Lunar Flowers

And with that it gave up, and she won, or did she?

ONBOARD THE VIRGO

Anzu still held Diana's tiny frame in her arms when the sleeping babe awoke. Anzu began cooing over her little sister in a tender motherly way. And then the light from the corridor struck. Someone had opened the door.

"Anzu-san? It is me, Toby. We need to talk, and there is a delivery for you. It was re-directed from the school to here. So, maybe one of your friends on that neutral nation sent it" Toby said walking over to his sister and sitting beside her, placing a slightly shaking arm around her shoulders.

"I want this to end, Toby. This war must end, or lovers will either kill each other or watch each other die. I want Diana to grow up, I don't want her to die" Anzu cried softly. Toby was taken aback. He hadn't heard his sister speak like that ever. Her voice was effeminate, and it sounded like the voice of their… mother…

Anzu stood up and returned the cooing baby Diana back to her cot. Then she began playing with her necklace.

"I know your friend was Yzak. What is inside the necklace?" Toby had figured there was something she wasn't telling him. He knew that her fiancée was in ZAFT, and to tell the truth he didn't want his sister mixing with those type of people. He didn't approve of their arranged marriage.

"He gave me a ring, Tobias, an engagement ring" Anzu said so softly that Toby almost couldn't hear her. He had flinched when she called him Tobias. We haven't done that since we were little, he said looking sad for a moment. Then the anger overtook. That bastard, he said angrily to himself. I will not let her go through with this. Then he remembered his other job. He had to take her to the spare time room. So she could get the gift he knew was from Yzak.

"Let's go" he announced as his sister followed him out of the room.

"These flowers are so pretty!" Shima squealed. On the table in front of everyone was a bouquet of flowers. Lunar Flowers, at that. And they were for Anzu. It had a card attached to it, but no-one dare read it. It could be from a lover or something. Then Toby and Anzu arrived. She was looking red eyed and flustered.

What is that on her finger? Shima queried herself. It looks like an engagement ring, OMG!

"Oh my, lunar flowers. Is there a card? Thank you Payton" Anzu said before turning red.

This is what the "card" said:

Anzu,

I found these in the florists shop and they reminded me of you.

I know you love lunar flowers.

I hope we can be together again really soon…

I miss you…

Love Yzak

Anzu felt a laugh escape her lips and then she put the "card" in her pocket. Then Shima spoke up.

"What is that gold band on you wedding finger Commander Anzu?" Anzu had hoped no-one noticed. But Shima had an eye for detail. She knew everyone's distinct look.

"It's nothing!" Anzu yelled back, replying too soon.

"It is something. I bet it is either Candras or that friend of yours who gave you that. Now do we have to interrogate the Lieutenant or will you tell us?" Shima was evil.

"……………" Anzu mumbled.

"What was that?" Shima asked putting her hand to her ear to focus better.

"I said: My friend gave it to me!" Anzu yelled back trying not to cry.

"You are engaged to your friend?" Lucy asked quizzically.

"No, my friend isn't my friend at all. He is and has been my fiancée for the last sixteen years!" Anzu wasn't happy.

"But you are sixteen. Wait a minute, it was an arranged marriage!" Shima had the answer.

"Yes! I was arranged to marry a second gen coordinator who works for fucking ZAFT!" Anzu was going to go hysterical very soon.

"Your fiancée is a ZAFT soldier? You told us he was neutral" Payton said eying her friend.

"Well he isn't. He doesn't know that I am in the EA Forces, so I can't tell him. He would try and kill me. We have a promise that if a war broke out and we became enemies we would kill each other. Or otherwise the revenge getting wouldn't end" Anzu was trying not to cry, knowing that most people her age would have already cracked under this type of interrogation.

"Yzak thinks I am neutral" Anzu added quietly. Payton froze at that name.

I know him, I know someone with that name! Payton said as Anzu exited the room.

IN ANZU'S ROOM

Anzu sat down on her bed looking at some papers.

"My plans of why they must never meet until this war is done" Anzu said.

These plans had one purpose; to stop the Sixth SEED from arising. That SEED was evident of existing in both the Joule kids. She must not let them meet. Her empathic abilities would drive her insane. And with the war going on and the stress of both of the Joule kids, they would go on a genocidal killing spree. Anzu wanted to save everybody, but soon they will have to meet. She knew Payton was already having dreams. And Yzak just missed his sister.

"But now all three Joule kids will suffer" Anzu thought. And then the light went out.

