I do not own Tsubasa or any of it's characters. I do however own Kyoki Okamiki and any other original character in there unless I comment otherwise. For example, Yume Kasai does not belong to me, but I have permission to use her.

Chapitre 4: Still

Yume walked over to the phone in the kitchen and saw the red beeping light. She had just exited the shower, her hair was still wet. She didn't bother putting on any clothes; just a towel was wrapped around her. She pushed the play button. The message that played was distorted, but she could tell it was Kyoki. The message came out as: "Yume? Fai? Ar... ere? ...ick up! Kurogane...nd I are at a... ho...tell... seriously stay... Shadows... someone... stay inside... damn phone...idio-"

Yume looked at the phone, confused.

"Aren't you just a brave little soul walking around with only a towel on." Fai said, smiling at her as he hugged her from behind.

"So are you." Yume said, placed her hand on his thigh and tugged gently at his towel. "I think there is something wrong with our answering machine." She replayed the message for him.

"Hmm... so are those two at a hotel right now?"

"I don't know, but it does kinda sound like that. I think she was reminding us of the Shadows too and to stay inside."

"Those two staying at a hotel together." Fai whistled. "I didn't think those two would sleep together so soon."

"You know, the way you say that makes us sound like, I don't know..." Yume looked at the phone, worried. "I'm worried about Kyoki. She sounded upset.

"Lets' call them back then." Fai said, a mischievous glint in his yes. He let her go and sat down on one of the nearby chairs. "I wonder what they are doing right now."

Yume punched him lightly on the arm. She picked up the phone and dialed 69. She quickly wrote that number down and called it. The phone was picked up on the third ring.

"H-hello?" She heard Kyoki say.

"Hey, Kyoki. It's me. Is everything all right?"

"Yume! Oh my gosh, I'm so happy you are all right. Is everything ok there?"

"Yea, everything is fine, why wouldn't it?" Yume asked.

Right before her cousin began to talk, a huge burst of static hit and she could only hear fragments of what she was saying. What she did hear was: "Shadows... not ha... tures... Believed...erous...ed the owner... ore... ay inside until...gone... alled Syaoran and Sakura... are safe... ow... stay in..." The phone cut off there as a burst of thunder came and rain began to pour. Yume placed the phone back down on the receiver.

"Well, they are all safe, that is good." Yume sighed in relief.

Fai stood, wrapping his arms around her; he nuzzled his face in her neck. "Since we're going to be alone for a few more hours, wanna go for round two in bed?"

"Round two? Don't you mean three? We did it again in the shower, remember?" Yume said as she put her hand on the back of his neck, her fingers running through his blond hair.

Fai pulled his face back from her neck.

Yume pressed her lips to his.

Moments later their kissing became more intense. Slowly the two of them made it back to the bedroom. As they made their way to the bedroom, one of their towels fell off, but that didn't stop them...

"Argh. They're still out there." Kyoki said as slid the curtain back over the window.

The two of them were currently staked out in Hen's small apartment.

"Of course they are. The last time you looked was less than a minute ago." Kurogane snapped.

Kyoki plopped down on the other stool at the counter. "I wonder what Yume-chan and Fai-kun are doing right now. I wonder if they are working on ways for Fai-kun to admit his feelings to you."

Kurogane growled, wanting to not talk about that.

Kyoki yawned and dropped the subject. "What time is it?"

He looked at the nearby clock on the wall. "Eleven thirty."

"Do you think they will really leave at twelve? I mean, there haven't been any serious reports of violence from these things, but tonight... I think there is something fishy going on here." Kyoki said.

Kurogane remained quiet.

"Many people think that the Great Demon Lord is doing this, but I don't think he is. It's been said that he has been around for at least a thousand years. And this Shadow stuff has only been happening for about four years. It doesn't make sense that after a thousand of years he finally decides to torment the people with the Shadows. Some people who talked seemed to think of him highly, like he wasn't some evil demon, but someone who looked out for the people. And then there were some who said the opposite. Of course everyone is going to have different opinions, so I guess that is understandable." As Kyoki talked, her eyes began to feel heavy. She folded her arms on the table and rested her head on them. "I almost forgot... I have work... tomorrow..." With that, she drifted off to sleep.

