Floating on Air
Chapitre Nine

Kurogane watches him soar through the air, each movement perfect and almost imperceptible. It's the nervous aura of the kid beside him that makes him rather twitchy, he tells himself, unwilling to admit that inwardly he's slightly unsettled.

"Look at that damn grin," he mutters to himself, "that man is a combat veteran." He doesn't want to admit that he's mildly annoyed that Fai hadn't told him about his experience, because to admit that he's mildly annoyed is to say that he cares about the cursed blonde.

He continues to watch the batter, his crimson eyes tracing Fai's every movement.


N o t e s Thank you to Ranma Higurashi and Somnorexic for the reviews, and I do plan to continue. Oh, and note, I used moderately tweaked DelRey translations for the sake of being uniform.