A/N: So I got a review from XDarkRider saying this: I just think that you are moving a bit too fast. (but thats just my opinion) maybe you could delve deeper into the relationship that each characters have. Not just between Usagi and Suzaku, but other characters as well. Like Rolo and Nunnally,

(that was just an excerpt, mind you) and I thought about it and I was like, OH MY GOSH! I HAVE NEGLECTED NUNNALLY AND ROLO! I'm such a horrible person. T.T

Okay, so I was trying to think of how to make my chapters longer anyway, so since my lovely reviewer brought up I need to delve deeper into everyone's relationships with each other, I shall do so!

Oh, and just a note for everybody, I'm going to try and update daily if not every two days since my semester is winding down and my month and a half break is coming up. When I'm not studying the creative juices are flowing and I've gotta write it down or I'll lose good plot points. Haha. So yay for you, craziness for me.

So here you go! Another chapter (with me attempting to delve deeper) but this time with short scenes that I think describe at least PART of everybody's relationship with each other.

(After the series of events that Mao created last time)

"Nunnally!" Rolo cried, running into the living room, causing his sister to jump in surprise. The blind girl turned to her younger twin and raised an eyebrow.

"Rolo? What's wrong?" she asked, tilting her head curiously. Hopefully nothing had happened to Usagi, Lelouch or Suzaku when they went to go cool off after the craziness of today. The girl's eyebrows raised when she was suddenly tackled in a hug by the boy, wrapping her arms around Rolo to hug him back.

"You could've been hurt," he answered quietly, still in his awkward standing embrace since his twin was sitting. The boy pulled back slightly and looked at Nunnally, feeling his eyes sting but refusing to let anything fall. He took her hand in his and sat in the chair that had been across from Nunnally when he entered, giving it a squeeze as he hung his head. "I should've been here… Maybe if I was that psycho wouldn't have gotten to you that easily. I'm so stupid!"

"Rolo it wasn't your fault," Nunnally interjected, placing her free hand on her twin's and giving it a squeeze back. "Now you're starting to sound like Nii-san and Onee-chan."

"But I had the choice to go or stay with you! And I left… I'm so selfish." He muttered, hanging his head once again.

Nunnally's expression softened at his words. The both of them knew that Rolo was jealous of the relationship Lelouch and Usagi had. They could see each other and go out and do things all they wanted, but Nunnally and Rolo were stuck being limited because of her condition. Nunnally knew that Rolo beat himself up about it all the time and that he wished she could at least see him, but she couldn't.

"It's okay Rolo, you have every right not to be around when you don't want to," she answered softly, smiling a little bit for him. Nunnally never blamed him for the way he was feeling, she felt just as jealous of her siblings as Rolo did, but she didn't want to be pitied by her twin because of her condition.

Rolo's head snapped up at her words, his hands wrapping around both of hers and giving her a squeeze. Rolo never meant to come off as pitying his sister, he loved his twin more than life itself, it was just hard that all they could do together these days was just sit around and talk. He looked up at her and bit his lip, sighing. "You're too nice, especially to me."

"Why wouldn't I be nice to you? You're my brother after all,"

"I'm a bad brother"

"No you're not! Don't ever say that!"

Rolo's violet eyes widened as Nunnally snapped at him. Her eyebrows furrowed in annoyance as she took her hands out of his grip and placed one on his cheek. The boy's hand instinctively flew to touch the hand invading his personal space, waiting for her to continue. By now, Rolo knew that when Nunnally snapped at you then she had more to say afterward.

"You were always there after mother died. Yes, Lelouch and Usagi were there as well, but who stayed with me while they went to go get medicine when I was sick? Who played with me most of the time when I could walk and see? Whose face is it I imagine when I wonder what the both of us look like now? That would be you, Rolo. You've been a great brother, don't ever doubt that."

Rolo felt his eyes sting again, closing them and hanging his head again, Nunnally's hand still under his own on his cheek. He gave her hand a squeeze and sighed, his free hand gripping his knee. How could she care about him so much? Especially because of everything with Zero he'd been doing. Of course, Nunnally didn't know that Lelouch was Zero, but she knew that Rolo went out and did terrible things when called upon, and yet she always brushed it off and went on with their conversation as if nothing was wrong.

