Fortuitously

Intro: -Counting Crows, 'Accidentally in Love'- This is the first time I listen to the song as a write… (wow) So…onward ho! Let's start some fluff!

A/N: And there wasn't much fluff in here so… (ta-da!)

Song: Counting Crows, 'Accidentally in Love'


"Ooooooooooo! Kuro-Cha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-an! You're sooooooooooooo co-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ol!" a more than girly yet clearly distinguished as male voice chimed. A sigh was hear after a mountain of giggles and leaps of blushes. A nerve pulsated before the fifth-octave singing tone continued: "I'm your biggest fan! I love you, I love you, I L-O-V-E yo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ou!"

Another nerve pulsated. A gun was fired and he was off. This sucked. It sucked more than his high-school reunion. It sucked more than having a horde of female fan-clubs members chase him down every single, freakin' day. It sucked more than that time he was too drunk to realize that the blond he was kissing was that stalker of a man known as Fai. It sucked more than that time he found himself finding those golden locks and endless pale skin more than attractive as the days went by one-by-one…no wait. That last bit didn't happen. And if it did, he was blocking it out. Denial was a wonderful place.

"You seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e Kuro-Chu?" Fai wailed in the crowds, dancing from side-to-side, jumping up and down, running through the bleachers and hitting people upside the head his more-than-oversized megaphone. His thighs were completely vulnerable and most would agree that they saw more than what they wished when the wind swayed to reveal Fai's unmentionables beneath his brightly-colored cheerleading outfit. "I'm in a D-R-A-G for Y-O-U! And you wanna know whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! It's because I L-O-V-E Y-O-U!"

Kurogane sighed again, pounding his feet harder into the ground as he neared the finish line. His fists were clenched beyond that of a crushing point and his eyebrows were furrowed so much, at a single glance one might say they were seeing the aura of the reincarnation of the devil.

Fai was just about to do another one of his fabulous, 'let's-disturb-the-crowd-again,' routines but Kurogane passed the finish line a few good seconds before any other winner. Of course, this required a stunt much more entertaining than a simple cheer routine. So Fai squirmed his way to the front of the bleachers and leaned slightly over the encasing bar.

Kurogane was sweaty and hot – this was the last competition in his track-and-field meet. It was an away meet in a foreign state and although he refused to give Fai directions to the location, he had found a way in somehow. Kurogane glared at a staff member who handed him a pole with a white number one printed on a red cloth. Crimson eyes closed before he waved to the crowd. Crimson eyes wandered about before he found the specimen he was looking for – Fai leaned over the bar with his rear clearly exposed to the crowds. Damn miniskirt. Denial. Denial. Denial. Denial. Denial.

"Don't you dare come over here!" The man called. Fai's smile widened more. He wasn't planning on jumping the bar initially but when Kurogane flustered up like that…it was just so…so…cute. So of course Fai jumped the pole and ran over to the other male. Kurogane attempted to flee but was captured when Fai lunged himself at the other, tackling him to the ground. Kurogane attempted to pull the clinging blond off but Fai was clearly stuck to the runner's thigh. This was more than embarrassing even if a little arousing. Denial kicked in again. "Get offa me you dimwit!"

Fai smiled psychotically before grasping onto Kurogane's shoulders and immediately connecting their lips. By now, Kurogane's senses were growing fuzzy – he couldn't decide whether he was favoring instincts or denial better at the moment. He pushed the blond away with widened lips and a disgusted frown before running away to the locker room. Fai sighed somberly for a moment before smiling with the least bit of hope that maybe Kurogane would come around some day. Like that would ever happen…

-O-

Kurogane slammed his fist into a random locker. Three, actually. That guy was just so…so…agh! So annoying! He wished he could just kill him and then resurrect him from the dead so he could kill him again! But that would mean never being able to kiss those lips again and that would be… The fourth locker fell to its doom.

The man propped himself onto a bench and folded his legs up. He attempted to hum that strange tune that monks do when trying to find serene tranquility and peace. Unfortunately that didn't work out so he smashed a few more lockers up. Fai just annoyed him so much!

"Eh…you must really like that guy, huh?" an amused voice wondered aloud. Scarlet eyes glared up with a deathly glare and a blush to light the fires of Hell. The man took a step back as he put his hands up defensively. Kurogane looked like he might snap at any given moment. "U-Uh…sorry man. It wasn't offensive or anything. Just a little joke…um…I'll be outside, man."

Kurogane sighed. This needed to end. It needed to end now. He just didn't know which way he was going to end it…

-O-

"Yo. Dragarella!" Kurogane called. He was now in a burgundy sweat-suit. By now everyone had left but Fai being Fai, he had stayed.

Cerulean eyes lit up with joy upon the arrival of the taller man. "Oh! Kuro-Wanko gave me a nickname! He doesn't know how happy it makes me! That's why I love him so!" the blond male squealed, making large hand-motions in the air and latching onto the other's bicep. Kurogane groaned in annoyance.

