rakuen | 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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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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