Mike: Aw- bloody hell. I forgot to mention I don't own Gundam SEED or Gundam SEED Destiny, but I think we all knew that.
In the limo ride to school the four Clyne girls were silent; as if yesterday's mutual argument was still looming over their heads. Fllay, however, seemed eerily chipper. Meyrin noted this as her stomach gave another jolt. She had to play matchmaker for her sister. It's not fair! You should be helping Lacus! her mind told her over and over again. Meyrin just twisted her hands anxiously and shot quick glances are everyone in the car before darting away to look at her feet for the millionth time. Lunamaria began to notice this pattern.
"Mey is there anything wrong?" she asked, worried. She had always shared a better bond with Meyrin compared to her other sisters, even if they didn't get along most of the time.
Meyrin's head shot up and her features became blank and emotionless, devoid of the frightened expression she wore seconds ago. "What? Oh, I'm just worried about a test today. I didn't study at all." Lunamaria frowned, but merely nodded. She was obviouslylying, but there seemed no sense to push matters. She looked at Fllay, last night she had seen Fllay march angrily into Meyrin's room and come back out smirking. If Fllay had done anything she'd smack that girl to hell.
"Don't worry Meyrin, you'll do fine," Lacus smiled sweetly at her younger sister. Meyrin felt her gut drop again.
"Yeah… thanks Lacus…" she murmured. Great, now she felt even worse about this. Her oldest sister was being nice to her and here she was trying to sabotage her love life.
"Yeah, you better pass." Fllay spoke up, surprising the other two, who thought that their sister was referring to the test. But Meyrin knew well what she really meant. She caught Fllay's eyes and shuddered. Oh yes… she had better pass.
The limo came to a screeching halt. Meyrin groaned. Doom was looming.
"Your high school," the butler bowed as he opened the car door.
Meyrin scrambled out. She had to find Kira. Today she would stalk him and figure out her strategy, like a scout mapping the land for a possible attack.
"Smooth move Elthman. Didn't see that one coming at all." Athrun gasped, kneeling over in side-splitting laughter. All around him their friends were doing the same.
"Aw, shut up," winced Dearka, rubbing the imprint of Milly's hand on his cheek. "How was I supposed to know that she didn't win in the photography competition this year? She usually does!" The blond boy glanced over at the girl who gave the slap, Miriallia Haww, who was hanging out with her yearbook friends. She was his crush, but Milly showed no interest in him. Where other girls would swoon at his jokes, she would only roll her eyes. It probably didn't help that she knew he liked her too. Ever since that day he had been dared to tell her how he felt, Milly began to alienate herself from him. He tore himself away from gazing at her brown hair long enough to notice a blond boy sitting by himself on the stairway.
"Hey guys, check it out!" he shouted, eager to get the attention off his mistake. "It's a new kid!" The laughing stopped long enough for the group to look at the boy.
"Alright!" Kira cheered along with Kuzzey. "Let's go say hi!" He took off down the way, the other boys trailing behind him.
BRRRRRRRIING!
The school bell rang before any of them could reach him, however. Kira skidded to a halt at the very edge of the top step and teetered dangerously as if he was going to fall. He probably would have to, if someone hadn't reached out and pulled him back. His amethyst eyes widened as he turn to see who it was. Light powder blue eyes stared back at him, inches away from his face. Kira had twisted around while she was still holding his arm, meaning that he accidentally had pulled her closer to him. Lacus's hand still gripped the arm and pulled her arm around his back due to the laws of left and right.
"Err... Lacus..." he stammered, trying to edge out of her grip. To have a girl so close to him, especially one he liked, was uncomfortable.
"Oh I'm sorry! Am I hurting you?" she asked innocently, releasing her vice-like hold.
Gah! She's so naïve. I don't think she even realizes what she did... Athrun thought, watching what had unfolded.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Kira muttered and dashed past her to the school, his face as red as a cherry.
Fllay watched all of this from afar, an insane glint forming in her eyes, as rage began to boil.
