I do not own Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, though I so wish it was mine. Oh, how I so want to own this series for therefore Kurogane would be mine and then I would be able to do do whatever I wanted to do to him. Muahahahhahahahahah!

Yea... Alrighty then.

So this is chapter three and I hope that whoever is reading this is enjoying this fanfic so far and please forgive me for the crazyness in which this fanfic contains.

Chapitre 3: Fruits of chaos

He walked over to her. "What is it?"

"I found the book that Syaoran-kun wanted from Castor Bookstore." Kyoki said happily. Castor Bookstore was the store in which the two of them worked. "He saw this book, but didn't have enough money to get it, and then some old lady came in and brought it before Syaoran-kun could. I wanna buy it for him. He was so sad when he it was sold. But now I can make him happy with this book. I wonder how much it is." She began to turn the book around in her hands. "Kurogane... come closer..."

He leaned down.

"Why is that old guy looking at me so much? Do I have some ramen on my face or something?" She whispered to him. As she spoke she couldn't believe that her face was close to his once again. She couldn't count how many times they had been face to face in the span of only one day.

Kurogane sighed, not sure how to tell her why the old man was staring at her like that. "He wants to..." Kurogane closed his eyes as he tried to form the words in his head. He shook his head as he opened his eyes. "Just stay by my side at all times when we are in here. Do not be alone with him."

Kyoki looked startled. "Is something wrong? Should we go see if we can stay somewhere else until it's safe?" She looked out the window to see if the coast was clear to move to another location. It was not. Kyoki gasped when she saw the black blob that had the shape of a normal human, but was completely black with red glowing eyes. It was on the sidewalk before the store, walking past. The thing seemed to hear her gasp, for it turned it's head toward them, and rushed to the window, pressing it's body to the glass as if it was trying to get it. It pawned at the glass.

Kurogane stood to his full height and looked at the new creature.

Kyoki dropped the book.

"Nifty creatures, aren't they?" Hen asked, smiling.

The Shadow appeared to smile, uneven razor sharp teeth were revealed.

"It. It has teeth like Pennywise the Clown." Kyoki said, looking up at Kurogane's puzzled face. "It's a book from my world. It's called IT. And it lives in the sewer and it killed people, mostly children. They made a movie and his teeth were sharp like razorblades, like that thing. Good thing that thing isn't shaped like a clown. I-I'm rather scared of clowns." She laughed nervously as she picked up the book. She turned to Hen. "I would like to buy this book."

"Bring it over." He told her. She did so, but to his dismay Kurogane followed. "That will be ten thousand yen."

Kyoki dug in her pockets for the money. When she was done she gave it to the old man, who smiled at her in a way that made her want to hide behind Kurogane. Her left hand rested on her right hip.

"You know, I have another book just like this one in the back of my shop. I believe it's volume two, or three, can't remember. I can't have it open to the public since it's such a rare book. Would you like to take a look? Only two people can fit in the back room though. So your friend will have to stay out here." His eyes took on a mischievously, borderline insane glint. He reached out to take her wrist, but Kyoki pulled her hand back.

"No, thank you. I'm fine with this book." She disliked it when people she didn't know touch her, but she hated it even more when gross people like the one before her tried to touch her.

"Come on, it's a once in a lifetime type deal, young lady." He reached forward again, but was stopped when Kurogane grabbed his wrist.

"She said no." Kurogane snarled. He squeezed the mans' wrist tighter, causing Hen to cry out in pain.

Kyoki knew Kurogane was strong enough to snap the mans arm. She actually wished he would, she felt bad about this thought, but she despised this man greatly right now.

Hen attempted to use his other hand to try to pry Kurogane's hand off of him, but was halted when Kyoki pulled out one of her hand guns that she had hid on the inside of her baggy shorts. She pointed the handgun at the old mans head. She also took the book and hugged it to her chest.

"Do not touch Kurogane-sama." Kyoki said in a tone that Kurogane had rarely heard. She only used this voice when she was deeply serious or upset about something. "I think we should go now. This guy thinks he can touch you."

