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: Like what I did with chapter 1 & 2, this one is previously the chapters chapter 5 and chapter 6, so hopefully it flows smoothly. More will come, when I get inspiration. ;;
Chapter 3 – who are pretty close & have weird powers
Sakurazuka Seishirou is not a happy man.
First, he accidentally landed his future sister-in-law in a coma which is partly caused by what he had affectionately named the 'Sumeragi eats Sakura' curse which causes his magic to go out of control when either of the Sumeragi twin is around him. And that causes his future life-partner, his dear Subaru-kun, to hide from him until sleeping Hokuto-chan is awaken.
That is not the end of it all. All his searches for the Royal Magician had always turned out empty, his longing for his lover made his occasional carelessness multiply in frequency, and caused him to go off in the middle of fixing the Royal Garden to search for his boyfriend again. Which, unfortunately, results in the First Princess Shirou Kamui to go missing.
So now he is standing in the middle of the Royal Hall, surrounded by his friends Fuuma, Satsuki, Yuuto and Kusanagi, who are looking him with a grave and serious expression. Seishirou nearly thanked his lucky star that the Second Princess Kakyou is not present, as the fragile-looking blond was already unhappy with him for making Hokuto, the Princess's best friend, to be comatose, and now he caused Kamui, whom Kakyou is very over-protective over, to be missing. But since he is knee-deep in the bout of bad luck, a soldier announced the return of Kakyou and Princeling Nataku.
Fuuma raised one eyebrow from where he sat at the throne when he saw the Royal Sorceror's shoulder slumped dejectedly. He glanced at his beautiful second wife who is shooting golden death glares at his poor friend and he smiled very slightly. Nope, he is not happy at Seishirou's discomfort, he is just happy to see that Kakyou is fine, not missing like his Kamui-chan.
As his mind settles on his shy first wife, his brows resembles a pair of knitting stick. Kakyou, being the good wife he is, sat down beside him quickly and said softly, "We will get Kamui-chan back."
Nataku too, took a sit to the other side of him and reassured him, "Daddy, Kazuki will help to get Papa back. Otousama said he will help by looking at more dreams. Don't worry, Daddy."
Fuuma placed his hand on Nataku's head and smiled at both his son and wife before turning to look at Seishirou again. The black robed sorceror is looking at the floor, broadcasting his guilty visually, without his usual air of certain arrogance.
"Sei-kun, I suppose you already know everything that had recently happened. About Mui-chan that is."
"Yes I do." Seishirou replied with a very guilty-sounding sigh. "I sensed his absence when I returned to the castle."
"I also suppose that you have heard from Kusanagi that he was seen in the sakura forest." Fuuma continued his questions.
"Yes, I heard about it for more than five times now. And I take the blame for that, because I went off to find Subaru-kun in the middle of rearranging the formation of the Royal Garden." If Seishirou's head goes any lower, he will soon be kissing his own chest, even though it's counted as an anatomically impossible act.
"And," Fuuma concluded with a question and a raised eyebrow, "what are you going to do about it?"
"I will-" Seishirou lifted his head and began to say what is expected of him. But before he could get to any point in his speech, a very familiar voice boomed in the hall.
"Sumeragi Subaru greets Prince Monou Fuuma, Second Princess Kuzuki Kakyou and Princeling Kazuki Nataku. I apologise for not being there physically."
"Subaru-kun!" Upon recognising the voice and truly acknowledging the first two words that was said by that voice, Seishirou's head jerked up and his amber eyes widened in shock and surprise.
"Yes, Seishirou-san?" Mild amusement lined the edges of the voice of the Royal Magician. When his shock wore off, Seishirou instantly identified that his green-eyed lover is using a ridiculously named 'Telephone spell'. Much to his dismay, the location of the spellcaster is untraceable.
"About time, Subaru. You know where Mui-chan is?" Before Seishirou can answer to the voice of his lover, the man who is most concerned about his wife cut in quickly.
"Yes, Fuuma. He's right here beside me, playing with an oversiz... err... big dog." The Sumeragi delivered the piece rather explosive news in a perfectly calm voice, except for the last bit where he changed his original words a little too quickly, but still, not quick enough.
