Disclaimer: I do not own Tsubasa or any of its characters. They belong to CLAMP.
Rating: T
Warning: Boy Love, KuroFai
Chapter One: Those Who Stay Together
Anatoli, Russia
It was snowing.
Yuui thought this was quite usual.
And quite lonely.
And quite sad.
He rested his chin upon his folded arms which were splayed across the open, stone window and gazed out into the coldness. Интересно, где он сейчас находится. Он в Нихон? Что он делает сейчас? Он думает обо мне, как я думаю о нем сейчас? he thought with silent puzzlement. No.
It was impossible. Yuui bit his lip and shook his head weakly. He was so stupid. His thoughts were so juvenile!
"Yuui! Yuui!" he suddenly heard his brother call out.
"Fai," Yuui whispered. "Я прямо здесь."
"Где вы были? Вы не были на банкете. Волновалась мама," Fai asked with trifle concern.
Я прямо здесь. Я всегда были. Я всегда будет.
Fai grimaced. "Это становится довольно старое, брат."
Yuui knew this already.
•○ ○•
Yuuko looked down upon the four people before her. A boy, a princess, a ninja, a mage.
They all appeared the same as they had when they first arrived she noted. They were a few changes, of course. An new scar here and there, rips in the clothing, an eye patch. But overall it was almost amusing how one could go through countless life changing things and still appear the same—appear is the key word. You never noticed the little things. The internal things.
"Are you ready to go back to your world?" Yuuko asked the two younger members of the the group—the boy, Syaoran and the princess, Sakura.
"Yes," the boy answered. He clutched the princesses hand gently and possessively. A loving type of possessiveness.
The girl piped up, glancing from the ninja to the mage. She wasn't sure what to say—how to say it. But she knew she had to say goodbye and farewell to her friends—herparents. "Fai-san, Kurogane-san. . . ." She walked over to the two men, not letting go of Syaoran's hand. "I. . . ."
Fai suddenly embraced the little princess. "Farewell, Sakura-chan. Have a lovely and kind new life with Syaoran-kun." He then let Syaoran join in the embrace. "I'm sure Kuro-sama has the same wish as well."
Kurogane remained silent. Then he nodded, rubbed the boy's hair, pet the princess's head. Sakura smiled brightly and sadly. "I think we should go now. Goodbye, Mokona."
The tiny, white ball of fur sniffed—she had already said her farewells and had given each child a kiss on the cheek.
"It is time," Yuuko stated.
And it seems that they were gone instantly, hand in hand, light flowing laps in the air.
Fai's breath hitched.
"Kurogane," the Time Witch said. "You wish to go home, correct?"
"Yes," the dark-haired man answered gruffly.
"Any, you, Fai?"
The mage blinked and his breath hitched once more. Where? She had asked him where. Where did he want to go? He made a side glance to Kurogane. "I. . . ." No. He couldn't. Surely the other man didn't want that—otherwise you would have offered.
With you.
"Where ever," is what came out.
"Then it is settled." Yuuko licked her blood-red lips and another batch of light erupted around the ninja.
Fai's whole being trembled.
"Mage."
The blond's head snapped up. He gazed at Kurogane. Kurogane gazed back.
A hand held out. Three simple words.
"Come with me."
Fai had never been so eager to hold someone's hand.
AN/: Okay, guys. This is my first try at a serious fic. I hope it's alright. I know, this first chapter is short. Hopefully they'll get longer. Also, the language at the beginning was Russian (I assume Fai's Valeria was Russianesque.) You aren't supposed to understand what other!Yuui and other!Fai were saying yet so don't worry.