Turn 8: The Best Laid Plans (of Trolls and Megalomaniacs)
This is the hardest thing I've done in awhile. The pressure to perform is enormous.
"C'mon Lelouch. You can do it." Suzaku encouraging me to take a bit more.
I strain myself, trying to open up. But it's almost too much for me.
"Just abit more." Suzaku says with a smile.
I let out a grunt as I lift the weights up for the last rep, then slowly drop them to the ground, trying to catch my breath.
"All that," I pant. "For a mere twenty lb set of three by ten?"
CC would comment but she's busy doing forty-five lb dumbs next to me.
She's not happy right now, but the pizza I promised her will likely make her forgive me.
"Is that all you've got? I can't believe your fat ass managed to pin me," a certain infamous redhead says with a mocking smirk.
Kallen is clearly enjoying spotting CC. Particularly since it came out that her breasts apparently hide the fact that she has excellent pectoral muscles. Sixty five lbs is alot for a woman. And she says that's not quite her best.
As for Suzaku? After doing speed sets on the hundred twenty lb dumbs, I asked Suzaku what his max was.
He doesn't know. And I gave up trying to figure it out after he was able to bench press four hundred lbs with relative ease.
I should make a note to ask Tohdoh when I see him if Suzaku was always this level of bullshit strong.
I towel off, then walk to the bench set up for crunches.
CC walks off to grab some water. She passes by on her way back to smack me on the back of the head. "I'll get you for this," she mutters as she gets back to the grindstone.
"Before or after Kallen runs you into the ground?" I yell back as I start doing sit ups.
I'd have tried to get Milly in here, but I know exactly what would happen. I grimace at the thought.
"Aww, is somebody thinking of me?"
I open my eyes to see Milly leering at me upside down.
"Tell me Milly, are you Cao Cao, or the devil?"
I swear to god, all I have to do is think about her showing up and there she is.
"You can call me whatever you like, handsome," she as she kisses me on the lips then moves to stand near me as I do my set.
The upskirt view her position provides is a total coincidence of course.
"Since you're not dressed to work out, I assume you need me for something? Or is this 'Milly wants to bug Lulu' time?" I say sarcastically.
Milly holds out a piece of paper.
A permission slip for a field trip?
"Milly...you know I don't have the time for this. You know why too."
Between fleecing nobility, coordinating my various spies including Jeremiah, and trying to hunt down Code-R's remnants, I'm too damn busy right now.
The blonde devil nods. "I know. It's for Nunnally."
I sit up in a flash. "Absolutely no-"
"She said to mention this: 'If big brother says no, tell him he owes me one and if he still says no, then I'll cry.' "
...That cheating little...I'm so proud of her.
I fall back chuckling as I take the paper and sign it.
"Never underestimate a Vi Britannia. I should be mad, but honestly? I'm greatly amused she pulled this kind of blatant manipulation on ME of all people."
I really am proud of her for doing this. Still, no sense not being cautious.
"Sayoko."
"Hai, goshujin-sama?" she says as she seems to appear from thin air behind Milly, causing her to squawk and fall backwards onto me.
Ass on face first.
I look up from between Milly's legs.
"Would you mind taking a day trip with Nunnally? She guilt-tripped me into it."
Sayoko looks down at my face in bemusement. "Of course, goshujin-sama. Shall I relay a message to Lady Nunnally?"
I give her a thumbs up. "Tell her: 'you win this time. Don't abuse the privilege.' And Sayoko?"
I hold her hand. "How are you and Jeremiah doing?"
Huh. So that's what it looks like when a ninja blushes.
"Sir Gottwald is...not what I expected from a Britannian, let alone the former leader of the purists."
Milly squirms on my face, her features lit up. "Oh my Sayoko! What have you done so far? Missionary, doggy, piledriver?"
I smack Milly's panty-clad ass causing her to yelp.
"Not everyone is a sex maniac like you Milly," I quip.
Sayoko shakes her head. "We went dancing and singing karaoke. He has a lovely singing voice," she says with a longing sigh.
Milly fans her face, grinning. "Mmm, is someone falling for the orange eyed stud? Forbidden romance is sooo kinky."
"Milly, stop teasing my knight. Sayoko, feel free to ignore the blonde succubus sitting on my face. I'm very happy for you two."
At that moment an eraser tags Milly in the forehead, knocking her off me.
"Can't you do anything without it devolving into sex?!" Kallen yells as she stomps over.
She's wearing a sports bra, bike shorts, headband and running shoes, and flushed from her workout and the sweat coming off her body.
I am so turned on right now.
Glancing to the side...yep, Milly's nosebleed says she is too.
"Lulu. Is this what Kallen is like when she's not at school?" she says with nervous energy.
I give a sadistic grin to Kallen, whose eyes have just widened as she realizes that she just waved a red cape in front of the raging bull that is Milly's pervert sense.
"To be fair, you are disrupting our gym time," I mouth 'your turn' at Kallen with my lips. "But yes, this is the real Kallen Kouzuki-Stadfelt."
Kallen takes off running with Milly in hot pursuit, only looking back to yell "FUCK YOU, LELOUCH!"
I should feel bad about this. But I'm of the belief everyone should share in the suffering/joy of being around Milly.
