Kira x Murrue fanfic - Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam SEED or Gundam SEED Destiny, so please point that damned lawsuit cannon at someone else!

Author's note (1): The Chosen Path by MapleRose is highly similar to how my fic starts off, however, my fic is in no way a copy, nor is it meant to be one.

Author's note (2): Also, I suppose that this fic can be considered an A/U continuation of Destiny, since, I changed the story so that Neo Roanoke's DNA does not match that of Mu La Flaga.

In the Archangel's infirmary, Athrun was still unconscious, while Kira had regained consciousness only twenty minutes ago. Unknown to everyone, the pilot of the Destiny Gundam was about to regain consciousness as well.

"W-where am I?" Shinn Asuka groaned as his eyes slowly fluttered open. He looked around, quickly realizing that he was restrained and was in an infirmary. He assumed that he was onboard the Minerva, at least until he noticed her.

Shinn ground his teeth in nearly unchecked rage as Cagalli Yula Athha walked into the room. He watched as she walked past where he was restrained, only to stop beside a nearby bed. Shinn couldn't hear what the young blonde was saying, and he honestly didn't care. He just wanted to know where he was.

Shinn watched as the occupant of the other bed slowly sat up. It was a young man, about his age, with brown hair and purple eyes. Shinn assumed that this young man was Cagalli's brother, mostly because of how similar they looked.

Shinn watched, with only slight interest, as the young man's eyes suddenly widened and he yelled. "What?!"

Cagalli raised her voice as well, saying. "You heard me, Kira." Shinn took a moment to run that name through his mind. For some reason, it sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.

Cagalli then took Kira's hand and began dragging him towards the door. As they walked by Shinn, he raised his voice slightly and while still trying to sound polite, since he knew that being rude wouldn't get answers to any of his questions, he asked. "Hey, where am I?"

Kira and Cagalli both stopped and turned to look at Shinn, then after a few seconds Cagalli replied. "You're on the Archangel, you were injured in the last battle. Your comrades in ZAFT didn't bother to recover your Gundam, even though there was still a chance that you were alive. So we rescued you ourselves." It wasn't exactly the truth, but it wasn't really a lie either. After the last battle, the ZAFT forces hadn't bothered to send out any search parties to look for survivors, nor had they tried to contact the Archangel, or Orb to ask if they had recovered any of their pilots.

Shinn nodded in understanding, letting out a slight sigh as Cagalli and Kira walked out of the infirmary. He lay there for a few minutes, wondering if Cagalli was really telling him the truth, or if he was actually their prisoner.

Meanwhile onboard the Minerva, Lunamaria Hawke was nearly panicking. Captain Gladys hadn't bothered to send out a search party to look for Shinn and the Destiny Gundam.

Luna couldn't care less about the Destiny Gundam, but she cared a great deal for Shinn and she knew that with each minute that passed, there was less of a chance of finding him alive. She knew that by now Shinn was either dead, or had been captured. Luna suspected that he had been captured, in which case there was a chance that he was still alive.

'To hell with the consequences. If Shinn is alive, I'll deal with being labeled as a traitor. It will be a relatively small price to pay if I discover that he is alive.' Luna thought as she walked into the hanger and looked around, she sighed in relief when she saw that only three technicians were there, that would make her plan easier to execute.

Sure, she could take the Impulse, but that would require hacking the Minerva's computer, which was something that she didn't have the time for. Instead, she ran over to the Legend Gundam. She found that luck was on her side; the cockpit was wide open and the zip line was extended. Luna quickly grabbed the zip line and let it lift her to the cockpit.

As soon as Luna had activated the Legend, alarms began to blare throughout the ship. Not wanting to take and chances, Luna activated the Phase Shift Armor the instant that the Legend had come online.

Before Talia could ask what was going on, one of the technicians appeared on the screen and yelled. "The Legend has been activated, it-" The man was interrupted when the Legend raised its beam rifle and fired, the green lance energy instantly destroying the hanger doors. Then before anyone could do anything else, the Legend activated its thrusters and flew out of the Minerva.

Kira had protested fiercely as Cagalli had all but dragged him out of the Archangel's infirmary, but now he just sighed and shook his head in defeat as he said. "Cagalli, I don't want to talk about…"

He was quickly interrupted. "Listen to your older sister! You're going to talk about this whether you want to or not!" Cagalli chastised, glaring at Kira as he nodded.

A few minutes later, Murrue landed the Freedom's Destiny Gundam in the Archangel's hanger bay. After shutting the Gundam down, she opened the cockpit hatch, lowered herself on the zip line, and headed into the pilots' locker room.

Murrue was very surprised when she walked into the locker room and found that Kira and Cagalli were both in the locker room, sitting on the bench in the middle of the room, seemingly waiting for her. Murrue quickly changed out of her pilot suit and walked over to the twins, sitting between the two.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity, Cagalli spoke up. "Captain Ramius, there are rumors that you and Kira have been in an intimate relationship, all I want to know is whether these rumors are true or not."

Murrue looked at Cagalli, a shocked look on her face, as she replied. "Cagalli, before you start to believe rumors, let me remind you that there is a ten year age difference between Kira and myself, it would never work out."

Cagalli looked at Murrue for a few seconds before nodding. "That's true, however many crewmember have told me that they have seen the two of you together a lot lately." Cagalli paused for a moment before she continued. "All of the crewmembers that I asked told me that you two started to spend more time together only a few days after the Freedom was destroyed."

'Shit!' Murrue thought to herself, but she simply laughed the accusation off. "Cagalli, trust me. Even though Kira is the Ultimate Coordinator, I don't think that he would be able to effectively please me if we were in an intimate relationship."

Cagalli giggled slightly as she stood up, walking towards the door. When she reached the doorway, Cagalli turned to Kira and said. "Well, Kira it seems that you were telling the truth after all."

As soon as Cagalli had left, Murrue sighed in relief and wrapped her arms around Kira's waist, and while embracing him, she gently kissed his neck. They both jumped in surprise a few seconds later when the door once again swung open. Cagalli stood in the doorway, staring at them, the look on her face one of complete shock. Once she had recovered from her shock, Cagalli glared at the two, waiting for an explanation.

Finally after a full twenty seconds, Cagalli sighed and said. "I can't believe this, both of you lied to me." Cagalli then shifted her gaze slightly and glared at Kira. "Kira, I told you before I dragged you down here that if you told me the truth, I would have considered not telling Lacus right away, but since you lied to me, I'm going to tell her now."

Less then five minutes later, Cagalli was on the bridge. Not only had she somehow managed to convince Miriallia to open a communications line to the Eternal, but she had also been able to convince her that it was an emergency.

"No, Lacus, this is not a joke. I saw it myself. Kira and Captain Ramius were kissing." Cagalli was about to continue when Murrue grabbed her arm, roughly yanking her away from the console.

"Kill that communications link, now!!!" Murrue ordered, loud enough so that everyone knew she was upset, but not so loud as to be heard through the communications link. Once the communications link had been closed, Murrue turned to face Cagalli, her face red with anger.

After a few short seconds of silence, Kira walked onto the bridge, quickly walking up to Murrue and standing beside her as he glared at Cagalli.