angelcloudy: well, here's 4b since clr2 asked for it. it's for everybody yes, but I wanna tell everyone that I need at least 3 reviews per chap. I know, it's demanding of me, but please? your reviews encourage me. thanks a lot to my readers. :)

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Kiss No.4.b

Three a Day by angelcloudy

Lelouch and Kallen went to school together after dropping by her house. He just waited for her to change clothes and then she accompanied him to his and Nunally's wing at school. It was still early to go to class but already late to catch on lost sleep from the night before. Both of them didn't have plans or anything so Lelouch decided to take his girlfriend to the rooftop, their special place for some unknown reason.

The breeze there had always soothed Lelouch and this time, he found it something that would likely help him with his current problem. How exactly would he tell his beloved sister about his association with the resistance? Nunally, as everyone knew, was completely against violence. She loved peace and she never had a drop of hatred towards the world despite her own standing – crippled and blind. Lelouch needed tons of effort and courage to break the news to her. And right now, he was even ignoring Kallen whom he dragged to where they were now. The redhead of course noticed this and figured out by herself that her boyfriend needed his own space. So, she let him be – sitting on the floor with legs crossed and once in a while, glancing at the sky.

After a little more than five minutes of standing there observing him, Kallen thought it'd be best to leave. Before she could even turn to the door leading down, Lelouch had taken a grip on her wrist. "Stay." She could've brushed aside that one word for her to insist on departing but when she looked at him, she sat by him. What did she see exactly? His whole being. It had always been like that for Lelouch. Whenever it came to his sister he becomes so vulnerable, and it's to be expected he could be read like an open book. In his eyes, Kallen saw that Zero, who mercilessly killed the Third Prince of Britannia, cared. Well, at least for a person, or probably two: his sister and his lover.

"Kallen, should I? Really?" he asked, almost trembling.

"As I said earlier," she began, lightly stroking his hair like he was a child. "It's if you want to – "

"I want to! I really want to!"

"Then let's tell her, okay?" she reassured. "I bet she'll take it easy. If we just explain to her well then she'll understand. Nunally is kind, right?" He agreed and tried to lighten the mood by stating that Nunally is kind as if it was a fact. "Okay, so when should we tell her?"

"Ah!" suddenly came his explain. "No! I can't tell Nunna-chan! She'll hate me for sure!" Why is he being like this?

"Why?"

"B-because…" he initially stuttered, "becauseikilledourbrother!" Kallen wasn't dumb enough to not work out what words he messed up with. But, to begin with, she didn't even know he had a brother. If it weren't for his current state, the chances of her shouting at him for keeping something so important were high. Although, judging the situation, she possibly can't. Lelouch needed more assurance than a girlfriend telling him off.

"You have a brother?" she asked softly. Her tone didn't sound like she bothered nosing around his life for which, she earned plus points for. Whatever those points were for, no one knows. "And when did this murder exactly happen?"

"Clovis."

"What?"

"Zero killed Clovis. I am Zero. Clovis is our half-brother."

"Then that means…" That's it, he had kept something from her again. "You're unfair Lelouch!" She no longer cared about his emotional condition. "Why didn't you tell me? You're a prince? Answer honestly! Please!"

He carefully nodded and averted his gaze to anything except her cerulean eyes. "Why didn't you tell me? Is it for my safety you didn't? Would the authorities be after me now that I know? Lelouch! Tell me! I'm not even sure if you care for me to that extent!"

"Kallen, it's not that… My sister and I had lived safely hiding our past status you don't need to worry over that – "

"That's not the issue, Lelouch! You hid something from me and I want to know why!"

"I wanted to tell you before we took Suzaku in the resistance but things just came in between… Please don't be angry anymore. I can't stand you being mad at me," Lelouch explained and begged.

"I'm not mad at you," she corrected him. "Just…"

"Your time of the month?" he teased for the sake of easing up the atmosphere between them.

"Yah!" she exclaimed in mock hatred. "Of course not! But anyways, how come Suzaku is involved in this? Don't tell me you're gay!" she teased back.

"Ha, as if that'll happen, Kallen-chan! I only go for girls. Well, for only this particular girl… You know who it is so I won't elaborate." Kallen simply smiled and a tint of pink adorned her face. This didn't go unnoted, of course, and the ex-prince couldn't help but chuckle. How easy was it for Kallen to change moods was one of everything about her he liked, no, loved. "Suzaku is a childhood friend. When Nunna-chan and I were sent to Japan, his family, the Prime Minister's family took care of us. We got separated during the war and after that we haven't seen each other. That is, until the day I got…" Lelouch was about to say something related to Geass. He wanted to, honestly, but decided against it. It pained him that he's keeping something from her again.

"The day you got what, Lelouch? And why were you sent to Japan?" she curiously asked, like a kid.

"The day I got to meet a pretty rebel." The pink tint grew a shade darker. Unfortunately, Kallen's blush didn't last for long as Lelouch told his story from her mother's assassination to the day the Ashford Family took them in. There were a few times her eyes would let out a tear and being the gentleman he is, he'd wipe them away carefully. "Don't cry over me, silly! Classes are going to start in a few minutes. Let's go now."

Lelouch stood first and helped Kallen. Since the start of his story, she hadn't uttered a single word and when he was about to ask, she abruptly kissed him. Solid and square on the lips. A small and innocent kiss that contained almost all Lelouch needed – assurance, comfort, love, even guarantee of him still existing in this world with a heart capable of emotions. She deliberately pulled away. "I know it's not much to compensate for all the pain Fate has inflicted on you but…"

He kissed her again. A kiss of gratitude and love. Unhurried, slow, careful, yet passionate and burning with emotions. "I love you."