Somehow I always manage to forget this:
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Code Geass. Really guys, would I be sitting in front of my computer writing fanfics if I could make the actual characters have amazing buttsex?
Suzaku walked over to the front stairs and bellowed up, "Guys! Get up! It's time to go! C'mon, we don't want to be late like we always are!"
As he walked back to the kitchen he could hear some rustling upstairs, a sign that the children were at least attempting to drag themselves out of bed.
Suzaku walked past the kitchen table and over towards where the kitchen sink was, also where he had left his large mug of coffee. If it weren't for coffee, he didn't think he would be able to function on a daily basis.
He reached for it absently at the same time that he reached into one of the upper cabinets to grab the bowls for the kids to eat their cereal. His hand missed the handle of the mug as he looked up to make sure he didn't drop the bowls; resulting in him instead pushing the mug off of the marble counter top and into his white shirt, the cup hitting his chest and then falling to the floor with a shatter and spew of glass and coffee. Now he had coffee all over the new shirt he had just gotten yesterday. And boy did it burn like hell.
"Oww! Damn it all to hell!" he growled so as the children would not hear. But Milly had already skipped down the stairs and into the kitchen, just in time to hear her father's colorful words.
"Ooo dad!" She waggled a finger at him. "You are going to end up being a bad influence on Rivalz!" she admonished.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," he said, glaring at her playfully. "Are you dressed and ready to go?"
"Well, I'm not naked," she replied in a smart-ass tone. "And I'm only ready when Shirley is. Which will probably be never considering how slow she is."
Suzaku was on the floor now trying to wipe up all the spilled coffee. He looked up at her tiredly. "Well then will you please go help her? And make sure that Rivalz is ready to go as well. I need to go change again. We seriously need to leave in about half an hour and I don't want to be late for it, like everything else that we do."
She rolled her eyes and went back down the hallway towards the stairs skipping and yelling, "Hurry up guys!"
'This is going to be a very long day,' he thought as he finished wiping up the spilled coffee and picking up the pieces of the broken mug. Looking back to make sure that he got it all, he walked quickly down the hallway. He took the stairs, two at a time, and ran into his bedroom at the end of the hallway to the right.
As he was about to shut the door, he felt a tug on his pants. Looking down he saw a very tired Rivalz.
"Daddy, do we have to go? I wanna go back to sleep. I don't even have any clothes to wear." He made a gesture to his underwear clad self.
Suzaku sighed and patted the boy's navy blue hair.
"Can you wait a few minutes or ask one of your sisters for help? I'm having a crisis of my own as you can probably tell," he replied, gesturing to his own coffee stained predicament.
Rivalz snickered and gave a thumbs up as he walked back into his room, dragging his favorite blanket behind him.
Suzaku walked over to his closet, listening to his daughters bicker, as he looked for a new shirt.
"It's my turn to wear that dress, Milly!"
"Well perhaps you should have gotten up a bit earlier then, hmmm?"
"But it was in my closet!! I should get to wear it! It's my turn!"
He could imagine Shirley crossing her arms and pushing out her lower lip in a pout. Sometimes it was hard to wrap your mind around the fact that they were twins. Their personalities could differ so greatly sometimes.
"Isn't there another dress that is the exact same as this one, but in yellow?" Milly asked, trying to come up with ways to keep the dress for the day.
Suzaku sighed and grabbed another white shirt out of his closet. 'Maybe it isn't such a bad thing to have so many,' he thought as he looked in to see the numerous amounts of white shirts in his closet. He chuckled and started to pull on the skin-tight white turtleneck as he walked out of his room. He stopped to pull the shirt down over his abs to see Shirley and Milly standing side by side in front of his door in matching dresses.
Milly's dress was a light coral pink in color and had a cream colored ribbon tied around the waist. The back of her dress was laced up with a thin cream-colored ribbon.
Shirley's dress was a light cream color with a coral pink ribbon cinched at the waist and a coral colored ribbon criss-crossed up the back of her dress. Other than that, the dresses were the exact same.
