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Cat’s-paw 04: Reality
Ritsuka/Seimei
PG-13
Summary: Do you love me, Ritsuka?

“Do you love me, Ritsuka?”

His brother often asked this question, watching his face with warm, dark eyes, looking just like the brother Ritsuka remembered from before.

Ritsuka stared at the steaming plate before him, the food plentiful and delicious as always, and his stomach twisted.

He remembered watching, just hours before, Seimei turning his back on Nisei, his own Fighter, one that shared his name. Turning away and leaving Nisei to fight alone, to take the damage alone. Just standing there and watching with cold, cruel eyes.

“Do you love me, Ritsuka?” Seimei asked again, sitting opposite him, his hands hovering gracefully over the steak he was in the process of cutting.

Ritsuka stared at the brown stains on the white plate and thought about the dark haired Fighter bandaging his wounds in the next room. Dry blood had the same brownish-red color.

He jerked away from the table, barely reaching the bathroom before loosing what little he managed to eat.

Quiet footsteps followed him and, soon, he felt warm, dry hand keeping his hair away from his face as he retched, and the other stroking his back in slow circles.

“Didn’t you want it this way, Ritsuka? Didn’t you want to see?” His brother asked not unkindly. “Do you still love me, Ritsuka?”

“My rules then. You don’t lie to me, you don’t hide anything from me, and you set Soubi free. You will never again give him any order.”

tbc

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