13. Changes.

T: You're really going to hate Sei-chan after this but hey I'm sure you disliked him before hand any way! Yep not mine and yep warnings the same!

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He had felt the weight of the bridge shift beneath him and for the briefest of moments he had considered letting himself fall with it.

Yet there was Subaru and the promise he had made to the younger man to consider.

'On the last day I shall be at your side.'

He had want to fulfil that promise, had want to spend what might be his last moments wrapped in Subaru's embrace.

Thus he had leapt free of the wreckage and had watches at a safe distance to assure himself that neither Subaru nor Kamui had been harmed.

He'd gone for coffee and decided during his third cup to simply drink, relax and allow the Dark Kamui to believe that he had perished on the bridge.

Decided to keep a low profile for the evening.

Thus he had taken the train to the house he had bought in Kyoto all of a year ago and had spent his afternoon talking to his boss about transferring himself out to this area.

The tree's spell had struck just as dusk had set in and it had unsettled him just slightly.

Not simply because of the drain it had given his energy, but also because he had forgotten that 'Yuki' had placed the spell upon him.

He could not simply allow 'Yuki' to take his essence whenever the other desired, especially if it was going to bring him this much fatigue and yet returning to Tokyo simply to feed the tree each day would be both risky and expensive.

He had just begun to think of a solution to this problem when there was a frantic knock on the door.

He is unsurprised to find Subaru on his door step…he is, however, surprised by the blow Subaru deals him.

"That was for running away." He remarks.

"Did you see this house in your dreams also?"

"No…this time I simply followed the pulse of the magic that I have tied to you."

"Why are you here, Subaru?"

"I love you."

He steps finally across the threshold and raises his fingers up to the bandages about his eyes.

"Are you sure that you should take them off so soon, Subaru?"

"If I am blind, then I am blind, Seishrio, a few more weeks will not change that."

The bandages snake to the floor and Subaru blinks against the change in light…

Reacts as any seeing man would react.

He smiles then and stepping towards Seishiro catches him into a kiss.

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He had talked to Noruko and once the man was satisfied that Fuuma posed no risk to the security of the campus Kamui had taken his friend to see his sister's grave.

It was the tears, more that anything else, that told him this was real.

In his dreams Fuuma had never cried…true he had been far removed from the emotionless character of the Dark Kamui…but he had never once cried.

Perhaps that had been because part of Kamui thought of Fuuma still as an older brother figure, who was strong enough to support through crisis and who never showed any sort of weakness.

Yet why did it matter?

Why was he analysing logics and creating theories when his friend, no, when the one he loved, was crying?

He placed a hand to Fuuma's shoulder and says,

"We need to be strong for her sake, Fuuma."

"That is true and we also need to be strong for one another's sakes also."

"I can not ask you to fight this war also, Fuuma." Kamui states as he catches his friends hidden meaning.

"Would you ask me to sit idle to one side while you risk yourself for the good of this world? Would you ask me to sit to one side while there is a possibility that you will die?"

"Now that you are yourself again you bare no magic and thus you are vulnerable.

"I will not watch someone else I care for hurt for my sake, Fuuma."

His friend stands then and for a while they simply stay as such.

Again it is Fuuma who closes the gap, his hands rising to hold Kamui's face.

"I can see all those he harmed in my minds eye, Kamui. Can see the pain and heart ache he caused to countless innocents.

"We were one once and thus his magic was my magic. Perhaps I am no longer ordinary…perhaps I retain still a little of his gift.

"If that were so, if I could use his power to redeem a little of the grief he had bestowed this world…"

"Fuuma, I understand your wish to right his wrong and yet I can not risk your life on a supposition."

"Attack me then, just enough so that we can see if I can defend myself still."

He knows well that his friend will not lease this belief until he proves or disproves the theory and thus Kamui steps free of his friends embrace and reluctantly throws a small spell in his direction.

Fuuma raises his hands and the spell fades as though it has never existed.

