Chapter five: Hope and innocence.
T: Again it's a fairly tiny chapter. For those who have no idea who Keiichi Segawa is I suggest that you read volume eleven of X as he's going to be featuring quite a bit from here on in.
Chaos dragon it's nice to see that I've again addicted you! No Kakyo is not awake and sorry if I made you think otherwise - ;
Okay that done, warnings remain the same and yep, it's still Clamps!
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When Subaru awoke he registered that he was in an unfamiliar room, but for a moment he could not think where he was.
The rush of a warm breath on the back of his neck stirs his memory and he flushes a little.
Once he calmed he pulls himself gently from Seishrio's embrace and searches blindly for the clothes that had been tossed aside the night before.
Eventually his fingers find cloth and it is only when he pulls the thing over his head that he realises that it is Seishrio's.
He breaks into nervous laughter and aware that Seishrio is asleep still he muffles the sound as best as he can.
After showering, eating a little breakfast and changing back into his own clothes he writes Seishrio a note and heads out for the Clamp Campus.
He waits patiently for the classes to break for lunch and then he seeks Kamui out.
He finds him in the company of Segawa-kun and notes quickly how the older boy is pressed slightly closer to Kamui than friendship would dictate.
Kamui seemed oblivious to what this closeness ment and Subaru wondered if he should inform Kamui of the other boys feelings.
The choice not to do as such was made for him as he stepped into the open and Segawa shuffled just a little from Kamui's side, for the other boy clearly had no want for any but himself to know of his affection just yet.
"Subaru." There is joy in Kamui's voice, yet there is also a question to which Subaru responds with a true smile.
His very first since Hokuto's death and yet it shall not be his last, this he knows instinctively and the knowledge is as a final proof that he has chosen the right path.
That for the moment, at least, his destiny lies with Seishrio.
"I wondered if I might steal Kamui away a while, Segawa-kun."
"Of course." The other smiles and Subaru can see the depth of his character there in his face.
Such happiness in the face of such adversity…
He would be very good for Kamui.
He bows to Segawa-kun as Kamui stands and remarks,
"We'll be going now." Before he heads off in the direction of the domed seating area that has served many times before as a meeting point for Kamui and himself.
Once they are settled on the bench Kamui sets Subaru into his gaze and enquires,
"Were you with him last night?"
"Yes."
The smile that had graced Kamui's lips until that point fades a little and Subaru cannot help but feel guilty for that loss.
He had known that the younger boy had grown attached to him, that he had been confusing that attachment with affection and yet it was better that Subaru was honest with Kamui now, rather than allow the younger boy to believe that their was hope of a return of his affection.
"Why have you come again to my side, then? For your loyalty and kind heart should belong now only to him alone."
"Kamui, I can not yet give my loyalty entirely to Seishrio, for as a Dragon of Heaven a part of my is linked always to you." Subaru pauses a moment to allow Kamui to process this truth before he continues, "Yet I have come here today not for the bond between us, but rather to ask if you might aid me with a small problem."
"What is it?"
"I am fated to kill the man that I love so that I might claim the power within him; so that that power remains as a support for Tokyo's crumbling stability.
"I wish you to use your magic to extract that power without killing Seishrio."
Kamui looks thoughtful a moment and then he repplies,
"I will help, Subaru, however, I do not know how I should go about dong such a thing."
"Then perhaps we can work together to find a solution to this problem." Subaru says before he finds his feet again, "However, for the moment I have a few things that I need do and so I shall let you get back to Segawa-kun."
"Subaru?" Kamui enquires as he gains his feet also.
"Yes?"
"Are you happy?"
"Yes."
Kamui's smile returns then and as Subaru looks to that achingly beautiful thing that allowed all of Kamui's kindness and gentle sprit to shine through he feels a twinge of regret.
For in that smile he sees, as always, his younger self and the innocents that had been stolen away from that part of himself so long ago.
Saw clearly how very close Kamui was to loosing that innocence also, how he was using it already to cover the veneer of pain deep within his heart.
He would guard that fragile innocence, Subaru decided, until such a time that he could pass it into the care of another.
Would guard it even if it ment, in the end, that he set himself again against the one he loved.
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T: Yes as with Wish (shameless plug!) Kamui has the power to make or break Subaru's relationship! The reason I've given Keiichi a large part to play in this (for those who are wondering) is because I have a feeling that Clamp are planning something huge for him. I'm probably wrong but hey! At least Kamui will has assured genkiness in his future…yes I'm aware that genkiness is not a word!
Anyway, next chapter asap and R+R as you're opinion counts!
