I'M SORRY I DIDNT UPDATE FOR SO LONG. I WAS SOOOOO BUSY WITH SCHOOL AND THINGS TO DO, AND I HAD THE WORST WRITER'S BLOCK KNOWN TO MANKIND!!!!!!!
I usually do things completely canon, but I needed to think of some things, and it actually took me a looong time .........
Anywho.....I hope you guys enjoy this chapter =3! I spent alot of time on it....
Chapter 6
"What are you doing here?!"
The little girl jumped, and turned her head. Behind her, was a girl about 12 years old, standing on the long stone steps almost at the bottom, where she was sitting. The younger girl didn't even hear her.
The 9 year old stood up, "I...I.." Tears were still streaming down her face.
"We don't appreciate people here after visiting hours." The preteen said, her eyes narrowed.
"But..." The 9 year old stopped, wiped her eyes, then bowed quickly, "Sumimasen! I didn't mean to trespass! I was just..." She couldn't get the next words out of her mouth.
There was some silence, then the 12 year old sighed, "Have you come here to pay your respects to the local god?"
"Eh?" The younger girl made a nervous laugh, "Ano....I didn't know there was a temple for a god here..."
When the 12 year old didn't speak, the other girl said quickly, "I'm sorry!! I didn't mean to insult--"
"You're not insulting if you're ignorant." The older girl seemed alot older than she looked, and she turned, "You staying? Even though we say we don't appreciate visitors when it's not visiting hours, it's still boring around here."
She walked a few more down the stone steps, then jumped gracefully off over the last 6 steps and landed on the ground without knees bending in pain, which would've happened if the younger girl tried.
"Why were you crying on the steps?" The older girl asked, looking in another direction.
"Umm..." The younger girl tried to remember her Japanese, "Some boys...threw rocks at me...." She looked up at the 12 year old, "I ran away and found this place. It's okay if you make me leave."
"Hm." The 12 year old turned away, then said, "Do you have a family?"
"Huh?" The younger girl looked down, "N-No. I live down in the orphanage."
"That's pretty far from here."
"I like walking. When I walk, I imagine myself going farther and farther away from the place I don't like. Even though I turn around and go back when the day's over, I still think I'm still getting farther away."
The older girl made a small smile, "You seem less boring than I expected you to be. I guess I'll show you around. Maybe give you some work. I can pay."
"H-Hontou ni?" The younger girl gasped, "You have work for uh..me?"
"Probably. You need money to get farther away, don't you?"
The younger girl contemplated the older girl's words, and then she smiled finally, "Hai! I'll work hard around your temple!"
Her lavender with a hint of sky blue eyes shined in the sunlight.
Kimi sat on the steps of where she was living, stretching her legs and arms, her eyes open, one of them allowing her to see through the ceiling.
She then closed one eye, immediately deactivating her Geass, and she yawned.
"Well, this isn't good." She thought, "I need something to cover my Geass. I could use a bandage, but of course, Lelouch would suspect something."
She began poking the cut above her left eyebrow.
Then there was a knock on the door, and Kimi bolted upright. Everyone was dancing, who would come to the door?
Kimi stood up, fixing the skirt of her dress, and opened the front door.
Nobody.
The moon shone down, and nobody was there. Kimi almost closed the door when she noticed a box on the ground. She leaned forward and picked it up, opening her left eye, her Geass going through the walls to the walkways around the place.
She couldn't see anybody, which confused her. Someone must've left this here. She would've seen them, running off. Closing her door, and still in the dark, she walked back to the steps, then sat down and opened the box.
Straining her eyes, she didn't see what was inside, then she remembered the cameras. Gritting her teeth, she opened up the door and slammed it, walking fast to get away from the camera-infested home of hers.
Now behind a tree, where the moon's light was brighter, she opened it, and started in shock. A contact lense?
That was it. There wasn't a second one at all. Then Kimi laughed to herself, then without thinking, she picked up the lense and put it right over her Geass.
Both her eyes were open, and her Geass didn't work. She smiled and hopped with happiness. The contact is covering her Geass, so not only can it stop working automatically, but now no one knows it's there!
Walking back, Kimi then pondered for a second. Who in the world would send it to her? Unless it was..
Her eyes widened, "Lelouch...?" She whispered. Could he have done it? That's impossible..!
She slapped herself. No way does Lelouch know her memories returned. They just came back 20 minutes ago!
