Title: Disguise

Pairing: AxC

Summary: There are a lot of people wearing a mask and hiding their true selves.

Everyone wears a mask, specially Cagalli Yula Attha, she has a disguise she was quite proud of because no one has ever seen through her perfect disguise except for a certain blue-haired coordinator, Athrun Zala.

Athrun was always amused with Cagalli and sometimes he even admires her specially her strongfigure but sometimes Athrun would wonder how Cagalli felt inside. He knew that everyone had a "soft side" even the great Cagalli Yula Attha. Sooner or later he'd find out.

Cagalli was reading one of the most recent reports from the emirates, she felt so pressured and looked down on because most of what the repost say are failure and problems, it didn't look good at all. If she wasn't the representative of Orb she'd break down into tears. Sometimes she really did want to cry but she needed to be strong and confident.

For Orb…

She was doing this for Orb.

Then Athrun enterned her office "Hi" he greeted

"Hey" she greeted back.

"So what are you reading?" asked Athrun

"Um… Well a report" she answered putting down the papers and sighed. "You should get some rest" Athrun worriedly told her.

"I'm not tired and besides I still have work" she resisted stubbornly.

Athrun couldn't help but notice the dark circles forming under her eyes. "You didn't even get 2 hours of sleep last night" Athrun said.

"2 hours was enough" she resisted.

"Cagalli" Athrun called in a more serious tone. There was a moment of silence.

-Cagalli's POV-

Its was silent, I was just looking at Athrun strait in the eyes, with angry eyes, though I wasn't angry at all and he also looked the same.

Sometimes I wonder how he got see through my perfect disguise. And what did he think? A smiled crawled over my lips and my eyes softened.

"Fine" I finally gave in

END

"Okay then" Athrun smiled

When they got up to Cagalli's room, Athrun sat in a chair that was bought for him.

"Why are you still her?" Cagalli asked, twitching her eyebrow.

"I have to make sure that the princess would sleep" Athrun answered.

Cagalli slightly blused and turned around then she heard Athrun chuckle. "Hmph!" she made a soft sound as she climbed her bed.

Sure he was right, she was really tired.

She closed her eyes for a while, then she felt a hand brush her hair she almost fell asleep when she had a weird feeling. She quietly sat up and saw Athrun already fast asleep! On the couch.

Cagalli wasn't the only one who was tired Athrun was too.

She climerd out of bed and knelt beside him. She never had a chance to see him sleep this close. "He looks like a child, and so cute" she thought.

She stood up again and got her blanket and slowly covered his body "Sleep" Athrun mumbled in his sleep. Cagalli slightly giggled and also brushed away the hair covering his serene face. Then she also went back to sleep.

Everyone has a disguise, even the ones who sees through others disguises has their own masks.

Author: Is it kinda weird? Hehe… I tried to make it as chessy as possible

By the way Yumiko Kida isn't my name just pen name I use in the net. Sometimes I use the name for my OC character.