7. Truths.

T: Beware the cliff hanger in this chapter; it's a particularly frustrating one! Little else to say about this chapter here so will inform you that the warnings remain the same, italics have the same meaning and its still not mine!

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The doctor is the first thing he sees as he stirs from his 'sleep', the expression on the older man's face telling of how serious he had believed Subaru's condition to be and how 'miraculous' his recovery had been.

"How long have I been out?" He enquires, the words slurred still for the effects of the drugs.

"A day, Kimoru-san."

"Did the haemorrhaging grow worse?"

"Yes."

"And now?"

"Looking at your scans, Kimoru-san, I can see no signs that there were ever any haemorrhages on your brain."

"How is that possible?"

"I believe it might simply have been an abnormality on the scans."

"Then what of the headaches and the fainting?"

"I can not say." He pauses a moment to read his chart and then he remarks, "I can not keep you here, Kimoru-san, however, I would ask that you return tomorrow for a check up."

He agrees despite his awareness that there shall be no hospital left by the afternoon and thanking the doctor for his hard work he pushes himself off of his bed.

He decides, once he is outside in the corridor, to finish what he had started and turns down towards his other self's hospital room.

He makes it but two feet when the gentle seductiveness of the 'Kamui's' voice enquires,

"Who are you then?"

Meeting the eyes of the boy he notes, swiftly, that he sees still the others true face, a fact that both pleases him and confuses him at the same time.

"Kimoru Yuji."

"Ah, the boy who has so confused the Wish of the Sakurazukamori." He feels the others eyes regarding him a moment beneath the lenses balanced on his nose and then he remarks,

"You should not be here…indeed you should not even exist."

"Yes still I am here and still I exist."

"Why, I wonder?"

"For the sake of a Wish."

The other starts laughing then, the sound of the thing sending a little shiver up his spine.

"I believe that is a very true statement." The other is at his side then, his fingers pulling hard at Subaru's hair, "You exist for a Wish that, like so many others, was to remain un-granted.

"Yet it seems that the other dealer of Wishes has become sentimental in her old age and thus you are here." The 'Kamui' releases his grip and smiling he enquires,

"Let us see which of the Sakurazukamori has the stronger wish, shall we?" Before he leaves his side at last.

The ground begins to tremble all of a minute later and he is caught into the press of people attempting to escape from the building before it collapsed.

The press of bodies pushes him as far as the hospitals entrance before a strong grip pulls him from the tide.

"This is an unexpected surprise, Yuji-kun." Seishiro does seem genuinely surprised, though whether this emotion is for his presence here, or for the change Seishiro will be able to feel in his aura, he can not, as yet, tell.

"Then you are here to rescue Sumeragi-san are you?"

A flair of raw power flickers a moment in the hazel of the other's eye and then he is smiling an all but predatory smile,

"So you have met Subaru-kun, have you?"

"Our paths have crossed, yes."

"Such envy, Yuji-kun, I could almost believe that you cared for me."

"You have lost your confidence, Sakurazuka-san."

"No, I have simply been allowed to see the matter with greater clarity."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning I can feel the sakura upon you, Yuji-kun and that I comprehend, at last, why I was so drawn to you…why you, in turn, have been so cold."

Curious as to whether Seishiro has realised his true identity he enquires,

"Are you not curious as to how I have the Sakura's spell upon me?"

"No." He pulls him in for a kiss then, his lips and the strength within them a thing he has missed with an almost feverish intensity.

"I have decided that I have no want to comprehend you, Yuji-kun, nor your connection to the dark heart of me.

"I wish only to erase you from my mind and my heart…wish only to return to the world that I do comprehend and to he who owns my soul."

Though this statement is so unlike Seishiro…though the fragility contained within the words is unnerving…he is glad for what it means.

Glad that, for the moment, he has not twisted destiny completely from its course.

Brushing his fingers through Seishiro's hair he enquires,

"Is Sumeragi-san the one you told me of?"

"Yes."

"It did not completely occur as you said, did it?"

"No and yet such things no longer concern you."

Stepping free the other's grip he smiles an enigmatic smile and replies,

"Perhaps not." Before he allows an illusion to wrap about him.

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He recalls the earthquake as a collection of fractured images…

a cloud of dust drifting around him as the ceiling begins to crumble…

a pair of strong arms wrapping about him…

the blinding light of the afternoon sun distracting him a moment and then the deep violet of Kamui's eyes.

The boy had insisted that he had not been the one to save him, something that he believed without doubt and yet…

If he had not been saved by Kamui then who was responsible?

There was a faint hope in his heart that he had been saved by Seishiro, and yet such a thing was all but foolish...

The Sakurazukamori considered him little more than dust, after all.

'He told me that he had loved someone long ago.' Kimoru-san had seemed genuine as he had spoken those words and something in the bitterness with which he had uttered them had made it seem as though he believed their truth.

Yet had Seishiro been telling Kimoru-san the truth, or had he been playing some odd game with the other?

If it had been a game then what purpose had the words held? Had they been uttered in an attempt to coin favour from the author or, perhaps, to breed a familiarity between them?

Yet if it had been truth then what did it mean for his own future?

He had want to be important to Seishiro if even for a moment…had believed the only way for such a thing to be possible was to die in the others arms.

Yet if there were another way…

If Seishiro had believed him important enough to save him…

"We need to talk." That is Kimoru-san's voice and pushing himself a little up in the bed he is greeted with the other's visage.

"How did you get in here?"

"I jumped." The other replied, a familiar smile falling onto his lips a moment later.

"What did you mean by the words you said in the hospital?"

"Precisely what I said, Sumeragi-san." He steps further into the room then, his features falling into shadow as he crosses out of the moonlight. "However, I believe you have want for a more coherent explanation and I shall gladly give you one…"

"If?"

"There is no price for this information, Sumeragi-san. I ask only that you listen carefully to all that I have to say and that you interrupt only when you believe it of great importance."

He nods and the other comes, then, to sit on the end of the bed.

"I am as yourself, Sumeragi-san..."

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T: He he…I warned you didn't I? This is actually one of my favourite chapters so far, hopefully it shows in the writing style! I can't actually think of any notes to put here so I'm just going to ask you to R+R. Next chapter up on Tuesday.