For a note, I have never watched Gundam SEED Destiny. Wish I have, and I kinda know the characters. But they aren't going to be in any of my stories until I actually see the show.

CHAPTER 2 - Mysterious Illnesses - Mainly a dream chapter I think. But it is imperative to the story line.

Athrun raced along the hallway with Lacus in toe. They'd been at the pink haired girl's concert when Cagalli called saying that Kira, while helping her move, had suddenly collapsed.

They skidded to a stop right next to Cagalli, both breathing hard.

"How...is he?" Lacus managed. Cagalli shook her head.

"Th-they don't know...Neither do I..." she said sadly and worriedly.

"What happened?" Athrun asked softly.

"I don't know. He was helping me pack the boxes in my car, you know how I'm moving to-" Athrun and Lacus gave her looks. "Anyways, I was right behind him the whole time. There was no sound of him stopping, no exhaustion, we'd just started. It was barely noon too. And he just fell...right there in front of me...He fell to the ground...twitching..." her hand, which was motioning to the ground, paused, shaking. A vision of Kira twitching on the ground must've re-entered her head.

"We're here with you Cagalli." Lacus assured the blonde lightly, placing a hand on the other girl's shoulder, and Athrun's too. Cagalli nodded and then slumped into a chair.

-

"Hey...Athrun?" Kira asked, his face scrunched up in true confusion.

"Hm?" Athrun asked without opening his eyes. "What is it Kira?"

Kira seemed to be examining the tree's leaves as if they held all the answers.

"Why...Why are we friends?...What do you like about me?"

Athrun sat up abruptly and looked confusedly at his friend.

"Why would you ask me that?" he asked, then smiled. "It's a silly question!"

Athrun gasped softly in his sleep.

"I'm serious Athrun..." he said softly. "What do you like about me?" Athrun blinked.

"I don't know Kira, now let me up." he went to sit up and Kira pushed him back down.

"No Athrun!" he seemed pleading almost. "Think of it like this..." he was still trying to keep Athrun down. "What if...I only lived..." Athrun paused. "The amount of years you had something you said you liked about me?"

"What?" Athrun blinked, falling limply back to the ground half beneath Kira.

"What if, for every 1 thing you named that you liked about me...I got 1 more year added to my life?" the brunette repeated.

"K-kira..." Athrun smiled suddenly. "That's ridiculous!" he laughed. "What I like about you has no control over-"

"Athrun!" Kira pleaded. "Why are you avoiding it?" he mocked pain. "Oh! I'm gonna die so young! Athrun doesn't care for me!" he flopped down next to his friend until said friend tried to get up again. Then he jumped up and pinned him again. "Just...try, ok? Name anything you like about me. Anything..."

Kira seemed so helpless. Athrun cracked.

"Ok ok ok!" he pushed Kira away. Said boy landed numbly on the ground next to the bluenette and stared at him. Athrun sighed. "I'll try."

Athrun turned over in his sleep, to face the wall.

"18 sounds old enough for now. Also, you have 10 years now to find even more things you like about me!" he laughed, Athrun joined in.

"Athrun! Kira! Come on! Lunch's ready!" a woman called.

"Coming mom!" Athrun called.

Athrun jerked violently in his sleep falling clear off the chairs he'd been using as a bed and landing with a THUD! on the ground.

"Ow..." he sat up groggily and rubbed his head.

For a moment, the thought 'this isn't my room...' entered his head, and then he woke up.

'Oh right...the hospital...THE HOSPITAL!' he jumped up and looked around, Lacus was asleep a few chairs away. Cagalli was nowhere to be seen. He turned his head to the strangely echoed footsteps and saw said missing girl walking down the hallway, looking confused.

"Cagalli!" he called softly, his voice also echoing greatly. Cagalli's head snapped up and she walked over quickly. "Where were you?"

"Were you worried? Sorry. Kira came out of the inspection thing about half an hour ago. You two were asleep, so I went to go see him." she explained, her expression became puzzled again.

"What's wrong?" Athrun asked. She blinked.

"It's what he said to me." Athrun seemed surprised purely by the 'he said' part. "He said...'Athrun...I need another reason...'..." she looked at him. "I think he was delusional. He was staring straight at me when he said it. At me, and he saw you...What did he mean?" she asked.

Athrun had a serious look on.

'What if, for every 1 thing you named that you liked about me...I got 1 more year added to my life?'

'Oh! I'm gonna die so young! Athrun doesn't care for me!'

'18 sounds old enough for now. Also, you have 10 years now to find even more things you like about me!'

He knew what was wrong with Kira now. And he hated it.

'Oh, please say I'm wrong...' he checked the date in his head and found that...tomorrow was exactly 10 years from when they'd had that conversation on a mid-summer's day...at noon. 'I'm not wrong...'

"Cagalli..." he said softly. "I-"

A man in a white outfit came rushing out. The sound of the doors banging loudly on the walls woke Lacus from her sleep. He spotted them and rushed over, recognizing them all.

"He's gone into critical condition." the doctor said sadly yet hurriedly. "He may not survive much longer."

'What?'

"Cagalli, what's today?" Athrun asked quickly.

"Athrun! This isn't the time for-"

"WHAT TIME IS IT?" he asked angrily.

"It's 3:07 am, why?" Lacus answered, thinking now was not the time to be arguing. Cagalli looked stunned by Athrun's sudden furry. Athrun paled at her comment though.

"Wait, you mean...it's tomorrow?" he asked worriedly. "I've got to go!" he ran out of the hospital without another word.

"Where's he going? Kira could die at any moment!" Cagalli rounded on the doctor. "What are you doing? Just standing there? Get in there and Save My Brother!" she ordered angrily. He winced and nodded, then rushed away. Cagalli turned to Lacus. "And you! You need to talk to your ex-fiancé!" she yelled in a huffy tone, then she plopped down in a chair and began to shred paper from a stack of important looking files next to her.

Lacus frowned and took the file from her hands. Before the blonde girl could protest, she replaced it with a magazine. Cagalli gave her a confused look.

"I will speak with Athrun later. But right now he seems to know more than we do on Kira's illness...Let him handle things his own way ok?" she smiled. "And don't destroy the hospital files, please?" Cagalli blushed in embarrassment from her earlier actions and just held the magazine instead of shredding it.

-

Athrun was running down the street. His face was covered in worry and he was running as fast as he could.

"Please...I need more time..." he said pleadingly.

Sorry it's so short!