Chapter 8- Get-Togethers are a Pain…

Examsss are overrr! Yes! Weird thing is that I started this before exams and ended it after… …Suffered from hiatus and studying… One more thing I want to say… Please don't comment anymore about the AsuranAthrun thing. I've explained it many times that I'm using Japanese version of his name. Thanks very much! PLOT DEVELOPMENT WILL ENSURE! Gomen for the horribly short chapter though…Thanks for the reviews!

KiraFreedom: OO…Thank you much for pointing it out!

Unknown-Character: lol. Well…I don't like coffee myself and I'm too underaged to be drinking. Just random stuff I made up.

MissRule: lol…I wish I could do doujinshi…I dunno…I'll think about drawing it out though once I actually stop being lazy and draw something that's decent.

awerpt: I know…I'm so bad…I'm avoiding the main point…Plot development will develop soon…Thanks!

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Seed/ Destiny or little bits of Love Hina.

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"Here Kira…come get the food…"

Foolish…that's what the pair felt. Foolish. What kind of people would be on their hands and knees, trying to convince a half-insane ultimate coordinator to crawl out from under the coach and nibble on a caramel treat? So much for the greatest artificial human creation ever built…

The mansion was quite empty where everybody had been kicked out. Well, some people left for other reasons. Asuran and Cagalli had managed to pry Lacus off Yzak, though suffering many nail scrapes and bite marks. And Asuran losing a small tuft of hair. Yzak ran out the door before anyone could offer him a stress pill and currently in hiding. The pink-haired princess was now strapped to a chair, mewing profusely for "her" Yzak.

"I give up…" Cagalli sighed, getting to her feet and stretching. Asuran followed suit, dropping the caramel, where a hand grabbed it and retreated back to the safety of the dark couch underground. "He's still alive…" Asuran muttered, signaling at the coach.

"Meh…" she yawned and trudged off to the staircase, her footsteps dying away after a few seconds. Asuran glanced at his ex-fiancée and thought, 'What am I going to do with you…'

At the time, Lacus was behaving like a clueless pink-haired child, watching an invisible butterfly soar through the window and right into a wall. (A/N: WHAT!) Asuran knew he was going to regret this sooner or later, but strolled over and untied Lacus from her restraints. She just sat their, blinking and looking around the room, which surprised the blue-haired boy, who thought she was going to barge outside and stir up a crowd. Patting her head, he said in a quiet voice, "You stay here with Kira and please return him to normal because he's going to suffocate from all the dust under the coach.

Lacus grinned, jumped onto the furniture and curled up into a pillow. Asuran returned the grin with a charming smile and went up the stairs to his room. Just as he passed Cagalli's room, he heard loud banging noises and swearing erupting beyond the closed door.

"Cagalli! Are you ok!" Asuran yelled outside the room. No answer.

'I'm gonna regret this later…' Asuran rammed his shoulder against the wooden door, slamming it down to the floor. Falling face-down inside the room, he wearily picked himself up and stared blurrily at his surroundings. "What's the matter…?"

She didn't seem to be hurt at all. That's when his eyes began to focus. Slowly, a clearer picture of the blonde princess was on top of her bed, muttering out curses, but also shocked that a blue-haired man flew into her room.

"Look. Floor. Now." She growled, pointing at her floor. His eyes trailed downwards and saw a small spider crawling around.

"What?"

"YOU DON'T SEE IT?"

"I don't want to look further around your floor…considering you have many err… personal items scattered around?"

"THE SPIDER, YOU IDIOT"

Asuran picked up the spider and held it delicately in his hand, where it stopped moving and relaxed. "You wanna hold it?"

"ARE YOU BLIND AND DEAF!"

Asuran payed no attention and walked over to her windowsill. Cagalli heard a tiny click as the window opened and a small breeze played with her hair. Stretching out his hand, he placed it outside and closed the window.

He turned to the furious girl standing on her bed and finally noticed what was different about her. "Cagalli? Do you want me to leave?" he asked quietly, slowly facing the door, his back at her and turning red.

"What the hell do you-" Her words slurred to a stop as a careful realization came over her. "I'm wearing a towel…aren't I…?" Cagalli said slowly, climbing off her bed.