As if things could get any weirder, when Kimi came closer to where she ran from, she saw Lelouch walking from a different direction, but was heading home, too.
Time to act normal.....
"Lelouch!" She called out, running over to him. Lelouch looked up and at her in small surprise, but he looked too depressed to do better.
"I just dropped off Rika-chan with Suzaku-san for tonight." Kimi smiled, "I was wondering where you were all this time..Oh yeah, sorry I wasn't hanging out with the evening dancers. I was showing Rika-chan the roof. Like you showed me!"
Lelouch looked down, his hair covering his eyes, but he said nothing.
Kimi tilted her head up at him, "Lelouch....? Are you alright...?"
Then suddenly Lelouch had grabbed her and pulled her into a tight embrace.
"Le-Lelouch..." Kimi blinked, "Why are you.."
Then she felt a tear fall right on her cheek. Realizing he was crying, she put her own arms his waist, "Please don't cry, Lelouch. Whatever is wrong, I'm here for you. Please don't cry."
A silence dragged on. She wanted to take off her contact, to see what the emotions Lelouch were showing the most.
Next thing she knew, she was alone, and she heard the front door close.
"Nii-san.." Rolo appeared when Lelouch closed the front door, "You're back. Where's Imou-chan?"
"Outside." Lelouch replied, then he muttered, "How did she hide it...?"
"Hide what, Nii-san?" It took Rolo a second to realize, and his eyes widened, "Nii-san....her Geass...! Her--"
"Her memories are back." Lelouch finished, "Furude Rika unknowingly returned them by giving her something. A music box, I think. It must have been so familiar that it jolted them back to her."
"How did you figure it out?"
"I didn't." Lelouch replied, "I saw it with my own eyes. Consider me at the right place at the right time."
Rolo then said, "But, her Geass has been reactivated...I don't know what her Geass does, Nii-san. I'm sorry, but my main objective was to be your brother, until she came along and---"
"Be your brother?" Lelouch quoted Rolo's words, "Rolo, you know you aren't pretending anymore, right?"
Rolo gasped a little, but said nothing.
"As for our sister..." Lelouch interrupted again, "That journal explained a little bit about her. Not much different from the way she's been. More of a daredevil, more shy."
He looked down, "I'll need her."
"Huh?" Rolo blinked, "Wha--? Nii-san..."
"Geass users don't grow on trees, Rolo." Lelouch managed a strange smile, "Besides, maybe Kimi will want to be on my side."
"And if she refuses?" Rolo asked nervously, "I think she'll make sure you can't use your Geass on her."
"Oh, I know she'll never make eye contact with me from now on." Lelouch put his hands in his pockets as moonlight streamed through the windows, "But I've got two people that I CAN Geass."
Rolo blinked.
Lelouch turned to him, "What do you know about Bernkastel and Furude Rika?"
"Boring." Bernkastel muttered to herself as she walked past the classrooms, looking for a place to study. Students stopped and watched her by the door, stand there silently for a second, then walk away, saying her opinion of what was going on in that certain room.
Most of the rooms so far have been boring. She wondered where Kimi and her brothers were.
"I met this little girl who looks just like you! Suzaku-san's cousin, Rika."
Bernkastel blinked when that came into her mind. But she shook it off. She couldn't do anything about that. She had to wait.
She was at the end, the hallway turning to the right. She stopped, standing by the corner.
Three girls were leaving the closest classroom, noticing the 17 year old with the long blue hair.
"Gosh, look at her!" One of them said, "Standing in the corner like that!"
"I know!" Another one said, "She's so weird!"
They laughed while walking the opposite direction. Bernkastel turned her head, watching them go. She scratched her head, and her cellphone began to buzz.
It was from Kimi: Hey, Bern, can you come to my room? I need to talk to you.
Bernkastel closed her phone, smiling softly.
Kimi closed the door when Bernkastel walked in, "Thanks for coming, Bern."
"No need to thank." Bernkastel replied, sitting on her bed, "I come here all the time."
She glanced up at the wall and saw a crack, close to the ceiling, near her clock. Her clock hung crookedly on her wall.
"What happened here?" She asked, her voice still not changing.
"Ah, well, I found this baseball." Kimi leaned by her window, "And while I was tossing it around in here, it bounced into my clock, breaking it."
A smile curled onto the blonde girl's lips, "It's an accidental way to break the camera."
