AN: I'm sorry you guys I had to postpone writing this chapter a little bit. Usually I give it a day or two after I post the last chapter before I start writing again just to figure out just what I'm going to do but my dog that I've had since I was really little died recently so I had to take some me time to cope with that.

I'm having a hard time deciding what I'm going to do with Zero and the Black knights in the next few chapters. I'd like something to happen so Zero to make an appearance before the hotel incident. So if anyone has any ideas send them to me.

I also realize things are moving very slowly, that's just part of my writing style. I've said this before; this is going to be a very long fic. As a matter of fact it may be a two part story or even more (as in a new story written as a continuation of this one) but we are still very far from that point.

I do not own Code Geass

Ch.29 School days

"Euphie you know better than to run off like that!" Cornelia scolded.

"I'm sorry Sister I just wanted to see the settlement so bad." Euphie said quietly while looking down.

"You shouldn't be so hard on her Cornelia; she was with one of my men the whole time. She wasn't completely irresponsible." Lelouch said trying to calm her down.

"Why didn't he report that she was with him or where they were going then?" Cornelia snapped at him.

"He didn't know who she really was. Guy nearly jumped out of his skin when I found them and she told him I was her brother."

Cornelia sighed. "Alright, as long as you had someone with you I guess it's not so bad. But next time tell someone where you're going Euphemia. What if something had happened and we couldn't find you?"

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Later

Euphie wondered into the Knightmare hanger Lelouch had told her the engineering corps. favored and looked around until she spotted Suzaku talking to a couple engineers about something. "Suzaku?" she said approaching him.

He turned around "Oh hey Euphie. What are you doing down here?"

"I just wanted to apologize for almost getting you into trouble earlier. Luckily Lelouch was able to smooth things over with my sister for the both of us."

"Well it's alright you shouldn't beat yourself up about it."

She smiled "I was right about you, you are a kind person."

He blushed ever so slightly "Um…Why do you say that."

"Because you're so quick to forgive others" she said.

"Euphie, if you don't mind my asking why didn't you just tell me you were a princess in the first place?"

She looked down at her feet "Well, when I introduce myself as a princess people always act so formally around me. It gets very tiresome." She explained. "You won't tell anyone at school yet will you?"

He was confused "School?"

"Well yeah, you do go to school don't you? I mean, I know Lelouch had to drop out since he's Commander and now Sub-Viceroy but you still go right?"

"Um actually I don't…" he said awkwardly.

She got a determined look on her face "Well I'm going to have to fix that." she declared and ran off.

Suzaku smiled and shook his head as he watched her leave "Crazy girl…what's she getting me into now?"

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JLF Headquarters, Narita

"We can't let the events of Shinjuku go unpunished! Prince Lelouch slaughtered thousands of innocent Japanese! And over what? Poison gas?!"

"Yes but he did give us the means to get our livelihoods back didn't he?"

"Yes and didn't some else already retaliate? Someone stole a whole train full of Sutherlands and used them against him, not only that but his brother, Prince Clovis, was assassinated that day wasn't he?"

"Even so none of that makes up for the carnage caused by Lelouch's orders, and worse still is the fact that the new Viceroy, Princess Cornelia, has handed over some semblance of political power to him as well!"

"Wasn't it Kouzuki's group that stole the weapon?"

"Yes but a man by the name of Ohgi has taken over since Kouzuki was executed."

"I still say we need to retaliate! There are small factions in the ghettos that want retribution as well they will not be fooled by Lelouch's charity."

"We should not do something so foolish as to rush into vengeance, especially where Prince Lelouch is involved." Todoh cut in.

Everyone looked him his direction "What do you mean?"

"If its one thing I learned about him during his time at Kururugi shrine it's that nothing is quite as it seems with him."

"Just what are you saying Col. Todoh?"

"I'm saying that we must choose our moves wisely because it's almost impossible to predict what Lelouch will do. He's is nothing like Clovis."

Many of the JLF members looked like they wanted to argue with Todoh but decided against it.

