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"…" talking

"…" thinking/ talking in flashbacks

Please forgive me if any of the Gundam Wing facts are wrong… I haven't watched it for 7 years, so I remember nearly nothing from it.

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Birds sang in the early morning sun. The cold October wind rustled a few leaves on the trees in the backyard of the orphanage. The air was peaceful, with no sign of hostile around.

These were Kira's thoughts as he traveled through the hallway of the orphanage to get back to his room. Duo was walking beside him, chatting away. Kira responded once in a while, just to satisfy Duo. Heero was walking quietly behind the two, his thoughts elsewhere, but he was alert nonetheless.

Kira tilted his head slightly sideways, stopping, and looked at the cold man behind him. "You want to come and join us, Hee-kun?"

"Hn, no," Heero muttered.

Duo snorted. "Why would he want to join our conversation? He wouldn't say a word anyways, right Hee-man?"

"Shut up Maxwell," Heero scowled. He mentally calmed his nerves down; he refused to be aggravated by this idiot anymore. "Keep on walking."

"Alright, if you say so," Kira said.

"Uh-huh," Duo continued his talking. "As I was saying, I was walking down the street when I saw this amazing girl. She was the most beautiful blonde I have ever seen. Of course, she was really plain compared to Lacus, but I was talking about the people from our time…"

Kira slightly blushed at the mention of the pink haired princess. Duo noticed and inwardly grinned.

"Something going on between you and Lacus Kira?" Duo grinned mischievously. Kira's face suddenly turned as red as a tomato.

"Nothing," he quickly blurted. "Nothing at all, why would you expect anything to be going on?"

"Right," Duo grinned. "Of course there isn't."

They arrived at the end of the hallway, and were supposed to turn right to go to their rooms. They were greeted by a blue-haired coordinator.

Heero's glare got ten times icier. "What are you doing here?"

Athrun looked at him without flinching. "I want to talk to Kira… alone."

Duo's usual grinning expression suddenly turned a bit mad. "Why?"

"There's something I have to talk to him about," Athrun said steadily. "I promise I won't hurt him."

"How can I trust you?" Duo asked. "After what you did to him?"

"I-" Athrun fiddled with his thumbs nervously now.

"I'll go," Kira interrupted. "I wanted to talk to him too."

"Kira?" Duo looked surprised.

"There's some stuff I want to know about my past among others," Kira answered. "Who would know better than my supposed best friend?"

Athrun flinched visibly at his words. 'Supposed best friend'. He knew he deserved that, after doing so much damage to him. "Thank you. Uh, this way then."

He led Kira to a small room with a round cedar table in it. The walls were painted sky blue, and the ceiling was left white. There was a window that looked out to the forest behind the orphanage. The floor was carpeted with violet.

Kira sat on one of the 5 chairs around the table. Athrun sat opposite of him, obviously wanting to give Kira some room.

"Why did you want to talk to me?" Kira asked.

Athrun's eyes fixed onto the table. "I wanted to say sorry," he grumbled.

Kira blinked. "Sorry? Why?"

"For giving you so many bad nightmares," Athrun said. "I'm really sorry."

Kira nodded slowly. "Tell me, did I really kill your friend Nicol?"

Athrun looked up slightly in shock from the abruptness of the question. He looked questionably at Kira. Kira's violet eyes were filled with half horror and half hope. Athrun winced. He really didn't want to break that hope, but he couldn't lie now. "Well… yes."

The hope died. "I…see," Kira looked down on his hands. The hands he used to actually take a human life. A breathing, living human being. "Can you tell me about myself? What was I like? What did I do? Was I a … murderer?"

Athrun shook his head. "You weren't a murderer. Not at all. We were at war at that time, exactly half a year ago. It was Naturals against Coordinators."

"Naturals? Coordinator?"

Athrun suddenly realized that they knew nothing about this world. Not even about the creation of the Coordinators by George Glenn. "Naturals are your average human. Nothing special about them. Coordinators are people who had their genes modified when they were still in the mothers' womb. Therefore, Coordinators are better than Naturals in lots of ways, and Coordinators have a better immune system as well. We don't catch many diseases that affect Naturals."

"What am I then?"

"You are a first generation Coordinator," Athrun answered. "First generation Coordinator is when your parents are not Coordinators. Your parents were Naturals. Both my parents are Coordinators."

"Okay…"

"The Naturals got envious of Coordinators, as we were so much better than them in terms of intellect, senses, athletics and many more. And because of this jealously, we went into full fledged war. You had been on the Naturals side because your other friends were Naturals, and you had wanted to protect them from harm. My father was one of the top Council members of PLANT, a place where we Coordinators live, so I was forced to join ZAFT. We met in battle, after you had accidentally got into one of the mobile suits and started using it. We met after on Earth, near here in Orb. It was then that you had killed Nicol. And the very next time we met, I had destroyed your mobile suit with mine."

"I see," Kira said softly. "What was I like?"

Athrun looked thoughtful for a moment. "You were a kind, sentimental, naïve, smart crybaby."

Kira looked up surprised. "Oh, really?"

Athrun let a small smile grace his lips. "Yeah you were. I remember a time when you had jumped off your house roof because you had seen a bird fly and wanted to experiment the feeling of flying. You had twisted your arm, it wasn't that bad, but you had sobbed for hours nonetheless."

Kira looked slightly embarrassed. "Oh… wow, I really didn't think I would do that."

Athrun laughed. "You were only 4 at that time, so I think your reaction wasn't that bad." Athrun's face became more serious. "However I know that you had cried each time that you killed somebody on the battlefield, even though the soldiers already knew that they had a big chance of dying in the war."