"Don't cry, Rolo…"

Nunnally's words snapped him out of his thoughts, he blinked and looked at her as he felt her thumb wiping at his cheek, he raised an eyebrow and touching his face he felt it was wet. He sighed, all those years with Usagi building up their walls wasted because of his twin. Alright then, from then on the only person he would ever cry in front of-if ever again-will be Nunnally. At least she can't see him cry.

"I'm sorry, Onee-chan…"

"Nothing to be sorry for, Otuoto-chan."

(With Lelouch and Usagi)

"Why didn't you tell me this?" Lelouch demanded, the two of them having just dropped Suzaku off and finally came home. Usagi chose to ignore his question, passing by the living room and noting Rolo and Nunnally having a quiet conversation, but choosing not to bother them. The girl made her way down the hall and to her room, opening the door and closing it behind her, knowing that wouldn't be an obstacle for her twin as Lelouch entered her bedroom seconds later.

"Don't you ever knock?"

"You didn't answer my question!"

Usagi sighed, plopping herself onto the windowsill and looking out to the courtyard. The twins knew by now that when Lelouch was yelling at her, Usagi closed herself off more. Even though they had only recently been reunited, they had learned a lot about each other. Lelouch sighed, taking a seat across from her on the windowsill and watched his twin closely. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have freaked out-"

"No, you shouldn't have."

"Anyway, why didn't you tell me that you were there when that happened?" he asked, his tone a lot calmer this time. He was met with his sister's violet eyes narrowing at him, the girl turning to face him with her arms crossed over her chest.

"And what would you have done with this information if I had told you? Torture Suzaku with it? No thank you, I'd prefer keeping you in the dark about things that involve Suzaku."

Lelouch's eyes widened slightly, his sister didn't trust him anymore. She was choosing Suzaku over him. The boy glared back at her and crossed his arms much like she was. "And so what if I did? He's my enemy, and since he is my enemy he should be-"

"As Zero he is your enemy, but as Lelouch he is your best friend," Usagi snapped, causing Lelouch to stare at her yet again. "Does your friendship with him mean anything to you?"

Lelouch raised an eyebrow at his sister, turning to look out the window as Usagi sighed, getting up and walking across the room from him, muttering something about knowing it. He watched his twin out of his peripheral vision as she went to her desk and sat at it, watching her trail her fingers over photos of the past.

"He's my best friend, Lelouch. Not just that, he means a lot more to me than you can ever know, and I'm not going to betray his trust just so you can torture him on the battlefield," she answered quietly, looking down and not facing her twin. "I know that may seem like I'm choosing him over you, but have I once told him any of the things you have done so he can have the advantage over you on the battlefield? Never. I know where my loyalties lie Lelouch, and I will not betray the trust you have in me nor will I betray Suzaku because you want to bring him to your side-"

"MY side? Are you serious? It's your side too Usagi! Yours, mine, Rolo's, Nunnally's? Why do you think we're doing this? For YOU!" Lelouch roared, standing from his place at the windowsill and walking over to his twin.

"No need to be so touchy," Usagi answered quietly, looking up at Lelouch and watching him closely. "I know why you fight, and I know why you're so angry, and even though your reasons are justifiable and Suzaku's seem flawed; both of you have good points. Why can't you two just work together to fix this?"

Lelouch stopped in his tracks. Usagi hadn't meant anything bad when she said those things. He realized that now. She was like Nunnally in the way that she wanted things to go back to the way they were. He sighed, rubbing his temples and pulled up a chair in front of his sister, looking her in the eye and taking her hand. "It's not that simple… Suzaku doesn't want to join Zero. He feels what I'm doing is wrong."

"And yet you'd sooner kill him than try to change his opinion?" Usagi whispered, causing Lelouch to stare at her incredulously. The girl looked up at her twin and smiled lightly, "Lemme guess, in 'trying to change his opinion' you came off as a creepy stalker, didn't you?"

"Nooooo….."

"Lelouch."

"Okay, yeah I did… I didn't mean to though!"

"Doesn't matter, you know that Suzaku gets creeped out easily"

"Good point…"

Usagi chuckled, patting her brother's hand and ruffling his hair lightly. "Try finding out where he stands on all this and try to incorporate his ideals with your own. Maybe that will help?"

"But I already know where he-"

"Oh really? Well do you know that the military is still very prejudiced against the Japanese? I heard them all talking about Suzaku when I saw a few of them out on the streets awhile back."

