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Chapitre 15: Scars

"Why won't you come swim with us?" Fai questioned an hour later. "Can't we just have Kyoki for a moment?"

"Come on, you know the two of you want to come in here." Yume followed up.

"No." Kurogane replied.

Kyoki slowly opened her eyes and saw Fai and Yume. "What's going on?" She slowly sat up.

"Finally you're up. Now get in here." Yume whined.

Kyoki looked at her surroundings. "I fell asleep?"

"Yep, and it was super cute. You used Kurogane's leg as a pillow."

"I did what?!" Kyoki looked at Kurogane. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to. Did I drool on you? Sometimes when I'm super tired I will drool. I'm so sorry~!"

"Don't mind that. Come swim." Fai smiled.

"You're still at it?" Kyoki asked. "Give it up already."

"They've been bugging me for the last hour. They want me to come in and they wanted to take you and throw you in." Kurogane informed her.

"What? While I was sleeping?"

"No, we were going to wake you up. Then throw you in." Yume smiled sweetly.

"But we couldn't get you cuz of big meanie there." Fai said, referring to Kurogane.

"Thank you, Kurogane." Kyoki smiled.

He looked away.

Kyoki looked around. "Hey, where's Sakura-chan, Syaoran-kun, Reo-sama or Mokona?"

"They went to go get a snack." Yume explained.

"Oh. Well, then, I think we should all get a snack too. Won't that be fun?" Kyoki asked as she stood up. She hoped that getting them out of the water would make them forget trying to get her into the water.

"They are brining it here so we can stay." Yume told her.

"Well, they might need help." Kyoki said.

"No, they won't." Yume replied. She glanced at Fai, who nodded.

Kyoki did not like that little action that happened between them. Kurogane noticed this as well and stood up.

"They have something planned." Kyoki whispered to him.

"Yea." He whispered back.

"I'm sorry we have to use force now, Kyoki-chan, Kurogane-kun. But..." Yume came out of the pool, followed by Fai.

"Stay back, Yume-chan." Kyoki said, taking a step back.

Yume ran forward and reached out to hug onto Kyoki, but Kurogane stepped in the way, holding the blond haired woman away from her cousin. While Kurogane was busy, Fai ran around and grabbed Kyoki in his arms as she began to run around to the other side of the pool. Kyoki tried to make him drop her by squirming about, but it didn't work.

Kurogane let go of Yume and started to run after Fai.

Fai looked over his shoulder and saw the mad ninja running after him and he laughed as he put Kyoki gently on the cement.

"Fai! You were suppose to throw her in!" Yume yelled as she stamped her foot and began to run after Kurogane.

"I'm sorry. I couldn't do it." Fai said, still smiling and running. "Daddy is after me!"

Yume smiled as her she thought about how to change her plans to get them all in the pool.

As Kurogane ran toward Fai, he picked up Kyoki and carried her over his shoulder.

"What are you doing? Why are you still running after Fai-kun? He let me go." Kyoki asked.

"He may have given up, but Yume is still running after us. She won't give up."

Kyoki looked up and saw that Yume was scampering behind them.

"So what are we going to do now? Just run?"

They were getting closer slowly getting closer to Fai with every lap around the pool.

"Let's push Yume in." Kyoki said.

"What?"

"It's the fastest way to end this. We push her in, and she won't be able to come after us, at least for the moment. Fai had the change to throw me in, but he didn't, so I think he is done with the whole let's-throw-people-into-the-pool-against-their-will-game." Kyoki said.

"Fine, but are you sure you're ok with me pushing her in?"

"Yes, do it." Kyoki said as she nodded.

"All right." Kurogane stopped and spun around to face Yume.

She stopped a few feet away from him, looking up at him, smiling.

Kurogane walked toward Yume, while Yume walked backward with a huge grin on her face.

"Kurogane-san, Kyoki-chan, you are both so naive." Yume told them.

"Kurogane! Watch out!" Kyoki cried out as Fai ran over and pushed Kurogane toward the pool. He stumbled for a few steps, but then regained himself, but then his foot stepped into a wet slippery part and he fell into the pool along with Kyoki.

The part of the pool they were in was the six-foot deep part. The deepest the pool got was ten feet; the lowest four.

Fai and Yume began to laugh at how they had tricked the other two.

Kurogane stood up and glared up at the two laughing idiots.

Kyoki came up second, her long hair covering her face and flowing all around her. She had to use both her hands and feet to keep afloat seeing that she was only five foot four.

Yume gasped and stared at Kyoki. "Dude, you look just like that girl from 'The Ring', Samara, the one who was killing everyone."

"Yea, I really feel like her too." Kyoki cupped her hands into fist, and then stretched out her arms and pulled her arms back, then slammed them forward, sending a large wave of water at Yume and Fai. Kyoki lost her balance and went under water, accidentally swallowing some water. She came back up coughing.

Kurogane sighed as he grabbed her and took her to the four and a half foot area.

"Thank you, Kurogane." She said as she caught her breath.

Fai sat down on the edge of the pool. "You two aren't mad are you?"

Kurogane responded by splashing Fai with a huge wave of water.

"Water fight!" Yume yelled as she jumped in and started to splash Kyoki and Kurogane.

Kyoki returned water back at her cousin. Fai slipped into the water and aided Yume.

Not wanting to lose, Kurogane joined in and splashed the blondes.

Minutes later, the fighting was still going on as Sakura, Mokona, Syaoran and Reo returned carrying food. They placed the food on the table as they watched the water fight.

"Hehe, both Kyoki-chan and Kuro-kun are in the water." Mokona said happily. "Let's go play with them!"