"You're weird." Kurogane said as he let the old man go.

The two of them started to head for the door, never letting Hen out of their sight. Kyoki lowered her gun, but didn't put it away.

"I wouldn't go out there with the Shadow right there." Hen told them without concern.

"And why is that? Why are these things so scary?" Kyoki asked. "If they can't be harmed by us or our weapons, then they can't harm us, right? Oh, by the way, I'm taking this too, you bastard." Kyoki reached down and grabbed a copy of the newest Magawan magazine.

Hen shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, they don't hurt you. But if you go out there, those Shadows can touch you and take control of your body until midnight. They make you do some 'embarrassing' things."

"Such as?" She asked, wanting to leave, but also wanting to know what these things were capable of.

Kurogane watched as the Shadow watched them back. The thing kept licking the glass as it snarled.

"My next door neighbor was possessed by one of them and it made him go to the cemetery and dig up coffins. Someone else I know was taken over and she and some stranger, who was also possessed, had sex for four hours all over town. It was quite amusing. Maybe the two of you will end up like that too. When she came too, a few days later she found out she was pregnant, she didn't have a clue who the father was, I did, since I saw the two of them going at it, but I wasn't about to tell her that." He chuckled. "And then there was the time I was out on a night like this. That was one hell of a night, let me tell you. The Shadow the possessed me that night was one perverted thing. I rather liked it, actually, wished the fellow could have stayed longer than the allowed four hours. You wanna know what it did in my body? First-"

"Wait, if that lady didn't remember what happened to her, why would you remember what it did to you?" Kyoki wondered.

"Because for some people, they let them remember what happened for others, they erase their memory of that night. I don't know why they do that, but that is just how they work. Now, as I was saying. First it took off all my clothes and ran around naked. But then it started to get other ideas as it ran. Wanna know what it did as it ran? It masturbated. Yep. While running too. But that's not the end of it. The Shadow ran into a fellow naked and the two of them started to have contests with my and that other person's rod. I don't remember whom the other person who was possessed. I think it was some tourist. Not sure."

"You... are so fucking gross. Kurogane, I know this is not a very nice thing of me to think, but I really wanna shot this guy." Kyoki said as she raised her gun, seemly serious. Her eye was twitching in a violent pissed off manner.

He reached out and lowered her hand. "Don't waste your bullets on someone like him."

"You know what, it was rather fun being controlled by those things. I think I'll have another wild night with those Shadows." Hen laughed crazily as he walked around the counter and rushed past the two of them outside. The door swung open, slammed against the wall then closed.

"I wanna go home..." Kyoki moaned. "I wanna leave this world. It was cool at first, but now it's just too much."

The Shadow tilted its head curiously as the old man walked toward it. The Shadow took a step toward him. Suddenly two more Shadows appeared out of nowhere. The three of them surrounded Hen. Hen just stood there, smiling deliriously.

"Is he crazy...?" Kurogane wondered.

"He must be. Who-" Kyoki shrieked as the three of them began to circle, snarling at Hen, and each other.

It seemed like they were dueling each other to who would win the prize of the body. All at once the three of them dived into Hen's body. Hen's body twitched and convulsed. The three creatures all appeared to be inside of him. Hen bent over, hugging onto his stomach as if in pain, though his face was blank. His eyes were like eyes of a dead person. Suddenly, he puked violently; sprays of blood began to pour out of his mouth, ears, nose, and eyes, even his ass.

Kyoki had dropped the books once the blood began to come. Now, her gun slipped out of her hand as the body began to shake some more.

A head of one of the Shadows came floating out of the back, but then it dived brutally back in. Hen's body stood up once more, blood splattered everywhere. The Shadows roared at each other from within the cadaver as the internal organs were being pushed out of the body through anyway possible. First the eyes popped out of the eyes, the heart began to be rammed outward toward the throat.

