Title: The End
Author: Gypsy Dancing Girl
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles/xxxHolic
Pairings: Real!Syaoran/Real!Sakura
Characters: Kurogane, Fay, Real!Syaoran, Real!Sakura, White Mokona, Black Mokona, Yuko, Fei Wong Reed, mentions of Tomoyo-hime
Genres: Angst, Family
Rating: K
Warnings: Imminent Character Death
Author's Note: I give up! I don't know what's going on! I'm totally lost, and everytime it looks like CLAMP is about to explain everything we get another long wait. And so to spread the vindictive certainty that CLAMP is never going to resolve the story and it will just go on infinitely . . .
Suddenly the world fell apart around him and Kurogane hardly noticed, as he tried to staunch the flow of blood from the mage's shoulder.
"It is useless," came the voice from the witch above him. "Look around you . . . all of your companions are on the brink of death."
Kurogane spun. Sakura was frozen in midair, half dissipated into light. Syaoran was screaming after her, unaware that Fei Wong Reed was nearing the pair. And the mage was bleeding out from a messy slice that he had taken on behalf of Kurogane.
"Mokona," the man finally said and it wasn't a question. It was an order.
"Will die of heartbreak." Yuko opened her hands to reveal the pair of weeping manju. "You will die also. Many years from now . . . in a battle you should have won . . . in a world you hate . . . and no one, not even Tomoyo-hime will mourn you." It was a tragic end for a man who had finally found a family to replace the one he had lost.
Kurogane turned to the witch. "How do I save them?"
"The price will be heavy."
"I will pay it."
The End.