Ookay, we're nearing the end of Art of Love… and I just wanna thank all of you for supporting this from the beginning up to the end.

A lot of you guys loved the previous chapter, others didn't expect it to be that way… you know the making love and stuff. But then again, hey, I wanted them to do that cause they we're practically craving for each other for so long now anyway. Haha They deserved it. Plus, the fact that they were so caught up with the moment of them making out… ;

Also, everybody wanted a Kill Kira chapter… but I decided to re-do it since well, Athrun is in a good mood to kill anyone. (Score one for Dearka's prediction) But I hope you still like what I did to replace the 'killing' scene.

Cagalliyulathha: I'm sorry I had to redo the kill Kira chapter and others while at it. I figured, Athrun's in a too good mood to have his hands tainted by blood. Sorry, I hope you also like what I did to replace that said scene. Enjoy. And thank you!

3fi-pina3: yay! You liked the chapter? Hooray for me! I hope you like this one too.

Hades.Throne.Heiress: hmm. I'm doing some thinking about the lemon side story you suggested. I want to do it and at the same time don't because I haven't written any lemon in my life, ever! I just thought, if I did it, I might just suck at it. Oh, And I didn't do seppuku! Heehee I hope you enjoy this chapter too!

Kagally: Thank you, I'm so glad everyone like the perv. Chapter. Wah! So happy. Kira is too dense or perhaps just denying the fact that he knows something is going on between the two. heehee

Cari-Akira: haha. That was fun; I wasn't expecting people to get surprised with what kind of fluff I was talking about. Heehee. A higher level fluff I guess. Kinky-like opening eh? I had fun doing that… and then BAM, it's not really what you think it is. I kinda explained in the chapter about them doing it just after officially becoming a couple. Just to clear it being fast and all. Athrun is a natural pervert. Haha! 00

Pendragon: I got ya there too didn't I?! The kinky-like opening but not really! I had fun doing that, more fun than the 'deed' part. This chapter will slightly talk about how fast they had become in this relationship and what the couple thinks about it. ; More choco pops! I'm not sick anymore! Yay! Athrun is 100 pervert –evidence is the morning after and the bath scene. Haha!

Mau-chan: yown! You also read Fall. Wow! Happy. Thanks, I love you too! Heehee! I'm glad you loved the story, and even made you gush about it. That's really something, it made me soo happy.

'sParc.gAL': Thank you. Well now, I am trying to update as quickly as possible so you won't have to wait for a month or some anymore. Plus, the story is coming to an end, do read on to find out. Thanks!

Simply-v-: brrr… criticism.. pant, pant. Need air. Haha! Don't worry, I digest criticism too. Yep, you're right, Cagalli reacted weirdly. Hmm, on my part, Cagalli is just getting used to having Athrun around as in, BF and seeing your birthday suit and so on and so forth, so she was a little shy showing off her body to him other than in bed and you know what. Heehee. And don't worry, this one doesn't have any over protective bro scene, I don't want to linger too much around it. For now, I want to focus the new relationship that has opened between Athrun and Cagalli. Hope I explained myself there.

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Recap:

"I'm just going to take a shower." She smiled.

Athrun followed her.

"What are you doing?" Cagalli frowned. "I haven't taken a shower yet too." He grinned back.

"What? No way, you had your chance when I was asleep. I get to use it first." The blonde woman pushed him out of the bath, but he persisted.

"Why don't I just join you then?" He smirked, making Cagalli beet red. "NO!"

"What? You're not shy are you?" Athrun cocked an eyebrow. "It's just no! I want the bath all to myself!"

"Geez Cagalli, just this once. It's not as if we get to do this everyday, you don't live here-unless of course you want to, that can be arrang—."

"Alright damn it! You win! You can join me! But no perverted tricks okay, Zala?!" Cagalli flushed and shoved him in. Athrun made a victory sign.

"I wouldn't call it perverted, last time I checked, you like it too." Athrun then took of his jogging pants.

"Just, shut up! Stop it with your sly comments!" Cagalli buried her face on her hands out of frustration, slowly stepping in the bath.

