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Kaname opened the door to their new hideout, gasping at its enormous size.
"What's wrong? Come in." Zero said calmly,
"This will be our new hideout." Kaname walked in, the rest of the Black Knights cautiously following in after him.
"Does that mean your going to join us? Or am I making to many assumptions?" Kaname asked, curiosity covering his face.
"Yes, consider us comrades from this moment forth." Zero responded as he watched the other knights scattering around to have a look at the place.
"Wow this is amazing!" Tamaki gasped as he walked in, admiring the size. Kaname stopped admiring the hideout and turned to Zero.
"What is it? Where did you get something like this?" He asked.
Zero looked back at Kaname and answered,
"A diligent noble gave it to me when I asked him, don't worry, it's untraceable." Kaname gasped,
"You just asked and he gave it to you?" One of the other Knights interrupted their conversation.
"Hey, it's even got an upstairs!"
"Isn't this thing a little, too, big?" Another questioned.
"But it's also a possibility they won't check something of this magnitude." A women answered.
"Hey look, it's even got a T.V!" One of the Knights said as he sat down on the couch and reached for the remote, turning it on as he picked it up. The knights all came into the room as a spokes women appeared on the T.V, Lake Kazwaguchi appearing in the background.
"What's going on at the scene? Yes, I'm standing here in front of the Kazwaguchi Lake Convention Center." The Knight's stared at the T.V she continued to report,
"The hotel-jackers have named themselves the "Japan Liberation front, the members of the Sakuradite distribution council, including chairmen James, as well as tourists who happened to be staying then, along with several hotel staff, have been taken hostage. This is a video from the criminals." The Knights stared in shock as the hostages sat on the floor, hands on their heads as the "JLF" soldiers pointed guns at them.
"In addition to chairmen James, you can see students also being held captive." The spokes women said as the camera rolled over Milly, Shirley, Nina, and Kaze on the floor. Kallen gasped as she saw them.
"The student council!" She murmured under her breathe. Lelouch turned his attention to the T.V as he heard Kallen gasp. The spokes women continued,
"The leader of the hotel-jackers is a man calling himself Cornell Kusakabe, from the former Japanese army. Sukuridite is a crucial competent in the manufacturer of high-temperature super conductors. Making it a strategic resource with the planet-wide security implications. Area 11 is the world's largest producer of Sakuradite, responsible for 70% of the supply on the market. The yearly Sakuradite producing Nation conference held here decides the international distribution rate of Sakuradite. It's fair to say that the results of the discussion decide the power balance between we Britannian's and the rest of the world. It's thought that the terrorists chose this time to take action because the entire world's attention is focused here." Lelouch clenched his fist as the hostages tape was played once more, slowly rolling over Kaze's and the rest of the student council's nervous faces looking into the camera.
"I am Kusakebe of the Japan Liberation Front. We have taken a stand here, to liberate Japan! You are not soldiers, but you are Britannian's. You are the ones who control us! If you stay put, nothing will happen to you. If you don't-" Kaze looked over at Nina and Milly, Milly clenching onto her dear life. Kaze scooted over to them and pulled them into his arm looking at Shirley and extending his hand towards her. She flinched and then and then dove into his arm, tears streaming down her face. Kaze held onto them tight in a protecting grip. Shirley hiccuped a little and Kaze looked down and kissed her on her forward. And whispered,
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm here. I'll protect you now, my family." All three girl's looked up as he said the word family. Nina hiccuped up a little as the tears streamed down her face as well. Kaze smiled warmly and kissed her on the forehead the same way he had Shirley. Milly looked like she was about to cry as she saw the heart warming scene before her and wondered how Kaze always new the right things to say and do. Kaze looked up at Milly and smiled, whispering teasingly.
"Would you like a kiss as well Milly?" Kaze watched as she lost her composure and tears streamed down her eyes as she smiled,
"Yes please." she sighed out as Kaze giggled and pulled her closer to him and kissed her forehead. He smiled at them and turned them away from the view of the soldiers of the soldiers.
"I'm going to tell you all a secret," He whispered in their ear's.
"I've decide that all of you are now my lovely little sisters. I always wanted to be a big brother." Kaze said as he smiled down at the girl's in his arms, forgetting the situation they were in. The girls tears stopped and they stared at Kaze, then giggled and hugged him tightly. One of the guards heard them and came over to investigate.
