Title: "Enjoy The Moment (A.K.A.: Five Things That Never Happened To Sakurazuka Seishiro Plus One) - Chap 5: 1999"
Author: J.J.
Warning: It's an AU BASED ON THE MANGA, it probably contains some OOCness, uses Japanese words and includes some spoilers.
Notes: It should have been completely different. I've no idea how it evolved into this...
Warning over notes: This fic has notes. You will find them at the bottom. Each time you see a number between brackets it means there's a note connected to the word/sentence that preceded it. However I suggest you to read the notes AFTER you finished the fic unless the word/sentence connected to the note is really troublesome for you to understand. Anyway the fic should be still understandable without the notes. Notes are merely extra explanations for who wants to know more.
Disclaimer:
"Tokyo Babylon" and "X" belong to Clamp. I'm merely using their characters because I love them... especially Seishiro and Subaru...
Do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensitive heart which would surely break if you give me harsh reviews, so please be honest but nice, okay?
Thanks:
To Sami The Creator for betaing this! Thank you a lot!
Summary: What a tiny little change can do...

1999 - Tokyo - Nakano

Seishiro saw the building shatter with a satisfying sound. Once, he had liked Tokyo because the city was walking down the path towards destruction and yet still enjoying itself and he had planned to be like her. Now... now he somehow couldn't feel any amusement from what he was doing, he only felt some sort of sick anticipation as he waited for Tokyo to crumble. He wanted Tokyo to crumble with the stubbornness of a child who wanted to break a toy which whom he couldn't play anymore.

'Crumble, crumble, crumble,' was all he could think as the ground under him shook. Seishiro refused to think he was doing it in petty retaliation for having been denied a green-eyed boy because of a girl who didn't even know what she had and surely didn't deserve him. It wasn't as if the boy were important to Seishiro after all. It had been a mere incident the fact he had started to develop this wish to see the world blowing up the morning he'd been left to awake alone in a hotel bed because his bed mate had left him to meet his soon to be bride and he had discovered said youth was a Sumeragi, someone over which he would definitely never develop an interest. The Sumeragi were too boring and proper to interest him, they believed they had the whole control of Onmyoudo and they hated the Sakurazuka. So yes, he was definitely not doing it for him. Definitely. Yeah. Sure. Of course.

To find himself trapped in a Ten no Ryu's Kekkai didn't faze him. He merely picked up his cigarette pack, trying to not think of slender fingers doing the same, hoping his adversary would have the kindness to let him finish smoking his cigarette before trying to fight him and...

"You shouldn't smoke," a painfully familiar voice pointed out in an empty tone. "It's bad for your health," it reminded him and Seishiro turned slowly to meet... a familiar boy with beautiful green eyes that were, as usual, staring obstinately at the ground. Actually he couldn't see if they were green, but he just knew...

"I don't think it'll matter," he replied, smiling charmingly. "It won't be for long," he added carelessly. He should have expected it, really. Destiny always had a twisted sense of humour. To have met again on opposite sides, during the battle for the end of the world... He so hated destiny...

"You... You're speaking as if you had a terminal disease," the other countered, repeating that old script diligently, still not looking at him.

"Isn't that what life is?" Seishiro continued, pretending to be amused by the game. He wasn't but it didn't matter. He just... wanted to talk, needed to talk of something pointless and that would stop him from... from feeling that annoying feeling of something very, very wrong and painful inside himself. This time however the other didn't reply and just stood there, hands in his pockets and head obstinately lowered. Seishiro frowned. "Sumeragi-kun, you're supposed to suggest I just enjoy the moment..." he reminded him. The boy couldn't have forgotten their conversation, could he?

"I don't think there's something to be enjoyed in this moment," Sumeragi-kun replied simply not showing any surprise in hearing himself being addressed by his surname. "I didn't think you would remember, though. I thought you had already forgotten our meeting."

"I hadn't. There are few things more intriguing than teaching to someone the pleasures of sex. Each reaction is a surprise. There are too few virgins nowadays in Tokyo..." he observed with another careless smile. Actually, Seishiro was sure he'd had virgins before meeting Sumeragi-kun. He just couldn't seem to remember any of them. Just Sumeragi-kun. But Sumeragi-kun didn't know and he wouldn't have to. Things would be easier that way.

