Hullo loves, it's me again! With another story that I'm so GLAD is posted anonamously, because I'm not so sure that people will like this one as much as some of my other ones.

It would have been better, but CLAMP is doing wickedly awesome-cool stuff with the storyline, so I have to work with what I've got. Which ended up with…this.

Don't hate me if you hate this! Pleeeeease…

Warnings:Um…some slightly possessively creepy thoughts from Dômeki's end, but not much else. It was gonna be a shounen-ai luff story, but that sort of blew up in my face so forget about that warning. And…yeah, that's about it.

Summary: There's something about Watanuki that makes people want him. But nobody else can have him. He won't let them. Oneshot

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Absolutely First

Dômeki noticed it first.

Dômeki noticed it first, which meant that it rightfully belonged to him. Finders keepers and all that. He'd never been all that into that childish idea, but just this once, he didn't mind playing. It was okay to be a little childish sometimes.

He didn't mind going on those trips and errands Yûko sent him on. Honest. Even if he sometimes grumbled and griped, it was more to keep Watanuki flailing about in that increasingly entertaining way of his than any sort of reluctance he actually felt.

After all, if he didn't go, he couldn't protect it.

Watanuki didn't realize he had it. Others noticed, of course. Dômeki noticed, but he'd been first. Well, technically, those spirits noticed it first, but they didn't count because they were trying to take it away from Dômeki, and that simply wasn't acceptable. And that Zashiki-Warashi noticed it too, and according to Watanuki she'd grown. Potentially dangerous, but so far she was no problem, simply because she hadn't tried taking it away yet. Himawari-chan might have noticed it, though she did her very best to keep the same as always around Watanuki. The Kuda-kitsune noticed it too, but he was a fox spirit, and Dômeki didn't mind sharing it with the spirit, so it was okay.

Everyone noticed it.

Everyone, that is, except Watanuki.

Watanuki simply didn't understand.

After the episode with his eye, when he got part of Dômeki's eye, he seemed to understand a little. He stopped throwing himself into so much reckless danger with little thought to himself. That was good.

But it wasn't enough.

It wasn't nearly enough. He still put himself in danger, not as much, for sure, but enough that Dômeki still needed to be there, still needed to protect it.

Dômeki noticed it first.

He'd noticed it long before Yûko brought them together. He'd noticed it in the way Watanuki walked, in the way he talked, in the way he sometimes stopped and stared at empty space. For the longest time, Dômeki hadn't understood either, but he'd noticed. He'd noticed first, so it was his.

And since it made all of Watanuki, that meant that Watanuki was his.

Dômeki would never say that, of course. Not ever. Watanuki wouldn't like it. He would probably scream and flail and shout that he was not Dômeki's and nothing of his was Dômeki's and even though they shared an eye it did not make him Dômeki's and he would never be Dômeki's not ever never ever ever. So there.

The archer was pretty sure everyone else saw it, though. And most of them understood.

Watanuki was his. He was.

Because Dômeki saw it first.

It just made sense that Dômeki had to go follow Watanuki around protecting him, and thereby protecting it. Because it's his. And if Dômeki didn't protect it, there's no telling what could happen, what with all the near-death experiences and dangerous errands Yûko sent Watanuki on all the bloody blasted time.

Dômeki couldn't tell if Yûko sent Watanuki on trips like that on purpose or not. Dômeki didn't think Yûko would purposely send Watanuki into danger, but there have been way too many close calls. If Watanuki ever lost something permanant, something Dômeki couldn't replace or fix, he would never forgive the witch.

Not ever.

Dômeki would probably give up his everything if he had to, so long as it kept Watanuki alive and well.

Watanuki doesn't realize it. He never has. But there's that things that's so purely Watanuki, he has it, even if there's no way Dômeki could ever describe what it is, and it's Dômeki's because he saw it first but everyone else wants it. Zashiki-Warashi, those spirits, Kuda-kitsune, the little oden kitsune, everyone wants it. But they can't have it.

Dômeki won't let them have it.

So every time he needs to, he'll grab his bow, and notch his arrow, and let fly. Every time he sees something through their shared eye, something horrible or terrifying that Watanuki can't handle on his own, he'll go and find the other teen and banish the horror. Every time Yûko sends them on some errand or another, he'll follow along and protect Watanuki, no matter how much Watanuki protests.

Even if he only gets a lunch and a lot of annoyed grumbling in return, he'll do it.

Dômeki noticed it first.

It's his.

Okay, I HONESTLY have NO idea where this came from.

I was just thinking something along the lines of 'Why does Dômeki do what he does for Watanuki?' and things just sort of…broke down from there.

It doesn't make sense. At all. Really, it doesn't.

It's just this idea that Watanuki had this Super-Special-Intangible-Something that everyone wants, and Dômeki saw it first so he claimed it and no one else can have it, so he has to go along and make sure that no one else takes it away from him.

I dunno. I just thought it would be kind of super cool if Dômeki wasn't the calm stoic mature blank-faced guy we all know, but inside had some really possessively childish side. Y'know? I thought it was cool, but it might not be…

Meh. If it sucks, please tell me. I know it doesn't make sense, and my explanation here probably makes more sense than the story itself, but review and tell me what you think, please! Even if you hated it, review, flame, and tell me why!