Code Geass: Suzaku of the Rebellion

By: C.C.

Chapter 4:

Kallen walked into her homeroom that morning with nothing but the resistance in her head, and the same was for Suzaku. While Suzaku was in the back, though, plotting on what he was to do next, Kallen stayed up towards the front with the teacher so she could try and get her mind off of things, and Lelouch and Euphie were towards the middle, right behind Suzaku.

Suzaku almost pulled out some paper to try and put his thoughts in order, but he took a second thought.

"That would leave evidence," he thought to himself, and quickly put the piece of paper back into his bag. He knew, though, that it would be difficult to put all of his thoughts in order, but he tried anyways.

Suzaku's POV:

What was up with that girl with green hair? She seemed so nonchalant about it, and how did she know my name? Would I ever see her again? And what am I gonna do about Kallen? Should I tell her that I was Zian? She's probably just really clueless right now about all of this, but things should be getting really interesting soon.

The Japanese are gonna want the weapons back, and they surely won't want any more to be taken, so it's all probably gonna be more heavily guarded than it was, making it more difficult to plot out the moves.

I probably can't do this alone. I'm gonna need someone with more brains than what I've got, someone who could plot things out really well, and I can only think of one person to do so, but is it worth the risk to tell him about this? Lelouch, I'm fighting for the return of your home country that was taken over by the empire of Japan, I just can't help but wonder if you'd help me. The main thing that I can think of that would keep you from wanting to is Nunnally, but this would be better for her as well.

Omniscient POV:

While Suzaku was off in class with his friends, there were things going on that are between the lines. I'll leave Suzaku alone for now while he's in his classes.

Over in his room, where there was no one, was complete darkness and silence. There weren't even birds outside to sing. You'd expect for the silence to not be disturbed, as well as the darkness, but around eleven that morning, the door cracked to his dorm. It was slight, but the door crack broke the darkness, and then when it opened even more, the silence was broken by the sound of footsteps across the floor.

The woman looked around the dark room, and didn't even bother to turn on the lights, in case someone had spotted the lights on from the window to the outside. She took it to be the girl's room, whom she didn't know her name, but she knew the boy, and that was the room she was looking for.

After relaxing for a bit, she got off of the bed, and walked into the other room, where she knew it was the boy's room, the room of Suzaku Kururugi. She crawled underneath the bed, and waited for his return to the room, so that she might reveal herself to him, and was careful to pull back all of her long, green hair.

The woman ended up dozing off into a dreamless sleep as she waited for Suzaku to come back.

Meantime, a while has passed since homeroom, and it was now time for lunch. He went and sat next to Lelouch, Euphie, and Kanya, who was not able to take her eyes off of Lelouch.

"Suzaku, over here!" Euphie called.

He sat down next to him and spooned up some baked beans as they talked.

"I hear that the Britannian bombings in the Japanese are getting worse," said Lelouch. "I heard one of the teachers talking about it. They said that they had attacked again after this morning."

"Where?" asked Suzaku.

"Over in Mt. Vernon. I hear that's where a military base is for the Japanese. The Britannians tried an ambush, but that failed. They were quickly either killed or captured, and are being questioned at the moment."

Suzaku went over this information in his head, trying to form plans, but Euphie just looked at the both of them all worried.

"Why can't all of the fighting just stop?" she asked.

Suzaku swung his head over in her direction. "What?"

"I'm tired of all of the grief and war against the Japanese. I just wish that things could go back to the way they use to be, the four of us in the old days again. I miss those days, Suzaku. I wish that we could go back in time."

Suzaku eased up. He didn't like the fighting, either, but the difference between him and Euphie was that she wanted the old days back, but would be perfectly happy with what she's got, minus the War, but Suzaku planned on fighting for the freedom that he wanted for all of them. The question was, just how far was he going to take it?

"I better go check on Nunnally," said Lelouch, getting up.

"Oh, can we come with you? It would be really good to see Nunnally again!" said Euphie, suddenly all excited.

