L.K.: Sooooo sorry for the long wait. Things got chaotic and confusing. Okay, for all you wondering…YES, Kallen has the flu. She had diarrhea, fever and body aches.

Nippon = Japan

Prank Calls and Bad Breakfast

Kallen stuck a long body pillow in between Lelouch's and her own side of the bed. Kallen snuggled up to her oversized Zero plushie and tried her best to fall asleep. Lelouch lay flat on his back, unable to comprehend just how fast they were being pushed together.

"Say Kallen" Lelouch began as he stared up at the ceiling.

"What?" she mumbled.

"Why do you like Zero dolls so much?" he asked with mild curiosity.

"I uhm…I like stuffed animals is all." She half lied as she squeezed the Zero doll more. Suddenly, the doll let out a noise. "Long live Nippon!" it said in Zero's synthetic voice.

"What the hell?" they both asked in unison. Lelouch laughed, how he was going to tease Kallen for this one. They both sat up and gave the doll a questionable look.

"Squeeze it again!" Lelouch said almost happily. Lelouch reached over and squeezed it, but it did nothing. Kallen wanted to giggle, Lelouch looked kind of cute hugging the doll.

"Maybe it's a certain area." Kallen said as she began pushing all over the doll. Grabbing the doll's hand and giving it a squeeze, the protruded another sound. "Black Knights, strike!"

"Aww! I mean…what the hell? They sold this doll at a children's toy store!?" she said faking anger and disgust.

"Chill Kallen, it's only a doll." Lelouch said as he began poking the doll again. He poked it harshly in the belly and let out another saying. "Death to Brittania!"

Kallen and Lelouch both gaped, this was a doll right? Lelouch laughed again as an idea popped into his head.

"Hey Kallen, I wonder what Rivalz would think if 'Zero' called him and started saying this stuff to him? Let's put the doll on the phone!" he said as he grabbed his cell phone with a grin. Lelouch dialed his friend's number and held the doll close to the phone's receiver.

"Hello, this is Rivalz, who's calling?" came the boy's voice.

"Zero commands you, DIE Brittanian!"

Kallen and Lelouch had to hold in their laughter, that line wasn't exactly planned.

"Holy shit! Zero!? I'm calling the cops!"

" Hold it right there Brittanian!"

"Gah! What do you want from me?" Rivalz asked as he froze in fear.

"Surrender yourself to me Brittanian!"

"Wh-what?"

"Long live Nippon!"

"No way! This is Brittania now!"

"I'll destroy your base!"

"You're gonna blow up my house?" was Rivalz voice along other various loud noises.

"All your base are belong to us!"

"Say what now?"

" I WILL KILL YOU LITTLE BOY!" said Lelouch in a scary voice. Kallen held her hand over her mouth, ready to burst into a fit of laughter.

"Oh my god! No please don't! I'm still a virgin" Rivalz cried out.

"Hahaha! Relax Rivals, it's just me, Lelouch!" he said finally giving in, he didn't wanna give his best friend a heart attack now.

"Jeez Lelouch! You scared the shit out of me! You sounded exactly like Zero!" Rivalz bellowed .

"That wasn't really me though. We have this doll, a Zero doll and it talks." Lelouch snickered.

"Where did you get a Zero doll? They actually sell those in Area Eleven?" he asked quirking a brow that Lelouch would never see.

"You know the Japanese are still citizens too right?" Lelouch half asked half informed.

"Yeah yeah, anyways Lelouch. I was gonna ask you this at school tomorrow, but do you think you could come with me tomorrow to pick out Prez a present for her graduation. I'm no good with gifts." Rivalz asked with puppy eyes. Once again, Rivalz features went unseen to Lelouch.

"Why me? Just ask Prez what she wants." Lelouch grumbled.

"But I'm too scared. Besides, she isn't supposed to know what she's getting!" He pouted. Lelouch put a finger to his temple, he wanted to spend time with Kallen after school.

"I'm kind of busy tomorrow Rivalz, it will have to wait until later. Besides, I think it'll mean more to her if you picked it out yourself." He grumbled.

"But, I don't have a clue what to get her!" Rivalz sniffled as he clutched the phone.

"Listen, I've got to go now. I'm tired and we have school tomorrow. I'll see you then." Lelouch hung up after saying his goodbyes and flopped back down on the bed.

"Are you really tired, or did you just want to hang up?" Kallen asked as she fiddled with the plushie's cloak.

"Kind of, I know I'll be tired soon. Besides, it is very late." He admitted.

Kallen laid back down but was unable to get comfortable. As she kept fussing with the large, long pillow between them Lelouch got fed up. He grabbed the pillow and shoved it behind them to use as a regular pillow.

"Hey! I don't want you rolling over onto me in my sleep!" she hissed.

"Don't worry, I hardly ever move around when I sleep." He said as he folded his hands behind his head.

Kallen eyed him suspiciously for a second but gave up and laid on her side facing away from him. She tried her best to keep her distance from him and ignore the fact that there was a boy behind her. But this fact didn't help her at all, especially since it was an attractive one.

