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Pillow Talk	By : tenohikari Category: Gundam (all others) > General Views: 5703 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: Pillow Talk (Chapter 4)
Author: Tenohikari
Fandom: Gundam Seed Destiny
Pairing: Kira/Shinn (um... yay for non-existent pairings)
Rating: PG-13/R
Warning: A little AU-ish but there are spoilers for the series thus far and shounen ai/yaoi themed if you haven't gotten that from that pairing. Also the rating has gone up for this chapter for implied adult situations. Again, if this offends you in any way go BACK now.
More warnings: Sorry for the delay. This chapter was VERY rushed and unbetad, so all errors are my own (I guess it would double as a legal disclaimer, wouldn't it? No? Okay. Legal Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Seed Destiny. Gundammit.)
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Chapter Four

There was a persistent beeping noise in Kira's ears. He couldn�t quite identify it, and he certainly couldn�t make it go away. With considerable effort, the pilot of the Freedom managed to lift his head up a little and cracked one eye open. He winced as the flashing crimson light within the cockpit blinded him momentarily while one of his hands groped at the control panel to make the unrelenting alarm stop.
When he was able to open his left eye again - for some reason the right eye-lid refused to open - Kira found himself staring at where his hand was splayed on the panel. More importantly on the flickering "EMERGENCY - Nuclear Reactor Cut Off" text and the lever beneath his fingers. Bleakly, he remembered disabling it just when the Impulse had come charging towards him.
"Shinn..." he rasped out, before leaning forward to rest his head back on the panel. No longer caring about the noise and flashing lights, Kira closed his eye and allowed his mind to spiral into darkness.
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One month earlier...

"Kira?"
Kira looked away from the sunset to glance down at the young man who's head was resting in his lap while they were sprawled on the grass. True to his word, he had managed to make time to visit Shinn when he learned that the Minerva had docked at Tarcuius near the Sea of Marmara. It would be a short one day visit, but Kira always looked forward to spending time together with Shinn, whether it be a week or even an hour. A wide smile tugged at his lips as he threaded his hand through the other's dark locks. Though, the brunette noted sadly how those ruby eyes refused to meet his gaze.
"Yes?"
"Are you going back there?"
The hand stilled in Shinn's hair, and the pilot of the Freedom found himself averting his own eyes. Was his lover referring to the Archangel? Was it possible that he found out the truth somehow?
"Where?" Kira asked cautiously when he felt the other's fingers curl around his wrist.
"Orb."
Releasing a breath the older coordinator hadn't known he had been holding; Kira shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know," he answered honestly. "Perhaps someday. After my work is finished and I've completed what I set out to do. Why do you ask?"
Even though he was looking straight up at his boyfriend, the brunette felt as if those ruby eyes were looking right through him. Shinn didn't respond at first, and Kira didn't think he was going to until he felt the soft caress against his cheek. His lips formed a tiny smile of relief as he covered that hand with his own.
"Perhaps someday," Shinn echoed, "I'll go back too."
Leaning forward, the brunette buried his nose into the dark locks of his lover's hair. While reaching around to hold the younger boy to him.
"And I'll be waiting."
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Shinn didn't think it was possible to be elated and pissed off at the same time, but he was. Sitting on one of the recreation room's sofas, he was still grinning over his victor while still frustrated with Athrun. Especially after punching him across the face, his senior officer took off to search the remains of the Freedom for any survivors.
He knew Athrun was just wasting his time. Even if it was possible for the pilot to survive that explosion, there was no way the Captain would allow him to bring an enemy to onboard. Not after the huge fuss she made when he had brought Stellar after discovering that had been the pilot of Gaia.
Now all she was, was a memory. Just like his family.
"Will you stop grinning like that, it�s creeping me out."
The raven-haired boy blinked and looked up to see Lunamaria standing right in front of him an ice pack in hand. How long had she been there? Shinn wasn't sure. As soon as he sat down, he had tuned out everything and everyone around him. The grin quickly melted off his face as he calmly accepted the offered ice pack, placing it over his bruised cheek.
"Thanks," he muttered quietly, wincing as the side of his face began to feel numb before he glanced at other two pilots in the room, "So is he back yet?"
It was almost an hour ago when Athrun had taken off in the ZAKU warrior - with permission from the Captain - to dive beneath the frigid waters. Since then, he hadn't returned or made contact with the Minerva according to Meyrin. Lunamaria sighed quietly before shaking her head, though conflicted with her own feelings on the situation. She had secretly been there when Athrun had been briefly reunited with his former comrades. Listening carefully as he demanded them to return to Orb and stop interfering. If only they had listened to him. Maybe he wouldn't be suffering like this. Almost powerless and unable to do anything.
"No," Rey answered, approaching them to stand by Shinn. "Athrun will return when he realizes that there is nothing left to be saved."
Shinn scowled a little before rising to his feet. "I just can't believe he went out of his way to help an enemy."
Lunamaria held her tongue from pointing out that Shinn had done the same exact thing. She didn't want to have to pick sides among her teammates. It was obvious that both Shinn and Rey no longer respected Athrun as their commander. What had been shocking was to listen to the normally reserved blonde speaking out in front of everyone in the hanger. Putting the veteran pilot on the spot after hitting Shinn for completing his mission. She saw that as much as Athrun wanted to defend himself, when Rey accused him of acting on personal feelings, even though they were completely true.
"It can't be helped," Rey explained, "like it or not, they were comrades once. Athrun is also in FAITH and can freely do as he pleases especially now that he has the Captain's permission."
While clenching the ice pack in his hand, Shinn's garnet eyes narrowed dangerously. "I got my revenge, so it doesn't matter if..."
"Kira isn't your enemy!"
"Kira was never trying to kill you!"

