Count to Ten

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed... Only the characters I add and the plot.

Summary: Kira is haunted by the dead. He doesn't know why they are but he has learned to live with it. How will meeting a new girl help his little problem? And why are all his friends still looking for him three years after he disappeared? Kira OOC.

(A/N)- Author's Notes

(Lalala)- Ghost Speaking

-Devine Speaker-

Last Time:

Kira entered the room cautiously. After all he is in Hibiki's territory. Not knowing what kind of experiments were done in this room. Kira didn't want to take his chances. Hibiki slowly turned around and in his hand was a long sword. Both charged at the same time. Will against will... Father against son... The right to live... The final death... The final battle has begun.

Chapter Nineteen: Who really won?

Kira slashed at Hibiki while trying to drive him into a corner. Hibiki jumped over Kira's head and literally disappeared. Kira searched the room fruitlessly.

(Had enough Kira?) Hibiki snickered.

"Come out and fight like a man!" Kira's eyes changed to those of a berserker.

(Temper... Temper... Little Kira.) Hibiki taunted.

Kira jumped to the side just as Hibiki's sword came down on where Kira once was. Kira looked around the room trying to find another weapon. Then he thought of something. He sent out pulses of his spiritual energy to locate the dear Professor.

There above him! Kira jumped out of the way as the sword nearly cut him in two. Kira then moved to the right as Hibiki appeared to his left. Kira kept his senses open as Hibiki disappeared again.

(Trying to sense me huh. We'll see how long you will be able to keep this up.) Hibiki's laughter filled the room.

Then without any warning spiritual energy began to fill the room. Kira was blinded for a minute both physically and mentally. He was searching with his mind along with his eyes. Kira looked around stunned. Everything was now coated with spiritual energy. Kira can no longer see Hibiki unless he appears in a physical form.

Kira rubbed his eyes as he searched the room. Laughter filled the room as Hibiki worked. Hibiki appeared before Kira with a sinister look on his face. Kira took a step back as his eyes changed back to normal. Kira could feel his fear start to raise at this point.

Kira jumped out of the way as a bookcase nearly landed on him. Hibiki started throwing sharp objects at Kira. Some hitting there mark. Others embedding themselves into a wall. Kira kept dodging while only using his ears to hear where it was coming from. Kira caught a dagger as it flew by and threw it back at Hibiki.

Kira was successful as he heard Hibiki howl in pain. Finally the spiritual energy left the room and Kira could sense where the dear Professor was hiding.

"I managed to hurt you f-a-t-h-e-r." Kira hissed out the father part.

(Is that all you can do Kira? Lets see you dodge this!) Hibiki yelled and then had a second thought.

(Better yet I want to see you dance. Would you like that son?) Hibiki pressed a button and the wall on the far right began to slide up.

"Don't call me son. You were never a father to me." Kira hissed as he was soon surrounded.

Glancing around Kira became horrified. Zombies... dozens of them. Kira then paled as he saw the one person he never wanted to see ever again. Rau Le Crueset in the fresh or so to speak. Now he is an empty shell because Kira had just destroyed his spirit.

(Do you like my projects? How about these?) Hibiki suddenly stood before Kira with some zombies behind him.

Kira gasped as he recognized them... Flay, Tolle, Nicol, Mu, Tom, Bailee, Tai, and Doctor Youngling. Each nearly unrecognizable because of the burns, dirt or blood that covered there bodies. Each had such a horrible death. Kira fell to his knees as he gazed at his friends. Despair filled him as tears slid down his cheeks.

Hibiki's smile grew as he watched Kira fall. He knew that this would stop the young man before him. Kira grew up with a kind heart even though he was surrounded by hatred. Hibiki knew that he had won without having to hurt or barely hurt the body he was going to take over.

As Kira sat there staring at the bodies of his friends Hibiki walked over to a large machine. He pressed a few buttons and turned a few dials. He smiled as he turned back to Kira with two electric pads like the ones doctors use to restart a heart.

(Giving up so easily Kira? And to think I thought you would have put up a fight...) Hibiki laughed at Kira as he started over to the young man with an evil gleam in his eyes.

With Athrun.

"I'm sorry Jasmine..." Athrun whispered as he tried to protect her body.

-Right now is not the time to feel sorry for yourself Zala.- Yzak grunted as he plunged a sword into another ghost.

They had barely made it out of the room before they were attacked again. This time zombies joined the fight. Athrun grunted back as Lacus held onto Jasmine's dying body. Lacus rarely ever fought and it was up to her to protect Jasmine. Yzak was just starting to lose strength because of the energy he fed Jasmine to keep her alive. Even angels have limits.

"Do you have a plan?" Athrun growled.

-Well no...- Yzak replied as he ducked as a zombie tried to punch him.

"Lacus can you see if Jasmine has another gun? Mine ran out of bullets and I didn't bring anymore rounds." Athrun shouted over his shoulder.

-I'll see what she has.- Lacus muttered as she began to search Jasmine.

-Found two.- Lacus threw the two guns at the two fighters.

"Thanks." Athrun managed to get out before jumping backwards.

-Where are they all coming from?- Yzak growled as he destroyed another ghost.

"Seems Professor Hibiki has been busy." Athrun leaped over a zombies head.

-Seems so...- Lacus said as she dodged a zombie that had managed to get by Athrun and Yzak.

Then all the zombies seemed to just stop. All the ghosts smiled and began to disappear. As the ghosts disappeared all the zombies dropped to the ground where they stopped moving completely. Both groups looked at each other before looking up at the next level up and smiled. It seemed Kira won.

With Kira a few minutes ago.

Kira leaped up and shot Professor Hibiki in the stomach and then set him on fire but not before Hibiki touched him with one of the pads. Kira screams were drowned out by the screams of Hibiki. Kira dropped to the ground. The ghosts in the room crowded around the dying young man before each smiled and disappeared... There eyes sad.

His friends bodies each had a tear in his or her eye as they disappeared forever. Kira woke up just enough to watch each and everyone of the zombies collapse except for two. Rau Le Crueset had a smile on his face and... Hibiki stood up in his body. Kira stood up and faced them.

"It didn't work as well as we had hoped. We wanted stronger bodies but it seemed the devil doesn't want to receive our souls yet." Rau Le Crueset smirked.

"Don't get used to your bodies." Kira grumbled as he leaned against a nearby table.

"You can barely stand child." Hibiki smiled.

"I will never give up." Kira swore under his breath as he nearly fell to his knees.

Then at the same time Kira shot two bullets before five flew his way. Death flashed before his eyes as he watched each of his bullets plant themselves into his enemies skulls. He heard screams coming from both men. Then extreme pain filled his being.

Gasps could be heard coming from behind him. Kira half turned to see Athrun in the doorway with Yzak and Lacus just behind him holding Jasmine. Kira collapsed into a blissful darkness.

The End
A/N There will be an epilogue. I hope you all like this ending. Kira could be alive or he could be dead. I'm sorry its so short. I had unfortunately developed a major case of writers block. But as you can see its gone. In fact I've been writing for my other stories all week but I was listening to this one song that got me into the mood for writing this chapter. Its almost done everyone. One chapter left.

As you can see Rau Le Crueset came back in this chapter. Wasn't exactly planned that way. Oh well. I hope you like this chapter... I may go back through this story and rewrite it at a later time. While I love this story I think it could have been better. Let me know what you think. Ciao for now.

Karone

PS: I know that when Rau and Ulen went back into there bodies that it was a bit much but I wanted Kira to be close to death or dead. A small electric shock wouldn't be a fitting end for Kira. Just so you know.