They had a white lacy collar and long sleeves that ended in white lace covering up the girls' hands. The bottom of the dress poofed out after the ribbon at the waist and ended a little bit after the girls' knees. The bottom was fringed with snow-white lace and they both had bright white tights on with matching black Mary Jane shoes. They both had their hair up in pigtails, but Milly with coral ribbons and Shirley with cream. They would have looked exactly the same had it not been for the differences in eye and hair color.
Suzaku kneeled down before them. "You girls look very nice, but that might not be the way you want to dress for where we're going. You'll end up ruining your pretty dresses," he said with a mock worried look on his face.
"Where are we going again dad?" Shirley asked, having just followed Milly's suit in dressing.
"Remember? I told you last night that we were going to the zoo so that you guys would finally get a chance to meet Lelouch."
"Do we have to change dad? Can't we please leave the dresses on?" Milly pleaded, widening her eyes and pushing out her lower lip to try and pull off a convincing puppy-dog look.
"Don't you want to run around though?" Suzaku asked, a bit confused as to why they wanted to wear their favorite dresses somewhere where they might get ruined or dirty.
"We do…" they said in unison.
"But we want to look-," Shirley continued.
"Nice to meet your new girlfriend," Milly finished for her, earning a scowl from Shirley who hated it when Milly would complete her sentences.
Suzaku cringed visibly. He still hadn't exactly told his children yet that Lelouch wasn't a girl… That wasn't exactly something that you just brought up at the dinner table. It wasn't exactly going to be easy to tell his young children either. Lelouch had been nagging him about it too, for the past week ever since they had arranged for him to meet Suzaku's children. He wasn't going to be happy if Suzaku didn't break the news before they got to the zoo.
Suzaku sighed and stood up, patting both girls on the head. "Go change into something that you won't be afraid to get messy, okay?"
He maneuvered past the girls and went down the other hallway towards Rivalz's room. He looked in to see the boy lying on his bed, thumb in mouth and blanket wrapped around him so he looked like a burrito.
The room was painted green and blue in a checkered fashion, posters of racing bikes hung all over. The room was also a pigsty. There were toys scattered everywhere and Suzaku was surprised that Rivalz could still make it all the way to his bed through the mess on the floor. He would make him clean it up later, but right now they had to go.
Suzaku pushed through the mountains of action figures and toy cars to get to his son's bed. He walked to the other side and shook him gently.
"Hey, Rivalz. Get up buddy, we have to get you dressed and then go. The girls are already ready," he said softly.
The eight-year old looked up at him groggily. "Mhmm," he mumbled before turning over on the bed.
Suzaku sighed loudly and picked up the half-asleep Rivalz and carried him over to his dresser on the other side of the room.
"What do you want to wear today?" Suzaku asked as he started rifling through the drawers of t-shirts, shorts, and all sorts of other clothing items that the eight-year old wore.
"How 'bout the transformers shirt?"
"The one with Bumblebee on it?" the grey-eyed boy asked hesitantly.
"Sure."
The boy beamed. "Yeah!" he exclaimed, lifting his arms above his head so that his father could pull the shirt down over him. Suzaku stood up.
"You pick out a pair of pants while I go get your cereal ready okay?"
"Fine," Rivalz huffed.
Suzaku made his way out of the messy bedroom and down the stairs again. Almost slipping on one of Milly's (or was it Shirley's?) roller skates, he finally made it to the kitchen where the two girls were sitting up at the island on one of the barstools. They each had a bowl of cereal in front of them, Frosted Mini Wheat's in a yellow bowl for Shirley and Frosted Flakes in a bright pink bowl for Milly.
Their hair was no longer in pigtails, but long braids that were held together at the end by ponytails that matched their shirt. They had changed out of their dresses and were now in matching jeans with a hole in the left knee and t-shirts that were a tad too big for them. Not the same color though. Lime green on Shirley and sky blue on Milly.
They always dressed the same, but refused to have the same color clothing because they said they were twins, but not the same color. Well, they used to say that when they were little, thinking that when people judged you by your color, it was your hair color and not the color of your skin.
