Chapter 11

Without Lacus

Two months had already passed by. Lacus Clyne had become a very talented young singer. She wasn't famous, she just loved to sing a lot.

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It was Finally the first day of school. Kira returned back to Orb for his final year of high school. A lot of his friends there were rather hesitant to talk to him since everyone knew he was a wreck since Lacus left him.

Kira walked into his first period class. Lucky for him Athrun was in his class. Kira took a seat right next to him. Athrun looked over at Kira. Kira still looked depressed.

"Kira are you alright" Athrun asked.

"I'm fine" Kira said bluntly. Athrun didn't say much to Kira, he could tell Kira didn't even want to be here.

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After period one ended Athrun proceeded to his next class. Cagalli was there. Athrun took a seat next to her.

"Cagalli, Kira's here" he said. "Yeah I know I saw him in the hallways. He still looks like hell" she said.

"What are we supposed to do?" Athrun asked. Cagalli just sighed. She too was running out of options for Kira.

"He's got to find a way to move on" she said

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Kira slowly started to change into a person he wasn't. Kira would occasionally go for the one night stance and disappear in the mourning. Kira shut out everyone who tried to get close to him. The only ones that he remained close to were his friends from the beginning; those were Cagalli, Athrun, Shinn, Lunamaria, Meyrin, Dearkka, and Miriallia.

It was like that way for a long, long time. Kira also found a new job working as Dr. Hibiki's assistant. Kira wasn't sure how it happened but Dr. Hibiki had taken an interest in Kira's knowledge. Kira of course still as brilliant as ever.

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Weeks have passed since school began. Nothing changed Kira was still the same person. Slowly Kira began to move on with his life. Mwu had asked Kira if he wanted to starin the new play 'Rebel without a Cause'. Kira declined the offer. He didn't want to do anything that would remind him of Lacus.

Kira worked hard at school. Since this was the last year, he tried hard to get high marks, and that's exactly what he got. The end of the year was finally here, Kira received a 99.7 average.

Time had certainly gone by fast. But for Kira each day without Lacus seemed like an eternity. Kira couldn't even bring himself to go to his prom. Every now and then he would go hang out with Athrun and Shinn but most of the time he was always working at the lab.

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2 years later…

(A/N: Kira and them are all 19 now)

It was safe the say that Kira was the way he was before he met Lacus, or so that's the way he presented himself to be. Kira was now in second year college, He was now dating a beautiful young girl named Serena which he met in college. She had long blond hair with teal blue eyes, she was very attractive, and she had the body of a model. Kira had been dating her for well over a month now, however Kira's still unsure how he feels about her, it was the first actual real girl friend he had since Lacus, can't really blame him ether. Lacus was drop dead gorgeous to him, there isn't a girl out there that could surpass Lacus.

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"Lacus it's going to be done in Orb?" Siegal said. Lacus' eyes widened.

"What, I don't understand, why?" Lacus asked. Siegel sipped his coffee before answering. "Because all our relatives are there and so are Shawn's relatives. It makes so much more sense." Lacus sighed.

"Get everything ready you're moving into the new house I just bought, you'll be there by mourning"

"What?"

"I'll be over there with Shawn in a couple of days, I just have to complete my work here before I transfer the company to Orb." Siegal said.

"But…"

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The next day

"Good mourning Auska, how are" Kira smiled. Auska blushed like always, she had always liked Kira since he started working at the lab, but she never tried anything and nether did he, it was most likely because of their age difference.

"I'm doing fine Kira." She smiled. Auska had blue hair with dark blue eyes. She had a perfect body., but as Kira would say she had 'killer legs'. Kira and Auska would tend to flirt with each other a lot.

"Is the old man here?" Kira asked. Auska giggled.

"Why do you do that for? He gets upset when you make fun of his age." Auska giggled.

"That's the point." Kira smiled. Auska blushed again. "He's in h407" She said. Kira smiled again.

"Thank you" Kira went into the backroom, he placed his things in his locker and put his lab coat on. Kira walked back out and headed towards room h407, but not before smiling at Auska one last time. Auska's heart just melted on the spot. Kira looked amazing in a lab coat.

'What am I thinking, he's way too young' Auska said mentally

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Dr. Hibiki was with Dr. Greg, they were just discussing their personal lives before Kira walked in.

"Yo, old man." Kira said smiling. Dr. Hibiki nearly flipped. "Damn it Kira I'm only 38!"

Greg bursted out laughing. "Oh god here we go again"

Kira walked over to the two of them and took a seat. Kira slouched himself down, as he put his hand over his mouth and yawned. Ulen Hibiki continued his report he was typing up on his lab top.

"So Kira what did you learn today?" Ulen asked. Kira sat up straight. As he tended to feel a bit excited.

"It was amazing. I read about this guy and he could solve mathematical problems really quickly, things like 56 cubed in a couple of seconds. He could also recite pi to 22000decimal places. They also sent him to Rekjavik in Iceland for a week to learn the language. They tested him after a week, and he knew pretty much the whole language. It didn't explain why he was so good at learning languages, but it did explain why he was a numerical genius." Kira stated

Ulen and Greg looked at Kira intensively. However Kira continued to ramble on.

