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Chapter Three

Remembrance

Orb

Inside the chopper

Kira climbed up and sat with his back to the opposite side of the chopper.

The pilot looked at him, "Close call Sir, at least our leader will be happy."

Kira looked at him, "No he won't…mission failed."

The pilot and copilot looked at him in shock.

Kira returned to looking at the hotel with his thoughts only on that girl. Kira still could not believe he did not complete his mission. For some reason his mind and heart would not let him pull that trigger. Kira very angrily through his rifle towards the back of the chopper, and placed both his hands on his head, he knew that Zala would not take this lightly.

The pilot and copilot were still in a state of shock, the pilot mainly because he worked with Kira on several missions.

The copilot looked at the pilot, "I thought he never failed sir."

The pilot glared at him, "Something had to go wrong," he told his copilot and then he spoke loud enough for Kira to hear. "Sir, should we return to Carpteneria?"

Kira thoughts were so wrapped up, that he didn't even hear him, and Kira could not take his mind off of Lacus at this point, the target he was supposed to dispose of.

"Why didn't I finish her, she is a threat to the leaders ideals, she will lead the people down the incorrect path, but something about her wasn't what he made her out to be," Kira told himself as the pilot called out for him again.

Kira for a second time didn't hear him, "I couldn't do it, everything about her was different from what I was told, the vibe was peaceful, her skin was soft, and I felt like I could stare at her for hours."

Kira started struggling with what the Patrick was going to do to him, after all Kira owed him his life. Kira remember what he was told.

Eighteen years ago

After Patrick had left the Mendel Colony he returned to the plants intending to raise Kira with his son Athrun who was born just a little before him. Patrick knew his wife would not object since she loved children a lot. Patrick got off of the shuttle after it landed in the plants and give his men a few instructions and headed straight to his home.

When Patrick arrived home he was greeted by his wife Lenore.

"Welcome home darling…who is this?" Lenore asked as she was holding Athrun.

Patrick looked at her, "I was never able to make it to my meeting, on the way there this young infant's parents were killed by a blue cosmos attack."

Lenore looked at him, "That's terrible."

Patrick knew he could get away with it know.

"He is a first generation coordinator, he had no remaining family so I figured we could give him a home," Patrick said as Lenore walked over to get a closer look at the infant, and when she did Athrun who was in her arms started to react playfully to Kira, both babies started laughing and smiling, and she thought it would be a wonderful idea.

Lenore smiled at the infant, "I think it would be a wonderful idea, just look how Athrun reacts to him, I believe he would love to have a brother." she said as she took both infants into her arms.

Patrick smiled as his plan worked, Patrick knew this child would without a doubt succeed in everything he did, so he had to play his cards just right in order to achieve his goal. It would not look good if anybody found out this was the ultimate coordinator, but he would deal with that when the time came.

In the following days Patrick wasted no time as it was known he took in a child that was left orphaned by a blue cosmos attack, he made sure it was not known about the Mendel colony attack so he set something up that looked reasonable. Patrick knew this would work for awhile, but when Kira matured he knew he would have to make sure he didn't use his full abilities in public. Patrick wanted his true abilities to remain hidden in the shadows.

Kira remembered this as Patrick once told him that his parents were killed by a blue cosmos attack and he was the ultimate coordinator, Kira grew up always feeling indebted to him, not for only saving him, but to giving him a family, Kira never called him father as he always referred to him as sir. Athrun was always like a brother to him, they were close from a young age, Lenore always thought of Kira as her own son, and Kira even felt the same that she was his mother since he never knew his own.

End Flashback

Kira remembered everything that Patrick had once told him, and now he had just failed the man that did gave him a life.

The pilot shouted a little louder, "Sir should we head back?"

Kira gazed over at the pilots direction, "Yes return to Carpentaria, call in ahead of time and have the shuttle ready for my launch, this was my fault and I will personally apologize to the leader." Kira told him.

"Understood sir," the pilot said as they started heading back to Carpentaria, Kira knew that they would not be able to track them from here.

Kira started stripping down his equipment, he took off his assault vest and removed all the hand guns he had, he removed all the clips and placed them his equipment bag in the proper places, and he placed all grenades in a secure place inside the bag as well. Kira removed his black tactical clothes and got back into his ordinary outfit that consisted of his black civilian clothes, (AN: the clothes he wore in destiny) lastly he placed his long coat back on and began disassembling his rifle, it had its own case that was just a little bit longer than a briefcase, his rifle was specially designed to break into multiple parts for certain missions, he could carry everything he needed, and it would only look like he was a tourist, just one small but large bag, that would look like luggage and the larger briefcase. It would not look suspicious at all wherever he went.

