A/N: I'm really writing at my non-stop. Hope you will enjoy this. Please review, I will be really depressed if you don't. Thank you very much.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own GS/GSD.

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…He said not looking at her. His feet were running as fast as the lightning, although he was carrying another one, but his speed was still uncatchable. After running about five minutes, he started to swerve into the field and returned to the territory. Cagalli was getting sleepy, so she closed her eyes and leaned against his well-built body. All she could think of was: "Am I going to die? I could neither protect the Princess nor help Zala… I'm so useless…" Then she totally lost her consciousness and fell into the coma of losing blood. The wind was howling as he was still running not noticed that she had fell unconscious.

Cagalli opened her eyes as she smelt some fragrant flowers near her. "Where am I? Is this heaven?" She thought.

"Mister Kira! She has regained consciousness." Someone announced choking in tears of happiness. Immediately, she saw someone launched to her bed and asked:

"Really? Hey Cagalli? Do you recognize me?" A brown haired boy asked worriedly. "You have been sleeping like that for three days." He continued, tears were forming in his eyes.

"Kira… I…" Cagalli nodded and said weakly, but she was cut off:

"Don't say anything, Cagalli. You are still weak. Just rest. The Princess is safe now." Kira demanded wiping the tears in his eyes, he was grinning as big as he could.

"How… is… Zala?" Cagalli asked difficultly. There was only one image in her mind: Athrun carrying her bridal style running, his chiding words to her, his beautiful yet angry eyes…

"Don't worry, he's just fine. I took the Princess back to the palace with the protection of some tigers. When we arrived there, you two still haven't arrived yet, and we were really worried about you two. I wanted to go look for you, but I had to stay by the Princess's side, so I couldn't. At midnight, he carried you back with a nasty wound on your shoulder, and we immediately gave you treatment. He also was injured, but it was quite slightly, so he's fine now. My, he had never been so panicked, yet the moment he carried you in, he was extremely frightened." Kira told Cagalli the detail of their first problem with a sigh.

"He was worried about me?" Cagalli thought closing her eyes, the wound became less painful as she imagined his panicked face. She gave a weak smile and went to sleep slowly in the beautiful dreams of hers.

"Sheesh, Princess, do you think she is really worried about Athrun?" Kira asked the pink haired girl sitting next to him.

"I don't know, Mister Kira, but it seems so. Now, let's go out, she needs to rest a little." Lacus answered and stood up, pulling Kira's sleeve.

"Okay, let's go." Kira stood up with the princess and walked out not forgetting to take another quick glance at his sleeping sister. "I wonder if she has developed her feelings for Athrun." He thought.

Outside the room…

"Mister Athrun… Don't you want to take a look at Cagalli?" The princess asked smiling. The blue haired bodyguard just shook his head slightly and walked after the pink haired girl.

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When she opened her eyes again, it was already the night. "My, did I sleep that much?" She thought and tried to get up.

"Stay still, don't move, your wound hasn't completely healed." Speak a quite cold voice, the voice that came into her dreams, the voice of the person who carried her a long way back to the palace, the voice of him!

"Zala?" She asked, eyes widening. A pair of emerald orbs looked straight into her eyes, and his voice whispering as quiet as the wind dancing among the trees: "It's me."

His gentle arms putted her back down the bed.

"Why…" She couldn't finish her sentence because tears were felling on her face and something choked her throat. Well, Cagalli is a strong girl, and she cries is not the usual thing. Her tears were falling on her soft skin like the dews on the flowers. When Athrun saw that, he couldn't control himself anymore, he lifted his hand up and wiped her tears away with his thumb, then he hugged her tenderly and rubbed her back.

"It's okay now, please don't cry…" His voice became so soft that could melt any girls' heart. Then he let go of her and looked deep into her eyes:

"I'm glad you are okay." His eyes were absorbing her, she couldn't help but blushed like a mini sun in the night.

"Th… Thank you." She replied bending down to avoid his eyes. He just smiled and sat back on his chair.

"Anyway, why aren't you in your room?" She asked not looking at him.

"Well, I just want to check if you are okay or not." He answered turning away. "Now I shall go back." Then he stood up and was about to leave when she called him back.

"Wait a minute."

"What is it?" He turned back with a small smile across his lips.

"Can you sit with me for a minute? I have no one to talk to, and I can't go back to sleep." She demanded blushing brightly.

