Disclaimer: As you know these guys don't belong to me no matter how much I may wish it.

The original story line however is all me. Evil plot bunnies run thru my head. Oh look, there are bunnies on my feet too. Arruuggh they are everywhere!

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Chapter 19 – Souls

Dinner had been 'inhaled' that was the only word Watanuki could think of for the way it had literally just disappeared under the greedy hands and into the mouths of the ignorant horde. His marvelous creations barely acknowledged much less savored as the masterpieces they had once been. Watanuki sighed deeply as the sated masses now demanded SAKE to top off their gluttonous evening. He went to warm a dozen bottles, sure that that was only going to be the beginning of a long long night of drinking. 1 Alcoholic Dimensional Witch, 2 animated plush toys that absorbed booze better than any sponge, the deadly looking Ninja, a pair of maniacal Mages, A giggling meowing princess, Doumeki (enough said), And just when HAD his perfect Himiwari turned into a lush.

The only other sane person in the group beside himself was Syaoran, so he recruited him into helping serve the Sake to the Idiots. They were all going to have killer hangovers in the morning of that he was certain.

Kurogane and Doumeki had kept their Mages close since the garden, Aya and Fai were currently sitting next to each other just holding hands, the fingers idly making circles in the others palms and such. The Ninja and the Archer flanking them. It was so wonderful to be able to just 'touch' one another it had been SO long, so very long.

Yuuko looked over the large group of friends, the roads they had traveled so far, the roads they had yet to travel were difficult, and would be harder than ever in fact. But the rewards, those were rich and so full of love for each of them. The magic always saw to it, that there was 'Balance'. The price was never more than a person could pay, that the prices 'were' getting harder and more difficult was because they were all getting stronger and able to bear more. But they would need to bear much much more before the end. She prayed it would be enough.

"Now that we have finished Watanuki's fine dinner, I have a tale for you all. Kurogane-san, Syaoran-kun and Sakura–hime have already learned most of the Twins past. But the others have no knowledge of the tale, and even Fai-san and Aya–chan do not know all of the truth."

All eyes turned to the Witch, the group settled in for a rare treat. Yuuko was going to hand out information.

"First off to clarify matters, Aya–chan was, in a previous life one of a set of twins. These twins were named Fai and Yuui, Aya-chan was the twin called Fai, and our dear Fai-san was originally called Yuui. Got it?"

Sakura counted off her fingers. "Fai-Mommy is Yuui and Aya-chan is Fai originally."

"Excellent, Yes exactly, so back to my story. To start at the beginning, before they were Identical Twins, they were one. Part of race a beings in a world that now no longer exists. They were a happy and balanced people. Each being was utterly complete you see, their souls contained enormous amounts of spiritual energy as well as containing equal amounts of both Ying and Yang. As a people they were also hermaphrodites, each one being able to bear and raise children. It was a beautiful world. (sigh) But eventually 'Others' found this world and jealous of the peace and joy these beings had found set out to destroy them. It wasn't hard, war had not been known to these gentle people for a millennium. A powerful and angry God cursed the beings, splitting their dying souls into two separate entities for all time, before he completely destroyed their world. Then he cursed the souls to be forever born one with the other, as part of a pair of identical same sex twins. So that they could never ever truly 'be together' though they would always be together. Like all curses there is a way to break it. For if one of the twins manages to bear a child to the other then the curse shall be broken."

"Oh how sad for them, Yuuko-san" Himiwari, Sakura, the Mokonas even Watanuki sniffed a little. Doumeki was listening intently with his usual bland expression, as was Kurogane.

"Now I take to another world, one ruled by an Emperor who is slowly losing his grip on reality, his youngest brothers wife had given birth to a set of lovely blonde haired blue eyed identical twin boys, called Yuui and Fai. The Emperor was not making the best decisions, but his madness was still mild so to cover his mistakes he blamed the beautiful twins, calling them the 'Twins of Misfortune'. It took even better than he had hoped, soon the entire country was blaming the twins for every misfortune from the weather to war. Eventually the Emperor had to make a public display of the twins, plus in his growing madness he now truly believed the rumors he himself had begun."

"The twins were to be taken to the valley of the sinful dead and there imprisoned, one at the top of a tall tower situated at the valley's core, the other at its base. To be separated for all eternity. For so the Emperor said if the 'Twins of Misfortune' were unhappy then they the people would in turn be happy. It was madness."

"That's horrible how anyone could do that, and to little children. I can't even image what it would be like." Himiwari and Sakura were openly crying at the sad tale, the Mokonas were bawling and Watanuki's eyes glistened. Aya looked towards Fai and replied.

"Pray you never, ever find out."

"Yes, well so things stood for many long years, Fai locked in the top of the tower with no way down, Yuui at the base roaming the valley of the sinful dead. Constantly looking for a way to reach his twin, going so far as to try and stack the corpses of the sinful dead to try and climb up them. None of it worked. Fai could only just barely see out the lone window to see the sky and never his twin Yuui below, and Yuui saw only occasional glimpses of his twins fingers as he grasped the bars of the window trying to find a way to look out and down at his beloved twin."

