"It's stupid peace of paper make people kill, drive them insane, lose their minds… How a stupid peace of paper can change a person's life, not matter if its for good or for bad it can changes everything…"
"The Red Hibiscus"
Ch 2 : 'New Neighbour'
by
Eternally Asuka
In the heart of ORB, in an almost empty alley, streets were silent, most of its population was sound asleep and some of the exception were the pair who were talking about business.
"Yunna you are just going to give me the names and the money" came to sound a voice, it was a command.
"Ok ok, its Uzumi Nara Athha" a purple haired man said with low voice.
"The head representative?" a woman wearing with dark clothes, her baggie hat covering most of her face also hidden with a dark glasses, straight ones, and her long blonde hair tied up behind her cap asked over to be sure she heard right.
"Yes, honey, the representative himself" he said smirking.
Her answer was short, "No."
"What!" the guy asked disbelieving.
"Are you deaf? My answer is no."
"But why? I thought you killed everyone."
"I kill anyone I want." She started to walk away, with her back on him she even could tell that he was fuming. She stopped when his grabbed her arm. She pulled her arm free, without hesitation and turned to look at him. "Hear this right Yunna, because I'm not repeating myself; If you don't agree with my answer and you dare to mess with me I can always kill you and nobody will ever know or you can accept my reply and look for someone else to do it" her voice sounding sweetly dangerous.
He could tell that her eyes were glittering behind her dark glasses, she was waiting for a good reason to kill him. Though he could not understand after everything, why she haven't killed him yet? As he was thinking she already had turned her heels and resumed her walk but then she stopped, this time by her own will.
"One more thing, if you ever call me 'honey' or anything alike, I'll cut your filthy tongue before you can say it again, I won't stand it, not anymore." Her menace was cold as the ice, making herself clear to him. She won't bear his behaviour not after she got away from that hatred house. She didn't have to.
Finishing her meeting she left.
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Sad eyes could be seen by the almost setting sun, the gaze was directly to the endless sea, the blue crystalline water reflex was fixed in her uncertain stare.
"Don't know why but I have a bad feeling" a little girl sitting on the warm sand with her hands between her chest whispered.
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Outside Cagalli's apartment was a red haired girl standing, looking up, her eyes fixed on certain balcony who belong to her friend, in one hand she had a white plastic bag and on her back her jean knapsack, her mp3 player blocking every sound that was not from her music as it was in her school uniform pocket, that reached just until her knees.
"I bet she is still sleeping" she said out loud to no one as she began to walk to get inside the building.
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A kid was running toward her, he was yelling something as he held a flower in his hand, showing it to her. Another kid, looking the same age as the previous, was running too, smiling. Their facer were blurred, she could not tell who they were or if she knew them.
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The young lady entered the glass doors, they were automatic so she just walked inside, she stopped to see the mailboxes on her right, there was something weird. The mailbox nest to Cagalli's had a sticker on it, usually it was blank but now it had something on it.
She read: Zala.
"Huh, there is someone new" she thought. Walking past the boxes she turned to the left with her eyes closed listening her music, then something hit her feet. Her eyes opened instantly. She blinked, stepping aside her foot found another pile of boxes, hitting them, they started to fall on her making her to lose her balance. Instinctively, she shut her eyes preparing herself to meet the cold floor.
But she never got to touch the ground.
Blinking again, she felt a pair of strong arms holding her, preventing her to fall backwards. The person behind her was supporting all her weight. She blinked once again. She turned her head to meet vivid green eyes.
She stayed like that until the boy asked her, "are you ok?"
"Ah? Yeah! Thanks for your help" she said quickly trying to stand up fully with the green eyed boy. 'He is cute' she thought.
"No problem beside my boxes made you fall, sorry about that, I shouldn't have left them there" the boy apologised as she examined him, he had beautiful eyes, emerald ones, those were her favourite, dark blue hair, he was handsome, taller than her, he really looked like a gentleman.
