Chapter 5: memories of a murder

Whoot chapter 5, can't believe the story is dragging on so long XD anyways, since this is the first chapter really taking my imagination to the limit I'm gonna do my best to make you see the dark side of Fai's mind as well.
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'Kurogane, wake up. Oh come on don't make me toss of my couch.' A familiar voice chimes through the air, as Kurogane feels the hands poking him all over his body. 'Come on bad boy, I warned you the bench wasn't for sleeping. The only times you get to sit or lay on there is while making love to me.' He continued, climbing on top of Kurogane as gently starts massaging his upper back.
Kurogane finally grasping what was happening jumped up, the blond man falling of him in the process. 'What the hell is going on, where is the bus? Why are you walking around, you were dying for god sake!' He yelled against Fai while stepping back until he felt the wall of Fai's apartment. 'Sounds like someone had a boo-boo dream.' Fai smiles at the man. 'So you want to eat breakfast or would you rather have a small appetizer?' He continues, taking of his shirt while walking over to the ninja, nuzzling himself against his big chest. 'As you can see I'm fine, Kuro-chi. I'm absolutely happy.' As the blond man slid his hands under Kuroganes shirt, making a blush creep up to his cheeks. 'I told you my name is Kurogane.' The other man replied, while bending over and savoring the hug. Tightly gripping Fai, never wanting to let him go. 'I thought I was gonna lose you.' He closed his eyes wishing the moment would never end. 'Euhm, Kuro-chi I can't breathe.' Fai coughed. 'And as you can see, I'm not going anywhere. You shouldn't go anywhere too Kuro-wan.' A feeling creeps over Kurogane, letting the blonde man go from his arms, almost pushing him away as Fai continued. 'You should stay here, forever and ever.' His voice changing, or not sounding like normal Fai. Someone different, and yet the same.

'You're, you're not Fai.' Kurogane realized, his expression pained at the epiphany. 'This isn't real, is it? You're just showing me what I want to see.' He angrily continued. 'Where is Fai! Who the hell are you!' He yelled, the words he screamed, echoing through the room with louder and louder until they had such power the windows of the apartment to exploded in a rain of glass shards. Gusts of wind entering trough the windows. Swirling around in the room with the power of a small tornado, tearing cracks in the walls, pulling out bricks, that disappeared in the darkness outside, and ripping of doors of cabinets, grabbing whatever they were hiding. Soon a tornado of knives, glass shards and kitchen utensils were flying around them. The winds throwing the objects away in random directions, picking them up again starting the cycle again. The couch on which they both had been laying was smashed by the oakwood table. The television screen got shattered by a chair as Kurogane could only stare at the transformation Fai was undergoing. With his head tilted backwards he lifted up his arms as if welcoming the storm, embracing its power. He slowly started floating, his feet hovering about five centimeter from the ground until he yelled. 'ENOUGH' Instantly stopping everything. 'I hate you Kurogane. I… Want to see you die slowly and painfully. What makes you so great that Fai already started forgetting about me? If I can't have my brother no one can Kurogane.' The man slowly whispers as his head tilted forward.
'My name is Yuui… and Fai… my twin brother… murdered me.'

'Fai is obnoxious, an idiot and most certainly a good person. I don't buy whatever lie you are feeding me here.' Kurogane answered. 'Is that so? Well then mister, maybe seeing is believing. I'll show you the memory of my death exactly the way Fai remembers it.'

'How's dinner Fai?' Yuui asks, Ashura really did his best tonight. He points at the long haired black man. 'It's al right…'Fai mutters more to himself then towards his brother. 'Don't worry Fai it's not the best I can do.' Ashura says with a smile at the blond boys, making Fai look angrily as he replies. 'You never can do your best enough! You're not my father or my mother!' Before he runs out the room.
'I'm sorry Ashura.' Yuui says against the man while going over to him and hugging him. 'He'll adapt but it'll take time. I'll go talk to him.' 'Thanks Yuui.' Ashura mutters.

'Why are you on the roof again Fai?' Yuui asks the blond boy sitting on the edge, looking out towards the dark city. 'You know, I thought a lot about how things are right now.' Fai replied, not looking as his brother sits down next to him. 'If only one of us was born, our parents wouldn't have been in debts, right?' Yuui sighed, as he looked down on the abandoned street. 'You don't know that Fai. Everybody is glad we are born.' 'I'm not, I there was only one of us, our parents wouldn't have disappeared, they ran away and left us.' He says as tears stream out of his eyes. 'WHY DID YOU LEAVE US?' he screams out. As he stands up and takes a step back from the edge. 'WHY?' He screams again from the top of his lungs. 'You know Yuui, maybe if there would only be one of us they would come back.' He calmly speaks, surprising Yuui. 'I think it is time to say goodbye.' He smiles gently, while he shoves Yuui forward. 'I'll miss you, brother.'