Sumeragi-kun didn't reply, didn't react to his words. If he had taken them as an insult then he wasn't showing it at all. He'd been nervous and shy in their past meeting. Now he was just... here. A doll whose threads had been cut off. What marriage could do to a man, he thought eyes narrowing. And yet... he was here to defend her, he had created a Kekkai to defend her, he... maybe he was thinking of her right now and Seishiro... Seishiro refused to waste his time on Sumeragi-kun any longer.

"Well, Sumeragi-kun, it has been fun but I've errands to run. You know, people to kill, Kekkai to destroy... the usual stuff any respectable Sakurazukamori would do... so if you would please remove this useless Kekkai..." he told him motioning to the Kekkai around them.

"I'm sorry, I can't do that. This Kekkai will stay up until I die," the boy stated, finally looking at him, and there was a quiet determination in those green eyes that he lo-... appreciated so much.

"Oh, is that so?" he replied smiling cheerfully. "In that case..."

Ofuda appeared, apparently out of nowhere, in Seishiro's hand and he threw them carelessly at Sumeragi-kun. They took the shape of deadly birds but they weren't, in truth, aimed to kill, just to shake the boy up a bit. Sumeragi-kun didn't seem impressed as he calmly took his stack of Ofuda as well and simply... disposed of the other's attack with the practical ease of someone used to that sort of things. He didn't attempt to attack Seishiro he just... defended himself. Like his Kekkai, Sumeragi-kun wasn't aiming to hurt or attack Seishiro, he just simply wouldn't budge. It bothered Seishiro, somehow. He hated not managing to get a reaction from the youth. The next attack was more precise, more dangerous and the one that followed even more so, and so the one after it and the one after and the one after... until they were forcing Sumeragi-kun to fully concentrate, to defend himself the best he could but Sumeragi-kun still refused to attack him and that was annoying. Seishiro frowned as his attacks turned almost life-threatening and yet Sumeragi-kun was still stubbornly calm as if nothing important was happening. Still stubbornly calm even when Seishiro had him pinned against a building, helpless, as Seishiro's hand was ready to strike him and obliterate his heart with the Sakurazukamori's deadliest technique, one he used only for special targets. One he would use on him as well. Soon.

"You should also attack when you're fighting someone, Sumeragi-kun," Seishiro said, almost paternalistically.

"I didn't want to give you another scar," the boy stated, his eyes still lowered but now that he was closer, Seishiro could see there was pain in them, a lot of it. "I never, ever want to see you hurt..." Sumeragi-kun added in a quiet whisper and Seishiro was so clearly reminded of the boy he met in Ebisu and of course that boy and Sumeragi-kun were one and the same. How could he have missed it? However he didn't breathe a word about it.

"Dispel the Kekkai," he ordered instead. He didn't need Sumeragi-kun's concern. Really. Even if it felt nice. It always had.

"No," Sumeragi-kun replied simply, green eyes finally staring at him as he stared back, fighting to not lose himself in them. He'd always had a weakness for green eyes, since he was a child and met someone in Tokyo who... no, from the day he went to wait for his uncle at the hospital and he... he... He wondered how twisted destiny's sense of humour could be. It would be too ironic if what he was thinking was true and yet it made so much sense even if only in a twisted sort of way...

"Aren't you afraid to die, Sumeragi-kun?" he asked, his other hand absently moving to caress the boy's soft cheek. There weren't four people capable of affect him, only one. Only this one... Only the one that belonged to another... Only the one he was going to destroy...

"No," Sumeragi-kun answered calmly and it disturbed Seishiro how the only person who could affect him didn't care about his own existence. Not that Sumeragi-kun affected him a lot. Just a tiny, little bit but considering how no one else could even accomplish that much... And that boy, the boy that should belong only to him, was married, married and maybe he was thinking of his wife in that very instant.

