Chapter four: The joining of halves.

T: Pre warning that this is a tiny chapter! Yaoishojo, Subaru only cares about Kamui's opinion and to be honest so do I! As to Fuuma…wait and see! Get the Tokyo Babylon manga, so entirely worth it! And don't worry I'll keep writing no matter what! Anyway Warnings remain, for once, the same.

I will take it as a compliment if you think I own X, but that does not mean that I do, I'm afraid!

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They met, eventually, at Tokyo tower and as their glances met across the distance each froze into place.

They had met each time before as enemies and thus their bodies react on instinct; Seishrio's tensing for battle and Subaru's fingers searching out his ofuda.

Seishrio reaches then for a cigarette and again on instinct Subaru finds his lighter and closes the distance between them.

Seishrio breaks the pattern then, for pushing the offered hand away and discarding the unlit cigarette he closes the remaining distance between them and captures Subaru into a hard kiss.

The younger man's hands rise to grip his hair, his lips responding in kind to Seishrio's.

They separate eventually and as Subaru becomes aware of how exposed they are he blushes and presses his head hard into Seishrio's shoulder.

Weaving them both into an illusion Seishrio steps a little away from Subaru, aware that they have things still to discuss. That if he remains close he may never voice all the things that needed to be voiced.

"I talked to Hokuto."

Seishrio had wondered how long it would take for Subaru to realise that his sister had not been trapped within the tree, how long it would take the Sumeragi to seek her out for forgiveness and understanding.

He was curious as to what she had said, but did not ask because he knew that the matter was between the twins and that to ask would be treading too far into Subaru's private world.

It seemed Subaru had not really wished an answer to that statement, anyway, for he shifted a little towards Seishrio and enquired,

"Did you love me, even then?"

Ah, it was that question.

On the way here he had pondered the very same thing…had he known even as he prepared to kill Subaru that he loved him?

He knew that he had been unable to kill the Sumeragi and that that inability to do as was his nature had alerted him to the weakening of the sakura's spell.

Yet though that had been the first blossoming of his love for Subaru it had not been until the Nako Sun Plaza that he had known that he loved the Sumeragi.

"Yes."

Seishrio could see the question then in Subaru's eyes, the yearning to know why he had chosen to tell that particular lie; why he had allowed Subaru's heart to break.

The truth was that that at the time Seishrio had had want to see how far the game could go, how much Subaru could take before he turned to hate and anger.

Before he wished Seishrio's death and brought upon him his one true fate.

Death.

He could not tell Subaru that, especially when in the end it had all proved fruitless; for not even Hokuto's death had caused Subaru to hate Seishrio.

Thus he told what he hoped would be the lonely lie of this day,

"I did not know until I saw you again and then it seemed all too late to be feeling such things."

Subaru accepts the lie as he has so many times before and he smiles, just barely, before he asks the next question.

"What do we do now, Seishrio?" Subaru smiled as he uttered his name without the honorific and Seishrio could not help but follow suit.

"Honestly? I do not know. As things stand now we are set out as opposites always, Subaru and though I could step away from my place as a Dragon of Earth, I would not ask the same thing of you.

"There is the matter of my successor to consider also."

"It's me, isn't it?"

"Yes, but there may yet be a another way of passing this destiny on."

The other looked thoughtful a moment then again closed the gap between them.

"Let tomorrow come tomorrow, Seishrio." He remarked before he ceased the other again into a kiss.

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T: Told you it was tiny! I make no apologies for this fact as it was either doing it this way or having a giant chapter, which would bore everyone to tears! Next chapter asap until then R+R and I'll give you Kakyo…Hokuto will then kill you but at least you'll die happy!