"Meyrin, you had better get your sorry ass moving," she whispered to the girl beside her. Meyrin nodded, afraid.
"Yes, Fllay."
Cagalli Yula Attha was pissed. Pissed beyond belief. Already today ten people had mistaken her for a boy, and quite frankly, it was irritating. Most of the time the people who made the mistake were teachers so she couldn't punch their lights out. Others were students, but they always mentioned it right under the teacher's noses, so she couldn't punch their lights out. One of them was even an old friend back in middle school! Had it really been that longsince she left in middle school?
"No, Mr. La Flaga, I'm a girl," she spoke before he could even open his mouth. She didn't want the count of idiots to go up to eleven.
Mwu La Flaga's jaw dropped in mock despair. "I wasn't going to ask you if you were a boy, Miss Attha,"the science teacherwhimpered, feigning hurt. "I knew you were a girl, you don't look like a guy at all to me!" She looks just like a guy, he mused as he checked her outfit. A page boy cap was placed jauntily on her head, crimson, like her tee-shirt. She wore baggy khaki pants and military dog tags as well, black sneakers on her feet. If Mwu hadn't known she was a girl beforehand, he would've sworn that Cagalli was a guy. However, there was one indicator that would've still given her away- her body. Being among many high-school girls has given Mwu an ability to easily identify a girl's body, no matter what, sometimes by the waist, other times by the… yeah… Mwu smirked.This job was too kind to him.
"Take your seat between Lacus Clyne and Athrun Zala."
Cagalli stared at him blankly. "Who's Athrun?" Like everyone else in the music world, she knew Lacus well and easily spotted her. But there were two empty seats next to Lacus, both between her and two girls. Well, their hairstyles made them look like girls anyway, but she could tell by the clothes that they weren't.
"Huh? Oh, that's right, you're new here. Athrun is the boy with blue hair, the other is Yzak Joule." Cagalli nodded and took her seat.
"Hello, I'm Lacus Clyne," whispered the pink-haired girl. "Pleased to meet you!"
"Cagalli," the blonde nodded and turned to the boy next to her. He was staring at her with a look of confusion and shock on his face.
"Hey, is there a problem?" growled Cagalli, a little embarrassed to have someone stare at her.
"A girl?" Athrun stammered, completely red in the face. Poor Athrun didn't know that that was the eleventh time today. Cagalli finally snapped. Thoughts of getting in trouble were pushed to the back of her mind.
"Yeah, that's right, I'm a girl! What is it with you men!" She slammed her fist down on the desk. Athrun shrunk back at her blazing gaze.
"CAGALLI ATTHA! That behavior is not tolerable in this classroom! Go in the hall!" called Mwu from the front of the classroom.
"Fine!" she hissed and stormed out of the room. The students scrambled eagerly to get out of the way. All of them feared that being in a one inch radius of her would kill you. All but one that is. A certain jock with greasy purple hair sat calmly in the back of the classroom, studying her. A light of amusement shone in his eye.
"Feisty…" he sighed, in a pathetic, lovesick way. Cagalli slammed the door shut behind her. It was so loud that it rattled the bookshelves and made some of the girls jump. "Very feisty indeed…"
"SHINN ASUKA! STELLAR IS GOING TO KILL YOU!" Stellar Loussier shrieked.
"Stellar, I- OW! Hey! OW! I didn't mean to!" Shinn cowered on the ground as he was showered in slaps. Pretty soon his whole face was as red as his eyes. In fact, one could say his head looked exactly like a tomato with black hair.
Flashback
"Hey guys, this is Stellar Loussier. She just transferred here from Eartlliance High," Lunamaria motioned to the blonde girl next to her. "Stellar, this is Shinn Asuka, Rey za Burrell, and Auel ." She pointed each of them out in turn.
"Hi Mr. Shinn! Hi Mr. Auel! Hi Miss Rey! Stellar is pleased to meet you!" the new girl chirped and sat down next to Shinn on the bench. The other three froze in horror.
