This warm feeling…is inside me?
Chapter 10- Christmas Angels and Mistletoes
Author's note: I'm sorry that I didn't update this for so long, but it's here! Enjoy!
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"Look at this Kuro-run! They have baby Christmas music!" Fai said as he plucked out a CD. The two were in a music store since Fai wanted to pick out music for the coming twins. Syaoran, Sakura, and Mokona were at the grocery store, picking ingredients out for dinner.
"Those songs are ridiculous! They just remake the old Christmas music and turn them into annoying music. The originals are better." Kurogane huffed as he tightened his brown coat around his body. Wearing a winter robe and a coat on a cold day didn't make him feel warmer. Even the CD store didn't feel any different than outside.
"It's not that bad, Kurges! Come and listen." Fai said as he was listening to a song on the headphones that they have for you to get a little piece of the CD before you buy it.
"I'll pass."
"Come on, Kuro-puu! Just listen!" The blonde tried to put another headphone on Kurogane's head except it was a little difficult because he was too tall for Fai or it was just because the raven-haired was dodging all of the thrusts of the headphones at him.
"I told you! I'm not listening to that song!" Kurogane raised his voice as he hit the black headphone out of the blonde's hands. Since headphones have a spiral stretchy thing (don't know what's it called XP) connected at the end of it, the headphone boomeranged back towards Kurogane and hit his now very large belly.
"Kuro-tan!" Fai said as he watched Kurogane bend over, rubbing his stomach.
"Is everything okay back there?" A store worker said when he was in Kurogane and Fai's isle. Fai was glad that Kurogane's back was turned to the worker.
"We're fine! He just hit his head! Nothing to worry about!" The blonde said as he batted his hand to the worker. The worker just nodded and walked away, not even double-checking if the customer was all right.
"Are you all right, Kuro-puu?! It's not time yet, is it?!" Fai whispered as he held Kurogane's shoulders so his lover wouldn't lose his balance. Kurogane shook his head and straightened.
"Its just cramps. It's gone now anyway…" The raven-haired moved Fai's hands off of his shoulders and walked past the blonde, looking at a different section of CDs than what Fai was looking at.
"Here, piano music. That'll help the kids fall asleep." Kurogane pulled out a CD of piano Christmas music and gave it to Fai.
"What a great idea, Kuro-pan!" A huge smile spread across the blonde's face. Kurogane shot Fai a glare.
"What did I tell you about my name. It's Kurogane…!" Kurogane said, unusually without effort of being angry or growling in his voice. The raven-haired turned around to walk to the counter, not even a glance back to look if Fai was even following him. Fai watched Kurogane's back with worry. He knew something was up since the CD that his lover gave him was not a CD of Christmas piano music, but of hard rock music. Fai quickly put back the CD and pulled out the Christmas piano music Kurogane wanted and jogged through the store to catch up to the raven-haired.
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"I think our kids, Sakura, Syaoran, and Mokona would love this." Fai said as they walked out of the CD store with the purchased item in a plastic bag. Kurogane didn't say anything. His crimson eyes were staring straight ahead but his fingers were twitching. Hesitantly.
"You know Kuro-pan, you can't be quiet forever!" Fai playfully poked his lover's cheek.
"J-just hurry up! The kids and the porkbun might be already home." Kurogane huffed as he picked up his pace. Fai tried to keep in step with the raven-haired except something hard hit his head and knocked him out. Kurogane heard Fai fall but he only caught a glimpse of the blonde on the ground before a hand grabbed his mouth and eyes and dragged him into a dark alley.
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"Do you feeling comfortable?" A low and hissing voice whispered in the raven haired's ear. When he could see again, he found himself in a chair in a gray room. Nothing was in the room except for a light bulb over his head and his wrists handcuffed to the back of the chair he was sitting in. Kurogane tried to break the handcuffs free from the chair but an arm was around his neck in seconds, almost choking him.
"Don't do that!" The voice spoke in a singsong voice, but not a cheerful one.
"Who are you?!" Kurogane said.
"Ah…fresh and ripe!" The voice hissed as it stroked Kurogane's stomach, not answering the raven haired's question. Kurogane tensed.
"Oh…! Very strong and healthy, the best kind!" The voice chuckled with excitement. A chill ran up Kurogane's spine.
"That's very interesting." Kurogane played along.
"Yes it is! And they taste good too!" Kurogane saw a flash of steel just below his belly. With that flash, he felt a sharp poke on his abdomen. Kurogane almost winced, not because of the poke, but because he felt another cramp coming along. Except this time it felt like fire.