Lelouch raised an eyebrow, smirking at her when she gave him this tidbit of information. "And what do you want me to do with this?"

Usagi smirked back, rolling her eyes at her brother and giving him a look. "Fix it, and get him out of there."

The boy smirked, looking back into the eyes that mirrored his own and nodded, holding out his hand with his pinky extended "Pinky promise?" he offered.

"Pinky promise" she answered, her tone still deadly serious. If anyone could get Suzaku out of that situation, it would be Lelouch. Although, when they were kids it seemed that Suzaku listened to her more than he listened to Lelouch. Well, if Lelouch failed then Usagi would step in.

(A week later)

After the rescue mission Zero had planned to grab Tohdoh's leader revealed the Lancelot's pilot, Lelouch had come home to reveal what he had learned to his twin. At first, Usagi didn't believe him, but then she noticed that Suzaku hadn't been to school in the past couple days and started to put the pieces together. The student council had been abuzz over someone finding out Usagi and Suzaku had kissed, the girls teasing Usagi that she should go out with Suzaku and Rivalz teasing Lelouch that he should keep an eye on Suzaku since it was his twin he had kissed. How they all found out was a mystery to Usagi, but she found it amusing, and she thanked heaven that Suzaku hadn't been around to endure the teasing.

It wasn't until the day Euphemia announced that Suzaku was to be her knight that Usagi felt her heart turn cold. Suzaku came back to school the day after and tried to explain what had happened to Usagi, but she wouldn't hear of it.

"Usagi, please! Let me explain!"Suzaku cried, touching her arm as she walked away from him; the girl whirling on her heel and wrenching herself from his grip.

"There's nothing to explain! I was stupid enough to think that you still cared for me like you used to, and you don't! You have Euphemia now, why do you care what happens to me?"

"I care because I've always cared!"

"You have a hell of a way of showing it!"

"Can't you just let me talk?"

"NO! I'm tired of being led to believe something and I'm tired of my world crashing down around me when that thing I've been led to believe isn't true!" she cried, feeling her eyes sting and turning away from him. At his silence, she ran down the hall and made a beeline for the student council room—she needed Lelouch, and she needed him now.

She had spent the rest of the afternoon in her brother's embrace, crying until she couldn't cry any longer. It had been seven years since she'd had a good cry, and now everything was falling apart. She refused to watch the knighting ceremony on the tv. She was too hurt. A half an hour after the broadcast she appeared in the council room, Lelouch by her side, and was greeted by a sympathetic Milly, an apologetic Shirley, and a fuming Rivalz. As Usagi clung to Shirley, she noticed Nina freaking out about the knighthood still, which annoyed her to no end, but she said nothing.

"Why would he do that anyway? Does he know how this effects her?" Shirley demanded, Lelouch sighing and shrugging in response.

"He only did it because someone he used to know that he cared for is on the list of the dead from Brittania's invasion of Japan," Milly answered, the expression on her face was serious, scary serious. "So since then, he's serving in her honor."

"Are you serious? Oh my god that's awful!" Shirley cried, her attitude doing a 180 as Usagi turned to Milly, her eyebrow raised curiously. Even Lelouch looked confused, so it wasn't just her that didn't know what she was talking about.

But wait. Lelouch and Usagi used to be royalty until their mother died, Suzaku knew that. But what was he talking about when he said the person was on the list of the dead?

Usagi's eyes widened as she remembered that their father considered them to be dead, so he added their names to the list of deceased and used them as bargaining chips when they were children. She turned to the screen and watched as the news recapped the ceremony with their own commentary, narrowing her eyes at Euphemia as she passed by the screen. There was more to this than what was being shown, something more was going on. How did she know? Because Euphemia had a stupid grin on her face, one of those I-Got-Away-With-It grins that Usagi knew all too well from when they were children.

"Well, we're only halfway through the school day, how about we all go back to class? Are you going to be okay Usagi?" Milly asked, touching the girl's shoulder as Usagi clenched her fists, still glaring at Euphemia's image.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She muttered through her teeth, her eyes narrowed dangerously. The news team cut to live coverage of Suzaku leaving to come back to school and she couldn't hear him since his superiors were trying to get him out of there with no comment, but she noticed how his expression seemed to be searching the camera for something. As if he was trying to look at someone through the camera. She blinked when they finally got Suzaku away from the reporters and some other people came on the screen. Pulling herself from Milly's supportive grip, Usagi bolted out of the room and down the stairs to the courtyard where she plopped herself down onto a bench, looking out to the distance.

