Aha! Fourth chapter up! Finally. Took me long enough, huh?
They were seated in the backseat of Cameron's horse and buggy, and Sakura was driving.
After Sakura had herself seated upfront, Syaoran glanced at Kurogane, he could tell they where both thinking the same thing.
"Hold on tight" Kurogane grunted. Syaoran nodded, and gripped the edge of the seat.
Now, Fai, who had also heard these instructions, had tightly clamped his arms around Kurogane's waist.
"What exactly do you think you're doing?" Kurogane asked, sounding ticked already.
"Kuro-myu said to hold on tight, and that's what I'm doing. Kuro-pyon's so caring, worried about me falling off."
Kurogane scoffed, and went straight into attempt to pry Fai's hands off him.
This only made Fai hold on tighter. Muttering something about the young blond being a bastard, he settled back, giving up on getting Fai off him.
Fai smiled contently, and Kurogane's eye began twitching like a madman's.
Syaoran edged himself away from the twitching ninja slowly, unsure of which was worse; Kurogane when he finally snapped, or bouncing off the edge of the carriage. He was close to choosing the latter.
Luckily, Mokona sensed what he was about to do, and hopped into Syaoran's lap to prevent it.
"Any sign of the feather?" Syaoran asked quietly. Mokona shook his head vigorously.
Eventually, Cameron took the reins back from Sakura, and sent her to the back.
"How was I?" She asked. Syaoran gave her a weak smile and thumbs up.
"Really?" she asked, sounding amazed.
Syaoran nodded shakily, feeling guilty about lying. Sakura smiled and seated herself next to Syaoran.
Syaoran looked over at his two companions in order to make sure Kurogane hadn't exploded yet, but, instead of finding his companion on the verge of a mental breakdown, he looked calm.
Syaoran frowned.
He figured Kurogane would've been close to throwing him off the edge, instead he actually looked like he was okay with this.
He had often wondered what was really going on between the mage and the ninja, but, because he feared what would happen if he asked.
He knew that if he asked Fai(granted Kurogane was around), he would probably respond with how he and Kurogane were 'best-buddies' or something else that sounds similar.
He wasn't sure what Kurogane would do, but he didn't think he wanted to know.
Fai pulled away from Kurogane, a large smile on his face.
"Kuro-myuu didn't shove me away" Fai said.
"Well, it got you to shut up" Kurogane muttered.
Syaoran held back a laugh as they began to bicker again.
"They really are quite a pair" He whispered to Sakura, who smiled and nodded in agreement.
"Fai, are you alright?" Sakura asked, a look of concern growing on her face.
Syaoran turned back around and saw what she meant; Fai had turned a pale-ish green color.
Kurogane understood what was going on and merely point to the edge of the carriage.
Fai nodded, covered his mouth and rushed to side of the carriage.
Syaoran patted Sakura's shoulder awkwardly as she grimaced at the belching noises.
Then they hit a bump.
Fai, being the light person he is, nearly went flying.
Nearly, that is, because Kurogane managed to reach out, grab Fai by the armpits and pull him back to safety.
"Idiot" Kurogane grunted.
Fai was a tad shaken by his flying out of the carriage experience, so his face wasn't plastered with one of his smiles when he said.
"I'm fine Kuro-wanko."
"I never asked anything like that!" Kurogane snapped. "Ah! But you looked so worried Kuro-poo" Fai said, leaning against Kurogane slightly.
Kurogane scoffed, shifting his body around slightly so Fai fell onto the floor of the carriage. "Wahh!" He cried in mock despair "Kuro-pyon is so mean."
Kurogane leaned back, folding his arms.
Sakura knelt down beside Fai, helping him up.
"Maybe you should try sleeping?" Sakura suggested, "The ride will be over faster that way."
Fai nodded weakly. "Thanks for the tip"
He seated him self next to Kurogane (Which Syaoran found a stupid thing to do), and leaned against him slightly, closing his eyes.
Kurogane grumbled something irritably but didn't shove Fai away.
"At least he's feeling better" Syaoran said after a few minutes, hoping to break the tension.
Kurogane scoffed gruffly, placing a hand on the blonde's forehead.
"He's a good actor" Kurogane stated after pulling his hand away.
Fai moved slightly in his sleep, reaching for Kurogane's hand before he pulled it out of reach.
Syaoran thought he heard a rather foul curse word come from Kurogane.
Not that it would've surprised him or anything, but he wasn't sure. Kurogane yanked his hand away, obviously irked.
"I'm already letting you use me as a pillow, I am not" – He put extra emphasizes on the word 'not' –"Holding your stupid hand" He snapped, pulling his hand away from Fai's grasp.
Fai, as if in response to this, snuggled closer.
Kurogane grumbled to himself angrily, causing Syaoran to move a little closer to Sakura.
Mokona's ear twitched slightly, but then it started twitching like a mad rabbit.
"Is it a feather?" Kurogane hissed, trying to lean closer to Mokona without knocking Fai over.
He failed terribly and had to resort to wrapping one arm around him while leaning forward.
Syaoran thought it must've been very uncomfortable. "So, is it a feather?" He repeated.
Mokona nodded excitedly.
"Where?" Sakura asked, leaving Syaoran being the only conscious one who hadn't bothered to talk.
Mokona nodded slowly towards a mountain like shape looming in the distance.
Kurogane sighed. "It would be so much easier if you could just talk."
"You know that wouldn't work" Syaoran whispered back.
It was true, it would ruin the whole: 'Mokona is a rabbit' disguise they had planned out.
"Um, excuse me, but is there any way we could get onto the mountain" Sakura asked Cameron sweetly, pointing at the slightly more visible mountain.
"You want to go to the mountain?" He asked, sounding shocked.
"Yeah" Syaoran said, nodding vigorously.
"But why?" Cameron asked.
"What's it to you?" Kurogane snapped.
Kurogane had leaned back, but he hadn't removed his arm from being wrapped around Fai's shoulders.
Syaoran figured he'd hoped no one had noticed.
"Well, um" The doctor said, obviously surprised by Kurogane's sudden outburst.
"I suppose you could stay at my old cabin up there" he said awkwardly, "But you'd need money for food. I haven't been there for a while."
"We could sell some of our old stuff" Sakura suggested.
Kurogane nodded gruffly. "Sure, not like we really need it."
"You're sure you wanna go up there?" He asked.
"Yeup" Syaoran said.
"Well, it's about a six hour hike to the top, and you'd have to stop and eat, it'd be a long trip" Cameron said, obviously still unsure that they really wanted to do this.
"What's your point?" Kurogane snapped.
Sakura giggled nervously. "Calm down" she whispered.
Kurogane shot her a death glare before he realized who he was death glaring at.
Syaoran let out a sigh of relief as Kurogane grimaced apologetically (A smile was too much to ask of him at the moment).
Syaoran had thought for a moment he may have had to protect the princess from an angry Kurogane's wrath, something he didn't particularly want to do.
A angry Kurogane wasn't really someone you wanted to fight.
"So, are you really sure?" Cameron asked again.
"Yes" Sakura said, nodding.
"Well, then, I suppose you've got quite a long walk ahead of you" Cameron said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah" Kurogane grumbled.
"We're here" he added, raising his right arm to point, knocking the sleeping Fai into Syaoran.
Fai mumbled something in his sleep as he fell against Syaoran.
Sakura giggled quietly.
"I guess we have some shopping to do."
This isn't where I wanted to end it, but I thought that I hadn't actually put anythign on here lately, so yeah. Stupid laziness. Ok, once again, expect this to take awhile, I'm not actually busy this week, just lazy.
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