making it look as if the unconscious detective is pointing to the culprit.

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Click!

CR-ACK!

She snaps her pencil into two pieces and shoots a glare at the bored-looking guy sitting next to her.

"That's it, Zala! You're going down!" she shouts.

Her companion gives her a bewildered look. "Wha-?"

She lets out a war cry, pounces the surprised guy and wrestles the remote control from the other's grasp for a good twenty seconds, before hitting a random button of a channel.
"Stick with one channel!" she orders, huffing.

"What's your problem?" Athrun wheezes out, his appearance looking all rumpled. It's a wonder he's made it alive after their wrestling match, though not completely unscathed.

She glares at him, still trying to catch her breath and turns back to the book, which she's been unsuccessfully trying to analyze for the last 3 hours. Why oh why has she been so considerate enough to keep Athrun busy while Lacus confesses to Kira?

Throwing one last glare at the flustered guy, she slides down back to her seat and resumes her work.

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A half hour later, Cagalli breaks her second pencil. It is clear that Athrun Zala does not know the consequences of annoying her. An indescribable feeling of rage bubbles up in her chest.

She, although not a real follower of showing anger through certain actions, realizes that maybe committing homicide might not be such a bad idea. She could do it without hesitation and hide the body somewhere—Miriallia could help her hide it.

An evil glint appears in her eyes, when she finally raises them to regard Athrun predatorily—
-he wouldn't even know what hit him.

END?

TheNekoTalks:

Here's the list of anime series of which quotes I'd used:
- "Fruits Basket" (AKA "Furuba") quoted from Souma Ayame and Souma Shigure. ("Yosh!" means something "Good! (Job well done)" or "All right!")
- "Saint Seiya - The Poseidon series" quoted from Pegasus Seiya. ("Pegasus Reiseiken!" means "Pegasus Meteor Fist")
- "Prince of Tennis" (AKA "Tennis no Oujisama") quoted from Echizen Ryoma and some guy whose name I did not bother to remember since he's a minor character.
- "Naruto" quoted from Naruto. ("Teme!" means "You" (bastard) in a rude speech. "Bibi-kun" something like "scared-y cat")
- "Banner of Stars" (AKA "Seikai no Senki") quoted from Rafiru and Jinto
- "Detective Conan" (AKA "Meitantei Conan" or "Case Closed") quoted from Conan (using Detective Mouri)

:bangs head on keyboard: This is not supposed to be so weird! I wanted to write a cute Athrun+Cagalli one-shot, but Nuoooo! all I get is this short and pointless drabble.

Thank you for taking your time reading this!

.:Nekocin:.