Summary: Bells a' chiming and presents a opening. It's Christmas at Ashford Academy, but Lelouch is stuck doing the budget? Wait, something happened to Nunnally?! Lelouch hurries to save his sister from the dangers of the festive season, which are none other than...a picture with Santa? What is the meaning of this? Thank you for opening the wrapper and seeing what's inside!
Genre: Humor/ Parody.
Theme: Christmas & Love
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Geass or any of the references that may or may not look familiar.
ENJOY and Merry Christmas!
All in the Name of Love - Christmas Special -
An easygoing atmosphere filled Ashford Academy. Most of the daytime students had returned to the mainland for the Christmas season, while those in the dorms who couldn't or didn't want to go home strolled and lounged about the campus. The symphony of their laughter and bids singing drifted into the student council room.
Lelouch was sitting at the table, his head resting on his left hand while he twirled a pen in his right. Piles of paper were stacked in front of him. Rivalz sat across from him, lying on his arms.
"Why do we have to do this again?" Rivalz asked for the umpteenth time.
"As I've already said numerous times; it can't be helped." Lelouch replied. "We have to do the budget to see if our incomes and our expenses balance. If not, we'll have to make adjustments to make up the money we're short. Knowing our president's love of grand, and therefore expensive events, that will certainly be the case."
"It is fine, isn't it?" Rivalz drawled "Just let the director pay whatever we're short and we're good to go."
"No, I doubt the director will be pleased with that. He and Milly are already fighting over the arranged marriage. We should not add debt on top of that."
"Ah~ah, what a shame." Rivalz gave an exaggerated sigh and continued lazily looking through the receipts of the routine maintenance work.
"Lelouch!" Shirley barged into the student council room, but Lelouch didn't so much as blink at the intrusion. That was the way she usually entered the student council room, after all.
"N~é Lelouch!" Shirley called again. Lelouch sighed. He knew that if he didn't react soon, Shirley would up her annoyance level to over 9000.
"What is it? You're loud." Lelouch shifted his eyes from the ledger in front of him to Shirley.
"So cold." Shirley pouted. "Anyway, just take a look at this!" After typing a few keys on her phone, she showed it to Lelouch.
"Okay." Lelouch took the phone from Shirley and stared at the screen. "This is…?" Lelouch's eyes widened and his face paled as he stared at the screen. "What is the meaning of this?"
"Hoh I've never seen Lelouch so surprised." Rivalz's interest was piqued. "What is it? Show me, show me!" Rivalz leaned over the table until he saw the telephone's screen.
After seeing the image displayed on the screen, Rivalz instantly understood Lelouch's distress. The image showed Nunnally dressed in a bright red and white Santa suit, complete with pointy hat and all.
"How cute" Rivalz remarked, but it was the wrong thing to say. A dark aura of anger formed around Lelouch. He was clearly giving off dangerous vibes, but his face was stoic as always.
"How dare they?" Lelouch asked in a low, very soft tone. He once more displayed his impressive self-control in managing not to shout. "Using my sister in an exploitative manner like this is unacceptable. Does the person who took this photo not have any integrity?" Lelouch stood up. A fire that could burn anyone who made eye-contact with him flared in his eyes.
Lelouch heard a suspicious sound coming from the lounge in the office. There. He heard it again. It sounded like a snort. Like someone desperately trying to hold in their laughter.
'Oh, so this is a joke to you, hey?'
"Milly." Lelouch said in a voice cold enough to freeze her and hell. With a stiff neck, Milly turned around to see the Lelouch towering over her like the final boss of a dungeon.
"Oh come now Lelouch," Milly tried to pacify her vice-president. "You don't have to be so angry about it. Whoever did this probably just wanted to treat the students who have to spend their festive season on this boring campus to something special."
Lelouch's glare was unwavering, and Milly felt herself crumbling under its weight. Milly felt that if she didn't do something quickly, she would give in to Lelouch's intimidation. Milly gave an awkward cough in an attempt to prevent her mouth from involuntarily saying something that could give her away.
However, the cough seemed to have done the complete opposite. The cough only confirmed Lelouch's suspicions. Upset, Lelouch raises his voice.
"Milly, I'm very disappointed in you. I can't believe you would use the innocent and the weak to your advantage like this."
"Eh?" Milly was confused. "What are you going on about? It's nothing that dramatic."
"But it is, president. Have you ever stopped thinking about what you want to do long enough to consider what will happen when lecherous men become infatuated with my sister's cuteness?"
"I…" Milly didn't know what to say. "I honestly don't think that that will be a problem."
