Author's note: Well here's the second chapter. I'll go ahead and start on it. I don't own Code Geass by the way.

Chapter 2

Close Call

"Yuki...Yukina-chan."

"Mom?"

"Yukina-chan. Please listen to me. Someday, there may be some days when hardships will come upon you. Some people may become your natural enemies. Some may turn against you. But someday, there will be at least one person who will fight along side you. No matter what, you won't be alone. Just remember that, okay?"

*flash*

"Oof!"

"Stand up. Whether you are a man or a woman, you must get back on your feet no matter how many times you get pushed down."

"Sensei?"

"Yukina. You must understand this. No miracles will happened if you don't stand up and create that miracle yourself."

"Miracle..."

"Do you understand that? Even one person alone can create the miracle for the society."

"Yes, Tohdoh-sensei!"

*flash*

"Urgh..."

"Yuki, are you okay?"

"Mmm. I'm fine. It's just...this place brings back bad memories."

"Oh. I see."

"Shh! Suzaku. Yukina."

"Ah, sorry."

"Onii-sama...what's that awful smell?"

"Uh...don't worry Nunnally. It's just the garbage dump. A really big one. We'll get out of this place soon."

"Suzaku, what's wrong?"

"N-Nothing."

"But...you're crying."

"Ah...well, that's-"

"Suzaku...here. My mom once told me that a warm hand can wipe away the sadness."

"Nunally."

*flash*

"I swear it, you two! Suzaku. Yukina. Please, help me. Help me to destroy the Britannia!"

*flash*

"Nggh...what just...happened to me?" I groaned as I slowly opened my eyes. I tried to get up, but then I felt a sharp pain on my side. "Ow!"

"Hey, easy there Yukina! That wound still got you bad over here."

I fixated my vision and looked, only to find a boy around my age with spiky, red-orange hair and grey eyes. He was wearing a black t-shirt, black jacket, and a camouflage khaki. He had a red headband, similar to mine around his forehead to keep his hair out of his eyes. Once I blinked a couple of times, I took recognition of this person peering over me.

"A...Akira?" I spoke out, trying to ignore the pain in my abdomen, "W-Where am I?"

"Inside the warehouse," Akira answered, "Earlier, I found you injured inside that ditch, so I patched that wound around your stomach and brought you here for safety."

I looked down, noticing the bandages around my stomach and placed my hand over it. "I see. Thanks Akira. But how did you find me? There's no way anyone could find me in the place like that."

Akira grinned, "Not without the transmitter on. I noticed that something bad had happened to you, so I tracked you down to save you from your death. You're not the only one who is an expert on technology, ya know?"

"Idiot!" I yelled at him, to which he flinched in response, "You're supposed to stay in Ohgi's group! What would've happened if the Britannians spotted you and found out about our identities?!"

"I'm sorry! Sheesh, calm down!" Akira yelled back, "I was worried about you, okay? If I haven't gotten out of that group and find you, you would've die!"

I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose. He has a point, but still...he's a stubborn idiot.

"Does Ohgi know about this?"

Akira nodded, "Yeah. I told him my reason, and he understands and told me to take care of you."

"I see," I said, "Any news from him, Kallen, or anyone else?"

Akira remained silent before answering again in an uneasy tone, "You're not going to like this. Well, as far as I know, they're safe, but then..." he gulped, "They reported that the Britannians had decided to wipe out the Shinjuku."

I sat straight up in shock and widen my eyes once I heard those last few words. "THEY WHAT?!"

Immediately, I grabbed my jacket and stood up from the ground, heading the door out of the storage room. Akira made protests that I shouldn't be moving, but I ignore him and stepped out of the storage, only to find several people in here, sitting on the ground, crying in despair.

"These people are..." I started to say.

"Yeah." Akira replied sadly, "They're the ones who we managed to rescued and hide them from the military. Many others were either captured or killed outside. Women, children, even elderly were in those casualties."

"No way..." my voice vibrated in anger. "The Britannians decided to go that far, all for this?!"

I was about to rant so more just right when I heard the arguments among the survivors.

"It's all your fault for opposing the Britannians!" one of them shouted in despair.

"What?!" the man I recognized as Tomaki yelled back at him, "Why you spineless coward!"

One of the women held her head and started crying, "Do you know how many people died because of this?!"

"Shut up!" Tomaki retorted and raised his rifle at the women just to threaten her, "Do you know how many of us were captured or killed?! Don't cry like this!"

