A//N: Parts of this get so confusing. Feel free to point out any complicated parts within this so that I can go back a bit later and try to fix them. I'm pretty satisfied, but I can't be sure I smoothed out everything.

The story has started to write itself and I can't be sure where it's going now. That is a bad thing. I need to regain control of my own stories!

Enjoy!

Kurogane stared at Fai. What had made Fai so happy? It couldn't have been the mirror, the mirror was only supposed to help Kurogane help Fai. It wasn't supposed to simply make him happy.

While Kurogane was preoccupied by these thoughts Fai pulled away from Kurogane's chest. A slightly curious look crossed his face before a smile appeared. His long fingers reached up and slowly pulled Kurogane's face down to his before giving him a kiss on his lips.

The instant this happened Kurogane was wrenched from his thoughts and his whole body jerked back away from Fai, "What the hell is wrong with you?!"

Fai looked very upset his blue eye looking like it might just cry. He put his hands behind his back and looked to the ground as his left foot lightly drew circles on the floor. "Do you really not like Fai-chan? That's not fair, Fai-chan loves you."

There it was again, that soft childish tone. It wasn't only that either. The way he moved and held himself, even the facial expressions, they were all like that of a child. Sure Fai used to act childish, but he always looked like a full grown man. This...this looked like a very small boy in the body of a full grown man! Lastly he continued to use third person for himself.

"What do you mean 'Fai loves me'?! You're Fai! And don't give me crap like that, stop playing around!"

Fai chuckled, then the chuckle turned into a giggle. "Kuro-san is funny. Fai-chan does love you, but I'm not Fai-chan." The giggling continued, getting louder as it went.

This was confusing. "Well, if you're not the mage then who are you and where is he?"

The giggling stopped as 'Fai' straightened up, a calmer look coming to the blond's face. "Fai-chan is here." He put his hand to his head. "And Fai-chan is here." He put a finger to his head. "He's okay, he's just asleep." He paused, "I'm Yuui. Hmmm...I guess you could call me Fai's inner child."

"And you're only showing yourself now because...?"

"Well DUH!" Yuui jabbed a finger at Kurogane's chest. "You turned the mirror on! I'm only here to help you help Fai-chan!"

"You're my help? You're not exactly helping much."

Yuui whimpered a little at the insult. "Well I just woke up! I know Fai-chan better than Fai-chan knows himself. If you don't want my help turn the mirror off."

The ninja sighed, "Fine. Help me." He would't be like Fai. He would take help if it was given to him.

Yuui smiled, "Sit." He pointed to the bed and slowly Kurogane obeyed. Yuui grinned and sat on Kurogane's lap, wrapping his arms around the other's neck. "You know...I can see why Fai-chan loves you...You're strong and warm..." Yuui giggled and buried his head in Kurogane's chest again.

"Are you going to help me out or not?"

"Well for one thing Fai-chan needs more blood or he's not going to have the energy to do anything."

Kurogane nodded.

"Now, if you really want Fai to accept your help you need to question him about why he won't let you help him. Like when you questioned him about why he'd used his magic back in Acid Tokyo."

There was a long pause before Kurogane spoke, "Anything else?"

Yuui nodded, "Love him. Treat him with love and kindness. Love him like he loves you. Questions will break him open, but if you love him he'll heal and probably open up to you." Yuui grinned again.

"What if that doesn't work?"

"Then I'll have to figure out something else." Yuui cuddled closer to Kurogane nuzzling to his shoulder now. "Good night Kuro-san."

Yuui stopped all actions and closed his eyes. For a long time he was still, leaving Kurogane deep in thought, trying to come up with a strategy.

He got a small plan in his head and then removed the blond from his lap, laying him down on the bed and then cleaning up the glass object Yuui had broken.

after all this happened Fai opened his single blue eye and sat up rubbing his head. "How do you feel?"

"Fine."

Kurogane hadn't expected any other answer, but he could hope. "You need to drink."

Fai sighed and stood up looking at Kurogane with a blank stare. "Get it over with." With one click strike Kurogane cut a gash on his arm and held it out for Fai to take. The mage seemed to hesitate before he came and took the wound, bringing it to his mouth and beginning to drink.

Kurogane waited patiently until a few seconds before Fai would pull away. "So...if you're willing to drink my blood why aren't you willing to let me help you?"

The swordsman could practically feel Fai's eye widen from his question before he slowly pulled away. "The two are completely unrelated."

"Wrong mage. They are both 'help.' One is help for survival, the other for your peace of mind. I don't see the utter difference in them."

"I told you to let me die."

"I told you to live."

"Yes. You wouldn't let me make m own choice so now I stand here having to live off you! I despise you for that!"

Kurogane might have given up then if he hadn't remembered Yuui's words. "Fai-chan loves you."

A small smirk appeared on Kurogane's face as he looked at the blond who gave him a glare full to the brim with hate. "All right mage. Tell me, why do you despise me?"

"You see past me." As he began Fai's voice was shaky. "You alone saw past my smile and kept trying to take it away from me. I'd annoy you with named and remarks to make you leave me alone, but you wouldn't. You kept edging closer and closer to me, breaking down my barriers and not giving me anything to fix them with. You made me like you as a person. You were strong and self assured, everything I'm not and everything I want to be. You got a hold of my soul and gripped it so tightly that when I wanted to leave you pulled me back in and decided that I would be bound to your body until I die or get my other eye back. You wouldn't let me go!" Fai huffed and panted as he continued to glare at Kurogane.

"Anything else?"

Fai made a growling sound. "Can't you see?! All I ever wanted from you was for you to stay away so you wouldn't get hurt, and now you hurt yourself everyday on my behalf! You refuse even my simplest wish! I hate you! I would be happier if you just left me alone and I never saw you again!"

