A/N: I noticed they finally added a character filter for Tsubasa!! To celebrate: a collection of KuroFai shorts, because not all of my drabbles are songficlets. Feel free to offer suggestions. Most of them will be sort of introspective pieces and short stories that just pop into my mind. If anyone can tell me what the sea is a metaphor for in this chapter, I'll be pleased.
One: Endlessly
"Where do you want to go?"
Fai blinked at Kurogane, biting his lip in thought. "Give me a minute," he murmured.
He looked around at his surroundings; a moist green light seeped through the trees, and moss squelched beneath his feet. Kurogane's hand was warm in his own, but even so, he felt empty in this vacant expanse of trees; lifeless, languid.
His eyes slid shut, and a breeze began to blow past. A smooth rustling filled his ears, dimming to the dull roar of the sea.
Clear blue light filled his mind's eye, and he was on the beach, standing alone on the broken expanse of gold. The blue of the water and the azure of the sky met, forming a huge, endless hemisphere that seemed to swallow everything else.
Waves crashed endlessly, filling Fai with a crushing loneliness. It tore at the very fraying edges of his soul, and he longed to be with someone.
Heat began to rush across his body, and he tipped his head up to the sun, drinking in the gold fragmenting the sphere of cerulean. He breathed deep; the earthy smell of the woods transformed into the warm scent of salt and sand on the breeze. The scent welcomed him, adding another touch of warmth to the cold horizon.
He had only been to the beach once, a memory that was stored in the very most boundaries of his mind, the part that was saved for his prolonged and plagued childhood. It was back when he was still Yuui, and Fai was still alive… Far, far, back; he'd never tried to think about it… They'd been very young then, too young to even go near the water. Someone stopped them, even though they wished at first to go… And then…
He remembered bursting into tears at the very sight of the expanse, and he clung to his twin, for fear of being torn into the lonesome world of the eternal sea.
There had been beaches in Celes, but they were always frozen and snow-covered. Nothing like the one from his earliest childhood; the sea was unobtainable there.
With a sigh as deep as the seas he dreamt of, Fai opened his eyes, the roaring of the sea becoming the wind in the trees, the breeze consisting once more of dirt and damp.
He squeezed Kurogane's hand, feeling the solidity of it. "Let's go to the sea together."
Kurogane nodded, sweeping Fai into his arms.
"Forever and ever…"
They closed their eyes, and were swallowed into the endless sea of the last horizon.