Code Geass: The Realm of God
Chapter 26: The other point of view
Writer: Asheron Karuma
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Next chapter, more suza/lulu goodness
-The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth-
The overflowing smell of sin
Why can't I protect love without hurting anyone's feelings?
Shards of overflowing lies
Someone's tears are seeping into the happiness I held in my hands.
Chapter 26A: The needle and blood
He walks through the darkened hallway, he pulls up the pipes of his pyjamas because they are too long...
Eventually he comes to a door that is half opened and he looks around the corner at the person inside and smiles slightly as he sees her sewing with needle and thread
She hums a melody to herself as her hands continue to work, the needle goes through the fabric and back out, the pulls the thread through and repeats the action...
The young Lelouch vi Britannia wasn't afraid, the truth was that he wasn't allowed out of bed at this hour, but he loves to watch his mother work...
It keeps him occupied and he admires her handy work...
There is a quiet cry as the needle falls down on the ground, blood stains its point and drips from her finger, he gasps when he hears her cry and she turns to the door with a surprised look but smiles when she sees her son
"Lelouch... what are you doing there?"
She asks him with a warm smile and he steps in the doorway, his lips pouted and a blush covers his cheeks...
"Come in"
He steps forward and stands next to his mother, he sees the needle on the ground and bends down to pick it up.
He gives the needle to his mother and looks at her still bleeding finger, she notices his look and raises her finger to her mouth and puts it in her mouth, when she takes it out the blood is gone and it doesn't flow from the small puncture wound
"Cool..."
She kisses him on his forehead and smiles at him
He was such a kind child...
"Time to get you back to bed..."
She stand sup and escorts him back to his room...
She later watches as he sleeps and smiles at him...
"One day... the world will bow at your feet... because of me..."
A tear rolls down her face as she turns around...
There wasn't much time left...
How much longer before this cloud of happiness passes and reveals the shinning truth behind it...
Chapter 26B: The other point of view
The kiss...
As soon as their lips touched did a strange feeling sweep over him...
It felt as if he was being swept away by the wind, he felt light and his eyes widened as he found himself back in the small house where Nunnally and Lelouch used to live...
"What is this?"
He looks around the dark room, it is night outside and he sees from the clock that it is 3:00 AM...
When he hears something he turns around and sees Lelouch walking through the door carrying a glass of water
"Lelouch?"
He doesn't answer and continues walking to large table and sits down on one of the chairs, one hand raises to his forehead and he whipes the sweat away that covered his skin
The atmosphere reminded Suzaku of something and he stands next to him to observe his moves...
He turns around and walks to the window, there is snow outside...
"December..."
There is a shattering sound and he quickly turns around, the glass lies shattered against the wall and the water splattered against the wall...
"A... nightmare isn't it?"
He blinks and finds himself in another hallway, he was there before...
But at that time he never thought about the situation, it swept past him so fast that he couldn't grip the situation...
He walks through the hallway, looking at the garden through the large windows and eventually hears someone crying...
Slowly and cautious does he walk through the hallway until he comes to a great hall...
The sobbing comes from the bottom of the stairs and he looks down...
"Lelouch..."
He isn't sure if the other is able to hear him, but still he walks down the stairway to the smaller boy, there is a stain in the carpet where his mother used to lay and the younger Lelouch is kneeling down in front of it with his back turned to the stairs...
"When does it stop...?"
He hears him whisper as he stands behind him, the other continues to sob and he wonders if this is another dream or something real...
"Mama... Euphie... Nunnally..."
As the crying continues he finds himself more and more annoyed and decides to help the boy, he bends down and places a hand on his shoulder as he kindly calls him by his name
"Lelouch..."
The boy looks up from the ground in surprise and turns around, Suzaku gasps at his eyes because both of them have a geass symbol swimming in them...
"Suzaku...?"
He asks while he sobs and the tears keep on running down his face...
Suzaku stares at him first in surprise and fear but then decides to be kind to the child, he smiles and puts one hand against the boy's cheek as he asks
"Why are you crying?"
The boy clings to him and says
"Mama... she died... again..."
"Again?"
Suzaku puts one hand on his shoulder and hugs him as he continues to cry...
"Over and over again... she dies... mama dies..."
He stares at the blood stain again as he thinks...
This boy... this room, was this the source of his nightmares?
"Everyone dies... you will die as well!"
The younger Lelouch looks up at him with fear as he yells at the older youth...
Suzaku smiles at him and puts his hand on his head as he ruffles his hair
"I won't die that easily... although I can't promise that I won't die I can be more careful"
"Careful?"
"I'll be more careful"
The other boy finally smiles
"But why are you here?"
Lelouch looks nervously over his shoulder at the end of the hallway, there are two large doors there that are closed and somehow the boy seemed afraid of the two doors...
"What is it?"
"I can't go away? He keeps me here..."
"Who?"
"Zero!"
His eyes widen and he looks at the two doors
"What is behind them?"
"Something warm, I can feel it but I never go there..."
The younger Lelouch gasps when he is picked it from the ground, he looks at Suzaku who smiles and starts walking towards the door
"What are you doing?!"
"Simple, I'm taking you there..."
"You can't, Zero will kill you!"
Zero couldn't kill him, because he was already holding him in his arms...
The younger boy was afraid of himself, of his shadow that was cast forward in the direction of the door...
He looked back over his shoulder at the blood stain in the carpet, was this where Lelouch's nightmares came to exist? If that was so it would be better if he did something about them...
"Let me go!"
One hand was put on the handle, he turned it around and pulled the door open...
A shinning light came from the other side and he shielded his eyes as he stepped forward.
