rakuen | Training

Entry tags:

Training

Characters: Suzaku and whoever
Format: prose
This log is: open
Location: In a clearing in the woods
Summary: Suzaku freaks out a little about forgetting Japanese/the system deciding his language is english and translating everything into english for him (he hasn't decided which it is yet) and goes through sword training with a stick
Warnings: None

Training had always made Suzaku feel a little calmer and so it had been a coping mechanism since he was very young. So it was really no surprise that the moment maths class was over he had made his way into the woods, as far away as any gatherings of people and found a suibtable stick to fill in for a sword. His uniform was a little awkward to train in but it was the only thing he owned here apart from his Knight uniform and he did not want to wear that.

Especially not at the moment. As he started going through the farmilliar sword forms that Toudou had taught him he tried to keep his mind blank and to think of only the movements. But his mind was still spinning. He had forgotten Japanese, or the system (whatever the system was and however it even worked, he hadn't worked that out yet) had decided to translate everything to English for him. As of yet he hadn't decided what would be worse.

No he wasn't meant to be thinking! His movements which had ceased a little started up again and he did his best to keep his mind clear. How did the system work? Had they just decided on English because he was Lelouch's knight, or did the system scan your brain and work out... no that was a stupid thought. Systems couldn't scan your brain. Suzaku was being stupid and he knew it. "Concentrate," he muttered and went back to the sword forms.

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Suzaku looked at her warily, she didn't seem like she was going to attack, but at the same time he was not going to put the stick down. "No... No problem," he shook his head and feeling very uncomfertable he went back to the sword forms.

"This is probably uncomfortable for you as it is for me." She shrugged. "I get that... but for Lelouch's sake... we should probably get along."

Suzaku raised an eyebrow; of all the people he had expected to call a truce Kallen was the last on his mind. What had happened? He wasn't sure what she meant about Lelouch, after all she was a Black Knight, she was against Lelouch. But still, whatever her motives were she seemed to want to help Lelouch now, and that was fine with Suzaku. He would watch her carefully though, in case this was a trick. Maybe it was just being in this place, after all they would have to work together in order to get out.

So, for the first time in their lives, they were on the same side. He had never disliked Kallen as a person, when they had gone to school together they had got on well. He even agreed with her cause, it was just her methods and the fact she sided with Zero, Zero who had killed Euphemia.

But Euphemia was here, and Zero wasn't so...

"Alright." He nodded politely looking decidedly uncomfortable.

"A lot has happened and none of us... really discussed what we knew. I know Lelouch wanted all of us to get together... like we all used to be. But--" That nagging feeling in the back of Kallen's mind... something was just all types of wrong with this conversation. "But... if he's been given a second chance, then I should give you one too."

What about this conversation was wrong? Kallen couldn't pinpoint it for the life of her and it was seriously disturbing. And the part about her killing Suzaku, she left that out. Somehow, if he remembered that it happened, he wouldn't be reacting to her the way he was.

Suzaku nodded though he wasn't completely sure what Kallen was talking about. He also wasn't sure what she meant by second chance, but maybe she meant Lelouch wasn't acting like the power mad, mass murdering Emperor that he was at home. Zero Requiem, a word that still brought fuzziness as if he were missing something, was on hold until they got out of here.

"Alright," he said looking away again. He was prepared to have a truce but it felt awkward and he wasn't too sure what to say. "It's difficult, that no one remembers the same things..." He wasn't even sure if he was talking to her, or just to himself.

"And whether it's all right with you or not, I probably know the most and I plan on keeping that way." Actually, Nunnally knew more but she figured Suzaku would be in his right mind to not pressure information out of her. And if anything, go to an outside source than to someone important and close. "I don't reserve the right to tell any of you anything."

Suzaku shrugged, "There would be no point in me asking, even if you did tell me I would forget it straight afterwards. This system has a way of wiping our minds," like Geass, it was too much like Geass for it to be a coincidence, "Me and Gino spoke and he started to remember and then," Suzaku waved his hand, "Forgot, just like that." It had happened to him too, he had seen his family name written down but the moment he looked away he had forgotten it, and he couldn't remember this girls name, even though it had been said so many times when they had been having dinner.

"I figured as much, but there's not point in sending you into a rage when I'm the one who has to defend themselves," she shrugged and then added, "Not that you're much of a threat anyway." Kallen definitely was ignoring the fact that he had pinned her down (naked) one before. But she fought back during their next encounter when he tried to inject her with Refrain. The tone of her voice spoke as fact and not the 'I'm better than you' air it should have carried.

Kallen leaned against one of the trees. "Just what do you think you've forgotten, if you don't mind me making small talk."

Suzaku raised an eyebrow at her words, even though she had beaten him when he had tried to inject her with Refrain, an incident he regretted, they were pretty much matched in battle. He wondered what he had forgotten that would make the pilot think he would go into a rage.

He shrugged at her question but he was willing to talk if she was prepared to be friendly. "Your name for one, my family name is another," he frowned, it seemed to be small things that he could be certain he's forgotten the bigger things, the fuzziness he couldn't even pin down.

"Euphemia's face," he frowned, "I don't recognise her here, even though I know it is her; and when she’s not with me I can't picture her, there's a lot of fuzziness surrounding Lelouch, I feel like I'm missing something..." How Guren's pilot and Lelouch so close to be exact.

"It's stupid I can't even remember how to drive a Knightmare Frame... or how to speak Japanese..." He muttered the last one and then instantly regretted it, after all she would probably think it justice or something.

Maybe it was... "What about you..." He's pretty much told her he wouldn't ask what she knew, but what she had forgotten, that was different entirely.

