Torii ~Athrun Zala hen~
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Athrun: Ahh..Really! Not there! What are you doing, Kira? As I was checking the next step I looked at what Kira was doing, and he was doing something weird again. I told you that 280E should be connected to 529G didn't I? Here! Look at the schematic carefully! I keep explaining this, why does he keep making mistakes. I'm the one that wants to keep sighing.
Kira: I don't understand this.
Athrun: Without even trying to look at the screen, he says this. It's not that you don't understand this, isn't it? Kira, you're to bright for that and just don't want to do it. Really, you're always like this. So why are you getting annoyed and glaring at me? You're in no position to be doing that. Weren't you the one that said "help me". Moreover, why is it, and whose fault is it, that we're in this situation? Hurry and fix that and the left side is done.
Kira: 'K.
Athrun: Even without him making such an unwilling face, I know how much Kira hate MIcro Unit work like this. That's why when we get assignments, and later on too, I often ask "Are you alright? You're doing it?". And then he answers "I'm fine, I'm doing it.". Well, it's not as if I don't know Kira enough to just belive that. I understand. I have a ba~d feeling though.
--*flashback*--
Athrun: You didn't do it...? You haven't done anything at all?
Kira: yeah...
Athrun: Really...! What the heck are you doing!?
Kira: Well, like I said, I didn't do anything...
Athrun: Don't give me such a weird answer.
Kira: Sorry...
--* end flashback*--
Athrun: I knew it...*sigh* Well, it's fine. I really didn't think he actually wouldn't do anything at all. I mean, it's an assignment. Normally you do it, even a little. After all, if your given two weeks time, then it should take that much time to do. I doubt that the teacher, who said three more days, thought he hadn't done anything at all either. But, why is it that Kira has this much of a problem when it comes to assignments he hates? He can do things he likes so quickly, and he has great intuition. In short he's a selfish, lazy, spoiled, troublesome person.
Kira: I bet you're a person who could write on rice, Athrun.
Athrun: Huh? What? A soon as I think he's quietly, seriously doing it, suddenly he say something like this again.
Kira: You don't know what rice is? It's used in making food...
Athrun: Is he making fun of me? No, I know what rice is, I eat it. So do what on rice?
Kira: Write.
Athrun: ...?
Kira: Write ledgibly even though it's so small. They say there's people like that.
Athrun: Where the heck did this come from?! Right now it's circuits not rice! Don't stop working! Kira...I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Kira: I was just thinking that if you tried to do it you'd be able to. Write on rice.
Athrun: Why?
Kira: Heh? I just think so.
Athrun: Is there any point to doing it?
Kira: I don't know.
Athrun: *sigh*...Ki~ra... Why does he end up talking about things like this? I get it, I get it. He means I'm good at complex stuff like this. That's because I don't hate it like Kira does and I'm not bad at it, but how does that become "write on rice"? Just say it plainly. Well, that doesn't matter either.
Caridad {Kira's Mom}: Ki~ra~ Athrun-kun too~ Let's eat.
Kira: 'K!
Athrun: Sorry for the trouble.
Kira: Alright! I just finished the left side.
Athrun: Only the left side!
Kira: What's with that?
Athrun: At this pace, it's going to take a long time.
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*In the background the tv is saying something about the political situation.*
Kira: Ah~ I'm hungry!
Caridad: He~re. Carry this.
Kira: Can I change the channel?
Athrun: Carry this?
Caridad: Yeah, thank you.
Athrun: What else, ah, this too?
Caridad: Yeah, Ki~ra~, you come and help too.
Kira: Coming!
Athrun: My family consists of just my Father, who lives in PLANT, and my Mother, who's a researcher for the Government's Department of Agriculture, and me. Since Mother is very busy, there are many times where I come home and no one's there. At times like that, I often come to Kira's house and eat dinner with them and sleep over. Really, I can make food for myself, and take care of myself, but our Mothers are good friends and have been since we were little. Kira's mother is a bright, fun, lighthearted person. She's quite different from my Mother, though she's the same in that she's scary if you make her mad. Well, that's just because I've seen her mad at Kira alot.
Caridad: Television off!
Kira: Ah! Let me watch~
Caridad: During meals it stays off.
Athrun: There isn't really anything interesting on today is there?
Kira: The Jupiter exploration SASO...
Athrun: You're still watching that?
Kira: Huh? It's interesting!
Athrun: What part?
Caridad: He~y. Ok, Athrun-kun, here you are.
Athrun: Sorry for the trouble... Ah, rolled cabbage!
Caridad: Hahaha~ You said it was so good last time I was happy and made it again~.
Athrun: Uwaa~ Thank you very much! I really was just thinking that I wanted to eat it again!
Caridad: Really, then that's good. And I got alot of cabbage your Mother. Hee hee.
Kira: Thanks for the food.
Athrun: It seems like Mother's research has been devoted to cabbage lately. Thanks for the food. I first met Kira when I started preschool, around age four. Since we've been like this since then, we feel more like brothers than classmates or friends. If you tell him that Kira will just say something like "I'm four months ol~der!" and laugh. What does he mean "I'm older"? With how spaced out and laid back he is. He's selfish and spoiled and it feels like I'm mad at him all year round. But strangly, we never fight, or rather, maybe you could say, because of Kira's personality, it never lasts long. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing...well I guess that's ok.
Caridad: There's plenty here so eat up.
Athrun: Okay.
Caridad: How is Kira's project coming? Do you think you can finish?
Athrun: Uh, well. We'll do it, or rather, we have to do it.
Caridad: Kira you always rely on Athrun-kun in the end, you really need to be more reliable.
