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 Thirteen: Best Friends
Lulu was reading the newspaper, seated on the couch. Shirley was working on her laptop, seated beside Lulu. CC was on the bed, eating a box of pizza. Kallen was on the floor, asleep.
Kaguya slammed the door open. She had a wide grin on her face.
Everyone at least raised an eye towards the girl. Kallen woke up and yawned.
"Hello everyone! Miss Shirley, Miss Kallen, Miss CC, and my dear husband Lelouch, meet Tianzi. She's my new best friend!" She said happily, dragging a girl inside the room with her. The girl, Tianzi, was teary-eyed, and looked shy. She wore an elegant dress, so it was obvious that she was of rich descent.
Lulu nodded politely. CC finished her pizza, then opened a new box. Shirley smiled for a moment but continued typing. Kallen waved and then sat up, holding her pillow under her arm.
"Introductions~!" Kaguya sang.
Shirley gave a friendly smile and closed her laptop. She then placed it on the empty seat beside her.
"Hello, I'm Shirley Fenette. Nice to meet you, Tianzi. It's good that Kaguya has a friend closer to her age." Shirley said. She approached Tianzi and bent down to come to face Tianzi on her level. "Be a good friend to Kaguya, okay?" She asked, and Tianzi nodded.
"My name is Kallen Kouzuki. It's a pleasure to meet you, Tianzi." Kallen said, shaking Tianzi's hand uncharacteristically. She then yawned and returned to her place on the floor mattress.
"Hello. I am Jiang Lihua," said Tianzi, curtseying elegantly "Everyone else refers to me as Tianzi. You may call me whatever you wish,"
Kaguya clapped in excitement.
"Oh, she's Chinese. Cool, right? I heard that her guardian was staying here, so he is taking care of her. She's from a wealthy family, and they had some problems with the other Chinese, so she was sent here. Her guardian is really nice and kind, according to what I've heard."
"Well then," said Lulu, folding the paper and placing it beside him. He uncrossed his legs and stood up, bowing in a gentleman-like fashion. "I am Lelouch Lamperouge. It is nice to meet you, Miss Jiang Lihua. May I call you Tianzi?"
"Of course you can," CC said sleepily. She gazed at Lulu, bored. "She said 'You may call me whatever you wish', right?"
Lulu glared at her. "Just introduce yourself and shut up, witch. You are rude." He commanded.
"No," CC replied stubbornly "Shut up yourself, and how can you command at me like that? You're rude yourself. Hypocrite."
Lulu glared daggers at the green-haired woman as she got up from the bed and strode gracefully towards Tianzi. She shook the young girl's hand seriously and introduced herself.
"I am CC. Enjoy the company, Tianzi." She smirked.
Tianzi gasped and cowered behind Kaguya.
CC, Gino, Kaguya, Kallen, Lulu, Lloyd, Milly, Shirley, Suzaku, Tianzi and Xingke were together at the lobby.
Suzaku had brought Arthur, his pet cat, and was stroking his head gently. Arthur bit him.
"Ow, Arthur!" He was ignored.
The Asplund-Ashford couple had their famous plastered smile on their faces. Lloyd pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
"Well, well," he said "I hope you stay safe here in Japan, Lady Jiang Lihua. I welcome you, but as the others call you, I shall also name you Tianzi."
Tianzi nodded.
Everyone was seated at a table. Only Xingke was standing, and he was staying beside Tianzi.
"I'm sure I'll be okay," said Tianzi. She tugged at Xingke's sleeve. "After all, my best friend Xingke will be protecting me, right?" She looked up at Li. He smiled and nodded in assurance.
Kaguya twitched.
"Of course. I am your best friend, and you mine, milady."
Gino twitched.
"Then we'll be best friends forever, Xinkge!"
Kaguya sniffed. She twitched again.
"Of course. I will never let anyone hurt you, milady. You are most precious to me. My greatest companion and friend."
Gino sniffed. He twitched again.
Tianzi smiled. Xingke smiled back.
Kaguya's eyes watered. Tears threatened to fall. Fountains of waterworks were gathering.
"UWAHHH!" Kaguya wailed. She held onto Tianzi firmly, who gasped in shock. Gino then ran up to Xingke and held tightly onto his sleeve. The two began to tear up.
"I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR BEST FRIEND, TIANZI!"
"AREN'T I YOUR BEST BUDDY, MY BEST CHINESE BUDDY?"
Xingke gasped and tried to pry Gino off. He failed. Tianzi's eyes softened.
"Kaguya, don't cry. Please, you are also very important to me."
"Don't cry, Mr. Weinburg."
That just worsened their condition.
While Gino and Kaguya were wailing, CC smirked. Lulu pouted in annoyance. Really, they were so immature. It was to be expected of course. Gino really was immature, but Kaguya was more mature in a sense...except for the fact that she still called him her 'husband', and she was a 13 year old girl.
