rakuen | Wandering the corridoors

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Wandering the corridoors

Suzaku let himself be ushered in the general direction of the dormitories. His conversation, or lack there of with the girl whose name he could not remember, had shaken him slightly. But it was the least of his worries at the moment. Much higher on the list were finding out where he was, what he was doing here and why there were random holes in his memories that he could not fill.

Like that girls name... He shook his head and came to the door marked "Black 1A" turning the key he had been given in the lock. Entering the room he found it was empty, but there were five beds side by side. It was a bit like being in the military again, Suzaku studied the room for a moment, but there was no indication of who the beds belonged to so he figured he could just choose one. The question was, if the girl whose name he couldn't remember was here who else was. The other Black Knights? Where they the ones who had brought him here? Had they taken anyone else? Lelouch?

He chose one facing the foor, he didn't want to get caught out and he didn't know what this place held yet. There was a uniform, a pile of them on the side in different sizes. Suzaku frowned but if he was going to play along with whoever had brought him here; and he still thought that was the best way to figuring out how to get out, he would keep to their rules. Chances were that the fact there was a uniform meant it was a rule to wear it.

He changed quickly putting his own clothes on the shelf near the bed he had chosen. As well as the bed, and the shelves around the room there was a small cabinet with two doors and a key on top for each bed. Suzaku pocketed the key from his and then left the room. He was not going to figure anything out sitting on his own in an empty room. If it was the Black Knights then he had to find a way of stopping them. If they had Lelouch he had to find him and make sure he was safe.

He looked down at what he was now wearing. It looked silly, but he had worn worse. He pushed open the door and stepped out into the building and locked the room. He left the building and walked slowly, keeping an eye out for anyone who looked like they knew what they were doing who could explain things to him, anyone who could tell him if Lelouch was here. Anyone at all.

ooc: Just for info, he missed the beginning intro talk because I was late, so he has absolutely no idea what is going on :D

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Apparently Suzaku was so busy looking for someone who could help, he missed the someone nearby who couldn't. Not to say that Gino wasn't glad to see his fellow Knight, but when you can't for the life of you remember what name you're supposed to yell after them, it's a little harder to work up the enthusiasm. It was all very frustrating, he mused, as he checked which building the other boy had left, especially when you've been steadfastly using a guy's first name despite all protests for months, and now have to resort to titles or whatever to get his attention.

Oh well.

"Yo, Seven!"

Yuki was trying to reacquaint herself with the grounds, luckily enough it wasn't that different from her version of a similar set up. While a few twists and turns may be different, overall it was the same. She was making a few notes in her notebook about the system and the differences when she carelessly walked into him.

"I'm so-" her voice dropped off and her eyes widened when she realized it was a boy she walked into. Panic slowly set in as she averted her eyes, "I'm sorry" her voice was much softer now, fear evident.

Suzaku had not gone very far when he heard a voice calling to him. A voice, Suzaku realised as he span around defensively, that he knew very well.

Gino was here too? Suzaku had heard Gino was alive, Gino and Kallen. Had Gino been taken by the Black Knights as well, if it was indeed the Black Knights who had taken them. Wait? Had Gino just called him seven? He was not the Knight of Seven anymore, he was Lelouch's Knight, the Knight of Zero.

Suzaku blinked, it was a strange name, for him to have a similar name to the name of their enemy. His mind fuzzed, just like when he had tried to think of that girls name. Someone had been messing with his memories.

Gaess, it had to be. Suzaku blinked, he had to concentrate on the things he knew. One was that Gino was here, and probably about to attack him. He had not seen him since there last fight, he doubted Gino's opinion on him had changed.

"Lord Weinberg..." Suzaku's voice was stiff and formal, his fists had clenched ever so slightly.

But before anything could happen someone bumped into his back. Suzaku steadied himself and turned arouns to see a girl a few years younger than him. She sounded terrified as she looked away and Suzaku wondered what had happened to make her so scared. It was another reminder that this place was not safe.