"okay, okay." Athrun smiled and joined her in the bath.

Yep, this is going to be a good day indeed.

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The art of love chapter 30

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As if you have a choice

Cagalli sat down comfortably at the passenger seat beside Athrun, as the azure haired young man started the engine. Before he started driving away, he glanced over at Cagalli, leaning down with her eyes closed.

Noticing that the car still hadn't moved, she opened her eyes and found him looking at her.

"What?" She raised an eyebrow at his direction.

He chuckled, "Nothing… just, well admiring how peaceful you look back then. What were you thinking?"

Cagalli cocked her head to the side. "How all of this is going so well… I mean, we just confirmed we're official, but don't you think we're moving a bit too fast?"

Athrun pouted his lips and closed his eyes in understanding. "Ah, I know what you mean, about last night right? You're thinking it's all too sudden that we did what we did." Cagalli nodded and Athrun leaned over to her, pressing his forehead against hers.

"I don't think it's too sudden. It's natural for it to be that way. When you look at it, we acted like a couple back then, I loved you, you loved me… the only difference is that there we're no formalities or words said to confirm that we are actually a couple." Athrun leaned back down to his chair.

Cagalli flushed. "I guess you're right. Perhaps I was thinking too much. I'm still not really that used to the idea being 'us'. And doing this and that."

Athrun chuckled lightly, his voice, having that bell like sound in Cagalli's ears. "I know how you feel, with the way you reacted when you woke up this morning was priceless!"

"I-I was shocked, I just woke up and had to recall what happened. Plus, I'm not used to someone looking at my body-correction, my naked body. T-That was my first time." Cagalli went beet red.

Athrun did the same and he coughed it was his first time too. He then started to move the car from the parking space. He then sneered as he went back to this morning's thoughts.

"But you didn't seem to be shy when we were at it."

"Gah! Athrun! That…that is because it's totally different from each other!"

"How different?"

Cagalli felt like she was going to explode from embarrassment. "I don't know! Could we stop conversing about that? It's, it's making me feel awkward… Geez, give me some time to get used to this routine okay?"

Athrun chuckled yet again, he loved teasing Cagalli so much, and he loved every minute of it plus the fact that he would get to tease her in a whole new different level. Yeah, in a sexy kind of level that is.

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"Box loads?" Shin asked.

"Yeah, box loads of choco pops for my sister from Athrun, my 'oh so wonderful best friend'. What the hell is he thinking plopping those boxes at the front of my door? I nearly tripped on them!" Kira grumbled.

"You're in a bad mood." Shin snickered. "You should just take it easy."

"Who asked for your opinion anyway?" Kira snarled at him, making the young assistant snort a bit at his boss' expression.

"My, my Kira… so early in the morning." Lacus chirped.

Kira plopped his head on the table. "I would calm down if I knew where Cagalli is, Athrun not cutting off me on the phone, me not tripping off the choco pops boxes and assure my death by cracking my neck at my apartment's pavement."

Lacus stifled a laugh. "I thought that was funny."

"Lacus, aw man, not you too." Kira pouted. "I was just kidding. Anyway, Athrun's here, and guess what? Cagalli's with him. Isn't that nice?" The pink haired pop princess chirped.

"What?! Well it's about time those two showed up!" Kira grumbled. "Shin, tell them to come straight here in my office the minute they step out of that elevator."

Shin mock saluted and left.

"You're not going to lecture them are you? Because if you are let me tell you this Kira…" Lacus stopped and exhaled. "You're such an old guy in his menopausal stage." Lacus finally let out in a fit of laughter. Kira shook his head in disbelief; Lacus is beginning to be as sadistic as his sister and his sister's friend.

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"Well that's cool. So far, you had broken the hearts of all the girls on the ground floor of this building. And you just made me their frustration 'target practice' I wouldn't be surprised if I see my picture hanging around with punctures around it." Cagalli scoffed as Athrun continued to walk happily beside her, his arm on her waist.

"So what? You're my girlfriend. I'm proud to show you off." Athrun smirked.

