Code Shugo Geass Chara: Amulettia of the Revival
By: Ame Haru


Move 4: Rest in Pieces, Clovis


"Is that all?" Clovis said as he sat down on his throne.

"Yes, well done." Lelouch said, hiding his face in the shadows.

"What's next? Want me to sing a song?" Clovis said, sarcastically, "Play a game of chess with you?"

"That brings back memories." Lelouch said, taking off his helmet and tossing it to the ground.

"Don't you remember when we used to play chess?" Lelouch said, pointing a gun towards Clovis, "I always won though."

"What?" Clovis said in confusion.

"Remember? At the imperial villa?"

"Who are you?!" Clovis asked, anger filling his voice.

"It's been awhile, " Lelouch said, stepping out into the light, "my brother." Clovis jumped out of his seat at the sight of Lelouch, horror stained on his face.

"I'm the son of the late Princess Marianne and in sixteenth place as the successor to the Throne." Lelouch said, kneeling down on his knees with his arm over his chest as he spoke. "Lelouch vi Britannia."

"Lelouch?! But, they said that you were-" Clovis yelled but was cut off by Lelouch.

"Dead, right?" Lelouch said, "I have returned, My Prince," Lelouch said, pointing the gun towards Clovis again from were he was kneeling,

"To change everything." Lelouch said, standing up again and walked over so close to Clovis that the gun that Lelouch was holding was exactly a half metre away from his face.

"I'm so glad, Lelouch! I heard you died when we invaded Japan." Clovis said, his voice indicating that he wants his life to be spared.

"I'm really happy you're alive." Clovis pathetically continued, "Will you come back home with me?"

"You plan on using me as a political tool yet again?" Lelouch said bitterly, "Don't you know that you yourself have been used as such a tool."

Clovis gasped, pushing back against his throne in horror. Lelouch kept his face without emotion, speaking with no tone in his voice.

"Yes, from the very day my mother died." Lelouch said, remembering the unsightly memory as if it was yesterday, "Mother was technically a princess, but she was of common birth, so the other princesses were no doubt annoyed with her. But, making it look like a terrorist attack was just cruel.

You killed my mother, didn't you?!" Lelouch yelled.

"It wasn't me!" Clovis screamed, "I swear it wasn't!"

"Then tell me everything you know." Lelouch said, activating his power, "Who was it that had killed her?"

"The second prince, Schneizel el Britannia, and the second princess, Cornelia li Britannia. They know." Clovis said.

"They did it?" Lelouch questioned. Clovis' expression fell, indicating his lack of knowledge of the subject. Lelouch sighed as he blinked, deactivating the effect he had on Clovis. Clovis' expression changed instantly, from mellow to melodramatic.

"IT WASN'T ME! I WOULD NEVER KILL YOU'RE MOTHER!" Clovis cried pathetically.

"I believe you." Lelouch said, dropping his gun to his side and put on a satisfied facial expression. Clovis breathed a sigh of relief, but a moment too soon.

"Still…" Lelouch said, pointing the gun directly towards Clovis's forehead. Clovis' cried for help were ignored by Lelouch.

"You see, the world will not change through naïve talk." Lelouch said in a husky voice, and pulled the trigger.

コードしゅごギアスキャラ: あむれちあのリヴァイヴァル

"Hey, Lelouch!" a woman yelled as she hit Lelouch with a roll of paper, "Did you fall aslfeep?! I saw your hands stop moving!"

"Please don't hit me, Madam President…" Lelouch said irritated. The woman who was hitting him has a tall blonde who wore the girls standard cream blazer, black skirt and green tie with Ashford Academy's symbol uniform.

"That's for ditching me yesterday!" Rivalz teased.

"Yeah! What happened yesterday anyways?" another girl, Shirley, said. She had long orange hair, had moss green eyes and wore the girl uniform as well.

"Hey, hey! Let's not get off the point." the blonde, Milly, said, "We have to figure out the budget for this year's club activities. We can't miscalculate this!"

"If we do…" the third girl, Nina, said. Nina, had frizzy forest green hair that was always in braids and had big round glasses over her brown eyes.

