Title: Does it really matter?

Author: .KuroxFye.

Rating: T

Warning: I've read pretty far so spoilers might come up at some point I'm not sure if I'll include them yet.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Tsubasa or any of its characters.

- Dreamer

This country was always cold, covered in ice regardless of the season but this child had to be outside on the coldest day of the year.

"Hmm, that's some tolerance for weather your kid's got" joked an elderly woman watching the small child of 4 or 5 play in the snow outdoors. "Are you sure he'll be okay out there? I mean I nearly froze to death just walking over here this morning"

"He'll be fine" said a younger woman with confidence. "Weather never seemed to bother him, not even when he was a baby. Besides he is MY child." Her expression showed traces of how proud she really was of the child.

"I guess… but Amela, that being so shouldn't you be a little more protective? Your other 2 sons were born 'normal' like their father, but this one is like you… what if our government found out? You're a woman so they didn't take you but he…" she was cut off in mid sentence.

"It's useless to worry over such things, I'm not powerful enough to be considered 'dangerous' even if I were a man and him, being of only half my blood shouldn't even have my amount of power. I'm not worried the least."

The other woman smiled "well I do suppose mother knows best" and the conversation was left at that.

Meanwhile outdoors there sat the boy covered in snow… anyone walking by would have thought this child happy, he had a whole lawn to play in for himself since there were no other children outside.

That wasn't the reason no one else was there. He had no friends… he was set aside from 'normal' children but never fussed about it, he acted very mature for his age…never fussed or whined, he just WAS and nothing else to it… he didn't even use the little magic he had because he thought it might attract attention.

The blond child looked lonely and sad but even so he continued to build a fort on snow and rocks. A smile crept onto his face and then…

'What the hell was that?' kurogane wondered to himself waking up. 'Who was that… it looked familiar, and it was MY dream hell I should know!' This confused the man for quite a few moments before he looked up.

'That man', Kurogane's red eyes had met with an image of the sleeping mage. 'That smile, that aura… it was that dumb idiot, why the hell would I dream of'…it hit him, the wish! He had made a wish to see that but had he simply woken up to soon? Had it really worked? He'd only been awake for about 5 minuets and already his head hurt from confusion. Well there was nothing he could do or say about it now so he got up and headed down for breakfast.

"Good morning Kurogane san." Sayoran said watching the not so morning friendly ninja stomp into the kitchen area.

Kurogane looked back at the boy with a nod, he was quick to observe "where's the girl?" he looked around the small room and there were no traces that she had awoken yet.

"She's still asleep" a small smile brightened his expression. "After how hard she's been trying to help lately I didn't think it'd be right to wake her."

Kurogane gasped and an angry expression crept onto his face… he now had his 'I'm going to kill something' face on. Sayoran looked curiously at the man and observed his rapidly changing mood.

"Kurogane san, what are you…" he was cut off

"Dumb manju bun! Get the hell out of there!" he hissed while pulling an ohh so pleased Mokona out of his cloak by the ears. "Kuro puppy's scary!" the small rabbit like creature squealed.

Before kurogane could snap back he found himself with the likes of yet another idiot.

"Kuro wan wan" a queer sound came from behind the ninja. "Stop flirting with Moko chan and just ask him out already." a fiendish grin came about the wizard face as he anticipated what the reply would be.

Kurogane's expression dropped. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY?" though he said those words threw gritting his teeth they still managed to come out as if he were yelling.

"you know what I said" that fake smile was in it's full glory.

Meanwhile, discarding the common events that often just caused background noise Sayoran handed Mokona a biscuit. "Mokona, are there any feathers in this world?"

"one second" the ball of while closed it's eyes and started to hum. "... yes there is one… it's faint but it is here"

The background noise seemed to have come to a halt. "Great" the bigger man sighed. "looks like we're going to be stuck in the god forsaken ice hole for a while."

"Aww, kuro muu don't worry, I'll keep you warm" and there was a short silence.

Kurogane wondered if the mage was trying his absolute best to get on his nerves this morning. He was about to call the man an idiot but he first started to feel faint, what was wrong with him? He wasn't tired but…

"Kurogane san?" Sayoran towered over the unconscious guard.

Fye knelt down next to him and checked for a pulse and breathing. "He just fainted, but that's odd… Sayoran kun can you think of any reason for this to have happened… he seemed normal to me."

"No, he also looked fine when I saw him." Concern was written all over the boy's face. Kurogane was strong, Kurogane was a fighter, Kurogane was possibly the toughest man he had ever met… and he just FAINTED?

Fye noted the boy's concern. "I'm sure it's nothing Sayoran kun… right now we should let him rest."

"leave him on the floor?" Mokona questioned.

"Of coarse not." Fye smiled but was obviously concerned as well. "We'll have to move him to a bed."

"Isn't he to heavy for Fye?" the white creature was still confused.

"No, I think I can manage one flight of stairs… it shouldn't be too hard" the smile sat crookedly upon his face and he moved his limbs under the limp man and picked him up.

It looked very odd for Fye to be holding him. Fye himself probably weighed little more then just half Kurogane's weight… from Sayoran and Mokona's point of view it looked almost impossible for this to have worked but the wizard seemed confident so it was left at that.

Fye moved Kurogane up the stairs, wobbling occasionally but never falling. He reached the room and laid kuro chi on the bed, what could have happened… with no one in sight aside from kuro tan Fye let the mask drop… he didn't want to show it in front of the kid but he was in full concern at the moment.

Fye had planned to leave after they found this feather, back to his own world, back to his problems but the sight of his possibly sick companion pulled strings. If Kuro muu was sick then he couldn't possibly leave yet… not yet.

Third chapter down, I had a lot of problems with this one…it changed at least 6 times before I was happy with it.

Also thank you whoever told me I was spelling Mokona's name wrong. I'll make sure not to mess it up in future chapters.

So remember, if you want more please review because well no reviews would obviously mean no one's enjoying this and there for I'm just wasting time

- KuroxFye