Title: Killing Cats
Summary: Kallen did always have a bad habit of sticking her nose in places it didn't belong...
Author's Note: So yeah. This is majorly AU (alternate universe), as usual. Lol I feel like I have a good habit of trying to change around the powers of Geass in my stories (cough... Heartbreakers, which btw will be updated soon, I hope hehe), so this time I tried to refrain from doing that. Enjoy! (Fun fact: Just kidding I did it anyways. Muahaha)
Timeline: I know my stories like to be confusing little things, but just think of it this way: I'm stimulating your minds! This doesn't take place at the time Lelouch is alive in the normal Code Geass storyline... however, Kallen is born many years later. And Lelouch is... well you're going to have to read and find out for yourself!
Shoutout: A story that I read constantly, because it's brilliant and is actually CC/Lelouch with a hint of Kallen/Lelouch at the end, sort of inspired part of this story. It's called Res Judicata by UltimateParadox. (Even if you're not a CC/Lelouch fan, go read it because I'm an ultimate hardcore Kalulu fan ONLY and I would marry this story if I could. Er, cough. Not weird at all. - It probably helps that I do like C.C. as a character. Sarcasm is your friend guys.)
Her luck sucked.
Kallen ran through the massive downpour of rain that came out of NOWHERE, (literally, it was bright and sunny ten minutes ago), causing her to be drenched as she ran through the town.
"Of all the days..." she muttered to herself. She'd been sick at home for a couple of days and it was sunny and bright and all wonderful, and the day she gets better and decides to go out and enjoy the sun, IT RAINS LIKE CRAZY.
She continued to run through the rain; most people had already taken shelter inside their homes or stores. She enterained the thought of hiding inside a coffee shop and wait until the rain stopped, but then realized the futility of it. She was already soaked to the bone. Might as well go home.
As she continued her run, her eyes and ears caught sight of a scuffle going on down the street. The rain made it hard to see, but her ears didn't deceive her. She knew the sound of a fight when she heard one. She ran closer to the alleyway where she believed it was going on, and she found that her suspicions were right.
Four guys were taking on some skinny dude decked out in black who looked like he didnt have any way of defending himself. Kallen's temper rose; she hated unfair fights and people who took killed and fought people just for the hell ofit. (Her brother would say she was the same, however she liked to think of herself as a defender of justice.)
"Hey! Leave him alone!" she shouted out, making the men stop their relentless torment on the poor man lying still on the floor.
One of the men sneered at her, "Look fellas, a little girl thinks she can take us on." The other men began to laugh and Kallen had to stop herself from laughing at these idiots. She'd admit, as much as she loved scaring people with her glare and reputation, she had a secret love of others underestimating her because she was a girl. Heh. She'd show them.
It only took her three minutes, (she was slipping), to beat three of them to the ground and once they regained their balance (but not their dignity!) they ran in the opposite direction.
Kallen rolled her eyes at their behavior before turning to face the injured man, only to be surprised to see that he was already standing as if he wasn't hurt at all.
"Hey are you okay?" she asked concerned. The unknown man only stared at her. She couldn't see his face (it looked like he was wearing a hood and the rain didn't help), but she wasn't sure what to say. "Hello?" she asked, waving her hand in front of him to make sure he was still conscious... or something. Should she call an ambulance?
He didn't say anything for a minute, and Kallen was about to turn around and leave this weirdo alone, when he spoke.
"I believe I am in debt to you."
His voice actually startled her; she didn't think he knew how to speak considering he kept staring at her the whole time. Then again, he did just go through a traumatic experience, thought Kallen, remembering to try and be more sympathetic in these situations.
"Uh it's fine actually. Don't worry about it", she said. The rain was starting to calm down to a drizzle. Not that it mattered because she was soaked, she thought, but hey, a little rain never hurt anybody.
He just kept staring at her. Actually scratch that, she couldn't see his eyes underneath his hood that casted shadows on his face. She took a second to actually give him a look over: he was slim, hiding his body underneath a long black trench coat and black loafers. He, like her, was soaked as well.
"So if you're okay... I'm uh, gonna go now", Kallen said with a tiny awkward wave (let's be real she had always been terrible at awkward moments. Things never went well for her.)
The stranger didn't say anything and continued to stare at her, this time with a slight tilt of the head, as if he was thinking.
Okayyyy, now she was getting a little freaked out.
"So...", Kallen also hated the quiet (too boring) and always felt a need to speak to fill it up, "Yeah. Bye."
She turned around from the most awkward conversation of her life (minus the time Naoto tried to give her the talk, which was so embarrassing that she was too mortified to repeat those words ever again). She looked up and saw the dark clouds still hovering over her. Sighing, she looked for the general direction her house was and began to walk.
She put her hands in her pockets and wondered what she would tell Naoto when she got home: "Oh hey onii-chan, yeah I'm okay, I didn't do much beside kick a few guy's butts; they were such sissies", but she didn't that conversation would go too well. Naoto was fiercely overprotective of her.
Suddenly she felt a hand grab her wrist from behind, and she was about to turn around and drop kick said individual when the world around her went white.
Kallen would have tripped if she didn't feel like she was frozen. A second passed and she was able to blink and rub her eyes to believe that she wasn't in the same world: the sky was a white creamy color mixed with the fading pinks and blues of a sunset and the ground looked like the clouds on a sunny day. She looked around frantically, her body feeling lightweight. What the hell? Where was her town?
"You're in my territory now."
