A/N: Hi everyone. This is a somewhat random fic that popped into my head at school today. Hope you'll enjoy it.

(As of 7/20/14: Thought I'd edit through this a little bit. There were some glaring mistakes that needed fixing. If you guys happen to find anymore, please let me know.)

Little side note: In this story Euphie never started the special zone so there was no Special Zone Massacre and she did not die. Lelouch stopped being Zero due to him suddenly (and randomly) gaining a lack of ambition for the organization. C.C. is acquainted with Suzaku as well as the student council though they don't know that she's immortal, and this story takes place two years after Euphie proclaimed her love for Suzaku. So…the teens are out of high school…some are in college (including Lulu). This also means that Shirley didn't die and that all the events of the Black Rebellion onward never happened. So onto the random fic.

The Wedding

Chapter 1

It was Monday August 14th, 2019 on the imperial calendar of Britannia. Two years had passed since the battle of the Kyushu block and since then the rebellion groups had died down due to the subtle but kind actions of Princess Euphemia Li Britannia and her Japanese knight, Suzaku Kururugi. In fact, the two of them had changed the discriminating government little by little for the duration of those two years, not to mention that the two were hopelessly falling in love with each other, or so the rumors on the gossip networks proclaimed. The Black Knights disbanded and Lelouch stayed with Nunnally at Ashford Academy while attending a private university that was in the downtown district of the Tokyo Settlement.

On this particular morning however, the somewhat peaceful world that presently surrounded Lelouch Lamperouge was about to come crumbling down with a thunderous thud.

Or to put in better terms, his peaceful life was going to be interrupted by a loud, annoying phone call.

"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!"

Lelouch groaned as he turned over in his bed and pulled the covers tightly around his slim figure. His left eye opened slightly, seemingly glaring at the cellular device as he glanced at his clock.

"Who would call me at this ungodly hour?" He wondered while angrily pulling the covers over his head.

The clock had read…11:00 a.m.

Now, we all know that physically, Lelouch can be lazy, but no one would have ever think the was that lazy. Still, if you told Lelouch that he'd probably go on a rant about how he could have taken over Britannia if he'd been stupid enough to keep walking the path of blood. Then, you the reader would probably ask, "How is trying to make a better world for your little sister stupid?" He would answer, "As a strategist I am always thinking ahead of the game." He would go on to say that he'd predicted every move he himself would make in his conquest of Britannia and the consequences they would bring. He would conclude that he would have been separated from Nunnally, that he would have had to kill Euphemia, countless innocent Japanese people would have died, Suzaku would have sold him out to his father, he would lose his memories and acquire an imposter for a younger sibling, he'd then regain his memories, end up losing Kallen to forces of the Chinese Federation after breaking up an arranged marriage, Shirley would have regained her memories and died thanks to the imposter sibling that he chose to have pity on, he'd end up facing his father and another immortal like C.C., he'd have to convince Suzaku to help him save Nunnally from their father, Nina would create a weapon of mass destruction and almost kill Nunnally, then the Black Knights would betray him, the imposter sibling would die of a heart attack, and then he'd end up face to face with his mother.

Which would then lead to him having to defeat his mother and father. Then he would have to make a deal with Suzaku. Said deal would ultimately force him to betray Nunnally and walk straight into his own death after becoming the 99th emperor of Britannia.

And when our exiled prince put all that together, he lost all interest in the Black Knights, his revenge, and whatever else he may have planned in that noggin of his.

So back to the plot of the story. Lelouch had slept in that morning after working on a psychology project the night before. He hadn't gone to sleep until six that morning, so it isn't a wonder why Lelouch is tired. The poor guy had only gotten five hours of sleep.

Not to mention that C.C. had hogged most of the covers to boot. All that combined with the phone call made our handsome prince very…bi-polar.

"BEEP BEEP!"

"Why didn't I turn that stupid thing off last night?" Lelouch berated himself as he groaned a tad bit louder, praying that the caller would give up trying to contact him.

