Boo!
Chapitre Three
Captured
Third chapitre. I'm only posting because it's a countdown thing. And so far, I have only two reviews.
Disappointing, isn't it?
Well anyhow, I can't wait 'till Halloween (for chocolate). Yesterday I went a bit crazy so I won't be able to type such a good chapitre today but whatever.
Let's move on!
(Sorry for the delay. My fingers were frozen solid, I had this church thing at our house, I was on Tales of Symphonia and Billy Hatcher… Yeah…)
Disclaimer: Fai's mine! – Gets shot by a bunch of FBI people – Ugh, okay, maybe not…
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Countdown! Two Days 'Till Halloween!
Yuuko and Watanuki had crept through the hallway, the woman snickering at nothing in particular as the latter was groaning.
"Yuuko-san, please! I don't want to do this! C'mon please, let me just work extra hard for the rest of the week and then you can pay me!" Watanuki pleaded, grasping onto his employer's arm, so close to crying.
"Snap out of it, Watanuki-kun. Act like a man!" Yuuko snapped, smacking the teenager on the head.
"Ow."
They continued walking, Yuuko overreacting just a bit – if you can call rolling across the floor just to get to the next room a bit – whilst Watanuki was busy glaring at the floor, murmuring words like "Himawari" and "Yuuko" and "Stupid".
Abruptly Yuuko had stopped, causing Watanuki to bump into her.
"Ow," he cried out, rubbing his nose. "Yuuko-san, why did you-?" He peaked from behind and looked into the room they had stopped in front of. He sniffed.
"Hmm, so that's his big secret? It's not that bad," Watanuki commented still on his toes, trying to looking past Yuuko's head. Yuuko stood there for a moment, silent.
"What is it, Yuuko-san?" the teenager asked after a couple of moments of silence. Yuuko continued standing there, leaning against the doorframe, eyeing the long fabric that was lying across the bed covered in silk blankets, snowflakes that were sewn on the blanket decorating the pale blue here and there.
"Fai… Is he?"
Watanuki shrugged. "I don't know much about Halloween, seeing that it isn't as important to me as other holidays so," he sighed, "maybe he is implying that."
Yuuko shook her head. "But it's… This just didn't come into plan. I thought it would something embarrassing but…"
The boy with blue eyes smirked. "As you said before Yuuko-san; anyone can hide things from another, but they can't keep it from you."
The elderly woman grunted. "It's shocking though." Yuuko smiled. "Hitsuzen has probably been disproved right now, Watanuki-kun. Even I didn't know this was going to happen."
She leaned back, letting out a big sigh of exhaustion. "Well, time to go check out that customer, no?" the Witch asked, one open eye glancing back at her employee. Watanuki nodded.
The two turned around to leave when a shadowy figure had stepped up in front of them, a rather disappointed expression written on their face.
"What do you think you're doing?" the person asked, walking towards them slowly. Watanuki gulped.
"Bust-ed…" he whistled, backing up against Yuuko's still figure.
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"What's taking them so long?" Sakura asked as she put away her plate, rinsing it with water from the sink. Fai shrugged.
"I don't know. Maybe they're discussing something," he replied as he took one of the plates and started scrubbing it with a sponge.
Kurogane sat on the floor, covering his legs with the blanket of the kotatsu and frowned. He heard some shouting from down the hallway but it didn't sound too familiar. He shrugged the idea off his shoulders and got up.
His head was spinning for the last couple of hours. The fact that he had deeply insulted Fai – according to Syaoran – was still haunting him.
No, no, it's because of the weather. That's messing my brain up. Not him. Definitely not him.
"I'm going for a walk, 'kay?" Kurogane called out before sliding the front door open.
"Bye Kurogane-san!" Sakura shouted back just before he slammed the door shut.
Sakura sighed. "He's in a bad mood isn't he, Fai-san?" she asked quietly as she continued with rinsing the dinner plates. Fai shrugged.
