Btw, there are not in Outo country...It just seems like it, sorry...^^;;

The next morning, or more like four hours later, the sun was just starting to brighten up the town, and people were starting to move around and living up the dead little area. Things weren't moving so smoothly, however, in the home of the four travelers, and uhm...little white egg looking thing.

Like always, Kurogane was the first one to awake. He went across the hall to Syaoran's room to wake him up so they could start the day off with searching. He slowly creeped into the half opened door way, surely quiet so he didn't wake anyone else up. This task was quite easy, with him being a ninja of course. It was dark in the small room, but there was little light flowing from the window, creating a small ulluminating glow and casting shadows throughout the room.

Syaoran was fast asleep, snuggling into his blanket with a cute little smile acrossed his face. The ninja strolled to his bedside and roughly shook the kid awake. He immediatly shot up. "Whoa! K-Kurogane-san?" He stared at him with wide eyes until he calmed down a bit.

"What? I was waking you up. You need to get ready, kid." The ninja just stared at him like he didn't do a thing wrong.

"Oh, that's right, I forgot, sorry...But...Uh, Kurogane-san...Shouldn't you learn to be a little more gental with people when you are handling them? I mean I know you're a ninja, and you're used to being rough and ruthless, but I think ninja's should learn how to control their strengths...Right?" He gave him a soft smile while he explained himself.

Kurogane just gaved him a confused look and shruged. He started to think about what he said. He never really thought of being "gental", and he never thought of a reason why he had to. Well, there wasn't, right!

He shruged again after thinking for another few seconds, then stood to his feet. "Well, get ready so we can go." He turned around and started heading towards the door.

Syaoran then quickly remembered something and stopped the ninja.

"Wait! What about Fai-san? Isn't he coming with us?"

The raven haired man stopped, but didn't bother turning around. "He's sick- He's not coming." He simply stated and headed out the door, uncaring to what the kid had to say.

Syaoran's first thought was one of worry. Fai sick? He seemed fine the other day. How was he supposed to focus on his mission when his friend was ill? He decided it wouldn't be a bad thing just to check up on him first thing, since he was practically ready any way.

He shifted himself off the bed and rose to his feet. 'I'm sure Kurogane wouldn't mind if I go talk to him for a bit. It will only take a second.' He thought to himself as he walked slowly out of the room and into the lightly lit hallway and down towards the magician's room.

Inside Fai's room, it was a lot more depressing, there was practically no light at all, and it was bone-chilling cold. Syaoran quietly tip-toed across the floor to Fai's side.

He was lying in his bed, currled up on his side. The kid stepped closer and placed his hand gentaly on his forehead. His hand immediatly felt warmish. He had a fever alright, but not a serious one. Syaoran looked at his face and then realized just how bad he was.

Fai had dark circles under his eyes, which showed he didn't get much sleep at all. His eyes themselves were a bit puffed and purpleish. His skin was dull and paler than usual, his cheeks were grazed red and his body looked frail and wet from perspiration.

Syaoran felt bad, he looked like he was very sick and in pain. He pushed a piece of Fai's hair out of his face. Even such a slight movement like that woke the mage up from his sleep. The kid quickly jerked his hand away.

Fai slowly opened his eyes then looked up, rubbing the sore spots around his eyes(The word eye is being used a lot, huh?)

"Ngh...Syaoran-kun...? Well...Good morning." He sat up and gave a worn out smile, which Syaoran returned and softly took Fai's cold hands with his own caring ones.

Fai stopped smiling and gave him an innocent confused face, which only made Syaoran smile more.

"I'm sorry that I woke you up, I just wanted to check on you." He started to let his finger roam down Fai's exposed arm. (RAPE)

"You feel so cold, Fai-san, you really are sick, huh?" Fai's eyes widened a bit. How did he know he was sick? Did he hear him last night?

"I'm glad you chose to stay home today instead of going out. Kurogane and I can take care of everything."

"Whoa, wait, who said I'm staying here?" Fai raised his voice rather loudly.

Syaoran cocked his head. "Kurogane told me you were sick and decided to stay home."

Fai shook his head and removed his hands from Syaoran's grasp. He struggled a bit, but finally was able to stand up.

"I'm coming with you, I won't let you go alone. I'm actually feeling better now, really. I can go." Syaoran followed Fai's movement and stood next to him.

"Oh, ok then...Well, I guess you should get ready to go then, and also let Kurogane know you are going too."

Fai simply nodded and walked off to find the ninja, leaving Syaoran to stand there and wonder if it was such a good idea that he let him go, after all, he did look real bad, even if he said he was fine...

The blonde looked in Kurogane's room to find him, but sadly he was no where to be found, just an empty space. "Huff..." Fai decided to go look somewhere else. Next, the kitchen- Wait...Was he getting hungry again? He took a step into the brightly, clean room. Well he wasn't there. "Maybe I should go look in the..." He turned to the side to leave, but his stomach made a painful gurggling noise.

