Disclaimer: I never understood the use of this. I mean, if I were the CLAMP and possessed Fay and Kuro-chu, I wouldn't post this here but in TRC, right? Or, not right? … Whatever. Those cuties are not mine, which is lucky 'cause I'm on the explicit side of the (bi)shonen-ai force.

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Golden Words,

Chapter 1- Wish of silence.

"Kuro-puu?"

"It's Kurogane, mage."

"It's Fay, Kuro wan wan."

A vein pulsed on the ninja's temple.

"WHAT THE HELL? YOU CAN'T GET EVEN ONCE MY NAME RIGHT AND YOU WANT ME TO CALL YOU FAY?"

"Kuro-puppy called me Fay! "

The ninja changed colour, from his usual tanned complexion to a deep dark red.

"YOU!"

And he started hunting.

Meanwhile, Shaolan re-read his notes, which he had taken from a book he studied in order to find a feather of Sakura's. Little did he care about the two running men, the giggling chased one and his angry hunter; he was far too used to this kind of scene for that. Sakura, however, as she wasn't sleeping for once, couldn't help but ask the studying brunette if the two men were all right.

"Don't worry, Sakura-hime", he did answer vaguely, "absorbed by his reading. They'll be all right."

BANG!

"...or, not", Shaolan pursued slowly as he turned to where the bang was issued.

"Are you all right, Fay-san?" Sakura asked, worried.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!" quickly answered Fay with a smile as he hurriedly stood up.

"Of course he is!" Kurogane grunted. "The idiot just dropped over his own foot."

Fay smiled, and told the princess he'll go take a walk in the garden, where no big bad puppy would try to turn Fay-mummy into mashed pudding. Kurogane grunted, again. Shaolan sighed. Mokona snored (the white bun, as a certain ninja called him, was asleep), and Sakura promptly (and unexpectedly) joined it in dream land.

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"You're injured, right?"

Fay looked up into Kurogane red eyes.

"Nah, Kuro-rin!" he smiled idiotically. "I just "dropped over my own foot", right?"

The ninja grumbled.

"Let me see it."

Fay smiled as the ninja uncovered his ankle.

"Aaah, but Kuro-daddy is meaaan", he smiled. "He hurt me with his big sabre!"

"Shut up", slurred Kurogane as he scrutinised the bleeding slash. "You weren't supposed to stumble in the first place."

"Should I beg for your forgiveness?"

Fay was teasing, of course, but the ninja wasn't in the tease-me mood right now.

"Stay here."

Fay sighed. While the ninja absented himself, he gazed dreamfully at the running blood, red and bright as a running stream. He closed his eyes.

Kurogane finally came back from his journey inside the house.

"Took you look enough, Kuro wan wan", Fay laughed. "Did you get lost or something?"

"Humf", answered the tall black-haired man.

He sat near Fay's injured leg and started cleaning it.

"Wha-?" Fay said, confused. "Oh, but I can do that, Kuro-puu! Kuo-miu is so mean, thinking I cannot take care of myself!"

"Shut. the hell. up."

Big puppy looked annoyed. More than the usual, that is.

"What is it, Kuro-puppy?" Fay asked, stopping his gesticulations to bend his head aside.

"This is a deep wound", answered the ninja. "I don't think we can heal it by ourselves."

He looked at the blonde, who make a gesture of denial.

"I'm not using my magic for this, Kuro-woof!" he smiled.

"It's Kurogane. And it's stupid."

"Eh?" said Fay as the ninja cursed himself for this ambiguous sentence.

Of course, Fay jumped on the occasion.

"Kuro-puu called himself stupid, hyuu!"

"SHUT UP!" shouted the angry nin. "I meant YOU are stupid! Not using your magic at a time like this..."

"A time like what, Kurogane?" asked the mage slowly.

Kurogane blinked. Then sighed and stood up.

"Don't move", he ordered.

"Again? My, Kuro-puu keeps repeating himself..."

"SHUT UP!"

When the ninja came back some time later, he was arguing with Mokona.

"Kuro-kuro is bad!" the white meat bun whined. "He woke up Mokona while Mokona was taking such a good nap!"

"Why the hell did the gods give a mouth to idiots?" cursed the dark, angry nin. "I need to call the witch. NOW!"

"Kyaaaaaaaaaah!" Mokona squealed, acting scared and escaping to Fay's side.

"Bad puppy indeed, Moko-chan", reassured quietly the mage.

Who was far too pale for Kurogane's taste.

"The witch!" he shouted at the white fur ball. "Call her quickly!"

"But Yuuko may be showering", Mokona pouted.

"She may be fucking the same!" exclaimed the angry nin, shaking the poor white thing which he had just taken by the ears. "Call her, now!"

"Please, Moko-chan", the very pale magician agreed faintly, saving it from Kurogane's evil grip.

