rakuen | [Round 3; Day 4] Write down the things you can't remember.

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[Round 3; Day 4] Write down the things you can't remember.

Characters: Kallen and YOU!
Format: Action
This log is: Open
Location: In the classroom hallways
Summary: Kallen's leaning against the windowsill with a notebook trying to remember the things she's forgotten.
Warnings: N/A

This was starting to get annoying. Ten memories lost, only one of them gained, and hints about the others she lost. Kallen had forgotten how to write her last name in kanji, and through Euphemia, she was able to regain it. Outside of that, she had a lingering feeling that she shouldn't be calling Suzaku her friend or remotely getting close to him. Although she couldn't remember how or why or what the reason could have been. Eating a sandwich was a problem, along with putting on a bra, so she was sure she couldn't remember those. And thanks to Gino (which was something not to be thanked for), she couldn't recognize people and their faces when looking at pictures of them.

Seriously, this was annoying.

She looked down at her list that looked something like this:

- ~~Last name.~~
- Bra
- Sandwich
- Suzaku
- People's faces in pictures.

Of course, the list wouldn't make any sense to anyone looking over her shoulder at it.

Five down and five more to go.

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Utena looked quizically at Kallen, watching her make notes. Certainly there were enough curious things in this school. She doubted this was the same as what Sherlock did though. There was something about Kallen that reminded her of the Fencing Team Captain...proud and indominitable. Like some big cat.

"What are the notes for?"

She instantly shut the book and looked up at Utena. Straightening her position, Kallen turned to talk. "To remind myself of what I've forgotten."

"Oh." Utena's face looked dark for a second before it scrunched up in concentration. "That's probably smart. I don't remember the names of anyone from the last academy I was at. Or the names and faces of my parents."

"I'm afraid that if I don't write it down, they'll make it somehow for me to forget." Kallen shrugged for a moment. "That sounds like a lot."

Suzaku saw the pilot leaning on the windowsill as he walked past. He still felt strange around her, but since she had promised to put their past behind them and since she had defended him against Gino he was starting to feel like he could approach her easier. After all he had never been against the pilot personally, they had got on at Ashford well enough, their causes wern't even that different, it was just the way they went about them that differed.

"Hello," he gave a small strained smile and looked down at Kallen catching sight of what she was writing. His smile turned into a small frown, why was his name on a list, "What's that?" He asked a little more bluntly then he usually was.

Instantly, she shut the book close. Kallen looked over at Suzaku. "Just a list." Seriously, don't sneak up on her like that.

Suzaku raised an eyebrow, instantly suspicious now that the pilot had closed the notebook. He tried to remember what else had been on the list, he hadn't even meant to read it, his eyes had just been drawn to his own name. But now he wanted to know.

"Why was my name on your list?"

"Because I feel like I'm forgetting something when it comes to you." Kallen stood up straight. "It's a list of the things I believe I've forgotten."

Suzaku blinked, she had forgotten something to do with him. He was instantly suspicious, wondering what it could be. Was it something minor? The school seemed to have no actual set way of deciding what a memory was. Because no matter how annoying it was to forget his second name it was nothing compared to the two years of memories Gino had lost.

So it could be anything, Suzaku thought back on the conversations they had had since arriving at the school, trying to work out if there was anything unusual.

Well apart from the fact she had not tried to kill him. Suzaku frowned and then remembered the word that had been just above his name. "Wait you forgot sandwiches?"

Kallen remained quiet for a moment. Just how much of the list did he see?

"How to eat them," she said softly, turning her head away, crossing her arms under her chest.

"Oh." Surely eating sandwiches involved just picking them up and biting them? What a strange memory to lose. "That's an inconvenient memory to lose."

"It is," Kallen simply agreed. "It's frustrating."

Suzaku nodded, it would be he imagined, since eating was something you came across every day and not remembering how to eat something as simple as a sandwhich was... well...

"Have you got any memories back yet?" He asked.

"Just one" she admitted. "My last name. I remembered how to write it in kanji. How about you?"

