Sort of short chapter, but when I got no reviews, I decided to post another chapter :3
Enjoy this one, if anyone's reading.. .
Chapter 2
"So...that's how it all is." Kimi ran down the several steps of the building, "That zombie girl brought something back into Lelouch's mind, giving him some power by smooching him. Wait..."
She kept contemplating, "Lelouch acted like he already knew what that power is. Like, he's already used it before, I bet."
"What kind of power was it anyway?" She grabbed the handrail when things shook, "Some sort of mind control? He tells them to die, and they just kill themselves like that...?"
She stopped to breathe, "He's definately done it before. But now, I've got to get out of here."
"Hey!" A voice suddenly came, and Kimi turned around suddenly to find soldiers run up.
The first thing that came out of her mouth was, "Are you the Black Knights?!"
"No, we're the Britannian Military." One of the soldiers replied, "Are you a student? What are you doing here?"
Kimi shrugged, rubbing her scraped forearm, "Thank goodness you're Britannians. I'm trying to find my brothers, and I'm trying to get out."
"We thought this building was cleared already." A soldier said, "C'mon, we'll escort you out of here and get you to a hospital."
When they started going, Kimi said, "No hospital. Just help me get out of this place, and I'll simply go back to my school."
Right then there was another extremely big explosion from way above their heads. It began to shake so hard, that when Kimi fell down, everything turned black.
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"That symbol..."
A flash of white.
"So familiar..."
Swirl of darkness.
"Like, I can imagine the way you feel..."
She felt her bare body floating.
"..if you had that thing in your eye."
Her hair levitated in the blackness.
"Why does it seem so familiar? Could it be that I...."
She thought she heard an explosion, but her eyelids were still closed.
"Could it be that I..."
She realized she couldn't feel her legs.
"Could it be that I already know this feeling...?"
Then, finally..
"Have my memories been erased, too?!"
..her eyes opened.
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A familiar voice came from the blackness Kimi's body floated in, "Guys, she's waking up!"
"About time! She's been out for too long, I must say."
"Oh, shut up, Rivalz, just look at her bandages! The poor thing went through alot!"
"Imou-chan's awake?"
Her eyes then were open, and she blinked. She saw four heads looking over her.
"Shirley-san.." She recognized the teenage girl with the bright red hair and gold eyes, blinking down at her.
She noticed the other two, "Rivalz-san, President." She turned her head a little more and saw Rolo, "Rolo.."
"Ah, thank goodness!" The President of the Ashford Academy Student Council, Milly, stood up straight and smiled, "The shrimp of our council has finally awoken!"
"What happened to me?" Kimi asked quietly, looking around, recognizing the infirmary of the school.
"Well, we heard Britannian soldiers found you in the building, but when an explosion happened, you fell and was knocked out." Rolo smiled softly, "I'm so relieved. Me and Nii-san thought we lost you when you vanished down several stories."
"Nii-san.." Kimi blinked in fright when the memories of Lelouch going through that transformation came back to her, "Rolo, where's Lelouch?"
"Oh, Lelou's fine." Shirley replied for Rolo, "In fact, he couldn't spend any time with you because he had to go do some make up classes with Villeta-sensei. So, we promised him we'd watch over you."
Kimi glanced down at her left forearm, and saw it was bandaged. She noticed she had a few other bandages as well, but very small.
Rivalz excitedly said, "That was so lucky of you, to have missed a bullet by THAT much! You only have a small graze!"
"But.." Milly sounded a little serious, "There is a possibility that the wound will..."
They all looked at one another, and Kimi said, "That's alright. You don't have to tell me about whatever."
She sat up slowly, "What I wanna do is get up."
"Imou-chan, are you sure?" Rolo stepped forward, "I don't think you're ready to get up yet."
"I'm fine." Kimi said, "Now, where's my uniform..?"
"Oh, about that..." Milly smiled, "We had to get rid of it. It had a hole on the arm sleeve, and it was dirty and such. Due to your size right now, I'm afraid there are no more female uniforms at the moment."
Kimi blinked, "Then..what am I gonna wear to school?"
