This world is slowly rotting. We go about our daily lives pretending not to notice the sorry state our world is in but we can all feel it.
In our souls we can feel just how rotten our existence has become. We can feel just how rotten our world has become. With the Britannian Empire now ruling a third of the planet, including our once strong nation of Japan, our world had fallen to it's knees.
Our government was corrupted by greedy politicians and pampered Britannian noble men. Our society was even more so tainted.
The Britannian citizens believed that taking innocent lives was alright, more than that, they believed that it was a good thing for their empire to eliminate the so called "vermin" that populated the other two thirds of the world.
I was sick of it, sick of living in a world that could not be changed, sick of living in this cruel world where the strong oppressed the weak.
I was sick of sitting here following the same foolish routine while I pretended not to notice the gradual rotting of our world's very existence.
I was sick of having to sit back and watch the slackers, the murderers and the child molesters as they walked past me simply because I wasn't a Britannian.
It was that day that everything changed for me, it was that day that I decided to no longer put up with all of the cruelty that the Britannian's threw at us. It was that day that I knew I was destined for something greater.
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I had been living a lie since the day I had come to Japan.
My name, a lie
My history, a lie
My very existence was a lie, nothing but lies.
However this world was full to the brim with lies. My lies added very little to the sea of lies that had accumulated over the history of man kind.
The few falsehoods within my life did not even compare to the falsehoods of this world.
So many things within our world were lies. Our mayors, prime ministers, parents, siblings and friends all lied to us.
We pretended to care about those around us; we pretended to care about what was going on in this cruel, corrupted, world.
We lied to ourselves the most of all. We told ourselves that our world was fine the way it was, that the corruption within our society was fine.
However despite all the lies we told ourselves we all knew it wasn't okay.
Our world, thanks to the Britannian Empire, was drowning in it's own egotism.
We believed that our egotism was irrelevant but it was the egotism of our filthy, corrupt, empire that caused innocent blood to be shed.
It was the egotism of our filthy, corrupt, world that had caused my mother's death.
It was the egotism of that filthy, corrupt, man that had gotten my little sister and I sent here, to Japan.
I was sick of it, sick of living in a world that could not be changed, sick of living in this cruel world where the strong oppressed the weak.
I was sick of sitting here following the same foolish routine while I pretended not to notice the gradual rotting of our world's very existence.
I was sick of having to sit here and lie to those around me while the very same empire that had murdered my mother and crippled my little sister hovered over us all, close enough for me to destroy should I take the opportunity.
It was that day that everything changed for me, it was that day that I decided to no longer put up with all of the cruel, corrupt, Brittanians who considered themselves to be better than everyone else. It was that day that I knew I was destined for something greater.
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A young man with ash coloured hair and violet eyes pulled himself from his computer chair. He slid on the jacket of his school uniform before grabbing his bad and heading from the building.
"Im late," he stated with a sigh as he ran towards the school building, his unlatched school bag in hand.
He was never going to hear the end of it if he showed up late for another Physics class.
He turned a corner and his scrawny body hit a larger body, his books going flying from his bag and scattering across the ground as he fell, hitting the ground with a thud.
"Im so sorry," the person he had run into stated as he kneeled down and collected the younger male's books for him.
"No need to apologize, it was my fault, I was in a hurry and wasn't watching where I was going," the boy replied.
He glanced at the other boy and the corners of his lips curved up in a small smile. The other teen had sandy coloured hair and brown eyes. He looked about the same height as the ash haired boy but wasn't as scrawny and had the muscle definition that the younger teen lacked.
Once the older of the two had collected all of the fallen books he helped the fallen boy to his feet and handed him all of his books along with his bag.
"Thanks," he stated "I am Lelouch Lamperouge, I'm the vice president of the student council." The sandy haired teen smiled a bit.
"Well it's nice to meet you Lelouch, my name is Light Yagami, I am a new student that just transferred into Ashford Academy," Light replied.
"I assume that whoever you live with is an honorary Britannian then since Ashford doesn't allow eleven's to attend here unless they or their parents are high ranking Honorary Britannian's." Light nodded at Lelouch's analysis.
"That's correct, my father is an Honorary Britannian who worked with the Britannian Police Force," he responded "What about you're parents?"
Lelouch internally scoffed. He couldn't exactly tell him that mom was Marianne the Flash and that his father was Charles Zi Britannia, the emperor of Britannia and ruler of one third of the world.
"My parents were both in the military and were killed fighting against the EU," Lelouch lied.
"Oh, I'm sorry to bring up such painful memories," Light apologized earning a sigh from Lelouch.