"OVERSIZED DOG!" The prince paled to match the color of pure snow and he nearly yelled his shock out for the whole world to know. Beside him, Kakyou and Nataku expressed the definition of 'confused' perfectly, and they are mirrored by all the other people present in the hall, except Fuuma, who is trying very hard to calm down and speak normally again. "Subaru... can you please explain clearly."
"Well... it is actually just a normal dog. But it is about the size of a horse to us..." Sumeragi broke off, obviously distracted by something. Then his voice returned, his tone telling that he's surprised about something. "Seishirou-san, how much do you know about 1999 curse?"
"The curse that is fixed in neither causes nor effects? Not very much, just that the number 1999 is always somehow involved, and that it is one of the most bizarre and uncertain curse around. Subaru-kun, are you saying that this curse is involved?"
"Yes. I believe the cause is a colision of two spells cast by me and Hinoto-"
"HINOTO! Sister of that crazy witch Kanoe!" This time round, two other people joined Fuuma in shouting, oh so coincidentally, the same words in shock and horror. These two are namely Kakyou and Yuuto, who had suffered from their encounter with Kanoe.
"Yeah, Psychic Mage Hinoto. I assure you that she is not evil like her sister, even though it's her fight with me-" Subaru hastily continued before he loses the chance to.
"YOU WAS FIGHTING WITH HER!" The bellowing fit now also infected a certain Sakurazuka. The Royal Sorceror who just lost his cool, continued losing it. "Subaru-kun, where are you? I will go and protect you now."
"Seishirou-san, it's not necessa-"
"Is Mui-chan involved in the fight too!"
"WILL YOU PEOPLE STOP INTERRUPTING ME!" Finally, Sumeragi Subaru lost his temper and hollered through the spell, temporarily deafening the recipients' eardrums. "NOW SHUT UP AND LISTEN UNTIL I FINISH!"
Sound of panting is the only thing that could be heard in the great hall for a good few seconds, before the magician calmed down enough to speak again.
"Good... where was I? Oh, about Hinoto and my fight. Our spells collided and I think that is what activated the curse. The effect of the curse here is chibification, that is why me, Kamui, Hinoto and several other people are now chibis and the dog is as big as a horse to us."
"WHAT!" The chorus of that single syllabus came from everyone in the hall, no exclusions. Subaru ignored the fact that they technically interrupted, and continued.
"Yes, we are small and chubby chibis. And before you guys start ranting, Hinoto is with us right now and she is fine. She attacked us because of the evil side of her split personality which has disappeared for now. And the instigator of the attack is her sister."
"That witch again!" Duke Yuuto exchanged painful glances with Kakyou and their respective partners in life. They knew that anything remotely connected to Kanoe means the evil woman has a part in it somewhere, and sure enough, they hit the bullseye.
"Yeah... and oh, the new Baroness of Ise, the Duke of Northlands and his wife are with us and also chibified too." Subaru delivered in a calm voice that hint nothing of his previous outburst.
"Any more shocking news, Subaru?" Fuuma asked weakly from his chair, his mind thrown into a whirlpool of unexpected news ever since his wife went missing. Not only him, the others had a similar look on their face that shows their indigestion of information.
"Yes, Kanoe is currently in the area. She claimed the position of Baroness Kishuu's stepmother. I suspect she moved away when Arashi ran away with her boyfriend." Subaru's tone could barely hide his growing amusement.
"Oh... WHAT!" Signs of weakening heart start to show on the faces of those who stood in the royal hall, including Kusanagi and Satsuki, as Fuuma yelled his shock.
"Kishuu Arashi, and Aoki Seiichirou greets Prince Monou Fuuma, Second Princess Kuzuki Kakyou and Princeling Kazuki Nataku. We apologise for not being there physically." A pair of voices rang out clearly into the great hall via the 'telephone'.
"Eh... we understand your situation, Arashi, Aoki. Apology accepted." Fuuma blinked and responded after his brain slowly processed the new voices and what they are saying.
