Lelouche slept........ sleep felt so good right then. CC stood guard, ready to tell any of Lelouche's classmates /but/ Suzaku that Lelouche was sick, and unless they also wanted to be throwing up and have the headache and fever of their lives, they should stay out.

Kallen sat in the room with them. "Where is he......." She muttered. "Oh man..... Suzaku is going to be so pissed.... He never turned me in though, that has to count for something." Then she realized. "Crap, i'm still wearing my Black Knight's costume. Oh hell, doesn't matter, he saw who I was already."

"Lelouche I'm home!" Suzaku called from the entry to the suite. Kallen turned to face the door, Lelouche rolled over in his sleep. "K...... Kallen what......."

"Lelouche hit his head......" Kallen gave a wane smile as she moved away from Lelouche's Zero costume. Suddenly tears started stinging her eyes and she wiped them on her sleeve. "I've been keeping an eye on him."

Suzaku took one look at the uniform and distinctive helmet on the chair and paled. His expression went from fear, to rage, to anguish, to dangerously dangerously blank. "On the island, you said you didn't KNOW who Zero was, were you lying just like you lie about who you are?" He demanded.

"At the time I /didn't/ know who he was." Kallen ground out. "He even kept his identity hidden from us. He probably thought that since he's a brittannian prince they'd hate him, or maybe he thought that if nobody but him knew, there was less of a chance his identity would be blown. It took FOREVER to get him to trust me enough to show his face."

"And you still didn't say anything....." Suzaku's face was white, and his expression furious.

"It was his to say, not mine. He loves you DEARLY Suzaku. Believe it or not I've been doing my best to /keep/ you two together. You have something SPECIAL with him!" Kallen was crying in frustration now. She still considered Suzaku a traitor for joining Britannia. But Lelouche loved him! that had to count for something! "I kept telling him to TALK to you! He claimed that if he told you, then you'd refuse to fight him on the battlefield, and Cornelia would guess that Zero was somebody close to you. Personally......" Kallen wiped her eyes on her sleeve again. "Personally I think he was afraid you wouldn't love him anymore if you found out he was Zero. Lelouche has never been one to say 'I'm scared' to anybody, not outloud. But you know, if you TRUELY love him, you'll find it in your heart to forgive him." Kallen pleaded fiercely. Her voice wavered with her crying, but defied Suzaku, what for she couldn't figure out, just the urge to defend Lelouche.

Suzaku picked up the nearest item, a chair left behind for whatever reason, and threw it at the wall, a scream of outrage accompanying the breaking of wood.

"My head........" Lelouche groaned, rolling onto his back.

"Lelouche........" Suzaku darted over to the bed, scooping the other up in his arms. "Lelouche are you alright?"

"S....... suzaku?" Lelouche groaned. "Please stop throwing things, you broke my head with that chair."

"Lelouche......... Lelouche /why?/" Kallen slipped out of the room at that point, going to change out of her black knights uniform.

"I wanted a new world, I wanted a new world so that one day, Nunnaly could open her eyes on paradise........" Lelouche groaned. "I wanted my mother's killer dead, and Britannia had destroyed the /identity/, not just of Japan, but countless other peoples, histories. I hated them, my own family, my own people. Some of them, like Euphemia I had nothing against, I would have left alone."

"You held her hostage." Suzaku said snidely.

"That was an act. When I saw you had Kallen, she agreed to help me make the switch." Tears rolled down Lelouche's cheeks. "If the whole royal family were like her, maybe things would have been different." He shuddered. "It would have been a more peacefull world, and Nunna would still be able to see, and mother would be there, waiting for me when I came home from school. I wanted you to fight by my side. I was stupid, I didn't think you'd refuse......." Lelouche said quietly.

"What happened, physically, to you?" Suzaku asked, "Kallen said you hit your head."

"its a long story Suzaku...... remember the incident in shinjuku? The weird girl?"

"Yes, CC, she's always hanging around. Hasn't left. Why?"

"Ever believe in psychic powers?"

"no. why?"

CC spoke from the doorway. "Really? I can offer proof. Lelouche Kallen left to take a shower. I'm on guard." CC said curtly. "Hold still........." She placed a hand gingerly on Suzaku's forehead.

Suddenly Lelouche and Suzaku both spasmed, Suzaku screamed, Lelouche shivered. Suddenly Suzaku was filled with sound and color and thought and emotion. It was a summer day, the sky was blue, the air was clear, he was home at the Kururugi shrine. "Suzaku! Wait up!" Suzaku realized first, they were children again!

He turned, a familiar face was running towards him. "You........ you're me!" Suzaku squeaked. His voice! It wasn't his.....

Lelouche blinked. "WAIT! That's my body!" Lelouche/Suzaku blushed deeply. "How'd this happen?" He demanded. "this is weird..... I'm a kid again!"

"I thought this would help loosen the tension between the two of you." CC said as she approached them both. "Right now you're both dreaming, but I thought something to remind you both of where you came from would help you open up to each other." Suzaku blushed hugely. "I can adjust your ages if you'd like." She said airily. "Since I hear you've developed a habit of doing naughty things to each other. Can't do those as children."

Suddenly Lelouche and Suzaku were teenagers again. The scene had changed, inside the shrine, a fireplace blazed with life, casting warmth over both of them. Lelouche and Suzaku were snuggled up by the fire, a tray of cocoa near at hand, wrapped in the same blanket, and both were naked. CC was nowhere to be scene, Suzaku blushed furiously.