"Err… Okay." He hesitated for five seconds, then nodded and sat back. "So what do you want to talk about?" He asked scratching his head. She thought that was a very cute gesture.

"Well, about the magic… or the Princess. Well, anything." She chuckled silently.

"Then, let's talk about each other. From now on, we are friends, right? So that's good to know more about friends." He suggested tilting her head to the left.

"Uhm, so who's your father?" She asked smiling. He returned her smile and answered:

"His name is Patrick Zala." Cagalli gasped, Patrick Zala was the most powerful wizard in the Magical Land's history.

"Whoa, you are so lucky to have a father like him. I'm only the child of two normal people, but I have studied with a wizard, so I'm a little stronger than the normal ones." She introduced. He shook his head:

"No, Attha, my father is very casual. He never worries about me or think of my safety. Sometimes I wish I had a normal family like some others." There were sadness in his eyes, and his eyebrows furrowed. She stared at him in surprise, and then in grief. There was an awkward silence between them. Each one followed their own thoughts, the moment seemed to last forever until Cagalli gulped and suggested:

"Okay, let's not talk about this sad topic anymore. Just talk about something fun, okay?"

Athrun only nodded and looked at her questioningly.

"So… Do you know how to play a musical instrument?" She asked curiously.

"Yes. I know how to play the violin, but not very well. But Kira is a really good violinist. Have you ever heard him play?" He answered then asked.

"Of course, he's my own brother. Will you play the violin for me someday? I really want to know how well you can do." She said with a smile.

"Then, when you get over this, I will play." He gave a small laugh. "How about you?"

"I don't know to play anything, however, I can sing. I'm sure that you can record my voice to frighten the ghosts" She joked playfully. "Wanna hear now?"

"Err, maybe next time." He answered sweat dropping. They both laughed without inhibition.

"Attha, I want to tell you something serious." He suddenly stopped laughing and sat straight on his chair. She nodded and looked him with awaiting eyes.

"This time, you are lucky not to lose you life. But I'm not sure if next time you'll still be lucky like this, so please don't risk your life. If anything happens to you, everyone would be very sad." He told her sincerely.

"But I'm the Princess's bodyguard, and my duty is to protect her." She protested pouting a bit.

"My, she's cute pouting like that!" He commented mentally. "If you have to protect the Princess, it's okay. But please never risk your life to help me or Kira. We are trained soldiers and we know what to do, only the Princess is the one who is needed to be protected." He said.

"Look, Zala, if the one came to help you three days ago was not me, if that one was Kira, then would you scold him?" She asked coldly. Athrun flinched at her question, but he was a good speaker, so he didn't need time to find the words:

"Of course I would. Because I can escape from them easily. I was just preventing from approaching the Princess. I don't want to fight against anyone, Attha."

She pouted but couldn't say anything. Deep inside, she was feeling that he didn't want her to help him, and that made her sad.

"So, you don't need my help, do you? Then… Am I useless? Am I everybody's burden?" She asked him bending her head down. He had never expected a question like that.

"Of course not. You did very well. Just… Next time don't risk your life like that, because I'm worried." He explained with a big sweat drop on his forehead. She looked up with a sad smile:

"Will I be out? Causing trouble on the very first day?" She asked, tears were threatening to fall again.

"No, definitely not! You didn't cause any troubles, instead you did your job well. Don't worry about that. Just rest here." He tried to calm her nerves. She only nodded. Looking at her, something inside him urged him to hug her. He shook his head furiously to snap the idea out.

"Okay, Attha, don't you know that you are very important to everyone? So please don't act so emotionally, that will be really dangerous. Like I said, if something happens to you, we will be really sad. Understand it? Now please rest to get over this soon, then I will play the violin for you." He said gently and brushed a curl of her hair behind her ear. She gave a weak smile and answered:

"Thank you. I promise I will never act recklessly like that again."

"That's good. Now, please go to sleep. Good night." He grinned back and stood up, walked to the door and went out before closing the heavy door quietly leaving her in the room alone.

"I am… important? He's worried about me?" She mused with a smile across her pale lips. "Well, even if he is just being friendly to me… I…" She didn't dare to continue thinking. His emerald eyes, his midnight blue hair, his toothy grins went into her dreams softly.

To be continued.

A/N: So how's that? I know that this chapter is filled with emotion, but that's all I can think of, so please tell me if it's so boring or something. The next one will be more thrilling, please wait. Thank you very much.