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The next morning, Ashford

Today Euphie was moving into her room at Ashford. She was a little nervous about starting at a new school. Nunnally was excited that she would have a sibling staying with her again. She said it had been so lonely living in the east wing without Lelouch there despite his frequent visits and the fact her caretaker Miss Sayoko was with her.

She began to unpack. The first box she opened was full of photo's, she knew that with Nunnally being blind and Lelouch being a clueless boy that the walls of the east wing where nearly bare so she decided to make her new surroundings more comfortable by hanging up the pictures from their childhood together. Most of the photos were of just the three of them playing in the gardens of the palace, although there were many of them that featured Cornelia as well.

"I got Nunnally settled back into her room." Lelouch said from behind her. He had taken the first half of the day off so he could help his sister move into the clubhouse.

"Lelouch can I talk to you about something?" Euphie asked.

"What about?"

"Well, it's it just…look I know you have too many responsibilities to come back to school but don't you think Suzaku should at least attend classes?" she asked.

Lelouch thought about it for a moment "I'll talk to him about it. I doubt he'll refuse…mostly because I'm his superior and he has to do whatever I say but that's beside the point."

She gave him a hug "Thank you Lulu." And then turned to the reminder of the photographs from the box "will you help me put the rest of these up in my room?" she asked.

"I guess I have time for that." he took the box from her and they headed towards his old room which by now seemed unrecognizable with the new frilly curtains, large throw rug and bedding. They didn't see Milly, Rivalz, and Shirley come in through the back door of the clubhouse.

"Aww…look how cute!" Milly squealed looking a picture of a five year old Lelouch with a two year old Nunnally in his lap.

"Oh Lulu was so adorable when he was little!" Shirley gushed.

"Huh so, Nunnally's eyes are blue. I always wondered about that." Rivalz said.

"I have to get back to the complex, Cornelia has another meeting scheduled in about an hour or so." they head Lelouch's voice say. They turned their heads and saw Lelouch and the new girl descending the stair case.

"Alright, just come and visit me and Nunnally soon okay?" the pink haired girl said sweetly.

Lelouch chuckled "I promise. Maybe I can get Cornelia to come along sometime."

"Well alright go if you have to. Love you." she said kissing him on the cheek.

"Love you too." He said retuning the kiss before leaving.

All the blood drained out of Shirley's face "He loves her?" she whispered.

"So that's why she's special." Rivalz said suggestively.

"Childhood sweethearts how romantic." Milly swooned looking at another picture of a very young version of the new girl and little Lelouch.

Euphie turned around after the car she Nunnally and Lelouch had come in had left the grounds taking her brother with it and saw the students looking at the family photos. "Oh! Hello I didn't see you there." Euphie said approaching them after Lelouch had left. "I'm Euphie."

"Hello Euphie we're from the student council." Milly said being polite "I'm Milly and these two are Shirley and Rivalz."

"Oh you must be Lulu's friends!"

"You call him Lulu too?" Shirley asked.

"Well yes, you didn't think you were the first one to call him that did you?" Euphie asked cheerfully unknowing that that innocent remark made the other girl seethe on the inside.

"So…" Shirley started hotly "how long have you known Lelouch?"

Euphie gave Shirley a strange look, these were Lelouch and Nunnally's friends weren't they? Of course they were among the few people who had been informed of who she really was. "I've known him all my life." She said simply.

"So you and Lelouch are pretty close then?" Milly asked trying to get her to admit to something.

Euphie nodded "Yes, we've always been that way. I was so happy when I found out he was still alive, now things can be like they used to."

Shirley bit her lip "If you don't mind my asking…has…has he kissed you before?"

Milly's face lit up, she was feeling extra nosey at the moment "Yeah has he?!"

To Euphie these people were just getting stranger and stranger. Why were they acting like kissing her own brother was taboo? "Well of course he has…although a lot of the time I'm the one that kisses him." She answered clueless that the other students didn't realize or had not been informed that she and Lelouch where actually closely related.

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When Lelouch got back to the complex he headed straight to the conference room and took his seat next to Cornelia to sit in on another asinine meeting.

"Lelouch why aren't you in uniform?" Cornelia whispered to him as the meeting started.

