Disclaimer: I own neither Code Geass or Bleach
Hello everyone, this is an idea I have been toying with for a while, a cossover of bleach and code geass.
The main focus of the story will be Lelouch vi Britannia, going with the theory that he died at the end of R2. The timeline I will be following is the britannian calender starting at 2018 a.t.b and moving on from there. I'm putting the brittanian invasion of japan a few years after the events of winter war and aging the bleach characters to fit into the time line of the fic.
It begins on that fateful day when the Deamon King Lelouch vi Britannia is killed by Zero.
So, onward to the story.
Prologue: The Unexpected Afterlife
The feeling, the hands...Nunnally...holding his could be barely felt, the tearing pain in his chest...that was becoming less and less as well, his vision was starting to blur...he was seeing the distorted vision of a shocked Nunnally and at the same time he was seeing the past,
The thought elevator, the coup at Pendragon,the planning for the requiem...
"Oniisama! I love you!"
He smiled.
"Destroy….. worlds….." he whispered, "create….. worlds…"
Mother dead, Charles on his throne, the war, Shinjiku, the black kinghts...Zero...Ashford...his friends...and Kururugi shrine...himself Suzaku and Nunally so long ago...together and happy.
He was still smiling when he died.
For an infinite moment, he floated in a void, no thoughts no emotions, just existance, and peace...he didnt know who he was or what he was, he just knew he simply exsited...and he was at peace...just for a moment.
Then suddenly feeling came crashing back, there was a sensation of falling, a disorienting lurch and he found himself back in the world he just left.
Zero! Zero! Zero! Zero!
The roar of the crowd chanting the name of the dark knight of justice was the first to reach his ears as he became aware of his surroundings, and found himself standing at the foot of the platform he had been traveling on. At first he was not sure what had happened. How was it that he was standing at the bottom of the platform? He had planned to stay on the throne until Suzaku as Zero arrived, so as to give the crowd...and the news cameras a full view of his demise. When had he come down, and why the chanting. He was expecting the chants, yes, but not until he was good and dead...The confused emperor was standing there, when he became aware of the sound of sobbing by his feet.
He looked down.
And stumbled back in shock. There was his little sister...sobbing hysterically...holding himself!
He looked down at himself, and back at the him that Nunally held, it all came back in one shocked instance, and it took even less time for his mind to reach the inevitable conclusion.
He was dead, dead! And he was looking at his corpse!. Even to a man who has seen as much as he has, this was too much. And he stumbled away clutching at his head. Past the float, past the royal guards standing in mute shock. Non of whom seemed to notice him or pay him the slightest attention. It took a long time until he regained a modicum of sanity and began to think. He was not expecting this...he had never been a religious man, and even after finding out about geass at most he had expected after death was to be assimilated to the collective consciousness not...this.
He looked down at himself again. He still had a body, and he was wearing the same cloths he died in, only they were no longer riped and blood spattered. He reached a ginger hand to his chest, the wound that killed him was no longer there, and in its place was a square metal plate and fixed to the middle of that plate was a long metal chain.
"That's your soul chain."
"A soul chain? And what is that exactly?" he asked, a moment passed before the words registered, and he realized what had happened, and spun around in shock.
Lelouch vi Britannia had an extraordinary mind. It more than his geass or any other weapon helped him conquer the world and finally end the cycle of hate that griped it. But even with a mind of such caliber, he was stunned and helpless at this moment. Having expected to die and be assimilated to the collective world of c, he now found himself in a position he had not planned for at all, a ghost looking down at his own corpse. He had barely managed to recover when he was shocked a second time, finding a strange attachment to his chest and being told its a...soul chain.
Lelouch stared at the man before him, he was a tall muscular japanese man wearing a black kimono with the sleeves pushed up around his elbows and with his long black hair gathered at the top of his head and tied off with a simple cloth band creating a small ponytail that falls as far as the tops of his ears. At his hip was a katana with a handle wrapped in purple with a square guard in a black sheath. The man was watching him with an amused expression on his lined face.
"Who, Who are you? And what do you mean my soul chain?" lelouch manged to gasp out.
"The soul chain is what connects your soul to your living body, when you die, the chain is severed. This is what has happed to you" the man answered.
It took a long moment for lelouch to process all this, and longer to find his voice.
"So this means i'm now dead, that much I already deduced, does this mean that i'm a ghost now? And more to the point, who are you?"
The man let out a small laugh " You are taking all this very calmly aren't you emperor? No you are not a ghost, ghosts are earth bound spirits who have lingering attachments to this world and are unable to move into the afterlife. You are a plus, a newly dead human spirit"
Lelouch was looking over his shoulder at the royal float. His sister Cornelia and her ragtag band of rebels were right on schedule and had provided the spark needed to ignite the people to rebel against his royal guards. Jeremiah had called the retreat and the rebels were on their way to free the captives.
"There is nothing you can do to or for them now emperor, dead men don't have the power to interfere with the living. They can no longer see you or hear you" The voice bought his attention back to the mysterious man.
"If that is the case, how can you talk to me and see me? I assume you are a, a plus too? And you still haven't told me who you are" lelouch responded. Reverting back to the self assured captivating voice he used when he was zero.
"Heh, you are right, I haven't told you who i'am" the man replied with a smirk. His gaze went up at the sky for a moment and than came back to focus on lelouch.
"I'm Hamada Riku, a humble shinigami assigned to this sector, I was waiting for the execution to finish so i can send the poor bastards you were going to kill to soul society, but it looks like I will be sending you instead"
Lelouch's newly regained composure shattered in an instant.
"A , a, what the hell do you mean Shinigami! a death god, and what the hell is soul society!" lelouch stammered out, his voice a squeak.
"Its were souls go when they are dead, if they stay here the chain of fate crumbles away and they turn to hollow"
"Hollow?"
"Evil spirits that eat pluses like you" The man, the Shinigami, answered, still wearing a small half smirk. And lelouch couldn't be sure in his shaken mental state, but it seemed that the blasted man was enjoying his distress.
"I see" lelouch managed when he had finally calmed himself "so the afterlife is not all roses and sunshine, if you can be someones lunch."
"Heh its a life emperor, just like the life you just left, now lets send you on your way, I for one would say you would deserve to turn into a hollow and be hunted down, but its my duty to send pluses to the soul society, not pick and choose the worthy ones"
"That is very noble of you" lelouch replied with a small smirk of his own, so it seems that even in death his fabricated reputation would follow him, the deamon lelouch. " So how do you go to this soul society?"
"Easy" Hamada drew his katana in a smooth motion and bought the hilt to bear on lelouch's forehead " Safe journey emperor, and keep a low profile in soul society, I get the feeling you wouldn't be popular there"
The hilt made contact with his forehead, and lelouch faded slowly into unconsciousness.
I was unsure if I should send Lelouch to Hueco Mundo or Soul Society at first, but decided on the whole, soul society is best. Mostly as I didn't feel like writing from a hollows view point and there is an excellent fic already about lelouch as a hollow. This fic is still in its infancy and the direction it will take is still up for debate, should lelouch join the shinigami? Or stay in rukongai? That is the next big thing I have to decide, and i'm still on the fence, any suggestions would be welcome.
Oh and Hamada is an oc i plan on using in the upcoming chapters.
This is the first serious fanfic i'm writing so reader input is greatly appreciated.
ps:This is an edited version of the frist two chapters rolled into one, as i felt it would be best if the death and sending off of lelouch was done in one leap.