Indiscriminate Happenings
Fandom: xxxHoLiC
Characters/Pairing: Doumeki, Haruka, Watanuki, Yuuko, Fai, Kurogane, Sakura, Tomoyo, Seishiro/Subaru, Fuuma/Kamui, Saiga/Kakei, Rikuou, Kazahaya, Himawari
Prompt:11:3- Tattoo
Rating: K
Chapter Genre: General
Summary: Requested by yuMeNami; The perks of being one of the more powerful clans in the land was that he was allowed virutally unlimited teasing time.
I

Shizuka sat at the table, scrutinizing every person there, the tattoo winding down his neck proudly declaring his clan and the symbol on his shoulder telling his identity and status within it. Across from him, with her own nearly visible bubble of space, sat Kunogi Himawari, her green shirt held together in the back by a series of thin ties, leaving her back bared and with it the massive inked wings that told of her. She smiled widely and waved to him, receiving a nod as a greeting in return. A few feet away from her sat Kazahaya Kudou, a small, light haired male and his guardian, Kakei. The two sat in silence, waiting for the meeting to begin, Kazahaya slumped in his chair, chin resting in his hand and the fingers of his other hand tapping along the wood of the table. Saiga and Rikuou Himura sat across from them, Rikuou's eyes fixed on Kazahaya and Saiga exchanging flirtatious looks with Kakei.

There was going to be a joining soon, he mused, turning his eyes for a moment to the first set of twins, Kamui and Subaru, and on the second, Seishiro and Fuuma, who were also each suspected of wanting their clans joined. Beside him the head of the Doumeki clan, Haruka, smiled at the head of the committee, and leader of the most power clan, Yuuko, and her own heir, a boy that she had picked up some time ago. Nobody knew anything more than his name and the symbol marking him as the next in line for what basically constituted as kingship.

Watanuki Kimihiro.

Shizuka's eyes focused solely on the seemingly quiet boy, his head tilted down in respect for his adopted mother (a title she had bestowed on herself) and his hands folded neatly in front of him, fingers interlaced. He ignored another leaders exuberant greeting even as Watanuki dipped his head in a polite reply to Fai and Sakura, the blonde's own ward. A seat away from them Kurogane sulked, arms crossed and glaring at everyone that looked his way even as his younger sister Tomoyo giggled quietly behind her hand, exchanging words with Sakura.

Yuuko and Watanuki took their respective seats and the meeting began.
II

Shizuka stood just outside the door of the conference room, arms crossed and lounging against the wall, waiting for his grandfather to finish socializing with Yuuko. To keep himself amused he focused on Fai and Kurogane's latest confrontation but lost interest as soon as the blonde began flirting shamelessly with the younger man, leaning closer and pestering him. He switched his gaze back to Yuuko and Haruka but upon seeing that they were still talking in the way that suggested that they would be there for a while yet, he looked over to a flushed, yelling Kazahaya and a smirking Rikuou, vaguely wondering what set the fairer teen off this time. Sighing he shifted his eyes again, idly lifting a hand to trace the swirling pattern on his shoulder as he searched. Tomoyo and Sakura sat demurely on a bench not too far from where their respective clan leaders baited each other.

Then he caught sight of Watanuki sitting in solitude on the other side of the sitting room, staring out one of the massive windows that lined that half of the room. As he wandered over to follow Kurogane and Fai's example and extract some entertainment from the younger man, Shizuka wondered how, after falling from the second story of a building and nearly dying, the other could handle being so close to them.

"Oi."

The smaller brunette bristled slightly, throwing a glare back at him then promptly whipping his head back to watch the massive field of sakura trees shed thousands of petals. Pale lips twisted into a frown as Shizuka stoically took a seat across from him, leaning back in a lounging pose and staring intently. The twitches made themselves known first, as usual, followed by an indignant huff and finally a growl.

"What do you want?!" Watanuki demanded, flushing darkly, in the way that Shizuka had always found fetching, even when they first met and he had done something that rubbed the smaller heir the wrong way. He offered an indifferent shrug as his reply and crossed his arms, his eyes not once leaving Watanuki's face. "I swear, if the only reason you came over here was to annoy me, I'm going to-"

"Wa-ta-nu-ki!" Yuuko called, waving him over with a giggle. "Let's go! I'm hungry and it's past four; we have drinking to do!"

"Yuuko-san!" Watanuki chastised loudly, jumping almost eagerly from his seat. "It's not healthy to indulge like that! You're going to ruin your liver prematurely!"

"Watanuki, you worry to much," Yuuko retaliated, throwing open the door and leaving, signaling to everyone else that remained that it was now acceptable to take their leave.

"Come Shizuka," Haruka called, grinning at his grandsons blank expression, seeing the disappointment hidden there, "you'll see him in two days time, no need to be sad. After all, absence makes the heart grow fonder, as they say."

Perhaps it did, Shizuka mused.
II
There you go, yuMeNami, I hope it's satisfactory... T.T So tired... We went to Red Deer today and visited my grandparents. They're moving to Calgary so they're getting rid of a bunch of their things. They gave us a bunch of stuff. Then the door to the janitors room was locked and I couldn't do my cleaning tonight... Ugh, talk about a rough day. Anywho, I hope this is okay... If at all comprehensible.