"Shirou Kamui greets his dear husbands Monou Fuuma, Kuzuki Kakyou and son Kazuki Nataku. I apologise for not being there physically to allow you to cuddle." A cheerful and deeply amused voice spoke through the communication spell, delivering a most unique formal address.
"Kamui-chan!" The said husbands shouted their surprise and heart-felt relief when they heard the voice of the First Princess. Fuuma, ever the worried husband, continued urgently, "Are you well? Were you injured? How did you get out of the garden? Are you guys in Subaru's cottage? Is it safe enough?"
"Fuuma... you knew where Subaru-kun lives?" Before the purple eye princess could answer to Fuuma's rapid fire, the Royal Sorceror caught hint of something and questioned immediately, face turning a little black.
"Eh... yes... but Subaru made me promise not to tell and that he will hide even further if I did." Fuuma answered a little hesitantly, because he wants to offend neither one of his magic-using friends. He had no intention to be turned into or grow things unimaginable.
"Seishirou-san, you know perfectly well I won't see you until Hokuto-chan wakes up, don't you?" The magician came to the prince's rescue and addressed his unhappy lover.
"But but Subaru-kun... it was an accident..." Seishirou whined in a manner which resembles a puppy, much to the surprise and amusement of those present and those listening. "I can help copy down the spells for you... just come home, please?"
"I will come home eventually, but not now Seishirou-san. Besides, we still have this curse problem, don't we?" Subaru, in his cottage, smiled gently as he heard Seishirou gets into his rare small-child mode.
"Yes, Seishirou. We still have this problem to solve... but can't we solve it here in the castle?" Fuuma directed the attention of everyone back to the topic and proposed, not to everyone's surprise, to have the chibified people, most importantly his beloved purple-eyed wife, to be moved back to where he could see him.. eh, them.
"Fuu-chan, Subaru-kun says that because the spell happened here in the... eh, here where we are, so it's best that we don't move. Gomen ne, Fuu-chan, I really want to see you too." The voice of the young princess flowed into the hall apologetically. It's not hard to see why Subaru gave Kamui that task of explaining this to the prince, whose amber eyes had soften.
"Alright then, Mui-chan." Fuuma couldn't resist it when Kamui is doing the persuading, and he felt a bit unbalanced towards Subaru for using his weakness, thus he asked, very seriously, "Subaru, what do you propose we do now then?"
For the second time, all the attention from the people in the cottage, and the people in the hall, can be found directed to the green eye Sumeragi, who is wanting a good spell to cure his growing headache.
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"But Subaru-kun—" A fuzzy voice whined.
BOOM "Oh god! Subaru!" A horrific yell from the kitchen followed the loud explosion.
"Continue, Seishirou-san." The person listening to the whining spoke up patiently.
"I don't want to go to your grandmother! She's scary and she doesn't like me!"
"Only because—"
"What the heck is this! Hey can someone tell me— Ouch! Don't hit me so hard on my head, Neesan!" From somewhere else in the house, probably the living room, a loud voice exclaimed.
Subaru took a deep breath and repeated, "Only because you, her sworn enemy's grandson seduced me into an engagement, and just when she can accept that, you landed her favorite granddaughter into a coma."
"Don't remind me. I feel bad enough." Seishirou mumbled. "Okay, I'll go. But can you give—"
Knock knock "Subaru-san, I think you should come out and take a look."
"I will later, Seiichirou-san." The green-eyed mage called to the door, then turned back. "What were you saying, Seishirou-san?"
"Can you let me know what you want me—"
BUMP "Inuki! Come back here! AHH! Get out of the way, Hinoto-san!" CRASH "Sorry! KAMUI! INUKI!" BUMP CRASH BANG BOOM
"Erm... Subaru-kun, what exactly is going on over there?" The royal sorcerer asked cautiously.
The Sumeragi sighed in a defeated manner, "I'll go take a look."
"I will wait for you."
Subaru got up reluctantly from the nice comfortable chair he shrunk to fit his chibi size, and went out of his study. The sight that greeted him fried the remaining of his over-worked nerves, and he promptly fainted.
