Chapter 3: The approach

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This chapter's plot is continue from Athrun and Cagalli first honeymoon night. I still remembered when I read the previous chapter myself, my face was a bit red lol.

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15th March C.E. 74, 8 am, Athha's manor: Guest wing

Kira Yamato, the new high commander of ZAFT's army or known as the fiancé of the current chairwoman of PLANT, Lacus Clyne. He woke up lazily and found himself on the single bed inside one of the bedrooms in Athha's manor. Because last night the party finished pretty late so he decided to stay here for a few days; not only for joining the ceremony as the brother of the bride but also he would like to go visit his mother at the newly built orphanage cottage near the Onogro beach.

After he finished changing his outfit, he walked out of the bedroom towards the dining hall located on the inner part of the guest wing. He then found his fiancé right on the way; she wore the blue simple dress and let her hair fell down to cover her shoulders. When she saw him walked towards, she did not forget to give him the beautiful smile like she always did. Kira simply smiled back to her and gave her a light kiss on her cheek.

"Good sleep?" he asked while holding her hand

"Yes, Kira. Couldn't get better" she replied while they started walking along the corridor.

"You know, I'm really glad that we could meet all of our friends yesterday. It's been so long since we came down to Orb."

"Because we both always got busy, being the chairwoman is harder than I thought." Lacus said with the smile

Kira understood what was in his fiancé concerns, it's been almost a month since she had been elected to be the new chairwoman, her life has changed a lot with more responsibilities and high expectations from others. But still, as Lacus Clyne she could manage them so well. "But you've already done well, both you and Cagalli." Kira said while holding her hands tighter to comfort "everybody admires you and I'm really proud of you."

"thank you, Kira"

"I think the others might come down already, I'm starving right now" Kira mentioned happily which made Lacus giggled a bit.

The couple then arrived at the dining hall located in the inner part of the mansion; this room was built for private meetings and was isolated from the offices. Kira saw his friend Yzak Joule and Dearka Elsman, his new comrates from ZAFT; also Mu, Murrue and Andy already took their seats. Kira and Lacus took seats next to each other while the breakfasts were served.

"Orb has been changing a lot since the war finished, don't you think?" Dearka mentioned while tooking a sip of coffee.

"I agree" Murrue responded "thanks for our great representative and of course her new admiral, they are given many reputations"

"The boy did a good job, I saw many of teenagers already enrolled for the positions in the army" Mu said with laugh "especially lots of girls who applied for the ensigns."

"Could not resist the great Athrun's charm, huh?" Dearka busted into laugh as well. "Cagalli might torture him if she knew this."

Lacus then looked at Murrue and began talked to her "Murrue-san, could I ask what are you planning to do next since the war was already finished?"

"I was about to tell you guys about this, Mu and me have got the positions from the Orb's army school to be the advisors and the experience captains. We both think it's the good chance to relax from the serious fights. Most of the Archangel crews decided to stay in Orb and did they own dream jobs." She kindly replied "Like Miriallia, she told me she would continue to be the photographer again."

"speaking of her, do you know where she is?" Dearka implied when they mentioned about his girlfriend. "she should have come down already."

"Dearka, you bastard" Yzak said with grin

"Who's talking about me?"

All of them turned their faces to the voice they heard, Miriallia Haw stood at the dining hall's door, as beautiful as ever. Dearka finally smiled to see his girlfriend again.

"Where have you been, love?" he asked "How come it took you so long?"

"At least I didn't get up late like you." She said sticking out her tongue playfully "I just came back from the airport."

"Airport? For what?" Kira asked

"Bringing you a surprise" after she finished speaking, there's one person walked out from behind the door. In front of them was the tall, brown hair teenage guy. He wore simple glasses and dressed in the comfortable shirts and pants. Kira then started standing up and walked towards him.

"Sai, how come you are here?" he asked with confused to the guy and gave him a friendly hug. Everybody of course remembered him, Sai Argyle, the former crewmember of the Archangel. After the first war, Sai took a leave from the Archangel team in order to go abroad studying computer science in Scandinavia for many years. Surely, it was so long for him since last time they have met each other since the first war.

"I have already finished with my study, Kira" Sai answered as they broke the hug "I came back to Orb for the position of system developer. So bad I missed the grand wedding yesterday, my flight was delayed due to bad weathers."

"I'm sure Cagalli would be so glad to see you, same with Athrun" Lacus also mentioned

Sai turned his face towards the pink princess and said kindly "Thanks, I have already sent the congrats to Cagalli, hope she won't too busy reading it."

"It might take her a while man, since now they might get busy with the honeymoon activities. Ouch! " Dearka said playfully, making Miriallia used her elbow bumping him "hey, I spoke the truth. Anyway, I feel so jealous for them right now, lying on the sandy beach…".

"Honeymoon?, oh! What do I miss?" Sai mentioned

"Ara Ara, at least the world gives them their moment guys, after being parted from each other for so long." The pink princess said while leaning her head on Kira's shoulder as he smiled back to her.

9.30 a.m. In the island on Indian Ocean

Athrun slowly woke up from his sleep. The sunshine outside started to shone passing through the curtains of the bedroom, the curtain flapped slightly with the motion of the sea breeze, making the morning so beautiful like a painting. The brightness of the sky told him that the time was already late.

