Hello everyone! I'm back! Hehe! I missed reading and writing! Stupid school, not letting me have free time to write or read any stories!
I just wanted to ask; what gave it away that Shujin was Itachi? The coal eyes that turned red with spinning comas, or the long raven hair tied low at his back?
Well anyways, don't forget to review this one!
Sequel to 'Storm'
M o n s t r o s i t y
Chapter 1:
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Whatever it takes
I will never break the promise I made...
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The cave located at the Kaminejima Island exploded as a huge ball of fire, thought of as a meteor, came crushing down on it and engulfed it in white hot fire. Nobody had any clue of what had happened except for three individuals who watched the meteor land. Two of them were blasted to a part of the vast forest as it exploded as the other one, an immortal, had watched it from above and inside the World of C.
"It looks like he really was an idiot. Good riddance then. Another thorn has been taken from me." A boy with light purple eyes and blonde hair that almost reached the floor muttered under his breath as he glanced at a girl in a wheel chair unconscious. Her name was Nunnally Lamperouge. 'Not for long.' The boy thought. 'She's going to return to Britannia and we'll use her for Ragnarok. Then it will be the end of the Gods.' the thought made the boy smile wickedly.
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One of the three, a girl with red hair and beautiful cerulean eyes had slowly been roused awake by the rustling and shifting of the bushes near her. She immediately stood up and readied her small knife as she had left her gun inside the cave. The bush rustled a little and suddenly green hair had sprung up. The owner of the green hair had golden yellow eyes. C.C.'s clothes were shredded and were covered by a lot of blood as she walked painfully towards the red head. "Kallen, we need to go now. Britannia has won." She said grimly.
"No! I am not going back without Lelouch!" she answered as tears sprang from her eyes. C.C. only shook her head. "It's no use. I can't even find him now. It's possible that he is dead." She answered.
"No way! I love Lelouch and I am not going to let him go because I know he's still in there and waiting for me-"
"Waiting for you to bury him." C.C. finished for her. Kallen shook her head violently. She didn't want to believe that Lelouch was dead. That she would never feel his touches, caresses, kisses and his warmth that he kept on radiating when he was with her. It was just so painful. She felt the need to curl up into a feeble position and cry until her eyes gave up and she would die. She just couldn't live in the world without Lelouch anymore.
SLAP
She was snapped from her thoughts as the sound of the slap echoed through the forest. She looked at C.C. and her raised hand and knew that she was the one that was hit. She couldn't even feel the pain but she still put her hand on top of her now red cheek because of reflex.
"Snap out of it." C.C. commanded as her icy voice sent a shiver to her spine. It was not the shiver Lelouch gave her when he was teasing her but rather it emanated hurt and sadness. Was this what C.C. was feeling now?
"If you were to die and somehow Lelouch miraculously comes back to find you either dead, captured or wallowing in self pity, he will blame me. And trust me Kallen; it's not healthy to be on the receiving end of Lelouch's hatred. Now stand up and let's go."
Kallen nodded dumbly and followed the witch to where her Guren was parked. She didn't know why but C.C.'s words seem to bring her back to reality. If Lelouch came back, they would be reunited again and she didn't want to be a hinder for him. She was his body guard. His beloved Queen, his most prized and powerful pawn.
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Suzaku had been thrown straight to the direction of the Lancelot. He was glad that somehow, he had managed to survive the meteor but he knew it was because of Lelouch's 'Live On' command on him. He hated it with passion but knew he couldn't do anything about it now. As he prepared to launch into the sky, a message was sent to him via the radio.
"Major Kururugi. This is Kanon Maldini, Prince Schniezel's personal assistant and we are here in the flagship Avalon. We've been trying to reach you but you did not respond. But that is not what we are worried about. We had heard that you were in Princess Cornelia's orders to follow Zero and capture him. We wish to know your progress."
"I can't capture him." he answered gravely. "And why is that? Has he escaped yet again?" the other voice asked.
"No, it's because Zero was burnt to the ground and buried under a hundred tons of rocks." He replied.
The other voice gasped. "What?"
"In other words, Zero is dead."
Silence followed and Kanon cleared his throat. "I understand then. Well done Major Kururugi. We are here to also inform you that we have won the battle against the Black Knights and had captured a lot of them, including Kyoshiro Tohdoh and their second in command named Ohgi Kaname."
Another voice came from the other line. "Hello there Major Kururugi, I am Schniezel El Britannia, second prince of Britannia and the Prime Minister as well. I wish to personally congratulate you on a job well done and to tell you that you have played a huge role in helping Britannia. And for that I wish to thank you. If it hadn't been for you, we would not have won this battle. I hope to meet you soon as well. I have a proposition for you, you see."
