A//N: Ah yes, the beginning of a new chapter. Just take in the aroma of those fresh, unturned pages...Wait no, that's new books, sorry.

Anyway, I'm glad the idea of this story seemed to go over pretty well. If you look at any one of my stories you can tell I'm obsessed with the idea of Fai and Yuui...as well as other things. Moving on, enjoy the chapter and if you like, review for me.

The tall blond ran through the halls of the building. "Please! Move!" His barefeet could be heard slapping against the cold floor as he went. He skidded to a halt and went into a room, pulling his cloak off and picking up a pair of shoes, pulling them hurridly onto his feet before leaving the room quickly.

The blond stopped a person walking past, "Where is the one who came back a few mintues ago?"

"Upstairs. He's waiting for you."

He took in a deep breath letting the person go. "Thank you." He bowed and ran again. This time instead of slapping there was a clacking of boots. The man upstairs needed his help.

"Good luck." I spat the words out as I sat up in bed. I remembered them being the last words I had said to Yuui as he left. Such stupid words to say to him. To us, from us. The twins of misfortuine. Good luck. Those were probably the worst words I could have possibly said.

It had been days, probably a couple weeks since he had left. I hadn't bothered to keep track of time. Yet it had only registered a few seconds ago how stupid those words were. I had probably cursed him to die or something with just those two simple words. People had died from less.

I stood to my feet. I eyeballed my sage's staff that sat in the corner...I decided I didn't need it today. I took in a deep breath and reached into my closet pulling out whatever would be the thing that I would wear that day. My black and blue ritual gown. Oh well, it wasn't like we did rituals anymore.

I pulled it on and fixed the cuffs before going to the door and opening it. "Ack!" I put my hand over my mouth and took a step back as I unexpectedly came face to face with Chii. My hand went from my mouth to my chest, placing it over my heart as I tried to steady myself. I had come to know that Chii and I were alone in this kingdom now. I had come to get used to the fact that there would never be anyone there. As such to open my door and find someone staring at me was quite a shock. "Chii, you scared me half to death."

Chii frowned. "If Fai okay? I'm glad it was only half to death and not all to death."

I took in a deep breath and finally found myself stable again. "It's okay Chii...but please, in the future try to not scare me at all to death..." The girl nodded and I slowly let out my puff of air and sat my hand on her shoulder. I turned her around and began to walk down the stairs that led to another part of the castle. Even though there was no one here Chii and I were quite busy right now. In my mind we were trying to make the kingdom look like a glass figurine. So that thousands of years from now people would come here and discover it to be perfect.

It kept me busy.

"Where are we going first Fai? To eat breakfast?"

I shook my head no. "No, down to the burial chambers. Ashura needs his healing."

At a time like this I could just see Yuui smiling down at Chii and comforting her. Unlike Yuui I have never learned to smile so beautifully. Yuui for a long time was exactly the same as me, unable to smile at all. Then he discovered people, people who liked it when he smiled. He wanted to please these people so he learned to smile and once he did he never stopped. No one ever wanted me to smile, so while I learned how, I don't bother. If no one is going to be happy when I smile. If no one cares, there's no point. It's only wasted effort.

Maybe it would be easier than I thought to be alone...Yuui was the one who people loved, not me. Wasn't I alone all along?

"But...didn't Fai say that he didn't think Ashura was able to be healed?"

I took in a deep breath and nodded, "Yes Chii, I did say that. I still believe that too. However, I promised Yuui that I would try. When I try, I try my hardest, because that is the only thing that makes it worthwhile. It's the only thing that I live for. Currently to heal our king is what my life is worth."

"Is Fai sad?"

I shook my head, "No, I just know my place. I am not...important. That is the simplest way of putting it."

"I see..." I turned and gently stroked Chii's hair to comfort her. It was the only thing I could do.

"Don't worry about it. Chii isn't like me. You are important. Yuui created you. Nothing could possibly be more important than you." This made Chii smile before I gently pulled my hand away and opened the door. We walked in and I circled around the graves until I got to his. The small bubbles created by his breathing floated to the surface and I looked at his face seriously. It looked so peaceful...like he was sleeping normally. Not a magical sleep...

