Title: Chase
Category: Anime/Manga » Code Geass
Author: Angel-wing2
Language: English, Rating: Fiction Rated: T
Genre: Romance/Humor
Disclaimer: Sunrise owns Code Geass. Duh.
-
Chapter 2
-
"So, who is this C.C.?" Suzaku asked a very irate Lelouch.
The Britannian Prince did not reply, but instead continued tapping furiously on his laptop.
"You might find her there, huh?" Suzaku continued his monologue while teasing Arthur, the cat, with a ball of yarn. How Lelouch got his Knightmare Frame stolen frankly amazed him, true, security was a bit lax, but to actually pull it off was a different matter.
Finally, the incessant tapping had stopped. Suzaku looked up curiously, Arthur took advantage of this and clamped his jaws on Suzaku's finger. "Ow!" he exclaimed.
"Found her." Lelouch smiled deviously.
This is absolutely idiotic. Suzaku thought as he crawled through dense foliage in someone's garden. Not only were they trespassing, but Lelouch had also convinced him to bring his Knightmare Frame Lancelot just in case this C.C. girl used Gawain against them. They had hidden Lancelot in a nearby hilly area and infiltrated a large, well-guarded manor in which Lelouch had claimed was where C.C. lived.
"What's your status?" the com device connecting him to Lelouch beeped in his ear.
"Nothing suspicious. No sign of Gawain either." Suzaku replied quietly. "How about you?"
"I'm near their hangar, but there are a lot of guards here. Too many for me to take down." Lelouch sighed. As if he could."I'll take a different route."
"Roger that." Suzaku said.
He looked around, all clear. He was about to move on to another area when someone suddenly slugged, or tried to slug him. Suzaku dodged the punch by mere millimeters.
It was a girl, about his age. She had red hair, wore a form-fitting red bodysuit and looked very annoyed. He stared in shock when she flicked out a rather large pocketknife. "I'm going to have to kill you." She said
"Wait—I…" Suzaku managed to duck the swift blows. By the way she moved, this girl was no amateur. But then again neither was he. Wait, he was a guy.
"Wait—please, I don't want to fight you!" Suzaku protested again. The girl ignored him and continued to hack away, her knife glinting dangerously.
Their deadly dance continued, with Suzaku barely avoiding the girl. With much difficulty, he finally caught her wrist. Even then, she kicked him, so he tackled her, sending the weapon a few yards from the two of them.
"Suzaku?" Lelouch's voice on the com device interjected.
"I'm kind of—busy Lelouch..." Suzaku gritted out. He tried ducking again, but it was too late.
The redhead landed an uppercut and hit Suzaku squarely on the jaw, knocking the com device off.
The line went dead. Crap. Lelouch thought, he'd have to find Suzaku fast.
"Going somewhere, Lelouch?" the Britannian Prince spun around and saw C.C. smirk. She was wearing a white fitted mecha pilot's suit, likely she'd just been using Gawain. Her hair was a bit messy, and her suit was dirty, like she'd been running in some rocky field. He felt no need to comment on her appearance though.
"You!" he growled.
The green-haired girl rolled her eyes. "I'm just borrowing Gawain, you don't need to get so worked up about it."
Suzaku had never fought, or in this case, defended against, such a determined opponent. He really didn't want to fight a girl, for crying out loud, but she would kill him if he slipped up. So he did what any self-respecting idiot would do. He ran.
Kallen Stadfeld was not amused. "Come back here you coward!" she scowled and ran after him.
"Lelouch!" As luck would have it, Suzaku found the Britannian, who appeared to be talking to a green-haired girl. He knew that the redhead couldn't be far behind, as well as a battalion of guards who had been alerted to the presence of intruders.
"C.C." Lelouch said "I know all about you. Just give it up already. Are you playing a prank on me?"
"Lelouch, we don't have time for this conversation!" Suzaku said "A girl back there just tried to kill me, this place is insane."
The said girl arrived, and pointedly ignored the two boys. "C.C., the guards are coming, we can't let Lady Cecile catch us like this."
C.C. nodded, and turned to Lelouch. "Hmm..looks like we should continue this another time, ne, Lelouch?
