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Chapitre 5: Complicated

The next morning Yume stumbled out into the living room. She rubbed her eyes as she looked upon Kyoki who was on the fold out couch bed and Kurogane who was in the armchair. She blinked her eyes, staring at her cousin, wondering how she should tell her cousin about herself and Fai. And if she should ask Kyoki about Kurogane. She saw that the two of them were both were stirring toward wakefulness. Without thinking she turned, and rushed back to the bedroom, jumped on her bed and pulled the sheets over her head. Syaoran who just coming out of the boys room stood there for a few moments, wondering why Yume rushed to her room so fast. He shrugged, and continued to the kitchen to make himself something to eat before he had to go back to work. Normally he worked from four in the afternoon until one in the morning, but today he worked from nine to six, which were Kyoki's normal hours.

It was eight-thirty and he was wondering if he should wake up Kyoki.

He was relieved that he did not have to do that when he walked out into the kitchen and saw that Kyoki was already up.

"Good morning, Kyoki-san." Syaoran smiled.

"Hi, Syaoran-kun. You know, you don't have to call me Kyoki-san. I'm not that much older than you. But forget that for now. I got you a present. It's that book you wanted." Kyoki grabbed it from the table and then saw the two guns, she froze for a moment. She couldn't have possibly taken her gun off... so... she glanced at Kurogane, who was starting to wake up. Kyoki walked over to the younger man and handed him the book.

"Wow! Thank you so much, Kyoki-san. How did you find this?" Syaoran wondered.

Kyoki remembered the Shadows and Hans' death. Her face became pale.

"Kyoki, are you all right?"

"Oh, yes. How I got that book is for me to know and for you to never find out." She stuck out her tongue playfully.

"Ok. Well, thank you." Syaoran smiled.

"You have work this morning right? Wanna walk to work together?"

"Sure."

"All right. I gotta go get take a shower and get dressed." Kyoki said. She then turned and ran to the bathroom so she wouldn't run into Fai, Yume or Kurogane.

As she Kyoki stepped out of the shower, she realized that she forgot to grab clean clothes. She quickly wrapped a towel around herself, looked out the hallway to make sure there was no one coming, and ran to the girls' room. She was relieved to find both Sakura and Yume still sleeping. She was covered, but it still felt awkward running around with only a towel on. She quickly grabbed her clothes for the day and left the room. As she was closing the door did she finally realize that she was not alone in the hall. She turned her head to see Kurogane standing there.

"Oh, g-good morning, Kurogane..." She said, hugging her clothes tightly to herself. She did this not only out of embarrassment, but to make sure her towel stayed in place.

"Yo."

"T-thank you for removing my gun last night. My leg would have been really sore if I had slept on that side with the gun. It's happened before. Not fun. Ahehehe..." Kyoki said nervously.

"Oh... yea..." Kurogane crossed his arms over his chest. "Shouldn't you be getting dressed for work?"

"Yes!" Kyoki scampered to the bathroom, stumbling over a towel, and slammed the door behind her. She leaned against the door and sighed. "N-nothing happened between me and him... so why am I acting like something did? Well, maybe cuz he had his hand up your shorts last night."

Fai, who had been laying in his bed moments before remembered the towel that had dropped decided to go pick it up before someone began to question it. He heard Kyoki slam the door to the bathroom and figured this was the best time to get it. Fai stepped out into the hall, saw Kurogane walk back toward the kitchen where Syaoran was eating breakfast, he rushed looked up and down the hall and saw that the towel was farther away then he thought it would. He walked toward it and picked it up. As he bent over though, he overheard Kyoki talking to herself. He gasped slightly when he heard the part with Kurogane's hand up her shorts. He then grinned.

'Who would have thought that dear Kuro-run was such a pervert." Fai giggled as he made his way back to the room.

As Kyoki got dressed she thought she heard a giggle, but assumed she was just hearing things. Kyoki stepped out of the bathroom wearing a black skirt that came down to her knees. Under which she wore black tight shorts that had gun holsters for her weaponry. She wore purple socks that came up to her knees; she wore once again her black shoes with red stitching. For a shirt she wore a pink and white striped shirt that had a white rabbit with the words 'I'm worse than you' under it. As she looked at herself in the mirror she realized she should have spent just a few more minutes grabbing clothes. But she didn't really care if her clothes matched perfectly or not. She put her hair up in two ponytails, one on each side of her head. She grabbed her dirty clothes off the floor and placed them in the dirty clothes hamper in the corner of the small room. She opened the door, planning on grabbing the towel she had tripped over... only to find it gone. Kyoki began to question her sanity as she walked to the kitchen.

She walked over to the night table, grabbed one gun, lifted her skirt and holstered it, and then she grabbed the other and did the same. She turned to see Kurogane and Syaoran at the table, their heads turned away.