"I was helping Nunnally and Euphie get settled in at Ashford. I didn't have time to change." He explained.

"Don't let it happen again." She hissed.

"You're not my superior Cornelia." He reminded.

"Regressing back to the you're not the boss of me phase are we?"

"No I'm simply stating a fact."

"Would you like me to get Schneizel on the phone after the meeting?" she threatened under her breath.

Lelouch called her bluff "Go ahead he'll probably agree with me."

After the tremulous meeting Lelouch got back into uniform and then called Suzaku into his office.

"…you want me to what?" Suzaku asked bewildered at what Lelouch had just said to him.

"I want you to start attending classes at Ashford. Just because I can't go to school anymore doesn't mean you can't." Lelouch said.

"But my military duties…"

"Of course you'll be excused from class for those." Lelouch said as if it were completely obvious.

"Would they even let someone who isn't Britannian in their school?" Suzaku asked.

"If that does turn out to be a problem I'm sure his highness can pull some strings for you." Jeremiah said lazily while looking over a report.

"That's exactly right." Lelouch agreed.

"Um…alright, I'll give it a try." Suzaku finally submitted.

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Monday

It was the end of his first class and Suzaku was organizing his things while sitting at a desk in his new homeroom as he ignored the whispers of the other students.

"What's an eleven doing here?" a girl whispered to her friends.

"He can't be all that bad he's the one that always hangs around Prince Lelouch right?"

"Yeah he's like a Major or something." Another boy said.

"You know he only got that promotion because he's Prince Lelouch's lap dog." One mean spirited boy said to his friends.

"Isn't he the one that came by helicopter and air lifted Princess Nunnally to the government complex?" another girl asked.

Meanwhile Rivalz, Shirley and Nina stood in a corner. "An eleven here at school?" Nina said.

"Well he is an honorary Britannian." Rivalz said.

"Oh come on guys he's Lulu's friend. We already know him. What's the big deal?" she moved like she was going to go over and talk to him but Rivalz stopped her.

"The guy just got here, give him some space."

Euphie poked her head in the room and made eye contact with Suzaku and waved in over to join her in the hall way.

"Euphie why didn't you show up for our first class?" he asked.

"I did I'm just not in your classes because I'm a year behind you." She explained.

"Oh, so why are you here now?"

"I just wanted to see if Lelouch spoke to you like he said he would. Apparently since you're here he did." She said sweetly.

Suzaku smiled at her. "So it was you that put him up to it. I wondered why he wanted me to go to school all of a sudden."

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Later

Classes were over for the day and Euphie was returning to her room to drop her school books off. She was stopped by Lelouch who walked into the clubhouse just a minute after she had.

"It's only been a couple days I didn't think you'd come back this soon."

"I wanted to see how your first day went."

"Everybody is so friendly here. They told me all about the clubs, they all sound like a lot of fun but I don't know which ones I want to join yet."

"Well I think you can join up to three." Lelouch said.

"Anyway I want to thank you for getting Suzaku into school. People our age should be in school."

Lelouch shrugged "Well I agree lord knows if I had my way I'd still be a student. I never thought I'd say this but I actually miss going to class and having to deal with Milly's antics."

"Is the military that bad?" She asked worried that her brother was genuinely unhappy with the situation.

Lelouch sighed "No, it's just…I'd feel better about it if it was my decision instead of just an option from an ultimatum."

Euphie nodded "I understand completely. Father can be quite firm in his decisions though."

Milly wheeled a cart full of food into the room followed by the rest of the student council "Dinner is served!" she said cheerfully. Loading the food on the table.

"What's all this for?" Lelouch asked.

"Lelouch don't you know we're inducting Euphie into the student council? I thought that was why you came to visit today. It was my grandfather's idea actually."

"The principle's?"

"He thought it would be a good way for her to settle in and make some new friends." Just then Nunnally came in through the door with a couple of pizza boxes and a plate of cup cakes on her lap using the button on the arm rest of her chair to wheel herself into the room.

"Euphie could you put this on the table for me?" she asked.