They turned their heads simultaneously as Suzaku walked in, with a look on their faces saying, "Do we look ok now?"
He smiled brightly at them, "Thanks for changing girls, you look great."
They grinned and turned back to their cereal, kicking their legs back and forth a good three feet off the ground. Suzaku walked over to the pantry that was way too big and peered inside.
"Girls, do you know if there are any cheerios left for your brother?"
"There should be. Maybe if you-" Milly was cut off as Shirley finished for her, revenge for earlier that morning.
"Look on the bottom left-hand shelf in the back," Shirley finished with a smile.
"Thank you, Shirley."
Milly glared, but didn't say anything because her mouth was full of frosted flakes. She would have hit her upside the head for being a smart-ass, but their dad was right there. Shirley just smirked in Milly's direction and continued to eat the rest of her breakfast.
Suzaku pulled out the cheerios from their place next to the cake mix and poured them into a blue bowl for Rivalz.
Just as he was pulling out the milk, Rivalz came bounding into the kitchen skidding to a halt and yelling, "Ta-Da!" He spread his arms in a showy fashion and asked, "Do I look okay daddy?"
For once, Rivalz was matched. Yesterday he had come downstairs with a lime green shirt and red sweatpants on. But today he had matched his yellow transformers t-shirt with navy blue jeans.
"Oh my god! Rivalz you actually match for once! What a surprise!" the girls cried in unison. He sneered at them.
"Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh." He stuck his tongue out at them, a gesture they quickly returned.
"Rivalz sit down and eat your cereal now," Suzaku snapped. He lifted him up onto one of the barstools and set the bowl in front of him.
"I'm going to start the van. I'll be back in a couple minutes and I expect all of you to be done and have your dishes in the sink." With that he left the room.
"Wow, dad sure has his boxers in a bunch," Milly said while munching on a spoonful of cereal.
"Maybe it's because he thinks that we won't like his new girlfriend," Shirley suggested, hopping down off the stool she shared with Milly and walking over to the sink, standing up on her tiptoes and setting her glass bowl in it gently.
"I bet'cha she's really hot if she got dad's attention. I mean have you seen all of the pretty ladies that have stopped by and have had dates with dad?" Rivalz said while chewing on his cheerios. It was dribbling down his chin a little while he was talking because his mouth was full.
"Don't chew with your mouth open Rivalz!" Shirley admonished, passing him a napkin.
"You have a point Rivalz. He didn't even give them a second thought, but this Lelouch girl…" She thought over this for a moment, twirling her spoon in the air before her eyes. "They have been dating for three months now right?"
"Four and a half, actually," Shirley answered sheepishly, tapping her fingers on the white marble counter top.
"Well, well madam stalker," Milly giggled.
"I-I am not a stalker!" Shirley stammered. "I merely overheard dad on the phone with her," she muttered. Just then they heard the front door open.
"Ooo!" Shirley grabbed the bowls away from Milly and Rivalz and threw the cereal away, basically throwing the bowls into the sink.
"Hey! I was still eating that!" Rivalz protested whiningly.
Milly just sighed and slid off her high seat, walking past Suzaku as he entered the kitchen.
"Ready guys?" he asked although there wasn't any inquiry in his voice.
"Yeah!" Rivalz exclaimed, jumping down off the stool and running after Milly towards the van.
"Yup!" Shirley replied, chasing after them. Suzaku smiled and trailed after the kids.
'I wonder what they'll think when they meet him. I'm kind of worried about the him part though…' With that, he shut and locked the front door and walked down the driveway of their large mansion.
A/N: So what did you think? I don't really know how this is going to end up. (Angst or Humor, Romance or more Angst, etc.) I know how it ends already though XD
It seems that I just keep digging myself into a bigger hole with each of these multi-chaptered fics that I put up. Ah well, can't be helped sometimes. I blame those peanuts I ate before bed two nights ago. *shakes fist* you evil peanuts, you!
So, reviews are nice. They remind me that there are actually some people reading the fics I put up XD They also motivate that little part of me that knows I should put up an update ;)