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Chapter List
- 9
- 10
- 11
Disclaimer: I don�t own X/1999, I didn�t come up
with any of their brilliant characters, they�re the geniuses not me!

The character of Alex,
Jacob, Venus, Charlie, David and Dimitri are all mine. The Noters are half
reality. The rest belong to all the book/movie/TV stuff they came from. If you
can spot where they�re from then good for you!

A.N: and one more
thing! If you think this story� Fuma is OOC then he�s not, he�s Fuma and not
the Dragon of Earth! If you still think it�s OOC then
give me a good proof of it!

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Part 10 � Infirmary / Welcome to the Lost Dimension

Frostbites threatened
to eat Yuzuriha and Kusanagi limb by limb. They stopped feeling their noses,
their toes and fingers, their complexion turned almost completely purple and
white. Their moves slowed down, their thinking clouded.

When Yuzuriha thought
she heard footsteps she convinced herself it was an illusion, a deathbed
fantasy. But she was wrong.

They both raised their
heads slowly, hairs full of snow and frost, and saw a tall man clad in a heavy bright
colored fur coat. He had short-cropped dark blond hair, a chiseled face, his
body well built. His eyes were the same color as the glaciers around them of crystalline
blue. They were just as cold.

He stared at them with
suspicious, surprise and care all mixed up. �Are you newcomers?� he asked but
they didn�t answer, none knew English that well, if at all.

�Never mind, you�re in
my land and you�re slowly freezing to death� he was talking to himself. His tone was leveled, emotionless and
careless though his words said otherwise.

He neared them,
separated them from each other�s arms with amazing physical strength and
embraced them. His body emitted brilliant warmth, slowly melting away their cold.

Yuzuriha cradled into
the warmth like into a duvet, Kusanagi was too cold and desperate to bother
about such a sensation coming from a man.

When they were no
longer cold the man levitated and began flying away with his passengers. He
flew towards the populated part of the one planet dimension and away from its
pole.

They flew over barren
land seemingly stretching forever onwards to no end. Kusanagi looked down at
the burnt ground, lifeless, bare, destroyed. He
wondered how the land became like this, who or what cause this.

They flew onwards,
over chaotic destruction areas, over ruins of cities and villages; all
destroyed. Between the buildings, from the roads little white things glimmered
in the moonshine where men and women fell and died. Their bones shone a gloomy
memorial in the night�s light.

Then the land began
changing as trees bordered the disaster area. First it was a few trees here and
there, then they grew so thick Yuzuriha and Kusanagi could hardly make out, under
the canopies, two men on a horse riding in the direction of their flight.

The forest cleared
making way to a big lake. The lake�s surface remained undisturbed thus giving a
perfect mirror reflection of the huge moon above staring up at them.

On the lakeshore
Yuzuriha recognized her two friends and began shrieking wildly at them. �Araaaaaashiiiiiiii-san!!!! Soraaaaataaaaaaa-san!!!� she waved her arms and legs madly
at them.

The man who saved them
stopped his flight to let her communicate. He landed at the lakeshore a little
away from the other two and let Yuzuriha run free. Her rescue and the warmth
made her bubbly personality spring right back to life, frightening the man slightly.

�She knows these two
kids?� the man asked Kusanagi with a deep voice. Kusanagi stared back at him puzzled.
�You don�t understand me do you?� he sighed �I guess I�ll take them along too�.

Arashi and Sorata jumped
to their feet as they heard Yuzuriha�s cry, readying
themselves for battle seeing the girl held by a stranger and yelling for their
attention.

She hurried towards
them �No! Don�t be like that, he saved us from
freezing to death! He�s nice�.and really cute too� she blushed a little,
bouncing on her toes.

Kusanagi made a small
�I�m still here� cough.

While the three teens
and adult reunited, babbling about what they�ve been through and how their
landing was, the fur coated man worked his powers.

