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A Day in Raku'uta
Sword of Akasha, C's World
Kallen was facing Charles zi Britannia with Marianne in her original form by his side and with CC standing next to Kallen. Kallen had her gun on her side and was ready to shoot the 98th Emperor, getting revenge for Lelouch.
"That's right," Charles stated, "I sent Lelouch and Nunnally to Japan to hide them from my brother's sight which is also why I secretly had Marianne's body taken away."
"As long as my body was still intact, there would be a chance that I could return to it," Marianne added.
"So that's what's been really going on?" Kallen asked.
"Exactly," Charles answered, "Anya and Nunnally became witnesses; therefore it was necessary to rewrite both their memories to protect everything."
Kallen was shocked, "Wait a minute, so that means that Nunnally's blindness is actually the result of your geass and not from the psychological trauma of the assassination?"
"Even though Nunnally was a false witness, there presented a real chance that she would be killed," Marianne answered.
"In order to prevent that, truth needed to be made that was far from proof," Charles added.
"The original plan called for only one immortal code; however as our research progressed, we concluded that we needed to have an additional code. In other words, without CC, there would be only a fifty percent chance of the plan succeeding."
"When Marianne was unable to convince CC, we were left with only one option," Charles explained, "we had to use Lelouch."
"Use Lelouch?" Kallen asked in shock, "So what was the point of all this?"
CC looked at Kallen, "Kallen…"
"These tragedies will no longer be needed once the Ragnarok Connection succeeds," Charles said.
"Masks will vanish," Marianne added with joy, "and everyone will be who they're supposed to be."
"…I see now," Kallen said, "so all the battles, the mortal struggle and bloodshed between Britannia and the Black Knight," Kallen looked at CC, "all of this was just to lure you out of the open, right CC?"
CC nodded, "Yes Kallen. They wanted me to help them once again with their plan and I refused."
Kallen frowned, "So in the end, Lelouch was only noise from beginning when he made his debut as Zero, he was just…a ruckus in the world."
"Kallen…"
Kallen gripped her gun and slowly raised it up with tears forming in her eyes, "Then the hell with it all."
The Avalon
Schneizel was staring at Lelouch's dead body. The door opened and a guard came in with Nunnally and Sayoko being brought in.
"Your highness," the guard said.
Schneizel looked to see his sister Nunnally and her Japanese maid Sayoko.
"Good, you can leave us," Schneizel said.
The guard saluted, "Yes, your highness."
The guard left and Schneizel signaled Sayoko to bring herself and Nunnally to be near Lelouch's body. Sayoko was upset to see Lelouch dead and Nunnally touched Lelouch's body and there was no doubt in her mind and tears started to form in her eyes.
"It's really him," Nunnally said sadly, "L-Lelouch…why…why Schneizel, why did you have him killed?"
Schneizel had a sad expression, "I'm truly sorry Nunnally, but I had no choice, Lelouch was Zero and he possessed the power of geass and used it to hurt many people. As much it pains me as well, he had to be stop."
Nunnally just started to cry and rested her head on Lelouch's lifeless body. Sayoko held on to Nunnally and turned to eyes to Schneizel with a glare.
One year later, Raku'uta, Soul Society
Euphie was walking around calling for Lelouch. Euphie sighed when she wasn't getting a respond from him.
"Where is he?" Euphie asked.
Euphie went to see Rie coming out of her house.
Rie saw Euphie and waved, "Oh Euphie."
"Hi Rie," Euphie greeted, "say, have you seen Lelouch?"
"He's out enjoying his 'favorite pass time'."
Euphie got irritated as she knew what it meant, "He's gambling again."
"You want to help me go get him?" Rie asked.
"Gladly," Euphie answered as she planned to lecture her brother.
Euphie and Rie arrived at the marketplace of Raku'uta and asked around for Lelouch. A man pointed in a direction to where Lelouch could be found. Euphie bowed to the man and the man smiled saying that he was glad to help. Rie and Euphie went to the direction to where the man pointed and soon she found Lelouch playing in a chess match with a young man who looked frustrated.
Lelouch made his move with one of his black chess pieces and smiled, "It's over."
Lelouch's opponent was shocked as he looked at the board and saw that he lost and slumped in depression.
"Now then," Lelouch said with a smile.
