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I hope that all who are reading this enjoys this chapter. It's the second to last chapter of part one. xD

Chapitre 18: Everywhere

Kurogane ran into the bathroom to find no Shadows. Just Kyoki with a towel wrapped around her tightly and a wet wash towel in her hand.

"Die, bastard!" Kyoki yelled as she threw the towel in the upper corner of the room. "Damn it." She then ran over and reclaimed it and began to run back to her shooting spot, but stopped when she saw Kurogane. She jumped in surprise. "W-what are you doing here?"

"I heard you screaming. I thought Shadows were attacking." Kurogane said, trying to not look at her. He suddenly felt uncomfortable being in the same room with her while she was only wearing a towel...

"Oh... sorry about that. I thought I saw a spider. And I gave it my fighting cry... I guess." She squinted her eyes. "You are Kurogane-sama, right? I can't see very well since I took out my contacts to take my bath. Oh god!" Kyoki looked down at herself, realizing she was only wearing a towel. She hugged the towel closer to herself.

"I'll go." Kurogane turned to go.

"No, wait. C-can you get the spider for me? I won't be able to take a bath unless it's gone. And I can't see where it is going, so I would probably end up trying to kill it all night."

"Fine." Kurogane turned toward the corner she had been aiming at and stood carefully onto the edge of the bathtub so he could reach it. The ceiling was amazling high for a bathroom... He sighed when he saw that what she thought was a spider was simply a chip of paint that had come off, revealing the brown speck of wood underneath. He turned to get back down. His foot landed on a slippery wet spot and he slipped and fell into the water, bubbles splashed and many landed on his head. He was up to his neck in water and looked like a pissed off dog as Kyoki laughed at him.

"That was priceless. A ninja fell in water. Did you get the spider though?"

"It wasn't a spider." He said, glairing. "It was a piece of the paint that came off to reveal the wall behind it."

"... oh...." Kyoki looked up at it and squinted her eyes some more. "Well, from here, it looks like a bug of some kind."

"Kyoki-chan?!" Yume-chan suddenly called out.

"Kyoki-san, are you all right?" Syaoran yelled right after her.

"What the hell...?" Kyoki said as she turned toward the door. She took one step forward, stepping on the washcloth that was soapy from the bubbles, slipped and fell backwards toward the bath. As she fell she spun around, landing into the water on top of Kurogane, water, soap and bubbles rushing up her nose and into her mouth. When she came back up for air seconds later, coughing and trying to get air back into her lungs she found her face was inches from Kurogane's. She had one arm braced on the bathtub wall beside Kurogane as the other hand wiped to get the bubbles out of her eyes. Kyoki's legs were resting on the tubs bottom; One on either side of Kurogane's right leg.

"Oh dear." Yume said as she and the others entered the bathroom.

"Oh my. I'm so sorry." Sakura said as she turned and ran out of the bathroom, blushing.

Syaoran's face turned bright red as he looked away and ran out after Sakura. He closed his eyes and said, "I'm sorry" over his shoulder.

"My, my, my. What do we have here? You two are just so cute." Fai said.

"It's not what it looks like. He fell in, and then I did. And he has clothes on. See?" Kyoki said as she tried to grab an edge of his shirt to show them.

"Fai, let's leave them alone. It doesn't look like they are being attacked." Yume said, trying not to laugh.

Fai nodded.

They both left, closing the door behind them.

Kyoki stopped tugging at his shirt. She rested her head on his shoulder. "Why do such things like this have to happen to me..? Why...?"

"...."

"Oh!" Kyoki remembering where they were jumped off of him and sat down at the base of the tub, sitting in a small ball with her legs pushed up against her chest as she blushed. "I'm sorry. I'll get out." She started to get out, but was stopped when Kurogane grabbed her arm and pulled her back in the water.

"I'll go." He stood up and handed her the towel that had somehow came out off her.

She took it, as she blushed even more as she hugged onto the towel. Her face was so red she thought it was going to start glowing at any second.

Water dripped off of Kurogane as he began to walk out of the bathroom. Before leaving he grabbed one of the three towels hanging up and started to dry himself off as he left her room.

