002 [Gryffindor Common Room Video/Action]

[zeros_requiem]

[As the video starts, it looks like Suzaku is in a good mood. Which he's been in since the holiday season, fighting with Kallen aside]

Looks like I made one of the new quidditch teams. Its seems a bit strange that we'll be going up against members of our own houses, but its all a game, so its not a big deal. [Its not like he cared much for the

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[audio]

[gurenpiloting]

Even in quidditch, we'll be rivals.

[video]

[zeros_requiem]

[He's in such a good mood that even you can't spoil it right now.]

Maybe in your mind, but I really wouldn't call us that.

[gurenpiloting]

You wouldn't?

[zeros_requiem]

Nope. I don't see how we would be. At least not in quidditch.

...or in anything else, really, now that I think about it.

[gurenpiloting]

Then how exactly do you define our relationship?

[It's strange how she even got herself in this conversation to start with. Friendship isn't exactly an example she'd use.]

[zeros_requiem]

[Good question, especially considering his role as Zero. He actually has to think about that for a moment or so.]

...I don't. And I don't think I'd want to.

[gurenpiloting]

Let me guess: it'd be complicated as hell.

[Because it is, at least in her head.]

[zeros_requiem]

[Well, he'd choose the words 'immensely fucked up', but that's beside the point.]

I suppose. But it's more that... [how to put this...]

...my former sensei once told me that fighting takes a lot of effort, even if you win, and I'd be surprised at how lazy he could be.

Our war is over, Kallen. You can call us rivals, enemies, or what have you, but I think I'd rather slack off for a while.

[gurenpiloting]

It also absorbs a lot of your energy like a sponge, leaving you feeling drained even if you obtained the results you want.

[She sighs a bit heavily, and this is coming from the woman who's used to fighting so much.]

Tell me, do you really think you're the only one feeling this way?

[zeros_requiem]

I don't know; am I? You tell me.

[Its not like he can read her, and given the way they both started jawing at each other the other day...]

But after our last conversation, I think a bit of laziness would do me some good.

[gurenpiloting]

You want to be lazy?

[It's sort of confusing and possibly funny to her, okay.]

I could understand a break, but...

[zeros_requiem]

Its like being zen, but without all the existential philosophizing.

[gurenpiloting]

Philosophizing sounds more like Lelouch's thing.

[zeros_requiem]

[He'd argue that Lelouch is more into intellectualizing than philosophizing, but that's beside the point. Either way...]

He does spend way too much time thinking about things.

[gurenpiloting]

He'll get a headache every single day if he does that.

[zeros_requiem]

Especially with the way he likes to scrunch his face up.

[He smiles for a moment at the thought, but he realizes this conversation is getting off track. He sobers up a bit as he lets out a breath.]

Listen... I'm not asking to be friends, or for you to forget anything that's happened between us. But... we fought because of things that mattered to us, things that were worth the effort. What's there for us to fight over now?