"Hey! You there! Turn and face me!" Kaze shot him a glare and turned around, shoving the girls into his chest in a protective stance. Nina looked up and gasped,
"E-Eleven." She whispered out. The soldiered glared at her and grabbed her away from Kaze's waist,
"What did you say?"
"We're Japanese!" He screamed at her as he pointed his gun at her. Euphemia stood up, she had had enough
"Stop!" she yelled at the soldier, but Kaze was already on his feet, He grabbed Nina away from his grasp and smacked him across the face. He pulled Nina out of the man grasp and pushed her behind him, completely ignoring the gun that was shoved into his abdomen.
"If you dare lay a hand on my sister again, I WILL KILL YOU! JAPANESE OR NOT!" Nina gasped as he watched Kaze lose his temper and clenched his chest. Kaze snapped out of his rage as he heard Nina whisper his name. He looked back down at her and smiled warmly. He slowly lowered her down, Milly and Shirley scotched over and held her in their arms. Kaze stayed standing up in front of his "Sisters" in a protective stance. Euphemia stared at Kaze, shocked at the man's bravery and selflessness.
The soldier rubbed his cheek and looked passed Kaze at Euphemia.
"And who are you?" Euphemia turned her attention from Kaze to the soldier. The other shoulders turning their guns toward her and off of Kaze. Her body tensed as she heard the metal of the gun clasp together.
"Take me to your leader. I am the third Princess of the Britannian Empire, Euphemia De Britannia." All the soldiers gasped and stared at her in awe. She looked at Nina with concerned eye's,
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Nina blushed and nodded her head. She then looked at Kaze and smiled.
"You are lucky, to have such a loving brother." Kaze blushed and laughed as rubbing his head.
"Why don't you join me?" Zero asked Kusakabe, who was sitting on a couch in the middle of the room. A katana resting in his lap.
"Then show yourself. It's rude of you to remain masked!" Kusakabe yelled from his comfy seat on the couch.
"Understood. But before then, let me ask you something. What do you seek to gain from this?"
"I want to tell the world that the Japanese aren't dead."
"Old-" Kusakabe gasped at Zero's harsh (but true) words. "You are all too old. It's too late for you too be saved." A soldier interrupted Zero,
"Why you-" Only to be interrupted himself by Kusakabe.
"What do you mean, Zero?"
"Can't special Dispatch participate in the operation?" Suzaku asked impatiently as he stared upon the hotel.
"I've put in a request, but we're irregulars, with a different chain of command, also..." Loid picked up a pebble and tossed it to water, watching it as it skipped across.
"They can't trust an Eleven with the operation." Suzaku said cold heartedly.
"Princess Cornelia draws a bright line between Britannians and Number's" Loid said a sly smirk on his face.
"I havent done enough for her to accept me."
"But then, why do we have the honorary Britannian system? Cécile said, a sad expression resting on her face.
At that moment the hotel began to shake. I've brought the hostage I contacted you about colonel a voice said beyond the door. Also the other one she insisted on bringing. She's calling herself Euphemia. Lelouch gasped as he heard Euphemia's name being mentioned. Kusakabe suddenly jumped up from his place on the couch, pulling his sword to his hand and drawing it, as he threw himself of the coffee table.
"Zero, there's nothing left to discuss!" He yelled wile soaring towards Zero. Zero's mask opened up a slot over his left eye.
"Die." He ordered as he his geass entered everyone in the room. The soldiers outside the room heard the gunshots from within the room and busted through the door. Lelouch shot the first soldier who entered the room.
"Calm down." He said as the soldier fell to his knees holding his, now bleeding, shoulder. Kaze gasped and stepped in front of Euphemia upon seeing the gun in Zero's hands. He had the faintest feeling that he wouldn't shot Euphemia, but he couldn't take the chance of being wrong. Lelouch gasped a little as he saw Kaze, but quickly calmed down, realizing he was unharmed. He continued,
"They realized the uselessness of what they were doing. And committed suicide, Euphemia. You revealed yourself to help the masses? That's like you," Euphemia placed her hands on Kaze's shoulders and smiled warmly at him. Kaze looked into her eyes and sighed as he moved out from in front of her, standing closely next to her.
"But what about this student." Kaze answered on his own accord,
"She protected my sister, giving up her disguise to insure her safety. I am simply returning the favor." Kaze said as he smiled warmly at Lelouch. Lelouch looked puzzled, "sister?" He wasn't aware that Kaze had a sister, but quickly dismissed it, he could ask later, and answered.
"I see, brotherly love, I can admire that." Kaze smiled a warm smile at Zero, Lelouch's heart fluttered.
