*are you gonna come to the school for the festival? Kallen does*

"Me? I never get drunk!" Raina protested. "Well, usually, anyway."

(Yeah I'll come! It'll be quite fun I think)

Kiara gave her a 'look' but didn't comment. "Well," she said. "I'll C'ya I guess. Me and Kallen will find something to do while you're not here."

"OK, byee!!!" Raina hugged Kallen, Ougi, C.C., Lelouch and then Kiara again before running off to school. She missed Kiara already.

When Raina was gone a strange quiet settled over the base. Kiara looked at everyone as they went their seperate ways. It was so quiet without Raina...it was strange actually. She sighed in annoyance before deciding to go to the room she'd been asigned while she'd be staying at headquarters and sorting it out. Whoever had been in the place before had been an absolute pig and now she'd have to sort it out. She was NOT looking forward to this...

"Hey, you're late," Milly commented as Raina came into the clubhouse.
"Sorry," she said, smiling. "I wanted to go shopping today so I skipped school."
"Why's Kiara not with you?" asked Rivalz curiously. "I thought you two did everything together."
"She's not feeling well, so she's gone home," said Raina. "I haven't seen her but she phoned me." Suzaku looked up at the mention of Kiara's name. She knew that she couldn't say that she'd been with Kiara that day, because then Suzaku would guess that she was a terrorist as well. She was still mad at him though. He'd held a gun to her head yesterday.

Kiara lay back on her large bed in relief as she finally straightened out the room. It was quite bug actually with plenty of room. She had her Black Knight uniforms but she wouldn't mind something different. She'd need to ask Raina if she could smuggle some of her clothes from her room or something since as much as she loved her black knights' uniform she didn't wanna wear it all the time. She was hungry so she decided that she'd go to where the food was kept. She was sure that there'd probably be some pizza there somewhere since C.C. was in the base so often.

"So anyway, back to business," said Milly. "Rivalz, are you still taking notes?"
"Um... yeah..." said Rivalz, scribbling furiously on a piece of paper trying to catch up.
"What's going on?" asked Raina, sitting down.
"We're going to have a school festival!"

(I've not really got much to say for now. Kiara and Kallen are just jounging around the base mostly. Quite boring stuff really. Do you think I should maybe go to Rakshata and maybe suggest a two pilot knightmjare for us?)

*I think it would be better if she built it herself during the year between R1 and R2 and then surprised us with it when my memories return? We could do a timeskip to the festival for now*

(Okay, I was thinking that'd be the best time to build it anyways since she'd have plenty of time to make the thing then.)

Kiara sighed as she woke up. She yawned and stretched before sitting up and looking at the clock. SHe then looked at the calander she'd pinned up on the wall. Today was teh day of the school festival that Raina had told her about.

(Yes I know it's lame but couldn't really think of anything else to put here)

The day of the school festival. Milly was a slave driver at times, but this was her area of expertise, so everything was going smoothly. They managed to get the giant oven to make the largest pizza in the world onto the school grounds, and the whole place was buzzing with excitement.
Raina had been given a last-minute job with one of the pantomime groups. One of their members had fallen ill, and, knowing what a drama queen she was, hired her on. She was playing the part of a beautiful villain and was getting very into the part.

(Konichi wa Mello-sama!
How exactly does Kallen go back to the school? I can remember her going and playing the bed monster thingy but I can't remember how or why she goes there in the first place...)

*she goes and finds Suzaku with a knife, and demands to know why he hasn't told anyone about her, he says he's not going to give up ont rying to change her mind, then Lelouch comes along and asks Kallen if she could help out in the Haunted House*

(I remembered the conversation betwen Suzaku and Kallen and then her in the haunted house as a bed/rug scary thing -snickers- it always happens to Kallen...)

As Kiara entered the main area of the headquarters she was surprised to see Kallen there but shewas wearing her Ashford Academy uniform.
"Hey Kallen," she greeted. "Why're you wearing the uniform?"
"Because I'm going back to school," she said simply.
"Why?" Kiara demanded.
2Because Suzaku hasn't told anyone who we are and I want to know why." Kallen replied simply.
"I'll come with you," Kiara decided. "It's the school festival today according to Raina and if I don't go then I'm SURE that she'll get herself into trouble..." she trailed off. Raina had mentioned that they had planned on making the world's biggest Pizza and she felt a childish desire to watch that as well as keep an eye on Raina.

