http://clampfix.fanworks.net/x-fix/hwmb02.txt </head><body><pre>Here's part 2 as promised. Still don't know how long it's gonna be o.O;; I've planned the main part but I'm not sure how I want to end it. Any ideas are welcome along with c & c ^____^ HAVEN'T WE MET BEFORE? (2/?) by Ara-chan Disclaimer: The holy oracle X is property of the Holy Goddesses CLAMP and their High Priestess Ohkawa Nanase but the twisted little concept of this story was my idea so hands off or you'll be speaking to my lawyer ... He's the tall well-dressed individual wearing the shades and standing under the sakura tree ^_^ -- *She's starting to get heavy. Before I drop her there's something I want to know. Why her? What's so important about her that you try to stop me now after all the others I've killed without the slightest interference from you?* Fuuma smiled venonmously, already guessing the answer. *That's very sweet. Funny, before I came along you didn't seem to have much of a personality. I can't think where you two could've met.* ~Then let me enlighten you.~ * * * Hinoto had made it very clear that she wanted Arashi to protect Kamui and the Hidden Shrine Maiden of Ise had made it very clear that she would do just that, with or without Saiki's help. At the moment she was without him, standing outside the high school Kamui was supposed to have been enroled in after leaving Okinawa. She wanted to try and talk to him civily but she didn't know how he'd react. At least Arashi knew she could set up a kekkai if Kamui was stupid enough to start a fight with her in public. "Nee-chan, look out!" Arashi turned at the warning just in time for a soccer ball to hit her in the face. She stepped back, covering her nose with her hand. "Shimatta, Monou-sempai, you broke her nose." A tall youth with weird hair ran up to her. "Gomen nasai, I didn't see you standing there. Are you alright?" Arashi took her hand away to reveal a blood smudge below her nose and a bloody palm. "Yes," she said in a nasaly voice. "I think." "Let me take you to the nurse, onegai." "I'll be okay," Arashi said, cupping her hand over her nose again. "I just need to find a bathroom." "Are you sure it's not broken?" Fuuma asked nervously. A few people were watching them now, and some were commenting on how pretty she was. He felt bad for hurting her in the face. Arashi nodded. Fuuma led her by the arm, making sure she kept her head back. She lipped inside the bathroom, leaving the high school senior to wait. Minutes later Kotori emerged from the girls bathroom, her shrill anxious voice catching in his ear. "Onii-chan, you hurt Arashi-tenkousei?" Her fangirl tachi crowded around her, eagerly awaiting Fuuma's answer. He was so startled he forgot to answer. *Arashi?* "It was an accident," Arashi's reassurance followed closely in an attempt to catch the distraught Kotori. "You should be more careful, Onii-chan," Kotori scolded. "What impression do you want to give her of the boys in this school on her first day?" Colour shot to Fuuma's face and for some reason it was no comfort that Kotori's girlfriends were also blushing. Arashi stepped in to clear up the misunderstanding. "I don't attend this high school, I'm looking for someone." The bell rang. *Kamui, if I've missed him ...* "Gomen, I have to go. Kotori." She wanted to thank the youth Kotori addressed as her older brother but she didn't know his name. There wasn't time to ask. Her eyes met his briefly and then she hurried down the corridor packed with students moving outside for roll call. "Arashi-san!" Fuuma came to life suddenly. "Arashi's her name, ne?" "Yeah. Onii-chan--!" But he was already following her form as it slipped in and out amongst the students. "Monou-sempai is so cool. I wish he'd chase after me like that," one of Kotori's friends said wistfully. The others laughed. "Arashi-san, wait!" Fuuma called, slowing to a walk when he caught up to her at the school entrance. She turned her head sharply at the sound of his voice, her hair whipping over her shoulder to hang behind her back. "It's none of my business, but who are you looking for? I might be able to help you find them." He hung back awkwardly. His sister's adoring yet vulnerable friends weren't half as difficult to approach as a pretty stranger with confidence. "It's okay, you wouldn't know him, he's a transfer student. I was hoping to meet him before school but I must've missed him while I was in the bathroom." "That's my fault," Fuuma began apologetically. "What's his name? I could check at roll call and come back and tell you." Arashi smiled involuntarily at his eagerness to help her. It wasn't necessary to feel guilty about hitting her unintentionally. "No, it's not important. You'll be late." She didn't want to involve anyone not concerned with the end of the world. Fuuma glanced over his shoulder. His group of friends were standing on the lawn where they'd been kicking the soccer ball around. "Yeah ..." He noted absently and turned back to her. *I'll probably never see her again.* "I'm Fuuma Monou." "Arashi Kishuu." She was surprised to find herself answering to a boy who hadn't even posed a question. "Monou-sempai!" Fuuma took a step back reluctantly. Schoolwork, soccer, Kotori and the shrine; the things his life revolved around. Girls weren't something he paid much attention to until now. "I hope you find who you're looking for. Good-bye." Those were his last words to her as he hurried back to his tachi. His only regret was not having said something more. "Sayonara," Arashi echoed him and turned her mind back to Kamui reluctantly. * * * "Kamui!" Arashi screamed as her neck slipped free of Fuuma's grip. The only one who could save her now was most likely lying broken in a pool of blood and angel wing feathers forty stories below. "Arashi!" She opened her eyes not because she was still alive, dangling a few feet lower that she had been by her wrist. It was the familiarity of the voice. The grip, too. Only it was more gentle now than it had been a split second ago. "I've got you." Arashi stared wide-eyed into the unchanged features of the Kamui of the Dragons of Earth. "Fuuma?" TO BE CONTINUED ... -- Notes: More when I know myself ^_^ /==========================================================================\ Ara-chan --> Okami@arashi.gq.nu Keeper of AKAi TSUBAKi http://www.envy.nu/akaitsubaki/ /==========================================================================\</pre><p><a href="./">Back</a></p><p><a href=http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=216><img border=0 alt="Donate towards our web hosting bill!" src=https://secure.newdream.net/donate1.gif></a></p></body></html>