Love and Pride

Summary : She, the aristocrat who lost her parents. He, the right hand of the Queen in his country. Will they fall in love when they met? Medieval time (AC)

AN: I know I need to finish my other story but cant resist to post it xD

Special thanx for my beta-reader asucaga4ever

Chapter 1

A Twenty-two year old girl with golden hair and amber eyes leaned forward and stared out the window. She spaced out until the door opened, revealing her twin, her only family. Different from her, he has brown hair instead of golden.

"Can't you knock on the door Kira?" the girl spoke annoyingly.

"I did knock, but you didn't answer it." He paused and continued, his face changed to a worry look, "Cagalli, are you thinking about father and mother again?"

She sighed and looked through the window, "I am, and I couldn't forget the day when they were murdered by – by the burglars."

Kira could hear the crack in her voice, "Cagalli, " he put his hands on her shoulders and turned her around until he could see her face, "Look Cagalli, I know you are sad and me too, but you need to get over it, that was 5 months ago."

"I know I know," she continued, "but sometimes I can't just forget about it. Sometimes I wanted to know who they are and put them in jail."

He looked at her sadly, "I know I want them in jail also, but what should we do? We don't know their faces. But I thanks to God you are still alive. "

"Thanks to you and Dearka I'm still alive, if both of you came late for sure I would have been dead. And even if their faces were covered I do remember one of them. I remember his voice and you did injure him in his shoulder right? If I hear it again maybe I could recognize him and if we could catch this man, we could catch another one also."

Kira gave an understanding smile, "Yeah, I am so lucky I came home at the right time, if I lost you also I will be alone in this world. Now get down, Sarah made us breakfast and this afternoon you have an appointment with Milliaria, am I right?"

"Don't order me around, I am the older one remember?" Cagalli spoke acting she was annoyed, but in fact she was happy her brother was still there for her.

"I know Milady," he bowed and spoke mockingly.

Cagalli smiled and pinched his shoulder playfully. They went to the dining room and ate their breakfast. In the afternoon, Cagalli went to town and met Milliaria

"Now where is our destination?" Cagalli asked her tiredly.

"Look, I heard that the inn has delicious foods, maybe we should try it." She answered it.

They headed toward the inn, which Milliaria pointed out, but the seats were full. Disappointingly they headed to the door, but they stopped when a man rose from the chair and spoke to them.

"Ladies, if you want, both of you could join us. There are still enough seats at our table." The man with brown eyes offered the help.

Miliaria looked at Cagalli, which nodded slightly, they were too tired to find another inn. They headed to the man's seat and thanked him, "Thank you for your offer Sir, we hope we didn't ruin your day."

"Ruin? On the contrary, it is our honor to have two beautiful ladies as our companion." The man smiled and turned his head to his friends, "Is that right guys?"

The others man said agreeing with him. They ordered the food and talked with them.

"So what is your occupation Sir?" Cagalli asked the man with brown hair.

"Me? From my looks you can tell that I am a soldier and same with the rest of us. And stop calling me Sir, my name is Afhmed. May I know your name?"

"My name is Cagalli and she is my friend Milliaria, "Cagalli introduced herself.

"You could call me Milly, " Milly informed him.

"Afhmed, how is your patrol today? And don't forget to give me the report." A voice could be heard behind Cagalli.

Milly and Cagalli turned their head to see the owner of the voice while Afhmed and the rest of the soldiers rose from the chair and saluted him.

"Sir, the town is okay, we didn't see any suspicious movement." Afhmed informed him.

"Good," he paused and looked at the unfamiliar faces in front of him, "Who are they?"

"They are Miss Cagalli and Miss Milly, we offered our table for them."

Milly and Cagalli rose from their seats and curtsied him. The man introduced himself as Athrun Zala the commander of the soldiers from Minerva realm, the country that they lived now. But the people in the castle were torn into two, one are supporters of King Gilbert and another one supporters of Queen Talia. Even they were pronounced as husband and wife but they were in bad relation, Talia hated her husband, he was a wicked person who liked war and never cared about his own people. She planned a rebellion to overthrow her husband and take over the country. Athrun Zala was her favorite commander, she raised him from when he was a boy and educated him. His family was a friend of hers.

Athrun joined them and they continued their lunch. He stared at the beautiful figure beside him and made her nervous.

"Is there something wrong with my face Sir?" Cagalli asked calmly.

He gave the charming smile, "Why? Can't I stare at the beautiful lady beside me?"

She replied him with the disgusting look in her face while Milly giggled, "Thank you for your compliment, but I am not beautiful."

He shrugged, "You don't know about your own looks." He continued, "Both of you could order another food, this time I will treat you."

"Thank you, but you don't need to do that, we could pay by ourselves." Cagalli informed him trying to be polite.

"I am insisting, "

Cagalli sighed in defeat, "Okay, thank you so much for you offer Sir."

Athrun smiled proudly at her answer. After they finished lunch, Cagalli and Milly rose from their chairs and excused themselves.

"Thank you again for everything, but we are afraid we need to go now."

Athrun held Cagalli hand and kissed her palm, "Until our next meeting milady."

Cagalli drew back her hand and spoke, "Good day Sir."

Outside, Milly teased Cagalli, "It seems you have an admirer."

"He is only playing around, " Cagalli replied and shrugged her shoulder.

"And how do you know that?"

Cagalli looked at her face and grinned, "Woman's instinct."

They laughed as they walked along the street.

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AN : Ok, this is my other story, hope you like it. Please R & R.