Yes! i told ya i'd have this chapter out by Saturday! I've had a good week so far...got some results from exams back and they were really good! i was in such a good mood, i wrote lots for 'The Lady of Zero', so expect steady chapters ahead!

kk, let me just clarify, Amaya will find out who Zero is in good time. okay?!

and so...chapter 3...ZERO!


As Amaya sat in the car, beside Ohgi, she couldn't help but wonder...

'WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?!'

Kallen paled beside her, obviously thinking the same thing. Amaya felt a small twinge of guilt at the thought that she had not told Tohdoh what she was doing. But she knew, that if he did, he would forbid her to even think of doing something like this. so of course, she did the next best thing. she lied. she told Todh she was staying a few extra days to relax with Kallen, to which he had encouraged, saying she should have more time to be ''normal'. she felt that guilt pulse gain as she thought of him what he found out she was doing quite the opposite. She sighed. there was no gong back now, as she saw the target point coming up.

"He told us...he said he's make the impossible possible. He gave us his word to save Suzaku Kururugi." Ohgi kept muttering.

Amaya didn't know how to feel about this. In a way, she wanted Suzaku to join them, to repent for what he had done. But another part of her wanted him as far away from her as possible. And yet another part of her just recognised him as her cousin. Kallen opened her mouth to say something, noticing her stiffness despite half her face hidden by a black visor, however, she signalled for silence as they approached the target.

Behind her visor, Amaya's eyes widened at the sight of Lord Jeremiah Gottwald. Amaya's eyes fixated on him for a moment, before shaking her head. she refused to allow her thoughts to deviate from her mission, and thoughts on the past were included. Jeremiah stepped forward almost for show. Like K said, he would try to hog the limelight, as he held out a hand towards them.

"You dare desecrate his Highness's transport?! Come out of there!" he yelled dramatically.

That was Amaya's queue, as she clicked the red button on the screen, causing the Britannian flag on the van to go up in flames, revealing K, standing atop, apparently at ease. Amaya, had to admit, it was an amazing sight to behold. One man, standing up to a Britannian army, apparently alone. He held out one arm, as his amplified voice rounded the entire audience around then.

"My name…is Zero!"

At that, he threw his cloak back, throwing his hands in the air, causing a gasp to float all around the area, and causing something in Amaya to light up.

"Zero…?" she whispered, more to herself then to anyone else.

'As in…nothing?' she quickly pondered this.

Zero could be both the beginning and the end of something. Zero. Everything always went back to a zero. populations, math problems, maps. Zero. The source of everything, yet nothing, in the universe. She glanced back at Jeremiah, who looked annoyed if anything.

"I've seen enough Zero! This little show of yours is over!" with a click of his fingers, 5 Knightmares came closer, covering most angles of the van. She noticed Ohgi was trembling slightly as she tansed, prepared to fight if the trouble began. Jeremiah grinned."First things first. Why don't you lose that mask?"

Amaya watched as he moved his hand to touch the top of his head, before swiftly placing it straight in the air, and snapped it, echoing through the crowd.

At this motion, the walls of the van fell, revealing the gas chamber, contents unknown to Amaya. But she knew this much: it looked like a bomb. She grinned to herself at the screams.

"This is what he wants…" she whispered. Kallen turned to her.

"What?" she glanced at a paled Jeremiah, looking terrified.

"Total chaos."

she paused as Suzaku tried to stand, yelling suddenly

"Wait, you don't understand-" before he was promptly electrocuted, gasping as he fell back. She winced at it. After all, he was part of the only family she had left…

"You bastard!" Jeremiah spat. "He's taken every Britannian here hostage! And he's done it without them even knowing it!" this brought a smile back on her face.

"You intend to shoot?" Zero challenged. "I think you know full well what kind of a weapon I have here."

Lord Jeremiah clenched his teeth. "Fine, what are your demands?"

Amaya smirked as Zero offered a hand in a symbolic act. "An exchange. This, for Kururugi."

The atmosphere changed completely, as Jeremiah's eyes widened.

"Like hell!" was the prompt answer. "He is charged with high treason for murdering a prince! I can't hand him over!"

"No." Zero stated loudly, pointedly.

"You're mistaken, Jeremiah. The true murderer-" he looked strait at the camera that was putting him live on every television in Area 11. "Was myself!"

There were more gasps around Area 11, as Amaya's eyes widened.

"He killed Clovis?!" Kallen gasped. Amaya could not answer.

"Oh crap! There's no way out of this!" Ohgi groaned.

"We are so screwed!" Kallen moaned.

Zero continued, ignoring the gasps and yells. "For a single eleven, you will save scores of precious Britannians." he paused before continuing,

"I find that to be a bargain."

Jeremiah slammed his fist on his platform. "He's mad I tell you! Disguising this truck as His Highness's, he'll pay the price for mocking the crown!"

"Careful." Zero said almost softly, teasingly, Amaya realised with a small smile.

"You don't wish the public to learn of 'orange', do you?" he tapped the car twice with his foot, causing it to whir to light, making it seem extra dangerous. "If I die, it'll all go public. If you don't want that to happen-" he was cut off by Jeremiah exclaiming "What are you talking about?!" T

hen, Amaya heard him say in a commanding voice

"You'll do everything in your power to let us go, and your prisoner as well!" what made Amaya gasp was not the audacity of the command, but the response.

"Right, understood." he turned to his surprised subordinate.

"You there, release the prisoner!"

"What on earth are you doing, my lord?" a woman subordinate cried out from her Knightmare.

"Get that man over here!" Jeremiah commanded again.

"Should we?" the guards muttered to each other in amazement. Jeremiah angrily yelled, almost urgently

"Hand him over, nobody gets in his way!" one officer stood, looking at him as though he was mad.

