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"Lelouch, come on," a young brown haired boy urged on a black haired and purple eyed one, however he had a dried bloody bandage around his left eye.

The other boy was practically catatonic, the other boy having to drag him through the field they were walking in. A field littered with bodies, a place that had obviously been a war zone no more than a few hours ago. He removed his bandage revealing his left eye was perfectly fine, if not for the fact that it was glowing red with a sigil similar to a bird in it. "Suzaku, leave me.." Lelouch ordered, slowly slumping to the ground.

"Not going to happen," Suzaku said, turning his head immediately away from his friend the moment he removed his bandage, "Cover that eye back up."

"Suzaku, there just isn't any…" Lelouch cried out, tears welling up in his eyes.

"Don't you dare say that Lelouch. You're not the only one who lost something today. My father, my country, I lost everything…we're the same, I want to fall down and cry too. But you have to stay strong, we have to stay strong. For her sake too, Nunnally wouldn't want you to die too," Suzaku almost yelled turning around and putting the bandage back over Lelouch's eye.

"Why!?" Lelouch yelled out, and then glumly said, "What's the point?"

"Then make one, if you don't have a purpose anymore, if your life doesn't have a point anymore, then just make one for yourself!" Suzaku yelled at Lelouch, looking him straight in the face, "That woman gave you this great power, a power that could let you do anything in the world that you wanted. If you wanted you could become a prince again with that power. You could topple Britannia with that power. Anything is possible with that power of yours, that Geass thing. You just have to want it enough."

"Anything…I only wish. My power doesn't bring back the dead," Lelouch said bitterly.

"Then use your power to make sure nobody else has to die!" Suzaku roared at Lelouch, "Help make a world your sister would be proud of you for. You can do that at least. For you, your mind, your power, your determination, it would be easy for you. But whatever you do, don't die, you have to live for Nunnally too now."

Lelouch remained silent, and then slowly stood up, "Yeah…maybe I'll do that." He said a little reluctantly, "You're right...Suzaku. If I can't at least do that, then what good am I?"

"There, that's the Lelouch I know, now we have to get moving, the refuge camps can't be too far from here," Suzaku said, the two of them beginning to walk again.

It wasn't long until the two heard something, "Niisan! Kaasan!" Those two words were being repeated constantly far ahead of them and to the left. The two looked at each other and made their way to the source of the sound

"Oi look at this, a couple more Japanese brats," a man in a uniform said looking behind himself at Lelouch and Suzaku, his outfit was red and black in color, Lelouch recognized him as a member of the Special Operations part of the Britannian Military.

"No, look, the one with a bandage over his eye is Britannian," another one said, holding a smoking gun, which was aimed at a young red-headed girl, about the same age as Lelouch and Suzaku.

The girl was slumped down on the ground crying over a pair of bodies, Suzaku looked at the scene and came to a realization of what happened, "Hey think he's the one?" the first solder asked, "This is in the right area after all."

"It's possible. Boy," the other one said, lowering his gun away from the girl and turning towards him, "Is your name Lelouch?"

Lelouch glared at the solder, they likely slaughtered a lot of the survivors of the battle, they were doing it for sport while looking for him. "Oh, look like he is…what are you doing?" the first solder asked as Lelouch removed the bandage around his left eye, revealing his Geass, "What the…"

"I Lelouch Vi Britannia, order you to die," Lelouch commanded, his Geass activating as the solders brought up their guns to try and injure Lelouch, and then froze in their tracks.

"Lelouch…your eye, it can't possibly," Suzaku began to say and then the solders put their guns to their heads.

"Yes, your highness," they said in unison and pulled the trigger, blowing their brains out.

"Lelouch…that eye of yours…" Suzaku said, wide-eyed, "It's that powerful?"

Lelouch replaced the bandage and said, "Apparently so." He then looked at the girl, it was like she hadn't seen or heard anything that just happened, he walked up to her and said in Japanese, "Come on, you can't stay here."

"What does a Britannian know!?" the girl yelled at him in Japanese.

"Then I'll say it," Suzaku said walking over as well, "You can't stay here. They wouldn't want that. And there might be more of those guys around."

The girl looked on, shocked that Suzaku was traveling with Lelouch, "…okay," she sniffed while standing up slowly, she saw the dead solders and looked scared, "What…happened to them?"

