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Ch. 7
"How can you! Eleven rats! Ugh!" Denis Mann exclaimed just before receiving a heel kick to the face.
Naoto's group looked in awe as Isabella straightened herself.
"You!" Denis spat, "You? You're Britannian! You traitor!"
"That's not very well going to change you position," Isabella said. Isabella looked down at him, tied in rope and bleeding from one leg. Surrounding the two was Naoto's group and the dozens of Japanese laborers who were under Denis. Denis's cronies could be seen knocked out in the background.
"You're not going to get away with this!" Denis shouted angrily.
"On the contrary," Isabella said waving around a black leather folder, "Denis Mann. Where exactly did you get all this artillery? You certainly don't have a permit for them because you're wanted for dozens of accounts of fraud." Isabella leafed through the folder, "Now, Denis, your slip up is not destroying evidence of dealing with the Chinese federation for the smuggling of weapons."
Denis tsked.
Naoto nodded and spoke, "We should leave before the police get here." At his words, the resistance group started to file out. Along with them a few of the laborers followed them, while others scattered out.
"This sucks!" Tamaki exclaimed, "We should have taken those other guns, they were so big!"
"They were too big Tamaki," someone commented.
Isabella cracked a smile. At Yuuto's nod, she turned to Naoto, "We're heading out."
"Alright, thanks again," Naoto replied, "We got new recruits and good quality weapons."
"No problem," she waved bye to the others in the group and they waved back. They had warmed up to her after a while. They had done a few other operations like the one tonight. The group had grown some, and they were creating a name for themselves in the ghetto.
"What do you plan to do when you get into office," Yuuto asked as he drove through the settlement.
Leabella, now out of her disguise, frowned, "I was thinking of adding them into my squad, but they are too against Britannia to do that. I'll just have to play it by ear. Hopefully something changes with their point of view when I make them an offer."
"When are you going to do that?"
"When I choose a knight."
"Wow, Isabella," Rivalz exclaimed as he, said girl, and Lelouch walked out of the building, "Lelouch wasn't kidding when he said you were good."
"Told you," Lelouch commented. As he stepped into the side car of Rivalz's motor-bike. He looked to Isabella as she got on her own separate from the boys, "Are you going back to school?"
Isabella grimaced. However, before she could reply, wide screens that were mounted on high buildings, resounded out.
A woman in a dress suit started on the screens, "Sorry for the interruptions, we have a word from a Viceroy, Prince Clovis la Britannia."
Lelouch and Isabella frowned. Isabella wondering what her brother was doing, Lelouch displeased for another reason.
The Britannia flag was shown before Clovis was shown on the screen. He addressed everyone, "Good morning, Britannian citizens, and the many Elevens who are honorary Britannians." Isabella's frown deepened, "I speak to you today to announce something to everyone of Area 11. In one month, I will have a new sub-viceroy will come into office." Isabella groaned. "Now, as per request, I cannot reveal who the new sub-viceroy. They are quite shy."
Isabella growled at that. She clenched her fists thinking, 'I'm going to kill him!'
"I may say, that they are part of the imperial family," Isabella's eyes widened. She didn't even notice Rivalz looking at her in shock. "And, I will be holding a ball in their honor and their birthday! The ball will be televised live throughout the area," Clovis said joyously. "Now, so long, Area 11!" The screens went blank.
Isabella was too busy seething at the screens, she jumped when Rivalz started yelling, "You're the adviser to royalty!?"
She jumped at him covering his mouth, "Shh!" Lelouch sat in the side car with apathy. The blonde girl and blue haired boy looked around. Fortunately, there wasn't anyone around. Isabella released the boy before saying, "Yes I am."
"That's so cool!" Rivalz exclaimed yet not as loud as before.
"You do know," Lelouch started breaking his stoic stance, "This is bound to be all over school in the next half hour." Isabella groaned. "So are you going to school?"
Isabella grumbled, "No. I have a session to plan for said ball."
"Good luck," Rivalz said mounting his bike again.
"Thanks," Isabella said. They both started up their bikes and took off in different directions.
Isabella was seething all the way to the government bureau. While on her way, the thought of the hundreds of teenagers who knew that her alias was going to be the adviser to royalty soured her mood completely.
She drove up to the drive way to the underground entrance. Upon getting to the gate the guard stopped her. Under his breath, she heard him mutter, "A student?" then say, "Identification."
Isabella reached into her jacket pocket bring out a standard military id card. She watched as the guard scrutinized the card.
"Alright," he said reluctantly. As he let her through, she heard him again, "Damn kid's got rank and I'm here?"
She drove down the sloped drive way passing various military cars until she got to a blank plot. Once parking, she removed her wig, contacts, and school jacket and tie. Leabella shook her hair out of the bun she had it in and moved to walk toward the door that led to the building.