Before Kyoki could witness the brains coming out through the dead man's brain, he placed his hand on her forehead, pulling her toward him, her face now buried in the side of his chest. Kurogane watched on though, eyebrow twitching at the disgusting scene folding before him.

After the heart came plopping out of the mouth, the lungs, intestines, followed it what looked like a liver came out as well. What parts that came out of the rear trailed down the pant leg and fell to the ground around the feet. Two of the Shadows came out of the body, and gathered around the internal organs. The one remaining in the body, sneered before running off down the street with it's claimed prize. The two Shadows were joined by three more. The five of them bent over and began to lick up the blood with long protruding tongues; the tongues also scooped up the body parts and began to chomp on them hungrily.

Kyoki clutched onto the edge of his shirt. "W-what's that noise? What is happening, Kurogane?"

He felt her shudder. "Don't worry about it."

"Kurogane..."

"Hmm?"

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"For being so weak. For not being strong enough to see... to see something like that." She pressed her face closer to him.

"You're not weak." He told her. "Being able or unable to see something like that does not determine your strength."

"Thank you." She let go of his shirt and wrapped both arms around him. When both arms were around him, she was surprised by her actions. She couldn't believe that she was hugging him. For a split second Kyoki was going to let go, but then she remembered the body and just hugged him tighter.

Kurogane peered down at her. He was opened his mouth to say something about this sudden act, but closed it when he saw that the Shadows outside had finished their meal and were staring inside at them. They had blood dripping out of the corners of their mouth.

"Hosts... more hosts... need hosts..." The Shadows said, thought it was more of a hiss.

"We should call Yume and Fai at the apartment. We should call Sakura and Syaoran too. To make sure they are ok. Can we? Please? I need to know that everyone is all right."

"Yea. There were some stairs behind the counter. Maybe they lead to living quarters where we can locate a phone."

Kyoki nodded and removed her arms from around him. She bent over to pick up her books and gun, but froze when she saw there were now five of the Shadows outside the store.

"There... there are five now..."

"Six. There's one across the street." Kurogane corrected her.

She scooped up the books and gun and held out the gun to Kurogane. "You should have a gun too. I still have my other one. That way we can both have a weapon if we have to encounter them."

Kurogane nodded, tucking the gun into the waist of his pants. He began to walk again, but froze when Kyoki gently grabbed onto his hand with her free hand. He looked down at her and her shocked face.

"Oh my! I'm so sorry. I don't know what is going on in my head today." She let go. "First I hugged your face to my boobie area, then I kneed you in your manly spot, then I was laying on top of you, twice. Then I was sitting on you. Today is just turning into a really weird day cuz now I'm just hugging and holding your hand like I was well... allowed to do that kind of thing. I'm really sorr-"

"Just hold it and let's go." Kurogane said, turning his head so she could not read his expression.

"A-all right." She reached her hand out, pausing for a second so her shaking would subside. Finally she grasped his right hand and the two of them started to walk.

They walked past the counter, and down the short hall to some stairs. They made their way up to find themselves in a small apartment. Surprisingly it was a very clean, neat, tidy place. Kyoki located the phone on the counter and ran over to it. "What time is it?"

"Only nine-thirty." He answered. He grabbed a stool that was next to the counter and sat on it.

Kyoki picked up the phone and called the hotel number. There was no answer, she left a message on the phone machine, which was: "Yume? Fai? Are you there? Please pick up! Kurogane and I are at a bookstore. I really hope you two are at the apartment right now. If you get this, don't go outside. I'm telling you, seriously stay inside. You know those Shadows that everyone talks about in town... well they just killed someone. So please stay inside. And will you answer the damn phone, you idiot!! ... Well... I really hope you guys are all right... Later." After she left her message she hung up. She looked at Kurogane. "They are probably there right... just sleeping. Yea... sleeping..."

"Who knows? But I'm sure they are smart enough to stay inside if they know about the Shadows." Kurogane told her.

She nodded.

Well, that was the end of chapter three. Please R&R to let me know what you think of this fanfic so far. -

Later.