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Yzak walked down the hallway of the Voltaire. He carried a stack of files with him. If he played his cards right, he could get asylum from Orb. As he walked past one of the hallways, when he stopped. She was behind him, and she was trying to hide it. Whether she wanted to talk to him or not, he really did not care.
"I thought you couldn't stand me." he murmured.
Shiho stood behind him. She had always been one to stay away from stubborn, stuck-up, egotistical men, but Yzak Jule had been the exception. The first she met him was during the first war when she was assigned to the squad he was commanding as the mobile suit and weapons specialist after Dearka was pronounced MIA for a short time. It had been rather interesting how they first met, she would never forget it. She was still in the ZAFT Academy, there was only a few days left till she was going to graduate and be sent to some far off ship. But that was the day that Yzak was picking out his new team members, and he had decided to pick the top of the class. Yzak always took the best of the best, and he would settle for nothing less the perfect.
Shiho Hahnenfusss was the daughter of a family on the council, and Yzak was the son of Ezaria Jule who was once a member on the council and the head of the war department. Since he was the heir to the Jule fortune and Ezaria's spot on the council, he was trained in the best of everything. One of these many activities included fencing, which Shiho herself happened to excel in. When Yzak was in the Academy, he was the captain of the fencing team. When he left, the next year she was appointed as the captain but never got the honor of fighting Yzak herself. That day, he was in the gym watching her fight and the teacher recognized Yzak in the stands, and ordered her to challenge him. Of course Yzak beat her, but she gave him a run for his money before he did so.
Then he had asked her to be on his squad as his second. At that time, she had not known about Dearka being MIA, or that it was the beginning to a long history between her an Yzak that she would soon come to worry about almost every moment of her life.
She frowned,
"I never said that."
"You sure as hell act like it."
She was silent a moment as he turned around. Not looking in his eyes, she looked at the floor. Whenever she looked in them, she could never hold her resolve. Yzak walked towards her, his arms resting at his sides. He was always so handsome, she would not deny that. Every girl knew that he was the most eligible bachelor in all of PLANT.
At first glance, he seemed fragile. But she remember the few times she had seen him down the training room. Yzak was strong, stronger then her and probably most people on that sure. She was not sure how much of this strength was attributed to his genetic structure as a Coordinator, or if it was just his raw human will. Despite all of this, he was a pretty boy. He was pale skinned, with shoulder-length silver hair. It went well with his deep, cobalt blue eyes that she could loose herself in.
"Well? What do you have to say for yourself?" he said, "What the hell do you expect me to do? Just forget everything?"
"It would be the wise thing to do."
"TO HELL WITH-" he caught himself yelling at her, and he stopped. He let out a sigh, and laid a hand on his forehead. Shiho always made him frustrated. She always made him feel things that he did not want to feel, but he could never do anything about it. The last time he acted with his feelings, he ended up feeling like he had been shot in the chest afterwards.
"Why can't you be honest with me?" he asked, "Why can't you look me in the eyes and be honest?"
Shiho frowned, "You wouldn't understand."
"I don't understand because you never tell me anything." he said, "I swear that if you promise to be honest once, I'll never bother you again."
She looked up at him, into his eyes. Part of her wanted to run away and never see him again, and part of her wanted throw her arms around him and never let go. He was giving her the opportunity to tell him to get out of her life now. The problem was that she wanted so much to be with him, but the obstacles in her way were pulling her back, creating a large weight on her heart. There were times where she could not even look at him.
"You're stubborn." she said.
"You're damn right I am."
Shiho stared at him, and then closed her eyes and shook her head. He knew she did that whenever she wanted to say something that she was unsure about. Shiho had not changed much since he first met her. She was about a head shorter then him, he had gotten much taller since they first met. Her brown hair was longer, past her waist. She always bound the end of it with a black tie. She was maybe a little thinner and a little taller since then, but she was pretty much the same. Still beautiful, quiet, and extremely intelligent. The thing he like most about her was probably her violet eyes.
Yzak sighed,
"That's the sort of attitude that's going to make you regret everything in life. You can't even look me in the eye." he turned around, "I won't give up, even if you already have."
She watched him walk down the hallway. Right before he was out of her sight, she sucked in a lungful of air and shrieked,
"I'M SORRY, OKAY!"
He stopped, turning around to look at her.
Yzak frowned, seeing her alarmed face. She covered her mouth, like she had said something horrible. He sighed again, and headed back towards her. She was just as stubborn as he was, it was one of the things he loved about her. Stopping a short distance from her, he laid a hand on her face, brushing the hair out of her eyes.
"You need to stop torturing yourself." he said, "You deserve more then you think."
"I don't deserve anything." she said.
"That's a lie." he said, "That's a lie and you know it."
"Damn it, why do you have to be like this?"
"Like, what?"
She gritted her teeth, looking up at him. There were tears in the corners of her eyes.
"How is it that you always know what to say to me?"
Yzak smirked at her, "Because, I know you."
"My family would never allow me to be with you. It would only cause more suffering to you-"
"Don't I have I say in this matter?" he said, "Can't I decide what is good and bad for myself? You think I give a damn what your family thinks?"
Shiho closed her eyes, he was making it more difficult. She should not have said anything.
"Whatever." he said finally, "Take your time. It seems like you don't know what you want."
She felt the hand leave her face, "Yzak, wait-"
She froze as he leaned over and touched his lips to the corner of hers, looking into his cobalt blue eyes. If there was ever a mistake she made, it was staring into his eyes.
"I'll always be here." he said, "Shiho, I-"
His com link beeped. She blushed, stepping away from him. Yzak let out an irritated groan and picked up the phone off the wall.
"Jule here."
"Captain, you'd better come to the bridge." Bjorkland replied, "We have a problem."
Yzak leaned against the wall, "Is it the Twilight army?"
"Yes sir."
"Damn, they didn't waste time. I'll be right there, put the ship on Code 2 alert, and prep the mobile suit crops, we aren't going to have a lot of time if there's a fight."
"Yes sir, right away."
"Thanks." he hung up. Glancing one more time at the girl standing next to him. He smiled at her slightly, she still wore the male military uniform. There were times when he imagined what she would look like in the female uniform, then decided that it was something he would look forward to one of these days.
This would be a long battle, and they may even die. But it was something he had learned to live with.
"Good luck, sir." she said.
"You too, Hahnenfuss. Good hunting."
She paused for a second, "Yzak?"
He looked at her.
"Be careful."
"You too."