"All right", said the fur ball, "but, still, Kurogane is mean!"

The witch was not fucking, as Kurogane had delicately suggested, but drinking sake and playing cards with her two girl-shaped weird-named aids.

"Aah", she said when she saw Mokona. "Hello there! Is the weather good in your dimension?"

"No times for stupid questions, witch", the ninja interrupted. "I have a wish to make!"

"Really", Yuuko said, trying to look surprised. "My, my, what is it Kuro-puppy? Want a new pair of doggy ears for Xmas?"

"IT'S KUROG- oh, screw it. The mage is injured there. Just heal him, whatever. I'll pay."

"I'll pay, Kuro-wan", corrected the blonde. "It's my leg we are talking about."

"And my sword cut it. Shut up for once or I'll shove it thought your head to make things there clearer."

"Is Fay badly hurt?" Mokona asked with concern.

"I'm fine", the mage comforted it.

The ninja sighed in frustration as the two of them pursued their little "Are you all right / I am indeed" talk game and turned to the witch.

"Are you healing him or not?" he growled. "Don't stay there waiting for us to grow old! He's wounded, damnit!"

"Are you willing to pay the price?" Yuuko asked, suddenly sober.

"Of course I am!" the nin yelled, silencing the mage and manjuu by shouting. "Now heal him, or you'll see!"

Yuuko smiled and turned her head to her left.

"Watanuki? Stop hiding and go for the potted plant in the entry."

A mumble made itself heard to which Yuuko threatingly answered "Who are you calling a greedy snake?" and a young black haired person, who was indeed an apron man, appeared to the witch's left, a little potted plant where were painted the words "Mugestu's Tanpopo" in his right hand.

"This", Yuuko said to Kurogane as showing the little yellow flower, "is a plant that was grow thanks to the love of a tube dragon."

"A what?" Kurogane asked, stunned.

"Mugestu took care of this plant up to this day", continued Yuuko, ignoring him. "Love confers a special healing power to this flower's bloom."

She took off some of the plant's petals, to Watanuki's (noisy) indignation.

"Here", she said handing the yellow petals over to Kurogane [Insert there lots of disapproving Watanuki]. "Mash them and put them on the wound. It should heal by noon."

"That's a really fast healing!" exclaimed Mokona happily. "Only a few hours and Fay will be back to normal!"

Kurogane looked at the mage, which was tended white on the grass, pretending it was not due to any kind of blood loss but to his natural phlegm.

"In exchange", Yuuko said …

"Greedy snake", muttered Watanuki on her back.

She glared at him, who instinctively disappeared from Mokona's visiophone.

"In exchange, I'll have a precious thing from you", Yuuko said to Kurogane. "I want you to give me your silence."

"My silence?" repeated the ninja in astonishment.

"Kuro-puu is a talking-machine to be!" Fay tried to sing-song.

"Your silence", confirmed the witch. "But not every kind of silence. I want you to give me the silence you are keeping about your precious person."

"Kuro-chan does have a "precious person"?" Fay asked, surprised.

"I DO NOT!" the ninja shouted angrily.

"Really?" Yuuko said mockingly. "Then I'll have to change the price. Maybe taking something from Fay instead; maybe his confession to his precious one…"

"All right", Fay said.

"I SAID I WOULD PAY!" Kurogane exploded. "Manjuu, stop laughing; witch, you'll repay me someday; mage, don't drop dead yet."

"I'm not, I'm not", Fay smiled, speaking to the clouds in particular.

"I'll take care of the idiot first", the ninja grunted.

And he did. He flew to the kitchen to provide himself with some mashing tools ("Not trying to run away from your payment, are you?" mocked Yuuko from behind). He swore twice, once for himself and once that he had heard someone mutter something like "greedy snake" near him in the kitchen. He mashed the petals while trying not do kill the singing manju ("Kuro's got a precious pe-erson! Kuro's got a precious pe-erson!"). He came back right in time to see Fay faint, which made him curse more (most of his cursing yet concerning a certain "stupid dumb moronic idiot"). He quickly applied the remedy and bandaged the mage's injured leg. Then he turned back to the witch (which, meanwhile, had been drinking sake and sending Watanuki over to the camcorder store).

"I guess I'll have to pay you, now", Kurogane said.

"Right", Yuuko said. "But not right now. Fay is asleep, you see, and I wouldn't like him to miss that…"

She disappeared laughing, just as the ninja considered about killing her by intentional accident.

"What happened?" Shaoran asked worriedly when he saw the ninja enter the living-room carrying the unconscious blonde.

"He's stupid", Kurogane answered.

Then he left for the room and abandoned Shaoran to his wonderings, Sakura to her cuddles-cushions-during-sleep and Mokona under the ceramic bowl he had used for mashing the plant.