Choices

Kira

Written by Izzu X Izumi Ishtar

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Kira felt the wind on his face as he stared blankly over at the balcony. Lunamaria watched him silently as Kira slowly glanced towards her. "Is there anything you wanted to ask me... Miss Luna?", asked Kira as Luna blushed at the sudden inquiry.

She turned away as she tried not to stare at him. Man... what am I? So easily moved by these things...

Kira cocked his head a little as Luna started to speak. "Ah, umm... after the last war... what happened to you guys? And Lacus Clyne too. Umm... and I was confused. Last time I heard... you said to Athrun as if that Lacus who was with the Chairman was a fake. And with Archangel reappearing... Miss Cagalli in that red gundam. There's a lot of things I could not understand-", said Luna as Kira started to chuckle.

Lunamaria glared at him annoyed as Kira waved his hands away. "Sorry... for a second I thought... my, that's a lot of questions you had!" said Kira as he sighed. Lunamaria raised his eyebrow at him as Kira spoke, bitterly.

"A lot happened since that battle at Jachin Due—", said Kira as he looked away. "Most of us had in a way turned our backs from the organization we used to be in. Where else could we go? What else aside from disappearing?" he asked as he looked towards Luna.

"ORB is the only thing we had left."

He sighed. "Do you know the answer, Miss Luna? Why is it that people cannot stop fighting each other? Be it Natural or Coordinator... aren't we still humans? Why is it that living together peacefully so hard to do for them? Because of the war, all of us ended up pitted against one another. If we only continued to fight, merely killing the people you deemed as enemies-when will the war truly end? Would it be only when all of us has died?"

Luna shook her head. 'No... that would be... pointless!"

"Then how do you think we'll end the war?" he asked again as Luna could not answer.

"Then... do you think what you did was the answer?"

Luna gasped as Kira turned around towards him, smiling faintly. "I was wondering when will you finally come up here, Athrun." He shook his head. "No, I don't know. But I—aren't we all looking for it now?"

"Enough with that kind of talk! If you want to make a change, return to ORB!"

"We will do that... when the time is right."

Athrun grabbed Kira by the shoulders. "Kira!"

Kira looked up towards him. "Athrun, come back with me. I have a bad premonition about all this. I don't want you to remain here any longer. This is why I actually risked coming here even when I know that person set this trap on me here."

Athrun gasped. "Trap...? What?"

"That disk I gave to Captain Gladys, it had a secret message instructing her to capture me under pretense of friendliness. It's either your Chairman assumed I was that foolish to believe his words without question or he was daring me to come here."

Athrun stared at him in alarm before looking around to see if they had been watched. "Kira! This is reckless!" he hissed.

Kira smiled. "Well? I've kidnapped my sister away from being forced to marry out of pressure. You think I wouldn't do the same with you?"

Athrun rolled his eyes at him. "Don't be silly! I'm sure there would be some explanation to this. Just you wait. For now, you need to leave this place at once!"

Kira grinned at him. "Don't you worry about that. I got that planned. It will take a bit of time for your captain to decode the secret message, and enough time for me to escape."

"But Kira! Your Skygrasper—"

"It was not as bad as it looks. The ship was still able to fly, and I still have my tricks... Athrun."

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"See this?"

Athrun looked down to see the ring he gave Cagalli on his palm. Kira frowned at him.

"I thought at first to just give this back to you. But I changed my mind. Still, I want you to recall again on what was important. I hope you will be able to find the answer you're looking for." Kira turned to Lunamaria. "You too... Miss Luna. Please think about who our real enemies are... and what was the reason for us to fight."

An explosion, followed by an alarm suddenly blazing all over Minerva as Luna and Athrun turned around frantically. Athrun turned towards Kira as the lad climbed over the deck.

"Kira... what—?"

Suddenly Athrun looked up to the sky to see Kira's Skygrasper started flying towards them, unmanned. Kira jumped on it as the mobile armor flew near enough so that he could reach it. Athrun blinked as he watched Kira climbed up into the MA.

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Elsewhere at the captain's deck, Talia gasped as the commotion startled her. Realizing what was going on, she started issuing alerts to all crew members of Minerva.

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"Thanks... 8," said Kira to the computer as 8 replied his amusement. "Well, I'll be sure to thank Lowe for letting me borrow you for a while."

Kira perked as Minerva started her assault on him. Skillfully, Kira averted the laser beams heading towards him as he barely acknowledged some anti-ship, anti-MS missile launched at him. But before he had time to worry, the missiles were shot down as Strike Rouge and two other Murasame came to back him out.

"Kira!"

"Lord Kira!", cried the other pilots as Kira belay their concerns.

"Don't worry... Cagalli, you guys! Let's go!", said Kira as they sped of into the mist.

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Athrun sighed. Well, at least Kira was safe now. Well, guess now he have start to cook up a reasoning as to why Kira had slipped pass him.

/TBC/