The Heart Doesn't Lie
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny or any of the characters in this story
that appear on those 2 shows.
Notes to reviewers:
furin-a- Well don't kick to hard, Athrun might get mad if you hurt his Kira. But yes, you're right. I'm glad you like the chapters, you'll probably still wanna kick him after this one too.
kc- animegal- Yep, he's stubborn. I still haven't decided about Shinn yet. I could go with Jet, or I left things open to put him back with Stellar, so I don't know. No angry eyes has been quiet because something is about to happen, like the calm before the storm. Look for that next chapter.
Darkmoon Fleur- Thanks, she had to get things started, those two are taking forever. But it is still going to be a little longer.
M- Thanks, glad you liked the chapter. Don't know why Kira has to be so stubborn, poor Athrun. But then again, as you said, at least Athrun knows Kira's feelings.
XiAoZRayZZ- Don't really know what to say. The story is shounen- ai. Not all the couples are gay couples, and I haven't decided about Shinn yet.
Chapter 20
Kira walked downstairs and found Athrun sleeping on the couch. He walked into the study and pulled out a piece of paper. He scribbled a note to Athrun and folded it up. He walked back into the living room and knelt in front of his sleeping love.
Kira watched Athrun as he slept and could not help but think how beautiful he looked. Kira reached up and lightly brushed the hair off of Athrun's face, trying not to wake him up. Then, before he knew what he was doing, he leaned down a placed a light kiss on Athrun's lips. The other stirred but did not wake up. Kira stood up, placed the note on the coffee table in front of Athrun, and left the house.
X x x
Athrun woke up to a sore back. He had not intended to fall asleep on the couch. He stood up and stretched looking around the room as he did. His eyes fell on a piece of paper in front of him. Athrun reached down and picked up the note.
Athrun,
I did not want to wake you, you were sleeping so peacefully. I have gone out because I have some things I need to do today. I'll see you tonight.
Kira
So Kira planned on avoiding him today too. Athrun walked upstairs and grabbed one of his bags. It contained some of his school books and what he was currently looking for, paper and a pen.
Kira
I wish you would stop avoiding me so that I can clear up this misunderstanding, and yes that is what it is a misunderstanding. Call my cell when you decide you will stop being so stubborn and talk to me.
Athrun
Athrun folded up the note and placed it on Kira's dresser. If Kira would not talk to him maybe he would read that and give him a chance to explain. Athrun went to his other bags and pulled out some clean clothes. He headed to the bathroom for a shower.
X x x
Cagalli sat with Lacus and Milly at Freddie's Saturday afternoon. The three were having lunch and were planning on catching an afternoon movie. After that they planned on going shopping at Lacus' insistence. Cagalli really hated shopping but she figured she owed her friends for being so short with them earlier in the week.
"So what has been going on with you? We haven't talked much this week." Lacus asked Cagalli.
"Same old stuff. Homework, putting up with Kira, who by the way has been acting really weird this week. Ever since he had dinner with Athrun and his mom the other day he has been moody, it's pretty creepy." Cagalli said.
"And I have never seen him so upset about Athrun staying over before." she added.
"Maybe there is something going on between those two." Milly said.
"What do you mean by that?" Cagalli asked.
"Well, maybe they had a fight." Milly answered.
"What? A fight, huh? Maybe. I have never seen him like this before. And I can't remember the last time they fought." Cagalli said.
"Well they have always been really close. So if they did fight it is bound to effect him badly." Milly said.
"It is possible. I noticed Kira seems to be avoiding Athrun the last few days. That would explain why." Lacus said.
"Yeah, I guess. Maybe we should do something to try to help them out." Cagalli asked.
"I don't know. Maybe we should just let them work it out for theirselves." Milly said.
"No, Kira is much too PMS'y for that. I can't stand being around him right now and I have to live with him. Not to mention Athrun is there too. If we let them continue like this my life will be hell." Cagalli said.
"PMS'y huh. Is it that bad?" Lacus asked, trying to hide a laugh at Cagalli's description.
"Yes it is. I said he was moody."
"Alright we'll see what we can do. Wouldn't want Cagalli's life to be hell." Milly said.
X x x
"Did you two have fun last night?" Mia asked her two friends. The three were in Luna's bedroom lying on her bed. Fllay was look though a magazine pointing out good looking guys to the other two every now and then. Luna was trying to decide on a fingernail polish, and Mia was filing her nails.
"It was fun. We went to that new restaurant downtown, and then to a club. Fllay actually got Sting to dance with her. Which surprised Rusty and me, we didn't think he would."
"I have to admit he looked pretty hot out there. The guy knows how to dance." Fllay said.
"So are you going to go out with him again?" Mia asked.
Fllay smiled, "Yeah, but don't tell him. I want to play a little hard to get. Don't want him thinking I like him."
"But you do, don't you?" Luna asked.
"Yeah, I guess so. He's not as bad as I thought. What about Rusty? You seemed pretty into him last night." Fllay said.
