Nameless: Sorry it's late! I had SATs this week.

Moose: Shut up you dumb ass!

Nameless: Oh yeah! I found Moose! He was in my bag all along! blushes

Moose: Yeah! And it hurt! What have you got down there? It was so dark I couldn't see!

Nameless: Oh just a few pins...

DISCLAIMER: If Tsubasa was mine Kurogane and Fai would be out already.

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Chapter 4

Fai stared wide eyed at Kurogane. He'd only known him a few hours, but he felt a huge surge of grief pulsate through him, as he processed the other man's words. They'd not been together long but Fai already had an overwhelming attachment to his companion.

"Kurogane... I'm so sorry..." Fai sniffed, his eyebrows dropped, and he felt his eyes watering. He kept sympathetic eye contact with his new friend, until...

"GAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Kurogane burst into laughter; it was so powerful that he nearly fell over backwards. "HA! BRILLIANT! Well that made you stop with those stupid names then, didn't it!?" Kurogane began to walk on.

"You mean you're not..." Fai drifted off

"Dying? No! I just though it would make you shut up for a while. I was gonna keep it up for longer, but... your face!" he turned around to face him and grinned a slightly evil grin, until Fai punched him really hard in the face and the grin disappeared. "What was that for idiot?!" Kurogane exclaimed, holding his face where Fai had hit him.

"What do you think, you bastard?!" Fai swung his pack into Kurogane's head. "How the hell could you think that was funny?!" he dropped to his knees and started crying – as best he could with one eye – and Kurogane stood above him and looked down at him.

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They stayed like that for a while, but eventually Kurogane broke the silence,

"We should move on, it's getting dark." He didn't know why, but he was mad at himself. He hadn't known this guy for long, but to be honest, now that he thought about it, it was too obvious just how much Fai liked him.

Fai didn't move from where he was sitting, but looked up at Kurogane and glared – the most powerful glare that he had ever seen. So powerful that Kurogane had to look away for a second. He didn't think this guy would be able to pull off such a glare, even more so with the loss of his eye.

Fai stood up (still glaring intently at Kurogane) and stormed off into the woods and, with the help of the map came across a small clearing after a few. It was smaller that the first one, but big enough for the two men to sleep side by side.

The small blonde slumped into the grass and lay gazing at the stars. "Kuro-sama?"

"... Yes?"

"Have you ever wanted to be a star? You know, to get away from all the shit in the world? To look down on the earth and laugh at the stupid humans for everything they've gotten themselves into?" Fai continued to stare upwards, and Kurogane followed his gaze to the brightest star in the sky.

"Not really... are... are you still mad at me?" he changed his view to Fai's face, masked and unreadable. There was a long pause, but he didn't look away.

"... Yes... I am..." Fai said, but he didn't look at Kurogane.

"... I'm sorry, Fai... I didn't think... I'm sorry."

Fai turned onto his side and faced away from Kurogane. "Goodnight Kuro-sama."

Kurogane lay dawn next to him on his back. "Night Fai." within minutes both the men were asleep on the hard, cold ground.

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The next morning, Kurogane was rudely woken by someone bouncing on his stomach. Someone skinny and blonde. "G'morning Kuro-chan!" Fai stopped bouncing and sat straddling the other man's waist, head tilted to the left and eyes in little upward arrows like a contented cat.

Kurogane's eyes twitched and his mouth twisted into a snarl that would have been terrifying to anyone else but Fai.

"One, Do NOT bounces on my stomach and two..."

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"WHO THE HELL GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO CALL ME KURO-CHAN!" he yelled in the smaller man's face.

Fai giggled and rolled off of Kurogane, who watched him bounce off towards a small camp-fire which must have mysteriously materialised somehow while he was sleeping. The air was filled with a delicious aroma that he didn't recognise, so he sat up trying to figure out what it was.

"I made us breakfast, Kuro-daddy!" Fai said, waving the home-made stick-spatula that he was holding towards the rock that was suspended with sticks and string (don't ask me how) above the fire.

"What the hell is it?"

"Fish. The stream goes down into a river where there are some fish, so I caught some. It was kinda hard, seeing as I didn't have a fishing rod, but I managed!"

Kurogane had never had cooked fish before – in Nihon, they always had it raw – but it smelt entirely edible, so he didn't care. "You cooked it on a rock?"

"It was a clean rock." Fai said, scraping the fish onto another thin rock, and carrying it over to Kurogane. He crouched in front of him in monkey pose (fan girls know what I mean) and held it out.

Kurogane took it. "And don't call me Kuro-daddy."

Fai laughed and went off to fetch his fish. He returned and sat down next to Kurogane. "Why not?" he asked innocently.

"Cush I shed sho." he said with a mouthful of fish.

Fai laughed again "Is it good, Kuro-sama?"

Kurogane looked at the blonde for a while, until finally his brain told him 'He's talking about the fish you dumb ass and he said "Oh, right, the fish. Yeah it's pretty good. Good portion too."

"Well I just thought that was the right amount for such a big, friendly guy such as you." Fai smiled at Kurogane.

Kurogane just stared wow, this guy is cute.

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