a/n It's still Xmas right? *nervous laughter* It is! Well, let's move on then! Daddy Sharuru and Mamma Marianu makes an appearance! Finally xD And this chapter is longer!
I don't own and for those who thinks that I'm a guy, please I'm a girl...
Chapter 12 ~Caught~
Lelouch stood still while his now official girlfriend C.C. was being inspected.
By his mother.
Yes, you heard right, just a last night the Empress Marianne walked in on the two in her eldest son's room.
Marianne walked gracefully towards her daughter's room, it had been quite a while since she saw her crippled daughter due to the many work she and her husband spent time taking care of at the palace. She wanted her children to live a normal life before Lelouch is crowned Emperor so they had arranged them to live at a house, well, mansion. Because there was quite some distance between the palace and their mansion combined with the pile of duties she had to work on, she didn't have enough time to visit her children.
But today Emperor Charles had given her time off so she used it wisely to visit her beloved babies. It has been nearly six months since she saw either one of them and she missed them so dearly. She had expected Nunnally and Rolo to mature a lot and of course their soon-to-be emperor brother Lelouch to grow as well.
What she didn't expect is THAT…
"Ngggh, stop, what if someone sees us?"
A girl? A girl's voice coming in from her son's room? Her anti-dating son's room??? Marianne just HAD to listen in.
"Who's going to see us? Nunnally and Rolo are in their room. Kallen is off at Gino's again. Euphy is on a date with Suzaku. Besides, we could explain, you're my girlfriend after all."
Euphy??? And who's Kallen? More importantly, who was Lelouch talking to?
"What if someone else hears us? Sayako?"
"Shhh… Quiet now."
"Ah, Lelouch…! Not so suddenly and be gentle will you?"
Oh my… Marianne held back from gasping, he son's grown!
"You know that sounds very wrong, don't you?"
Oh, it's not wrong at all! Marianne suppressed her giggle and continued to listen to her son and his mysterious girl.
"What doesn't sound wrong with you—ah… Too hard! You're doing it too hard, Lelouch!"
"Lelouch! You have be gentle!" Marianne barged in covering her eyes with her hand.
"M-M-Mother?!" Lelouch stood up quickly, "What are you doing here?!"
"Visiting you and your siblings of course!" Marianne said cheerfully all the while still covering her eyes.
"I see… Mother? Why are you covering your eyes?"
"I'm guessing she heard us."
"Oh, my! I'm sorry, I'll be leaving! Be gentle dear, a girl's first time is a very delicate thing!"
"F-F-F-F-First time??? That's not what we're doing!" Lelouch's voice went up by and octave and if Marianne wasn't covering her eyes she would've seen the red faces of the two.
"Oh?" Marianne removed her hand and opened her eyes, "What were you two doing then?"
"W-well, I'm planning to take C.C. on a… date for Christmas. So I asked her to try on a dress." Lelouch gestured towards the green haired girl dressed in black, well half dressed, the zipper was halfway through.
"C.C.?" Marianne titled her head and then she smiled, "Oh, you're the voice I heard just now! You must be Lelouch's girlfriend then! It's nice to meet you C.C.! Our Lelouch has never had a girlfriend! Oh this is just so exciting!"
Lelouch did a face palm as C.C. smirked at him, "Yes, it is very nice to meet you too, Your Highness."
"Oh please call me 'Mother'!"
That was how Marianne ended up inspecting her 'daughter'.
"My, C.C. you are very beautiful! Lelouch is so lucky to have found you!"
"Mother, please, she's still half dressed. You're making her uncomfortable." Lelouch tried to hide his red face by pretending to rub his temple, well he did feel a migraine coming soon though.
"Not at all, the only thing making me uncomfortable is this dress you asked me to try on."
"It's not my fault you gained weight."
Lelouch earned a smack from his mother, "Lelouch! How can you be so inconsiderate?! Never ever call a girl fat!"
"But I didn't, I just said she gained weight!"
"That's the same as 'you got fat'!" Marianne scolded her eldest son, "Goodness, Lelouch! You get an A in most of your subject but you're so untactful!"
"I'm untactful?!"
C.C. watched in amusement as Lelouch argued with his mother about him being untactful.
"Yes, you are untactful! Why didn't you bring her to buy the dress with you if you don't know her size?"