"Who's Nunnally?" asked Kanya, talking for the first time since seeing Lelouch.

"Nunnally's my younger sister," he said.

In Kanya's eyes, Lelouch was the guy of her dreams. He had the pretty boy looks from a magazine and the graceful movements of royalty, though she didn't know that he actually was royalty. She knew by his appearance that he wasn't Japanese, but she didn't care. It was like he'd just popped out of her dreams.

They all started to walk over towards the dorm for Lelouch and Nunnally, when Kallen came up from behind Suzaku, stopping him by placing one of her hands on his shoulders.

"Can I talk to you?" she asked.

Suzaku hesitated. What was going on through her head? Did she know that he was Zian? What did she want from him?

But, as she started to walk away, she turned her head around to see him just standing there as if he didn't know what to do, and he didn't.

"Well, are you coming or not?"

Hesitating, he nodded his head, and started to follow her to the corner of a clubhouse. They didn't go inside, but just hid around the corner so that no one would be able to see them.

After checking to see that the coast was clear, she turned to look at Suzaku with daggering eyes. "What all do you know?" she asked.

"About what?"

"Don't play dummy with me! You're Japanese! I know you know something about everything going on around here. Tell me all you know!"

"What is it that you wanna know about? Is it the school, the city….."

"I wanna know about the resistance!"

She pulled out a small dagger that was carefully hidden in her pocket, and put it up to his throat, holding his head back with her left arm and his feet to the ground with hers. Her face was but an inch from his now as she stared him down.

Though he was being threatened for his life, he chuckled. "You planned on killing me?"

"I was thinking about it," she said, putting the dagger just a bit closer to his throat.

"Why would you kill me? I saved your life today with that energy filler. The Britts would have gotten you for sure had I not been there, and not to mention that I came up with the plan that got you your weapons. What were you all doing? You were playing it by ear, and if I hadn't showed up, you'd be just like those guys that attacked the Mt. Vernon military base, dead or captured."

"SHUTUP!" she said, getting ready to throw the dagger at him, but stopped herself as tears started to fall from her eyes. The dagger dropped from her grip, and she fell to the ground, wrapping her arms around her, and sobbing.

Suzaku wasn't sure of what to do next. Here was this girl that he barely knew that was threatening his life, sobbing for no apparent reason, and she doesn't seem like the type that would just stop right in mid kill to cry. No, something was up.

So, he tried to get on her good side. He knelt by her and put his arm on her back. She stared him down out of the corner of her eye, but kept crying.

"Kallen, what's wrong?"

"I need your help. I need to know all that you know."

"Why?"

"Because my brother was apart of that battle at Mt. Vernon, and I need to get him back. If you really are Zian, please, help me get my brother back!"

Suzaku was speechless, not knowing what exactly to do. She looked up at him, wiped the tears from her face, and spoke. "Are you Zian?"

He took a deep breath and hesitated before speaking. "I am Zian."

"Why did you keep it secret?" she asked him.

"Because I'm Japanese, and other reasons that you're not to know."

There was a silence before either of them spoke again.

"Please, will you help me find my brother?" she eagerly asked, the look of desperation in her eyes.

He sighed and gave her a serious look. "I'll make a deal with you. I will help you find your brother, but in return, you are never to tell anyone who I am. No one is to know the identity of Zian."

"But, you'd have to show your face eventually," she said, standing up. He stood up with her.

"Not if you keep it hidden behind a mask."

"Suzaku?" asked voices from a distance, one that he noticed as Euphie.

"Who is that?" asked Kallen.

"My sister, Euphie."

"Suzaku," she said, a bit closer this time.

"I better go," he said, irritated for whatever reason.

"What's wrong?" asked Kallen, looking at him curiously.

"Nothing. Why do you ask?"

He was sounding more irritable now, but he didn't notice and it just kinda creeped Kallen out.

"I better go," he said, walking away from her in a hateful manner. "Just go to the resistance tonight and tell them to meet in the alley by the warehouse. I'll be there by nine."

With that, he left her alone to meet up with his sister.

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