Prologue-Part One

The Meeting

Lelouch was in the middle of ignoring every annoying noise spewing forth from his teacher's mouth. She had been in the middle of teaching the class about the importance of remembering your multiplication when he had stopped listening in favor of doodling across the paper that was supposed to contain his notes with the dismissive thought, "As if we really needed a twenty minute lecture on the importance of multiplying and how we will use it in our everyday lives."

So it was to his utter surprise when a kid he had never seen before plopped down in the chair on his left. Now, Lelouch wasn't normally so easily startled, and he couldn't even remember the last time he had let the emotion spread across his face. Something clearly must have shown however, whether it had been plastered across his face or shown in his startling violet eyes he was unsure, because the new kid glanced over at him and by way of explanation said, "Hey! I'm Suzaku by the way. My family and I just moved here from Detroit."

The first thing Lelouch noticed about Suzaku after he had regained some of his customary composure was his dark green, emotion filled eyes. Lelouch had often heard the saying, "The eyes are the windows through which one may gaze upon another's soul", and if that were true then Suzaku's eyes could only be truly described as a grand stage for his emotions to dance across at their leisure. The next thing that came to Lelouch's attention about Suzaku was his messy hair and broad, charmingly adorable smile. He was amazed by how open this total stranger was with his emotions and at how happy he seemed to be at being cooped up in this hell disguised as an elementary school.

As he began to let his eyes wander from the newcomer's face, he took in his uniform tan and athletic build. Feeling his heart race and a light blush spread across his face for some reason unknown to him, he mumbled back to Suzaku, "I'm Lelouch."

Suzaku gave him yet another toothy grin and turned back to the front of the classroom to at least seem like he was half listening to whatever the teacher was spouting on about now, unlike Lelouch who kept his eyes glued to Suzaku, unable to take in enough of him at once. After about a minute or so of this, Suzaku turned towards Lelouch and whispered, "Is she normally this long winded?" Lelouch, who was totally unprepared for the change in subject, stared at Suzaku for a score of seconds before his giggles bubbled forth uncontrollably. Even as he was doing it, Lelouch couldn't believe he was giggling like some absent minded female staring at the guys in their gym outfits.

The sudden burst of girlish giggles was like a beacon for the teacher to find the source of such a disturbance to her lecture. She was shocked to find that the culprit was Lelouch though. She normally would have asked such a disruptive student to be quiet and pay attention, but Lelouch was never one to be openly happy, she couldn't even recall Lelouch so much as smiling, much less giggling as if the whole world were some gigantic joke only he could comprehend.

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Lelouch and Suzaku continued to joke and giggle like a couple of girls throughout the rest of the class until it was finally time for recess. When Lelouch informed Suzaku that they had recess after their math class and that meant they had an hour of free time to do what ever they wished, Suzaku's face lit up with such radiant joy that Lelouch couldn't help but wonder at the fact that one person could hold in so much emotion at once and not burst like a balloon.

"So what all is there to do out at recess", Suzaku asked excitedly, dragging Lelouch through the halls by his wrist.

"Umm", answered Lelouch, "lots of things I suppose, and could we slow down just a bit? It's not as if outside is going to leave without us."

Suzaku stopped and grinned down at the shorter boy saying, "Come on Lulu-chan, don't be such a stick in the mud. And besides, the sooner we get outside, the sooner we get to do all the fun stuff we're missing out on discussing it."

Lelouch raised an eyebrow quizzically asking, "Fun stuff? All that's out there is grass, dirt, screaming kids and creepy spiders." He shuddered at the last when an even more important question came to him, "And what did you just call me?" he asked.

"I called you Lulu-chan. It's your nickname so you had best just get used to it." Then with an evil gleam in his beautiful green eyes he asked, "So does that mean you're afraid of spiders?"

Lelouch didn't have to see his friends face, he could hear the grin in the playfully asked question. "Don't even think about it," he shot back adding a glare that could have sent a pit-bull running with its tail tucked for good measure. "He wouldn't," thought Lelouch as he narrowed his violet eyes further, glaring at his new found friend.

"All right, all right," laughed Suzaku raising his one free hand defensively as he did so, seeing as his other hand was still clasped firmly around Lulu-chan's wrist.

A bell rang throughout the school, bringing the pair back to reality. "Oh no," Suzaku practically screamed, "we're late to recess! All the other kids have probably started without us!" He shot down the hallway like a cork from a bottle, looking for a door to the outside world.

Lelouch rolled his violet eyes and followed his friend. Not that he really had much of a choice seeing as his friend's hand was still clamped firmly around his wrist as if afraid that if he let go his only friend would disappear. Lelouch was surprised to find that he didn't mind the contact in the slightest.

Later that night Lelouch was lying on the silk sheets of his bed in his parent's mansion, he couldn't help but smile at the thought that he had finally found a friend that he felt he could trust to always be there, and nothing could possibly tear them apart.

Right?

End of Prologue – Part One