Kamui and the Seven Chibi

Author's Notes

Warning: This fanfic has shonen-ai, also known as boys' love. If you don't like it, don't read. You have been warned.

Disclaimer: X/1999 and its character does not belong to me, or I won't be writing this fic, I'll be making it real.

Seluna says: I had the most brilliant idea one day to turn X characters into fairytales characters and somehow it evolved into this, a whole bunch of fairytales thrown into one. But it's just so cute in my imagination that I had to write it down! Anyway, this used to be separated into 2 chapters, and I combined it into one longer one. ;; Hope the old readers don't mind.

Chapter 1 – Once upon a time, there lived

Once upon a time, long ago, there lived a prince called Shirou Kamui. He is very beautiful, though he's only sixteen. His fair skin is as white as snow, his tousled hair is as black as ebony and his big eyes were as purple as the most beautiful amethyst.

He lived with his husband of one year and a week, famous Prince Monou Fuuma who woke the Sleeping Beauty Kuzuki Kakyou, in a castle with a weird architecture design which resembles a tall metal tower. To make things weirder, the castle is in the very centre of a huge sakura forest.

Apart from his parents, King and Queen Shirou's tragic death in a fire a year ago, Kamui leads a happy life with a doting husband until recently, his pet parrot Kotori died.

Upset, he decided to take a walk and angst in the royal sakura garden. One hour later, when he's finally feeling better, he discovered that he's no longer in the royal garden but lost in the sakura forest.

Then he remembered, that the Royal Sorceror cum gardener, Sakurazuka Seishirou had informed them that he's trying to re-locate some of the sakura trees during the month and they should avoid going into the garden. Kamui had forgotten all about it in his sadness and now, he is lost.

Then, he recalled something that distressed him further. Fuuma is away from the castle to deal with a witch named Kanoe, and Kakyou, who became Fuuma's second wife two months ago, has gone back to his kindom to take sweet revenge on his parents, with the royal trio's adopted son, Kazuki Nataku and last of all, the royal sorceror Seishirou had gone out of the castle on another of his search to find his lover Sumeragi Subaru, who is the Royal Magician who disappeared one year, nine months, nine weeks and nine days ago after Seishirou accidentally put his sister Sumeragi Hokuto in a coma.

Cursing his sudden bad luck, Kamui began to walk aimlessly and shout occasionally. Now, every dark cloud has a silver lining, so one of his shouts attracted the attention of a young girl wearing a red hood with a dog.

"Uhm... hi." Kamui spoke shyly but gladly. "My name is Shirou kamui and I'm lost. Can you help me?"

The girl smiled cheerfully and offered her right hand while patting the dog with her left one. "I'm Yuzuriha Nekoi and this is Inuki. We are lost too."

Kamui sweatdropped but shook her hand anyway. Then he asked politely, "Then do you know which direction to the castle?"

"No, but Inuki smelled something other than sakura scent in that direction," she pointed to one of the three paths there. Suddenly, a pair of cat ears popped up on her head as she looked at Kamui with an interested and excited expression, "Are you from the castle? I just came to this kingdom recently so I haven't see anyone from the castle. Do you live there?"

"Eh... yeah, something like that." Hastily, Kamui answered as vaguely as he can and quickly brought the subject away from the castle, "I went for a walk and got lost in here. What about you?"

"I was running an errand for my grandma when I saw this strange wolf which Inuki didn't even bark at. And you know what? The wolf talked to me!"

Kamui's eyes widened at the mention of a talking wolf. "Talking wolf? Does one of its ears look silvery to you?"

"Ah? Yeah yeah! You know the wolf?" The cat ears returned promptly.

"Huh? Eh... no. My friend told me about it" In actual fact, it's Fuuma who told him about the Guardian of Animals that made the sakura forest its home. It is actually a man who can shapeshift into any beast he wants. According to Fuuma, the Guardian named Kusanagi is a very nice guy and Kamui is sure that Kusanagi can help him home. "What did it tell you?"

"Oh. The wolf told me to leave the forest before it ran in this direction. I followed it here then it disappeared."

"Oh." Could it be that Kusanagi is helping him? Or this is just plain coincidence?

