Counterattack Two

-Zero meets Zero-

April 1, 2019

"Class, please greet Lelouch Lightenrouge. He will be your new classmate." The teacher told them.

Murmurs filled the classroom.

"He looks like that roach of an emperor, Lelouch vi Britannia!"

"He even has the same first name as him!"

"Is he really…?"

The teacher looked at him. "Why, you look like my old student who turned out to be the worst kid on earth, Lelouch Lamperouge!"

"I get that a lot. Now…" he took off his contact lenses. "Remember, I am a new student. You don't know me very well yet."

A red shroud covered his eyes. "Alright then."

Lelouch did the same to the whole class. And the other class, and the class after that. Luckily, the two girls he had used his Geass on when Lelouch had chased a cat with his Zero mask had graduated.

But he didn't notice one person that was in every one of his classes. Cincere Tracy had not been affected by his Geass.

~코드기야스~

"Welcome to Ashford Academy, Kukai!" The class greeted.

"Thank you." He grinned.

"It's awesome how we got two new students all in one month!" A girl squealed. "And they're both boys!"

"Was there another student that came before I did?" He asked her.

"Yeah! Lelouch Lightenrouge! He skips classes sometimes, but that's usually because he's in a meeting or something like that." She replied. "I think he skipped this period. He's usually not there at P.E., but he's always there for his chess club!" She giggled. "He's pretty serious about that game!"

"Lelouch…?!" He thought.

"Alright, thanks!" He waved to her goodbye and started looking for Lelouch.

"Cecilia, I told you, I'm not going to P.E.! I'm sick of trying to run around when I can't!" A voice complained behind the corner.

"Well then tell them you have problems breathing or something. If you aren't going to go, then she's going to force you." Another replied.

"Lelouch?" Kukai recognized the voice.

"Ms. Sayako!" He heard the first voice exclaim.

"Please get here before I get you." The voice seemed to smile.

"Gak!" The first voice began to run away, for he heard footsteps. He ran to the right, where Kukai was standing and crashed into him. "Sorry!"

Lelouch froze. Kukai froze. The whole world froze. For there stood the truth of each other, the truth where Lelouch would never be able to lie and run away from.

~코드기야스~

"Su-Su-Su-" Lelouch couldn't say it.

"Su?" He asked, playing dumb.

"Lelouch! Get back here!" The gym teacher began to run after them. She tripped over Lelouch and Kukai who had been sitting on the floor, rubbing their heads and staring at each other.

Swiftly, she caught herself by flipping with one hand and flipped back up.

Kukai had recognized the voice. For it had been Lelouch's sister, Nunnally vi Britannia's, nurse.

But Sayako was also a ninja for the Ashford family. She knew who Lelouch truly was. But she knew where her loyalties lay.

"Lelouch, you can't just skip the classes you don't like! It's for your own good."

"Hey, you know what they say! Brain beats muscle!" He grinned.

"For goodness sake, just run around a lot and stop being such an epic fail." The second voice he recognized said.

"C.C.!" He thought.

"Can't I do it after school?" Lelouch sighed.

"After school is when you run away from school." Sayako told him.

"Aw come on! I swear I'll come after school!"

Sayako and Cecilia looked at each other. "You swear?"

"Pinky-pinky swears! If I don't, I'll eat a thousand needles!"

Kukai knew that too. Nunnally had taught Lelouch and himself that.

"Fine. But seriously, if you don't come, I shall shove a thousand needles down your throat." Sayako smiled.

"Aren't you being a little-WOAH!"

Sayako held poison needles to his face. "I don't lie."

She walked away with Cecilia at her side.

"You suck as a sister!" Lelouch called.

"I don't care." Cecilia told him.

~코드기야스~

"Suzaku." Was all Lelouch said once they got to the rooftop for privacy.

"Lelouch. Lying, deceitful Lelouch."

"I guess I should explain why I'm not dead." He sighed as he leaned on the railing.

"I would like that, you roach."

Lelouch smiled little. "Well, how should I put it? I'm immortal would be good."

Suzaku stared at him with cold eyes. "Liar. If you were to be immortal, you would've lost your Geass. And how would it be that you obtained a Code?"

"Ah, so you have been doing your research?" He smiled. "I don't know how, but I have a Code Geass."

"So where's the Code mark?"

"On my back." He replied.

"Lies."

"You really don't trust me, do you? After Charles was killed where the Sword of Aksha was, I obtained it. I didn't know until I took a shower." He chuckled.

