Boo!

Chapitre Five

Concede

Wow, look at that! I got reviews! – Squeals – Okay so many of you are probably like "Wdf, what the heck is the costume?" This chapitre will explain the other's costumes and what Fai was going to wear!

… If this chapitre doesn't make you happy, please bear with me. Updating everyday is messing up my head. Now, to all those who reviewed…

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Happy Halloween Everyone!

After the "exhausting" moments a few hours ago, Kurogane had managed to drop into his bed, pulling the covers over him without changing clothes. From a distance he heard someone shout "We're home!"

The girlish scream rang in his ears, bothering him like bees buzzing around his head. Shaking his head lightly, Kurogane slammed his head into the pillow, yelling.

"What is wrong with me?" he bellowed to no one in particular.

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Fai had opened the door to let the group in, smiling sweetly as they came in with their costumes.

"I see you're all ready for tomorrow!" the mage exclaimed, all chipper. Syaoran nodded.

"Yes, Fai-san. What about you?" Sakura asked. Fai patted her on the head once before spinning around and running into the hallway. Before he left he shouted,

"That's a secret!"

And will remain a secret until tomorrow.

Yuuko and Watanuki stood there, faces grim as they glanced at the sweet, innocent and calm Syaoran who was talking to his princess. Oh how scared they were when he approached them without warning. Even Yuuko was shivering at the thought.

Sakura had run to the bathroom with Mokona that had appeared before them the moment they came home.

Syaoran sat under the kotatsu, sighing as warmth returned again.

Watanuki turned around to leave for his own house before Yuuko grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him back. Eyes glinting in anger, she whispered to Watanuki, "Don't you dare leave me alone with that kid." She nodded her head towards Syaoran who was peacefully lying down on the floor, sighing to himself.

The employee shook his head wildly. "No way! I don't want to stay with him after what happened at the restaurant!"

He shook involuntarily.

Flashback

The waiter had come by with plates of sushi, crustaceans, and just regular fish. He had been clumsily walking over the bags that had been kicked out into the aisle, making him trip once or twice along the way.

When he had reached the group's table, someone had accidentally put their foot out in fro of him accidentally. Not noticing that, his left foot caught onto the diner's shoes causing him to trip over and dropped the plates. One had landed on their laps.

Specifically Sakura's.

Being a bit too shocked, Sakura had jumped out of her seat and screamed. She really didn't have to, but she screamed.

The waiter, panicking, had picked himself up and started to brush the remains off of Sakura's lap with a towel on the table, shouting out apologies at her as she stood there, dusting the raw fish off.

Syaoran, who had been watching the whole thing, noticed that the waiter was blushing as he brushed against her legs, fingers trembling as the cloth swiped the food particles away. Maybe it was jealousy. Or maybe it was just because the man showed disrespect to his princess. Then again, maybe he was jealous.

Syaoran, being the overprotective swordsman he was, pushed the waiter out of the way and stood in front of Sakura. Shocked by the sudden fall, the waiter looked up at Syaoran.

Boy was that a bad thing to do.

End of Flashback

Watanuki remembered a few curses, something being thrown across the table, big bangs and crashes here and there. And then he heard a crack.

Oh boy, he hated that.

"Anyway," Yuuko stated, pushing Watanuki into the house-shop, "you're staying if you want to pay off your debt."

Watanuki gasped. "What debt? I never had a debt to pay!"

Yuuko leaned forward and hissed. "Yeah well, ya do now." She continued pushing the reluctant Watanuki who continued flailing his arms in the air, trying to pry the Time Witch's hands off of him.

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Fai had been back in his room, thinking about the past few hours and what had happened between those times. Sighing Fai had stood up to change his clothes.

As he walked up to the closet, he looked to his left and grinned as his costume lied there perfectly still.

Perfectly.

... Almost perfect; nothing was ever perfect. Fai gasped as he realized his hadajuban was gone.

"No!"

Grasping at his hair Fai had dropped the clothes he was going to dress into and searched the bathrooms, the other drawers, even the Laundromat they had had in the house-shop. Fai huffed in anger. Yes, anger. Surely he could find another plain white t-shirt to put underneath…

No, he thought, it's not the same.

Throwing his hands up in the air, Fai continued searching in the various rooms he had been up to in the past few hours.

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Kurogane let the water wet his hair for quite a while.

Maybe I'll drown like this and just die, Kurogane thought bitterly.