Refusing to let his hormones get the better of him, he nodded, his gaze fixed on anything that was not the half-dressed girl. Unfortunately, a small mirror caught his eye and he glanced at it, not knowing what was being reflected in that sheet of glass.

Even an egg could be cooked on Asuran's face at the moment, at how ridiculously red and boiling it was.

"I really think I should go right now…" he whispered, voice cracking slightly, almost begging.

"Wait a second, I have to ask you something. Don't look over until I say so, but I doubt you're a pervert…"

Asuran choked, trembling madly, but didn't dare say a word. He tore his eyes away from the mirror for a moment, the words 'Pervert…' repeated in his head like a mantra. Cagalli was not making his ordeal any easier. Her constant shuffling tempted Asuran to see what she was up to, luring his emerald eyes to view again the mirror. Crawling on her hands and knees wasn't exactly what he was expecting. The princess appeared to be trying to reach some foreign object under her bed, but with no prevail. It also gave Asuran ample view of her…

'Zala! Eyes off now and get a hold of yourself!'

Asuran's head snapped up, his arm snatched the mirror and stuffed it in his shirt, causing a scuffle of noise. Cagalli looked over her shoulder questioningly. "What was that?"

Asuran shrugged, feeling his face heat up. He continued looking at the ceiling with some fascination until he heard the blonde girl straighten up, and poke the back of his head.

"You busy tomorrow night?"

"Wha-What?" he sputtered, his emerald orbs widening. He was planning to ask her the same thing the next day.

"Well, are you?" her face frowning, not a hint of a blush on her face.

"No…"

"Well, Lacus and Kira are going out again tomorrow and I think it'll be nice for us to know each other more. Actually, it was Lacus' idea."

'When did she ask Lacus? And how? Most of the time, she's either asleep, drunk, or otherwise out.' Asuran sweatdropped.

"It's a date?" he asked, recovering from his state of confusion.

Cagalli's face turned red, and eyes furrowing, she mumbled, "We're just getting to know each other better. Don't get any bad thoughts, Zala!"

"Yes ma'am!" he replied, saluting and giving a cheery smile then ran out of the room. Cagalli sighed and went to close the door behind him. A small gleam of light caught her eye and looking down, lay a mirror. Smudge marks slightly dulled the glassy reflection.

'Why does Asuran have my mirror?'

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"KIRAAA!"

Asuran came running down the stairs to the living room. Skidding to a halt, he dropped down on the floor and peered under the couch. "Kira? You there?"

"Yes?" a disheveled Freedom pilot's head emerged from the kitchen door.

"Kira! I've just been asked out by your sis- is that ice cream?" Asuran pointed at his face, which had the slightest spot of strawberry ice cream. Kira's eyes widen, and rubbed his mouth feverishly. "Er…yes…now what about my sister?"

"Is it ok if I spend tomorrow with your sister? She said she wanted us to get to know each other better."

"Uh…sure…whatever…well…go to bed now. You have to rest up for your big day." Kira laughed forcibly and waved his hand in a "shoo shoo" manner.

"Ok, thanks for everything, Kira!" Asuran grinned and started to walk away, but was halted by Cagalli who was marching blindly towards her twin.

"Kira…where's Lacus? I think she has my face cloth." She grabbed Asuran's shirt and wiped her face in it, leaving a big wet splotch. Apparently, she had just washed her face.

"Uh. I don't know. Go to bed. Look. You already wiped your face on our guest's shirt. Go ask her in the morning." For some reason, Kira sounded panicky and was desperately trying to shield his body with the door.

"Kira, are you alright?" Asuran asked, worried at his best friend's behavior.

"Oh fine…never better." He replied in a squeaky voice.

Cagalli rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I'm gonna use the kitchen one." She attempted to wrench the door from her brother, but he protested, "Go to bed!"

"Holy crap. Why are you in your boxers? You know that Naked Thursdays are on Thursdays when I'm not around." Looking at her twin, she frowned, but slowly came to realization.

"K-Kira…?" Asuran stuttered, emerald orbs widening. "You have ice cream."

"Um…I was eating ice cream and it sorta slipped." Kira sweatdropped.

"That's not the case, Kira… What I mean is that you have strawberry ice cream all over you. ALL OVER YOU. It's like you were swimming in ice cream, wearing nothing except your boxers."

