Author's Note: Hey! Since it's been about a year or two since I've submitted something useful to , I decided to make an On A Roll series. It's made up of all the oneshots, crackshots, or anything else I've made this week for (Which is really little). Hope you enjoy! This is the fifth of the On A Roll series.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these wonderful characters. They all belong to their respective owners whom I highly respect. I'm broke, so I obviously don't earn any profit from this.
Lelouch of the Condo 11
Chapter Twelve: The Mighty Sword
Lulu walked down the hallway. He had his hands in his pockets and was just minding his own business until someone running really fast ran past him.
"Hey!" Lulu yelled out to the runner, but he had already disappeared, and Lulu just sighed. Really...didn't that person have manners?
"Oh, Lelouch, my great and heroic husband," Kaguya called out. She ran towards Lulu as he entered his condo and tackled him onto the ground. She giggled and continued her ritual of talking Lulu to near death. He still hadn't mastered the art of ignoring her, though.
CC appeared, eating another pizza. She smirked as Lulu was being crushed as Kaguya blabbered on and hugged him tightly.
"So," CC said nonchalantly "How are you, Lelouch?"
"I'm fine, thank you," Lulu replied with fake politeness and rolled his eyes. CC chuckled and sat on the counter.
"Well then, that's good," she replied, finishing her pizza slice.
Lulu gritted his teeth.
Gino appeared with his flowery aura.
"Hi, Lelouch!" He greeted, a wide smile on his face. Lulu sighed and Suzaku laughed. He glared at the latter.
"What's so funny?" Lulu asked, glaring at Suzaku. Suzaku smiled at him and ruffled his hair.
"Awww...don't be so grumpy, Lelouch." He said happily. "You'll age faster. You'll grow old and lonely and ugly."
Lulu pouted. "Shut up,"
At that moment, the Asplund-Ashford couple approached Lulu, Suzaku, and the flowery Gino, who still had a smile.
Milly had her arm looped around one of Lloyd's, and her other holding his same arm too. The couple had the famous Asplund-Ashford plastered smile on their faces. Lloyd put his face near Lulu's, which caused the boy to lean back, and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. He greeted the three friends and clapped his hands up in the air.
He gave a Lloyd laugh. "Now, now, isn't it wonderful? I heard there's a new resident, and he's Chinese! Strange people this Chinese men are...with their long hair tied up and running around weilding swords and talking about royalty and the like. Don't you agree, Sir Kururugi?"
Suzaku scratched the back of his head. "Umm...I don't hold any grudges against anyone really." He replied. Lloyd shook his head.
"Who dares speak about the great imperial Chinese race in that manner?" A voice asked. Lloyd turned and came face to point to a Chinese man's sword. The man glared at Lloyd, who stepped back and chuckled nervously. "Now, now," he said "We don't want getting hurt now do we?"
"Stay back, strange man," Chinese man said, and Lloyd obliged and stepped back widely.
"I do not wish to hurt any other civilians as well, but if you all insist on speaking in that manner," He pointed his sword at each person in the room, "I must go against my wishes."
Lulu glared. Who did this man think he was?
"Well then," Suzaku started, reaching out his hand towards the Chinese man. "Let's introduce ourselves. I'm Suzaku Kururugi, this blond boy is Gino Weinburg, the man beside me with dark hair is Lelouch Lamperouge, the woman is Milly Ashford, the fiancee of Lloyd Asplund, the man in glasses." He smiled charmingly, and the Chinese man hesitated before returning his sword to its sheath.
"I," he put his hand to his chest and bowed "am Li Xingke, but I prefer to be addressed as simply Xingke. I am a proud Chinese, and a skilled swordsman at that. I weild my mighty Jian, this sword I have here." He placed his hand on the pommel of the sword, where the others saw a tassel was attached to it.
"I see," Suzaku said, "Well, I hope we'll be good friends,"
"Best buddies!" Gino said, holding his arms up in an embrace, and hugged Xingke tightly, who glared at Gino's back. Gino withdrew and grinned, flowery aura included.
"I have a sword too, my stalwart Longsword." Suzaku put his hand on the pommel of his Longsword, which lay in its scabbard at his waist, which strangely, no one noticed until now.
"WOW!" Gino exclaimed "I didn't know my buddy Suzaku had a cool sword! Can I see it? Oh, hey, how about showing me if it's shiny and glittery?" His flowery aura grew stronger, and Lulu flinched and had to squint his eyes when he looked at Gino.
"Sure, just be careful." Suzaku drew his sword out, and held it up high. Gino wowed at it, and it shined under the artificial lighting.
Xingke's eye twitched. "Let's see who has the better weapon, stranger." He declared and weilded his Jian as well. Suzaku nodded and started his fighting stance.
The two battled, and Lulu swore he could hear some really cheap sound effects emanating from the swords. Gino cooed at them, and said stuff like, "Cool!", "Awesome!", "Nice!", "Go, my best Chinese buddy!", and "Go, my best European buddy!"
Lloyd watched the fight carefully, and Milly was amazed.
Lulu sighed.
"I heard there was a fight between Suzaku Kururugi and Li Xingke downstairs," CC told Lulu nonchalantly. He nodded.
"Yeah, they started six hours ago."
Note: Xingke's Jian is a double-edged, straight Chinese sword which is very ancient. In Chinese folklore, it is considered as "The Gentlemen of Weapons", and is part of the four major Chinese weapons. It has a tassel attached to its pommel, as modern swords do, and old ones have theirs sometimes attached to the hilt itself. Suzaku's sword, the Longsword, is my ultimate favorite. It is a European sword, where all parts can be used offensively (pommel: pommeling, blade: thrusting, slicing, stabbing, etc) and it is named so because it IS a long sword. It has a cruciform hilt, and also has a long hilt, so it is also sometimes called a 'hand-and-a-half sword' because it can be used with both either two hands, or single-handedly.
Now, I know that these swords are ancient, and aren't really used anymore, but who cares? I also know that the Code Geass universe is in the future...but well...this is AU, Alternate Universe, so those points don't matter much do they? If you need more info, then either search it up in the internet (Google is a good friend) or ask me by PM/Reviewing.
I thank the new reviewers, and the old ones for reading and taking a little bit of their lifetime to read and review this story. Thank you, once again. I am aware that I'm wasting your life by making such a long Author's Note.
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