Gradually, Athrun saw himself holding the very soft body pressed again his body. Cagalli snuggled deeper into his chest for hiding her face from the sunshine. The bangs from the blond hair covered a bit of her face which made her looks like a cute kitten. He used his hand to brushed the bangs that covered her eye looking how peaceful his wife slept. He used his arm wrapping around her hip and use another hand to gently touch her cheek.

The feeling was so different compared to the moment he found Meer sleep on the same bed with his, he was in terrible shocked, but for her he felt so calm and indeed very happy at the same time. Athrun really hope he could stop the time at this moment. Their bodies were only covered by the blanket, and he could saw the clothes scattered on the floor. He gently brushed her cheek with his thumb but consequently it made the blond princess started to wake up.

Cagalli woke up slowly and saw a pair of emerald eyes looked at her lovingly. 'Oh my' , she then realized herself that she was now sleeping on the same bed with her lover, and last night they have…. . 'Oh dear, he saw everything, last night… oh Haumea!' she stared to get blushed madly and covered her face and body completely with the blanket.

"Cagalli, what are you doing? Come out please" Athrun asked her playfully. Although he was not the love-teasing type, sometimes he found it was so fun teasing especially to his wife.

"I just want more sleep, you can go taking a shower first." She replied with embarrass.

"If you're not, I'll make you come out huh?" he said "one… two…. Three!"

"Kyahhh! What are you doing!" Cagalli asked with surprised, Athrun was lifting her body up, making her gasped out loud. He placed her to sit on his lap gently. Cagalli's hand still holding the blanket to cover her body, but her back was still left naked. She then put her hand on his bare-chest for support.

"Pervert coordinator" she said with shy and punched his chest

"Only for you, princess" he said while putting his face came closer to her cheek but she used her hand to cover his mouth. She said embarrassingly;

"Enough Enough! You profiter! Last night we did ….well … a lot!"

Athrun laughed a bit and said she was the one made him be like this, he really like this side of him more and more. He finally saw her swollen red lips from their previous activities. Putting his arms around her waist, made Cagalli leaned closer to him.

"I can't believe that we are actually married" said Athrun playfully

"I still remembered the first moment we met. It was totally unforgettable although the start was not so nice." Cagalli answered which made him gave a handsome smile to her.

"What about now?" he asked

Gently, she looked down at his face and started caressing the details by her fingers. She could not remembered how long she missed him, after he was left to PLANT and again when he went up to space with Archangel. She moved her fingers from his forehead, passing his nose, his cheek and lips. The couple looked at each other eyes; they were fulfilled with love and desire. Without control, Cagalli started lowered her head till their forehead were touched and she gently brushed her lips with his. Suddenly, Athrun hovered himself over hers and kissed her with all the passions; made her eyes widen but she gladly returned the kiss. A few minutes later he broke the kiss reluctantly and stared at her.

"Breakfast?" Cagalli asked

"Don't worry, I'll do it. But not now." Athrun replied with husky voice and covered his lips with hers. Cagalli closed her eyes and decided to stop speaking just for now.

'Athrun Zala, you hamster brain'

2 days later, Athha's mansion, the office wings

Ledonir Kisaka, the commander of the Orb forces was clearing his work in his office. He was usually busy but not much like his blond representative which always work with no limit. After finished signing the last paper, he put his pen down and looked at the clock hanged on the wall, it was now already 4 a.m. Because Cagalli and the high admiral were still on their honeymoon since three days ago, he needed to be the one to be on duty for their absence.

"Still working hard as always" Kisaka turned his attention to the elder lady who walked to his desk

"You should go sleep, Miss Myrna. How come you didn't go to bed?" he asked her back. Myrna, the lady who has been taking care of Cagalli and the leader of the maids looked at him.

"I just missed her I think? I know she has already grown up as the beautiful lady and married but I still worried"

"You shouldn't have, Miss Myrna" Kisaka replied "besides, she does not alone; remember we have the best bodyguard to take care of her."

Myrna nodded "Master Athrun, yes indeed"

After Myrna left, Kisaka started packing his stuff and walked out of the room. Not so long, he suddenly heard the very loud explosion noise from outside the mansion. He then hurried went to the window and saw the big gray smoke at the location where the parliament building located. Many of the people inside the mansion started to wake up, the maids were all looking passed through the windows as well looking panic. Kisaka then saw Kira, Lacus and the others ran toward him.

"Kisaka-san, what's going on?" Kira asked with worry

"The parliament, something's going on there" he replied and suddenly he heard his mobile phone rang then picking up hurriedly

"Yes, Tanaka?" he spoke to one of the soldiers

"Explosion, commander, my team arrived already. We'll go inside and check. I hope there are not injured people inside. Ahh, what… really? send the fireman there hurry up!.. sorry sir, one of my team just told me the explosion was occurred inside the server room sir. We will go there fast"

Kisaka felt so stress, the server room in the parliament was the place the important records of the country were kept. Entering the parliament at night was truly impossible, with all the serious security systems inside the buildings. He was hoping that the country's records did not disappear. With the serious thought, he picked up his phone again and started dialing a number.

What the heck is that bomb? We will see later, the story has just begun

And Sai was back! Give him a big applause yeah!

See you soon in next chapter