She turned around and came face to face with the weird stranger she had saved. He wore a black hoodie with nothing underneath and simple back pants. (Wait, weren't the two of them wet from the rain a second ago?) His hood was up, still covering his face. Great. She saves someone's life and they end up kidnapping her. At least it was safe to say she had shitty luck.
Oh well. She'd take him down easily! Naoto has only been giving her fighting lessons since she was 10 ("Oh pleaseeee onii-chan, I want to learn! Wouldn't it be better for me to fight off anyone who attacks me?"-He fell for it, hook line and sinker. Heh. Her brother was too easy sometimes.)
Kallen got into a fighting stance but was confused when the strange man chuckled. The sound of it seemed to echo in the space around her.
He raised a hand, as if signaling peace. "You don't understand. I don't mean to fight you."
Well that's because I'd beat your skinny ass in a heartbeat, she thought, but kept that to herself.
"Then where am I? Who are you? Why'd you bring me here?" she asked anxiously.
"I told you..." He said, pulling his hood down and coming closer to her. Her eyes caught the moving long black locks of hair that reached his lower back, his pale face and aristocratic features and shaped eyebrows. And his eyes... The only people she's ever known to have purple eyes were... Kallen blinked. If she wasn't in the situation she was in right now, she would think that this man was a descendant of the Royal Family of Britannia. He had the distinct purple eyes of one of the famous lines... she couldn't remember the exact line though. (She was ashamed to say that she did a history paper on this a few months ago but now she couldn't even remember the details.)
But that was silly, she thought, shaking her head clear before strengthening her defensive stance. Not only would the chances of his line being alive be slim to none, (most of the Britannian Royal families were killed in a massive bloodbath at the Royal palace hundreds of years ago because of a rebellion that overthrew the Empire), but what would he be doing in Japan? Her imagination was getting away from her again.
He gave her a small smile, "I don't let my debts go unpaid."
(And she never felt a sentence sound so sinister.)
Kallen looked at him warily, giving him a once over. "You can repay me by sending me back home and away from... whatever this is", she motioned at the weird space around her that made her feel like she was floating on air yet trapping her with heavy air molecules at the same time. She almost couldn't breathe. How was she supposed to get out of here?
The strange man just looked at her with that... stare. The same stare he seemed to be giving her in the alleyway (not that she saw his face but it had the same feeling...) Kallen gulped before trying to step back. The man stayed the same distance away from her.
"If I tried to explain it to you now, you wouldn't fully understand it. Just think of it as... a consciousness. A place of being. Realize, that no harm will come to you here", he said softly in a rich voice that commanded attention.
Kallen just stared at the cryptic man. He was right. She didn't understand what the hell he was talking about. "I just want to go home." Something about this guy and this place freaked her out, and she's learn the hard way to always listen to her gut.
"And you will go home", the man said with a smirk. "But first... I'd iike to offer you a ... gift of sorts. Think of it as repayment for saving me."
Something in her gut told her there was something really off about this whole mess. "If I accept your gift, will you let me leave?"
His smirk caused chills to go down her spine, "But of course."
Kallen looked at him warily, before deciding getting out of here was better than nothing. She'd better let the creep give her whatever he wanted to give her and get the hell out of there. (Not that she liked the coward's way but... her instincts never lied to her before. Something about this guy screamed trouble, and as much as she loved trouble, she might have been getting a little in over her head here.)
"Okay. Fine", Kallen said, somewhat reluctantly but intent on getting out of there. "I'll accept your gift."
And she sealed her fate.
"Tell me Kallen..." Her head snapped up in shock at hearing her name. The man ignored it. "How angry are you with the present Royal Family of Britannia for killing your parents and almost crippling your brother?"
'How did he know about that?' she thought frantically, stepping away from this unknown man.
Lelouch's smirk turned into one that a devil would wear, and Kallen's eyes widened as he grabbed her wrist with bare hands and her eyes started to burn as her mind went into shock.
'Kallen Kozuki-Stadtfeld... I offer you a gift as repayment, however in exchange for the power, you must agree to make my own wish come true. While living in the world of humans, you will live unlike any other: a different providence, a different time, a different life. The Power of the King will condemn you to a life of solitude. However, by accepting my gift... you've already accepted this contract and its conditions.'
She screamed and screamed, until her body dropped onto the wet floor of the sidewalk near the alley where this entire thing started, the rain pouring down on her, until she lost all consciousness with her left eye burning.
Yes, I know, absolutely nothing like the way the real Geass contract would go, but that, my lovely readers, is the point. Besides, evil Lelouch is sexy. Not that he's evil, but Lelouch likes to pretend he's evil so it's okay. (Oops gave the identify of the man away, but oh well it wasn't a secret anyways).
Some of you might say that Lelouch wouldn't force Geass on anyone. And I would agree, in the regular Code Geass timeline. But this is NOT the regular Code Geass timeline, and Lelouch has his own goals.
Timeline: I understand it's probably confusing, and it will get cleared up in future chapters. However, the "present" Royal Family of Britannia is not the same one as Lelouch and Charles and yadiyadiyada. They were overthrown hundreds of years ago (HINT HINT, if ya know, the contract wasn't a clue giver), and a new family took over. However, I am way too lazy to come up with a different name for Brittannia. If anyone has any ideas for one, I will edit it in.
Title comes from the saying "Curiosity killed the cat". (If that wasn't clear.)
PLEASE REVIEW! Because reviews encourage me to write the next chapter and not procrastinate by sitting in my chair and not studying for my tests. (I know, I'm a great role model. Sigh.)
Love, (P.S. Reviews means updates. Muahaha.)
Ivy