Annoyed by his protest, I walked up to the spiky brunette with the goatee and snatched the rifle from him. His eyes widened and started to yell at me.

"Hey Yukina! What the f-?!"

"Still the same as always, huh Tomaki?" I mocked, throwing the rifle against the ground, "Listen, these people are just confused right now. Getting into arguments with them and telling them what's the best thing to do, isn't going to help any of us to cope with this mess."

Tomaki scoffed and clenched his fist in anger, "So what? They were just being cowards right now instead of..."

I cut him off with my glare, which made him flinched, "Enough! If there is anyone who we should blame for this, it would be a certain person whoever ordered the Britannians to wipe out Shinjuku."

"Yukina?"

I heard someone else called my name and turned around, only to find a man in his late twenties with dark hair and blue eyes and a girl around my age with short-spiky pink hair and blueish-greenish eyes.

"Ohgi! Kallen!" I called out in surprised and relief.

"Yukina, thanks goodness you're alive," Kallen said in relief and hugged me gently, trying not to crush the wound on my side. "We heard from Akira of what happened to you. Are you alright now?"

"I'm fine, Kallen," I said reassuringly and gently hold on to my side, "But enough about me. I heard from Akira that the military made the attacks on Shinjuku. Exactly what happened to you guys while I was unconscious."

Ohgi glanced at me, uneasy, "It's a long story."

"Well whatever it is, as long as we're safe here, I got time," I said.

Kallen sighed, "Alright. A while ago, someone hacked into our communication system and gave us orders to take down the Britannian forces. We were in great advantage until the mysterious, white Knightmare appeared and took down the Sutherlands the voice provided us."

"A voice and a white Knightmare?" I pondered at her explanation, "And I'm assuming that you don't know who that voice was."

"I'm afraid not," Ohgi replied as he sat down, "I tried calling him back, but he doesn't answer. Maybe he's already dead."

"I see." I bit my lips in confusion. That was strange. Who would appeared out of nowhere and decided to help them like that.

My thoughts were cut off as we all heard the rumbling should coming outside of the warehouse. We turned around and saw the door exploded, killing a few people nearby it. As the smoke cleared, an army tank and the Britannian soldiers appeared, readying their weapons.

"What the hell?!" Akira yelled.

"Shit! They found us!" I cursed.

"See Ohgi?!" Tomaki screamed at the dark hair man, "If you're gonna follow someone you don't even know, we might as well have used the poison gas!"

"But..." Ohgi started to say, but couldn't come up with any excuses.

"Damn that Nagata."

One of the soldiers stepped out of the tank and looked down on us, "So this is where you Elevens scurried off to. Prepare to fire!"

On cue, all the Britannian soldiers raised the rifles at us. I could only trembled and stared at them in fear. Even the others survivors are feeling the same terror as I am.

I noticed Kallen shutting her eyes closed and cried, "Onii-chan..."

The commander raised his hand to signal the fire, but was cut off by a radio voice.

"Attention all forces! Cease fire at once!"

I blinked in surprise, "What?"

"I, Clovis, third prince of Britannian and viceroy of Area 11 hereby command you, all forces are to ceasefire at once!" Clovis ordered the soldiers, "You will also cease destruction of any buildings or property! All casualties, whether Britannians or Elevens shall be treated equally, and without prejudice! In the name of Clovis la Britannia, you are hereby ordered, ceasefire at once! I shall allow no further fighting!"

As soon as Prince Clovis finished the commands, the Britannians soldiers lowered their weapons and proceed to leave this warehouse. The commander turned around and glared at us.

"Hmph. Consider you all lucky, if it weren't for Prince Clovis's orders."

Then, he went inside the tank and drove along with the others. Once they were all nowhere to be seen, Akira let out a sighed of relief and collapsed to the ground.

"Oh god. I thought that we were all going to die for sure!" Akira groaned.

"Yeah," I said as I stared down to the ground, "But even so, the damage was already done..."

Author's note: And that's that. For those of you who are confused of what just happened at the beginning, these are the words of memories that Yukina had while she was unconscious. The first one happened to be the conversation with her mother. The second one would be Kyoshiro Tohdoh. Another one with Suzaku, Lelouch, and Nunnally. And the last one...well...just Lelouch himself. I hope this will clear up the confusion.

Anyway, R&R. ;)