XxXxX

Lelouch's eyes slowly crept open, taking in the sunlight pouring in from his window. He sighed, he had woken up before his alarm clock went off. He decided to go back to sleep but something caught his attention. He felt heavy, heavier than he should. He soon realized that his arm was wrapped around Kallen's waist. Opening his eyes again he glanced downward. He smirked at the sight of Kallen snuggled up to his chest and leg wrapped around one of his.

'Looks like she's the one who moves around in her sleep.' He though as he tightened his grip on her waist.

After a few moments of staring at her, Kallen woke up. She shifted a few times and moved the leg that was wrapped around his upward. Her leg kept moving until it brushed against a very sensitive area. A bright red blush crept across Lelouch's face as this happened along with her hand moving around his chest. As he began to remember his affair with her not that long ago he became slightly hard.

Kallen's blue eyes opened and she stretched her arms and legs out. She shifted her head on his chest so that she could look up into his face.

"…Good morning Lelouch…." She groaned tiredly.

"Good….morning." he said cautiously.

As soon as he spoke, Kallen realized the situation that they were in. She shot up from her position and leapt off of the bed. She was silent for a moment as she eyed him up and down. Her sight fell upon a bulge in his pants.

"Why…you…PERVERT!" she yelled as her fist connected with his stomach.

Lelouch let out a loud noise of pain as he curled up into a ball clutching his sides. Kallen turned on her heel and walked into the bathroom. Lelouch laid there in pain for a minute as he thought about just how bad of an idea it was to allow himself to become aroused. Slowly, he crawled off the bed and grabbed his school uniform from his dresser. If he was going to be awake this early, he might as well be dressed.

He had just finished getting dressed as Kallen came out of the bathroom wearing her school uniform. He gave her an apologetic look and shifted his gaze to the ground. She stuck her nose in the air and he huffed at him, he was clearly not forgiven.

Lelouch looked like a kicked puppy at this point, but that didn't soften the cold glare that Kallen had suddenly sent his way. "Look, if you want to really apologize, buy me breakfast. It's still early enough to go out to eat before school." She demanded.

"Does that mean I can pick your order for you?" he teased, knowing this would make her angrier. "I can pick for myself thanks." She said as her eyebrows lifted in an irritated manor.

Lelouch and Kallen left the school grounds where Lelouch lived and got on his motorcycle. Kallen wrapped her arms around his waist and practically hugged him. Resting her chin on the top of his back, she stared at the back of his head. As the wind blew his scent into her face she sighed. He used the same shampoo as she did.

Kallen lifted her head as Lelouch started up the motorcycle. "Lelouch, why do you use women's Pantene shampoo?" she asked as she grabbed a lock of his hair and pressed her nose to it.

"Because I'm just that pretty…." He said sarcastically and he took off. Kallen took the hint of his voice and smirked.

"Or is it because you like smelling like an old lady?" she said with a bite of mischievousness in her voice.

XxXxX

Once at the restaurant and consoling Lelouch that he did not smell like an old lady; Kallen ordered her drink, tea. Lelouch ordered coffee with extra cream and sugar. After receiving their drinks, Kallen gaped at Lelouch.

"You want some coffee with that cream and sugar?" she asked as she added only one packet of sugar to her tea. "Coffee is disgusting." Lelouch said as he continued to pour cream into the now luke warm liquid. "Then why order it?" she asked with a quirked brow.

"I'm tired and coffee helps you stay awake. But I don't like the taste, so I'm adding as much cream and sugar as humanly possible." he explained as he began stirring the concoction. Kallen shook her head, it was too early in the morning for her to handle Lelouch.

When the waitress came back, Lelouch, as promised, order for Kallen. Kallen took the liberty of ordering for him as well.

"What in the world made you think I wanted six chocolate chip pancakes!?" Lelouch hissed.

"When you decided that I'm going to eat fourteen eggs and thirty slices of bacon!" Kallen retorted.

"How's about this, we eat what we ordered. There's no way I'm eating six pancakes." Lelouch suggested.

"Fine, pancakes taste better than eggs and bacon anyways!" Kallen stuck out her tongue.

When their food arrived it became an immediate eating contest. A contest which neither won.

"Okay, you were right..no one…no one needs six pancakes. That's too many goddamn pancakes…" Kallen groaned as held her hand over her mouth.

"I take it I won th -ughh…." Lelouch abruptly stood up and ran to the bathroom.

"You take it like a bi-" Kallen ran for the bathroom as well.

After the eating disaster, Kallen and Lelouch both left feeling sicker than ever. Neither feeling up to going to school that day. They drove back to school campus with full bellies and pain. Once back to Lelouch's room; Kallen collapsed on his bed.

"I'm so going back to sleep." She yawned. Lelouch smiled, she looked so cute lying there with her head face planted into his pillow. He sat on the bed next to her and took his shoes off.

