A/N: The chapter count is at 2-3 chapters after this one in the main story and then a (hopefully) really long epilouge. In the next chapter I'll be introducing a lot of characters I should have introduced a long time ago, but they didn't fit in until here...they were supposed to come in before Kamui, but no! My plot disobeyed me again!
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"Ow! Let go!" Fai yelled trying to pull his head back out of Ashura's grip.
Ashura shook his head and quite violently wagged his finger in front of Fye's face, scolding him, "Where have you been Yuui!?"
The blond slapped at Ashura's hand, and at last Ashura let go, allowing Fye to reach up and gently caress his now red ear. "So...I am Yuui?"
"Of course you're Yuui!" Ashura snapped, "Don't come in here playing games! Who else would you be?!"
"Fye..."
"Have you no shame!? Fye's been dead for almost six years!" Kurogane watched Fye's eyes as they narrowed, widened, and the pupils nearly disappeared. "I always knew you were a joker Yuui, but really this is too much! You disappear for six years at the very same time that your parents are found dead and your brother dying, and all you can do when you reappear is that you think you're Fye?!"
"Shut up! Can't you see that you're hurting him?!" Kurogane's hands reached out to Fye and held the man close to his chest. He had never seen Fye cry, but he knew that if this man, Ashura, kept speaking that his beloved would cry, really cry, and that was the last thing he wanted to see coming from Fye's blue eyes. He, the doctor held Fye, he felt Fye hold on to his shirt and take in a deep breath.
Ashura's eyes snapped to Kurogane. "What right do you have to stop me? I have every right to yell at him for the words he's saying! Joking and playing, leaving for five years while his immediate family is dead?"
"He didn't know they were dead! He really did think he was Fye! He has amnesia you idiot! He didn't come back because he didn't know how to get here!"
"What? Amnesia? Yuui?"
"Yes..." Fye whimpered, clinging more to Kurogane's shirt. "I'm not lying. I really do think I'm Fye, I've thought that for almost three years. And then I only knew the first name. Only recently did I even learn of Yuui's existence. All I know is that I'm a man who looked like a boy in a video. I cannot remember anything before five years ago. Please, don't yell at me..."
"You...really, can't remember...anything Yuui?"
"Nothing, that's why I came here, to drop off Kamui, and to see you. I was told you could give me information about myself."
"You're truly serious?"
"Why would I lie?"
Ashura nodded, "Wait here." The man quickly left the room.
Clow bowed his head. "So...you're Yuui. I should have suspected something when you called yourself Fye..."
"Who is he to me?" Fye pulled himself off of Kurogane, sparing his lover a small smile that hardly carried to his eyes.
"He's your uncle and according to him, your godfather. He speaks about you a lot. It was always so fondly. He clearly loves you very much, please, don't take his words so harshly. He's just worried."
Slowly Fye shook his head, "No, I don't blame him. If I put myself in his shoes, I'd probably feel the very same way. It's just being called a liar and being yelled at for this...it hurts, you know?"
Clow nodded as Ashura came back into the room. "Here Yuui."
Fye's eyes looked down to Ashura's hands and Kurogane's followed. Carefully placed fingers held out an envelope that had yellowed and shrunk in size from its age. In faded black ink he could read the words 'For Yuui.'
So this Fye, the person he had fallen in love with, even deeper in love than he had been with Yuui, was Yuui...originally. Kurogane had no doubt in his mind, the Yuui he had known in college had died long ago. Perhaps deep within 'Fye' there was that original personality that was called Yuui, but the doctor knew, that Yuui and the person in front of him were two completely different people. He didn't care if they shared the same body. They were different, and no matter what he still loved the person in front of him, and not Yuui.
Kurogane hoped Fye knew that.
He saw Fye shakily reach out and take the envelope. "What is it?" He asked Ashura. "Surely it's not a will. By now all things that would have been mine would be..."