Suzaku nodded and said, "Of course your highness. I have pledged myself to Britannia and I will lay my life for it if need be."
"That is good to hear. Well I should bid you farewell now as you haven't rested much and you need as much as you can. But trust that we will meet again soon. I wish to meet the young man who has saved my sisters."
"Of course your highness." And the line went dead. The prince was right. He really did need to rest. He just hoped his conscience could take it when he was laid on his back while Lelouch's body was buried under huge rocks.
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3 and a half months later...
"I have to say, I really am impressed at your recovering rate." A voice of a man spoke through the barely lit bedroom. Its floors were covered with royal blue carpet while the huge wall curtains blocked the tall windows, letting the room bathe in a dim light provided by the magnificent fireplace located opposite the huge king sized bed. The bed had black silky sheets accompanied by red and purple pillows. On the bed was a man.
The man's face was lit by the laptop he was currently using on his lap. He had soft black hair, majestic violet eyes and a pale complexion. He looked like a simple teenager of eighteen years but his violet eyes held wisdom and unimaginable pain. He was wearing nothing but white bandages as it covered his whole upper body. His legs were hidden by the silk sheets. But beneath the duvet it could clearly be seen that there were bandages covering most of his lower limbs as well.
The boy looked at the owner of the voice was, approaching him. "Really? It's been three and a half months, of course my wounds would have healed up nicely since you're the one who's been taking care of me." The boy answered.
"Yes, but still, considering how your whole body had been burnt so badly it is a miracle you are even alive Zero-kun." The man replied. He had black coal eyes that sometimes turn into red eyes with black comas that seemed to spin once because of certain emotions. His hair was as black as coal and reached past his elbows, tied lowly behind his neck, letting his bangs fall freely on his face. Surprisingly, it looked good on him. He had a very pale complexion like the boy sitting on the bed. He looked somewhat older than him too. He was wearing a black tank top with a red jacket on top of it paired with black pants and black sneakers.
"Are you going somewhere?" the younger of them replied, still not stopping from typing. "Yes, as a matter of fact, I am." He replied, still looking at his wounded companion.
"Are you sure you still don't remember anything Zero?" he asked after a while.
Zero stopped typing and looked at the man. He sighed. "Yes, I still don't know who I am but I want to figure it out by myself, because I know you want to help me and you know how to aniki." he replied to the older man with some sort of ambiguity in his voice, but it was hidden very well that the older man almost hadn't notice it. Fortunately, he was a master at this kind of mind and even mental game Zero wanted to do to hide his doubts.
The older man chuckled lightly. "Zero, I told you not to call me that. I have a name you know." He did not even try to tell the younger man that he had already figured what the game was and how to play it but he decided it would be better for the both of them to keep quiet.
"I know, but it's so much easier. You are like a brother to me you know Shujin nii-san." Zero teased.
Shujin sighed. "Yes, yes of course. Well I better get going then. I still have a match to win. Ja." He said as he turned around towards the door and raised his hand in a 'goodbye' gesture. Before he left the room though, he spoke again. "Zero, I don't know if you'll accept this fact but when the time comes, you will thank me." Zero raised an eyebrow at him, even though Shujin couldn't see it as his back was turned on him, gesturing for him continue. "You're real name is Lelouch. I don't know what I should do with your last name as you originally decided to kill the first one and now your second family name has been listed as a casualty of war. And while you're wondering, I called you Zero because that was what people who followed you faithfully called you." Shujin finished as he left the room.
Lelouch mulled over it until he whispered out loud. "Lelouch..." and let out a bitter smile as he resumed his work.
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Shujin left the room and walked to the left. He didn't really want to tell Lelouch about his past, well, at least not yet. It had only been three months since he had arrived or rather, landed in Kaminejima Island via the 'meteor' that was really a small space shuttle he had used as a landing device and found Lelouch's almost dead body in the middle front of the room, unconscious. He believed he was dead until suddenly, Lelouch gasped for air. It was barely audible but he had been specifically trained for it. He went to the body and checked it. It was barely breathing and a gurgling sound kept on emitting on his throat as blood poured out of a huge gash on his neck. His clothes were burnt beyond repair and some of his mechanical limbs had been almost melted. Fortunately, half of his body, including the mechanical and his own flesh was still intact except for the blood oozing out of his chest and neck and other parts. His face was lightly scratched as his half lidded eyes showed his violet eye and his Geass eye.
