Title: The Best Way
Author: kbtwilight
Fandom: xxxHolic
Prompt: 033 "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." -Francis Maitland Balfour
Claim: General for Tsubasa RC and xxxHolic
Completed: 2/200
Rating/Warnings: PG/Slash (implied), Spoilers through Volume Nine... maybe more
Word Count: 451
Summary: Doumeki knows what's going on, Watanuki's still trying to figure it out.
Notes: There are two reasons you should be kind to me for this. It's my first xxxHolic fanfic and it was finished at 2:45 this morning when my insomia decided to have its way with me.
Disclaimer: These dears belong to CLAMP not to me. No copywrite infringement was intended.

It was too quiet. Things were never supposed to be that quiet if Watanuki Kimihiro was anywhere in the area. Things were especially not supposed to be this quite when he, Doumeki Shizuka, was also in said area. It was unnatural , and it was making aforementioned archer nervous, not that anyone could tell.

"Oi."

"My name's not 'oi.'" The familiar reply would have been comforting if it had had any heat behind it. Instead the bespectacled boy sounded very distracted.

"What happened?" Watanuki turned to face him finally, confusion in his heterochromatic eyes. "What makes you think something happened?"

"You're quiet." There was the tantrum he had been waiting for. Doumeki went back to eating his bentou, momentarily content. Then the silence came back, forcing Doumeki's attention back to the other boy. It was a few minutes before Watanuki spoke.

"It's just… Yuuko-san said something." Ah, SHE was involved, that explained it. "To a customer." The smaller boy added quickly. That part was an obvious lie but the archer waited for him to continue nonetheless.

Watanuki took a deep breath and plunged forward, "He had this friend, but their relationship had changed and he wasn't sure how act around them anymore." Doumeki couldn't see Yuuko giving out relationship advice, to a customer (who would probably look for it somewhere else) or otherwise. "She said that in order for them to move forward he needed to figure out what their new relationship was, then I could figure out how to treat them."

The smaller boy was steadfastly refusing to make eye contact so Doumeki was relatively certain he was talking about the two of them. He was aware of what direction their relationship was going in, he was… happy with it. Watanuki had just asked to be clued in, since he apparently couldn't figure it out on his own. Doumeki knew that the smaller boy hadn't figured out yet what had changed; he was still getting those curious looks rather than mad blushes temper tantrums of a greater volume. Glancing up from his bentou, Doumeki considered explaining the new status quo, then he mentally smirked, it would be more entertaining when he figured it out on his own.

"Don't know about the relationship part but 'the best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.'"

Watanuki was giving him a very odd look when he finished. He was silence for a minute before mutter, "sounds like something Haruka-san would say."

"Nah, just some guy."