Hi again! Sorry for the short chapter. I wanted to quickly establish the plot because the summery I give is horrible. Anyways this chapter is longer and hopefully better. Enjoy!
"I can't believe I lied to Zero," Ohgi thought as he stirred a pot, "And now I'm sneaking into the kitchens to make food for a Britannia princess." He shook his head in bewilderment.
"Ohgi?" a voice said from behind him. He jumped and spun around to see Kallen standing there.
"Kallen!" Ohgi exclaimed, "I didn't see you there."
"You know you could have gotten one of the cooks to make you something if you're hungry." Kallen said worriedly, "You're still hurt from the explosion."
"I wanted to make something myself." Ohgi said, "It's been so long since I've done anything normal like house work or cooking. It seems all we do these days are fight. This helps remind me that I'm still human." That was part of the truth but Ohgi felt like he couldn't tell Kallen about Nunnally. She was too close to Zero.
"I know how you feel." Kallen sighed, "But there is nothing we can do. We gave up on all that so we could fight to get our country back."
"Yeah," he said eyeing Kallen, "Hey Kallen what do you think about the royalty family"
"They're our enemies," Kallen said shrugging, "So naturally I hate them."
"So you think all the king's heir are corrupted and need to be eliminated like Zero says?" Ohgi asked.
"Well there are enemies-"
"That's not what I'm talking about Kallen." Ohgi interrupted, "You spent time in a Britannian school. What's your personal opinion?" Kallen was quite for a minute starting off into space.
"I guess," she said finally, "that some them aren't that bad, I mean well….It's hard to say many of them are sheltered to the outside world…. I once met Braitannian prince who hated his country more than we did...and I guess I don't think poorly of him."
"Really?" Ohgi said interested, "Which prince did you meet?"
"I don't remember," she said quickly, "We only met once and very briefly. All I was trying to get at is that maybe some of them aren't that bad. Why do you care anyways?"
"Oh, no reason." He said quickly. "The meal's done. I'm going back to my room to eat."
"Ok," Kallen quickly agreed, "Zero probably has something for me to do anyways."
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Meanwhile at the Bratinnia's headquarters…
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"I see," Schneizel said turning away from the screen. "Very well continue your search." He shut off the screen and turned to a guard. "Go get the Knight of Seven." The guard bowed and left. Schneizel sighed and massaged his temple. This situation was quiet surprising and he didn't like the turn of events.
"I wonder how he'll take it." Schneizel thought to himself. The door opened behind him and Suzaku Kururugi walked in.
"Is there something wrong your highness?" he asked. Schneizel spun his chair around to face him.
"Yes something quite unfortunate occurred a couple hours ago." He said, "Nunnally, while heading back to visit the homeland, was shot down by a Black Knight ship." Suzaku's eyes widened.
"NO!" the Knight of seven yelled, "They didn't!"
"Yes, they did and I'm sorry to say that the chances of surviving that crash is very slim." The prince shot Suzaku a sympathetic look. "I've sent out ships to try to find her body or perhaps, by some miracle find her alive."
"Nunnally," Suzaku whispered as tears started to form in his eyes.
"Suzaku you must not tell anyone." The prince warned, "There will be a public announcement later today. I told you early because I want you to lead the search party for Viceroy Nunnally.
"Yes your highness." Suzaku said bowing. He turned and walked out of the room. He walked down a few halls until he found an empty one. There he crumpled to the floor.
"Nunnally," he whispered, "I'm sorry I should have went with you. I failed you. I failed to protect you, just like I fail Euphie." Imaging's of Nunnally flashed through his head followed by images of Euphie.
"At least this time I know Zero isn't Lelouch," he thought to himself, "Lelouch would never kill Nunnally."
"How do you know that?" a voice nagged in the back of his mind, "Do you really know his that well? He did kill Euphie."
"NO!" Suzaku said out loud, "I won't believe it. Nunnally is everything to Lelouch he wouldn't hurt her."
"Would he?" the voice mocked. Suzaku gave a frustrated cry and hit the wall.
"No more lies," he hissed, "I'm going to find Zero and rip that mask off his head. Then I can find out if it's Lelouch or not and if he is…so help me, I'll make him pay for everything."
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Back at the Black Knight's base, in the spare room….
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"This is delicious!" Nunnally exclaimed as she took another bite of her meal. "You are a great cook."
"Thank you," Ohgi said smiling, "I'm surprised you like it."
"It's wonderful. It's been so long since I last had Japanese food." Nunnally said.
"You…had Japanese food before?" Ohgi said in surprised.
"My brother and I lived here for a while…we were here before the war." Nunnally explained.
"I see," Ohgi said, "Why would you and your brother be sent to Japan if they were going to invade it."
"It's….it's because our mother died," Nunnally said sadly, "After she died we were sent to Japan as bargaining tools. We got stuck there during the war."
"I didn't know," Ohgi said, "I'm sorry, that must have been hard on you." She smiled and handed Ohgi the now empty plate.
"It's ok," she said, "We got help from some friends so we managed to make it safely threw the war." Ohgi watched the girl sit back and give a content sigh. Talking to Nunnnally had made him realize that she must have had a really hard time. He always thought that the Britannian's only hurt people from other countries but now- Ohgi clenched his fist.
"Why would they do that to her?" he thought, "She's one of their princesses"
"Ohgi this is Kallen. Zero needs us in the meeting room." came a voice on his communicator. Ohgi shook himself out of his angry rant and picked up the communicator.
"Ok I'm on my way," Ohgi replied into it and then he turned to Nunnally. "I'll be back later to check on you ok?"
"Ok, thank you again, Ohgi, you are very kind." The young princess said. The black Knight laughed and left the room.
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In the meeting room…
Lelouch looked around the table of Black Knights and sighed.
"Ohgi managed to disappear again." He noted coldly.
"I just got in touch with him. He says he's on his way." Kallen informed her masked leader.
"Even so he better not make a habit of disappearing when he's needed." Lelouch said darkly, "Diethard, when did you say they were going to show the "braking new"?"
"In a few minutes," Diethard replied, "according to my resource, they will interrupt all shows for some big news."
"And you have known idea what it is going to be about." Lelouch said frowning.
"No."
"I see." Lelouch said. He hated not knowing what they were planning. What would be so important that they would broadcast it all over the world?
"Sorry I'm late." Ohgi said coming in, "I didn't get the message that we were support to meet here."
"You would have gotten it if you didn't disappear." Tohdoh grumbled.
"Yeah, where were you anyways?" Tamaki asked. Before Ohgi had time to answer the program they were watching suddenly went to static and then showed Schneizel standing in front of the Britannia flag.
"Schneizel, What's your plan" Lelouch thought angrily as his brother opened his mouth to speak.
"Hey Ohgi!" Tamaki said, interrupting Lelouch's train of thought, "If you are going to disappear for important meetings, do you mind if I take your roll?"
"What!?...no!" Ohgi sputtered.
"Ah come on!" Takaki whined
"Tamaki" Kallen hissed, "This is really not the time." Lelouch turned his attention back to the tv.
"-The death of the Viceroy of area 11." Schneizel was saying.
"What?" Zero said quietly hoping he miss heard his brother. Kallen shot him a look of horror.
"She was killed by the Black Knights while flying back from the homeland. I grieve for my sister's death, and I hope Nunnally can find the peace she wanted in the afterlife." Schneizel said dramatically. Lelouch stared at the screen no longer hearing what his brother was saying. Nunnally was dead and it was his fault. He had ordered Ohgi to shoot the ship down. Ohgi's words echoed through his head.
"No, they all died."
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