'Kira...'

It just couldn't be possible. Shinn was trying to convince himself that his Kira and Athrun's just couldn't be the same person, and he was stating to fail. Images of their last night together came back to haunt him. When he was suffering from insomnia, and woke his lover to engage in pillow talk until he finally was able to get some sleep.
"I'm sorry."

"Huh? Why are you apologizing...?"

"Shinn?"
Rey and Lunamaria was staring at him oddly for spacing out for suddenly spacing out. He shook his head in an effort to clear it and opened his mouth to finish what he was going to say until he was suddenly cut off when one of the ship's mechanics, Vino Dupre, came rushing into the room.
The young redhead's face was flushed meaning he must have came running from the hanger in record speed. Only needing a couple seconds to recover, the mechanic pointed in the direction from where he came.
"The ZAKU Warrior returned!" he informed them, "and Athrun brought something back with him!"
"Something?"
"I... We think its the cockpit of the Freedom!"
The ice pack from Shinn's clenched hand fell to the floor as the teen stared at Vino in disbelief before rushing towards the hanger.
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'How long has it been since I last saw you?' Shinn wondered to himself as he stared at the sleeping form of his lover. It seemed like years, perhaps only months, but in retrospect he knows it�s only been weeks. Yet even a week is too long, and he knows that something has changed between them. The dark haired boy could feel it.
Whenever Kira looks at him from the corner of his eye, he feels as if the older boy were trying to tell him something. There was a time when he finally had enough with the stares and not so seriously asked his boyfriend if he was trying to communicate to him via telepathy, and let him in on the internal conversation. Laughter followed and normalcy resumed between them for a short time.
However, Shinn didn't feel at ease with the growing distance between them. After their brief meeting at Tarcuius, he became concerned how the brunette was more reserved than usual. Their conversations didn't seem to last that long especially when the topic or the war, or PLANT, or ORB came up. He could understand if Kira's occupation as a war photographer was starting to put a strain on him. Traveling to different countries to take pictures as a spectator, while unable to do anything to ease human suffering. Shinn felt the same frustrations, there was only so much he could do as a the pilot of Impulse after all. However, he just wished that his boyfriend would confide in him a little more. Was that so much to ask for?
He started when a finger teased his lower lip and glance up to see half lidded violet orbs stare deep into his own. Then Kira squeezed his eyes shut suddenly. The younger man tensed as he moved to loom over the chestnut haired coordinator in concern.
"Kira?"
"Shhh..."
"Huh?" Shinn blinked in confusion as an awkward silence past between them. This was unusual, he didn't remember seeing any injuries on his lover during their... previous workout. It made Shinn lightheaded and flushed just thinking about it. Finally curiosity kicked in and he placed a hand on the brunette's shoulder. "Ano, Are you all right?"
"I'm fine," came a simple response as he squeezed his eyes shut even tighter.
"Then what's wrong?"
A small teasing grin suddenly appeared on Kira's face.
"Nothing's wrong, just using my awesome powers of telepathy to summon room service."
Shinn was taken aback and ended up falling out of bed somehow. Sheets were now entangled around his limbs and he tried his best not to tear them apart in attempt to free himself. With a wider smile on his face, Kira leaned over the edge to look at him.
"I have a craving for something sweet," he explained and continued to squeeze his eyes closed in a facade of concentration. "Now what should I order? Hmm..."
Those hungry half closed amethyst eyes then focused on Shinn who promptly squeaked as a solid weight pinned him flat on his back against the floor.
"K-Kira!"
The rest of protest was cut off as warm lips descended down over his mouth, affectively shutting him up.
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Athrun was aware of the murmur of voices around him, along with the armed soldiers that gestured for everyone in the hanger to stand back. He managed to tune the noise out, all except the buzzing of electric saws that continued to cut through the hatch and open the cockpit. It wouldn't be long now, he knew, standing anxiously behind the workers until they finally pulled back.
He stepped forward, mouth suddenly gone dry as Athrun realized he was about to expose his best friend. That and how eerily silent the entire room had become, as his booted feet echoed across the durasteel floor. Swallowing hard, he finally reached the cockpit and with little effort on his part, managed to get it open. What he saw made him forget about the other observers standing within the hanger.
His best friend was leaning forward almost lifelessly against the control panel despite the seat restraints. Athrun called out to his best friend as he broke those restraints and carefully pulled the unmoving body from out of the cockpit. Gently he lowered the wounded pilot to the ground, before kneeling beside him and removing his helmet.
"Kira!"
Once again, there was no response. Rivulets of blood streaked the right side of the brunette's face. Athrun forced himself not to think that the worse had happened when he lowered the zipper of the navy-white flight suit to check the other teen's pulse.
Relief spread across his features before he called out for a stretcher. At least Kira was alive. He would figure out away to free him later, now the most important thing was to make sure his friend...
"What's going on?"
His head shot up as he heard the Impulse pilot�s voice cut through the murmur of the crowd. It wasn't long before the young pilots of the Minerva crew approached, shock and confusion on each of their faces. Automatically, Athrun moved to stand protectively over his best friend. Shinn Asuka almost killed Kira once today, he wouldn't allow the younger Coordinator another chance.
