A/N: Sorry this took so long to come out. I just got an idea for a one-shot song-fic for xxxHolic. So I'll stick that up when I finish it. Once again, I hope you like it, because I really do!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in here, all of it is owned by their respectful owners!
10. Are you challenging me?
Kurogane squared his shoulders and glared back at the Math teacher. "What did you say?" He snapped, gripping the desk with his hands. He and Ashura were the only two in the room, the Art prep room. Kurogane had only gone there to give Chii back a few paint brushed Tomoyo had been hording. He had gone in to find not Chii, but Ashura. He wasn't surprised; Ashura hung around the twins and Chii a lot, so it wasn't odd. "I dare you to say it again."
"The twins belong to me, both of them. Which of course means, I'll protect them. I don't need you, Fai certainly doesn't." Certainly, something bad was bound to happen, if Kurogane was alone with this guy. Kurogane didn't like Ashura at all, he felt like beating him up at times. And now, well, that just made it worse. "You really are causing me trouble, so go away."
"No. I'm protecting the idiot no matter what, you don't have a say." He curled his hand into a fist. Ashura was still standing there, smirking. He leaned forward, and Kurogane backed up slightly. Ashura suddenly laughed.
"I believe I do, Kurogane." He laid his hands flat on the desk. "And anyway, what are you going to do, hm?" He tapped the desk with his fingers. "Pleases, do leave, I don't Chii would appreciate you yelling at a friend of hers." There was a twitch of anger on Kurogane's face. That bastard! He gritted his teeth. "Oh, did I make the puppy angrier?"
Kurogane looked up. "What the hell did you just say?" Ashura chuckled; his laugh seemingly trickled down like water.
"Oh, oh. That's right, I know Fai refers to you as a puppy sometimes, but it's more of Kuro-sama, isn't it?" Ashura waited for the response, it came fairly quick. Kurogane swung his fist, hitting the man in the jaw. Ashura stumbled back, more in surprise. He had accepted more yelling, but now, apparently, it had become physical. "Now, now." He wiped the blood from his lip. "No need to get physical, Kurogane."
"Hell, I'll get physical if I want to, you bastard." Kurogane then turned to leave the room. "How can you believe the twins trust you, if you're after one of them…?" He slammed the door, quickly getting out of the hallway. Yuuko glanced up as Kurogane jogged past, she snapped the book shut. Yuuko practically tackled him before he got to the gym. "What?"
"Hm, you look angry, Kurgy." He stared at her like she was stupid. "Okay, okay. But not at Fai-kun, or I, are you jealous, then?" She jumped up and down. "I could be right; you did just come from the direction of the math room, ne?"
"WHY WOULD I BE JEALOUS?" He flushed red, and Yuuko broke into giggles. "Will you get off of me, witch?" She winked at him, but crawled off him and stood up. Kurogane sat up. "What's there to be jealous of…he's…" Yuuko flicked an eyebrow up. "Nevermind."
He started off toward the field, where, oddly enough, there was a bunch of ruins. Kurogane waved at the green-haired man bent over one of the smaller ruins. "HEY! Souseki!" The man looked up, and smiled.
"Kurogane-sensei." He bowed, a girl popped up next to him. "You've met Suzuran, right?" Kurogane nodded, watching the girl hand him some kind of artifact. "If you're looking for Syaoran-kun and Sakura-chan, they're over there." He pointed at two brunettes bent over a tablet. Syaoron was there, but talking to a tall blonde. Kurogane twitched. "Oh, I didn't see Fai and Syaoron come over, but they're here too!"
"YOU SHOULD BE HOME, YOU IDIOT!" Fai flinched as Kurogane yelled at him. Syaoran and Sakura glanced up from the tablet staring at him. Fai laughed, ducking behind Syaoron. "If you're sick, you should've stayed home, not drag Syaoron over here with you." He sighed, rubbing his face. "I'm taking you home."
"WAI~! I want to stay here, Kuro-tan." Fai clung to Syaoron's back, moaning in protest. Kurogane reached around Syaoron, grabbing Fai. "Nyah~! But I'm not sick!" Fai coughed and the sneezed right after he said this. "Let me go, Kuro-tan!"
"No." He swung Fai over his shoulder. Fai moaned again in protest. "Are you challenging my authority over you?" Fai grumbled under his breath, before smiling as happily as could.