Everything from today was making her brain hurt, her mind was swimming. She sighed as she placed her head in her hands and leaned over to put her elbows on her knees for support. At times, she hated how hectic her life was, how annoying it could be and how stressed out she got, but never once did she want to trade it for another life. Everything happened for a reason, and hopefully no one else she loved would have to die.

"Usagi?"

She blinked, rubbing her eyes and looking up at the voice as she spotted Suzaku approaching her bench, a concerned look upon his face. She sighed, rubbing her eyes again and watching him as he walked to her and kneeled down to her level.

"You hate me, don't you?"

She sighed, shaking her head and leaned her head against her fist, still propped on her knees as she stared at him with a blank expression. "Milly told me what you said…"

Suzaku blinked in surprise, but he soon looked down and sighed. "She did?"

"Yeah"

"And are you still mad at me?"

"Not as much as I was"

Suzaku looked back up at her with those green eyes and watched her facial expression go from blank to suspicious. "What?"

"Why did Euphemia have that shit-eating grin on her face?"

The boy's eyes widened as he sighed, shaking his head. "I can't tell you…" he murmured as he stood, hanging his head.

Usagi shot up off the bench and glared at the boy, crossing her arms over her chest. "And why not? I swear, Suzaku. You're worse than Lelouch with the annoying secret keeping-"

"I can't tell you! I don't want to lose you if I do!" he cried, grabbing her shoulders and looking at her with the same pained expression she'd seen only once in the time she'd known him. Something was definitely wrong, she could sense it.

"Alright, alright… Calm down" she murmured, wrapping her arms around his waist and giving him a tug. Suzaku sighed in relief, wrapping his arms around her neck and holding her tight. Usagi blinked, but pulled him closer all the same. Something had Suzaku spooked, and she knew it had something to do with Euphemia.

(Meanwhile, in the student council room)

When Usagi pulled herself out of Milly's grip, the blonde girl and Shirley lunged to follow her, only to be cut off by Lelouch. "Let her go, I think she needs to figure this out herself."

"Aww, you're no fun Lulu" Shirley pouted as Milly shrugged, wandering to the window to watch the interaction between Usagi and Suzaku that happened moments later.

"Ah, there they are"

"Who!"

"Look, down there"

"What're you- Aww! They made up!"

Lelouch rolled his eyes as he joined the two girls at the window and Rivalz went off to class. The remaining male turned his gaze from his sister to Nina, who was watching the couple down below with a horrified expression.

"But, he's an eleven! How could she-?" Nina muttered, staring down at Usagi and Suzaku as they held each other, Lelouch's eyes narrowing slightly at the girl with the glasses.

"I don't really think it's any of your business who Usagi chooses to care for,"

Lelouch jumped as Rolo seemed to appear beside him, the younger boy narrowing his eyes at the girl as Nina glared back at Rolo, saying nothing. That kid needed to learn not to use his Geass to sneak up on people like that.

"Rolo, don't you think you're being a little overprotective?" Lelouch smiled, trying to lighten the mood. He knew that Rolo knew their sister better than anyone just as Nunnally almost knew Lelouch that well, and therefore the younger boy was constantly defending Usagi's honor.

"No." The boy answered, still glaring at Nina as the girl sniffed and left the room.

Milly and Shirley completely missed the incident, as usual, since they were gushing over the two down below. Lelouch sighed, slinking an arm over Rolo's shoulders and pulling him close to whisper in his ear "What's the problem?"

Rolo narrowed his eyes at the door where Nina had exited and turned into his brother to make their conversation more private. "I have a bad feeling about her."

"Like what?"

"Like she's going to do something drastic just because Suzaku's an eleven."

"Oh come on, Nina's relatively harmless"

"Yeah, to us cuz we're Britannians. Suzaku is Japanese, therefore the type of person that Nina loathes."

"You don't really think that-"

"I don't think, I know."

Lelouch's violet eyes narrowed at the door now, gripping Rolo's shoulder tight as he processed what Rolo was saying, leaning back to his brother again. "Don't tell Usagi or Suzaku. No reason to worry them if we're wrong. We can look into this later."

Rolo nodded as Lelouch led him out of the room, leaving the girls to gawk at Usagi and Suzaku more.