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The Final Chapter

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Flashback

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18 Years Earlier

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5 year old Kira stood in the corner of a back ally way. He was being roughed up by a bunch of older teens, both males and females. They were all naturals. Kira couldn't gather the courage nor the strength to run away. Kira was shaking in terror.

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Why am I thinking about this now?

He thought to himself.

Kira ran and ran. He didn't want to yell out Lacus' name in case there were other people in the house that were after Lacus. No one told him Lacus was in danger he just had a gut feeling that something was wrong, it was a feeling he felt so strongly that he knew something was wrong. Kira Searched and searched, he quickly and quietly checked each room.

As he neared a door he heard the screams of Lacus.

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"Cagalli I want to show you something" Athrun said. Cagalli looked over at Athrun with a curious look "what is it?

"Not here. Come with me Cagalli" Athrun grabbed Cagalli by the hand and lightly dragged Cagalli. Cagalli didn't say much she just followed Athrun.

Cagalli got into Athrun's car as Athrun started the engine up. Moments later they left the mansion and headed east

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Fllay laid on her back with her arms above her head, she was breathing heavily. "K…Kia you're too rough…" Kia looked next to her and laughed "but I like that, I want more" Fllay said.

"Don't worry I don't plan on giving in anytime soon"

Kia stopped all actions. Fllay looked a little annoyed

"Why did you stop" she asked. Kia went to the side of the bed and grabbed two pills. Fllay looked at what he had "is that!" she said. "Yeah, with this we can go on for at least 4 more hours" Kia swallowed one and gave the other one to Fllay. Fllay quickly swallowed it as they resumed their session.

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"Why did you kill my father, he didn't do anything!" Lacus cried

"You're wrong, he's the one who took the one person I cared about the most"

Shinn removed his shirt and jumped on top of Lacus. Shanni pointed a camera at them and began to record. Shinn moved his head close towards her ear. "We're on tape now, you better act like you like it, or I'll kill you" Shinn said smiling.

Lacus was shaking in terror.

What'll I do now, I can't do anything

Someone help please…

Kira…

Lacus shut her eyes preparing herself for the worse.

The door to the room was left wide open. Kira could see perfectly what was going on. The situation was making Kira go crazy right now at this moment he wanted to hunt those bastards down.

Shinn placed a hand and gently stroked Lacus' cheek.

"The sooner you cooperate the sooner this will all be over" Shinn said as Lacus bit his hand. Shinn quickly pulled back his hand and with his other hand he raised it up and was about to smack her hard.

"That hurt you little bitch" Shinn screamed as he was about to descend his hand towards Lacus' face.

Kira rushed into the room quietly with his pistol equipped with a sound compressor (silencer) he aimed and shot a bullet through Shinn's hand.

Shanni quickly turned his head to see what just happened Shanni saw that Kira was in the room. In fact, Kira was standing right beside him. Shanni went to grab his gun but before he could even react Kira had already had his fist clenched. Shanni got hold of his gun but he was knocked out instantly as Kira punched him hard directly in the center of his face. It was clear that Shanni's nose was broken. Shinn screaming in pain jumped off Lacus and grabbed his gun, before Shinn could take aim Kira shot him in the other hand making Shinn drop his gun.

Kira ran over towards, Lacus had tears in her eyes, she looked so frightened.

"Lacus are you alright…" Kira looked over and saw Siegal Clyne's corpse lying on the floor. "Those bastards" Kira said as he loosened the rope that had Lacus tied up.

Kira helped Lacus up, Lacus' head dropped into Kira's chest as she began to cry endlessly. Kira couldn't do anything, if only he didn't make that mistake 3 years ago. Things could have been different, but now Lacus' father was dead.

Mwu walked in and observed at what just took place. Kira pulled Lacus back as he grabbed a tissue and whipped her tears away.

"Mwu…take Lacus" Kira said as he helped Lacus' get up. Lacus didn't say anything she just went with Mwu, she knew Kira was going to do something to the men that killed her father.

"Mwu call the police; tell them to bring an ambulance." Kira said bluntly

"Yeah…" Mwu replied as he helped Lacus out the door.

Kira walked to the corpse of Siegel. Kira could tell that he suffered a lot of pain before he was killed. Kira then walked towards a squirming Shinn, as soon as Kira got in front of Shinn. Shinn starred back in terror, he knew Kira was going to do something to him.

Kira's seed shattered and he entered into seed mode

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Athrun brought Cagalli to the hill side of flowers where he first kissed Cagalli.