"What did you say?" Rey whispered dangerously.
"Hi Mr. Shinn! Hi Mr. Auel! Hi Miss Rey! Stellar is pleased to meet you!" Stellar repeated, confused. She looked at Luna, "Lunamaria, how come this girl doesn't like what Stellar said? Is she a Mrs. Rey?"
Lunamaria groaned and shoved her head in her hands, Auel turned six shades of green and hid under the table, and Shinn… Shinn burst out laughing.
"WHAHAHA! Miss Rey! HAHAHA!" he chortled, falling over sideways… onto Stellar's lap... face down. After a moment of shock he quickly tried to push himself up… Unfortunately one hand he placed on the inside of her thigh and the other on her breast while doing so.
End Flashback
So now Shinn was lying in the dirt while the rest of the student body watched and laughed their asses off. Meyrin and Vino, who were sitting next to them, shook uncontrollably, rocking back and forth. Even Rey smirked some. Luna collapsed onto the table laughing, and Auel leaned against Meyrin, choking on the hot dog he had been eating. This earned him a slap from Meyrin, making Luna and Vino laugh even harder.
"Shinn, I didn't know you were a molester!" gasped Luna between fits of giggles.
"Yeah, you better be careful Luna, because he's coming for you next!" Auel smirked.
"Shut up," grumbled Shinn, slowly picking himself off the ground. His cheeks were burning, but not just because of embarrassment. He received a demonstration of the woman's two greatest weapons, the slap. The other is a high-heeled shoe.
Stellar sat back down and began to eat her lunch, "Stellar thinks Shinn is a pervert," she told them happily. Lunamaria smiled.
"Lunamaria does too."
"Okay… So that's Athrun-san and she's Lacus-sama," Stellar said, pointing to the boy and pop princess. Later during that lunch, Shinn, Auel, Luna, and Meyrin, were teaching her the names of some of the upper-classmen. Rey had stalked off, muttering something about needing his pills and Vino followed. He suspected Rey was popping Prozac and wanted to prove it. "Then who's that?" the innocent girl pointed to a brown-haired boy sitting next to famous pair. Meyrin coughed loudly.
"Kira Yamato," she squeaked. While the other three had been helping Stellar learn names, she had been studying him; Fllay's crush and her target. Meyrin watched him carefully, mentally noting what he ate, burning it into her memory. Tomorrow she would try to talk to him in the morning, or at least at lunch; food could be a good conversation starter.
"Yeah," Lunamaria smiled. "Hey, can you guys keep a secret? Lacus and Fllay, my sisters, have a crush on him!" she squealed. Auel began grinning widely and Stellar gasped.
"Are you sure? I mean, did they tell you, or did you hear it from one of their friends?" Shinn asked.
"They told me. I'll never forget it, either," Lunamaria's eyes began to glaze over and she turned to gaze at the sky, a sure sign of flashback.
"It's no fair, Lacus! How come you get to be engaged to Athrun!" Meyrin whined. It was the day of the big news; Siegel Clyne finally announced who Lacus was to marry.
Lacus just sighed. "I don't know. It won't be bad, I guess," Lunamaria noticed that her older sister was downhearted. She couldn't understand it, either. She would be over the moon if their father said Athrun was marrying her.
"Don't you want to be wed to him?" she asked, slightly confused.
"I'LL TRADE WITH YOU! WHOEVER I GET FOR ATHRUN!" squealed Meyrin.
"I don't know," Lacus admitted. "Maybe it's because you can't force true love. I'd rather marry the guy I really like-" shrieks and howls from her two sisters cut her off.
"HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE ATHRUN ZALA!"
"WHO DO YOU LIKE?"
"YEAH! WHO CAN BEST ATHRUN'S BEAUTY!"
Lacus giggled. "Well, if you must know, I love Kira Yamato." Luna and Mey gasped, as did Fllay. She had been brooding at the window about her own engagement when she heard Lacus's words.
"NO YOU DON'T! I LOVE HIM!" Fllay shouted. The sisters all turned, shocked.