"Don't worry, you didn't hurt me. Are you hurt, miss?"

"It's Gino," He corrected, coming to a stop roughly a few feet away, "Ah, watch-- too late." Had he had any longer, he might have noticed how tense the other Knight was. As it was, he just shrugged it off to him being his usual overly formal self, and crossed the remaining distance to stand by his side as he and the girl apologised to one another.

"Oh, hey! It's Yuki, right? Remember me?" He leaned in, one arm hooking comfortably around Suzaku's shoulders as he grinned at Yuki.

Yuki tensed as he spoke to her, he sounded kind but he could be trying to deceive her, she knew how boys were and the majority just wanted to use her. But she wouldn't let him. "N-no, I'm not hurt" she stuttered, even with her confidence that she wouldn't be used by any boy, she couldn't push down the terror she felt being surrounded by them.

The other boy- Gino, she remembered- was a familiar face and seemed welcoming but he could still be a threat, "Yes, it's Yuki. And you're Gino," she replied quietly, it was the polite thing to do.

Suzaku tensed even more when Gino corrected him. He always had done back when they were friends, before Suzaku became Lelouch's knight. Why would Gino still expect that level of friendship from him now. If it was even possible he got even more tense when Gino flung his arm round him. He had never been comfortable with it when they had been friends and now that they wern't...

Well in his mind they wern't, Gino was acting strange. Suzaku tried to shrug the much heavier man off him and managed a tense smile at the girl who was introducing herself as Yuki.

"Hello miss Yuki, I'm glad you're not hurt." He paused, she was talking to Gino it was porbably not polite to interupt so he stayed quiet, hoping that Gino would get off him.

"Right in one!" Her recognition was encouraging. She looked a little freaked out, but he was used to that. What he wasn't used to was his fellow Knight being almost as tense as Yuki was. He withdrew his arm, so it looked like he was just using him as a leaning aid rather than full-body support. "You changed already, huh?"

Everyone being so polite to her was really starting to shake her up. Maybe they were being nice so once she lets her guard down they could hurt her. With that in mind she decided to let them be polite to her but to not get close at all.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name," She turned towards Suzaku, "and just Yuki is fine."

She was embarrassed by how outgoing Gino was, no guys were like that, that she could remember so his whole demeanor was rather odd. And maybe a bit Sora-like. But still, she couldn't let her guard down.

Suzaku looked at Gino who had half let go of him but was still leaning on him. What was up with the Knight? Could he not remember what had happened, could he not remember their battle? Could it be that Gino had had a Gaess put on him as well?

Suzaku looked at the girl again who was asking her name, he blinked, it had been rude of him not to introduce himself. "I am..." he blinked, "I am..." what on earth was his family name? "Er I am... Suzaku," it would have to do, but what kind of Gaess user would make him forget his family name?

Probably a lot of them actually once he thought about it since he was the son of the former prime minister. Now Gino wasn't holding on to him he could step away and he did, keeping himself ready incase the knight decided to attack him.

"Do you know where we are miss... I mean Yuki," he smiled awkwardly and gave another wary glance in Gino's direction.

Rejected again. Gino raised an eyebrow, but didn't attempt to recapture the shoulder he'd just lost. Instead, he folded his arms to remove the temptation, half-listened for Yuki's reply, and tried to remember what name he'd just heard. There was a 'koo' sound in there somewhere, right? Hmm. Nah, better not. Using just that would probably get him punched.

"It's nice to meet you Suzaku," she bowed her head a bit, either in a display of politeness or submissiveness, possibly both.

The uniform suggested he was part of the school so why wouldn't he know where he is? "We're at Utopia Academy in Japan, and we were chosen to participate in Exaclan. If I remember correctly, Gino has been chosen to be a player so that would make you a weapon this round." She's obviously very knowledgeable about the game.