Unknown to everyone, Shinn's brain was going into meltdown. He had practically flew to the hanger in hopes of confirming his doubts were reality. That the person Athrun had brought back was not his Kira and that the pilot would die shortly. For all his churning, roiling hatred for the person who murdered Stellar; everything had been swept away in that single monumental moment he saw Athrun hovering near a body on the floor. His heart constricted as a feeling of dread washed over him. Then his eyes scanned upwards and caught sight of the unconscious person's face.
"You and I are both driven by our goals, and I do believe that we fight for the same reasons, just for different people. Different causes."
He was trembling now, fists clenched tightly and shaking at his sides. Why was this happening to him again? He adjust avenged Stellar's death, only to be the one responsible for nearly killing his own lover? His lover... was that really Kira laying on the floor with blood on his face? Or maybe his eyes were just playing tricks on him?
"I'm sorry."
The wounded pilot of the Freedom Gundam slowly turned his head to the side and drew a ragged breath. Indicating to everyone present that he was still alive. Whatever daze Shinn had been in was shattered as he made the attempt to stand next to his lover. His superior officer quickly rose to stand, block his path. Green eyes narrowed in warning.
"Stay back," Athrun ordered while looking directly at the crimson-eyed coordinator, even though he was referring to the newcomers. Still dumbstruck by the discovery that his Kira and Athrun's were one and the same, Shinn wordlessly obeyed. Though feeling as if someone had pulled the world right out from underneath him.
It wasn't much longer before Minerva's medic crew entered the hanger and rushing towards the injured pilot on the floor. He would have liked to have said something as the lifted Kira onto the stretcher. His jaw open and closed for a long moment, but Shinn found himself incapable of coherent speech. He couldn't even glare back at Athrun! All the garnet-eyed young man could do was gape at the sight of his most precious person suffering from wounds that he had inflicted. And then they were gone before he even had a chance to utter a sound, or even an apology.
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"You�re leaving."
It wasn�t a question. Just a simple statement of the obvious as Kira pulled on his clothes as quietly as possible. He had wanted to go before his lover had awakened, if anything but to avoid confrontation and awkward goodbyes. Unfortunately for him, he had been caught in the act by his own yellow and green mechanical bird that chirped its own name while circling above his head.
The brunette could hear his lover shift slightly in bed and as much as he tried to resist, found himself looking over his shoulder for one quick look. Shinn who had been lying on his side, sat up slowly. The movement caused the bed sheets to fall from his body the pale expanse of the younger boy�s torso.
Kira felt his mouth go dry all of a sudden, and tried to look away with no avail. Already he could feel his face heat up with an angry blush. He so desperately wanted to shirk off his clothing, climb back in bed, and continue what they had started a couple hours ago. No, he couldn�t turn back, not now. The violet eyed young man knew if he did that, he wouldn�t have any willpower to leave again.
"Kira, when will I see you again?"
A question this time� but Shinn's tone made his name into a plea and an accusation rolled up into one. The older teen was finally able to tear his gaze away, fully aware that he was almost shaking now. Common sense was telling him leave and not to look back. His heart, which was beating heavily in his chest, wanted to stay despite how much he was needed back at the Archangel.
"I don't know," he admitted soberly.
It was odd though, how they suddenly filled the emptiness in one another's lives. Ironic, how they met the same place where Shinn had lost everything. He had only known the boy for a little more than a week, and yet it felt like they knew one another their entire lives. Those ruby eyes had bewitched him somehow. He had to leave before they had a chance to do it again�
The older coordinator stiffened suddenly as he felt a pair of slender arms encircle his waist. He could feel the shorter male lean against him, breathing gently against his ear. A shiver ran down his spine and it took sheer willpower alone not to turn around. No matter how badly Shinn teased him back with the trailing kisses along his throat.
Another shiver and Kira lost his grip on his overnight bag. Maybe�, perhaps maybe one more day� he could try and make Captain Ramius and the others understand � and NO! He promised he would return to the ship today. Who knows when they were needed in this war torn world.
Silently taking in a deep breath, he turned around to face the barely covered raven-haired boy and smiled. Shinn had to stifle a giggle though when his lover used the opportunity to lean forward and kiss his nose. Oh already he felt giddy� something he hadn�t experienced in a long time.
"Come with me."
The claimed photographer blinked, staring back at his boyfriend quizzically. "what?"
"Come with me," Shinn insisted while grasping the other's hands. "On the Mineva, you could do your work along with us and..."
"I'm sorry."
Kira gently extracted himself from the other's hold, averting his eyes so he wouldn't have to see the disappointment on the young mobile suit pilot's face. He reached down and picked up his luggage before turning towards the door. His hand paused the doorknob though and finally the urge to look back took over.
"I'm sorry," he repeated softly, "As much as I want to... work alongside you, it would be impossible right now. We'll meet again though, I'm sure of it."
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The pilot of the Freedom awoke with a groan. Artificial light cut into his eyes like a knife the minute he�d opened them and the headache he�d had upon waking intensified. His whole body hurt, his head and arm especially. He confusedly looked around his room, wondering how he got into his bed.
Odd, this place didn't look at all like his room. It almost resembled an infirmary onboard the Archangel. Yet why were the medical staff looking at him oddly? He attempted to sit up, an action the young man immediately regretted as pain lanced down his back and shoulder. He tried to balance himself with his bandaged arms, but why were they handcuffed before him?
"Kira!"
That voice...

