Disclaimer: I don't own Tsubasa.
Pairings: KuroFai, Light SyaoSaku
I'm not really sure if this is AU, it can be our traveling group, I'm just not sure if it would fit in its story line anywhere, I its most likely AU.
Can anyone tell me what the 0101 breakers are? If you do, I'll use a name suggestion for Fai's baby! Don't use something like Yumi or something overly used like that; remember who the parents are people! Think Unique!
Oh and Fai is Fai Suwa, not Fai Flowright in here, I forgot to change it in the first chapter. Kurogane's last name is Suwa and Fai took it as he married Kurogane… did that make sense? Yuuko's last name is Cho, which means butterfly, if anyone's wondering where I got it.
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Fai checked off another day on the calendar. Three months. Two weeks. Five days. He thought, blowing out the candle he had lit next to Kurogane's picture. The picture had Fai in it as well, since he was taking the picture. Fai had his arm around Kurogane's neck while Kurogane's hand was on his shoulder, since he didn't like his picture being taken. He was giving Fai a look that told him 'oh you think so, huh?' Fai could only give a sad smile. That had been at Kurogane's sister's house, for they were sitting on a white porch. The porch led out into a field with a lake and which revealed Syaoran and Sakura playing in the background with a black, ruffled dog they named Fuine, pronounced, Foo-ee-ney. Fai had been the clever one to think that up, mixing Kurogane and Fai's names together to get that. Currently the dog was circling Fai's legs, waiting for Fai to feed her. Fai threw his gaze away from the photo and looked down at Fuine over his stomach. It had grown somewhat and that reminded him to keep up with all his countdowns and ups. He had three;
1. How long it's been since the crash
2. How long until Fai and Kurogane's first anniversary.
3. How long until Fai and Kurogane's baby was due.
Fai felt a ping of hurt in his heart as he made another check on his calendar for their anniversary, wondering if Kurogane was going to wake up before it. They had gotten married in Michigan where gay marriages were allowed. The wedding was nothing big; few guests since almost all their relatives were dead, a small cake since Kurogane didn't like sweets, and Syaoran and Sakura as their bride's maid and best man. Kurogane had smiled like he was the proudest he ever was in the car as they drove to the reception, which was at Tomoyo's mansion. Fai had begged Kurogane to let him wear the dress, so all the pictures of their wedding had Fai in the most eccentric wedding dress Tomoyo had ever made. Fai didn't want to hurt his new sister-in-law's feelings, so he kept it on through the night. Fai gave a small laugh at how he remembered Kurogane's reaction when he threw the bouquet. That's when Fuine barked and snapped Fai out of his memoir review.
"Alright, alright, Foo-chan, one second." He said, stalking over to the cabinet where Fai kept her food. Fuine barked happily as the contents were dumped into her food bowl and began to stuff the food in her muzzle as fast as she could. Fai would usually laugh at this, but he got a call on his cell phone and his attention was directed elsewhere.
"Dr. Fai Suwa speaking." He said, looking out the sink's window. He heard clinic noises in the background, and he immediately froze.
"Dr. Suwa, we understand you have a relative in room 349 who suffered from a car crash, am I correct?" The other line buzzed. Fai felt shocked as he sank into the stool by the counter.
"Y…yes, you are. Is something wrong?" Fai muttered into his phone, hoping the lady on the other line could hear him. He heard her sigh, and he instantly knew something was wrong.
"The patient in there, Officer Kurogane Suwa, has been in a coma for three months now due to brain damage. We would like you to come in the clinic office today at 4 to discuss the options at hand." Fai almost let his fingers let go of the phone. He couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"Dr. Suwa?"
"A-alright, I'll be there."
"Thank you for your time, Dr. Suwa. Ask for Dr. Cho once you reach the front desk to reach me and I'll have you sent to my office to discuss the matters." And with that, the lady on the other line hung up. Fai closed his blue cell phone and set it on the counter. He could feel the tears welding up in his eyes. Even if today was his day off, he would still have to go to that blasted hospital and see his husband laying there unconscious. He set his head down on the cool tile, letting his eyes leak the salty water once again. He cried until Syaoran came home. The brunette looked at his surrogate mother with worried eyes. Fai only smiled.
"I'm fine, Syaoran-kun… I… I just got a call, that's all." He said, wiping his eyes.
"A call? From who?" Syaoran asked. Fai felt himself sob, letting a whimper escape his lips as he looked at his phone.
"Work." Fai whispered. Syaoran grabbed his adopted mom's hand, giving it a gentle squeeze. Fai let another tear break away from his eye. Syaoran wiped that one away.
"Do you want me to call Sakura from school? We can come along too." Syaoran offered, but Fai shook his head.
"What's most important for you two is school. Even if high school is already out for you, you should let Sakura get through with her last year in Jr. High. I'll go to the hospital while you get Sakura."
Fai said, remembering how Sakura had come to live with the three males. Kurogane had adopted Syaoran a couple years before he met Fai. When he did meet the blonde, Fai thought Syaoran was his actual son; the determination and brute force being past down. When Kurogane explained that Syaoran was actually a dead friend's son, Fai brightened up a little. Kurogane was his new guardian and he was single too. Technically that should've been illegal, so Fai and Kurogane had set out to be married so the law wouldn't make Kurogane lose his job and Fai his license as a doctor. The month before their marriage, Syaoran started acting zoned and less on task with his school work. Kurogane had a talk with him thinking it was from the marriage buzz, but only found out he had a friend lose their family that weekend. Fai immediately jumped on that as an opportunity to adopt again, only to realize Syaoran was in love with the girl. So instead, Fai suggested they stay with them until she found her way threw school and that she could even call Fai mom. Kurogane only sighed.