Gleaming bright light
flashed around them and suddenly long slide-like carriage tied to two white
horses appeared in front of him. It was like a Santa slide only white. With ice
crystals clinging to its body in snow bright color gleaming with gold as the
light hit it. The horses� harnesses were golden, the slide�s rims were golden, and
the horses themselves had a golden gleam to them with golden manes and tales.

The three Seals and
Harbinger stopped their babble completely and stared with awe; it looked like a
carriage for the gods.

Suddenly, out of the
woods on the other side of the lake came a single horse riding powerfully
across the shallow lake and straight back into the woods on their side. The
horse and the two men on it were in such a hurry they went past them in a blur,
hardly recognized.

Kusanagi blinked a few
times, he thought he really saw something but he wasn�t sure �That�.that was Kakyou,
our dreamgazer�.but I thought he�s crippled, he shouldn�t be riding a horse in
such speed�..and who was that who took him along with them?!� he turned to the
glacier eyed man who stared after the horse as well and shrugged carelessly.

The man stared back at
them and said something in English. They stared back, Arashi and Sorata being
none the wiser in english
Yuzuriha and Kusanagi. Giving up on proper communication the man gestured for
them to enter the carriage.

With a great deal of
giggling, excited and awed babbling, some frozen silence and a lot of worry
they finally climbed into the carriage.

Once he made sure they
were all seated properly the ice man settled on the driver seat and hurried the
horses to a canter.

Instead of riding
forward as horses usually do, these horses rode forward and upwards.

The carriage soared
after the horses, causing the newcomers inside a great deal of panic and
excitement.

Over the forest and
towards the infirmary they began their journey.

After a few minutes of
their ride the ice man pulled out two lumps of shooting range ear protecting
sponges and helped himself to them, blocking out Yuzuriha and Sorata�s happy shrieking.

******************

Karen and Seiichiro ran out of things to
mindlessly babble about with Venus who began talking about her magical garden
when her husband interrupted.

�So�.eh�..how did Alex behave when he saw him,
Kamui that is?� he didn�t turn to look at them, he seemed to want to remain a
bit detached from the subject.

Remembering the stripy
uniforms folded on Jacob�s coat hanger Karen wondered if Alex and Jacob knew
each other there. It would explain Jacob�s concern over Alex�s condition.

�He was wonderful, he
was such a gentleman, helping Kamui with all his might� she smiled.

�And he helped us too,
before we came here he arranged us all to help him solve our big battle
problem�It�s a long story, but he was very helpful� Seiichiro added.

Venus smiled �Yes, he
loves Kamui very much. Before Kamui came here Alex wasn�t in the best of
states�then Kamui came over and simply healed him, it�s amazing really�.

�Why? What happened to
Alex?� Seiichiro, forever the reporter, began his enquiries. This time Karen
didn�t stop him, she too was interested.

Jacob turned his head
a little towards them �The years of his age and the things he�s been through
began taking their toll on him. He was breaking up a bit, going mad and
annihilating things with his powers running wild.

�So far he�s been
given medicines against it. Every time he�d go mad the medics would have to
rush over to him before he�d kill us all.

�Then Kamui came. Suddenly
all it took was for that boy to be there and Alex would either calm down or not
go mad at the first place�.

�He�s amazing this
boy, I don�t know how those two found each other or what they have in common
but they just clicked� Venus smiled, her eyes gleaming.

�What brought him to
these states of madness at the first place?�

�I told you, what he�s
been through. And this dimension didn�t help much. He�s in the Rescue Team,
they deal with every danger that comes over the people in this little city, and
it�s a tough job. There are monsters coming out of the woods or the river south
from here. All of a sudden something huge comes up and everyone�s in a great
danger, you need to clear your mind and fight, never mind what you see.

�North from here there
used to be a heavily populated city, much like the one we�re driving through
here. Some time ago these monsters started attacking the city and destroyed it
to rubble, killing the population by the dozens.

�There is a doctor in
the infirmary from that times, he went through some rough things. The ground
itself there used to explode in fires bursts here and there, just killing people
like that. That�s how the Rescue Team came to be; defending the citizens from
the dangers facing them in this place. It�s a hard place to live in, this
world, never mind how many times we move the city�

�Oh don�t put the
blame on just that Jacob, there�s more� Venus seemed a bit angry and turned to
her guests �He had some heartbreaks too. There were a couple of Noters that
broke his heart before Kamui came here�.