"Lelouch did," Suzaku said pointing at him, "He saw what they did, and then he saved us before they could do it to us." Then Suzaku put his hand to his chest, "I'm Kururugi Suzaku. He's Lelouch Vi…"

"Lelouch Lamperouge," Lelouch interrupted, "I have no intention of using that name."

Suzaku smiled and corrected himself, "He's Lamperouge Lelouch."

"Ko…Kozuki Karen," the girl replied, and looking at Lelouch she said in shaky English, "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Lelouch replied in Japanese, "Now like I said, we need to hurry, that trick might not work twice."

The three of them then began to walk away from the scene, Lelouch leading the way now. He had seemed to gain some strength, a strangely fast recovery time. Suzaku figured he was just trying to be strong to not make him or the new girl worry. The truth couldn't be further away from his guess, Lelouch had resolved to do something. If powerlessness was a sin, then he would become the virtue of power itself. He would take the throne, he would take the world itself. "Tell me Kozuki-san," Suzaku said breaking the silence, "You don't really look Japanese, was your father European?"

"No, my mother said he was Britannian," Karen said, reluctant to admit it, "Say…how old are you two?"

"I turned ten in July," Suzaku answered with a smile, it was obvious he was trying to keep everybody's spirits up, he was barely able to do it.

"I turn eleven in December," Lelouch answered, "What about you?"

"I turn eleven in March…I guess that makes you the oldest," Karen said, all of them trying to keep their minds off what they were walking through right now.

They slowly came upon a refuge camp, some Britannian refuges were showing up, but it was mostly Japanese refuges. They were being directed into different camps, Suzaku sighed and said, "Well looks like this is where we part ways Lelouch."

"We'll see each other again," Lelouch said holding his hand out to Suzaku, "Don't die, ever."

Suzaku took Lelouch's hand and nodded his head, "Of course. I guess I don't have to say that too you though. I don't want to see the person who could kill you."

They parted and Suzaku began walking towards the line of Japanese refuges. Karen began to walk to join him, when Lelouch grabbed onto her shoulder, "You're coming with me," he said in Japanese, "I can pass you off as my half-sister." Karen looked at him in surprise, "I feel responsible for what happened. Those solders, they were looking for me. If I wasn't in that area before the invasion it would never have happened."

"It wasn't your fault though…you saved me already…I can't," Karen said, feeling guilty that Lelouch was taking so much of this onto himself.

"I said you're coming with me," Lelouch said crossing his arms and looking at her, "It'll be better to just swallow your pride for now."

"For now?" Karen asked.

"For now. But you'll need a Britannian name…Kallen Lamperouge should do," Lelouch said as he began walking forward, "Just act traumatized, I can do the talking for us both."

Karen looked at Lelouch surprised at how he acted again and then nodded in agreement. The two of them walked towards the Britannian Refuge line, which was exceptionally short, it wasn't long until they came to the Britannian solders expecting everybody, "Eh? A pair of kids?" one of them commented as he knelt down, he smiled and patted Lelouch's head, "The two of you have one hell of a will to live. You're certainly Britannians. Boy, you should go to the hospital tents, you need to have that eye looked at."

"Alright, mister," Lelouch said, somewhat sadly and innocently, a stark contrast from how he was acting a moment before. Leading Karen by the hand he made his way towards the hospital tents, speaking in whispered Japanese he said, "You need to be looked over too. And I need an eyepatch, I can't keep using this bandage to disguise myself."

"Then there's nothing wrong with your eye?" Karen asked him in the same whispered tone.

"Yes there is, but nothing to do with an injury. Trust me, you don't want to know,' Lelouch explained cryptically and then said, "Don't speak unless it's in English, I'll make an excuse for you not being fluent."

They reached the hospital tent and walked inside, to see several nurses and doctors walking about, a few patients here and there but overall they weren't that busy. A nurse walked over to them and knelt down to look them in the face, "So…" she began to say when she saw Lelouch's bandaged eye, "Oh dear god, when did that happen?"

"A few days ago before the invasion," Lelouch lied quickly, "It was treated but the solders up front said I should get it cleaned."

The nurse breathed a sigh of relief, "Well there's a chance for infection if the wound opened up again, but we should be able to save it…uh your name?"

"Lelouch Lamperouge," Lelouch answered and then said, "This is my little sister, Kallen Lamperouge. We…we lost our parents and the rest of our family, she…took it pretty hard, she can hardly speak."