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"Subaru, Subaru, wake up!"
"Nngh..." Cracking open an emerald eye, the mage frowned groggily at the worried face of the First Princess and the rest of the chibis. "What... happened?"
Everyone in sight visibly relaxed a little, and Kamui answered with relief, "You fainted and didn't wake up for a short while."
"Oh." Subaru propped himself up, rubbing the back of his head with a chubby hand. Then, did he notice his surroundings and felt like fainting again. "Kami-sama, what on earth happened to my house!"
"Well... the side-effects of the curse happened." The young chibi with purple eyes replied in a small small voice.
His friend, the poor owner of the chocolate cottage, groaned and dropped his head into a hand. Almost immediately, his head shot up and his already large eyes widened, "Seishirou-san! Oh no!"
The royal magician literally bounced up and sped into the only whole and standing part of the house, his study. "Seishirou-san! Are you still there?"
"Yes, Subaru-kun. Glad that you are fine." Seishirou's voice flowed with relief.
"You... know what happened here?"
"The First Princess and your companions were very loud."
Subaru hid his head in his cute little hands. "This is so embarrassing."
Amusement tainted the sorcerer's voice of concern. "Personally, I think Hokuto-chan's costumes are more embarrassing."
"I agree." Subaru raised his head, a small sad smile on his round face. "I miss her."
Seishirou said, sounding subdued. "Me too. I miss you as well."
"Then let's finish this. I will return back to the castle when the curse is broken."
"Really! You will be coming back!"
"Yes, Seishirou-san." Subaru smiled at his lover's happiness.
"Yes!" The older man cheered like a young child until the magician called his attention back.
"But we have to end this curse first. Now, where did we stop?"
After a moment of thought, "Oh, I was asking what you would like me to ask our grandmothers for?"
"For anything remotely related to the X/1999 curse and all known side- effects of all kinds of spells."
"Subaru-kun, do you realize that what you wanted is a lot?"
Subaru smiled, "I do, but I didn't ask you to go to Duke Clow, Kinomoto family and the other prominent magical families as well, did I?"
Pause. "Good point."
"Glad to know." Subaru hopped off his chair. "Now I'll go salvage my house."
"Good luck."
"You too. You'll need it."
Seishirou let out a suffering sigh. "Yeah."
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"One at a time, tell me what happened." Chubby arms crossed in front, the Sumeragi surveyed the other chibis as sternly as he can manage.
"Subaru-san, it started with me." Karen looked at the Royal Magician, then at the debris that was the kitchen. "After that talk with His Majesty, I noticed that the young ones are hungry and I decided to cook something. But with these fingers, it is hard to start fire and I got frustrated. So I glared at the wood, and all of a sudden, a fire lit up and grew out of control. Before I can call for help, Kamui-san came in."
"Subaru, you know how I hate and fear fire, right?" Kamui continued on cue, looking at the mage with downcast amethyst eyes.
"Yes, because you saw your parents, His and Her Majesty, burn to death." Subaru moved to put his hand on royalty's shoulder comfortingly. "Are you alright to continue?"
Kamui nodded, "When I went into the kitchen for more tea and saw a big fire surrounding Karen-san, I panicked. Then something burst outwards from around me towards the fire and caused a loud bang and a blinding flash. When I opened my eyes, the fire is gone but your kitchen..."
"Kamui, it's okay. But you do know that I gave you a protection charm earlier, right?"
The princess nodded, fingering the small sword-like pendant hanging around his chubby neck.
"Good." Subaru smiled and turned to the other chibis. "Now, what happened after the explosion?"
Sorata stepped forward and spoke, thought his eyes remained fixed on the unusually icy Arashi beside him. "I guess I should tell you guys something. Neesan's house once resembled this mess before, when her stepmom threw a tantrum during one of her father's trips away from home."
Subaru nodded knowingly and motioned for the boy to continue.
"So, when the bang and flash happened, we though that the scary woman has come. As we rushed towards the kitchen from the room you lent us, we looked for something to defend ourselves and help Kamui. Then at that time, a sword suddenly came out of Neesan's right hand."
