A/N: Good gosh, it's been a while. I am so sorry, guys! Ho, hum, school has come. I don't get too much time to really write, so these things take such a long time! And it doesn't help that I've started and stopped, like, a bazillion stories for this! So, this chapter!!
Kinda Kuro-centric, dark-fluff with mentions of alcoholism and drug use. Short, with KuroFai-ness to the song "It's All Over" by Three Days Grace, from the album One-X. (Lovely album, I'll be using a lot of songs from it in here.) It's not been edited profusely, so there may be the occasional error, do forgive.
I'm thinking of introducing some Sakura/Syaoran stuff into this, because I have a wonderful idea for the song "Hero"…
Chapter Four: It's All Over
It hurt the swordsman to see Fai like this; half-drunk and high, depressed and dejected, and absolutely-fucking-idiotic. So here he was, another night, yanking the blonde's hand away from the half-empty bottle, pulling him away from the drug vendors, and putting up with the magician-turned-vampire's cursing snarls and cold rejections.
The night continued as per normal until they were safely situated in a bar, far from the bad side of time.
"Why do you keep doing this?" Fai asked coolly, the ice chinking smartly in his shot glass.
"Because one day it'll get through your thick skull that you can't keep doing this," Kurogane snarled. Tonight, he had already given up—earlier than normal, Fai noted—and was drinking his share of liquor as well. "Why the hell do you do it anyway?"
"Because it numbs the pain."
Snorting, Kurogane leaned forward. "Pain?" He couldn't really believe that the magician could be in so much pain that he had to destroy his body with heroin, meth, and alcohol to escape it."
"Believe it or not, it hurts to not have an eye," the slight male snapped, tugging the black cloth off. "And not to forget the emotional trauma that being brought back to life as a vampire brings."
For the first time in a long while, the ninja was speechless. He stared intently at the newly uncovered half of Fai's face, completely aghast. This was the first time he had seen the right side of the mage's face since the incident.
The flesh of the lid sunk into the socket where the eye once was, and the skin around it was spider-webbed with scars from where the flesh was torn away by digging fingers. Fai's cheek and forehead was rubbed raw from where the harsh cotton chafed the delicate skin underneath.
The blonde wizard caught Kurogane's stare and flushed indignantly. "Thanks for gawking," he hissed sarcastically, moving to tie the wrap back on.
Quickly, the warrior caught Fai's wrist, and he held it tightly. He felt the pulse weakly under his sword-calloused fingers, and his heart ached as he knew that the magician desperately wanted that pulse to stop. That just bugged him. This whole ordeal annoyed him in the way that his companion just stopped being his companion. It irritated him how Fai's personality did a complete 180; how so completely different he was.
But now, a pang of guilt entered into his mind. "I'm sorry," he mumbled, slowly spreading his fingers out against the magician's palm.
Fai started softly. "Wh-what?"
"I said I was sorry. I won't repeat it again," Kurogane growled.
The blonde looked down, closing his fingers around Kurogane's. "I guess I'll accept it, then," Fai mumbled sullenly.
The swordsman gave a satisfied smirk, pulling his hand from Fai's as he leaned across the table to re-tie the wizard's eye patch.
As Kurogane did this, Fai leaned into the ninja's broad shoulders, whispering: "You'll be the one to bring me back to life, Kuro-chan…"
Your bottle's almost empty
You know this can't go on
Because of you,
My mind is always racing
The needle's breaking your skin
The scar is sinking in
And now your trip begins
But it's all over for
It's all over for
You
For you
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over for
You
For you
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over
I know what runs through your blood
You do this all in vain
Because of you
My mind is always racing
And it gets under my skin
To see you giving in
And now your trip begins
But it's all over for
It's all over for
You
For you
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over for
You
For you
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over!
And now you're dead inside
Still you wonder why
It's all over
And now you're dead inside
Still you wonder why
It's all over
And now you're dead inside
Still you wonder why
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over
And now you're dead inside
Still you wonder why
And now you're dead inside
Still you wonder why
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over