"Oh the poor dear," the nurse said as she held out her hand to Karen, "Come with me, we'll give you a check-up, you probably need it. Doctor! This boy needs some immediate attention!"

"It's okay," Lelouch said to Karen, and then in low whispered Japanese so that only she could hear him he added, "She'll take care of anything physically wrong with you, just speak in English if you have to say something."

The nurse led Karen off to one of the beds as a doctor walked up to Lelouch, and held his hand out to him, "Come on now, we should look at that eye, we'll go to a more private bed so that we don't disturb the other patients."

Lelouch nodded his head and said, "Okay, lead the way."

"A big boy are you?" the doctor laughed, he was trying to relax Lelouch as the two walked to a curtained off bed. The doctor lifted Lelouch up and put him sitting on the edge of the bed. He got a bottle of antiseptic and a cotton swab, "Okay, lets take that off and see how things look under there." He removed the bandage and looked at Lelouch's eye and was about to say something when Lelouch spoke.

"You'll say and believe that there was no saving my eye because it had already been removed due to infection, you cleaned a cut above my eye but I require no further medical attention. You'll get me an eyepatch for my eye," Lelouch said quickly as his Geass activated and the doctor was about to object when he nodded his head.

"Yes, I'll do that," he said walking over to a medical bag and got out a medical eyepatch and then gave it to Lelouch who placed it over his eye while the doctor cleaned any blood that was on his face. "Okay, run along," the doctor said, Lelouch jumping up and running to the entrance of the tent, to wait for Karen. The doctor walked up to a free nurse and shook his head, "Nothing I could do. It's been treated and there is no infection, but it can't be saved," he whispered, "I think he knows that as well, he's just trying not to upset his sister."

Karen was soon released as well, "Okay you two, go to the largest tent in the area, they'll tell you what to do next," a nurse told them, Lelouch nodded his head and smiled.

"Okay, thanks," Lelouch said, leading Karen along towards their next location.

"Everybody, they're so nice," Karen said, genuinely surprised, "I didn't think…"

"Things on the other side probably aren't this nice," Lelouch said, interrupting her, "No, just ignore that."

About an hour later, they had been directed to a small building where they were given their own room, a building where a large number of Britannian Refuges had been directed to go. He had officially made Karen, no it was Kallen now, his little sister. Lelouch sighed, this had been the worse day of his life. He laughed inwardly, Lelouch Vi Britannia, eleventh Prince, seventeenth in line for the throne. Some prince he was, he couldn't even protect his real little sister. After Kallen had fallen asleep, Lelouch hugged his legs to his chest, and began to shake uncontrollably. All the pent up fear and despair was finally really hitting him now that he didn't have to act strong, and then there came his anger. He gritted his teeth and glared out at the wall in front of him, he wouldn't forgive his father for what happened. "You believe the weak are food for the strong," Lelouch said to himself, but directed at his father back in the Britannian Homeland, "Very well, father, I'll show you just what you believe in. I'll become the ravenous wolf you believe everybody should be, and I'll devour you. I'll tear you apart, rip you to shreds. I'll show you the power in my left eye, and then I'll destroy you. I won't forgive you for this."

And that's where I'll end this chapter. This fic is just an idea I had I wanted to do to see how I liked it. Suffice it to say, this fic will be a bit darker than "Prince or Zero" which despite recent chapters has been fairly upbeat. The idea started as "What would happen if Lelouch had received the Geass as a child like Mao received his?" and then I got the idea "How would his personality change if Nunnally had died in the invasion of Japan?" I tossed both of them into the same fic because the two would work so well together. Why did I have Lelouch make Kallen his sister? Because I thought it would be interesting and I want to see how her character would change as well with that plot twist, losing her mother and brother as a child as well. What's my justification for why he would do that? Well quite simply, he latched onto her because she would remind him of Nunnally and then there is his own sense of responsibility for what happened to her.

At any rate, the next chapter or two will be set when they were children, then we'll skip to the time period of the story proper.

Now onto my questions, why do I ask questions? Because it promotes reviews, making it easier for people to figure out something to say about the fic.

1) What do you think of this idea for a fic?

2) Suzaku is a good deal different than he is in Canon already, like the change or not?

And that's all, now press the review button before Lelouch Geasses you.

Ciao for now

Tis has been a chapter from your unfriendly neighborhood LunaticChaos