Luna blushed. "Yeah, well he's a decent guy when he's not flirting with every girl in the world."
"He seems to really like you. I have seen him at clubs before with a date and he still flirts with other girls there, but I didn't see if flirt with anyone besides you last night."
"I know, I kind of expected him too. I was happy that he didn't though." Luna said.
Fllay looked over at Mia, "Now we just need to find someone for you."
"No thanks, I think I am already starting to like someone." Mia said.
"Really?" Luna said.
"Who?" Fllay asked.
"A certain musician who has been helping me with my song." Mia told them, smiling.
"Nicol" Fllay and Luna said at the same time. Mia nodded.
"He's a nice guy. You two seemed to get along pretty good at the party. I'm sure you will make a good couple." Luna said.
"And you both have music in common." Fllay added.
"Yeah. He's great and really talented. The things he has done to help me with my song has really blown me away. It is going to be a great song thanks to him." Mia said.
"I can't wait to hear it." Luna said and Fllay nodded in agreement.
"You are singing at the anniversary show right?" Fllay asked.
"Yes."
"Hey, I heard that Creusset is going to have some of his students perform parts of those plays they are working on." Luna said.
"What? Are you serious?" Mia asked.
"That's what Rusty said. Oh, your in his class aren't you?"
"Yes, but he hasn't said anything about that to us." Mia answered.
Luna shrugged, "I don't know, that's just what I was told. Rusty is usually right about this kind of stuff."
Mia frowned. She hoped Rusty was wrong this time. She really didn't want to have to act in front of everyone.
X x x
Kira walked around town. He really did not have anything he had to do he just did not want to spend all day with Athrun. He had been so happy when he first heard Athrun would be staying with him, but that was before. Now he just wanted to put some distance between them.
He walked around going into various stores looking for nothing in particular. His mind kept going back to his friend. He thought back to this morning when he had kissed him, his hand going up to his lips at the thought. Athrun's lips had felt so good, so right against his. Even if it had been just a small kiss. He wondered how it would feel to really kiss Athrun. A kiss where he kissed him back. But thinking about that depressed him, because it would never happen.
Kira was so preoccupied with his thoughts that he did not notice the three girls watching him. They watched as he walked around aimlessly, touching his lips.
"Look at him, he is messed up." Cagalli said.
"He does look rather depressed." Lacus said.
"Yeah, he's worse than I thought. We have to do something." Milly added.
The three nodded and walked over to Kira. Kira jumped in surprise as he felt someone grab his hand. He looked over and saw his sister, Lacus, and Milly right next to him.
"Oh, hey. What's going on?" He asked them.
"You tell us, Kira. Why are you so depressed?" Cagalli asked.
Kira looked away from them. "It's nothing. I'm fine."
"No you're not. Don't even try to tell us that. Come on." Cagalli said and pulled him away. Lacus and Milly followed behind the two.
Cagalli pulled them to a nearby park where they could sit away from everyone else and have a private conversation.
"Talk! What's going on with you and Athrun? Why are you avoiding him?" Cagalli asked.
"I'm not."
"Yes you are. We can all see that Kira." Lacus said, calmly. Lacus watched Kira closely and caught the pain in his eyes. Had Athrun done something to hurt Kira? She did not think Athrun would do that. So what was the reason for the pain, unless
"Kira, do you maybe have feelings for Athrun?" Lacus asked. The other three looked at her in shock.
Kira did not know what to say. He did not know if he should tell them or not.
"Kira, it's okay if you do, we are not going to be mad. And it's not like we won't accept you, we didn't have a problem with Yzak and Dearka, did we?" she said.
Kira looked up at her, there was kindness and understanding in her eyes. He looked over to Cagalli and saw the confusion and concern on her face. It matched the look on Milly's face.
"Yeah, I have feelings for him." he said quietly.
"And that's why you are avoiding him?" Cagalli asked.
"He likes somebody else. It hurts okay." Kira said, trying to fight back the tears. He did not want to cry in front of them.
"Oh, I see. I'm sorry Kira. I didn't know." Cagalli said. She reached over and pulled him into a hug.
'That jerk, how dare he hurt my brother.' was the thought going through her head.
X x x
A lone figure walked through the house. The person looked around before going upstairs. Rooms were checked, even though the figure knew the occupants were not at home. The figure walked into the room the appeared to be the teenage boys that lived in this house. Upon seeing a note carefully placed on the dresser, the person picked it up and read over it.
"Maybe I can use this." The figure said to no one and left the room and then the house taking the note.
X x x
Yzak sat on the bleachers watching the game on the field. Their team was winning by one point. That point had not been an easy one for them to get either. The other team was good, Yzak had to give them that. The game had been pretty balanced so far going back and forth between the two goals. There were so many times Yzak was sure the other team was going to score, but they didn't. Their goalie was doing an excellent job of blocking the other teams shots. Normally Jet was the goalie, but he had been sick and had to miss the game, so someone else that Yzak did not know was playing in his place.