Leaning against the tile wall, Kurogane smirked for a moment. Those four hours weren't so bad. Hectic yes, but not bad. Like hey, he got to see Fai naked-

He choked on air and opened his eyes abruptly, gasping. "What-What the hell am I saying?" Kurogane yelled at himself. Reaching forward for the water, he turned it on so cold that the moment his face touched it, he felt his whole body freezing in return.

At least that would help him from not getting a cheek staining blush. He breathed in slowly and exhaled deeply, shuddering.

"You look pretty hot with all that water pouring down on you, Kuro-puu."

"Let's have some dessert while we talk – you come help too, father dear!"

Hot? Father? Groaning, Kurogane turned off the water and marched out of the shower grumpily. Having those flashbacks was really annoying, especially because it was about the mage…

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Fai had snuck into Kurogane's room as he continued with his shower, laughing nervously as he spotted his hadajuban. Snatching it from the bureau, Fai ran for his life, holding the undershirt dearly to his chest.

The Next Day: Halloween!

Everyone was ready, their baskets out in front of them, cheering and whooping. The only one who wasn't whooping with the rest of them was Kurogane.

He woke up, glaring at the group. "It's eight fucking AM in the morning!" he yelled, pointing an accusing finger at the overexcited group. "I swear to God, if I wasn't grumpy thing morning, I would've torn you guys apart!"

With a huff he returned to his room, smoke blowing out of his ears. Sakura laughed nervously.

"Ano… He's mad, isn't he…?" she asked to everyone else. None of them needed to reply.

Because they didn't want to go with an angry Kuro-pon, the group changed again and spent the rest of the day as it would've been without the holiday.

Kurogane sat in his room, huffing. What was he going to wear? His own kimono with his katana? He shrugged. That would work too.

Yuuko knocked on his door once it became rather dark. "Kuro-gane!"

Wearily he walked up to the door, dressed in his yukata and slid it open, glaring at the beaming considerably old Witch that looked up at him. She frowned at his costume.

"Now what the hell is this?" she grumbled, pulling at the cotton fabric he wore. Kurogane rolled his eyes.

"It's a traditional yukata I got from Japon. It doesn't matter what I wear, does it?" Yuuko gasped.

"Well of course it is! Now go, everyone's waiting at the front door. I must go and get Fai-kun." With that Yuuko fled just to knock on the door next to him. Kurogane sighed and walked to the entrance, limping slightly as he felt one of the Mokona jump onto his leg and drag him down.

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Yuuko had called out for Fai who replied with an "Okay!" She smiled to herself.

I wonder how he looks in his costume.

She turned around and shouted hooray after jumping in front of the kids. The black Mokona jumped on top of her and giggled.

"Okay, who wants to go trick-or-treating?" she yelled out, pumping her fists into the air. Unsure whether to be excited like the Witch – sometimes, that was really bad, to be hyper and all – or to be grumpy like Kurogane – being a grumpy ass is boring too – Syaoran and Sakura unenthusiastically raised their hand in the air. Yuuko sighed.

"Guess you kids still need some lessons from the pros…"

Yuuko jumped up in surprise as she glanced down at the kid's bags. "Ah! I forgot mine!" She skipped out of the living room to her own, searching through her piles of forgotten items for a simple basket. "Now where the hell…"

She heard faint footsteps coming from outside of her treasure room. Curious, she took a step outside and arched a confused eyebrow. "Ehh? Kuro-wanko, when did you get a blond-?" Yuuko stopped mid-way and smirked.

"Oh so that's how it is huh?"

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"I'm back!" Yuuko shouted as she dragged in another member of the group who was blushing madly. "And guess what I found…" She smiled deviously and pulled Fai from behind her back, holding the stammering mage before her.

Syaoran blinked. "What's there to be embarra- Oh…?" Fai blushed madly as he felt three pairs of eyes – the Mokonas didn't count – looking at him.

"W-What?" he spat out, glancing down at the suddenly amusing wooden floor.

"Oh hey, you look just like Kuro-pon!" Mokona shouted, pointing at Fai. Fai coughed.

Well, took you quite a while, no?

Kurogane walked up to him and leaned down, his nose barely touching Fai's. "Huh. And where did you get this?"

Fai looked away. "I uh, found this… somewhere… in Yuuko's closet…"

"I remember!" Sakura suddenly shouted. "Remember how we had to pay Yuuko-san back for White Day and didn't? She still had the clothes from back in Piffle World!"

Realization dawned upon the group. "Oh…" Syaoran said slowly. But he smiled, holding his hand out.