Milly patted Kimi's head, "Well, there is ONE idea of mine..."
"Lemme guess, there is a male uniform which might just fit me, President?"
Confused, Milly said, "I thought you'd be annoyed."
"Why would I be?"
Shirley laughed, "Oh, Kimi-chan, always never being bothered by things!"
Kimi then asked, "What happened to the Babel Tower while I was out? How come the Black Knights attacked?"
The council exchanged glances again, and Rivalz said, "We're not really sure, but...."
"But what?" Kimi then realized that Rolo wasn't in the room anymore. She blinked, but didn't say anything.
"ZERO'S BACK AND THE BABEL TOWER COLLAPSED!!!!" Shirley blurted.
Kimi's eyes widened, "Wha--?" But inside her mind she smiled, "My fear has been confirmed. Now all I need to do is think about Rolo. Is he really my brother, too?"
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"I can't do this by myself!" Lelouch complained as he worked on the food they were making in the kitchen, "Why am I the only one doing it?!"
"What can I do about it?" Milly blinked, "Rivalz has no sense of taste. The other one..."
They were interrupted when Shirley's mixer in her bowl started acting weird and she gasped loudly.
"..can't do small tasks." Lelouch finished, shaking his head, "I get it."
"So lovely of you to be sincere." Milly said in a amused voice, now standing back to back with him, "But people like you are usually the ones with no earnings potential, no?"
"He's even got a housekeeping book." A voice from the doorway said.
Lelouch, who thought Rivalz said that, turned his head and demanded, "How did you know that?!"
"Oh, so you do have one." A girl that the council knew walked in casually. She was in the same school year as Lelouch, Shirley and Rivalz, but nobody really knew her age.
This young lady was someone nobody really talked to. Mostly because she sounded weird. On her first day in Ashford Academy she had told the school she wasn't a fan of boredom, even though she seemed to look boring herself. She wasn't ugly, her straight dark blue hair reaching her waist and her wide square bangs right over her eyebrows. But about her eyes was a different story.
Her eyes were a brilliant deep lavender, which some of the male student body thought was very pretty, but thing is, those eyes didn't sparkle like normal kids. Even with the sun shining right in her face her eyes still looked lifeless and blank. She only smiled when she giggled about something, but after that the smile was gone.
The only person who mostly became friends with her was Kimi, Lelouch's sister.
Lelouch turned his head, "Oh, Bernkastel-san. I didn't mean to act harsh, I thought Rivalz spoke." That was another odd thing. Bernkastel was the only name anyone knew of her. She didn't give her first, and nobody even knew if Bernkastel was even her last name or not. Bernkastel was the name of a very old wine that is rare nowadays.
"How would that be me?" Rivalz smirked, "My voice doesn't sound like an emo bottle of wine."
Bernkastel ignored Rivalz's teasing, "Your sister is recovering quite well. In fact, she'll be in your presence in 3...2.....1...."
"Hello, everybody!" Kimi strolled in. But at that moment, Shirley screamed when her bowl mixer went crazy, and she fell backwards, the bowl plopping on her head.
Kimi leaned forward, scratching the bandage on her forearm, "Do you want me to get you a towel, Shirley-san?"
"I can get it myself." Shirley replied in a cranky voice.
Lelouch turned his head and grinned, "Ah, Miss Kimi, how are you recovering?"
"Pretty nicely, my friend." Kimi smiled, but Lelouch notice her smile seemed...a little awkward.
She put her arms around his waist as he cooked, "Mmm, smells good."
"I'd hug you back but we'd all burn to death." Lelouch just ended up giving her a kiss on the head, "I'm so glad you're doing okay now."
Bernkastel began peeling potatoes with Rivalz without putting on an apron, "Sibling love knows no boundaries."
Rivalz stared at the mysterious girl.
"President," Lelouch said, "Can I ask something?"
"I may not answer you," Milly looked over her shoulder, "But go ahead."
"We're throwing a party today to mark the survival of Kimi, Rolo and me, right?"
"Yup, you three have survived a terrorist incident!" She came up next to him, "Gosh, Shirley was in panic-mode!"
