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Disclaimer 1: 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
though is definitely mine!

Author�s Thanks: To my lovely Beta Kitsunia and the
anon. reviewer from Clampesque!

A.N : there are
several mentions of several other anime series in this chapter so keep your
eyes opened to it and see if you can find which anime series they are!

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Part 3 � My Prince

With their new
companion in tow, the Seals returned to the CLAMP academy dorms.

A great tension hung
over them like a dark cloud. During their airborne journey many looks of
suspicion, anger, or discomfort darted at Alex from those who were hurt by his
earlier words.

The moment they
arrived Sorata zoomed into the kitchen and began to feverishly prepare tea for
them all. The air around them was so tense and Sorata, who was very socially
sensitive, just couldn�t take it. A good cup of tea would relax them all, or at
least give them a reason to sit down and talk a little instead of standing
there and glare, he thought.

Alex didn�t sit down
to tea with them; he leaned on a wall a little away from the table and watched
them all. There was a hidden manner to his
position, of someone trying to blend into the wall and not be seen so that he
could better view the scene before him. It was not a thing he commanded his
body to do, it was an instinct.

He�d stare deeply at
Kamui from time to time until Kamui would notice him and their gazes met. Then
green eyes would stare longingly and lovingly at confused misty violet eyes and
quickly turn away shyly.

Alex�s hologram
companion sat at the windowsill and watched the scene before her. She rested
her head against the wall and closed her eyes as if attempting to sleep.

Alex was a frantic
employer, demanding her to travel world after world until they�ll found the
boy. He didn�t realize he was working with a machine that can wear out after a
while. She put herself into �standby� mode and disappeared.

�So, you�ve been
traveling dimension over dimension until you found this one,� Yuzuriha asked,
her tone bearing bits of suspicion and mockery.

Despite her slight awe
at the dark character in front of her, she was still a little upset with the
fact that he had so bluntly told off her secret of Kusanagi to them all. She
also didn�t like the way Inuki stood at guard all the time since Alex came
over, it must mean he couldn�t be someone good. She brushed off the surprised
stares from her fellow Seals. They always thought her to be the still childish,
na�ve, and chirpy little girl. They didn�t expect her to be able to glare
suspiciously at anyone. They�ll learn.

She wasn�t the only
one angry at her secrets revealed; Subaru was sulking quietly at his chair.
From time to time one of the Seals would sneak a surprised look at him that
said �Boyfriend?� This stranger said it so casually as if it was something that
should be so easily shared with people. He�d have a word or two with this Alex
later. Or should he do it now? Alex had mentioned he could read people�s minds�

�How could you just
blurt out that Seishiro-san was�well we weren�t even�You do know who
Seishiro-san is, how? Did Kamui tell you?�

Alex turned his eyes
to Subaru and smiled kindly. �Yes, I know who Seishiro is, Kamui didn�t tell me
everything, I picked the rest of it from your mind.�

�Ah, that�s just
brilliant; you dug out something private and threw it in everybody�s face.�

Alex moved
uncomfortably. �I know it sounds like I was digging into your private life but
I wasn�t. I can only read what people� sort of transmit outside, what�s on
their mind all the time. If I wanted to dig into your past I could do it, but
it�d take more then what I did just then. I need to actually dig into
your mind psychically, what I did was merely listen to what you thought of, I
can hear it when I tune into people.�

�Then you did
tune into me, you did invade something I might not want you to hear!�

Subaru covered the
hint about his constant and endless thought of Seishiro with his anger.

�No, when I look at
someone I tune into their thoughts without controlling it, you have no idea how
simply walking in the street can be noisy to me.� His smile broadened and
Subaru frowned.

Yuzuriha was repeating
the question she asked but she was unheard by any of the two thought talkers.

�Humph. You still
didn�t have to tell it out so loudly to everyone!� Subaru looked away and
folded his palms on his lap, his closest gesture of pure anger. He wouldn�t
dare do something as rude and fold his arms on his chest, a quiet little
gesture like that was quite enough.