CC laid her head on Lulu's shoulder. "They really are quite a bother, aren't they, warlock?"
Lulu didn't move. He admitted to himself that this was nice. "Yeah, they are."
CC smirked. She buried her face in his neck.
"Oh, don't cry, Kaguya." Tianzi comforted the girl. She patted the Japanese girl's head and then smiled.
"You know, the truth is..." Tianzi paused and hugged her. "You're my best friend."
The two looked at each other and then teared up. The two started wailing and crying even harder, but hugged each other this time.
"UWAHH~! YOU ARE MY GREATEST FRIEND, TIANZI!"
"YOU TOO, KAGUYA!"
Gino sighed. His usual flowery aura had diminished. It was replaced with a dark blue one...a sad and teary and mushroom growth one.
He looked up to Xingke. A faint spark of hope was in his eyes. Xingke twitched.
"Are you..." Gino asked slowly "Are you...really...my...best...Chinese buddy?"
"..."
"..."
Kaguya was silent, but still crying, and waited patiently. Tianzi was silent too and waited with hope. Shirley clasped her hands together and waited for the answer. Suzaku nursed his bitten hands quietly. Arthur was silent and listened too. Kallen snuggled into her pillow on the table. Milly leaned in closer to hear the answer, hope in her eyes. Lloyd smiled and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. CC smirked in amusement and snuggled more into Lulu's neck, watching from a single golden eye. Lulu raised a brow.
Xingke sighed. He looked at Gino who was staring up with hope.
"Are you?"
"..."
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"Urm..." Xingke answered hesitantly "I guess so...yes..."
Gino grinned. He produced a flowery aura so bright that Lulu had to close his eyes, and he could still see the light. CC smirked. She forced Lulu to look at Gino by holding his face in place towards the bright boy.
Gino began to emanate flowers and glitters and sparkles...and shine. Xingke twitched.
"I'M GLAD I HAVEN'T LOST MY BEST CHINESE BUDDY!" Gino attacked Xingke into a bear hug. His flowery aura grew bigger and brighter and more...assorted.
"Yes, yes," Xingke replied "You are the nicest man I have known."
Gino then blinded Lulu.
Milly sniffed. She wiped her eyes with a handkerchief and Lloyd inquired, "Are you crying, dear?"
"Yes," Milly replied. She smiled. "It's just that this is such a happy occasion. Anya should have taken pictures."
Lloyd nodded. "Yes, this is a happy event."
Kallen woke up in the dark. It was dark. Very dark.
She remembered. "Oh yeah," She told herself, picking up her pillow and keeping it under her arm. "I fell asleep after everyone left."
Kallen approached the elevators. She passed by the counter where Jeremiah Gottwald should have been in.
"Well, it's dark and late," thought Kallen. She pressed the elevator button.
She heard sniffing. She turned around and got into a defensive stance, pillow still miraculously under her arm. "Who's there?" She asked, but nobody replied.
She was alone. There was no one there but her.
The elevator dinged. She jumped and sighed.
Kallen saw a light emanating from the other side of the counter. She approached it slowly, then her eyes widened in shock at what she saw.
Kallen screamed in fright then ran up the stairs to condo 11 in five seconds flat.
"What's wrong, Kallen?" Shirley asked worriedly. Kallen had just slammed the door open, panting heavily, pillow still under her arm.
Kallen blushed then mumbled something like, "Whatever. Good night." and then brushed her teeth.
CC just raised a brow then continued ordering pizza on the internet with Lulu's credit card.
Beep.
CC raised another brow. She read the note on the computer. "Oh well," she chuckled "Lulu's card is empty again,"
Jeremiah sniffed. He turned off the mini TV as the credits rolled onscreen.
He yawned and then stretched. He scratched his back and then stood up.
That was a sad episode.
Jeremiah felt something on his head. It was a mask. A squirrel mask.
"Oh," he told himself "I forgot to remove this. I wore this at the afternoon's party."
He sighed. It was late.
The squirrel mask grinned in the dark as it lay in the trash can.
Kallen sighed. She was up late last night. She must have been seeing things.
She emptied the contents of her trash bin and then saw something.
It looked familiar.
After two seconds, Kallen was running away, screaming something about "Creepy stalker killer squirrels."
*Please note that the following note shows my idiocy. It has some cusses from my part, but that's just because I was so...damn...stupid...*
Note: Yeah, sorry. This isn't the exact chapter 13. I was such an idiot. After finishing typing it all up...I didn't save it. Damn it...
Well, that's what I get for being so stupid. God, I don't even remember all that happened. I really panicked when I saw that it was empty... I was like thinking, "Oh, shit." Oh, shit, indeed. XD Anyway, there's nothing that can be done anymore. The original was a little bit more detailed and longer...but, well. I typed the original during Sunday afternoon, and finished retyping and remembering as much as I could with the details during the evening. I reread it and edited it recently, then here's the updated post.
*Note on self-idiocy, end*
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