"Until the day that magician came. That man told both twins the very same thing, at the very same time. That he could save only one of them and that that one would be allowed to leave, but that the twin had to 'choose' either himself or his twin. Yuui choose Fai, and far above in the Tower the magician told Fai that Yuui had chosen him, so he might as well choose himself. But the magician had not counted on the strength of Fai's heart, wakening the sleeping magic within, Fai blast the wall of the tower and flung himself to his death below. He had chosen, his choice was Yuui."

"Waaaa! It's so sad." "Shhh Mokona, it's alright there, there, they are both here now aren't they." Watanuki was trying to calm the slightly tipsy and very upset Black Bun who had not gone to the world of Celes with the others and hadn't heard the story before. Himiwari and Sakura were holding on to each other, tears streaming down their faces as they continued to drink Himiwari's spiked Tea.

"Ahem, That Magician (who we all know was Fai Wong Reed) turned to the remaining twin. Telling him that soon a man would come to take him away, the magician placed two curses upon the shell shocked twin before he left, who sat staring at nothing cradling the dead body of his other half. A short while later Ashura-O of Celes came to the valley, there he found the traumatized child clinging to the dead body of his twin. Taking that child home with him he raised that child like it was his own. Knowing that someday this child would be the one to answer his wish. The child upon being asked his name.."

"I told him I was Fai, I never wanted to forget you, I wanted to make sure you were always a part of me. He gave me the full name of Fai D. Flowright." Fai explained, Aya smiled, and gave the hand she was holding a gentle squeeze.

"Yes, well as Ashura-O took that small boy child back to the world of Celes, meanwhile in another world there was a girl child being born her soul was that of the deceased twin, Fai."

"Ah Yuuko you can, you know gloss over my life there it was kinda you know boring and all. There was no magic in that world." (Not to mention long, and would totally give away her previous age in that life.) Yuuko completely understood this, and she did really, after all once a woman passes a 'certain' age we all tend to want to forget how old we actually are.

"As you wish, then let it be said that the girl child was born lived for a 'while' and was dreadfully lonely and completely unfulfilled. She had a wish deep in her heart, one I heard and could grant for a price. I brought her here, for she has a destiny to fulfill and some Very Important People to protect. Good enough?"

"Excellent."

"And there you have it, now Fai-san and Aya-chan are reunited at last."

"Yay! Hic-up, I Love happy endings. Hic-up."

"Watanuki, why don't you take Himiwari-chan to your room, I believe she's had enough for tonight, plus you should turn in as well. Tomorrow morning will be here before you know it."

"Don't I need to pack anything?"

"Oh no, I've taken care of all that for you."

"That's what scares me you've packed for me before." Visions of skinny jeans and too tight shirts floated before Watanuki's tired eyes. He just hoped she had left out the rubber duckies this time. He still didn't know what those had been for, they'd been at the BEACH for goodness sake. Watanuki gathered the giggling Himiwari to him and steered her to the room he used when he stayed at the shop. Hmmm this had some definite possibilities he thought as Himiwari began to nibble on his neck as they walked down the hall, her hand sneaking up under his shirt.

"Princess Sakura should probably turn in as well." Said Syaoran,

"Meow, you have to catch me first, party pooper. Meow." Sakura bounded up and ran away from the very put out Syaoran.

"Damn what was in that Tea! Princess, Princess get back here..." Syaoran sniffed the Tea cup suspiciously before chasing after the meowing princess, the Mokonas joined in the chase, causing as much mayhem as was possible for two tiny animated plush toys, maybe more.

"Witch-san, now that all the children are gone, does this mean what I think it does?" Kurogane gestured to the two blondes sitting between him and Doumeki they had gone back playing finger games and sighing at each other. "I was listening to the story you told, Fai and Aya are no longer the same sex?"

"Oi"

"Fear not it will be long in coming. But now the curse can be broken for those others of that race. It is part of their Hitsuzen that it be so."

"And what of them?"

"They will be alright eventually. They must separate yet again as part of the price. It is a hard burden for them, the lifting of such a horrible curse upon an entire race of souls."

"Yuuko, is there nothing we can do?" Doumeki asked as he smoothed the hair of the oblivious girl at his side.

"Love them, support them, they will need you far more than even they know. These two are closer than anything, for they are each half of one soul. But their love for each of you is true, never doubt it. Never. Despite what idiocies might come out of their mouths at times, eh Kuro-tan?"

"You got that one right."

"More Sake? Or would you rather we moved on to the good stuff?"

"Break out the good stuff Witch-san I think I'm going to need it if I have to watch these two Idiots drool over each other for much longer."

"I'm in." Sighed Doumeki, just then Sakura came bounding thru the room heading out to the Garden, Meowing loudly, with Syaoran and the Mokonas still in pursuit. Fai and Aya broke from their Twin Flame induced Coma at this disturbance. Fai jumped to his feet, drank down the last of the Sake left on the nearby table…

"Last out to the garden is a rotten egg, Meow, get some more booze Kuro-pi..Meow..Time to party! Meow…"

Out he ran into the garden arms waving in the air joining the chase, his ex-twin not far behind, Kurogane tried to grab them both, failed and went after them.

"I'll get the Bourbon"

"You're such a good boy Doumeki-kun."

Twins of Destiny, their Hitsuzen brings them together only to separate them again come morning. Their destinies entwined with each other and those of their Very Important People.