A/N: Ok, so I got bored today and wrote the first chapter. Second one coming up soon!
Usagi sighed, her violet eyes darting from the front of the room where her teacher was yammering on about Brittanian history to whatever the hell it was her twin was looking at outside the window. She raised an eyebrow as she nudged Lelouch slightly and he didn't move, leaning forward in her chair to discover he was asleep again. She sighed, rubbing her temples and turning back to the front, wishing she had the ability to sleep upright and without the teacher noticing. The last few days had been stressful, what with her best friend Suzaku Kururugi being framed for the murder of her half-brother, Clovis, and her demanding Lelouch fix what he'd done and reveal Zero was the one who killed Clovis. Usagi was the only one in their immediate family-besides Rolo-that knew Lelouch was really Zero. It was fine with her, as long as Lelouch didn't involve herself, Nunally or Rolo in his plans. He used Rolo in his plans whether she liked it or not, but he would lie off of Nunally-thankfully.
"And in 1955 our great ruler Charles zi Brittania was born.." the teacher droned on, causing Usagi to roll her eyes as her family history was now being taught. She didn't care when her father was born or how many pets he had or anything. Her father was a hateful man and didn't deserve to live, let alone have such a position of power. Blowing her bangs out of her face, the girl buried her face in her book with a groan, hoping she could get away with sleeping in class just this once.
"Lamperouge, up. Both of you," the teacher commented in his normal monotone, causing both twins to stare up at the front, muttering under their breath at the man. "Good, now before we start our group projects-Oh! Miss Ashford! What a nice surprise!"
The class turned to the front of the classroom where Milly Ashford appeared in her usual cheery blonde attitude at the door. She waved to the twins and made her way to the teacher, gesturing for someone to follow her, but no one really got a good look at who it was outside the door except the front row. The classroom was all atwitter as the front row started whispering to the rows behind them while Milly talked to the teacher. By the time the information got to Usagi and Lelouch, the twins exchanged a confused look and waited for Milly or the teacher to explain what was going on. After a few minutes, the man stood up from his conversation with Milly and turned to his students. "Class, it seems we're being graced with a new student. Would you come in please?"
Usagi turned to Lelouch, who shrugged and looked out the window with his usual bored expression, obviously not interested anymore. His sister chuckled, watching a squirrel run after a rabbit in the yard below, but she blinked in surprise when Lelouch had suddenly stiffened, turning his attention back to the classroom. What had happened? Did they get yelled at again? Usagi raised an eyebrow and turned to the front of the classroom, her own eyes widening at who the new student was.
"This is Suzaku Kururugi, as I'm sure most of you know already. He will be attending Ashford with you all from now on so make him feel welcome," the teacher's words were almost lost in Usagi's mind as she finally grasped what had happened. Standing before her, dark hair in its usual mop-head style and green eyes piercing into the back of the room was Suzaku. Her best friend, her confidant, and the person she hadn't seen in over 7 years. The boy seemed so… Stiff.
"This could be bad…" Lelouch's voice whispered, snapping Usagi out of her trance as she turned to her brother, confused.
"What do you mean?"
"We're not supposed to know him, and you know what these kids will do because of what the news said about him."
"Well why can't we just pretend to not know him and just make friends again?"
"It's not that simple."
"It is to me," Usagi sighed, turning back to Suzaku in the front as the teacher looked for a place to assign him to sit. Eventually he pointed to a seat in the same row as the Lamperouge twins, but across the middle aisle from them. Usagi's usually chipper face fell when she noticed everyone scooting away from Suzaku like he had the plague. Lelouch was right, this could get bad.
~Later~
"Alright! Emergency meeting in progress!" Milly declared, grinning at the members of the student council. The others sighed, wondering what hare-brained scheme Milly had in store for them this time. "Everybody take a seat and we'll get started!"