"Did she have to take away our clothes?" Suzaku blushed.

"CC has a........ strange sense of humor." Lelouche snuggled against him, "I don't feel inclined to move."

"Yes but we're in each other's bodies, that's just..... weird." Suzaku muttered into Lelouche's hair. Then he felt a wave of lust washing over him. "Oh god." Suzaku's body was suddenly so sensitized that the slightest touch on his skin produced the sensation of pleasure. "Woah......"

Lelouche mumbled sleepily into Suzaku's chest, "She's a telepath, musta linked us or sompin."

"You're going to sleep like this?" Suzaku wriggled his/Lelouche's legs uncomfortably. Lelouche felt Suzaku's hard on brush his thigh, jerked to alertness and his face blushed around the ears.

"We should take care of that." Lelouche's eyes sparkled dangerously.

"Yes but we're in each others bodies. That's just........ freaky!!!" Suzaku shivered. Lelouche was starting to get hard now, as whatever CC did spread through his body now.

Lelouche could have counted, one........ two......... three....... and he couldn't take it anymore. He tackled Suzaku to the mat beneath them and kissed him, hard. "So what?" Lelouche asked, "Its still the two of us and I really, really don't think in my body's....... current condition...... i could manage to do this in the flesh."

"Hmm yes, but you're missing something." Suzaku chuckled.

"What?"

Suzaku quickly turned the two over. "You're the seme, but I'm in /your/ body." Suzaku snickered, the blanket they were curled up under falling away as he bent to kiss Lelouche. Lelouche shivered, returning the kiss, twining their tongues in a familiar dance, only with unfamiliar feet. "I get to top."

Then Suzaku brought his hips into it, grinding theirs together. Lelouche gasped, arching his back into the gesture. Enjoying his newfound leverage Suzaku knelt between Lelouche's hips, using his legs to part his limbs and at the same time massaging Lelouche's hips and butt. "Suzaku do you want to......." Lelouche gulped, he wanted...... desperately....... for Suzaku to fuck him. But he was /in/ Suzaku's body, which made this much more complicated.

Suzaku bent down to kiss Lelouche coaxingly on the lips, sucking on the lower lip before whispering. "Yes......" and nibbling at lelouche's ear. He sat up. "Damn, I know the old man kept shrine oil somewhere." Suzaku moved to a trunk at the far end of the room.

Lelouche propped himself up on one elbow. Suzaku was right, it was creepy. But then again, he dealt in creepy. And right then there was something else he wanted.

"Got it!" Suzaku called, carrying the clay pot of oil. "Here...." He slicked the fingers on one hand and lifted Lelouche's legs. "Let me know if it hurts." He said quietly.

The fingers felt weird, and Lelouche tried to relax his lower body, because he heard that it didn't hurt so much if he did. Suzaku slipped in a second finger, slickening and stretching. "Almost......" His fingers brushed just the right space. Lelouche howled with pleasure, his/Suzaku's body trembling in anticipation.

Suzaku froze for a moment at the howl but then smiled when he realized he hadn't hurt Lelouche. He removed his fingers and positioned himself at the other's entrance. "Its alright."

"Do it already." Lelouche groaned.

Suzaku was careful, pushing slowly against Lelouche's resisting muscles. Lelouche groaned. It hurt... only it didn't... he pushed the rest of the way down, just a little faster than he should have and let out a yelp. Suzaku wrapped his arms around his koi and kissed at his neck and jaw, just the way that Lelouche did that drove Suzaku wild. It worked, and Lelouche wiggled just a little, adjusting to the intrusion.

Suzaku was little better, the sensation of being seated inside his lover was dizzying. /Is this...... what it feels like to drown...... inside a person?/ He wondered dazedly, looking down at Lelouche.

Lelouche groaned, adjusting to the intrusion. The feel of Suzaku inside of him was.... excellent. His presence comforting. //I like this....... i could definately get used to this.// He shifted his hips a little, testing how much give they had. "I'm ready Suzaku." his eyes were glazed, but they focused on Suzaku's face.

Suzaku nodded, pulling out just a bit, and thrusting back in. Lelouche grunted, pushing back on the next thrust. It took a few minutes but they built up a rhythmn. Suzaku leaned in, and Lelouche held onto his shoulders. The friction was amazing, Lelouche was quickly flushed and moaning beneath Suzaku's ministrations. And then the Knight hit that sweet spot, and Lelouche shrieked in pleasure, seeing stars. Gasping he held onto Suzaku for dear life. "Again..... oh god that was good..... do that again." He panted.

Suzaku chuckled lazily, thrusting again at the renegade prince's sweet spot. Again, and again. Lelouche yelled Suzaku's name over and over, his vision white with stars. His arms tightened around Suzaku's shoulders, clinging to him needily, desprately. And then he came, writhing around Suzaku and muffling his scream of pleasure by sucking on his lover's shoulder. Suzaku groaned, spilling in his lover. Lelouche felt Suzaku's fluid searing into his body and groaned, panting and slowly, slowly relaxing his grip. Suzaku set him down and slowly, reluctantly, pulled out. The two sprawled by the sacred fire, drowsy.

"I don't know how I could be sleepy if I'm already dreaming but......." Suzaku yawned, "I think I am."

"maybe that's how CC meant us to wake up from the vision." Lelouche muttered as his eyes fell closed.

When the noises from the next room stopped, CC smirked. Lelouche could take care of his own morning after. And he'd have a very interesting hicky on his shoulder the next morning, and a very interesting limp.

~owari~