Summary: While in the virtual reality of Outo, the gang found a secret feather before meeting up with Seishiro. KuroxFai fluff, but I think that's about it. Rated T for language, bad Kuro-wuff… Time to sing!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Tsubasa, it is solely of CLAMP, I just wish I could have Kurogane. Fai, total envy man, total envy.

Thoughts are italics, scene changes are just -

Chapter 1

The Flyer

After waking up one morning, Fai was up early and about in the same as ever cheerful mood. The Cat's Eye wasn't open yet, he had to wait for Big Puppy to wake up in order to have him get a few things. Sakura and Mokona stumbled out into the kitchen, still half asleep and yawning, only to be greeted by Fai's smile.

"Good morning Sakura!" Fai's voice was in a singing tone that only made the Princess giggle and Mokona bounce happily.

"Good morning Fai." She smiled sweetly in return, sitting at the bar, watching Fai cook. "Fai? Do you need help with anything?" She inquired.

Fai smiled and just bounced around the kitchen. "Be a dear and help me set up the plates and silverware for our puppy duo, they'll be up any moment and breakfast will be done in a few minutes."

At this Mokona reacted and started bouncing in Sakura's arms, "Mokona will help! Mokona will help!" The white manjuu sucked in all the tableware and then blew it out neatly on the bar, Sakura helped put the plates and straighten everything out. Fai was starting to serve the Princess and Mokona food in their plates as the puppies came out, Sayoran rubbing his eyes while Kurogane kept his scowl and grunted at the mage.

"I hope you didn't cook anything sweet this morning, you never make any EDIBLE food." He grunted.

Fai giggled and danced behind Kurogane, singing even more, "Awwww… but Kuro-puu…" He teased and pinched Kurogane's cheek playfully. "You know you love my cooking." The ninja made a movement to punch the wizard but he gracefully jumped back and picked up plates and cups for everyone, setting down the food and then orange juice and milk in jugs to be poured. Fai waited a bit before getting Kurogane's coffee, before teasing the ninja even more. "Here you go Kuro-pii, your morning coffee to wake you up out of that grouchy attitude." He winked and floated into the kitchen to get his own plate and rested opposite of his companions to eat.

After eating, Fai sent Sayoran and Sakura up to change and shower, he got the dishes and started washing, unware of Kurogane until he heard him grunt.

"You wash, I dry." The ninja stated simply.

Fai took the incentive, "Aww, why thank you Kuro-sama. Who'd have thought you'd be the gentleman to help." The mage leaned over and kisses Kurogane's cheek, only to send the ninja both deep scarlet and storming after Fai, swinging his fists before grabbing Mokona who was watching the two the entire time.

"Big Puppy and Big Kitty are in love! In LOVE!" Mokona sang and then, "EEEPPPP!" as it was lifted by Kurogane.

"My sword! NOW! YOU WHITE MANGU!" He snarled at the giggling Mokona, he saw out of the corner of his eye a slight blur and dropped the white meat bun and chased the blonde male before letting him escape. Sakura and Sayoran returned in time to see Fai jumping and laughing, dodging swinging fists and murderous glares with ease, Kurogane right behind him, fuming and red from both blood rushing to his head and blushing from the earlier kiss. He grabbed a plate and threw it at Fai, who cleanly made a hand motion and caught it with ease.

"Now now Kuro-rin, we can't spend money on new plates for the restaurant." Fai giggled before being pulled by his shirt to another room. He looked up to meet Kurogane's red eyes.

"You IDIOT! Don't do those thing! We are here to look for the feather and that's it! Stop your bullshit!" Kurogane gave Fai a death glare before releasing him, storming out of the hallway only to grab his new sword which Mokona now decided to give him and head out for more information, followed behind by Sayoran.

Fai grabbed Mokona and whispered something to the white creature before Big Puppy and Little Puppy left, in a second you heard a booming voice of Fai being imitated and magnified, "OH BIG PUPPPPYYYY GET SOME FLOUR ON YOUR WAY BACK PLEASE! WE ALSO NEED SUGAR, STRAWBERRIES, BANANAS, AND RICE!" Fai laughed with Mokona while Kurogane only snarled and stormed out to the market to get what was needed.

Fai and Sakura were setting up everything before opening the Café that they forgot to realize the young man that had the news for the day pass and drop them the newspaper. Fai opened curtains and wiped tables before going to the door and flipping the sign from "Closed" to "Open" and getting the news. He walked over and behind the bar, Mokona resting on his head, both looking down at the paper.

"Little Kitty!" Fai smiled at the name, the Princess appearing shortly afterwards.

"Yes Fai-san?" She asked softly.

Fai held open the paper for her to read and saw that there was a Karaoke competition. Sakura looked up to Fai and smiled.

"Fai-san, I know that sounds like fun but…" She was cut short by the blonde's wide smile.

"Sakura, look what the prize is…" Fai pointed to a few lines and Sakura's eyes fell to follow what was being pointed, she gasped slightly. "My feather!" She gasped, "But how?"

Fai kept reading and explained the rules, "Well… you can participate alone or with a partner, the limit is two. You qualify by being an Oni hunter, or one of the two must be an Oni hunter because the prize is said to be only for Oni hunters." Fai skimmed the paper for more information, "It's held in the Clover where Kuro-chii and I went to ask for more information about Oni's, and the competition is being held tomorrow." He clapped his hands together and laughed. "WHHEEEE!" Mokona was spinning on top of the blonde's head. "That means that we have 2 chances of winning, one pair will be you and Sayoran, and Kuro-wuff and I will be a second team."

Sakura opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by Mokona, "Mokona wants to sing! Mokona wants to sing!" It jumped to Sakura's arms and looked up at the Princess. "Can Mokona sing with Sakura and Sayoran?" The creature looked up with tear filled eyes at the Princess, she conceded, the white fur ball started to bounce with joy and laughter.

