Chapter six: Shadowed tears.
T: Well I have almost exceeded my highest number of reviews so thank you to chaos dragon013, fey Morgan, Animegoil and Subaru's voice for helping me achieve the best fic possible! Anyway warnings remain the same.
Clamp owns everything you see here, apart, that is, from my vain attempt at plot!
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He had gone to Tokyo tower because it was exposed and because he wished to think a little more on what he was going to say to Fuuma.
Thankfully he did not have too long to contemplate the inevitable outcome of this situation, for only a half hour after he had settled down Fuuma appeared before him.
"Kamui."
He tensed and gaining his feet he took a fighting stance before he said,
"I do not want to fight, Fuuma."
"You wish to know what I have done with the Sakurazukamori?
"I am sure you have considered some very entertaining possibilities, but I can see the most obvious has not presented itself to you.
"His consciousness has been separated from his body, but, as I am sure you have learned by now, the power of the tree remains behind."
Kamui felt his hope fade as he realised why Fuuma had done what he had done,
"You wish to gain the trees power for yourself?"
"Indeed. The power of the Sakurazukamori passes through the heart and while Subaru existed in this reality the only way to gain the power would have been to achieve his love and then kill him.
"Now the tree is a power without guidance and all I need to do to achieve its strength is to destroy the shell that holds it in place."
"No."
Though Kamui had no want to kill Fuuma, though all he wanted was to save the other, he could not allow him to kill Subaru.
Not when he had allowed him to kill Kotori.
"You wish for him to love you, Kamui, but as your other wish it is an empty thing."
"Perhaps. But my wish to keep him safe is true and if you truly grant wishes then…"
"He shall live on in you heart." Fuuma remarked before he was gone again.
For a moment Kamui wondered why he was alive and then suddenly very afraid he rushed back to the hospital.
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He'd decided to do a little experimentation and so after eating his luch he's sat down to meditate.
The tree was not there.
Though he had not cared for how its presence had come into his life, the tree had been a salve for the loneliness of the position and its strength had allowed him to find a degree of focus amid the chaos.
He felt oddly alone without its presence and that calm.
There had to be a spell that could bring the trees power back into his consciousness, for without it he could not claim to be Seishrio's equal, nor would he have the self confidence to grow beyond himself.
Thus he decided to hit the books.
Hokuto eventually had to forcefully pull him away from studying in order to give him something to eat. An opportunity she used to learn what he was up to and to tell him off for being up so late on a school night.
"I have to sort this out, Hokuto and besides I'm used to being up late on a school night."
"Two more hours, Subaru."
In the end it was only an hour after that when he fell asleep, a book clenched still in his fingers.
He dreamt of the smell of disinfectant and the beep of a heart monitor.
He could hear Sorata's voice and he knew this was a dream of the 'future'.
He could feel the tree here and he called for its power, wrapped himself tight within it, before he enquired,
"How do I get you back?"
'Kamui' The thing responded before the comfort was snatched away.
Before the dream changed.
He would wonder later which Kamui the tree was referring to and why either was the key to achieving again that power.
For now he was lost within his dreamscape.
Within his wish.
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Subaru was still alive when Kamui returned.
The thought that Fuuma might come to kill the Sumeragi at any moment had scared Kamui enough so that he asked if the older man could be moved to the hospital within the Clamp Campus.
He was sure they would object to having the Sakurazukamori so close to the Shinken, but it was the only way to insure his friend was safe from his other self; to insure that Fuuma did not gain Subaru's power.
Once they had re-located he informed Sorata of what Fuuma had said,
"I do not understand why he would want the power of the Sakurazukamori, though."
"Fuuma is strong, but he has you weaknesses, Kamui and if he was hit with enough focused power he would be unable to recover from his injuries.
"The Sakurazukamori have the regenerative power of the tree in their side and so in combination with Fuuma's formidable strength that power might well make him invincible."
"The previous Sakurazukamori did not regenerate, Sorata."
"Perhaps because his wound was received in the act of protecting the one he loved.
"I can not claim to be an expert on the Sakurazukamori, though and all I can really give you is my opinion."
Kamui considered this for a moment and an odd, yet tempting, idea came to mind.
"Is there anyway we can send the power of the tree to join Subaru in the past?"
"Perhaps. However…"
"However?"
"I believe the tree's power is the only thing keeping Subaru's body alive."
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T: Next chapter is the last one and will be up tomorrow! Few little notes here, the idea that Subaru will live on in Kamui's heart and the whole thing that concentrated power will really hurt Fuuma is stolen from the T.V series. Also Fuuma does not kill Kamui because of Kamui's wish for Subaru to live…in other words, with Kamui alive Subaru will live on in his heart thus fulfilling Kamui's wish, if Kamui dies then Subaru has to live and Fuuma's been gypped. Finally, I'm not actually sure the Sakurazukamori are regenerative, it was just a good reason for Fuuma to want Subaru's power! Right that over and done with R+R. Ta!