"I can defend myself, Kamui and thus I ask that you allow me to fight this war at your side. Ask that you let me protect you."

"Only if you shall allow me to protect you also."

Kamui replies before he steps again into his friends embrace.

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We stayed away from Tokyo for a week, both to make certain that the Dark Kamui believed Seishiro was dead and simply to re-accustom ourselves to one another.

It seems my vision will never return to its previous precision and thus I have reluctantly been fitted for a pair of glasses.

Seishrio told me that they are 'cute' and I informed his that as my boyfriend he has to say that sort of a thing.

Upon returning to the apartment I was greeted with the sight of the two Kamui's linked in a rather passionate kiss.

"Oh my!" That is Seishiro, a wicked smile clear in his tone.

The pair separate and Kamui had the decency to blush before he says,

"You could have called ahead…or knocked."

"Kamui, you are forgetting that this is my apartment and anyway I was not expecting guests."

"I would have asked you, but Hokuto-san would not give me your number…she said it was rude to interrupt someone when they were on their honeymoon.

Did you get married without telling me, Subaru?"

"Did you join up with the enemy without telling me?" I counter.

Fuuma looked up then.

"You will forgive me interrupting, especially when I do not really understand if this is a fight or not…but I am no longer the enemy, Sumeragi-san."

After Sunshine 60 I can not so readily trust such a statement and yet regarding him with my magical eyes I can see the change in his magical essence…

Can see the truth of his words…

"You are no longer a Kamui, but how?"

"Within the Dark Kamui existed two separate selves, yet how that came to be is still a mystery to me." Kamui explains.

"Perhaps because of Fuuma's love for you…something that would have existed even before the dark presence claimed him completely."

"A very intriguing theory, Subaru and something I would expect more from your sister than you." Seishrio says.

"I suppose that you have a better idea?" I enquire.

"Let us no fight over this, you two, all that matters is that Fuuma is Fuuma again." Kamui responds.

"True enough." I reply before I come to take a seat opposite the pair.

Seishiro joins me despite the fact that I am on a one person chair and I am forced to re-arrange myself so that I am sat on his lap.

"Is this an end to the war?" Seishiro enquires after a moment.

"Unfortunately not. It seems the Dark Kamui has found an individual willing to give their body so over so that he might use it."

"That would be Nataku…that boy loved the Dark Kamui very much and would have given anything to see his 'father' happy." Seishiro states.

"Would this other's form have given the Dark Kamui any advantage?" I enquire.

He ponders the answer a great while and then says,

"Perhaps and yet any advantage will have been lost again through the division of the magic between Fuuma and the Dark Kamui."

"Kazuki."

"I am sorry, Monou-kun?" I enquire.

"The 'Dark Kamui' is pretentious and as the creature you call 'Nataku' was once Kazuki I suggest we call the Dark Kamui that from now on."

There are no obvious objections to this decision and thus the 'Dark Kamui' becomes now 'Kazuki' to us.

"We need to test how strong Kazuki is, need to see what sort of a foe we Kamui is now facing."

"It is an idea, Seishiro-san," Kamui says, "But how do you propose we 'test' Kazuki without harming anyone else?"

He smirks and then begins to detail his plan.

It was simple enough and yet it would require a great magical drain on Seishiro's part and would alert Kazuki to the fact that Seishiro lived still.

"We have to do this, Subaru, otherwise you will be fighting blind and this world will be destroyed.

"I, for one, do not wish to see that happen, not when things are at last settling down."

"I do not wish to lose you again, Seishiro."

He takes my hand in his and smiling says,

"You will not, Subaru. Not when I have a promise still to keep to you."

He was telling me with those words that he had not plans in dying alone…

That he wished his last moments to be spent with me.

Something I wished also and yet…

Such wishes are dangerous things…

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T: You see? He was off enjoying coffee while everyone else angst and thought he was dead…naughty Sei-chan! Only two more chapters to go so R+R to let me know you love me!