A/N: You guys can thank Me or the Wallpaper for this because she gave me such cute fanart! It was what kicked me in the ass. Actually this was a pretty fast update...lol. So I guess there was no need to say that last part! Lol ^.^ Oh yes and this chapter features viviset's quote from the last chapter's contest. Which means it is now CLOSED. Maybe we'll have another soonly? I dunno. Whenever the mood strikes! Lol.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Well...one day late. My sisters apparently needed me in the kitchen...to squish squash! -le heart- Hope you guys are stuffed and happy and ready for Kurofai lovins!!

Summary: Wherein language isn't nearly as confusing as it ought to be...

Wanings: Swearing (Who the fuck doesn't expect that by now?!)...Shonen-ai (please look at the previous warning)...Actually that's about it...O.o lol.

Chapter 10

"Actually…" Fai began thoughtfully. "I like it better this way!"

I examined him. Were there any medications he had to take daily?

"What?" he asked looking up at me.

"Nothing," I replied shaking my head. "Just wondering if you were dropped on your head when you were born."

Fai let go of his shirt and folded his arms over his chest, "You should already know the answer to that."

I raised an eyebrow, "Yes?"

He playfully smacked my arm, "It does look better like this though."

I sighed, how did this guy function?

"I told you that you should have separated your laundry," I reprimanded him because well, he was standing in front of me in what looked to be a cheaply made tie-dye blue shirt. "I'm just happy that my stuff couldn't get stained."

"You know you're jealous of my shirt Kuro-tan," Fai informed me of my state of mind. "And that's okay."

"Yeah. Right," I rolled my eyes. "You see right through me Fai."

"I know!" he exclaimed as he slung his backpack over his shoulder and began to walk out of the Laundromat.

Yes, he had changed his shirt. In the Laundromat. With every person in there staring as he did so.

Almost as soon as he had seen that one of his light blue button up shirts had been stained by my black shirts he striped himself of his slightly baggy band shirt and put that shirt on instead. If I hadn't died of mortification in that moment Fai was sure to get me another time. That much I was positive of.

"Why do you like that shirt so much Fai?" I wondered as he damn near skipped around in it. "It's ruined now."

"No it's not," Fai corrected me looking utterly offended by what I said. "It's more…unique now."

The way his eyes darted around told me that he was lying. Fai had that horrible habit of giving himself away like that. Eyes darting around, nervous laughter, fake smiles, the works to put it plainly.

"Okay, now how about you tell me the truth?" I asked of him.

"Silly Kuro-bun! I am telling you the truth!" He clasped his hands together and danced slightly on the sidewalk we were going down to get to a motel.

"Yeah and I'm the Pope," I bit back sarcastically.

"I may not be catholic, but I do respect you!" Fai chirped as he played with the edges of his shirt.

I rolled my eyes, "Okay…" I flipped his collar with my index finger. "Now tell me the real reason."

Fai chased my hand away and turned around so that I couldn't see his face. He let out a sigh that was visible even from where I stood. Had I pushed him too far?

"I'm stained," he finally said after a gust of wind blew his hair into an oddly pretty mess. "By you…" Fai whispered probably in hopes that I wouldn't hear him.

I exhaled and walked up to him. My hand reached up and smacked him softly on top of his head.

"That wasn't so hard was it?" I asked him sarcastically.

No, not patronizingly. Sarcastically. As if I could ever criticize some one for the way the felt.

Fai turned to look at me. His eyes were pools of confusion and he was drowning in it. His mouth moved up and down like a fish out of water. Then he scowled.

"What?" I questioned taking my hand off of his head.

He shook his head and thought for a moment. When he looked up at me it was as if he was angry at me.

"What's your problem Fai?"

"Nothing…" it sure as hell didn't look like that. "Just not used to that."

I opened my mouth to say something but as it usually goes Fai beat me to it.

"You're so strange," he pointed out looking at me out of the corner of his eye. "Aren't you going to make fun of me?"

My hand drew back…Make fun of him? Was that what he had to live with?

"Why would I do that?"

