Suzaku's eyes flickered down below to the trees growing in endless amounts. Green painted the hills and the sky was a beautiful blue. Another thanks that he owed Lelouch. Before his 'death' or whatever. The emperor had geassed three people to keep Suzaku's secret and therefore allowing one of them to pilot him in a plane here without bringing unwanted attention. The engines propelled them forward and in a matter of minutes, they had arrived in the closest airport to Jeremiah's orange farm. Suzaku had to get him credit. Even though Lelouch died, he still kept the memory of his master by creating an orange farm.

Upon exiting the plane, Suzaku frowned lightly hoping that no one would be able to see through his disguise. At the current time, he had baseball cap on hiding his hair, dark sunglasses, light blue jeans, a yellow t-shirt, and a blue jacket. It covered most of his recognizable features, but the only problem was that it was damn hot. It was like traveling through the desert. He whistled and, hailed a cab. A yellow car sped his way with a dark haired girl with blue eyes as the driver. "Three dollars a mile." She stated with boredom.

Not at all caring about the money, he slid into the seat and sighed, "The orange farm to the west please. I have as much money as you want, just pick up the pace." In twenty minutes, they had arrived at the place. He handed the driver the money and quickly exited. The orange trees were rounded off by a white fence. While the plants themselves had beautiful green leaves with fruit blossoming of the trees. A flash of bubble gum hair caught his eye. "ANYA-" He caught her attention, but instead of coming towards him, she dashed off. "H-hey!" Not bothering with he disguise any more, since there was little to no one here, he pushed himself over the fence and dashed after her avoiding the trees. Gaining on the girl, he grabbed her arm and pulled her to a stop. "Hey! Anya! Where's Jeremiah?"

She tried to pull away before sighed and turning in obvious distant to see him. He wondered why, honestly, it hurt to see one of this friends treat him like a stranger. What was this? Suzaku Kururugi vs. The world? "Zero. Why are you here?" She said in her usual bored tone. Zero. He flinched at that. After her memory mishap and the battle, Jeremiah had decided to take her in as his child/daughter because she once held Marianna's soul. She was also one of the few people that knew about the Zero Requiem.

"Did you know about... The cards?" His eyes flickered with hope. This would be easier than he thought if these blue cards that C2 left behind were easy to find... But then... What this was all fake? A prank that some idiot put together? What if there really was no way to find Lelouch and save him from the past? Suzaku frowned and impatiently asked again, "Anya. Recognize this?" He flipped the card out from his pocket and showed it to her before quickly tucking it away.

Her eyes flashed, "Come with me." The pair traveled for ten minutes or so before coming upon a white house. The place seemed to have two floors and a nice porch. Anya led him up the five steps and into the place without knocking. This was clearly Jeremiah and her own home. "ORANGE." She hollered loudly and dashed away leaving Suzaku to stand awkwardly there. In this place, from what he could see, it was in a dine in kitchen that was connected to the living room by a hall. There was a classic television and a unlit fireplace with pictures standing proudly on the edge. Not a single light was on thanks to the brilliant sun light pouring in from the outside.

"Anya. Are you done with-" He stopped he saw Suzaku, "Why are you here?" Jeremiah asked with curiosity. For a second Suzaku was glad that Orange didn't seem to hold a grudge against him like Nunnally. Prephas, it was thanks to the fact that the man obeyed everything Lelouch said and his former friend seemed happy for Suzaku to drive a sword through his chest.

"Sir." He said polity and noticed that his geass canceller was still on his eye. "I've found something strange and it led me here. In Lelouch's room, I found a blue card telling me that you had the next one in the set. May I see it? My intentions are not harmful towards the 99th emperor. I simply want to discuss some things with him and then he may do whatever he wished with his life."

His response was quick and short, as if he had rehearsed this scene over and over before, "What things? And why so sudden? Three years have gone by without trouble... Hasn't C2 or his majesty warned you that sometimes the truth is better left undiscovered. I think that applies to you Kururugi." Jeremiah reached for the card Suzaku had now taken from his pocket and scanned it over. "While I know it is real, I don't believe he would enjoy having you bother him." He said flatly.

"I understand that. But there are things I have to set right. I can defeat the consequences or such things like that. Nunnally and the others deserve the truth. They deserve to know what Lelouch did... good and bad." Suzaku sighed and met his eyes. Not just them, but himself as well. Lelouch never told the truth and now he wanted it. No matter what. Even if it meant stealing the card from Orange.