"Cut the crap out," Kurogane demanded. Fai glanced up like he had been hurt by that. Never once in all the time he knew Fai had the other looked so…betrayed like that… He clenched his eyes shut and shook his head. That was wrong. There was nothing for Fai to feel betrayed about. He didn't like Fai and that was it. He never cared for the man and he didn't care about whatever nonexistent feelings the other had.

Fai smiled again and shrugged. "Whatever. I'll leave."

Fai relinquished his grasp and turned around. He left while kicking pebbles in the ground and his skirt still blowing around in the wind. He jumped up to the bleachers and leaned over to grab a sweat-shirt. Pulling it over, he glanced at Kurogane who only gave him an angry glare in return. Fai shrugged it off, jumping down and running away.

Kurogane snorted. Fai was good at running. He was also good in running, but not like Fai. Just like Fai wasn't good at running like he was. They were both good at running, just in different types of running. Kurogane sighed aloud. He could never run away for such a long time all the time like Fai…

-O-

"I'm gonna make you a bet. If I win, you never bug me again. If you win, I'll kiss you. That's fair enough," Kurogane announced. Fai poked an eyebrow up. It was strange even to his standards when the other took him off to the side to discuss business matters but this was just bizarre in his opinion.

"So…you're basing my feelings off of a game…?" Fai asked in confusion. Kurogane's nerve pulsated in anger with a shaking head. Fai just frowned. "I don't really care, but…no. I'm not going to do something where I have absolute zero-percent chance at you."

Crimson eyes cringed together. "Then you tell me a bet you're comfortable with, damn it!"

Fai smiled with a slight blush. "What I'm comfortable with? How about a sweating Kuro-Tan embracing me until the night is over and then as the sun rises-"

Kurogane clasped his hand over Fai's mouth before he could finish. "NO. It's a bet. It has to be fair. Unless you want me to gut your stomach out…"

"If I let you gut my stomach out will you hold me in your sweaty embrace until the night is over?" Fai teased with a smile, biting his lip.

Kurogane froze in shock. He didn't know how to respond to such…things. It was new to him. It wasn't like he had never been hit on, but of all the people he knew Fai truly talked the dirtiest of them all. Kurogane just growled, brushing the last comment off. "If I win, you won't embarrass me at my meets anymore. You won't even show up. If you win…I'll…I'll take you to dinner!"

-O-

Fai was on the cross-country team. He wasn't the captain, but he always ran faster than anyone else. His immaturity was probably the only thing keeping him away from the captain title. Fai had a knack for pacing and enjoyed running very much (especially when it was Kurogane chasing him.) So the bet, of course, was like a long track with obstacles lying all over the place. Unfortunately for Kurogane, he wasn't any good at long distances. Fai, on the other hand, was agile and easily avoided the obstacles. Thus there was a fluke in the bet. Still, Kurogane had pride. He accepted Fai's conditions of the court.

Such a stupid bet it was. At Fai's own game, he should have known he'd loose. Still, it was a wonder he prevailed. It was like a never-ending quest yet everything just seemed so bland at the moment – like the world turned mono-color.

"Hm," Fai mentioned with a smile. "Looks like I lost, ney, Kuro-Byu?"

Kurogane couldn't say anything. He could only express what he could through actions. He grabbed Fai's collar and jerked the blond around. "You bastard! You so lost that on purpose! This was long distance running! You should have beaten me easily!"

Fai shrugged with an airy chuckle. "If Kuro-Min started this in the first place…a bet to get rid of me…then that obviously means he doesn't want me around. What's the point in making him angry?"

Kurogane inhaled deeply with slow exhales to control his breathing. He just hated Fai so much.

-O-

For a reason or another, Kurogane felt like getting wasted that night. There was no reason for it, but it was necessary. Sometimes feelings he harbored toward Fai scared him. He couldn't really understand them and that made things even worse.

Kurogane was just on his way to his favorite bar when he saw a sports store. He walked into the building and glanced around. The merchandise was nice and sleek and well-displayed. As soon as he walked in he heard a tune that was way more than what he needed at the moment:

So she says, 'what's the problem, baby?'

'What's the problem? I don't know'

'Well, maybe I'm in Love'

Love

I think about it every time I think about it, can't stop thinking about it

Kurogane gulped hardly like he just found out his fifteen-year-old sister was lesbian and decided to break that to her mother upon her sixteenth birthday. Disaster laid ahead, he could tell. Still, he couldn't waltz out of the store before he heard the rest of the song because there was something that kept him solid in place.

How much longer will it take to cure this?

Just to cure 'cause I can't ignore it

If it's Love

Love

Makes want to turn around and face it but I don't know nothing 'bout Love

Oh yes. This song in particular just had to be playing, didn't it? The song was rather old, really popular years ago before it died out solemnly without any fight. He recalled how it used to go on and on and on and on and on back in the days. It wasn't that the song was bad just…too much his situation. God. Why'd he have to walk into the damn sports store?

