A/N: Short one-shot, more Kurogane-centric than anything. Spoiler. I do not own Tsubasa.
"Look," Kurogane glared at Fai, annoyance unmasked in his crimson eyes. "You can't just avoid the situation forever."
"Why, whatever are you talking about?" Fai asked innocently, looking up from his plate of food and feigning cluelessness to a degree of perfection. Kurogane had to admit that the guy could act. He knew Fai knew what he was talking about. Fai continued to look at him through that fake, but so genuine looking clueless expression.
Kurogane narrowed his eyes at Fai, then at Fai's full plate of food, and finally back at Fai again. Wordlessly, he stuck his wrist in front of Fai's face. Fai simply blinked at him. "Stop pretending," Kurogane commanded, "Just take some already."
Fai's fake façade quickly crumbled as he glanced at Kurogane's wrist then his face. He didn't know what to do anymore. "I didn't want this," he mumbled quietly, his tone half apologetic, half accusatory.
"I know," Kurogane replied roughly. "But I did and now you're my responsibility. That Witch said so," he spoke as though it was the most normal thing in the world. His attitude towards the whole thing miffed Fai. How was he able to make the strangest things out to be no big deal, the blonde wondered, but did not have time to mull over it as Kurogane's voice cut through his thoughts. "Well, go ahead." Kurogane invitingly shook his wrist a bit.
Fai gratefully grabbed it and sunk his teeth into his friend's flesh. Kurogane made no movement at all. He waited patiently while Fai thirstily gulped his blood, clutching at his arm. I didn't want this, echoed in the warrior's mind. Fai was right, he hadn't wanted this. But Kurogane had, he didn't want the magician to die. Not like that.
Looking at the blonde, Kurogane wondered how Fai had lasted so long without any blood. He had kept waiting for the day to come when the magician would break and finally ask him or say something if only alluding to it. It wasn't such a big deal to Kurogane. Not nearly as big a deal as Fai seemed to think it was.
Tomoyo had sent him on this journey in hopes of him learning how to be a kind person and not be so rough around the edges, so to speak. He was supposed to learn things such as mercy and other terms he had considered only for the weak. Staring down at the unhappy blonde sucking his blood greedily he couldn't help but wonder: had he become kind or simply more cruel?