(ESCAPE TO THE HOLY CITY )
Chapter Three
"--I'm sure that I was in the Holy City and that you and Kurogane-san were there too!"
Fay froze but managed to keep his smile "Really? Are you sure it was us?"
"Yup! Do you think it's another vision?" Green eyes flickered in his direction before Sakura hopped off the table. Syaoran looked past them to the door where Fay was entering with a man called Kurogane.
"It has to be a vision, Kuro-chan. Every time Sakura-chan has had a vivid dream like this, it happens in reality. She even could tell what day it was going to happen on"
Kurogane flipped through Sakura's chart while Fay pulled out a first aid kit. "Why the hell haven't you put that on her thing then?"
"Chart."
"Whatever." He eyed the first aid box "I said I don't need that"
Fay pulled Sakura's chart away with a smile. "No one needs to know about them. What she dreams about is little things anyways--nothing dangerous and only about herself. But this time…" He grinned "it's finally lead to something!"
"That's why you kept her here, huh?" Kurogane asked, crossing his arms as Fay tried to pull up his shirt sleeve. He was brushed aside with a glare. "I should have known something was wrong when you didn't want to do anything but run this hospital and stay near that girl. You're still as messed up in the head as ever…" he muttered under his breathe.
"Kuro-chan always has the nicest things to say about me!"
He pulled his arm away again "Stop that. I said I don't need anything treated"
"Then what about this?" he poked a cut
"Stop that"
"And this?"
"I said stop"
"And this, and this, and this, and this and--!"
"Stop it!!"
Fay touched his lips "And th--!"
Kurogane dropped his arms to push him away only to find his arm expertly taken by a smiling Fay. After acknowledging the trick, Fay noticed Kurogane glared at him for along time. Red cheeks and pouty.
"Damnit you're annoying…." He looked off to the side.
"And cute. You're so lucky to have such a great person to work with!"
Kurogane glowered "Don't think for a second that just because me and you are working together in one thing that I'll hesitate to beat you to the ground if you try anything with these patients"
"Little me?" he said innocently.
"I know you better than to think you can stay here this long without thinking about how many people are around you"
Fay cheerfully slapped a bandage on his face.
"GAH!" He slapped Fay back on the head "What the hell was that for?!"
He just pulled out another bandage and said "I can't help it I'm so loved by people like them. But don't worry, Kuro-sama" Kurogane rubbed his sore cheek with a glare "I'm completely set to going to the Holy City"
"You are deranged," he muttered. "And while you've been living in your own fucked up little bubble I've been out there trying to dodge wolves for the sake of both our asses." He irritably scratched at one of the wolf bites "I've been out there working my ass off to find a way into that city and you've been here playing doctor"
"Maybe. But you're just as guilty as attaching yourself to her….." he smiled "Kuro-daddy"
Kurogane glared "I said stop it with that already."
"Everyone can feel our little Sakura-chan is powerful but maybe her ability to see the future is the only thing after all." Fay gently touched his sore cheek and smiled "She's not only an adorable daughter, she's our key to the City, Kuro-chan!"
Syaoran didn't understand why Fay didn't mention any of this to him when he had been hired. Fay had to know that Syaoran had acess to every scene in every point of time so what good was it to not say anything? Syaoran had heard these conversation between Kurogane and Fay on the second attempt but that still didn't lead him to how Sakura disappeared from the hospital to get to the Holy City.
Why they wanted to get into the Holy City was none of Syaoran's concern. As soon as this mission was over, there would be another person waiting for him to help them at Yuuko's place. But knowing that didn't make it any easier when he thought about Sakura.
What would happen to her? What did Kurogane and Fay have to do with it? If they cared about her so much then why were they willing to go behind her back and--
Syaoran shook his head. No. It didn't concern him. This time, this place, this world, this existence wasn't his. He was created here but he didn't belong here. And not even the girl he had been created to protect from harm could change that. Especially since his Original was already dead.
He had to concentrate on what he was about to do.
What Sakura had talked about was something she had never shared with Fay-san and so her secret couldn't have been the dreams that Fay-san knew. Syaoran only had thirty minutes to pull this off and answer Fay's request once and for all.
Syaoran quickly grabbed Fay's arm. "Please take me to her," he whispered with a blush.
Fay leaned towards him with a clueless smile. "Huh?"
