Suzaku POV

1 Week later

Adjusting to Ashford wasn't exactly easy, surely it could be worse, he knows that some racist comment written on his shirt using a spray can is nothing compared to what most Japanese have to suffer every day... It's sad that he must consider himself lucky for this...

Suzaku Entered the Classroom, as usual many students after noticing him stopped talking and started to whisper, it was easy to guess what they were saying;

Suzaku ignored everything and sat down, as always, Lelouch was looking at him; His friend was probably more disturbed by all of that than he was. Sometimes, this scared him. Lelouch could probably find a crazy plan, like almost falling from the roof to give Suzaku the chance to save him and become the hero, or something absurd like that.

No, that's absurd even for him, but him falling by mistake wouldn't be so absur...

Professor "Kururugi? Can you demonstrate to the class how to do this exercise".

Suzaku panicked a bit, he was distracted, but before he could do anything someone loudly yawned, Suzaku turned to see Lelouch... waking up? But he wasn't sleeping ten seconds ago.

This made the Professor totally forget about him "Mr. Lamperouge, you must already know how to solve this if you can allow yourself to sleep through the lesson" Lelouch managed to solve it pretty quickly, Suzaku wasn't surprised.

19:38

Suzaku went to Lelouch's house and knocked on the door, He already asked him to not interfere, Lelouch already had his problems, and Suzaku would never allow him to bring his burden "Lelouch, It's me".

He waited a few minutes before Lelouch opened his door "S-Suzaku what are you doing here?".

Something was strange about his friend, was he... Nervous? Lelouch? Impossible, unless something was happening, Jeremiah ordered him to look out for every possible risk, he maintained a neutral voice "Lelouch, I want to talk about something with you, can I come in?".

Lelouch "You have to? I would prefer to talk outside, the house is messy right now".

Lelouch house was 'messy', something was really wrong here, Suzaku pushed Lelouch away (despite his weak attempt to stop him) and entered the house.

Lelouch "What are you doing?".

But he didn't reply, instead, he walked to the living room, he noticed how the table usually set was spoiled, so he started to look inside every drawer searching for something out of place.

Lelouch POV

He shouldn't be here, when he arrived they quickly wrapped the maps and documents they were working with, into the table-cloth and hid it in the first drawer

they found, "Suzaku stop", but for some reason, he was opening each one of them and looking for something, he was about to open the right one, but from his room, the sound of something falling distracted him.

Suzaku quickly rushed to his room, Lelouch panicked when he noticed the mask barely hidden behind the full-length mirror, he quickly put himself between Suzaku and the mask to hide it from his eyes, he looked around without noticing anything, there was only one place left to look, he was about to open the wardrobe when Lelocuh blocked his passage.

Lelouch "Stop, this is the reason why I didn't want soldiers around".

Suzaku "I'm just trying to keep you safe!".

Lelouch "Suzaku, if I needed your help, I would've asked".

Suzaku was offended "You don't need to hide anything from me, I'm doing my job Lelouch, protect you, now step aside" Again Lelouch tried to stop him, again, his effort was vain, but the moment Suzaku touched the door of the wardrobe she opened it from the inside, hitting Suzaku and stunning him for a few seconds and making him fall, in said seconds Kallen Launched at Lelouch Zero's disguise, he quickly launched it under the bed.

When Suzaku managed to regain his senses, he saw the girl in front of him, his face quickly turned red from the embarrassment "W-Wait... Kal... Lelouch Weren't you and Shirley... Oh I understand".

Lelouch "NO YOU DON'T" Kallen "NO YOU DON'T".

Suzaku tried to get up as fast as he could "S-Sorry, you were right, I'm going away".

Lelouch "Wait" but he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Kallen "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, For how much we must go on with this story" Then she headed toward Lelouch "I told you I shouldn't have hidden".

Lelouch "How should I know he would have searched the whole house, it was the wisest course of action".

Kallen "Since you are so wise what is your plan now".

Lelouch tried to elaborate a plan "I... I will talk with him tomorrow".

Kallen started to clap sarcastically "What a full-proof plan".

Lelouch "Since you are so intelligent why don't you propose something".

Kallen "You said you trust him, just tell him a part of the truth".

Lelouch laughed "So your genius plan is to tell him I'm Zero".

Kallen punched him "Not that part, tell him about me, one truth and two lies".

Lelouch started to think, what do you suggest

Tomorrow

Ashford Roof

Suzaku looked at him in disbelief "So are you saying, that she is half-Japanese".

Lelouch "Yes, I discovered it accidentally" Lelouch sighed, being as dramatic as possible "You know what it means, it's a lonely life, we are friends and like to spend time together, but prefer to keep it secret so no one get the wrong idea".

Suzaku "That explains a lot of things" realized something "Her illness is true?".

Lelouch was surprised, Suzaku had those moments of sharpness, but it was quite rare "An excuse to meet with her brother without raising any suspect, He lives in a ghetto".

Suzaku "I understand, why didn't you have told me yesterday".

Lelouch "Because, You disappeared in the blink of an eye".

Suzaku got embarrassed "Yes sorry, I... Was surprised; So how is the real Kallen?".

Lelouch thought about it for a while "She is a lot like you, but smart".

Suzaku "Hey, are you saying I'm an idiot?".

Lelouch "No my friend, I already did it a lot of time ago".

Suzaku was waiting for him to continue "And?".

Lelouch "And what? Nothing changed".

Suzaku laughed at this "Yes, maybe you are right".

Lelouch "As always, there is a reason why you are the arms and I'm the mind... Maybe after yesterday I'll relegate you to be the legs".

Suzaku "As you say boss".