�Why? Is it something
to be ashamed of?�

��

�It�s as part of you
as your flesh and bones Subaru, there�s nothing to be ashamed of.�

�You�re referring to
the fact that it�s a man I�m thinking about. I�m talking about the fact that
you mentioned the death of my sister, an event that hurts me every time I
remember it! I�m talking about a part of a conversation that hurt me just as
equally, and you told it off like that, said he was trying to dump me��
Now Subaru returned his glare to Alex. His glare would be a lot angrier if
tears did not gather in his eyes. Subaru wiped them away before anyone could
notice, angry with himself.

Alex turned his eyes
from Subaru�s He made a little bow �Gomena sai.�

Subaru looked at the
table and shut his mind from any further eavesdropping. At least he made it
clear to Alex that in a way he had forgiven him.

�Are you
listening to me,� the youngest Seal squealed at Alex.

Now everyone was
looking at him a bit strangely.

�Whoa! Oh, sorry, I
was drifting there for a moment, excuse me�what did you say little girl?�

�I�m not a little
girl. I asked you if you really traveled all those dimensions to look for
Kamui!�

Alex noticed Kamui
finally raised his eyes to look at him on his own will.

He sighed. �Yes, I
did,� he murmured, sounding tired.

�Really? What is it
like�dimensions I mean, it could be a great story!�

Aoki turned to look at
Alex excitedly. He was also trying to lighten the mood up a bit.

�Well�I was trying to
travel to Earth in all the dimensions but I didn�t always find Earth in a state
fit to have you around��

�What do you
mean?�

�Well�some Earths are
different; ruined, or over developed to match what Kamui told me about, so I
assumed it�s not the right one. Also I looked for you mentally.�

�You looked for me
mentally? How?� It unnerved Kamui that even if a person who wasn�t him asked
Alex a question, the answer was directed at him. Even if there were six other
people in the room, basically, Alex spoke directly to him as if blind to the
other�s existence.

Kamui was making Alex�
knees weak when he looked into his eyes and spoke to him like that, when he
spoke to him at all�so many years it�s been since he last saw Kamui, for all
this time he was traveling those thousands of dimensions looking for his
prince, his lover�and now Kamui was here, in front of him within
reaching distance�but Kamui didn�t remember anything about him and could not be
touched, how frustrating�

�I looked in people�s
minds if they knew anyone named Kamui. It�s a very rare name that not a lot of
people call their children so I always went to where I found someone who knows
a Kamui�.

�Are there other
dimensions where there are other Kamuis?� Everyone now tuned in to Alex
completely. If they sat with their backs to him, they turned their chairs
around to face him, if they were in anyway out of earshot with him they moved
closer to pick every word coming from the man�s mouth. Alex was now giving them
a lecture apparently, instead of reuniting with his prince.

Alex sighed and
explained. �Dimensions are worlds parallel to one another, sometimes the
difference between one dimension and the other is simply the way people�s small
choices are different then the choices they made in another dimension.
Sometimes the difference is something as monumental as a war being won by one
side rather then the other�� He stopped for a while and looked down, hiding his
face from them.

�And there are
dimensions where all this doesn�t happen? Dimensions where there isn�t a battle
for the end of the earth?� Kamui� eyes were lighting up with a little anger.

�Yes. In my dimension
there was no such thing or I would have heard of that. I�m Death, I should hear
about something like that with so many people dying�In some dimensions you�re
all nothing but a bunch of separated people who never knew each other ever,
each developed a completely different personality and life.�

�Really?� Yuzuriha
shrilled, making her dog spirit cringe.

�Yes. In one dimension
you, Arashi was some kendo girl in a girl dorms house in Tokyo, you and other
girls were constantly chased about by some useless dork of a ronin, you were
studying to get into Tokyo U��

�Did he really chase
me about,� Arashi asked, hinting.

�Oh yes��

�And I was a kendo
girl eh? Did I get to hit this boy who was chasing me about?� She smiled.

�A lot.� Alex�s smile
copied Arashi�s.

