Aren't you proud of me? This chapter is decently long! Yayz~! Nothing but pure OkiSei, too. *cool look* Thank you for sticking with me until chapter six! It means a lot. ^-^ I decided I'd upload two chapters since the last one was BEYOND short. So here you are. A Christmas present to my wonderful readers because you guys mean the world to me.

Okita had to see her again, though he didn't know why. All he wanted to do was see her. He knew it was stupid and he should just forget it but somehow he couldn't. He needed to see her. He missed her. He hated himself for thinking like that. She was becoming a weak point for him. He sighed. But he knew that he would be visiting her no matter how many times he told himself it was stupid. This was the exact reason he tried to stay away from other people. They become dangerous once you get attached.

Okita walked towards Sei's house. For some reason, he seemed to be nervous. These days, he just wasn't sure about himself. When he got there, he let himself in – it was becoming a bad habit of his – and found that the house was mostly empty. He wandered around. There was the occasional servant but they weren't hard to hide from and then sneak by.

Eventually, he came to a vacant hall. There were hardly any decorations, but shinai and boken lining the walls. After fully entering the room, he saw a person, practicing their blows. He was quite shocked to see it was Sei.

"Never thought you'd be the type to do this kind of thing," Okita called out.

Sei dropped her shinai and turned to look at Okita. "What are you doing here? You just come in whenever you want, don't you?"

Okita chuckled. "Bad habit. But still, you're not bad for as little training you must do. Where'd you learn?"

"My brother. He taught me some things before he went off to fight in the war. Chichi-ue would never let me do this though, so I do it when he's away," Sei explained. She didn't know why she was telling him this. It's not like he really needed to know anything about her life.

"Ah," Okita said. "You don't have much of a grip, though. I could show you a bit more," he offered.

Sei stopped again. "Really?" she asked eagerly. "Would you?"

Okita smiled. "Sure. Would you mind learning from a 'heartless demon'?"

Sei looked at her feet, embarrassed. "That was a million years ago."

Okita nodded. "True enough." He walked over to Sei. "First, hold your hands more like this." He placed his hands over Sei's gently. "Like this."' He could feel his cheeks heating up. This feeling… it was odd to him. He'd never felt like this before.

Se's cheeks also turned bright red. "R-right." She formed her hands differently.

Okita removed his. "Now strike. See if it works better."

Sei did as instructed and got results. "I did it! It's got so much more power now!" She smiled widely at Okita. "Did you see?"

It was like watching a child show off their new kanji to their parents. He almost laughed. "It was much better. Actually, I have something that might help you with that, a hand slot string. I could bring it by some time. How long is your father out?"

"About two months," Sei said easily. "Could you bring it tomorrow?"

"You're rather anxious," Okita noted. "I suppose I could bring it by. But maybe you could tell your tons of servants that some one is coming over so that I don't have to sneak around?"

"Not happening," she responded quickly. "If I do that they'll definitely tell Chichi-ue and then he'll be mad at me for not consulting him. It's happened before."

Okita felt a pang of jealousy, oddly. "With what man?"

Sei laughed. "What 'man'? Jeez, who do you think I am? It was just a friend. A female friend."

Okita felt relieved instantly. "Oh. Well, I'll continue my snooping then."

Sei nodded. "Yes, you will. Or maybe we could meet somewhere else? Outside of here?"

"Wouldn't your servants find that suspicious, if you were to leave wearing those kinds of clothes?" Okita paused. "Unless you were to wear your girl clothes and bring those along. I mean, I wouldn't mind watching you change but—"

Sei smacked Okita hard. "Shut up, you pervert! You will come here!"

Okita laughed. "You're quite the character…!"

Sei paused. He was entirely different when he laughed. He seemed laid back and carefree like a child. Unlike other times when he was always tense, come to think of it, Sei realized he had loosened up a lot since she first met him. She wondered why that was.

"All right, I'll bring it here. Tell some of your servants to take a day off though, will you?" Okita reasoned.

Sei fumbled for words. "I-I would but I'm not able too. Really, I don't like them around at all."

"Oh?" Okita asked. "I think you'd miss them if you had to everything for yourself."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Sei said.

Okita cocked his head, confused. "You know, most people dream of being in your position."

"Well, I'm in my position and I don't like it."

Okita nodded, still slightly confused. "Huh. I've never met anyone like you, Tominiga-san."

"Lots of people say that," Sei responded, bracing her shinai for another practice strike.

Okita stepped back, giving her room. "I'll come by tomorrow then."

Sei nodded, without a response.

"Bye then," Okita tried again to get her to say something.

"Yep."

Okita sighed. At least she said something. He left the room without another word.

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Okita was about to sneak in the door when he realized that going through windows would be a much more fun way to sneak through.

He walked around the house till he found a large bedroom that was obviously belonging to Sei. Aside from the female kimono's hanging in the closet, and the desk with various hair decorations and jewelry Sei was also in the room. She seemed to be thinking about something.

After watching her for a short while, he rapped on the wall next to the window.

Sei immediately turned to face him. "Okita-kun?" She looked around, making sure no one was close by. "We have a door!"

"This is better," he said, smiling.

"Right." Sei slid the window open and Okita crawled in, dauntlessly. "Did you bring it?" Sei asked almost too eagerly.

Okita chuckled. "I have it," he said. He tapped his sleeve. It's in here."

Sei nodded, her eyes now fixed on his sleeve. She held her hand out. "Can I have it?"

"You're still wearing your girl clothes. Change first," Okita said, putting his arm behind his back.

"I would, but you're here. Go outside of the room first, then I'll change and then you'll give it to me."

Okita nodded and slid the door to her room open, walking out.

Minutes later, Sei had exited her room as well. "Now?" she asked holding out her hand again.

Okita reached into his sleeve and pulled it out. "Here."

"Thanks!" Sei, looked at it, marveling. "No, really, thank you so much."

Okita chuckled. "It's fine. I have no use for it myself, anyway."

Sei grabbed Okita's hand and dragged him along, as she went running away. "Come on! I have to try this out!" she called over her shoulder.

All Okita could do was follow and stare at his hand and the smaller one that grasped it. "T-Tominiga-san…"

"Yeah?" Sei asked.

"N-nothing…"

Was it good? I hope so… It's kind of fun to have Okita call her Tominiga-san instead of just 'Kamiya-san'. Actually, I started out writing it that he called her Kamiya-san because it was what I was used to and then I realized 'Oh, yeah, she didn't ever make up that name'. Stupid me. XP Thanks for reading! Reviews as a return present for the double update would be fantastical... ^-^