Again, I am sorry for repeating myself, but I do not own Tsubasa or any of its characters. I totally wish I did, but at the same time I'm happy I don't since I don't think it would still be as awesome if I was the creator of it. Anywho, this is chapter eight and I hope that you all enjoy it!

Chapitre 8: Maximum Overdrive

"It's Kyoki?" Fai said, jumping up happily.

"Yes? W-what is going? Does Fai have amnesia?" Kyoki asked.

Kurogane just glowered at her; he had planned on giving a false name like she had advised earlier, but then she had to come out and thrown him off guard.

"Are you serious? It's Kyoki?" Fai said.

He looked away from her. "Yes." Kurogane didn't know why he said that, saying 'no' would have made things...easier... maybe... he wasn't sure. But what was said was said, and there was no point going back on it now.

"That is just so great! I'm so happy for you Kyoki-chan." Fai rushed forward, shoving Kurogane out of the way and glomped onto Kyoki.

"H-h-h-heh? What is going on?" Kyoki's voice was muffled from Fai's shirt since he was hugging her so tightly. "F-Fai-san, it hurts to breath. Please..."

Fai let her go and she grabbed pressed her hand to the middle of her chest to help her breath better.

"I'm sorry, are you all right? I'm just so happy for the two of you." Fai said, patting her on the head.

"Um... ok... I don't know what for, but thank you." She looked at the two of them, hoping the expressions on their face would give something up to what was going on. Neither of them did. "Um, Yume is in her bed, sleeping. She told me what happened, but she's calm now..."

"I'm going for a walk. Crazy girl, come on." Kurogane said.

"Oh... ok." She walked past Fai and joined Kurogane as they went to the door.

Fai followed them. "You know, Kuro-chi, you better be nice or she might break up with you."

"W-what? Break up? What in the fucking hell is going on? Are the two of you on drugs or something?" Kyoki questioned, but got no answer.

Kurogane just herded her out of the building. Once they were out, he led the way as they walked a few blocks away from the apartment, without saying a word. Kyoki remained quiet; hoping that he would tell her what was going on if she remained silent.

Once they were quite a distance from anyone they knew, he grabbed her head under his left one and gave her a noogie on the top of her head.

"Why did you have to come out then to complicate everything, you idiot?" Kurogane told her.

"W-what are you talking about? What the hell is going on?" Kyoki snapped.

He let her go. "Right before you came out, Fai was telling me... about... you know what he was going to say! And I told him I had a girlfriend. He asked who. I was going to give him a made up name, but then YOU came out and threw me off."

"Huh?" Then it all hit her like a brick in the face. "You. Told. Him. I. Am. Your. Girlfriend? What? Why me?" Kyoki took a few steps back, her back bumped into the building behind her as she sank to her knees. Her hand covered her mouth as she realized that now two people thought they were a couple. She felt so happy at this, but then a second later she felt sad that this was only pretend. She began to ramble as she tried to get over the shock. "Why did you pick me? I wouldn't make a good girlfriend for you... not even a pretend one. I'm a failure when it comes to guys or anything like that. I-I..."

'Should I tell him now how I feel about him? Would telling him now be a more better, easier time? Why did he say my name? Did he say my name because he likes me too? No! That can't be. He only said my name because I came out and it surprised him. That is what he said, so that must but what it was. There is no other way around that.' As she thought this to herself, she didn't notice that Kurogane was squatting down, right in front of her.

"Will you go along with this for now? I was going to ask you about it before, but that bastard had to drop that on me."

Kyoki looked at the ground as her thoughts raced. 'What should I say? What should I do? If I say yes, then I can pretend to be his girlfriend for a little bit. And that would so glorious, particularly since it can't happen for real. Just for a little bit, I can feel the wonderfulness of being his girlfriend, even though I'll be his fake girlfriend. But then I would have to lie to Yume-chan and the others. I hate lying to Yume-chan... but it will only be for a little bit... most likely... this is one in a life time opportunity...' She looked at him as he awaited an answer. Kyoki swallowed and said: "Yes, I will! I'll be the best damn fake girlfriend anyone has seen on this world or any world there freaking is!" She raised her fist with a shake of determination and jumped to her feet, only to be smacked in the head by the stores sign. "Owwwww!!" She fell back to the ground, holding her wounded head.

"Idiot." He moved her hand to reveal a cut about an inch across her forehead, it didn't look very deep, but plenty of blood was seeping out. "C'mon, there is a drug store over there." He grabbed her wrist and tugged her to the store where they brought some Band-Aids.

Once they were out, he cleaned up the wound and plastered a couple of them on her forehead.

"I'm so sorry for my idioticy. Thank you though." Kyoki said, smiling at him as he put the last one on.

"Whatever."

"So... just out of curiosity, why did you say my name?"

"I already told you."

"Yea, I know." Kyoki debated about saying more and decided to keep her mouth shut on the matter. She didn't want the whole thing to get called off because of her big mouth. "H-hey... since we are going to pretend, you know, to be girlfriend-boyfriend, how are we suppose to pretend to be like that?"

"I don't know, why the hell are you asking me for?" Kurogane told her.

"I-I never had a boyfriend before. And I didn't have any friends who were guys... well... I had friends who had guy friends who would sometimes talk to me... but... I usually avoided everyone back in those days. So... I have no experience. I just figured you would know what to do..."

"I haven't had a girlfriend." Kurogane told her. "So I wouldn't know."

