10 Things Chapter 3: Write To Me, a gundam seed fanfic

Count this...repetitive chapter...as chapter 3 and the final i nstallment of this...incredibly short fic.

CHAPTER 3 - Write To Me

Athrun sat down at his desk with a pen and paper. He wrote a few sentences and then wrote down the ten things he'd told Kira ten years ago. Then he started thinking of more.

"Ah! I can't think of anything!" he scratched his head, then checked the clock.

6:03 am

Athrun whacked his head against the table, then rubbed the sore spot. Maybe ramming his head into stuff wasn't the best idea. A flash of Kira just before they split up before the war popped into his head.

"I got it." he started writing, pausing every once in a while to think back on a time when he and Kira were in each other's presence, in and out of the war.

Cagalli was pacing by 7. Kira's condition was getting worse by the second. AND! As if to mock their predicament, it had started raining! The world was truly laughing at them!

Why? Kira had never done anything that should have made him punishable. He never asked to get caught up in the war! He never wanted to kill people! All Kira wanted to do was protect his friends and stop all the fighting. He wanted a peaceful life, with his friends.

Lacus was watching her with worried eyes. She got up and left at one point, at around 6:30 for a bathroom break, and again at 7:30. When she got back, Cagalli was still pacing.

And ranting now...

"-And another thing! That guy! Andrew Waltfelt, the desert tiger! What does he think he knows anyway? He ruined Kira's food with that nasty sauce!"

Lacus took a seat and set a small bag next to her.

About 2 minutes later...

"And when Athrun had me backed against the wall in that cave! He could've told me not to throw the gun before I threw it! God!"

About a minute later...Cagalli is now on Lacus's shoulder crying as she rants.

"And he took Mr. Fluffles away from me! Why? All I did was knock over that vase from Belgium! The peanut butter on the roof wasn't me! I swear it!" she sobbed.

Lacus pat her on the shoulder. She smiled lightly, then picked up the bag.

"Let's have some breakfast. It might still be warm if we eat it now..." she offered softly.

Cagalli paused for a moment, then nodded as she dried her eyes. As they ate, Lacus spoke.

"It was very kind of you to share some of your life experiences with me. And I know that you're upset...I do hope Kira makes it out of this..." her voice saddened greatly on the last sentence.

Cagalli stopped eating her lukewarm meal and looked at Lacus. The girl held her sandwich in her hands, folded in her lap. Her eyes were downcast and her head was slightly down too. She seemed very sad.

"Lacus..." she held the pink haired girl as she suddenly burst into tears.

Athrun was running back towards the hospital now. It had started raining soon after he had arrived home. And since he had run home on foot in his haste, he now had to run back to the hospital in the rain.

He cursed it. Everything. The fact that whoever was watching them was mocking him and Kira just because of a conversation they had when they were little! The fact that it was now raining. The fact that there had ever even been a war that had separated the two friends. Everything!

He slid down and landed in a large puddle, getting both dirty and soaked to the bone. His mind flashed back, remembering the letter he wrote.

Athrun laid down his pen, his writing complete. He lightly picked up the paper, and read aloud.

"Kira...When we were 8, you told me to name things about you I liked...They are too numerous to name. Your entire being is a wondrous thing. I think someone is playing a cruel joke on us...and it makes me angry.

But I don't want to lose you. I spent the majority of my last 10 years...oblivious to what the world meant...and then hating, for my mother's death...That conversation seemed so far away, and unreal...But now I know, it's the most important conversation I've ever had. There are many things...I like about you..."

He then checked down the list, reading aloud.

"1. Your smiles...

2. Your laughter...

3. Your eyes...

4. Your sense of humor...

5. Your view of life...

6. Your personality...

7. Your 'crybaby' nature...

8. Your lively attitude...

9. How cute you are when you pout...

10. How you seem so carefree...

11. Your Heart...

12. How cute you are all the time...

13. How you shine like an angel in the sun...

14. How pure and innocent you seem...

15. Your dreams...

16. The life and reason you give to others' lives just by saying 'Hi' to them...

17. How much you care...

18. Your stubbornness...

19. Your ability to rise above anything in your path...

20. Your sister (-sweat drop- not sure if that one counts...)

21. Your curiousness...

22. Your strength...

23. Your ability to get back up when you fall...

24. Your taste in movies...

25. Your taste in food...

26. Your taste in girls (Ok Athrun, your just writing stuff down now aren't you?)

27. That stuffed teddy bear you kept from the day I gave it to you for Christmas 10 years ago and never went anywhere without until we turned 10 but still kept until the destruction of Helipolis and thus, the end of the teddy bear (Dude...long one...)