"If you cooperate, this will be a long and painful process."
"And what if I don't?"
"Ho, ho, ho! I would have a bigger meal that I would have expected!" The voice was amused. Kurogane took a deep breath for his cramps were beginning to be unbearable, or he tried to. The arm that was around his neck became tighter.
"These cramps- no, cramps don't burn like this! They're contraptions!" Kurogane thought, gritting his teeth. The man hummed in Kurogane's ear as he quickly but swiftly ran his knife across the raven haired's belly. The blade didn't pierce through the skin but made a slice in his robe, showing off his very pregnant stomach.
"Ah…" The man sighed contently as he rubbed his knife across Kurogane's bare stomach, flat side only. Kurogane could hear his kidnapper licking his lips.
"Now then, come to papa!" The hand that held the knife lifted high up in the air to strike. A plan immediately came into Kurogane's mind at that moment.
"Gotta do this quick. I seriously hop they'll be ok…" The raven-haired thought in a second. He kicked up his legs so the chair would hit the kidnapper in the neck.
"Ugh…!" Just as Kurogane had planned, the kidnapper's grip on him loosened just enough for him to move the chair so the chair legs kicked the man's shins.
"You-" The kidnapper hissed as he was bent over on the ground. Kurogane swiveled the chair quickly and hit the man in the chin, sending him flying. Kurogane heard the man's skull crack as it hit the wall. A trickle of blood ran down the wall and a body slumped over, dead.
"Nnh…!" Kurogane winced as he sat back in his chair. He was breathing heavily now. Killing a guy was no sweat, like always. Being heavily with child, two of them, didn't stop him from defeating his opponent. But just as a result of being pregnant, the unborn child has to come out some day or another.
"Gotta get…the keys!" The raven-haired breathed as he tilted the chair forward so he could get up on his feet. He managed to walk a couple of steps forward before he had to sit back down again.
"Augh! There isn't any time!" Kurogane yelled out his frustration. He stood up and did his routine again; up, couple of steps forward, down, up, a couple of steps forward, down, up, one step forward, down, up, one step forward, down, up, a couple steps forward-
"Ah…" Kurogane sat back in his chair. He was just a step away from the door. The downside is that the door is locked so he can't just walk out of there. The upside is that he is just right at the door.
"Just hold on ki-" Kurogane grunted but then he stopped dead in his sentence. He crimson eyes grew wide as he felt something leak. No, he didn't pee in his pants! No, it was something that had to do with his kids…his water broke.
Kurogane swore rather loudly as a big wave of pain hit him.
"FAI!!!!"
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"Ah…it's snowing…!" Fai thought as he saw a few snowflakes melt into water on the cement. He was lying on his stomach. When he moved his arm, he felt the plastic bag still there, unharmed. Fai sat up slowly for his head throbbed. He held the back of his head with his free hand then he stared up at the sky for he saw the snowflakes falling from the sky. It probably snow just at that moment when Fai woke up because the snow wasn't piled up on the ground and the sky wasn't filled with clouds.
"It's kind of like magic…" Fai laughed a little at what he just said but then he had to wince because of his injury.
"Where's Kuro-puu…?" Fai asked as he looked around him. Blue eyes widened as memories of before he was knocked out flooded back to him. Him falling to the ground, Kurogane looking to what had happened, shuffle of feet and struggling was heard, his last words, "Kuro…" before he was knocked out.
"Kurogane!!" Fai realized that he had lost the man he loved and the man that bore his children; that bore two lives that they created! The blonde bowed his head as he held the present for his family and soon-to-be-two-more close to his chest. His eyes stung as tears began to form. He saw his hot breath smoke in front of his face. He felt his heart fill up with lead and his whole body shake.
"FAI!!!!" The blonde didn't register that muffled call that he heard at first until he heard another scream of pain that came after the call.
"Fai…?" Fai breathed as his head snapped up to look to where the sound came from. His wondering was answered when the scream came again, echoing in the nearest alleyway. The blonde shuffled and stood up, running through the alleyway and frantically trying to find his pregnant man.
"Kuro-puu!" Fai called out as he cupped his hands to his mouth.
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"Kuro-puu!" A familiar voice was heard behind the locked door that led to the outside, to freedom!
Kurogane breathed deeply as he winced, bowing his head. He was dripping and he could feel his kids trying to get out, of course one: there is no way out and two: he was freezing. But he couldn't wrap his jacket around his bare stomach because he was still handcuffed to the chair! What bad luck.
