Chapter three: Past Conversations
Having found a place where they could sit and talk amongst themselves the three men sat down at a table away from all the ruckus of the gambling that was going on between innumerous people. Sitting in a chair Yukiteru was silent for a moment before Lelouch directed his attention toward him.
"You seem tense are you okay?" Lelouch asked.
"I'm not one to go to casinos a lot." said Yukiteru. "It's not an interest of mine…since I've never been in one anyway."
"How old are you?" asked Lelouch.
"Fourteen." Yukiteru replied meekly.
"Fourteen…really. Well it's not like you're doing anything wrong if you stay away from gambling and drinking here…they can't kick you out if you not doing anything wrong right?"
"Yeah but I still feel uncomfortable somewhat about being here."
"I'll vouch for you if you get caught."
A waitress soon came up to take their order Lelouch and Rolo ordered glasses of wine for themselves Yukiteru ordered only a glass of water trying not to get drawn to close into the atmosphere. Some small instinct within Yukiteru told him to open the future diary what he was carrying with him. Putting his hand in his pocket he was about to pull out the diary when Lelouch once again engage him in conversation.
"Yukiteru I'm still curious. What happened between you and this girlfriend of yours…what's her name, Yuno?" Lelouch asked with eager interest.
Yukiteru sighed somewhat not wanting to dwell on the subject too much, "We just broke up because there was a lot of toil in our relationship that I felt wasn't good for either of us…so I decided to end it but she didn't want it that way…she wanted us to stay together and tried to get me to take her back but I felt it was too volatile of a relationship so I kept my head up and left the relationship."
The waitress came back with their drinks and setting them on the table left.
"Why was she so eager to keep the relationship together if you didn't want to stay with her?" Rolo asked.
"Everything has been a result of childhood abuse both physical and psychological. I tried to empathic as I could toward her but she was always so jealous of everybody that was around me regardless if they were romantic or not."
Lelouch's eyes became wide. "Oh she was one of those possessive types right?"
"Right." Yukiteru said.
"Love is very precious you have to seize it at every moment don't stop loving someone even if they seem to difficult to deal with now." Lelouch said with a slight smile on his face.
Finishing their glasses of wine the Lamperouge brothers thought about what to do next. Yukiteru wanting to be alone for a few moments he said, "If you want to go ahead I'll hang out here and wait for you two to come back."
"You sure?" asked Rolo.
"Yeah I'm sure I need to think about something private for a bit."
Lelouch gave a very unnoticeable smile toward Yukiteru revealing that he knew what Yukiteru might be thinking about while they were gone. When they were out of sight Yukiteru took of her diary. The feeling that compelled him to open it only moments before now returned even stronger. Opening the diary Yukiteru looked at the screen:
5/April/2017, 13:40:
Yuno enters Babel Tower; she knows that I'm here.
Yukiteru's eyes were wide on the one hand he didn't want to see Yuno at all; on the other hand he remembered what Lelouch had told him. 'Lelouch is right…I love Yuno but will she try to isolate me like she did before. No that is selfishness Yuno needs me or she wouldn't be looking for me.' Yukiteru reasoned.
"Hmmm where is she though?" he said to himself.
With Yukiteru staying at the table to think to himself Lelouch and Rolo went off to do something fun in the mean time. Walking through a number of the casinos that were available for play they seemed to find nothing that peaked their interests. Something about playing with Britannian nobles pushed Lelouch's desires to play at the table behind him some sense of morality inside him said it was wrong to engage such a people who seemed to be decadent and uncaring of the people below them. However Rolo's perspective was much different; pulling Lelouch's arm roughly Rolo led the young man toward a casino table.
"Hey Rolo what are you doing?" Lelouch asked.
"Oh come on brother let's just play a few games okay?" said Rolo.
"I hope you have the money to play because I don't and I don't really want to play anyway." retorted Lelouch.
Putting his hand in his pocket Rolo pulled out a bag full of chips worth about a few thousand pounds.
"Don't worry I have the money needed to play." Rolo said with the evidence in his hand.