"Well Fai-san, Kurogane-san, we might as well go!" Syaoran stood there in a green Chinese Hanfu made of silk, outlined with gold and a sword tied around his waist with string. Looking back at Sakura who was in the costume Fai had suggested, he walked out of the house-shop with her, laughing about something that had previously happened during the day.

Watanuki – who had been forced to stay once again – was in a Happy Bunny costume. Yes. A Happy Bunny costume. Just when he thought the day couldn't get worse when he came, it sure as hell did.

Yuuko was dressed as a pirate, a frilly shirt with a leather vest worn over that, black tights that clung onto her, leather greaves and black buckled shoes. She had a red bandana tied around her head with an eye patch blocking one of her red eyes. She smiled maliciously at the remaining three.

The two Mokona were – apparently – dressed up as mustard and ketchup. The word 'Heinz' was written on their costumes – they were the actual bottles – and to top it off, they each brought a stuffed bunny doll that had a sign that read "Relish."

Kurogane was, as he thought to himself before, dressed in his yukata. It was the only thing he found and his kimono was a bit too special for a damnable event like this.

Fai was a Shinobi like Kurogane. He felt embarrassed just standing in front of the real Shinobi with a sword but just scuffled across him, concentrating on the bacteria crawling across the floor.

"C'mon people, time to enter the state of Sugar Rush!" Yuuko yelled before pushing everyone out the door. Kurogane started panicking.

"What the hell's a Sugar Rush?"

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Boy he regretted asking her that question. The first house they had walked up to was decorated wonderfully with toilet paper all over the house, ghosts and shadows of what seemed like werewolves surrounding the house.

As Yuuko rang the bell and screamed out "Trick or Treat!" a young kid around the age of thirteen had appeared with a basket of candy, smiling grimly at them.

"Aren't a bit too… Hmm…" The boy paused for a moment, searching for the word. "Oh yeah." He stared at them dead pan. "Aren't you a bit too old for this?"

Yuuko glared at the boy. "Kid, you don't know the meaning of young. I've been around here for so long it'll make you feel like you were never born."

The kid gulped and handed them candy by the handful, not daring to look at the grinning Yuuko.

The moment they had gotten off the stairs, the Witch had grabbed for the candy inside of her bag and stuffed it into her mouth at once. Kurogane looked away in disgust.

"Jesus Christ, that's so disgusting…"

The Witch shrugged. "Mah mell, moo mtuck, Murko-manman." Watanuki sighed and bit into a chocolate bar.

"What she's saying is that you're a pathetic person, Kurogane."

"Man me mtuck too," Yuuko including, glancing back at the confused Shinobi.

"Oh, and you suck too.

Kurogane fumed. "Who asked you?" he yelled at the bunny. Watanuki shrugged.

Yuuko had swallowed the candy at once and by their fifth house, the Witch was jumping up and down, going crazy.

"C'mon, c'mon to the next house! Let's go, let's go! Hurry up, you slowpokes!"

Kurogane wished he had a crowbar so he could whack his head against it that time.

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Yuuko who had apparently threatened the people to give her more candy than she received had come home with about three bags full. Sakura and Syaoran ended up sharing a bag, seeing that both of them didn't want as much sweets, so they gave the rest to the Heinz brothers. The mage had an awkward time during the whole trip including the Shinobi.

Sadly, Fai was mistaken as a girl and by passers whispered something like "Oh, that ninja couple looks so cute together!" or "Those Shinobi are just so adorable; look at the blonde one! She's so cute!"

Yeah. And for Kurogane, it was a hell lot worse.

Flashback

"Shut the fuck up!" Kurogane yelled as again another couple had muttered something about the mage and him looking nice together.

The woman giggled under her breath. "Denial…"

Kurogane almost exploded at that point but Syaoran had restricted him from chopping their heads off. They simply moved to another house.

End of Flashback

So when they returned home, all of them ran with their bag(s) of candy and into their room. Many crunching noises and wrappers being crushed was heard throughout the whole house-shop.

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Kurogane was rather fidgety while he was peeling the candy one by one. Was it because of the feeling of candy all around him? No, it was something else.

… More like someone else.

In frustration he took his bag and walked out of his room, glancing back at the clock before leaving. He shrugged; it was only ten thirty so they had more time before they went to sleep.

Kurogane approached a room, nervously reached out for the handle and turned in slowly.

"La…" someone sang from the vacant room. The Shinobi carefully walked into, his heels barely touching the ground.

"Hey mage, you are in here?"

Fai turned around and smiled as he spotted Kurogane standing in the entrance, holding his candy beside him awkwardly.

