A/N:

kd: Hello readers! I'm taking a quick break from the story I'm writing for JetravenEx so that I can finally write the story I've been wanting to write for a long time!

Jet: *blinks in surprise* you're taking a break?

kd: Yup! I'm not going to be bond in chains by you just because I forgot your Christmas present -.-;;

Jet: You know, *fake sniffing* I was really getting excited for the Chirstmas present I thought you were going to get me, and then you FORGOT!

kd: Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry...wait a minute...I don't remeber putting you in my A/N...

Jet: Yeah, I know, I came here on my own! Where ever you go, I go!

kd: Oh great, now you're saying I'm stuck with you...as long as you're here, could you at least do the disclaimer?

Jet: Sure! Alright guys, neither me or kd own any part of Code Geass!

kd: When did you become part of this?

Jet: When I showed up...DEAL WITH IT!

C2 sighed, "Really L2, you have to promise me you won't attract too much attention. I feel uneasy enough about letting you run loose around the Tokyo settlement."

"Relax, C2. It's not like I'm going to do anything drastic."

"Yes, I know, but you're not the kind of person who deals well with boredom."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." L2 said as faded away before C2's eyes.

"I hope you're right…" C2 said as she hopped into the black knightmare.

"Daddy, can I have an ice cream sandwich?" A little girl looked up at the man she was holding hands with. Her blue eyes met his green.

"I bought you ice cream last time we came here." The man with light brown hair said while smileing at his daughter. "You should just be happy that I'm not busy right now with work so that I can bring you to the park like this."

"Daddy, why is it that sometimes you're really busy with work and then you're really unbusy?" the girl with matching light brown hair, pulled back in a ponytail, asked her father.

"Sometimes people need me and sometimes they don't." Suzaku tried to explain.

"Does that mean that I won't be able to see Ms. Britannia as often, now?"

"Well, she's my boss and she has a very tight agenda, too, maybe you should ask her the next time we see her."

"Alright…can I have an ice cream sandwich, now?"

"I thought we already talked about this…" Suzaku stopped in his tracks as he saw a student in an Ashford uniform. What made him stop, though, was that this student, who had dark brown hair, was playing chess with himself while sitting on the park bench. As Suzaku walked closer he noticed that the student was using a portable chess kit that was placed next to him on the bench. The student was sitting with his legs crossed and his chin resting on his hand as he looked thoughtfully at the chess board.

"Umm, hello." Suzaku approached the student.

"Oh, hello, sir." The student said with a small, polite smile. Suzaku flinched. The dark hair, purple eyes, and posture, it was all a dead giveaway. And the fact that he happened to be playing chess? There's no room for doubt! It was Lelouch, his old childhood friend. The one he killed twenty years ago… "Is there something wrong, sir?" Lelouch asked, now starting to look a bit uncomfortable.

"Oh, it's just that, I, well, you see, I was wondering why you were playing chess by yourself." Suzaku said, trying to regain his composure. There's no way it could be him, there's just no way…he looks the same as he did when he…died…

"Would you like to play with me, sir?" Lelouch asked, trying to politely get to the point.

"Uh, yes." Suzaku decided. I'm not the best player but I…I need to make sure if this is the real Lelouch or not.

"But daddy, I thought you were going to buy me ice cream!" Nina complained.

"I'll make make you a deal, sir. If you win" Lelouch looked in Nina's direction, "then I'll buy ice cream for your cute lady friend." Lelouch winked at Nina.

Nina giggled, "But then I'm just going to have to sit here and watch you play a board game?" Nina objected.

"Alright, you can grab any of the captured pieces and put them in piles. Do we have a deal, sir?"

"Wait, what do you get from this?" Suzaku asked.

"Well, I've lost my interest in ice cream a long time ago, so I guess I'm just doing this to escape boredom." Lelouch admitted, "So, do we have a deal?"

"Alright."

Lelouch swiped his hand across the board and all the pieces, as if by magic, resumed their appropriate starting positions.

After a while it looked like Suzaku was winning soon Lelouch was left with just one piece, his king.

"You're not very good at this game, are you?" Nina asked, "You haven't gotten even one of my daddy's peoples, yet, and you only have one!"

"Well, I guess you're right, I'm no good at this game," Lelouch looked back at the board and moved his king, "Checkmate."

"What?" Suzaku asked in shock. He quickly looked at his king and saw that this was true. The other pieces were blocking his king and Lelouch's lone king had his captured. "I knew you'd win, but…why did you do it like this?"

"Wait, you mean you lost, daddy?" Nina asked in surprise.

"Is it the end result, or the means by which you do it, that matter most? Though I used all my pieces in the process, I created a distraction, so you would let your guard down so that I could create the ideal placement of your king and win."

"But all those pawns…and knights…they left behind families and friends…"

Lelouch laughed, "Sir, why are you acting so serious? Chess is just a game. There are no lost families, friends, or lovers. There's just the board, the pieces, and the masters."

"But what if those pieces were people?"

"Well, then, I would have defiantly used a different strategy. Now that I think about it, I really didn't need to use that one strategy, oh well." Lelouch shrugged.

"Does this mean I'm not going to get my ice cream?" Nina asked disappointed.

Lelouch laughed, "Here, you can have some ice cream, anyways." He said as he handed her some money.

"Yay! Thank you, sir!" Nina cheered as she ran off to buy a treat.

"Lelouch…"

"Huh?"

"Lelouch…is that you?"

"I'm sorry, sir, you must be mistaking me for someone else."

"Well, then, what's your name?"

"Sir, isn't it rude to ask someone their name before you tell them your own?" Lelouch said slyly, the church bells could be heard in the distance as it has reached noon. "I'm sorry but I have to go now, it was nice meeting you and your daughter!" Lelouch said as he ran off with his book bag carried over his shoulder.

"Wait, stop!" Suzaku tried to run after him but it seemed as if Lelouch had simply…vanished.

Nina ran up to her father's side, carrying an ice cream sandwich, "Hey, where did that nice man go?" She asked after swallowing a bite of ice cream.

"He…ran out of time…"

Ugh, I hate flying in planes. C2 thought as she gloomily looked out the window to see only vest miles of ocean.

'Then why did you go into a plane, in the first place?'

'Oh, hello, L2'

'Don't try to change the subject by greeting me. Why didn't you just use the knightmare?'

'L2, the knightmare's in Australia, that's one of the reason's I'm going there.'

'Well, send me a postcard!'

'And what use would you have of this postcard, if you can just see everything through my mind?'

'Hey, can't a guy try to learn about Australia through normal methods instead of just invading someone's mind all the time?'

'What have you been doing?'

'I just went to the park and played chess by myself.'

'Part of that is a lie…'

'Alright, I played one game with a random guy, no big deal.'

'Part of that is a lie, too.'

'Well, that's another thing I did today, too, I lied.'

'Alright, fine, I won't press you any further, but I still want you to be careful, and don't let anyone go through you.'

'I've heard it all before.'

'But you never listen.'

'…'

'Alright, I'll be back in a week, don't do anything risky.'

'Alright then, see you later.' And with that L2 withdrew from C2's mind. L2 wasn't too worried because he knew that the worst thing that could happen was for someone to recognize him as Lelouch.