Suzaku nodded and then shook his head, "No I haven't gotten any back, but I have worked out a few that I am missing," His last name, the pilot in front of him's name, Japanese, Kallen knew about them.

"One seems to be how to drive a Knightmare Frame, I can't even picture the controls in my head." Again it was a memory that while really not a problem, as this world, the school at least didn't have any Knightmare Frames. But it was annoying, something he knew usually without even thinking about it to be taken from him.

"Huh... even if you don't remember it, I doubt it would do you much good here," Kallen said softly. Unless one of their frames suddenly dropped from the sky to suddenly bust them out of this place, it wasn't likely for the impossible to occur.

Suzaku shrugged, "I guess not, it's just annoying not knowing." It was like forgetting Japanese, with the system here it didn't actually matter, he could understand everyone no matter what language they were speaking. But it was part of him, part of who he was that they had taken from him. Here was another.

"So something about me," he didn't want to linger on that he couldn't think of anything that Kallen could have forgotten about him that could be good, "eating a sandwhich and how to write your name, anything else?"

"Yeah, but I don't know what." Kallen shrugged and looked out the window for a moment. "It's pretty useless to force myself to remember because I know it won't work that way, but I can't help but think about the things I've forgotten."

Kallen turned her head in hearing what Suzaku rambled off. Thankfully he didn't see the whole bra bit. "Not that I've been able to figure out," she lied.

Suzaku nodded, he had found that thinking about what he had forgotten, trying to think round the subject trying to pinpoint exactly what it was that he made his head fuzzy.

"I hope you remember soon," he said with a small smile and went to move away.

"Thank you and you should try and do the same. I'm sure Lelouch would be willing to help you more than other anyone else," Kallen said nodding.

"Okay, who's this?" Gino appeared out of apparently nowhere (though a sustained investigation would reveal that he'd just come down the stairs) and waved a photo in front of her. It had taken him about five minutes to work out how to use the self-timer, but he'd done it eventually. "Recognise him?"

Kallen almost jumped out the window. Why did he seriously have to come out of NOWHERE. The book she was writing in dropped to the floor, a few pages turning as it landed. As she picked it back up, she looked at the picture.

Blue eyes stared at Gino and then back at the picture. "No, I don't know who it is. Why? Are you looking for them?"

"Man, they really messed you up with this one." Gino pointed between himself and the photo, in case that triggered it. "You don't recognise this guy at all?"

"No. What are you getting at Gino? You been asking me these questions since the other day."

"Just curious," he replied, lightly, and stooped over to pick her notebook up. "They're good at picking inconvenient memories to take."

"What do you mean?"

"You and 'Seven', for one. I'm surprised you haven't punched him yet, so that's gotta be a lost one. Makes it hard to hate the guy when you're all friendly."

He flipped the notebook back to its most recent page, and blinked.

And blinked again, this time with a grin. "That's quite a list."

"You mean Suzaku. Why would I punch him? You did that to him and I was inclined to stop you. I don't hate him. Should I?" Maybe that was what she had forgotten until the though let her mind.

She didn't notice that Gino had taken the notebook from her and started flipping through the pages. A blush rose to her face as she snatched the book back into her possession. "Don't take things that aren't yours!"

"Oi, wait-- give me that back for a second." He tugged it back, and managed to snag her pen quickly afterwards.

Just to scrawl I don't like ta l s the knight of zero under the list. After that she could have it back. "What's that second one?"

"Gino!" He really needs to learn not to be in people's personal information. Again she took the book back and put it behind her.

Nope, he wasn't letting it out of mind that easily. But he could at least pretend to, for now. If she was pushed any further she'd probably jump out of a window. He took the photo out of his pocket again and scribbled Gino Weinberg! ---> next to his face, and then held it out as a peace offering.

"Right, sorry. Here you go. You should get other people to do the same."

Edited 2011-03-21 12:54 (UTC)

Kallen hesitantly took the picture. She looked at what he had written and then looked up at him. "What's this for?"

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