"How…how many people did I kill?" Kira asked.

Athrun looked at him sadly. "I don't know. But it was a war, these soldiers fought for their countries. They died protecting their families, and now because of them, peace has come."

Kira smiled forcibly. "I… see."

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The two men in black stood outside the window of the room which currently held the Kira Yamato. One of the men held a dart gun with 10 darts in them, each held a sleeping drug. He had three small daggers attached to his hip, a pistol and a rifle. In each pocket (he had 5 pockets) held extra ammo.

The second man held two grenades; one was the normal grenade, and the second held some sleeping gas. He would use it if the other man had missed their target with the dart gun. It was highly unlikely, but he was prepared for the unexpected. Other than that, everything else was the same as the first man.

"Ready?" the first man whispered.

The second man nodded his head in affirmation. It was now or never. The first man took out his rifle. He made sure it was loaded then began their plan.

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Kira and Athrun both cried out in fright as bullets began to fill the room from the lone window. Kira ducked under the table and kicked the table legs so the table would protect him from the bullets.

Suddenly, Kira's eyes crystallized and Kira could feel himself strengthen and calmed down. He looked at Athrun, and saw that the blue-haired coordinator was in SEED mode as well.

"Who the hell is there?" Athrun growled.

No answer. A dart flew in the holes created by the bullets and flew straight for Kira. Kira nimbly dodged it, but managed to get hit by a bullet. The rain of bullets stopped for a moment as the attackers reloaded. Another dart came again.

"Damn," Kira cursed as it nearly hit him. Athrun scowled and took out his gun. He carried one since he was Cagalli's bodyguard. He began shooting at the attackers outside.

Kira heard somebody curse so he assumed that at least one bullet had hit the attacker or attackers. He swore profusely as another round of bullets came hurtling in the room. Athrun ducked behind the table as well, but because of the position of the table, Kira had a chance to be hit.

Kira cried out as he got hit by a bullet in the leg, and that distraction allowed him to get hit by two darts, one in the arm, and the other in his leg. "Damn!"

By this time, Heero and Duo had barged into the room. "What the hell?" Duo cried out.

Heero analyzed the situation quickly. "Duo, get Wufei and Trowa towards that window. Don't kill them unless necessary. Tell everybody else to stay the hell away from here." Duo nodded and ran off. The gunshots stopped for another moment for reloading.

Heero narrowed his eyes in concentration and aimed. A shadow came near to the window. He shot and he heard a curse as the attacker backed away from the window.

Athrun ran to Kira's side. "Kira!" He pulled out both darts and examined them. "Damn! They contain a strong sleeping drug!" He threw both darts in the ground. His crystallized eyes observed Kira. Kira's violet eyes were back to their normal form, and they were glazing over. The drug was taking effect.

The window shattered and two men came barreling in. One of them took out a rifle and began shooting at Athrun. Instincts kicked in, and Athrun's body instantly backed away from Kira and dodged all the incoming bullets. The other man shot continuously at Heero, who was trying his hardest to hit the man with his own gun, but the man was too fast. "He's inhumanely fast!"

"They're both Coordinators!" Athrun thought. The first man quickly scooped up the droopy form of Kira. Athrun growled and took out his knife. The first man tsked at him.

"I suggest that you don't do anything, both of you," the first man said. He took out his pistol and rested it at Kira's head. "Or else, this young friend of yours dies."

Heero instantly scowled and put down his gun. Athrun did likewise. The second man nodded his head and both of them backed out of the window, with the gun still trained at Kira's head. The said boy was already unconscious and was being dragged back.

Heero smirked. "Maxwell should already be there…"

He was right. As soon as the two were out of the window, Duo had taken the time to surprise the first man. Wufei had slashed the second guy and Trowa had taken Kira from both guys grasp. But as both were Coordinators, they withheld the hits and took the chance to run away, as they knew they couldn't take six trained soldiers.

Duo cursed. "I nearly had that guy!" He turned to Trowa. "What's wrong with the kid?"

"He's drugged," Trowa replied. "It seems like some people are after him."

"Get back in," Wufei said. "That guy better explain it."

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Dearka and Yzak had arrived minutes later, and they were busy outside trying to keep reporters out of the house.

Meanwhile, on the inside, Kira was on the bed in his room. Heero, Wufei, Trowa, Quatre, Duo and Athrun were sitting around his bed.

Duo turned to Athrun. "How long will he be sleeping like this?"

Athrun frowned. "I don't know. Usually, one dart would be enough to make a Coordinator go unconscious for at least one week. Two darts would be overload."

"Do you know any reasons for those guys to capture him?" Quatre asked.

Athrun shook his head. "No, they didn't respond to my question."

Trowa looked thoughtful. "I heard one of them telling the other to run and to capture the Ultimate Coordinator another time."

"The Ultimate Coordinator?" The others excluding Heero looked at each other. Heero was curious as well.

Athrun's frown deepened. "I think I remember there was something about the Ultimate Coordinator. It was in one of the files I read in Mendel Colony…"

"Well?" Heero said, impatient.

"If I remember correctly," Athrun said. "Then there was a scientist named Ulen Hibiki. He figured out that the main thing that was keeping Coordinators from being perfect was the mother's womb. So using some money from his sponsors, he created many artificial wombs, and in them, he put his own sperm and his wife's eggs. They say if any of those babies survived, then they would be the Ultimate Coordinator. The Perfect Coordinator. However, there were no files or information saying if any of them even survived."

"Then it's possible that Kira really is the Ultimate Coordinator then," Duo said.

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End of Chapter 8

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