"He's always like that, the grouchy Kuro-puu." The evergreen eyed girl nodded slowly. It was rather weird hearing Fai call Kurogane by his nickname. He hadn't said it for about a couple of hours but the absence of it made the house a bit too quiet.
Fai leaned back against the counter, holding the soaking sponge and shining plate in his hands. "Hey Sakura-chan, you don't mind if I head out for some fresh air, do you?" he asked after placing the dish in the dryer. Sakura shook her head. "And I also have some business to attend…" he added as he looked out of the kitchen to see if a certain someone was there.
"You can go out, Fai-san. Just be careful." Fai smiled down at her and patted her head.
"Thank you. Don't over do it though, Sakura." With that he left the kitchen and slipped on a pair of slippers before heading out to the front gate.
Sakura started humming a tune as she continued with her work. She looked behind her shoulder and frowned as she realized that Syaoran wasn't there in the dining room. "I wonder where he is," she said to herself. Sakura turned the water off and slipped off her gloves and apron.
"Syaoran-kun! Syaoran-kun, where are you?" Sakura called out. Walking down the long hallway she approached the closed wooden door where several shouts came.
"Eh? Syaoran-kun, are you in there?" she asked. She slid the door open and gasped.
"Yuuko-san! Syaoran-kun!"
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Kurogane was busy trying to get through the streams of kids walking around town with costumes in their hands, their parents beside them happily. He grunted as he spotted a young girl holding a staff oh so familiar to him.
He stopped in front of a store and looked up, staring at the sign and the small marijuana leaf beside it. Kurogane entered the store for reasons he did not know and was greeted with a shout.
"Welcome to the Green Drug!" A young man with short yet some what unruly brown hair with attachable cat ears had jumped in front of the Shinobi, scaring the heck out of him.
"Hello…" Kurogane said slowly, glancing at the ears and then back down to the person's face.
The boy frowned and leaned close to Kurogane. "Look, I don't want to do this, but it's for the customers, okay? Apparently they like cat ears." He stood straight up and smiled back at him before literally skipping around the store into an aisle all the way in the back.
Kurogane was dumbfounded for the least. Why had he come here he still didn't know.
"Hey, Kazahaya!" someone shouted from one of the aisles. "Get the box of vitamins, will you?"
Then the thought struck him. That's right. Medicine. Apparently he was having major headaches and needed something to get rid of it. Kurogane walked up to the counter.
"Uh yeah, do you have anything that would cease headaches or hangovers?" he asked plainly, staring at the man with dark shades and spiky black hair. The man put his newspaper down and seemed to have smiled at him.
"Of course." He stood up from the chair he was previously sitting on. "Hey Rikuo, Kazahaya! Get this guy some medicine for headaches, will ya?" There were a couple of "Okays" and an "Hmm" in reply. The man chuckled to himself and sat back down, looking up at Kurogane with his shades.
"So are you new here? I've never seen someone like you around Tokyo." Kurogane grunted.
"I've been here once; that's it."
"Ah." The man nodded and continued reading his newspaper.
"Okay Saiga, here it is." Kazahaya, the teen with cat ears, had walked up to the two. He stepped behind the counter and shoved the man in shades away from the register.
"That'll be three hundred Yen," he stated, opening the cash register with a ping. Kurogane fished through his pocket, looking for the money Yuuko had given them on their first day, and placed the money on the counter. Kazahaya placed the medicine in front of him, giving him a toothy smile.
"Thanks for dropping by!" Kazahaya shouted as the Shinobi left the drug store.
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Business to attend? Who am I kidding! I'd be surprised if Sakura had actually fallen for that!
Fai ended up in the park, in a sea of kids, kicking the dead leaves that scattered the ground. He sighed and bent down to pick one up, twirling it between his fingers, smiling sadly. Fai had never really seen autumn before. His home country was mainly ice. Deciding that he looked like an idiot standing there in the middle of the park, he ventured deeper into the grounds, passing by some maple trees that still had their red leaves in full bloom.