"Ah, Kuro-chi!"

So we're going back to the nicknames, huh? Kurogane thought grimly before walking up to Fai.

"I wanted to ask you something." He pulled a lollipop out of his bag and held it out in front of him, just enough for Fai to see it. "Do I just take the wrapper off and eat the damn thing?"

Fai laughed. "Well of course!"

Kurogane grumbled something inaudible under his breath. "This crap is edible?"

The blond chuckled again. "Yes it is, Kuro-pon. They don't poison candy or anything." He nodded slowly as he took off the orange wrapper off the lollipop.

"So… I eat this."

"Yup!"

"And… I just suck on it?"

"Mm-hmm."

Kurogane stuck the unwrapped lollipop into his mouth and let it stay there for a moment, taking in the tangy yet sweet taste of oranges. The corner of his mouth twitched a sign that clearly said that he was beginning to like this thing called candy.

"So this is candy, huh?" Fai nodded eagerly.

"C'mere, wanna trade candy, Kuro-wanwan?" the blond man asked before dragging Kurogane deeper into the room, landing on the bed with a thud. He reached under the bed and pulled out a bag twice as big as Kurogane's and poured all of its contents onto the silk sheets, smiling to himself.

Kurogane walked slowly up to the bed and sat next to him, examining the large pile of candy in between the two. "Hmm…"

Fai stared at his share and compared it to Kurogane and grinned. "How 'bout the M&Ms for the two Kit-Kat bars? I've never really liked the peanut M&Ms anyway."

Kurogane tilted his head to the side a bit, confused. "What the hell's an m and m?" Fai let out a huge sigh.

"Man Kuro-pon, you're missing out on a lot. An M&M is this chocolate thing covered in a layer of candy-ish thingy, and inside this kind there's a peanut!" he explained cheerfully. Red eyes glanced down suspiciously at the small yellow paper bag that held the 'M&Ms'.

"And these are Kit-Kat bars?" He held up chocolate covered wafers wrapped in a plain red cover. Fai nodded.

"Yeah. I've never really tried them so I wanted to know how they taste like. Deal?"

Kurogane thought for a moment and smirked. "Deal."

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Overall it would've been easier if the two had just swapped bags. At least four fifths of their bags had been switched with the others'.

"So…" Fai started as he continued sucking on his twelfth Tootsie Roll Pop. "What do you think about candy now, ne Kuro-chan?"

Kurogane just grunted in reply; he was too busy rummaging through his bag for more of those Hershey kisses.

"Did you steal them, Fai?" Kurogane barked, glaring at the innocent – or so it seemed – mage that was waving at him, laughing.

"Maybe…" he teased. Closing his hand once and holding it in front of Kurogane, he opened it again and giggled as five Hershey kisses popped up.

"Why you-!"

"Nya!" Fai laughed and ran around the room, Kurogane hot on his trail, with the chocolate in his mouth. "I'll give you them after I eat four!" The Shinobi snorted.

"Whatever just give the damn chocolates back!" He pounced on the blond, bringing him down on the floor in the middle of the empty hallway.

Fai started wiggling under Kurogane's strong grip, laughing as he tried to pry the delectable sweets wrapped in silver aluminum foil.

"Give. Them. Back," Kurogane warned, glaring at the man who was too busy laughing to hear what he was saying. "Fai, give them back."

"Never!" Fai choked out before continuing his ministrations. He kicked Kurogane several times in the stomach, kicks that would make him flinch slightly, just enough to inflict some pain.

"You ass, give them back!"

There was a creak down the hallway and Kurogane glanced that way.

"… What was that?" he asked. Fai shrugged. Kurogane kept his grip on the mage's shoulders, pinning him down for the while as he stared down the hallway, eyeing the only door that was ajar.

"I think there's something there."

There was a sudden blow of wind, a squeal and laughter. It was suddenly gone within seconds.

"Now what was that?"

"I don't know but it's bothering me." Kurogane had to agree with Fai; the fact that he had no idea what was going on was ticking him off.

As the sudden suspenseful atmosphere vanished, Kurogane managed to grab three of the five Hershey kisses that Fai had stolen. He stood up and yelped in pain as his head hit something hard. Kurogane looked up and paled.

From the ceiling above where they had landed was a branch of leaves, small berries growing on it that were painted orange tied up by a string at the edge of the branch. Attached to that was a sign that read:

Halloween mistletoe. I forgot to tell you about that. Anyway, I might as well tell you now. It's a tradition here in my world (my shop really). I hang up mistletoe painted orange for Halloween and whoever falls under it is forced to kiss each other.