"Of course you wouldn't, that's the point." Lelouch sighed. As expected of the president. She's as oblivious as ever. "I on the other hand will prevent this evil from carrying on any further. I will not allow my dear sister to be violated by perverted stalkers and moe-loving shut-ins." He vowed and swiftly walked to the door, muttering something about 'getting too old for this kind of trouble.'
"It sounds like fun to me! I'll help." Rivalz said and jumped of his chair.
"You only want an excuse to get out of work."
"What? Now way~!" Rivalz sang as he happily followed after Lelouch.
After Lelouch and Rivalz left the room, Kallen turned towards Milly. She was sitting on the opposite lounge from her.
"Hey president, are you really fine with Lelouch acting that way? He might kill somebody in that state, you know."
"I wouldn't be surprised." Milly laughed. "And yes, I am very satisfied with Lelouch's little performance. You can't get scenes like that it movies nowadays, you know!"
Kallen just sighed. Everyone on the council was just plain crazy today. "No comment."
"By the way Kallen, don't you think that Nunnally is just plain adorable with a Santa beard?"
"Ah? Well, sort of…" Kallen answered, fearing the true extent of the student council president's mischievous ways.
C.C. was reclining against the rail on top of the school building's roof. A light breeze flitted through her hair. She closed her eyes to the pleasurable feeling. Opening them, she saw a fast blue sky lay before her.
'The sky's as annoyingly blue as always.' C.C. narrowed her eyes. 'It's like the sky is mocking me with its brightness. The sky is so indifferent, always so blue, no matter whether there's war or peace on earth.'
"Oi Lelouch, wait!" Someone's shout and doors banging interrupted C.C.'s reverie.
"My, who's being so loud on a peaceful and quiet day such as this?" C.C. asked and looked down, just in time to see Lelouch stomping out of the building.
'Lelouch?'
"How can Milly expose my sister like that? How troublesome! Now what should I do? Oh, that's right! I can always use my Geass power to command everyone to forget how cute my sister looks." Lelouch mumbled.
'What on earth is he talking about?' C.C. wondered. Soon the one with the loud voice also ran out of the building.
"Wait up, Lelouch!" shouted Rivalz.
'Hoh, Lelouch sure is energetic today. Wonder what's got him riled up like that? Whatever it is it's bound to be amusing.' C.C. thought, not paying any attention to the fact that she's only curious because she hopes to use whatever upset Lelouch against him in the future to get under his skin.
In no time at all Lelouch approached the Academy's main hall. He came to a dead stop after seeing the long line of men, and some girls in between, extending to the outside of the building.
'What is this madness?' Lelouch thought, but didn't dare think that all these people were here for that. That would be impossible right? Lelouch shoved his way past all the people and barged into the room. To Lelouch's annoyance, everyone was here for that.
Beneath a giant Christmas tree, the likes of which only the Student Council President could think of, sat a young girl. She was dressed in a bright red and white Santa suit, complete with pointy hat and all. Yes, that girl was Nunnally. And on her lap sat…
"SUZAKU!" Lelouch charged forward and grabbed his surprised childhood friend of off his sister's lap. The pull however was nowhere near strong enough and only felt like a small tug. Though the shock was enough to make Suzaku lose his balance and attack the floor.
"What is the meaning of this, Lelouch?" Suzaku asked, rubbing the sore spot on his head, ungracefully laying among the presents.
"I could ask you the same thing! I didn't expect you of all people to use advantage of my sister like this."
"Wait it's not like that." Suzaku desperately try to pacify the seething Lelouch. "Nunnally herself said she doesn't mind being Santa for a day. In fact, she said she'd be happy too!"
That made Lelouch pause, if only slightly. 'That's a reasonable argument. I can certainly imagining my sister thinking that way. She's do anything to make others happy and prove herself useful in some way. However…
"That's not necessary, Nunnally has me, and she doesn't need to do anything but be happy." Lelouch shrugged off Suzaku's argument. Suzaku sighed.
"You can't keep doting on her forever like this, Lelouch. You have to let her do something on her own once in a while." Suzaku persisted.
"Still, something like this…" Lelouch looked at his sister to where she was readjusting her hat which fell off during Lelouch's dramatic rescue. Afterwards, she looked up to Lelouch, and smiled.
"Merry Christmas, big brother." She gave her best, sweetest smile, and all of the men's hearts in the room simultaneously went 'doki doki da-thump'. "Come here." She said, holding her hand out to him.
Lelouch, without realising, moved closer, and soon jumped into his sister's open arms, giving her a tight hug. Nunnally felt a bit smothered with love, but appreciated her brother's affection nonetheless.