When Marianne earned silence from her son she raised her eyebrows.
"He wanted it to be a surprise." C.C. answered for Lelouch.
"Oh, that's so sweet! Who knew you could be so sweet Lelouch!" Marianne said smiling ever so brightly.
And yet just know she called me untactful… Lelouch eyed his mother.
"Well, I leave for now! I'll go see Nunnally and Rolo first!" Marianne practically skipped away.
Lelouch rubbed his temple and C.C. chuckled, "Your mother is so cheerful."
"Forget about that will you? Now let's get you out of that dress."
"My, Lelouch, you want to see me naked that badly?"
"You—No! We need to exchange that dress, that's all! Besides, I've seen you naked!"
"W-what? When?" C.C. asked obviously surprised. "Did you peek just now?!"
"No! That time when I saved you from that rapist!"
Silence grew between them as Lelouch sank back to his seat, "I-I'm sorry…"
C.C. sank next to him and leaned on his shoulder, "You're really untactful."
Lelouch kissed C.C.'s cheek, "I said I'm sorry, didn't I?"
C.C. huffed and crossed her arms, "I don't believe you."
Lelouch chuckled and pulled C.C. in for a kiss, which the green haired girl willingly responded to.
The room flung open once again, "Lelouch! What's the meaning of this?!" Marianne came in dragging Euphy.
"Oh, Euphy… You're back." Lelouch moving away from C.C.
Euphy nodded smiling, "Ah, C.C.! What a beautiful dress! Oh…" She looked at the half zipped dress and then at the position the two were in, "You guys…"
C.C. raised her eye brows, "What?"
"You guys! I didn't know you were that far!" Euphy squealed.
"No, Euphy, they were just trying that dress on." Marianne said, "But it might have lead to that eventually, since they were kissing before we came in…" The empress winked at them.
Lelouch and C.C.'s face grew red and Euphy squealed, "Well, Marianne-sama, we shouldn't disturb them! I'll explain everything to you outside!"
With that Euphy dragged Marianne away and left the two alone once again in Lelouch's room.
"We really should get you out of that dress…"
This time C.C. didn't give out any smart retorts.
"… So then C.C. and Kallen brought me back here! And as a form of gratitude I asked Lelouch to let them stay here!" Euphy said cheerfully.
"Oh, so C.C. and Kallen are the ones who took care of you all this time? That's great! And your brother must have fallen in love with her the moment he knew she took care of you all this time! Where is this Kallen? I must thank her for taking care of you!" Marianne asked looking around for a stranger, since she met C.C. already, the other girl who's staying there must be Kallen.
"Kallen went to Gino's place, they're a couple now!" Euphy said gleefully.
"Oh I must meet her later on! So, Euphy, tell me. What have you been up to? Why didn't you come back? You siblings were so sad, especially Cornelia! Does she know that you're alive?" Marianne asked Euphy.
"Yes, she was so glad that I'm back…" Euphy said recalling what had happened when her big sister saw her.
"EUPHEMIA LI BRITANNIA, IF THAT'S YOU PLEASE TURN AROUND!" Cornelia's voice rang through the hallway of Ashford Academy.
Euphy smiled and turned around, "Yes, it's me, Onee-sama."
Within a flash Cornelia hugged Euphy, "Euphy! It's you! You're alive!"
Euphy happily returned her sister's hug, "Yes, Onee-sama, yes! I missed you so much!!!"
"Where have you been???"
"I'll tell you later, now's not the right time, Onee-sama. I can tell you that C.C. and Kallen took care of me."
"C.C. and Kallen? The same C.C. who's Lelouch's love interest? The same C.C. who works at the—"
"Yes, that C.C. Now Onee-sama, let's go somewhere else!" Euphy said dragging Cornelia away from the crowd her purple haired sister gathered due to her loud scream.
As soon as the coast was clear, Euphy told Cornelia everything, since she had known C.C.'s true identity she might as well tell the whole truth. She told her what happened after she was sold to the brothel, she told her how ashamed she felt that she had a dirty job. She told her how C.C. and Kallen had told her that she deserved a second chance and how she was brought back to Lelouch's mansion.
"So Lelouch, he bought C.C.? And you bought Kallen and yourself?"
"Well, he paid for our freedom, if that's what you mean. He didn't expect to free me and Kallen though…" Euphy then grinned, "He was there only to free C.C. from her debt… Kallen got her freedom through me."