�Noters?�

�Yes, they�re the
police men and women of this dimension. They�re just kids but they know their
work. They were taken from their dimension where they were a whole regional
unit of military police brought here by this dimension. Here they do the same
policing work around the city area.

�The first Noter was a
vampire, a pretty handsome young man who was an officer. Alex took a long time
to convince him to even give him a chance as a lover. Then a man who knew Alex
in another dimension killed that Noter to get back at Alex� that�s when Alex
began to crack�.� She took a small break to sigh.

�At first we thought
he got over that, we didn�t even mention anything of that to him�and then came
Mouse�� Jacob was telling the story now.

�All the Noters wear
white helmets carved to look like heads of animals. They call themselves by
those animals instead of names, those are the only names they give you, they know each other�s real names.

�Mouse was a commander
of his little base of Noters and was a rather pretty man, according to Alex
anyway. In his world he visited the destruction camp Alex was in and had
pictures of the place in his head. He was able to project these pictures into
Alex�s head whenever he tried to grab Alex�s attention or stop him from doing
something. Like that he controlled him�

�It sounds like this
Mouse wasn�t a very nice man at all, why did Alex love him? He did love him
right? You said two Noters broke Alex�s heart� Seiichiro turned to Venus for
affirmation.

�Well, Mouse was
pretty and he knew a lot about something that was a big part of Alex so they
somehow communicated. Mouse didn�t mean to be like that to Alex but he
eventually grew spoiled� Jacob practically spat the last word, his tone
becoming bitter and angry.

�Alex would protect
him, help him, flatter him, court him and he didn�t do a thing in return�.that
damn bastard�.did nothing back but show him more and more pictures! It did his
head in��

�Jacob, you�re
forgetting things again. Mouse was engaged back in his dimension, his fianc�e
didn�t come here so he missed her. Besides he was orthodox, it�s not really approved
to be gay in their religion you know�

�Darling, he used
Alex, downright used him!

�When Alex started
going crazy Mouse only shunned him out more until he grew downright cruel to
him so Alex would go mad even more. On the evening Kamui came Alex had had
enough with Mouse and killed him in a fit of madness.

�Kamui watched that
and still chose to stay with Alex. Now that�s true love; being able to look
past the acts and see the reasons for the acts� Jacob smiled at Karen and Seiichiro.

He turned his head
forward again and emitted a long sigh �Here we are: The infirmary�.

******************

Yutu noticed strange clicking sounds coming from
Ferret, he turned to her. She smiled as she saw him look. �What�s this sound?�

She laughed and pocked her tongue out. She had a
tongue piercing she was clicking with.

It made Yutu laugh; he never saw anything like it
before. He stretched his arm across her shoulder and tried to pull her a little
to the back of the carriage, away from Cow�s halfhearted reprimanding gaze.

The two girls
exchanged a few words in their native tongue until Cow shrugged and
concentrated on driving the carriage.

Yutu and Ferret finally
got a moment alone.

Yutu had noticed when Kakyou
on horseback and accompanied by another man rode past them but he didn�t feel
like caring about this right now. Ferret was such a lovely young woman. He
wanted to erase the memory of Satsuki from his mind with Ferret�s aid.

He cupped her little
face in his hand, caressing her cheek with his thumb. They were so close almost
close enough for a kiss�..

Cow spat a few words
sharply. They all heard a rumble of hoofs behind them, and Ferret detached
herself quickly from Yutu�s arms.

Yutu saw three Seals
and Kusanagi seated in a fancy carriage driven by a strange looking man. The
carriage rode to their side and slowed down for the smaller carriage�s speed. The
man in a fur coat who was driving the carriage looked past Yutu and straight at
the two girls. They said something and saluted the man, smiling a bit, yet
dignifiedly. The man merely pierced them with his glacier glare in a heavy
authority silence until the girls began speaking.

