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Kurogane smiled as he folded the laundry and neatly put it in one of the travel bags, careful not to let these specific cloths get mixed in with the others.

Yes, he, Kurogane the mighty ninja, had enjoyed doing the laundry, but poor little Sakura-chan... he thought her eyes were going to fall out of her head when he volunteered to take the chore off her hands.

'It's all good though,' he mused. 'that kid's smarter than she lets on. Probably already knows what I'm up to.'

"Kurogane-san, have you seen my..." Syaoran started to say, interrupting his thoughts. "Oh, never mind. I found them." He said picking up his laundry bag, having just come in after training and looking for something clean to wear.

Surely the blond would be coming in next, and as if on cue...

"Hyuu! Is Kuro-daddy doing laundry?" The mage came skipping through.

"Shut up." He growled without looking up. He refused to even acknowledge the idiot after the whole spider incident. The stupid piece of crap had turned out to be made of rubber the whole time. 'Oh, how tempted I was...'

"Aww, Kuro-puppy is finally becoming domesticated. I suppose this'll mean we'll have to get you fixed soon to take care of that temper of yours." Fai mused with a thoughtful finger on his chin.

'Scratch that last thought, how tempted I am tempted to kill...' "You need something, mage?" He asked, keeping his tone even and his eyes on the task at hand. It didn't help that he was currently folding a tiny, Sakura sized shirt and failing miserably with his big hands.

"Nope." He gave an aggravating smile. "Just came to grab my cloths." With that he took his bag and left as flamboyantly as he had come, skipping all the way.

Sakura came in next, thankfully taking her pile of cloths off his hands and folding them herself. She was figiting and it took a moment before he realized she was trying to get up the nerve to ask him something.

"Out with it already."

Another moment passed before she seemed able to gather her words. "Kurogane-san, you're not thinking about doing something mean to F-"

She never managed to finish as an oddly colored blond bullet suddenly came out of nowhere and wrapped his arms around the ninja's neck. Thank goodness he'd been prepared for such a reaction. "Oh, Kuro-poo! Did you do this? I love it!" He practically squealed before taking off to prance in his newly dyed pink clothing.

Sakura-chan giggled while Mokona sang in her lap, happily dancing to the same insane rhythm the mage was. "Fai-san is so pretty!" The little creature chimed.

"Uh, Kurogane-san..." Syaoran turned to him, looking a little bemused himself. "I hate to say it but if that was you getting him back... that sucked." He tried to hold in a chuckle himself as the blond did a little twirl.

Kurogane just smiled and went back to folding what he hoped were Sakura's unicorn PJ's. "Just wait for it." He whispered, the dye was only to keep the mage from noticing the real problem.

That's when they all noticed that the singing had suddenly stopped and Fai was standing at an awkward angle, trying to reach some invisible spot on his back with one arm over the other shoulder and the other arm bent back behind him. "Ne, Kuro-chan... what'd you dye these with?"

The ninja kept folding the laundry, taking his sweet time to answer. "It's not the dye." He handed the princess the offensive PJ's which she sadly handed to a blushing Syaoran.

Everyone waited for him to continue and when he didn't Fai began to whine. "Kuro... what is it already?" He turned towards them now, reaching up his sleeves to scratch his arms, one of his feet absently digging at the other.

He folded another shirt before answering him. "Itching powder."

"What?"

"What?"

"What?!" Their voices rang out in unison, one reaching a higher pitch than the two prepubescent's.

"Itching powder." He repeated matter of factly.

"Kuro-sneak, that's just evil!" Fai almost sounded a little proud if not a bit more than a bit shocked. Clearly he hadn't expected the ninja to stoop to that level.

"Oh, and mage..." Kurogane said, handing another stack to Sakura, finally meeting the others eyes. "It's in your boxers too."

Fai's eyes went wide moments before he took off towards the bathroom faster than anyone had ever seen him run before.

"Wonder if I should tell him water makes it worse?"