ON THE COLONY OF HALMEA (just finished)

A fourteen year old girl was sitting on her balcony of her new house. She shared it with her adoptive parents. Her name was Lyra. Her silky silvery hair was flowing behind her and her steely blue eyes danced over the ocean scene in front of her. … The ocean…

Lyra had always loved the ocean. She didn't know why though. And she didn't know if she had brothers or sisters. She wanted to know with all of her heart. But she couldn't until she turned eighteen or she accidentally met her relatives. She had a feeling that she had no younger relatives, only older ones. She could picture a boy (only a few years older than her) looking exactly like her and a girl (about eight years older than her) who had the same hair colour but her eyes were green-blue. The boy wasn't smiling but the girl had the biggest smile on her face. She could only imagine these people as she didn't know if they existed or not. That would remain to be seen to…

ON THE NAZCA CLASS

Yzak was bored. He had sent flowers to his fiancée and he hadn't even told anyone about her. He also didn't think he would, ever… He loved Sakura blossoms and Anzu loved lunar flowers. They were too different, but they were the same. At least, they had the same calling. The calling of love to each other. Yzak was too disturbed by the fact that his DNA had been played with by some EA Forces officer. He had gone to the doctor that morning and had asked why he had been having all of those mood swings, and the insolent doctor replied by asking if he was PMSing or was it that time of the month. It had taken an hour of beating the crap out of the doctor for him to realize that Yzak was a boy. Now the doctor was in intensive care and Yzak had been notified that his DNA was scrambled. Now he was just sitting in a room glaring daggers at a wall with the other g-pilots staring at him.

"Is he okay?" Yzak could just barely hear Nicol because of his concentration on the wall.

"I think he has lost it" that voice belonged to Dearka.

"I think he need some rest" that was the good-for-nothing Aegis pilot who always had the right thing to say. Damn you Zala, Yzak thought. You broke my concentration from the wall!

"Yzak are you okay?" that voice belonged to Commander Le Crueset. Yzak immediately broke his concentration (fixation/staring) on the wall and answered.

"Um… yes sir?" he didn't know what to answer.

"I know about the DNA incident" Rau persisted. His co-pilots gasped.

"Yeah, so what?" Yzak said putting a smug look on his face and putting some 'tude in his voice.

"You need to rest! I am sending you home. When you are better we shall collect you. There is a ZAFT ball their soon and I am sure that we shall be present as well as you and your date". At the word date Yzak wanted to go over to the Commander and strangle him. But he was too tired from staring at that blasted wall.

"Whatever sir" Yzak said as he stood up, saluted and then went to his room to pack.

A ball, he thought. Maybe Anzu could get sometime off to come? I hope she can… It is a ZAFT ball, but it is for fun, not war, so she will understand and I will have a date. Yzak calmly walked down the corridor to call Anzu's phone.

IN THE VIRGO'S CAFETERIA

Anzu phone went off. She knew it was hers as it had the tune of Believe (third opening song of G-SEED) as the ringtone.

"I will return soon" she said as she left the cafeteria to answer her phone. She stopped in her room and pressed answer.

"Hey Anzu!" an excited voice called from over the phone. It was Yzak.

"Hey Yzak, what's up? I was just about to go shopping with my friends to celebrate my victory. Thanks for the flowers, they were so pretty. All the girls knew they were from you! So, why did you call? To congratulate me?" Anzu asked, making up an excuse or taking so long to answer her phone. She knew he couldn't track her phone as she had put a lock on it, so no-one could.

"Um… no, but I did call to tell you that there is a ball going on for ZAFT soldiers at RADAR. I just wanted to see if you could come. Maybe get time of from school… I am being sent home since I am not well, but I should be better by the time of the ball next week. Maybe you could come early and we could have some time together?" Yzak had no idea that this could possibly jeopardize her life as a Commander on the EAF ship Virgo.

"Um, sure, I'll ask. I will call you back later. Maybe after the shopping I will speak to Principle Marcoh. She will probably since she knows that I am engaged now… I will get back to you. Oh, that was Shima, she says hi and that I have to go, so buh bye!" and with that Anzu hung up. And then she regained her composure and walked back into the cafeteria to see the Captain standing there talking to Mu.

"Who was that and what was that about?" Shima asked while eating.

"Don't talk with your mouth full, but I would like to know to Anzu" Payton said whilst sipping tea.

"It was Yzak. He thinks I go to a neutral school, still. He wants me to go to Radar and go to a ZAFT personnel ball with him" Anzu answered clearly, but looked like she was choking on words.

"I don't see any problem with that!" Muriel said trying to stifle a laugh.

"WHAT!" everyone yelled (except Anzu).

"Yes, I find it okay. If he doesn't know that you are an EAF officer than he won't try to kill you and as long as you don't give to many hints I don't se the problem with it at all" Muriel had a way with words when it came to young love. She was celebrating her eighth wedding anniversary that year (she and Jack were married when they were twenty), but she had never told anyone of her wedding until three years ago.

