"BLACK WIN"

They had won another match.

Sakura smiled to Syaoran and Kurogane, they were about to come back home, they all need rest.

Kurogane looked at Fye standing still leaning against the wall, his blue eye empty and sad.

The ninja shook his head, he didn't want to know waht Fye was thinking, he didn't want to know anything about the mage's past, he didn't want to… LIES… he wanted to know, just to understand the reason behind that sad gaze.

"She was my woman!" What has the mage been thinking of during the match? Kurogane wondered. It seemed that Yuki had been very important to him, then why he lied pretending he didn't even know her?

That mage was an enigma…

"EVERYONE! Are you hurt?" Mokona screamed in terror, then she saw Kurogane carrying Sakura.

"Sakura, what's wrong?" She wept while the ninja put her on the sofa.

" It's all right, I'm just a bit tired, I'm really all right so don't cry okay?" Sakura told her gently

"We should rest for today right?" Fye told Sakura sweetly.

It took a bit to convince her to go to sleep, but in the end the mage succeded.

"Sakura chan is sleeping with Mokona!" Fye said.

Kurogane was still thinking of what he had said to the boy something that sounded like "The princess is strong, but because she's strong she's also fragile. Someone ha sto teach her that or she will break soon… For that mage it can't be felpe anymore…"

The ninja turned the back to the mage, there was something he could do to prevent Fye from completely destroy himself and he had promise he would have done till the end

"Want to drink something?" the mage asked.

"Sake!"

"Can't be helped…" Fye smiled sarcastically

"You drink too!"

Fye's expression hardened again that voice whispered from the bottom of his memory "To vampires all that matters is blood" Kurogane had turned to the mage, his wrist had been cut once again.

"Don't drink if you don't want to, then I'll just let it flow on the floor." The voice was almost gentle, but Kurogane's smile seemed rather cruel, so Fye smiled back, the ninja was hurting him well he would have hurt him too

"It really can't be helped, right? Kurogane" the sarcastic smile didn't leave the mage's lips until they touched Kurogane's wrist.

"Have you noticed?" The mage asked

"Yeah! We're being watched"

"Our next opponents in chess? Or maybe…"

"…the ones who have been watching us throughout this entire journey until now?"

"Whoever they are I won't let them hurt us anymore!" Fye said.

Kurogane shivered, the mage had nothing human in that moment, his voice was freezing, his golden eye flashed with pure hatred. Fye stopped licking the blood on his hands and left the room.

Kurogane continued staring at the point where Fye had been.

It was the first time Fye had ever told he would have protected them so clearly …

"So who wins that match will meet the last master?" Syaoran asked Kurogane

"It seems so!"

They were on the chess board, the match was about to start.

Before their eyes there were million of thorns.

"It looks like it'll hurt if we get it!" Fye smirked

Syaoran looked at Sakura's sad face

"We will win… for sure!" the boy said

"READY… GO!"

The match started.

Sakura looked at her pieces fighting, it was a second: Syaoran was shot and fell down.

Fye and Kurogane ran towards him, the opponents had cheated.

They continued attacking.

"Is their goal to wound us?" Fye asked before starting trembling

" I'm becoming numb…" he whispered

"You too…?" Kurogane asked, he was trembling too

"It's the same!" Fye answered and he knelt down in pain

Next to him there was something similar to an insect, it was crashed.

"Partly it's beacause of these bug-like things… but Sakura chan is hesitating…" He explained the ninja

The princess looked at his pieces, Fye was trambling, Syaoran was still uncoscious, Kurogane lay on the ground.

She was about to give up when Syaoran stood up ready to fight.

"Wait, we will win so stay there!" He told her.

Syaoran fought with all his strenght… he fought for Sakura to realize her wish… and he won, but when he looked at Sakura's face, she didn't meet his gaze, and her eyes became even sadder.