Suzaku bowed his head as well formally and listened as he finally got an answer to where he was. So they were in Japan! Moreso the girl had said Japan and not Area Eleven... where they in some small pocket of terrorist resistance. Suzaku glanced warily at the Knight of Three once again as if daring him to correct the girl.

But apart from telling him they were in Japan nothing made sense. Exaclan? What was Exaclan? And chosen to participate, what did that even mean? The bit about players and weapons made even less sense and he looked at Gino, even if he still expected the knight to remember they were enemies and try and kill him maybe Gino would have further insight on what the girl was saying.

"Where is this Execlan place Lord Weinberg? Do you know? I saw.. oh the Pilot of Guren... before, have you seen anyone else? Lelouch?"

He looked back at Yuki with confusion written all over his face, "What do you mean by player? And weapon? People can't be weapons..."

"Ha!" Unnecessarily pleased by getting a look from his friend that wasn't suspicious or wary - even if it was just confusion, that was levels better - he rested his hand back on his shoulder. The other one, this time, for variety. "Someone didn't read the manual. It's a game, you know. A game!"

Yuki really had no idea what Suzaku was saying to Gino, she figured something from their home town? Or a code? Either way it probably wasn't her place and she respected her boundaries.

"A player is someone who owns and had vowed to protect his--" she pauses a bit like she's stumbling over words, "--or her weapon. The weapon is drawn out of your chest." She touches her own chest, "I'm a katana."

Suzaku managed not to flinch as Gino's hand came to rest on his shoulder again. He wished the Knight would leave him alone. Manual, what manual? Suzaku blinked remembering the cabinet next to his bed, there had been something there hadn't there. He made his mind up to read it when he returned. But... a game? He had been snatched from his home, from Lelouch and Zero Requiem- another strange name for their plan but his mind went fuzzy when he tried to think it through, to play a game...

He blinked at Yuki in utter confusion, players own people and people had weapons drawn out their chests. The more she spoke the less sense it made. Had they all been drugged? Was this some kind of crazy Refrain dream. He thought Refrain made you relive the good times of your life, not make you dream of crazy weird places and weapons being drawn out of peoples chests.

So it made no sense, but he did not want to insult the girl; wait why would he be worried about insulting a drug induced halucination... Suzaku shook his head. "Alright so a player is someone who owns weapons, those weapons are drawn out of other peoples chests? What are we fighting? Britannia? The Black Knights? The Chinease Federation?" Maybe he had been kidnapped by the terrorists and was going to be forced to fight in their wars, he did not want that. He needed more information. But Gino had said a game.

Suzaku turned back to the Knight, shifting slightly in the hope he would take his hand off him. "You said a game? Whose game?"

Lucky for Suzaku, Gino needed both hands to gesture.

"Nothing serious like that. We're fighting each other, okay? The entire school's a tournament," he waved to indicate 'the entire school' and would have hit Yuki accidentally had she been a foot taller. "As for whoever's running this... No word. We haven't seen or heard from them yet. It's all a bit mysterious."

His arms dropped to his sides, and he added, tone deceptively light, "You just woke up, right? Still out of it? Fighting Britannia, indeed."

It was at that moment that Kevin chose to make his appearance by way of appearing behind Gino and booting him in the shin.

"You're... a real jerk... you know that?" He got out between heavy breaths as he held a hand to his chest and tried to get his breathing under control. Nevermind that it was hard enough to keep up with Gino normally when he made such long strides, but full out running? Not happening.

Not for the first time, Kevin regretted having such a ridiculously tall player.

Yuki nodded, she didn't want to disagree with Gino. Technically it was kind of serious, at least the version she's used to is, and it's more than just a school tournament.

But more pressing things were on her mind, Britannia? The Black Knights? The Chinese Federation? What in the world are they talking about? "What's Britannia?" She asks meekly, hoping she won't get in trouble for not knowing the answer.

