Walking In The Air

by Any Unborn Child

Drabble/One-Shot. AshuraFai. I remember everything. I hold all of my memories of you close to my heart. Why can’t you see it? Why can’t you remember? Rated M for implied content.

Walking In The Air

By Any Unborn Child

(Disclaimer: The characters Ashura & Fai from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles are not mine. They do have an…let's say…interesting relationship, to put it mildly.)

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

Wasn't this….what you always wanted?

Fai…

You wanted to fly for as long as I've known you.

You wanted to follow your dreams, and to take your magic as far as you can.

Growing with every step you took.

You should try to understand, though.

Don't you understand what I did for you?

Don't you?

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

I wish I could.

I wish I could try to comprehend why you led me all over the place.

I had to get away.

I had to get away.

From Celes.

From my twin.

From you.

From everything.

Far across the wold
The villages go by like trees
the rivers and the hills
The forest and the streams

Don't you remember…

All of the times that we shared?

All of the times where I taught you magic?

All of the times where I let you try out your abilities as best as you could.

Why don't you remember?

Why don't you remember?

Please remember.

Please remember.

Please remember!

Please!!!

Children gaze open mouth
Taken by surprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes

I refuse to.

I don't want to.

I refuse to have anything to do with you.

Not anymore.

I struggled against you,

For most of my life.

No more.

I don't want to.

I don't want to.

We're surfing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over icy
mountains floating by

I remember everything.

I hold all of my memories of you close to my heart.

Why can't you see it?

Why can't you remember?

I relished the sight of you writhing against me.

I relished the sight of you being ravaged, forsaken by me.

I relished the sight of you being pure, untainted by the world.

Because I did that.

You were experiencing so much, with body and mind, because of me.

You were experiencing so raw of emotions, because of me.

You were only tainted by me.

Me, and only me.

Because you belong to me.

You should realize that.

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep
We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly

I chose to go away.

I chose to go as far as I could.

I am using my magic for my one devices.

You no longer have any control of me.

Not my body.

Not my mind.

But there is one thing you still haunt.

You still haunt my dreams.

You haunt them to no end.

Because of that,

I can't fly.

I want to.

I want to escape you.

So.

Badly.

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

You can still fly.

Fly.

Fly to me.

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

I will fly when I want to.

I will go where I want to.

Eventually.

Fin

(A/N: It didn't take long for me to get into the Fai/Ashura scene and I can see the appeal. I can only describe this relationship, the tumultuousness of it all, as a weird and twisted, and at the same time, endearing, sort of partnership. A partnership that was broken long ago. I mainly used the lyrics from the song "Walking In The Air" by Nightwish – it is a really good song; please check it out if you can.)