Chapter 10: Sanctuary

Seishirou congratulated himself on his great luck. Even though Kamui had called him half-hysterical in the middle of the night he considered it a success. He had not expected Tooru to get angry that quickly. He thought he would have to slowly talk Kamui into moving in with him instead. Teenagers were greedy and self-centred and Seishirou knew he was better at calming whiny youths than Tooru was. She had been calling like crazy and Kamui refused to talk to her. When Seishirou heard the phone once again he decided he had enough.

"Do not call me again," Seishirou said. "If you keep on trying on to talk to Kamui I will kill you."
"You what? You can't threaten me! I'm going to call the police."

Seishirou laughed and Tooru went cold. "Do you really think that would help Tooru? I have people taking care of such things for me. Take my advice, leave it alone. You threw Kamui out, giving me exactly the chance I was waiting for. And if you like, tell Kamui about this little chat. I doubt he believe you anyway."

"Bastard," Tooru mumbled. "Fucking bastard.."

Seishirou hung up, rather pleased with himself. He hoped the annoying bitch was worried.

"That was a cruel thing to do," Kakyou pointed out as Seishirou got ready to leave.

"Don't sneak around in my personal life," Seishirou said, but without any true malice. After all, who would Kakyou talk to? The Seer wasn't comfortable around other people and he was crazy about Seishirou either way. "Besides, it is Tooru's own fault."

Kakyou shrugged. "I just think it's cruel of you to try to involve Kamui in your horrible family."

"I will not introduce him to Setsuka. I kept her away from you, didn't I?"

Kakyou sighted. "I guess.. But I don't understand why she hasn't even tried to mess with your wards. Or think it was a good idea to let me live with you."
Seishirou gave him a bright smile. "I hate my mother and I want to kill her. She knows this as well as I do. But we smile in each others faces and we keep up the appearance of loyalty. When we have dealt with the current threats I will fight her. Until then I will keep on doing whatever best for the family."
"You are so incredibly screwed up," Kakyou said. "But I hope you win.."

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Seishirou left and Kakyou was bored. There was nothing on the TV, he wished he had remembered to ask Seishirou to buy some more movies for him. Sure, he could order some. But that wasn't instant gratification. And this early Kotori wouldn't be asleep either.

In the end he spent a few hours tracing the wards around the apartment. It made him feel safe, he worried a lot about getting taken by the government again. The wards were very impressing. If someone tried to enter uninvited there wouldn't be enough left of them to identify. Dispell the wards was hardly an option either, since the tree was deeply involved in the spell. Going one on one with a murderous, bloodthirsty tree didn't sound like a good idea. Strangely enough the wards did not stop someone from leaving the place. Kakyou was pretty sure that Seishirou had tagged him somehow though, but he hadn't noticed it and thus it was perfectly fine.

These days Kakyou enjoyed sleeping lightly and wandering off in strange new directions. But he had feared it when he was a child. His magic had always been impossible strong. He used to get lost in other people's nightmares and wake up screaming after seeing images he was too young to understand. People didn't understand how draining being a Seer was. Well, maybe Seishirou had an idea. Seishirou had told him that the Sakurazuka had their own Seers back in their days of glory. But while the assassin did have a very good understanding of humans he did not particularly care for them. Kakyou liked to imagine he cared about him, but the feeling was probably more amused. It was good enough though.