Rain viewing sake
The times when I feel going on is too much, I look at you. So strong and independent, so sure of your choices. I envy you. I envy the way you are, the way you live, everything. You can make my life of sorrow seem like one of everlasting sunshine. Therefore, I love being with you, sharing the moments of your life.
The rain slammed against shut windows of a house rented by the group of travellers. The house was small but yet cosy despite the lack of interior. The group sat in the middle of the room listening to the rain outside hit the roof and walls of the house like it wanted to enter itself.
"My, it sounds like the rain will tear this house down," Fay said grinning and gave Kurogane a hug. "I'm scared Kuro-tan!"
"Get away from me," Kurogane growled and brushed Fay off with a strong movement of his arm making Fay fall backwards and hit the floor with a soft thump.
"Kuro-chan is mean," Fay said and got back into the little circle; his usual smile upon his face. "I'm so hungry right now, that I could eat anything!"
"Don't eat Mokona!" Mokona yelled and put up a dramatic expression.
"Of course not," Fay said smiling reaching out to give Mokona a hug.
"Mokona is hungry too, but there where no shops open when we arrived here," Mokona said while hugging the mage.
"Is Kuro-rin hungry too?" Fay asked and leaned over, laying his head upon the ninja's abdomen.
"Get off me!" Kurogane yelled and was going to hit Fay's head, but the mage was too quick for him. He dodged the attack and it all resulted in Kurogane hitting himself, making certain words leave his lips in anger.
"Those where bad words Kuro-rin, you should not use them in front of the children," Fay said mockingly.
"Shut up! I use them when I want too!" Kurogane was getting more and more furious by the second. 'Why can't that damn mage just shut up?' Kurogane thought, and rubbed his abdomen still sore from the hit.
"Sakura-chan, are you hungry too?" Syaoran looked nervously at Sakura who shook her head from side to side in answer.
"All I could get my hands on before we rented this house was this," Fay said and revealed a single bottle from underneath his cloak.
"You couldn't actually take something that was eatable!" Kurogane yelled at the smiling mage.
"We didn't have money, remember? I just took the first thing I saw when we found out the shops where closed," Fay explained and placed the bottle in the middle of the circle.
"You stole it!" Kurogane couldn't believe what he was hearing, the mage was stupid and irritating and now he also had become a thief.
"But I was hungry Kuro-pon! You don't want me to starve do you?" Fay moved closer to the ninja, who in response moved farther away. 'That man has to be an alcoholic,' Kurogane thought and watched as Mokona tried to open the bottle with its little hands. "It's better than nothing," Fay said and reached out for the bottle. "We can share it!" Fay opened the bottle, Mokona still attached to it.
"I am not drinking sake and you shouldn't either because you become more of a pain in the ass than you already are whenever there is sake around!" Kurogane growled angry watching the mage pour sake into tiny cups.
"Lucky there are cups here, I was worried when I saw there wasn't that much interior here," Fay smiled and gave each and everyone a cup of sake.
"You don't worry for the fact that there are no beds here, but you are worried if there are any cups! Moron." Kurogane accepted his cup and moments later, he poured its content on the floor.
"Kuro-rin that was not nice of you! Anyway that was your share, and if you want it you can just lick…" Fay said in a half serious tone.
"I will do no such thing." Kurogane was starting to worry how much of this nonsense he could take before he was going to explode with anger. That damn mage was getting more and more irritating by the minute and Kurogane was not the man to take this kind of speech without having an outburst who usually made the one irritating him shut up for good.
"Sakura-hime is something wrong?" Syaoran looked at Sakura with worried eyes.
"Eh, no…" Sakura looked smiling at Syaoran, then looked cautiously at Fay and Kurogane arguing. "Do you think Fay-San and Kurogane-San will…" Sakura whispered behind a shielding hand. "Like last time?"
"Ah, I don't know," Syaoran smiled and tried to laugh although he remembered the situation that occurred in the last world as quite embarrassing. "Looks like Kurogane-san won't be drinking this time so maybe he will…defend himself better?" Syaoran didn't know how to phrase it, but Kurogane did do an excellent job in keeping the very friendly Fay on a distance, but Syaoran wasn't so sure that it was what the ninja really wanted.
"Kuro-tan has to drink too! It's the only thing we have! Fay reached after Kurogane who moved further by each attempt Fay did of hugging him. "I will share with you although you were so stupid and spilled your own drink."
"Did you call me stupid?" Kurogane shouted and moved closer to Fay ready to hit him hard on the head.
"Yes I did, I can't help thinking that when you spill your sake on the floor like that. Most people like to drink it out of a cup, but if you enjoy licking it up from the floor then…"
"That's it your dead!" Kurogane yelled and tried to hit the smiling mage. As always, Fay dodged the attack with great ease, and started running around the empty house with Kurogane chasing after.
"Wahh, Kuro-tan is angry!" Fay said as he ran holding his cup carefully in both hands. He opened the door and hurried out in the rain, secretly hoping that the angry ninja behind him would follow. 'What the hell is that stupid mage up to now?' Kurogane thought, running out in the rain. Kurogane glared around looking for the mage but all he could see were empty lots and the rain falling down from the sky making him cold. 'When I find him I will kill him,' Kurogane thought and looked around one more time. 'That way this freaking nonsense might end!'
By the sound of a branch breaking Kurogane turned around trying to figure out where the sound had come from. The rain hit him in the face making it hard to see anything at all. He walked in the direction he thought the noise had come from his eyes strained to catch any movement. 'He's up to something, that evil bastard,' Kurogane thought, walking silently across the muddy grass. It was so silent, so incredible silent, too silent for the ninja's liking. When it was silent something always happened, something unexpected, something out of the ordinary. 'This time that damn mage won't surprise me with his stupidity. I already know he is insane enough to do anything.'
