Title: Does it really matter?

Author: .KuroxFye.

Rating: T

Warning:

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

- Faded memory, faded dream

What was happening…? Red! There was red everywhere. Blood…? IT WAS BLOOD… Hands were wiped off on an already stained blue shirt. 'Mother' The muffled cries seemed to come in slow motion and the sight... it was all so blurry he didn't know were he was going or who he was running to, soon finding his hand placed under a woman's head… holding it up for what might be it's last few breaths.

"F… Fye?" the woman gagged a little on her own blood. She gasped and pulled me into her arms using the last of her strength.

I wanted to cry I wanted to yell I wanted to kill the bastard who'd done this but I couldn't… I couldn't move, I was afraid and buried my head into her stomach bending over. I could feel my stomach twist into a knot, it hurt I needed to vomit… but I couldn't even do that now…

"r… rr…run child, o ... or they'll take you… too." Her words fell faint as the wind and her head lay in my hand heavier then it had seconds ago.

"M...Mother?" The pain filled me even more… no this was NOT expectable… this could not happen… not because of me, Everything went dark as I stumbled to my feat… they weren't going to get away with this. Those bounty hunters… they could all die the beasts! The monsters! The soulless creatures WHY! WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE?

A surge of raw energy ran threw my body… I could feel it, starting from within my ribs and moving in a wave to my hands… It was at a point of no return and with an instant flash it was all gone.

All gone… as in no life, no house, no unmarked land for miles. Cupping my face into my own small hands I fell to my knees and gave way to the tears. Others had died, not just Mother, not just 'Them'… people who just happened to be near by but I didn't care about them… I didn't care about me. I felt the same energy building again… this time I used my mind and focused the powers at myself hoping the jolt might stop my heart. No such luck, it just shot out of my body again… this time ensuring any life that had been spared was now in fact dead.

Not bothering to stand I fell further to the ground and looked over cautiously… 'Not even remains' I thought to myself. 'She's completely gone.'

Kurogane sat up abruptly this time… That was most defiantly the most realistic dream he experienced yet. And the most horrifying one. 'Had that really been threw fye's eyes?' What happened was a little bit of a mystery… the majority of the scene was blurred by tears he was actually seeing and feeling fall down his face. This whole thing only gave him more questions and he wanted answers now more then ever before and he wasn't going to let up until he got them.

Kurogane moved to stand and exit the room, he needed to finish his chat with the mage… he had almost completely forgotten that Fye was supposed to be leaving today but then the thought came back around. 'Great… I can't very well ask him to stay and bother him about his past at once… he'd find way to avoid every subject simply by switching to the other.' Kurogane hated when the wizard did that… it was a pretty common occurrence whether it was over something of importance or not. Kurogane found himself standing in the front door staring at the back of a very confused man. Kurogane thought that the only way to see Fye's real face had been to either scare the mask off or read what you could strait from his eyes, he only just now realized that from behind he also looked like a broken man.

"Oi, you…" His words came to an abrupt stop when the blond man turned to face him. Okay, this was a little scary… Fye was crying… tears ran from his eyes like blood and he wasn't even trying to hide it… Anger, concentration and sadness… he wasn't bawling or sulking like a child (how Kurogane imagined this man might cry.) It was all very controlled and he looked more angry and focused then sad… sadness was more of the after thought showing threw.

"I know what you saw… I know what you're going to ask, and I know I'm not going to answer." Fye was quiet, dark and completely in control. Kurogane wondered if this was what he was really like behind it all. But he had to set those thoughts aside for now there were important things he needed to ask this man… important conclusions that need be drawn.

"You're not going back to that world of yours." He choked a little. "Not… not without me!" what? What had he just said, kurogane thought to himself this was really odd, that's not what he was going to say… he sure as hell didn't want to play protector to the fool, all the same though… he didn't want to fool to die, so he didn't attempt to change his answer.

Fye was surprised… but not in the good sense, it looked more like fear… no maybe more like doubt. His expression told Kurogane everything he needed to know, The ninja was half ready to be the one being called stupid for once… he prepared to be yelled at and maybe even sent threw a wall… Hell, he didn't know what the magician was capable of and right now… the mage didn't really seem to care at all, no lies and nothing hidden.

"Yes… yes I am. You can not come… you need to stay here… this is a home you need to find, a cretin princess who'll be waiting for you, I won't let you die by my side. It's not happening!" Fye's voice hinted that the sadness was now most dominate of the emotions.

'I won't let you die at my side' those words… they ran threw the gruff man's head, why was the mage so cretin that he would die if he tried to fight? Maybe he wasn't… maybe it was something else.

Kurogane's head was hit with a sharp pain and the flashbacks re surfaced… the blood the screaming, then some things he didn't remember seeing before at all… A tall blond man blown into pieces… another blond boy (obviously not fye) thrown into a wall so hard he exploded on impact.

Kurogane snapped back into reality once more and felt himself shaking… what the hell was that? He wasn't even asleep that time… they just came! But he looked at the slim man still in front of him, suddenly it made a little more sense. Everyone close to Fye had died within his presence… His mother and who he could only assume were Fye's father and brother… They were killed near him? No… this is much deeper. His eyes widened, his heart stopped for a few seconds no… they weren't killed near him, they were killed BY HIM! Accident or not Kurogane didn't know but he assumed that this had all been out of his control and it was indeed an accident. Kurogane also found himself adding another piece of the puzzle together when he thought the name Ashura o… sure in his vision Ashura had been cold and clearly was disgusted by Fye… but he decided based on other things he had heard from the mage that this 'Ashura' and him mush have been pretty close, so the only person Fye has left… he sealed with his own hands?

Fye paused and looked up and down Kurogane's face… almost like he was reading his mind, but he wasn't… he was just being dumb.

"You… you think that you'll kill me?" He said it calmly but it came out just a little frustrated, in his head he had put pieces of memory and fact together but even after that this was still for the most part a 'blind guess.'

"Kuro pon…" there was a few seconds of silence. "I Know I'll kill you…"

Ahh, drama!

Sorry I was just a little sad when I wrote this… it shows eh?

Well, I'll try to cheer it up a little next chapter though I'm not promising anything XP

Read… review, you know what I want.

Thanks for reading

- KuroxFye