Kurogane gritted his teeth as he looked up at the grey ceiling. Time was running out. He is sitting close to the locked door, but not close enough for him to kick loudly enough. The raven-haired swore under his breath as he tried again to break free of the handcuffs. But having sharp painful pains shooting across your body, even if you're not even moving, it would be difficult, even for him, to break free. He couldn't move his wrists because his brain told him to take care of the pain first. What also made it difficult was his body was becoming numb, a bad sign for the three of them. Even for the kidnapper, which might have already become a Popsicle by now.
"This…is ridiculous! I can't just sit here!" Kurogane panted as he looked back at the door right in front of him.
"Even though they might be dieing…or suffocating…Fai must know I'm still alive…" The raven-haired thought as he stood on his feet. He leaned his forehead on the door, took a breath, and…toppled over to one side.
"Ah…!" He could feel his kids squirming and his body jerk from the sudden hit of the floor and chair. He was becoming weak by the second.
"…This can't be happening…" Kurogane muttered. He didn't try to stand up again. He was so cold that he couldn't even feel the cold, gray floor. He was in so much pain, he couldn't decide which was more painful, being stabbed or in labor? Kurogane sighed and closed his eyes. He could slowly feel his kids become weak. They would be dead in less time than himself. But all in all, they would all be frozen as Popsicles, in due time of course.
"…Hurry up…Fai…" Kurogane whispered. Breathing quieted, a body relaxed, no sound was heard except the scurrying of a cockroach and a little tinkle of magic.
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"Kuro-pan?" Fai said as he lifted the metal top of a trash bin. Snow was piling up by the second. In the alleyway, there were lots of trash piled up on top of another for lots of places for things to hide in, including cats.
"Ouch!" Fai winced as he accidentally stuck his hand in a place where a cat was sleeping. A multi-colored cat jumped out of its hiding place and ran past the blonde. Fai cradled his bleeding hand as he continued his search.
"Kuro-wa-" Fai started but stopped when he felt something very familiar brush his back. Magic. Fai turned around and saw a dark door in the brick wall.
"Why haven't I seen it when I first came in…?" Fai thought aloud as he cocked his head and slowly walked toward the door. Fingers touch a silver doorknob, a twinkle of more magic, and a draw of breath as the blonde froze at the first thing he saw. His lover, on the floor, not moving, skin almost blue from the cold, handcuffed to the chair, and some snowflakes in his black hair from outside. Fai quickly knelt beside the raven-haired and felt his cheek. He hissed at the coldness and bit his lip. The blonde pulled his jacket off, despite the coldness, and tucked the raven haired's cold body in it as best as he could. Only the jacket covered the top part of his lover, of course jackets are meant for that. He rubbed Kurogane's body to give him warmth then stopped to hear the raven haired's heart. Quick. He checked the twins'; well maybe one of the twins, he couldn't tell.
"It's faint but…it's a 50/50 chance that they're not on the brink of death!" Fai thought as he continued to warm the man. As he frantically rubbed, something else caught his attention. A man was leaning on the wall. Blood was frozen on the wall and the man's skin was purplish-gray, and dead. He also found a knife that was in the middle of the room. He might need that soon.
"Hold on, Kuro-bun." Fai whispered as he stood up, walking over his lover, and toward the knife. As he picked up the knife, he saw something glint somewhere on the dead man's body.
"If that man handcuffed Kuro-puu, then…" Fai paused his thoughts so he could scream, "those must be keys!" The blonde ran to the dead man's body, grabbed the keys, and ran back to his lover.
"Click."
"It fit." Fai whispered, relieved to free Kurogane from the chair. He lifted the raven haired to a sitting position, wrapped his blue jacket and Kurogane's brown jacket around the raven haired more securely, rubbed his lover's body again, then dragged Kurogane out of the gray room. Snow had already made a thin blanket of snow on the ground. People walked past the dark alleyway but they didn't seem to notice or care about the blonde man and the unconscious raven haired man emerging from the alleyway. Fai shook from the cold, since he only had his shirt on. The blonde almost dropped the pregnant man once because of his trembling hands. He took his time dragging Kurogane, which made the blonde anxious as he went, even more anxious than before.
"This is taking forever!" Fai thought as he continued to drag the man.
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"Hey, we're home!" Syaoran called as he walked into their home.
"Fai! Kurogane! We're home!" Sakura called as well as she followed Syaoran into the house.
