Prompt: Drink
More Fai and Kuro!
The cut was neat, orderly, about as unmessy as you can make a gash wound cut by a sword. Kurogane had to hand to himself: he was pretty good when it came to handling swords.
Blood trickled steadily down his arm, a red river arching off into lines and veins, like divergent trails on a map, all ending at different destinations.
He looked over at the magician who was eying the cut eagerly.
Ever since the vampire transformation, Kurogane had become less and less fond of these feeding, or rather drinking, sessions. He'd heard people tell tales of vampires in his country, and as he traveled, Fai had talked to him about various types of vampire literature that he seemed to come across.
It was odd, Kurogane remembered, flipping through some of the books. A lot of them made it seem like feeding a vampire was some sort of moment of religious ecstasy, or the forming of some pact between a human and an evil being. They didn't talk about how blood vessels have a tendency to spurt when cut, or how the fluid has a predilection to spread everywhere and get all over everything, or how uninvigorating it was.
He glanced at Fai, drinking from the wound.
It was really like having a giant piranha attached to your arm, he concluded. A giant, friendly, magical piranha. He frowned at the analogy.
"The witch says that as soon as we get your eye back, you'll be able to stop having to do this," he commented. It tended to get sort of awkward, one of them relaxing and the other feasting hungrily on his arm, so Kurogane occasionally threw out a remark. "That'll be nice."
Fai drew back, sated, and took a cloth he reserved for that purpose from his pockets to wipe off his lips.
"Do you really mind so much?" He asked, innocently. Or, well, as innocently as a vampire wiping blood off his lips could get.
"Well, it's not like you can come back and stay with me in Nihon."
It was pretty true. He had duties to attend to, and a constant drain on his blood supply wasn't going to be good for him to stay on top of his duties.
"Besides," Kurogane continued, "didn't you say that you wanted to travel around all the worlds that there were?" It had been out of necessity at the time, as Fai's old lord, Ashura-ou, had been haunting his former world, but now the ninja wondered how much the magician's plans had changed.
Fai shrugged. "I guess so. I'm not sure what I really want to do, but..." He gave it some thought, and then a smile lit up his face. "Why not? Travelling around place to place is fun! I like getting to see all these different people and wear different clothes--" he cut himself off, something evidently on his mind.
Kurogane sighed, knowing what he would have to say.
"Yeah, yeah, you can come visit. I think those kids would be heartbroken if they didn't see you sometimes, too."
He hoped the mage didn't stay too long, though. He had a feeling Fai knew more about what was going on between him and Tomoyo-hime than he wanted to admit.