Sorata moved in his
seat uncomfortably.

�In another you were
all together, the Harbinger and the Seals, but�ah never mind�� Alex looked
away; he blushed a little, smiling to himself.

�And what,� Kamui
pressed, he started getting a bad feeling.

�Well�it was on
Jupiter�it was a planet almost completely without women, it was some sort of
hideout colony for criminals...Earth was all devastated because the moon was
starting to crumble into the Earth and the pieces wrecked the surface of the
Earth so I looked for you on other planets�Venus was amusing, it had helium
atmosphere and when you first set foot in it your voice goes all squeaky and
you sound like��

�Us, the Harbinger and
the Seals, what about it? Don�t change the subject!� Mauve daggers pierced at
Alex.

He blushed a little
more �Well�you wouldn�t like it but�on Jupiter�you were all in a brothel�you
people were the prostitutes and the Harbingers were the pimps�besides you
Sorata, you stole Arashi off and started your own one woman brothel��

Arashi�s face turned
red.

Sorata beamed a smile.

�I bet you reunited
with me gladly there.�

Alex was shocked from
the tone of accusation in Kamui� voice. �I never did! I knew the moment I saw
you all that this was definitely not your dimension�besides you were
with a client at that moment��

Kamui� face went red
as well �You�you did say that there were hardly any women on the planet,� he
mumbled

�Oh�it was only the
girls in here and of the Harbingers�and some girl named Julia�besides them,
they were all men�� Alex looked down at the floor again. He shifted his weight
from one leg to the other uncomfortably.

�And you saw I
was�with a client�it wasn�t this Julia was it�?�

�No�not really��

Kamui shot to his feet
and stormed away from the room. He returned back as quick and as powerful as he
went out, fury beaming from him.

�You�re lying! Lying!
You�you said yourself that you killed people�you�re lying, you�re
probably one of those dimension monsters, you knew exactly where I was all this
time! YOU�RE LYING!� He charged
at Alex, pounding his fists on his chest.

Alex wasn�t wearing
his armor anymore, and still the body Kamui hit was hard as marble and just as
cold. Alex grabbed Kamui by his wrists and tried to hold him off

�DON�T TOUCH ME!!!�
Kamui screamed and sent his power blowing at Alex, his eyes were almost glowing
with his anger. The psychic waves washed over Alex and disappeared, it was as
if they sensed the magic of this world would not work on this creature.

Kamui saw that and
screamed out with frustration and anger. �I know what you want; I know
exactly what you want! And you�re not going to get that here! Go to that stupid
Jupiter dimension of yours and get it there!!!� He screamed, tears flowing
from his eyes freely.

Oh why does this man
have to look so much like his Fuma? Why? And that look of concern, that soft
touch, so caring�just like Fuma�why?

�I said something like
that once Kamui�I promise to you Kamui, I promise, I�ll never take
anything from you that you don�t want to give, never! Do you hear me?� Alex
bent down to look into Kamui� face. His voice that was so calm and gentle, like
he was speaking to a beloved child, tore Kamui from inside. Alex handed him a
napkin to wipe his face with.

�You don�t believe me
that I traveled in all those dimensions?�

Kamui shook his head.

�Spill some cold water
on me then.�

�What?�

The light woman
reappeared, bursting out into laughter and almost dropping her hologram body
off the windowsill �Oh, please do that, it�s so funny,� she hollered.

Kamui looked at her
confused.

�Do it.� Alex smiled
at him softly.

Kamui went to the
kitchen and brought back a glass of water. The rest of the Seals eagerly
watched him.

�That�s not enough I�m
afraid, bring something like a wok of water.�

Kamui walked back to
the kitchen and returned with a big wok full of water. Everyone in the room
gathered around Alex as Kamui neared him and splashed all the water at him.

Six voices gasped as
they saw what happened, one voice was silent and one voice started going mad
with laughter.

In front of Kamui now
stood a woman dressed, as Alex was, same hairdo, similar face. Her hair was red
and a faint purple eye shadow decorated her eyes.