"You know…if you sleep right after eating you'll get fat." He said innocently. Kallen bolted up right and said "Who's sleeping!?"

"I kind of took the hint that you were planning on sleeping when you said you were going back to sleep." He smirked at her.

"I said I could "so" go back to sleep. Not that I was going to." She informed him as she crossed her arms.

"Very well then, I'm watching TV." He said as he turned his TV on.

The first thing that popped on was some strange cartoon in which the likes Kallen had never seen.

"You watch cartoons?" she questioned, giving him a funny look.

"No!" he said quickly as he changed it to the news. Kallen stifled a laugh at his failed attempt to hide his love for Loony Toons. But Kallen's laughter turned to horror as the news showed an old airing of Zero and his female, redheaded, apprentice running into a building and firing their guns at the Brittanian army. The redhead did an aerial flip and kick a soldier into a wall and then proceeded to easily take out several more men. Kallen blushed, realizing just how much those short Black Knight shorts reveal.

"I've gotta hand it to Zero, he knows how to pick his soldiers. That redhead is hot, she reminds me of you!" Lelouch teased. Kallen's heart just about stopped. "Zero's kind of like a pimp in my opinion." Lelouch began. "He picks his soldier hot and armed to the tee-" Lelouch was cut off by Kallen grabbing him by around the neck and squeezing.

".Talking." she commanded with great power.

Lelouch nodded weakly and Kallen let go. 'I was right for picking her….but I already kicked her out of the Black Knights to protect her.'

The camera kept following the redhead until it came back to a news reporter.

"This redhead is being looked for as we speak. She hasn't been active with the Black Knights for a week now so she's either dead or went into hiding. We have reports that several redheaded women have been arrested under the suspicions of being this woman. If you have any information about a red haired woman with a double D chest and about five foot seven inches tall; please report her to the authorities. Thank you and have a safe day."

"Should I report you, Kallen?" Lelouch teased with a smirk.

"Y-you know I'm too sick to do any of those moves they showed on TV!!" she panicked.

"But you told me that you were faking being sick." He continued teasing.

"I already told you, I was just…mad….I am sick." She said innocently with her tiniest voice.

'God she's adorable when she plays innocent like that.' Lelouch thought.

"I know, I know. I'm only joking. God knows the both of us would have heart attacks if we ran further than ten feet." He said half serious. Kallen got a good laugh out of this, since it was true for at least Lelouch.

'I happen to know for a fact that Kallen isn't sick, but she had a fever. I guess it's just a cold, but I can't let it be something worse. If anything happens to her…..the news will be all over a dead red haired girl….Even if they can't interrogate a dead person there's still a chance that ti could lead back to me. Besides, I wouldn't let them besmirch Kallen's name.' Lelouch's train of thought was cut off by Kallen's hand waving madly in front of his face.

"Woo hoo, Lelouch! Anyone inside that big empty head?" she said as she used her other hand to poke him in the side.

Kallen must've hit his sensitive spot on his side because he fell back on the bed giggling. Kallen gave him a silly smile as she leaned over him.

"You're such a goof ball." She teased.

'You're such a liar!'

"You're such a cutie!" He teased her back as he stoked the side of her now blushing face.

"Oh stop it.." she whispered softly.

"Stop telling the girl I love that's she's beautiful? Never." He said in a sweet voice.

'…the girl he loves..' Kallen thought as she stared into his hazy violet eyes. Even though she knew he loved her and he had said it before, the words still came as a shock to her.

Without thinking; without realizing, Kallen had leaned down all the way and touched her lips against his. Her rosette lips meshed softly with his in a calm passion. The feeling of his warmed lips moving against her's made butterflies flip around in her stomach.

Lelouch seized the moment and put his hands on either side of her head to deepen the kiss. He licked her lower lip lightly a couple times as if asking to go further. Kallen was nervous at first but then the feeling came naturally to her and she parted her lips without another thought. She gave the smallest moan when his tongue touched her's.

Kallen slowly collapsed into his embrace on top of him as one of his hands went from her hair to around her waist. The hand in her hair wound itself madly within the shining red strands. The kiss lasted for only a few moments, but the hands never stopped wandering. Her left arm wound around his neck as her right hand trailed up and down his chest.

Her fingers found the buttons to his school jacket and began to unbutton the first few. She slinked a hand inside to feel the soft skin underneath the now loose clothing.

After a few minutes of hands roaming and tongues chasing they stopped. She rolled off of him and stared at the wall with an intense blush.

'God! He kisses just like Zero! Maybe all boys kiss like this.' Kallen thought as a pang of guilt crept over her. 'Zero….'

Lelouch rolled over so that he was facing her and she was facing away from him. He scooted closer and put an arm around her waist again. Kallen laid her hand over his and for the first time in a week she felt relaxed and comfortable being in a man's arms.

A/N: _It's shortish, but that's all that I could put out with a broken computer and running panels and events for two anime conventions. Sorry for any weird gaps in the story…there was a 2 week period where I did not write anything, due to lack of time,