If you don't like Suzalulu, turn back now. This IS rated M for a reason. This prelude may seem innocent enough, but trust me, in later chapters this innocent prelude will give birth to some major yaoi. Also, it will probably suck more than a teenage whore. This is your first warning. If your eyes start bleeding, you go blind, or you end up mentally retarded, please don't blame it on me, for I have warned you; I probably don't have the money to pay for your medical bills anyways.

Oh yeah, and I don't own Code Geass. I wish I did, but sadly enough, I don't.

"Hurry up Lelouch! You're such a slowpoke!"

When Lelouch first met Suzaku, he hated him. He was a stubborn Japanese kid with no manners. Not to mention he wasn't that smart either, and used brute strength to prove his point; the exact opposite of Lelouch, who used his mind in almost every situation. Any way you looked at it, Suzaku wasn't the type of person Lelouch could ever get along with.

"Shut up, you idiot!"

When Suzaku first heard that Britannian royalty were coming to stay with them, he was immediately angered. For weeks he sat around and fumed over the stuck-up Britannians that were soon going to be living with him. He hadn't even met them yet, and he could hardly stand them already. When he finally did meet them, it angered him even more that they weren't nearly as bad as he had imagined them to be.

Suzaku easily climbed the small cliff in front of him and reached the top before Lelouch had even started to climb. Looking down, he frowned.

For weeks they had glared at each other, refusing to get along in any way. Lelouch would sit by himself and read, occasionally going outside because Nunnally asked him if they could go for a walk, and Suzaku would go about his usual business. Whenever they happened to cross paths, they would glower at each other.

"Suzaku, wait up!"

That is, until one day when everything changed. Nunnally had decided to go out by herself instead of staying cooped up inside; Lelouch wasn't worried, as Nunnally had memorized the layout of the area when he took her walking the many times before. He stayed inside, rereading his favorite book. He didn't start to worry until the pitter-patter of rain on the roof interrupted him, and he realized that Nunnally was still not back yet.

"Geez, you really are slow," Suzaku said as Lelouch struggled to climb up the cliff, resulting in a fierce look from the climbing boy.

Suzaku was distracted from his daily chores when the door slammed open loudly, almost causing him to jump. When he looked over to the doorway, the dark-haired Britannian stood there, panting.

"N-Nunnally is still outside!" It was only now that Suzaku realized that it had started raining; indeed, there was supposed to be a storm today. Suzaku would never do anything for this stuck up kid, but he had grown quite fond of Nunnally and became quite worried himself. He ran out of the room, leaving the Britannian boy to lag after him.

Suzaku extended his hand to the other boy as he finally reached the top.

He looked around, wondering where the wheelchair-ridden girl could possibly have gone.

"That way," Lelouch panted, pointing towards the woods.

"Huh?" Suzaku gave him a confused look, "How do you know?"

"The wheelchair tracks…." Lelouch said it as if it was the most obvious thing in the world and pointed at the ground, where there were undeniably wheelchair tracks leading to the woods. Suzaku scowled at him for making him feel so stupid, and ran off towards the woods, leaving Lelouch to continue gasping for air as he tried to keep up.

Lelouch reached his arm up, stretching to reach the extended hand.

The tracks eventually led Suzaku to the frail girl, the wheelchair apparently stuck in the mud.

"Nunnally!" he shouted as he ran down to where she was.

"Suzaku-san?" the girl asked, "Where's Onii-sama?"

"Uhhh….," looking over his shoulder, he replied, "He's on his way here….probably close by now."

"Okay," the girl smiled at him, and even though her eyes were closed he felt double the warmth he would than from anyone he had ever met before.

Their hands finally met, and Suzaku pulled Lelouch over the top of the cliff.

Suzaku tried pushing the wheelchair out of the mud, but it was completely stuck.

"Hmm…I could probably carry you home," he suggested.

"Okay," Nunnally smiled again, "Just be gentle, please."

"Don't worry Nunnally," Suzaku found himself smiling for the first time in a while.