"That is so sweet, aside from the fact that I will get to read death threats in the morning normally, as normal as reading newspaper while having breakfast." Cagalli chuckled as the two went inside the elevator, and it's doors closing behind them.

"Don't be so negative." Athrun chuckled back as he pressed their floor.

"I'm not. I'm stating a fact." Cagalli snorted a bit.

"So, what do we do now?" Athrun asked as the elevator door opened.

"You could start by heading over to Kira's office, as in NOW." Shin dead panned and waved his hand.

"Oh, hi Shin." Cagalli greeted. "Wait, Kira's office? Why?"

"Don't know, apparently, he'd been mumbling incoherently something about tripping over boxes in front of his door or something like that." Shin chuckled.

Cagalli guffawed. "No way?! Really? You hear that Athrun? That idiot brother of mine is so stu—."

"Oh, I have some unfinished business with him, so going there might be a good idea." Athrun sneered as he walked on ahead. Cagalli and Shin looked at each other and then to Athrun.

"Ooh, this is going to be good." Shin rubbed his hands together and followed behind.

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"So Kira, my dearest fiancée, instead of mumbling about, why don't we just talk about our upcoming wedding?" Lacus snaked her arms around Kira's neck, blowing unto hi ear. Kira shivered.

"I thought we had that all planned out? Is there more to it?" Kira inquired.

"Yeah, like other than Europe, where can we go and have our honeymoon?" Lacus smiled. "We could go to Disneyland if you want." Kira nervously answered.

"Disneyland?" Lacus cocked an eyebrow. "Well yeah… It's cool there… I think." Kira gulped.

Lacus smiled. "Okay."

"Hey Kira." Athrun came. 'Ah! There you are! Why did you cut me off last night? And why the heck are you with cagalli?" Kira stood up from his chair.

"What about you? Why did you lie to me about Cagalli being tipsy, and with a six footer man? I almost died of heart attack worrying about her!" Athrun retorted back, this time; he was determined to pin this argument on Kira.

"It's just wasn't me who tricked you! You we're stupid enough to fall for it!"

"I was worried, what do you expect me to do?!"

"Whose bright idea was it to place those boxes in front of my door anyway?"

"Don't change the subject!"

"I'm not changing the subject! Those boxes almost killed me!"

"That's not the topic here!"

Cagalli came in, stifling a laugh while Lacus shook her head and stood beside Cagalli. Shin was enjoying this, imagine, seeing your superiors bicker like cats in a catfight or something like that.

The staff on the other hand was now cowering out of fear. Was it the end of the world already? Athrun and Kira had never bickered or shouted like that before to each other.

"Ha! I always thought your hair color is weird! FREAKO!"

"You are such a pansy ever since we were little!"

"At least I didn't look gay!"

"At least I didn't act like one!"

"I don't act like one!"

"Ha, as if you don't whine every minute of the day!"

"Freako!"

"Pansy!"

Okay, now Cagalli raised an eyebrow. This argument is going nowhere; they were starting to fight like two grade school-ers.

"SHUT UP YOU TWO!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. That put a stop to them.

"Darn it cagalli, you shout like a banshee." Kira poked his ear, testing it if it's still working.

"Ouch." Athrun winced and looked at his girlfriend.

"Alright you two, shut your traps. You act like you're not a couple of business men. To end this 'nonsense', Yep Kira, I spent the night at Athrun's, yeah Athrun, you got tricked by them you idiot, Athrun didn't purposely cut you off, it was sort of an accident and oh, lastly Kira, you are such a pansy as to trip at a couple of boxes. Were you not looking at where you're going?" Cagalli snorted.

The two shut up and decided not to speak.

"So, Cagalli. How was your night?" lacus giggled. Cagalli was caught off guard and went a deep red. "A…it's was nice." She answered and glanced up at Athrun, who was also flushing.

"Shin. Get out of here." Kira pointed to the young boy and towards the door. Again, Shin made a mock salute and left, laughing.

"Why don't we sit down?" Cagalli came. All of them simultaneously sat down.