"Okay! Thanks for the order! They said we can send the Lancelot out! They want us to race down the tunnel at the linear mass-driver!" Loid said while dancing about. Suzaku peeped out from behind his seat, and Cécile looked down at Loid.
"Lloyd, that means they're going to use us as a decoy to create an opening?" Cécile answered
"Yup! Seems the Honor Guard will attack during the confusion!" Llyod said while contnuing to prance about.
"Seems?" Cécile said in a someone annoyed voice, Suzaku intrupting her,
"Cécile, I'll do it! let me do it! If there's a chance I can save them, and the Lancelot and I are needed now, then I must go! Even if I go as a decoy!" Suzaku persuaded Cécile, who sighed in response.
Suzaku placed the key in the ignition and turned, the Lanselots screen logo coming on immediatly.
"Warrent Officer Kurugi, I'm going to explain the operation. Prime search has shown that the hostages are bing kept on the hotel's middle floor in a food storeroom." Suzaku watched as the diagram of the hotel closed in on their location.
"The vanguard weapon Z-01 Lancelot will head through the lifeline tunnel to the hotel's basement. Upon arrival it will destroy the foundation block and cause the hotel to ;s estimated that the place the hostages are stored in will remain okay for eight minuets. A different squad will handle the rescue of the hostages and the elimination of the terrorists. Furthermore, the VARIS will be used in the destruction of the foundation block. Set the impact rail to anti-material to level three." Cécile finished speaking and Lloyd took over.
"So, the problem is the linear cannon waiting for you inside the tunnel. It's a closed space, so even the Lancelot has only a 47.8% chance of dodging it."
"Are we really doing this?" Cécile asked Lloyd.
"Of course." Lloyd continued speaking to Suzaku over their headset.
So just come back whenever. I can't afford to let the Lancelot be destroyed."
"Whenever?" Suzaku asked as the Lancelot was hovered over the tunnel for a moment before it was slowly lowered.
"Yup!"
"I understand." Suzaku answered as he remembered Kaze
"Suzaku, this Sunday I'm going to Kawaguchi Lake, with the president and the rest of student council! Want to come?" Kaze asked Suzaku with a gleam on his looked back at Kaze with a disappointed face,
"Sorry, I've got work that day." Kaze gleam immediately vanished from his face replaced with a sadden smile.
"I see...Well, Can;t be helped, huh?"
"but thanks for inviting me. Really. I'm glad." Suzaku smiled at Kaze, who flinched and blushed a little than smiled back.
"Fifteen minuets until operation start." Cécile said, Suzaku returneing to the present as he heard Cécile.
"Now commencing count down." Cécile continued.
Suzaku took his foot of the brake and the lancelot thrusted forward. The linear cannon fired spewing out multiple missile like spheres. Suzaku opened up his scaners and sworched out of the way of the bullets.
"I told you!" Cécile yelled over the wind blasted them from the explosion inside the tunnel.
"Yup He's not a decoy, he's really gonna do it!" Lloyd smirked back with covering his head from the debris falling from the ceiling.
Suzaku fired the impact rail on the linear cannon, sending it's incoming missile back towards it cannon's main head, detonating the inside it. The blast from the canon blowing up a whole into the tunnel. Suzaku jumped out of it and aimed the impact rail at the foundation blocks of the hotel. Sending multiple shots at them, the hotels Reinforcements soon collapsing, sending the hotel down. He looking into a window he said,
"NO, it can't be!" HE yelled as he zoombed in on the figure standing in the window. Lelouch looked out at the Nightmare.
"The white helmet from before?" Lelouch pushed a the button on his deanator. sending the whole top half of the hptel up into flames. Suzaku eyes widened as he watched the fire exploded out of the building.
"Kaze!" Suzaku screamed as he ran back to the hotel.
"Stop it, Warrant Officer Kururgi!" Llyod yelled as he ran back into the cloud of smoke. Lloyd and Cécile stared at the dust slowly vanishing, scanning for the Lancelott. They caught a glance of his white armor as the smoke parted.
"Suzaku!" Cécile yelled as she saw the white armor of the Lancellot. Llyod sighed and sat back in his chair.
"I couldn't save them I-" His voice broke off as tears streamed down his face.
"I failed again!" HE screamed and pounded his fist against the Lancelot.
Kaze and Euphemia walked into the room, closing the door behind them.
"I heard you were given the title of Deputy Vicerine, Princess Euphemia." Kaze sat on the coach and listened from the side lines.