"Of course not, Kuro-chi~!" He giggled as he felt Kurogane twitch. "Hmm, but I am sick, ne?" He patted the other teacher's back. "Does that make Kuro-chi my boss then?" Kurogane was walking across the field, back toward the parking lot. "…Kuro-sama?"
"Hm?" Kurogane about chucked the Science teacher into the passenger seat He sat in the driver's seat himself, looking over to Fai. "What?" He finally gritted out, only annoyed because the man had gotten out of bed whole sick. That's not how it worked; you stayed home if you were sick! "Geez, what an idiot." He muttered under his breath.
"I'm sorry; Syaoron and his brother came over… They wanted to go to the ruins with Sakura-chan, but school was already out…" He bowed his head, sighing. "I knew they could go as long as I brought them…" He glanced back up. "I just, wanted to help them." His eyes teared up.
"Why the hell are you crying, you idiot?" Kurogane had closed his door, but was just staring at Fai. Fai rubbed away the tears, laughing all of the sudden. Kurogane sighed, starting up the car. Before Fai could even say anything, Kurogane muttered something. Fai tilted his head. "I said we'll pick up your car tomorrow!" He looked away, sighing.
"Hm, that's, that's sweet of you, Kuro-sama." That's when he noticed Fai was shaking. Kurogane paused slightly; a red light was coming up. Fai shuddered, wrapping his arm around himself. Kurogane stared at him, concerned for once. Was he really that cold? Kurogane reached over to touch his arm. Fai flinched at the hand resting on his shoulder. "W-what is it, Kuro-sama?"
"Are you cold? I told you not to leave the bed, especially not you're house!" Fai pouted at Kurogane, turning to look out the window. "ARE YOU IGNORING ME?" Fai giggled, hiding this by keeping his shoulders from moving. He pretended to ignore the other man. "YOU! Forget it; I'm done yelling at you, I might kill my voice." Fai peeked back at Kurogane, looking back quickly when the other reared his head. This went on the whole ride back to Fai's home.
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"Mhmmmm. Kuro-sama~!" Fai shook a book in front of the dozing man's face. Yuui had returned back after the two. He had been carrying a lot of bags, full of groceries. Fai had tried to help, from the couch, but Kurogane had shoved him back down on the couch. He had to earn the other twin's trust somehow, right? Now, Fai and Kurogane were sitting in Fai's room, which Kurogane had never been in. The book he had shook in Kurogane's face, well, he certainly didn't recognize it. But Fai was sick, and he wanted him to read it to him. So he snatched the book from Fai.
"What the hell is this?" He waved the book back at Fai, who latched onto his arm, smiling. He sighed, rubbing his face.
"I want Kuro-sama to read it to me, please~?" Fai pouted, so Kurogane opened the first page in the book. He stopped, twitching with annoyance.
"Can't you read by yourself, you idiot?" Fai smiled, pushing the book back at Kurogane. "Fine, I'll read the damn book to you, then. He began to read the first page, still feeling a bit irritated. He really wanted to go home. That damn cat needed to be fed… Maybe the kid would feed it for him. Syaoran usually stopped there once or twice. He had just finished the first chapter, about to read the first word of chapter two when Yuui poked his head in the room.
"Sorry to interrupt, but it's kind of dinner now…" He stared at Fai and Kurogane; the two sat together, both pouring over the book. Yuui smiled, knocking lightly on the doorframe. Fai looked up. "Oh good, you're both still alive." He laughed, and Fai made a face. "I guess I'll just bring some soup in here then, leave you two to it~!" He left the room, snickering.
"Kuro-sama…" Fai poked the man in the side of the head. He jumped, falling off the bed. "Oh~! Kuro-sama, did you bump your head on the way down?" He peered over the side of the bed, smiling at the fallen man. Kurogane had turned red, but Fai couldn't see his expression, as the book had fallen on his face. "Hyuu~!"
Yuui blinked in surprise as he went back into the room, finding his brother laughing, Kurogane groaning on the ground. "Fai, what did I tell you about throwing guests on the ground?" He jokingly scolded his twin. Kurogane sat up, glaring at the twins. Yuui set the soup on the desk, which was crowded with papers to be graded, and left the room. "Have a good night~!"