"My final question. Why would you want to find him? Zero. Why would you want to ever speak to the man that stole your princess from you?" Of course he wanted to clear Lelouch's name as well. Did Suzaku even know how painful it was to hear your liege be insulted, over, and over, and over again? Horrid. It was horrid. He knew were the blue card was. He had placed it in a box and buried it under the first orange tree he planted. Of course he had a quickly way to locate it, but he needed to test Kururugi's determination somehow correct?

"Because. I read this dairy." He let the words sink into his soul and into Jeremiah. It was sad. He didn't even discover it because he believed in Lelouch. He found out because he was looking for hate, instead, he found the truth. Suzaku sighed slowly. "May I have the card?"

"Fine. The card. Is buried in a box under the first tree I planted here. Find it by the time night comes and it's yours. If you don't, I never want you in my land again." With those words he returned upstairs to finished whatever he was doing before. Probably not. He was going to watch Suzaku dig up dirt from his window and secretly hope that he would find the right one.

"Wait-" It was too late. He was gone. This would be bad. If he couldn't get the card... Then... Maybe he wouldn't be able to steal it. He would surely get caught digging at someone else's trees. Suzaku let out a sigh and traveled back outside to where Anya handed him a shovel. In return, he nodded gratefully to her and began to think it over. Well. The first tree should be the tallest right? Nope not always. Not if he planted the second a minute or day later. The first tree. He looked at what seemed to be a ocean of green trees growing from the ground. "The things I do for you Lelouch..." He groaned and dug around the closest trees to the house in a circle. Nothing. The sun was going to set soon. Time was running out. He had to do something fast, Suzaku dashed to the outside ring of the trees and began to dig faster. It had to be close. Somewhere. With every tree's soil flipped over and searched the sun dropped lower and lower into the sky. Letting out a train of curses he dashed back to the house. It seemed that a half an hour... The sun would be gone and he would have lost.

Then. The most amazing idea appeared in his head. Anya's photo book thingy. If she took a photo with that... He would be able to find it! Orange never said he couldn't. Perfect. He dashed right back into the house and into her room on the second floor. Ignoring Jeremiah's complains about him getting mud on the floor, he dashed off. Flipping through the photos as fast as he could, he found it. Though, it wasn't the tree that he was interested in by the background. That was what would show him the placing of the damn tree. In the picture, Jeremiah was standing in shorts and a t-shirt next to the plant with a light smile on his face, then right after, Anya did a video recording and named it first tree. The tree was four trees away from the white fence and it seemed that the little dirt road was behind it. Twenty minutes. He raced over to that side of the fence and sighed loudly, before beginning to dig. There were only five plants that could fit the angle.

On the second to the tree, he hit something. A box. He quickly pushed the lid open and snatched the card out without even reading it. He had to bring this back to Orange. With only three minutes on the clock, he did it and legally as well. "I got it." Ignoring the buzzing of the bugs he shoved the card into his hands and sighed. "I did it." At the moment he decided something, Suzaku Kururugi, the knight of zero, Zero, knight of seven, Prime minister's son, and all those other things hated oranges. From the bottom of his heart. More accurate. Orange trees.

Jeremiah nodded impressed. "Good." So the boy was gaining brain cells. Hooray! Lelouch would be proud...ish. He handed Suzaku back the card and smiled. "You better head off to find the next card. The puzzles will get harder as you go. Understand?"

Suzaku nodded and scanned over the card.

Beginning of friendship

Beginning of pain

Beginning of betrayal

It's all the same

Where the red string of fate

bounded two together

Even through death they will

never seperate

What. The. Hell? Where was this? Was this card talking about C2 or Kallen? Or him? or Nunnally? Or Rolo? Or... Dammit. He had no idea. Night was setting and Jeremiah offered for him to stay the night. He gladly agreed and decided to sleep on it for tonight. Maybe his tired brain would come up with something tomorrow... Oh. Yeah. Before that, he returned Anya's video dairy thing to her. Oops. He had almost forgot about it.

(( Do you guys know? Hmmmm? Leave me a PM of where you think the next place Suzaku needs to get to is... And by the way. We will be having a person come in make Suzaku's mission almost impossible. So those are things to look forward to! I have to say sorry that this is so short and strange. I must admit that this isn't my best piece. Oh! and I got 40 followers on this! That's amazing! Review of any kind push me to write more so leave one below will ya?))