'W-when did that towel come off? Did he see anything? I hope he didn't... I mean he couldn't... I mean not with all of these bubbles... It's a good thing I found that bubble thing under the sink... but if I didn't then the others would know that nothing was going on... but then they would have saw body parts that they were not meant to see. There is not way he could have seen... but what about the towel... how did he know I lost it... well duh, he knew I lost it since he probably felt it touching him, thus, knowing I was towel less.' She smacked herself on the forehead with her palm. 'He'll probably never wants to talk to me ever again now. He probably won't want to look at me ever again either. I'm such a dumbass. Why am I such a ass around guys that I like...?' Kyoki sank lower into the water as she began to sulk some more.

Kurogane went back to his room and laid face first onto his bed, not even thinking about his wet clothing and how it was making the bed wet. He couldn't believe how idiotic that girl could be at times. He rolled onto his side as she tried to forget that whole incident.

In the bathroom Kyoki was doing the same... and it wasn't working for either of them...

"So why do you think she screamed?" Yume wondered. Turning her head to look at Fai. The two of them were laying on her bed watching television.

"Maybe Kuro-kon surprised her." Fai said.

"Maybe..." Yume sighed.

There were a few moments of silence.

"He still had his clothes on, didn't he?" Yume said.

"Yea, it did look like that."

"Why would he take a bath with his clothes on?"

"I don't know, Kuro-wee is just funny like that."

"Yea." Yume nodded. She looked back at the machine. "Those two are funny."

"What do you mean?"

"Kyoki and Kurogane-san. They act... like they always act... just they hold hands once in a while... At times it doesn't really seem they are dating... you know?"

"Yea. But Kuro-pon isn't the love-love-let's-hold-hands-all-the-time-and-kiss-type." Fai told her.

"He's more of the tough-love type, right?"

Fai nodded. "Yep."

"I see."

Kyoki sat in the bathtub for an hour thinking of what to say to Kurogane after all of this. She came up with nothing. Finally she decided to get out of the water. She dried herself off and quickly got dressed into her pajamas. She grabbed the nearby brush and began to brush her hair as she exited the room. Kyoki began to walk toward her bed where she was planning on sitting and watching television while she brushed her hair, but froze when she saw Kurogane walk past her room in the hallway.

Kyoki decided to close the door, so she took a step forward, but froze when Kurogane came back and stopped in front of her doorway.

They both looked at each other, but then both quickly looked away.

"H-hi." Kyoki mumbled.

He coughed softly to clear his voice. "Can I sleep on your couch? My still has pop on it and the bed is wet. Syaoran and Fai are both not answering. And that weirdo said-"

"S-sure. I'm going to sleep now. Good night." Kyoki dropped her brush on the ground and ran to her bed, pulling open the covers and jumping under them, then pulled them back over her; totally covering her.

Kurogane simply walked in, closing the door behind him, and went over to the couch and laid down.

Minutes past without any sounds.

An hour went by before Kyoki could muster up enough courage to talk to him.

"K-Kurogane-san?" Kyoki said from under her blanket.

"Hmm?"

"About what happened in the bathroom... I'm so-"

"I didn't see anything so there's nothing to apologize about."

"Oh... ok." Kyoki shook her head. "I'm sorry anyway. And I was wondering... since Fai wasn't going to tell you he is in love with you... should we stop pretending to be girlfriend-boyfriend....?"

Kurogane thought for a few moments. "Let's just keep the facade going until we get to the next world. If we tell those two blonde idiots that we were faking it, they may think we really were going out and broke up because they told us about them."

"Hehe, yea, you're right. Those two would think that... Good night."

"G'night." He replied.

Hours later after the two of them were asleep, Kyoki crawled out of her bed; her eyes closed. She slowly began to sleep wake over to the couch where Kurogane slept. When she got to him she kneeled down next to the couch near his chest and face. Her hand slowly reached out and touched his forehead.

Kurogane opened his eyes and instantly noticed that Kyoki looked like she was sleeping. He removed her hand, and held onto it.. "What are you doing?"

"I'm feeling your temperature."

"Why?"

"In case you need a blanket."

His eyebrow rose at this.

Slowly her eyes opened and she gasped. "What the? Why am I over here?" She looked around frantically.

"You were sleep walking." He told her.

"Oh, I'm sorry for waking you. I'll leave." She stood to leave, but was forced back down onto her knees since Kurogane was still holding on her hand.

