Oh yes! Before I forget, I remember someone inquiring about the fourth and fifth section. Well, the answer is that each section is completely stand-alone and therefore they don't have to link with each other. .
Section six - Romantic gestures
Kurogane always preferred the bath rather than the shower simply because he did not trust being enclosed in a glass box to wash oneself. There had been no showers in his world and only through his travels had he come to learn of them. There was something about the closeness of the walls, like being trapped in a small cage, and the water raining down from a spout that did not sit well with him.
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A bath was more luxurious, not that he made a habit of pampering himself, but it was good at easing all those aching muscles accumulated after a hard day's work. In a bath, you were surrounded by water that gently untied all the knots in your muscles.
Sighing, he lowered himself even further into the water until it lapped at his shoulders. There was nothing more relaxing than a good soak.
"KURO-PIN!"
"W- What?" Kurogane sat bolt upright, staring with a mixture of rage and disbelief at the blond wizard currently grinning at him. "How the hell did you get in?" He swore that he had locked the door.
"Kuro-run!" Fai beamed innocently, propping his elbows on the rim of the bathtub. "Want me to help?"
"You can help by getting out!" he yelled, thankful that the bubbles were hiding most of his body.
"Then who's gonna scrub your back?" Fai titled his head to one side inquiringly.
Cursing the Fates above for being straddled with an imbecile of a travelling companion, Kurogane bit back the urge to punch the wizard, instead using his hands to search for the soap
"Don't you ever get lonely, Kuro-min?"
"I'm just taking a bath. It's not like I'm going anywhere," he muttered still trying to find his soap.
"True, true," Fai nodded but he looked as if he did not believe him. "Anyway, in case you do get lonely, I brought you a present," he beamed as he held up something small and yellow.
Kurogane's eyes twitched. "…A rubber duck."
"It goes quack when you squeeze it! Isn't that cute?" Fai squealed, squeezing the rubber bath toy. The duck promptly quacked just as Fai had claimed, and Kurogane wondered if the duck was the only thing that went quack in his presence.
A vein throbbed on his temple. "What are you on?"
"It floats too, just like a real duck," Fai continued, ignoring Kurogane, whose temper was making the water boil.
"I don't want your stupid duck," he growled at the wizard, "and you can get the hell out as well before I kill you!"
However, Kurogane's previous death threats had never deterred Fai before and just because he was sitting naked in a bath certainly was not going to deter the blond magician now.
"Quack!"
"That's it!" he stood up, ready to grab annoying wizard by the collar and shake him for all he was worth.
Fai jumped away, just far enough to be free of Kurogane's offensive swipe. "Hyuu!" Fai's eyes visibly widened, as did his grin. "Wow. Impressive, Kuro-sama!"
"D - don't look!" Kurogane dropped back into the water, mentally cursing the heat he felt creeping into his cheeks. "Get out, you psychotic idiot!"
"You do realise that you're stewing in your own filth, right Kuro-chin?"
Kurogane felt his blood pressure rise to dangerous levels. Grabbing a towel from the nearby rack, he wrapped it around his torso as he clambered out. "That's it!" There was a bucket of wet sponges standing at the end of the bath. "Stand still so I can kill you, you bastard!"
"Syaoran-kun."
"Yes, Sakura-hime?" Syaoran tore his attention away from the history book he had been reading to glance inquiringly at his princess.
Sakura's finger traced two figures dashing around the house, one chasing the other with rather obscene words being sprouted from the pursuing second figure.
"Why is Kurogane-san chasing Fai-san in a bath towel and throwing sponges at him?"
Syaoran followed Sakura's figure to the two men weaving through the furniture. Kurogane cursed the other man as he dodged between the furniture whilst Fai, fully clothed, was clutching something small and yellow to his chest.
"I'm sure they have a very profound reason for it," he said, returning to his book.
"What's wrong, Kuro-chan? I wouldn't mind you paying me a visit at bath-time," Fai laughed as another sponge missed him by an inch. It smacked into the far wall and dropped to the floor, leaving behind a wet trail of soppy water.
Kurogane blushed, obviously imagining what he should not. "You may not care, but I do!"
"Ah, but, Kuro - " Fai began but whatever nickname he was about to use was muffled by another wet sponge hitting full on the face. Fai tripped, staggering into a wall before falling backwards.
Repressing the temptation to cry, "score!" Kurogane settled with simply towering over the wizard, a triumphant smirk on his face as he said, "I got you."
He had finally caught Fai. He finally had the evasive magician that giggled and laughed and pranced around like a fairy under his claws, and woe betide anyone who thought that he wasn't going to issue some payback for all those pet names he had had to endure.
Taking advantage of Fai's currently dazed state; he slung the shorter man over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes. Syaroan and Sakura wordlessly watched them make their way back across the room and into the bathroom.
Kurogane grinned, tossing the blond into his now lukewarm bath water. Soapy water splattered the tiled walls and dribbled downwards. His grin widened at the sight of Fai, sitting fully clothed, drenched from head to toe in the bath.
Fai spat out a mouth full of bath water. "Kuro-wan's so evil!" he cried, trying to cover up traditional Celes clothing, which had gone transparent in the water.
He heard the bathroom door shut and this time heard it firmly bolted. As Kurogane turned around, Fai would have sworn he saw an evil glint light his crimson eyes.
"We'll see how evil you think I am once I'm done with you."
Heh, Fai's fate and what Kurogane does in the bath I think I'll leave to your imagination. The next section should be up soon but I'm also toying with the idea of a Tsubasa AU.