Usagi chuckled, rubbing her temples slightly at how crazy Madame President could be and took a seat on the windowsill, looking out to the courtyard and the other hallways in the building. Even though she was technically only an honorary council member because of Lelouch, she felt it necessary to pop in on meetings from time to time when she didn't want to go to class.
As Milly started to drone on and on about their next "project" Usagi distracted herself with the sights outside. Again, there was the squirrel and the rabbit, but this time was different. The squirrel seemed to be in an argument with another squirrel over a nut and the first squirrel was thrown from the tree by the second squirrel. Usagi stiffened as the animal fell, but the rabbit bounded over from its hole and seemed to catch the squirrel. The girl breathed out in relief and watched as the second squirrel came down from the tree and seemed to be arguing with the rabbit, which was now standing between the angry squirrel and the slightly injured other squirrel. The bunny barred its large teeth and took a hop towards the squirrel, who lost its cool and went back up the tree. The rabbit then hopped over to its squirrel friend and nudged it with its nose. The squirrel got up and hugged the bunny, climbing on its back and the two of them hopping off.
Usagi blinked at how weird/random that was, but wondered if nature was really like that. She watched the rabbit and the squirrel run off to play and smiled slightly, how is it that different species of animals could get along, but not different kinds of people? A flash of white in one of the other hallways caught Usagi's attention and she looked up, spotting Suzaku running after a flash of white being tossed from jock to jock from the locker room. Usagi raised an eyebrow, watching the boys toss Suzaku's shirt from person to person and Usagi noticed red lettering scrawled across the boy's shirt. She didn't get a good look at what the writing said, but she narrowed her eyes as the boys continued to tease the brunette.
"Usagi! Are you listening?" Milly called and Usagi turned back around, smiling slightly.
"Sorry, got distracted."
"Well you should pay attention! This is very-oh my god!"
Usagi's attention snapped back to the window, where Milly saw the boys hold Suzaku's shirt over the edge, dropping it and pushing Suzaku over after it. Thankfully, his fall was broken by the bushes below and Usagi snapped, racing out of the student council room and down the stairs, the members of the council following soon after her. By the time Usagi made it to the courtyard, the boys had pulled Suzaku out of the bushes and surrounded him, pushing him from guy to guy, muttering things that were incoherent as a crowd started to form around them.
"Dammit Suzaku, he never fights back when it comes to defending himself" Lelouch hissed, glaring at the situation brewing before them as Usagi bolted from his side, pushing through the crowd to get to the brawl.
"Come on! You killed Clovis and you can't even defend yourself?"
"This is pathetic, you'd think since he's a soldier he'd have the balls to stick up for himself"
"Come on Kururugi, be a man!"
"Yeah! Show us how mad we're making you!"
That was when the fight became violent. The largest of the boys threw Suzaku to the ground, the boy wincing in pain but starting to stand up again, only to get a face full of another boy's fist. Suzaku cried out and fell to the ground, clutching his face as he shielded himself from future abuse, but none came. The boy looked up, still clutching his cheek, as he stood on wobbly legs-only to be caught by a pair of arms before he fell again. Suzaku blinked in surprise, looking down to see Usagi, glaring furiously at something on the ground. He raised an eyebrow, turning to see the boys who had been tormenting him on the ground, clutching themselves in various places. The crowd broke out in whispers, gossip immediately being spread as Usagi rolled her eyes, taking Suzaku's free arm and placing it around her shoulders to steady him. "Nurse. Now." She ordered, and Suzaku was happy to oblige, his vision swimming and his injuries from falling off the second floor balcony starting to emerge. He felt himself drifting in and out of consciousness, now wobbling more violently in Usagi's grip as she stopped and grabbed him with both arms.
"Shit. Lelouch!" she called, Suzaku's head falling onto her chest as everything started to go fuzzy. He spotted the shape of Lelouch and smiled in relief as the twins each took a side and carried him to the nurse, where his world went completely dark.
A/N: Okay, hope you enjoyed Chapter 1! I quite like how it turned out. xD