Kira finished and sat back down. His thoughts once again returned to what he would have to tell the leader. Kira once again started remembering the past.

Eleven Years ago

Kira and Athrun both ran around the house playing some sort of game with each other, they were both seven years old and were always having fun with each other. Lenore smiled as she watched them play, she loved both of them very much. It amazed her who quickly they were catching on to things, especially Kira, and Kira would always teach whatever he learned to Athrun. Both boys were at the top of their class in everything, but what amazed her was that her would always score a hundred percent in everything. The teachers were amazed, however long it took first rate coordinators to do something Kira was always about five steps ahead.

This made Patrick realize that he had to start masking Kira's abilities. As soon as he returned home that day, he found the two boys separate and had a talk with Kira.

Patrick told Kira that he should no longer do his best in the school's, Kira was at first confused, but Patrick convinced him that it would be for the best in the future, and Kira agreed to it. From that day forward Kira no longer got the perfect marks, his scores still remained high, but they were no longer the best. Patrick was pleased with his results and he was another step closer to his goal.

End Flashback

Carpentaria Zaft Base

Kira was once again deep in thought when the pilot called out to him.

"Sir were here," the pilot said.

Kira woke from his trance and saw that they had arrived.

"What's the status on the shuttle?" Kira asked.

"It is already prepared for us Sir," the pilot replied.

"We will waste no time, we will leave at once," Kira told them as the chopper started to land.

No one in the Zaft base knew exactly what they did that day, and no one but a select few actually knew what Kira was. In reality Kira had no last name, so he used a false one that was on paper in order to keep his presence unknown. To the military the people only knew of Kira as a military engineer, and the chopper was out on a test flight to test the new equipment Kira supposedly made for it.

The chopper landed and the entire crew of three disembarked and got in a car that was waiting to take them to the shuttle.

"How was the flight?" the base commander said as he was in the car.

Kira looked at him, "It still needs a few adjustments, I will work on it more back at the Plants." Kira lied as all got in the jeep and started heading over to the shuttle. Kira did install a new navigation system just to mask what they really did.

The conversation stopped as they reached the shuttle dock. A soldier wanted to grab Kira's bag but Kira immediately snatched it up, no one touched his equipment. Kira and the pilot crew boarded the shuttle and it soon launched heading back into space to return to the Plants.

Kira sat alone like he always did, he watched as the shuttle broke the atmosphere and his mind once again trailed to the past.

Eight years ago

After Kira started purposely dropping his scores, he started to fall out of sight with the teachers and eventually he was almost forgotten as just an ordinary person, but that was what Patrick wanted. Lenore was worried about it, but Patrick made sure she didn't make a big deal out of it.

When Kira and Athrun turned ten, was when they first met Yzak, Dearka, and Nicol. All three of each had a family member on the high council, and each of their parents were helping Patrick with his goals. Patrick's plan was to get all of the boys through school and into a military facility. The others agreed, as if their children could become well known war hero's it would further their positions in both the military and the citizens eyes.

Patrick's goal was to have the four boys form into one unit and they would take the credit for Kira's actions and victories, leaving Kira unknown in the shadows. They started when both Kira and Athrun turned ten; they wanted to get them used to each other. Both Yzak and Dearka were a year older, and Nicol was a year younger.

When they first met it was not very pleasant, Nicol got along with Kira and Athrun, but Yzak and Dearka always believed they were better, Yzak was the leader, while Dearka was always the follower, and he did whatever Yzak did.

The boys started interacting with each other, and since Kira was told not to use his full abilities Yzak and Athrun were always the ones at the top of everything they did together. They started having a little rivalry, but when Yzak started making fun of Kira for always being one of the lowest out of the three he couldn't take it anymore, when they were all wrestling around one day, Yzak was finally able to beat Athrun in a match, his first out of about twenty times. Yzak started talking really bad and Kira didn't like it. That was when Yzak started running his mouth to Kira, Kira easily was able to force him into having a match with him. After the first minute Kira didn't hold back at all especially after Yzak sucker punched him, with a sucker punch, and Kira didn't know what over came him, but the next thing he knew he retaliated and hit Yzak square in the nose, the punch happened so fast all were stunned. Yzak flew back a couple of feet with a shattered nose, but Kira wasn't finished with him, he picked him up and did not stop with the hitting. It took Athrun to finally calm Kira down, Yzak laid in a bloody mess on the floor.

