Close to Your Heart
By Angelics-d
Disclaimer: Kira can't be mine.. :Sob: neither Athrun.. nor Shinn :sobsob: So every chara's here are not mine... I simply use them for my satisfaction XP :whacked:
Pairings: ShinnxKira, AthrunxKira
Summary: The war has ended, peace returns once more. It has been half a year after their last battle when someone confessed to the ultimate Coordinator. But then, there's someone who had been longing for his love too.
Warnings: OOC-ness (hopefully slight, not sure though..:sweatdrop:), Shonen-ai (at least:grin:), bad grammar (English is not my mother language :sigh: ) Bad language(Oh yes, it's needed for a yell by a certain character here.)
Okay, shonen-ai is boy-love-boy things, so if you don't like it, you'd better not read this fic :smile sweetly:
A/N: I forgot Tori at the previous chapter… :slam my own head to the wall nearby: I already edited chapter 1, just to add why Tori was not with Kira and what it's doing(mostly just for my fun XP )
I still can't believe I finished this chapter in a day… :stare at the infinite blue sky: Maybe I'm in the mood for Gundam Seed/Gundam Seed Destiny thing :smile unreasonably:
I'd like to reply the reviews by myself though, but.. the reply button doesn't work at tne moment :sweatdrop:
Reviews respond:
Dreamer516: I also love AthrunxKira XD But AthrunxShinn or KiraxShinn also cute X3 :thinking: Up until now I only found one fic about the 3 of them being together. Oh, I'm just being greedy :sweatdrop:
SweetYzak: okay, thank you! I think I'll use amber for her eyes from now on
furin-a: Hm.. yeah, amber definitely sounds better. Hm.. for the pair.. just see as the chapters goes on XD Why he hasn't called? I'll let you know in the next chapter. You'll got half his reason here XD
Darkmoon Fleur: Thank you! Yes, I'll make them. It's just so fun making a jealous character :laughs: The real reason Athrun hasn't called will be revealed in the next chapter-hopefully, not sure.. :sweatdrop:
lilplayer: Thanks, well, the 'mystery man' identity will be known in this chapter :grin: Erm.. I'm not pretty sure though, but if there is AthrunxShinn, maybe it will be angst or even super angst?-but in my hand they can became hilarious XP - Those 2 characters just so serious and love to argue :sweatdrop:
Thanks for the reviews guys XD
'kay then! Here's the next chapter. Happy Reading!
.:Chapter 2: A Return, A Challenge :.
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"I love him."
"What?"
"I love him and I'm not letting him go."
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The blonde was about to leave her office room when her phone started to ring once again, making her almost tripped at the process. Tori, which was sitting on her shoulder quickly fly when she did so. As the ORB princess connect the line, there's a picture of pink haired girl waving at the monitor, a pink ball shaped robot jumping by her side.
"Long time no see, Cagalli."
Amber eyes rolled as she replied, "I thought we were talking like this just 3 days ago." Her words casting a giggle from the songstress. "So, what makes you call today, Lacus? Hopefully not bad news." The green robotic bird landed in front of it's master's sister. It's eyes watching Cagalli's finger intently as the blonde moving it, having fun teasing the robot.
"Oh. No, it's not bad news." Haro jumped onto the PLANT representative hands as she continued. "I just want to inform you that he already went to Earth. His destination might be ORB."
Cagalli quirked an eyebrow, her mouth was shaping an upside down 'u'. She understand who was the he her friend was talking about. "He already got here, said 2 sentence-2 questions actually- before he went off again."
The pink haired girl frown in confusion at the blonde. "I bet he was searching for Kira."
"Exactly." And Lacus started to giggle again before the princesses start their own chat.
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Shinn gently brushed away the brown locks that covered the brunette's face. His sleeping form calmed the younger boy as his ruby eyes inspecting the Ultimate Coordinator.
"Kira-san.." The raven haired boy whispered as he caressed the older boy's cheek affectionately. Honestly, he might already fell for him at their first meeting. That time, they were no more than a stranger to each other.
The younger ex-pilot frown darkly as he remembered how much he hated the Freedom and it's pilot- now ex-pilot - without knowing him personally. He even was about to kill the brunette. And now, he was falling for him so badly, how ironic.
"Get better soon." Shinn kissed Kira's forehead softly. He pulled the blanket so it covered the brunette properly before he left the room in silence, leaving the sick teen to rest peacefully.
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The ringing cell phone almost distracted the blue haired teen as he drive. He quickly picked it up, but the loud yell almost made him crashed into a wall. He's lucky enough he didn't, even with such a speed. Oh, such a miracle..