As much as he hated to admit it, she was right. "Let's go, Suzaku. We're coming in through the front door instead. I'm merely on a visit to meet one of my possible fiancées." Lelouch said derisively.
The green-haired girl raised an eyebrow. Was he being cocky? Well, whatever. She was ready for anything.
"Lady Cecile, two intruders have been captured inside the premises." The guard reported.
"Oh?" Cecile looked up from her tea. "I'll see them."
Minutes later, Lelouch and Suzaku were sitting in the drawing room. Lady Cecile hadn't stopped apologizing for her guards' rude behavior.
"I'm so glad you've taken an interest in our C.C." Cecile smiled. "She's somewhat shy, but she's a very good girl, so well-behaved."
What? Lelouch grumbled inwardly.
"Oh, here they are now. Princess Chole Catherine and Lady Kallen Stadfeld. They're cousins, and right now, I'm their legal guardian." Lady Cecile smiled. "Such well-bred, ladylike girls."
Lelouch shot Suzaku a look when he nearly snorted.
C.C. and Kallen entered the room. They looked so calm and refined, not a wrinkle on their silk dresses, and not a hair out of place. It looked like they had spent the whole day doing needlework or flower arranging.
He was aghast at this C.C. Her whole demeanor had changed from sarcastic, conniving witch to meek lamb. She curtsied politely and apart from agreeing with everything subserviently, she just sat quietly on a large velvet couch.
Suzaku on the other hand, stared at Kallen, whose face he could now get a better view of, now that she wasn't trying to kill him. She was rather attractive, he thought. Too bad she had such a nasty streak. Kallen coughed delicately.
Lady Cecile noticed Suzaku's jaw, which was turning a dark shade of purple where Kallen had punched him. "My, what happened to your face?"
"I-uh. Fell down" Suzaku laughed nervously. "My balance on the horse isn't very good." He looked at Kallen accusingly. She coughed again, as if to spite him.
"Oh, poor Kallen has always been frail and sickly, so she avoids strenuous activities like that." Cecile said kindly, and patted Kallen's head on her way out. "I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me. I'll leave you young people alone for a bit."
Suzaku nearly choked on his biscuit. Frail? Sickly?
Lelouch leaned back and sighed. "This is really quite a show, C.C., Kallen."
C.C. eyed him coolly. "I've thought of returning your Gawain, but I seem to want to change my mind now." the girl said melodramatically, "because Lelouch is being mean to his fiancée." She pouted.
Lelouch frowned. What on earth did this crazy girl want from him?
Suzaku and Kallen were engaged in a heated staring match. Lelouch suddenly had an idea. "Look, here's the deal, Suzaku and Kallen can fight in their Knightmare Frames. If Suzaku wins, return Gawain, no questions asked."
"Out of the question, Lelouch." C.C. frowned.
"But if I win, Gawain's ours." Kallen interrupted. "I accept." Just how did this Prince know about her Guren anyway? I won't lose to that trash.
If C.C. was surprised, her face didn't show it. Damn that Lelouch for playing on Kallen's competitive nature, she thought to herself.
Lady Cecile re-entered the room. Lelouch stood up. "Our thanks, Lady Cecile, we shall be taking our leave. We look forward to seeing Princess C.C. and Lady Kallen, this Saturday if it is alright with you?"
Lady Cecile smiled graciously. "Oh, of course Your Highness." She said "It's a--, what do the commoners call it? A date, a date." She looked slightly flushed and pleased with herself that the Prince had taken an interest in her somewhat dull niece.
"Yes, it's a date." Lelouch smirked at C.C. who seemed torn between nodding meekly and throwing the entire tea set at him.
-
-
-
A/N: Err...was anyone OOC? I'll reveal why C.C. needs Gawain in the next chapter(s). Thanks to those who reviewed the previous chapter. Oh, by the way, I guess this is going to be a Suzaku x Kallen too. ^,^ I know it ain't that popular, but what the heck? Oh, and does anyone know the name of Kallen's Guren's microwave arm? After looking around, all I got was radiation-emitting arm. It sounds so cumbersome. o_O Anyway, thanks for reading!~ Comments welcome.