Muriel's daughter and husband were at home as her husband had been injured on the frontline, never to fight again, and her daughter was only five. Tears welled up in Muriel's eyes as she remembered her daughter, Hannah. Then she realized why she had been so trusting and protective of those coordinator children. They too had become her family, like her kids. Muriel had never realized it before now, now that Anzu was engaged and Muriel was happy for her. I feel a mother's happiness, she thought. I must really love these people, but is it okay for me to love them so much that I would give my life for them t live, as if they were mine?

Yes, was her minds clear answer. Her husband wouldn't hold it against the kids and neither would her daughter and he would accept them into the family, as their own. He would understand that most of them were orphans and that he felt a need to realize his wife's wishes. Muriel thought of her daughter again as she fell asleep.

AT THE ZAFT SUPREME COUNCIL

"Senator Ijiwaruu," Senator Pompalis yelled at the ZAFT chairwoman. "What do you think we should do?"

"The attack on Zimbabwe will be a bad idea. Screw it. I will talk it over with the full board of Representatives. They need to be here. I am not in charge yet Senator, but I will be, soon" and with that Ijiwaruu went.

When she arrived at her room there were two people sitting on her bed.

"Nobutoshi…" said the girl. Her face was very soft and effeminate. Her voice was full of wisdom and her short brown hair was left to touch her shoulders.

"We have to talk" the boy said. His hair was also brown. It was so unmistakable that they were twins, but they weren't. Nobu sighed. Her little brother and sister always got in the way.

"What do we need to talk about?" she asked plainly.

"Cousin Rusty is dead and I have finally been told that brother Miguel died a few months ago" the boy was angry.

"Rey, you didn't ask, so I didn't tell you. Shinobu isn't sad. I have just received word that we are going to the ball. And that sister Anzu will be there" Nobu had her suspicious look in her eye.

"We aren't going to hurt her!" Rey yelled. "She is our sister. We know that she could be in the EAF but we aren't sure. We know mum and dad put all of their kids down for ZAFT, EAF or Orb. We don't actually know which one she is in. We know Toby is in EAF. But Anzu keeps moving. I spoke to Yzak. She is neutral, he says. I still don't know why mum and dad wanted to make us enemies. And why do we all have different last names?" Rey was yelling now and Shinobu was trying to calm him down. Rey had been the first born, then Tobias, then Shinobu and finally Anzu. But Anzu has more power than all of us, Nobu reminded herself. She didn't want to hurt her sister at all. It was just with war. If she was in the EAF than Nobu wanted to kill Anzu, herself. But alas, only Yzak could kill her, or he would have to get revenge on Nobu.

"For our protection, little brother. That is why they gave all separate births different last names. You were born as quads so you all share the same last name" Nobu finally answered. She and Miguel and Anzu and Zoey had different last names from each other. She was Ijiwaruu, Miguel was Aiman, Anzu was Seiya and Zoey was Harjuku. But Diana and Ally had been different. Ally shared the same last name was Zoey and Diana's last name was Harjuku-Seiya. That was how they were all separated. By name, not blood. Their cousin Nicol was going to fight to, but she didn't want to know that. She knew Anzu already wore a necklace around her neck to show that she had lost not one but many people in this war. Nobu didn't want to be part of the war, but she had had no choice. She, Rey and Shinobu stayed up all night (figure of speech since in space, there is no night or day) trying to figure out where Anzu went and how they could stop a war. That thought of being all together again made Nobutoshi happy. She felt as thought light were shining on her and her brother and sister.

…Alas, the dawn is breaking…

A/n: Like my sub-plots like side-plots and stuff. I think they are okay. I am going to use Akatsuki No Kuruma in my next one, so feel free to enjoy it. I love long weekends for one reason, I can update my stories! Lyra is Yzak and Payton's little sis that neither know about as she was adopted out by Ezaria. Anzu's full family will make an appearance. He grandfather, mother, father, cousins and siblings will make an appearance. Nicol is her cousin by the way, as Christa (Anzu's mum) is Yuki Amalfi's sister. You will have a description of the family home and so on and so forth. Anzu will read an old portfolio and you will have her family tree. Nicol and Rusty are going to end up as second cousins. Dearka gets captured soon, so there. Or otherwise the DxM won't work. The next chapter should be up tomorrow. The idea for Lunar flowers came from the Moon flowers in my mum's garden. I thought what if I called them Lunar instead of Moon? Nobu will have a bigger part in this. Rey and Shinobu will only have minor roles. In the next chapter they will go to the ball. Oh, and Isaac and Sakura won't make an appearance 'til whatever chapter. I have decided that more or less than twenty chapters are needed. So I bid you achoo… I mean adieu (I have a cold) mumbles to self about how swimming in the rain doesn't help especially if you are skinny dipping…