"Fai!! Kuro-puu!!" Mokona said as it bounced inside their house. The three expected a certain blonde to greet them and a certain raven haired to yell at Mokona, but it never came. Everything was quiet in the comfy home. No footsteps came to greet them.
"Kurogane?" Syaoran called as he put down some grocery bags on the kitchen table.
"Fai?" Sakura called as she began to look around the rooms.
"Kuro-puu? Fai?" Mokona called as well as it followed Sakura by bouncing.
"They should have come home by now. It's been about 3 hours since we've left them." Syaoran explained when Sakura stopped by the kitchen.
"There's no letter or note anywhere, telling us if they went out for something else." Sakura said.
"Kuro-puu! Fai! Where are you!" The two kids could hear Mokona call throughout the house.
"The CD store isn't that far away…" Syaoran thought aloud.
"…And it's not like them to not leave a note for us…" Sakura continued the trail of thought.
"Mokona can't find anything…" Mokona drooped as it jumped into Sakura's hands. She immediately hugged the white furball. As Syaoran saw the two hug, a realization popped into his head.
"Hey…isn't it Kurogane's last month?"
Sakura gasped, "You're right!" The two quickly left the house, knowing what might have happened to the expecting man. The results of leaving the house without a second thought after you have just went grocery shopping is leaving the groceries on the table to get spoiled.
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Tears ran down Fai's cheeks as he panted. He was sitting on the ground exhausted, clutching to the man he loves in the middle of the sidewalk. The bad thing about Fai's situation was the three people who he loves dearly are slipping through his fingers. The second bad thing was that people walked past them, indifferent and unconcerned about the two men that are freezing in the bitter winter. The only good thing about it was…there wasn't a good thing. Fai hugged Kurogane tighter, burying his face deeper into the man's limp shoulder. The blonde still carried the knife from the kidnapper in his pocket, but that was the last option for Fai. He didn't want to use the knife. He didn't want to see his twins in their tomb where darkness was their only sight. He was afraid of cutting in the wrong place. Right now, he could feel Kurogane's heart barely. He could feel his own body violently shake from the bitter cold and snow. If Fai's love and his children weren't on the edge of dying on Christmas Eve, the scene of the falling snow would have been romantic.
Fai gulped as he slowly lifted his head. Even though his twins might be dead already, the blonde reached for the knife. He bit his lip as he hesitantly moved his hand in front of Kurogane's big round belly. Fai's heart pounded as he touched the tip of the knife to where he thought the twins lay. He slowly put pressure on the knife, feeling the material of their jackets falling away. He was about to make a slit in the jackets when a flash of a horrifying image ran through his mind; skin breaks, lots of blood pours out and stains the sidewalk, two lifeless bodies ooze out, and a heart stops beating. A clatter of a knife hits the cement. Big blue eyes stare into space. A little peep slips through pale lips and a scream follows.
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"Do you sense them Mokona?" Syaoran panted. The white furball was in deep concentration in Sakura's hands.
"Mekyo! They're very close!" Mokona's eyes grew wide as it waved its hands in the air.
"Really?" Sakura asked. Mokona nodded.
"Ah! The CD store is just around the corner!" Syaoran said. A familiar scream took them off guard. The two almost tripped as they suddenly stopped running.
"Fai?" Syaoran breathed in surprise. He ran around the corner and stopped in mid-step when he saw the scene. Sakura gasped when she was right in back of her brunette friend.
"Fai…Kurogane…" Syaoran breathed in shock. They saw the couple sitting on the ground. An unconscious Kurogane and a blue Fai.
"Oh my…" Sakura held her hands to her mouth when she saw the scene.
"Kuro-puu…Fai…!" Mokona said in a little, sad tone. Syaoran clenched his teeth, dashed toward the couple and quickly knelt beside the two.
"Oh…Syaoran…" Fai faintly smiled as he tiredly lifted his head from the raven haired's limp shoulder.
"Fai, what happened?!" Syaoran asked. Brown eyes grew wide when the blonde's body slipped away from Kurogane's, falling to the left ever so gracefully.
"FAI!" Syaoran screamed as he quickly grabbed the blonde, sitting Fai back up again. Syaoran wrapped his arms around the two older men as best as he could to warm the two.
"Sakura! Call a taxi, quick!" The brunette yelled. Sakura nodded once and ran up to the curb, calling a taxi.
"Please, someone help us!" Sakura called.
"Mokona's friends are in danger!" Mokona called as well from Sakura's arms.
"Fai, Kurogane, hang in there! We're getting help!" Syaoran whispered, hoping the two older men could hear him.