Cornelia's mouth formed an 'O' which then turned to a smirk, "He fell hard didn't he?"
"Don't say that in front of him though, Lelouch would never admit it." Euphy said joining her sister's smirk.
"At any rate, I'm so happy that you're back. For a second there I thought I was having hallucination."
Euphy hugged her sister, "I'm happy too, Onee-sama. But I have a favor to ask of you."
"Anything, Euphy."
"Well, Kallen is originally named Kouzuki Kallen, by my request she is to be named as Kallen Stadtfelt, to hide her identity. C.C. stays the way she is, she refused to change her name. The story is that I've been living with them in a small village until they decided to come to Japan. They lost their parents when they were young and they are cousins. I need you to forge documents for them, it that asking too much?"
Cornelia smiled, "Not at all, it's the least I could do for those two."
Euphy gave her a bone crushing hug, "Thank you, Onee-sama!"
"—phy! Euphy!"
Euphy sprung back to reality, "Wha—Oh, I'm sorry I spaced out!"
Marianne smiled, "It's fine, it's fine! Well, I'll be going for now! Surely you won't mind having your father and I over for dinner?"
"How could I mind? It'll be wonderful to have you both over for dinner! Oh but Lelouch is taking C.C. out…"
"Ah, leave those two lovebirds alone! Why, when I was their age I didn't even had the chance to date! Let him be! After all, it's not every day a mother finds out that her eldest son got himself a girlfriend!" Marianne said gleefully.
"Alright then! Let's go to Nunnally's room! She's been doing some planning for Christmas!"
"ACHOO!"
"You should cover your mouth Lelouch, I don't want to get your germs." C.C. said nonchalantly.
"I don't have germs and I did cover my mouth mind you, I have manners unlike someone." Lelouch spat back.
"And who are you referring to?"
"This witch I know." Lelouch said plainly.
"You know a witch? She must have green skin and a scary face then." C.C. said all the while smirking.
"Not at all, in fact she's very pretty, she does have green hair though. But she doesn't have any manners, after all, once a witch always a w—" Lelouch didn't finished his sentence for a long and slim leg kick his fragile shin. "WHAT THE HELL?"
"It's not good to bad mouth a lady." C.C. said walking away.
"WWWWWIIIIIITCCCCHHHHHH…" Lelouch hissed. "You're heels are very sharp!"
"You bought them for me remember? You should thank yourself." C.C. said turning around smirking.
"Shut it and let's go, we are going to be late for our reservation." Lelouch got up and took C.C.'s hand.
"What a way to treat a lady." C.C. muttered.
The both of them were once again at the Pentagon, only this time they were in the Japanese section. Of course they were nowhere near Love Me, it'll just create a havoc even though C.C. is already free of that place. Since cars couldn't enter the area, they had to walk to reach their destination. While they were walking they received many looks from the people there, after all Lelouch is a prince and whoever he's with will be the talk of town.
"Who's that beautiful young lady? I've never seen anyone like that?"
"They're holding hands! Does that mean they're together?!"
"I never knew he had a girlfriend!"
"The tabloids just printed it! Look! It's the Ashford Charity Ball! That's them!"
C.C. was getting uncomfortable, it hasn't even been a month and her face was already in the tabloids.
"Let's hurry." Lelouch muttered and walked faster.
The moment they reached their destination both teens let out a sigh of relief and they were sent to their table.
"A rather fancy dinner, don't you think, Lelouch?" C.C. said gesturing towards the extravagantly decorated restaurant.
"It's Christmas Eve, C.C. It would be inappropriate if I didn't bring my girlfriend out to a fancy restaurant, wouldn't it?" Lelouch said taking C.C.'s left hand in his right.
"Still… No need to show off, Kingy."
"Hush now."
Indeed, it was a very high end place. Each table has its own little walls, isolating it so that their occupants can speak in private, so people won't hear them and they won't make noise. The walls itself reached the ceiling and was decorated by prints of different sizes of cherry blossoms and its trees. The tables were decorated with red table mats and gold utensils. Since it was Christmas Eve, a mistletoe hung up above their table. Of course, not all the tables get the special treatment, only couples' tables.
Lelouch did not know that THAT was above them until he found C.C. staring at the tiny thing above them.