"I can tell you now if it would ease your mind." And him forgetting Euphemia's face was a big deal. After all, he was her Knight.

Huh... the simple things that would not make any sense for them here, like piloting a Knightmare Frame. But when he mentioned that language thing, she raised an eyebrow. If she had went to her original hate, she woulkd definitely think that it was the best punishment.

"Well try and speak it to me now."

It was no good, he had already tried. He tried again of course but just as he thought he had a word it dissapeared the minute he opened his mouth and he was left stuttering random sylables.

"The teacher said that this system translates automatically," he finally gave up and spoke in English, "so I'm not sure if it is that I've forgotten or if it doesn't let anyone speak more than one language." He didn't like the sound of that either, because English wasn't his language, if it was the case that it was only letting them speak one language he should be speaking Japanese.

He blinked at Kallen, "What language are you hearing, can you speak the other if you try?" His voice was intent, it was obvious that forgetting his language had upset him a lot.

"I'm hearing English from you. しかし私の今言うことがわかることができなければ私は日本語を話している。"

It was strange really. Whatever system they were under forced all their words into English. Kallen didn't think much of it then outside of that everyone pulled here would understand each other. But she found out if you actually thought about speaking another language, preferably one that you knew, it wouldn't translate.

{I can't write in Japanese characters, so that's Babel fish's translation of, "But if you cannot understand me now, I am speaking Japanese."}

When the pilot switched languages it was almost painful. The sounds were so farmilliar but his brain wouldn't sort them out, he didn't understand even one word. He turned around so the pilot couldn't see his pain.

"I guess I've forgotten it then," at least this way he could get it back when he regained his memories he would just have to work hard to buy memory tokens. He changed the subject. "What have you forgotten? Have you worked any out?"

"So far? I've forgotten how to write the kanji for my last name. And..." Kallen wasn't going to share with Suzaku that she had forgotten how to wear a bra. "...that's all I've been able to figure out for now."

Suzaku nodded, it seemed that it was the little things, the things that you came across a lot that you realised you'd forgotten.

"Whoever has kidnapped us... they must have a lot of power to be able to Ge... er take our memories like this..." He had almost said Geass but he didn't know how much she knew.

"We need to find out who they are..."

Kallen caught his slip up. "It wouldn't work on me again," she said flatly. "And even if it was the Geass, why would we have to fight other people for our memories back. That doesn't make any sense."

She shifted her position slightly. "I agree." Kallen agreeing with Suzaku? That's a first.

Suzaku shook his head slightly. If she knew about Geass then she might as well know about all Geass, and it was clear that she didn't really have much information. If it was Geass users who were holding them- if there were more that Lelouch hadn't found, then she needed to know in order to help them, the information wouldn't be of that much importance to her when they escaped so he did not mind explaining.

"Lelouch's Geass only works once," he corrected, "others can be used many times, and only his Geass makes people obey him. There's other ones, like reading peoples minds and making people forget things or implanting them with new false memories, that could be how they took our memories and they want to make us fight for some reason and the memories is just a way of control... For all we know the translating thing could be a form of Geass, but there shouldn't be that many Geass users..."

"That may be true but the only reason I have not to believe there are other Geass users is that some of the people here... their world aligns with this one. They have never mentioned the Geass even once. Even while this one and thiers don't entirely overlap, Geass is something from our world. Wouldn't you think this place would resemble ours?"

"What?" Suzaku's eyes widened as he tried to take in the information the pilot had just told him. Yes he had had discussions with people who were trying to claim they were from places that Suzaku had never heard of, yes it was strange that people like Sora and Mei had never heard of Britannia but...

"Other worlds?" He shook his head, "That makes no sense!"

"Does anything about this world make sense to you? Did you think we were still in Japan?"

"But..." Other worlds could not exist; it just wasn't possible. "Yuki claimed we were in Japan, the school Sora comes from is in Japan and is apparently very similar to this one... It doesn't... there can't be..."

"There's no such thing as other worlds..." If there were, well if Charles had managed to enter the world of C and create the Ragonok junction, if there were such things as other inhabitable worlds, then wouldn't he have found them...

"You got a better theory than 'I don't know'?" Kallen spat out, her voice showing slight annoyance. There was something about this conversation that told her that her feelings towards Suzaku weren't exactly friendly. Something was making her mad at his denials that carried no facts behind them.

Edited 2011-01-22 17:12 (UTC)

Suzaku glared at her, "I'm just saying, there’s bound to be a sensible explanation for all of this, something less insane then there being other worlds that we have never heard of before now and have somehow been transported to without us even knowing how!" His annoyance at the pilot was real; she was always so stubborn when she thought she was in the right.

[pot calling the kettle I know]

"Sensible? Does any of this sound sensible to you? We are not in our Japan. Even if we were, where do you know a place like this? But then again, why would you? Trai--" Kallen stopped suddenly. What she was about to call him? She took a moment to think, sighing.

"Forget it. By all means, make sense of the things you don't want to accept." The teenager pushed herself off the tree and walked past them. As they crossed paths, she spoke again. "There's something about you that irritates me and if I'm forgetting it, you better hope for your sake I don't remember."

Suzaku visibly winced at her half begun and never finished word. As she finished her angry Tirade he realised what she had forgotten... If she had remembered what he had done, that he had betrayed Japan and captured her hero then she wouldn't have held back, in fact. He thought sadly, she wouldn't have spoken to him at all never mind tried to make a truce.

He still couldn't wrap his head around the idea of other worlds but that had become a secondary concern. As she walked past him he looked at her, not quite meeting her eyes. "I... I'm sorry," it was weak and he knew it, it wouldn't mean anything once she got her memories back.

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