Title: Does it really matter?

Author: .KuroxFye.

Rating: T

Warning: little spoilers… nothing really in this chapter.

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

'Kuro puu, I know I'll kill you.' What was that supposed to mean, How could he possibly say something like that so calmly… so confidently so…everything he's not.

"Idiot, don't go saying things that make no sense! You're sure as hell NOT going to kill me, I wouldn't allow it." Actually in truth from what Kurogane had seen he knew very well that the mage could kill him, what good in a sword if you can't even get within cutting distance… but still he held with confidence, this man was broken, this man was twisted… but this man was a companion… no, a friend, maybe more Kurogane thought to himself but then cut his thought off at that.

"You also can't prove I won't kill you…" His eyes were filling with more water again. "I'm going, I'll go alone… without you, I'll die… without you." He couldn't stop it… though he had long given up on a smile because it was no were to be found but he still didn't want it to show this much, this was to much… too much and so he turned his back to the taller man for a second before turning back. His tears had stopped… he dried his face and proceeded to look concentrated as he had before.

"DROP IT!" Kurogane was furious now… he didn't realize it until seconds ago but this face… this serious face, it was also a mask… a fall back mask, for when the wizard was so hurt he couldn't pull out the smile. "If you're sad just cry already! Stop trying to hide from me!"

This new form of mask didn't flicker on and off like the other, this one held stronger… because if it had been a smile, with those words it would have fallen at least for an instant.

"I can't, you call this unnatural because I don't look how I feel, but it comes naturally because I've done it so long… there for this is natural"

Kurogane couldn't believe his eyes or ears, was he seriously trying to lighten the mood, the smile was growing back onto that face and he proceeded determined to let it shine in full glory… The wizard just seemed so oblivious… but Kurogane knew better.

Fye was having a hard time with this smile, he put forth every effort into it… everything to make it sparkle with it's ever lasting shine…. But he knew it was more sly then happy… he for the first time in years couldn't simply will the smile onto his pale features… it was broken.

Kurogane needed to get things back on subject before the blond decided to make a run for it. "Why, what makes you think you'll kill me?" He had seen the visions… but what made him so damn sure?

"Because, that's how I am Kuro tan… things break, things fall, things die… when I'm around no one ever lives for long, honestly I'm surprised that my presence in this group hasn't already lead to death." Eyes shaded by long bangs… If Kurogane didn't know better he would swear the mage was sadly laughing behind those words. "And even now, leaving… I'll be killing myself, being the cause of my own destruction."

"That's why I'm coming with you bastard! You keep omitting me from this little scenario of yours… but I'm coming, I'm not going to let you go back and die of starvation… if you're facing your past you should at least be around long enough to see the results!" His heart was pounding in his chest… his facial features stayed strait but the rest of his body felt so different, why did he care so much?

Fye couldn't argue with that… he knew Kurogane's intentions and he knew everything being said made sense… he'd have to tell Kuro pon the truth, the truth of what he planned to do. He didn't expect the ninja to except these words but this was the only way Fye could think of that would stop the ninja's constant thought over his 'condition'.

"Kuro sama… I won't die from lack of your blood." The words were cold, like ice.

"Of coarse you will idiot! You can only go little more then one week without it!" He wasn't going to let up… he didn't know what that man was thinking but he wasn't going to fall for any tricks now… not now.

"And who ever said I'd be alive for that week?" He really hoped Kurogane would catch the drift on his own, but he doubted this would be the end of his explanation.

"You'll die before… what exactly are you planning? You're just going to HAND YOUR SELF OVER AREN'T YOU?" He was angry… his words came out before his thought process had time to organize them.

"That's not it, I told you… I'm going back to fix things, If I handed myself over to Ashura o what good would that do anyone?" Fye dreaded having to explain what he really was going to do… he didn't even want to do it, never mind talk about it. Maybe if he was lucky Kurogane would simply forget more questions and proceed to simply yell at him in an angry state, yelling was okay… he was use to yelling, But again he realized there was very little chance of Kuro chan letting up now, now that he had gotten so far.

"Then what the Fuck do you plan to do?" a definite chord was struck inside the large man… just when he thought he may have figured another thing out it was pulled from right underneath him… 'What is he going to do' Kurogane wondered, with the power he suspected Fye had possibilities were a little endless; this would make guessing a very difficult task. "Just tell me already…"he let his voice soften just a little.

"It's… It's difficult to explain…"

"Try anyways!" He wasn't letting the answer get away from him now.

"I'll be going back… back to Seresu, once I'm there I'm going to use the rest of my power to throw myself back in time, 20 years to be exact. Then I'm going to kill my younger self, preventing the entire series of unfortunate events… preventing everything." He pondered over the last little bit for a while… it was blunt and to the point, something he was sure Kurogane would be able to make sense of. "An existence worth nothing thrown away to save the ones worth it all."

The ninja tried to speak… words wouldn't come to him… he was to lost in shock to force any words out. 'This can't be happening!'

Fye looked over the horizon at the setting sun and decided it was now or never.

"Tell Sakura chan I hope all the best for her… I'm not sure if I could face telling her good bye, Tell Syaoran kun I'm sorry for being of little help and that he'll have to have supper without me." The smile was back… and the mage was obviously being torn up inside but the smile had come back to him after all. Fye walked out a little further onto the deserted road were he'd have a little more space.

Kurogane was still frozen, a trained warrior… smart strong and ready for anything was thrown off by this… he wanted to yell but couldn't, he wanted to cut that man down but couldn't… He wanted for it all to stop… for it to stop now, but at the moment it was amazing enough that he simply managed not to fall to the ground beneath.

Fye lifted his hand and began marking the air around him with sharp glowing symbols that glow even more brightly against the dark After only a few moments the wizard was wrapped in a glowing pattern… then he was gone, it was out of his hands, Kurogane finally let his knee's give out and he fell to the cold ground.

"Damn…"

I don't know who to following the next chapter (no, it's not over… though it could be couldn't it…)

Lets get you readers a little active in this part, In the next 1 or 2 chapters I'm either going to follow Fye or Kurogane around… whichever doesn't go first will be followed up in the end.

So when you comment (if you comment) be sure to tell me who's side you'd prefer seeing Fye's or Kurogane's because I'm torn in my deciding.

I'll wait for 5 comments before writing the next chapter.

Thanks for reading

- KuroxFye