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT YOU IDIOT! LEAVING LIKE THAT, HUH?" The driver sighed, an image of his platinum haired friend with scary annoyed face came into his mind.
"Yzak, I already told you.."
"No, you didn't tell me anything." His tone was as hard as a rock. It's plain that he's angry.
"So maybe I told someone to tell you." He's not pretty sure though. He was leaving his friends in a big hurry.
"You didn.. hold on a second." The emerald eyed teen almost certain he heard a loud "What!" Whoever the person who was poking the angry platinum head, he pity him. There was another babbling voice before his friend came back to talk to him. "Oh, yes you told someone." Yzak said sarcastically. The blue head would rolled his eyes if he was not driving. "And now what should I do with the works you should be handling you dumb ass?"
"Sorry, but please handle it for me." As a certain building came into his vision, he continued "Gotta go. I'll call you later." And he cut the line-even though the platinum head was casting yells at him again- and slipped his cell phone into his pocket, not forgetting to turn it off.
"Kira…" The man whispered in a worry tone.
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Murrue Ramius could only gasped "Oh, my.." as she saw a car parked in front of the orphanage. The kids who were playing with her also turned their heads around. They all beamed and circled the black jacketed teen who got out of the car.
"Okay, kids, please let me through. I need to ensure something. I'll play with you all later 'kay?" The blue head plead them. The children seemed to be understanding enough because they let him through.
"He is at the second floor." The former Archangel Commander informed him, who nodded gratefully before darting into the two story building. He's pretty patient now because he spare his time to greet Mwu and Andrew as he passed them. But as he was about to step on the first stair, a mop hit the wall near him -about an inch from his face maybe?- horizontally, blocking his way. Emeralds turned their gaze to see a pair of ruby narrowed at him.
"Well, if it isn't Athrun Zala." Shinn said, annoyance plain in his voice. "What makes you come here, Athrun?"
"I come to see Kira." The blue head replied honestly. Athrun bent down a little, trying to get passed the mop in his need to see the brunette but Shinn lowered it as the older teen did. There's no way he'll let this cold bastard-in Shinn's opinion- passed anyway.
"He's sleeping." The raven haired boy said to his former team leader as the emeralds glared at him. "He got a fever and he needs some rest." He added, making the other teen frown in worry.
"I'll just take a look at him. I won't wake him up."
Finally, after a few moments of silence, Shinn lowered his mop, abandoning it beside the stairs. "This way." The younger ex-pilot lead the way. Athrun gladly followed him without anymore questions.
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The blue head sighed in relieved as he saw his Angel sleeping peacefully. Kira's chest slowly moving up and down. He was not even disturbed when Athrun sat quietly beside his body, showing that he's in a deep slumber. The youngest teen watched them carefully, his own body leaning at the door frame while his hands crossing in front of his chest. 'Why is he back now?' he asked silently, eyes not leaving the two form in the room. 'After letting Kira-san down all these months.. What does he want?'
After ensuring himself that his childhood friend was okay, Athrun silently slipped out of the room, leaving his best friend to continue his sleep. The raven haired boy closed the door with no sound. Then the two of them made their way downstairs.
"Tea or coffee?" Shinn asked as he began to inspecting the kitchen, looking for cups.
"Coffee." Yes, what Athrun needs now is caffeine to made his poor emerald eyes stay awake due to tiredness. After he heard Dearka said that someone was hitting at his dear childhood friend -even though he didn't knew whether the news is right or where the blond got the information from- the former FAITH member didn't think twice to take the earliest flight to Earth he could get, precisely to ORB. The blue haired teen just couldn't help it. Anything that relates to a teen named Kira Yamato made him act reckless, especially after he was about to lose the brunette to death, and moreover it didn't only happen once.
The rubies eyeing him while the owner start to making instant drinks. The black haired teen still couldn't accept the appearance of the former Justice pilot. He still not taking his eyes away when he placed the cups on the table. Shinn pulled a chair to sit across the blue head.
"Is there any special occasion that made you here at ORB?" Shinn finally asked when his curiosity won. He'd like to know whether the man in front of him is really a cold hearted bastard.
"Err.. no. Actually no."
"So? Why are you here?"
"I just want to see him." Shinn frown. 'Out of the blue?'
"Why are you not giving us any news when you're at PLANT?"
"I.. I was busy, Shinn." The ruby eyed teen quirked an eyebrow. 'Okay, he's not telling the truth', the raven head decided.
"Are you that busy?"
"Yeah, works chasing." Athrun slowly drank his coffee, try to calm himself. 'What's with this questions?'
