Hey guys! If you read all the way to the bottom (or skipped to the bottom) of the last chapter, I told you already that we'd have a double post this week, to make up for all that time without a post, and so we can get to this awesome chapter next.

A few things before we start. Thank you to everybody who recommended kitty names to me. While we still haven't chosen which kitten to buy, I have compiled a list of favorite names (if anybody cares): Mookie, Mud, Indigo, Ciel, Kiki, Ser Pounce-A-Lot (kudos to Dragon Age: Awakenings), and (wait for it...) Lulu!

Also, thank you all for the support you've given me, via reviews and messages! This has been a hard time for me, but it's so nice knowing that when my friends can't be around for me, I can get just as much support from you guys by sitting on my butt downstairs. ^^

So read now. Great chapter. Me thinks. Long too. Gawd this is a long chapter!

"PRINCESS CORNELIA!"

Even Kallen could Guilford's desperate cry as it echoed across the mountain range. She sniggered. So the oh-so-perfect Britannians were getting a little flustered now? It was payback time, payback for everything she had lost because of the Britannians.

"Cornelia!" Kallen screamed, launching her new Guren Mk-II at the princess. She swiped a hand at the horned Gloucester, only for the Viceroy to dodge.

"Lowborn scum!" Cornelia yelled back before charging towards Kallen.

From a snowy cliff above the battling women, C.C. regarded the clashing warriors with amusement.

It's rather ironic of Cornelia to call Kallen, the daughter of Earl Stadtfeld, 'lowborn scum', don't you think, Marianne?

It's not like the Viceroy knows who's piloting that Knightmare. And speaking of that Knightmare, why is it red? Some sort of Japanese symbol or something?

I believe that our dearest Lulu mentioned something about a special new unit, probably this one. It supposedly has new powers and enhanced features on par to Suzaku's Lancelot. Who knows? Kallen might even succeed in capturing Cornelia.

Yes. Well C.C., on the subject of the Lancelot, I believe I am genius.

You?

Yes, me! Now that the poor Cornelia's attack is in disarray and going poorly, it would be about the time that the ASEEC spoke up and asked to join the fray. Now Kururugi is an exceptional pilot, we both know that. So I...

Youuuuuu...you what? Did you sabotage the Lancelot?

No, nothing as mundane as that! As his dearest and most trusted friend Anya, I convinced dear Gino to go back to base in a broken Sutherland, that might or might not have caused his death. Of course that would have been a bonus, but not what I was aiming for. Because I'm such an amazing genius with the wonderful gift of foresight, I convinced him to take the Lancelot, and put on an angry act in front of the ASEEC people so that he would get to pilot the Lancelot!

C.C. sighed, as she watched the Princess and the Terrorist clash again. Cornelia's Gloucester wasn't able to hit Kallen at all, but the Viceroy was able to at least hold her own, so far.

C.C.? Are you listening?

Are you as dumb as you sound? Just because Suzaku is a better pilot than Gino doesn't mean it's any better for us-Lelouch! So what? Suzaku can't pilot their top weapon, but another not quite as skilled but still skilled pilot does? How does that folly rank anywhere on the scale of ingenuity? Gino can still do quite some damage, you stupid hag!

"Are you listening, Cornelia? This is checkmate." C.C. stopped her rant as her contractee had appeared, right behind Cornelia, with a couple of back-up Burais with him. In spite of Marianne's apparent mistake, C.C. smiled. The youth had bested the best of Britannia.

"Zero!" Cornelia turned her Gloucester around, but then seemed to remember that Kallen was right behind her now. She was trapped.

"That's right. Perhaps we should celebrate our reunion. But before we do that, I'd like you to please surrender to us. I would like to ask you a few things..."

My my...it seems like it was a mistake letting you influence my poor little Lulu so! First you expose him to your slutty ways, and now he's gotten all snarky and condescending like a certain witch we both know...

At least he has brains like that certain witch, thankfully unlike his mother.

Hahaha! Your ignorance only proves my point, C.C.! I intentionally convinced Gino to take that Lancelot instead of a Sutherland because he knows how to pilot a Sutherland. He would be able to unleash his full fury with one of those. But the Lancelot is different. It's a seventh-generation frame so he obviously has had no training in utilizing it. Since he was acting furious, the ASEEC most likely just gave it to him in fear, as he's almost constantly happy normally, and they forgot to suggest reading the manual. Thus Gino will be his own enemy, unable to do combat or even pilot that thing! I've checked it out with Cornelia before. It's a monster to pilot! Even if they did tell him which buttons do what, he wouldn't be very adept at it. And another bonus would be Lelouch being able to capture Gino or even better, the Lancelot! Having Gino disabled in this battle, along with my dearest host, is greatly helping Lelouch, wouldn't you say, C.C.? Not to mention the retrieval of the first seventh-generation Knightmare in existence?