"Kuro-pon!" Kurogane turned around acknowledging the fact that he had taken the direction from which he thought the sound have come from completely wrong. He turned to watch something he definitely hadn't expected. Something his wildest imagination could not foretell. This was more insane than Kurogane thought any man could ever become including the crazy wizard. 'I guess I was wrong,' Kurogane thought before the mage had jumped up and attached himself around the ninja's neck that made him fall over due to the attack that could resemble a hug. Falling into the mud, feeling his back being socked with water, Kurogane could only think of one think. What the hell did he just saw? He rubbed his eyes and tried to get the mud currently making his vision blurred away. The mage sat smiling on top of the ninja waiting for him to open his muddy eyes.
"Want some help there Kuro-rin?" Fay asked mockingly his hair dripping with rainwater.
"No, I don't need your freaking help!" Kurogane growled and opened his eyes right away. Who knew what could possible happen if he didn't, Fay helping him would most certainly mean something not to Kurogane's liking.
"I'm cold," Fay said and leaned in closer to Kurogane, wrapping his arms tightly around the ninja.
"You have no freaking shirt on!" Kurogane muttered dazzled by the sudden vision of bare skin.
"It was all wet and became muddy when I fell," Fay said in a sad voice hugging the ninja tighter.
"Please tell me you have pants on," Kurogane yelled praying of all his might that the shirt was the only thing that was gone.
"Want to check?" Fay smirked and looked up; the rain splashing against his bare back.
"Hell I wont," Kurogane growled and tried to brush Fay off but for no use. The mage was practically glued to him. Before he could do anything about it Fay picked up Kurogane's hand from the muddy ground and placed it on his hip one finger accidentally slipped inside what Kurogane was glad where pants.
"I didn't say you could put your finger inside my pants Kuro-rin! How naughty of you," Fay grinned watching Kurogane's face turn from a face of confusion to the one of anger. "If that is how you want it then…" Fay slipped his cold hand inside Kurogane's pants, still grinning.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" Kurogane yelled but his lack of interest to get the hand inside his pants out again said something different.
"The same as you," Fay smiled.
"That was an accident!" Kurogane said refusing to believe he had actually done that on purpose.
"So why is it that your hand is still in my pants?" Fay said smiling his eyes looking deep into Kurogane's.
"Shut up," Kurogane leaned in and kissed the mage. The rain falling on both making the faint light from the moon partly disclosed behind rain clouds cast a mystic glow over them. Illuminating them with it's ray's of magic. The night was still young but the desire in both hearts were not, it had been there for a long time…
"Oh," Sakura said and looked slightly embarrassed.
"What is it?" Syaoran said and walked out to join Sakura standing right outside the door. Sakura didn't answer just kept looking out into the night. Syaoran looked too and it didn't take long before he saw it. Two figures on the ground partly hidden by the curtain of rain still falling from the dark sky. Although it was hard to see anything in the dim light Sakura and Syaoran was sure of one thing. The two people out there, soaked in rain, could be no other than Fay and Kurogane. The ninja and the magician showing their love for one another like there where no one else in the world, only themselves and the rain.
After some time of plain staring at the two out in the rain, Syaoran looked nervously at Sakura; her eyes somewhat lost in what was happening out on the muddy ground.
"Are you sure we should be watching?" Syaoran said his voice a little hesitating.
"No, of course not. Of course we shouldn't watch," Sakura said looking guilty and slightly blushed.
"It's fine Sakura-hime," Syaoran said smiling. "You didn't mean too. It's not easy to…well…ignore those two," Syaoran said taking Sakura's hands in his. "Shall we go inside again?"
"Oh, yes," Sakura said and walked with Syaoran inside closing the door behind them.
"We have sake left!" Sakura ran towards the bottle, a huge smile across her face. "Do you think Fay-san and Kurogane-san would mind us taking the rest?" Sakura looked at Syaoran the sake bottle in her hands.
"Eh, the rest?" Syaoran asked nervously.
"Lets have some fun too!" Sakura said ignoring Syaoran's question. She tilted the bottle upwards and took a huge sip.
"Ahh, that was really good Syaoran-kun," Sakura handed Syaoran the bottle her face a pale shade of red once more.
"Thank you," Syaoran said and took a small sip. If Sakura gets drunk I am the only one here to take care of her, Syaoran thought and decided to pretend he was drinking. He tilted the bottle upwards but instead of actually swallowing sake, he just pretended too, stopping the fluid with his teeth.
"DRINK!" Sakura said and glared at Syaoran. It hadn't taken too long before she had seen the little act going on, she had looked at Syaoran's throat and when she didn't seen the swallowing action taking place, she had been sure to tell him.
"Of… Of course Sakura-hime," Syaoran said and took a large sip of the sake followed by a soft smile on Sakura's face.
"Meow, meow, meow,"
"Meow?"
"Meow, meow, meow,"
"Meow, meow,"
"Meow,"
Their voices melted into the darkness of the night, a night with a mystic light, a night which enhanced the love for the once travelling, filling their hearts not only with hope and joy, but also with the warming feeling of love.
A/N: Thanks for all amazing reviews so far! Next chapitre: Sea viewing sake. The group arrives by the sea, and of course, this dimension has stands with sake right beside it. They have no money, but Fay finds a way! There will be drinking, meowing, bathing and more. Remember to review!