Disclaimer: I do not own Code Geass. It belongs to its rightful owners.

For: jon (who suggested Beach), Xeaphon (who wanted Shirley) and Anonymous (who wants crazy Milly instead of serious Milly)

Apologies to: Nilie-chan who gave me an awesome scene to extend this chapter further but I didn't put in because my fingers are rebelling and refuse to write it properly.


Chapter 9 – Slice of Beach


Contraire to what most boys do when they first exit the men's changing rooms, Lelouch didn't go bikini-babe spotting nor did he pick up a surfboard and ran like a mad man to catch some awesome waves. Instead, the ex-prince made a beeline to the disabled changing rooms to pick up his darling little sister before any of those lecherous young men could eye her up like a piece of meat.

"Sayako-san, where's Nunnally?" Lelouch asked when his maid finally came out of the changing rooms sporting a modest swimsuit.

The maid blinked at her master and with a smile, placed her bags and towels on Nunnally's empty wheelchair. "Your friend came to treat her to ice cream."

"My friend?" Lelouch repeated with slight confusion and wondered who it could be. It couldn't be Rivalz as he had stampede over to Milly's side on the sun-bed the instant he got changed in hopes of being the one to smooth sunscreen on her back. Shirley? Maybe it's Shirley.

He quickly helped his maid in gathering the belongings before they made their way to the spot of sand Milly had claimed as property of the student council. Maybe Nina took Nunnally. But Nina doesn't seem like she could carry Nunnally across the sand much less reach the ice cream stand.

As he expected, Rivalz was beside the bombshell of a blonde, Milly, slathering sunscreen on her back like he was in paradise – which to him probably was. Shirley was off to one side playing volleyball with Kallen, claiming that sun and exercise will strengthen the 'sickly' girl's body.

"Nina?" Lelouch asked, now panicking slightly because his sister is nowhere in sight. "Have you seen Nunnally?"

The quiet girl looked up from rubbing sunscreen into her arms. "No, I haven't."

"You haven't?!" Lelouch gaped and whirled round to a surprised Sayako's face. "Who did Nunnally go with then?"

The maid frowned and opened her mouth to answer but it came in the form of Nunnally's laughter instead.

He turned around and spotted his sister in a pink and adorable one-piece swimsuit sitting atop a certain green-haired witch's shoulders like a totem pole, with ice cream cones balanced in her hands.

"NUNNALLY!" The boy gasped and Milly lifted her head just in time to see the boy sprint across the hot sand in the direction his sister's voice.

"Onii-sama!" Nunnally's voice chirped. "Look how high I am! It feels like I'm flying!"

"Don't move Nunnally! Onii-sama will get you down!" He shouted back in horror as he imagined his sister falling off the witch's shoulders.

He watched as Nunnally's body tilted dangerously to one side as C.C. moved abruptly to avoid a surfer walking past. "Put down my sister, C.C.!"


"C.C.?" Kallen's voice echoed mid-spiking the volleyball. Her eyes zoomed in on the witch and widened to the size of dinner plates at the sight of the witch prancing around in a white swimsuit with Lelouch's sister on her shoulders. "C.C?!"

THWACK. Kallen's hand slapped into the ball without her focusing on it and Shirley on the other side of the net blinked as the ball flew way of course and out of the volleyball net grounds.

"Kallen! I'm over here…" Shirley started to say but her eyes followed the ball through the air, over Milly and…

DOOF

Smacked into the head of the running Lelouch.

"Lulu!" Shirley shrieked and ran towards the boy's fallen form.


C.C. stood above the prince with amusement written all over her face. "Lelouch, is this my cue to start burying your body with sand?"

Wincing and gritting his teeth, Lelouch picked himself up whilst rubbing the back of his head to ease the pain. "C.C., What are you doing-"

"CHEESE-SAN!" Milly's voice interrupted and a blonde blur ran by to knock the witch to the ground. Lelouch's scream could be classified as bordering girly as he watched his sister fall off C.C.'s shoulders with the ice cream flying straight out of her hands.

"I got her!" Shirley shouted as she positioned herself underneath the falling Nunnally… only for the princess to miss her arms completely and crash into Shirley.

"Nunnally! Shirley!" Lelouch gasped and dodged around Milly who was still busy hugging C.C. in happiness.

"I'm fine, Onii-sama." Nunnally assured him and he let out a sigh of relief before picking his sister off his redhead friend.

"C.C.!" Kallen's voice added to the chaos, "What are you doing here?"

Milly paused her hugging and let the name rolled about her brain a bit, "C.C.? Cheddar Cheese. Hm? It's fits."

"Cheddar Cheese?" the others asked with confusion.

"Her name." Milly said simply as she helped herself and C.C. off the sand.

"C.C.-san's name is Cheddar Cheese?" Nunnally asked cutely.

"It's a nickname but you can call me C.C."C.C. informed the blind girl before frowning and picking at the sand that got stuck in her hair.

"I'll help." Kallen's meek voice volunteered and moved over to brush a clump of sand from the girl's fringe. Once she's close enough, the Guren Nishiki pilot hissed. "What are you doing here? How do you know Milly and the others?"

C.C blinked her golden orbs, "Black Knights business."

Kallen's immediate reaction was to frantically search the area with her eyes. "What?! Where?! Zero?"

