A/N: Sorry guys. Totally forgot about uploading this week. It's really short, I know, but I hope you uys enjoy it all the same.

P.S. I'd appreciate it a lot if you guys would check out my other fic, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. I finally uploaded a new chapter for it but it seems as though no one has read it so far. Lemme know what you think.

Chapter 7:

Now You Know

"You've noticed it too, haven't you, Kurogane?" Fai spoke as he finished tying a knot on one of the many bandages covering the unconscious brunette's wounded body. The right side of the boy's face was swollen and bruised, and black and purple bruises littered the rest of his sickly, sallow skin as well. He had been beaten rather badly, and had apparently taken something hard to the head too, though the injury was covered in bandages wrapped around his head like a turban, tufts of dirty, blood-matted hair sticking out from the white gauze.

"It's rather obvious." He grunted back, "One only has to take a look at his arms."

"I can smell it in his blood." He told the ninja, wrinkling his nose in distaste, "Its scent is hanging over him like a cloud of death."