He faced his back to her and bent down so she could wrap her arms around his neck. Once she was securely holding on, he wrapped his arms around and prepared to pick up her legs and asked, "Ready?"

She nodded in return, and he picked up her legs.

Suzaku stood and waited impatiently while Lelouch panted heavily after the long run.

On the way home, they met a very unhappy and tired Lelouch.

"Nunnally!" he shouted while coming to a halt, slightly uneasy at the sight of Suzaku carrying Nunnally on his back. However, when Nunnally smiled and waved at him he relaxed, if just a little bit.

"Come on, let's go back. We're getting soaked out here," Suzaku suggested. The rain was still pouring down, and lighting started flashing across the sky. Lelouch nodded in agreement and waited until Suzaku was past him to start walking again. All the way back to the house Suzaku and Nunnally chatted away, much to Lelouch's displeasure. He spent the trip listening to them talk and watching Nunnally's smile. Since they had been sent to Japan he hadn't been able to make her smile at all and here this rude, selfish Japanese kid that he hated could make her laugh and talk like nothing was wrong at all. This only made him hate Suzaku more, and his patience was growing short.

The two stood there for a few moments, Lelouch catching his breath and Suzaku impatiently waiting.

After they had returned to warm shelter and changed into dry clothes, Lelouch stormed into Suzaku's room and slammed the door.

"Hey—!" Suzaku yelled, spinning around.

"Don't you dare touch Nunnally again, or I'll—"

"You'll what? Throw your stupid book at me?" And that was just what Lelouch did. It hit Suzaku square in the face, hard. "Aghh!"

Before Lelouch knew it, he was pushed to the ground, an aggravated Suzaku atop him.

"What was that for? I was only trying to help! After all, I doubt after all that running you would have been able to carry her all the way back!"

"I could have!"

"You could not! You were hardly able to carry your own weight!"

"It's not my fault that you're an absolute brute!"

"Well you're just a weakling!"

"Stupid!"

"Snob!"

"Idiot!"

At that point, Suzaku ran out of mean things to say, overcome with irritation and anger. Instead of voicing a retort, he punched the Britannian boy across the face.

"Agh! What was that?" Lelouch stared angrily at the boy on top of him.

"That was a punch, something you wouldn't know about," Suzaku retorted.

"I know what a punch is!" Lelouch yelled as he struggled to break free of Suzaku's grip, with no avail. Suzaku watched him struggle pathetically, Lelouch's face turning quite red from anger and exhaustion. At this particular point in time Suzaku made the mistake of lowering his head right at the moment Lelouch lifted his, causing their foreheads to bump and their lips to meet in an awkward, sloppy kiss.

Suddenly a noise came into earshot, a sound both familiar and unfamiliar to both.

Shocked, neither of them moved. Suzaku's eyes widened and Lelouch took on a slight blush. For a time that seemed longer than it was, the two stayed frozen, neither knowing what to do in this uncomfortable situation. Suddenly Suzaku jerked backwards, sending himself off of Lelouch.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" he yelled for lack of anything else to say to the innocent Lelouch.

"What am I doing? You were the one on top of me!" Lelouch countered, sitting up.

For a while the two just stared at each other, a deep red blush covering both of their faces. After a long pause Suzaku was the first to laugh. Lelouch just looked at him, utterly confused, which only made Suzaku laugh more.

"The-aha-ha-look on you-your face is just-" Suzaku gasped for air, "just too-" Completely giving up on finishing his sentence, he succumbed to the pull of laughter. Lelouch failed to see what was so funny; they had just accidentally kissed. But then, for some odd reason, after hearing that word in his mind, his scowl started to turn into a smile and before he knew it he was also on the floor laughing. Both of them just lay on the floor laughing, clutching at their stomachs, neither of them really knowing why what happened was so amazingly hilarious.

They both looked up to see what the sound was.

They stayed like that for a while, just laying on the floor and laughing their stomachs out. Neither of them could figure out exactly why it was so funny, but they just continued laughing. After a while, their laughter finally died down with a few aftershocks. And then they just lay there, catching their breath. Finally Suzaku stood up and offered his hand to Lelouch, who was still on the floor. For a moment Lelouch just looked at it.

