Lessons With Kuro-wan-sensie

DISCLAIMER: If they belonged to me, every third chapter of the manga would turn into a make-out scene. They're Clamps.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Decided to collect all my one-shot ideas in one place. So, I now present some clichéd fluff! Yay for yaoi fluff!! Oh set after the manga in Nihon, and I tried to leave out any references to certain plural body parts, since I don't know where Clamp is going.

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Fai had never learned much Japanese. He had picked up a few words, but nothing conversational. So, when Mokona left them in a rush of feathers and magic that last time, Fai had been completely reduced to a blathering idiot.

He still wanted to talk, of course. It was what he was good at. Only now when he wanted to babble at Kurogane, he made no sense not because he was an idiot, but because he was speaking a different language. And really, Fai did not need help making no sense. He did perfectly well on his own, in Kurogane's mind.

Thankfully, this did not get to last long. The very moment that Tomoyo saw Fai, she instantly decided that he was the cutest thing she'd ever set eyes on. And that he absolutely needed to be dressed up. So she and her court ladies turned Fai into their sort of 'pet.' They put him into intricate women's Kimono's. He did not protest, since he found them pretty, and did not recognize them as women's clothes. They fed him sweets and things, and cooed at him that he was far too skinny. And they taught him the language.

Kurogane was never certain how he felt about all of this. He found it slightly insulting that Tomoyo would dress him in women's things, exploiting the cultural differences. (Of course, he never did tell Fai what they were. Not because he thought Fai looked good in them or anything.) Though, he quite agreed that Fai was too skinny. And really, if Tomoyo didn't occupy Fai all the time, he would just try to follow Kurogane around.

Now the language…

At first, Kurogane was happy that Fai was learning Japanese. He actually could understand the man now, more or less.(One could only get so much sense out of Fai, after all,) But then Fai developed a slightly annoying habit.

"Kuro-min, what is it we call this thing?" he would ask.

Now, Kurogane was an understanding guy (in his mind), and he could recognize that Fai wanted to know what to call things. But really, he would ask for the names of everything, and anything.

And so Kurogane would snap back at him, "That's a piece of string, now stop asking me for the names of everything in the room, you moron."

"If Fai does not ask how we call it, he will not teach." Fai would chide him.

"Learn." Kurogane would correct automatically.

And Fai would parrot it back to him. "He will not learn." Fai would wrap his foreign accent around the word, and repeat it a few times to commit it to memory.

"And what is it we calls this thing?" Fai said one day in his typical fashion, letting a devious grin spread over his face.

"What?" Kurogane snarled, since Fai did not indicate anything.

So Fai had immediately dove into his lap and pressed their lips together. He pulled away, still grinning. "What is name for that, Kuro-wan?"

Kurogane glared at him. Fai giggled.

"What is name, Kuro-Kuro? Tell Fai, Fai does not know."

"Kiss." He admitted. "And I refuse to believe that Tomoyo-hime did not teach you that word."

Fai gave him an innocent look. Or Kurogane supposed it was meant to be innocent. To him it looked like Fai might be sick.

"Not believe Fai? Kuro-pon is mean!"

"Che!" Kurogane answered.

"Kuro-mean very good kiss, though." Fai chuckled slyly.

Something passed over Fai's face a moment, as Kurogane watched him. As if he had had a sudden thought.

"Can Fai ask Kuro-pu more words?"

"If I say no, will you shut up?"

"No…" Fai sang in delight.

Kurogane gave him an empty expression. 'Then why the hell did you ask?' he almost growled.

Fai stopped; wearing the look that meant he was going thought his small mental dictionary. He wrinkled his nose, cutely.

"What is the word for Fai-Fai happy Kuro-chu very lots?" he said decisively, apparently unaware the sentence was totally incomprehensible.

"What?" Kurogane stressed the word, his confusion evident.

"Not good?" this was Fai's way of asking if he had said something improperly.

"Yeah, not good." Kurogane confirmed that he had no idea what Fai was trying to communicate. Kurogane would normally try to help him form sentences, but 'Fai-Fai happy Kuro-chu very lots' …he couldn't even imagine what he was getting at.

Fai stuck out his tongue, thinking again.

"Word for thing, when Kuro-mu and Fai together, happy." He tried again. "No?"

Kurogane shock his head.

"Hmmm…word for… for Kuro-pyon happy, and Fai happy too. Fai happy with his Kuro-chan. Kuro-chan happy with Fai. Because is Fai. Because is Kuro-kichi."

Kurogane suddenly understood, and he couldn't help but smirk. Fai could be unwittingly adorable sometimes. "Love. I love you." he provided.

"Love," Fai whispered, trying out the new word. "Love, love. Is good word for thing." He affirmed. There was the ghost of a smile on Fai's lips as he spoke next. "Fai love Kuro-love. Kuro love Fai-Fai?"

"I just said so, didn't I?" Kurogane turned red.

"Kuro-love is so cute!" Fai teased. In any language, Fai knew how to do that.

There was a slight knock at the door to their room.

"Yeah, what?" Kurogane shouted.

The door slid open.

"Tomoyo-hime!" Fai cried exuberantly, prancing to the door.

"Are you ready for your lessons, Fai?" the princess asked.

"I already have lessons with Kuro-wan-sensei. He teach good word." Fai told her.

"What word was that?"

Fai glanced at Kurogane through the corner of his eye before replying. He knew very well what he was doing. "Kuro-wan-sensei teach me…"

Of course, he was drowned out by Kurogane's furious shriek.