28. Your loyalty...

29. Your ability to make friends...

30. Your brains...

31. Your stuff (a bit greedy there, aren't we? -snicker-)

32. Your nerves (jealous now?)

33. ..."

Athrun had paused then. He couldn't think of another one. He looked at his list and hoped this worked. If it did, Kira wouldn't die of anything short of a nuclear bomb until he was 40. So Athrun folded the letter carefully after signing it with:

"Please...I hope this works...with all my heart...

Athrun Zala"

And thus, the letter folded and enveloped, now in his jacket, Athrun took off out the front door. It was 9 am...

He burst through the hospital doors, scaring a few people in the opening room. They began laughing soon after though when his wet feet met the tiled floor and sent him sliding on his butt across the room.

He ran smack dab into the wall, and froze for a moment. For a moment, his brain wondered how much public humiliation this would cause him, then he was back on task. Standing up, he gave an apologetic glance at the hospital staff, then hurried down the hallway.

Cagalli and Lacus's head's snapped up at the sound of squeaking footsteps coming down the hall. Cagalli stood up to catch the blue haired boy who's breaks were failing him.

"Whoa!" she and he both crashed to the floor in a heap. "Wh-what's the rush...Athrun?" she asked as she regained her breath.

"Kira...has to...read this letter." he stood up and went up to the double doors to the emergency room. The bluenette stopped when a hand grabbed him. "Huh?"

"You can't go in there! They're trying to save his life, not read him fan mail!" Cagalli said angrily, tears in her eyes. "You ran out of here so fast earlier, it seems odd that you'd care now!"

The blonde gasped when a look came over Athrun's eyes. Angry, yet overwhelmed by sadness, worry, and determination. He was pleading silently with her...to let him go...

"Please Cagalli...He has to..." Athrun whispered, that same look on his face.

A delicate hand was placed on Cagalli's hand, and another on her shoulder. Both turned slightly to look at a pink haired princess.

"Cagalli..." she whispered sadly. Then Lacus raised her head, and smiled... "It'll be alright...let him go. Please?"

Cagalli found her grip on the boy's jacket slipping, and soon he was gone through the doors.

"Kira!" Athrun called as he made his way to the table. The doctors and nurses turned to him.

"You're not supposed to be in here. We're still operating!" a doctor said sternly. Athrun glared at him, making the man flinch. (Operating? They don't even know what's wrong. They're examining.)

"I don't give a damn whether you're still operating or not! I'm gonna talk to Kira..." he voice was dangerous, and the two men coming to escort him out of the room shied away in fear. "Kira!" Athrun turned to his friend. "I have a letter...you need to read..." he said softly.

"A-athrun?" Kira asked weakly. The doctor that was still standing next to the younger boy flinched at the sudden and unexpected noise from his supposedly unconscious patient. Athrun smiled and took out the letter.

"You need to read this...should I read it aloud?" he asked softly again, moving closer to the bed. The doctor's were baffled that he was actually getting a response, and for the moment...that kept them at bay.

"Ah..." Kira's hand rose slowly and shakily from the bed, and reached out to his best friend. "Athrun..." he whispered. "You're my...best friend..."

"I know Kira..."

"Wh-why are we...why are we friends?" he asked, beginning to twitch, like when he first collapsed. Athrun took his hand and held it comfortingly.

"For a lot of reasons..." he whispered. "I wrote some of them down..." he opened the envelope and took out the paper. Then, before reading it, he squeezed Kira's hand and gave a sad look to the brunette. "Kira...let's say that each of these reasons...that I'm about to give you...each represent a year...Each will give you a new reason to live...another year of life..."

Kira smiled weakly, remembering.

"I've already told you the first 10..." Athrun muttered, turning back to the letter. "When we were 8, you told me to name things about you I liked...They are too numerous to name. Your entire being is a wondrous thing. I think someone is playing a cruel joke on us...and it makes me angry.

But I don't want to lose you. I spent the majority of my last 10 years...oblivious to what the world meant...and then hating, for my mother's death...That conversation seemed so far away, and unreal...But now I know it's the most important conversation I've ever had. There are many things...I like about you..."