After a few moment of silence, Lacus broke it.

"So? Spill." She chirped; both Athrun and Cagalli jumped in surprise.

"What? Spill what?" Kira raised an irritated eyebrow.

Cagalli breathed in. "Well Kira you see…"

"Me and Cagalli are together now." Athrun finished.

Lacus squealed. "That's good! That is so cool!" She hugged both of them and ran towards Kira. "Aren't you happy Kira?!"

Kira scoffed. "As if I have a choice." Cagalli frowned, was her brother not happy for her?

Kira caught her pouting face and smiled. "Kidding, kidding… It's about time you two got over it. Geez, the whole world practically knows about how you feel, you probably knew too, you're just all cowardly and everything."

"Look who's talking. You're not Mr. Courage either." Cagalli chuckled.

"Anyway, I'm happy for the both of you." Kira smiled and gestured for Cagalli to come near him. "Come here."

He smiled and gave Cagalli a great big hug. "You know how proud I am of you right? And I wish you two would be happy too."

"Thanks, Kira." Athrun smiled and gave his best friend a big hug. Then Kira's eyes narrowed. "Now, I know I said I'm okay with all of these, but if you hurt her, I swear I'll…"

"Kira!" Cagalli pouted, and placed her hands on her waist. "Alright, alright… but I meant what I said." The brunette retorted.

Athrun and Cagalli smiled at each other, but of course, they won't be telling Kira their little 'adventure' last night. He doesn't have to know anyway and they sure want to keep it that way.

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"So you are finally together?" Miriallia gushed, Cagalli nodded. "About time too!" Nick scoffed. Two days after, they finally meet with Cagalli and decided to talk privately.

Cagalli's exhibit only ran for three days, and it was a huge hit, earning her publicized columns and so on and so forth. She had finally gotten her marks from Mr. Edwards and she had passed with flying colors.

Meyrin had returned to her work at Shiho's place and Cagalli had told her already that she and Athrun were official and the girl was very happy about it, sharing to her too about meeting a certain Auel in Europe.

The masters class will have a small graduation gathering a month before Kira and Lacus' wedding. Everything was golden, Cagalli thought.

"Oh shush Nick, this is girl talk! Why don't you go play with Dearka for awhile?" Miriallia shooed her cousin away.

'But Milly, I want to talk to Cagalli too… and besides, you've always been pushing me away to Dearka ever since he started hanging around with us. I miss our tandem." Nick frowned, Miriallia hugged her.

"aww, such sweet words cousin, but you know how much I love you everyday for the sacrifice you make, by diverting his attention from me. God, I swear he says the cheesiest and corniest lines on me, I could smack his face to kingdom come." Miriallia grinned, Nick chuckled.

"Anyway, he's busy for now, he's playing the dragon game I lent him.. So, Cagalli, how was it?" Nick asked.

"Wha-What are you talking about?" Cagalli flushed. Shouldn't they be talking about such things?

"You know what I mean, so rate him as a kisser. How good is he?" Miriallia grinned.

"He's… Should we really talking about this? I mean…" Nick slapped her lightly on the shoulder. "Oh, Alright… A ten I guess, he kinda surprises me every time he kisses me… He does it with so much passion, it kinda burns."

Miriallia gushed yet again. "Oh my, what a keeper!"

"What about in bed?" Nick bluntly asked, and Miriallia chuckled. Cagalli on the other hand, almost fell of her chair.

"That can't be a legal question right? I mean, is it even right to ask that? Isn't that personal?" Cagalli was almost dying of embarrassment.

"Ooh, interesting. Judging from your reaction, it seems like you two had done it already." Nick teased, Cagalli went silent.

Both cousins' eyes widened. "NO WAY! WHEN?!"

'What?! No?! I… Alright… but please, don't tell on anyone okay? There's a reason why I labeled you two my 'best friends.' Cagalli fidgeted on her seat. This was as awkward as the first time she woke up stark naked and Athrun staring at her.

"The night I confessed to him… we were like, caught up in the mood and so on… He asked me to cuddle but ended up doing that." This time, Cagalli buried her face in her hands.