Arashi nodded and showed everyone her chubby hand. As everyone watched it intently, a sword rose up from her palm quickly, blade first. The Ise baroness gripped the handle of the sword when it came out completely and looked at the very thoughtful-looking Subaru.
"I'll tell you what I think later. "The magician promised and fixed his eyes on the fidgeting Sorata. "I heard your yelling, so something else happened, right?"
The boy raised his hands in front of him and said, "Well, when we saw the sword, I was so shocked I moved to touch it without thinking. When I nearly touched it, I felt a stronger shock at my fingers, then a strange tingling and later... this."
Sparks of blue danced around Sorata's hands, connecting to form beautiful blue flowing current. All the other chibis stared at it with transfixed fascination, well, all except the one with emerald eyes.
"Hmm... interesting. Sorata, will it away for now." Subaru instructed and the boy obeyed readily. The mage then turned to the man who knocked on his door. "Seiichirou-san, may I know why you came to me just now?"
The gentle older man blushed a brilliant shade of red and mumbled nearly inaudibly, "Well, when I thought something bad is happening to Karen and the others, I rushed out of our room and in the process, I lost control of the wind-like power I have and eh... destroyed your living room."
Subaru rubbed his forehead with the back of his palm and looked at the wreck that is his cottage. He really needs to teach them to control their new-found abilities if he wants his home nice and unharmed.
"That is an accident. Don't blame yourself, Seiichirou-san." Subaru reassured his friend and turned to the youngest of the chibis, the one whose dog seem to have destroyed most of the house. "I believe, you have something to say."
"It's really not Inuki's fault!" Yuzuriha exclaimed quickly as she stood in front of the 'giant' dog in a protective and rather defensive manner.
"I didn't say it is, Yuzuriha." Subaru gestured for her to calm down, which the young girl did, even though she remained standing in front of Inuki. "Just tell us what happened."
"I'm not very sure too, but I do know that when I came back into the house with Inuki running in front, the blue light from Sorata's hands move to touch Inuki and then... and then Inuki... Inuki he..."
"Thanks, Yuzuriha. I think I know what happened now." Subaru's expression softened and he smiled.
"You do?"
"Yes. He was only shocked by what appeared around Sorata's hands," the mage chibi answered. "Now gather around me closely. I'm going to rebuild the house."
He began chanting when everyone is standing safely behind him in a group, and accompanying his soft liquid words is a strange green glow that enveloped the entire stretch of damaged area. As the words quicken, the light grew brighter and brighter, forcing the chibis to close their eyes lest they be blinded.
The chanting and the light finally faded, and what the chibis saw made their mouths moved into a 'wow'. The debris of the ruined cottage and damaged furniture were all gone, and is replaced by a simple eastern old- style house complete with sliding paper doors and chibi-sized furniture. Further exploration revealed that the house has been enlarged and contains more rooms to accommodate all of them. Most importantly, it is now made of rock-hard sugar garlic bread.
Except for the proud creator of the house himself, each chibi wore a sweatdrop when they found out about that fact, especially a certain close friend of the creator. Kamui knew about Subaru's hidden sweet-tooth, but he had no idea that it had grew to such a level.
When the chibis finally drifted back to the dining room with satisfied look on their face, they were greeted by a tower of thick books that stood up to their chibi waist height. Curious, they waited until Subaru appeared out of his study blowing the dust away from yet another book.
"Ah... good, you are all here." Subaru put the book on top of the pile and pat away the dust on his clothing. "Satisfied with your rooms?"
The answer was delivered in the form of nods and the mage grinned. "Good to know. Okay, I thought that instead of spending a long time explaining to each of you about your new powers, I would rather have you guys read them up from these books."
All eyes were directed towards the books and back on the mage with a 'are you crazy' expression. Subaru's grin didn't budge and he continued, "Actually I thought about asking Seishirou-san if he has the more detailed versions but I think you won't appreciate that, will you?"
This time round, the response was a instantaneous united shaking of heads. With a big smile on his face, Subaru handed each chibi the book they need and with that, all the chibis retired to bed for a good night sleep in preparation for a fresh new day.
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