"Athrun…what are we doing here…" she asked. Cagalli was cut off as Athrun pressed his lips to hers. Athrun broke off the kiss and starred into her eyes "Athrun…is something wrong?" Cagalli said sounding worried

"No, actually everything is perfect." He said. Cagalli blushed. Athrun grabbed Cagalli by the waist and tightened his grip on her. "You know, I know I never say this, but I think you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen" he said

Cagalli blushed uncontrollably "…Athrun what's wrong, you're not the Athrun I know" she giggled.

Athrun smiled. He pulled away and grabbed a ring from his pocket. Athrun grabbed Cagalli's left hand and slipped the ring onto her ring finger. Cagalli looked curiously at the ring and then looked at Athrun

"Is this?" Athrun looked away as he tried to hide his blush. "Sorry, I'm not good at these types of things" he said. Cagalli threw herself into Athrun's arms as she began to cry.

"Yes" She whispered. Athrun hugged Cagalli back as he kissed her forehead. "I'm sorry, it took me so long" he said

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Shinn went flying into the wall. Blood was gushing from his nose, mouth and hands. He lost a lot of blood. Kira on the other hand couldn't care less about Shinn's condition. Kira was beating the living hell out of him. Kira twisted Shinn's arm all the way around till Shinn arm couldn't twist anymore. Kira then used his own elbow to snape Shinn's arm. Shinn screamed like a little school girl.

"Please, no more!" Shinn cried. Shinn's face was all swollen from the blows that Kira laid on him.

"It was Kia, this was all his doing! This was his plan!" Shinn screamed. Kira punched him one more time in the stomach. Shinn fell to the ground unconscious.

Kira was making his way out of the door when he saw Shanni starting to get up on his hands and knees.

Kira could hear his groans. Shanni unaware of what was going on, Kira kicked Shanni in the rip cage with all of his strength. Shanni screamed like a sissy, it was clear that a couple of rips were broken in the progress.

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The police and ambulance arrived. Kira walked to Lacus while Mwu talked to the officers.

"Lacus…" Kira said. Lacus couldn't stop crying she was dramatized. Kira kissed her head as he walked to Mwu

Mwu had finished talking to the police, the police and the paramedics headed to the room where Kira was just at.

"Mwu please look after Lacus. I'm going to go confront Kia, hopefully he's still at the hotel." Kira said

"But what are you going to do?" Mwu asked. Kira ignored Mwu's action. Kira headed for the outside gates.

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Kira parked his car at the hotel parking lot. Kira snapped the safety off his gun and walked towards the entrance of the hotel.

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Kira went to the front desk and showed them his badge, without hesitating, the lady looked for Kia and Fllay's name under the authority of Kira. The lady at the front desk told Kira all the information he wanted to know and gave him the key to their room.

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Athrun and Cagalli stood on top of the hill where Athrun had proposed to Cagalli. A man not to far away from them was on the hillside with them, he was unseen. Cagalli and Athrun were both too distracted to notice him.

The man who was there with them was Rau. Rau steadied his rifle that was equipped with a sound compressor and aimed for Athrun's chest. Rau took the shot, he aimed perfectly.

Cagalli wasn't sure as to just what happened; she could only see Athrun's face become pale. She looked lower and saw blood dripping.

"Athrun…!" Cagalli screamed. Athrun fell backwards and hit the ground hard knocking him out instantly.

Cagalli fell to her knees and tried to see if Athrun was okay. Tears started to flow out when he wasn't responding. Cagalli looked over and saw Rau approaching her. "Don't move or I'll pop one in you're head" Rau said as he pointed his gun. Cagalli eyes widened as she remembered seeing his face on the paper. He was the one that died trying to kill her brother.

"You…you're supposed to be dead…" Cagalli said.

"You're the twin. Kira Yamato's sister!" Cagalli jumped behind the tree once she heard those words. After she got behind the tree she ran down the hill fast. Rau took a couple of shots at her but Cagalli was moving to fast for him to keep up. Cagalli was now in the woods. There were hundreds of trees. Cagalli hid behind one of the many trees and pulled out herself cell phone. She dialed Kira's number

Please pick up Kira Cagalli said mentally

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Kira quietly turned the door knob to Kia and Fllay's room. The door was left unlocked. Kira was holding his gun on his right hand as he opened the door with his left hand.

Kia and Fllay were going at it intensively.

Kira crept up behind the bed. He was still unnoticed even though Kira was trying to become noticed.

Kira grabbed Kia's hair and literally pulled him to the floor.

Fllay was startled by Kira's sudden intrusion.

Kia tried to get up and give Kira a smack but Kira used his gun and quickly smacked him hard against the face. Kia's mouth was filled with blood along side losing a couple of teeth in the process.