"I'm so bored," he said to himself as he went deeper and deeper, the afternoon sky turning to night. Before he even realized it, he was stuck in the woods by himself under the cloudy and hazy night sky. Fai smacked himself on the forehead, groaning.
"Why do I get lost so easily?" He thought that tracing his steps would be the best idea in this situation so Fai did so.
But he ended up going around in a circle.
Three times.
In frustration Fai collapsed onto the soggy ground, letting out a cry. If he hadn't been so carefree, if he hadn't paid attention to the dimming light a few hours ago, if he hadn't gotten into a useless fight with Kurogane-
He paused midway in his ranting, realizing something. If he hadn't fought with Kurogane, he wouldn't be here, right? So all he had to do was apologize and the problem would be solved, right?
Believing that that would work, Fai looked up at the starry heavens, closed his eyes shut and shouted, "I'm sorry Kuro-wanko!"
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The ninja was back in front of Yuuko's house's gate when he heard a cry. He turned around slowly to expect some kinda murderer behind him with a knife, trying to decapitate him but instead he saw the scenery he had just passed by five seconds ago. Kurogane sighed. He was getting too paranoid.
Was it because it was really dark? Was it because he had a major head ache? Was it because of that stupid mage that made him feel bad? Kurogane went with the second idea.
Opening the door to the shop-house, Kurogane stepped in and was immediately attacked by a blur of brown and emerald. Confused, he looked down and saw Sakura grasping onto him desperately, tears streaking down her face.
"Eh. Sakura, what's wrong?" he asked as he detached himself from the girl. Sakura wiped her tears from her eyes and continued with her sobbing.
"F-Fai-san isn't back yet!" Sakura yelled out.
Mokona hopped up to her and cried, "Mokona is also worried about Fai!"
Kurogane rolled his eyes. The stupid idiot can't even protect himself. How does he plan to protect others around him?
"Eh, I'll go find him." Kurogane turned to leave when a hand grabbed his shoulder and spun him around. He was face to face with an angered Time Witch.
"You…" she began slowly, drawing a slender finger up to his face.
"Me?" Kurogane repeated dumbly. Yuuko humphed.
"Follow me," Yuuko ordered before dragging him off into the long hallway that led to their rooms.
"What the hell do you want, Witch?" Kurogane retorted, trying to bite the woman's hand off. Yuuko kept her steel grip on his arm the whole entire time.
They stopped in front of Fai's room, the room where Yuuko and Watanuki had encountered the 'shadowy figure'. Abruptly she turned around and placed her hands on her hips, pouting.
"Do y'know why Fai left?" Yuuko asked simply. Kurogane shook his head.
"Why should I care?" he implied, cocking an eyebrow as the Witch stood there, twitching.
"You're kidding right?" Kurogane shrugged. "You're the densest person I have ever met!" she shouted.
"So how exactly am I dense?" he muttered. Yuuko pointed behind her.
"Well if I showed you what Fai had kept a secret from us, it would ruin everything for him and you. If I were you, I'd go and find the Mage first." Kurogane thought for a moment and turned around on his heel, grunting.
"Better wish that Mage doesn't freeze to death, Witch."
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Kurogane searched the city, frowning. "Where the hell is he?" From the roof he was sitting on, he glanced from side to side, trying to spot some sort of slender, tall blond guy in the populated city of Tokyo. No such luck.
Jumping down from the roof, he headed towards the park. He thought that with his carefree attitude, he would end up finding the idiot prancing around the field, laughing to himself.
… How did this end up like this? Because he called Fai an Okama? Was that such an offensive thing to him?
"And I'm sorry I can't be manlier like you are!"
Kurogane didn't understand it. Just because he was a bit feminine doesn't mean he was any less a man he was. So okay, maybe he had gotten a bit overboard when calling him a cross-dresser but… Kurogane shook his head.