Raina was tired after the first acting of the pantomime, her voice slightly hoarse from all the evil laughter. She grabbed an ice slushie from one of the stands and decided to go see if anyone else needed any help. She found Suzaku peeling potatoes.
"Need a hand?" she asked sweetly, wondering if she could pull off stabbing him with the knife "by accident".
"Thanks, I'd appreciate it," said Suzaku. "By the way, Raina..."
"What is it?" she asked, sitting down and grabbing a potato.
"How much do you know about Kiara?" Of course he'd be curious about this. After all, she was Kiara's best friend, and would surely have noticed something about her. He wanted to know if she knew anything about Kiara being a terrorist.
"I know everything about her," Raina blinked innocently. "We're best friends."

Kallen and Kiara made their way back to campus. By the time they got there the festival was in full swing and everyone seemed to be having a good time. It was an open day so Kiara was surprised to see some Japanese people among the Brittanians.
'This is how it should be,' she thought. 'No one's fighting right now, it's sorta like a truce I guess.' Hopefully after the Black Knights had won the war then things could be more like this but that would be a long, long way away. She and Kallen split up and Kiara decided to go in search for Raina.

"Have you noticed anything... strange about her?" he asked.
Raina blinked again. "Everyone's a bit strange, 'Zaku-kun. She goes out pretty much every night and I don't know where she goes, but I'm sure lots of people do that."
She had to say something tha could incriminate Kiara, because he would suspect her of being a Black Knight if she didn't tell him anything. She also had to make him think that she had no clue that Kiara was a terrorist.

There were so many people around the place that Kiara didn't know where to start! She vaguely remembered Raina mentioning something about the drama group but she knew that right now there wasn't a show on so she wouldn't be there. If she couldn't find Raina then she'd have to find C.C. and Lelouch but she wasn't sure where they'd be either. Well she knew where C.C. would probably be, watching them make the giant Pizza. She decided to just keep wandering for the moment; she'd run into one of them eventually.

Suzaku said nothign more and went back to peeling potatoes, and she did too. Then Kallen came in, holding her little pink pouch, which Raina knew contained a knife.
"Raina, Kiara's here," she said. "She's looking for you."
"Right, I'll go find her!!!" said Raina, dropping her knife and running outside. Hopefully she'll stab him, she thought.

Kiara caught sight of purple hair to her right and whirled to see Raina.
"Raina!" she called to her friend. "I'm over here!" She pushed her way through the crowd and finally managed to catch up with Raina. "How are you? Have you seen Kallen or Lelouch around here?"

"Lelouch was up on the roof last I saw him," said Raina, hugging Kiara tightly. "And Kallen was talking to Suzaku... with a knife."

"Uh oh," Kiara said. "Stay here, there's something I wanna ask Suzaku and he's not coming outta there without an answer."
Kiara walked in to see Kallen glaring at Suzaku with her pink purse/knife in her hand. Suzaku's eyes swiveled to see Kiara enter the room and widened in surprise.
"So you did come back," he said. Kiara was glad that he couldnt' see Raina just outside or that could lead to awkwards questions.
"Yeah," she said, slipping her own knife from the cuff of her uniform jacket/blouse thing. "There's something I want to ask you, that both of us wanna ask you actually."
"Why didn't I turn you in?" he guessed. Kallen nodded her head.
"Explain," she hissed at him. Kiara was pretty sure that Kallen was quite keen on the idea of using that sharp knife of hers to slit Suzaku's throat. She'd like to avoid that if possible, at least while they were on school grounds.
"Are you Kouzuki Kallen and Kuchiki Kiara now?" Suzaku asked. Kiara paused at his words. Were they? She glanced at Kallen before she turned back to Suzaku and shook her head. "That's why then. Right now you're just Brittanian Students and not a part of the Black Knights."
"So," Kiara said, sheething her knife. "You still think you've got a chance of turning us away from being Black Knights?"
"Yes," Suzaku answered simply. "Or at least I'd like to try."

"If we meet in battle, I won't go easy on you," said Suzaku. "But while we're in school, I'm going to try and change your minds. Don't you feel guilty about deceiving everyone? Kiara, you're lying to your own best friend!"

"Oh?" Kiara tilted her head, looking at him. "Look who's talking! I mean, if Todou hadn't cut the Lancelot that one time no one would know that you weren't just a macanic would they? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black..."
"But that's different!" Suzaku exclaimed.
"No it isn't," Kiara retorted. "And as long as I can help it I never lie to Raina! She knows enough about me to trust me and I won't misuse that trust." She glared at him for that last comment. "We're fighting for the same thing," she said after a minute. "We may fight in different ways but we're still fighting for the same thing. Surely you can see that. I mean, you and Zero managed to work together to keep the Chinese Fedoration away from Japan. Do you really owe them that much loyalty?"
"I'm a Knight!" he retorted.
"You chose that," Kiare reminded him. "Just remember what I said Suzaku."

"Hey, am I interrupting anything?" Lelouch came in. He glanced at Kiara and Kallen in confusion. "You're in school?"