"What the hell is wrong with you!" Fllay screamed. Kira smacked Kia few more times. Kia could barely move, Kira grabbed a pair of handcuffs and cuffed him to the edge of the bed.

Fllay was covering herself with the sheets from the bed. "Don't move from that spot. Or I'll shot you" Kira said coldly. Fllay didn't say anything, she just nodded her head

Kira got a chair and took a bottle of water, a towel and sat in front of Kia. Kia's face was full of bruises.

"Well, Kia not the best thing to be doing when you're engaged" Kira said bluntly. Kia didn't say anything he starred at Kira.

"So how long have you been planning this?" Kira asked. "Or was this Fllay's plan"

"Which one!" Kira demanded

"What are you talking about?" Kia played dumb. Kira dropped the towel on the ground, he then poured an entire bottle of water all over the tower. Kira then picked up the wet towel and started to squeeze the water out of it. Kira twisted and twisted the towel. "You know what this is?" Kira asked. "Looks like a wet towel. You know when I get out of this I'm going to rip you're skull off!" Kia said. Kira laughed

"Back in the olden days, when convicts get executed the maximum punishment was a wet towel" Kira said.

Fllay looked at Kira with a dull face.

"Yeah okay there buddy, are you an idiot?" Kia said. "What is it used for, suffocating people?" Kia said bluntly

"Actually it's much worse then that. You probably don't think I can shove this towel down you're throat but believe me, I can. You see right about halfway down you're throat, you're body is going to think the towel is food and it's going to try and digest the towel.

At that moment I'll yank out the towel out of you're mouth, and it's going to pull out everything along with it. The process is extremely painful, I've seen it done before.

Kia could just picture it in his head, he quickly got shocked with terror.

He didn't want that kind of death. The tone of Kira's voice and attitude made him think he was actually going to do it. Kia didn't even hesitate

"It was all Fllay's idea" Kia said.

"WHAT!" Fllay screamed. Kira deadlocked Fllay in the eye.

Kira went up to Fllay and smacked her hard. He handcuffed her to the frame of the bed

"Kira don't listen to him he's lying, don't listen to anything he says" Fllay was cut off as Kira knocked her out by placing pressure where the shoulder meets the neck. Kira then walked over to Kia "Kia I'll do my best to make sure that you both receive capital punishment (execution) for this" Kira knocked him out. Just as he knocked Kia out his cell phone began to ring.

He saw that it was Cagalli on the caller I.D. he answered

"Kira Athrun's dead!" Cagalli cried.

"What do you mean he's dead!" Kira said

"He got shot right in front of my eyes" Cagalli said.

"Kira please I need you're help he's after me" Cagalli cried

"Cagalli where are you" Kira said

"I'm at the Edna park woods" Cagalli said. "Hang on I'll get there as soon as I can" Kira said, "Please hurry Kira" Cagalli cried.

"Kira if I…" the connection was terminated. Kira looked at his cell phone. "Damn it!" Kira ran out towards the first floor. He went to the front desk "Call the police and tell them to take those two into custody I have them tied up" Kira ran out the exit and ran towards his car.

"ok…" The lady and the front desk said

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"Kira if I…" Cagalli's phone got shot by Rau's gun, "Who were you talking to?" Rau asked. Rau pointed his gun. "Well not if it matters, no ones going to save you from me"

Cagalli stood up with her hands partly up. "What did I do to you…?"

"What did Athrun do to you!" She cried. Rau didn't respond he just laughed hysterically. Cagalli took the chance and kicked Rau in the knee. Rau fell to his knees. Cagalli then kicked the side of his head making Rau hit the floor. Rau went to aim at Cagalli but she had already hid herself as she ran deeper into the woods

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"Patrick, I have got a killer plan. We won't need Athrun's help for this, there's away to do it without him" Gilbert said

"What are you talking about?" Patrick asked. Gilbert just smiled, he had the perfect plan.

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"Athrun!" Kira yelled as he knelt down to him. Kira checked his pulse. "It's faint but it's their" Kira grabbed his phone and called for an ambulance. Kira put pressure on the wound with a white band aid strip (about 5 ft long) he wrapped around a couple of times, and went off into the woods to find Cagalli.

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Cagalli was hiding in a bush. Rau shot the ground right in front of Cagalli. "Get up, I mean it, I'll really kill you if you try moving again!" Rau said coldly.

Cagalli stood up as Rau ordered her too "You little bitch, do you think I'll actually let you live even if you listen to me?" Rau laughed as he pointed the gun to her face. There were no trees near by. No place for Cagalli to run off to now. Cagalli's life flashed before her very eyes, she thought this was it.

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Rau's gun was blown out of his hand by a bullet. "Kira…" Cagalli cried as she watched her brother come out from the trees.

