With a start, Suzaku woke on the train.
This field trip had been hell. It was suppose to be some good times at a hotel, and instead, it had turned into a desperate gun fight with the terrorist in the midst of it all. This time the Japanese Liberation Front, or whatever the hell those guys were called were behind it. And, it would seem that Zero and the Black Knights had just decided to take advantage of the situation, or maybe, it was better to say that the Black Knights made a huge spectacle out of it. Like they were the real heroes, even though, Suzaku knew from the shards of glass that had to be pulled out of his back that they weren't.
Okay, maybe they did save the hostages, but, it had been done in self-interest.
He remembered the blood bath in the room, the sound of his voice as he gave the command that saved their lives, and ended the life of the leader. The blood that pooled on the floor as the man in his last moments of life tried to take them with him. Pushing her out the window to safety, while turning back around to try and save his enemy. The feel of the heat on his back, the sharp pain of the glass, and the blunt wounds of the debris. All of that wasn't necessary, Zero could have ended that another way and Suzaku knew it as someone tapped him on the forehead.
The past blurred into the present.
"Hey, Suzaku …Suzaku!"
The voice declares. It's Rivalz.
"Geesh, they said the medication would put him out of it, but, I am a little worried about this. He isn't responding to anything I do."
Suzaku reaches out and grab the hand that is still knocking at his temples.
"Stop, I hear you." "I just spaced out … I am okay, I promised."
"Go get him some water."
Lelouch declares as Rivalz didn't seem so convinced that was the answer, but, considering he didn't have a better one, he is quick to go anyway. Suzaku sat up then, he was once more alone with him, and thus, he had to gather his wits around him quickly. When he had made up this plan, he had never once thought that he would be the mouse more often than the cat. Thus, he reached weakly to his side for his shades so he could meet the eyes of his best friend and worst enemy wrapped up in two different personas but incased in the same body.
Lelouch vi Britannia, or, as the world now know him, Lelouch Lamperouge.
"You don't need them." "I won't try to do it to you again, especially when you are in such a state."
Lelouch tries to stop him, but Suzaku flips them on anyhow.
"I am not taking any chances, especially after what you did at Kawaguchi Lake."
The lean boy flinches.
His violet eyes now indigo in the shades Suzaku wore reflected his hurt as a single hand came up to brush through his black hair. His hand, pale and pristine, it is hard to think that those hands that look so fragile and weak in appearances were drench in blood. Though, it wasn't his hands that were dangerous, it was his mind and that right eye. Both were deadlier weapons than any gun, and Suzaku knew it as he did what he could to protect himself from their assault.
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Lelouch hadn't intended for things to get so out of hand, but then again, he hadn't intended that situation at all. It was all bad luck, horrible luck, and Suzaku knew it as well as him. Though he could imagine him faulting him anyway for making the best out of it, and he had to concentrate to keep a smirk off his face when he thought about that. Suzaku had after all been trying so hard to ruin any plans he made with Zero for the past month and a half, so for such a great opportunity to just fall in his lap. It was kind of like fate was on his side and slightly ironic considering it was Suzaku's efforts that had made it all possible.
"So, what do you want to say to me? I am sure you didn't send Rivalz away just to get me some water."
Suzaku's voice snaps him back to reality.
"What if I did only send him away for that?"
"You saved my life back there Suzaku, I am not going to kill you, nor, did I have any intention of doing it prior to this. Even if you act like I do, you know we can end this game of cat and mouse any time you please. All you got to do is agree to come over to my side, and help me instead of them. Those people whom didn't give a care that you were left in that building bleeding or broken. Those bastards that told you to rescue the Princess no matter what the cost is to you."
"I don't understand your loyalty to them."
Lelouch retort as Suzaku sighs.
"It doesn't matter I am not joining the rebels."
"Black knights."
Lelouch corrects him, and all conversations ends as Rivalz re-enter the car with water in his hand. Their discussion would have to wait for another time as the train speeds home, and the two acted like friends, again. Even though sometimes, they had to remind themselves that it is just an act.
[[There first chapter done and I know it's not all that grand. A simply recap of events that happen in the past, and some conversation on the train. Though, I can promise things aren't going to be this slow for very long.]]