X:2099
A fanfic by Epeeblade aka C. Pontoriero
Epilogue
Yuzuriha watched the children run in the fields, the sweet smell of spring tugged at her
nostrils and refused to allow her to be sad on this day, of all days.
“Are you thinking of him?” A soft voice said behind her.
“Which one, Aoki?” she replied. “I think of them both, always.”
She felt the rustling of wind and then turned to gaze at him. He reached out comforting
arms and pulled her close to his body. “Today is your name-day.” He commented
absently, “You shouldn’t be sad, neither of them would have wanted it so.”
The princess leaned back into his arms. “I know. But it is good to remember them don’t
you think? I know I’ll meet them again.”
“But that doesn’t mean you should stop living for today,” he lectured.
She laughed, “You always do that, whenever I’m sad or upset, for as long as I could
remember.”
Aoki smiled down at her.
“Hey, you love birds!” Sorata’s voice shrilled from beyond the little hillside. “Get a
room!”
“What does that even mean?” Arashi murmured from his side.
Yuzuriha blushed a bright scarlet, “WE ARE NOT LOVEBIRDS!” she cried back at him,
getting even more red from the yelling. She looked down at Aoki, not realizing she had
stood in her haste and realized he was blushing as he stared up at her. “Um,” was all she
could say and reached down to clutch his hand gently.
Sorata hugged his new bride to him, “The healing is finally beginning,” he told her,
nuzzling her raven hair.
“Yes,” she decided.
***
Kamui ran across the narrow ledge, leaping over the fence as if the obstacle was not even
there and raced through the alleyway. He crouched at an old sewer grate, one that had not
even been opened since the new order when an entirely new system of plumbing had
gone into effect.
At first the others in the resistance were against it, no one really wanted to have their
headquarters in smelly old sewers. But Kamui had prevailed saying it was a perfect ploy
to fool the enemy. Besides, the tunnels were so old and vast, it made travel and possibly
retreat much easier.
He popped the sewer grate and slipped inside, pulling the cover over him just as he heard
the sounds of the guard and the bio reader whirring away with them. Kamui grinned to
himself, making his way back through the tunnel to his home. Bio readers couldn’t get
past the dampners he had placed himself.
Now he smiled fondly at the designer of those dampners.
Subaru stood at their little makeshift kitchen, concentrating on mixing the ingredients to
one of his concoctions. The young man did everything carefully, even the preparing of a
simple meal. "How did it do?” he asked, not looking up.
Kamui started, he had forgotten for a moment Subaru’s other sense. “Good. I got the
power core he wanted. We’ll have that generator up and running in no time.” Cautiously
he made his way to Subaru’s side, placing one arm around his waist. “Do you regret it?”
“Joining the resistance?” Subaru queried, then answered, “No, even if it is /him/ I will no
longer be a part of a world that causes such evil.”
“Good,” Kamui declared, not moving his arm from Subaru’s back. He was certain he’d
win the bet he had made with Seishirou.
“We will meet again in a year, if in that time you can
make Subaru love you, I will let you go. If however, at
the end of that time, he still has his feelings for me, I will
kill you and take him.”
***
“I suppose /you/ knew how it all was going to turn out.” Yuuto accused the Dream Gazer.
He had traveled south, once they had returned to Shikoku and he had seen the others
safely to Yuzuriha’s ancestral home. He had decided he would settle his score with the
handsome young man who had sent them on the path towards death and destruction.
After the long drawn out argument the two had engaged in after his arrival, Kakyou had
asked him to stay the night, saying it would be ridiculous to leave now. And Yuuto really
had no intentions of killing the young Dream Gazer, though that had been his first
impulse when he originally headed south.
“It still is not over,” Kakyou teased, nuzzling his new lover as they lounged among
luxurious silk cushions in the dream world.
Yuuto laughed, “No, life still goes on, thanks to that little violet eyed boy.”
“Aren’t you glad you didn’t win?” Kakyou sighed.
“I wish Kusanagi and Fuuma didn’t have to die,” he acknowledged.
Kakyou shook his head. “You’re lucky the death toll was so low. I foresaw the death of
all six of you.”
Yuuto shuddered, “What happened to change it? Seishirou letting us go?”
“You did, Yuuto.” Kakyou whispered.
“What?!”
“In one possible time, you joined Satsuki, once again becoming her lover. You were not
there to occupy the Sakurazukamori’s attention during the battle. He killed Yuzuriha.
And then, Arashi would try to heal Aoki instead of Sorata and both would have died in
the attempt.”
“I,” Yuuto swallowed, not knowing what to say.
“Shh, love, sleep,” Kakyou whispered in his ear, catching Yuuto as he fell against the
pillows. He snuggled against him, watching the stars in his dreamscape, one shot across
the sky and exploded in a thousand points of light. “And all is calm,” he murmured,
letting himself fall, for once, into a dreamless sleep.
The End
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