"Kuro-puu…" Fai's last thought before he slipped into total darkness.
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"Mr. Flouright?" I heard a young woman say.
"Mmh…" I heard a groan, but it probably was me because my head was throbbing. As dark became light, I was in a white room, a hospital room. The woman who spoke was standing a little to my right. She was wearing a white gown and a smile was on her face. She probably was a nurse. Two bundles were in her arms.
"Here, Mr. Flouright. You're children." The nurse said as she held the two bundles in my face. Somehow the two bundles unraveled themselves and revealed…
"KAW!!" A shriek came from these bloody; deformed, dripping mucus bundles the nurse was carrying. I felt like I wasn't breathing as I could feel my eyes growing wide at the sight.
"BAH! BAH!" The two bundles shrieked again as these things craned their necks toward me. An oval hole opened as the bundles leaned closer to me. The holes were probably their mouths because tiny teeth were in the holes, plenty of them.
"AHH!!!" I screamed as I shielded myself with my arms crossed over my face…
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"Fai!!" Pleaded a young girl's voice. The blonde opened his eyes and saw his arms were crossed over his face, just like in his dream. What's also dejavu was he was lying on a hospital bed in a hospital room. But the young woman who stood on his right was not the nurse from his dream but only Sakura.
"Are you ok Fai?" The brunette said; her eyebrows scrunched up with worry.
"Mmh…Sakura…!" The blonde breathed sleepily and tiredly as he slowly sat up.
"No! You should rest!" Sakura touched Fai's shoulder.
"Sakura, I'm fine. I'm not that injured…" The blonde's voice trailed off as he frantically looked around the room.
"Where's Kuro-puu and Syaoran and Mokona?!" The blonde raised his voice.
"Fai, please calm down. They're in the next room!" Sakura too raised her voice as she tried to hold down a jumpy Fai. The blonde was trying to get out of bed.
"Ah. I see you're awake, Mr. Flowright." A voice spoke, making Fai and Sakura freeze to look who spoken.
"Kuro-tan's doctor…" The blonde almost whispered. Kurogane's doctor had his usual smile.
"Good, you got some color back." The doctor continued as he walked toward the blonde.
"How long was I asleep…?" Fai asked slowly.
"Well…it's noon now." The doctor said as he looked at his wristwatch.
"Noon…Christmas noon…half a day I slept." The blonde calculated in his head as he fell back onto the bed and closed his eyes, feeling exhausted even though he slept for so long.
"Fai!!" Sakura raised her voice, scared and concerned about the blonde since he fell back onto the bed suddenly.
"…Are our children all right…?" Fai spoke slowly again without opening his eyes to look at the doctor.
Kurogane's doctor hesitated, "W-well…we had trouble warming them up. You're children were…they were shivering even though-"
"Of course they were shivering…he was on the brink of death…and nobody helped him!" The blonde interrupted the doctor as he made his hands into fists, yelling the rest of his sentence. Fai suddenly sat up again and moved the bed sheets aside so he could get out of the hospital bed. He noticed he was still wearing his clothes (since he didn't get a bad injury or something, just exhaustion and a bit of frostbite).
"So you said Kuro-tan is in the next room?" Fai asked the brunette without looking into her eyes. He was looking on the ground. The blonde hissed when his bare feet touched the cold tiled floor.
"But Fai, Kurogane might still be sleeping." Sakura warned the blonde. Fai didn't say anything for a while. The chair beside the hospital bed, for which Sakura sat in while she watched and waited for Fai to wake up, had the plastic bag he was holding from that afternoon the day before. A slight smile was on his lips as he grabbed the plastic bag once more.
"Doctor, do you have a CD player that I can borrow?" The blonde asked after he stood properly once more from bending over to grab the opaque bag. Kurogane's doctor gaped from time to time as his eyes looked around the room nervously.
But after a while, the doctor's face lit up and he smiled, "Normally, patients aren't allowed to bring any electronics because they need their rest. But since it's Christmas, I'll let you borrow mine." The doctor whispered the rest of his sentence as he took out a CD player (including headphones) out of his many deep pockets of his white lab coat.
"Thank you, doctor." Fai slightly bowed as he took the CD player. Then with a smile on his face, he faced the young brunette.
"Now then, shall we go?"
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The room next door of the blonde's was silent like all the other hospital rooms in that building. A silent young boy sat in a chair across from the foot of the white hospital bed, half asleep with a sleeping Mokona in his lap.
But what disturbed the silence were the creak of the door (the only door that's in that room) and the shuffling of footsteps.