Kusanagi stared at
Yutu, Yutu stared at Kusanagi. The three Seals stared at the harbinger and the
two girls with him. If the four wouldn�t be so detached from each other maybe
they�d exchange words of their arrival and ask Yutu how he got where he is
right now. But they didn�t, they were too awkward.

The three Noters exchanged
information in their language before the fur coated man nodded and hurried his
carriage onwards past Yutu�s carriage and towards the
infirmary.

�What was that
Ferret?�

�That was our commander�

�Oh�.so you�re not all
beautiful young women�.that�s a shame�� the girls began giggling again.

*********************

Fuma sat on an examination table in the infirmary
looking and feeling quit puzzled.

A man who looked exactly like Charlie Chaplin only
with a stethoscope examined him.

Besides the Chaplin man stood a nurse, a young
woman with purple hair dressed in a Chinese styled outfit. She eyed Fuma
looking very pleased with what she saw.

She was glared at by Kamui who was already
examined and now occupied himself with forceful glaring. Sometimes he placed a
hand on Fuma�s leg, marking territory.

�So�.how is he
Charlie?� Kamui asked once the doctor stopped his examination and sent the
purple haired girl away.

�He�s just fine, as
sound as possible�

�Good� Kamui smiled.

�I�m glad I�m fine�
Fuma mumbled, a powerful blush working it�s way on his face �that girl was
looking like she�s going to jump at me any minute now, I was afraid� he
chuckled.

Charlie looked at the
door the girl went out of, making sure she�s not coming in, then bent to
whisper to them �She�s not really a girl�..� he winked at them.

Fuma blushed even
deeper, Kamui knitted his eyebrows �It doesn�t matter what she is, she�s
shouldn�t be staring at him like that� he said in a possessive tone.

Charlie turned grave �iI doesn�t matter if she�s staring at him like that, he�s
not yours to claim like that� there was a tone of reprimanding growing ever
stronger as Charlie spoke.

Kamui blushed, looking
away angrily, making Fuma look at him with surprise.

Just in time Alex
walked in cheerfully, he hugged Kamui from behind, planting a kiss on his head
�Well, we�re home dear, aren�t we?� he was in high spirits.

Kamui didn�t answer
for a while. he was exchanging looks with Fuma who eventually, under the harsh
stare from Charlie, looked away.

�Where are the
others?� Kamui finally asked, looking up at Alex who smiled down at him softly.

�All are on their way.
Yuzuriha and Kusanagi fell in the North Pole, they almost froze to death but
Iceman got them out in time. He�s bringing Arashi and Sorata with him as well.
Subaru and Seishiro are led here by Ace and Spike, I saw Lestate take Nataku
here. Kakyou is carried by Dimitri over here. Karen and Aoki are also on their
way. Everyone�s all right don�t worry�.

Kamui didn�t answer. He
leaned into the hug instead, trying to calm a storm of emotions that started
swirling within him.

One by one the Seals
and Harbingers arrived each in their way.

Nataku had to be
dragged over and have Fuma always by him for the medical examination. He was in
a very bad mood and constantly glared at the two vampires who brought him. Fuma
stood awkwardly by him, refusing to be his father figure again but unable to
say no for now.

As they saw him
Lestate and Victoria hurried over to Alex to hug their Death �Welcome my
friend� Lestate said in his sing song tone.

�You�re back!!! I was
so glad! I felt so alone!� Victoria chirped, jumping on Alex and
wrapping her arms around him a little too violently.

�What do you mean you
felt alone, what about Lestate, wasn�t he good company?� Alex sounded like he
was talking to a child. Indeed the little blond vampire girl looked very
childish and not particularly smart.

She reminded Kamui of Yuzuriha;
perhaps the two could be friends sometime.

Victoria pouted, �He keeps calling me a
simpleton Britton and patronizes me� Alex turned a mock accusing look at
Lestate who stared coldly back.

�But she is a
simpleton�.

Alex shook his head
and sighed, returning to hug Kamui instead of them.

