Author's Notes: Hello there everyone! I'm really sorry if this is really, really late! It's because I've been so caught up with work and school stuffs. Uhm, I guess I really should inform you guys now. Next update will be late. Like this one. Like, maybe, a week or so? Since it's going to be our finals by the end of the month and I won't be going online unless I really have to. And considering it's already close to the first month of October, I will be able to get the next chapter up on the next 25th. Or something? I dunno.

I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING! I always have the same disclaimer. Since the first chapter. XD That's all! BTW, I will be explaining some things at the bottom so please do read it guys.

Sasuke: That's what you get for procrastinating at work idiot.

Me: It's not MY fault! I didn't have a computer!

Naruto: Don't blame anyone if you get fired. You're still under observation, yah know.

Sasuke: Don't remind her. It'll get her nervous again.

Me: Shut up! I don't get nervous! – Eye twitches –

Sasuke: When you get nervous your eye twitches and you get irritated.

Me: KYAAAA! – Runs out of the room –

Naruto: I think you just made it worse.

Sasuke: Her fault, not mine.

Naruto: -Sighs-

Warnings: SWEARING, FUCKING BAD HUMOR (though not in this chapter)… AND ME BEING STUPID.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR MY OCs… Does Shujin count as my OC? I really don't know… ~

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Thank you, thank you

Yoroshikou ne

I thank you.

Zutto, zutto

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Chapter 10:

Damned Morals

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PREVIOUSLY...

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"Yes Yuki, she does look like your mother." Shujin answered. "But they can't go with you because we adults still need to talk. Do you understand?" he asked.

Yuki nodded. Zeroel began walking again. "Come on Yuki." And they walked away, Yuki smiling and waving at them.

Shujin turned his attention to the other people in the corridor. "If you want to know what happened a while ago, I suggest you come with me." and began walking again. The Black Knights had no choice but to follow the man.

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Present…

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"Mama also has red hair and blue eyes right papa?" he mimicked.

"I can't believe you said that out loud." Lelouch said, exasperated as he dumped the little girl in his arms on the bed none too gently. The little girl fell in a heap with a loud yelp. The raven haired male ignored her and sat on the red arm chair near the huge bed and proceeded to take his mask off. He had carried the little girl in his arms all the way from the other side of the mansion, where her real room was located. He ran his pale hand through his raven locks, exhaling softly.

"You know, it was quite fun for me~" the little girl replied, sitting up on the edge of her bed, smiling mischievously at him. He eyed her warily for some time before sighing out loud. "Why did you show yourself to them like that?" Lelouch asked her, massaging the space between his eyes. "What if the find out?"

"What? Find out I'm a woman inside a little girl's body?" her sardonic laugh seemed to echo inside the small room. "Oh please!" she added, "It's not like they'll find out! Even C.C. can't figure it out!" she continued to laugh.

"Oh? Last time you underestimated someone, you got your father killed." Lelouch countered. The little girl's fiery blue eyes glared venomously at the other, her mood darkening significantly.

"Hit a nerve, have I?" he jested.

"Shut up!" Yuki cried out. He saw her hands gripping the fabric of her sheets too tightly that her hands were shaking. He could almost imagine those sheets being torn to pieces by soft, small hands. "You don't know anything about what had happened! You don't know them! You never did!"

"Just like how you have never known them as well, Yuki. You may think they are merely 'simple mortals', but the fact remains that they are still individuals; Individuals who have the potential to recreate the world to their liking." Lelouch warned her. "You should never judge them because of who or what they were in their past. Learn to judge by their present."

At that, Yuki relaxed somewhat. She flopped herself on the bed, arms spread out, legs still dangling on the side. She looked up at the canopy covering her bed, obviously deep in thought about something.

"Sometimes… I don't know what to think anymore… It's like…" she paused, clearly not knowing what else to say. The room was filled with a heavy silence. Lelouch let her think quietly, only listening to her rambling. "It's like," she closed her eyes and exhaled slowly. "… My mind is slowly being taken over." She whispered out. "My thoughts aren't always mine. My memories, my habits… everything." Her face morphed into a strained smile. "All because your demented father found me before I had my memories returned." She finished off.