"Syaoran and Mokona." Sakura whispered, so not to disturb the two sleeping figures.
"So we are in the right room." Fai joked as he silently walked further into the room. When he got to the foot of the hospital bed, he set down the plastic bag on the wheeling table that stood in front of him to get the CD out of the bag with no trouble. After that, he tiptoed to the side a couple of steps then walked forward, stopping at the bedside of the white sheeted bed. The blonde had soft smile on his lips as he watched the figure lie motionless in bed. Fai could see the patient's chest rise up and down as the figure took a breath. The blonde ripped off the thin plastic, which protected the CD from being opened or scratched easily, as quietly as he could as he continued to watch the sleeping man.
"Click." Went the CD case as it opened.
"Click." Went the CD player as the blonde pressed a button so the lid of the doctor's CD player popped up.
"Click." In went the CD disk. Fai sat on the edge of the white bed as gently as he could, so not to disturb the sleeping patient, and slowly slipped the headphones over the still head. The ear pads snuggly fit over tan ears, which the blonde had hoped for. Fai pressed the "play" button then waited for a response from his beloved.
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"…Where am I…?" I said as a white fog prevented me from seeing anything except my feet. My arm felt like lead as I lifted it to scratch my head in confusion. As I looked all around me, I sill couldn't figure out where I was.
"Hm?" I raised an eyebrow as I heard a distant melody. A familiar one but I couldn't put my finger on it. As my curiosity grew, I felt my lead heavy body move toward the sound.
"Who's there?" I naturally said, shielding my eyes with the back of my arm. A sudden burst of light shined in my direction. The white light grew as I walked closer, consuming me. The distant melody seemed like it was in my ears.
"Ugh…" I stopped in my tracks for the light seemed to shine through my arm. I raised both of my arms over my face and tried to continue on, but…
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The blonde watched his lover move his arm in his sleep to cover his closed eyes, just like he did just moments ago. At first, Fai thought Kurogane was awake. But after he noticed that the raven-haired's breathing didn't quicken and his lover didn't notice the music in his ears, the blonde decided that Kurogane was still asleep.
"Ugh…" Fai suddenly heard a noise from tan lips. He eagerly wanted to touch the older man as he watched the black haired remove his arm that was over his eyes, sliding it to his side. Crimson eyes tiredly opened.
"…Hnh…Fai…?" Kurogane's voice cracked as he looked at the blonde that was in his face. Pale hands gripped tan ones as Fai brought his lover's hands to his cheek. Blue eyes flooded with tears as the blonde laughed and smiled in relief and joy.
"Kurogane!" Sakura said when she was at the bedside of the hospital bed. At that outburst, a certain brunette aroused.
"Mmh…? Kurogane…what…?" Syaoran sleepily rubbed his eyes as he slowly propped himself up in the chair he was sitting in.
"Syaoran! You're awake!" The cheerful girl ran over to the boy's side again to wrap her arms around his neck.
"Look, Kurogane and Fai are all right." Sakura whispered into Syaoran's ear as she pointed to the direction of their "parents". The boy nodded, knowing Kurogane and Fai are all right since the raven haired's doctor told him so.
"Mm…Mokona feels Sakura and Fai." Mokona slowly awoke from Sakura's yelling (bad Sakura! No yelling in a hospital room1 XP). The porkbun gasped as it was jumping on Syaoran's lap in excitement.
"Sakura! Fai!" The white furball said as it jumped.
"Good afternoon, Mokona." Fai said as he turned his head to see the excited Mokona. The blonde was wiping his tears away as he smiled at the porkbun.
"…So the manju is awake, huh?" Kurogane spoke, as he didn't move his position on the bed, except to remove the headphones off his head. He didn't have to see if the porkbun was awake or not. Mokona was already hopping on the white hospital bed by the time he finished his sentence.
"Kuro-puu! Kuro-puu!"
"WHAT DID I…tell you…about my…na…me…" Kurogane carefully sat up, for he knew they had stitched him since…he didn't have his huge belly anymore, he's a man and he was unconscious at the time. He yelled at the manju at first, but took deep breaths as he tried to finish his sentence, but could not. He only slept for more than half a day, but he was still exhausted. Kurogane slumped forward like a puppet as he breathed as if he ran a marathon. Fai quickly held his lover's shoulders just in case the raven-haired was too tired to hold up his body on his own.
"Ah, so everyone's awake." Kurogane's doctor walked in suddenly, with his hands in his lab pockets and a smile on his face.
