"So if I just click this here…" Kurogane mutters to himself, guiding the little arrow on the screen to a symbol like Syaoran had shown him yesterday. He clicks the right button on the mouse, he isn't sure why they call it a mouse but they do so that's what he'll call it, and frowns at the box that comes up with squiggles he can't read and scowls.
It had been the other button, hadn't it?
Kurogane moves the arrow a little to the left, enough that it's not over any other pictures which mean things he doesn't understand yet but also enough that it's off the white box. He clicks once with the left button and feels a small sense of achievement as the box disappears and then moves the mouse slowly back across onto the symbol he'd tried to click in the first place.
He clicks and a bigger box opens, this one with a red heart shape inside it.
Kurogane hasn't seen the computer do this yet and wonders briefly if he's broken something and if he should get Syaoran yet when the heart splits open, a white heart in the middle of each side and in one a drawing of a black dog, in the other some different squiggles from the ones Syaoran can red.
He recognises the drawing immediately and feels like he should probably be offended as he remembers it to be like the one which Fai had drawn in Outo to name him, back when Sakura had travelled with them.
He doesn't understand the heart shapes splitting apart, which it does repeatedly somehow, or the writing but he does know who can translate for him without lying.
"Hey, kid?" He calls, craning backwards in the strange chair which bends backwards with him.
He grumbles, righting himself and squinting at the image as if it would have meaning the longer he did.
There's footsteps and then Syaoran is looking around the edge of the door.
"What is it?" He asks, blinking in question, a well-known crease of concern between his eyebrows already.
Kurogane supposes it is warranted after he somehow ended up on a site filled with, well, rather indecent images, last time he was trying to learn how to use the computer by himself, much to the horror of everyone except Fai and Mokona who found it hilarious for some reason.
"The mage did this, didn't he?" Kurogane says more than asks, gesturing to the computer with his thumb, "what does it say?" An odd feeling of foreboding trickles over him as Syaoran comes closer, visibly relieved, and stares at the screen for a moment.
The boy frowns for a moment, mouthing words and shaking his head slightly. After a moment he speaks, sounding more than a little embarrassed.
"Ah- I think it's some kind of endearment maybe? This bit here is the first bit of your name and this means dog I think? It says something about small maybe- I can't quite remember how Fai said the rule worked. And that says, uh, that says 'my loved one' I think?" Syaoran tells Kurogane, blushing a little and pointing out parts of the squiggles to Kurogane who feels himself start to flush, anger justified finally.
"Honestly it's quite impressive that he picked it up so quickly," the boy starts to say, "though I suppose the language is closer to his than to yours." He mumbles.
This is ignored by Kurogane who storms from the room to find the wizard.
He finds him in the kitchen after bursting in on Fai's empty room quite unnecessarily and quickly closing the door again. Mokona is with him and they both look up he enters the room, identical expressions of confusion on their faces as Fai holds a piping bag over a cake.
"How dare you put that drawing in the computer like that!"" Kurogane complains, looking around to find something to throw at the magician briefly. His eyes hit upon a roll of disposable cloths and he picks it up as Fai and Mokona continue to stare at him.
"What picture?" Fai asks as the clothes bonk him on the head rather ineffectually and bounce onto the floor.
A smile slowly dawns on his face, mischievous, as Kurogane sputters that it's the dog one.
"What do you mean?" he asks, clearly knowing exactly what Kurogane is talking about, as he puts bag of icing down on the table, grinning from ear to ear, "do you mean the one which I drew in Outo? With the writing?" He asks, eyes alight.
"Yes! Of course I mean that!" Kurogane complains, drawing his sword from his hand, anger rising, "And you're going to pay for putting it on the computer like that! Now everyone can see it!"
"Well- that isn't quite how the computer works. It being on the computer doesn't mean it's online-" Syaoran starts, in the doorway to the kitchen and looking somewhat nervous as Mokona starts to taunt Kuro-puppy for his dog-like behaviour.
"You've betrayed me, Syaoran-kun!" Cries Fai dramatically, ducking as Kurogane swings his blade across the room, narrowly missing the window and the wall.
"I'm not a dog!" The man screams, bringing his blade down between the two menaces who laugh, scattering to either side and running through the back-door and into the little garden area they've managed to obtain in this world.
"Kuro-puppy~ Kuro-puppy~" The two chant, Kurogane chasing after them, furious.
Syaoran watches the back door and sighs, dampening a cloth, wrapping it around the icing bag and moving it out of the sunlight.
It seems like they'll be a while.