"It's not something to be happy about." Euphemia slowly said.
"Yes, because Clovis is dead. I killed him." Zero replied, Euphemia gasped. Kaze stayed put, he never liked Clovis much, but Princess Euphemia had risked her life to save a small group of hostages. He'd never witnessed anyone doing something so selfless before, he didn't need to know much more about Euphemia to like her more than that man she called father.
"He begged me for his life until the very end, with the very same mouth he used to order the death's of the elevens."
Is that why you killed him?" Kaze noticed Euphemia clenching her hand and grabbed it, intertwining their fingers. Euphemia gasped at the sudden touch and looked down at Kaze, who gave her his signature warm. Euphemia smiled back and calmed down, turning her attention back toward Zero, still holding onto Kaze's hand. Lelouch noticed this action, clenching his own fists as he became jealous.
"Is that why you killed him?" Euphemia asked, tearing Zero's attention from Kaze back to her.
"No." Zero stated calmly.
"Then why?"
"Because he was the child of that man, the emperor of Britannia." Euphemia gasped in response. Kaze stared in shock as he realized that someone also shared his hatred for that man other than an ordinary eleven. He had destroyed Kaze life, it's been years and he still hasn't recovered. Though, if you'd have experienced, let alone seen, what that man influenced. You'd understand and share his pain and hatred.
"Now that I think about it, so are you." Zero said as he pulled his gun out, pointing it at Euphemia. Kaze hopped up and stepped in front of Euppy as he noticed Zero's arm pulling out a gun. Kaze looked at Zero with a determined look, before it slowly morphed into a smile as he realized Zero's intentions.
"You know Zero, you remind me of myself, I probably hate that man just as much as you do. But even if we do have a hatred for them, Euphemia has nothing to do with it! She has yet to do anything harm the Japanese! And I don't think she ever will." Kaze said as he looked into Zero's eyes, when the floor started to shake as Zero was about to respond.
Kaze Helped Euphemia into the boat when Euphemia quickly asked him a question.
"By any chance, would you be interested in becoming my councilor?" Kaze looked at her, shocked. Kaze hated the Britannian government, he had a long history with Britannia. But as he looked into Euphemia's eyes she had made him forget his past and look into the future. Kaze smiled warmly at the princess and let go of her hand and bowed.
"If I can assist you, then I would love to." Euphemia's face quickly brightened up as she heard his answer, pulling him into a hug. He giggled as he let go of the princess.
"Please tell me your name!" Euppy asked with a determined glare, making Kaze smile cheekily.
"Kaze Saski." He answered as he pushed the boat into the lake with a huff.
"I'll contact you Kaze!" She yelled back as she slowly disappeared. Kaze stared as the boat rowed away and rubbed his head. He had just agreed to, basically, join with the Britannian government, if anything this was the last he thought he would ever do. He heard footsteps from behind him as he thought and turned around to face the person. He turned around to see Zero standing before him, he smiled and held out his hand. Zero shook it with no hesitation. As soon as their hands parted Zero asked him to walk with him. As they walked Kaze kicked a stone with his foot and though of Lelouch and wondered if he was worried. He smiled as he imagined Lelouch watching the news calmly and suddenly jumping up when he saw Kaze on the T.V. Zero asked him a question, tearing Kaze from his daydreams,
"Would you be interested in joining the black knights?" He asked and stopped walking along the islands banks. Kaze stopped to turn, a little shocked at the sudden question, and looked at Zero's mask.
"You know, I swear I must getting popular or something! Euphemia just asked me to become her councilor." Zero tensed up as he predicted his answer.
"I'll make a deal with you, Zero." Zero slowly relaxed as he listed to Kaze's request
"Yes?" Zero calmly said.
"I'll join your Knight's on one condition." Kaze paused a moment, still shocked he'd agree to do something so reckless just a moment before.
"I can't do anything to harm Euphemia, she's not like the rest of her family, I'm sure you know that, since you didn't shot her, even when you had the chance." Kaze smirked as he watched Zero tense up.
"But, I agree with your cause." Kaze held out his hand toward Zero.
"Therefore, yes. Please take care of me." Zero relaxed and shook his hand. He wondered to himself how he had managed to find a lover who was both beautiful and brilliant.
"I acknowledge that, I'm surprised you saw through my actions so quickly, your a good observer. Welcome to the black Knight's. May I ask what your name is." Kaze smiled warmly and sat down on a rock,
"Kaze, Kaze Saski."