Kira: Not always, I'm faster at programming!
Athrun: *giggle* That's true. Though in a very jumbled manner.
Caridad: Wh~at? So it's only fast?
Athrun: That's not really the case, though. It's not jumbled, more...creative. And interesting. I guess Kira has talent in that area. Bodies with grater potential for strength, minds with grater potential for knowledge. Those are the words of the first Coordinator, George Glenn, but that's what we are. People solve various problems through genetic manipulation, And obtain many new possibilities. But Mother tells me all year that that's just people's 'shells' getting enhanced.
Kira: Ah, by the way, Jody said he's moving.
Athrun: Eh?
Kira: He said so yesterday.
Caridad: Oh...?
Athrun: To PLANT?
Kira: Most likely.
Caridad: It seems like there are getting to be alot of people moving.
Kira: This is the third in our class. Hmmm...Is a war really going to start?
Athrun: I wouldn't think so. War...That's something there's been rumors about here and there for a while. It seem like it's going to be dangerous, so more and more people are ending up moving from the Moon. I wonder if PLANT and Earth will actually started a war like people say, though there's been a dispute between PLANT and the sponseor nations for a while. Will our family end up moving? What about Kira's family? Thank you for the meal.
Kira: Thanks for the food.
Caridad: Okay~. If your still not done then do your best!
Kira: 'Kay~
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Kira: When is auntie [[Athrun's mother]] coming home tonight?
Athrun: I think around 10:00.
Kira: So you can stay 'til then, Athrun?
Athrun: Yeah.
Kira: Well then, can we play a game for a bit?
Athrun: Eh? Who's assignment to you think we're doing?
Kira: It's fine, it's fine. Just for a bit. Just one round!
Athrun: If we play it will it will bite me in the butt later, n~o~ wa~y~.
Kira: It's alright, I do it!
Athrun: You'll just lose anyway...
Kira: I'll win today! I found a new cheat!
Athrun: Kira! You were doing something like that instead of your project?!
Kira: Hahaha
Athrun: Not "hahaha"!
Kira: It's fine, it's fine. Okay! Well then, let's go~!
Athrun: Really, there's no point to using cheat to win, is there? The rumors here and there, the broadcast news, it's all gives me nothing but bad feelings. It does bother me a little. But each day, with war not becoming a reality, we simply, like always, went to class, worked on projects, and later played. Our days simply passed like that. Even as more and more seats in class became empty.
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Athrun: Hold on, what did you just say?
Kira: Eh, like I said, a bird.
Athrun: A bird?!
Kira: Yeah. About this small, and can ride in palm of your hand or on a shoulder. And, tilt it's head and make sounds.
Athrun: Don't tell me...fly?
Kira: Of course, it'll fly, it's a bird after all!
Athrun:Not "Of course, it'll fly"! Why would you...Ahh...Kira...are you serious?
Kira: Huh? No good? I think it'd be cute.
Athrun: That would be cute but, do you think you can really build that yourself?
Kira: Hmm...so it would be difficult?
Athrun: Isn't that obvious?! You want it to tilt it's head and make sounds, ride on a shoulder, and fly!
Kira: Yeah.
Athrun: That wouldn't be easy for me! For you, who's not good at Micro Units, can you built that in two weeks?
Kira: Eh...
Athrun: Kira...since this is an assignment, just meeting the basic requirements is fine. Find something simpler.
Kira: Hmmm...
Athrun: Even though the season changed to Spring, our days didn't really change. Kira is still blowing off assignments for building Micro Units. And he keeps blowing me off about this. But why is he suddenly saying something about a bird. I get that it would be cute, and probably fun. But even so, what is he doing suddenly picking something that hard. Something that Kira could manage to do at his current skill would be something like a hamster. Usually you only think of things you can do. Don't rely on me this time.
Kira: Egh...I got it!
Athrun: That's what he says. Soon enough, having only said that, it'll be the same pattern as always. Even doing a hamster, I'll end up having to help him in the end. In any case I should hurry and finish mine so I have time...That's all I was thinking at the time.
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Athrun: It was very soon after that that I heard from Mother that we were moving to PLANT. It seems Father had been telling us to come for a while, but Mother had work, and more than anything else we never though we'd have to evacuate our home. Has the situation gotten that bad? Is a war really going to start? Why is this happening? What's going to happen if it does? I didn't understand, there were many things I didn't understand. But the one thing I did understand was that my, our, lives were going to change. Even though school, and Kira's house and Kira are all there just like they've been, I have to leave them.
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Athrun: Kira.
Kira: Athrun.
Athrun: Pink flower...that's Sakura. As the wind blows the petals fly everywhere, Kira's hair blows on his shoulders. Here. As I say that, I present the small, green, robot-bird riding in the palm of my hands. Kira looks at me, shocked. It can tilt its head and make sounds, ride on your shoulder, and it'll fly.
Torii: Torii~
Athrun: As it moved to Kira's hands he looked more and more surprised. There really won't be a war...between PLANT and Earth. That's right. Humans can't be that stupid. I don't think there's any point in evacuating, but... This is bad. He looks like he's going to cry. Kira does cry alot. You're going to come to PLANT soon too, right Kira? As painful as it was for me on the inside, I smiled a little as I said that. That's right, this isn't that huge of a deal! I don't know what's going to happen about the war, but our lives shouldn't change that much, right? We're just getting separated for a little bit right now, but Kira will come to PLANT soon...so don't make that face. We'll see each other again soon. And then we'll have fun together, just like now.
Torii: Torii~
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Athrun: I didn't yet know our fate of three years from then...
*Anna Ni Issho Datta No Ni starts playing*
Onward to
Kira's Side.