She placed an arm in front of her eyes, covering them. Lelouch stood up, heading for the door, not even bothering to wear the white mask he carried in his arms. After all, all of them would be with Shujin right now. He left her alone inside her room, clearly giving her the privacy she deserved to clear her thoughts. His thoughts drifted off their 'guests', wondering why all this nonsense had to happen now. His memories suddenly returning, Yuki's abrupt loss of control, it was troubling him in more ways than one.

He stopped walking and found himself in a dark corridor, in one of the hallways leading to his private room. He placed a hand his eyes, covering it. He stayed there in silence for a long period of time. Finally, he lifted his hand away from his face. His right amethyst eye was alight with cold fury while his left eye revealed his Geass, the sigil shining brightly in the darkness, the moonlight only making it more daunting.

"I will have my revenge. For everything that you took away from me!"

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"I didn't take you to be a baby sitter Shujin. Nor did I think that boy Zeroel was capable of having a daughter." C.C. spoke up once they reached the conference room they were in a while ago and seated themselves.

Shujin's lips remained in a straight line. "Hn." He replied. The green-haired witch rolled her eyes.

"Can you now explain to use what happened a while ago with Yuki?" Kallen spoke. Shujin raised an eyebrow at her. "I mean, what happened with the teenage Yuki and all. Not Zeroel's daughter." She cleared. It was weird for her to say it out loud. To think… Lelouch had a daughter that young? But… who could the mother be? The little girl had said she looked like her mother. She didn't even know what she meant by that. Was her mother still alive? If so who was she? Where is she? And why in the world did she look like her?

She was interrupted from her train of thought when she heard Shujin answer her question. "The teenage Yuki… was once a prisoner of Britannia."

"WHAT?!"

"Wait, isn't she only a little older than Kallen here?"

"Someone as young as her became a prisoner?"

"What was her crime?!"

"Shall I give you the honours to tell them that marvelous story or will you let me do it?" Shujin asked the green haired woman. C.C. grimaced.

"I will tell them."

"I should warn everyone now; this story will delve into one of Britannia's darkest secret and that whatever has happened is already in the past."

"IF anyone tries to interrupt me, I will slice your tongues." She warned. When she saw that the Black Knights seemed to have taken her threat to heart, C.C. sighed and began.

"Thirteen years ago, while travelling in London with the Emperor's brother, we met a beautiful child on the outskirts of town. She had blue eyes the colour of the sky, long raven hair that framed a pale face. The emperor's brother was entranced with her beauty: more so than I, though I never noticed it at that time. We played with her the whole day and even brought her new clothes. We parted ways when the sun began to set. We left her waving and smiling happily at us."

"The emperor had a brother?"

"I thought he never had one!"

"That's not important! You were with the emperor's brother?!"

"Let her finish her story before you question her." Shujin advised. His chin resting on one of his palms. C.C. narrowed her eyes at the man who spoke but continued nonetheless.

"I'd never thought I'd see her again, and I actually wished I never did. In those three years that passed had made her grow into a beautiful girl, albeit a stoic one. She was inside a large tube-like container filled with some unknown liquid, different sizes of tube sticking out of her body. I found out that she was taken by THAT man a year after I last saw her and begun experimenting on her. We gathered that she was the last incarnate of a very powerful clan, a clan that controlled the world for centuries, balancing the "yin and yang" forces so to speak.

"They were pumping different kinds of drugs into her system and taking blood samples to experiment with. They also trained her in different kinds and ways of fighting, killing, and even torturing. In short, they were creating the ultimate weapon."

She closed her eyes. "It took me three years to help her escape the order, but by then, I had deemed her unsavable and left her to take care of herself."

When she saw some of the Black Knights were about to interrupt her, she glared and raised her hand to stop them. "The child was trained to be a weapon for almost six years. She was capable of taking care of herself." She brought her hand down.