Kurogane walked to the window and looked out. Standing down in the street were now seven Shadows. They were all looking up at him.

One hour later, Kurogane opened the door to their apartment. Kyoki was fast asleep in his arms. Her arms were wrapped tightly around his neck. He had had to carry her since she wouldn't wake up long enough to walk home. So instead of wasting time, he just carried her.

At midnight, Kurogane had looked out the window. At twelve o'clock there was a crack of thunder, and the Shadows disappeared. There was no evidence in the area that they had ever been there.

Kurogane decided to put Kyoki on the fold out couch bed since he felt rather uncomfortable going into the girls room while they were sleeping, even though he was only putting Kyoki in her bed, it still felt odd to him. So he carefully placed her in the armchair as he began to figure out how to unfold it. He placed the books on the nightstand table.

It took him quite a few minutes, but he figured it out. When he was finished, he walked back over to Kyoki and gently picked her back up and placed her on the bed. Kurogane then proceeded to take off her shoes. He put her gun on the table next to the bed. He was about to leave, but then remembered that her second gun was still somewhere on her under her shorts. Kurogane remembered that the gun on the table had come from her right side, so the other one must be on her left side. He poked her left thigh, unsure where it was exactly or even how to get it out. He had learned that Kyoki liked to keep weapons hidden on her, and she liked to be the only one who knew how to get them out. She had never explained why she did that.

After poking a few times, he finally located the second gun. There were two ways to get the gun out, and he didn't like doing either one. The first was to stick his hand down the left side of her shorts and grab the gun and pull it out. Or do the same, but put his hand up the underside of her shorts. After standing there, debating to himself, he figured it would be easier to grab it from the bottom. If he did it from the top, his hand might get caught on the waistband and then she would wake up... and that would be awkward on so many levels.

He kneeled on the bed, as he slowly, carefully slid his hand up the left side of her shorts. He felt the muzzle of her handgun, grabbed it and pulled on it... only for it not to budge. Instead of looking he felt higher up along the gun and realized that some straps built into the shorts buckled it down. Kurogane sighed as he unbuckled the straps. Then he once again tried to pull the gun out successfully.

He then turned to go to his own room, but as he took a step away he realized his pants were caught on something. When he turned to further investigate he learned that Kyoki's' hand was grasping them. Kurogane tried to get them out of her hand, he succeeded, but it was hard. She had a tight grip for someone who was asleep.

Once his pants were out of her hand though, she began to twist and turn on the bed as if she was having a bad dream.

"Kurogane... please don't leave... the Shadows..." She curled into a tight ball.

"Calm down, I'm still here." He told her, which seemed to calm her down since she uncurled herself a little. He grabbed a nearby blanket and put it on her.

Kurogane turned off the light, and sat down on the armchair.

"Kurogane?"

"Still here."

"...ok..." Moments later Kyoki began to snore lightly.

Kurogane closed his eyes and started to sleep as well.

Thirty minutes later, Sakura, with Mokona on her shoulder, and Syaoran walked into the room.

"Mokona is tired after a long day of-" Syaoran putting his hand over the rabbit's mouth cut off Mokona.

"Shh! Kyoki-san and Kurogane-san are sleeping." He said pointing to the two older ones.

"I wonder why they are sleeping out here." Sakura wondered. "Kyoki must be cold, she's shivering and curled into a ball. Her blanket was at the end of the bed. Sakura walked softly forward, grabbed the blanket and tucked it back over the older woman.

"We should get Kuro-pii one too." Mokona whispered.

Syaoran nodded, walked to a nearby closet and pulled out a blanket. He walked over to Kurogane and placed it over the sleeping man.

Sakura yawned. "I'm tired. I'm going to sleep now."

"Me too."

The two of them walked to the end of the hall and stopped before their rooms.

"Good night, Syaoran-kun." Sakura smiled.

"G-good night, Sakura-hime." Syaoran said, blushing slightly.

"Goodnight, Syaoran-kun." Mokona said, waving as Sakura and itself exited to the girls' room.

Syaoran then opened the door to the boys' room and went to his bed and laid down.

And so that was chapter four. I'm sorry if there were any odd moments when people read this. I'm trying to broaden and improve my writing and thus I'm sorry if there is any confusion.

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