"The equestrian club will bust right in here again!" Rivalz said with a relaxed attitude.

"Oi, Rivalz! You're a member of the student council too." Milly said.

"You should've thought of that yesterday!" Shirley argued.

"We'll just wait them out. They'll give up sooner or later." Rivalz suggested.

"You know what, that's not such a bad idea." Lelouch agreed.

"GUTS!" Milly yelled angrily.

"What's with this 'guts' thing again…" Rivalz pouted.

"Yeah! It's a spell to make you guys work harder!" Milly said.

"It's a lame spell that won't make us do anything." Lelouch said back.

"It worked on me, Madam President!" Shirley said, raising her hand obediently.

"You're so nice, Shirley." Milly said, stepping back and crossed her arms.

"You trained me well, Madam!" Shirley shouted.

"That's not what I'm talking about." Milly said, lowering her eyes. "Nice rack. I checked you out yesterday in the girls washroom. You've got a really nice balance."

Rivalz looked at Shirley too and pretended to gawk. Shirley became embarrassed and hugged her self.

"What are you saying, you pervert, Madam President!"

コードしゅごギアスキャラ: あむれちあのリヴァイヴァル

Lelouch, Rivalz and Shirley talked about what had happened a few minutes ago as they walked into their classroom. As they walked inside, a few students were crowding around a laptop, watching the news.

"Poison gas?" one of their classmates said. said, "Scary!"

"We're not even thirty minutes away from Shinjuku!"

"I saw it! There was smoke rising from Shinjuku yesterday!"

"Anything else about Shinjuku?" Lelouch asked.

"Ehh, why?" Shirley asked.

"That's why I called you yesterday." Lelouch lied, "A friend of mine was telling me about it while it happened."

"That's all that they're showing, Lelouch." another classmate said.

'That's odd.' Lelouch thought, 'Why are they hiding it?'

Lelouch sudden pictured him back at Clovis' military vehicle. Once her pulled the bullet, the rest was obvious. The bullet came rushing into Clovis' head, blood spurting out of the hole, and just going everywhere. The scarlet liquid that wasn't flying everywhere, was falling down Clovis' pale white face, like a red river parting through snow.

Just the thought of Clovis' face yesterday made Lelouch feel sick. Lelouch dashed to the washroom, leaving his friends with feelings of confusion and worry.

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"Sorry for worrying you yesterday, C.C." Amu said as she changed behind a wooden screen.

"You can handle yourself, now. I wasn't worried." C.C. said, laying down on a mattress without any sheet, reading a magazine.

"Maa, do I really have to go to school…" Amu complained, coming out from behind the screen. She wore black blazer, that was for the boys' uniform, with gold trim and had the buttons undone. Instead of wearing the regular black skirt that was for the girl's uniform, Amu wore a black pleated skirt with similar gold trim as the boy's jacket and had chains hanging off the side. She also wore knee black high boots with heels about three inches high. Her hair was down, curling at the ends, with a green cross clipping some hair back behind her face.

"I never said anything about it." C.C. said.

"But, I want to get tabs on Onii-san…" Amu pouted, playing with her hair, "Damn it, I still look like Euphie no matter what I do with my hair."

"So what happened exactly?" C.C. said, not bothering to look up from her magazine.

"Um…" Amu said as she thought about yesterday.

"Lelouch!" Amu yelled as she ran inside the command room. There she saw Lelouch pointing a gun to Clovis' head.

"IT WASN'T ME! I WOULD NEVER KILL YOU'RE MOTHER!" Clovis cried pathetically, covering the voice of Amu. Amu quietly closed the door behind her and hid behind the couch closest to the door.

"I believe you." Lelouch said and Clovis breathed a sigh of relief.

"Still…" Lelouch said. Amu tried to block out the sound of Clovis' pathetic cries for help.

"You see, the world will not change through naïve talk." Lelouch said, and pulled the trigger.

Amu had to muffle out her scream as she heard the sound of the bullet entering Clovis' head. Though she hadn't seen his face, she could imagine his face been drenched in his own blood, the floor around accumulating the blood into a nice red puddle.