"It's ok, I wasn't really watching were I was going he he he." He studied her: her red-brown long tresses held by a hair hook in the end it looked like small spikes, her eyes were blue has the ocean's water, she looked very energetic but her smile was showing a little of embarrassment after what happened.
"So you are new, right?" she enquired while he was setting the boxes in their place.
Raising his face to see her he answered, "oh yeah, I just moved from PLANT."
"Here, let me help you" she offered while she was dropping her bag on the base. He thanked her. "Then you are a coordinator, that's cool!" she stated smiling.
"You think?" He was a little surprised from her comment.
"Yeah" her answer was short and honest.
"Why?" he asked stopping his actions to look at her.
"Mmm dunno maybe because I'm a natural, but I still see you as my equal" she responded smiling with a empty box in her hands, "after all we are all humans, right?"
"You are right" he said bemused. 'This girl has something unusual' he thought chuckling inside.
"Well, I have to go now" she told him getting up from reaching her bag.
"Yeah, me too I have to prepare myself for school, bye"
"Bye"
She walked to the elevator, she stopped seen him behind her. "You are heading up too?" he observed.
"Yeah I'm visiting a friend," she spoke. The door opened, the blue haired step aside signing her to enter first.
"Thanks" she giggled. He look puzzled. "Sorry it's just that I don't find many 'gentlemen'"
"Ha ha ha, i see" he commented, "which floor?"
"Mm 3rd"
"What a coincidence, mine too." He smiled. Both of them laughed.
"I think my friend lives next to you" she conversed letting him know. "That's interesting" was his reply.
The elevator opened. Stepping out she glanced her watch.
"Shut!" she cursed below. "Gotta go, bye" she said running out. "See you."
The red hair run until she reached her destination. She knock the door but no answer. The boy was watching her from behind. He blinked at the new knocking, in fact she was now striking the door.
"Cagalli!" she shouted a few times more before she gave up and took out a key from her pocket. It unlocked the door and she entered.
'Did she just said Cagalli!' he wondered, ' I really hope is not the same Cagalli I know.' He walked to his apartment that happens to be next to the one the girl just went into.
"Hey, we were talking and I didn't get her name" he reproached himself. 'She seems nice.' Withdrawing his own key and putting it on the lock he froze when he heard a yell.
"Aaahhh! KANELLY WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
With a sweat drop he thought, 'I guess her name is Kanelly.'
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Both children run until they reach the girl. The brunette boy went down on his knees and set the flower he had before on the girl's head. The boy from behind arrived too, he had an outstanding blue hair.
The girl beamed, "thanks Ki…"
The young girl with blue eyes went to the bedroom as soon as she entered. Leaving her school bag and the other one on a table, she went to the bed, where a blond was sound asleep., covered from feet to almost cover up face, hugging a big pillow.
The standing girl smirked, snaking her hand under the sheets she grab the sleeping beauty feet and pulled her, trying to get her off the bed. The blonde woke up as if a thunder had it her. Wide-eyed she looked at her intruder, still half sleep she managed to free one leg and tried to kick the bloody person who was 'attacking her' but the red hair quickly jumped backward to abode it, knowing that she would do something like that. She was prepared.
"Aaahhh! KANELLY WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
"C'mon Cagalli wake up!" she said loudly almost yelling.
The recent now awake victim was staring at her with deadly eyes but the girl seemed not to care. "If you don't hurry up, will be late."
Cagalli looked at her clock on her night table, it was 6.46 AM!
"My alarm clock haven't even sounded yet!" she said yelling at her friend pointing her clock.
"Really!" she asked amused consulting her watch, "oops, sorry I forgot that mine is 5 minutes earlier." Cagalli was mumbling something that Kanelly could not hear, still pissed.
"Don't complain, I was delay!" she informed her. Cagalli still glaring at her went to the bathroom and changed. "You know, I think you have a new neighbour!" she up dated her.
"Is that so?"
"Yeah and he is really cute! Not forgetting handsome!" She could hear Cagalli laughing.
The owner of gold orbs got out the bathroom with her school uniform, going to the kitchen she tried to make her breakfast. "Hey, I brought you 'ming pau'"
"Really?" Cagalli asked, closing the fridge.