"While Kamui sank into his own thoughts, Yuzuriha noticed that Inuki was sniffing at something on the ground. She knelt down and saw a crumb of bread and picked it up, grumbling, "Who would be so bad as to litter in the forest?"

Then she saw another, a little distance away and another. Puzzled, she stood up and nudged Kamui, "Does the people here like to feed birds while they walk or something?"

"Huh?" Kamui looked up at Yuzuriha as she broke his line of thoughts. Ashamed at drifting off, he looked at the bread crumb in her hands and came up with a stupid reply, "No. Maybe there are more people sharing our bad luck of getting lost in this forest."

"Hmm... Maybe. Let's follow the pieces of bread and see. Afterall, Inuki said it smelled some other things this way."

Sweatdropping at her thoughtful expression, Kamui agreed and the two new friends followed the bread trail, chatting happily.

After a while of walking and talking, Kamui and Yuzuriha heard shouts from the path ahead of them. Curious as cute kitties, they went forward quickly and saw a girl with unusally long and straight hair yelling vulgarities that will even make a prostitute blush at a flustered looking boy in front of her.

It took a moment for the couple to notice Kamui and Yuzuriha who were gaping with a face color that rivals a tomato. The girl turned red and stopped scolding abruptly causing the boy to exhale deeply before grinning sheepishly.

After a few awkward minutes, the boy stepped forward and spoke in a good-natured way, "My name is Arisugawa Sorata, and this pretty miss here is my fiancee, Kishuu Arashi. Sorry that you have to hear our little argument. She's pretty nice actually."

Being the less shy one, Yuzuriha giggled and returned the courtesy, "I am Yuzuriha Nekoi and this is my new friend Shirou Kamui. The dog with me is my best pal, Inuki."

"Shirou Kamui? As in the First Princess Shirou Kamui?" Arashi spoke up, eyes wide from surprise and all. Similar expression can be seen on both Yuzuriha and Sorata.

Caught unprepared, Kamui blushed cutely and stammered, "Ye-yeah, but I wo-would really appreciate if you don't make a big deal out of it."

"So you really live in the castle." Yuzuriha stood nearer and grinned her kitten-like grin at Kamui whose face went redder by a few shade, "Why didn't you say so? You could tell me all about it just now."

"I-I wanted to bring you to the castle as a surprise after we get out of this forest." Kamui thanked all the gods he know that his mind can actually function well to come out with a quick excuse. "It would be more fun that way, ne?"

Yuzuriha broke into a impossibly wide smile right in front of Kamui's face and hugged him with much happiness oozing out, "Thank you, Kamui-chan!"

Having never been hugged by anyone except his dear husband and parents, the redness on his face that had faded just a itny-weeny bit came back full force, with reinforcement too. It seems like having no air coming in and going out of his lungs helped a tremendous bunch too.

The couples who were watching them noticed that Kamui seemed to have his air supply cut off and kindly decided to voice a reminder, "Eh.. Yuzuriha-san. Would you mind not hugging Kamui-san so hard?"

"Huh? OH!" Hastily, she jumped back a few step and apologised embarressedly to the wheezing and choking bishonen, "Gomen, I was too excited."

"N-no problem. I understand," said Kamui, after his coughing fit died down. He turned to face Arashi and Sorata and smiled a little, "Thank you for your help."

"Don't mention it." Sorata grinned sheepishly, "But we would really appreciate it if you can help us out of this forest. We are kinda lost."

At Sorata's statement, Kamui and Yuzuriha looked at each other and in perfect coordination, asked the same question, "Are you the ones who dropped the bread crumbs?"

The effect of the question amused Kamui to no end, as Arashi rapidly turned into a dangerous shade of red that guaranteed that should there be a bread near her face then, it could be well toasted. Sorata, on the other hand, went through expression changes of surprise, happiness, smugness in merely one second first, then paled and winced visibly when he caught sight of Arashi's face.

As expected, the volcano exploded and the lava flowed swift and hot, "This unfortunate excuse of a fiance of mine whose brain seems to be tinier than an ant had the bleeping guts to bleeping waste the precious bread I stole from that bleeping bleep of a bleep woman's kitchen! Do you bleeping know how bleeping hard it is to do that! Obviously you don't have the bleeping brains to even consider that bleeping question!"