"Wha-what?" Lacus sputtered.
"I LOVE KIRA YAMATO! NOT YOU! I LOVE HIM! I LOVE HIM! HE NEEDS SOMEONE TO CARE FOR HIM, NOT SOME BITCH!" she screamed, picking up a glass vase and holding it poised, ready to throw it.
"It was kinda scary and ironic," Lunamaria finished at the end of her reminiscence. Shinn, Stellar, and Auel listened to her words in utter silence and surprise, none of them realized how violent and possessive Fllay could be. As Meyrin listened she grew pale. For her it was a reminder of what her sister would do to her if she didn't get her way.
"That's terrible," Stellar said through the heavy silence that hung in the air after. "I hope Lacus gets him so Fllay gets mad. Stellar doesn't think she likes her."
Auel agreed. "Fllay's a bitch. She had one of her followers push me down the stairs in the hall so she could get by."
"What does Fllay look like?" Stellar asked. Luna slapped her forehead. Of course Stellar doesn't know what she looks like! We forgot to point her out.
"That's Fllay," Shinn beat her to it, pointing towards a table with dozens of girls and guys swarmed around it. Fllay sat with her back towards them, surrounded by the other popular students. She was laughing at some poor nerd who had dropped his tray.
"Stay away from her. Her crowd is the one you have to watch out for, they practically run the school." Shinn warned.
"Okay! Stellar will be careful! Shinn will help her!" Stellar smiled. Shinn turned bright red.
"Yeah… I'll protect you…" he mumbled. Beside him, Lunamaria's face went as purple as her hair. Meyrin and Auel noticed and exchanged smirks; they just recieved some new blackmail material.
Yzak sat on the busride home, scowling.
Dammit Shiho! Stop talkinghim! How else am I gonna get the answers to the Social Studies quiz!he shouted mentally. Shiho Hahnenfuss sat across the aisle, chatting with Shinn about what had happened at lunch.
"You thought it was FUNNY? Are you a sadist?" Shinn grumbled. Getting slapped a million times wasn't funny at all. Watching someone getting slapped a million times was hilarious.
"Funny you should ask that..." Shiho replied. Yzak frowned and tuned back out of the conversation, slippinginto his own little world. One where he was kicking Athrun Zala's ass, and remained in a zoned out state for the rest of the ride.
"Yzak?" Earth to Yzak- its our stop." Shiho waved her hand in front of his face, but heeded no response. "Yzak...? Let's go! ... That's it! COME IN GAY BOY!" In a flash Yzak was back.
"HEY!" he screeched as Shiho giggled. "I'M NOT GAY!" he howled as the two got off the bus.
"Whatever you say, Momma's Boy," Shiho smirked, stopping at the sidewalk to her house. Yzakpassed herin a huff, furious.
"I am not!" he began to walk up to his own house's path.
"Are too! I bet you wouldn't do anything daring becauses it'll give your mother a heart attack! You can't have that because if she died there would be no one to bring you your blankie!" she catcalled. Yzak became rooted on the spot.
How did she know...? Yzak wondered then shook his head. "I can too!"
"Yeah right," Shiho scoffed. She clearly enjoyed egging him on.
Blood began to pound in Yzak's ears. "I CAN TOO!I CANAND I WILL!"
Shiho paused. "What...?"
"I'm rebellious! I'm gonna do something bad, wait and see!" With that, he stormed into his house and slammed the door.
The shock began to wear off and Shiho grinned. "I so have to see this!"
Fllay barged into Meyrin's room, claws drawn.
"WELL? What did you find?" she screeched. Meyrin gulped, but tried not to show her nervousness.
"Don't worry, everything's under control." Meyrin's tone was calm, but inside her stomach was doing major bellyflops. Fllay smiled wickedly.
"Kira will be mine, then." she whipered. "Kira will be mine."
Mwu's a perv, Yzak's trying to rebell, and Yuuna's his usual bastardly self. Uh-oh...