"Why did you lie to me? To Nunnally? Everyone thinks you're dead. You promised me vengeance."

"Did you not have the satisfaction of stabbing a sword in my heart?" He chuckled again.

"SHUT UP! YOUR ATTITUDE IS PISSING ME OFF! YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST!"

"Which is why I disappeared." He replied. "I hoped to stay gone forever, but unfortunately, I had files to erase here. After I did so, one of the students who saw me had already been a victim of my Geass, so to gain her trust that I wasn't the emperor, I told her I wanted to register here as a student. I obtained the custody of the school and I can no longer leave without the Ashford family's permission. I had to erase their memories about Lelouch Lamperouge, but I couldn't order them to abandon me. They had made up records for me and I couldn't erase them in time." He shrugged. "So here I am."

Suzaku scowled.

"Oh, speaking of which, you aren't supposed to exist either, Kukai. Did you abandon Nunnally and your duties as Zero?"

"I'm not like you." He told him.

"You're right. Zero hasn't been himself lately, has he?"

"How did you-"

"It's all over the news now. Haven't you been watching the news? Millay's been reporting about Zero acting weird."

Suzaku turned away. "Nunnally knows I'm here. And the reason I'm here is because of that. Stop changing the subject. I still have questions."

"Questions?" Lelouch asked.

Suzaku nodded, the frown on his face never disappearing.

"Ask away."

"Why did you keep the name Lelouch? Doesn't it cause more suspicion?"

Lelouch remembered what C.C. had told him.

"Suzaku, why is the snow white?" He turned his head to the sky.

"Don't change the subject!"

"Tell me why."

Suzaku stared at him. "Because God has bestowed it!"

"Because it has forgotten its original color." Lelouch replied. "I barely have anything that resembles who I truly am. I wish to at least hold the name that I've trudged through and tainted with the hate of the world with me. I want to keep the burden."

"Why?"

"Because I believe I deserve it." He smiled a little. "Don't you?"

"Lelouch, you disgraceful little liar! Why can't you just disappear?!"

"I'm afraid I've tried all throughout the year. The only thing I can kill now is everything except me."

"LELOUCH, YOU NEED TO DIE!!!" Suzaku screamed as he pushed Lelouch off the roof.

As he fell, he laughed. "Don't bother! I won't die! I'm immortal!" He laughed all the way as he crashed onto the ground with a broken neck and arm.

~코드기야스~

A group of girls screamed at the sight.

"Hey, beat it. Forget that this ever happened." A voice emerged from the left.

"Huh? Oh, ok." They went on, chatting about the new fashion model that was kicked out from the industry because she gained 10 pounds in a month.

"Immortals shouldn't show off." The voice told him. Lelouch's vision had blurred and he couldn't interpret his surroundings. Whoever it was picked him up and was holding a stuffed rabbit toy. They spoke to the doll in a low murmur and began to walk on the sidewalk of the school.

"P-people will see me…" he muttered.

"Not with me here." They muttered back.

~코드기야스~

"Lelouch?! You dumbass, are you trying to get yourself killed?!" Cecilia roared.

"Don't you think I've tried enough to understand that I can't?" He smirked back.

Cecilia froze. "Are you still here?"

"Huh? Oh, sorry." A girl suddenly appeared in front of them. She held a bunny doll.

"Who are you?!"

"Me? I am Cincere Tracy, a student of Ashford Academy." She shrugged.

"You act as if being immortal were normal." C.C. challenged.

"It is. Well, to me it is." She replied, grasping the doll. "B-Rabbit says you are a Geass holder."

"B-Rabbit?"

"B-Rabbit." She held out the doll. "B-Rabbit also says both of you are immortal."

"Are you immortal?" Lelouch asked as C.C. bandaged his neck together.

"I dunno, am I, B-Rabbit?" She asked the doll.

They stared at her. "B-Rabbit says no. But if I keep this up, I will be."

"Keep what up?"

"Well, good day to you. I have to go feed the rabbits in the Health wing of the school." She ignored their question and waltzed away.

"Wait!" Lelouch called.

She stopped. "Hm?"

"The girls that saw me…"

"Lelouch! You were caught?!" C.C. exclaimed.

"The girlies won't say a word." She assured them.

"Why are you so sure?"

She cocked her head and leaned against B-Rabbit. "Because. In the end, something bad will happen if they break against my Geass."

The two watched her as she skipped away.

"G-Geass?!"