C.C. bit her lip as Marianne's plan started to make more sense in her mind.

I see.

The green-haired witch furrowed her brows as Marianne started to laugh and gloat, and focused on the ongoing battle down below. Cornelia had tried to attack Kallen and clear her path, but the redhead had used some sort of energy wave that had completely destroyed Cornelia's lance. Meanwhile, Zero and the BK fired a round of shots at the Viceroy as her back was turned.

"You dishonorable...you'd shoot me from behind?" Cornelia exclaimed, outraged.

"Oh? And your own plan wasn't dishonorable at heart?" Zero retorted, mockingly. "Now, will you surrender, Cornelia?"

. . . . . .

The tide of the battle had turned, and it turned swiftly.

"Woooh!" Gino hooted as the Lancelot was turning out to be cake to pilot. The controls and the Knightmare moved with ease and at almost twice the speed of his Gloucester. "Hey Lloyd! When this is all over, can you make me a seventh-generation Knightare? I'll fund you!"

"Hmmm...I have been thinking about doing some variations on newer models..." The earl remarked. "Perhaps a heavy model destroyer or maybe a swift aircraft Knightmare?"

"Enemy unit ahead! Let's test this baby out!" Gino grinned like a child presented with barrels of different candy. "How 'bout a round of three of the rifle?"

"What rifle?"

Gino grabbed the joystick that he believed would fire the assault rifles and pressed down. Instead the Lancelot sped up, right towards the enemy.

"Hey! What the fuck's with that unit?" Tamaki shouted to his crew. "Why's it heading straight at us like- AW SHIT! Start shooting you bunch of pissheads!"

"Lord Weinberg, what are you doing, charging at an enemy unit like that?" Lloyd said aghast. "Shouldn't you be disabling them?"

"Hey Lloyd! Isn't that supposed to be the rifle control? Why'd it do that?" Gino asked, pressing a different button. The Lancelot shot out a stream of water at the Burais.

"Didn't you read the manual before this?"

"There's a manual?"

"NOOOOO! Turn around and bring my baby home right now!" Lloyd was moaning and clutching his head.

"Uhh..no can do! I've got terrorists to beat and a princess to save!"

Gino turned off the communications link and focused on the rather impressive display of buttons and controls and knobs in front of him.

"Now what does this do?"

The Lancelot raised an uber shield just as Tamaki's groups started firing.

"Cool! How about this?"

Gino quickly manuevered away from the Black Knights as the Lancelot's VARIS automatically locked onto enemy Burais and started firing.

"Awesome! And this?"

The Lancelot jumped up way high and then did a spin kick.

Tamaki scratched his head as the white Knightmare began doing jumping jacks. "What the hell is that Brit doin- AHHH!"

In record time, Gino had wiped out half a dozen Burais. He still didn't know what the heck he was doing.

"And what about this button?"

. . . . . .

"How the hell am I supposed to get to the Viceroy?" Darlton shouted from his Gloucester as the five JLF Knightmares had surrounded his and Guilford's units. Gino, Alex, and Carius were out of commission while Anya was nowhere to be found. All around them, the terrorists were in ancient tanks that were constantly shooting at them. Oh how the mighty have crumbled...

Next to him, Guilford was just as worried about his Princess. She was surrounded on all sides by the Black Knights. The knight bit his lip. At this rate, Princess Cornelia will...

"Guilford."

Guilford's eyes widened. Cornelia's voice was weary and weak...a sound he'd never heard her make before. If even possible, he grew even more worried and alarmed.

"Guilford, my knight." Cornelia continued, an almost affectionate undertone in her voice. "I want you and Darlton to assist Euphie."

"Your Highness!"

"I refuse to surrender. As an imperial princess, I will fight to my last breath!"

"PRINCESS CORNELIA!"

With that, Cornelia charged Kallen's Guren, despite the fact that her Gloucester no longer possessed arms and was badly beaten.

From above, Lelouch looked on with disdain. "Hmph. What a foolish choice."

Just as Lelouch finished his sentence, the earth beneath him started to quake. "What the heck?"

FWOOSH!

A giant violet and white Knightmare with silver trimmings and a drill head suddenly burst from beneath the ground. It was slim, but seemed built to be quick and evasive.