Bernkastel stared at her. Then looking down, she began to chuckle. And then, the blue-haired female began laughing out loud, the first time in more than a year, Kimi smiling but not making any noise.
She finally settled down, "Ah, I never imagined my adopted sister to be that clever."
Kimi's smile was gone, and tears filled her lavender-blue eyes, "Onee-san..." She then threw herself in Bernkastel's arms, "Nee-san!! You remember me!!"
"I've remembered you all this time." Bernkastel was back to her emo self, as she allowed Kimi to embrace her, "It's torture living here being ignorant of everything."
"But, how....?!" Kimi pulled back, "If my own memories were gone, then....?"
"My memories were never erased in the first place." Bernkastel replied, standing up, "I was just sent here, told to be a new student. They told me to consider it an undercover job."
The blue-haired girl still didn't mention why her memories weren't gone, and Kimi didn't think asking was a good idea, though the curiosity bit at her badly.
"Why did you---"
"If I didn't cooperate," Her older sister interrupted, "You would've been killed immediately on the spot. They could've easily made it look like an accident. A trip down the stairs, bad food poisoning...."
Kimi eyes were wide as she said all this, "..Getting hit by a car..the possibilities for killing you without rising suspicion were endless. I couldn't take the risk."
She looked out the window, "Besides, they wouldn't tell me where Rika was. And then one day, when that boy appeared, she appeared as well, brainwashed into thinking she's his cousin."
Kimi clenched her fists, looking down. How dare he, Suzaku, pretend to love her own little sister! It was terrible thinking about it.
Her phone began to ring. Kimi still sat there, not moving.
Bernkastel stared, "Are you going to get that?"
Kimi made a noise, then answered, "Hello?"
"Hey, Kimi."
The 14 year old started in fright, "Le-Lelouch...?"
"Yes, it's me. I'm trying to find a book in the library, but I don't know where to look. Could you come and show me where it is?"
He sounded so normal, unlike the way he acted last night.
"Ah, Lelouch.." She replied, switching to normal, as well, "I remembered you never set foot into the library unless it's absolutely nessasary."
"That's right. Well, I'll be waiting."
"Okay, see ya!" She hung up, then looked at Bernkastel and said, "Lelouch needs me at the library. Needs to find a book."
"Really?" Bernkastel asked, emo-like as usual, but it was skeptical, "He needs to find a book?" When Kimi stood up she stood up as well, "You're not going alone."
Kimi blinked, but she understood, even if she wanted with all her heart to trust Lelouch. She didn't know why.
"Yeah, sure." She said simply.
"Really, Bernkastel, there's no need for you to come with me!" Kimi said as she opened the door to the library, "Dumb Lelouch just needs to find a book, 'tis all!"
"I know." Bernkastel walked in with her, "But I'm bored." They left the door open when they came in.
Lelouch came from behind a bookshelf, scratching his jet black hair, "Ah, Kimi, Bernkastel-san. Thanks for coming. I just don't know where to look for a certain book."
"No problem!" Kimi said with a bright smile on her face, "Now which book is it?"
That was when things changed when she heard the door close behind her. Lelouch simply stood there, his hair covering half of his eyes.
Bernkastel blinked her lifeless eyes, "Ah, I understand now."
"Huh?" Kimi blinked, "What's wrong?"
"You won't have to understand any longer." Lelouch looked up at them both, "Rolo."
Kimi's eyes widened in shock. It was a trap this whole time. She had to get out of there. She had to get---
Her body froze. Her eyes rimmed with red. Rolo's Geass had frozen her. Bernkastel didn't move as well.
"Now..." Lelouch stepped closer to Kimi, moving his hand to his left eye, as Rolo walked around next to him, "Time to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid. And her older sister can be useful, too."
In the sudden movement Kimi was about to make, some of her hair had fallen in front of her face. Lelouch reached out to brush them out of the way, when a hand grabbed his wrist.
"Yeah, move any closer." Bernkastel looked up at him and smiled, "And I'll kill you. Very badly."
Lelouch and Rolo's eyes bulged wide, "Impossible!!" Lelouch thought, "This woman....! Rolo's Geass....! It doesn't work on her..?!"
"Nii-san.." Rolo started, but then he couldn't keep his Geass on any longer, and it shut off.
The red faded from Kimi's eyes, and when she realized Lelouch was alot closer to her suddenly, she gasped loudly and jumped back.
