Disclaimer: I do not own Tsubasa CLAMP owns them
Pairings: Slight Kuro x Fai
Note: Ashura makes his first appearence...No Fai wont be telling a lot else to everyone and also I don't plan on killing Fai...
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"Good evening." The sharp voice of the dimension witch came through the air. Her figure soon showed up in the air, projected by Mokona.
"Good evening Yuuko-san" Sakura said quietly.
"Good evening Yuuko." Syaoran soon added nervously.
"You have what I asked then?" Kurogane didn't believe in saying 'hello' it was a distraction for the real point of the conversation.
"I have and you have already paid. Are you going to tell me what you intend on doing with this?" Yuuko held up a medium sized box for the group to see.
"If nothing works to help that mage this should." The ninja replied simply.
"Care to explain?" The witch pressed on trying to understand why she had been asked to get what she had.
"Let's say hes like a vortex at the moment. Anyone near him goes down aswell I seem to remember reading something about these creatures." The tall male folded his arms.
"I see…well I wish you luck…" The woman passed the box out of view and within an instant it popped out the other end into the ninja's arms.
"Goodbye Mokona, Sakura-chan, Syaoran-kun and Kurogane." The woman then vanished.
Fai reluctantly dragged himself out of the shower and grabbed one of the towels from the rack. He carefully dried himself off while cursing for ever thinking that cutting his body would be good.
"I had a reason…I had a reason…" The blonde muttered as he wrapped the towel around his waist.
He slowly walked into the bedroom hiding no one was in there.
"I should have guessed." Fai dripped his head and chuckled sadly.
"You're done then?" The gruff voice of a certain ninja came from the doorway.
"I thought you'd be downstairs." Fai turned to the chest of drawers and began rummaging through them.
"You really did a lot of damage to your back." The raven haired man said absent mindedly.
Fai just nodded slightly before walking back towards the bathroom.
"Going somewhere?" Kurogane asked watching the mage.
"To get dressed it's rather cold isn't it?" The blonde said before disappearing into the room.
The warrior sat down on the bed and placed the box he'd been carrying along with the bandages on the side table.
The platinum haired male returned from the bathroom still carrying his shirt.
"Too painful?" The ninja asked.
Fai nodded and stood a few yards from the other male. Kurogane stood up and sighed, no matter how many times Fai got hurt it was always him that had to do the bandaging.
The wizard flinched at the contact with the material. He didn't complain about it though, he was used to pain.
Kurogane finished off the bandaging which covered most of the pale man's torso.
"Thank you Kurogane." The flaxen mage nodded slightly and pulled the top over his head.
"I'll see you downstairs the kids are probably worried about you." The tanned man walked towards the door and paused, "Oh and don't forget about that box." With that the ninja left.
Fai turned to look at the box left behind.
"Kurogane-san is Fai-san okay?" Sakura asked the moment the ninja had arrived downstairs.
"He'll be done when he feels ready." The male grunted.
"Kuro-piiiii! Has Fai seen the box? What's inside it?" The white bun jumped up and down on Kurogane's lap.
"You'll find out when the mage comes down." The ninja tried to block out the white ball by shutting his eyes and trying to ignore the high pitched voice.
"Sorry…I should have come down sooner." Fai's voice filled the room which drew everyone's attention.
"Fai-san!" The princess shot out of her seat and rushed over to the lithe male before hugging him tightly round the waist.
A small bird hopped out of Fai's collar and onto his shoulder where it began chirping merrily.
"A bird?" Syaoran muttered before turning slightly to the man sitting opposite him.
"It's one of those birds!" Mokona cried out in tune with the bird's chirping.
Fai smiled one of his signature fake smiles before letting his eyes grow dark.
"There's something I need to tell you…all of you…" Fai muttered.
Sakura let go of the magician and took a few steps back looking rather shocked at the man's cold tone.
"Fai-san?" The girl asked.
"Sakura-chan its better you, and Syaoran know this much of my past. It may not be ideal to tell you both since your both so young and innocent but…it'll save you in the long run." Fai walked over and sat down careful that he didn't lean on his back.
Sakura soon followed and took her seat next to Syaoran.
"I was brought up knowing one thing in life; always look at the big picture. I never could and that's probably what caused the problems later in my life…" Fai trailed off letting his eyes gaining the far off look he normally took when talking about serious matters.
The bird titled its head slightly.
Young teens or adults for that matter never ran off into mountains. Yet here was the blonde teen travelling with a little bird. He shivered slightly and watched his breath turn to ice in front of him.
The two had been travelling for what seemed like months but was probably only a matter of days. There were large lights in the sky, and before long a large building with wing-like structures sticking out of it.
"The capital…" The blonde breathed, the bird tweeted slightly from its place in a pocket.
The two, well the teen since he was the one running, hurried to the city ignoring all advice about never going in.
People were dressed in different clothes than the ones from the villages. Many were standing in rows along a road trying to get a glimpse of something.
Fai snatched an apple while everyone was distracted, he hoped no one saw him unfortunately the worst possible person had.
Prince Ashura.