"Viceroy! Are you alright? I've come to help!"

"Who are you? Who authorized you to enter this fray?" Cornelia demanded.

"Knight of Honor, Villetta Nu, Your Highness! I was supposedly deceased when Major Kewell Soresi ambushed both myself and Margrave Jeremiah Gottwald and have been in hiding ever since!" Villetta answered as she shot at the surrounding Burais. "Please! I'll answer all your questions when this is over, Your Highness, but first, your safety is the priority!"

The Andraste moved Cornelia's Gloucester out of the line-of-fire before dipping underground as though the dirt and rock were water.

"Oi, Zero! What's with that unit?"

The prince was furious. That unit is interfering! And everything was going perfectly!

"Zero?"

Jerked back out of his fuming, Lelouch snarled. "It seems to be some sort of new, customized Knightmare, designed for speed and digging. Be careful. She could come back up anywhere. Now's our chance, grab Cornelia quickly!"

"Yes sir!"

However, just as the Burais and Kallen made a move towards Cornelia, Villetta came back up right from below Kallen. Unable to reach their goal, the Black Knights started firing at the strange Knightmare...but to no avail.

"That thing moves faster than that white Knightmare from Shinjuku!" Sugiyama exclaimed.

Lelouch gritted his teeth. The last thing they needed right now was for that white Knightmare to show up as well. But what was Villetta Nu doing here? "Guren Mk-II, destroy that unit! It's becoming a nuisance!"

"Yes sir!"

"You take care of that unit!" Cornelia ordered Villetta, rather needlessly. "I'll take out Zero!"

Kallen charged at the Andraste, ready to use her radiant wave surger. However, Villetta had already seen what the red Knightmare could do as she and Jeremiah were observing right when Carius' unit had been destroyed. The Knight of Honor dove back underground before coming up almost immediately, behind Kallen and shot rapidly.

"We finally have the weapons and the ability to fight you head-on, you Britannian pigs!" Kallen shouted as she charged closer to keep the Andraste from disappearing again. "I won't lose! I can't!"

"We'll see about that!" Villetta yelled back as she loaded her rifle with incendiary rounds. "Take this, Eleven scum!"

However, as soon as Villetta fired, the Guren fell back and dodged. Villetta was shocked. Is it possible? It's faster than my generation-seven, Andraste!

The Knight dove back into the ground, digging closer to the red Knightmare on her sensor screen. With adrenaline coursing throughout her body, Villetta shot up, positioned right behind the Guren. She pulled out the shiranuis lodged in the Andraste and stabbed at Kallen. Kallen retaliated by grabbing one of the shiranuis with her radiant wave surging hand.

"That won't work!" Kallen growled as she pressed the button.

"Shit! She blocked it!" Villetta's eyes widened at the ability of the Number. She quickly let go of the shiranui and pushed the Guren back, right off of the edge of the cliff they had been battling by.

"Ahhhhh!" Kallen screamed as her Knightmare fell sideways off of the cliff.

Meanwhile, Cornelia had been holding her own against the much more inferior Burais. Several had ejected and Zero's Burai had lost both arms. Seeing their ace and good friend topple off of the cliff, Ohgi and Sugiyama rushed to her aid, leaving a quite defenseless Zero to deal with a raging Cornelia.

"Kallen, are you alright?" Sugiyama exclaimed. Luckily the cliff wasn't that high up and there was a wide ledge beneath it.

Kallen groaned. Her Guren had fallen sideways, shaking her around. "Uhh...yeah..."

"Ohgi! How's the Guren?" Zero demanded, as he held off a persistent Cornelia.

"The right arms' damaged. It'll have to be repaired." Ohgi replied.

Knowing that by waiting any longer reinforcements from the Britannian Military Base could come, not to mention the fact that their ace was disabled and a mysterious new and improved Knightmare had popped up, Lelouch scowled ferociously before announcing, "Retreat."

However, Cornelia had other plans. Just as she shot out her Slash Harkens, her energy filler ran out. Seething with rage at her defeat, Cornelia let go of her controls, and her Gloucester kneeled on the ground. Villetta immediately moved closer in a defensive stance.

"Viceroy!"

"Go after Zero!" Cornelia commanded.

"But-"

"My energy filler's just drained! Go!"

"Yes Ma'am!"

. . . . . .

The many Burais along with Kallen's red Guren trekked along their escape point. Kallen was amazed that so many of them had ejected, and that so many of them had survived. Zero really had made a huge difference in not just their lives, but their ability to fight.