Kurogane and Sayoran were returning with what Fai had asked for, a paper flyer wisped by the wind and smacking Kurogane in the face. He grunted and pulled it off before reading, his eyes opened wide in surprise before giving it to Sayoran. "This might be what we're looking for." The boy took the flyer and read it quickly, dodging a few people as he walked.

"Kurogane-san, the rules…" Sayoran stood quiet for a moment, looking up at the straight faced ninja.

Kurogane huffed, "Knowing that idiot mage, he's already thinking of something if he hasn't already seen this." This is going to be a disaster.

They both kept walking back to the Cat's Eye.

While they waited for the Puppy pair to return, Fai had been drawing out clothes and things to wear that they could buy for the karaoke contest, Mokona has it's share of input before hearing the door slam open, only to be greeted by a tall tan man with black spikey hair and red eyes.

"Ohayo! Kuro-wuff wuff!" Fai smiled and then was greeted by a heavy bag of flour that Kurogane threw on him.

"Stop it with the nicknames already you idiot! URUSAI!" Kurogane had moved to dump everything on top of Fai but Fai was quicker. He slipped out from under the bag of flour and then behind Kurogane, hugging the other male and pushing him into the kitchen. "How sweet of you to put it down on the counter Kurgs!" He dodged a punch and kept laughing, returning to get the bag of flour, only to be brushed aside and then see Kurogane lift the bag with a grunt and set it down with all the other things they bought.

"Why, what a sweet puppy!" Fai hugged Kurogane and then teased him, "See? There is a soft sweet doggie behind the scowl!" Kurogane grunted and knocked Fai on the head.

"That's for all the nicknames… Idiot." He turned around to walk out of the kitchen, leaving behind a blinking and laughing Fai.

"Kuro-meanie! You can be so rough sometimes." Fai giggled before storing away things, then the door started opening and customers started flooding the Café. The Puppy pair left to find out more information about the Oni and the strange activities while the Kitty pair and Mokona remained in the Café and started working, Sakura taking orders, Fai cooking, and Mokona providing entertainment and laughs to guests.

At the end of the day Kurogane and Sayoran returned with more money but not more luck than they had on the feather, other than the one they saw about on the flyer. They went to city hall for more information and fought Oni's during the day before heading back.

Fai and Sakura had just finished closing the Café and were now washing dishes. Mokona was bouncing around on the tables, cleaning them as it had fun sliding across the table surfaces to leave them clean.

After Fai and Sakura were finished, they heard to door open and heard the puppy pair enter. Fai smiled like always and then set more plates out for everyone to eat dinner.

"Tonight's a surprise everyone!" Fai smiled as he pulled out a bottle of Sake for Kurogane, some juice for Sayoran and Sakura, and a bottle of wine for himself.

The ninja grunted and rolled his eyes. Oh great, another one of his sweets that he must have come up with. Knowing him, it's going to be nothing but sugar and more sugar on top of coated sugar. He sighed mentally before taking a seat and pouring himself some Sake.

"I decided I was going to surprise everyone, I was talking to Yuuko the other night, and I wanted to know what I could do to surprise everyone…" Fai's blonde locks got in the way and he pulled them back. "So I made this today while I was doing the regular order." He pulled out a long tray from the fridge, it was nicely decorated, but what left Kurogane speechless was that it wasn't anything sweet, contrary, it was Sushi. The ninja had this back in his 'Japan' and never thought he'd see it made by the mage. He fixed his face and grunted at Fai.

"Knowing you, you filled it with sugar and changed it." But either way I'd still eat it, his cooking's sweet but it's not that bad. I wonder what he did with those chocolate chip cookies from the other day… just shove one in my mouth and make me mad, but it was rather good…

"Aww… but Big Puppy! Yuuko told me how to make this, I just needed some creativity." He winked and gave Kurogane chopsticks while giving forks to Sayoran, Sakura, and Mokona. The mage pulled out some soy sauce and fixed it before Kurogane, grabbing a fork for himself and waited patiently for the ninja. "Daddy first! We have to see if he approves!" At his words Mokona started singing, "YES DADDY! You have to try it Daddy! Come on Daddy! We're waiting Daddy!" until it annoyed Kurogane enough and he took a piece, dipping it some in soy sauce and then chewed it slowly. Kurogane had to remember to breathe in order to eat, he knew Fai was good at making sweets, but he never thought for a second that Fai would make Sushi taste this damn good! He looked at Fai who was waiting with expectant eyes and shifted in his chair. "It's fine." He muttered, only to have Fai jumping, "HYYYUUUU! Kuro-sushi! That's like telling me it's beyond 5 star restaurant good!" Kurogane reached out and punched Fai's shoulder gently, only to give the mage a half smile, the half of his face the kids couldn't see, before looking serious again and at the two other kids and the white fluff ball. "Dig in."

After eating and washing, everyone sat down and Fai was the first one to speak.

"I take it you guys found out about Sakura's feather?" He looked at the puppy pair, Sayoran nodded while Kurogane gave him a sharp nod.

"Well…" He was about to start and Kurogan tried to drown out the mage's voice. Here he goes off again, coming up with his stupid ideas that only get me in the worst possible scenarios and having to embarrass myself… He's going to do this to get back at me for chasing him this morning… that IDIOT!

Kurogane hadn't been paying attention but when Sakura had tugged on his arm gently, he turned to face her.

"Is it okay with you Kurogane-san?" She looked at him and then down, slightly shy of the intimidating ninja.

He just grunted and had to go with the plan, whatever it was.

This is my first fan fic ever... read and review... harsh comments are accepted, I'm no english major