I shook my head and stood straight. I raised my hand and began to write. Like Yuui, lettering came from my fingers, but unlike Yuui it was golden in color. I was so used to the gliding feeling of the magic I used. For so long in that tower I hadn't been able to use something that was so much a part of me...

Something seemed to bang on the inside of my skull and my hand instantly dropped away from the spell. I heard the magic spalsh against the water as the imcomplete spell collasped. I put my hands to my head as it continued to bang more and more, harder and harder, as if it were trying to escape. It felt like agony. "Fai?! Lower your sheild! Someone's sending you something!" I gripped my hair harder trying to comprehend Chii's words. Once they sunk in it made sense...I had a mental barrier up against my mind, someone was trying to talk with me. It clashed with my mind sheild making it hurt, the pain was a warning, a warning I no longer needed.

I was so glad Chii could sense what was wrong.

"R-right..." I breathed out forcing one hand off my head and writing a small spell as quickly as I could. The pain stopped. Instead a message entered my mind. I knew the voice to be Yuui's.

"Fai.

"How are you? I hope you're doing all right there without me. I'm doing okay. I'm afraid I can't contact you very often, but I promise to tell you if anything major happens.

"The reason I can't contact you often is because as a price for traveling as I am I had to pay my markings. Thus I can't possibly carry out Ashura's wishes and use magic. At all. I'm already risking it by sending you this.

"Remember before I left I promised I'd think of you everyday? I've assured that I will think of you every second of everyday. I did this by telling everyone that my name was Fai. The name doesn't really suit me, but everytime I hear it I pause to think of you. It also reminds me that one day I must come to see you again.

"Wait for me Fai. When the day comes I will give you back your name.

"I promise next time I will take you with me.

"Good luck to you too."

The message ended. I took in a deep breath slowly letting it out as I set my head on the edge of the grave. I replayed the message in my mind over and over, thinking about every word. The fact he had taken my name did not bother me. The fact he had returned the words of 'good luck' didn't bother me. In fact only one thing in the entire message bothered me.

My hands drifted down from my head down to my back. His markings...she had taken them. I ran ran my fingers over the memorized pattern of my own markings. At least the parts I could reach.

My markings were different than Yuui's. By looking us over it was the only way you could tell that we weren't clones. His markings kept his powers at the same level. My markings increased my power and made my life extend. Yuui was a mage. His powers grew and someday they may grow out of control. He could hurt people. I was different. I was a healer. A sage. Sage's often died so young because when we heal we give out our power and some of our own life to heal the wound. Ashura had given me these markings so that I would not die until about the same time Yuui would. Assuming we both died of natural causes of course.

Now Fai had to either not use his magic or risk losing control. I didn't like it.

I gripped to my hair again when the throbing from before became ten times worse suddenly. It was like it had a grudge against me. It wouldn't have surprised me if it had. "Is Fai all right?"

I was still for a minute after the question was asked. The pain of the intrusion and the message just playing over and over in my head preventing me from doing anything. It had built up a lot of unwanted magical pressure inside my head. There was only one thing to do to get rid of it. After a long minute I sat on the ground and banged my head as hard as I could off the stone wall that separated the floor from the graves. "Fai!"

For a moment everything wavered before I felt a bit better despite what I had just done. "I'm fine Chii...I just needed to release some of the pressure...If I pass out I'm fine..."

"Fai you're bleeding!"

"Am I?" I lifted my head a bit and dabbed at my forehead with my fingers. Sure enough, when I brought my fingers back down they were stained with red. "It's not a problem... I heal quickly." Even though the shock to my head had almost gotten rid of all the pressure, the back of my head still felt like it wanted to just cave in. The spot where I had just almost spilt my skull open started to throb slightly.

I was thankful for the word from Yuui, but it had taken everything out of me. A note to myself: Never ever put up a mind shield again. They hurt.

I stood to my feet. Blood dripped off my head and fell onto my black and blue gown. I put my hand over the wound, I'd heal it when I could make fully coherent thoughts... "Chii?"

"Yes Fai?"