It was determined that Yzak had two broken arms, three cracked ribs, and a pun chard lung. It nearly killed him. Patrick was not pleased with what he heard, but he was also glad it showed that Kira had the killer instant he would need in order to fulfill what he wanted. The boys were stunned with what happened and wouldn't go near Kira for almost five years, all but Athrun that was. Kira didn't know what happened that day, all he knew of was something snapped inside of him, and it did scare him, but seeing the look on his leaders face he knew that was what he would do from know on.

End Flashback

Plant

The shuttle finally arrived and docked inside the plants, Kira and the crew woke up after they had dozed off, and Kira knew he would have to soon apologize to his leader. After the shuttle stopped, Kira stood up and grabbed his equipment, he knew by know that the leader would already know of his failure, but him and his crew got off the shuttle and got into the limo that was waiting to take them to the military headquarters, Kira sighed and got in the limo along with his chopper crew. Kira could tell they looked worried but that didn't concern him right know.

The limo door shut and the car started driving towards the headquarters, as Kira looked out the window he remembered the first time he was in a military facility.

Three years ago

After the incident with Yzak the others started feeling different about Patrick's plans. They didn't know that Kira was the ultimate coordinator, but they could tell something was different. Patrick luckily was able to change their minds when he promised the world all of them desired would only be possible if they had Kira. After a while they accepted again, the years passed again, and Patrick made sure all the boys would enter the military, the boys did what they were told and entered, but for Kira Athrun and Nicol, it was because they were convinced it was for the sake of the future, Yzak entered because he wanted to show up Kira, after what Kira did he always vowed to get even and he would somehow do it here, Dearka entered just because his friend Yzak did.

They started military training and Kira once again disobeyed and started scoring the highest in everything, shooting, fighting, even mobile suit piloting, engineering, leadership, explosives, mechanics, weapons development, computer programming, stealth, there wasn't anything he couldn't do. Yzak once again became jealous and when they were assigned to spare with knifes he knew this would be his chance. Yzak hated him and wanted to hurt him badly, as they started sparing Kira was easily able to dodge every attack only making Yzak angrier. The fight ended when Yzak was flipped on his back by Kira and the knife was held to his throat, the look in Kira's eyes almost made him tremble, but Yzak was forced to surrender. Kira accepted it and got up turning his back to Yzak, Yzak smiled and he charged at Kira again with his knife heading straight towards him, Kira didn't know what happened but his senses were able to tell something was behind him. As the others looked on in horror as Yzak charged, Kira easily dodged it and brought his knife up slashing Yzak across the face.

Yzak cried out in pain as he fell to the ground, the wound was deep enough that it would leave a permanent scar. Patrick heard about this and knew he had to get Kira out of there. Kira was taken out of military training by Patrick, Patrick was pleased again by Kira's abilities and decided to have someone special personally train him. In the militaries eyes Kira fell out of the serves, but this was all part of Patrick's plan, now he had everything in place, he would set it up so Kira would have a civilian job on military equipment on paper, but his real job was to work in the shadows. Patrick couldn't be more pleased. The mans name that took over training for Kira was Rau Le Creuset, and in no time Kira was even surpassing his own abilities, there was nothing that stopped him.

Two years ago

Yzak still never got over it, but he and the other four graduated and were immediately assigned to a elite unit with Athrun in charge, much to Yzak's disgusted.

Kira however was given his first mission and that was to take out a blue cosmos attack that was planned for a Zaft leader on earth. Kira did as he was informed and traveled down to earth with the newly appointed Zala squad lead by Athrun. The Zala squad was set up to make it look like this was their victory making their parents look good. All knew they were just a front for Kira, and Yzak didn't like it. They did see some action, but they would never do the most important parts.

Kira started his mission and in no time had it completed, Kira made his first shot with a desert eagle, it was a gun that would make his first kill. Kira decided to save that weapon and he kept it on his wall in his newly given mansion. Kira was always kept happy by Patrick. Kira kept that gun like he did if it was his a precious jewel he would always make sure it was shined and neat, it was because of that gun he was alive, he never used it again after that, but he felt as if it was the catalyst to start the new world his leader wanted.

