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Fandom: xxxHolic
Pairing: Watanuki x Doumeki
Rating: PG
Notes: I do not claim these characters, they belong to CLAMP! This chapter takes place during Volume 9. Since I have been trying to make it behind the scenes.. and well Watanuki is already the maing character, I have switched POV to make it more Behind the Scenes.. So here you are, Chapter 9 after two whole weeks of my emo drama... I have finally finished it!

Chapter 8
Chapter 7
Chapter 6
Chapter 5
Chapter 4
Chapter 3
Chapter 2
Chapter 1
Prologue

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Doumeki sat in his room, staring at the ceiling. He hadn't been to Watanuki's in a few days. Apparently, the bespectacled teen had been staying at Yuuko-san's for a few days. At least he was safe there, Doumeki thought.

For the first time in a while, Doumeki was actually bored. Up until recently, he had spent at least a week studying how to get Watanuki's eye back. But that was never to be, for the eye had already been eaten, and Doumeki found himself giving up half his vision to the witch to give to Watanuki. So now he and Watanuki shared that eye, and he saw things that Watanuki saw. A lot more than he told Watanuki he could see.

Most of the times he saw things were when Watanuki felt intense emotions, but not always. He saw a few times Watanuki in the shower, Watanuki crying. He had a hard time seeing that. Doumeki wanted so much to comfort Watanuki during those times, but he didn't want to bring it up, because he didn't want Watanuki to know just how much he saw.

Watanuki hadn't actually realized it, but Doumeki had sold him a dream at the begining of the week. Doumeki's first dream of the year, where his grandfather, Haruki, had appeard. Doumeki Haruka... Watanuki had said that he looked like a mirror image of his grandfather, so Watanuki must have been seeing him when he was much younger. Watanuki had also that that his grandfather smiled much more. Should Shizuka smile more too?

What did Doumeki Shizuka have to smile about? Well, he was with Watanuki, but he still wasn't sure if his Watanuki Kimihiro was in love with him. He didn't quite remember how long it had been since he had told Watanuki that he was in love with him, and Watanuki... well, Watanuki hadn't said anything. Doumeki was depressed, and it seemed no matter what had happened between that time and now, it had only gotten worse. But they were close, weren't they?

He had not brought it up again after that. But more and more, he was starting to think that he probably should. It was hard to be in a relationship when you didn't really know how the other person felt. But Watanuki was changing. The yelling had gone down a bit, and he was even fawning over Kunogi less. Well, granted, Kunogi had been a lot more busy recently, and they haven't seen her quite as ofter. That had to be it.

He lifted a hand to his head. Watanuki was depressed now too. Why was Watanuki depressed? He could see Watanuki through his right eye, well, at least see what Watanuki saw, but he couldn't tell what the other was thinking. Watanuki was supposed to be loud, to wear his heart on his sleeve. It had always been easy for Doumeki to know what he was thinking, but not right now. What was on Watanuki's mind?

Then he was seeing something through the right eye he shared with the one he loved. A cherry tree, and below the tree a girl that couldn't be older than about ten or eleven. She had a rather spritual look about her as she stood below the tree, turning to Watanuki. The look in her eye made him believe that she knew a lot about Watanuki without even talking to him. There was a spirit in the tree, one that Doumeki would have never seen with his own eyes, that was Watanuki's thing.

A few moments a woman appeared and was yelling at Watanuki. This had to be the girl's mother. She seemed scared, and wouldn't let the girl touch her. When they left, the girl mouthed something to Watanuki, he couldn't hear what she said, it was only an eye they shared anyway.

And that was it. He was seeing his ceiling again through that eye. He wondered if it was really just dependant on Watanuki's emotion, the things that Doumeki saw. What else could it be though? It seemed so random sometimes.

Doumeki sighed, tilting his head to the side to stare at the wall now. It appeared that Watanuki was hanging out with Kunogi right now. He didn't like that too much. Kunogi was bad luck, and bad things tended to happen when she was around/involved. Watanuki still didn't see that, he was just too nice to other people. He sometimes wished Watanuki would be more like that around him, but he had long ago decided that the yelled meant they were much closer than Watanuki even though, even if he said it was just to keep others from being suspicious of their relationship. Doumeki was sure that people though the opposite anyway. Kunogi and Yuuko most likely knew about it already anyway. He still didn't understand why Watanuki didn't want people to know about them.

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The next day after school, he had given that idiot his umbrella and tea before he went to work at Yuuko's. He was surprised when later he got a phone call from Watanuki asking if he would spend the night. He quickly agreed, packing a bag, and hurrying over.

"I saw him again."

"Who?"

"Syaoran-kun. Well, one of them. He was looking for an eye."

"Everyone seems to be looking for eyes right now."

"Yeah. Weird things are happening."

"Hn."

"I made dinner. Are you hungry?"

"Only if there is fried squid."

"Jerk! I made soba."

"I guess it can't be helped," Doumeki said, pulling his hands away from his ears.

"Spring is almost here," Watanuki said, serving Doumeki his portion of soba.

"Hn."

"We'll be 17 soon."

"Hn."

"Shizuka! Can't you say more than that!"

"Sorry."

"GAH! And you're already eating without me!"

"Needs more salt."

"Jerk!"