"After the death of Zero, she contracted me, saying she wanted to help. She had changed so much since then. She had emotions, can display different expressions, everything I thought that was long since dead."

"And I'm guessing it was because of you." She finished, turning to look at Shujin.

The man only nodded.

"But it still doesn't explain why she killed and said all those things." Deithard spoke up. Shujin sighed and answered.

"While taking care of Yuki, I found out that she was trained to kill and torture Numbers. She's been trying to change but I guess old habits die hard." Before the Black Knights could interrupt him, he continued. "I warned the helpers of what they were to deal with beforehand and they still accepted the job."

"Is that really all?" Rakshata inquired, lazily twirling her pipe. The raven haired man smirked. "Yuki and Zero met when he was still in hiding here in Japan. It was a little after we arrived here when we crossed paths with him. And through him, we met the man who created Zero. The man who Zero follows and takes orders from."

"WAIT!" Kallen stood up. "You don't mean HIM do you?" she asked frantically, looking at C.C. who was looking at Shujin tersely. "I think she does mean him." She addressed the ace pilot. "But I have never known about this part. The part where you met the Black King."

"Black King?"

"What in the world do you mean?"

"Who the hell is he?"

"Zero is everything the Black Knights stand for." Shujin replied.

"I have no idea what you're talking about. None of us do!" Deithard proclaimed, standing up from his seat. Many of the Black Knights agreed with the Britannian.

"The one he's talking about is none other than the dead prince of Britannia, am I right?" Sayoko spoke up, her eyes closed while she smiled at him.

"Hey! You don't mean Clovis do you?!" Someone asked. Shujin paid no heed and turned to the Japanese maid. "I believe you were one of his most powerful followers before Zero even appeared, right, Miss Sayoko?"

"Yes, I was."

Shujin's lip twitched upwards. "If you must know who he really is, then I suggest you ask the Black Prince of Britannia himself. After all, Zero was the embodiment of his hatred for Britannia."

"You know, as well as I do that he is already dead Warlock." C.C. snapped. 'How dare he remind her of her failure?'

"And yet, the Black King holds all the secrets of Zero and the truth about the Black Knights witch." Shujin replied coolly.

"I don't know what you're after or what you're planning but he's already dead." Kallen told him, her hands shaking badly.

"Do tell, have you seen him die?" Shujin inquired. Kallen didn't speak. "NO, I didn't think so."

"Are you saying that…?"

"I'm not saying anything. I didn't even say he still walked the Earth. I only pointed out that you did NO T see him die. I'm guessing nobody has, except for Zero that is. We don't even know if he is dead or alive." Shujin answered.

"Then why introduce the idea?" the blond Indian scientist asked with an eyebrow raised.

"To give you hope?" he offered, then shrugged. "Or maybe I'm trying to manipulate you in finding him? Who knows? But what I say is true; He is your only hope if you wish to unravel the secrets surrounding your own organization."

He smiled and stood up. "I won't keep you here any longer. Thank you for your cooperation and I wish you luck in finding one of the most intelligent people in the world.

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Author's Notes:

Okay, so… Explanation time.

So _ asked me why there was two "Yuki"s here. Well, I've shown you why. They're the same person. Though Yuki's real body is the little one. The in-depth explanation would be this.

As Shujin had explained, Yuki was one of the experiments from the Code R project that C.C. once headed. Before she had 'awakened' her real self (As Shujin's niece), she was found by the order and was captured, believing that her abnormal regenerating abilities was a part of the mystery of the Codes. While being experimented on, she slowly regained her past self and thus was able to escape the facility after killing the scientists that was with her at that time. At the time of her escape, C.C. was there to help her (just like what she narrated). It was by pure coincidence that Shujin was in London (The place where the former Underground Order was located.) and was able to detect Yuki's awakening. Uhm… Is that all?

Guys, I'm really sorry for the one month delay. I've recently broken my hand so I actually couldn't type!

Gomenasai minna!

See you next time! I promise to give you another chapter once my finals are finished, which will be next week. Wish me luck!

-DarquesseK1 / Yu-chan