"Lelouch!" Amu yelled as she stood up and looked directly at Lelouch. At that exact moment, two other guards came rushing into the room, fully armed. Lelouch abruptly turned around to face all of them, quickly activating his geass.

"Die." Lelouch commanded, the red geass symbol flying out of his eye. Amu jumped back, realizing that she was still wearing Clovis' personal military uniform and that Lelouch couldn't hear her anyways to begin with. Amu felt her own thoughts being cut off the moment Lelouch's geass entered her.

"Yes, your majesty…" Amu muttered quietly, pulling a gun from her pocket and held it up to her head. She felt herself pull the trigger but even before the bullet broke through her head, she felt her spirit float from her body and into another.

Amu quickly opened her eyes and noticed that she was about to start up a Sutherland Knightmare. Amu sighed as she dropped the key and pressed the exit button on the Knightmare.

'Thank you, Clone 1, for keeping this body safe…' Amu thought to herself, before jumping off from the Knightmare and walked away confidently, still trying to blend in with the army of unknowing military members.

"So? Tell me." C.C. said, breaking Amu out of her haze.

"Sorry. I guess I died for the third time this week." Amu said, summarizing everything in one sentence.

"I see…" C.C. said, without a tone of shock in her voice, "Be more careful. Can't have you going over that limit now."

"Hai." Amu muttered, "Umm, excuse me. I have an appointment with Mr. Ashford. I'll bring pizza later."

"Make sure it has sausages this time!" C.C. yelled at her as Amu closed the door to their temporary hideout.

"Guess it's time to pay a visit to the Lamperouge household." C.C. said, tossing the magazine aside.

コードしゅごギアスキャラ: あむれちあのリヴァイヴァル

'They must be covering up Clovis' death to hide the truth about yesterday.' Lelouch thought, as he turned off the tap. 'But, how will they announce it when it comes time?'

"Hmpf. I guess I really did some damage there." Lelouch said, walking out of the restroom.

"Kallen! It's been such a long time!"

"Are you alright?"

"We've been really worried!"

"Yes, though I can't do too much physically." the girl, Kallen, said with a soft-spoken voice.

Lelouch flinched at the sight of her. It was the same girl that was piloting the Glasgow yesterday for the terrorist group. Lelouch took his seat in the row behind Kallen and opened up his books.

"What are you looking at, Lelouch?" Rivalz whispered, sitting behind Lelouch, "Falling for her?"

"It's just odd. She hasn't come to school since the first day, right?" Lelouch said.

"Kallen Stadtfeld." Rivalz explained, "Seems like she's sick or something, so she only comes every once in a while. But her grades are the highest in the class, after Lelouch, of course. Since she's the child of the Stadtfeld family, so she's got tons of money, and she's nice to look at too!

"You have high standards, Lelouch." Rivalz finished off.

"It's nothing like that." Lelouch said.

The lunch bell rang and the group around Kallen dragged her outside, with their bento boxes in hand,. Lelouch stood up after them, ignoring whatever Rivalz was saying and went in the opposite direction as those girls, thinking about confronting Kallen without staring some useless rumour in the process.

Lelouch became lost in his own thoughts regarding what happened to him yesterday that he barely even realized that he had bumped into someone.

"Sorry." the both of them said. Lelouch looked down and saw a pink haired girl rubbing her head. She just barely reached Lelouch's nose, even though she was wearing high heeled boots. She was also wearing the school uniform in a different fashion than the other girls in the school. She wore the boys' blazer instead of the cream blazer for girls, and she wore a skirt that matched the boys' blazer, even to the gold trim.

The girl looked up and her eyes widened in surprise for an instant. But as quickly as Lelouch blinked his eye, the aura around her changed almost immediately.

"Excuse me." the girl said, walking around Lelouch before continuing walking. As she walked, the curls in her pink hair bounce up and down like springs. Lelouch felt like he had seen her once before, but shook the thought out of his mind and went straight to dealing with his other more important affairs,

Once Lelouch walked around the school once, he started to walk outside and looked around for the suspected Glasgow Knightmare pilot.

