O1.

"Now repeat after me: Say-o-na-ra." Suzaku's voice could be heard throughout the house as he tried to teach Nunnally a few Japanese phrases. Lelouch's younger sister repeated them with hardly any flaw. "Sayonara."

Suzaku smiled even though she couldn't see. "Very good. That means 'goodbye'." Lelouch, who had been watching, let out a small sigh. He'd have to be saying 'sayonara' to all of his friends very soon.

O2.

"Suzaku! Gah, Suzaku, wait up!" Lelouch panted, trying to drag himself along behind the running eleven. "Hurry up, Lelouch! We're going to be late to the movie!" Suzaku called back, not even waiting for his boyfriend to catch up. Lelouch scowled and kept pushing himself forward. Suzaku had better make it up to him in the dark of the movie theater.

O3.

To Suzaku, Lelouch and Zero were two different people. No matter how many times it was stated that Lelouch Lamperouge was Zero, they would always be different. Lelouch was Lelouch, his lover, his best friend, his other half. Zero was Zero, the man who wore a mask, the monster that killed Euphie, and his most formidable enemy yet.

O4.

"Okay, it's rather dark in here…oh my god, what's that? Holy shit!" Lelouch, aghast, dropped the controller and scuttled away while Suzaku laughed. The new game he bought, Amnesia, proved to be an excellent way of scaring his friends.

O5.

The stress was unbearable. The Black Knights had lost their latest battle, and they were still recovering. Lelouch doubted that they would be ready for their next mission in time. He strode down Ashford's hallways, absorbed in his own thoughts, when a hand landed on his shoulder. "Hey, Lelouch, are you-" Lelouch snarled and smacked the hand away without realizing who it was.

There behind him was a very hurt looking Suzaku, who was holding his now injured hand. Lelouch's anger immediately faded to be replaced with guilt. "I'm sorry, Suzaku. I didn't know it was you." He gently took the eleven's bruised hand in his own, planting a small kiss on it. Suzaku felt instantly better.

O6.

Sex. What a vulgar term. That's what Lelouch called it every single time. But Suzaku preferred the term "making love". Because that's what they were doing, wasn't it?

O7.

"What?" Suzaku's green eyes were wide with shock while Lelouch laughed. "You didn't know that?"

"But I…" Suzaku looked down at his stomach, mildly upset. Lelouch stopped laughing and rolled his eyes. "Men can't have children, Suzaku. It's physically impossible."

O8.

Lelouch grit his teeth in frustration as he tried to undo some of his buttons. At any other given time, they were always easy to pop in and out of each buttonhole, but whenever it was in the heat of the moment, it seemed impossible.

Suzaku gave a little laugh and started to help him remove his shirt. "You're so impatient, calm down." The Brittanian prince sighed at his lover's easy-going personality.

Finally his shirt was off. Suzaku kissed him again, one hand on his waist and the other on the school council's table. The room was cleared of everyone…or so they thought.

"Ow!" Lelouch felt Suzaku wince and pull away, holding his bleeding finger. Arthur looked almost triumphant. "I'm going to have to get a band aid…" Suzaku rushed off, leaving Lelouch alone and very pissed off. He glared daggers at the cat. It was almost as if Arthur was jealous sometimes.

O9.

Blood. It soaked the front of Lelouch's robes, bleeding onto Suzaku as well. The pain was crippling, black tingeing the edge of his vision. The sword's cold metal blade felt foreign inside of his body, ripping along the edges of his heart. He was losing blood quickly. Words tumbled out of his mouth, much too quiet for anyone except for Suzaku to hear.

But if anyone else was close enough, they would've heard "I love you, Suzaku."

1O.

"Blink-182, Suzaku? Really?" The pair had been sitting in Lelouch's room, hanging out and just listening to their iPods. Lelouch was sitting on Suzaku's lap, now twisting around to give him a disapproving look. The eleven looked hurt. "What? I like their music." Lelouch sighed, getting up and replacing Suzaku's red iPod with his own silver one. He selected a song and walked back to his lover as the chorus rang out. "I wanna fuck you hard, I wanna feel you deep…" He had picked "Sexting" by Blood on the Dance Floor. They proceeded to do exactly as the song was saying.

11.

Everyone else saw Emperor Lelouch Vi Britannia as a heartless, vile tyrant. His cruel violet eyes would gaze condescendingly down upon everyone else, his smile radiating absolute power.

But his knight was the only one who would see him cry at night, his eyes filled with tears that had been pent up for too long. He was the only one that would see him when he slept, dried tears still on his face, but the mask of the tyrant ruler gone, to be replaced with that of the outcast child prince he once knew so long ago.