Kamui stared amazed at
the pair of healthy breasts that poked out in his eyes� level.

�Don�t you know it�s
not polite to stare kid,� the woman said.

Kamui took some steps
back �It�s magic�it�s another trick�like reading minds,� he whispered and the
Alex-woman turned grave again.

�I�saw something like
this in a comic book,� Sorata mumbled.

�Oh, so it�s in a
comic book here�� The woman didn�t look very happy, she was very bitter. �Well
I�m not surprised, in some dimensions your story is in comic books as well�and
some of the people in the kidnapping dimension are nothing but fiction or
television characters in my dimension�� She sighed.

The wok in Kamui�s
hand was filling with water, hot water. Alex took the wok from Kamui�s hands
and spilled it�s content on herself. She was a he again.

�You said it�s a
trick�I�m sorry you think so Kamui�I�m so sorry you don�t believe me�there�s no
way I can prove it to you then�I�m sorry�� Tears filled his eyes again.

Kamui walked to the
table and sat at a chair, his back to them all.

�What was the worst
dimension you were ever in amongst those you�ve traveled,� Aoki asked, an instinct
made him look for a pen and a notebook to write it all in.

�Stop interviewing
him, you can�t get his story into the papers anyway!� Karen wrapped her arm
across Alex�s back. She moved him to sit at a sofa by the window and a
television in the tiny dorms scale interpretation of a sitting room for scamp
students.

�Well�there was once
where I appeared in England�there were a lot of vampires there
so I just wanted to have a look around�but then some institution they had there
put it�s hands on me. They had the technology to keep me from working my
powers. They wanted me to help them fight vampires, to kill them. I had to make
a bet with them: if I fought their
strongest soldier and win then they�ll let me go, if not then I�ll stay and be
enslaved to them. Their strongest soldier was a vampire, ancient and powerful��
Immense pain twitched his face suddenly. It only calmed when he dragged his
eyes to Kamui ��But I fought him�I had to kill him�I�Death�had to kill a
vampire�all to get to keep looking for you Kamui��

�What�s all this talk
of vampires, Alex? What do you mean you�re Death?�

�Aoki-san! I told you
to stop interviewing him!�

�It�s not as if I�m
writing this down, I can�t help it, that�s how I listen to interesting stories
these days. We should get to know you anyway, shouldn�t we? You don�t mind do
you?� The editor hung hopeful eyes behind glasses at Alex who responded with a
faint smile.

Kamui was still with
his back to him, and Alex could see that he was crossing his arms on his chest
stubbornly. He knew this Kamui; the hardheaded Kamui who insisted on him
telling him everything about a past Alex wanted to stop him from hearing so
that he won�t be hurt. The Kamui that insisted to come out to action with him

�We should always be
together, side by side even in fighting,� he said back then, the dark blood
flowing through his undead veins making him oh so beautiful.

That�s the reason why
he was taken away from him back to his dimension where he�ll heal from his
undead-ness, where he�ll forget him. Because in one of those side-by-side
battles Kamui saved the TARDIS machine, and in gratitude the thing shot him
back to his home�

�I�m Death which
means�in my dimension it meant that I was responsible for all dead and undead
things; ghosts, zombies, vampires. I was to control them when they rampaged and
to guard them when they were attacked. That�s how it was in my dimension. In
other dimensions I have the power to help and control them but I have no
position or place in the general fabric of the worlds to play my part in. I
just have these powers��

�And you turned me
into a vampire,� Kamui finally spoke, angry, abusive.

Sorata never heard
Kamui like that since Fuma became a Dragon of Earth. This was the badass Kamui
who cared for no one but himself, who could say things like �I think I�ll blow
you to bits�along with everything in this room � and charge at Saiki in
Hinoto�s basement.

Alex ignored the tone
and Kamui�s behavior. He was speaking calmly with his voice still charged with
emotions.

He was degrading
himself now, in comparison to the confident and powerful thing that held a
sword against the Dragon�s throat, thought Subaru.