"I really hate your brother sometimes…" Kurogane muttered as he stood up, walking toward the soup on the desk. He reached forward, grabbing the soup of quickly. He inspected the papers on the desk. These were… tests. He spotted Sakura's sitting on top of the pile, it had doodles of hearts with Syaoran's name all over the paper. "Huhm, well, that's cute…" He spotted the answer paper. Fai had doodled hearts, much like Sakura had, with his name in them. "The hell?" He muttered under his breath.
"Kuro-sama, I'm hungry, where's the soup?" Fai moaned, jumping up and down on the bed. He could hear the bed groan and creak slightly with Fai's jumping. Kurogane turned around, sitting on the edge of the bed, handing one of the bowls to Fai. Fai stirred the soup, looking unsettled.
"What's wrong?" Kurogane grumbled out after a few minutes of silence. "Is the soup okay, I can make Yuui make something different." Fai shook his head, pressing the spoon to his lips. "Well then, what is it?" There was another pause as Fai continued to eat. Then he spoke up.
"Do you know what tomorrow is, Kuro-sama?" Kurogane paused to think. It wasn't the twin's birthday or his. Sakura and the younger twins birthday wasn't until April. So… What? He looked back at Fai, hoping for some answer. Fai gasped at the expression on his face. "You don't!" He pouted, crossing his arms. "It's Valentine's Day tomorrow!"
"Oh, the conspiracy." He went back to eating soup. Fai gasped, dropped his soup and started to hit Kurogane's head. "What the hell, stop hitting me!" He grabbed Fai's wrists, balancing the soup on his lap. Fai whined, wrestling his wrists back from the other man.
Yuui peeked back in, groaning when he saw the spilt soup. "Fai, what the… Why'd you drop the soup?" He pointed at his twin accusingly, and Kurogane quickly went back to eating his soup. Fai jumped over the soup, grabbing his brother's left hand.
"Can you believe it... Kuro-sama thinks Valentine's Day is a conspiracy!" Fai looked like said man had just sinned against nature. Yuui stared at his brother, processing these facts. Then his face melted to look like Fai's. They both turned to look at Kurogane. He paused, his chopsticks halfway to his mouth. "It's horrible!"
"What else would it be, you two?" Kurogane snapped, setting the bowl on the floor. "Freakin' stores just want you to buy all that damn chocolate and shit…" Fai pouted letting go of his brother's hand and pouncing on the other man. "You're lucky I put down that bowl, you might've been covered in soup." Yuui darted out of the room, shaking his head.
"Then I'd just take a bath with Kuro-sama!" A twitch of annoyance flitted across the P.E. teacher's face.
"No." He snapped darkly, pulling the blanket over the two of themselves. "And I'm not doing anything for your damned holiday, so don't say anything about it." Fai thought he heard an 'Or I'll beat you up'.
"Is that a challenge, Kuro-sama?" Kurogane only grunted, huddling against Fai. "Oh, are you challenging me?" But by then, the other man was asleep. Fai slid down lower, curling into Kurogane's chest. A few hours later, Yuui came in with a rag, pause and smiled. He squatted down, picked up the bowl, scrubbed the floor and set the two bowls on the desk. He turned back to his brother, pressing a kiss to Fai's fore head. He patted Kurogane on the head.
The next day, Fai went into class late. Yuui had refused to let him go before the students got there. Kurogane, who had been there that morning, had also refused to drive him there. Fai set down his supplies for the day, blinking in surprise at the chocolate on his desk. Okay, he wasn't that surprised. The girls in this school seemed to like him… It was the chocolate that looked like a dog and cat kissing that shocked him.
He picked it up, and a card fell on his lap. He opened it, still is shock. It read Idiot, I hate your brother, and this holiday too… But he somehow convinced me to give you something, so the chocolate was made by him… Just enjoy… AND DON'T YOU DARE START CRYING LIKE SOME GIRL! Fai's smile faltered, and tears popped up in his eyes. He quickly wiped them away.
"Ah, Fai-sensei, what's wrong?" Sakura was holding some chocolate close to her chest, and kept glancing around. Fai shook his head, shooing her to her seat. He glanced back at the card. There was something else at the bottom. And yes, I was challenging you. A happy real smile flitted across his face.
BOO! So there. But seriosly, review. Now, do it. You know you want to!
FAIADDICTED: Oh really? Thank you, and here's some more than! AmayaZorifuki: Not as much fluff in this one, but it's still cute, ne?
