Dream With Me

Chapter 2: Misleading Doors
Disclaimer: I don't own Tsubasa Chronicles. Clamp does.
Note: Oh, the summary will keep changing. I forgot to mention that.
Summary: Kurogane seems to have woken up in a world by himself, with doors that lead to places that he least expects, and other doors that lead to disappearing people. But is he really as alone as he thinks? KuroFai
Second Note: Kurogane still has a potty mouth…

Damnit. Damnit. Damnit. Damnit. Damnit! DAMNIT!

HOW THE FUCK DO I GET OUT?

I've been pacing these hallways for some unruly amount of time, and I just KNOW that if some disappearing mage knew about this, he'd start laughing about how his 'big puppy has been defeated by a couple hallways'. But it's not just a couple hallways. It's a FREAKING MAZE.

And I KNOW that I've been walking in circles for a while, but there's no where else to go.

I turn onto another hallway. Door after door after door, each one different from the last. Why can't someone just let a door be? Is being unique all that important, compared to leaving this damned place?

I trip as I'm passing nearby the place I began. I glance back, and notice an appearing figure in the middle of the hallway. I'm completely temped to leave the person there, and just continue walking, but I know I'm not going to get out of this place if I don't know the way out, so I decide to at least attempt to ask for information instead.

I walk over, and look at the appearing person. They're shining colors, showing the body materializing under the effects of, no doubt, magic.

As some details start to appear, I notice how it's a girl, who looks like she's a teenager. She's not looking at me, and she's still not completely there, so I sit down at the black door with no handle again, and wait until the magic stops.

After a while, the girl is completely there, and I use the time between when she finished materializing and when she started moving to figure out who it was.

It was Sakura.

"…Kurogane-san?" She rubbed her eyes, staring at me with disbelieving, scared eyes that were actually kind of disturbing.

I 'hmph'ed, and looked away, knowing that just doing that would prove to the princess that I'm listening.

"Are you okay?" She asks, still staring at me with disbelieving eyes.

I glare at her questioningly. "I'm fine..." I say, but I don't take my eyes off her at all.

I don't see what she's worried about.

She noticed I was getting confused by her, so she decided to stop asking questions, and instead, she slid over and leaned against the closest door, which happened to be a pink door with wings painted on. A much better design than some of the other doors, but I still don't like it.

She looks left and right, and turns back to me. "Where's Fai-san, Syaoran-kun, and Moko-chan?"

I guess I should have assumed she would be more worried about them as opposed to where we are.

I point to the blue frilly door "The damn mage was in there, but something weird happened and he disappeared."

"And Syaoran-kun?" She looked at me, almost as if she was trying to plead the answer out of me.

I shrugged. I didn't know where he was, and I wasn't about to start getting worried over him. He can take care of himself.

I saw a small bit of recognition flicker through her eyes, as she finally seemed to comprehend that there were no other members of our cross-dimensional 'family' around. She glanced around, taking a better look at the hallway. "I…think I understand." She looks upward at the door she's leaning against, noticing how it has no handle, and then at my door, noticing how it also has no handle.

I'm pretty decently sure I know where she's going with this. 'i wonder why there are no handles on these doors' or something similar will probably be her next words.

Her eyes spring open, as if suddenly seeming to remember something, and she caught me completely off guard with what she said next. "When did you wake up? Fai-san and I were worried about you, and we were going to ask Yuuko-san what was wrong if you didn't wake up." I have no idea what she's talking about.

I stood up, and started walking down the hall, not really caring if she follows. I'll surely end up back in that spot anyway.

I hear her stand up, and run over, making sure to stand near me in case anything happens, or anything comes out to harm us.

I'm not all too sure why she assumes something will pop out of a hotel door and try to kill us. It sounds like a rather bad idea if you're trying to catch us off guard.

Sakura seems to have started talking while I was thinking. "…I made Syaoran-kun a desert that Fai-san called 'brownies'. I really hope he liked it, because he does so much for me and…" It doesn't sound very important, so I'm not going to bother listening.

As I continued walking about the hallways, seeing if I somehow missed something earlier, or if someone is mysteriously showing up like Sakura did, I heard her stop walking (and talking). I turned around, wondering what she found that I didn't, and saw her staring at a door, her hand resting lightly above the door handle, but not quite on it.

"It reminds me of Syaoran-kun…" she said, almost absently. Her hand touched the doorknob, and immediately, as if automatically, she opened the door and stepped in.

I have no idea how the kid doesn't realize how much his princess loves him. If he's away from her any longer, I wouldn't doubt that she'll become obsessed, and go get a small puppy to name 'Syaoran-kun'.

I walked back to the door, determined to go rescue the princess from where-ever she put herself.

I turned the knob, but the door wouldn't budge. I throw my weight against the door, but yet again, it doesn't move.

Damnit, the princess might have a point with this door being like the kid, because it sure is just as determined with keeping me out as the kid is with getting the princess's feathers.

I decide to leave her behind as I keep walking, knowing that I will just end up walking in the same circle/square/whatever again, and come back here eventually.

And it's not like she'll be in any danger if that door is even the slightest bit like Syaoran. He obviously loves her far too much to let anything bad happen to her.

…Why do the doors remind us of people? Am I becoming as insane as the damned mage?

I decided to see if I could name all the people that the doors reminded me of, and I found that it was quite easy.

Tomoyo (light purple and black, with lace, beads, and sparkles), Souma(black with a sword painted on that was pointing at Tomoyo's door, no doubt showing her loyalty), Fai (the frilly blue one), Syaoran (dark green with an amber handle, a sand timer on it), Sakura (pink with wings on it, no handle), etc.

Could the black one with no handle be mine?

I returned back to Syaoran's door, and sat down against the door across from it (I'm decently sure the person that this door is supposed to 'belong' to is Ryuu or something).

I can only hope I'm not going to be in these never-ending hallways as long as I feel like I am.

Ending Notes: I tried making it at least 2 ½ pages, so it's not as short as the last one. Oh, and thank you everybody for the comments and for my story being added to your favorites or alerts. I'll be even happier if you leave a review for this chapter too… Oh, and I tried to make it a little more SyaoSaku for you peoples, but I'm accepting any type of pairing, but KuroFai is going to be the main one.

It's now going to be my goal to try and get at least 30 reviews by the end of this story.