Disclaimer: yui doesn't own Tokyo Babylon.

Calendar boy

By miyamoto yui

Part 10 – mixed vision.

I could see some of Hokuto's hair stand on end as she put her white gloves on. Then, she covered her face in irritation. "What are we going to do, Sei-chan?"

Seishirou sighed as he looked at me while I smiled at him. "Subaru-kun, can I talk to Hokuto-chan for a minute?"

I shot a suspicious look at Hokuto while holding onto Seishirou protectively. "Mine," my lips read.

Raising an eyebrow, Hokuto looked at me incredulously. "Subaru, you're really pushing it!"

Seishirou just laughed as he covered his mouth to keep from embarrassing Hokuto. Then, he looked at me and said, "I'll only be a moment."

I gave him a frown that said, "You're leaving me all alone?"

Seishirou got up as I slowly let him go. "Aw, don't look at me like that."

Turning to Hokuto, he bit on his finger while teasing, "He's so cute! Are you _sure_ I can't keep him?"

"Sei-chan!" She pulled his ear as they closed my door for a moment.

"Ow! It was only a joke!"

I heard some of their whispers, but I happily smiled to myself while putting my hands back and forth through the water. Washing my face, I closed my eyes while crinkling my nose at the coldness.

A few minutes later, Seishirou and Hokuto came back with a print out of something from the library. By showing me a picture of some legend in which mermaids could have two legs, Hokuto handed me a shell. But, she was at her last straw as she shook her head while I refused to do anything that she wanted. Instead, she said she'd take care of the studio before we got there.

I looked up at Seishirou as he said, "Please listen to me, Subaru-kun. Don't frustrate Hokuto-chan. You know she cares."

I nodded slowly as he said, "Please don't pout. Now, let's get out of the tub."

I shook my head as I held my hands out to him.

At this, he gave me a stern look. "Okay, I'm serious here."

Closing his eyes, he pulled me from the tub while handing me a robe. I wrapped it over myself, but then I laughed as I looked at the outfit I had to wear. I shook my head while hugging him around the waist.

"Seriously, you have to dress up now so that we can go."

I let go of him while going to his bed. I crossed my legs and they were showing through the slit in front of the robe. While leaning my hands back, I smirked at him.

Seishirou took a deep breath as he pulled on his tie. "Sumeragi Subaru. I never thought you had it in you to seduce me."

As he came closer to me, I smiled innocently while blinking up at him. Pulling on his tie, I lay on his bed with the robe loosely over me as he leaned with his hands next to each of my arms. "Subaru-kun, don't tempt me."

"Why?" I mimed as I pulled on his tie more.

"You're not yourself…" he told me, but I pulled him so close that I leaned up to kiss his upper lip.

His eyes closed for a moment as if I had never done that before. Then, he opened his eyes again as he took off his glasses. "Stop that."

I shook my head as I leaned up to kiss him while letting go of his tie and wrapping my arms around his neck to undo the tie while distracting him. He began to smirk as I temporarily let go of his lips while he looked down at me. "You better not blame me for anything."

"For what?" I said my legs and arms began to lock on his body as I carried my weight to pull myself to kiss him. I whispered into his ear with barely any voice, "Sei."

As he was about to take off the tie to my robe…

Knock! Knock! Knock!

I let go as I looked at the door ruthlessly while Seishirou sighed as if in slight relief. "Almost lost my cool there…" he mumbled to himself as he answered the door to have Hokuto shove a bag into his hands. "I'm going now, but this is the new location of the shoot and have him wear all this by the time you get there. Good luck!"

With that, she pushed him back into the room and closed the door for Seishirou. I sat up while looking at him curiously. He opened the bag slowly and looked back at me. "I guess this is the new outfit."

A note slipped out as he brought out a beautiful red kimono with white cranes on it. It said:

"I can't have you wearing something twice. This was the real one I made for you in case I didn't finish in time. –Love, Hokuto."

I began to frown as I looked at the door. "I'm sorry," I wanted to say, but it was too late now.

I will tell her that later then.

Seishirou looked at me and shook his head, but he helped me dress up. It didn't help that laughed while he was fitting it out over my waist or shoulders. Whenever he did that, I'd tap him on the shoulder and smile with a shake of my head.

"I'm not used to you giving me so much affection…" he said honestly. He smiled at me as he tied the obi. "It's kind of nice."

I blinked at him as I held his face with sad eyes that said, "Why would you say that?"

I don't show you enough?

When he began to powder my face, I sneezed and he laughed at me for being so childish. I painted my lips, but as soon as he was finished, he commented, "You look so different."

I closed my eyes as I kissed him on the lips. He began to blush at me as I put my thumb to his red lips.

I reached over to the bag and began to put on the black, long-haired wig while he went to the bathroom to remove the red from his lips. When he stepped out, he said, "Subaru…oh."

He looked at me as if he had seen a ghost.

I looked at him seriously as I folded my hands over my lap. "What's wrong?"

"You look like her." He still stood in his place and couldn't stop staring with shock in his eyes.

Then, he looked down at the ground. "Except for the eyes…yours have innocence."

"Who?" I got up, but then, he looked at me with a slightly scared face as he took one step back. I reached out for his cheek as he looked back at me. Holding my hand, he closed his eyes as if he were in a different time.

"My mother," he answered as he opened his eyes to look at me closely while taking a hold of some hair into his fingers.

I looked past him and at the mirror behind him. I could only see half of my painted face, but my eyes were so confused.

This is what she looked like? But our eyes are different?

But why…

…why does his touch feel from that from a son to a mother?

A chill ran down my spine as I found myself watching him again even though he wasn't looking at me.

He was seeing someone else in my eyes. And I didn't like it…

Seishirou was mine…

But who was this before me?

For a moment, he didn't look so sure of himself. He didn't look so smooth and calm as he had always been. He looked so troubled and I felt helpless for a moment.

This was a Seishirou I wasn't used to…

Tsuzuku…

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Author's note: I've had Seishirou pine away for Subaru. I've had him as a teen who loved the child Subaru. I've had Seishirou as the sexy bastard that knows everything, esp. in 'you drive me crazy'…but what bothered me was that I needed him to be 'less perfect' and different in this fic. I want to paint a Seishirou that is more human.

Also, after this fic, I'm thinking of a one-moment flashback. Winnie the Pooh wants a cute Su x Sei fic and I promised to make Adri a sweet one too.