The group played in the water for a while longer before eating dinner. Everyone was tired from having so much fun that they all went to bed early. For the second night in a row, Kurogane slept on the couch in Kyoki's room while she had the bed.

He had fallen asleep in his normal fashion of having his left hand under his face and his elbow somewhat sticking out while his other hand rested along his side. He was still laying like that, but now he felt something warm on his left arm, and felt breathing as well. His right arm was also on something warm. He slowly opened his eyes and saw Kyoki sleeping next to him under the blankets. Her head was resting on his arm. He lifted his head and looked at his other hand, which was resting on her waist. He quickly pulled back his hand. He put his head back down as he tried to figure out how the hell he got on the bed.

Kyoki gasped, then sat straight up, waking from what appeared to be a nightmare. She laid back down and opened her eyes. She saw Kurogane looking at her and she squeaked, then rolled away, and fell off the bed. She peered over the edge of the bed. "Kurogane?"

He sat up. "Yea."

"Are you real? Or an illusion? Or a dream?" She asked.

"What are you going on about?"

"This must be real. Hitting the floor hurt too much to be fake." Kyoki came up and sat on the bed. "I was using your arm as a pillow. Hehehe.... yea... Ah... You're on the bed..."

"Yea, and I have no idea how I got here." He said as he tried to remember anything that would figure out how he got there. But nothing came.

"I was having a really weird dream, maybe you thought I was having a nightmare and came over, then fell asleep too." Kyoki said, shrugging.

He shrugged as well, and stood up. He took a few steps away from the bed.

"Where are you going?" Kyoki said, jumping to her feet.

"Back to the couch."

"Wait!" She stood on the bed and ran over to him and grabbed his arm gently. She looked at his arm. "C-could you still sleep on the bed? I... I had a really bad nightmare. I know it's only a nightmare... but... it still scared me... Normally I am not scared of my dreams, hell, I love nightmares, but this one..." Her grip on his arm slackened. "I don't quite remember what was going on... but all of you died, and I watched and couldn't do anything to save you. All of you... Syaoran, Sakura, Fai, Mokona, Yume... you... died. Hehe, I'm sorry, never mind what I said. It was just a dream. I'll be fine. I'm sorry for my behavior la-"

"Move." He told her.

"Heh?" She raised an eyebrow.

"If you want me to sleep here, then move." He used his hand in a shoo manner like Fai normally used.

Kyoki nodded and walked back to her side of the bed where she sat down and then pulled the blankets over herself.

Kurogane laid down like he had been earlier.

"Thank you. I'm sorry about this." She closed her eyes.

"Just go to sleep."

"Right." She nodded.

Meanwhile in Fai's room, Yume and Fai were talking. Yume was playing a video game as they talked.

"So what do you think Kyoki has to do to unlock the feather with Reo?" Yume wondered out loud as she paused her game to look over at Fai who was sitting at the small table.

"I don't know, but the two of them have been playing Dance Dance Revolution quite a bit lately. They were playing a little bit earlier today." Fai told her.

"Hmmm...." Yume began to think for a few seconds. "What would that have to do with the feather? Do you think it could be connected?"

"I don't know. That would be rather weird to play a dancing game to bring down the barrier." Fai said, shrugging.

"Yea, you're right. It would be a little bit too easy for that. And besides, Reo is a De-, I mean, Great Demon Lord and he would be make it something more serious than that... right?" Yume asked as she thought about how Reo was and began to think that maybe it would turn out to be just that.

"Who knows?" Fai shrugged once again.

"Anywho, do you think we should tell them now? About the two of us? Do you think now would be a good time to tell them? I feel so bad for keeping this from everyone, you know?" Yume told him, looking down at the ground.

Fai got up and walked over to her, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Of course we should tell them soon. I feel the same way. Now would be a good time to tell them, well, not right now, I think they are both sleeping.

"Do you think they will be mad that we didn't tell them right away?"

"Kuro-kun will probably be mad that I lied to him again, though I didn't really technically lie." Fai smiled. "Kyoki-chan will... ah... well, I really don't know how she will react."

"Yea. Kyoki-chan is a pretty easy person to figure out... but then again, there are times when she is very unpredictable." Yume sighed. "Like today, we knew how both Kurogane and Kyoki would be react if you grabbed Kyoki, then ran with her and then put her down as if you gave up. We also knew that Kurogane would continue to run after you with Kyoki in tow. But what we didn't know was that Kyoki would try to push me in. Nice quick thinking with pushing Kurogane and Kyoki in the water together."

"The plan didn't go that much out of accord. We were going to push the two of them in together when they caught up with me." Fai told her. "I don't think they are too happy with us now."

"They'll got over it. They were playing in the water with us, right? And Kurogane didn't go running and grabbing Sohi and running after us, did he? Yes they did, and no he did not. Thus, I think they are not angry."

"Ah, you could be right."

"What are you talking about with this 'could', I am right." She said, and then laughed.

Fai laughed as well.

Yume turned back to her game and began to play once more.

I am so sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up when I said that I wasn't going to take very long. I should be punished for lying. I'm so sorry!

Anywho, I have many more chapters already ready to upload, but I don't want to send up all up at once since I have to edit a few of them.

Oh, and there are only a few more chapters in 'Part One'. I have divided all the different worlds they to as parts. I hope that wasn't confusing. I'm rather tired and hungry right now so my brain does not want to work with me at the moment.

Well, I really hope that I still have viewers out there and that everyone enjoyed this chapter! Please let me know what you thought about it! Thanks! xD