His cell-phone began vibrating so he picked it up. "Yo."

"Ah! I got a, 'Yo.' Yay!"

"Who the Hell is this?" Kurogane asked with a twitch, not really wanting to know who it was. He had a pretty good idea, but he had been wrong before.

"Someone special. Guess."

"How'd you get this number?" The man demanded, mumbling curses to sports stores and the Counting Crows worldwide.

Come on, come on, Move a little closer

Come on, come on, The world will fall all after

Come on, come one, 'Cause everybody's after Love…

We're accidentally in Love…

Accidentally in Love…

We're accidentally in Love…

"I have my ways. Why? Nevermind that."

"And you are calling because?"

"I wanted to hear your voice! Just the solid breathing I'm hearing on the other line is enough to make me melt!" Kuorgane twitched. "O-kay. That was a joke. I heard a song and thought of you. That's all. Why'd you call me?"

Kurogane paused a moment, contemplating that thought. Why had he called Fai? "Gah. I don't remember. I don't even remember ever getting your number… Yeah, a song… Hey wait a minute! You called me!"

Fai giggled on the other line. "Alright. Well! You fell for it! So, you're in a sports store listening to a song that's way to true to be comforting." Kurogane's mouth twitched, focusing his vision onto a pair of running shoes. He frowned. "And now…you're looking at something that can bought that reminds you of the bet I lost earlier…" Kurogane flinched, looking about somewhat paranoid. "Oh. And now you're looking for me. How sweet."

"Where are you God-damn it!" Kurogane roared. He spun around several times yet still couldn't find the culprit stalker.

"Hmm… Turn around fifty degrees and look up." Kurogane obeyed but still could not find the blond. A giggle entered from the phone. "You're bad at this game. I didn't say, 'Simeon Says,' Kuro-Tan. That's why I love you, though. You're always rushing into things without instruction or rules. It's so fun."

"Just tell me where you are, damn it!" Kruogane bellowed, his nostrils flaming.

"Hm. Simeon Says, 'turn around.'" Kurogane did so and found himself face-to-face with Fai who gave him a small peck on the cheek. "Yo."

Kurogane's eye twitched again. "What the Hell?"

"Fancy meeting you here, Kuro-Pon," Fai chimed with a bright smile. "I'm not harassing you, am I? I can leave."

Kurogane frowned. It was sickening how Fai said it all so happily with a smile. "You're fine. I'm leaving." Fai nodded his head.

These strand of lightening mean we're never alone, never alone,

Nu-uh

Come on, come, Jump a little higher

I wanna hear you whisper

Come on, come on, 'Cause everybody's after Love…

We're accidentally in Love…

Accidentally in Love…

We're accidentally in Love…

Kurogane left him with a cold shoulder. Still, Fai felt like something needed to be said – that something was wrong and incomplete. So he ran after him, embracing the taller male's torso from the back. "Hey, Kuro-Tsu…before you go... Do you remember…when we met? It was at a senior graduation party when this song first came out. You got too drunk to realize I was a guy. My friend told me to stay away from you 'cause you were bad but after a few drinks, I decided to play calm by sitting down. You came over and I was really nervous. But you seemed so completely different. You said I was pretty back then. I was only wearing that dress as a final farewell for kicks but…when you said I was pretty…it made me happy. And when you kissed me…this song was playing. Did you forget? I'll never forget but…when you told I'd look better without that red dress and that you wanted to see what was under the frills…I got scared. So I left crying. You can't forget that, can't you? Huh. It's been six years, huh? I don't think I liked you then… I don't even know where it began… It's ironic, really…"

Kurogane didn't say a word in his frozen case. He blinked a few moments as if Fai was contemplating what to say next. The grip tightened before Fai relinquished it and smiled. "I guess…I can leave you this way, too, at least. Kiss me a last time?"

We're accidentally in Love…

Accidentally in Love…

Accidentally in Love…

Accidentally in Love…

I'm in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in Love

I'm accidentally

Kurogane pressed his lips against Fai. For once, the blond was right – how perfectly ironic it was that this should be their first and final song. Stupid Fai, stupid kissing, stupid song…

Fai broke away quickly with a slight smile and twitch in his expression. "Well… Buh-Bi-Sees, Kuro-Ranran. Maybe some other time you'll look me up?"

Kurogane sighed aloud. This was rather fast-paced and unlike anything he expected. It was just supposed to be a little time off but that time was rather…unnatural. He grabbed Fai's wrist quickly with a slight blush, burying his face in Fai's shoulders. "If…you wore that red dress again…I might be able to remember why I thought you looked so pretty…" Fai bit his lip with lolled eyes and noted to himself that the guilt-trip always worked wonders.

I'm in Love…


Afterthoughts: Wow...that really sucked. Actually, it's not as bad as I innitially thought... Well, give me a review, please! I promise the next chapter will be better. In fact, I think I have an outline already...