the chapters seems to be a little small. but maybe they will gain length when the story progress.
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ChouRan: I would love to write my other Kurofai stories too! if my computer would work better I could have more fics on the road but as it is, only few at a time. now it would just suck in case my computer breaks down in the middle of it and I forget everything before I get the new one. but we have this one, and I want to write this :D thanks for the review!
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once more to all of you, thanks a lot for reviewing! here is the new chapter!

Chapter 2

The next day before school had started he was looking around for his friends. And he was keeping his eyes open in case he saw the blond again. It would be helpful if he knew in what class the guy was. Or find out what his name was. He was already dreading how awful it would be to ask about him from his friends. Yuko and Amaterasu were surely going to make fun of him. He sighed mentally. He hoped he could talk to Syaoran or Tomoyo alone without the two being present. But even more he wished he could talk to them before lessons. Otherwise he would have hell of a time trying to concentrate.

He didn't see the blond nor Tomoyo. But Syaoran was in his class already. It had always annoyed him that he had to be in the same class as Yuko, but different one from Syaoran and Tomoyo. His sole comfort was that Amaterasu was older than them and thus couldn't be a pain in the neck the whole time.

He walked up to Syaoran. Seeing him approaching, Syaoran smiled warmly at him.

"Morning" he said when he was close enough. Syaoran nodded.

"Good to see you" Syaoran and tilted his head a bit and gave him a searching look "Albeit it's not normal that you come here in the morning"

it was well poised question. Syaoran knew he didn't like being questioned, so he had developed this way of putting a question into a sentence and letting him know that Syaoran would listen if he wanted to talk. And also that Syaoran was curious.

He scratched his head

"well. To put it simply, do you know of a blond guy with bright blue eyes?"

Syaoran frowned

"That's all you know?"

he shrugged

"hmph. He also does gymnastics. Probably our age"

Syaoran's expression brightened

"You must mean Fai. He is in my class actually." Syaoran looked past him. "Actually, he usually arrives around this time."

he quickly looked behind him but there were no sign of a smiling idiot. He sighed in relief. Then he turned his attention back to Syaoran.

"You know anything else?" name was already good. And he now knew where he could find the blond. He was surprised that they were the same age. He could have sworn the guy was younger. It must have been the smile, he thought.

"Not much. He gets along with nearly everyone. But he has few closer friends too." Syaoran smiled "Like Sakura" Syaoran added dreamily. He couldn't held the smile in. as long as he recalled, Syaoran had had a crush to the girl. He couldn't quite understand it, but apparently the kind and a bit aloof girl was like a dream come through to Syaoran.

"Okay. Thanks" he said and turned to leave

"Why do you ask?" Syaoran couldn't not ask. He glanced his friend over his shoulder with a smirk

"because I wanted to know" he answered bluntly. Syaoran shook his head but smiled.

"Glad if I was able to help"

he nodded

"You did. Thanks"

he waved his hand and left the class. Once he closed the door behind him someone run into him and would have fallen down if he hadn't reflexively grabbed the flailing hand. He blinked and looked into a pair of green eyes. He helped the girl regain her balance before letting go of her hand.

"You okay?" he asked. Syaoran would be so jealous now. Maybe he should not mention about it. After all it had been one of Syaoran's biggest dreams, and obstacles, to get close enough to Sakura to talk to her. Let alone touch her. She nodded and smiled brightly

"I am. Thank you so much for helping me" then she blushed a bit and bowed her head "and sorry for running into you." the green eyes looked at him again and he shrugged

"No harm done." he said and was about to leave when someone called

"Sakura!" he heard hurried steps and Sakura looked past him, her expression lightening again

"Fai! Good morning"

a shill run down his spin but he kept from looking behind him. The voice was not playful and light as it has been yesterday

"Are you okay? What's going on?" hearing the concern his lip twitched. The blond was that worried about seeing his friend with stranger but ignored being abused. Fai came slowed down next to him and glared at him, and he lifted an eyebrow to that. The blue eyes widened when recognizing him

"You again" Fai said surprised, then glanced between him and the girl "What do you want?" the blond asked rudely. He chuckled and Sakura hurriedly cut in

"Fai, you misunderstood! He just kept me from falling"

the blue eyes narrowed and momentarily shifted to the girl

"Why were you falling?" the blond asked.