The losing opponent gritted his teeth and hand Lelouch a bag full of Kan, "I'll defeat you next time Lelouch, so don't act so smug."
The young man left cursing about how he lost again to the raven haired individual.
"It's 27 times now he said something like that," Lelouch said and looked in the bag and saw the money and smiled, "With this, it will enough for the three of us."
"Lelouch!" Euphie called.
Lelouch turned to see Euphie rushing towards him with Rie following, "Oh Euphie, Rie."
Euphie stopped next to Lelouch and crossed her arms, "Gambling again? Lelouch, I wish stop this bad habit of yours."
Lelouch threw toss the bag of money to Euphie and Euphie herself caught it.
Euphie looked at Rie, "Rie, don't you want to ask him?"
"Lelouch, are you done?" Rie asked.
"Yes, I am, for now," Lelouch answered.
"Good," Rie took the bag from Euphie and looked inside, "Hmm, we have things that we need to do."
"Rie, isn't there anything else you want to say Lelouch?" Euphie asked.
Rie thought about it for a moment, "Hmm, nope, can't think of anything."
Euphie couldn't believe what Rie had just said and face palmed. Lelouch placed his hand on Euphie's shoulder and smiled at her causing Euphie to sigh and look away. Lelouch, Euphie, and Rie began to walk within the marketplace and were buying food and other things with Lelouch's winnings. The place was bustling with business and people chatting and having a good time. Rie, Lelouch, and Euphie greeted some people along the way and those people greeted back with a smile and there even some small talk with them.
Lelouch's POV
It's been a year since I've been in the Soul Society. The past year had been very pleasant. I've been able to live in peace with my sister Euphie and the woman who has been like a mother to both to us, Rie. No Britannia, no war, no trying to struggle and worry about assassination. Still, I had no luck with reuniting with Nunnally and the matter with the man who had brought me as well as Euphie and Shirley…it was upsetting when I learned what happened.
Flashback: Normal POV, Eight months ago, Rie's House
Shirley, along with Urabe was in Rie's home talking with Lelouch and Euphie.
"Disappeared?" Lelouch asked.
"Yeah, it seems that Kajiro Sumeragi was accused of committing some sort of crime," Shirley explained, "he was tried and was to be sentenced but he escape and disappeared, they have looked for him ever since but they have not been able to track him for some reason. That is what my grandfather has told us."
"Yeah, so unfortunately, the only lead has escaped and we have no way to find him," Urabe said.
Lelouch gritted his teeth and hit his fist on the floor, "Dammit."
Euphie was upset at what she had heard, "No, no, what…what are we going to do now?"
Flashback End: Normal POV
Lelouch had his thoughts, "Back to square one and still have no clue as to how to find Nunnally. Dammit, I used to be able to find solutions to whatever obstacle that was in my way but I don't have any resources to go by and there's not much I can go by into getting someone who can track her," Lelouch then pondered, "maybe I can—"
"Lelouch," Rie called interrupting Lelouch's train of thought.
"Huh?" Lelouch responded.
Rie held up a sharp long stick, "It's fishing time. Lelouch, can you handle it?"
Lelouch smiled, "Of course I can, I'm not the same person that I was last year."
Rie smiled as she, Lelouch, and Euphie headed for a creek. They soon got there and Euphie was luring the fish as Lelouch was catching them by impaling them with the long sharp stick and then he put them in the basket that Rie was holding. They did that for a while and then Rie deemed that they had enough fishes and they headed back. As they headed back to their home, they saw a large crowd gathering and they got curious.
"Hmm, what's going on over there?" Euphie asked.
"That's a good question," Lelouch said.
"Well, let's see, shall we?" Rie said.
The two siblings agreed as they were curious as well and they joined the crowd that was gathering.
"Hey, what's going here?" Euphie asked.
A man turned to Euphie, "Huh? You don't know?"
Euphie shook her head.
"Several Shinigamis are here and from what I heard, they're investigating. In fact, a captain is leading the investigation."
"A Shinigami Captain?" Lelouch asked.
"What are they investigating?" Rie asked.
"Apparently, a Hollow has been spotted around roaming in parts of this district."
"A Hollow?" Lelouch asked narrowing his eyes.
"A Hollow…they are those vicious monsters that attack and eat people, right?"