Next came Kakyou who
surprised everyone as he walked on his own to the door and over to the
examination table. Dimitri was there by his side all the time, making sure he
was all right.

When it was time for Kakyou
to sit on the examination table he had some difficulty with his weak body.
Dimitri simply held him at his waist and lifted him gently to the table, making
the young man blush a bit.

Dimitri turned to chat
with Alex in Russian. They spoke a bit until Alex suddenly cried out something.
�Oh my�.� He said finally after some moment of silence and staring at Dimitri.

�What is it? Alex? Did
this man heal Kakyou?� Fuma switched looks from Kakyou to Alex and Dimitri,
amazed at the crippled man�s healing.

�Err�.not really�.it�s
funny actually�..well�.eh�..you see, this man here thinks Kakyou is a beautiful
young woman and wonders if I know if she has a boyfriend�.� Alex tired not to
smile too hard or burst out laughing.

Kamui and Fuma did it
for him.

Dimitri glared razors
at them, silencing them all. When Alex explained him of the situation his eyes
went dim a bit and he sighed. He walked away to lean at the corner, eyeing Kakyou
constantly.

Karen and Seiichiro
arrived, nearly stomped down by Jacob rushing over to Alex. The two men shared
a friendly masculine hug, babbling in yet another unknown language.

Fuma began wondering
how many languages this Alex knows. He turned his gaze to Kamui who was looking
bored.

�I�ll go get David,
he�s probably sleeping, that lazy idiot� Jacob rushed out of a back door in the
large infirmary hall.

�You look bored Kamui�
Fuma neared his friend worriedly.

Kamui, who was
standing with his hands folded on his chest looking a bit annoyed now turned a pair of surprised happy eyes to Fuma.

�Y-you care?� he
asked, mauve eyes filled with hope and happiness.

Fuma smiled softly at
him �Of course I care, I�m me again Kamui, remember?�

Kamui�s eyes filled with tears of
happiness.

Another man stormed in
with Jacob through the back door. This man wore a pair of dirty black pants and
nothing more. He had two big crow-like black wings protruding from his back. Between
them, on his back he had a mark of a red plus sign.

He rushed to Alex and
grabbed him into a hug, Alex hugged back. They squeezed each other for a while
relishing on the reunion.

Kamui turned his eyes
to the scene. They went dull again, his mood murky �Sometimes it seems to me
like everything revolves around Alex. Sometimes I feel like something pretty
that hangs from his hand across my shoulder�.I feel like a trinket and nothing
more�.

Fuma wrapped his arms
around Kamui and hugged him softly �You�ll always have me here Kamui, if you
need anything� his hot breath on Kamui neck made the boy shudder, sending him
into another emotional whirlpool.

Karen saw the
reuniting scene of the three men as well and noted the crow-winged man also had
a number on his right arm, she wondered how many of them there are in this
dimension.

Her mind was dragged
from that when Seiichiro sat on the examination table and was ordered to take
his shirt off.

Yuzuriha, Arashi,
Sorata and Kusanagi entered the infirmary next, still eyeing the fur coated man
with a great amount of awkwardness.

Charlie called the
purple haired nurse to help him bandaging Kusanagi and Yuzuriha�s
frost bites.

As they were dealt
with and examined the Seals chatted merrily, sharing their experiences. Karen
noted the earplugs in the fur coated man�s ears and wondered if he had another
pair, Yuzuriha and Sorata really started gritting her nerves as they reached
higher and higher pitches telling her and Seiichiro of their adventures.

Kamui found he was
happy to have his friends surrounding him while Alex was sharing cold respectful
�welcome� stares with the Iceman who brought Arashi and the rest with him.

Why did he like it? Why
when in the mean time he wished for all of them to give him and Fuma some time
alone?

He must be missing
Fuma that�s all�.or was it? Then he wouldn�t want Alex away from him so
badly�.maybe it was because he wasn�t a vampire again�.or was it?

Kamui looked away,
consumed by his emotions, wishing all of a sudden to be completely alone.

