See header in the first part.

( Denial, by any other name - Omake )

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Rating: Completely and utterly G.
Characters/Pairings: Doumeki grandfather and grandson, Watanuki. Super-mild Shizuka/Watanuki in the end.
Disclaimer: xxxHOLiC and its characters belong to CLAMP.
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Note: This is me adopting one of ficcentricity's orphaned ficbits, which ran thus:

(AU. Doumeki Haruka is alive, and surprisingly young-looking, for reasons I cannot satisfactorily explain, except that the concept is awesome.)

Doumeki's starting to think he should've never introduced them to one another. "Where's Haruka-san?" seemed to be the only thing coming out of Watanuki's mouth these days. He lo-- liked them both, really, but sometimes Doumeki wishes his grandfather and Watanuki didn't get along quite so well.

I changed the prompt a bit so I could make it not blatantly AU. Also, the title was adopted with the ficbit and may not be too appropriate.

( The Excessive Use of Alibis )