He stares upwards at a familiar red gate that hoofers over the stone road to his home...
A small wooden sign stands in the middle of the gate that says Kururugi Shrine...
The young boy on his shoulder looks around in amazement and Suzaku lowers him to the ground
"Why this?"
He looks at the boy and he finally gives him a warm smile, one without fear or hesitation
"Thank you..."
Suzaku looks at him and hears someone call Lelouch from up ahead, the young boy turns around and starts running down the road and he can make out a younger version of himself standing in the distance...
The floor disappears from underneath him and he opens his eyes...
He finds himself at the side of Lelouch's bed again and sits up, his back is hurting because of the uncomfortable way he was lying over the other's bed...
"A dream?"
He rubbed his eyes and stretched before looking at the clock on the wall...
It was 2:04 AM in the morning... he must have fallen sleep somehow...
He looked back at the sleeping Prince in front of him, nothing indicated that he was having a nightmare...
"The sleeping pills must be working..."
He stands up and makes himself ready to go to bed...
Chapter 26C: A break
"I had a strange dream last night..."
Suzaku looks up from the ground and stares at Lelouch who is standing on the other side of the hallway, they are both waiting outside Schneizel's office...
"I figured you slept well... you didn't scream. What did you dream about?"
"I don't remember... but it was weird, that I remember... you were in it"
"I?"
For some reason he had woken up in a better mood than before...
The strange feeling that made him un able to think was gone, the pills remained in their bottle and he had returned them to Clarice...
Still he asked her about his memories, the woman made from blood but she pointed out that it was probably an illusion, something his mind made up...
It still left questions to him but he didn't feel bothered to have them answered
The sleeping pills remained but the other unlabeled bottle disappeared from his possession and now he found himself standing outside the office of his older half brother once again...
He had grown accustomed to the ship now, he knew where to go and where to ask.
Not only that the crewmembers started to accept his existence and actually spoke to him when he asked them too, but he wasn't used to the fanciness yet...
In fact eh still hated it, because Lelouch wasn't used to being handled like a Prince, he used to but in the 8 years that he lost his status he had also lost his confident and occasionally looked at people with a confused expression as they bowed for him...
The door opened and they were let inside, they both looked surprised when they not only found Schneizel but also Cecil and Lloyd standing near the older Prince
Suzaku saluted him and Lelouch merely nodded as he noticed his serious stare, but when a smile appeared on his face did he wonder what was going on...
"Why did you want to see us?"
He finally asked and Schneizel hands him an envelope
"Lloyd told me that you two needed a break..."
He opened the envelope and looked inside, there was a folder and Lelouch opened it...
He frowned as he stared at the inside and Suzaku watched from a distance, noticing the inn on the front...
"Hot springs?"
Lelouch had never been to one of them before, nor did he really care...
Why were they given a folder...? Was he planning on sending them on a vacation when the Chinese Federation was on their doorstep?
"I thought it was fitting... something warm in these cold days"
Suzaku smiled a little and mentally he was glad about going, however Lelouch didn't look as pleased as he did, he wondered why...
"Why, I never said anything about needing a vacation..."
Schneizel leaned back and sighed, Lloyd did the same and Cecil stepped forward and started to talk to him
"It wasn't something for you to decide, Lelouch... if you constantly fight without taking a break now and then, then it isn't good for your health..."
Now Lloyd stepped forward as well and waved his hands in the air as he complained in a childish way...
"I guess I'll have to tell my fiancé that you're not coming..."
Suzaku looked at him with surprise and asked
"Is Milly coming?"
"We thought it would be nice to see your friends before Christmas, they are all there..."
Not all of them...
Three would be missing, Nina... but he didn't really care about her... the second was Kallen, he had no thoughts about her because it only made him more depressed and worried...
The third person was Nunnally, it would be his first Christmas without her... but his first with Suzaku after 7 years...
He looked at Suzaku and notices the excitement, but he also knows that if he didn't go then Suzaku wouldn't go either...
That was just the kind of person Suzaku was, it all hanged from Lelouch's decision...
Suzaku wanted to go, he had decided...
"Alright..."
"Really!"
Suzaku turned to him and Lelouch smiled back, Suzaku could still act like child sometimes...
"Let's go..."
She should've never taken him to the island...
She stared at the ceiling as she shifted her position, a sting of pain rushed through her leg as she moved over, one hand clutching at the badly bandaged wound she received for disobeying her captors...
She cursed them all...
Lelouch would save her, she was certain that he would someway or another...
But right now she feared for his life, for everyone's to be exact...
V.V. was trying to complete it...
Foolish child...
Lelouch eyed Suzaku every now and then as he noticed the rise of excitement that rushed through his veins...
There was something strange about, like a warning and he couldn't shake of the feeling that he had to be cautious...
He watched him as they walked to the changing room, the entire day eh watched him...
Maybe for a sign or a clue but still nothing...
"Why are you so happy..."
He finally asked him in a cold fashion when they were packing for the next day...
Suzaku smiled and Lelouch was certain that he thought of something perverted again...
"You'll see..."
He answered and Lelouch looked back at his suitcase as he folded up another sweater...
He was curious...
"What does that mean?"
He put the folded sweater in his suitcase and flinched when a hand snaked around his waist, he blushed as he felt small kisses in his neck and moaned slightly when Suzaku bit his earlobe...
Suzaku made a mental note to use that action again someday... and he whispered in the other's ear...
"It's a surprise..."
The bastard was teasing him...
His hands tightened around the suitcase as Suzaku stepped walked away again as if nothing had happened and he cursed Suzaku in his mind for playing games...