Right, so first of all, I'm finally back! I know, I've been missing for quite a long time. Well, partly because of my new university life and also partly because I've suddenly lost my inspirations.

Next, as I've stated in the notice of "Contract or Bond", that fiction will be currently on hold while I try to sort out whatever it is that I haven't. I apologize for the extreme delay for the notice. I just could not bring myself to put that up as I really want to see an end to it, but delaying with no updates at all just makes it even worse. X(

Since that would be on hold, I'll have to have something to replace it for the meantime. Thus, the result of another fiction, "What it seems to be, isn't what it seems to be anymore". As I've said in the notice, this will be having the same theme, the royalty theme, but don't hate it first just because its theme is the same. I've always wanted to try this idea while I was writing for "Contract or Bond", and with my sis' support, I thought that I should at least try doing this one than just leaving it to my own imaginations.

OK, enough said. Let's start straight away with a Prologue shall we? Oh, before that…

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Geass or its characters, just the plot.

"What it seems to be isn't what it seems to be anymore"

Prologue

Somewhere in the school compartment, two little boys skipped class and hanged out under the dark stairs.

"Lulu! Lulu!" Six years old Suzaku nudged Lelouch as he whispered.

"What?" Six years old Lelouch replied in a whisper too.

"I'll tell you my secret!" Suzaku whispered excitedly.

"OK," Lelouch replied, very interested in it.

"But, you must tell me yours too," Suzaku demanded.

"Why must I?" Lelouch frowned.

"It's a trade!" he pouted. "Promise?"

Lelouch hesitated as he looked on Suzaku's pinky in front of him. He nodded after a while and hooked both their pinkies together. Suzaku smiled happily.

"Mama said there's no need for me to get a wife now!"

Lelouch stared at Suzaku for a moment before he realized what it was about. Lelouch sweat dropped.

"You call that a secret?"

Suzaku nodded, "Of course! Only you know about it."

Lelouch sighed. He was cheated.

"Now you tell me yours!" Suzaku demanded sternly.

"No" A direct response from Lelouch.

"But you promised! Pinky-promised!"

"That's not a secret!"

"Fine! Then…" Suzaku thought for a moment till suddenly his cheeks were slightly red. Lelouch tilted his head. "I peed on bed this morning," Suzaku voiced out cowardly.

"Pfft!" Quickly, Lelouch held both his hands to his mouth and tried hard to control his laughter.

"Don't laugh!" Suzaku scolded in a whisper. "It's your turn! Quick!"

Trying hard to even out his breathing, he gulped in air one last time and started.

"You're not going to laugh either, OK?" said Lelouch with a fierce face. Suzaku nodded, that expression did not scare him at all.

Lelouch took in a deep breath and bolted out, "My mum loves to dress me as a girl."

Suzaku was stunned before he shouted out in laughter.

"Shh! Quiet! I told you not to laugh! Someone's gonna hear us!" Lelouch tried hard to calm Suzaku down but to no avail.

"There you are!" a teacher's voice called out all of a sudden as she popped her head under the stairs. Both Suzaku and Lelouch had a fright of their lives.

To be continued in Chapter 1…^^