"Hmm.. well, works. That's more important that telling your friends here how you were, huh? With those much works, you must be pretty famous then."
"Not really.."
"What were you doing there?"
"I help the programming in ZAFT."
"ZAFT? You enrolled in the military again?"
"No, it's not that." The blue head waved lightly at the younger teen. "I was helping the programs only. Such as the connection link on the ship. Mostly I'm helping Lacus in political things."
"If you're with Lacus-san, you could actually pass your message through Cagalli-san. Why you didn't do so?"
'Shinn actually got a really sharp sense..' The emerald eyed teen thought as he eyeing the raven head in front of him, thinking of an excuse that's not fully lying. "I never be there when they do discussion. I simply there when she was doing the documents." Before the young teen in front of him opened his mouth again, he decided to should ask.. "I got the feeling you're interrogating me?"
'Good that you finally recognized it. That means your sense is not that dull after all' Shinn muttered under his breath. The crimson rubies gazed lazily at the frowning man. "You could say so."
"Huh?" Now Athrun is really confused. 'What information does actually Shinn want from him?'
"I would like to know what are you exactly planning by making us curious considering your whereabouts."
"And why's that?"
"For Kira-san." Athrun deepen his frown but instead of asking, he thought of something else.
"You're a good friend, aren't you Shinn." The emerald eyed man took a sip from his cup. "Is that because.." The blue head was planning to say something else, which is supposed to be a praise for the younger teen, but his sentence was cut by an unexpected fact.
"I love him." Athrun nearly choked and spilled all of his coffee on to his lap, but then he was coughing hard instead.
"What?" The blue haired teen asked the raven haired one in disbelief. He's certain the he Shinn was referring to is the person who he was also thinking about.
"I love him and I'm not letting him go." Shinn said in a hard tone. His ruby eyes glared at the widened emerald ones. "Especially not to a person who left so suddenly, disappeared without a word all these months, breaking his heart, making him down and then suddenly showing himself out of nowhere." That really hit right through him.
"Your mouth is as sharp as ever, isn't it Shinn?"
"I'll take it as a compliment, thank you." The black haired teen sipped his tea. Athrun couldn't help to quirked an eyebrow at his former subordinate. They couldn't continue their conversation as the kids bursted into the room.
"Alex! You said you'll play with us!"
"Yeah, you said so!"
"Hey, isn't his name Athrun?"
"Whichever is fine. More importantly lets play!" The former Justice pilot only smiled awkwardly before he put down his cup and herd the kids out of the room. With this much crowd, even Kira who sleep at the second floor could be awakened.
"I'm serious with what I said just now." The emeralds turned at the younger teen's form, who was picking up their cups and placed them in the basin. "Oh, I gotta do the cleaning." With that he passed the crowds, picking up the abandoned mop and disappeared to the backroom while the blue haired teen was pulled by the kids out of the building.
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"Shit." Athrun cursed under his breath as his hand swam into his pocket, searching for his cell phone. He forgot to call the platinum head. The blue head quickly excused himself from the kids, asking them to wait for a moment. "Yzak is so gonna kill me.." he mumbled as he hit the buttons, then waited the other line to be picked. Just as he thought, what greeted him first was the familiar yell that was going into his ears if he didn't know his former team mate any better.
"Sorry, Yzak. There's things to take care of here." He finally reply when his former ZAFT friend stopped his shoutings and was panting as the result of his train of yells.
"Oh yeah? Just how important is that?"
"As important as my life." The other line sighed at the answer.
"So, when are you going back? Works won't be waiting for you, you know?" His emerald eyes trailed at the clouds on the sky that already turned orange. There's a few "Hello?", "Athrun..?" and "Are you there bastard?" before the blue head finally reply.
"I don't think I'm going back any soon.. Or I might not go back there anymore." Not with his Kira for the cost.
Ohoho, yeah! Yzak is yelling and cursing. XD I think his high pitched angry yell is his trademark. :laugh: Oh, no offense for Yzak lovers. Honestly I love him too (too many bishies to be loved isn't it?) and it's pretty fun writing about him like that :laugh again:
And about Shinn with a mop.. I just can't get that image out of my mind so I put it there :grin: I think that's what happened when someone read too much 'Café Kichijouji de' :shrug:
Shinn is pretty annoying here, isn't he? Well.. he's just an over-protective person for his beloved ones. That's the impression about him I got when I saw the anime. And I found that attitude was pretty cute combined with his stubbornness. XD
And last, don't hesitate to leave your thoughts by hitting the review button, I'll take them whatever and however it is! We could learn when someone pointed out things for us, right?
Thanks for reading, anyway :smile and bow:
Angelics-d