"So Subaru is dead?"

Seishirou took a long drag on his cigarette, then slowly blew a stream of smoke into the air. "...yeah."

Fuuma leaned against the wall next to Seishirou. "You look disappointed."

The Sakurazukamori thoughtfully mused the not-quite a question over. He -was- supposed to be emotionless after all. "I never got to bed him." He finally commented.

"Ah." Fuuma nodded. "You could always remedy that."

Seishirou raised an eyebrow.

"It all depends on what you did with the body afterwards." Fuuma leered.

The Sakurazukamori tossed his cigarette away. "You're a bastard."

The Dark Kamui just smirked. 

The two of them stood there for a minute more before Seishirou walked off.

"Where are you going?"

The assassin answered with out looking back. "I have an errand to run."

Fuuma snickered.

-fin-

Karaoke Bar

Seishirou was at a Karaoke bar.

He was waiting for a contact from his job to show up. And his contact was late. Where as normally he wouldn't have been found anywhere remotely close to the interior of a Karaoke bar, his contacts were getting a bit leery of meeting him by the harbour. Which was a bit of a bummer in his option. The Harbour had so many convenient places to hide the bodies... 

2 under-aged schoolgirls were on stage, giggling madly as they performed some crazy gajin song 'Oops, I did it again'. Seishirou found the name amusing as he checked his watch. His contact was a few minutes late. If he didn't show up in the next few minutes, he was going to accidentally 'do it' again too. Only his means of playing with someone's heart was a bit more tactile than the songwriter probably intended. 

The girls were definitely drunk, he decided as he took a sip of his own drink. It wasn't just the fact that their faces were a bit flushed, it was the fact that they were attempting to dance along as they sang. Seishirou made a mental note to add the artist to his list of 'People to Feed to the Tree if Given Half a Chance'. It wasn't that he had anything personal against the singer, per se, but this was a mental image that was going to linger. 

He mentally replaced the singers with Subaru and his crazy sister dancing on stage and felt better. That made a much better picture. The crazy outfits included.

The song finally ended and the schoolgirls walked off the stage, leaning on each other as they continued giggling. One of them was eyeing him like she was contemplating coming over to talk to him. He debated glaring at her in return, but decided against it. It wasn't worth the effort.

The next singer took to the stage and he had to remind himself not to sigh. He was going to have to put his foot down after this, he was most definitely never going to wait in a Karaoke bar again if he had anything to say about it. Fortunately, he did.

He tuned out the singers off-key and off-note singing until the end of the chorus filtered through his senses. It sounded remarkably familiar. Lacking anything else to keep him distracted, he listened to the artist's voice in the background and found himself wondering just what a 'Jelly Bean Boom' was. As far as he knew, jellybeans didn't explode. Eggs sometimes did, but not jelly beans. 

After a few more lines, he decided that the artist made less sense than that 'Tori Amos' girl did. Although he was fond of that 'Blood Roses' song. In all reality, he probably would have preferred 'Blood Sakura' or 'Bloody Sakura' but 'Blood Roses' did sound a bit more poetic. Roses were larger for one thing.

The chorus drew his attention back to the current song being butchered on stage. As he listened again with half an ear, he began to chuckle. 

Anger at being made to wait in a Karaoke bar temporarily forgotten, Seishirou leaned back in his chair and began to softly sing along with the words, smiling at the irony of it all.

"It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine..."

Fin.

If you haven't guessed it, the song being sung is 'It's the End of the World' By R.E.M. Don't own it, using it without permission. Same with the X characters.

Have nothing against Britney Spears or her songs, just worked out to be one of those things... *sweatdrops* Also used without permission.

Don't have any permission for Tori Amos or Blood Roses either. It just kinda fell in there too. Something about the whole 'Sometimes you're nothing but meat' line, I think... *grin*

Anyway. Bed time now. Bai Bai!