�I didn�t turn you
into a vampire. Someone else did it and no; don�t say that I sent a vampire to
do it because I didn�t. I almost killed the vampire who changed you for doing
it.�

�And why didn�t you?�

�Because I don�t kill
vampires, I protect them, they�re my children��

�Ah, but you just said
that you killed one in a dimension you traveled to, why did you kill it?� Kamui
finally turned his face to Alex, the beautiful violet eyes held an amazing
amount of hate and malice.

It had a frightening
effect on Alex. Perhaps it was Kamui�s insistent disbelieve in him and maybe it
was that the youth touched a painful subject with so much scorn, whatever it
was it made Alex start crying in silence again.

�Kamui can be so
intolerable sometimes. Remember, he�s really only just a kid, forgive him,�
thought Karen, knowing Alex would hear her.

But he had enough.
Alex shot to his feet, charging at Kamui, grabbing him by his arm, knowing he�d
cause the youth pain, and lifted him to his feet. He held both his shoulders
very powerfully, making the pain sharpen Kamui�s mind on nothing but his words.

�Listen you little brat,
I traveled for a time that equals four hundred years in total looking for you,
I traveled over two thousand three hundred and fifty seven bloody
dimensions looking for you and if you don�t believe it, then tough! I was held
prisoner more then just the time I told you about and I wasn�t always able to
escape sometimes. I fell into stupid fucking Chinese lakes that turned me into
things and a woman is the last of them! Sometimes I traveled into dimensions
where my body waited for me outside while my soul entered another body,
sometimes of an animal or a human. When that happened I had to live that body�s
life fully to return to my own body. And all this time I waited, waited and
waited, until I can get back to searching for you Kamui, do you have any
idea what this means Kamui?�

Kamui wasn�t angry
anymore�he was frightened. He fell silent.

Alex let him go.
Turning his back to them all, he stormed out of the room.

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

Kamui couldn�t sleep. Thoughts ran manically
through his mind, stealing his much needed rest. He tossed and turned under his
blanket, re-adjusting his pillow over and over again, but nothing helped.

He couldn�t remember
anything from where he was taken to but the moment when he was taken, the way
he felt the ground under his feet turn to nothing and sucking him. He
remembered the terror thinking it might be something to do with the end of the
earth. He remembered thinking the thing that was taking him away might be not
only the shinken it�s sealing but also he himself.

He remembered the
looks of people� faces as he turned from facing the heart of the Devine
Protection to them in search of help. Sorata was running towards him but it was
too late, though the priest managed to grab his hand, the force pulling him in
tore the palm away from his.

He recalled the light
woman�s words; he was taken by a dimension that liked to kidnap
people, then unleash monsters it creates against them�

Alex said he found
him, that he had attacked someone there, that he saved people there, that they
were together.

Together, as
lovers�with this Fuma-like creature. Was it because Alex looked like Fuma that
they were together? Did he think that here he found his lost kind and good Fuma
after the Dragon of Earth had turned Fuma�s body into a vessel of evil? Could
he be so�so�selfish?

How could he use
someone like Alex, who no doubt really loves him and wishes to protect him, and
love him simply because he looks like someone else? Could he really?

He turned in his bed
once more and tried to close his eyes to sleep. He couldn�t. In front of his
eyes the early evening�s happenings flashed: Alex saving his life, how powerful
and confident he seemed there but when Kamui started speaking to him the tiger
became a pussycat, soft and submissive.

He traveled for a time
that equals 400 years in two thousand three hundred and fifty seven different
dimensions�for him.

But he couldn�t
remember any of it, why can�t he? If he remembers what he was like then surely
he�ll be happy again because he�d remember all the wonderful things they must
have done together�

Oh god, what have
they done together? He remembered what he felt when Alex was holding
him�surely when they were lovers they must have done lots of that�could he
check if that�s true in a way that wouldn�t be going to Alex and asking him?
Does it make some sort of a change in your body? Will Subaru perhaps help him
with that question? Nah�

What could he do? What
could he do?

He sat up on his bed
and looked out his bedroom window.