"Kyah! Kallen! A bee!"

"Kyah! Run Kallen!"

Lelouch looked to his left and saw a group of girls screaming at one tiny bee. Three of the girls bolted for the safety of the indoors as the fragile and meek Kallen jumped back skilfully and ran behind a bush, one that was only a few steps away from Lelouch.

"Bees in a place like this?" Kallen whispered to herself, "Is there a hive near by?" Kallen said, looking like she swatted the bee away, but as the bee fell, it split in half like nothing.

"This pisses me off!" Kallen muttered angrily to herself, "I shouldn't have said I was sick all this time!"

Lelouch walked up to her at that moment, and even though her facial expression didn't show it, her eyes were filled with fear.

'So she is the girl from earlier…' Lelouch concluded.

"C-can I help you?" Kallen asked, in her meek voice.

"Please answer my questions." Lelouch said, once again activating his power.

"Yes." Kallen said, her true-self showing through the power.

"You were piloting the Glasgow in Shinjuku yesterday, weren't you?"

"Yes."

"Why are you a terrorist?"

"Because I am Japanese, though I am half-Britannian by blood."

"Half?" Lelouch said, with a bit of surprise, but went back to his cool demeanour, "Then why do you go so far?" Lelouch quickly turned around and broke the effect on Kallen before she could answer his question.

"Um, do you have something to ask of me?" Kallen asked softly.

"No, I have nothing else to ask you." Lelouch said, trying to activate his geass again on use if on Kallen, "But, just in case… Don't tell anybody about Shinjuku."

"What do you mean by Shinjuku?" Kallen said, still her student self, "Why are you talking about that?"

"Go back to class." Lelouch tried to command.

"I will, if you answer my question." Kallen said, her temper starting to show a bit.

'Why isn't it working?' Lelouch thought to himself. Lelouch tried to back away, but somebody suddenly called him.

"Lulu!" Shirley yelled, "Kallen-san! We have chemistry next, hurry up!"

"Ah, I have to write that lab report!" Lelouch pretended and quickly ran back to class, leaving Kallen behind him.

'It failed! Why?' Lelouch thought over and over again in his mind.

コードしゅごギアスキャラ: あむれちあのリヴァイヴァル

"What should we do? He may be late again, tonight." a woman said, as she skilfully folded a piece of paper into a crane. She was dressed in a modest black and white maid outfit and was sitting across her master, a small frail girl who sits in a wheel chair and was blind.

"I can wait. He said we'd eat dinner together." the frail girl said, carefully folding a piece of paper herself. The frail girl had long honey colored hair with soft waves. Her green jumper stood out on her pale skin color, only a tint of pink of where her cheeks were.

"There, it's done." the maid said, holding out the crane to the frail girl. The girl took the crane gently as she felt the edges of the paper bird, trying to see what it would look like.

"A bird?" the frail girl asked.

"Yes, it's a crane." the maid said.

"Amazing." the girl said, still carefully tracing the outline of the bird. "Japanese people are so skillful!" The maid smiled in appreciation as Nunally turned towards the door, listening intently.

"Nunally-sama?" the maid said, turning towards the door as well. The door automatically slid sideways as Lelouch walked through, still carrying his book bag.

"Sorry I'm late." Lelouch said.

"Welcome home, Onii-sama." the frail girl replied.

"Welcome home, sir." the maid greeted.

"I'm home, Nunally. Sayoko-san." Lelouch said greeting the frail girl then the maid, respectfully.

"Sir, you can go change into more comfortable clothes, if you like." Sayoko offered, "I'll take Nunally to the dinner room and set up dinner."

"Thank you Sayoko." Lelouch said, "I appreciate it."

Sayoko smiled kindly at him before pushing Nunally out of the room. Lelouch smiled at them before heading to his own room, his expression hardening as he did so. Lelouch tossed his bag on his bed and rushed to start up his laptop.

"Still nothing on Clovis." Lelouch muttered, as he unbuttoned his blazer. "How long to they want to keep this a secret?" Lelouch grunted and closed his computer as he undressed himself and changed into more casual clothing, black jeans, a black muscle shirt and a red jacket over top.