Approaching the dark and isolated park, he walked past the swing sets, the see saw, the slides and monkey bars. With his ever keen ears, Kurogane turned to the left of the monkey bars where he had heard a rustling of leaves. He continued walking that direction, his eyes scanning the woods.
"Someone, help please!" the Shinobi heard someone cry out. Kurogane stopped in his tracks.
"Who's there?"
From behind a tree, Kurogane spotted dim blue eyes staring at him, pleading and begging him to help him.
He repeated his question.
"I'm sorry, wanko…" There was another rustling noise coming from behind the tree, a gasp, and suddenly a muffled thump.
Deciding that the person was either in great pain or couldn't stand up for reasons he didn't know Kurogane jumped up to the person behind the maple tree.
The same cobalt eyes looked up and widened as Kurogane reached down and grabbed the person's hand.
"Idiot," he said before pulling the person up.
The person smiled sadly, pulling his hand away from him. "Heh, sorry. I tend to get lost a lot, no?" Kurogane snorted.
"Yeah, you do. And it's getting rather annoying you damn mage." Fai snickered to himself.
"Hyuu, I make so many mistakes I seem pathetic," he laughed, leaning on Kurogane's shoulder. The taller of the two grunted.
"You're really cold. Are you going to be okay?" Kurogane asked as he shook Fai by the arm. Fai nodded slowly.
"Hn. But I don't like the cold anymore, Kuro-pii. Can we hurry up?" A humph was his reply.
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"How did you find me here?" Fai asked the moment Kurogane had set him down near the kotatsu. Kurogane shrugged.
"Instincts." Fai laughed at that.
"Shinobi instincts," the mage laughed. "I should use them from now on so I don't have to get lost."
There was a moment of silence. The other four – excluding Mokona – had went out for dinner and said they were coming back soon on a note, so the two were alone.
"… What were you doing out there by yourself?" Fai grinned.
"I just wanted fresh air, that's all," he said.
"Lies," Kurogane muttered before grabbing Fai by the collar of his shirt and pulling him up. "Why?" Fai stared into his eyes, smiling again.
"It's the truth. I just wanted to get some fresh air." He paused for a moment and poked Kurogane in the chest with his forefinger. "Why were you outside?"
The emotionless, heartless and careless ninja stood in front of the smirking mage, stunned. Why had he gone out in the first place?
To get some fresh air? Was that his real excuse? No, it isn't, Kurogane thought. He pushed Fai away and frowned.
"I… I was just a bit pissed off and had a major headache. I needed to buy some medicine." Fai walked up to him, his arms crossed over his chest. He leaned forward.
"You were pissed off? I wonder why the mighty Shinobi here would be pissed off. You can just kill whatever is bothering you, can't you?" Fai asked, staring down at him. Kurogane blinked.
Did Fai just glare at him or was it his imagination?
More than that, did he just yell at him?
"Uh…"
Fai humphed. "So? What's your reason?"
"I told you, it was to get medicine!" Kurogane snapped back. His patience was wearing off; before the mage got to finish his next question, he swore that he'd have to knock him out.
"Oh really?" he questioned. "Would you like to know why I left, Kuro-pon?" Kurogane nodded.
"It's because I was looking for you," Fai stated simply before turning around and walking off. "You might've caught a cold, no matter how cold hearted you are. I'm used to the weather so…" His voice trailed off as he pranced through the hallway.
Kurogane stood there. He was worried about him? He was worried about the tough guy Shinobi?
No way. I should be the one who's worried about him, not me! I'm not a kid – well, he isn't either – and I can take care of myself – he could too, probably, without getting lost that is.
Confused, dumbfounded, and still hurting from his headache, Kurogane stalked after the mage, huffing.
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Bleh, I don't like this that much. Anyway, I know this is really a Kuro-Fai story but I'll try to squeeze in some Sakura-Syao. 'Kay? Good. Review pl0x!
Countdown! Two Days 'Till Halloween!
(Sorry for the delay…)
-Muffinizer