Subaru and Seishiro
walked in, huffing and puffing from the walk long, followed by Spike and Ace.
The latter threw himself on Alex merrily, shrieking his name. They hugged, Alex
obviously awkward by the gesture. There was something bordering on violence in
the way Alex finely tore Ace off of him and there was a bit of fear and madness
in his eyes when he did it.

Ace seemed used to
this reaction, he knew it would come and still he couldn�t keep his emotions
from showing. After Alex tore him off he stood a little away from the man,
hanging big loving eyes at him.

Alex knew Ace was in
love with him, he knew Kamui knew it too. He became suspicious again as he saw
Kamui watch them hug and not do anything. In the past Kamui used to share long
angry silences with Ace whenever they were together in the same room because
Kamui was jealously suspicious of Ace. Now Kamui, standing so closely to Fuma,
didn�t even as much as flinch. Why?

Subaru turned into a
light shade of red when Charlie, translated by a heavily smirking Seishiro,
asked him to take his shirt off for the medical examination. Seishiro helped
turning Subaru even darker red when he was asked the same.

�You�re behaving like
you were when you were 16 Subaru-kun, that�s so cute� he purred atop the
examination table.

Subaru glared at him,
putting his shirt back on, turning his back to the Sakurazukamori when he heard
his chuckles.

But deep inside Subaru
was happy; no matter where they are they�re united now. They were frank about
their emotions to each other, they were one. Finally.

He smiled to himself
thinking of how they sat by each other on Kanoe�s bed
before they were taken here, they were still holding hands. He felt complete
and happy, at last.

He turned his smile to
Seishiro who stared back at him a bit puzzled. Subaru didn�t look away even
when staring right at Seishiro in his half naked mode. There was something
anticipating in his eyes.

Seishiro understood
what it was and smiled back, satisfied.

Yutu was the last to
come in, the two Noters with him eyed suspiciously by the Iceman. The two girls
chatted with Yutu of some watery demonstration he threw to impress them, which
was also the cause of their delay.

Yutu seemed to have
them spun around his little finger, almost shepherding them along with him. The
two young women were flushed, eyes glittering, bubbly and happy as if they were
infatuated with him.

Yutu himself had
noticed that he was having his charms on them stronger then he was used to.
They were young, which could explain it, but still, he never confronted someone
the way he did with Ferret back there and got it going so smoothly.

He eyed the people
around him in the infirmary as they seemed to have come out just to look at
him.

Every medic, every
nurse, and every worker around the infirmary came into the main hall when Yutu
came in, as if called in by magic.

Alex noted that too,
reminding himself to think about it later.

*************

Once they were all united they went through a
short interview. These interviews, conducted by a tired looking psychologist
and a Noter were to determine what they would do in this dimension.

From experience and past mistakes the leaders of
the City�s residents and it�s surroundings understood that a job was the best
thing for newcomers: The shock of being torn from their worlds would mellow a
bit as soon as they�d fit into some system. Their worried / frightened/
wondering mind would find an occupation something distracting enough to soften
the blow.

The Harbingers and Seals all possessed unusual
powers that would usually send them straight to the rescue team but each
insisted on keeping as close to their usual jobs, if they had ones.

Yutu and Seiichiro were suggested to stay in the
infirmary�s re-homing center. Here they kept a record of each residence of the
populated area of the planet, sort of like a ward office.

The two men�s experience with paper work was
perfect for the job.

Seiichiro moved awkwardly in his seat as he saw Yutu
smiling at him saying �Looks like we�re going to be working together, Dragon of
Heaven�.

Seiichiro answered him with a chilling glare �That
is all over you know. It�s useless to try and revive it�.

Yutu still smiled but looked away,
he knew he shouldn�t tease the man who was just torn from his family and his
home.

Karen had two choices; it was either the makeshift
brothel in the city she could fit in to, or the rescue team. She chose the
latter �I had a taste of doing something to protect peoples� lives back in my
dimension and I�d like to stick to that�. She did wonder how a brothel in a
place like this would look like though.