"It's alright, that was seven years ago. I mean it still hurts to talk about it but it's not as painful as it used to be," he replied.
More lies had escaped his lips. He despised having to constantly lie to those around him.
"So what class are you heading to?" Light inquired.
"Oh, I have physics."
"Grade eleven physics?" he asked, Lelouch responding with a nod. "That's where I am heading as well, but I seem to have forgotten what room it is in." The sound of the school bell reverberating throughout the area around the school disturbed their conversation and Lelouch cursed under his breath.
"We've gotta go now Light or were going to be locked out of the classroom!" Lelouch exclaimed as he grabbed Light's wrist and bolted in the direction of the physics room.
Once the shock wore off Light ran after Lelouch and they soon skidded to a stop in front of the physics classroom as the teacher was closing the door.
"Lamperouge, you're late again! Didn't I tell you that if you turned up late to my class again I was going to give you Detention!?" the teacher asked angrily.
Light intervened before the situation could deteriorate any further.
"Im sorry, it was my fault Lelouch was late," Light stated as he stepped forward. "I ran into him while he was on his way to class and we had to pick up all of his books and other supplies."
The teacher blinked in surprise then nodded.
"I see, and you must be my new student, Light Yagami, correct?" the teen nodded "Well if that is why you two were late I suppose I can let it slide this time, but next time you're late you will be spending the night in detention, understood Lamperouge!?" she asked angrily and Lelouch nodded quickly before entering the room with Light, both of them taking their seats.
"Thanks for covering for me Light," Lelouch stated earning a smile and a nod from the large teen.
"Don't worry about it Lelouch, besides it was my fault you were late so it is only natural that I would cover for you."
"Lulu! There you are! Rivalz and I thought you were skipping again!" Shirley exclaimed as Lelouch and Light pulled out their books.
"Sorry, Nunnally wasn't feeling well this morning so I had to stay home for a little bit to look after her," Lelouch replied to the ginger.
"Alright students quiet down, I would like to introduce out new student." Light stood and everyone looked at him.
"Hello, my name is Light Yagami and I just transferred to Ashford Academy today, I hope that we can all get along well," Light stated and everyone began to whisper to each other.
"He's an eleven," one girl whispered to another.
"What's an eleven doing here?" one boy asked another.
"Maybe his parents are Honorary Britannians," one of them stated.
"Still… I don't think he should be here, he's an eleven, not a Britannian," Nina said quietly.
Light sat back down with a gentle sigh.
It was the welcome he had expected.
"Don't listen to them Light most of them are just egotistic idiots who think that they are better than everyone else just because their parents are rich," Lelouch stated with a slight scowl that earned a chuckle from Light.
"You're a Britannian yet you don't seem too fond of other Britannians," Light replied and Lelouch laughed awkwardly.
"Im just not a big fan of the egotism of out empire," he stated as he pulled the cap off one of his pens.
"Why is Lelouch talking to that eleven?" Nina asked Shirley.
"Maybe they are friends," Rivalz replied.
"But why would he want to be friends with an eleven?" the girl inquired.
"We shouldn't judge him just because he's an eleven, he is probably a really nice person. I mean if Lelouch likes him he cant be all that bad! Im gonna go sit with them!" Shirley announced as she stood and walked over to Light and Lelouch, going to sit beside Light and instead slipping on a banana peel.
Both boys blinked in surprise and Light caught Shirley before she could hit the ground.
"Are you alright?" he asked with a worried expression on his face as he held the ginger close to him.
Shirley blushed profusely and nodded.
"Y-Yes, im alright. Thank you so much for catching me!" she stated with a flustered expression on her face.
"Your welcome," Light replied with a smile as he put Shirley back on her feet.
Lelouch couldn't help but snicker a little as Shirley sat down.
"You should have just let her fall, after all the times she's fallen in the past no harm can even be done anymore," the Britannian boy stated, Shirley's face turning an even deeper shade of red.
"LULU!" she exclaimed, almost falling out of her seat.
"Oh come on Lelouch, doing that wouldn't be very nice, now would it?" Light asked with a smile.
"Well if you are going to catch all of the girls on the campus that trip you should also at least catch me when you bump into me Light," Lelouch teased.
"The only reason I didn't catch you is because I was startled," Light replied, seemingly unfazed by Lelouch's teasing.
"So if you weren't startled you would catch me?" Lelouch inquired with a slight smirk.
"Of course, I see no reason not to," Light responded.
Rivalz then ran over and shoved Lelouch back, Light catching him and wrapping his arms around Lelouch to keep him stable.