Fai busied himself with his hand. He picked at his nails and chewed at the cuticles.

"Just…" he answered around his finger. "Sort of…commonplace."

I jerked his face up to meet mine. He looked so unbelievably ridiculous with his index finger hanging out of his mouth. And the way his eyes widened…

"Look," I sighed again. "I'm not like that Fai. I'm not whoever it was that made fun of you. I'm some one completely different so don't mix me in with them."

He pulled his hand away from his face and stared up at me in awe. I kissed him softly before moving my hand to carefully cup Fai's face. His eyes eased closed as we kissed gently on the sidewalk in midday.

We found a motel, checked in and watched cable television for a majority of the day.

Mostly Fai flipped through the channels carelessly as he sat in between my legs. I just sort of went with the flow and played with his hair. Fai usually ended up staying on the Disney channel. 'But this show is cute!' was his defense when I grumbled about it. I never told him to change the station however.

It was when we were watching a show about kids that lived in a nice hotel, not a motel like we did, that I learned something about Fai. It was another something that he volunteered to me…Not something I had to pry out of him.

"The Fox and the Hound," he murmured playing with his bottom lip.

Two animals rolled across the screen as voices said their lines.

"What?" I asked dropping his hair for a second in puzzlement.

"Oh," as if he just realized that I heard him he displayed surprise. "I was just thinking about it, and I know that The Fox and the Hound is my favorite movie."

He nodded and confirmed it again, "For sure it is my favorite movie."

"Why are you telling me this?"

Fai looked a little shocked as he cocked his head to look at me, "I'm not."

"I was talking to myself and you were listening," he observed with an air of 'duh' about him.

"Right," he was probably telling the truth.

For one reason or another Fai had taken to talking to himself more and more.

"Well, I think that we should watch it when it comes on Kuro-tan," Fai suggested patting my knee with little enthusiasm.

"When does it come on?" I wondered hoping that it was within the next few hours.

He chewed on his bottom lip thoughtfully, "Next week?"

I looked at him incredulously, "And how do you plan on seeing that next week?"

He bent his neck backwards to look at me, his face upside down in my eyes, "I'm sure the hotel in where ever we are will have the Disney channel. Illinois is not Disney's entire demographic."

Sometimes the way he spoke made me feel like an idiot.

I cleared my throat instead of actually acknowledging that comment, "So you really like that movie?"

He nodded with an airy expression on his face, "Mmhm…"

For a moment he stared at nothing but I began shifting, "Come on, we should go and get something to eat."

Fai struggled to get up; no doubt his muscles were too relaxed from us just sitting around watching T.V. for hours.

"So is it my turn to choose a place to eat?" he asked smiling widely with his eyes closed.

"No," I informed him flatly. "You'd have us running across highways again if I gave you the choice!"

"But Kuro-sama…" Fai began in a childish tone. "We're probably gonna have to run across highways anyway."

This guy was very likely the cause of a myriad of mental illnesses. If I had been any other person I would probably already have been hospitalized with psychosis…

"There's this song that reminds me of you Kuro-rin," Fai told me after he swallowed a large bite of his burger.

"Oh yeah?" I wasn't really too terribly interested in what it was. He was probably joking around anyway. "What is it?"

"Hmm…" he hummed tapping the straw of his drink against his lips. "I have no clue who sings it."

"You're so well informed Fai," I ate a couple of french fries while he thought.

For a second he laughed then he made that sound, "How about I sing a part of it for you?!"

Why did he have to look so damn excited?

"Fine," I sighed.

Fai set his drink down and cleaned his hands of the salt and sesame seeds. Was it really worth all of that?

He took in a deep breath and wore a stern expression.

"I've been searching for a man, all across Japan, just to find, to find my Samurai!"

Fai applauded himself and then took a shallow bow, "Do you know that song?"

"Unfortunately yes," I told him as I rubbed my head to get rid of the twitching. "Tomoyo loved playing it on DDR…"

Again, he clapped, "Me too!"

But there was something that kinda of…bugged me.