"Supposedly he's what we scientists call a savant." Kira said. Ulen and Greg looked at Kira in confusion.

"Huh?" Greg muttered.

"What's a savant?" Ulen said embarrassed, he didn't even know what the meaning was. Kira gave a dull look to the both of them.

"Jesus, you two don't even know what it is? Seriously how can you even call yourselves scientists?" Kira said crudely partly laughing

"It means that parts of his brain are connected by electrical signals that shouldn't even be there. When he thought of numbers, he would feel a texture, see a shape, and an image, and get an overall feeling. With large numbers, he saw them as landscape images. For example, the number 6 was a hole in the ground, and the number 9 was large and intimidating, like big cities. The guy said that when he was asked to do sums, he didn't work the answers out, he just saw images, and then the answers just came to him. It was really weird." Kira rested.

"Holy shit, where did you hear that?" Ulen asked.

"My professor mentioned it in one of his lectures, I didn't quite believe in it so I actually looked it up. That's where I got all this info." Kira said.

"There are also other savants in the world; there's a guy that can read extra fast and remember things extremely well, and there's another man that has been able to draw perfectly since he was about 5 years old. However, most savants have communication disabilities. Whereas this guy was just like normal, and he couldn't talk and communicate like everyone else, yet he had the abilities to do amazing things." Kira said.

"Scientists think that most people are capable of these kinds of thing but we just don't know it, as we only use about 10 of our brains." Kira said.

"Aww sorry, I go crazy over these types of things, I could talk about them for days and never get bored. Sorry I'll be right back" Kira laughed as he went into the washroom

"Damn it Ulen where did you find this kid, he seems really knowledgeable" Greg added. Ulen smiled.

"I'm still not quite sure how it all happened. But you know our grandchildren's kids are going to be reading about him in textbooks." Ulen said. Greg's head jerked up

"Please tell me what you mean by that" Greg asked.

"Kira mentioned that human's only use 10 of their brains" Ulen said.

"Yeah…"

"I'm pretty sure that the first guy Kira mentioned was about himself. I can't really explain in words but, Kira is going to change the world with his knowledge, that's my theory. I've had that theory since I've discovered him…" Ulen said.

Kira walked back in from the washroom. "Well enough of that" Ulen said.

"Huh?" Greg said.

"Kira I'm off now, please finish this report" Ulen said. Ulen and Greg walked out the door.

"Night old man" Kira waved. Ulen got pissed and slammed the door. "You know he only does it to get a reaction out of you" Greg said.

"Shut up" Ulen said walking down the hall

Kira couldn't help but laugh slightly to himself. He then rolled up his selves and began to continue the report Ulen was typing. In well under 30 minutes Kira completed it and sent it in to the board.

Kira turned of the lab top. He looked over at the newspaper that Ulen seemed to have been reading. A headline caught his eye. Clyne transfers to Orb. Says 'All our buyers are located in Orb' Kira read on and it clarified that Siegel's company's building is already built in Orb. It also stated that the grand opening would be in no less then a week. A million things crossed his mind. What if Lacus were to return, what would he say to her, the possibilities were mind-boggling. Kira thought and thought about it till he found himself back in his Lacus world, the place he tried so hard to forget was now returning, but why he hasn't even seen her in two years, for all he knows Lacus could be a completely different person, not just mentally but physically as well.

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Athrun was walking hand in hand with Cagalli. It was a beautiful and sunny evening. They decided to walk to the mall. It was a day that nether of them could get a car.

"I can't believe I'm walking in this heat, the sun isn't even out, so why is it hot!" Cagalli complained. Athrun sighed. "Well I'm sorry my car broke down, what do you want me do? You steer and I push?" Cagalli shot Athrun a glare. Athrun saw this and gulped

"I…I…" Athrun stuttered. Cagalli raised her hand, she was about to hit Athrun. Athrun flinched. A few moments passed and Athrun was unharmed. Athrun looked up at Cagalli in confusion. "What! What's wrong with you, what have you done with Cagalli?" Athrun said jokingly. Cagalli was starring at a very familiar figure that she hasn't seen in a long time.

"Huh? Cagalli what's wrong?" Athrun asked.

"L…Lacus?" She whispered. Athrun looked over, there she was. The one that broke her brother's heart and left Orb, Lacus Clyne was standing in front of a jewelry store. She was looking at the display.

"I can't believe she's standing right there" Cagalli said. Athrun studied Lacus' expression. She seems to look really confused and lost. But Athrun could tell Lacus really looked beautiful. She got taller, her hair got longer too. If Kira were to see her right now, he would probably melt.

Athrun and Cagalli walked up to Lacus. "…Lacus" Cagalli called out. Lacus snapped out of the trance she was in and looked over.

"Cagalli, Athrun?" Lacus called out.