Nunnally looked over at Rivalz, who had silently observed the scene for a while now. Nunnally winked towards the cell phone in Rivalz's hand, and it was then that Rivalz realised that he had left the student council room with Shirley's phone.
'Lelouch will probably never forgive me for this, but at least Shirley will owe me a year's worth of favours for this.' Rivalz said as he positioned the phone's camera. After finding the perfect shot, he looked once to make sure that Lelouch wasn't looking, and pressed the shutter button.
*click*
Silence.
Rivalz looked up from the phone's screen. Nothing, Lelouch didn't notice the camera going off. 'Thank goodness,' Rivalz sighed in relied, 'I will live to see New Years.'
"Alright big Brother, that's enough." Nunnally said, using what little strength she had to push him away.
"What's wrong, Nunnally?" Lelouch asked, concerned.
"Please go now." Nunnally said quietly and sweetly. "You are holding up the line."
'What?!" Lelouch turned to stone and cracked, about to shatter into pieces before regaining himself. "I don't have to. These people can leave. None of them needs to take photos of you, only I need to hold record of this event."
Nunnally pouted. Seeing her desperate situation, Suzaku, who has seen his classmate take the photo earlier, stepped in to help.
"Sorry Rivalz, would you lend that to me for a second?" Suzaku asked.
"Eh? Sure." Rivalz handed the phone to Suzaku, and he held it out to Lelouch.
"Hey, Lelouch. Look at this."
"What?" Lelouch was reluctant, but seeing the intense expression in Suzaku's eyes, gave in and took the cell phone from him. He raised his eyebrow from what he saw at the screen.
Suzaku counted down, waiting for it. '3…2…1...'
"What is this? This photo is so incredible adorable! I want to keep it…" Lelouch fawned over the photo in which he and his sister looked so happy together, enjoying the Christmas spirit and the bonds of family.
In the meantime, more and more of the guys got there turn taking a picture with Lady Santa.
"This will be my memento. No, it will be my inspiration. My inspiration for what I want every day to look like in the fate peaceful world that I will create."
One by one, the shutter went off without stopping.
"That's right." Lelouch continued his monologue. "We will live in a world rid of evil and bad men and…wait. Bad men?" A moment of silence before realisation hit Lelouch like an unexpected giant wave while swimming in the ocean. "Nunnally." Lelouch spun around and saw that there was only a mere three men left.
Clenching his fists, Lelouch berates himself for forgetting his initial purpose for coming here. No matter. It's not too late to save his sister from the hands of the few remaining perverted men. Taking a deep breath, Lelouch began his favourite catchphrase.
"Lelouch VI *sensors out* commands you all; forget Nunnally's cuteness and leave!"
Another moment of silence. It took a while, but Lelouch noticed that nobody saw his flourish of fabulousness. He sunk to the floor, depressed. "They didn't see. Nobody saw." He mumbled.
Suzaku was relieved he stayed behind. It wasn't for a situation like this, but he could still support his friend in this one. Suzaku walked up to Lelouch and kneeled down next to him.
Softly rubbing Lelouch's back, moving slowly up and down, he tried to soothe Lelouch with his voice. "It's okay, Lelouch." Suzaku whispered into his ear. "Don't worry; while you were out fawning over the photo, I made sure that no one indecently touched your dear sister." Suzaku imagined he heard a sob escape from Lelouch. Unable to do anything else, Suzaku hugged Lelouch. "Shhh."
"She's already grown so big."
"Yes, that's right, Lelouch. Girls grow big so fast it's shocking. Before you know it, Nunnally will have already become a fine woman, worthy of praise and respect, and able to capture any man's heart." Suzaku said dreamily, as if imagining it that second.
"…them all."
Suzaku heard Lelouch mumble something. "Hm? What did you say?"
In the next moment, Lelouch snapped. "I said I'll kill them all! I'll kill any and all men who go after my sister!"
"Like I said, it's not necessary to go that far." Suzaku said, frustrated that they've moved back to square one.
"Watch me, Suzaku. This New Year, all men whose thoughts stray when it comes to Nunnally will have to deal with me!"
"New Years? That soon?" Suzaku asked, flabbergasted.
"That's right. Good ears you have, Suzaku! I hope you perverted men have said your prayers, for this New Year, Lelouch shall protect his little sister at any cost."
"EH?!" Suzaku face palmed. This New Year was going to be a test of Suzaku's patience and sanity, which at this stage, he was losing fast. But, he will have to bear it. New Years is just around the corner, after all. And who knows what his mad childhood friend will do in the name of love?
To be continued: All in the Name of Love –New Year's Special-
A/N: Thanks for reading, and please drop me a review if you enjoyed it! Happy hollies everyone :)