Summer is for sorrow

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku Kururugi and you
Setting: Graveyard, floor 11
Format: Either
Summary: As spring turns to summer Suzaku realises Nunnally is gone and then storm watches.
Warnings:

[Graveyard] The heat was unbearable, the rain had been bad but Suzaku had never like summer. Too many bad memories came with the heat of summer and as he slowly made his way to the graveyard he suspected another was about to be added to the list.

His flight suit clung to him uncomfortably, his cloak was abandoned in his trunk. He was silent as he entered the graveyard floor and began to study each grave, hoping beyond all hope that the one he was looking for wasn't there.

Except it was, of course it was. Not much showed on Suzaku's face, he just reached out to steady himself on the headstone.

Nunnally vi Britannia

He had to find Lelouch... He stood up, feeling dizzy, it felt strange to be so dehydrated after all the rain just the day before.

[Floor Eleven] This was almost worse than the dry heat of before, the air was heavy and choking. Suzaku had spent the day searching for food to give out to those he knew and fighting off the fire monsters. He had ended on this floor, the waterfall that usually spilled over the tower was gone, yet there was thunder rolling in the distance and the room lit up with lightning.

Suzaku had once tried to escape off this floor, he and Link, a crazy badly thought out escape using bedsheets. His first 'death'.

He sat down at the edge, dangling his feet off the side of the tower and looking out into the fog as the air grew heavier and the storm began. It suited his mood, pressure and sorrow ready to explode. Nunnally was gone, her soul lost to her dead world, perhaps forever. Things had seemed helpless for a long time, since another summers day long ago when the distant rumbling wasn't thunder but approaching war.

Yet somehow things had gotten worse... And now they were stuck, lost souls in a tower of madne...

His eyes flashed red and Suzaku blinked in confusion from where he stood at the other end of the floor, walking slowly back towards where he had sat he saw the scorch mark, and another bold of lightning striking not far from him explained what had just happened.

Comments

[gomu_ningen]

"I'm doing better now. I found some real neat floors here in the tower!" [Blissfully unaware of what actually was lurking on the 16th floor. Yup, that's your room mate, Suzaku.] "How's about you, Suzaku?"

[swordofzero]

I'm glad. [His voice sounds hollow even to him, and he does his best to make the next bit sound convincing.] I'm fine.

[gomu_ningen]

[Luffy just starts to chuckle, his free hand holding his stomach as he watched Suzaku with amused eyes.]

"Wow, I never thought I'd meet some one like you."

[swordofzero]

Someone like me? [He blinked, a little confused.]

[gomu_ningen]

"Yeah! You're a worse liar than Usopp!"

[He's legitimately amused by Suzaku's guard. He didn't care about his troubles in the way that most people would. They were important to Luffy, it just didn't matter what they were particularly. More importantly, the ambitious lad was more concerned about what he could do to set things right.]

"It's colored all over your face. Or is it scratched? Yeah! It's scratched all over your face."

[swordofzero]

Oh. [Suzaku looked down, embarrassed he had been read so easily.]

[gomu_ningen]

[Luffy just kept laughing, reaching his free hand out to pat Suzaku firmly on his shoulder.]

"You're just like my friend Usopp. Brave, strong, dependable, and a terrible liar. I wouldn't trade any of that, even if it meant getting out of this tower."

[That teeth filled grin just smiles towards his roomie, all the while laughing his signature "Shishishi~!" chuckle.]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku looked down] You don't know me that well Luffy. [Because dependable, not really something you could use to describe Suzaku.]

[gomu_ningen]

"So? You're dependable to me, so I say you're dependable. I don't need to know you "well" to know that."

[Simple logic, yet deep.]

[swordofzero]

"Oh..." He blinked, not sure what to say to that. He just hoped he wouldn't end up shattering the boys illusions of him...

[gomu_ningen]

You don't think so? Silly, Suzaku. You've gotta' think it, otherwise I'm gonna' look stupid for thinking it!

[That tooth-filled grin brightens their proximity in the dark and damp wild. Reassuring, confident, and proud; that's what that smile is trying to say.]

We're nakama, Suzaku. I believe in you!

[swordofzero]

[He blinks, his cheeriness was catching and though Suzaku didn't smile his frown lessened.] Nakama?

[gomu_ningen]

"Yeah! Nakama! We're friends and family, you and me!"

[swordofzero]

[Family... Suzaku blinked, not sure how to to take this...]

[gomu_ningen]

[Luffy waves his free hand in front of Suzaku's face, not sure why he suddenly went "blank".]

You okay? Is your stomach empty?

[swordofzero]

[He blinks] No. I'm not hungry.

[gomu_ningen]

Did I say somethin' funny? Your face just changed, is all.

[swordofzero]

No. I apologise. You just took me by surprise.

[gomu_ningen]

Oh. Got kinda' worried there for a moment.

[He looks Suzaku over, standing in silence as if he were waiting for some sort of response to the revelation.]

[swordofzero]

Don't be worried about me. I'm fine.

[gomu_ningen]

Hrrmm.. That's gonna' be tough. I can't help but worry. Like I said, Suzaku. You're family. I don't have to worry, but I do.

[swordofzero]

It's been a long time since anyone has claimed me as kin... I'm afraid I'm not very good at being family.

[gomu_ningen]

Well what does it mean to be good at being family? You've got a heart and you're strong, right?

[Yeah, Luffy is gonna' just pick his nose as he looks at Suzaku with an even more puzzled look than before.]

[swordofzero]

I don't know, that's the problem. [He shrugs, but nodded, he was sure there was a bit more to it than that though.]

[gomu_ningen]

Then don't worry about it! You're only human! Come on, you hungry? I could hunt us some thing and cook it easily!