"I'm going back to bed...watch over things here."

"Is Fai all right?"

I shook my head no. I really didn't feel all right anymore. I felt like I had contracted some kind of virus that would not stop eating my brain. "I need some rest...but I'll be okay after that...don't worry. Stay here." Chii slowly nodded. The worry her innocent face held was so obvious it would probably make any person other than me cry. As I walked past her I scritched her head with my free hand before I went on up the stairs.

When I came to my room I went inside and just flopped on my bed, not caring that the pillow would get stained, not caring that I was still wearing my day clothes. All I cared about was closing my eyes and making this dull throbbing go away. I didn't like the throbbing, but it was worth it...to hear Yuui's voice again...

Slowly I felt my eyes close and sleep overtake me...

"Fai!" I awoke to Chii shaking me quite violently. Much more violently than I had ever imagined her capable of. "Fai wake up!"

I turned over and looked at her. "What's wrong?" Chii just shook her head and pulled at me, drawing me to my feet. "All right...I'm coming..." I was still pulled. She pulled me from my room and we almost fell as she rushed desperately down the stairs.

My head felt almost completely better, but even though my head was now clear enough to think I couldn't possibly guess what was troubling Chii to the point of doing this. I couldn't imagine anything troubling her, she was so carefree unless someone was injured or sad...

"This doesn't seem right!" Chii pushed open the door to the burial chamber and I stared inside. My hand went to my forehead rubbing it as if to make sure what I saw wasn't a dream or an illusion a concusion caused by my hitting my head. It was real. Chii was right. It wasn't right, it wasn't supposed to happen for many, many months...

"Hello Fai. Where is Yuui?" Ashura was awake.

"Fai. Where is Yuui?" He repeated his question as I stood dumbfounded. I could not possibly think of why he was awake so early. Slowly I took a step back. My boot clacked against the stone that made up the ground. I shook my head. My hands pushed Chii behind me as if to protect her from whatever Ashura would try next. "So he's not here?" I shook my head again. My gaze kept his. We looked at each other. I glared. He smiled.

"In another kingdom? Or another world?" I didn't answer. He sighed. "Fai, I told you before, I'm not going to kill you. Answer me. The three of us are here all alone, what's the point in giving me a cold shoulder? We're all waiting for the same thing. We're all waiting for Yuui to return."

"Another world."

Ashura smiled again. "Good. He always was a good child, doing what he was told. Very different from you Fai, don't you think?" He seemed to watch my every movement as I nodded in agreement. He came forward now, wrapping one arm around my shoulders and giving me a one-armed hug. "You must be wondering why I'm awake...I can see it written across your forehead." He laughed and poked it, not hard enough to harm the scab that had formed, but enough to move my head back a bit.

"Yes...I actually wouldn't be surprised if it really was written there...why are you awake?"

"Your magic and Yuui's magic has always contrasted..." Ashura began to walk out of the burial room now, taking me along with him. "As you continued to use your worthless healing spells your magic caused his sleeping spell to weaken until I was able to wake up." He smiled and rubbed my shoulder with his hands.

"So what are you going to do now that you're awake?" I prayed to the higher beings that he wasn't going to try to search for Yuui...

"I'm going to wait. Just like you Fai."

"What are you waiting for?" He might lie to me...that was fine. As long as I thought I wasn't ignorant I could live with it. To me that feeling of ignorance is the worst thing in the world. It feels like I'm even more worthless than I already know I am...I'd rather be lied to than feel or know I'm ignorant of why.

"Him to fulfill his promise."

"Which is?"

"Something you could never do. Don't worry about it." He placed his hand on top of my head as he opened the doors to the dining room. "Chii. Be a dear and go get us some food. I'm starving." Chii looked to me and I slowly nodded in agreement to what he said before she ran off.

"How long will we have to wait for him?"

"I don't know Fai. A long time." Ashura sat down in one of the many chairs in the dining room. When he motioned for me I sat next to him. "At least we won't be completely alone. Right?" He was humoring me. I could see it in his eyes. In return I humored him by nodding.

I hoped we wouldn't have to wait too long. It might kill me.