Yay! Another chapter. I'm afraid I'm unlikely to keep this speedy updating up though..... although reviews are motivating....

I went to him and I waited outside his window, I knew it was his room, because he was there and he looked.....frightened. I was lucky there was a balcony. He looked very surprised, but he let me in none the less. His mother... Seimei's mother was thumping against his door, shouting nonsense....screaming, I started to see Ritsuka's wounds in a new light and felt the need to hurt the woman, "She's irritating, want me to calm her down?"

He wasn't really listening, he was hunched over his computer eyes glued to the screen, I was surprised he had one, his room was pretty basic, "It's just my mom."

I had realized this, "What do you want me to do?"

He was too busy concentrating to get very angry, but I could still see it.. a little.. in his face," She's my mom, Seimei's mom. You don't need to do anything to her, okay? Forget her." He turned his full attention back to the screen, muttering to himself, "Is this what I'm looking for?" The mouse hovered over a file entitled Ritsuka, "Crap! He locked the folder. I gotta remember the password..." Though I doubted it was a case of remembering, Seimei was unlike to have told anyone that password, it just had to be something that Ritsuka would know.

He hesitated before typing Beloved into the keyboard. He swore at the screen, it hadn't worked, what would have Seimei have picked? I pulled a cigarette out of my pocket and then my lighter, as Ritsuka froze, before asking me, without taking his eyes of the screen, "Soubi?" Panic in his voice, "what's my real name?"

"Your real name is...." Of course, Seimei loved only one person.... and ironically it wasn't Beloved, or rather the person formerly known as Beloved, "Loveless."

"That's horrible! Who the hell decided that should be my name?!"

I jumped, people usually loved there names, it made it hard for me as a blank fighter, I was almost glad that Ritsuka hated his name, after all he wasn't without love.

I took a long drag from my cigarette and smirked, "Who indeed? You're not the only one who wants to know," There is s much I don't know about Septimal Moon. "I do know that it was determined before birth." He has no option, no choice, just like fate and I thought I would have a choice... as a blank fighter, but it was just an illusion.

His voice thankfully tore me from my thoughts, "Good! I'm in!" He began to read the words, the last things that Seimei had left him and I refused to look, I knew what they where about and I didn't need this painful reminder of Seimei or his orders, I wanted to pretend for a second, that I was doing this for Ritsuka alone and not for Seimei.

I knew Ritsuka had finished when his ears flattened against his skull and he began to shake with fear, or rage and I just stood there, because without someone else I am nothing. His voice shook like his body, "His....his fighter?" He turned to me....so it was rage, "What's he talking about?! Soubi?!" This scared child is my new Master, "Are you only hear because Seimei told you to find me?!"

No because I love you, "Yes."

This trembling voice is the voice of my Master, "But you...said...you loved me! Said it again and again!" Ritsuka....could it be that you have fallen for me?, "Why?! Just because Seimei told you to?!" I love you, "Soubi! Give me an answer!"

I wanted to cry, "You're right." I always followed Seimei so blindly.

He gasped and his eyes widened, "So Seimei 'ordered' you to love me?!"

My face was emotionless, but my heart was breaking, "Yes."

He bowed his head, closed his eyes, I bowed mine in response, the usual blond curtain covering my face, "And you always did everything he told you to do? You could do that?"

Could it be that he was beginning to understand? "I can and I did. His word was absolute." It still is, " And it's your orders that I now obey. It's what Seimei wanted."

"Then here's my first order!" I could the tears in his voice, "Don't love me!" It's too late, "It's not right!"

I looked up, desperate for him to understand, "But I do love you."

"Shut up! I won't listen to this!" Tears where dripping down his face.

I held back my emotions, like I always did, "Even so, you need me to fight for you. Don't cry."

His eyes opened, but he was staring at the floor, "I'm not!"

I wanted to hold him, kiss him, protect him, be his fighter, take away his pain, but I didn't know what to do, I know he's beginning to love me and no one has ever loved me back, it's always one sided. So I walked away, but I will return. He needs me and I need him.