-1Farewell

He was about to leave. About to leave him and he could do nothing to stop it. And then, when he was gone, he would have nothing left but memories of good times to please his heart however much it would hurt for him to remember it; it would still be one of the greatest things left. Kurogane. The person that meant everything would be gone and he wouldn't be able to reach out for him. Never again. It was the last evening together. He would have thought that this day would never come, that there was an endless amount of feathers out there. When a long time had gone and they had managed to find more and more feathers he had started to wish that they hadn't. He had cursed himself for it but he couldn't deny the fact that he wanted them to fail. He wanted to be with them forever, looking for feathers, most of all with him. But now, they had won. They had won over all the dangers of the road and was finally ending their quest. Fay peeked over at Kurogane. He was sleeping, an empty bottle of alcohol in his hand. 'Why did he have to drink?' Although he had no plans on talking to him, that would be too painful, he still wanted the opportunity to do so. Or at least the hope for him to do so. Fay walked out of the room and went to sleep, the pain of tomorrow lingering in his heart.

"Ready to go?" Yuuko asked smiling friendly. Syaoran and Sakura nodded. Suddenly magic appeared around the two of them. They was used to it by now. It closed around them and they waved to the rest. They smiled and was happy. Fay felt sick.

"I guess this is goodbye then," Kurogane turned to Fay. The mage looked surprised at him. He didn't expect him to say anything. He smiled.

"I guess," Fay said in a fragile voice that sounded nothing like what he had intended.

"You're becoming bad at hiding feelings," Kurogane said in a light voice, however Fay could tell it was strained to be so.

"It's been a while… Since I've needed to," Fay grinned. Kurogane looked at him some seconds before turning to the witch.

"You're ready?" Yuuko looked slightly sad this time. She had smiled when Sakura and Syaoran had left, but this time she didn't. When Kurogane nodded, Yuuko's mouth twitched, just a little, yet visible to the mage. Soon magic wrapped itself around Kurogane. Fay who was standing behind him, couldn't see his face. He couldn't move. Therefore he felt thankful for Kurogane's last movements before he left. He turned. His lips parted. Nothing.

The magic disappeared and Kurogane along with it. Fay felt tears well up in his eyes. When the last of the magic was gone and he found himself staring at nothing, the tears fell. He cried with no intentions to stop. He was frozen to the earth. Pain filling his lungs, heart and eyes. He cried until there were no more tears let to be shed. Fay didn't think he would be able to walk again. Time passed so slowly that he was sure it had been ages ago since Kurogane had left when the witch spoke up.

"It was hitsuzen. It was meant to be like this," Yuuko looked at Fay with stern eyes. Fay didn't respond. "However, one can change it. But then you have to realize your true wish," Fay blinked, released from his trance. "Do you know what your wish is?"

"That he is happy," Fay whispered. He looked down.

"That's not true. Your wish is different from what you believe," Yuuko looked at him. "If that was the truth. If your true wish is just for Kurogane to be happy, then why do think of those lonely nights to come? Why do you think of your pain? Your true wish is for yourself to be happy. Selfish? Yes, but that is your true wish either you want for it or not. You've always pretended to care for everyone else more, therefore you haven't seen what you truly wanted. All this time all you have wanted is to be happy," Yuuko paused noticing Fay blue eyes staring at her in a mixture of awe and surprise. "And you're only happy with Kurogane-san aren't you?" Fay looked down before stuttering his answer.

"Yes."

"Then should I fulfill your wish?"

"Yes."

"Very well," Yuuko smiled.

"Won't you need to take payment for this," Fay looked up a small smile on his face.

"You have already paid to travel. For telling you your true wish I don't need compensation. It is nearing the end…," Yuuko looked up towards the sky a bird flying over their heads and seating itself on the rooftop of her house. "I wish you all the luck and happiness from now on," she smiled turning her attention towards Fay and suddenly magic folded itself around Fay before taking him to the final destination of his journey that had granted him so many things that he now would pursue yet again.