Kira looked at the man that had a gun pointed at his sister.

"…Rau…?" Kira said nervously. Rau turned his head and looked at Kira with the most disgusted face "…Kira Yamato, what a disgrace" Rau said coldly

"Cagalli, Athrun is still alive, the bullet missed his heart. Go to him and put pressure on the wound. I already called the ambulance." Kira said. Cagalli's tears began to drop down again. "He's…alive. Thank god"

"Cagalli, go now!" Kira yelled. Cagalli ran towards Kira "Kira…be careful"

"I'll be fine" Kira smiled. His gun was still pointed at Rau. Cagalli ran off into Athrun's direction.

"I saw you die, how is this possible?" Kira asked. Rau laughed "I never died. You see, I work for Patrick Zala. So I was believed to be dead by the press because Patrick Zala faked my death." Rau said smiling

"Patrick…Zala?"

"No way, theirs no way Patrick Zala is you're boss. He would never do anything like this!" Kira yelled

"You are so stock up" Rau said. "Patrick ordered me to take out his son"

"Shut up" Kira said. "I won't believe anything you say…" Rau took out another gun that was attached inside his jacket. He aimed and shot at Kira, he got Kira right in the chest, the opposite side of the heart. Kira aimed and shot Rau with all the rounds he had in gun. It was a total of 12 shots. The first two shots were in the head killing him instantly, he then kept shooting everywhere on his body, he wanted to make sure he stayed dead.

Kira walked up to Rau's corpse.

"You're the one that's a disgrace." Kira fell down to the ground, he could barely move. Everything started to go black.

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Kira woke up in the hospital three days later. He could feel the warmth of somebody's hand holding on to his. He looked over and smiled. It was Lacus, she was asleep. Kira sat up and tightened his grip on Lacus' hand.

Lacus' eyes slowly fluttered open.

"…Kira…" Lacus began to cry.

"I thought you were going to die…" Lacus looked down. Kira sat up, he was partially in pain. "I'm fine, he grabbed Lacus and hugged her

"I'm sorry, about you're father" Kira said. Lacus didn't say anything she just hugged him back. Lacus then began to sob and cry even more, Kira embraced her tighter.

Cagalli saw that Kira had wakened up, but she didn't want to disturb him since both Kira and Lacus were together. She wanted to leave the moment for the two of them

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Cagalli walked into Athrun's room and sat down next to him

"Is Kira awake yet?" he asked. Cagalli smiled. "He's awake but he's with Lacus" Cagalli starred at her ring with a depressed look. "I see"

Athrun noticed Cagalli's depression

"What's wrong?" he asked. "I…just can't get over the fact that I almost lost you, and then I almost lost Kira" Cagalli cried. "I'm here aren't I, and so is Kira, that's all that matters, and now we have a wedding to plan for" Athrun smiled as he stroked her cheek.

Cagalli stood up and pressed her lips against Athrun's

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"Well Mr. Yamato, doesn't look like you'll be going back to work anytime soon. I want you resting at home till at least six to eight weeks" the Doctor said. "Six to eight weeks…" Kira said.

"That's right, and I'm going to send a nurse to check the wound every day." the doctor said.

"You know you're very lucky your alive Mr. Yamato. You're wound hit a very critical area. I want to do a few more tests. After that you can take him home Mrs. Yamato" The doctor said as he left the room.

Lacus blushed. "Mrs. Yamato…" Kira chuckled.

"Lacus come here…" Kira said struggling to stand up. Lacus walked over to Kira and helped him stand.

"Don't push you're self Kira, you'll make it worse." Lacus said worriedly.

"Lacus umm…" Kira began to blush "What is it Kira?" she asked curiously.

"What are you going to do now?" he asked. Lacus looked down at the ground "I…don't know" Lacus said.

"I know this is a little too sudden but…I want you to move in with me…" Kira said seriously.

"What..." Lacus blushed.

"I just want to keep you safe Lacus. You know I've never felt like this about anyone before" he said. Lacus blushed.

"I don't want to be a burden on you" Lacus said. Kira grabbed her hands

"Your not a burden on me, you never have been" Kira said as he looked deep into her crystal blue eyes.

"If…it's not a problem…then…" Kira grabbed Lacus and kissed her. Lacus accepted and pressed her lips to his with an even more passionate kiss.

Kira broke away from the kiss. His lips were inches away from hers.

"I promise I'll protect you, and I promise I'll never do anything to hurt you" Kira said as he kissed her again, but this time it was more passionate then before. Lacus' legs felt weak, her body was going crazy. Lacus broke away from the kiss

"Thank you Kira" Lacus cried as she embraced him tightly.

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