Characters: Kira Yamato
Pairings: None
Not easy
His life is not easy.
Kira Yamato is a Coordinator.
His life is not bad.
With his mother and father he is living in a neutral colony. He has a few friends, a good education; lessons with his friends and a professor that buries him in work.
His life is good.
His parents love him and he loves them and their relationship is admirable for a teenager his age. Joking together, learning together, helping each other, teasing and having fun with his friends are daily happenings. Studying advanced programming and simulation is something he enjoys and things only get awkward occasionally when the professor gives him work he needs done and only Kira has to do because of his genetic status.
Despite it there is only one person he would call his best friend, even now. Kira misses him.
He takes Tori with him everywhere, cares for the little creation greatly and hardly a day passes when he doesn't wonder how Athrun is. In his home he has pictures form when he was still living on the moon. From before Athrun had to move. He sees them every day, just like Tori.
He misses his best friend.
There are days he wonders if he is ever going to see him again and regret that they hadn't managed to stay in contact draws at him.
Kira doesn't like those days.
He much rather likes to watch Tori when he thinks of Athrun. It distracts him and reminds him of more happy memories.
He still misses Athrun.
And wonders if Athrun misses him, too.