Leabella glared the entire way up the elevator to Clovis's floor. She didn't even look at her brother's secretary as she exclaimed, "Oh, your highness!? The Prince isn't expec-"
Leabella didn't hear the end since she walked right into Clovis's office. The third prince was taken off guard and jumped at the intrusion. He yelped from his position in front of his grand mirror, "Leabella?"
An unknowing guard who was keeping watch from inside the prince's office ran at Leabella. Before he could even lay a hand on the princess, she already had his arm behind his back painfully and had him pinned against the wall.
Leabella turned to her brother looking at her a bit in apprehension, "You need to get better guards, if this is the best they could do, brother." She released the guard, "You, get out."
The guard followed the girls orders, closing the doors.
Leabella turned to Clovis still seething when he exclaimed, "Leabella, what are you wearing?! That isn't even something someone of nobility would wear as casual clothes."
"Oh, I'm sorry," Leabella snapped, "but I was in a hurry to ask you something."
"What is it?"
"What possessed you to air my coming into office on television?" Leabella voiced agitated.
"Wasn't it a wonderful idea?" Clovis asked fixing his hair in the near by mirror. "I was holding a party with the nobles," Leabella groaned sitting on the couch, "I was inviting all of them to the ball when they said I should tell the Area about it's new coming sub-viceroy."
There was a knock on Clovis's door.
Leabella bit back a retort, and Clovis let in a thin woman with sharp eyes. Along with her was four other people holding varies bundles of cloth.
"Alright," Clovis said addressing Leabella, "Bella, can you stand? We're going to plan out you're dress."
Leabella groaned more.
"Hey, Leabella?" said girl turned around seeing Suzaku standing not that far away. Leabella stood a bit away from her bike. She had just arrived a little while ago.
"Oh, Suzaku, you ready?" Leabella asked.
Suzaku grinned, "Yes."
"Huh?" Leabella woke from her slumber. The first thing she noticed was the wind making her hair whip around. The second was the muscular back she was leaning on. Leabella looking around at the passing trees as she adjusted her arms around Suzaku's midsection.
"You alright?" he asked over his shoulder.
"Yeah," she replied making sure her arms were secured around his waist. She watched as he drove over a bend on the road on her bike. She looked up to see the back of his head and his hair ruffling in the wind.
"Alright, we're almost there, okay?" he said.
"Okay," she replied looking back to watch the trees. She relaxed again against Suzaku back, "It's nice to know that not all of Japan looked as bad as the settlement."
"What do you mean?" Suzaku asked.
Leabella looked into his direction but didn't move, "I hate how the settlement looks. It's so industrial. They covered up Mount Fuji. I wish I could have seen how Japan looked like before the war."
"You must really love Japan," Suzaku commented. It was odd on his tongue saying that. He hadn't called his native land by its name in so long.
"Of course," Leabella said slipping into slumber again, "That's why I want to see the day that it can get its independence."
Suzaku's eye widened a bit. He thought that he'd be used to hearing the princess talk like that. He smiled a bit. She thought so highly of the Japanese. He almost saw Lelouch's kind demeanor in her when she would talk to her men. Every time that he would call himself an eleven, he would be given a stern talking to about how he's a person not a number. His smile faltered a bit. But, at the same time it seemed chastising Britannia was second nature to Leabella. When asked, she would say she was still in allegiance with Britannia, but then how did it explain her snide comments to the nobility and government?
They came upon their destination, and he shook his head to clear his mind. He parked the bike and addressed over his shoulder, "Leabella?"
"Hm?" Leabella mumbled. Suzaku blushed a bit when he felt the girl's lean slender arms tighten around his torso practically pressing them together. He was hyper-aware of her, and he tried to ignore the obvious feeling of her chest against his back as he felt her take a breath in and out. He could feel his heart pounding in his ears as he heard the faint mumbling of the sleeping girl. After a few moments of staggered breathing by Suzaku's part, he felt Leabella loosen her hold.
"Leabella?"
"What?" She asked in Japanese as she rubbed her eyes from sleep. Before he could answer, she looked up, "Oh, we're here. Great." Suzaku watched as she jumped off the bike a walked over the big red structure. She turned to Suzaku—thankfully his blush was gone, "C'mon, Suzaku. I don't know my way around here."
"Right."
"So," Leabella frowned sadly as she looked around the tattered shed. There was rotten hay in one corner and rusted tools hanging near a wall. "This is where Lelouch and Nunnally were kept?"
"Yes," Suzaku said solemnly, "Looking at it now, it really was a cruel way to treat kids."
He watched as Leabella walked a little ways inside the shed. "Were you and Lelouch friends?"
Suzaku smiled sadly remembering, "We didn't like each other at first. I guess you can say, I didn't have the best view on Britannia back then."