"Because I was hurrying and run into him. He did nothing wrong" the blue and green eyes were locked for a moment and then the blond sighed and run a hand through the blond hair.

"Okay." the blue eyes met his "Sorry"

then the blond pushed the girl towards the classroom.

"Oi" he called after the guy before the door was closed. The blond turned back towards him and instead of standing in the doorway the blond pushed Sakura inside and closed the door after her. Then the blond took a step back towards him. There was a silence when they just looked at each others. Then the blue orbs sifted away from his and the smile was pasted again to mask whatever Fai was feeling.

"What do you want?" the blond asked coldly.

"I want to know what's going on"

the blond shook his head and he figured the hair must be really silky to flow like that. He slapped himself mentally for getting carried away like that.

"I seriously don't know what you are talking about" the blond said. He rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.

"Why do you let him treat you badly?" he asked. Fai rubbed his arm like he would be cold.

"I'm not. He is good at what he does. I just have to try harder."

he shook his head in exasperation.

"If he would be good he wouldn't yell or hit you"

Fai looked around to make sure no one was listening them. Then the blue eyes met his again, and there wasn't a trail of smile left in them. They were big pleading pools.

"Please. Keep out of it. Let me be"

"I can't" he answered reluctantly. It was good to have the smile gone but he didn't like the blond's desperation. "It's wrong" he continued.

Fai threw his hands up in the air.

"You don't understand!" the blond exclaimed "There is no one else who could teach me. And I have to learn"

he leaned a bit closer to look straight in the blue eyes, both to calm him and to make sure he wasn't going to run away. When the blond had calmed a bit he asked

"Why? Why do you must learn?"

"It's complicated." the blond said quietly. Then there came a defiant spark in the blue eyes "And I have no reason to tell you about it. Why won't you leave me alone?" the blond snapped.

He snorted

"Because you can't take care of yourself. I saw how much you worry about your friend, so why can't you take care of yourself as well?"

the blond opened and closed his mouth like a fish out of water.

Then a bell rung. It broke the spell and the blond was all smiles again.

"Thank you for helping Sakura. Bye" Fai said, and walked to the door and went inside.

He stood still in the hallway and people pushed past him to get to their classed before the teachers came. He shook his head to get rid of the trans he had fallen. It had caught him unawares to get that much emotions out of the blond. He had thought it would take more to get past that mask of smiles. It was still a bother but he had glimpsed past him.

He couldn't even guess what made the blond so reluctant to set things right. He could tell that Fai knew it wasn't right what the coach was doing. But he couldn't wrap his mind around to why the blond refused to help himself.

Frustrated he turned and stomped to his own class. Gritting his teeth he sat to his desk. The blond annoyed him. And yet he just couldn't leave him fend for himself. He didn't want to see the blond's pale skin marked again. And who knew, it was possible that it would just get worse. It could end badly. Gymnastics wasn't the safest sport in the world. Twisted ankles and bent knees were common. He had spent some time looking for stuff about gymnastics yesterday. He had found nothing that would explain a red cheek. If the blond would have fallen from bar or something the mark would have been smaller. If he had fallen down there would also be a black eye. And to prove his deduction there had been nothing visible on the cheek today. Which meant the blow hadn't been too hard. Which again didn't fit for injuring during practice. There would have been a proper bruise because of the speed involved in the sport.

He rubbed his temple and forced the matter to the back of his head. He should be pleased that he had already found out something about the blond. His name, Fai. He wished he had told Fai his name. Next time, he swore to himself. Now that he knew where to find Fai he could take it easy. Especially since he could check up on Fai by just going to meet Syaoran or Tomoyo.

He picked up his pen and started taking notes from the board. There is time for everything and right now it was not time to dwell in thoughts of the blond but focus on learning.

how was it? you still like it?oh, I wonder how will they get closer to each others. if he just barks in, Fai will run away. and if he doesn't, how will he get past the mask? oh my. maybe I should have thought this one a bit more before starting to write... O.o well, I usually don't do things easy for myself.
but I am hungry now, so I'll see you later. thanks for reading, bye!