Chapter 35: Pertains

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"What did I say that convinced you to save me?" Lelouch's query caused Kiba to close his eyes.

"I don't want to die alone, not again." Kiba quoted Lelouch's final words quietly. He would never forget those words.

"Then you cried out for someone named Nunnally." The blond Knight remained silent, letting Lelouch digest what he had told him.

Lelouch felt a sense of numbness overtake his form, not unlike how he felt when he used his Wrath to increase his power.

He had no idea he had revealed so much in his final words a few weeks ago. Hell, he hadn't even known he said any last words! "I see." Lelouch responded, not knowing what else to say.

"I haven't told anyone what you said, I promise." Kiba swore, knowing that Lelouch probably felt concerned about that.

"I won't even ask about what you truly meant by your first sentence right now, though one of my questions pertains to the last thing you said as a human." Kiba sat up and looked at the man who he called friend.

"My first question, is why have you been able to consider Koneko and I friends after all we've done for you?" Kiba asked, causing Lelouch to turn to him and look at the blond from the corner of his eye.

"We have been nothing but good to you, but Rias told me that you can't seem to let us in. I want to know why." Kiba wanted to help the young man he considered a friend of his.

It angered him that Lelouch was unable to feel the same way about them as they did about him.

"The last person I could truly call a friend, before you two, is not with me anymore." Lelouch answered, once again giving a half truth.

"It has taken me some time, but I have managed to work through my own issues somewhat." He patted the blond on the shoulder and gave a small grin.

"I honestly consider you and Koneko my friends, the only ones I have here. I mean it." He squeezed Kiba's shoulder before letting go.

"Thank you both for not letting me close myself off again." Lelouch was genuinely grateful to have two friends he felt he could trust again.

Suzaku was the last person he could truly call his friend, he hoped that his friendships with Kiba and Koneko would turn out better than that relationship.

Kiba smiled, feeling Lelouch's sincerity for once. The man was one hell of a liar, but when he told the truth he acted like a weight was removed from his heart. It was the greatest tell Kiba had ever noticed in his friend.

"Thanks, Lelouch." He leaned back, balancing on his hands as he straightened out his arms so he could stare up through the leaves without slipping back.

"Who is Nunnally, and why did you call out for them as you were dying?" He was curious considering he had never heard Lelouch utter that name before, he wondered why Lelouch would think of them as he breathed his last.

Lelouch took a deep breath, laying back into the grass to stare up at the sky. He closed his eyes, visualizing the sister he had loved so deeply that, when she asked, he gave her the world.

"Nunnally, was my little sister." He began with a sad smile. "She is, without a doubt and without exaggeration, the single greatest sister I could have asked for." He opened his eyes, still seeing Nunnally's smiling face in his mind's eye.

"I would have done anything for her." Hell, he did do anything for her back in his world. "She had long sandy brown hair, and beautiful light violet eyes with a smile that could light up a room.

She was young, but willing to do whatever she needed to make those around her happy." Lelouch's smile faded slightly as he knew it was that quality that had driven Nunnally to try and use the Damocles as the symbol of the world's hatred.

"All she ever wanted was the world to be a gentler place." Lelouch finished solemnly, his smile fading entirely as he blinked away some tears that threatened to spill over at the thought of Nunnally's dream.

"She sounds wonderful, Lelouch." Kiba said once Lelouch finished, staring in surprise as the sheer joy he had seen on Lelouch's face as he spoke about his younger sister.

"Yeah, she was." Lelouch answered sadly, moving to stand up and prepare to continue with his lesson

"Is she dead?" Kiba asked, as Lelouch's way of referring to her seemed to indicate she wasn't around anymore. He stood as well, preparing to deliver his next set of instructions to Lelouch to continue.

Lelouch shook his head, understanding Kiba's assumption. "No, she's with the last person I could truly call a friend before I arrived in Kuoh." Lelouch knew that Zero would protect Nunnally no matter what, Suzaku would do nothing less than offer his eternal dedication to protect Nunnally in his place.

"Let's move on." Kiba declared, noticing how Lelouch was dodging his questions. Still, he resolved, if he ever met Lelouch's sister, to tell her that he had her brother's back.

Kiba laughed slightly before continuing with Lelouch's speed lesson. It was nice to finally have more guys in the ORC.

Issei and Lelouch weren't very much alike, but Kiba was glad to be able to count the both of them as his friends.

Kiba chuckled as he watched a limp Lelouch lay on the couch with his head in Koneko's lap as the petite Devil ate one of the donuts Lelouch had made a few days ago.

She didn't waste a single crumb, which was good for Lelouch as his head was directly below the baked treat and any crumbs would have hit the dark-haired young man right in his eyes.

"You… are… evil." Lelouch groaned in Kiba's direction. "I can't feel my legs you bastard." Kiba's lesson had only gotten worse after the race was over and their talk was finished. Kiba just laughed at his pain.

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