Seishiro was asked if he had any occupations �I
was an assassin�. He had to say �was�, it hurt him.

Here he was without his aim in life, without his
constant true occupation as it was in his home, without the purpose his family
served for ages�would he manage to deal with life like that?

Perhaps Subaru could help him.

The Noter he smiled at glared back at him. She
gave him a heavy reprimanding look �Well we don�t need anything like that here do
we now�.

Seishiro felt like tearing her head off her neck.
She was a young woman of maybe 20 tops, what right had she to act like that
towards him?

He only smirked at her, letting his evil aura go a
bit so she could pick up his irritation and the danger behind it.

She ignored it, or maybe she couldn�t pick it up.

�That was all? You never had another job?� she
asked coldly.

�Well, I was a vet for a while there��

�Ah good, our already existing vet is in need of
an assistant�

�You mean people here have the time and money to
keep cats and dogs as pets!?�

�No, they have cattle, horses, sheep, and the
likes. The vet we have is currently working his ass off on them�

�Hang on a second, I never studied anything about
such animals, I was�.�

�Animals are animals aren�t they? You�ll be his
assistant and learn as you go by. That�s all for you, next one please� she cut
him off to scribble several things on the paper with his name on its head.

Seishiro felt his right arm rising, and then
remembered that there isn�t any point in it is there?

He simply got up and quietly left, feeling empty
and defeated.

He hated all these emotions welling up in him, it
made him weak and soft. Subaru passed him on his way into the room. He made Seishiro�s emotions cheer up a bit though he still hated
them.

Subaru, Arashi, Sorata, Kamui, Fuma, Yuzuriha and
Kusanagi were put into the Rescue Team. They were mostly too young to have had
any prior jobs while their powers were a shame to waste.

Kusanagi was a little military expert; he was
suggested to help out the Noters. He shuddered and muttered something about
military police and awkwardness. His powers sent him to the Rescue Team.

Nataku sat with his hands crossed on his chest
pouting, he refused any offer he was given. Such a young man with no experience
and without the ribbon that was his weapon was useless.

Yet at the same time he was a blank page, ready to
learn any profession. His interviewers tried reasoning with him but it was like
talking to a brick wall; he was as stubborn as the child he was within.

Finally the Noter snapped and growled �If you
won�t accept any job I�ll put you as an assistant undertaker in the graveyard. You�ll
be digging graves and pulling on bodies with David all day long. You�ll eat,
sleep, bathe, breath all around corpses�.

That made a little effect on Nataku; he fumbled
with the edges of his shirt, burying his stare there as if it was the most
interesting thing in the world. After some pause he simply shrugged childishly
and pouted harder, pushing his jaw stubbornly forward. Tears began forming in
his eyes.

The psychologist sat there fascinated by the
humanoid with a three petals flower on his forehead. He was looking grown up but behaving like a
complete child. His shell of emotionless behavior was shattered and under it a
little scared boy (or girl?!) was found. And there was such sadness in his
eyes, why?

He broke himself off his chain of thoughts and
placed a calming hand on the Noter�s palm about to
write �undertaker assistant� on Nataku�s paper.

�Don�t write him in anywhere yet Gazelle, I think
I might need to do some work on him�

Gazelle sneered �Tell me about it�.�.

Nataku was then deemed to stay with the rest of
his friends with no occupation for now but to come and meet the psychologist
daily.

�Is that alright Nataku?� the psychologist asked
kindly, gaining Nataku�s surprised look. After some
more staring the bioroid nodded softly, still pouting and shrugging like a
child.

Kakyou was deemed as rather worthless; he was too
weak to do any work and the people around him didn�t seem to take his dreamgazing abilities as very useful.

He had no former occupation, no trade, no talents
but his dreamgazing, nothing. They told him to come
over once a month to see if there�s anything for him and in the meantime do
some training to get himself in shape.

He walked out of the interviewing room sadly,
leaning on the walls constantly to support his weak body.

His head felt heavy from the experience-packed day
and the thoughts zooming madly in his mind. he was so
sad he didn�t watch his step.

