Chapter 108: Blearily

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But, if she would accept his help, he would do his best to develop a strategy that would deliver her to victory.

"Found you!" Akeno's voice shouted right by his ear, having snuck up on him as he was distracted by the conversation. "And peeking in the hot springs? You naughty boy!"

"Akeno, fuck!" Lelouch jumped and slipped off the branch, the last thing he remembered was seeing the ground and thinking, 'I am going to get her back for this.' Before his head crashed on the stone tiles of the hot spring floor and he was knocked out cleanly.

The next thing Lelouch could feel was a pulsing headache as he lay on what had to be the softest cloud in existence. "Fuck." He drew out the word for some time before he took a deep breath and tried to remember what happened.

"Oh, good you're up." Akeno said by his bedside. "Sorry about making you fall out of that tree, I just meant to surprise you, not crack your head open.

" Blearily, Lelouch opened his eyes and shifted to stare to the left. All he could see was a dark blur before he blinked a few times and Akeno's shape slowly formed.

Like some kind of twisted Rorschach test.

"I'm going to kick your pretty little ass all over the fields." Lelouch swore, still mildly concussed. Or at least he told himself it was mild.

"Oh, you think my ass is pretty then?" Akeno teased the concussed Knight with a grin. She had changed out of her dominatrix outfit and into a nurse's outfit Lelouch was positive fit no hospital regulations.

"Nice to know you don't just like me for my electric personality." A lightning bolt flickered between two of her fingers at that.

"No, just no." Lelouch deadpanned, his eyes half-lidded. "That pun was terrible." He tried to sit up before he noticed the world spinning in the wrong direction.

It wasn't supposed to spin up and down at the same time, right? The odd spinning and the weight on his shoulder preventing him from moving his right arm both kept him trapped in bed.

"Huh?" Lelouch choked down the bile that sprung up in his mouth as the world spun and saw the ears of his favorite Nekoshou twitching as she slept on him. "What the fucking hell happened?" Lelouch blinked as he tried to reorient his swirling vision. Just how concussed was he?

"Well," Akeno drew the word out far longer than necessary as she looked away contritely. "I may have gone a little overboard with your training today, I forgot you hadn't eaten since lunch yesterday and I'm pretty sure that's why your reflexes were so dull when you fell out of that tree.

" That, and she had forgotten to release him from her binding spell so he could use his wings to avoid crashing as he was unable to do both quick enough on his own, but that was neither here nor there.

"I'm sorry about that." While she had meant to tease him about his hiding place, it had been a good one until it was the last place she had to look, she didn't mean to hurt him like that.

"You were hunting me since dawn, I'm pretty sure that qualifies as overboard regardless of the last time I ate." Lelouch snarked, feeling woozy and a little snippy right now.

"How long have I been out?" He asked, slowly moving his right arm to begin petting Koneko on her head. Her purring was soothing to his ears as he listened for Akeno's reply.

"Only a few hours, Asia had a little trouble healing you, but it wasn't too difficult." Akeno's answer satisfied Lelouch, for now. He would have to thank Asia and apologize for his actions towards her during their spar soon, but for now he was too awake to sleep.

When Akeno stood up to leave him and Koneko be, he spoke up. "I'm too awake to really fall asleep and I don't think waking up Koneko would be the best idea right now, would you please stay and talk with me?" Lelouch asked politely.

Koneko had been in the hot spring when he fell out of the tree and he would like to have a second witness around to prove he hadn't been spying on them like Issei if she woke up.

Akeno turned and returned to her seat with a grin. "What would you like to talk about?" She asked, eager to speak with Lelouch when he was technically alone.

Even if Koneko was currently sleeping on him, she was in a very deep sleep right now so this could be Akeno's chance to set things up so she could spend time with Lelouch alone. Perhaps even arrange a date.

"I'm not sure." Lelouch was just trying to fend off boredom for the moment until the sun rose and training would begin again. Or he felt tired enough to sleep, whichever came first.

"Well, why don't you tell me how you met Rias? You've clearly been good friends for a long time." He was curious to get to know the dark-haired sadistic Devil who tortured him and then decided to watch over him to make sure he was okay. She was an odd one.

Akeno frowned, but decided to answer. "I was running away from my family after my mother was killed." Her answer drew a sharp breath from Lelouch and so she gave him a hollow grin.

"Yeah, I was only a child, but the ones who killed my mother wanted to kill me too and my father was nowhere to be found.

" She growled when she remembered how her father had abandoned them, even hearing the name Baraqiel in the academic session had pissed her off.

"It was Rias who ended up saving my life and turning me into her Queen." Akeno puffed up her chest with pride, and to tempt Lelouch to look.

When his eyes remained on hers rather than going to her bouncing breasts, she felt a mix of happiness and irritation. "We've been close friends ever since." And that was the abridged version of her little history.

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