"Fai, it's almost 3:30, I'm going to go pick up Sakura." Syaoran said, knocking Fai out of his thoughts. Fai smiled at him.
"I'm going to the hospital, so could you tell Sakura that? I'll be home by supper time. If she could make supper that would be lovely." Fai said to Syaoran. Syaoran nodded and made to move for the door. Fai stood and watched Syaoran put on his shoes and head out the door to his brown xA Scion. Fai quickly followed and got in his now blue bug. He got a paint job done to it after Kurogane was hospitalized, due to the fact that Fai couldn't stand that shade of red anymore.
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"I'm here to speak with Dr. Cho." Fai said to the front lady. She smiled at Fai, knowing who he was.
"Today's your day off, why are you here, doctor?" She said, dialing her phone. Fai just smiled.
"Let's keep things to ourselves today, Himiwari-chan, I'm not in the informative mood." Himiwari laughed.
"You never are. Dr. Cho will see you now." She said, gesturing to the direction with her finger.
"Its in room 233. But you knew that already, didn't you?" Fai just nodded and strode off into the room he had been told to go in. Yuuko was there, her hair up in a bun and her coat tucked around her body. She signaled for Fai to take a seat, which he did.
"You are concerned to why you are here?" She said, placing her fingers on her forearm.
"Indeed." Fai said smiling. Yuuko shook her head.
"This is not a time to smile, Dr. Suwa; your husband's life is at risk here." Instantly Fai's face did a 180. His eyes seemed wide with pain and his lips frowned slightly.
"What's wrong with him?" Fai said, sitting up straighter. Yuuko dug through the papers on her desk. She should Fai some charts and gave him a form.
"Officer Suwa is slowly failing brain treatment. His pacemaker is skipping a beat every now and then, and he's been on insulin for a while. You have a choice to make." Yuuko folded her hands on her desk. Fai stared at the charts in front of him. One showed the pattern of Kurogane's heartbeats from the last 24 hours, one showed his breathing rate, and the other showed his progress in his brain treatment. All of them were slowly slumping. Fai felt his heart drop.
"What are the choices?" Fai said, his voice racked with a sob. Yuuko placed a hand over another form.
"You can stop all machines on him and let him die in a coma." She said, showing Fai the process paper for doing so.
"You can operate on his lungs, brain, and heart, but that won't bring him out of a coma and it risks the chance of him dying as you work on his brain." She gave him a look with the next paper she handed to him.
"Or…" She hesitated, making Fai look at her. She put away a couple of papers and stood. She went to the filing cabinet behind her desk. Fai watched her, eager to know what she was planning.
"Or what, Dr. Cho?" Fai asked, going to the edge of his seat.
"Fai, please call me Yuuko here." Yuuko said as she returned to her seat with a form. She handed it to Fai, who, in turn, opened it.
"Or you can give him a temporary brain chip. The chip will help the body progress with little effort and could possibly bring him out of his sleeping status." She said, leaning back in her chair. Fai looked up at her, his brow stitched together with hopelessness.
"What's the price for it?" Fai said, knowing she would assume he would want the last one.
"Money is no good here in my hospital. I'll take something just as valuable as this." She held up a replica of the chip, barely big enough to fit between her index finger and her thumb. Fai thought about it, but couldn't decide what was just as important to him as Kurogane.
"I…"Fai said, unsure if Yuuko knew what it was she wanted or not.
"Your life job. You are being fired, Fai. You can find a job elsewhere, but even though you're the best on my staff, I'm going to have to let you go." Yuuko said, giving a sad smile. Fai stood up, tears in his eyes.
"I can never repay you enough, Yuuko-san!" He said, striding over her desk to hug her. She hugged him back, them being close friends and all. He then left to go by Kurogane's side.
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"Dr. Suwa, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. The operation will take place shortly." A nurse that just walked in Kurogane's room said. Fai nodded, leaving Kurogane's side as he was ushered still unconscious to the OR. Fai then called his surrogate son and his girlfriend when he arrived in the waiting room.
"Hello? Mom?" Came Syaoran's voice from the other line. Fai sighed in relief that he picked up.
"Hi, dear, I'm in the waiting room. I want you to come to the hospital and go to the waiting room on the second floor. I want to explain what's going on with daddy when you get here." Fai said, sadness hidden from his voice.
"Ok, I'll get Sakura and I'll be there in a little bit. Sakura! Come downstairs and get ready to go! Bye mom!"
"See you soon, son." Fai said before he hung up. It didn't take long for Syaoran and Sakura to arrive. They met Fai who was smiling to himself. When he realized they were there, Fai smiled wider.
"What's going on, Mom?" Syaoran said, looking curiously at his adopted parent. Fai hugged him and Sakura.
"Kuro-chi's waking up soon!"
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Whew! I hope you guys like this, kind of hard to keep my fingers flying.
Mirika-puppy-san