"How did you know I was Japanese?" I asked genuinely curious about this little bit.

"You mean besides the obvious?" he threw back at me with a quick gesture to my hair and face. "You have a tendency to not say l's or put r's in their place. And you talk in Japanese in your sleep."

"I do not…" I defended a little more bitterly than what was required. Then I thought for a moment. "How do you know it's Japanese and not Chinese or something?"

"I had to learn Japanese Kuro-rin," Fai said so freely. "Of course I'd know."

I looked at him. Well…that was a surprise.

"Is it your…first language?" I wondered obviously skeptical because of his appearance.

"Of course not!" Fai exclaimed shoving a few fries into his mouth. "English was."

I played with my straw, stirring around the melting ice in my paper cup, "Do you speak any other languages?"

"Only one other," he told me after chewing a bite of his food. "Russian."

"Why do you know these languages?"

Fai drew back, "Aren't we full of questions tonight?" He took another drink from his soda. "My foster father had me learn them since most of his trading firms are in Japan and Russia. Since I was his 'son' I had to be at all the major events, meet and greets, openings of new branches, stuff like that."

I nodded and sat back in my chair. I hadn't even realized that I was so intensely focused on what Fai said.

The fact that he was the 'son' of a man who ran trading companies meant that he was by no means living in poverty….Which would explain where he got all of his money from.

The next morning I knew that Fai would wake up in a small state of panic. But if he read the note I left for him on the T.V. then he shouldn't worry for too long.

Then again…this was Fai. He'd probably think that I was forced to write that letter and then kidnapped by some murderous villain. Or he'd just read it and not worry. I hoped against hope that it was the latter…

Once I got back however, he'd for sure be happy with me.

I hoped.

"Oi," I called to Fai, who was luckily still asleep. "Wake up."

He mumbled at me to go away and then rolled over.

I thought about pressing it further and for reasons beyond Fai's problem with persistence, I decided not to. Instead I chose to walk over to the T.V. and put a DVD into the dusty DVD player provided by the motel. I skipped through all the previews on the disk and finally ended up on the menu. Without waiting for the cutesy little opening that most DVD menus liked to have I pressed play and the movie started.

The opening credits began playing and I saw Fai shoot up at the sound.

"Wass thees?" he slurred sleepily.

"I think it's called The Fox and the Hound…"

Fai smiled at me genuinely…and despite his messy, tangled hair and half-opened eyes…he was absolutely breathtaking.

"You bought it…?" Fai asked rubbing his eyes and stretching his muscles.

I nodded and sat down on the edge of the bed. I felt Fai crawl towards me, the weight pushing the bed down.

"I bought it for you," I told him as I watched him hug his knees to his chest.

His head spin so that he could stare at me with his mouth wide open, "Wha-?"

"Yeah," I answered finding that I loved seeing this unguarded, surprised expression on his face.

Just as I started to turn around I felt Fai's arms wrap around my neck as if he meant to choke me. He pulled me back and hugged me into his flat chest. There were so many kisses placed on the side of my face, in my hair, on my eyes and on any patch of my face he could reach.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!" he screamed in my ear.

Although I was sure that my right ear drum was ruptured I couldn't really bring myself to care if it meant I got this kind of a reaction from Fai.

End of Surprisingly Unexpected

A/N: This is the only chapter that I've spent the entire time in one state since they began their journey to Texas...interesting...Lol. I hope you guys liked it! I really liked that they were watching the Disney channel together for some reason...I dunno why it just made them feel like...a real couple? If that makes ANY sense at all. Thank you everyone for all of your supposrt I've been feeling it a whole hell of a lot lately with all of these amazing and sweet reviews I've been getting. -hugs everyone-! I hope that you'll stay with me the entire way through this! Even though we're about to get into some...not so fluffy scenes. :( Sad but it must be done.

Preview of Next Chapter: "Fai flipped through his notebook, his hair fanning out because of it. I looked over at him as the bus rocked with the roughness of the road. He peered at me out of the corner of his eye, 'Do you wanna look through it?'..."