Chapter six: Confrontation and fear.

T: Yes I skipped the lemon, if only because it would have spoiled my flow! I'm very intrigued as to where this story seems to be taking me at the moment, if only because its not where I thought it was going! I really don't like it when stories do that! Anyway, warnings remain the same with an addition of some gruesome violence…don't say I didn't warn you! Yep it's still Clamps I'm afraid!

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Seishrio woke later than was his usual, a fact that he put down to the fatigue of maintaining his illusion for so long, of baring so much of himself and to…other…matters also.

Subaru was absent from the bed and the chill on his side informed Seishrio that he had long been as such.

Wrenching himself out of bed he indulged in the luxury of a long shower, changed and made his way into the kitchen to fix breakfast.

It was here that he discovered Subaru's note, pinned to the fridge with a small kitten shaped magnet.

'Seishrio,

I've gone to collect a few things and to talk to Kamui.

I'll be back soon so do not do anything rash.

Love Subaru.'

Subaru was far too attached to Kamui, a fact that twisted the part of Seishrio that though of Subaru still as a possession.

That darker part of him could not but take Subaru's plea as a challenge and once he had eaten his breakfast he returned at last to the Government building.

'Kamui' was sat in alone in the throne room, this odd because each time Seishrio had been there before Nataku had been pressed to their auspicious leaders leg as some lost puppy.

"Where is the clone?"

"His wish changed and as such he perished."

There was a threat in that and though Seishrio was fairly sure that 'Kamui' could do him no real harm, he called the power of the tree to him.

"So you can see the change of my inner wish? The wish deep within my heart?"

"Indeed I do and I see also your shallow wish; to avenge yourself for the injury that I inflicted upon the Sumeragi."

'Kamui' stands, fixes his gaze upon Seishrio, raises a hand and pulls his right eye free of its socket.

He weaves a preserving spell about the thing, passes it to Seishrio and then raises his hand up to the bleeding hollow that had held it.

A flash of magic and it is as though the injury had never been caused.

"I have want to kill you for your betrayal and yet I know that you have a wish for the Sumeragi to kill you. Thus I will grant you that wish, will allow you to die by the hand of the one you love most and then I shall kill him instead." 'Kamui' remarked as he settled to the throne again.

Though Seishrio little liked to run from one who had threatened Subaru, he knew that for the moment he had no choice. That 'Kamui' had the upper hand.

Thus he left the building and spent the next hour of his time hunting a victim for the tree in order to sate his lust for blood.

That done he returned home.

As he stepped into the hallway he was greeted with a chaotic mass of boxes, each labelled in Subaru's hand with what he supposed was the content of the box.

This was clearly a little more than the 'few things' Subaru had initially intended on collecting from his old room and was certainly more than Subaru alone could have handled.

Seishrio needed only his magical senses to inform him who Subaru's helper had been, for only the Kamui glowed in such a manner.

He had hoped that he frightened the boy enough that he had no want to enter Seishrio's personal space and yet clearly the boy's infatuation with Subaru outweighed any sense of fear or mistrust the boy might feel towards Seishrio.

Again that possessive streak twists within him and he bites down upon the urge to feed Kamui to the tree.

Subaru would never forgive such mindless violence, after all.

Thus he made tea and knocking once opened the door and crossed into the bedroom…

Kamui was settled in a half crouch, his hands occupied in the task of extracting some item or another from the box.

Subaru stood with his back to Seishrio, his concentration bent on the hanging of his Shifku into the wardrobe.

"I thought you two might like a little break." He remarked as he set the tray to the floor.

Kamui regarded first the tea and then Seishrio with a look of distain and then returned to the task at hand.

Subaru turned and thanked him for the effort before he too returned to his task.

His vain attempt at distraction thwarted Seishrio decided that his smartest course of action was to aid with the packing.

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Kamui had left as the sun had set, a promise to return the next day after school the very last words upon his lips before the lift had closed in on him.

Once they were alone Seishrio had produced 'Kamui's' little gift.

"Fuuma gave this to you willingly?"

"He saw the want in my heart to erase this hurt from you, Subaru."

"Yet I wished to lose my eye, Seishrio, in payment for the loss of yours."

"I know and yet still I could not accept the loss. Still I could not allow that hurt to go unpunished."

"Because you love me?"

"That was part of it, yes. Another part was the thought that I, alone, should be the one to harm you.

"That you were mine alone to break apart."

Subaru little liked that explanation and yet Seishrio knew that it was better he told this truth than lie again to Subaru.

Subaru silently leaves the room and returns a moment later with the new eye in place.

The brown of 'Kamui's' eye looks all to akin to the gold of Seishrio's and as Subaru turns a little to the right Seishrio finds that it is almost as looking at a mirror of himself.

A flash of images caught at Seishrio then: Subaru with blood on his hands and face, a figure clenched hard to his chest. Subaru with two eyes again, one the normal green and the other the cold brown of Seishrio's own. Subaru in a fight with Kamui, his hair longer now so that he looked as a parody of his younger self; the pair battle long and hard, Subaru clearly stronger than he had been and yet still he is of no match to Kamui and eventually he falters. Seishrio sees Subaru stumble, sees Kamui's piercing blow to Subaru's heart and then he is back again in the apartment.

Stretching for the tree he enquires,

'Was that it? Was that the future that I almost created?'

'Yes.'

Seishrio shivers at that and feeling an odd pang of what could only be fear he closes the distance between Subaru and himself.

The other clenches to him like a lifeline and Seishrio knows that he too is afraid.

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T: Yes Subaru has Fuuma's eye and yes I did it merely to creep Kamui out! I'm sort of running on the idea that as Fuuma managed to heal the hole Kamui put in his chest without much effort, then a little thing such as lost eye could only be a matter of moments for him to fix.

Next chapter is when things get really interesting, but until then R+R…ta!