"Hey, should we really just quite like this?" Tamaki called from within a rookie's Burai, obstinate and cocky as ever.

"We've definitely won here, but we're at our limit." Sugiyama replied, sternly.

"In other words, all we can do is run and let the JLF be our decoy, right?" Tamaki tried to jeer, but it came out sounding uncomfortable.

"I don't like to put it that way...but we really have no other choice." Kallen immediately cut in, knowing that Tamaki was still seething over his embarrassment earlier. "People aren't just chess pieces...I doubt Zero thinks that way...we just really have no other choice..."

"Yeah...or he'd end up even using us." Ohgi added. "But I agree with Kallen. His anger towards Britannia is genuine. I think a person who knows anger, also knows sorrow."

. . . . . .

Meanwhile, as the Black Knights made their way to the escape point, their fearless leader, Zero, but being chased down by an obstinate and stubborn Villetta. Her Knightmare was twice as fast as Lelouch's Burai, but heeding Jeremiah's order, to not kill Zero, Villetta was reduced to aiming at his legs as he ran. Zero was also using his Slash Harkens to pull down trees and rocks as he ran, blocking her path.

Growing bored of his efforts, Villetta fired a little missile right beneath the ejection pod, around the stomach of the Knightmare. Left with no other choice, Zero ejected, and the eager Knight chased after his pod...

Zero was standing on a boulder, the violet and white Knightmare right before him. Both showed no emotion as the Knightmare and Zero's mask covered their visages. However, both knew who the other was, and who was in the better position.

Lelouch was quivering and sweating under his mask. He had no way to communicate with the rest of the Black Knights and with the Knightmare right before him and focused solely on him, there were no chances of escape. He would be capture and interrogated...his identity discovered...and his future and Nunnally's would be ruined...once again.

Villetta smiled. Finally she would be made true nobility, and she and Jeremiah would regain their positions and honor. She raised her rifle at Zero- no, at Lelouch, and radioed Jeremiah. "I have him, My Lord."

"Excellent, Villetta! I'm coming towards you right now!"

Feeling much like a cat before it pounces on a mouse, Villetta got the jitters from the power and happiness she felt. Out of the corner of her screen, she suddenly noticed movement.

It was a green-haired girl, in a strange white straightjacket. The girl looked straight at Villetta and called out sternly, "You mustn't harm this man!"

Who does that girl think she is, ordering me around? Villetta raised an eyebrow in annoyance but knew she was to keep focused on Lelouch and that the girl couldn't do anything to her. No Knightmares were anywhere near here, and the only one heading here was Jeremiah's Siegfried. She's not an Eleven...what is she doing here? A classmate of Lelouch's?

Villetta watched the girl walk up to her Andraste, fearlessly and calmly. She admired the courage...or was it pig-headedness that the girl possessed.

"C.C.?" Zero watched his savior with bewilderment. The witch put a palm against the Knightmare. "Oy! What do you think you're doing? That's a Knightmare you're challenging!"

A gust from the top of the mountains blew across, throwing C.C.'s bangs aside, revealing the red Geass mark on her forehead. It began to glow. "I can't afford to have you die...I've told you that many times now. It'll be indirect contact, but it's worth a try."

Villetta's golden eyes widened as hated images from her childhood played...of her being teased at school for having dark skin...her crying in a corner as her father beat her mother in a drunken rage...her being molested by the son of a noble, as a teenager*...

Lelouch felt a strangely warm and comforting flick of power as C.C. activated her Code. He strolled over to her, feeling much more confident. "Hey! Why are you giving Villetta a Geass?"

"I'm just sending some shock images her way." C.C. replied, casually. "Anyways, use this chance to get away!"

"What about you?"

"I can't move now. Leave me."

"Are you kidding? Not while I already owe you a debt-" Zero felt a strong pulse of energy as he laid a hand on C.C.'s shoulder.

"No! Not right now!" C.C. screamed, trying to shrug off Lelouch's hand. But the youth couldn't move. Dream-like visions, somewhat similar to the time he received his Geass, played in his mind...of a mob in medieval times throwing rocks at a building...a church?...with the Geass symbol...of a nun with the Geass symbol on her forehead...of the Kururugi shrine in the summer...in the lake...C.C. was taking a bath...a Geass symbol carved under her left breast...regret...sorrow...

"That's-" Lelouch was startled at the sight of his only memory of happiness in his youth.

"Stop it! Stay out of my mind!" C.C. screamed.