Sayoko glances down at me with a soft smile. "It's a pity you weren't trained as a shinobi. You have the kind of ruthless mindset we spend years training for."
"Does that mean you're using injutsu on Jerry?" I say with a suitably wiseass smile.
The answer to my question is a smack to the face with a feather duster.
"A lady never reveals her secrets in public," she says as she curtsies, then leaves out the side door.
I have the best subordinates.
A few hours later as I'm washing up in the showers after hanging out in the sauna, I suddenly realize something.
"Suzu, did Milly say where they were going?"
Suzaku peeks out from the shower and...hot damn! He's not just built like a tank, he's a god damn stallion.
Suzaku gives an exasperated sigh. "Lelouch, eyes up here."
I blush as I forcefully redirect my eyes to his. "Force of habit," I mutter.
It's probably a testament to how much of a connection we have that he's the one who can most easily make me blush.
"Milly said they were going to the Lake Kawaguchi convention center. She mentioned there was a big discount due to the annual sakuradite convention."
He then turns back to showering, my eyes glued below the waist.
...Sakuradite convention? Why does that sound...Oh no...
I drop the soap and washcloth I'd been cleaning with.
"Oh dear god..." I drop to my knees.
Suzaku rushes over, soaking wet. "Lelouch?! What's wrong?"
I look at him with wide frightened eyes, my pupils shrunk. "I heard rumors that that the hotel was a potential target for a hostage operation...NUNNALLY COULD BE IN DANGER!"
Suzaku pales as he pulls me to my feet, rushing to the lockers. "Quick! Check the news!"
I rush to my locker, going to check my information network on my phone.
The lead headline on the news is 'JLF takes hostages at Convention Center. Military action imminent.'
I scream. "SUZAKU!"
He rushes over, glances at the headline, then steels his expression. "Zero, what are your orders?"
I'm shaking like a leaf, unable to commit to a course. My sister is in the hands of those monsters. What do I do?!
Suzaku grimaces, then mutters, "Sorry about this."
He then slugs me in the jaw, knocking me to the ground.
"Snap out of it! You can't save Nunna in a panic!" He hauls me to my feet, shaking my shoulders rapidly.
I take a few deep breaths as I hold him. "Sorry...I just couldn't..."
He strokes my hair as he holds me, our naked bodies entwined.
Any other time, I'd be doing something or enjoying this more.
But now...?
I stand up straight, a fire coming into my eyes. "Return to the ASEEC. Cornelia will likely deploy you. A rescue operation will be organized shortly. I WILL save them all."
Suzaku salutes then turns to get dressed, but not before I grab his hand.
"And Suzaku?" I add.
I plant a longing kiss on his lips. "Thank you."
His cheeks grow red as he puts his hand over his heart in the traditional Britannian salute. "Yes, your highness!"
Anyone else I'd deck or at least be outraged at the salute and the remark. Discounting the obvious implications of my identity being exposed, of course.
But Suzaku? If I'd stayed in Britannia, I never would have met him. And if I'd have gone back after the war, instead of going underground, knowing what I do now? I'd have dragged him back with me as my knight of honor with Jeremiah as captain of my guard.
Besides, as my sister and Guilford demonstrate, nobody gives a damn if you're fucking your knight or knights plural. It's practically expected. It's just when you're higher in the ranks, there's more scrutiny.
And as third princess and the most likely candidate after Schneizel, there are lots of eyes on her.
But enough reminiscing. I have a debut to plan. I salute Suzaku back, then rush out the door over to the women's locker room nearby.
"CC! KALLEN! PREPARE TO MOBILIZE!" I yell with commanding authority.
Kallen shrieks at me as she throws a bar of soap at my face.
"This is the girls locker room! Get out, you fucking pervert!"
I snarl at her. "Q-1, we're mobilizing for a rescue operation. A section of the JLF has taken the Lake Kawaguchi hotel-goers hostage."
She gasps as she goes to rinse off quickly.
CC peeks out. "What are you going to do to them?"
I smack a fist into a wall, bruising my hand. "I'm going to butcher those pigs in human flesh for involving MY SISTER in this depravity." I growl out, shaking with anger.
Kallen pauses in her shower stall. "But they're fellow Japanese, they're the face of the resistance..."
I walk over and whisper in her ear.
"No, Q-1, WE, The Black Knights, are the resistance. No, more than that,"
I point a finger skyward and narrow my gaze.
"We are the sword of justice and the shield of the oppressed. WE will defeat Britannia, not cowards who have not won a single victory in seven years," my voice proclaims with the delivery of a divine orator.
Kallen is looking at me with blushing cheeks and an awed expression.
Hmm, is that water at her crotch or something sweeter?
I turn to start marching back to the men's lockers. "Contact Ohgi. We rendezvous at the usual coordinates. Tell him Zero is ordering a full emergency mobilization, except for our Knightmares. That will only encourage pointless bloodshed," I growl out as I head out back to the men's side, jaw clenched as my teeth grind in anger.
I hear CC's voice as I leave.
"I don't know about you, tsundere-chan, but I got so fucking wet hearing that."
My mind is racing as I throw some clothes on. Strategies need to be adjusted, plans altered.
I will have BLOOD for this outrage.
End of turn.