Kurogane grunted as the scenery changed once more, not back in the illusion they just were in, but in the real depts. of Fai's mind. The only two things he could see were the floating bricks above an endless darkness and on the other side, after Yuui, a stairwell leading down, deeper towards where Fai should be.
'Nice trick you pulled there. Fai isn't a murderer however.' Kurogane continued, looking at the identical twin of Fai with anger. He normally could freeze people with a glare, but in Kuro-terms this was a deathglare.
'Weird Kurogane.' Yuui replied, while slowly walking towards Kurogane. 'Faced with the truth, even knowing Fai was arrested on grounds of my murder and interrogated for ten hours straight. You still deny it.'
'Yeah, I don't buy it.' He answers while firmly gripping the sheathed sword he had gotten from Hitsuzen. 'Now move aside so I can go down to find the real Fai.'
'Sorry Kuro-chi, no can do. Fai killed me, even though the official rapport stated suicide. You know what happens to people who kill themselves Kuro-chi? They take away their most precious possession themselves. Life… They don't deserve heaven, the only thing waiting for me was hell. And now, thanks to you Fai is moving forward, forgetting he put me in this never ending torment in the first place.' Yuui whispers to Kurogane, closing the gap to about three meters. He stretches out his hand towards Kurogane. 'I will drag him back down with me Kurogane.' As the nails of his fingers grow rapidly ending in a sharp point. He closes his eyes, while continuing 'If you want to pass here you will die trying.' Slowly opening them again, his pupil narrowing like a cats. 'Now die…' He whispers in Kurogane's ear, as he instantly closed the gap, his finger piercing through Kurogane's heart. The finger shortens, covered in the ninja's blood as Yuui licks it clean, turns around and walks away. Kurogane slowly falling over on the cold stones.

'This can't be how it ends.' His last shred of conscience yells against his body. 'Protecting Fai… saving him, you love him. Can't die here… Must stand up. MUST SAVE FAI!' He yelled out, as the sheathed sword started to glow. Yuui noticed this. 'Resurrection, the power to call upon every cell in your body. Begging it to go on, summoning it to continue working for you. What a strong will to live you have. Thank god for that, otherwise this would be boring…' He says against the man, now standing back upon his both feet.
'You are his brother Yuui, yet you still want him to live in agony for something you say he did to you. I won't have it, I will break the chains you put on Fai.' He snares proudly while unsheathing the katana, that shone brightly, as if made entirely out of light.
'Let's see who is the strongest now!' He yells while running towards the blonde man. 'I couldn't agree more with you.' Yuui responds, his fingers lengthening. As he runs toward the ninja with his arm stretched forward, trying to pierce Kurogane's body once more. Anticipating the movements he slashes his sword against the long fingers, throwing them up in the air unbalancing Yuui for a split-second. Kurogane uses the time to change his the position of his hand on the katana, pushing the hilt into Yuui's chest with all his might, pushing the blonde man back, throwing him up in the air. Amazed by his own power, Kurogane watches the other man as he graciously lands back, creating a small gap in between them. 'Not bad at all Kuro-chi. Let's see if you can keep up if I go all out now.' He says as instantly he positions him close to Kurogane, who instinctively puts the sword between the fingers, unabling Yuui to pierce him once more. 'Impressive.' He mutters as he slashes with his free hand at the ninja, causing Kurogane to leap backwards releasing Yuui's other hand. He immediately follows Kurogane as he continues to swing his hands at him, Kurogane only being able to defensively recoil the blows. Pushing him back, slowly yet surely coming closer to the edge of the floating platform they are standing on. Kurogane curses loudly, only getting angrier at himself not being able to find an opening in the other man's attacks. 'I can't lose, I won't...' He mutters. 'You hear me Fai? I don't care if this is your brother, if he stands in my way I will defeat him.' His face angrily looking at the man, still pushing him towards the edge. Only about a half meter rests between the Kurogane and the dark abyss below. Kurogane tightly grips his katana, slashing at Yuui, who easily dodges the blows. 'Come on katana, help me...' He thinks while his feet slowly get pushed over the last tiles. Yuui smiles while lashing out at him one more time, Kurogane pivotes around the blond man pushing the sword against his back, as he trips and falls over in the darkness below. Kurogane sighs loudly. 'That was way to close...'

'Indeed...' A response comes from below, Kurogane twitching at the sound of the voice. As Yuui slowly rises up from the darkness. 'You didn't really think you could kill me by throwing me down in the darkness from which I came, didn't you?' He asks. 'It did seem a bit to easy indeed...' Kurogane replied scratching the back of his head. 'This is to tiring and I don't have the time. What do you say we end it now.' 'I couldn't agree more.' Yuui replied as they ran towards one another again. Their feelings clashing once more, ending in a total silence. As the two men stood with their back towards one another. Neither Kurogane nor Yuui moving. Until Yuui broke the quietness.
'You realized this was a test for you, didn't you. But that night on the roof, I really did fall to my death.' 'Yeah, the way you acted in that memory clearly showed me you were a good person. Who cared a lot for his brother. As for the memory I think it was possible you died that night but not because Fai killed you, right?'
'Yes, Fai wanted to kill himself, not me. He would have too, but I stopped him. We struggled a while and I slipped and fell over the edge...' 'So the memory showed me?' Kurogane grunted. 'Really is what Fai thinks happened that night, you see the police took him in. And for ten hours straight, from the accident until the afternoon after that he was questioned.' 'And after the questioning he was convinced he had killed you, wasn't he?' Kurogane answered.
'Yeah, memory is a bendable thing isn't it?' Yuui smiled while a tear rolled down his face. 'You really love my brother don't you? Breaking through my illusion, defeating me. You will surely succeed in changing Fai's memory of that night. Who knows maybe you'll even defeat the next dark memory Fai has. You see, I'm not the only person who caused Fai a lot of hurt Kurogane. There are still two floors you'll have to cross before you will get to Fai.' 'I will get to your brother Yuui.' Kurogane grunted.
'You know… Kuro…' Yuui coughed trying to keep the blond he felt in his mouth from running out over the floor. 'I'm… glad… to meet…' He struggled to say as he felt over, Slowly dissipating in the darkness. 'Yeah, me too…' Kurogane answered, wiping the tearstain of his cheek. As he slowly made way for the next level.