Nick and Miriallia gushed. "HOW ROMANTIC!"

"You go girl! I didn't know you could do it so fast." Miriallia nudged her.

"It was spur of the moment, it's not like I planned it to happen. You might think it's all sped up; and please, guys will you keep your voices down?" Cagalli peeked in from the gaps of her fingers.

"Sorry, shush Cagalli, not at all. It's perfectly normal for the two of you to do that, spur of the moment or not. You two were practically head over heels for each other, it's not like you just met him and bam! So there's nothing to be ashamed about it." Miriallia grinned.

"He said the same thing." Cagalli removed her hands from her face.

"See? Even he understands. I'm so proud of you Cagalli. You have found yourself a nice guy to be with. Enjoy it." Nick placed an arm over her shoulder.

"I love you guys." Cagalli chuckled.

"So, what now?" Miriallia asked as she sipped on to her milkshake.

"Press control. Apparently, it didn't last long hiding it. So, expect my face plastered all over the papers or Tv or something like that and or cursed by Zala fans…" Cagalli sighed.

"So what the heck do we care about them? You're happy, and he's happy, we're like pooh bear and friends here right now with a happy ending, and that's all that matters." Nick smiled.

"Right." Cagalli and Miriallia nodded.

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"Hey, Cagalli." Athrun's voice came.

"Hey. What took you so long?" Cagalli stood up from her desk and approached her boyfriend. She ended up working as a Graphic Artist for her brother and boyfriend's company.

'Boyfriend' has a nnice ring to it, and she is just getting used to it as time pass.

"Meeting got a little longer than expected half of it was about how I was able to snag a talented and hot graphic artist like you." Athrun chuckled.

"Feh, I want the truth Athrun, you can flatter me all you want, but I don't bend down to that so easily." Cagalli scoffed.

"But it's true. Half of the people there are young executives such as I, and they wanted advice." Athrun chuckled again. 'And speaking of not bending down easily to my flattery, may I suggest another way to make you melt like chocolate?"

Cagalli flushed. "Geez Athrun, where do you get those perverted cheesy lines of yours? I swear, it gives me the creeps rather than make me all gaga over you." She chuckled.

Athrun frowned. "Whatever. So, where to after?"

"I could go for something to eat and then watch a movie. Milly lent me this good movie; it has stunning visual effects and nice action scenes." Cagalli smirked.

"Let me guess, a war movie?" Athrun looked at her sides.

"Not really, more of like, futuristic war movie." Cagalli's eyes glittered in excitement.

"My girlfriend, the action movie addict, you're so different from other girls you know that? Others prefer a romantic comedy or something."

"But you know I'm not like those other girls."

"And that's maybe perhaps why I love you so much."

"Alright, let's go home and have a movie marathon then." Cagalli pumped her fist in the air.

"Then maybe we could cuddle after." Athrun grinned.

Cagalli blushed hard. "Geez, fine, cuddle all you want, you're really sappy aren't you?"

"You like it anyways. Besides, so what if I want to hug and cuddle you? Doesn't make me less a man right?" Athrun said proudly as he intertwined his fingers with hers.

"Right, and that's maybe perhaps why I love you so much too." Cagalli snuggled to him.

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Short again. This time, I focused on the 'new' relationship budding between Athrun and Cagalli and their closest friends knowing about it, and how they accept (as if they don't) it. And also how Athrun and Cagalli get used to being a real couple. Haha. I won't do seppuku as for Hades.Throne.Heiress' request. Haha! ; The story isn't done yet. There will be around 1 or two chapters left, am not sure. I'm contemplating on making the next one the last or not. Geez, talk about indecisiveness. ; Also, I'm contemplating on making a real lemon side story for this, but right now, I'm still caught in between of doing it and not doing it. Reasons are: well, if I did, I might just crap on it because I haven't done lemon in my life—this will be the first if I continue with it. That's about it. Okay, so it's only one reason… hehe. 00; Thank you guys. Love you all for supporting this!