"In a way yes," Rie said, "which means, we have to be very careful."
"Well, we don't need to worry too much," the man said, "after all, we got several Shinigamis here with a captain among them, I'm sure we'll be fine," the man turns and smiles, "oh, here they come."
Lelouch, Euphie and Rie see what the man was seeing they see several Shinigamis and one of them wearing a haori coming out of a store. The Shinigami Captain had brown hair that went down to his shoulders, with a beard and had green eyes and he also had one scar on his left cheek vertically and another scar on his right side of his face horizontally. As the Shinigamis walk by, Lelouch and Euphie felt dizzy and Rie saw them and got concerned.
"Lelouch, Euphie, are you two okay?" Rie asked, "no doubt, they are reacting to…"
"Uh, y-yes, were fine," Euphie answered.
"Yeah, n-nothing to worry about," Lelouch added.
The Shinigami Captain walked by and Euphie's eyes widened as her strength felt sapped and fell on the ground.
"Euphie!" Lelouch called out of concern and rushed to Euphie's side.
Rie went to Euphie's side as well and the people around got worried.
"Euphie, Euphie, are you okay?" Lelouch asked, "Please answer me."
The Shinigami Captain went to Lelouch and Rie as Euphie was struggling to compose herself.
"Are you alright?" The Shinigami Captain asked concerned.
"Uh…um…" Euphie was trying to say some words as she had her hand on her stomach.
"Hmm, young lady, you must be very hungry. I take it that you hadn't had anything to eat and with you feeling my reiatsu, it took up your remaining energy."
"Euphie, why didn't you say anything?" Rie asked, "We could have stop for something to eat."
"I'm sorry," Euphie said feeling weak.
The Shinigami Captain had some rice balls, "Here, take these."
"Are you sure?" Euphie asked.
The Shinigami Captain smiled, "Sure, I wasn't going to eat them and it would be a waste, you can have them, go ahead."
Lelouch took the rice balls, "Thank you," he turned to Euphie, "Euphie, here."
Euphie took the rice ball and ate them and she felt a lot better.
"Thank you," Rie said feeling grateful, "you're still just as kind."
The Shinigami Captain nodded, "Rie, it's no problem," he turned to his subordinates, "All right, let's move."
"Huh? Do they know each other?" Lelouch and Euphie asked in their heads.
The Shinigami Captain led his subordinates to leave and Lelouch looked as them as they were leaving and decided to do something as he went after them.
"Lelouch, where are you going?" Rie asked.
"I'm just going to ask them something," Lelouch answered, "Don't worry, I'll be back."
"Ah, Lelouch!" Euphie called.
Lelouch went and caught of the group of Shinigamis, "Wait!"
The Shinigamis stopped and saw Lelouch and the Captain walked a bit to Lelouch's direction.
"What is it?" The Shinigami Captain asked.
"I want to know your name, the name of the Shinigami Captain that just helped my sister," Lelouch said, "you're a captain and the back of your coat reads 10. I take it that you all are of the 10th Division."
The Shinigami Captain smiled, "I'm the Captain of the 10th Division of the Gotei 13, my name is Tetsuaki Kusanagi."
"I see, well, my name is Lelouch and again, thank for what you did for my sister."
"You're welcome, Lelouch, right?"
"That's right. You seem to know Rie as well."
Kusanagi smiled, "Yes, we go way back but anyway, so tell me Lelouch, did you simply wanted to know my name?"
"No, I also have questions about Shinigamis and the duties they perform."
"Oh, are you interested in becoming one? I did feel you and your sister have a decent amount of spirit energy."
Lelouch raised his eyebrows, "Our spirit energies?"
"Yes, those with enough spirit energy can become a Shinigami."
Lelouch was surprised, "Are you saying that even I could become a Shinigami?"
"That's right."
"Hmm, if I become a Shinigami, would I be able to look for certain lost souls?"
"Depends…is there a lost soul, you're looking for?"
"I'm looking for someone and I haven't been able to find her and the Shinigami that would know disappeared when he was accused of some crime."
"The Shinigami that disappeared after committing some crime…?"
"Yes, Kajiro Sumeragi."
Kusanagi raised his eyebrow, "Oh, him, and how do you know about that?"