"Please take me to Sakura," he repeated, "for the clothes….right now"
He looked onto Syaoran curiously. "How did you know that--" He laughed. "Of course you knew…." Then said more loudly, "I'm going to get Syaoran-kun some clothes. Finish up his charts!"
Everyone nodded and Fay put a hand on Syaoran's shoulder to repeat the same things he always did as Syaoran hurriedly walked.
"What's the rush, Syaoran-kun? You're awfully jumpy!"
"If you want your answer then I have to rush," Syaoran explained. "I'll have your answer the next time I see you." And with that he shut himself in the wardrobe room. Instead of waiting for her to come out he went in to find her. She jumped back with a blush after running into his chest.
"Y-you must be Syaoran--"
"I need you to trust me," he said, stepping forward.
She looked up to him with wide eyes. "W-what?"
"Please, Sakura" He held out his hand to her in desperation. "I need you to trust me"
As Syaoran spoke to Sakura, Fay lingered at the other side of the door. Unconsciously he moved forward and put his hand on the doorknob.
What if the DT did something to Sakura-chan? He suddenly thought. Instead of the calm person he had met with at Yuuko's, the DT was now getting more anxious and nervous with each moment. What if instead of leading him to the Holy City, this person only lead to Sakura-chan's death?
"No." He pulled back with an awkward smile. It was just Kuro-chan that made him nervous since he was the one who had hesitated when they met the DT. Fay would make it to the Holy City and--
CRASH.
Fay laughed as people rushed around him. This was not part of the deal.
When he hurried into the office to find Kurogane standing there he tried to smile a bit.
"Hey Kuro-chan! Love to talk, but can't right now!"
"What the hell is going on?" Kurogane asked "What's with all the alarms?"
"There's been a little escape," he said lightly "Can I borrow your car?"
He paused and eyed Fay's outstretched hand for too long of a time "Well….?"
"Well what?"
"Did you hire that guy or what?"
"Oh, I hired him" Fay laughed nervously as he crossed the room and started to pull on his jacket instead.
"Then why do you still have two blue eyes?"
"It's a contact" Fay said shortly "to avoid the bothersome task of questions and all that…I'll be right back! Out to find the escapee. On foot now since you're not letting me use your car. See ya!"
"Hold on" he pulled him roughly back by the collar "What did the DT say?"
"That he needed to see Sakura-chan" he diverted his eyes "Then….well--don't get mad…he sort of kidnapped her and jumped out the window--"
"WHAT?!"
Fay leaped out of Kurogane's reach "H-hey! It's no good to point fingers at--"
A book was thrown at his head "I knew something like this would happen! Why else would she be in the vision with us?!"
"C-Calm down, Kuro-daddy--!"
Another book was thrown at his head "And now because of you and your stupid brain retarded ideas, she's--!"
"We don't know that!" Fay ducked another book and scrambled behind the desk "Maybe it's part of his process!"
"Kidnapping people?!" Kurogane slammed a book down he was about to throw and headed for the door "You're not worth it" he muttered.
He followed him through the hall "You don't think I'm worried about her too?! That I didn't think about this when I hired the DT?"
Kurogane just shoved him aside and kept walking quickly through the halls.
"Kuro-sama" Fay grabbed his wrist "I didn't want to put Sakura-chan in danger but--"
"Then why the hell did you hire that fucking DT?!"
"The same reason you wanted to hire one" he said with a sad smile.
Kurogane stared back coolly before ripping his arm away "Forget it. What's done is done. Let's just go get her back and…find another way before she becomes another reason instead of" he shot a look at Fay "a key"
"Unless it's the same thing…"
Silence fell between them as they ran outside of the hospital and headed for Kurogane's car.
"….so you're not mad at me?" Fay asked absently.
"I'm always mad at you but I'm more pissed off at that fucking DT now. Don't flatter yourself over it"
Fay relaxed in the seat a bit as Kurogane speed through the desert. After making sure Kurogane's attention was only on driving, Fay pulled a knife out from his jacket pocket "…I guess we're back to square one then"
He grunted.
"Hey" Fay put his free hand on Kurogane's shoulder as his other moved the knife "But you'll find a way to the Holy City without Sakura-chan, right?"
"Don't know" Kurogane muscles relaxed under Fay's touch "But I can sure as hell tr---WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"