Disclaimer: Characters belong to Yun Kouga.

Written by Megan.

Seimei walked into Nisei's room, his hands behind his back. "Nisei, I bought you a wonderful present." Nisei looked at him with a smile. Previously they had a fight, it was nice to see that Seimei had calmed down. He was also hoping for an apology.

"What did you get for me?"

Nisei smiled happily at his sacrifice and nodded. Seimei pulled his hand around and opened his fist to reveal an ice cube. "Do you know what this is, Nisei?"

Nisei raised a curious eyebrow at him. "Yeh, it's an ice cube." He smirked and turned away. Seimei's eyes widened and a malevolent smile forming on his face.

"You're wrong Nisei...it's water. Nothing more, but yet...it's so powerful, isn't it?" Nisei looked at him slightly worried. He hadn't been pushed to the point where he though Seimei was psychotic, but things change.

"I guess. I really don't care, Seimei." Seimei dropped the ice cube on the floor and ripped Nisei to the bathroom by his hair. He pushed him down into the bathtub and turned on freezing water, immediately straddling him. Nisei looked up at him in complete horror. "Seimei? What are you doing?" His voice was quite, almost a whisper.

"I'm going to show you how powerful water is, Nisei."

Seimei pressed his hands firmly on Nisei's shoulders and kept his body pressed to the bottom of the bathtub as the water slowly began to rise. He smirked as the water inched closer and closer to Nisei's mouth. He let go of Nisei's shoulders but still straddled him until the bathtub was three fourths the way full.

Nisei's eyes widened as he looked at Seimei; he knew what was coming. He looked around before being pushed underwater. He held his breath as long as he could. After 50 seconds he inhaled water, gasping to get air into his lungs. His eyes widened, wondering if his master would really go as far as drowning him, but knowing Seimei, anything was possible. He closed his eyes and opened his mouth. Seconds before inhaling more water Seimei looked down at his drowning fighter then pulled him back up by the hair.

Nisei coughed and gasped, trying desperately to get oxygen back into his lungs. Seimei smirked and waved his hand back and forth across the water. "Do know what that sound is Nisei?"

Nisei looked at him, still coughing and breathing shallowly. He opened his mouth and asked quietly, "Water?"

Once again Seimei smirked. "You're wrong again...that's the sound of a splash. The splash that's always heard just before you inhale your last mouthful of water and die, eyes open. A horrified expression as you look into something that cannot be stopped, only controlled if caught at just the right moment." He laughed and pushed Nisei's head back underwater, quickly pulling him back out. In all honesty he did love Nisei, he just wanted him to know who was boss.

Seimei climbed out of the tub and looked Nisei. "Who's your master, Nisei?"

Nisei looked up at him, his jaw chattering from the cold water and trying to steady his breathing again. Tears trickled down his cheeks as he looked up at his master. The tears meshed with the freezing water on his skin. Slowly it dripped to his lip, the salty liquid softly hitting his tongue. His eyes were red and stinging from the water. Nisei reached up and wrapped his arms around Seimei's neck then buried his head in Seimei's shirt. "You are, you're my master...and I'm your servant."

Seimei smiled and wrapped his arms around Nisei. "Good boy..." He picked him up and carried him back to his room, setting him down on the floor. "You are learning quickly, I like that." He let Nisei sit on the floor as he stood up and looked down at his fighter sitting on his knees. Nisei was holding his head limply in his hands as he cried softly into them. Seimei sighed and added quickly. "You should get some dry clothes on, water's dripping onto my carpet."

Seimei returned to the bathroom to drain the water, splashing noisily while looking at Nisei, Nisei now looking at him; hinting that this would be his new form of punishment...