No Reason – Chapter three

Disclaimer: Yami no Matsuei belongs to Yoko Matsushita and that's it.

Tsuzuki POV

"Hisoka?" My partner barely looked up, still half-asleep. "Same dream?" This had been going on for some time now; every morning, I woke to find Hisoka at the table, barely awake. "Go to bed, Hisoka."

"I can't. I can't sleep." I could barely hear him. And knowing he probably wouldn't forgive me, I grabbed him from his chair and set off to his room.

The rush of emotions as we touched probably knocked him out. I sighed; I had forgotten he was an empath. Taking one last look at his unconscious form, now tucked safely in bed, I went off in search of SohRyu. I figured he'd know most about whatever was going on. I had no idea myself, with the vague knowledge that his dreams involved someone who looked disturbingly like Kijin. Chuckling, I remembered his insistence that "It's not my dream!" Still, whoever's dream it was, it was more frequent than those of Muraki, and it bothered both of us. I don't like seeing Hisoka like that. He's my partner.

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It was nothing short of a collision course, with neither looking where they walked. So it was really no surprise when there was a loud crash.

"Kurikara?"

"Tsuzuki."

The shinigami tilted his head, glancing at the much shorter shiki. "Ne Kurikara, you look as tired as Hisoka. Can't sleep either?"

The shikigami's head jerked up suddenly. "Hisoka? Your partner, right? You wouldn't happen to know _why_ he can't sleep, would you?" He had a sneaking suspicion 'why'.

"Yeah, I'm going to see Sohryu about it. He's been having really strange nightmares for awhile."

RyuOh froze for a moment before tugging at Tsuzuki's pants. "I'm coming with you." The shinigami only looked at him curiously before following.

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"Be-be- beeb!"

/Error 74946. No access to data…/ Frowning, I shut the window before logging out. So this wasn't working either… Feeling my frown turn into a glare, I turned away from the screen and prepared to leave the room where I spent the past couple of hours. Just why couldn't we find any clues about these damn wormholes? Those things just appeared, sometimes sucking some unlucky fellow in, and vanished again. That made no sense… Kurikara would laugh his head off if he saw me like this.  Frowning again, I shook my head.

Remembering the fire dragon's last collision with my son and the two shinigami, I felt the stern expression return to my face. That boy… wanting to bound with Kurikara. Hadn't he already done enough? Like Tsuzuki said, the RyuOh was nobody to be gained by anybody. Not him. His powers were too great – the destructive potential too high and his temper too short. Having him run around in Gensoukai was inevitably going to end up in some sort of disaster or another.

My concern increased as I realized that this was just exactly what the shiki in question was doing right now. I'd have to go and do something-?

" No, no! She said right, I'm sure! Believe me!"

My expression softened a bit. Obviously Tsuzuki-san was searching for me – and had lost his direction once again.

"No! Can't you distinguish left from right?!"

" Of course I can! And we have to go right!"

"… Then why are you pointing to the left?"

Wait a sec! Kurikara?!

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Beaming in delight, I froze as I saw the expression on Sohryu's face. Uh-oh. That was going to be trouble.

"Kurikara."

His growl was pure hate. I sweatdropped.

"Sohryu."

Though he kept his nonchalant exterior, I felt the shikigami next to me tensing up.

"What are you doing here?"

"Huh. Funny you're asking that, Sohryu. We've searching for you."

"You?" The glare directed itself on me. Owowowow. Definitely trouble. "Tsuzuki-san?" Next to me Kurikara shrugged. "You talk with him Tsuzuki. Unlike me, he seems to listen to you."  A nerve twitched below the water dragon's right eye. Involuntary I wished that RuyOh would _really_ stop provoking the blue-haired warrior.

"Uhm- I was worried 'cause Hisoka was having these strange nightmares about some guy who looks a lot like Kijin, but he insists that it's somebody else's dream, so I figured that you'd probably know most about it, and then I ran into Kurikara here, and it turned out that he also couldn't sleep…"

I stopped at Sohryu's expression.  "You … ran into him? Here in Tenkuu?"  I sweatdropped. I hadn't noticed that until now. "Um… Yeah." I gave him my best sheepish expression, rubbing the back of my head. Behind me, Kurikara yawned.

"How did you come in?"  Unfazed by the water dragon's lack of friendliness – I suspected that he was already used to it – Kurikara yawned again. "I went in, what else? Your security here's really lax SohRyu."

Sohryu frowned, seemingly noting for the first time the weary state RyuOh was in. "… What happened?"

One red eye watched him lazily. "Can't sleep."

Slowly I began to understand why it was said that Kurikara was constantly bad-tempered. Sohryu's frown deepened. "Nightmares?" Kurikara gave him a provoking smirk. "Clever guy."