Euphie ran over to her sister to help "sure thing Nunnally."

"…And to celebrate the arrival of the new student…" Rivalz pulled out a cheap bottle of champagne.

"But we're the student council we shouldn't."Nina said.

"Will you guys loosen up?" Rivalz said as he began to uncork the bottle.

"No way! We're going to get in trouble!" Shirley yelped trying to grab the bottle from him and glancing back at Lelouch looking for back up "Right Lelouch?"

"Lelouch is a bigger drinker than he lets on." Rivalz reveled before tossing the bottle to the young commander. "Heads up!"

Lelouch caught the bottle in his right hand and Shirley ran over to him trying to reach for the offending bottle "Don't think that just because your Royalty that you'll get away with this Lulu!" she yelled before losing her balance and falling on top of Lelouch. And then the cork from the bottle went flying in Kallen's direction. The girl managed to swat it out of the way but unfortunately it was followed by a spray of liquor soaking her from head to toe.

"Oh my" Euphie said.

"Euphie would you mind finding Miss Sayoko so she can help Kallen get cleaned up?" Nunnally asked.

Euphie nodded even though Nunnally couldn't see it "Alright." and she headed off towards the east wing where Sayoko was most likely tidying up somewhere.

"Um…Shirley would you mind getting off of me now?" Lelouch asked. Shirley yelped and shot up from the floor after realizing just what position she was in and felt her face heat up to the point where she thought she would develop a fever. She was on top of Lulu! She knew that Milly would be completely ruthless with the teasing after this. And worst of all it happened in front of Euphie, a girl that Lelouch supposedly loved…

Euphie came back with Sayoko who hurried Kallen to a bathroom. "Just put your clothes in the laundry basket I'll come get them and put them through the wash for you while you clean up." the kindly Japanese woman said. Kallen did as she was told and soon found herself under the hot spray of the shower head.

"This is why I hate Britannians." She said to herself as the warm water ran down her body she was distracted her thoughts when she heard a knock on the door "Who is it?" she called.

"It's me, Euphie. I brought you some dry clothes."

"You can come in; I've already drawn the curtain." She said as the door opened and he walked in.

"Here are some of my clothes. I'm sorry you got champagne all over you like that. Lelouch says the other members of the student council can be a handful sometimes." She set the pile of clothes on the counter next to the sink.

"So you're one of Lelouch and Nunnally's sisters?" Kallen asked making small talk. With all those family photos hanging around the clubhouse it wasn't too hard to figure out that they were related.

"Yes I am, but could you not tell anyone yet. I don't want people to think they have to act a certain way around me just because I'm a princess. I want people to get to know me first."

"Sure, I won't say anything. You must have been pretty happy when they told you Lelouch and Nunnally where alive."

"Yes I was. I actually cried when brother Schneizel told us." she laughed. "But after the news sunk in I became a little worried that he wouldn't want to return to the family and that things still couldn't be like they used to."

"Why was that?"

"Because of what had happened after Lady Marianne died. But I think he's giving the royal family another chance." Euphie said without thinking.

That absentminded statement caught Kallen's attention and she poked her head out of the shower curtain. "What happened after Queen Marianne died?"

Euphie gasped and covered her mouth with her hands realizing what she had just let slip. "Oh no, I've said too much! Please forget I said anything!" She pleaded quickly leaving the bathroom.

'That was odd. Was she just referring to him and Nunnally being hostages?' Kallen thought as she continued to shower off.

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AN: Yes we all know how impulsive Euphie can be. No Suzaku is not part of the student council yet.

I realize that politically Cornelia is technically Lelouch's superior but him not being in uniform is really more of a military issue and when it comes to the military they are eaqules.

I'm planning some badass Merlin moments soon so keep your pants on (provided you people pony up some battle ideas of course.)

And does anybody have any ideas for CC moments I feel that her presents in this fic so far is lacking tremendously.

Also around Easter time I'm going to be visiting with my grandmother who does not have internet or a computer, so I may not be able to post. It all depends on whether or not I can steal the neighbor's wifi signal on my laptop. (I've done it before but I can't promise anything)