He saw Alex standing
in the distance in the middle of the lawn stretch separating one dorm from the
other. The man was emitting a turquoise hallow again.

Subaru was standing a
little distance away from Alex; by his stance Kamui could read that Subaru was
trying to get away from Alex while still keeping as eye on him.

What was Subaru
running from? What was Alex working?

The scene just didn�t
make sense to the boy. That is, until the white wind like streams began gushing
in circle around Alex. Kamui saw them materialize and turn into people, so many
people, surrounding Alex and nearing him. He saw one of these things walk right
through Subaru, he saw the onemoji work his magic against them with no success,
the thing walked on nearing Alex.

That�s when
realization hit Kamui: Alex was in danger! He shot out of the bed, running
downstairs in his pajamas and bare feet.

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

Alex stood in the midst of the vast lawn stretch
between the various dorms of Clamp Campus. The air was cool and damp, carrying
a distinct smell of impending snow.

Alex inhaled this icy coolness into him, though he
hated the smell, he cherished it as if to sharpen his pain.

His Kamui, his mental savior, his prince, his
love, didn�t remember him. He wasn�t even a creature of death that could be
with him without fear of the curse laying on him.

He remembered how beautiful Kamui looked when the
dark blood began flowing in his veins, oh so beautiful. On the other hand now
that he saw the human living Kamui again he began thinking that this one is
just as beautiful.

But he doesn�t remember him�nothing, nothing at
all.

And he accuses him of imposing to be who he really
is! Hah! Does he even know who he is? He never really knew when
they were together. Alex hardly ever pulled the most of his powers into action;
he knew no world could actually deal with such a thing.

That�s why he�s immortal, because of his great
power, that�s why he�ll never die. He will always walk the earth without the
ability to stop it all. He has to suffer all destiny throws at him live on.

He remembered the arch
vampire he met at the English institute. Alex asked him how he could be a slave
to humans like that.

The vampire told him
that eternal life is a boring thing; you have to do radical things to make it
interesting. Alex never got to live long enough on the same surrounding to get
to that level of boredom.

He remembered a man he
met in another dimension, a sun bleached ball of sand of a planet. The young
blond in red was a very silly man, so silly Alex felt uncomfortable around him
sometimes. This man, despite his super human powers, despite his amazing
skills, could get as low as the lowest of humiliated men and didn�t care about
it at all. He could be in a headlock by a bunch of little brats, he could be
forced to get naked and bark like a dog to make a criminal he easily could wipe
out, forgive a girl he protected.

How he did it Alex
never understood, this silly lightheaded men who could often seemed to have a
death wish�the death wish he could never be granted�just like Alex�

�I know I behave like
a complete idiot sometimes,� the blond said one night when they were sitting
facing each other across a little bonfire. �But�I know I�m not�I tell people I
forgot what I did once but I didn�t�I remember all my life since the
beginning,� he said, the fire�s light moving from his face, leaving his sorrow
in the cold darkness.

�How could you deal
with that,� Alex asked him.

�I tell myself I
forgot it and I lighten up. I have things to do on this planet you know.� He
looked up to Alex. His pretty face lightened again by the fire, the little
black mole near his left eye becoming a decoration �Lots of places to fight for
LOVE & PEACE!� The man suddenly leaped to his feet and throwing his
right arm forward, two big fingers held up and crossed like some kind of �V�
symbol.

Alex remembered how
awkward he felt when the man suddenly leaped from serious mode to extreme moron
mode. But he was right, absolutely right. Alex had a lot to learn from that
moron, a lot indeed.

And a lot to learn
from the arch vampire�if only he didn�t have to kill him�the pain in his chest
sharpened.

Alex�s senses alerting
him of someone approaching him from the dorms. When he sensed who it is he
smiled wearily �Hello Subaru�.

A little alert in Alex�s
head went off at the upcoming onemoji. Subaru was a medium therefore he was a
Man of Death, something Alex was responsible for here.

�Good evening.�

Silence stretched
between them as they stood in the chilling fresh air of the night.