There was silence again and the two men stared at each other. Kurogane's face was perfectly calm, staring at Fai expectantly as if he waited for the magician to start ranting again. Fai's face was determined for a minute but when he saw Kurogane wasn't moving his lower lip trembled.

"You can stop waiting. I'm not leaving."

"WHY?!" Fai screamed dropping to his knees and gripping his hair as if he wanted to pull it straight out of his head. "Why?! I just told you I hate you, I despise you and that I wish you would leave me alone forever! Does that mean nothing to you?!"

"It means plenty, I just don't believe it means what you want me to believe it means."

"Then what do you believe it means? The words 'I hate you' are pretty self explanatory."

"I believe you don't hate me at all. I believe you love me." He paused looking at Fai to see if there was any reaction. There was. Fai's eye was as wide as it could get and the pupil was almost completely gone. "I believe you admire my 'strength' and 'self assurance.' You let me get a grip on your soul and make a decision for you because you love me and want me to notice you."

"No!" Fai's voice yelled out, ringing throughout the room, his hands going to his ears as if to try to block the words that were already in his head. "No, I don't want you to notice me! I don't want anyone to be hurt because of me!"

"Too late. No matter what you do others will be harmed or helped because of what you do, everyone you meet is affected."

"No..." Fai whimpered. "No..."

"Yes. You have to accept that and learn to make the best what you are given. You're not doing well at the moment." Kurogane lightly pulled Fai's hands away from his ears and shh-ed him. "I can't force you to change, but I want you to let me help you try."

"Why? Why do you want to help me?"

Kurogane sighed a bit at how panic stricken Fai seemed to be, wasn't he overreacting just a bit It wasn't really his place to decide, after all he didn't care about what happened in Fai's past, he only cared about now.

"I suppose it's because in my own way I love you too."

Fai shook his head trying to pull his wrists away from the other's hold. "No! No! You can't love me, you'll get hurt!"

"Does it matter?" The ninja growled this out in such a tone that Fai became still again. "Which would hurt you more; You getting hurt? Or you seeing someone you cared about getting hurt?"

Fai bit his lip and looked away. "The last one." His voice was so soft that for a moment Kurogane thought Yuui was back to scold him for doing it wrong somehow.

"So let me help you. I promise I won't get hurt and we'll both be happy in the end."

"You can't prom--"

"I promise." The growl made Fai flinch. "So will you let me help you?"

There was a pause and then Fai nodded very slowly. Kurogane smirked, success. "Good." He remembered what Yuui had told him, to love in and the man reached out and ruffled Fai's hair a bit, like he occasionally did for Syaoran. "How is your wound?"

"It's fine." Fai's hands slowly reached up trying to fix his hair, the fingers went about it clumsily, the look on the blonds face seeming to be in disbelief.

"Don't give me that."

"No!" Fai's voice was still in a panic from being emotionally attacked that way, but he seemed to be calming down more and more as the moments passed. "Really. It feels fine. It just drains my energy."

Kurogane nodded, "Why don't we late a look?" It was not a question.

Fai was briefly still before he pulled himself up onto the bed and pulled his shirt off, the clumsy fingers quickly undoing the bandaging that lay underneath the shirt.

As the bandages fell away Kurogane frowned. "It's much smaller than I remember it being."

"I'm not surprised. They did say that I'd heal a bit faster as a vampire than I used to."

Kurogane gave a sound that sounded like a huff before he ran his finger up the wound lightly. Fai made a funny noise in response, it sounded like it was between a laugh and a yelp of pain. "Kurogane! Don't do that, I'm not that healed yet."

"No, but you're getting there." Some of the scab had flaked off when he had touched it while others were still obviously healing. "It doesn't look infected so I guess we'll just wrap it up again for now."

Without complaint Fai took some gauze and handed it to Kurogane, letting him with the bandaging like he had that morning.

Once the swordsman had finished Fai pulled his shirt on over his head, smoothing it out. "We have a match tonight."

"I know. I don't think you should play."

"I have to."

"I know."

The pair sat silently, neither looking at the other. The air seemed almost dead. Finally after almost ten minutes of nothing the silence was broken. "You should rest more."

"You should too."

"You're wounded and exhausted."

"You just gave me a good fraction of your blood." Again there was a silence, but it lasted only seconds this time.

"Why don't you try to sleep a bit more mage? I'll go and check on the kid and the girl and then I'll come back, I'll try to rest when I do."

Kurogane could feel Fai lay down. "All right. That sounds fair enough." When Kurogane looked at the blond Fai's gaze stared straight back at him, waiting for the ninja to both leave the room and come back. He got up and left, the door making it's clicking sound as he did so.

Kurogane found Sakura in the kitchen putting away the things Fai hadn't put away before his legs had decided to stop obeying him. He didn't speak to her, it was Fai's job to communicate with her, he was the only one since Syaoran had left.

He turned away from the doorway and went onto find Syaoran, finding him right in front of Fai's door just about to knock on it, "Ah, Kurogane-san."

"What do you need? The mage is sleeping."

"Oh...um...well, I heard yelling coming from the room earlier and I wanted to make sure everything was all right." The boy rubbed the back of his head, "I tried to ignore it but..."

"It's all right. No he's fine, or at least he will be." Syaoran gave a short nod before going off to undoubtedly to find Sakura and make sure she was all right too.

As Kurogane opened the door he heard the voice both did and did not belong to Fai. Yuui was awake again. "How did I do?"

"Wonderfully." Yuui slid off the bed and came to Kurogane putting his hands to the man's face. "Better than I could have ever imagined."