Bernkastel's hand was gripped on Lelouch's right wrist, which looked like it was reaching to her.
Lelouch was totally shocked, "Geass doesn't work...on you?!"
Kimi's eyes went wide, as well, "What...?!"
Bernkastel let him go, "Maybe so. I guess it's obvious since the Emporer himself couldn't get me to forget. And now your #1 fan can't even freeze me. Strange, huh?"
Lelouch went serious, and looked at Kimi, "You've got a Geass, too, don't you?"
"I guess we're not pretending anymore." Kimi backed up again, slowly.
"Nope." Lelouch then made a friendly smile, as in a "I-win-you-lose-now-go-cry-in-a-corner" smile, "It was funny, being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Watching that little box bring it all back to you."
Kimi touched the small lump in her pocket, and she said in a small voice, "You watched me come back? That's a big coincidence. How about you imagine me, all alone and injured in the Babel Tower, running around aimlessly, searching for her brothers, until she comes across a green-haired girl supposedly back from the dead and kissing one of her brothers and making him a demon."
"Big coincidence, indeed." Lelouch agreed smugly.
Bernkastel then said, "Kimi, make sure we're not surrounded."
"Eh?" Kimi then nodded.
Lelouch and Rolo didn't move, wondering what power her Geass had.
Kimi raised a hand to her eye and removed the lavender-blue contact, then covered the right eye. She blinked a few times, everything turning red around her. She looked in shock when she saw no words floating above Bernkastel's head. Lelouch and Rolo had words above their own: Sorrow and Confusion.
"Sorrow?" Kimi thought while she stared at Lelouch for a second, "What does he have to be sorrowful about?" But then she remembered last night.
She then turned around, scanning the room and the surroundings. Students walked outside of the library, one attempting to open the doors, and, after finding them locked, shrugged and walked away.
But that was it. Besides the students, there was nothing dangerous.
"Nobody." She said finally, putting the contact back on, "It's just Lelouch and Rolo. And us."
"Interesting.." Lelouch said, "So you can see through things?"
Kimi nodded, "Why did you want me here?"
"Well, at first I wanted to Geass you..."
Kimi's eyes widened.
"...But now I know it's impossible now. Bernkastel-san won't ever let me."
"That's right." Bernkastel stood still.
"But, why?" Kimi looked at her Geass-Immune sister.
"Because I figured your attachment to Suzaku and his "cousin" would be useful to me."
"WHAT?!" Kimi turned to Rolo, who just shrugged, "I--I don't have an attachment to him...!"
"Perhaps we should discuss this somewhere private." Lelouch glanced at the library door, which someone was knocking on.
She stood there. Why did he change the subject so suddenly? There was a small silence, then she said, "Yeah, sure."
Bernkastel put a hand on her shoulder, "Sister..."
"It's okay, Bern!" Kimi looked up and smiled, "I trust Lelouch. And Rolo."
Lelouch and Rolo looked surprised. They didn't expect her to say that at all.
She stepped forward, "Besides, Lelouch, I can't let you take down Britannia on your own as Zero. I'll be happy to help you out."
Lelouch then smiled, "I knew you'd come to that conclusion about me, Kimi."
Kimi then stepped back and sideways. But when she did, her right hip crashed into the corner of a desk which was right there. She gripped herself and grimaced in pain.
Lelouch didn't move a muscle, but Rolo moved forward, "Imou-chan, are you alright?"
Kimi looked up at the light brown-haired boy, and she shrugged, "Forgot to mention one thing about my Geass...."
"Don't tell them." Bernkastel said, her eyes narrowed at Lelouch, "You may trust them but I don't."
Kimi didn't say anything, but she nodded.
Lelouch then held out his hand, "I think I'll need you two. I'll need your help. Do you want to?" He smiled, "In return, I'll assist you in getting Rika back."
Kimi looked up at him, her eyes wide. Would he really do that? Her hand reached out to his but stopped in midway.
"How do I know you'll keep your word?" She asked in a serious tone.
Lelouch replied, "How do I know you'll keep yours?"
She grinned, "Good point." And she grasped his hand.
Lelouch with his other hand leaned forward and ruffled her hair, "Welcome to the Black Knights."
Gasp. *yawn* Well, Ima work on chapter 7 as soon as I can. Hoped you liked this one :D