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Illusion - Epilogue

I was walking around, looking for someone.

"Kira! Kira!" I called out.

I looked in many places. Our home for starters, Cagalli's old mansion. He wasn't anywhere. So I decided to look along the shoreline. I walked beside the sea for about a half-hour until I saw him.

"Kira?"

He was crouched over the ground and his body seemed to be shivering violently. He was mumbling things like, "No...why...I don't understand...how...?" I reached out for his shoulder and touched it gently. He stiffened. And turned around...

"Lacus...?"

...And looked at me with a tearstained face. I answered, "Yes...it's me...Kira."

He then said something I never would have expected from him.

"Get away! I'm a killer! I don't deserve to be with you..."

I repeated his words in my mind. "Get away! I'm a killer! I don't deserve to be with you..."

'A...killer...?'

Only then did I notice his crimson stained hands, tainting the sand below. I finally saw the body that lay behind Kira.

"Athrun?"

I moved closer to examine Athrun and as I spotted the bloody knife in his chest, I knew that he was dead. I felt some tears beginning to gather in my eyes as I leaned over him. I brushed his navy hair to the side, gracefully spread over the powdery sand and gazed into his eyes. They were as beautiful as ever, but looking blank, as his soul's thread to his body had been cut off viciously. I moved his eyelids over his eyes, never to open again.

Kira was huddled over and as a walked over to him, he glanced at me fearfully before ducking his head back to the ground. When I got beside him, I embraced him from the side and I could see his surprised reaction.

"Kira...did you think I would hate you?"

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"Kira...did you think I would hate you?"

Yes, my answer was yes. I thought you'd hate me for leaving you to find Athrun. I thought you would despise me for killing Athrun. But I would've never expected something like this.

Knowing you were by my side was enough. I was tired of holding everything back. I cried with you, Lacus. I told you what had happened: Athrun's story, and what I tried to do to bring him back into reality. You listened. And when I finished, I heard you say, "Cagalli would never have wanted him to live that way. She would have wanted him to move on, not stay in his memories forever. Kira...you set his soul free, and for that, I'm grateful."

"But...how did it turn out like this, Lacus? Why?" I was half-sobbing and pleading to Lacus. "When the war was over, everything was supposed to turn out fine! I don't understand! Everything was supposed to be perfect, a happy ending!"

She hesitated a bit before answering.

"Life works in many ways. Not always a happy ending in this story...but maybe in another one. Another one which fate will bring us to after ours ends in this world."

Tears streamed down my face in torrents. I looked into her sapphire eyes. They were leaking out tears too. I wiped my face.

"Yes. In another story. We'll get the ending we worked for..."

1 Year Later

Lacus and I went to visit Cagalli and Athrun's grave. It was decided that Athrun would be buried in Orb as well, beside Cagalli's grave.

We went up to the graves and laid the flowers on top.

"I hope that you will have a happier life now, Cagalli, Athrun."

As we walked away, the letters on the large gravestone flashed from the light of the sunset. It read:

Athrun and Cagalli
CE 55 - 72
Unseparable, even in death.

Memoir of Kira:

Nothing is really what it seems. Take Athrun for example. He was living in that false reality of his, where Cagalli was still alive. We know how unbearable it is to lose someone you love, but by tarnishing their memory with a fake image of them won't help. Life goes on, regardless of what little things happen. Painting a picture is okay, but getting obsessed with it isn't. When you have to get over someone's death, no one is asking for you to forget them. Just move on and look towards the future, not sufficating yourself in the past.

"Forgiven, but not forgotten."

Owari

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