"Come on Ref are you even watching the game?" Miguel yelled out beside him. One of the opponents had fouled one of their teams players and the ref did not call it.
"Calm down Miguel. He can't catch everything." Heine told him.
"That was a foul Heine. He didn't miss it when Sting fouled that guy earlier." Miguel said.
"Are you accusing the ref of being bias to the other team? He just missed it Miguel, that happens." Heine said.
"Well, he better not miss another one."
Yzak, who had been watching the exchange between the two, looked back to the field. Rusty had the ball now. He managed to pass the ball off to Sting, who immediately took the shoot and scored the second goal of the game. The crowd went wild, some cheering and some booing. There was only a couple of minutes left before it would be over. If things stayed like this it they would win.
X x x
Athrun sat at Joe's drinking coffee. He was alone since Kira had ditched him and most of his friends were at the soccer game. He usually went and cheered his team on, but today he had not felt up to it. He couldn't get Kira off his mind. Things would be fine if his mother would not have said anything. But she did and then left, leaving him in a terrible mess.
He looked up when the bell on the door chimed announcing that someone had entered the cafe. He hoped Kira would come walking through the door, but it was not him. It was Cagalli. She headed straight for him and looked pretty mad.
"How could you?" she said slamming her hands into the table.
"How could I what?" Athrun asked.
"You hurt Kira."
"I know, but I didn't do it on purpose. It wasn't even really my fault. And now he won't talk to me so I can straighten things out."
"Why should he talk to you? You stomped all over his heart. After he had the courage to tell you how he feels, you rejected him, probably not nicely either."
Athrun looked at her, confused and angry. "That is not what happened. Is that what he told you?"
"He said he has feelings for you but you like someone else. And I could tell he was really hurting, even though he was trying to hide it."
Athrun sighed, "Cagalli you don't know the whole story. I did not reject him. I love him, I have no intentions of rejecting him."
Cagalli sat down. She was very confused now. Maybe she jumped to conclusions. She decided to hear what Athrun had to say.
"Then tell me what happened. Why does he seem to think you rejected him?"
"My mom said some things at dinner the other night about me loving someone. And that that person loves me too. But she never said who the other person was. It was Kira she was talking about, but he seems to have assumed it was someone else and doesn't seem to even consider the possible it could be him. Now he is avoiding me and when I tried to talk to him last night to explain this tho him, he yelled at me and took off to his room." Athrun told her.
"Oh, sorry that I yelled at you. I thought you had rejected him. So you really love him?"
"Yes, but I don't know what to do to get him to listen to me."
"We'll think of something."
"We'll?" Athrun looked at her a little scared.
"Yep, Kira's being stubborn and depressed. You need help. So I am going to help you." Cagalli said, smiling.
"Uh... thanks." Athrun wasn't sure he wanted her help, but he was afraid to turn it down.
X x x
Cagalli entered the house a couple hours later. She had sat at Joe's making plans for him and Kira for the evening. The three of them would be meeting up at a nice restaurant in the area. She would tell Kira that Lacus and Milly were going to meet them somewhere. He would not know that Athrun would be there. Athrun was going to go back to his own house and get ready there.
Kira sat in the living room staring off into space. He had the television going but cagalli could tell he was not watching it.
"Kira we are going out to dinner tonight with Lacus and Milly." she told him as she sat down next to him.
"I don't really want to go."
"Go anyway. They are looking forward to it, you're not going to let them down are you? They are doing this to try to cheer you up, so please go."
Kira sighed, "Okay, I'll go, but only because I don't want to hurt their feelings."
"Good, go change we are going to a nice restaurant." she said and hopped up ending the conversation. She ran upstairs to get ready her self. She had already talked to Lacus and Milly. The four of them would be going together. And hopefully, if things go as planned, Kira would be riding with Athrun on the way home.
X x x
Athrun walked around his room pulling out the clothes he would be wearing tonight. He wasn't sure about Cagalli's plan, but right now that might be all he had. Kira had not called him, so he was still being stubborn.
He heard the familiar song of his cell phone and walked over to his desk to answer it.
"Hello"
"Hey Athrun, I got a message for you from Kira."
"From Kira?"
"Yeah I saw him just a minute ago and he asked me to call you. He would have, but he forgot his phone. Anyway he wants to talk to you, just the two of you. Your suppose to meet him down at that old warehouse on 3rd in one hour."
"Why there?"
"I have no idea, I thought it was pretty strange myself, but that's what he said."
"Okay, thanks."
"No problem, see you later."
"Yeah, bye."
TBC
I left out who Athrun was talking to on the phone on purpose. It would have told information I am saving for next chapter. I will warn everyone now next chapter is not a pretty one, there will be violence and blood. Questions will be answered next couple of chapters.
I have decided to take another vote since I can't decided (which makes me have writer's block and could possible delay the story) Who should Shinn end up with, Stellar or my oc Jet? I know it is my story, but I still like to hear opinions.