When he had seen the Geass, he was slightly confused. It wasn't closed and therefore he concluded that this boy might have lost control of it. He was interested in finding out what his Geass could do since he had not granted anyone that power for almost a century. But what interested him most was that he was still alive after all the damage he had taken.
When he brought and cleaned him of his wounds, he decided to see who he was and dived into the boy's mind, the three black comas on his blood red eyes turning into something like a wind mill spinning frantically as he searched for memories of his ward. He found out his hardships, his goals and everything else. He somewhat understood the boy. To protect someone so innocent, sometimes the older ones would sacrifice themselves to preserve what little of it they could possibly protect. He had done it too, with his younger brother. Because of it, his little brother had loathed him. It was part of the plan, that his little brother would be filled with hate so as to make him strong and determined. It was better than being scared of everything. And when he grew up, he would die in his otouto's arms, passing on to him his clan's heritage, his own eyes. And when everything was done, his little brother would go back to his friends and protect them at all cost.
But of course, that part of the plan did not go as planned after he had 'died'. The first one being that he had accidentally became an immortal. A major turn back. The next was it turned out that his otouto had decided to destroy the village they had treated as home to avenge him. He was against it but he knew he had to do something. It was a good thing that even before the battle, he had managed to talk to his otouto's former best friend and gave him a weapon he knew would help make things right.
And of course, being a prodigy he had predicted right. His brother turned against his ally, those people who wanted to destroy their home and helped his best friend to kill the leader of the attackers. Both almost died, but they had defeated the opponent and lived to tell the tale. Those two then had a lot of trials ahead of them as they strived to hide their newly found love for each other and tried to hide it from the others. He helped as well, secretly of course. And at last, they had finally achieved peace for a long time, his brother's lover and best friend as the head of the moat powerful village and him as his protector.
But back to Lelouch, he knew he would not be so lucky. Humans, as he had learned over the years of observing from his space headquarters, had become dense and arrogant to everything around them. Only a few knew knowledge but they decide to be blind or deaf to everyone, afraid to be convicted. Such idiocy was to be expected. That was the reason why he had immediately liked the boy. He was not selfish and only wanted the best for his younger sister who he thought had suffered too much. Of course he was the one who suffered most, but he didn't care.
When the boy woke up after two months, he could not remember anything about who he was, and what had happened. Shujin had told him starting from the moment he found his almost destroyed body and him bringing his body to take care of. The boy was curious and surprisingly intelligent and concluded a lot of things. He was impressed inside but decided to keep his stoic face on. Together, they had watch as the Britannians enslaved and took advantage of the power they had to do anything they wanted. Lelouch told him he loathed Britannia and told him he wanted to destroy it. He thought that Shujin would laugh at him or tell him off, but instead he was surprised when Shujin told him he wanted to help him out. They had formed a lot of magnificent plans but of course, everything had to wait until Lelouch was well enough to stand up and fight, literally. His body had taken too much damage and he had manage to create new limbs for the boy, more genuine-looking than the one he used back then, but more powerful and deadly.
It was almost amusing to watch everything from the sidelines but he knew he had to step in sometime to help him. He had promised himself that. He just wished that manipulating and predicting these people would be as easy as what he had done in his past life. Or else all hell would break loose and he did not want to see that anytime soon.
"Lelouch I do hope you can pull yourself together, you'll have to become heartless like I had been to fulfil everything." He said to himself.
He turned to a corner and saw a cloaked figure he knew was a female, a little older than Lelouch, but younger than him, well his appearance anyway. He only looked 22 since he had received his Code. This female was younger than him, only 21 and wasn't even an immortal yet.
"Talking to oneself isn't really that healthy you know." She said. Her face was covered by the cloak's hood, only showing her silky black hair and naturally pale pink lips that was twisted in a small smile.
"Yes, I know that. But what did you expect? I've been doing this for at least 550 years now. Why stop?" he said as he walked past her.
"He still doesn't remember." It wasn't a question, but a statement. "We shouldn't really worry though. It'll be alright." She assured the older one.
Shujin looked at her in the eyes that said 'Oh really? How?' "In about a year after the Black Rebellion, you'll see for yourself. But until then, I'll keep my mouth shut!" she answered as she skipped past him, her cheerful voice releasing him from his sadness.
He shook his head with a small smile on his face as he muttered. "Why am I always stuck with two of the most obnoxious brats in the world again?"
"Because you're the aniki of the most obnoxious man in the face of the Earth!" she replied happily as she stepped into the garden.
"I can vouch for that."
"Of course you can!"
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[End of Chapter]
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Well guys? Liked it?
Oh, I don't really know if you appreciate my OC but she's gonna play a part in this soon so you've been warned guys.
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