The doctors seemed to have disappeared as far as the two boys were concerned. Athrun began to recite...

"1. Your smiles...

2. Your laughter...

3. Your eyes...

4. Your sense of humor...

5. Your view of life...

6. Your personality...

7. Your 'crybaby' nature...

8. Your lively attitude...

9. How cute you are when you pout...

10. How you seem so carefree..."

Kira knew these first 10 by heart...having listed them countless times in his head...

"11. Your Heart...

12. How cute you are all the time...

13. How you shine like an angel in the sun...

14. How pure and innocent you seem...

15. Your dreams...

16. The life and reason you give to others' lives just by saying 'Hi' to them...

17. How much you care...

18. Your stubbornness...

19. Your ability to rise above anything in your path...

20. Your sister..."

Kira managed a weak laugh. He committed each reason to memory, hoping he lived long enough to remember them a thousand times, and a thousand times again.

"21. Your curiousness...

22. Your strength...

23. Your ability to get back up when you fall...

24. Your taste in movies...

25. Your taste in food...

26. Your taste in girls...

Kira laughed again on that one, with a bit more strength, and a doctor in the corner blinked.

"28. Your loyalty...

29. Your ability to make friends...

30. Your brains...

31. Your stuff...

32. Your nerves..."

Athrun glanced at Kira, who still looked weak...weaker than Athrun had ever seen him...

"Please...I hope this works...with all my heart..." a single tear fell from the boy's eye. "Athrun Zala..."

It seemed someone had turned the volume up on a stereo. Everything came rushing back to them.

Kira gasped, squeezing Athrun's hand into blueness. Athrun winced, and half covered his ears as the 4 doctors began swarming the machines and the bed, commenting loudly to one another on this or that. It was a blaring radio to his ears.

It seemed everything was spinning. Kira's head was filled to capacity, the letter fell limply from Athrun's hand. Athrun's head felt like it would explode, like it was incapable of adjusting to the sudden sounds.

Kira's grip on Athrun's hand went slack...

Everything stopped...

The machines stopped beeping, they began giving data at normal speeds again. The doctors blinked at them, then turned to the young boy laying on the table/bed. Athrun's mind could process things again and his eyes widened when he realized that he was holding Kira's hand now, instead of the other way around.

But he saw the oxygen mask fogging up and de-fogging...and his heart rate was normal. Everything was fine...

Kira would live.

Athrun betrayed his feelings with a smile. A smile that grew, and grew, and suddenly the whole room seemed illuminated by it. Lacus and Cagalli opened the doors when the machines suddenly stopped blaring and blinked around at the room.

Cagalli raced over and took Kira's other hand. Lacus rushed over too and bent down to the floor. She carefully picked up a piece of paper, her eyes scanning down the page quickly. A simple smile graced her lips.

...1 month later...

"Athrun!" A voice called in anxiousness. "Athrun!"

Said boy paused and turned around. An out-of-breath, 18 year old brunette came bounding up to him, skidding to a stop.

"What's up Kira?" Athrun asked, sipping a bit out of his soda from some fast food place it seemed.

"You...were...supposed...to...take me...to...the movies...today..." he panted. Kira straightened and wiped some sweat from his forehead. "But instead...you don't even show up for lunch with Cagalli and me, then you think you can ditch the movies too?"

"Oh...sorry..." Athrun sweat-dropped. "I thought that was tomorrow..." he said truthfully. Kira glared at him, but soon he sighed and gave in.

"Ok! I forgive you. But we have to hurry or it'll start without us." he grabbed Athrun by the upper arm and dragged him off. Athrun began to protest when he suddenly dropped his drink and took to staring sadly at the spot where his soda was now spilling across the sidewalk.

"You owe me a soda..." Athrun muttered. Kira shrugged.

"Ok." he agreed.

Athrun smiled.

'Number 33. How passive you are...I'll tell him later...' he then began to pull Kira to the movie theater, making them move faster.

Out: AAAAANNNNNNDDDD! FINISHED!

I like the final chapter best!...It was...7 and some-odd pages long! -smile-

Please review!

It: do I have to say anything? Ask ur reviewers.

Onee #1: same here.

Out: -pout- I never asked you two anyways! -turns to person as they place a hand on her head-

Onee #2: I like it Out, so don't worry. -smile- Chapter 3 was my favorite too. -slight laugh-