"Doctor!" Mokona said as it moved its hands up and down.
"Yes, hello." The doctor waved back.
"…Doctor, where are-" Kurogane started. He got his breath back but he had trouble holding his head up.
"You're children are safe and sound. They're in the other room." The doctor pointed out the door with his thumb.
"Fai gently laid his lover back onto the bed before he burst out with a question, "Didn't you just tell me you couldn't keep our children warm?!"
"What?" Sakura and Syaoran said in unison. The raven-haired breathed this question as he stared at the blonde with wide eyes then at his doctor.
"Woah, woah, calm down. At first we had trouble warming them, but in the end they gained their normal temperature." The four of them's shoulders relaxed as they heard this news, especially Kurogane's and Fai's.
"Can we see them right now?" Sakura asked as her eyes sparkled.
The doctor chuckled, "Alright, I'll take you there, but you have to be quiet. They must be sleeping right now." He whispered the rest of his sentence as he watched Sakura grin madly.
"Woohoo! Mokona's going to see a little Fai and a little Kuro-tan!" Mokona continued bouncing up and down.
"Let's go Syaoran!" The brunette said excitedly as she grabbed the boy's hand and pulled him out of his seat.
"O-ok." Syaoran sweat-dropped and followed the girl out the door.
"Here comes Mokona!" The white furball bounced after the two.
"I'll go too. I'll tell you all that I know of our children when I get back. You just rest, ok?" Fai smiled as he touched his lover's hand.
"I can-" Kurogane protested as he began to get out of bed. But the blonde raised a hand to stop him from getting up.
"You stubborn man." Fai caressed the raven haired's face and leaned over to kiss the older man.
"I'll come back soon. Don't worry." The blonde whispered in Kurogane's ear after he broke the kiss. Smiles were both on the parents' faces when Fai moved away to see Kurogane's face one last time before be leaves his lover to rest some more. The blonde squeezed the raven haired's hand before walking off to meet with Kurogane's doctor.
"Right this way." The doctor smiled as he gestured Fai to leave first. Kurogane's doctor had been waiting patiently by the door, knowing that one or the other or both would want to see their children.
"Thank you." Fai said his thanks to the doctor then walked out the door, the doctor close behind him.
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"Aw, look how cute they are." Sakura whispered as she leaned against the glass to get a better view of the two babies sleeping in their "crib" the hospital provided them.
"Yeah." Syaoran agreed with a soft smile on his face.
"…It's still amazing how Kurogane and Fai made these two." Syaoran thought with a blush.
"Mokona thinks so too. Hey! Little Kuro-tan yawned!" Mokona whispered the best it could as it awed at the two sleeping beings. Syaoran and Fai quietly chuckled when they saw the blonde's and Kurogane's son yawn. Sakura giggled. The doctor smiled as he watched the scene fro a far, for reasons of privacy. Even though thousands of babies are born into the world in about each second, he still feels happy when he sees the new parents brimming with happiness at the sight of their child or children.
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"Our son has your hair and our daughter has my hair." Fai informed his lover when he got back to Kurogane's "room". The blonde was gently rolling the raven haired's bangs between his index finger and thumb as he said this.
"Hm." Kurogane grunted as he let Fai do what he is doing.
Fai continued, "Oh! And our son yawned. You should have seen hi! He was so cute!" The blonde said cheerfully as he smiled excitedly.
"You know we'll see that again when we put them to sleep ourselves. It wasn't a one time thing." Kurogane said in a low voice as he smirked.
"You're right, Kurgy." Fai giggled playfully, knowing what his lover said was true. Kurogane smiled as he patted the space next to him, signaling for Fai to lie next to him. The blonde took the offer and they snuggled as best as they could on the hospital bed.
"Anything else happened?" The raven-haired asked after a moment.
"Sad to say, they didn't open their eyes. Maybe later on, they might show their eyes to us."
"Where're the kids and the porkbun?"
"They're in the waiting room. I told them that I'll take them back home when I'm free to go, then I'll come back to stay with you until you can leave." Fai explained.
"You don't have to stay here."
"Oh, but I might not be able to see our children's eyes open if I'm not here!" The blonde pouted.
"Hm…" Kurogane sleepily said as he closed his eyes.
"Hm? Kuro-" Fai looked at his lover and noticed the older man was asleep.
"Good night, Kuro-pun," The blonde smiled as he too closed his eyes, "I love you, Kuro-buro." Fai whispered before he too fell asleep.
