Fandom: Tokyo Babylon / 東京Babylon
Title: You think one way, I'll look the other
Pairing: Seishirou + Subaru
Rating: PG
Description: Hokuto tells somewhat of Subaru's and her childhood. But it's something that Subaru would rather not discuss. In the end, Seishirou finds himself trying to comfort Subaru not really knowing what to do because he already knew some of this childhood recollection.
Disclaimer: Tokyo Babylon is Clamp's. I'm just in love with Seishirou and Subaru.
Hokuto-chan shook her head and laughed at Seishirou. As she waved her hands up and down, she sat on a stool in his clinic. "You really want to know? Seriously?"
Seishirou gave her a strange look. "What do you mean, 'do you really want to know?' when I just asked you the question?"
"It's just that there are too many stories. He's just so damn funny!" Tears were already in her eyes and Seishirou became even more interested as well as confused at the burst of laughter that Hokuto-chan gave.
"Well, don't tell him I told you this or else he'll get mad at me forever for it..."
You think one way, I'll look the other
by Miyamoto Yui
Chapter 1 - Click, click?
Seishirou nodded his head as he began preparing the coffee with his back towards her. "Now, I'm really curious."
He set the pot on the stove and came back to sit on the breakfast table that now Hokuto had sat upon and crossed her legs.
"First off, you must know that Subaru wasn't naturally this polite before. He was trained to be that way." Hokuto-chan crossed her arms and nodded her head. "Yup, yup. And a good training it was."
Seishirou couldn't believe his ears. Could the boy he had been so fond of, not be the way he had always thought he was? (Does that make any sense?) In a way, this was a cute way of turning his interests on Subaru even a few notches up.
Do you know the feeling when you've been craving for a certain taste but you can't find it? And then when it's presented to you, it's dangling right in front of you but you still can't have it?
["I just want him, if that's what you mean, Miss Author." Seishirou interrupted and smiled towards the narrator...and she swooned. * hot, hot, hot! * =^^=
"Ahem..." she cleared her throat.]
Okay, so, he just wanted him so badly, and was twitching with sexiness, he couldn't stand himself sometimes. It was primal instinct: You look for prey, you kill prey, you consume prey.
And he just couldn't follow the natural order... * sighs *
("I'd like to see some action SOMETIME," the author peers at Sei-chan. Seishirou sweat drops momentarily and sighs. "Okay, okay. Enough about me."
Yui-chan turns chibi, blinks her eyes, and gives an innocent look. "But I can't get enough of you, Sei-chan." * wink *)
Hokuto, who is still crossed armed and nodding, smiles widely. "You promise not to say anything, right, Sei-chan?"
He nodded his head and tilted his head with a smile that said, "And why would I do that?"
"Okay. Our mother said to me before she died..."
(From Hokuto-chan's perspective but from Mom's voice)
So, there we were in Kyoto.
Instead of preparing for one baby, I was amazingly blessed with two. And Ryu? Well, I wish he could have seen his two cute children before he left this world.
Okay, so I could have sworn they seemed like I had six, but that was mostly because Hokuto-chan would never stay in her crib and crawled by the time she turned four months old.
And Subaru? My god.
He did nothing but follow Hokuto, who wasn't a good influence in the first place. And when he got tired, he'd suck his thumb and hold onto my apron. If I left him, he would cry or crawl away so quickly I couldn't catch him as if it wasn't already a full nine-hour work day.
And Mother. While attending to all the affairs before Subaru was old enough, she'd smile and laugh at me. But I guess people change...she doesn't smile as much anymore. She is so serious all the time.
So, day after day, I stubbornly had my way of running around the estate like any ordinary mother. Picking up toys, doing the laundry, feeding them...
I was happy to do that though. I would only have one chance. And no one would take that away from me.
No bodyguards, no nannies, no one.
Well, enough of being sentimental. I had no time to really think like a normal human being if Subaru didn't know how to control his power. Before he could chant, he knew how to cry. I sighed and shook my head each time. The days I had to comfort him or else the whole city would shake. My little onmyouji user.
My loud little onmyouji user.
Then, Hokuto found out how to play around with the make-up cases. Couldn't write if her life depended on it, but lipstick! Oh my...
It happened that one time, when they just turned one year old. I told them to stay in a large play pen. In ONE room.
I blinked at them. I still blink at them. I still blink as I say this. I even shake my head in some secret pride. My smart, smart children! But outdo their mother?!
I'll have you know that I was the top of my class in high school! Well, what would I have to show since I'm the heir to the clan?
I was well gone for about a minute to get dinner ready when I heard the click of a door. Somehow, Subaru had learned to mentally lock the door to the room. It happened to be one of the few rooms that had locks in the whole place. Sigh…
And Hokuto-chan? I knew she was up to something if she was giggling. Giggling so slyly that I could hear it when she squeaked.
I knocked on the door. I heard them jingling something in the room.
Like any adrenaline rushed mother worried like a paranoid-stricken person, I crossed myself and would I take my mother's wrath later for ruining the door?
BOOM!
"Hokuto! Subaru!"
There they were right in front of me.
Click! They had taken a picture of me with the flash button! Blind for a second or two, I walked over to them and set the camera in its place…which was on the top shelf.
Sighing in relief, I patted Subaru's head. "We need to have those powers controlled, my Suby-baby."
Scolding Hokuto too, I pointed my finger. "And you! No giving him ideas!"
But I'm a softie and I couldn't stand it anymore. Laughing uncontrollably, I hugged the both of them and kissed them on the forehead while staring into their faces. "My two babies..."
Oh, I wish you would have seen the guilty faces of your children when I, er, 'opened' the door. They had eyes so big, they would have fallen out because they were so shocked. But they smiled happily in gurgles when they saw it was only mommy.
"Yeah, only mommy..." I smiled.
They innocently pointed at the broken door. There stood their grandmother. Mother blinked at me. "Shisei?"
And we all pointed at each other as my two children giggled while drooling as if nothing was their fault...
Tsuzuku… / To be continued…
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Author's note: I needed something besides angsty. 'Sides, they're cute already, might as well have a chibi Suby-chan!
February 2002