"YOU ATE MY WHOLE SUPPLY OF ICE CREAM! YOU FREAK!" the blonde princess screamed.

"Whose a freak?"

The blue-haired coordinator and Orb's princess screamed, clutching each other in fear as they saw the face of Lacus Clyne behind Kira.

"Ara ara. There's no need to scream. It's just me." Lacus smiled. Cagalli and Asuran stopped and released each other.

Cagalli surveyed her brother and his girlfriend. "You really picked a chance to do your horny deeds…didn't you Kira."

"What!" Kira blurted out, his face reddening. Asuran snickered quietly. "Taking advantage of poor Lacus, who was temporarily drunk. We thought you had one of your weird spasms again, Kira. I guess we were wrong."

He turned to the blonde princess and offered her his hand. "I think we should leave these horny children alone now, my dear."

Cagalli laughed and accepted his hand. "Let us go." And with that, they ran up the stairs and ran into their rooms, laughter echoing through the mansion, leaving an ice cream smothered Kira and Lacus standing.

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Next day

"Zala, you better be taking me somewhere nice."

"I think it will be."

The pair were sitting in Asuran's black Lamborghini, who was calmly driving to some kind of location that Asuran was taking them. (A/N: Calmly driving is a rare art of Asuran. Usually he just races down the roads, without getting any speeding tickets… '')

Cagalli opened her mouth to say something, but she was jerked forward when the car stopped abruptly. Before she hit the front window, two arms caught her and held her back to the seat. Gold met emerald as they both stared at each other for small period of time until realization struck Cagalli like a slap in the face. WHO THE HELL WAS DRIVING THE CAR!

Cars swerved around the Lamborghini, which was gaining speed down the road, honking their horns and drivers yelling. Asuran snapped out of his trance, narrowly missed a red SUV, whose owner was swearing and waving a very rude sign at them.

"Well that was polite…" Cagalli looked over her shoulder.

"We're here." Cagalli spun around and found herself looking at a small ramen shop with drunk old business men ranting and singing. Cagalli grabbed Asuran's very nice collar and started shaking him wildly. "YOU BROUGHT ME HERE!"

"Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa." Asuran uttered and pointed at another building. "Therreeeee…." Cagalli peered at the direction he was pointing at and hissed, "A strip bar!"

Asuran let out a sigh of exasperation and pulled her out of the car, dragging her into a small restaurant. They were greeted by a man dressed in a black suit.

"May I help you, sir?" he asked, bowing.

"I have a reservation for two." Asuran answered politely, raising two fingers.

"Your name?"

"Zala."

"Oh. Mr. Zala. We have been expecting you." The waiter took two menus and guided the pair to their table. Asuran released Cagalli's hand, and helped her into a chair. She looked at him, surprised, but gratefully smiled and sat down. The waiter inclined his head and retreated.

"So, Zala. What are your plans for today?" Cagalli asked, crossing her arms and narrowing her eyes expectantly.

Asuran laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head. "Whatever you want to do. It is a small get-together, so I have no experience in these things."

Cagalli frowned. "Actually I wasn't expecting this kind of thing. I thought it would be like at a café, drinking coffee or something. Since you're sort of the gentleman type and take extreme measures in a small discussion between strangers."

The coordinator sipped his glass of water thoughtfully. Silence filled the atmosphere as the two sat uncomfortably.

"You know what, let's ditch this. We'll do something else." Cagalli said suddenly, breaking the silence. She waved her arm wildly, trying to catch the waiter's attention.

"Two coffees to go!" The princess hollered at the disgruntled man. Asuran's eyes widen in surprise.

"We just arrived here!" he sputtered.

"We both know that this environment is not going to work out. Better somewhere else then to stay here and rot to death." She snapped, grabbing the two coffee cups with one hand and taking the blue-haired coordinator's wrist in the other. Asuran managed to throw a few bills at the stunned waiter before being wrenched out of the restaurant.

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Cagalli's a very trusting person? I've been reading Love Hina manga and the part with Asuran being "blind and deaf" and when Cagalli mistakes the ramen shop and the strip bar for the place Asuran's taking her are ideas from Love Hina. I don't own Love Hina or parts in it either. I'm high on Love Hina manga right now so…bleh… Yeah…this chapter was a pile of crap…completely out of the point…Next chapter will ensure plot development! Review please!