Then, as if to make matters worse, another boy showed up! While Suzaku and Gino didn't seem threatening just yet, who knows how this new boy will act. The whole situation just screamed danger to her and she would do anything to get away if she wasn't kind of surrounded.

Instead she just slowly moves closer to the wall hoping she can get away if they divert their attention to the new boy.

Suzaku blinked again at Gino's explanation, a tornamont? He did not have time to take part in a tornamont, he had to get back to Lelouch and back to where he was suposed to be instead of this creapy school full of things that made no sense.

Then Yuki spoke and Suzaku took a step back from the girl who could not be real. She had to be a halucination of some kind, or a trick. She did not know what Bitannia was? "But..."

Suzaku looked round as another figure apprached them and kicked Gino in the shins. Suzaku looked back at the girl though and then at Gino who had finally let go of him.

"Did you hear that? She asked what Britannia was? Lord Weinberg... Gino... where are we.

Ah-hah, he'd used his name. Granted, Gino was a tad too shocked and/or being kicked in the shin to notice, but there was probably a tiny Gino somewhere in his brain doing a victory dance. The rest of him was hopping back to escape the sudden assault from his latest possession.

"Oi, are you allowed to do that?" He didn't deny he was a jerk, though. He could think that if he liked, and then there'd be fewer shattered expectations later. After giving Kevin a vague once-over for his new outfit, he reached out and tugged his collar straight. It gave him time to think. Collar straightened, hair suitably ruffled, answer to the Knight of Seven's question thought up. There, that'd have to do. "Japan, I thought. More importantly... Yuki, you don't know Britannia?"

"Why wouldn't I be? And stop that." Kevin got out as he tried to fend off Gino's hands to no avail. Scowling at Gino's businesslike treatment of his attire and height, when the knight returned to his previous conversation, Kevin took the opportunity to edge away and resettle (read: mess up) his uniform.

Eep. Now they were looking at her. That's the opposite of what she wanted to happen. Go look at the scowling guy please. He seemed to be Gino's weapon and Yuki mentally made a note of that. Would all male weapons pair up with with male players? She needed to see but at the moment there were bigger things to worry about than the trends of male weapons-players, even if they did seem to have an interesting dynamic. It just means they're twice as dangerous.

Yuki tries to calm down a bit, she knows if anything happens Sora would be here to rescue her because Sora rescues everyone.

"I'm sorry? We're in Japan, not Britannia? I've never heard of that place."

Suzaku blinked at the man who Gino was now fussing over. Well it meant he was leaving Suzaku alone, which was good. Suzaku still was confused at why Gino didn't seem to remember the fact they where enemies. But at the moment they had bigger things to wonder about, like this girl and why she didn't know Britannia.

Unless... Suzaku had these strange holes in his memory, and Gino definatly did not seem to remember that him and Suzaku were no definatly not friends so maybe... "Ah, you have forgotten Britannia? It's alright, I seem to have forgotten lots of things as well."

He glanced at Gino for confirmation, it had to be right, whoever was holding them was messing with their memories, probably through Gaess and it meant that this girl couldn't remember Britannia, which explained why she had called Japan, Japan even with Gino who was very clearly Britannian stood right there.

Stepping closer Suzaku placed a reasuring hand on Yuki's arm. "Don't worry I'm sure we will get our memories back, it will be all alright," he said this with much more conviction than he felt. But he would try and work out what was going on, and help Yuki as well, she looked so frightened.

She was pretty confident she didn't forget about Britannia, she's just never heard of it in the first place. They were in Japan! She learned the other countries of the world and to her memory there was no Britannia so they couldn't possibly be there now.

Then he came closer.

Yuki's eyes widened in fear. It was one thing to be brave when Sora was around, but being completely alone with people she doesn't know who talk of lands that don't exist wasn't something she could be brave about.

So she screamed.

Over by the lobby, Sora looked away from her conversation. That sound, it was...

