Disclaimer: It's called fanfiction for a reason people.
Author's Note: To those reading my other stories: Don't worry. I've been gone but you're not forgotten, I'm just working on some of these smaller things so I can get back into my plots. Between wedding planning and school life gets a bit hectic. Please forgive me. This will be split into four or five small chapters but all of them should be up by the end of the night. Once again thank you to my beta Keiyou.
It was so dark.
He couldn't remember how he came to this place, this blissfully numb oblivion. Surely he didn't deserve it? Peace couldn't possibly come that easily? He couldn't feel anything in this place where he floated in nothingness and though there was sound, a muted jumble of voices, it seemed so far away. 'Something has happened...' He shuddered as bits and pieces of memory found their way to consciousness. The water, the blood, his blood, Syaoran...
As more memories came forth the numbness receded leaving him gasping in pain a split second before strong arms wrapped around him, lifting him from his cold, unforgiving, place of rest. "Wh..." He tried to speak but no words came.
"Shut up and hold on idiot."
'That voice... so familiar but so far away.' Someone, the voice, was carrying him through the darkness. The sounds around him started to become clearer, sharper, and more frightening with every moment that passed. There were shouts and screams and a hot sticky mess dripping down the side of his face. Someone was fighting, kicks echoing back along the walls, the arms held him tighter. 'Who?'
"Kur...o..." The name rolled from between his lips before he'd even known he'd spoken.
"I said shut up." The voice whispered harshly, not betraying any fear as the arms held him even tighter still, one hand cradling the back of his head. "Just hold on..."
Numbness was returning, he could no longer feel the arms, and all sound petered out into the nothing.
'I'm falling!' He tried desperately to cling to what bit of copiousness he'd gained, to call out to the voice, but the darkness was coming.
It swallowed him whole.