More mobs...a war?...of a starving little girl...collapsing along the side of a dirt road...

"Why?" C.C. was hunched over, tears falling from her eyes. "You're...unraveling...me..."

Disturbing images of sorrowful mobs...the screaming dead...the ticking of a clock...Lelouch saw Villetta squirming in pain as they entered the same hallucination...

Villetta snapped. The arrogant and sneering face of the baron's son...the red and screaming face of her father...the constant crying from her mother...they were all in front of her...She grabbed her rifle and started shooting at them, while screaming in torment, herself.

"What was all that just now?" Lelouch asked in a shaken voice as his hand dropped from C.C.'s shoulders.

"Idiot! Hurry up and run while you still have a chance!" C.C. screamed as Villetta went nuts with her Knightmare. A flying piece of rock shot straight into C.C.'s heart.

"C.C.!"

"Hurry...and...run..." C.C. gasped as blood streamed from her wound. Her arms remained up, blocking Zero from harm.

. . . . . .

The rest of the Black Knights cheered at the news of the Britannian forces retreating from Narita. It was near sunset, and everybody, excluding Zero, had made it to the escape point.

"See! It's all the Britannian can do, just fighting the JLF!" Tamaki shouted.

"Yeah!" Ohgi agreed.

"Hey! Where's Zero?" Kallen suddenly called out to Ohgi. "I can't reach his Burai anywhere! You don't think he's been captured, do you?"

. . . . . .

Meanwhile, in a cave, Lelouch mused to himself as he cleaned off C.C.'s wound. "Is this girl human or not? The speed from which she recovers from wounds is definitely not normal. And she was definitely shot in the head, back at Shinjuku. Clovis was experimenting on her privately...so she must not be related to Britannia..."

Lelouch laid a hand gently on C.C.'s cheek. Her vital signs are all like a human's...I could analyze her wounds later...maybe get a blood sample...hmmmm?

C.C. was murmuring in her sleep.

What?

Lelouch leaned in closer. C.C. had a small smile on her face, without a trace of smugness in it, a sight he'd never seen before. She murmured again,"It's Cera...call me by my real name..."

Lelouch sat back, stunned as the realization that he never saw C.C. as a human sank in. "Cera...huh?"

C.C. suddenly woke up. She was naked, lying on her straitjacket, her naked body covered by Lelouch's cape. "I removed the shrapnel and cleaned the wound."

C.C. sat up. "I wasn't necessary."

"So it would seem."

Her voice had regained it's cold and superior tone. "That's why I kept telling you you don't have to save me. Your pride always gets in at the most inopportune moments."

Lelouch harrumphed. "Perhaps. But thanks to it, I learned something interesting. Cera." C.C. looked at him, surprised. "That's your real name, isn't it?"

"That's a bad habit...eavesdropping..."

"It's a nice name...much more human than C.C." Lelouch continued.

C.C. snorted. "How ridiculous. As though I need to be more human."

"I don't know about that. I particularly enjoy being human!" A third voice called out, startling the two. It was Jeremiah. Lelouch immediately reached for his mask, but stopped as Jeremiah cocked his handgun at him.

"Don't worry about that." Jeremiah waved his hand. "I already know your identity, Lelouch, a Britannian high school student, just as V.V. said..."

"Orange?" Lelouch looked at him, shocked. The Margrave's left eye was now mechanical, with some sort of eyepiece around it.

"How persistent." Lelouch sneered.

"It's not persistence." Jeremiah corrected, walking towards him. "It's called 'loyalty'".

Lelouch stepped in front of C.C., despite already knowing she wasn't physical harmable. "I don't like that answer. What has that detestable Emperor done to earn your loyalty?"

"I have my reasons for my willingness to carry out my loyalty to the end." Jeremiah stepped forward, snickering at the sight of the mighty Zero protecting a naked little girl. "I must find out something."

Lelouch suddenly pulled out his own handgun and dodged aside as he shot at Orange. The Margrave, thinking that Lelouch wouldn't move in case his woman got hurt, fired on instinct right where the youth just was. He missed. Lelouch, however, hit the flesh side of his leg.

"Gah!" Jeremiah went down on one knee as blood gushed out. However, almost immediately, the hardened Margrave stood back up and slowly made his way towards Lelouch.

"Impossible! How can you still move?"

"Lelouch!" Jeremiah called out, breathing heavily. "Why do you act as Zero...and turn against your own motherland, Britannia...and your own father!***"

Lelouch glowered. "Because I am Lelouch vi Britannia!"