The corner of Leabella's mouth twitched up.
"After a while, we started getting along because of Nunnally," Suzaku said remembering the frail little girl those years ago.
"How…" Suzaku whipped around to Leabella when he heard her voice crack. Her back was to him, but he could see her shoulders trembling a bit. "How was Nunnally back then?"
"Um," Suzaku slowly approached her and his voice softened, "Well she was…she was…"
"Blind I know that," Leabella said swallowing the lump in her throat. Her poor little sister and brother. They had to live in this god forsaken place while she was sheltered and fed like nobility in Belarus.
"Yeah, she was in a wheel chair too. Though most of time Lelouch or I would carry her around," Suzaku said, "The shrine isn't really wheel chair friendly."
"Guess not," Leabella said. She took a deep breath before turning around, "How about you show me that field you were talking about, the one where you all used to play in."
"It hasn't really changed," Suzaku said as he settled against a tree trunk and over looked to vast field.
"It nice here," Leabella commented sitting next to him.
"Look," Suzaku pointed to a little ridge in the field. The ground suddenly rose and led to a more forest like area. "Lelouch and I used to explore over there. There's a hill not too far away." Suzaku chuckled, "He could never get up it on his own."
"That sound like him," Leabella laughed. "He never liked anything that concluded in sweating."
"'It's degrading!'" Suzaku said in a childish Lelouch impression.
Leabela laughed again more freely, "Yes! 'I'll dirty my clothes!'"
Suzaku laughed at that remember Lelouch saying the exact thing. Leabella sighed clutching her stomach.
"So, how was it when the war started?" Leabella asked.
Suzaku sighed, "Not that long after Lelouch and Nunnally arrived. It was really bad."
"I can bet," Leabella said remember the photo's she had requested of Japan at the time.
"Though, since it didn't last long, I guess you can say it was a good thing," Suzaku said.
"Japan surrendered because your father died. Is that right?" Leabella asked.
"Uh, yes," Suzaku said strained.
"Sorry," Leabella said, "It's not my place to talk about."
"No, it's okay," Suzaku reassured.
'She really does sleep a lot,' Suzaku thought on their way back to the settlement. They were about an hour into the ride and Leabella was already asleep against his back again. He figured the stress of the up and coming events are taking their toll. In one month. A lot of things were going to happen. Leabella would be the new sub-visceroy. The squad would start actual military duties. He and Eiji would go to school. That would be a first for him. Even before the war, he always had a tutor. It will be the first time he'd be around a surplus of people his age. Eiji would be in a different grade, so he'd be all alone. Well, not completely alone. He had yet to hear of the infamous person that he had to protect.
Well, whoever they were, he would fulfill his duty.
One month later
"Hey, Lelouch," Rivalz started looking up from his paper work, "Isn't it your birthday tomorrow?"
Lelouch looked up from his work pushing aside, "Yes."
"Is Milly going to force you to do something?" Isabella asked pushing her work away too in favor of another stack.
"Most likely," Lelouch said. He looked down at the paper in the girl's possession, "What are those?"
"Oh," Isabella said covering parts of the pages with her hands, "Just enrollment forms."
"Oh?" Rivalz said raising an eyebrow, "For who?"
"Just a couple of people in the military," Isabella said lightly.
Before either boy could question her further, Shirley came rushing in, "Isabella! You're the adviser to a princess!?"
Isabella slumped her shoulders. How? How did they find out? She had made sure not let anything slip.
"A princess, huh?" Rivalz commented.
"Yeah," Shirley replied brightly. She got a hold of Rivalz's laptop, typing in things, "Look! Some news report got an interview with prince Clovis and he said everything."
Isabella gritted her teeth. Of course.
"Leabella vi Britannia…" Rivalz said reading over the article. "Hey, Lelouch, you two share the same birthday."
"What?" Shirley said reading over the page again.
Lelouch stiffened. "It's just a coincidence," Isabella saved him, "It's pretty cool though."
"Yeah it is!" Rivalz said. "Hey, is there a picture of the princess?"
"No," Shirley said in disappointment, and Lelouch and Isabella sighed in relief.
"So, tomorrow," Lelouch commented as he walked Isabella to her motor bike.
"Yup," she said getting on it, "I won't be here, so behave."
"Man, you're actually starting to sound like a sister," Lelouch said wavering as she drove off. He watched after her until she was out of sight. After that, he started for the club house.
How odd it was. He accepted their false sibling-ship so easily. Perhaps it was because of Isabella connection to Leabella. Everything was moving so fast. First Isabella as a new student, and he discovered that his long lost sister was alive. Now, said sister was going to sub-viceroy.
Lelouch sighed. He wondered what else could happen.
Whooo chapter 7 is done!
I'm hoping to get into canon material soon o.o lets all hope.
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