Chapter three: False truths.
T: Heh! As promised I give you the new chapter on Tues. Warnings remain the same as do time lines.
Clamp own all the characters, situations and general addictiveness!
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He had not told her that he knew the course of the future and yet, in the end he was sure it would have made no difference.
He had broken clan rules by loving Seishrio, after all.
She had taken the news calmly, had passed his sentence calmly and only when she had asked him to remain away from both herself and whoever became the fourteenth head, had she shown emotion.
It stung a little to be cast aside, once again, by his family. Especially as this time they were punishing him for his heart rather than any valid reasoning.
Though loving the Sakurazukamori was most likely as bad as being the Sakurazukamori in Obbaachan's eyes.
Hokuto was waiting for him as he bustled into his apartment and though it had been years since he had needed her comfort, Subaru stretched out for his sister.
He told her what had happened and it true Hokuto fashion she dismissed his sadness with a laugh.
"At least you can finish school now."
It would be nice to have that chance, but Subaru knew that reality would not allow that. If he wished to remain in his apartment then he would need to find a job and that would mean that again school would have to take second priority.
"I know that look, Subaru, what's troubling you?"
He explained the situation and again Hokuto broke into laughter,
"Come and live with me!"
He wanted to protest, but he knew his sister would not be waylaid and at least this way he might have a chance at beginning his life again.
"Thank you."
"Nonsense." A smirk then, "You can repay me by winning Sei-chan's heart."
He did not blush at the insinuation in that sentence.
That was the next step, after all.
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Kamui had had the foresight to phone ahead, someone such as the 12th head of the Sumeragi clan would not look favourably on intruders, after all.
She looked younger than he had expected, though this was the most likely her gift at work.
"You are the Kamui, are you?"
"I am the Kamui of the Dragons of Heaven."
She settled at that and he wondered it everyone but himself had known that he would be born with a twin star…that he would have to one day fight his best friend.
"Why have you come?"
"I need you to tell me how you can tell if someone has gone within their heart and how I might dive into their heart in hopes of calling them back."
"This has to do with that boy, does it not?"
"I assume you are talking about Subaru?"
"That boy is the Sakurazukamori and if you involve yourself in his affairs you shall one day become as such."
"That is not true. Subaru does not love me enough that I could ever kill him and become the Sakurazukamori…and…and even if he did it would not matter.
"I have no want to kill him, no matter what he has become. He is my friend and I wan to help him as he helped me."
"Then you have set your fate."
For a moment Kamui believed that would be it; believed that she would allow her Grandson to die simply because he had taken up a destiny that should never have been his to claim.
Then she sighed and began to recite a spell.
As the last words left her lips she informed him,
"This is the spell to place you within that boy's heart. The only way you can truly know if he is there is to look."
"Thank you."
Kamui gained his feet and had made it to the door before she called his name,
"Be cautious, Kamui, for that boy shall not want you invading his dreams. Nor shall he wish to come again into this harsh life."
"I can but try." He remarked before he left her alone with her grief and bitterness.
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He was nervous.
It was true that Seishrio had claimed to love him and yet...
Subaru had no way of knowing when that love first began to grow in the older mans heart. Nor did he know when Seishrio had realised his love for him.
There was the possibility that he had not truly known until Rainbow Bridge. If this was the case, then his new life could only end in tragedy.
There was the possibility that he knew, even now, on some subconscious level and if that was the case then there was hope.
Yet there was a third possibility.
What if even in death Seishrio had lied to him? What if he had considered Subaru nothing but his toy and his successor?
This doubt Subaru had felt before and the irony was that he had been able to remove it by looking at his reflection.
For had Seishrio not wished to remove the hurt Fuuma had caused Subaru? Had he not given his own eye to erase that hurt?
Un-thought Subaru raised a hand to touch his left eye and in doing do he realised there was a forth possibility,
What if Seishrio had realised his love when he had risked his life for the younger man?
Subaru had hoped to avoid that day and the guilt of it this time around, but what if it was his only hope?
He could talk to Hokuto about these worries later.
For the moment both Ueno park and Seishrio ware within sight.
The older man responded in a manner befitting his false self, as he regarded Subaru's changed appearance and then he fell into their long established pattern of discussing their day.
They were under the tree when Subaru gave his news and he saw Seishrio tense before the older man enquired,
"Why did she extricate you from the family?"
"Because I love you." Subaru responded.
He allowed Seishrio a moment to process that before he continued, "Because I love you despite knowing who and what you are, Sakurazukamori."
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T: It's another cliff hanger…I wonder if these are becoming habit! Next chapter shall be up Sunday and until then R+R.