Kurogane leaned forward, his face now inches from her own and moving closer to her own as the hand that had held her hand moved to her cheek. He ran his fingers through her hair. Moments later his warm lips were pressed up against hers. Her eyes widened as his other hand moved to her side.

"Crazy girl!" Kyoki heard Kurogane said, and was suddenly confused how he could be saying her name while his mouth was pressed to her own. She closed her eyes and heard him calling her again. She opened her eyes slowly to find that Kurogane was not kissing her or touching her at all. He was laying on the couch, looking at her curiously.

"What the hell was that? What am I doing here?"

"You tell me. You're the one sleep walking."

"Sleep walking? I... never done that before... I was having a dream where came I over here to see if you were cold and I was going to put a blanket on you... and then... and then..."

".... then?"

"I felt your forehead and woke up...."

Kurogane sensed there was more, but didn't press the matter.

"Do you need a blanket?"

"No."

"Ok, well, I'm going back to sleep then."

She started to get up, but was stopped by Kurogane's hand grabbing her wrist. She looked down at his hand, suddenly thinking that maybe that dream was not some simple dream, but perhaps a premonition.

"Is there anything else?"

"N-no. That was all I came over here for..."

He let go of her and she scurried back to her bed.

"Kurogane-san, thank you."

"What for?"

"For still talking to me. After that... I thought you would never talk to me again."

"....you're weird."

"Hehe, yea, maybe." She said as she smiled to herself as she drifted back to dreamland.

"Do you think Kyoki is mad at me? She's locked herself in her room and it sounds like she is playing Dance Dance Revolution again. She won't answer her door or anything." Yume moaned. It was two in the afternoon.

"I'm sure she's not mad at you. She could be dancing because she just really wants to dance." Fai assured her.

"Do you think so?"

He nodded.

"Since we told Kyoki and Kurogane, we should tell Mokona, Sakura-chan and Syaoran-kun."

And that is whom they found sitting before them ten minutes later. They had just told the three youngsters the news.

"We're sorry we didn't tell you two before, but we wanted to tell Kurogane-kun and Kyoki-chan first." Yume told them.

"It's fine." Sakura said, smiling. "I'm so happy for the two of you. You two make such a cute couple."

Syaoran nodded.

"Hehe, thank you." Yume smiled.

"Mokona knew from the very beginning about you two." Mokona said, smiling.

"Did you? You're so great, Mokona." Fai said smiling.

"That is another of Mokona's Secret Techniques." It told them.

Everyone laughed happily.

Ten hours later, Kurogane was about to slip off to sleep when there came a knock at his door. He opened his eyes, got up and opened the door and looked down at Kyoki.

"Hey... uh..." She looked over her shoulder. "Can I sleep in your room on the couch?"

He looked at her curiously. "What brought about this change?"

"N-nothing." She said as she looked over her shoulder again.

He sighed, stepping aside. "Fine. Take the bed."

"Huh? Oh, that is ok. I don't want to be a burden, so I'll take the couch." She told him, smiling politely.

He gently pushed her toward the bed as he headed toward the couch.

"But-"

"If you don't take the bed, I'll send you back to your own room." He stared at her.

"Fine, fine. As you say, Daddy." She saluted him and got on the bed. "These blankets are different from the ones from the other day."

"They were replaced. The others were wet."

"Oh. I see. Cool." She laid down and was asleep as her head hit the pillow.

"Crazy girl?" He said minutes later. After not getting an answer, he sighed. "Why do you always fall asleep when I need to talk to you." He growled, then on his back on the couch as he stared at the ceiling as he listened to Kyoki's soft snoring before he finally fell asleep.

I know the chances of Kurogane slipping and falling into a bathtub is like... nonexistant since he's such a wonderful ninja, but for the sake of this fanfic, I had to make him fall. LOL!
Kyoki and Kurogane finally kissed! Yay! Though sadly it was only a dream-kiss. Hopefully those two will be able to kiss for real one day.

I just wanted to give a quick thanks to FE Girl 1 and MonkeyGirlNaNoDa, AbsoluteFayFan and everyone else for reading and reviewing this fanfic. It makes me so happy!

Anywho, I'll try to have the next chapter as soon as possible so I can start to upload part two of this crazy little fanfic.

I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter! Well, then, ja ne until next time. XD