"What about your wife, Sumeragi-kun?" he asked softly, cruelly. "Aren't you worried of making her a young widow? You never told me if you managed to have heirs..."

"I'm not married," the boy said in that same calm tone.

Not married? Not married? But he'd said... In Okinawa he'd said...

"You told me you were going to get married," Seishiro countered in an almost protesting tone, fighting down the childish voice in the back of his mind that was cheering so loudly at that new.

"I... turned the marriage proposition down," the boy admitted, sounding uneasy for the first time and lowering his eyes again.

"After all the efforts your Ichimon put into it? That wasn't very nice. Aren't you going to tell me why?" he asked, feeling a perverse pleasure in seeing the boy turn his gaze away. Sumeragi-kun wasn't married. It must have been hell for the boy to turn that proposition down. He was sure the Sumeragi Ichimon hadn't taken his refusal lightly. He was sure Sumeragi-kun had lots of troubles and that was only fair. Seishiro had had his fair share of problems too after that night in Naha. Why should Sumeragi-kun have it easy? "Why, Sumeragi-kun? Ashamed you'd slept with a man? Ashamed you'd slept with me?" he teased, hoping for a reaction. Misery loves company, after all. It wasn't like he was miserable but...

"I knew what I was doing," the boy stated quietly, still keeping his gaze lowered. "I knew who you were, Sakurazuka Seishiro-san. I remembered who you were. I... I don't regret what I did."

"You knew who I was?" Seishiro asked, frowning and tightening his hold on the boy instinctively, expecting a trap somehow. Why would Sumeragi-kun have gotten closer to a professional murderer if he hadn't had an ulterior motive? So close as to sleep with him? And yet... Sumeragi-kun had always seemed so honest... so honest in everything he did... "How?"

"I..." Sumeragi-kun began hesitantly then sighed as if finding no point in not satisfying Seishiro's curiosity. "Your nanny called you by that name at the hospital. Obaachan, well... I think she understood who you would be destined to become when she saw you at the ice cream shop because she forbade me to ever see you again even though she didn't explain why. I saw... I saw the way you fought at Ebisu, I sensed your power and... and you gave your name to the nurse when we went to the hospital later. Hokuto-chan... when I told her she suggested... and when the man at the reception called you by your surname I... I'll admit I wasn't sure... it took me a while to recognize you... you've changed and I wasn't sure but... and I've never been very bright and maybe I wanted... It doesn't matter. If you want to get out... you'll have to kill me," Sumeragi-kun finished looking straight at him again.

"Sumeragi-kun, I think it's simply stupid to throw your life away this way..." Seishiro observed. Sumeragi-kun shouldn't be like that. Sumeragi-kun should fight back and Seishiro should...

'You'll be killed by the one you love...'

Only he didn't love Sumeragi-kun... did he? He didn't love him, he'd merely found him... fascinating, he had always found him fascinating, because now he was sure it had been Sumeragi-kun all along, the green eyed boy that had charmed him so much in those various moments of his life, Sumeragi-kun and no one else, and how, how had he managed to miss that?

Sumeragi-kun smiled bitterly, his gaze lowering again.

"My existence... it's pretty pointless. I've no social life, I was unable to save my sister, I've deprived my Ichimon of an heir, I have a job I don't like and I raise a Kekkai in order to protect the world for someone who would rather have it destroyed..." the boy summarized. "It'll be fine this way..."

'I raise a Kekkai in order to protect the world for someone who would rather have it destroyed...'

For who had Sumeragi-kun raised that damned Kekkai for exactly? Not for a wife, he had none... and the last time they'd talked Sumeragi-kun had had no one, no one for which he could find enough worth to raise a Kekkai for, he was alone and...

'I raise a Kekkai in order to protect the world for someone who would rather have it destroyed...'

Those words seemed to imply... might it be...

"For whom did you exactly raise a Kekkai for, Sumeragi-kun?" he asked, moving closer to him. Seishiro hadn't realized he had, for quite a while now, stopped aiming at Sumeragi-kun and was merely holding him captive, at first, pinning him to the wall, and now, pressing him close to himself in something that looked suspiciously close to an embrace. The boy blushed and refused to answer even if he was showing no resistance at all to being held. None at all...

