Chapter 4: Bonds which are

'Destiny, a faithful meeting. Bending, changing, actively shaping the future. One meeting changes everything. If I hadn't picked up Kurogane, he wouldn't have met Fai, not in this lifetime at least.' Hitsuzen says against the silent bus. 'But the cataclyst, the changing point, in this story wasn't me. It always has been, the person who only exists within one realm.' He sighs 'Your methods don't change, my butterfly. Still bluntly changing lives, for the sake of the two futures. I can't help but wonder, who paid the price, or did they both pay for it, unconsciously wanting to meet each other…'
Darkness came and the bus disappeared. 'Ah a dream visit? I wondered when you would show up, Yuuko…' He says against the long slender woman, dressed in dark robes. 'You aren't even surprised. It isn't fun that way, Hitsuzen. At least jump up, or scream the next time.' Hitsuzen laughed 'I will, now let's talk. You surely didn't come just to see me, did you?'
'Afraid not Hitsuzen. I'm here because I've had payment from two people, so I'm coming to deliver you two objects you will need in a not so distant future.' 'Ah still so blunt butterfly, so the stage for the grand story has been set then?' Hitsuzen asks with a childlike smile. 'Indeed, so would you please be so kind to take these two objects to our protagonist?' 'I'll be glad to, Yuuko-san.'

Kurogane didn't know what to do. Fai didn't have a phone in his apartment so calling an ambulance wasn't an option. Not even the neighbors responded when Kurogane knocked on their doors, almost to the point of breaking the wood. He didn't know what to do, the only place he could take Fai was to Hitsuzen, which actually seemed logical, maybe he knew his way around town. Knew the way to the hospital. But he didn't know the way to the station from the apartment... He thought while he took the blonde man's cold body in his arms and carried him out the building. 'Don't you dare to die on me Fai.' He grunted, as he let fate take over his body and walked in the one destined direction.

When his feet stopped and he opened his eyes, he immediately recognized the station. Kurogane was surprised though, yesterday the place was swarmed with people yet today he didn't see anybody. In fact the entire plaza was quiet, he couldn't hear any sound. Not that he complained though, it made finding Hitsuzen's bus a lot easier.
'Kurogane, I told you, only I can kidnap people. Take that back to where you found it. Bad Kuro-chi.' Hitsuzen joked while he stood in the entrance of the bus, seeing the big man approach him with Fai in his arms. 'Not in the mood, something is wrong with Fai.' Hitsuzen's expression changed immediately. 'Bring him in. I changed the seats to a bed, you can lay him down there.' Kurogane nodded in agreement while he entered the bus. Indeed the interior had changed, the last three rows of benches had disappeared and made room for a giant two person bed. The bed itself was covered with cushions and sheets making it look like a giant bed from a love hotel, rather than a bed compartment in a bus. 'Dear lord, you were going to make us sleep in that?' Kurogane asked Hitsuzen, while gently placing Fai's body on the giant love-bed, wondering why it made him look like a princess sleeping waiting to be kissed by his prince. He could easily imagine bending over the frail man and kissing him, waking Fai and breaking the spell holding him in the slumber. 'Now take us to the hospital.' Kurogane grunts, almost cursing himself for dreaming of in this situation.
'No can do Kuro-chi.' 'What?' He answered angrily, while making way towards the driver seat and grabbing Hitsuzens collar. 'Listen here buddy, Fai is sick, from the looks of it he's dying. We are NOT gonna argue a moment longer. Take me to a hospital NOW!' 'We aren't gonna take him to a hospital...' Hitsuzen replied while pulling the hands back of his jacket. 'because they can't help him. But if you give me a moment to take a look at him. I might figure out what is wrong with him.' 'What you got a doctors degree in the day I was gone?' Kurogane asked sarcastically. 'Actually it's my university degree, the diploma hangs out in the back of the bus. You just didn't see it until now.' As he pointed to the wall to the small frame hanging there. 'Well I'll be damned...'

