Chapter twelve: The Final Day.

T: well this is the last chapter and so the warnings all go up a notch! Still not mine, I'm not that evil!

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When he awoke he was in a hospital room and for one odd moment he wondered if he were still in the year of the bet and that everything that had come afterwards had simply been a dream.

Then Subaru was in his line of sight and he knew that it had not.

"How do you feel?" The Sumeragi enquired.

"Like the 'Kamui' dropped me off of a building."

"Well at least you have your sense of humour back."

"It wasn't meant to be funny, Subaru."

The Sumeragi smiled then and catching a hold of his hand he said,

"I'm glad that you're awake, Seishrio."

"Because?"

"It is the final day today…" Subaru trailed and aware of what he wanted to say Seishrio filled in the gaps and replied,

"Go and be with Kamui, he needs all the support he can get, especially considering what he has to do this day."

"I love you and I'll come back. I promise." Subaru said as he caught him into a hard kiss.

"I love you too." Seishrio replied before the other left him alone in the room.

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Kamui was wearing a long grey coat and grey trousers, the coat sporting on each cuff an orange cross detail that was edged in yellow.

The rather sombre outfit was topped off with a grey bowler that Subaru knew from experience would last all of ten seconds upon Kamui's head once the fight began.

Keiichi had also raided Subaru's old collection of clothes and was dressed in the bright red jacket and black turtle neck combination that had always been Subaru's favourite.

If that wasn't bad enough the remaining seals had gone down to the shops and found outfits that all looked as though Hokuto could have designed them.

"I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb." Subaru remarked as he tugged at his rather plain outfit.

"No, you're not." Kamui said, a bright smile gracing his lips as he passed Subaru a shopping bag.

Shutting himself into the bathroom, Subaru opened the bag and was greeted with a mass of pail pink leather.

Once he had the outfit on he realised that it was actually a scaled up version of something he'd worn when younger and again he wondered if his sister had actually possessed Kamui the night that she had come to talk to him.

A suggestion he made again to the younger boy once he's come again into the group.

"Don't be silly, I just though it would not be fair if you were the only one without a special outfit. So I went and talked to a tailor about making that for you."

Not wishing to know how Kamui had discovered his sizing Subaru instead enquired,

"Why are we dressing up, anyway?"

"Because we need to be a team for this Last Battle and because you guys all need a more positive attitude as well." Kamui remarked.

Sighing the sigh of one who has suffered this sort of logic many times before Subaru then enquires,

"When are we striking?"

"I need to go and get the Shinken, while someone else goes to try and get the nice Hinoto back for us. If they can't then that person has to be able to kill her, otherwise she might ruin the only advantage we have at the moment." Kamui said.

Pausing long enough to allow Sorata to volunteer for the Hinoto job he then says,

"Once I have the Shinken and Hinoto is dealt with in one way or another Keiichi and Sorata will send a signal of some sort and that's when we all re-group at Tokyo Tower. Any questions?"

Each seal shook their heads and Kamui breathed a little sigh of relief.

"Let's pair off then. Keiichi is with me, Yuzihara's with Sorata and Subaru you're with Aioko-san."

"What do you want us to do, Kamui-san." Aioko enquired.

"I want you to go the Yasukuri shrine and protect the Keiki there. Try your hardest to keep it standing but remember that expect to see you both on Tokyo Tower so don't get yourselves killed."

Everyone bowed to Kamui then with a final cry of

"Good luck." From Sorata they went in separate directions.

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Kamui noted each seal as they reached the Tower; Sorata and Yuzihara first, the pair cradling a bruised yet vital Arashi. Aioko came next, his breath heavy and the blood on his forehead telling the fight had been hard, yet it was the fact that he was alone that caused Kamui to panic.

"Where is Subaru?" He enquired.

"The Sakurazukamori insisted that he could destroy the angel that was troubling us."

"Who?" That was Yuzihara, clearly concerned that Kusinagi would have to die this day.

"The girl who controls the computers...do not worry, Kamui-san, she looked very week and things seemed not to be reacting as well to her as they used to."

The group listened to Sorata's tail after that.

It seemed that Hinoto had captured Arashi with the intent of turning her against her fellow seals, but that she had leased her hold on the woman in the hopes of using her for a bargaining chip. Sorata had his, orders, however and when the Dreamseer had refused to let her kinder self have back her body he had killed her. It was thankful that though the Priestess was now all but powerless she retained still her quick reflexes, for she jumped free of Sorata's blast but moments before it hit Hinoto.

After this they look for Subaru's shape on the horizon, hopeful that he has survived his ordeal.

Fuuma arrives before the Sakurazukamori, however and after regarding the remaining seals in a dispassionate manner a moment he says,

"It seems that particular Keiki will remain which means that I will have to destroy this, the Final Keiki, by destroying you, Kamui." Before he raises up the Shinken.

Kamui clenches his sword to him and looking once to the seals he opens out his free hand.

For a moment there is nothing and then a bright spherical Keiki blooms from his hands.

Once this is done he leaps for Fuuma and the Divine swords meet in a bright flash of lightening.

They recoil and then strike again.

Each time it seems that one has the advantage the other shifts their position and again they become equally matched.

Yet this is how should be, for they are joined as one in their souls and thus there can be no victory. Thus there shall only ever be this battle.

One has something now that the other does not, however and this shall prove the advantage.

Fuuma strikes again for Kamui and then he leaps into the air, his figure cloaked a moment by the clouds before he comes again to the ground.

He has Subaru now in his grip and smiling at Kamui he remarks,

"Compassion shall be your failing, for if you come to strike me again I shall kill this man.

"Discard the Shinken, give over your life to me and he shall live for what little time there is left."

Kamui sees Subaru wink and his heart freezing he leaps.

Subaru vanishes in a cloud of cherry blossoms a moment before the Shinken strikes and thus it is Fuuma alone who receives injury.

He looks surprised and then all the malice and evil fades from his face and he becomes again Kamui's friend.

Kamui draws the Shinken free and leases it without another thought as he ceases onto his friends body.

"Fuuma…forgive me."

"You did what had to be done." The other remarks before his last breath escapes him.

Kamui breaks down then and the seals group around him, giving comfort without thought, without request.

They buried him with his sister and as the grave was covered over Kamui's tears stopped at last. For he knows that his tears will make Fuuma's death empty.

Thus he returns home before the wake, to change out of the sedate black outfit he had found at the bottom of Subaru's box and into the green outfit that had taken his eye the day before.

He shares stories about Fuuma's old life and he laughs because he knows this is the way it should be.

Knows that Fuuma would wish him happy.

He leaves early and with Keiichi in tow he goes to visit Seishrio.

The older man has a hand clamped about Subaru's in such a manner that suggests that he shall never again lease the Sumeragi from his side, a fact that pleases Kamui no end.

They discuss what they are planning on doing next with their lives and the revelation that Seishrio is going back to being a very brings a true smile to Kamui's lips.

Subaru jokes about the necessity of finding an heir for the Sakurazuka bloodline and Kamui proceeds to needle Seishrio about the possibility that Subaru get married.

After that they fall into an easy conversation about nothing in particular and as the dawn comes Kamui knows that he has done the right thing.

That this happiness was worth saving.

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T: Satsuki was the only angel I had left and so I allowed her to break free of Beasts death grip…though not without injury as you can see. I think that's the only plot hole in this chapter and thus I leave you. R+R, please!