"So Sumeragi-kun is in love with someone," he observed. "Love... such a pointless emotion... My mother... she told me I would be killed by the one I were to love and I don't love you, Sumeragi-kun, don't ever try to delude yourself," Seishiro informed him not quite sure about why he was telling him this. He also had no idea why he was petting him but he didn't want to be bothered by details like those.

"Was she a YumeMi?" Sumeragi-kun asked him while looking up at him with those lovely green eyes of his.

"She... no, actually I don't think she had any idea how to predict the future. She couldn't even guess which side a coin would fall on..." Seishiro said, wondering why he had let himself be influenced by the weird statement of an obviously insane woman.(1)

"Then I'm glad you've no reason to worry over it, Sakurazuka-san," Sumeragi-kun mumbled snuggling closer and Seishiro wondered when exactly Sumeragi-kun had hugged him back and, more importantly, why Seishiro was enjoying it so much...

"I don't love you, Sumeragi-kun..." he repeated again. Sumeragi-kun nodded.

"I haven't asked you to, Sakurazuka-san," the boy replied with the sad, empty tone of a pessimist, and Seishiro sighed because the whole situation just didn't make sense but things with Sumeragi-kun never made sense. He just felt wonderful when the boy was around. The reason why was never explained to him though.

"I don't think I want to kill you either, Sumeragi-kun. The world is going to be destroyed, no matter what we do. Why don't we just... enjoy the moment?" he suggested, nuzzling against the boy. Sumeragi-kun was warm and very pleasant to hold just as he remembered...

"Whatever you want, Sakurazuka-san," Sumeragi-kun replied. He still didn't seem to expect anything from Seishiro and yet he seemed to enjoy their closeness...

"Seishiro. You've known me and my name long enough to be allowed to use it..." Seishiro stated. Sumeragi-kun blinked as he looked up at him, apparently surprised at the concession.

"Whatever you want... Seishiro-san..." he replied then, a little nervously, before returning to lean his head on Seishiro's shoulder. Seishiro smiled. Sumeragi-kun didn't seem to plan to move from his embrace anytime soon and that was good. Very good, he decided as he turned the boy's face and, after staring for a second at anxious green eyes, kissed him gently meeting no resistance at all.

"Sumeragi-kun?" he murmured when they parted.

"Hum?" the boy replied dazedly and he grinned seeing he wasn't the only one affected by their closeness.

"I've no idea what your name is," he admitted, causing the boy to blush.

"Oh, um, sorry, I guess I've never introduced myself, sorry, it was impolite of me, I'm so..." Sumeragi-kun began babbling, reminding him more of the boy he'd seen at the hotel. Seishiro placed a finger on the boy's lips, silencing him.

"Sumeragi-kun," he said. "Your name."

"Oh... um... Subaru... Sumeragi Subaru... from the Sumeragi Ichimon..." the youth replied, lowering his head in embarrassment.

"Sakurazuka Seishiro, from the Sakurazuka Ichimon," Seishiro replied. "Pleased to meet you for the fifth time... Subaru-kun," he added before kissing the boy again, much more passionately this time, enjoying how Subaru-kun clung to him tightly. It was good to be wanted. He was rather displeased when they had to part again.

"Subaru-kun?"

"Hum?" the boy replied again and Seishiro smiled, remembering Subaru-kun had never been much of a talker.

"I don't mind doing it here but... wouldn't you prefer some place more private and comfortable? You can set up your Kekkai again when we're at my apartment if it makes you feel better," Seishiro teased before moving to nip the boy's neck. Subaru-kun blushed cutely.

"Are you... are you inviting me to your home?" he asked nervously and for the first time he heard a tiny shred of hope in the boy's tone that made him even more adorable, so adorable Seishiro couldn't help but kiss his forehead as he would do with a child.