She then imitated Shirley's voice, "If my Lelou died, I'd..."
"Where's Rolo, anyway?" As Rivalz asked this question, Shirley ran up behind Milly and covered her mouth quickly.
"I asked him to come, but.." Kimi shrugged, watching Milly struggle, "I guess he's a bit naive."
"Is that why he has no friends?" Bernkastel asked, standing close to Kimi.
"You should say he's a gentle person!" Shirley said.
"Hey, you're getting stuff on me." Milly said.
"Oh, sorry." Shirley quickly let go.
"Gosh, now I'm all sticky!"
Bernkastel only blinked, "Being sticky is the first steps to being bored."
Kimi smiled, but then, after glancing at Lelouch, looked sadly away, "I don't know what to think anymore...all these people are my friends. And now, Lelouch is...is someone different."
She clenched her fists, "Lelouch is Zero. The only reason why the Black Knights came to Babel Tower in the first place was to get Lelouch and restore his memories. Now he knows who he is, his birdy power is back. And yet...she's still pretending to be my brother. I'm so confused."
With one hand she clutched her head, and Bernkastel looked at her, "You seem to be thinking extra hard today, Kimi."
Kimi looked over, "Um, n-no, just a small headache."
Milly rolled her eyes, "Rolo did tell you it was too early to leave the infirmary. Oh, by the way, here's your new uniform for now."
She went to the corner of the kitchen and picked up a folded male school uniform and handed it to Kimi, and she grinned.
Lelouch eyed the uniform, "Why are you giving my sister the male outfit?"
"It's alright, Lelouch. It'll cover my bruises. I'll feel much better if nobody can see." Kimi smiled.
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She went through class as usual, but she didn't pay much attention to anything, as puzzling thoughts soared through her open mind.
"If Lelouch is Zero, then why isn't he doing anything? President and the others told me Zero appeared on the television, but wasn't Lelouch here the whole time?"
She absent-mindedly tapped her pencil on her desk and one of her classmates tapped her on the shoulder and held a finger to her lips. Kimi nodded and muttered a silent apology.
"Lelouch is smart. He can make it so you see Zero and yet he's somewhere else. I'm guessing the Britannian Empire captured Zero, figured out he was Lelouch, and then what? Brainwashed him just like that?"
She silently ate lunch with her friends, smiling when she could.
"If Lelouch has the power to control people's minds, then it is possible for there to be a power to rewrite memories. Well, a whole year went by with Lelouch playing as me and Rolo's---"
Suddenly she gasped, her eyes wide, and one of her friends, a girl named Mion, asked, "Are you alright, Kimi?"
Kimi nodded quickly, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just thought of something."
She looked down, "Rolo...what's Rolo's story? Has his memory been rewritten as well? But why would they do that to him? Is he really some serial killer that I don't know about? Nah, they'd kill him if he was. Maybe.."
She blinked, "What if Rolo was here to only keep an eye on Lelouch?! That has to be the most possible way! Is that why Lelouch is being normal? To find out more about Rolo, wondering why he was pretending to be his brother all this time? Oh my gosh..."
"Kimi?" Mion asked again, and the other girls looked at her, "You're turning pale, Kimi. What's wrong?"
"I.." Kimi leaped to her feet, and the first thing that came out of her mouth was, "I forgot to write my essay due tomorrow!"
All the 17 year old girls gasped, and Mion exclaimed, "Wow, Kimi, you're really in hot water now!"
"I..I know, and I..I'm going to write it right now!" Kimi turned, and was far away from the older girls when she stopped, then, panting, leaned against the hallway wall.
"Lelouch might be normal to find out more about Rolo, then control him when he gets the chance. But..."
Her eyes widened in fear, "Won't that mean he'll be finding out more about me?! And then, control me when he gets the chance?!"
She shook her head, "No, I can't let him. There's nothing I can do now but wait. Wait for something to happen."
Beginning to walk, she thought, "And hope Lelouch--er--Zero doesn't notice any difference in my behavior...If there is.."
She glanced over her shoulder, "It'll be "Sayounara, Kimi-chan"."
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