The mission became public and the Zala squad was given full credit, they were praised and rewarded, Kira was not known by anyone, but that was his role. The members of the Zala squad did take out a few enemy units but they were only there to make sure Kira had an escape route, they didn't like it but that was what Patrick wanted.

After that missions kept coming, and the ones that they could make public the Zala unit always got the credit for. The missions that were for Patrick's benefit were never known to Zaft leaders and were made to look like radical groups committed them.

End Flashback

Military Headquarters

The limo arrived at the headquarters and Kira got out as his crew remained, Kira was met by Rau.

"I see your back," Rau said.

Kira looked at him, "He is not too happy, is he?"

Rau smiled, "I don't know what happened, he is upset so head I will escort you."

"Yes sir," Kira replied as they started walking in.

Kira and Rau kept walking heading for the doors of Patrick's office, the staff looked at Kira as someone they just saw every now and then.

Kira's thoughts went to the day he got his mission.

One week ago

Kira arrived in the office and saluted Patrick.

"You called for me sir," Kira said.

Patrick looked at him, "Yes…in a week you will head down to Orb, the chairman and his daughter are supposed to try a peace talk that would only threaten our world, from what I gather she will betray us, this comes from a reliable source."

Kira got interested in the conversation.

"The problem is Lacus Clyne, her ways will only make her father better in the eyes of our people, and the naturals will use this as a chance to strike at us, she can not be allowed to succeed in this plot, she is a traitor and she must be eliminated."

Kira looked at him seriously.

Patrick smiled, "Go to Orb and get rid of her, Le Crueset has the plans of were she is staying, go and finish her before she threatens the peace of my world."

Kira smiled, "Yes sir, consider it done."

Patrick smiled again, "Dismissed."

Kira saluted and left the room, Patrick was happy as he knew it would get done. Later Kira got all the details from Rau and when the time came left for his mission.

End Flashback

Rau lead Kira up to the doors and opened them, Kira walked in and saw a really angry but and disappointed face on Patrick's face, Kira walked in and saluted him.

Patrick stared at him, "What happened?"

"I failed sir," Kira said.

"I know you failed! Why did you not complete your mission?" Patrick shouted.

Kira looked at him, "Forgive me sir, she did not seem that evil, I got a feeling you got bad information about her, she would not do anything evil."

Patrick stood and slammed his hands on the desk, "You insolent fool, you question me after all I did for you," Patrick got up and punched him square in the face making Kira not even move.

Kira looked at him again, "I do not question you sir, but she wouldn't harm anybody."

Patrick couldn't believe what he was hearing; Patrick still needed Kira so he started backing down.

"Well from what I gather the speech was called off, so I suppose your mission wasn't a complete failure," Patrick said as he returned to his desk.

Kira looked at him, "I serve you sir, and I will do anything to make sure your world becomes reality, but she is not what you were told sir, she is not a traitor and whoever gave you that information must be the traitor." Kira said as Patrick told him he received the information about her.

Patrick could see this girl had an effect on him so he started playing down a little bit.

"I will look into the matters, but that speech would have brought us trouble," Patrick said.

"I think that maybe she is being used sir, perhaps even the chairman isn't telling her everything, I believe she could be useful in the future to your goals" Kira said as he was trying for some reason to talk his leader out of trying to kill that girl, that was something he could not see happen.

"No matter she didn't make the speech and that is all that matters, you are dismissed until I call upon you again, but from now on you do as your told no matter the circumstances, I will not take another failure," Patrick told him, as he knew Kira was trying to get stop him from killing her, and for know he really needed Kira so he would let her go for now.

Kira saluted, "I understand sir," Kira said as he left.

After that Rau entered the room.

"I heard everything sir, what is your take on it," Rau said.

Patrick looked at him, "Clyne's daughter has to go, but for now leave her alone, and he still has his uses to me so just ignore it."

"The election is coming us sir, and I think I found a way for you to get elected." Rau said.

Patrick looked at him, "You have the intelligence on the area."

Rau looked at him, "That is correct sir and it is as you feared, blue cosmos has there hands on Nuclear capabilities."

Patrick looked at him in horror.

To be continued…

(AN): I hope you liked this chapter, I have all the past stuff out of the way, the story will continue next chapter. I don't know when it will be up as I am finishing my other story before I return to this one. Bye for now.