C.C. laughed at her and Kallen scowled at her when she realised she's been made a fool of.

"Your devotion to Zero is charming." C.C. commented before pushing the girl away so she's not as close anymore. "I'm only here to enjoy the beach. Zero doesn't know of my trip."

And judging by Lelouch's disapproving frown, Zero also didn't agree with her trip either and Kallen wouldn't be the only one that will be tackling her with questions.

Milly saved her from Kallen's interrogation by dragging her by the arm over to their base on the beach. "Cheese-san, you simply must join us and tell me how you know Kallen, Lelouch and Nunnally."

Lelouch followed them with his violet eyes before Nunnally's hand reached round and touch one of his hands that were carrying her bridal style. "Onii-sama, can I go sit in the waters?"

He sighed and decided to tackle C.C. later. He was glad that Suzaku couldn't come today else C.C. would have blown their cover completely.


Shirley watched as her Lulu marched off to the sea with Nunnally in his arms and Sayako trailing behind them. She didn't miss the way his eyes followed the green-haired newcomer and felt a spurt of jealousy flare through her.

She watched as Milly chatted animatedly with the new girl… well it was actually Milly who was doing all the animated talking and the girl just sat there with a small amused smile. What is so special about this 'Cheese-san' that makes even Milly so friendly to her?

Kallen was sitting close to them too and Rivalz surely didn't mind having another girl joining them - especially now that Lelouch is elsewhere and he could pretend in his mind that all the girls were part of his personal harem.

Shirley placed herself beside Nina under the gigantic beach umbrella Milly brought and watched as Milly's mind clicked into her more mischievous personality. "So how do you know Lelouch, Cheese-san? Is he your boyfriend?"

Shirley unconsciously leant closer. Cheese-san tilted her head to one side and replied simply, "I'm Nunnally's friend. Lelouch is her brother."

Shirley's heart soared at the reply. Cheese-san was only Nunnally's friend. She's not Lelouch's girlfriend. She was Nunnally's friend.

But she got to see Lelouch when she visited Nunnally.

The swimmer's heart promptly plummeted back to the painfully hard ground below.

Cheese-san reached over to pluck the sunscreen from Rivalz hands and had started applying it about her shoulders when Shirley asked the next question. "Do you have a boyfriend?"

Cheese-san eyed her with a sly expression. "I hope that was not a question to see if I'm single and interested in you."

Milly burst into laughter. She should get Cheese-san transferred to Ashford – think of all the fun and crazy stuff they could get up to!

Shirley flushed red and hotly protested. "No! I'm…"

"I was only playing with you." Cheese-san teased in her monotone. "I don't have a boyfriend but I have a room-mate who likes to stay up all night doing…"

Her audience leant in as if she was going to spill some great secret whilst she considered the wording of her sentence.

"Doing… naughty things."

Silence.

SPPPFFT! And Rivalz had a nosebleed.

Kallen and Nina stared at the green-haired girl in shock and Milly burst into full-blown laughter. Shirley just soared back to heaven once more. Cheese-san is in a relationship with somebody else already. Lelouch was hers - all hers.


"What's happening here?" Lelouch asked when he came back soaking wet with Nunnally on his back and ignoring all the attention his beautiful looks was earning him from the female population of the beach (and maybe a few of the male population too).

"I don't know." C.C. answered innocently and signalled the boy to put Nunnally by her side. "Nunnally, you'll get sunburn if you don't have some sunscreen on."

Lelouch narrowed his eyes suspiciously at the witch. Rivalz's nose was still bleeding and Milly was pounding the sand and clutching her stomach in laughter. Kallen and Nina were both blushing madly and Shirley looked like she's lost in her own imagination somewhere.

C.C. picked up Rivalz's sunscreen, "Lelouch, if you don't want me to put sunscreen on Nunnally then am I correct to assume you would like this other young man, Rivalz, to do it?"

Lelouch could barely put his sister down by the witch fast enough as the image of a young man (buddy or not) having his hands all over his precious sister came to mind. He'll castrate himself (not before he does the same to the other guy first) before such a nightmare could happen.


Later on that night, C.C. chuckled as she applied lotion all over Lelouch's sunburnt shoulders whilst the teen winced on the bed.

"Did you not apply sunscreen?" she asked as she smoothed a dollop of lotion liberally across his back.

Lelouch hissed as she touched a particularly sensitive part of skin. "I did."

"Not high enough factor then. Nunnally was fine though… I knew you were a weakling." She said and he turned his head enough to glare at her with one eye. She was unaffected though and added. "You suit pink anyway."

He growled at her and she laughed before putting more lotion onto his back.


END OF CHAPTER 9


One would have thought a Beach chapter featuring an utterly adorable and sexy witch would be easy to write. Well obviously this doesn't apply to KiKi because she suffered and slaved over this chapter so much I'm exhausted.

DT – Seems like many liked Slice of Casino. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the reviews.

Anonymous – I'm glad Milly didn't disappoint you though maybe your opinion changed now. As for the label Anonymous… It seems that people liked to be recognised and I don't mind as long as I can thank them properly.

Hyphen (actually it's more '-') – Thanks

Akina no Hashiriya– Work in Pizza Hut… (grins) is that a request?

KiKi Hayashi