Edo: Schneizel is a little ticked that you made him kind of a moron in your last 'thankfully edited' fic.

Me: It was unintentional.

Edo: well hopefully this story makes up for it…

Kanon: Just try.

Me: Kanon, disclaimer. And warnings that I have made Kanon Japanese for the sake of the plot.

Kanon: She owns nothing but a box full of muses and a truckload of sarcasm.

Edo: Contains yaoi. Heck, its all yaoi!

Kanon sat with Zero in the throne room. He didn't know why he was here, well, yes he did, but he was starting to believe he was crazy for it.

"Nunnaly is not present, Kanon-san. Do you want me to send for her?"

"No, no, it's fine. I wanted to speak with you actually."

Zero gave him a puzzled look "Why me?" he voice echoed throughout the room. "Because I think I know who you are." Kanon replied smoothly. Zero seemed floored by the simple sentence, or at least Kanon thought he was floored. He took a step back and gasped, but his facial featured were, as always, concealed. So for all he knew the man was acting. After all the original Zero was a talented actor.

"What do you mean?! That's preposterous!" Zero exclaimed. Kanon looked on calmly. "Did you know I'm Japanese?" Kanon says calmly "I speak it fluently. You have an accent, the original Zero was Britannian." "You speak perfectly without an accent! How do you know I'm not just relaxing from speaking without one, now that I can?" Zero seemed to be getting agitated. That's what Kanon wanted.

"Lelouch was Zero, Suzaku. That was made obvious. As was the fact that he did everything for the sake of the enslaved people of this world. Do not think I missed that the animosity was increased purposefully around him, so when he died the world was at peace with its greatest enemy gone, and a just ruler, with her black knight." Kanon said sharply "That's why he asked you to kill him, isn't it, Suzaku?" Kanon continued in a softer voice. One black gloved hand reached for the mask and pulled it away from Suzaku's face. "How did you know it was me?" He asked quietly, so afraid he was too obvious, that he had failed in his promise to Lelouch. He would never be able to forgive himself if that was the case.

"Schneizel. He mentioned something, about you, and Lelouch, of course, being very close. Of course that was when he still talked to me, without telling me to file papers or run for coffee." Kanon finished the explanation in an almost bitter voice. And that was when Suzaku realized that he had not been the only one to lose someone he loved. At least he had the satisfaction of knowing Lelouch had loved him, and then he had died, which, while horrible, meant that Lelouch had died loving him. He had even taken the last few seconds of strength he had to tell Suzaku that. Schneizel was there, everyday. And everyday his faithful aide Kanon looked into his eyes and saw someone else. It must be sheer mental torture.

"I'm sorry, I wish there was something I could do, but, it's impossible." Suzaku admonished. He really wished there was something he could help with. He noticed small things about the man now, that seemed off. His smile, realistic at first, looked brittle, like his lips weren't used to moving that way, like the smallest breath might blow it away. There was a dull grey underneath exotic blue eyes. Like he had been sleeping just enough to keep them open. And most of all, a deep-seated sadness in his eyes, one that can only be recognized by one just as miserable.

"That's why I'm here, my dear, Suzaku." Kanon said flippantly "I believe that there is a way to undo the geass." He had a rather speculative tone in his voice, one of a person waiting to see how an idea is to be received. "But I need Lelouch and C2 to see if it would work." He finished. "You want to desecrate a grave? Have you gone mad?" Suzaku cried "Has the misery driven you insane? I will not allow it!"

Kanon remained still, one light rosette eyebrow lifted in amusement. Brown met blue, and Suzaku saw that the rosette was indeed, NOT, recommending they go grave robbing. "I don't think he's dead." And with that Suzaku knew that he wasn't. Lelouch was immortal, like C2. If C2 could take a bullet between the eyes and go fold origami with Nunnaly, three days later, Lelouch could recover from a stab wound. "Why do you think that?" He asked carefully.

"Simple really." the aide replied calmly. "I was one of the people who took him to his 'grave'. Schneizel's orders of course. What they don't know is that I returned one week later." Kanon said with a bitter smile. " An island out in the sea in a natural mausoleum. The coffin was placed in a roofless cave by a pool and amidst the flowers. Its rather pretty, but, it all seemed prepared, somehow. That's when I got suspicious. So I returned. And when I did I noticed something about the coffin. The lid was slightly askew. I investigated, and there was no body. Just a bloody shirt. No sign of an animal pulling him away and no tracks. I think he got up, shed the shirt because it made him remember being 'dead' and walked away with C2."

Suzaku was speechless. It all made sense. "Why tell me this." He said in a pained whisper "That's why." Kanon replied gently, touching the boys' shoulder. "You have more right that anyone to know that he is out there. But I may yet be mistaken and cause you pain. I do not think that is the case though."

"What do we need to do?" Suzaku asked, new determination setting in his eyes. " How do we find him?" He asked, slight anger in his voice. Not at the aide who was helping him, but for Lelouch, for not telling him, for not letting him know he was okay. And at himself for not knowing the obvious.

"First I need you to have Nunnaly remove me from active duty without firing me, I need that job, to pay bills. And the rest is up to you." He said "Up to me? Why?" Suzaku asked puzzled

"Simply put, you know him better than anyone else"

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