Still holding onto Lelouch's arm, Rolo pulled him over to a blackjack that was populated by a few other people. Sitting down next to each other Rolo opened the bag and pulled out all the chips in the bag. Setting the chips neatly on the table the dealer dealt out the deck to Lelouch first. 'Great I have to go first.' thought Lelouch. Setting up the cards, Lelouch looked at the card on top. 'Hmmm I got an Ace this might be good.' he thought. Looking at the card underneath the ace he saw the three of Hearts. 'I was hoping for a better card.' he tapped his finger on the table and the dealer put down another card which was the five of Spades.
"I'll stay." Lelouch declared.
The dealer having dealt his own hand looked at what he had lifted a couple of cards over until he hit twenty. Lelouch lost the hand having drawn only eighteen out of twenty-one as compared to the dealer's twenty out of twenty-one having lost twenty-five pounds. The dealer turned toward Rolo and the young man put down his wager. Rolo himself lost the first hand like his brother. Rolo wanting to played a few more games set up a few more wagers to lay down on the game table. Lelouch not wanting to wait around for his brother to finish up the game left the table without Rolo noticing because he was too preoccupied with his hand.
Lelouch walked away from the table something inside him said that something was wrong but he didn't know what it was or even if he should listen to the instinct. Lelouch started to walk out of the game table room; as he was walking he ran into another person bumping her to the floor.
"Watch where you're going!" said the young girl somewhat angry and impatiently toward Lelouch who offered to help her up. The girl softening up took his hand as he pulled her up from the casino floor.
"I'm very sorry young lady I was preoccupied are you okay?" asked Lelouch in concern.
"Fine." said the young girl who seemed to be preoccupied in her own thoughts. Not concern with directing her attention to Lelouch the girl darted her eyes back and forth in all four directions of the casino. She seemed greatly agitated looking at the phone she held in her hands tightly. A spark of interest in this girl came to Lelouch in the midst of his curiosity.
"Ummm excuse what is your name?" he asked
The girl looked at him not willingly to answer so easily. "Why do you want to know?" she asked.
"I was just interested because you look familiar to me." Lelouch explained in a polite manner.
"Sorry but I don't know you…my name's Yuno Gasai." she said.
Lelouch's interest grew knowing that this was the girl Yukiteru told him and Rolo about and that she was looking for Yukiteru. Examining the girl's figure he thought she was quite attractive and seemed to be the same age as Yukiteru. He noticed that she was holding her phone hard and continued to look agitated.
"Excuse me Miss Gasai are you having trouble with your phone?" Lelouch inquired with particular interest.
"It's just acting up." she said trying to get away from Lelouch.
"If you need some help I could try to take a look at it for you if you want."
"No It'll be fine…I'll fix it myself." she remarked. "If you don't mind I have to go…I have somewhere to be."
"Wait…I just want to ask you one for thing before you go." Lelouch said putting his hand around Yuno's waist. "Do you want to go out with me?"
Yuno pulled Lelouch's hand off of her waist, "For your information I have a boyfriend and he would be pretty upset if he saw me with you." Yuno's eyes were stern; she wasn't interested in Lelouch at all he was quite certain that he might get punched in the face for wrapping his arm around the waist of an unknown girl. Yuno stormed off trying to get away from Lelouch.
Thinking to himself Lelouch made a mental note of what Yukiteru said to them earlier about Yuno.
"She was always so jealous of everybody that was around me regardless if they were romantic or not."
He thought that it would be inevitable that Yuno would find Yukiteru and that he had to be prepared to deal with her when the time came. Lelouch thought Yukiteru was holding back when he was talking about her. 'There's something about her that Yukiteru didn't tell us.' thought Lelouch.
Not wanting to just stand around and think about these things in the middle of the casino Lelouch went off to get Rolo so they could find Yukiteru.
Yuno having stormed off to get away from Lelouch was enraged. Trying to find a place where she could think privately Yuno went into the girl's bathroom and locked the door behind her. Muru Muru appeared next to her as she entered the bathroom.
"Any luck?" Muru Muru asked.
"No!" shouted Yuno at the top of her lungs. "And on top of that the future diary is breaking up again."