"It's not going to bite," Suzaku said to him.

"I know that!" Lelouch said harshly, and then took the outstretched hand and smiled. Suzaku smiled back at him and pulled him up off the floor. After straightening out his clothes, he turned back to the chocolate-haired boy.

"You're really not as bad as I thought you would be, you know?" Suzaku told him.

"Of course I'm not," Lelouch replied, ensuing in a look from the other boy until he continued, "and…you're not as bad as I thought you would be either."

At first neither of them saw anything.

"Hey….do you think we could be…..friends?" Suzaku finally asked.

"Friends?" Lelouch asked.

"Well…..you see…..I've never really had a real friend before, so…."

"Oh, um….."
"I was just wondering! You don't really need to—"

"Sure."

"What?"

"I guess that wouldn't be so bad. To be honest……I'm actually kind of tired of fighting. And, besides…..I've never really….."

"What?"

"Well……" Lelouch looked a little timid, "never mind."

"Tell me!"

"I've…never really had a real friend either…" At this, Suzaku looked slightly surprised. He thought a prince would have had many people around him….at least, he imagined a prince would. Then again, it probably would be difficult to make friends when you're always locked up in a fancy castle. "So….what do friends do?" Lelouch asked.

"Well…they have fun together!" Honestly, Suzaku had no idea.

"Secrets?"

"Huh?"

"Well, I've read a lot of books, and friends always exchange secrets….."

"I don't really have any secrets….."

"Me neither….."

"What kinds of things do you like to do then?"

"Hmmm….I like to read and….play chess."

"That's boring."

"No it's not. It's not like you'd know anyways. You've probably never done either of those things."

"I have! I mean….of course I've read….but…..yeah, I've never really played chess…"

"So what about you? What do you like to do?"

"Me? I like sports, and…..hmm….board games and….building secret hideouts."

"Secret hideouts?"

"Yeah. They're really fun to hide in when you don't want to be found. Although….when you're by yourself it's kind of lonely….but now that I have a friend it should be more fun!"

"Secret….hideouts, huh? I've never really made a secret hideout before. Back in Britannia, the castle was so large that I could just hide anywhere in there….."

"Really? How many rooms were there?"

"Uh….I'm not really sure. Too many….probably over five hundred…"

"How many people lived there?!?"

"Hardly anyone, really. Nunnally and I lived there, and also our mother…..servants, a few other royals when they decided to visit…..some other important people…."

"Then why were there so many rooms?"

"I….really have no idea."

"Hey, why don't we build a hideout tomorrow! Since there's two of us, it should be more fun!"

"Oh…..uh….sure, I guess."

The two talked a lot more, and realized that even though they didn't have that much in common they still got along well.

"Hey, Lelouch…." Suzaku said, looking at the ceiling. When he didn't hear a response, he tried again, "Lelouch? Hey, Lelouch….?" He looked at said person only to realize Lelouch had fallen fast asleep. Suzaku couldn't blame him either, as he was pretty tired himself. Yawning, he turned over onto his side and slipped into the darkness of sleep.

Soon enough they realized what was happening as clouds of jets filled the sky.

The next morning Lelouch awoke to the sight of Suzaku's face, which happened to be far too close to his face.

"Agh! Wh-what are you doing?" Lelouch said while trying to push Suzaku off, gaining him a laugh from the other boy. "What?"

"You're funny," Suzaku grinned, getting up.

"How am I funny?" Lelouch looked confused.

"You just are."

"That doesn't make any sense…."

"It doesn't have to."

"Whatever…."

"Alright then, let's go!"

"Where?"

"To make the hideout, of course."

"Oh….uh, ok. Let me tell Nunnally I'll be going out."

"Ok….hey, why doesn't she come too? The more the merrier, y'know?"

"Nunnally? Well.....I don't know…."

"It'll be fine!"

"I guess…."