Alex was the first to
break the silence �Seishiro�he�s a Dragon of Earth, isn�t he?�

Subaru took some time
to answer. �You know he is.�

�No, I don�t. You
don�t think about it�no one does.�

�Then how do you
know?�

�I don�t, I just asked
you if he is or isn�t��

�Yes, he is��

Silence�silence and
cold air.

�It�s frustrating.�
Alex broke the silence again.

�What is?�

�That you have to
fight each other�and Kamui has to fight Fuma� He�ll die you know�you will all
die, I read it in the comic book when I saw it in one of the dimensions. What
happens in a book in one world really happens in the world where these
characters live�you�ll all die and the Earth will be given its wish.�

Subaru was speechless;
his mind was numb with the shock. �Will it,� he thought frightened, never
daring to say the words out.

�No�Kamui will die
though and to me it means the Earth can have its bloody wish, I couldn�t care
less. I�d ruin humanity myself, no need to destroy any more Kekkais Mr. Dragon
of Earth!�

�You remind me of some other comics character
we have here.�

�Really?�

�Subaru��

�Yes?�

�Don�t fight each other, you and Seishiro.�

Subaru mouthed a bit, Alex had his back to him but
he could tell he had that blank frozen expression on that looked so grave yet so
empty. A strange power was taking over him. The power�s source was Alex, as if
the man was casting a spell on him. There was a strange way Subaru could see
Alex that others couldn�t. When he looked at Alex he glowed a little, others
didn�t see it. Subaru began understanding that this is Death. Now Death was
giving him a command he couldn�t object to.

�Will he kill me? Did you read about it in the
comic book?�

�No Subaru, you�ll kill him.�

�What? But�but��

�The Dragon of Earth will lead Seishiro to think
that your wish is to kill him so he�ll activate a spell your sister cast on you
two.�

�Hokuto? A spell?�
Subaru�s head reeled, too much information too fast.

�Yes, she wanted Seishiro to kill her, for your
sake, for your happiness though she knew it will hurt you. But she wanted you
two to at least not kill each other so she told Seishiro that she cast a spell
on you both that if any of you try to kill the other in the way Seishiro killed
her, the act will reflect on the killer and kill him. In the comics you held a
showdown on the Rainbow Bridge and he, thinking you want him dead, activated
the spell and died in your arms. His last words were that he loves you.�

Subaru fell silent, his mind frozen with the shock
while constantly kicking itself to understand completely what he had just
heard.

�Subaru, don�t fight
each other.� Alex turned to face Subaru, he did have that frozen expression but
it was slowly melting into one of desperation. �Take it from me; I know a lot
about it, you don�t want someone you love that much die. Talk; don�t charge at
each other, please. Promise me, Subaru.�

Subaru was speechless.
He could see the great pain in Alex hardly stopped from erupting.

�At least think about
it�please�� He turned his face away from the onmyouji again.

Subaru started working
out what he just heard when Alex�s voice cut through his thoughts.

�For me, for all the
lovers who died on me�all the ones I lost�in all the years of my life��

That�s when the
turquoise aura started glowing from Alex. That�s when the air charged with
electricity until the wind currents hissed. That�s when Subaru could sense
something bad was coming, when he began walking backwards, alarmed.

That�s when the ghosts
started gathering around Death, the one who called them. That�s the part that
Kamui saw from his bedroom window.

The ghosts gushed down
all around Alex. They were his fellow prisoners in this world�they would do
just fine. They materialized around him on the lawn as he beckoned them over to
take him into insanity.

He wanted to smell the
smoke of burnt flesh, see the trains docking at the platform of the camp, hear
the buzzing of the electric fence around him, to see the men and women in their
stripy uniforms around him.

He knew he was deadly
when his memories and the burden of his role were too heavy on him. He
remembered, painfully, the times he went mad and started raising hell,
spreading death and havoc all around.

If he concentrated
like that while the ghosts will surround him surely he�ll go mad and become
True Death, true destruction and manslaughter.