He tripped and fell helplessly, nearly hitting the
ground, when he was caught again.

He looked up at Dimitri who was smiling to him
softly.

He said something in Russian which Alex translated
for Kakyou �He says you�re not a woman, but he supposes he could keep you as
company, what do you say?� Kakyou looked
back at Dimitri and smiled �Arigato gosaimas� he
muttered, letting Alex translate it back.

*********************

The last stage was to find them a home. The Rescue
Team�s little house was too small to hold all its new members which was a
problem. The twelve remaining of the bunch decided to live all together, for
the sake of the good old days.

A big half destroyed house was found for them. It
was a little further from the crowded city, towering atop a small hill with its
three floors.

It looked like the building was once a big cake
sliced in two by a chef�s pr�cised knife. The bit of it that still stood had
enough rooms in it to hold them all. There was a kitchen and a living room on
the first floor, a huge laundry rake in the back yard and a toilet shed. On the
second floor there were five rooms neatly arranged with their doors facing each
other in a narrow hallway. The third floor seemed to be non existent, a huge
slanting roof and nothing more.

Due to the low number of rooms and some
familiarities between the Seals and Harbingers it was agreed amongst them that
some had to share a room with others.

Subaru and Seishiro shared a room of their own, so
did Arashi and Sorata (much to the rejoice of the
latter).

Yuzuriha blushed deeply as she was suggested to
share a room with Kusanagi. She calmed a little as she saw the room spoken of
held two beds.

Karen walked into the conversation between her and
Kusanagi �I think maybe you and I should share this room, girls should stay
with girls� she spoke to Yuzuriha, glaring at Kusanagi from time to time.

Under that arrangement Seiichiro shared his room
with Yutu �It�ll be comfortable since we both have to wake up at the same time
to go to the infirmary in the morning� the blond smiled.

Seiichiro gave Karen a �help me!� look.

She smiled at him, holding back a giggle.

Fuma would share a room with Kusanagi, who was
just kicked out of his room with Yuzuriha and didn�t care much about anything
else.

Nataku would sleep in the same room since there
were three beds there. He didn�t seem to care about anything either.

�And you my prince� Alex wrapped an arm around Kamui�s waist �go back to our room; your coffin is still
there�.

Kamui edged from the hug a little �I don�t need a
coffin anymore� he said coldly.

They were mostly alone now, all the rest went up
to their rooms to settle down, Fuma being the last of them sending a slightly
longing �Goodnight Kamui� at his friend.

�Well, we can fix that, no problem� Alex nuzzled Kamui�s neck, inhaling his unique scent.

Kamui shrugged away from the touch �Alex�I want to
stay human for a while�.do�do you mind?� he looked up at Alex hopefully.

Alex looked
a bit disappointed �But�you know�.we couldn�t�.�

�Don�t worry about that, I�m tired anyway. Surely
you can hold yourself a little bit� Kamui didn�t wait for an answer; he walked
out of the building�s door leaving Alex behind him wondering.

********************

Alex stayed standing there, thinking.

He could sense Fuma wasn�t in his room yet. He was
high enough up the stairs to the second floor where he couldn�t be seen or
heard yet hear the conversation between Alex and Kamui.

Why was he listening? Why was he looking at Kamui
like that? Why did Kamui not want to have him again like before? What was that
patronizing impatient tone that snuck into Kamui�s
voice when he spoke to him?

There was something between the two boys, some
bond that was more then friendship�.

Alex tried to shake the thoughts away but it
didn�t work this time, he was suspicious and growingly jealous.

�Goodnight Fuma� he growled, sensing the youth
heard him and climbed up the rest of the stairs in a hurry.

He hoped his words held enough of a threat to get
the message through to his rival.

Kamui noted Alex wasn�t following him. He found he
was upset.

Fuma was back with him and it felt different then
what he thought it�d be. He was human again but he wasn�t without his memories
like before�..

And still, with everything in mind, he longed to
spend more time with Fuma�and not with Alex�.

(tbc)
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Part 10 � Infirmary / Welcome to the Lost Dimension