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It was a Saturday and Kira had been working at the lab the whole day. Kira left the lab at about 9pm, he began walking home. Thoughts about Lacus were going in and out of his mind, no matter how hard he tried he could never bring himself to forget about her, that's what makes it so hard on him. How can he go on if Lacus still haunts his soul? Kira was interrupted by his cell phone. He looked at the caller id on his cell phone, it was Serena. He really didn't feel like talking to her so he just turned off his cell phone.

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Athrun, Cagalli, and Lacus were all at a coffee show not far from where they met. They were sitting all the way in the front closes to the entrance. A glass window covered the front completely. People were able to look in from the outside.

"I see, so you're working for you're father" Athrun said.

"Well not exactly, I'll help him out if he needs help, but I don't work for him" Lacus added. Athrun looked at her in confusion but pretended he understood her.

"So Lacus how long have you been back?" Cagalli asked. "I just got here today. My father bought a house here and he's moving the company to Orb." Lacus said.

"So Lacus what are you going to be doing now that you're here?" Cagalli asked. Lacus leaned her head slightly to the side. She looked outside the window, Lacus sighed "I don't know yet"

"Have you started college where you were?" Athrun asked.

"No, I'm not sure what I want to be doing right now" Lacus took a sip from her coffee. Cagalli looked at Lacus' wrist and saw a beautiful silver bracelet. Cagalli's eyed widened. "Oh my god Lacus, did you buy this?" Cagalli grabbed her hand gently as she observed the bracelet.

Athrun looked over at the bracelet. It looked pretty damn expensive. "It was a gift…" Lacus said. Cagalli smiled "You're extremely lucky Lacus. Don't even lose this, or sell it. It's a definite collector, its worth a lot if you were to sell it" Cagalli said. Athrun rolled his eyes at Cagalli. Cagalli looked back at Athrun

"What I can't help it, I love bracelets" Cagalli said. Cagalli turned the attention back to Lacus' bracelet

"Who ever got this for you must have been loaded" Cagalli said shooting Athrun a worthless glare. "Don't worry I don't expect much from you" she said crudely, her eyes turned back on the bracelet

"You know Cagalli some people can get offended the way you talk to them" Athrun looked over and saw that she wasn't even paying attention to him, she was still observing the bracelet.

'…Sometimes I wonder what I got myself into' Athrun put his hand on top of his face.

Lacus didn't say anything, her mind was drifting else where, Cagalli interrupted her. "Umm…Lacus could I see it?" she asked. Lacus held the bracelet with her other hand and placed it over her chest

"I'm sorry, I never take it off" Lacus said. Athrun smiled. He knew that the one who gave her that bracelet was Kira. Athrun decided

"I see. Well if it means that much to you then I won't force you" Cagalli smiled.

"Well it's getting kind of late, I think I should go" Lacus said.

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"Take care Lacus." Cagalli said waving. Cagalli and Athrun walked the opposite direction from Lacus.

Lacus began to walk towards her house when suddenly she came across a bookstore. She tried hard to resist but she just couldn't bring herself to pass the offer. She didn't really have anything to do till her father got here. Lacus entered the bookstore.

Lacus looked and looked and finally picked up a book that seem to clash paths with herself, it was a book called 'Shattered Heart' it was a romance book about a guy this girl fell in love with, they got separated and reunited. But when they were reunited it turns out the girl had a dark secret.

Lacus purchased the book. She was about to exit when suddenly Kira crossed her path. Kira walked right by the door without looking. Lacus' heart nearly leapt out of her chest. Lacus exited the store and stood right where he had just walked over. She starred at him from behind, Kira continued to walk forward.

Lacus saw Kira's eyes clearly when he had passed. It wasn't for very long, but in that moment, she could tell, the look in his eyes, he seems so sad.

Lacus didn't bother chasing him, she didn't know what she would say, what would he say? She hasn't seen him in two years. Lacus watched as Kira got further and further away until he was completely out of sight.

"…Kira" Lacus felt her eyes begin to water"

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"Huh?" Kira turned around and looked far a head, but there wasn't anyone there. "Now I'm hearing her voice" he said to himself as he began walking.

"Damn it, what's wrong with me?"

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Lacus got home and continued to unpack some of her personal belongings. She grabbed a photo album she was hoping to find. She took the album and went over to the couch. Lacus sat down and began to flip the pages. She was hit with old flashbacks, she couldn't help but smile.

It was a photo album of herself and Kira. She even had some of Kira's baby pictures, she had asked him for them, that's how she had them.

Lacus turned the page and came across the first love poem he wrote to her.

Dear Lacus…

If I could have just one wish,
I would wish to wake up everyday
to the sound of your breath on my neck,
the warmth of your lips on my cheek,
the touch of your fingers on my skin,
and the feel of your heart beating with mine...
Knowing that I could never find that feeling
with anyone other than you.

Love

you're secret admirer

P.S: This is not Marcus

Lacus broke down and began cry and sob endlessly.

"…Kira"

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"Cagalli should we tell Kira, that Lacus is back?" Athrun asked.

"I think it would be best if we did" Cagalli said.

To Be Continued…