"Actually , I took everything of any importance, because I had faith that you would someday come back. I had faith because of the two words on the top of that envelope." Ashura sat down next to Fye, placing a hand on the blonde's shoulder. "Almost six years ago now, police found two bodies. The bodies of two adults. Your mother and father. They had been shot once each, in the back of the neck, killing them almost instantly."
"A-and the real Fye?"
Ashura sighed, "His fate was not so...kind. They found him alive. He was wandering around almost fifty miles from where your parents were found. They found him to be in some kind of insane shock, and they took him to the hospital, but he didn't even make it that far. He died on the way from some sort of seizure. They said he died begging them to find you and to give you this."
"Did they say anything else?"
"He continued to scream about a man, your parents' blood, and something about golden eyes."
Kurogane's eyes snapped to Fye when he heard the words golden eyes. All he saw was Fye looking very confused, but Kurogane knew that Fye wasn't confused. They both knew what was meant by golden eyes. "I see. That's all?"
"That's all. I never opened the letter, they just gave it to me saying I was probably the best person to hold onto it."
"I see." Carefully Fye's fingers opened the old envelope and pulled out a single piece of lined paper. Kurogane looked away, if Fye wanted to share the contents of it with him, he would, but he would not look over the blonde's shoulder to read something that had nothing to do with him. It wasn't his place.
After a couple of minutes he saw Fye shake his head and set the paper down. "It...would probably mean a lot to me if I could remember who I was and what happened. I can tell that it means a lot, but personally, it means nothing. I'm clueless."
"Perhaps one day it will mean something."
"Perhaps." Fye folded the paper and placed it back in its envelope. "I can hope. I really don't like being this way." Kurogane looked to Fye and saw him frowning and bowing his head to look solemnly at the ground before he grinned, and then looked to Ashura. "Thank you very much though! You've given me more information than I could have ever dreamed to have!"
Ashura chuckled in a bittersweet way. "It was no problem Yuui. I'm very glad to know that you're alive and well. You are well, aren't you?"
"Oh yes, I have Kurogane here, so I'll be great for a while. I have another question though."
"You haven't asked too many, so go ahead."
"You're my uncle...you're from my mother's side right?"
"No, father's."
"Then why Yuui Valeria instead of Yuui Flourite?"
"Oh that?" Ashura laughed a little and placed his hand on Yuui's head in a childish manner. "Your parents, they were good, but strange people. Your mother never took your father's last name, and when you were children she and your father gave you the option of your last name. You chose to take Valeria, your mother's name, while Fye chose to be like your father, a Flourite."
"So Yuui Valeria and Fye Flourite?"
"Yes. It was cute, when you chose those names we asked what your reasoning was, the two of you just stared at us as if it was the most obvious thing and said 'So people know which is which!' It was adorable." Kurogane held back a snort, that sounded very much like something that Fye or Yuui would say.
"I...can see it. Thank you Ashura."
"Please, call me Uncle, like you used to. Do you have to go so quickly?"
"Well, really we have up to a week, but I...now have something else I need to do."
"I see. I'm sorry to hear that. You will come to visit, right?"
"It won't take me almost six years this time, and I'll call."
Ashura smiled, pulling Fye into a tight hug. "Good, don't be a stranger, next time you come, I'll show you everything that is rightfully yours."
"Thanks. Shall we go Kuro-pyon?" The doctor stood to his feet and waited for the blond to join his side before they walked to the door, completely forgetting about breakfast before yelling reached their ears.
"Where have you been?!"
"Right here!"
"Why didn't you tell me?!"
"I didn't have time! I'm sorry!"
"You better be, you bastard!"
"That's Kamui's voice..." By now Kurogane knew the distinctive tone of the F.A.I.'s yell. "Who's the other voice? Who else could he possibly have to yell at? I thought you were it."