'What is Britannia planning?' Lelouch thought as he entered the room.

"Onii-sama!" Nunally replied happily. Lelouch was startled and looked up and saw Nunally and Sayoko. Sayoko was helping Nunally to know where all her utensils and her food was.

"I can take it from here, Sayoko-san." Lelouch said. Sayoko bowed respectfully and exited the room silently. Lelouch took his place beside Nunally and started cutting his steak into pieces as Nunally drank her soup.

"What happened today for you, Nunally?" Lelouch asked casually.

"Sayoko-san was teaching me origami." Nunally said, excitedly. "You fold the paper over and over and you can make birds and boats and about everything else!" Nunally finished, taking a sip of her soup. She missed her mouth accidentally and some of the soup fell onto the side of her mouth.

"You don't have to rush to tell me everything." Lelouch said, quickly taking his napkin and wiped Nunally's mouth with it. "I'm not going anywhere."

"Arigato, onii-sama." Nunally said, speaking in Japanese.

"Do itashimashite." Lelouch replied.

"I'm so glad." Nunally said, smiling happily, "You sort of scared me last night."

"Really? Sorry, I had something urgent to finish." Lelouch replied, his facial expression falling as he tried to keep his voice even.

"Hey." Nunally said, before Lelouch could get into deep thought, "Sayoko-san said that if you fold a thousand cranes, your wish comes true. So, if you have anything to wish for…"

"Oh, no. Not me." Lelouch said, "And you, Nunally? Do you wish for anything?"

"Um…" Nunally said, putting her finger on her chin. "Oh, for the world to be a gentler place."

"When you can see again, I'm sure it will be." Lelouch reassured.

"Really!" Nunally said, happily.

"I promise." Lelouch said.

"That's right. There are few futures open to us." Lelouch thought, thinking of all the paths that are open to him and Nunally. "While they may be sheltering us here, will the Ashford family always be there to back us up? If our identity was ever revealed, even Shirley and Rivalz and the others would surely abandon us. Our fate is to used as political tools or the prey of other people's conspiracies.

"I have to make it." Lelouch thought, placing his hand over top of Nunally's and felt her putting her other hand on top of his, "I have to make a world where Nunally can live happily." When Lelouch looked up again, Nunally and his pinkies were crossed together.

"Sayoko-san taught me about this before." Nunally explained, "It's how the Japanese make a promise.

"Yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara hari senbon nomasu.*" Nunally chanted, "Yubi kitta!**"

"Now I'm scared! I may have to eat a thousand needles one day!" Lelouch said, his voice filled with false fear, though Nunally couldn't pick it up.

"So, You'd better not be lying!" Nunally said, wagging her pinkie at him.

"It's okay! I'm not lying." Lelouch reassured, then thought, 'Not to you at least.'

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"Geez, it would've been easier if I could stay at home." Amu said as she stomped towards the entrance of the school, "But, I have to get a better understanding of Lelouch's thoughts." She stuffed a piece of toast in her mouth as she looked in front of her curiously. She gasped at her irony as she instantly froze in place. Miki came flying beside her and chara changed with her and focused their power on Lelouch's mind.

'This is the only weapon I have and I don't even know how to use it.' Lelouch thought, thinking about his power of geass. Amu tried listening deeper into his thoughts, but they were cut off instantly when one of his teachers approached him.

"Lelouch!" the teacher said. Amu instantly hid behind a tree, hoping that the teacher didn't see her.

"Class will be starting soon." the teacher said to Lelouch.

"Oh, yes, sir!" Lelouch said, putting on a façade. Amu listened in on Lelouch's mind again and was astonished about all the plans he made about the possibilities of his geass.

"Sir, could you please tell me what topics will be on our exam?" Lelouch asked, activating his geass.

"The Humiliation of Edinburg, The Transfer of Capital to the New World and the North-South War." the teacher replied automatically.

"So, I haven't lose this power after all.' Lelouch thought as he deactivated his geass.