The automated doors to his room suddenly opened and a woman with lime-green hair stepped into the room. She was wearing one of Lelouch's white button-up shirts and pink short-shorts. She had a plate in her hands and was snacking on a piece of leftover pizza.

"Aren't you going to answer that?" she asked in her usual nonchalant tone. Lelouch responded by muttering something incoherent while wrapping the covers tighter around his head. In seconds, Lelouch had curled himself into a tight ball.

C.C. on the other hand, simply rolled her eyes and picked up Lelouch's cell-phone. She read the caller I.D. and answered it quickly.

"Hello."

There was silence in the room as the voice from the other end spoke. C.C.'s expression ranged from a bored blank stare to a worried grimace as the voice spoke. She nodded curtly when the voice finished talking.

"Hold on a minute, he's right here," she said. She put her hand over the receiver. "Lelouch, it's Suzaku. He says he needs to speak to you right now. I think he might be in some trouble."

"Trouble?" Lelouch wondered with slight irritation. "He picked today of all days to get in trouble."

Our raven-haired hero finally sat up in bed. He scratched the back of his head and yawned as he patted out the wrinkles in his blue flannel pajamas.

"May I?" he asked, extending his hand.

C.C. tossed him the phone and trotted toward the door. "Nunnally is eating at home today for lunch. She expects you to be cheerful."

Lelouch didn't answer her and instead pressed the phone to his ear. "Suzaku…do you have any idea…"

"LELOUCH! I HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!"

"Gah!" Lelouch screamed, surprised by Suzaku's loud statement. He pulled the phone away from his ear for a moment to recollect his erratic thoughts. After rubbing his temples, he pressed the phone back to his ear.

"Suzaku, can you tell me calmly what's wrong?"

Suzaku started speaking, but it was nothing but a jumble of mixed up words and sentences, not to mention that he was still screaming.

"YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME!" Suzaku screeched.

The raven-haired teen took a deep breath in an attempt to calm his own self. It was obvious that Suzaku was frantic about something important, but Lelouch wasn't able to decipher a single thing Suzaku said. The lack of sleep wasn't helping matters either.

"Okay," Lelouch began. "Try telling me what's wrong again, but this time calmly explain the situation and give me specific details."

Lelouch heard Suzaku gasp in frustration. "LELOUCH! DID YOU NOT HEAR WHAT I JUST SAID! I'M GETTING MARRIED!"

The former terrorist froze. "Come again Suzaku?"

"Do I really have to spell it out for you?" Suzaku asked hopelessly. "I'm getting married in two weeks!"

Lelouch wasn't sure about what he should say to that. "Congratulations?"

There was a second of silence on the other end of the phone.

And then…a crescendo of all crescendos descended upon the sensitive ear of the very tired and the very irritable Lelouch Lamperouge.

"DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION HERE! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHO I'M MARRYING!"

Lelouch gritted his teeth. "Well, it'd be easier to understand…IF YOU WERE MAKING ANY KIND OF SENSE YOU EXERCISE NUT!"

There was a pause on the other end. "Euphemia."

Lelouch raised an eyebrow. "What does Euphie have to do with…"

"I'm marrying Princess Euphemia two weeks from today," Suzaku interrupted. "But that's not all, there's more."

"More?" Lelouch questioned, a bit startled by Suzaku's earlier statement. "What more could there possibly be?"

"Well…you see…the emperor is…well he's dead Lelouch."

Lelouch took a moment to process the words, but he wasn't comprehending a thing. He supposed the lack of sleep was really getting to him.

"He's…my father is…"

"He's dead Lelouch."

Suzaku suddenly heard a thud on the other end of the line, followed by what sounded like a loud yelp of joy. At this, Suzaku scowled and sighed heavily.

"LELOUCH!"

"Sorry, sorry," Lelouch replied, suddenly back on the phone. He was panting heavily as if he'd just been dancing.

Which is exactly what he'd been doing.

"So, go on Suzaku…"

Suzaku waited for Lelouch's breathing to calm down before he started. "Well…you see…the emperor decided to handpick his successor."