"Hmm...:/" He thought for a bit about wheather he should get something or not, but decided against it. If he contined to eat like he did, he would lose his "girlish" figure. He put his hand over his growling abdoman. "Shut up! You can wait." He just ignored the large pain that his stomach had for food and continued on with his search for Kurogane.

He walked into the living room next, and there he was! Kurogane was there sitting on the couch, his head tilted back against the hard wood, eyes(again, eyes) closed, arms streched out over the top of the couch, legs crossed and- shirtless?! Fai made a small squeak/gasp sound, which made him quickly cover his mouth and run behind the piano he just bought awhile back.

Boy was his face red. He hoped that Kurogane didn't hear him, but his luck wasn't so great today.

When the ninja heard the noise he opened his eyes to see what it was, but saw nothing. A confused look appeared on his features and he stood up.

"Hello? If you're there stop hidding and come out!" When Fai heared him he knew that Kurogane was pissed off. "Answer me!"

The sound of him shouting scared Fai, which made him sit up quickly, causing him to hit his head hard off the underneath of the piano.

He still held a hand over his mouth do he wouldn't make a sound. What was the point now? The sound that he made when he hit his head off the piano was loud enough to scare someone from across the street.

He moved both of his hands on his head, slowly stood up and walked out from behind the piano.

"Haha...Sorry about that..." He laughed nervously. Kurogane lowered his guard.

"Fai? Why were you hiding?" He asked with a complexing face.

"Uhh..." The mage thought about it for a second. It did kind sound stupid for him to do that. It was his house too after all...

Kurogane got a bit more serious. "A more important question, what the hell are you doing out of bed? You're sick, or have you forgotten?" He grabbed his arm roughly and tried to drag him across the room. Fai quickly took his arm back.

"Kurogane, I am fine, really!" Kurogane looked at Fai as though the mage would attack him at any moment. Even though he was a bit scared by the glare he was recieving, he kept his cool, just like a good little ninja. (:3)

"No, you're not fine, you're sick, and you need to rest." (Aw, how cute to be worried about him!) He reached out to grab his hand once again as he spoke softer so Fai wouldn't freak out.

Didn't work. The magician jerked his arm back and stepped back.

"I am not a child! I can take care of myself!" He shouted loudly, not even noticing the shocked face the ninja made.

Kurogane backed up as Fai exploded. Even though he knew it was a bad idea, he dicided he would fight back. He would absolutly and utterly NOT lose this!

"Oh yeah?! You seem to be like a kid to me! And how many times have you proven you couldn't take care of yourself? A lot! If you were on your own, I bet you would have killed yourself by now!"

The blonde haired man's eyes widened with shock. "You...You have no right to talk to me like that!" He matched Kurogane's face and held up a finger infront of his face with his hand on his cocked hip as if he was punishing the taller man.

"I am MANY years your superior. You will show me respect when speaking to me!"

"Respect?! How can I have respect for you when you don't even have respect for yourself?!"

Fai threw his arms to his side, much like a child would do when they throw a tantrum. "That doesn't matter! That's not the point I am saying! It's the same thing! Stop acting like a child! You are a grown man. You'll never be able to take care of any one else if you can't even act right for yourself! Yet you think you will be able to protect your princess? You are naive if you think that! No wonder she threw you out! YOU DAMN OVERVIOLENT SELFISH NINJA!"

What the hell? Why was he bringing that up now? Kurogane looked at him with suprise. There really wasn't any one else he really needed to protect besides himself, and he certainly DID know how to take care of himself, thank you!

"...Whatever, I'm done fighting this useless fight. Are you sure you want to come with us?" He fought the urge to strike the mage with all his strength. Man how much he wanted to just punch him in his smartass face. (Mean Kuro-puu...Poor Fai)

"I am." Was the only response Fai made as he turned around and walked back to his room, not even effected by what had just happened.

But while he was walking back, he started to feel extremely bad. What was that about? There was no reason for that stupid fight. Never once had Fai yelled like that to Kurogane, so why did he do it now? He just couldn't control himself at that moment. Now he just really wanted to go back and apologize.

He grabbed the boarder around teh door to his room, paused for a few seconds, then ran back to the living room.

Kurogane was just about to go back to his own room when he suddenly felt something hammer into him. Even though Fai was running at top speed, Kurogane still saw him quick enough to put a hand between his and Fai's chest.

The blonde wrapped his arms around the ninja and started bawling his eyes out. "I'm so sorry Kuro-sama! I didn't mean to yell at you like that!"

The black head just looked down at him a bit confused. He pushed him back and looked at him with a slight interested look. "Uuh..It's ok...Really...Just get off me..."

"Ok..." Fai calmed down enough to step back and release his grip on him. Kurogane stared at him for a few seconds. He just seemed to go from one emotion to the next in 0.0001 seconds! A side of him he's never seen before. Two sides actually.

"Er...Ok then, I'm going to...Go now...And get ready. You should do the same." He quickly turned around and practically sprinted to his room just to get away from the crazed mage.

Fai watched him until he was out of sight, a blank look opon his face. He then followed his orders and went back to his own room to get ready for their mission