"Give it some time." Muru Muru said.
"Not only that but some random guy knocked me down and tried to hit on me by putting his arm around my waist."
"Well this is a different universe maybe—"
"That doesn't mean we are in a different universe." said Yuno. "He looked pretty interested in me and he asked for my name saying that I looked familiar to him."
Muru Muru was intrigued by the statement, "Why did he ask for your name." Muru Muru inquired.
"I don't know and I don't care." said Yuno blankly. "How dare he think that he is can touch me he doesn't even know me…no man knows me or will even know me like Yukkii."
"Did you give him your name?" asked Muru Muru.
"Yeah I did."
"Did he say anything after that?"
"No he just looked at me with creepy interest. Although he asked if I was having trouble with my phone; but I said I could handle it."
Muru Muru sat at the edge of the sink in thought. Staying silent for a moment Muru Muru's eyes grew wide for a moment. Yuno leaned against the sink waiting for her servant.
"That guy might know more than you think. Let me see the future diary." Muru Muru said.
Yuno handed her diary over to Muru Muru without complaint.
Muru Muru opened up the diary to view the recent diary entry that Yuno received:
5/April/ 2017, 13:00:
Yukkii is at Babel Tower with two mysterious men! Yukkii looks so cool.
"If I could pose a theory, that man you ran into might be one of the two men that Yukiteru came to this place with."
"You think so?"
"That's all I can come up with." Muru Muru said.
Yuno replayed what happened in her mind. Thinking upon the exact words that the man had spoken to her Yuno embraced Muru Muru's theory.
"The unfortunate thing is that this diary's acting up so I can't see Yukkii at all." Yuno said frustrated. "I'd rather go to him directly than follow around some random man that I don't know."
"We have to take what we can get." Muru Muru said.
Yuno knew that Muru Muru was right.
Yukiteru sat up with his future diary in his hand. Somehow his diary was going in and out and he wasn't receiving diary entries as he usually would. Looking around he saw Lelouch and Rolo walking up to him.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Lelouch said.
"Its fine I'm content right now." Yukiteru said getting up from his chair.
"Well I'm ready to leave this place…are you ready Rolo?" Lelouch asked his brother.
"Sure I won double the chips that I brought in so that's a good payday and I better leave before I play again and lose it all." Rolo said laughing
Lelouch turned toward Yukiteru, "Yukiteru?"
"Yeah I'm ready." he said.
The three walked out of the lounge and to the vehicle parking lot where the motorcycles were parked.
While they were walking Lelouch said to Yukiteru, "Hey Yukiteru I think I ran into your girlfriend."
Yukiteru froze up and his eyes became wide, "A…are you sure?" he asked somewhat frightened at the thought.
"Yeah I mean I believe so…I ran into some girl with pink eyes and pink hair who said her name was Yuno Gasai."
"Yeah that was her…you didn't tell her where I was did you?"
"No of course…I tried to get her to go out on a date with me but she wasn't interested I wrapped my arm around her waist and everything and still she wasn't interested." Lelouch said.
Yukiteru although grateful that Lelouch didn't tell Yuno where he was felt somewhat irked that Lelouch tried to get Yuno to go out with him.
"Where did you see her?" asked Yukiteru.
"She was down in the lower levels." Lelouch replied. "One thing though."
"What is it?" Yukiteru asked.
"She said that she had a boyfriend…so that means you didn't break up with her." noted Lelouch. "So why don't you want to see her?"
"Like I said she was overtly possessive and jealous and I wanted to break up…but it's just complicated I can't really explain why you two concluding that I am crazy. In a sense we are broken up that's all I can say about it."
"Don't you miss her?" Rolo asked curiously.
"Of course I do…but it's more than that…much more." Yukiteru said.
Lelouch and Rolo left the subject alone noticing that Yukiteru was becoming upset. Walking silently Yukiteru suddenly hear his diary give off a static-glitch sound. Pulling the future diary out of his pocket he looked that the diary entry that came up on the screen:
5/April/2017, 14:20:
An explosion goes off near Lelouch, Rolo, and I; what's going on?