"Well..." Fye said laughing nervously as he ran fingers through his hair. "Remember yesterday he kept saying something about a guy named Fuuma? I'm going to go ahead and guess that the person he's yelling at is Fuuma, I'm going by the 'where have you been.'"
"Ahhh."
Fye grinned and walked out to where the scream came from, tapping Kamui on the shoulder. The other teens were watching intently, and they stared at Fye in a curious manner as he dared to approach the teen. "Kamui, we're leaving now."
"Why didn't you tell me you hadn't killed Fuuma!?"
"I did...you just didn't believe me."
"Of course not! You should have tried harder to convince me!"
"I'll miss you too Kamui..."
"Yeah, yeah..." There was a long pause. "I'm sorry. I accused you of something you didn't do."
"Aw!" Fye reached out and caused several gasps from the crowd as he hugged the person who was modeled after him. "That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard from you! I'm honored!"
"Let go of me, you sick freak!"
"I'll visit soon!" Kurogane knew that Fye was truly messing with Kamui when the blond kissed the boy's cheek and then ran off before Kamui could change his mind about letting Fye live. "Come on Kuro-chan!" The assassin grabbed onto Kurogane's arm and dashed from the house and toward the blue Subaru model car.
"So, are you okay?"
"Of course! Why wouldn't I be?"
"The information..."
"I know it now, but it doesn't mean that much to me, not yet." Fye's smile faded away for a moment, but then it came back as a grin. "At least I know I'm Yuui now. You can call me that if you want Kuro-chan."
"Fye is Fye. You are not Yuui. You are Fye to me. You will always be Fye to me."
Kurogane watched as the grin faded, not into a frown, but a happy smile. His eyes looked like like they were about to cry. "That means more to me than you will ever know Kuro-myu. Oh! I have a last name now!"
"Flourite?"
Fye shook his head as he started the engine. "Valeria. I'm going to switch it around, so I'll be Fye Valeria! How does that sound?"
"Good. It's wonderful." The car began to move and Kurogane found himself staring at Fye in a dreamy way, but not really thinking about anything at all. He had to speak. That smile, that real smile was far too alluring. "So, we're going home now?"
"You are."
"What does that mean?"
"I said it to Ashu--Uncle. I have something else I have to do now. You can't help with this one, so I'm going to give you the car and send you home while I go."
"Where are you going?"
Fye looked away from the road for a split second and winked at Kurogane, "Secret!"
"Seriously Fye. I want to know where to look for you if you don't come home."
Fye sighed, "I'm going to get answers. From the source. I'm going to the heart of the matter, the government. They will know what happened and they will tell me, even if I have to kill a few of them. I'll be home in two to three days at most Kuro-koi, don't worry. I won't die or get hurt."
"Promise?"
"I'll be extra careful, just for you."
"Good."
Fye pulled the car over in front of a family restaurant, "Out, get into the driver's seat."
"Okay, but how are you getting there?"
"I'll be renting a vehicle. I don't want this one getting...destroyed. Plus, what I'll be renting has a better gas mileage."
"You sure?"
"Yep."
The two opened their doors and got out of the car, as Kurogane passed Fye to get into the driver's seat he grabbed onto Fye, kissed the man's lips as if it were their final good-bye and held him closer than it seemed he ever had. Kurogane knew that somewhere in Fye's words that Fye was lying, whether he was supposed to be able to lie or not. He knew that Fye would not come out of this trip unscathed and if something did end up happening, he wanted Fye to know that he loved him. No matter what.
"When you come back...I'll be waiting for you. And if they so much as lay a finger on you, I'll kill them all, no matter if I'm a horrible assassin or not."
Fye reciprocated the hug and smiled into Kurogane's shoulder in a gentle manner. "All right. I understand. Drive safe now Kuro-chu."
Kurogane reluctantly let go of the blond and climbed into the car, shutting the door, pulling on the seat belt and driving off. In the rear-view mirror he saw Fye grinning and waving until he got out of sight.