"No, I'm telling you that you're going to move to my apartment and remain there," he clarified, resting his hand on Subaru-kun's cheek and stroking his thumb over the boy's soft skin soothingly. Subaru-kun seemed in need of some cuddling and reassuring right then and he was sure he could provide them in abundance. "I'm quite bored with having to count on destiny for our next meeting and I've plenty of ice cream in the fridge. Don't you want to come with me?" he asked, likely looking at him in the same manner as when they'd first meet and he'd persuaded him to play 'Tag' in the hospital.

"I... I can't think of any other place where I would want to be..." Subaru-kun admitted, lowering his gaze shyly as a small wistful smile graced his lips.

"That's great, then you'll move in," Seishiro stated before kissing him again, rather quickly this time.

"But... it's your house... and I'm not good company and I'm horrible at housework and..." the boy protested timidly, looking at him anxiously, fearing to be rejection.

"I'll take care of it, Subaru-kun. I'll handle everything because now... now you're mine as you should have been right from the beginning. You've to stop worrying and just follow me," Seishiro stated, looking at him straight in the eyes, meaning everything he said.

Subaru-kun stared at him then, as the boy had done every other time they'd met, he agreed with his plan, dispelled the Kekkai and let Seishiro take him away from there, holding him by the hand as it was a... habit between the two of them. Seishiro was still sure he didn't love Subaru-kun but well... he didn't really needed to put a label on what he felt for the boy either, did he?

The End!

JJ's Notes:

1. In the drama cd, Setsuka said some pretty weird things that makes her sound a bit... insane.

JJ's Extra Notes:
Yes, it was obvious right from the start that the two who met were always Subaru and Seishiro. It wasn't for them, though. The meeting never lasted much, they changed a lot through them (Yes, I know, in 'Tokyo Babylon' Seishiro said he could have recognized Subaru without using the mark but he was eighteen when they first meet, not five or nine or fifteen and he wanted to recognize Subaru. Here, he's mostly in denial about the meetings' importance) and they met a lot of people between them. A side of them sensed that they'd had already met but... they couldn't figure out when.
As for Subaru's depression... Subaru was already suffering of it in 1998 and you can find hints here and there. Realizing the one he loved was his enemy and spending a year trying to find a solution only to find nothing and deciding he would let Seishiro kill him didn't help as it hadn't helped the fact his Ichimon didn't take his refusal to get married well.
What now? Will Subaru and Seishiro live happily together? Will they end up on Rainbow Bridge again? Will the world end or will Kamui save the day? You decide!
And for those who're wondering where the 'plus one' in the subtitle... there's no other story. This story had been born to be made up by five tales only. The 'plus one' is just a reference to the fact Seishiro wasn't born in 1974.

Dictionary:
-chan: Name ending used to express affection and familiarity or to talk with a child
-kun: Young
-san: "Mr." or "Mrs."
Ichimon: "Family" or "Household" or "Clan"
Kekkai: Shield
Obaachan: "Grandmother" or "Old Woman"
Onmyoudo: "Way of Yin and Yang". Yin and Yang are the male and female forces underlying the movement and changes of nature. Onmyoudo is based upon the Chinese arts of astrology, divination and Taoist magic and also represents a mystical way of living in harmony with the forces of nature
Onmyoujutsu: "Art of Yin and Yang". The ability to use Onmyoudo spells
Sakurazukamori: "Guardian of the Cherry Blossom Burial Mound". The assassin who uses Onmyoujutsu to kill who threatens Japan
Ten no Ryu: Dragon of Heaven
YumeMi: "Dreamgazer". One that can see the future in dreams

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To Everyone who reviewed: Thank you! You're a great encouragement for me!

To rain angst: I'm glad you liked the previous chapter and yes, Subaru knew... and they're naughty boys!

To JenEvan: That's the last chap and yes, they're a bit silly for not introducing each other...

To Rein: As you can see I haven't stopped. Well... the Sakurazuka Ichimon is a clan... but the Sakurazukamori is a one person assassin with assistant. So Seishiro has a clan at which he belong as Sakurazuka.

To Watanabe Emi: Seishiro is in denial. Deep denial. And well... while we know it can't be no one else but Subaru he had tons of meetings in between his meetings with Subaru and Subaru grew up quite a bit... but please, feel free to hit him on the head anyway!

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