continuation from the previous ficlet, since i couldn't leave this fic at 13 chapters. curse you, superstition!
Prince Touya had ordered rooms for each of them after the battle, and Kurogane was attempting to make use of his when the twins had slipped in. The royal physician had tried to give him strong painkillers after the battle, but Kurogane had refused them; the pain of his artificial arm going missing was nothing compared to losing it for the first time, and he thought he could sleep well enough without the drugs thanks to the blood loss. He was dozing on his back with his eyes closed, and the twins made no noise but he could sense their auras. They came all the way up to his bed and hovered there, hands linked in a manner he had learned in Celes was typical for them.
"What do you two want?" he asked eventually.
"Yuui was worried about you," Fai said.
"So was Fai," Yuui added. "Kuro-sama keeps losing blood." The mattress dipped as he sat down, and Kurogane could feel the heat of his body although Yuui never touched.
"We thought you might appreciate company," Fai said, and Yuui hummed agreement. Kurogane opened one eye a slit, then the other. Yuui's hand was outstretched, hovering over the stump of his shoulder; his eyes were narrowed, and Kurogane mused that at least the eye business made it easy to tell them apart now.
"Watch out for the curse," he warned them, and Yuui's mouth moved in a small smile.
"Sometimes it's worth the consequences," he said, and then leaned forward and kissed Kurogane, the lightest brush of lips before his form blurred and changed and in his place on Kurogane's chest was a white cat. It flexed its claws against his skin and purred loudly, and Fai laughed, scooping his twin up by the middle and putting him in the curve of Kurogane's good side, tucked between his arm and his body.
"We need to find out how to fix that curse," Kurogane groaned. Fully-clothed grinding was getting boring, and he really wanted one of those deep tongue-filled kisses the twins shared with each other.
"Agreed," Fai said. He caught Kurogane's wrist by his sleeve and used it to tug his hand up, pressing a kiss against Kurogane's palm, and Yuui's purr increased when his brother changed. They butted noses briefly - Yuui licking a few times at Fai's muzzle - and then Fai pressed himself against Kurogane's other side.
"Give me fleas and I'm throwing both of you out the window," Kurogane said, but sleepily. Their fur was soft and they were very warm.
When Syaoran poked his head in a few hours later all three of them were asleep, man, fox and cat.