Disclaimer: If I were the CLAMP and possessed Fay and Kuro-chu, I wouldn't post this here but in TRC, right? Or, not right? …
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Chapter 3 – "Play".
The days following Kurogane's confession were… awkward. Sakura kept sighting each time Fay entered a room were the ninja stood, and Shaolan carefully avoided the both men's look. Mokona seemed concerned about the whole situation. Fay didn't get why the others acted so strangely. Indeed, Kurogane was the only one acting normally. He swore, he grunted, he tried to cut the mage into halves –normal nin behaviour.
The bigger issue, though, was Fay's. Fay couldn't help but be falling in love. With the man who yet loved someone. Tomoyo? But Kurogane's princess was gay as hell…
Not that himself wasn't going rainbow at all.
Now he wanted to know who was this evil person who had taken his puppy's heart. Now he was glad to have used magic back then, because he wouldn't had been able to stop himself from listening if he had not. Look at that, Kuro-tan, your naughty mage did some useful use of himself for once!
Look at that, Kurogane, your silly Fay is glooming because of you…
"You all right?" the ninja lightly asked as he was entering the room where silly Fay gloomed.
"I'm fine", the mage sighted. He remembered to smile. "How are you?"
" 'fine", the ninja grunted. He was looking for something. Surely one of his mangas.
"Here", Fay said. "You have one of your books there".
"[Grunt]."
"Oh, don't go, stupid."
Oops.
Kurogane turned an interrogative look to Fay.
"I was speaking to the fly", Fay lied. "Please don't hurt it, puppy. Puppies are so dumb when it comes to small things!"
"I'm not a puppy" Kurogane said.
He was definitively handsome. The mage almost sighted.
"Why are you so calm?" he wondered out loud.
"Why aren't you smiling?"
"Aaah…" Fay smiled. "Good point."
They stared at each other during a moment. Then Kurogane turned his back to go.
"Wait", Fay said.
"What?"
iNot that I care… who's that meany you're in love with?/i
"You're a big puppy."
Kurogane didn't even bother to answer.
It was worsening. Fay was getting ihooked/i by a nin. Just as a fish, ihooked/i! He was getting all emo too, pretending to read quietly alone on a corner and smiling widely to anyone who came in but thinking of his poor unloved self all the time. Well, some of the time. Mostly, his thoughts where all concentrated on a certain sombre idiot who also happened to be a smexy nin. Screw smexy nins!
Mere wish.
"I can't read", the blond decided. He stood up and wandered in the room until he tripped on Mokona's blanket. "But I'd fancy a video", Fay said as he saw on what, exactly, he had tripped.
Yuuko's camcorder.
Not a chance that it happened to lie there by chance. Not even Hitsuzen. iYuuko/i.
Fay switched the device on and recognised the scene: Kuro-puu's confession. Now, he could be a good ninja and switch the thingy off. But he was a naughty mage and wasn't going to.
He was to know this bad bad person's name. Wait. It could be anyone. It could be Shaolan for what he knew. It could be Sakura. It even could be Yuuko.
Or- there was a slight chance for this bad bad person to be him. Only a tiny one, but still. That'd be nice. That'd be iamazingly/i nice.
He would watch it without the sound first, just to be sure. Or, not. He would just skip the intro and jump right to the spot.
He pressed "play".