"My mom made them yesterday" she answer indicating the white bag on the table. "Great!"
After warming the food on the microwave, Cagalli ate while Kanelly was watching tv. When she finished she cleaned the dish and went to school.
Athrun saw them leave from his balcony, now sure that she was Cagalli, his target was the Cagalli he knew from years ago.
He was happy and sad at the same time. Happy because he haven't seen her for years and sad because he had to face her in a troublesome way. He made a mental note: tell Kira he found Cagalli.
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Both girls arrived in time, chatting all the way to school, Kanelly was giving Cagalli the details of how she met her new neighbour, Cagalli just laughed, this was interesting, because she didn't heard Kanelly call a lot of guys handsome so he had to be. And since they had a similar taste, meeting this new guy is going to exciting.
"And what's his name?" Cagalli asked remembering she didn't mention it.
"His name?" She stopped passing, sticking out her tongue she rose her own fist to hit herself slightly on the head. "I forgot to ask."
Her friend was watching her smacking herself with a how-stupid face as they got in the classroom.
They sit on their usual place, Cagalli next to the big window and Kanelly next to her on her right. A brown hair girl with short hair was in front of the red hair and next to her, in front of the blonde was another blonde, the boy wore glasses. The teacher came in and the class fell quiet, he was tall with long fair hair, he wore glasses that made him look very cool, several of the girls had a crush on him. The class salute him.
"Good morning class." He greeted back. "Today we are going to have a new student just transfer from PLANT."
Small whispers began to appeared right after he said those words. The door opened showing the new classmate. As he walked in the murmur increased, coming specially from the girls.
The most surprised girl was Kanelly and the girl with the confused look was Cagalli, something of him gave her the impression that he was familiar, like she knew him from somewhere.
"Hey, that's him!" Kanelly said with low voice emphasising 'him' for Cagalli. She seemed lost in thoughts. She was remembering the boy she dreamed, the boy that was running behind the firt one. "Cagalli?" She look shocked.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah"
At the teacher introduce him, he was looking at certain girl with a tender smile and calm eyes.
Kanelly giggled. "What, Kanelly?" she hissed at her funny looking friend, she had her hand trying to hide her silly laughs, looking at her.
"He is smiling at you" she pointed. The blonde frowned, "Me?" she turned to see him, in fact he was. She flushed a light pink. Athrun smiled wide.
"Hello everybody, my name is Athrun Zala, nice to meet you all" his gaze turn to find the red hair, she was smiling with her hand resting on her right cheek, sitting next to her friend, Cagalli. After that Mr. Le Creuset gestured Athrun to sit behind the blonde girl. Some of the girls giggled when he passed by them, once the reach his desk the professor turned his back to write on the white board.
Turning her red head, Kanelly speak to the blue haired coordinator, "Hi again."
"Hi" he answered, then he looked at Cagalli who also had her head turned to see him. Kanelly was tittering vaguely. "She is my friend Ca…"
"Cagalli," he finished for her, Kanelly was a little surprised but Cagalli looked shocked, why did he knew her name!
Athrun was uncertain with Cagalli's reaction.
"You knew him! Why didn't you tell me!" she complained frowning at the blonde.
"No, I don't!" she denied waving her hand in negation.
"'Course you know me Cagalli, what's wrong?" Athrun intervened in the conversation worried.
"No, I don't know you, it's the first time I see you."
"Don't you remember me, Cagalli?"
"No" The three of the were pluzzled. "You are Cagalli Hibiki, right?"
"Wrong, I'm Cagalli Yula Athha"
Second chap is done! Yay I rarely can finish a ch or a story in one day, this one took me like 2 or 3 days, without counting the other days when I was thinking how would the story go.
-ming pau is a Chinese food
Now Kanelly is present! She is my OC, original from my manga but I wanted to add her on this fic, personally this one is my fav of all I 'm writing lol You can see her, I draw her with Cagalli, it's posted on Minitokyo, search for my username, it has some spoiler XD
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