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Soul Drive
CH 4
Tamaki shook himself away from the memories. Something told him to retrace his steps, but he needed to take a break, after re-living such a moment. He went to his kitchen, which looked like something from a magazine. Mr. Shinichiro had gotten this from lottery money. It was surprisingly cheap, his apartment. The walls were oak colored, varying slightly from room to room. Going from a golden hue in his bedroom to an orange hue in the living room to a dark red bathroom, all the colors still retaining a natural oak hue which made the room paints look somewhat alike. He liked to call the colors "golden oak", "bloody oak" etc. The money left over went into investments.
Despite his reputation as dumb drunk who always took women out to dinner, he knew a lot about how to invest, save, spend, and use his money in the best ways. In the early days of the Black Knights he wanted a girlfriend, and cuz he knew the newly formed organization had a lot of savings, he always invited new female recruits to dinner. He never got any of them, and his position as treasurer was rebuked when his teammates found out what he was doing. But he did gain financial knowledge by watching how Zero worked with the money, and at the present had all the banks he was associated with begging him to submit himself in more credit cards. All these offers he declined, Tamaki was fine with just having 2 credit cards and handling them.
At the moment, Tamaki had gotten some water and drank the bottle totally dry. He had to finish remembering, he just didn't know why. Tamaki went back to his balcony and resumed.
Tamaki's life from the point of his mother's death went steadily upwards. At the camp, which he stayed in for a year, he still got bullied, but his mother's death had told him he wasn't invincible. Some kids at his old high school went through the trouble of being the jokesters, so he ended up adopting that attitude by the time he left. He could still be serious, but he was more commonly centered on the war or on his jokes. He met Kallen and Ohgi on a railroad and started his life as a resistance man. Ohgi was a wonderful friend, with whom he made the best of life, and Kallen was like a little sister to him. When he met Zero, he was skeptical at first, but soon warmed up. He even called him his "buddy". His life as a black night was filled with excitement. Even though his fighting stats compared to the other squad leaders (actually almost everyone) were very low, as he was now a jokester and was afraid of that hidden power he had, he was still seen as a senior and was respected by anyone bellow his status.
And that girl….
Tamaki mind automatically skipped her, but his treacherous heart did not, it pulled him back. He remembered when he met her, how he had called her a jackass, and how she had called him an idiot. He and the girl always fought, a few Black Knights made jokes about how they were exactly like a married couple, but quick glares full of venom from either Tamaki or her shut them all up. He always insulted the girl, she always calmly struck back. It was a bond that, could not be described as love, and yet only they shared it. Tamaki loathed his heart for making him remember that stupid hag, and growled.
"Shit, since when have I not had control over what I want to remember?"
Tamaki also recalled the day he and everyone else were set free from jail, and Zero came back. The Japanese man also recalled sadly when he found out about Zero's power, and the fact that he was really Lelouch VI Britannia. He remembered the F.L.E.I.J.A., when he tried to defeat Suzaku and was blasted out of the sky. Also when was put on a float (really just something to show off a prisoner) along with all the other commanders in the Black Knights. And then, Zero had appeared on the road and jumped to the top of the float and killed Lelouch. It had seemed unreal, and now just suspicious, a feeling he couldn't shake. Kallen had said that the newcomer was the True Zero, but he knew she had the truth buried under that.
And Tamaki had fulfilled his dream and opened up his own bistro. He was successful and his friends and teammates often came there to hang out. He was an expert at his job. And here he was now, on his balcony looking back through his life, at the age of 26, like an old man.