After going to Nunnally and Lelouch's room and fetching Nunnally, they headed off towards the woods again. Lelouch pushed her wheelchair while Suzaku ran ahead, trying to find a good spot. Nunnally was just telling her older brother about when Cornelia had almost killed someone for just touching Euphie when they heard Suzaku yell. When Lelouch looked up, Suzaku was nowhere to be found. He ran forward, parking Nunnally close by.

"Careful!" He heard Suzaku yell. Lelouch looked down and in front of him was a huge hole, which Suzaku seemed to have fallen into.

"Are you okay?" Lelouch asked, peering down into the hole.

"Yeah, it's just….could you help me up?" Suzaku asked, reaching his hand up so Lelouch could grab it.

"Yeah, sure," Lelouch reached down and grasped Suzaku's outstretched hand, only to feel Suzaku tug and before Lelouch knew what had happened he was falling. He hit the ground with a yell and felt pain in his elbow and knees. He looked up to find Suzaku looking down at him, face giving away his restrained laughter. "What was that for!?"

"Well, I couldn't think of any other way to get you down here. After all, you don't seem to like dirt all that much," Suzaku explained.

"You didn't have to pull me! Now I'm covered in dirt. And I'm probably going to have bruises too!"

"Oh, boo-hoo. Anyways, what do you think?"

"Of what?"

"Here."

"What about it?" Suzaku sighed.

"For being so smart, you really can be stupid."

"What?"

"The hideout." Lelouch looked around at the hole. It seemed big enough, but still

"It's a hole."

"Yeah, that's the point! It's perfect."

"…"

"What?"

"A perfect hole? It's dirty. And for all we know, something might live in here."

"It doesn't look like anything lives here." Lelouch sighed.

"Whatever."

"Are you two okay?" Suddenly Nunnally's voice carried down into the hole.

"Yeah, we're fine! Hmm…how can we get you down here?" Suzaku thought about this.

"Don't you dare do the same thing you did to me," Lelouch glared, "I'll get you back for that…."

"Is that a promise?" Suzaku laughed, "I'm not that stupid anyways. Hmm….let's make a better way to get down here so we don't have to fall every time."

"B-Britannia is—"

After they found a better way to get down into the hole, Suzaku helped Nunnally down. The three spent a reasonable amount of time down there, until it became dark. After Suzaku told a ghost story Lelouch decided it was time to return home.

"Scared?" Suzaku teased.

"No, it's not that!"

"Oh, really?"

"It's getting dark out! You don't know what could be out here…."

"Do you know what the scariest thing out at this time of night could be?"

"What?"

"Me!" Suzaku jumped, attacking Lelouch.

"Aghhhh!" Suzaku pushed Lelouch to the ground, laughing. "It's not funny!"

"Yes it is," Suzaku said through his laughs. When Nunnally started laughing also, Lelouch just frowned and crossed his arms. After he finished laughing, Suzaku stood up and offered his hand to Lelouch. Taking Suzaku's hand, Lelouch pulled as hard as he could, sending the unsuspecting Suzaku to the ground again. "Wahh! Hey!"

"Fell for your own trick," Lelouch said, smiling as he stood up, "come on, let's go, for real."

"Fine…" Suzaku complied.

The three headed back home, eagerly awaiting the next day so they have more fun, each glad to have new friends to be with.

"Impossible…no, not now. Why?!"

When Lelouch had first met Suzaku, he had hated him. He was a stubborn Japanese kid with no manners. He wasn't that smart either, and used brute strength to prove his point; he was the exact opposite of Lelouch, who used his mind in almost every situation. Any way you looked at it, Suzaku wasn't the type of person Lelouch could ever get along with.

Wasn't.

When Suzaku had first heard that Britannian royalty were coming to stay with them, he was immediately angered. For weeks he sat around and fumed over the stuck-up Britannians that were soon going to be living with him. He hadn't even met them, and he could hardly stand them already. When he finally did meet them, it angered him even more that they weren't nearly as bad as he had imagined them to be.

"Suzaku, I swear one day I will…destroy Britannia!"