"Sir!" Lelouch asked again, reactivating his geass as he did, "What topics will be on our exam?"

"Quit joking around and study more seriously." the teacher answered, as he walked away, "You, of all people, can handle them if you make the effort."

"Yes, sir!" Lelouch answered obediently.

'So his geass can only work once on the same person.' Amu concluded as she heard Lelouch come to the same conclusion. Lelouch walked off, already looking at his other options about geass. Amu sighed as she deactivated her chara change and came out from behind the tree. Amu looked at the back of Lelouch's walking figure as she turned around.

'Sorry, school president. Looks like I have to take a sick day today.' Amu thought as she ran off in the opposite direction as the school entrance.

"Eh, Amu-chan, what are you doing?" Ran asked, flying beside her.

"I need to find out some things too." Amu answered, automatically taking out the Dumpty Key and spun it around her finger as she ran.

コードしゅごギアスキャラ: あむれちあのリヴァイヴァル

During class, Lelouch noticed Kallen glancing at him, glaring at him whenever he caught her. He also noticed her trying to figure out if she had heard his voice once before. At the end of class, Lelouch was already figuring out multiple plans to take her off of his trail.

'All I gave her was knowledge that I knew about Shinjuku.' Lelouch thought, 'However, if she knows who I really am, then as soon as possible I'll have to deal with her.' Lelouch quickly packed his books and walked over to Kallen.

"I understand. Kallen has to get home right after school." one of her friends said.

"Eh? Why?" another one of her friends asked, but didn't push it any farther since Lelouch was standing in between them.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to speak to you before you. leave." Lelouch said, ignoring the goofy looks the girls around him.

"Good." Kallen said, standing up, "I've been expecting you to ask me." With that the girls around Kallen burst into snorts and squeaks as Kallen followed Lelouch outside. Kallen kept quiet as she followed him outside the building and into another one.

"What is this place? I never knew there was anyplace like this in the school." Kallen said suddenly as Lelouch held the door open for her.

"It's the student council club house." Lelouch explained, being patient with Kallen's obvious gawking, "It was built to be large enough to host formal dances."

"And we won't be disturbed her?" Kallen asked, turning around abruptly to face Lelouch. Lelouch looked at her and saw the hardness in the way her eyes shone.

"Right." Lelouch answered. Kallen was about to speak, but was interrupted by a high pitched voice.

"FOUND IT!" the voice said. Both Lelouch and Kallen turned and saw Shirley picking something up on the top of the staircase.

"Ah! The experiment data!" Nina said, rushing over to Shirley.

"Ahh, my back hurts now…" Rivalz complained, walking over to the two girls.

"You found it?" Milly said, entering the room with a cart full of food, "I'm finished on my end, so let's start!"

"Woah! Amazing!" Rivalz said, leaning over the stair railing.

"Way to go, Milly!" Shirley praised.

"Please, you can compliment me more!" Milly said as she set the food on the multiple tables around the room.

"Um, what is all this?" Lelouch asked.

"Didn't you bring her here because you knew?" Milly replied, "It's because we're letting Kallen into the student council. My grandfather asked us to, since Kallen can't participate in regular school activities become of her health condition. Oh yeah!" Milly said, stopping what she was doing and turned towards Kallen, "I'm Milly, the council president. Nice to meet you!"

"Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you." Kallen said politely, slightly bowing towards Milly.

"I'm Rivalz, the secretary." Rivalz said as he, Shirley and Nina came running down the stairs, "Nice to meet you. If there's something you don't understand, just ask me."

"I'm Shirley, but I'm also on the swim team. Nice to meet you!" Shirley said.

"I'm Nina…" Nina said quietly as she played with the hem of her skirt.

"Nice to meet you all." Kallen replied.

"Um, Shirley-san…" Nunally said as she rolled into the room, "Could you put these on the table for me?"

"Okay, Nuna-chan." Shirley said, rushing over to Nunally.

"Nunally, you too?" Lelouch asked. Kallen felt pity for the girl once she saw her.

"This is Lelouch's little sister." Milly explained.

"I'm in the middle school group so I'm not in the student council." Nunally said humbly.