"That's... a scream?" She recognised the voice, too. She took a step away from the others, moving on instinct, then turned on her heel and sprinted towards the dormitories. Someone was about to regret harming a girl; she didn't have to be a Player to fight like this.

Gino quirked a brief smile at Kevin for his objection and re-disordering of his uniform, then frowned back at Yuki. Sure, he couldn't remember what seemed like a lot, but forgetting the largest nation in the world seemed rather difficult. And hadn't Kevin said he'd come from America? He knew they could remove memories, but implanting fake ones wasn't something anyone here was capable of. He hoped.

"Maybe she's telling the-" and then she backed away like a scared rabbit, and he didn't manage to warn the other Knight before he touched her arm and she screamed. Had she been hurt? Concerned, he too took a step forward. Which, in hindsight, was probably a bad move.

The smile wasn't lost on the youth as Gino returned to his conversation. Peering around the pilot to look at the person they were speaking with, Kevin raised an eyebrow in question and was about to ask who she was when she screamed.

In contrast to Gino, however, the blond jumped back in shock and nearly lost his footing upon landing.

"What the heck did you do!?" He yelped, imagining the most innocent scenario possible. Spiders, cockroaches, other... bug things that freaked girls out...

Yuki leaned against the wall and shrunk to the floor, trying to make herself as small as a target as possible so maybe they'll leave her alone.

Please go away, please go away, please go away.

If Sora had been thinking about it, she might have reasoned that these boys weren't from their Utopia Academy. She might have realised it was a misunderstanding, and tried to talk them through it so they'd realise why they shouldn't be complacent about talking to a single girl.

But then again, Sora wasn't thinking. Her princess had screamed, and as she sprinted towards the building the sound had come from, she saw three boys in the academy uniform surrounding a girl. One had his hand on her arm, and she looked terrified. That was enough; Sora's conscious thoughts all but shut down to allow her to focus all her attention on one running leap, sending her past the younger blonde boy and straight into a twisting kick at the one touching her friend. She yelled out a name - she wasn't sure which, in the heat of the moment, but it was definitely one from the list - and lashed out at the last moment so her momentum would - if she connected - shove her target away from 'Reiko' and onto the floor.

Of all the reactions Suzaku expected his words to have this was not one of them. The girl started screaming as if he had hurt her, Suzaku's eyes widened, he didn't take his eyes of Yuki as Kevin spoke. "I didn't..." He didn't really have time to answer questions, Yuki's fear was getting more apparant and Suzaku began to take a step back. What had he done to her? Did his touch hurt her? Was she just fightened?

"I'm sorry Yu..." he didn't even get his apology out before someone came at him at spead crashing into him and sending him flying backwards. Later, when he was not flying through the air, he would be impressed by the kick that had sent him such a distance. But right now his thoughts were only on trying to make sense of the situation. Whatever had happened this new figure had decided he was to blame, and he probably was.

"I'm sorry, I didn't to scare her!" Or hurt her or whatever he had inadvertantly done.

Lelouch was drawn by the screaming as well. He was a fair bit closer than Sora, but he moved more slowly so he arrived shortly after Sora's attack on Suzaku. "What is going on here?" his voice was stern, authoritative. Much like one he used in battle. "Sora, that is my Knight. He means no harm."

Gino had, to use the vernacular, no clue whatsoever about what was going on here. He had some vague guesses about Yuki and Koharu and their apparent mistrust of him, but they had mostly been about him being Britannian and them being Elevens. Apparently he was wrong on that count. What he did know was that someone had just crashed into the Knight of Seven and was now pinning him to the floor, so he started with that. The red-haired assailant was light when he reached to pull her off her target, and - apparently, as he had to hurriedly alter his grip - also a girl. Whoops.

