Wish to See You Again
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed or Gundam Seed Destiny
A/N: Been reading various fics on the site for some time and decided to try and make one myself, first fic
so any comments would be helpful.
Chapter 1: Unintentional Encounters
Twenty year old Kira Yamato was sitting on a bench in the park, happily eating his hotdog for he was on his short lunch break. His brown hair danced with the wind and his deep violet eyes was focused on the clear blue sky. He had a camera which was strapped around his neck and he fiddled with it with his one free hand.
After finishing his hotdog, he cleaned his mouth with a tissue and then crumpled it into a ball, throwing it into the trash can nearby. He sighed, knowing that his lunch break will be over soon and he would have to start working, but his partner has not arrived yet. Knowing that he would have to start with or without his partner, Kira got up from the bench and started walking around the large park.
Kira was a new photographer for the Onogoro Newspaper and his first assignment was to take pictures of the new park in Onogoro City.
The park was simply breath-taking, flowers were planted almost everywhere and it was nicely shaded by large numbers of trees. The only sunlight which can shine onto the park was in the middle, where a beautiful fountain was built. The sun made the water in the fountain sparkle like stars.
He wandered around the park, taking in the beautiful scenery. He then looked at his watch and frowned, his partner is already twenty minutes late and he knew he would have to start soon.
He grabbed onto the camera and stood at a fair distance from the fountain. He adjusted the lens slightly, making it focus more and zoomed out in order to be able to get a picture of the whole fountain. After being satisfied with his adjustments, he pressed the button and his camera made a small Click noise.
After about half an hour of taking different pictures of the park, he looked at his watch again and was a bit frustrated of the fact that his partner still hasn't arrived yet.
Kira's partner is his long time best friend and boss, Athrun Zala was his best friend ever since high school where they were both into journalism. Of course, Kira was more fascinated with photography while Athrun was more interested into the actual writing part. They figured that by going their different yet similar paths, they might end up as partners one day.
Little did they know that Athrun would be running his very own newspaper company, but still enjoyed writing his very own articles. Even though he was a very kind and understanding person, there wasn't any photographers that would agree in working with him since they were intimidated by the fear of making mistakes which might upset the man.
This disappointed Athrun since he was very passionate with writing articles, but they won't be any good if there weren't any photographs to give the readers a more visual understanding on his concepts. All that changed when Kira came along. Kira was searching for a job since the old company which he worked for closed down. He met up with Athrun and was offered a job to become Athrun's photographer and greatly accepted his proposal.
Kira knew that Athrun was a busy man since he had the entire company to take care of, but he could've at least given him a call to inform him that he wasn't able to come. Kira double checked his cell phone and saw that he didn't miss any calls. He sighed once again at disbelief of Athrun and continued roaming around the park.
Kira had no idea what Athrun was going to write about the park, therefore, didn't know what kind of pictures Athrun would expect from him. Usually, Athrun would tell Kira about what his article would be about so that Kira would know what to take pictures of on their specific assignment.
Being impatient and frustrated, Kira grabbed his cell phone and dialled Athrun's work office. After a few rings, he only got the answering machine and hearing Athrun's voice got his left eye twitching.
Kira tried Athrun's cell phone, but it didn't ring, knowing that Athrun's cell phone was turned off. Kira once again disappointed by his partner's actions, decided to continue taking pictures around the area. Since he did not know what exactly Athrun wanted, he took pictures of anything if he could. He took tons of shots of the fountain and the plants surrounding the whole place. He took pictures of couples, passing civilians, teenagers skateboarding around, heck, he even climbed the nearest hill to take some shots of the entire park and sometimes with the city in the background.
After about an hour, Kira checked his camera and discovered that he only had two more slots in his roll of film. Thinking about how to use his last couple of slots wisely, he sat at the same bench he was before and pondered about what he should do.
'Let's see, I got shots of the fountain, trees, flowers, couples, birds, fountain with trees, bikers, civilians, teenagers, the entire scenery, families…Wait! Families! How can I forget that?' Kira thought and hit himself in the head for forgetting one of the easiest yet effective shots to take.
Kira stood up, camera in hand and walked around the park looking for a good family with parents and their children. It wasn't hard to find any since there were so many that were walking together around the park.
He spotted a nice looking family that were admiring the beautiful fountain as the sun made the water sparkle around them. Kira smiled and approached the family.
"Um, excuse me," Kira started, "do you mind if I took a picture of your family for the Onogoro Newspaper about the new park built here?" Kira looked towards the father for his expression and sighed in relief as the father agreed to it.
"Great, thanks!" Kira happily said, "please stand in front of the fountain." The family did so while Kira did some minor adjustments to his camera. He told them to move a bit closer and was satisfied on how the family looked great with the sparkling water.
'Athrun is going to love this!' though Kira and started to press the button.
Both Kira and the family was unaware that a certain civilian was passing through and was focused on the great scene of the fountain that she did not know that she was walking between people who were taking a picture.
"Ok, 1, 2, 3!" Kira said and immediately pressed the button. Unfortunately, the civilian girl had walked right between the camera and the family as soon as Kira took the picture.
All of them were a bit shocked, especially for the civilian girl.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!" she said as she bowed her head for apology and started quickly walk away from the group and the photographer.
Before Kira could tell her that it was alright, the girl had already vanished through the crowded street. Sighing in disbelief, he finally took the last picture of the family and listened as the roll of film was being rewind.