"That's okay. You're an associate member, okay." Rivalz said as he walked over to Nunally.

"Kallen-san, Yoroshiku." Nunally said, forgetting that Japanese was not allowed in school, "Oh, I mean…"

"Yoroshiku, Nunally." Kallen replied, smiling happily at the girl. She looked as Nunally's face brightened up and turned around to be pushed by Milly.

"Okay! First, shall I propose a toast?" Rivalz said, taking out a bottle from underneath the table.

"Champagne!?" Shirley said.

"Student council members can't drink!" Nina protested.

"Oh, loosen up, you guys!" Rivalz said, trying to uncork the bottle.

"We're not allowed to drink that!" Shirley said, trying to grab the bottle out of Rivalz hands.

"What's happening?" Nunally asked.

"You have this, Nunally." Milly said as she took Nunally's hand and placed a glass of orange pop in it.

"Lelouch, catch!' Rivalz said, tossing the bottle over to Lelouch. Lelouch jerked backwards, but was able to catch the flying bottle.

"Maa, Lulu!" Shirley said as she ran over to Lelouch. Lelouch tried to shake the bottle away from Shirley, but both of them ended up falling on top of each other. The cork of the bottle popped off and was heading towards Kallen. Kallen flicked the cork away, but was sprayed with the liquid that came after it. Kallen dropped to the ground soaking wet and sighed heavily as everyone crowded around her trying to help in anyway possible.

コードしゅごギアスキャラ: あむれちあのリヴァイヴァル

'So, this can happen one of two ways.' Lelouch thought as he walked down the hallway of the student council club house with a bundle of his clothes in hand, 'Either way, after this, she shouldn't suspect me for anything.'

Lelouch knocked on the bathroom door that Kallen was in to wash herself off. He heard Kallen open the shower curtain in surprise. "It's Lelouch." Lelouch said, "I brought a change of clothes."

"It's alright, you can come in." Kallen answered, "The shower curtain is closed."

Lelouch pressed a button to enter the door and tried not to look at the silhouette emitted from Kallen's body behind the shower curtain.

"Um, sorry about this." Lelouch said, unsure of how shaky his voice was, "They can be a little too lively sometimes."

"It's not a bad thing to just have a little fun once in a while." Kallen said in her fragile-self voice.

"Do you mind if you change into some of my clothes for now?" Lelouch asked as he dropped the clothes he was holding into a basket.

"Don't worry about it." Kallen said, "But that was fast. You went all the way to the boys' dorm and back?"

"I live here." Lelouch explained as he leaned on the sink counter, regaining control of his voice, "I'd be hard for my sister to live in the dorms. The school principal lets us live her as a favour."

"I see." Kallen said, her voice traced with sympathy.

"See you." Lelouch said, as he started to walk away.

"Wait!" Kallen said. Lelouch instantly stopped and looked back at Kallen.

"Can you hand me that pink pouch over there?" Kallen said, her hand reaching out from behind the curtain.

"Sure." Lelouch said, grabbing the pouch as she said that. Lelouch walked over, but turned around so that he couldn't look inside the shower. He reached his hand with the pouch inside the shower, but dropped it instantly when Kallen grabbed his hand as squeezed it roughly.

"You're livelier than I expected." Lelouch said.

"Were you in Shinjuku on that day?" Kallen asked, dropping her act as a frail student and slowly became the girl she was on the battlefield.

"What do you mean?" Lelouch said, acting confused.

"Don't play dumb!" Kallen said harshly, "Why did you mention Shinjuku?"

"Is there something wrong with Shinjuku?" Lelouch asked.

"Don't answer my question with a question!" Kallen yelled at him, "Is the answer yes or no? I don't want to hear anything else." Lelouch glanced his eyes over and saw that inside the pink pouch, there was a hidden knife.

'So, she was better prepared than I thought.' Lelouch thought, 'But…' As Lelouch thought this, the school phone inside the bathroom started to ring. Lelouch tried to hide a smirk off his face as he tried to grab the phone.