"Really?" Lelouch asked, arching one of his eyebrows. "That's odd."

"Yeah," Suzaku replied. "And guess who it is."

A thousand names and images flashed through Lelouch's mind before he settled on the candidate most capable of running the ruthless country of Britannia.

"Is it Schneizel?"

"Guess again."

Lelouch thought it over for a second.

"Cornelia?"

"Getting warmer."

He thought it over again.

"Oh, no, don't tell me he picked Odysseus!"

"Ice cold Lelouch."

After a moment, Lelouch finally understood.

"You don't mean…he couldn't have. He picked…Euphie?"

"Yep, you got it," Suzaku stated, horror evident in his voice. "And because she's a female heir she has to get married immediately."

"But I thought she was betrothed?"

"Her first act as Empress was to abolish the arranged marriage law, and thus she asked if I…would marry her."

"And…"

"I love her Lelouch," Suzaku stated bluntly. "Of course I said yes and then I asked her if she would marry me, seeing that its tradition for the man to ask the woman…"

"Then what's the problem?" Lelouch cut in, annoyed all over again.

"I don't think you're hearing me Lelouch," Suzaku replied, exasperated that he was literally going to have to spell this out to his normally perceptive friend. "Euphie is now the empress of all Britannia. We're getting married. Do you understand now?"

"I'm too tired for riddles," Lelouch answered, impatience etched in his voice. "Just answer the dang question!"

"I'm getting married to the empress of Britannia, which means that I am going to be the 99th emperor of the Britannian Empire! Me! Suzaku Kururugi!"

Lelouch finally wrapped his tired mind around what Suzaku was saying.

"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!"

"I am."

"So you're going to be…"

"Uh huh."

"But that means…"

"Uh huh."

"From here on the royal family of Britannia will be…Kururugi?"

"Exactly."

"There won't be any need for the discriminating system because you and Euphie don't believe in it and because your Japanese. The world will be able to move forward into the future."

"Yeah…but…"

"But what?" Lelouch asked.

"You've forgotten that…I CAN'T RUN A COUNTRY!"

"What makes you say that?" Lelouch wondered aloud.

Suzaku groaned. "I'm a soldier Lelouch, a physical fighter. I can't be a…a diplomat!"

Lelouch sighed as his expression fell into a deadpan. And people called him the dramatic character of the series. Sheesh!

"Suzaku, you'll be a great emperor…"

"Will you be my best man?"

That caught Lelouch off guard. "Suzaku…"

"Please Lelouch, I don't think I can get through this without you and Nunnally," Suzaku pleaded. "You're my best friend Lelouch and you're the only one I can turn to for advice on this."

"But…the royal family doesn't know I'm alive."

"Oh, I forgot about that," Suzaku realized. "Forget I…"

"I'll do it."

This surprised Suzaku. "Are you sure?"

"I'll have to face them eventually," Lelouch told him. He figured with Charles Zi Britannia finally out of the picture, he could make himself face his other relatives for Suzaku's sake...for Nunnally as well.

"Now, when do I need to get my tux?"

"Well…actually, I've just pulled up to the house," Suzaku replied, clearly overjoyed that his best friend was going to help him through the next two weeks. "I thought we could eat lunch with Nunnally and then leave to go shopping."

Lelouch's expression was flat. "You do realize that I just woke up ten minutes ago right?"

"Uh…yeah I didn't think about that. Anyway, I'll meet you outside."

The line went dead then and Lelouch fell back on his bed. His head was already starting to pound, but at this point there was nothing he could do about his impending doom. Even though he wanted and needed to resolve his old grudge and let it go, he also wanted to keep things as they were.

However, he already knew that nothing stayed the same forever. He understood that at some point, change had to come.

The automated doors opened and C.C. walked in again. "Suzaku is here Lelouch, get dressed and go entertain him." She swiftly walked out after dishing out her orders.

A minute passed and Lelouch didn't move. Then out of sheer randomness he pressed a pillow over his face and screamed as loud as he could.

"WHAT THE CRAP!"

A/N: That's the first chapter. Please review.