"Oh…" Lelouch stared at the blasted object.
"Oh indeed…" C.C. muttered then looked at Lelouch who was glaring at the tiny thing. "Why do you look so angry?"
"I'm not angry."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm—" C.C. gave him a look, "Fine. I had a bad memory from that blasted thing. Last year during a Christmas celebration at Ashford EVERY girl I talked to hung a mistletoe above their head and I HAD to kiss each of them. It was dreadful."
C.C. started to giggle then she couldn't help but break down in to a fit of it.
"NOT FUNNY!" Lelouch said flustered.
"I'm s-s-s-s-sorry! It's just s-s-so h-hilarious!!!" C.C. said holding her stomach.
"How unladylike…" Lelouch muttered, his face still red.
"What would Britannia think when it finds out its future Emperor kissed every girl talked to at his Christmas celebration last year?" C.C. giggled again.
Lelouch couldn't help but smile at her, it was rare to see her smile let alone laugh. After she calmed down he leaned over and pulled her in for a chaste kiss.
"Merry Christmas, C.C."
C.C. smiled, "Merry Christmas to you too, Lelouch…"
Lelouch walked hand in hand with his girlfriend up his carport, instead of riding the limousine home they stopped mid way and decided to enjoy the scenery and walked back slowly.
It had become quite chilly for C.C. since she only wore a black of shoulder dress that reached her knees and black stockings inside her coat so Lelouch had given his scarf to her. They decided to not rush since C.C. was wearing heels and Lelouch was wearing his fancy shoes.
They had expected the house to be a little noisy since Charles and Marianne were coming for dinner. Scratch that, they had expected the house to be very noisy but what they didn't expect was the noise.
"Get out of here! I don't want a dirty person like you here!!!" Charles' voice roared.
"Darling, calm down! There must be an explanation for this!" Marianne tried to hold her husband back.
"What explanation?! Didn't you hear what this lady said?!" Charles yelled while pointing to a lady clad in purple kimono C.C. knew all too well. "Our son bought this girl from the brothel! OUR SON, MARIANNE!"
"Shit…" Lelouch cursed and pulled C.C. behind him.
"Lelouch dear, you're back!" Marianne said strained.
"Kallen!" C.C. called out from behind Lelouch. "Are you okay?!"
Kallen was sprawled on the ground of the front door, next to her was none other than Haha-ue smirking and a very confused Gino.
"C.C.!" Euphy called out, "RUN FOR IT!"
Charles' face grew even redder, "YOU ARE C.C.?! AWAY FROM MY SON, YOU DIRTY TRASH!" He lunged at C.C. but Lelouch stopped him, "What are you doing?!"
"No one calls my girlfriend a 'dirty trash'! I won't allow that!" Lelouch's voice boomed.
"Lelouch…" C.C. said shocked at Lelouch's sudden anger.
"Looks like we've been caught… C.C." Lelouch muttered
a/n Ohhh yeahhh, Charles is pissed and Haha-ue is back xDDD What a wonderful end to their fancy little dinner xD Bet you guys were thinking of something else earlier in the chapter, eh? *niyari*
Onwards to the review replies!
keaRy anCe - I know, I'm sorry for the long drag... I'm glad it's still the same xD Here's a longer one!
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patleon909 - YAY! Totally right? xDDD I like the KallenxGino paring, SuzakuxKallen too but in this story SuzakuxEuphy is used... Thanks for reading!
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sakurahanaalice - Yes, they are! Ah, so true xD Gino finds out this chapter but we'll have to see what his reaction is! Thanks for reading!
Arvee-Chan - Yay! Welcome to the club, Arvee-Chan! Aw *blush* thanks! Ah, hajimemashite! Well, I don't hate Kallen unless she's after Lelouch... I'm glad you're very excited! Merry Xmas to you too! Arigatou, Arvee-Chan!
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MoonlitxAngel - Boy... You really like to ask a lot of questions, don't you... xD I'm glad you liked it ^^ Kallen and Gino? Well let's just say they were hanging out... *evil smile* I moved to Hong Kong, China, well I didn't put it on my prof though... Spelling mistakes??? Eh, I'll fix it later xD I'll try to review soon! Merry Xmas to you too! Thanks!
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Alas my dear readers, I must bid you farewell! I shall see in a fortnight! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Toodles.