"So, we're both idiots when it comes to this, huh? Well, at thought just came to me. We should look it up in a book. I know that sounds very geekish of me, but books help... sometimes. The internet is better at times, but books can be good when you don't have a computer with internet connections. Anywho, as I was saying about books, we could check out Hen's bookstore since it's an awkward thing to look up, so people might point and stare at us. Though it's in the middle of the night, but people here tend to stay up later, so there are bond to be people at the bookstore. Plus if we needed the books, we wouldn't have to pay since he's on vacation." She laughed weakly.

"Good enough. Let's go." He said.

She nodded.

And that is who they found themselves back in the bookstore of that once belonged to Hen.

Without saying a word to the other, the two of them began their search the moment they entered the building.

Five minutes into the search Kyoki thought she found the book that she was looking for. The cover had a drawing of a cute couple holding hands and smiling. She flipped through the book, and began disgusted as the pages flipped through. She violently tossed the book across the room. It hit the cash register and sent them both flying to the ground.

Kurogane stared at her. "What was that about?"

"That book. Was wrong. Oh so wrong." Kyoki told him.

Kurogane moved forward to check the book out. He wanted to know what got her all worked up for.

"Don't!" Kyoki rushed and blocked his way, her hands stretched out to further prevent him from moving.

"Get out of my way." He growled.

"No, you don't understand. It's not a nice book. It's about... well..." Her eyes trailed down his face, to his chest, to his waist. She closed her eyes before it came to his private area. "It's about what guys to with... with their things. I'm not sure, I just know it was gross and I threw it."

"I don't understand what you are saying." He walked around her and picked up the book and took a look. Moments later, he tossed the book even further into the store. It hit a bookshelf, which opened a small door that neither of them noticed.

"See? I told you, but no, you couldn't listen, could you?" She snapped at him before starting to look once again.

As time went on, they both began to think that this store didn't have what they were looking for.

"Hey! I think I found it!" Kyoki cried out happily.

"Me too." He told her.

"Good work, Kurogane-san. I think I am going to read this for a little bit. Hey, what should we do if Fai or Yume find them?"

"Don't let them find them and then you won't have to worry." He told her.

"Yea, well, duh. That's obvious. Should we just leave them here when we are not reading them?"

Kurogane shrugged. "I guess."

Kyoki nodded. She sat down on one of the armchairs and opened the book. "Are you going back?"

"Not yet." He sat in another chair and opened the book. He didn't like this place, but he wasn't going to leave her there by herself. He didn't know why, but he had a feeling that someone or something was watching them.

"Hey, where do you think that Shadow thing took Hen's body?"

"I don't know."

"Do you think the Shadow is still using it?"

"Don't know."

"What time should we leave tomorrow?" Kyoki asked as she turned the page in her book.

"Shouldn't you be reading instead of asking questions?" Kurogane snapped as he began to get tired of having to stop reading every two seconds.

"I am. I can read at talk at the same time, can't you?" She looked over at him.

"N-no. You're just weird."

"Perhaps." She said, nodding as she turned back to the book. "So?"

"We'll decide later. Who knows what will happen before then."

"Righty-o, Kuro-to."

"My name is Kurogane."

"I know, I just needed something that rhymed. Don't get your knickers in a twist over there." She told him.

He just growled and continued to read.

An hour later the two of them were finally ready to leave. As the two of them walked, it began to rain.

"Yay! Rain! I always like walking in the rain." Kyoki said as she jumped around happily.

"Hurry up or you'll get sick." Kurogane snapped at her.

"No I won't." Kyoki stuck out her tongue at him. She suddenly stopped, whirled around and scanned the area behind them.

Kurogane did the same. "What did you see?"

"I... don't know. I thought I saw someone following us... but... there's no one. Maybe I'm just paranoid."

"Let's go." He turned to leave.

"You know, even though it's a common sense type of thing, the book said that a couple who are dating, or pretending to date in our case, they should hold hands." Kyoki said, looking up at the sky, her back to him.

"Why are you worried about that now?" Her random shift of thoughts confounded him at times and this was one of them.

"I just want everything to go ok. I did promise you that I would be the best damned fake girlfriend, didn't I? So therefore, I will." She whirled around to face him. A small smile on her face.

They stood there in silence for moments.

"Or not. Now that I think about it, it may look odd if you held hands with-" She said as her smile slipped away.

He held out his left hand. "Take it."

"Heh?"

"Take my hand before I change my mind."

She reached out and slipped her hand into his.

"If we're going to do this, we better do it right." He then slipped his fingers between her so they were intertwined.

"R-right." She said, surprised by this action of his. His hand was so warm and strong that it made her feel an intense wave of happiness overcome her.

They walked into the apartment still holding hands minutes later. When no they saw that no one else was awake, at least not in the front area of the apartment, they let go of each other's hands.

"I'm going to sleep now. So goodnight."

"Me too."

Kyoki headed toward her room, as did Kurogane. She turned right before their paths were to split.

"Goodnight, Kurogane."

Without fully thinking about it, Kurogane's arm shot forward, grabbed her head lightly and pulled it to his chest in a split second hug. "Good night. Get dry clothes on."

He let go and slipped into his room.

Kyoki stood there in shock for a few moments. After telling herself that it was nothing that he was just staying in character, she turned and went into her own room.

Yea, so that is chapter eight. I'm sorry if there are lots of typos. I try to control them, but they do get in here many of the times. Anywho, I really hope that all of you enjoy this chapter. I'll try to have the next one up as soon as I can. .V