"If I don't answer, someone will come." Lelouch said, playing along to his own plan. He grabbed the phone, "Hello, Ashford Academy student council."

No one answered on the other line, but Lelouch continued on with his charade, "No, I'm-- oh. It's for you." Lelouch said, holding the phone's receiver towards Kallen, "He says you'll know him, if you talk to him."

He felt Kallen strengthen her grip on Lelouch's wrist as she took the phone out of his hands. Lelouch smiled at his own plan, already knowing how the phone call would occur.

"I'm Glad you're alive and well, Q-1." the person on the other line would say. Kallen would jump at the sound of the voice and question if she had gotten the wrong guy.

"The day after tomorrow, at 16:00." The voice would continue to say, whether or not she replied, "The observation deck of the old Tokyo Tower. Come alone."

"Who are you?! How did you arrange that cease-fire order?!" Kallen yelled at the phone. If a question about Shinjuku was asked, the voice was supposed to hang up right away, without another word.

"OI! Don't hang up on me!" Kallen said, accidentally pulling the shower curtain open.

"What did you mean, cease-fire order?" Lelouch asked, once he was sure that the voice hung up, "Sounds like you have some pretty dangerous friends."

"This was just…" Kallen said, her voice back into her façade.

"Shall I guess?" Lelouch said, "It's about a game. On the Net, right?"

"Yeah! That's it." Kallen said, letting go of Lelouch's hand, "Because I'm stuck at home all the time.

"That's why I told you." Lelouch said, rubbing his arm, "That bit about how you shouldn't talk about Shinjuku. There are guys who'd intentionally show a person like you footage of that stuff.

"And, by the way…" Lelouch said looking away, "I can see you." Kallen looked behind her and saw that the curtain exposed her entire body. She shrieked and close the curtain as she crouched down to cover herself.

"I won't tell anyone. Well, see you." Lelouch said, trying to get out of there as fast as he could. Once the door behind him closed, Lelouch regained his composure and walked back to the spare room in the club house. There he found Sayoko holding a tape recorder. Lelouch took the tape recorder and deleted all the voice recordings on it.

"Arigato, Sayoko-san." Lelouch said, as he exited the room, knowing that the condition to his power over Sayoko would ware away the moment he did. Lelouch walked back towards the bathroom and saw Kallen dressed in his clothes, pacing in front of the bathroom door.

"Would you like a briefing on our club activities." Lelouch asked, making Kallen stop.

"Yes, thank you." Kallen said. Lelouch kept walking forwards as Kallen followed him.

"The student council don't require much physical work." Lelouch explained, "Beyond the occasional paperwork, we also plan school events."

"Like a cultural festival?" Kallen asked.

"And the Cross-dressing festival, the Absolute Silence Party and Wear Your Swimsuit to Class Day." Lelouch pointed out.

"What are those?" Kallen asked confused.

"Our president's weird tastes." Lelouch said, trying to make it sound like a joke, but failed to do so, "She'll get you involved in this stuff, so be prepared."

"Onii-sama, trouble!" Nunally cried out once Lelouch and Kallen entered the main room.

"Prince Clovis died." Milly said, turning away from the big screen TV.

"They say he was killed." Rivalz said. Lelouch and Kallen both jumped in shock as they watched the TV.

"Prince Clovis has passed away!" The man, Margrave Jeremiah, announced from the state broadcast room, "While fighting for peace and justice against the Elevens, he died a sacrificial victim! We all must push down our sorrow and carry on his will!"

"We have just received new information!" The news lady announced, the screen changing scenes for the recording to a live presentation. "The man suspected of the murder has been captured.

"According to the report, the man arrested is an honorary Britannian."

"No way." Lelouch muttered as his best friend appeared on the screen.

"Private Kururugi Suzaku." The lady kept reporting, "The suspect is a former Eleven. Honorary Britannian Suzaku Kururugi!"


A/N: HEYY! Ame back! How'd you like this chapter? Not very actiony, but, next chapter will be filled with way more, plus Amu will make more appearances! Yay!

*Pinkie promise, if you lie, I will make you swallow one thousand needles.
**I swear!

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