The moment the girls noticed they all began to squeal while Shirley and Nina just tilted their heads in confusion.
"What did you do that for Rivalz!?" Lelouch asked angrily as his face began to turn a deep shade of crimson.
"I wanted to see if he would really catch you," the bluenette stated with a shrug.
"You okay Lelouch?" Light asked and the dark haired boy nodded.
"Yeah, just a little surprised," he replied as he pulled away from Light and sat up straight in his chair.
"Can you all be quiet!? I am trying to teach!" the teacher exclaimed and Rivalz bolted back to his seat as she turned around and glared at Light, Lelouch and Shirley.
"Yeah, you three shouldn't make so much noise," Rivalz stated with a mischievous grin.
"Hey! It wasn't us! It was Rivalz who pushed Lelouch into Light!" Shirley exclaimed.
"It was not! Don't try to blame it on me!" Rivalz stated as he feigned innocence.
"Don't lie Rivalz, all three of us saw you do it," Lelouch retorted.
"D-Don't argue guys," Nina stuttered.
"Well we wouldn't need to argue if those three would stop trying to pin everything on me."
"But it was you Rivalz. You pushed Lelouch into me for no apparent reason," Light stated calmly as he began to write down what the teacher had written on the board.
"See!?" It's three against one!" Shirley exclaimed, almost falling out of her seat again.
"Actually I agree with Rivalz…" Nina stated shyly.
"Still three against two," Lelouch said with a yawn as he rested his head against his hand.
"Hey what's going on everyone~?" Milly asked as she opened the classroom door.
"Madam President! Rivalz pushed Lulu and tried to blame it on us!" Shirley tattled.
"Oh so you're darling Lulu did show up after all," Milly teased as she approached.
Lelouch let out an exasperated sigh and Light rubbed his own temple.
"Oh Light, so your in this class too?" Milly inquired earning a nod from the honorary Britannian.
"Yeah, I am taking both physics 11 and physics 12 this year," he responded as he began to copy down a second set of notes.
"Do you intend to graduate early?" the blonde asked.
"Of course, the earlier I graduate the sooner I will be able to join the police force."
Wait, what does she mean graduate? Arent you only in grade 11 like us?" Rivalz asked.
"No, I am in grade 12 like Milly," Light replied.
Lelouch yawned again and tapped his finger against his notebook.
"You look bored Lelouch," the sandy haired male observed.
"Lelouch always looks bored," Rivalz snickered.
"I cant help it, school is just so boring," the dark haired boy stated with a sigh.
Light watched the boy closely. He had misinterpreted him.
At first glance he had seemed like a hard working intellect, but now he could see that he had been wrong.
He was obviously still highly intelligent but he was lazy.
Lelouch didn't seem to care about school in the least.
It wasn't even that Lelouch was lazy, more like he simply wasn't motivated by the concept of school.
"What is it Light?" Lelouch inquired when he noticed the older male's eyes on him.
"Oh, nothing Lelouch. I was just caught up in my own thoughts."
The teachers eyebrow twitched.
"So Lelouch do you wanna go to a movie with us?" Rivalz asked and Lelouch sighed.
"Hey…" the teacher trailed off.
"I don't know if I can," the scrawny boy responded.
"Light and Nunnally can also come!" Shirley exclaimed in an attempt to get Lelouch to join them.
"Hey!" the teacher snapped and was yet again ignored.
"I guess I can come if I bring Nunnally with me…" he said as he glanced at Light.
Lelouch watched the older male intently.
He had misinterpreted him.
At first glanced he seemed like an honest, gentle person, but now he could see that he had been wrong.
He could sense that Light was deceitful, a liar like himself, he could sense how artificial the older male was.
Light was intelligent enough to pull it off though.
Nobody except Lelouch could feel how fake Light was acting.
"Lelouch?" he was broken from his thoughts when Light called his name.
"Yeah Light?"
"Is it alright if I join you all for that movie?" he inquired earning a quick nod from the smaller boy.
"Yeah, that's fine."
"HEY!" the teacher shouted and they all looked at her.
"Yes?" Milly asked.
"Miss Ashford, return to your own classroom! Lamperouge, Yagami, Fenette, Einstein, Cardemonde focus! There are two pages worth of notes on the board! Write them down!" she bellowed.
Light nudged Lelouch's arm then handed him the second set of notes that he had copied down.
Lelouch glanced at him then nodded his thanks.
"Lelouch and I are already done our notes," Light stated and Lelouch leaned his head back on his hand.
"I am also done the notes," Nina said as she fiddled with her thumbs.