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6 years later…
A girl with bluish-crimson eyes and blonde shoulder-length hair with antenna-looking bangs growing out of her head smiled as she slowly tiptoed across the bedroom, so not to wake up two certain beings in the bed and to not spill the breakfast she carried on a tray. A certain blonde, blue-eyed man followed close behind her with the same smile on his lips.
"Aw, aren't they adorable?" Fai whispered when father and daughter stood at the foot of the bed. The two watched the two beings sleep; one large being holding an almost smaller version of himself in his arms, except the smaller being had hair just like Fai's, but in black version.
"Now do what I had taught you." The blonde man continued. His daughter, whose name was Melissa, nodded as she closed her eyes. Her hair slightly floated as the tray in her hands rose a little in the air, hovering. The boy, who was sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes, which was the same color as his twin sister's. He probably noticed the presents of magic in the room, making him bolt right up in bed.
"I thought it was you, sneaking up on us. You can't fool me. I have the senses of a ninja and the senses of a mage!" The boy, whose name was Takei, said boldly as he put a hand to his chest to emphasis his words.
"What are you saying? I am that too!" Melissa challenged as the hovering tray landed back into her hands.
"Hugh…what's going on…?" Kurogane said sleepily as he sat up, rubbing his eye.
"Aw, our treat is ruined now." Fai pouted playfully then took the tray from their daughter before things got messy. The two kids were exchanging, "I'm better than you!" and, "No your not!" back and forth.
"Melissa! Takei!" The raven-haired firmly said, raising his voice a little. He didn't need to shout, for after he said that, his kids obeyed. Or so it would seem.
"Ah-" The twins opened their mouths at the same tine to speak, for they both didn't want their little fight to end so soon. But when crimson eyes glared at the two, they clamped their mouths shut.
"Now, now, Kuro-my. There are times when there is silence, but not now. Sakura and Melissa made this for you two. Here, Melissa. Do what I had taught you." Fai gave back the breakfast tray to his daughter. Melissa nodded and closed her eyes again but his time the tray in her hands not only hovered but floated in the air a little until it landed neatly on the bed in her "mother's" lap.
"Very good Melissa!" Fai congratulated his daughter by gently patting her on the back. The blonde girl smiled.
"Hey! What about me? I protected daddy!" Takei pointed out as he pointed to his "mother" with his index finger. The boy crossed his arms across his chest and looked away when the blonde man patting his head.
"Thank you for protecting him, Takei." Fai smiled lovingly. Takei glanced into his father's blue eyes for a second when he heard his name then stared at the food in his "mother's" lap.
"And since it's morning, why don't you guys start with breakfast! Melissa, will you pass out their plates?" Fai continued.
"Ok!" There were two plates of food on the tray and surprisingly under the tray was another tray so the two who sat in bed doesn't have to share one tray. Melissa quickly but steadily distributed their treat, each having one plate of food and a tray to eat on.
"Is it good?" The blonde man asked.
"Mm-hm!" Takei happily answered.
Kurogane swallowed before saying, "It's not that bad."
"Well then, I better go tell Sakura that you two like it! Come on, Melissa! Let's get our own breakfast!" Fai cheerfully said as he clapped his hands together. The blonde girl nodded.
"Wait." Kurogane called when the blonde man turned around to leave. Fai looked behind him.
"Hm?" The raven-haired grabbed the pale man's hand and pulled him forward, making Fai double over. But Kurogane caught the blonde man by the lips before Fai fell over to the ground. Warmness filled both their bodies, soft warmth.
"Oh, daddy and daddy are kissing!" Takei and Melissa whined in unison as they made a weird face. Both their parents chuckled when they broke the kiss.
"Fai! Melissa! Your breakfasts are-oh!" Sakura called out but stopped her sentence short when she saw Fai and Kurogane looking as though they were about to kiss or they already kissed and were savoring the moment.
"Thank you, Sakura. We were just about to go get our plates as well. Come on, Melissa. Let's go." The blonde man said when he was standing up properly from bending over to kiss his lover. Fai winked, signaling to his lover that he'll be back, then finally followed Sakura out the door to go back down to the kitchen, with their daughter close behind him.
"We'll be waiting…" Kurogane briefly thought that even though Fai was only going to be downstairs for a little while. But the raven-haired somehow felt odd when his blonde was out of his sight even for a moment.
"…Fai."
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Author's note: Wow. Now this is the longest chapter I have ever written! Well, This Warm Feeling…Is Inside Me is now finished. Hoped you enjoyed it! Sorry that it's now over! *Gives out Fai and Kurga-burger plushies*