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Log; Ongoing

When; Saturday Evening
Rating; G?
Characters; Kamui

nikorin
Summary; A half frozen and slightly confused Keiichi finally shows up at Kamui's apartment
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Keiichi absently brushed snow from his hair as he pulled open the door to the apartment bulding. After taking a moment to warm his hands, Keiichi glanced around for the entrance to the stairs. Even if there was an elevator, a quick trip up stairs would be a good way to warm himself up. So, with a cheerful grin, Keiichi jogged up the steps and out into a hallway lined with doors. Keiichi walked rather quickly down the hall, glancing at the numbers on the doors as he passed by. Eventually, he spotted number 9 , Kamui's apartment.

Not hesitating for a second, Keiichi knocked and then stepped back to wait for an answer. He couldn't believe his luck, ending up in the same place that Kamui did. It seems all his searching had finally paid off after all.

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"Shirou-kun," Keiichi replied as he pulled his arm away, focusing his attention on the snow outside, "I know you have a secret."

He rubbed the back of his own head and grinned as he forced himself to look down at Kamui. "You don't have to tell me. It's okay. I know you have your reasons."

Kamui visibly started when Keiichi said he knew he had a secret. Kamui... hadn't expected that. He didn't know he was that easy to read. "I... I want to tell you, but... I'm afraid." He walked over and sat his couch, pulling his knees to his chest. "I'm afraid that you won't want to be my friend anymore. Or that... you will get hurt. I'm not exactly the best person to get involved with." Yet, Kamui found himself getting involved with people anyway; the Sumeragi twins being the most current example. But... nothing bad had happened to them yet. Maybe his luck was changing? He certainly hoped so.

Wow. Keiichi hadn't been expecting something like that. Just what was Kamui involved in? If it was dangerous for Keiichi to KNOW about it then how dangerous was it for Kamui?

"Shirou-kun...I'll always be your friend, even if it's dangerous," he replied with a smile as he sat down beside Kamui, "I thought I was protecting you all this time, but it looks like you've been protecting me, huh?"

"You... have done a lot for me, Segawa-kun. You have made me feel stronger when I needed it. Thank you." He hid his face in his knees for a few minutes, mulling over his options, before reemerging. "I... I will tell you what's been going on, but... if any of it comes to this world, you have to stay out of it. I don't want you involved. O-okay?"

Keiichi stared at Kamui for a moment, seeming as if he was about to protest, but he never voiced his objection. Instead, he nodded.

"Okay. I want to prot...Well, alright, I promise to stay out of it."

Keiichi still wasn't sure he would recognize whatever 'it' was even if 'it' did show up.

Kamui nodded, accepting Keiichi's promise. "Okay..." God, how did he even start? "I... am not normal. I was kinda born to be humanity's savior for 1999." And I suck at it, Kamui thought. "But, before I became that, I was faced with a choice. I could either become a Chi no Ryuu and destroy humanity, or I could become a Ten no Ryuu and save it. I... chose to be a Ten no Ryuu, but in doing so lost the two people I cared about most. My best friend, Fuuma, who changed personalities and became the Chi no Ryuu 'kamui'; and his sister, Kotori, who he killed. And I was right there, but... I couldn't do anything." He held up his hands, staring at his scars. "I was pinned to a slab of concrete with glass and a metal pole, but... I still should have done something."

Once again, he burrowed into his legs. This... this would be the hard part. "Now Fuuma and the other Chi no Ryuu go around destroying Tokyo's kekkai. Those are what cause the earthquakes. Segawa-kun... your parents..." To his surprise, he found himself crying. He felt so bad for not being able to do anything when those kekkai fell. "The kekkai that fell and killed your father, I... that was before my choice. If only I'd made it soon, I... I don't know. But your mother... I was right there. I was right there on Sunshine 60 and couldn't do anything to protect it. I couldn't form a kekkai of my own and I couldn't fight back against Fuuma. Subaru tried to save me, but... his eye! He lost his eye because I couldn't protect him, either!"

Kamui curled up a bit more. Why... why was this so hard? Admitting all of this to Keiichi? Was it because he was afraid of being blamed and hated? That reaction wouldn't surprise him, after all... "I'm sorry Segawa-kun... I'm so sorry!"

Keiichi was dumbfounded. The earthquakes that killed his parents weren't natural? Someone caused them.

He shook his head and looked away, staring wide-eye'd at a spot on the floor. Finally, he forced himself to close his eyes and take a deep breath as he tried to absorb everything Kamui had told him.

His parents...

Keiichi ground his teeth as he tried to keep his breath from shuddering. He had to reply, he knew he had to.

"Shirou-kun," he murmured, "It's not...your fault. You're not the one who made those earthquakes happen. It wasn't you."

He brought a hand up and covered his face for a second before sighing and looking back over at Kamui. Nearly crying himself, he wrapped an arm around Kamui and pressed his forehead against his shoulders.

"I can't believe you'd had to suffer through his much...I had no idea."