Luckily the blue-haired shiki didn't react to RyuOh's provocation, especially for me, since I had once again managed to get myself wedged in between the two of them. Minutes passed in silence. I was getting fidgety. "Sohryu, about Hisoka's nightmares…"

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Both shiki's listened in silence to Tsuzuki's somewhat jumbled explanation about his partners ill shape and the accompanying nightmares. 

When the shinigami ended, Sohruy's expression had turned from angered to thoughtful. Kurikara had a similar expression on his face that made Tsuzuki quite uncomfortable. One upset dragon-god was bad. Two… Tsuzuki rather didn't want to think about it.

"… I think we need to talk with Hisoka."

"Mmm… Is that really necessary?"

Tsuzuki looked surprised at Kurikara. The short shiki seemed a bit uncomfortable with the idea of meeting with his partner. "Kurikara… You don't want to?"  The shikigami twitched. "Of course I don't want to!! Every time I meet that kid it ends up with a huge mess and everybody blaming _me_ for it!!"

Tsuzuki sweatdropped. Somehow he could see his point. Nevertheless, the well-being of Hisoka was more important.

"Yes."

"*grumble* That's exactly what I feared."

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"… So?" I was excited.

It wasn't exactly everyday that I got woken up by a ferociously glaring SohRyu and a sheepish looking Tsuzuki. It also wasn't exactly the most pleasant way of waking up, to be honest. Glancing up at SohRyu, I notice the disbelieving look on the dragon shogun's face.

"He… bit you? He actually came in contact with your blood?"

I frown. My blood? Kurikara had had some of my blood on his lips as he drew back after that accident. Did he lick it away? I haven't been paying attention to the shikigami's actions back then, I'd been to occupied with the impossibility of the whole situation…. But had he? I concentrated harder.

" Yeah, I think so. Why?"

I immediately knew that something wasn't all right. SohRyu looked devastated, as if he didn't know whether to laugh, cry or something else. I really didn't want to know. The expression on the shikigami lord's face would actually be funny if it hadn't been such a serious subject. He settled for a surprised frown. Tsuzuki looks blessedly clueless.

Before the silence could grow awful a muffled noise rang out from just behind the door. A strangled gasp, followed by Genbu's chiding voice.

"… -what are you doing here? Standing in the middle of the doorway! Won't you go in?"

"…"

The answer was too low for me to hear. Seconds later smiling Genbu shoved in a certain yelping shikigami with black hair. Following them was a speechless-looking Rikugou.

"Hi."

" …Ohayo, SohRuy–san, Tsuzuki-san, Hisoka-kun."

I ignore them, being too shell-shocked by the third person who'd entered. Giving me an annoyed look, Kurikara frowned. "What?"

I was speechless.

"Ah, I see you've already figured it out on your own."

Grinning widely, Genbu turned to me.

"Let me be the first one to congratulate you to your new shiki."

I blink. Wha-?

Kurikara snorted.

"My… new shiki?"

"Of course. The process which bounds you two together is already in full progress."

CRASH!! At Genbu's words Kurikara had dropped one of his swords that was promptly too perplexed to catch itself.

"The… bounding process?" RuyOh's voice trembled.

I still couldn't really grasp it. Kurikara RyuOh – mine? My shiki? „ But... but Tsuzuki didn't tell me anything about that!"

Genbu chuckled. "Naturally. Seeing that all of us who follow Tsuzuki are of the summon type… he wouldn't know that the contract with a parasitic type is settled with the exchange of your blood."

Blood? My blood? Yeah, right. Kurikara has bitten me. He must have gotten some drops of my blood back then…

So… that means… He's mine?! Kurikara RyuOh's mine? My shikigami? According to everything that's been said… He's mine. Mine, mine, mine, mine, MINE! HE's MINE!! The most powerful shikigami in Gensoukai's mine!! Mi-

– PARASITIC TYPE?!?!?!

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CONTINUE…?

Whee~! Ryuke here. We're actually into three chapters! And getting reviews! ^^;; ah… we still haven't figured out a pairing here… should it be TsuzukixHisoka or HisokaxKurikara or something completely random, I have _no_ idea. Currently TsuzukixHisoka pairing is up by one vote. *grin* No, we're not actually voting… oh wait, yes we are Heh ^^;;;; See Picaro? This is what happens when you let me ramble. Ooh! Nagi…… (Yes, I mention Nagi even in a YnM section… blame the rabid Nagi fan ^^;;) Nagi… Wait a sec, I'm supposed to say this aren't I? Please review? Pretty please? Pretty please with a lemon on top? (jk I don't think either of us can write lemons; I can't anyways…)