"I'm sorry, Kyoki-chan." Syaoran said, blushing.

"You guys are funny. I have on shorts underneath, see." She raised a portion of her skirt again to show them.

"Oh...I see." Syaoran put his dishes in the sink. "Are you going to eat?"

"Oh, no. I can't eat breakfast." Kyoki smiled.

"I have to go brush my teeth, I'll be right back." Syaoran ran to the bathroom. As turned the corner, he saw a crouching Fai who was peering in on Kurogane and Kyoki. Syaoran opened his mouth to greet Fai, but Fai waved his hand, indicating he did not want to be found out. Syaoran was becoming more and more confused and curious as to what was going on between Kyoki, Fai and Kurogane.

"Can you not really eat breakfast or is it something else?" Kurogane asked.

"Hehe, you're starting to sound like my dad. He always asked me things like that when I told him I couldn't eat anything in the morning. But today, I really can't eat because of my weird digestive tract...and because of last night." She looked at the ground.

Fai's jaw dropped as she spoke, his mind spinning a million directions at that sentence.

"Don't let what happened get to you. It was nothing."

"You're wrong." Kyoki told him.

"Whatever. At least drink some chocolate milk. At least your stomach can handle liquids in the morning."

"How did you know that?" Kyoki said, looking at him.

"Yume told me that you only can stand liquids in the morning. Though anyone can figure that out by watching you." Kurogane told her.

"But the chocolate part...?"

Kurogane sighed. "It's pretty obvious you don't like plain milk since you make gagging noises every time you drink it."

"Ahehe... I guess you're right." Kyoki walked over to the refrigerator, pulled out the jug of chocolate milk, grabbed a cup and poured herself some milk. Drinking it, then placing the cup in the sink.

"Ready to go?" Kyoki asked as Syaoran entered the room.

"Yea." Syaoran nodded. He grabbed his book. He planned on reading it during his breaks.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Kyoki ran to the small table, grabbed the magazine from last night and ran back over to Kurogane. "This is for you. Sorry, I forgot to give it to you last night."

"Thanks." Kurogane said as he took it.

She nodded and turned to Syaoran. "Let us go forth now!"

The two of them left the apartment.

"Hey, Syaoran-kun, what is that book about? I tried looking at it last night, but I didn't understand any of the symbols." Kyoki said as the exited the apartment complex and began to head to Castor Bookstore.

"It's the history of this town and the surrounding areas. I'm hoping something in it will tells us about Sakura's feather or have something about the Shadows in it."

"Wow, you're such a smart kid, Syaoran-kun." Kyoki looked at him with admiration.

Syaoran blushed as he opened the book and began to read as they walked.

Meanwhile, back at the apartment, Kurogane left for his day of work. Normally he walked alone, but today Fai followed him. Kurogane waited until he left the building to confront the blond haired man.

"Why are you following me?" Kurogane snapped.

"I wanna know where Kuro-gon works. So I'm going to follow you." Fai smiled at him.

"That's not something you need to know. So get lost."

"Aww, you're so mean, Kuro-pii, especially after we haven't seen each other hardly at all the last few days. It's decided, Kuro-tan. I'm going to use this time to make up all the lost time that I could have been calling you cute names, Kuro-pii. Don't you think that is wonderful, Kuro-ron?"

"Get lost before I-" Kurogane glared at him intensely. With every nickname said, it was like a stab in Kurogane's brain.

"Oh my, I have to go make sure Yume-chan is up. She can't be late for work again. Later, Kuro-tu. When you get home from work today, I have to talk to you about something important. So I'll see you think, Kuro-te." Fai winked at him.

Kurogane sweat dropped before turning around and running off.

Fai laughed as he skipped back inside. He entered the house and sighed in disappointment when he found that Yume was already awake and sitting at the table.

"I wanted to wake you up."

"Why?" Yume said, curious.

"Because you look so cute when you first wake up." Fai told her, smiling.

"Shut up. I've been awake for the last hour anyway."

Fai sat down next to her. "I wonder why those two didn't sleep in their beds last night."

Yume shrugged her shoulders. "I wonder too. I hope nothing is wrong though."

"Want me to tell you what I heard those two talk about this morning?"

"Huh?"

Fai told her about those two talking this morning about her not being able to eat and the line about not being able to eat because of last night.

"That might now mean anything though..." Yume said.

"Yea, I know. But wouldn't it be so cute to see a little mini Kuro-kun running around?"

Yume giggled. "That would be cute. Maybe something really did happen last night..."

"Yea, but that is really surprising... given how those two are..."

Yume nodded. "Oh my god! I have to hurry and get ready for work!" She stood up quickly.

"Want me to help you get dressed?" Fai smirked.

Yume punched him on the arm gently before running off to her room to gather her clothing.

What is going to happen next? Muahahahahhahahah!