"Hey, this is kind of a misunderstanding," he started, as he dragged her up so Suzaku could stand, but she seemed to be listening more to - Lelouch? What a coincidence. He stopped moving too, to catch the rest of the sentence, and blinked. "Your Knight? Since wh-"

[warning penalty activated: Sora Himoto and Gino Weinberg]

In unison, both he and the girl had their replies cut off into yelps of pain, and slumped to their knees as blazing agony shot through their skulls. Unfortunately, that left Suzaku with his legs still trapped by the weight of two teenagers.

Edited 2011-01-05 14:48 (UTC)

What. The hell?

How was he supposed to keep up with all of this? First Suzaku had grabbed the girl, said girl had screamed, someone had gone flying past his face, someone new had arrived, Gino had tried to rectify the situation before both he and the flying-past-his-face-er had gone down on Suzaku.

All in a span of... what? A couple seconds? Maybe a minute or two? Or maybe that was just him being utterly stupefied because, seriously, what was going on!?

"H-hey!" He got out dumbfounded before moving forward and seizing Gino's arm, trying to drag him up and off Suzaku.

To no avail, it might be added.

Yuki stared wide eyed up at Sora, she was happy to see her but she was Yuki not Reiko.

"I'm Yuki" she whispered as she clentched her fist and stayed curled up against the wall. If she noticed the arrival of Lelouch or the confusion everyone else was faced with, she didn't react to it. Nor did she notice the warning penalty.

Having ended up on the floor with the momentum of her jump, Sora's hands had been firmly planted, one against the boy's chest and the other pinning the offending wrist to the ground. Unti she was lifted, that is. She couldn't fight back from this position, so she was in the perfect place to watch Lelouch walk up.

Wait, what?

Like the guy currently trying to pull her off his friend, she managed a baffled, "He's your-" before the penalty cut in, but unlike him she was more than used to the pain it triggered. She gritted her teeth, now supporting the boy rather than being lifted by him. When someone pulled at the guy now slumped onto her, it gave her the leeway she needed to twist away and under his arms, and get to her princess. With the loss of his grip, the penalty faded, leaving behind just a dull, pounding headache.

"Are you okay?" She dropped back to her knees, automatically shielding her from the others. It didn't matter that she knew Lelouch at that moment, she looked terrified huddled against the wall like that. Sora took her hands in her own, pulling them close, and their owner with them. "I'm here. I'm here now."

Suzaku found himself well and truly pinned to the floor by the red haired girl who had leapt at him. His guilt at whatever he had done- he still wasn't sure on that yet, was overshadowed by surprise and slight relief when he saw Lelouch there. Lelouch was safe! Even if he had been taken and brought to this place too, he looked unharmed.

Suzaku watched, there was not much more he could do pinned to the floor like he was as Gino tried to pull the girl off him and they both ended up screaming in pain and collapsing. What was it with this place? Touching people brought you pain? But Suzaku was not hurting, well no more than the fact he had the weight of Gino and Sora on top of him. And he had not felt pain when he had touched Yuki but she had screamed. What was going on?

Sora seemed to wriggle away and went over to Yuki standing like she was her protector. Which she might be for all Suzaku knew, Suzaku looked up.
"Erm Gino? Are you arlight, can you get up? You're really heavy you know!" Once he was back on his feet, then he could work out what was going on and how to solve it.

He tried to hide his embarasment at the fact he had been pinned, and the fact everybody had seen it.

Lelouch went to Gino, and focused more of his effort on getting the overly tall kid off of Suzaku, rather than back onto his own feet. He could take care of himself. And besides, he just wasn't that strong. Once he'd done that, he turned to Sora and Yuki. "Miss... Yuki, was it?" he asked. He'd thought her whisper sounded a bit like that. "Are you alright?" he asked. His tone had changed completely, instead of stern, it was gentle now.

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Wandering the corridoors

AKI feel free to bring Kevin in! Didn't want to godmode him <3

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MEANWHILE...

BACK AT THE DORMS...

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