You and Me
by: Coley Merrin
Series: Tsubasa
Pairing: Kurofai, more or less or more.
Rating: K+? T? Something?
Warnings: Pseudo-spoilers for recent manga. Angst-monster returns.
He inhaled sharply, shrinking from Fai's fingers as he touched, smearing his hands with blood as he pressed down on wounds too numerous for Fai to cover on his own.
"If it... At least if it were this way, you don't have to make a choice." Kurogane inhaled again feeling the pain become part of his consciousness.
"No!
"Tell me that you want to live."
"I want you to live! You haven't gotten back."
"I never was," Kurogane said, his eyes closing halfway, "without you."
Fai hissed, feeling a tear sneak out, and watched it roll down the side of Kurogane's neck. He pressed more cloth against Kurogane's side.
"Don't speak as if you've given up."
"The princess? The kid?"
"Fine, he's caring for her."
"So it's just you and me, then."
"You and me."
"It's not a mortal wound," Kurogane said, pressing his hand up against Fai's where it staunched the blood of the largest wound.
"But it could have been."
"Then you'll come with me?"
Fai stared hard at Kurogane's hand covering his own.
"You'll live."
Kurogane let out a harsh chuckle. "You hardly give an inch." At the smile he saw in Fai's eyes he quieted. "It's a start."
Kurogane's hand did not move from Fai's until after Syaoran returned for them, and his relief at seeing Kurogane awake kept him from noticing. And as for Fai, he did not move either, not even to wipe the blood that trickled from the fine cuts that were scattered over Kurogane's chest, because it seemed that no matter what his movement, Kurogane saw through to a deeper meaning that Fai had always wished hidden. And as Fai sat calm in his presence and under his touch, this time was no different.