Slowly he turned his attention towards the ZAFT soldier standing besides his stretcher and realization struck him like another blow to the head. If he was bound like some prisoner and with Athrun , then there was probably no doubt that he was onboard Minerva. The very same ship that had been given the order to sink the Archangel!
Adrenalin - nature's pain killer - quickly shot through his worn body as he tried to get out of the bed and on his feet. He couldn't be here! Not when the Archangel was most likely still in danger. His best friend was talking to him again, most likely advising him to rest. However Athrun's pleas fell on deaf ears and Kira felt himself being pushed back forcefully until he was lying down again.
"Let go!" he rasped, struggling feebly under Athrun's grip. "T-They need me!"
He could hear the sound of more voices yelling in the room as he struggled to get free. Someone yelled in surprise and pain in the room, but it wasn't him. Or was it? His wrists were hurting like hell as they were now no longer bound to one another. He was forced back again, pinned in place by Athrun as a man in a white coat - whom he could only assume was a doctor.
"Calm down, Kira!"
Athrun's voice broke through the haze. Just before Kira stiffened and shifted his attention to the syringe pierced through his skin, injecting him with something that almost immediately killed anymore resistance. He slumped back down on the bed, head resting against the pillows. Yet before the darkness could claim him yet again, Kira managed turn his head to the side and find the nearest exit.
It was blocked by another ZAFT soldier in red uniform with matching eyes. 'Why!' they seemed to plead urgently at him. 'Why didn�t you tell me!'

Kira's tongue felt comatose and useless, and he said nothing.
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Author's Notes: Again� rushed chapter despite the two-three week delay. Amaya, you�re probably going to have a field day with this beta-ing this (and the uncut version of chapter 2, whill I�ll be sending you very soon) . :Winces: I didn�t even have time to double check it. Need to finish Psychology paper � need to finish psychology paper �
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