"A friend of mine who's actually from the Takemitsu Family told me what had happened although we're not getting is to why."
"Hmm…must be Captain Takemitsu's adoptive granddaughter. I know she's been asking questions and visiting the Rukongai as often as she can."
"Can you tell me what you know about Kajiro Sumeragi?"
"There's really not much to tell, not only that, the judicial authority are keeping quiet about it and I can't really tell you about this certain person you're looking for either."
Lelouch was getting a bit frustrated, "Don't you keep track of who gets sent in the Soul Society?"
"Well, no, not really."
Lelouch sighed as he was disappointed again, "So you wouldn't know."
"I'm sorry Lelouch, I'm sure it's not the answer you want to hear and if Sumeragi is really the one who would really know well that's just adds to more questions we would have for him as it's not normally possible for a Shinigami to know exactly which area a soul would be sent within the Soul Society."
"Excuse me Captain Kusanagi," a Shinigami said.
Kusanagi turned to the subordinates and nodded, "I know," he turns to Lelouch, "sorry Lelouch, I have to go. There's a dangerous Hollow that been reported seen so make sure you and your sister be very careful and make sure Rie does the same."
"I see…of course, thank you."
Kusanagi nodded with smile and left with his subordinates behind him. Lelouch crossed his arms and looked up in the sky and then decided to go back to Euphie and Rie.
"Being a Shinigami…" Lelouch said in his head, "Is it even possible for someone like me to even be a Shinigami? Coming up with strategies and tactics…those are my real strong points…but I know those alone won't cut it…still, if there's even a small chance to have a way to find Nunnally…" Lelouch sighed, "I better move, I don't want to worry Rie and Euphie."
District 10 of West Rukongai, Takatane
On the side of a small house, a young man with red hair, blue eyes and wearing dark green robe was looking at the sky and he sighed. Another person stepped out of the house and it was a young woman with long blue hair, brown eyes, and wearing a dark purple robe with marigold flower patterns and she sees the red haired man.
"Sitting out here again Naoto?" the blue haired woman asked.
"Oh, Naomi, it's you," Naoto said looking at Naomi.
Naomi sat next to Naoto, "What are you thinking about?"
Naoto sighs, "Oh, well, I'm thinking about Kallen and my mother. Ohgi and the others, I really hope their doing okay."
"Yeah, I hope so too," Naomi paused, "Zero, he better have brought Japan its independence or is leading to."
Naoto looked at Naomi with concern, "Naomi…"
"Yoshida and I lost our lives and before we died, we heard that Zero was nowhere to be found. I don't know what the hell he was doing but I sincerely hoped he had a good reason and still be able to free Japan from Britannia, because if not, that will mean that Zero indeed betrayed us and Yoshida and I died for nothing."
"Well, I hope goes well," Naoto felt worried, "I hope Kallen and Kaname are still okay."
"Hey, Naoto, Inoue," Yoshida's voice called.
Naoto and Naomi see Toru Yoshida, who was wearing a dark gray robe carrying a basket full of chopping woods and Takeshi Nagata, who was wearing a dark brown robe carrying a basket full of leaves.
"Hey, Toru and Takeshi, welcome back you two," Naoto greeted.
"Great, you two got what we need," Naomi said.
"Yeah, now we can start," Takeshi said.
On a hilltop
Two figures were up on a hilltop and they both had white clothing with black sashes on them. One was a small child with very long blonde hair and crimson eyes with and the other was a large and balding man wearing a monocles and they both carried swords on their left sides.
"VV, are you really going to do this?" the large balding asked.
"Yes Bartley, I am," VV said with a grin.
"But it's Princess Euphemia and Prince Lelouch, can you really just target two members of the royal family?"
"They are no longer part of the royal family and did you forget what I told you about Lelouch, that he was Zero?"
"I didn't forget, but still…"
VV turned to look at a 10 foot creature that that had dark red skin, talons, and a four sided mask with a hole in its chest and the creature was growling.
"It's time for you to make your move," VV said with sinister grin.
Bartley gritting his teeth while staring at the ground with his thoughts, "Why? Why was I cursed with this fate, the fate of being an Arrancar being under VV's thumb again?"
That's it for this chapter. Next chapter, Hollow attack occurs in Raku'uta with Lelouch and Euphie as the prime targets.