"No, what are you thinking?! You Can't do this!" Jeremiah angrily turned on him.

"Lord Quill, this is an order!" Jeremiah snapped, as the guards hurriedly undid a stunned Suzaku's restraints.

Amaya climbed out of the Van, as she followed Zero as an almost guard, daring anyone to shoot. Suzaku walked forward, with a small frown on his face.

"So who the hell are you-" he was cut off as he was once again electrocuted, his hand moving to his throat. Amaya's eyes narrowed.

"As I thought, they didn't allow you to speak." Zero sighed almost sympathetically. Amaya spoke up in a clear strong voice.

"It's time to go, Zero. Before the real forces arrive."

Zero glanced at her, before announcing to the Britannian forces "Very well then…till next time…"

And that's when he initiated the smoke bomb. As purple smoke filled the area, Amaya quickly leapt into action. As Zero pulled Suzaku into him, they both jumped, as a Knightmare suddenly began shooting at them, she dodged them all, as she and Zero jumped off the truck they jumped on, as Ohgi shot a net to capture them from their fall. they slid onto a roof, as Ohgi was ejected to their target point, and they jumped onto a waiting Van, which would carry them to their headquarters.


Suzaku caught his breath, as Amaya did hers, her eyes still covered by her visor. Zero, she saw, was trying to hide his very noticeable wheezes, yet to her, and everyone else, he was unsuccessful, as he began walking into the debris of the destroyed building.

"Who…who are you?" Suzaku gasped, after she disarmed the electrifier silently. She paused.

"…I'm…" she paused as her hand drifted to her visor.

"I know you, Kururugi Suzaku." she finally stated almost coldly, taking a step back.

"Zero wants to talk to you." she finished, as she turned around, and walked away, sensing the confused glance of Suzaku on her back. As he walked towards Zero, she leaned against the wall, feet from the conversing rebels, who were too busy talking about what had happened.


Lelouch gasped for breath as he finally climbed off the van, as Suzaku and Amaya jumped down ahead of him. Lelouch sighed as his feet met the ground. of course, they both had been energetic when they were younger. and Suzaku and Amaya were sure to have some similar genes, as they were related. Lelouch striaghteded as Amaya began working on his neck nerve electrifier, and began to stride to a secluded area in which to confront Suzaku.

Lelouch sighed again, as he strode towards the vacant, if not abandoned site of a former building. As he walsed onto the highest point, he glanced toward Amaya and Suzaku, waiting for Amaya to tell him who she was. yet, to his utter and astounded surprise, when he heard him ask her who she was, she had hesitated, touching her visor as though about to remove it. however, as quickly as she made the gesture, she let it fall to her side, as for a moment she took him in.

"I Know you, Kururugi Suzaku." was all she said, as she turned and walked away, leaving a confused Suzaku, who stared after her a moment, before shrugging and looking away, moving to feel his neck.

Lelouch pondered this for a moment. Obviously, Amaya had a problem with Suzaku. the question was, what? seeing as Amaya had so little family, surely she would wish to reconnect with Suzaku? unless...his eyes narrowed behind his mask. Suzaku had done something that would make her wish to avoid him. very unusual for Amaya, he thought.

He let his thoughts turn to Suzaku, as Amaya called "Zero wants to talk to you." over her shoulder. he immediatly took up his stand as Suzaku looked his way, and slowly made his way towards him. obviously, Suzaku had secrets too. something to do with the takeover of Japan pherhaps...he had never been the same, especially since what had connected both him and Amaya: they had lost their family.

Lelouch decided then and there that there was something he was unaware of between his best pilot and his future pilot and Knight for Nunnally. And that would of course cause problems in his plans. And that he could not have.

'But of course, firstly...' he thought to himself, as Suzaku almost glared up at him.

'I must make him loyal to me.'


Kallen glanced at her friend, Amaya from where she was. She still had not removed her visor, like Kallen.

"You got to admit it, nobody else could have pulled that off. Not the Japanese Liberation Front, and certainly not me. We always thought that a full on war with Britannia wasn't a possibility at all," at this Kallen gasped.

"But maybe with him, it is." Ohgi wrapped an arm around her. "Naoto would be proud, Kallen." he smiled.

She smiled, and noticed Amaya's shoulders sagged a little at the mention of her brother, something that always happened whenever family was mentioned.

"Hey, what's her problem?!" Tamaki snapped. Kallen frowned.

"Shut up Tamaki."

"Show her some respect, she's the Fujiwara head!" someone added.

"But she's Britannian!" he blurted. Kallen was thankful she was not within earshot anymore.

"She's Japanese!" Kallen snapped. "Am I Britannian?!"

Tamaki shook his head slightly. "But seriously guys, what do we know about her? All the information on her Britannian family, we don't know!" Kallen glanced at him.

"Maybe she doesn't want anyone to know, okay?"

"But-"

"Tamaki, have you not thought this through?" Ohgi said quietly.

"The Fujiwara's are dead. She's the only one left descended directly from the last head, and even all the other close members were killed. There's a good chance that when she was in Britannia, she had to flee because of the take over of Japan. It turned her into a half-number. And her family may have…not wanted that in the family. Or a full Eleven. She may have been around…10 then."

a silence fell as they all glanced at her, still listening in to Zero and Suzaku.

"Maybe she just wants to forget that part of her life..." he finished silently.


Alright people, Chapter 3 down!! chapter 4's next, 'Confrontations' where

'Zero' and Suzaku have a conversation

Lelouch lets something slip to Amaya which almost reveals his identity...

what will happen?!

only one way to find out...

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the more you review, the more i will write!