It�s not what he
wanted for this peaceful academy but he knew that (now that Karen and Seiichiro
were off to their homes) five Seals are here and if their united power will at
least harm him, or kill him as he hoped secretly, then it�ll be worth it.

Then Kamui could see
him as the monster he suspects him, be rid of him and get back to his precious
Fuma to be happy again. His appearance here was completely useless; it only
disturbed Kamui more and made him unhappy. Now Kamui will be able to get back
to his normal life again.

How Alex hated that
Fuma though. Dragon of Earth or not.

The ofuda and the
chants Subaru cast did nothing to the ghosts Alex called over; enhanced,
protected and powered by Death On Earth they were invincible even against the
magic of the strongest Sumeragi ever to be born.

They closed the ring
around Alex tighter and tighter. He sent his arms up to his sides, throwing his
head back he closed his eyes and waited for the madness to completely take over
him. He could already feel it grasping at most of his existence, the pure
malice and joy of the kill.

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

Kamui ran like mad
past Subaru, through the ghosts, over to Alex. He watched as Alex gave himself
away, he saw what was closing the gap between Alex and them.

He didn�t know who
they were or where they were imprisoned and killed but something in him
recognized the danger. It wasn�t recognition of the danger Alex posed once he
was in the mode he was hoping to get that alarmed Kamui, he knew that since he
started running from his room. He saw through the masquerade Alex was trying to
pose to him. He knew Alex was trying to harm himself and the idea jumped
Kamui�s senses.

He ran all the way up
to Alex, crushing into him and grabbing him from behind, his palms clenching at
Alex�s black vest front crossing in the middle of his chest.

Alex opened his eyes.
He could feel the slim body suddenly banging against him. He felt the delicate
arms wrap around him. He felt the wetness soaking into his vest where Kamui�
face was. He felt the little heart against his back banging like mad.

He heard the small
voice whisper in desperation. �Please do don�t it Alex, don�t give yourself up
to these things�I�I don�t know what they are but they�re scaring me; don�t give
yourself up to them�please��

The light snow shower
melted into thin air as the chilly air carrying them heated back to its natural
temperature. The ghosts seized their nearing as Alex sent them back to their
resting place.

Subaru was on the
floor where his exhaustion of the fight dropped him. He stared amazed at the
two in front of him.

Alex dropped his arms
slowly to hold Kamui�s palms in his. He turned around and the boy didn�t
flinch, he didn�t run from the embrace that followed.

�Kamui��

The boy was crying as
Alex�s strong arms wrapped around him protectively.

�Kamui.� Alex raised
the boy�s face to look up at his. �You did it again�you pulled me out of my
madness�again�like you did in that dimension�you saved me again�I thank you so
much�Kamui�.

Kamui didn�t quite
know what the man was talking about, all he knew is that the scary things were
gone and everything is all right again.

Alex released Kamui
from his strong embrace his green eyes brimming with love and gratitude. In a
second, Kamui thought, he�d try to kiss him again.

But Alex didn�t try to
kiss Kamui; instead he pulled his sword from its sheath.

His outfit returned to
the armored one. The huge demonic wings burst from his back and folded
majestically behind him. The silver horns were made visible and suddenly Kamui
had a demonic creature before him.

Alex looked deep into
Kamui�s eyes; his held no lust or malice, nothing Kamui feared might be there.

As Alex spoke, Kamui,
Subaru, and the rest of the Seals that gathered down on the lawn after they saw
Kamui run downstairs, sensed the powerful creature standing in front of Kamui
from his first appearance.

�Kamui, what you
healed me from is worth more then my life sacrificed for your protection. I
can�t thank you in words, gestures, letters, anything�I can only help you and
your Seals from now on. Kamui, I may look like Fuma but�the promise he broke
long ago, I will keep a thousand times stronger.�

Alex struck his sword
into the ground and knelt in front of it at Kamui�s feet, holding the hilt in
his hands. He bowed his head as if in prayer, leaning his forehead against the
cold metal.

�I swear to you Kamui
I love you, and I�ll always protect you. I swear, my prince.�

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