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Sorry for not updating for…months…Gaah, been busy, and haven't gotten inspiration to update, until just now…Sorry! bows

Answers to reviews:

kiuna'yukina >> Well, angst is present in everyday, so yah…I hope this chappie satisfies you… 

Kageharu Kaco >> Thanks, I'll try my best 

Cari-Akira >> $2200 is hardly enough allowance, haha…It doesn't cover your food, hand phone bills, etc  I should know…Don't worry, your review isn't too long, it's actually encouraging to have long reviews, cause there's actually feedback on the details of the fic  Hmm…So, Cagalli is unsure of her feelings to Athrun, and Athrun has liked her since he was about fourteen, so he liked her for about three years. Cool, huh?

On to the fic! (The plot is actually going to make sense in this chapter, haha, at last!)

Title: Wherever You Will Go

Author: moony.rj

Genre: Angst/ Romance

Rating: PG-13, to be sure

Warnings: fluff, angst

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed/ Gundam Seed Destiny, regardless of how much I want to. The names mentioned in this fic, such as titles of schools and places are randomly conjured in my brain for half a second. Do not sue me, as they are increasing lame.

The lively city of Aprillius was a lengthy two hour plane ride from ORB, where Cagalli used to live. The hustle and bustle of the large metropolis was almost overwhelming for the young blonde, who just arrived in the airport a few minutes ago. Important looking individuals hurried here, there, and everywhere, with professional looking briefcases and expensive hand phones. Foreigners from seemingly both every and any part of the world wanted to visit the city-state, given the different skin colors and dialects Cagalli could here, even inside the airport itself.

It had been a week or two after Cagalli and Athrun's last encounter. Cagalli could not even bring herself to say goodbye to the blue-haired boy. She took the whole flight thinking about him, rather than worrying about her new school, new friends, and all that, which are the usual thoughts plaguing the minds of young adults going under the same experience as her. The current moment, however, she had no time to think about anything but making sure all her things were with her.

"Passport, luggage, hand phone, purse…" Cagalli muttered, ticking off a mental checklist. She was sitting on a fancy steel plated bench in the luxurious airport. It surely paid to go to a rich place like Aprillius.

"Miss Attha?"

"Mmm?" Cagalli looked up, to meet a pair of marigold eyes. They belonged to a middle aged woman with shoulder length brown hair.

"I'm Murrue Ramius, the one assigned to pick you up by the embassy. This is my comrade Mwu La Flagga," she said, shaking Cagalli's hand while gesturing towards a tall man with blond hair and blue eyes. He winked at her, "Pleased to meet ya, lil' lady. Welcome to Aprillius City!"

"Come on, we'll take you to the boarding school, so you can get settled. The other scholars are outside, waiting." Murrue continued, and Mwu expertly carried Cagalli's bags as though they merely weighed like normal book bags.

"Other scholars…?"

"Yeah, other teens who got the scholarship, just like you. You didn't think you were the only one, now did you?" Mwu said, chuckling.

Once they passed the customs, the trio got to the outside of the airport. Roads, highways, and skyways were the first things in sight. Different modes of transportation were seen zooming around. Instead of the clean, natural air Cagalli was used to, the air in Aprillius seemed to be slightly humid and dusty, if that was possible. It made her a tad bit uncomfortable, but her curiosity and excitement pretty much made up for that.

After taking in her surroundings, Cagalli noticed a bunch of people hanging around in by a van. A pair of guys was sharing a CD player, one of them working on a rubric cube, while the other was apparently humming to the music while reading a manga. Another guy was leaning against a wall opposite the duo, talking to his hand phone. He seemed a bit frustrated. It was probably homesickness.

"Scholars indeed…And all guys, too…" Cagalli murmured.

The guy who was reading the manga looked up, as though he was able to hear what Cagalli just said. He had dirty blonde hair and nicely tanned skin, his purple eyes having a mischievous to them. "So, our princess has finally arrived," he exclaimed not too softly.

This brought the attention his other two companions, who immediately looked at the tired blonde.

"Ahh, this is the cause of our thirty hour wait?" the boy fiddling with the rubric cube sneered, while running a hand through his shoulder length silver tresses, juggling the aforementioned cube with the other hand. He looked Cagalli up and down; a "hmph" escaped his lips as he looked away, pouting.

The other boy holding the hand phone merely glanced at her, an unreadable and stoic expression in his face, before resuming to his conversation. His fiery blood-red eyes, however, gave away the impression that the teen was angry at something, even though his voice remained stoic, monotonic, and calculating.

Both Mwu and Murrue noticed this, but said nothing. They both knew that the brunette could not be bothered with, not with the crisis happening at his home town. The teen used in the less urban region of Orb, where a typhoon had recently struck. The safety of his immediate family was yet to be known.

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A disturbing silence was maintained throughout the whole trip to the boarding school where the four teens would be residing. The tanned boy with the manga, who later introduced himself as Dearka, was snickering to himself as he continued to read his beloved comic. Scrutinizing the cover, Cagalli decided that it was just another perverted yuri manga. "Boys will always be boys," she muttered.

The two other boys, Yzak and Shinn, were slumped against each other, sleeping. An occasional grunt or snore was the only sounds from the duo. Even though Cagalli found them quite adorable in that position, she still could not forgive the fair skinned, silver haired teen for acting rude to her earlier.

Mwu was driving the van, with Murrue seated next to him. Both were flirting in a subtle manner to each other.

After about half an hour, they reached their destination.

"Voltaire Academy Boarding School, huh? Sounds a bit too…"

"…ancient? I agree with ya, bro."

"Hmph, never asked for your opinion."

"I forsee a great friendship in the making."

"Oh shut up."

"Love you too."

Shinn raised an eyebrow at the exchange, but said nothing. The introverted brunette was looking after their luggage, somehow entertaining himself by looking at the patterns in the reception office's wall. Boy, was he bored.

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Meanwhile, Murrue was getting Cagalli checked into the boarding school, while Mwu was on his way carrying Cagalli's things to her room.

"Three bedded room, yes…On which floor? …Okay okay…That would be just fine…Thanks…" was all Cagalli could hear from the older woman's conversation with the receptionist. A few moments later, she found herself inside a white-washed room, adorned with three adequately-sized beds, three tables, and other necessities in sets of three. She noticed that one of the beds had already been occupied.

"We'll leave you to unpack, okay? Remember dinner is at 6:30pm, don't be late, okay?" Mwu reminded her with a grin, before exiting the room, closing the door behind him.

With that, our protagonist started unpacking, doing the most she could from putting on the bed sheets to filling up her own small bookshelf. While she was so engrossed with unpacking, Cagalli did not notice her hand phone blinking repeatedly while vibrating, as she left it in silent mode.

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'You have 14 new messages and 3 missed calls'

Cagalli sweatdropped when she went through her various text messages, most from her mother and some close friends from her previous school. Grinning with a strange sort of assurance that the important people in her life still remembered her, she felt more courageous than homesick, which was what she originally expected. One particular SMS caught her attention though.

Wantin u is easy, missin u is hard. Wishin u r wif me wrapped up in my arms. Constantly tink of u wen we r apart. Ive got the padlock, u hav the key to my heart. –Athrun

"Oh my…Athrun…You're still…"

Unable to control her mixed and confused emotions, Cagalli just knelt down from her standing position. Sprawled on the floor, she laid her head on the side of her bed, and could do nothing but cry.

TBC?

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Who's Cagalli's mysterious roommate? What will ever happen between her and Athrun? Will sparks fly? How about the grouchy Shinn? Find out more in the next update of "Wherever You Will Go"! Remember, more reviews faster update time!

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