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Chapter 13: Here it goes Again

A KuroFai Story

Oh shit...

I forced myself into action, grabbing Fai forcefully by his collar and dragging him out of the aisle. I pulled him to the next aisle, and that's when I froze.

What the hell am I going to do?! I thought, practically screaming it in my head. This is NOT good! Oh shit oh shit oh sh-

"Yuui?" A hesitant voice beside me said, snapping me out of my thoughts. "Are you okay?" Fai asked.

I glanced over to see Fai staring at me in concern. I did my best to smile at him. "Yeah I'm alright," I said trying to come up with an excuse fast. My hand twitched and I felt something crumple as it did.

I blinked and looked down and found Ashura's shopping list in my grasp. "I was just thanking that it would be faster if we split the list up. Then we could have some time together before you had to go to work." I said.

I glanced up at him to see if he believed me or not. I couldn't read the emotion on his face, but after a while he smiled. "Alright!" He chirped.

I lifted the list up, and scanned through it trying to remember where most of the stuff was. I noticed that the bottom half of the list mostly consisted of dairy and hygiene products.

I folded the bottom half and tore if off as neatly as I could. "Here," I said handing it to him. "And get some Doritos while you're at it." I said with a playful smile.

He grinned back at me, and ran off. I watched his retreating form with a sigh. Now that he was gone, it was time to deal with Kurogane.

I went over to the next aisle and found him standing alone leaning against the shopping cart.

I slowed my steps so he wouldn't hear me behind him. What would Fai do in a situation like this? I thought, and suddenly I got an idea.

I walked until I was almost directly beside him, and grabbed his upper arm, "Kuro-chan~!" I chirped, placing one of Fai's grins on my face. I cursed myself for not being able to do what I wanted to. (I wanted to glomp him, but I figured since he was leaning against the cart that that wouldn't be a good idea, so I stuck to clinging to his arm) Oh well maybe next time.

Kurogane didn't so much as flinch at my sudden touch, instead he glanced down at me, his garnet eyes filled with irritation, a strand of his ebony black hair, that wasn't spiked, fell into his eyes, and he growled, most likely at the nickname.

I continued smiling up at him, finally noticing how much taller than me he was. He was even taller than Ashura! "What's Kuro-tori doing here? Hmm?" I asked poking him in the chest. His pectoral muscle was a hard as a rock. How much does this guy work out?!

He jerked his arm as soon as I poked his chest, trying to shrug me off. However I wasn't through admiring the feeling of his muscles underneath my hands so I held on fast.

"Get off of me!" he snarled.

I mock pouted. "But I missed you Kuro-my!" I cried, clinging to his arm, like a child would to its favorite teddy bear. "And besides you're warm."

He looked down at me and I couldn't tell by his face what he was thinking; I had never been good at that anyway. He finally sighed, the tone of it suggesting he had given up on trying to detach me.

"What do you want?" He snapped.

"Oh nothing much," I responded, and finally taking my hands off of him. I felt a bit sorry for him; after all if I were in his place I wouldn't want me clinging to my arm all day either. "Just wondering what Kuro-chi-Kuro-tan was up to." (It's a bit scary how I can come up with these nicknames so fast…) I said tilting my head to the side, in a hopefully cute way.

He stared at me for a second before I was an almost invisible twitch of his eye. "Shopping," He said, in a bored tone. He turned his attention to the front, towards the end of the aisle.

"Really what a coincidence so am I!" I chirped. I realized how stupid that sounded, and I suddenly started feeling embarrassed. I noticed he was looking at me again with an expression that screamed 'well duh! That's kind of what you do at a grocery store, you idiot!'

"Well anyway I better get going…" I said trailing off, glancing down at the end of the aisle, nervously, and wondered if Fai was almost done with his part of the list...

I glanced back at him in time to see him shrug, and I smirked. I jumped forward and wrapped my arms around his neck. I felt him stiffen. "See ya Kuro-chu~!" I said, and ran off before he had time to react.

I sped around the corner, and almost ran right into Fai. "Whoa!" I cried, pulling up short, but managed to steady myself. "Um… Hi!" I said.

"Hi..." He said, and I noticed he was frowning lightly.

I furrowed my eyebrows, and immediately concern filled me. "Fa-?"

"Who was that?" He asked cutting me off, nodding his head towards the aisle I was just on.

"Um…" I trailed off. I scratched the back of my head, slightly depressed that my mind couldn't think of an excuse fast enough. Kurogane was too old to pass off as a friend… but maybe… "He's a regular down at the café." I said, hoping that it might work.

"Oh!" Fai exclaimed with a sigh of relief, and his smile was back in place. "I thought he was a pedophile or something!" Only Fai can say the word 'pedophile' with a smile and get away with it…

I couldn't help but smile back at him. "You do know that it's no longer considered pedophilia when the person's eighteen or over right…?"

He only laughed, in that 'oh you!' way and grabbed my hand, lacing our fingers together.

He bent down and picked up the basket that held the stuff we were going to buy in it. "Come on, we need to go home soon!"

Please excuse Yuui; he's a little weird in this chapter….

Okay the next chapter is mostly going to be a flash back… I THINK I'm not entirely sure at the moment! But here's a preview for it! (the part that's not a flashback)

Preview: "What is this?" he asked, thrusting a piece of paper into my face. I squinted in the dim light, and could only get the gist of the message. "Um… an IOU…?"