'Certainly not a wound, can't see any signs of infections bacterial or viral as well.' Hitsuzen continued. 'His body is allright, but why is his body temperature dropping and he can't wake up…' He mutters, more to himself then Kurogane, while continuing to look at Fai's body. In the short time he had met Hitsuzen he had never seen him so serious. In fact this might have been the first time the man wasn't smiling like an idiot, reminding him of the other idiot he was saving. 'Idiot saving idiot, destiny must really be cruel.' He thought to himself. 'Hey Kurogane, what did you do last night. Tell me everything, and with that I mean all the details.' 'If you think that will help.' Kurogane replies while sighing heavily. Starting to tell how they had met, drank together and Fai invited him over. Not interrupting Kurogane once, Hitsuzen just listened. 'Kurogane, you like Fai don't you.'
'What has that to do with anything.' Kurogane says while a blush creeps up to his face. 'Come on, you probably told him so right?' Kurogane swallowed loudly. 'I might have said…' 'You bound Fai with your words, probably unknowingly though.' Hitsuzen says while putting a hand against Fai's forehead. 'Do you know Briquet's syndrome Kurogane.' 'Haven't heard from it, what does it mean for Fai?'
'He probably wasn't sleeping. He heard your words, whatever you said awoke a lingering psychological trauma, his pain being directed to a physical problem. It's called a somatoform disorder, like sleeping and not waking up.' 'So it's not dangerous then?'
'Au contraire, Fai is stuck in his mind, being tormented by ghosts of the past. Ghost you awoke. Kurogane I don't want to scare you but seeing as how his condition is, it looks like he is in a coma. A sort of waiting stage untill his body temperature gets to low and his heart just is going to stop...' Hitsuzen says calmly. 'What can we do?' Kurogane asks feeling anger rising, because Hitsuzen clearly didn't care what happened to the blonde man. 'Indeed Kurogane, tell me how far would you go to safe him?'

'What does that have to do with anything?' Kurogane asks trying to subdue the rage. 'You brought Fai into the state he is right now. Unwillingly or not, you changed his destiny. Entangling it with yours. So tell me Kurogane, would you risk your soul to safe his before it is too late?' Kurogane didn't even have to think about that one as he automatically reacted with 'What do I do?' Hitsuzen smiled, while taking out a scroll. 'You have to enter his mind and defeat whatever is chasing him.' 'You can do that?' 'Yeah with this scroll I can, but Kurogane whatever happens to you in his mind. Well, it will be equally inflict in pain to your physical body. Dying in his mind is dying in the real world as well. and since he isn't in control of his mind, anything literally anything could happen. Knowing this will you still risk it?' Kurogane stood up looking Hitsuzen in the eyes as he nodded. 'I will free him.'
'That's what I wanted to hear. Fine, I'll send you in his mind. Come let's not waste more time. You have to touch Fai's body for this to work.' Hitsuzen says while leading Kurogane back to Fai giving him a hand to hold. He opens the scroll and starts reading the incantation written on it. His words chiming trough the air, transforming into floating sigils. Surrounding Kurogane and Fai. Pulsating in soft light as Hitsuzen whispers. 'Kiss him Kurogane. Carry over your desire to safe him in a pure act of love. Bind your soul to his and enter his mind. 'What?' Kurogane yells. 'You didn't say that before!' 'Yeah and I almost forgot to give you this as well.' Hitsuzen says while throwing a sheathed katana. 'Thanks I guess…' 'Now hurry, the sigils aren't going to last all day you know.'

'He's weird, he's an idiot and he pisses me of. But man, I think I love you Fai.' Kurogane says while planting his lips on the cold mouth of the other man. The sigils lighting up intensly, as Kurogane feels a bit of warmth returning to those lips he's touching. Encouraged he pours all emotions he has into the kiss. As the sigils blind him, and the bus disappears into the bright light created by pure emotions, wanting nothing more to save Fai from whatever was harming him.

Hitsuzen sighs again. 'Prices have been paid, journeys have begun. Only you can save him Kurogane. Only you have the power to change his destiny. From the moment you two met, you both felt it. And even though your body doesn't know. Your hearts already have connected.' He huffs as he heaves Kuroganes body on the bad, placing him next to Fai's. 'The true test is just beginning. Bonds, which are, will they bring your victory Kuro-chi?'

AFTER WRITING SEGMENT

Hitsuzen: aww I didn't even got to give Kurogane the underwear I bought for him, this is getting way to serious writer, you said it would be humour...
Me: I did, but yeah somehow I just want a good story, I think it's shaping up pretty good until now
Kurogane: but what was up with that kiss...

Writer uses fanboy smile, it creeps everyone out...