"How in the world are you done the notes Lamperouge!?" she asked angrily as she stomped over.
She snatched the notes from in front of Lelouch and gasped when she looked at the neatly organized notes Light had written for Lelouch.
"As you can see, I am done," Lelouch said, the corners of his lips curving up in a slight grin.
The woman threw the notes down in front of the teen then continued to pester the other students.
Milly shoved Lelouch back into Light then winked at them before fleeing from the classroom.
Light caught Lelouch again and they both let out exasperated sighs.
"As always Milly seems to enjoy making trouble for others," Lelouch stated and Light chuckled lightly as the younger teen pulled away from him.
"That is just the way Milly is though," Light replied.
"Yeah, your right about that."
Lelouch's cool attitude attracted lots of girls. Because of that Light had assumed that Lelouch would be a player, yet he wasn't.
Lelouch was much more of a modest person than Light had originally believed him to be.
"How long have you known Milly?" Light inquired quietly.
"Since I was young. Milly was one of the only people I knew when I moved here from Britannia," he responded and Light smiled gently.
"So you two have been friends for a long time," he stated.
Lelouch shot a glance at Light from the corner of his eye as the teacher resumed her lesson.
Light was a kiss ass.
He had thought Light was just trying to be nice but now he could see that Light was trying to win everyone's favour.
He was trying to win them over so that he could use them if he needed to.
The teacher handed out a work book and Lelouch stared down at it blankly.
"Do you need help Lelouch?" Light asked and the dark haired boy narrowed his eyes.
What did Light take him for?
Just because school bored him Light seemed to believe Lelouch to be some sort of idiot.
He faked a smile and shook his head.
"Im fine, just a little bored, but thanks for the offer," he replied, attempting to keep the frustration out of his voice.
Light watched Lelouch from the corner of his eye and let out an inaudible sigh.
Lelouch was frustrated. The boy was clever enough to pick up on Light's challenge right away and now he was angry.
"I see, well I hope you do well," Light responded with a feigned smile.
They both began working and the two boys flipped to the second page at the exact same time.
Shirley watched in amazement as the two of them finished the second page of the workbook. She then glanced down at her sheet where she was only on question two on the first page.
Nina was the first one to hand the assignment in and less than a minute later both Light and Lelouch handed in their work books.
The teacher stared down at Lelouch's work in awe.
"Y-You finished an assignment Lamperouge!?" she asked with wide eyes.
Lelouch ignored her then sat back down at his desk.
"Hey Lelouch can I ask you a question?" Light inquired and Lelouch turned his attention to the Japanese teen.
"Yeah, go ahead," he stated.
"Who was the first emperor of Britannia?" he asked with a defeated look on his face as he stared down at his work sheet about Britannian history.
Lelouch blinked in surprise then grabbed his bag and rummaged through it until he found a work sheet on Japanese History.
"I'll make you a deal. I will do your Britannian History paper for you if you do my Japanese History paper."
Light nodded and they exchanged papers.
"Lulu! Light! You shouldn't do such things!" Shirley exclaimed, this time falling off her chair and hitting the ground with a thump.
The boys glanced at each other then at the ginger.
"Are you alright Shirley?" Light asked as the girl stood then flopped back into her seat with a sigh.
"Yeah I am fine," she stated with a huff of frustration.
Class soon ended and everyone headed home or back to their dorms.
Lelouch finished Light's paper then are dinner with Nunnally before heading to his room and flopping onto his bed.
"It would be a good idea for me to befriend him… He is clever… Maybe even more so than me," he sighed as his eyes flickered closed, the teen soon dozing off.
He wanted something more, something better than this boring, mundane life that he was living.
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Light walked into the house and discarded his shoes at the door.
"Hey Light! Welcome home!" Sayu chirped happily from the couch "How was your first day Mr. Ashford Academy?"
Light smiled a little.
"Good, I met someone very interesting today," he replied and Sayu grinned.
"Oooh, a new girl? A new guy? Tell me all the juicy details Light!" she exclaimed.
"No, I'll tell you about it later, im tired," he stated as he began to climb the stairs.
"Fine then, goodnight!"
He walked into his room then closed the door behind him, discarding his bag on top of his desk.
He changed into a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt before sitting at his desk and staring out the window at the waning moon.
"I should befriend him. He may be a slacker but he is intelligent, maybe even more so than me. It would be in my best interest," he mumbled to himself before starting his homework.
He wished for something more. Something better than this horrid, deceitful life he was living.
They both wished for something better, something that would allow them to change this corrupt, deceitful world, something to help them take their rightful place as the gods of a new world.