"But if... if I hadn't become a Ten no Ryuu, then..." Then he would have been the one directly responsible. Either way, he would always believe it was his fault. "But that's not Fuuma! It's... it's my fault he became that way... so it's my fault that your parents..."

Kamui suddenly turned and hugged Keiichi, sobbing into his shoulder, his hands fisting in the back of his shirt. "I'm sorry, Segawa-kun! I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Kamui was on a roll now. "If I hadn't... If I'd been able to..."

Keiichi returned Kamui's hug and rubbed his back. "Kamui. I already told you. I don't blame you for what happened and if you have wrong me in anyway...I forgive you, okay?"

He tightened the hug, wishing desperately that he could do more to help Kamui.

"Still, I..." Kamui took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. Keiichi wasn't blaming him; no matter how much he explained, he wasn't blaming him. "But I never do anything. Even all those times he's hurt me, I've never..." Maybe he shouldn't have said that. Er... best to change the topic back entirely to himself? "I... I think I fail... in my destiny. Maybe my destiny really is to die..." That probably wasn't the best thing to say, either. Damn it, Kamui sucked at this.

"Shirou-kun...You have to have faith in yourself. You're doing what you can," Keiichi firmly replied, "Your destiny can't be to die. It just isn't, you know that."

By this point, Keiichi was nearly squashing Kamui against his chest.

Kamui wanted to say more; to say that just doing what he can wasn't enough. That he had to do better or the world would end, but... Keiichi was squeezing him too hard. "Se-Segawa-kun... you're... suffocating me..." Kamui whimpered out, blushing at how lame he sounded.

Keiichi pulled his arms away and grinned down at Kamui, shrugging apologetically. "Sorry, sorry..."

He stared down at Kamui thoughtfully, then glanced back towards the kitchen. "Why don't we have some more hot chocolate and cheer ourselves up a little~?"

Kamui looked to the kitchen for a moment and nodded. "Y-yeah. That might be good. I'm not sure how hot it will still be, though." Oh well, he'd just have to reheat it. He got up walked to the kitchen, turning the burner back on and bending over the counter next to the stove slightly. "Hey, you want me to make brownies? Those help too, I've found."

Keiichi followed Kamui into the kitchen and put his mug down on the counter. He was glad that Kamui was at least willing to try cheering himself up.

"Brownies sound great! Do you want me to give you a hand? I've never made brownies before, but it can't be that hard," he said with a bright smile.

Really, he hadn't fully absorbed what Kamui had told him yet, but he needed to think about that on his own time.

Kamui served some more hot chocolate to the other, drinking what was left over himself before starting on the brownies. “Oh, no, no. You’re my guest, Segawa-kun.” He flitted around the kitchen gathering ingredients. “I can handle this myself.” He nodded surely and began to mix things up, finishing the batter quickly and pouring it into a greased pan.

After the pan was in the oven, he held out the batter-covered bowl to Keiichi to take some on his finger, opting to keep the spoon for himself. With a small, pleased hum Kamui licked at the spoon, staring off, eyes half-lidded, into space. He’d found that brownie batter was an indulgence that really did seem to make him feel a little better.

Keiichi happily sipped his hot chocolate while he waited for Kamui to finish making the brownies. Although helping would have been fun, it was clear that Kamui was having a good time, so Keiichi decided just to lean against the counter and watch.

Grinning, Keiichi accepted the bowl and dipped a finger in. "Yum, reminds me of cookie dough." With that, Keiichi sucked the batter off of his finger, before dipping it in a second time. "How long will the brownies take?"

"Twenty, twenty-five minutes?" Kamui once again hoped up on the counter, next to Keiichi. He... he felt much calmer now, just hanging out like this. Things hadn't changed between them, it seemed; even though the truth was out. That made him feel so much better.

He managed to smile at the other as he took a glob of batter onto his own finger, sucking it off, "I'm really glad you're here, Segawa-kun." Keiichi was safe now, right?

Keiichi's expression softened and he turned his head to glance at Kamui. "I'm happy to be here, Shirou-kun," Keiichi replied as he watched Kamui suck the batter off his finger.

He laughed a little before scooping a little batter out of the bowl and eating it. They were acting like children. It was wonderful.

"We definitely should try to do as much fun stuff here as we can, okay?" After all, this was sort of a second chance for both of them: Kamui no longer had to worry about fate as much, and Keiichi no longer had to worry about earthquakes. They could act like somewhat normal teenagers; something that Kamui had never been able to do. "And best of all, we don't have school or homework anymore." The prospect of no more math or history pleased Kamui greatly.

"Oh yeah! That's true! No more school...wow," Keiichi shook his head in disbelief, "We'll have so much free time. I guess we don't even have to work, since the rent is free..."

Humming while he thought, Keiichi zoned out for a second. Finally, he shrugged and beamed. "I guess we can do all that usual teenage stuff, huh?"

Kamui blushed. "Um... Segawa-kun... what is usual teenage stuff?" The only shred of normalcy Kamui had had was hanging out with Keiichi and going to school. Even at home with the other Seals, their fates had almost always loomed over them, and somehow managed to interupt their 'normal' moments.

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