Jeremiah gasped and stopped in his tracks. Behind him, C.C. looked on with interest. She already knew that Jeremiah was one of Marianne's personal guards, and very loyal.

"My father, the Emperor of Britannia, let my mother die! Because of that, Nunnally lost her sight and her legs...and together...we lost our futures!" Lelouch said, bitterly, his tone touched with sorrow.

A vision of Empress Marianne lying on the bloody steps, Princess Nunnally caught beneath her, and Prince Lelouch's terrified and tortured scream racked Jeremiah's mind. He had been there, that bloody and awful day. Jeremiah looked at Lelouch's face...he spoke the truth. It was etched with anger and sorrow, his hands clenched into fists. The prince was practically shaking from the memory.

"I know." Jeremiah said in a soft voice. "I was there that day."

"You were Mother's-"

"It was my first mission." Jeremiah's voice now shook with regret. "To protect the Empress Marianne, whom I greatly admired...However...I couldn't protect her...I couldn't carry out my loyalty!" He collapsed onto the ground. "Master Lelouch...you became Zero for Empress Marianne...right?"

"You're not going to kill me?" Lelouch was completely frozen. "You aren't going to kill me?"

"My master isn't V.V." Jeremiah said, tears welling up in his eyes. "It's Empress Marianne! Now I don't have any regrets..."

"Lord Jeremiah!" Shaken, but convinced of his genuine loyalty, Lelouch rushed to the fallen Margrave. He grabbed his shoulders. "Jeremiah Gottwald. Your loyalty isn't over, am I right?"

Jeremiah's tearful orange and turquoise eyes met Lelouch's determined violet orbs. "Yes! Your Majesty!"

. . . . . .

"I knew that a Knightmare shouldn't be here!" Kallen exclaimed as she examined a strange orange and turquoise Knightmare right outside of a cave. She pulled out her handgun, positive that Zero was inside the cave.

Slowly and stealthily, the redhead made her way through the cave, until she stopped, shocked by the scene in front of her.

Zero was here alright.

He was demasked as well.

A naked C.C. was right beside him.

The supposedly dead Margrave Jeremiah knelt before him.

It was Lelouch.

*I totally made up Villetta's past. It had to be somewhat traumatic to make her go nuts, right?

**Villetta and Jeremiah have Geass-Cancelers, not Code-Cancelers.

***This is directly from canon. Jeremiah doesn't really know who Lelouch's dad is, it's just an Asian sentiment that your father encompasses personal nationality and loyalties, while the mother is a softer figure. I would know.

Lolz, lolz, lolzies...you liiiiiiike? Am I forgiven for my lack of updates in a while (although I really don't need to be forgiven since it wasn't my damn fault)?

So I've already told a few people who reviewed for me last chapter that this is a pivotal point in our story. Finally all the pieces are in play...as Lulu would say. I've gotten a few complaints that this is dragging on too long or how this went from C.C.'s POV to a completely different story. Well to the former, I say 'geniuses must not be rushed'. ;P If you want something shorter, Protoblues has some nice short one-shots (not like my one-shots) that I recommend, so stop whining to me. And to the latter, yeah...I know. This did start out as purely C.C.'s POV but now I like this much better. What say you guys?

Also, my Japanese cousin (well he's technically half Jap and half Chinese) came to stay with us for four days. I learned a lot of Japanese from him and it was great! But the funniest thing was that my oldest sister (the one who found the one-shots) took him to a gay bar (which is apparently the best bar in this area) and he had no clue what was going on! xD The bartenders were all gay and they were winking and hitting him up (apparently he's quite pretty to them...he's my first cousin so I don't think of him that way but he isn't ugly) and this bar was a classy bar where there's service attendants in the bathrooms who are half-naked and give you soap and towels. WELL, Taka (my cousin) ended up being stuck in the bathroom for about ten minutes because he didn't know how much he's supposed to tip the guy and the attendant was very VERY gay and was trying to cuddle up to Taka! I of course am not old enough to get in, but I was laughing my ass off! xD And the whole time he's trying to tell me 'It was an experience! Just an experience!' or 'It happens!'. ^^ I love you Taka Baka!

And the next one-shot we will enjoy is a Gino-shot! Yay-zers! No further details until publication. xD

Finally, I have come to a decision on the poll regarding the Mao arc. Notice I'm not telling you what that is. So don't ask. ^^ This week's poll is over what Nonette should do, now that Jeremiah and Villetta are back in the picture. Go review and vote!