A/N: I'm sorry if you got a message saying this updated twice. I didn't realize this had an error on it still before I put it up, and then I had to take it down so I could fix it. Oh, and I'm sorry it's so short, but I'm going on vacation soon and I didn't want to leave people kind of hanging?
"They're worried about you, Yuui."
He needs to distract himself from feeling guilt that he's worrying someone, so he takes a swig of his bottle of sake and looks over into the field, where he sees little Tomoyo and Fai playing with the two children that came with Yuuko. "How are they doing?"
The dimensional witch takes a sip out of her own bottle, not even bothering to answer, but her expression is enough to put even a tiny bit of relief into Yuui's mind. She, instead of directly giving an answer, strikes up a deal. "If you give me the bracelet you are wearing, I'll have Mokona let you speak to them."
Startled, Yuui looks at his wrist to see that, indeed, he is wearing a bracelet, even though he doesn't seem to remember getting it or putting it on. He looks closer, and notices that some of the multicolored beads have letters on them, and in a misshapen manner they spell out 'brother'.
He doesn't accept the offer.
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"So what's wrong with Yuui-kun, Yuuko-san?" Tomoyo asks, once she and Fai have joined them at the table, and she takes a sip of her sparkling apple juice (which was Fai's idea, once Yuuko and Yuui switched to wine). "Is he not dead?"
"He's not, but he's close to it." Yuuko looks away, an apathetic look on her face.
Fai visibly brightens, while Yuui's attitude almost slumps. The older of the two speak up. "W-what happened?"
No answer comes, but both Yuui and Yuuko know that the if one had been said, it would have been simply another deal.
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"Fai, when did I get this bracelet?" Yuui plays with the object in question, slipping it over his hand and looking at its misaligned letters. He continues walking- he's not sure to where, and he's okay with that-, only occasionally looking up to make sure he hasn't walked into anything.
A child giggles throughout the entire hallway as he runs forward and goes around a corner "I gave it to you when Elda and I first found you unconscious!"
"How did you know I was going to come?"
Fai peeks around the corner, looking at Yuui with a grin. "I didn't! I just knew you had to come eventually! Everybody comes eventually…"