"I know you are trying to save us some food, but I really would prefer to go back and tell my grandfather, then move to other places." Sorata said in a small voice, with his head down.

"HA! How naive can you get! That bleeping woman had bleeping planned to get rid of me all along. That bleep hates me, and will do anything to take away my happiness. Why do you think I just grabbed you and ran away? Plus, I have already made arrangements for your grandpa to move once we are gone. There's no bleeping use to go back, do you understand now!"

Seems like Sorata doesn't really have an ant-size brain as he understood Arashi's reason for her actions fairly quickly and the comical anime-kind waterfall of tears flowed from his now bigger-than-Kamui's watery eyes. "Arashi-chan..."

"For God's sake, don't add '-chan' to my name." Arashi rolled her eyes and sighed exasperately, but if one is observant enough, he can see the sweet tender love in the lady's eyes.

As much as he is reluctant to, Kamui fake-coughed a few times to get the infatuated couple's attention as he noticed that the sky had started to darken. They blushed like a pair of teenagers (which they really are, of course) when they finally realised they are not alone. "The sky is getting dark. I figure it would be better if we get out of here before it is night."

"I apologise for my behaviour, Kamui-san. I agree, it is getting late." Arashi managed to recover her composure and spoke politely.

Kamui had never been comfortable with formalities and quickly made it known, "You don't have to apologise to me, Arashi-san. There's no need to treat me as royalty. I'm only Shirou Kamui now."

"Okay, if it's fine with you." Arashi shrugged casually. "Anyway, if I'm not wrong, we can get out by continuing on this path but I have no idea how long we have to walk."

"At least we now have a clue." Kamui sighed in relief. He's getting a little sick of the pink cherry blossom's smell. Inuki nodded intelligently in agreement.

So, the small group of newly acquainted people went on their way, alarming the birds with some sudden laughter as they get to know each other better.

Soon, it became dark and the forest was starting to get eerie. Lucky stars seems to finally shine on the four people (and one dog), as they saw a small cottage small way off the path.

"Hurray, we don't have to sleep outside with all the owls staring at us!" Sorata cheered as they walked towards the house.

Then, they noticed something strange. The cottage is giving off a unique scent. One that little kids recognise as easy as ABC and love as much as their own parents. The house, seems to be make of... CHOCOLATE!

"Wow! I never know that there are houses made of chocolate in this country!" Yuzuriha exclaimed in happiness.

The others now have a few sweatdrops each on their head. Arashi and Kamui's sweatdrops increased when they hear a low rumble from Sorata's stomach. Owner of said stomach decided to look like a strawberry and asked embarressedly, "Shall we ask the owner of this place to let us stay overnight?"

Trying hard to refrain from laughing out loudly, the other three nodded and focused their attention on making their face as normal as they can.

They went to the door and was about to knock when the door flew open and a woman dressed in kimono flew out from the house. She cackled evilly and started to chant in some sinister language.

"Kamui! What are you doing here?" A pair of widened green eyes stared at the young princess in the small group from the doorway.

"Subaru!"

"Get out of the way!" The Royal Magician took one look at the chanting woman and shouted frantically. He drew out a few ofudas and started his own chant.

Kamui quickly pulled his new friends away from the door and stood as far as they could from the Sumeragi and the woman, which isn't too far, given there are trees around.

"Who are they?" Yuzuriha whispered to Kamui. Arashi and Sorata looked vaguely interestedly at him.

"The black hair young man is Sumeragi Subaru, my best friend and the Royal Magician. I don't know who the woman is. But she's quite familiar-looking..."

He tried recalling where he had seen the woman, as her appearance is not what one would call ordinary with the crazy length of white hair. He felt close to remembering when Sorata's shout jolted him from his thoughts. "Oh no! Look out!"

Kamui looked up at the last minute to see a blinding flash of light enveloped everything, including himself. He clamped his eyes shut to escape the brightness.

When finally he opened the violet orbs of his after the light faded away, what he saw send him into tremendous shock.

Subaru, the woman, his new friends and he had just been shrunk! Not only that, all of them seems a bit chubbier and their eyes seem bigger and overall, they became cute as teddy bear! Even the strange woman!

They have become what anime and manga fans affectionately named... Chibi(s)!

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