You're not the only one. (Insert picture of Yuuko cackling evilly) Sakura and Syaoran ran to their rooms, spazzing out. Now it's your turn!

Go on. If you don't kiss, I swear upon all the living gods up there may you die a slow and painful death of pins and needles and diarrhea!

-Love, Yuuko. (heart)

The Shinobi's lower jaw dropped. "What the… fuck…" Fai got up whilst popping in another Hershey kiss into his mouth and read the note. He laughed.

How can he be so fucking care free? This is literally a threat from the bitch; I have to kiss him?

"Hyuu, Yuuko-san sure knows how to get us, ne Kuro-tan?"

"…"

He didn't reply because he didn't want to. Glaring holes at the heart after the Witch's name, Kurogane didn't hear Fai leaning closer up to him, smiling warmly.

"Well, we don't want to get in trouble now do we Kuro-pii?"

Kurogane turned around. "Stop calling me by that damn-." He stopped short when he saw Fai's heartwarming smile and froze.

… What's going on?

Fai leaned closer, eyes slowly closing. The mage's breath was soon mingling with his own.

Wait a minute, what's he doing? Stop him, damn it! Don't let him just come up to me and do… that!

Hey, you know you want it, his conscience noted, kicking him in the head – literally. Kurogane winced from the imaginary kick.

He could've pushed the mage away from him. He could've yelled "Idiot!" and just shove him out of the way. He could've just fled without any notice.

But no. His feet refused to move. He didn't want to make it sappy, but Kurogane thought that all the nucleuses in each and every one of his cells had just died, stopping him from ordering his arms to lift upward or his feet to shuffle to the side.

So Kurogane just stared at Fai whose eyes were closed, leaning closer and closer and closer…

"Boom!" Mokona shouted out of no where, totally destroying the moment. Kurogane jumped back in surprise; Fai fell over as he reached out of grab Kurogane for support but failed.

"You! You damn thing!" Kurogane roared, grabbing its ears and whirling it around over his head. "I can't believe you just-!"

I can't believe I was about to do that, Fai muttered, covering his mouth with his hand. What was I doing, about to kiss him without even asking him? He's probably even madder than before!

Kurogane continued twirling the bunny around and around in the air until he let go and sent the thing flying.

"Whee!" he heard Mokona shout in excitement.

He groaned and looked down at the still shocked Fai whose hand never dropped from his mouth.

"Oi, you okay?" Kurogane asked, squatting down and looking at him. Fai nodded slowly, very slowly as he detached his fingers from his face.

"I… I'm sorry," he whispered. For a moment, Kurogane would've held the mage in his arms, no matter how sappy it sounded. But he did. Seeing the mage he had hated so much on his knees, on the verge of crying made him feel guilty.

"No, it's not your fault," Kurogane sighed, placing a hand on Fai's head. "Though you did catch me by surprise there. I didn't know you were actually going to- uh, you know." Fai whimpered for a moment, thinking that whatever he had done was sinful and wrong.

Kurogane for once laughed. "I don't blame you though. It's probably because I've never kissed anyone before." Fai smiled at that thought.

"The mighty Kuro-pan has never been kissed? That's a first," he joked, a small smile gracing his lips again. Kurogane let out a breath of relief, glad that his normal attitude kicked into gear. He had to admit, seeing the mage happy and joyful was a whole lot better than a one that was moping all the time.

"Hmm. You would've stolen my first one if that stupid meat bun didn't interfere," Kurogane grumbled under his breath. Fai placed his hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, I would've right?"

He laughed again, this time joyfully, not like the other times when he would just laugh to cover his fear or pain, but a one full of happiness, one that expressed real feelings.

And Kurogane couldn't help but feel that he was attracted to that emotion, to those various feelings. So he leaned close while Fai was still laughing whole heartedly and gently placed his lips on his.

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Wow, that was long! Sorry for this really long chapitre! It was Halloween, I was high on sugar and so I decided to write another ridiculously long one. Sorry if this one was too fluffy.

And that whole mistletoe thing? That just popped into my head during the party for Halloween. – Laughs nervously – Yeah…

Well, one more chapitre tomorrow and this story's done! You don't think I would leave the story like this, would you? Heh.

I hope you all had a great Halloween! I hope you weren't as scared as I was. (Don't ask.)

Don't get too high on candy, seriously! You'll regret it soon. XD!

-Muffinizer nyo!