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Chapter one

Across Piffle, with its skyscrapers among the craft that weaving through the buildings and the high arches above that ran wires and data across the city and also served for perches A blonde named Fai was busy scaling the small rungs of a latter up the side of one of the cities arches.

While running a scan they had received an error reading and since the people they usually had scale the things had left for the night it was his job to go and fix the connection error. The wind was a little strong so far up, but he managed to make it to the plan that opened up and push the cable in that had come loose.

Above and below him dragons and cars flew by on their way to do this and that. When he moved to step up his foot caught on his long coat and as a reflex his body lurched to the side. He slipped off, his breath caught in his throat as he fell.

The blonde was slowly falling from the amazing heights as the wind whooshed upwards; the sounds of cars and such rushing through his ears. But one sound overlapped them all as a gentle roar was heard and the blonde landed not too gently on something tough and scaly.

It took a few seconds for him to realize after he had tried latching on to the thing he had hit in hopes of not falling to his death. It had still knocked the wind from him, but he was able to see he'd somehow managed to land on the face of a dragon. Just his luck really, but at least he managed to give a rather large red eye a sheepish smile.

The dragon that he landed on was less then amused since the blonde in question was gripping on its face a bit too harshly but let out a snort; that big red eye looking at the human.

When Fai regained his breath he noticed at least he hadn't been shaken off. "Can you take me to the nearest rooftop?" He preferred the street, but would take anything right now.

The beast let out another snort before moving its wings and flew up. The creature didn't care about humans much but it was glad that this particular human wasn't another example of road...or rather air-kill since he was falling from the sky.

When they landed Fai fell right onto his ass. He groaned at the hard landing, but was just glad it hadn't been harder. Dragons weren't uncommon here, in Piffle, like most cities, they lived together with people; many even took human shape when they were too big to fit through doors and the like. "Thank you Mr. Dragon, I owe you for the accidental rescue."

The dragon puffed out a small bout of smoke out of its mouth as it nodded slowly. It jolted as it heard a chine of what was assumed was a cell phone. Sudden sounds can do that to some dragons.

"Big Mr. Dragon is afraid of a phone?" Fai grinned before taking his phone from his pocket. It seemed he had been missed at work and after saying he was alright he hung up. Honestly to think of someone startled at the sound of a phone in this day and age. The sky was illuminated by the rues etched into the heavy metal arches as well as all the advertisements and billboards further down below.

The dragon snorted; obviously not in the mood for some human teasing. It closed its eyes before starting to move away from the rooftop. It was already late and if it doesn't go on right now, there will be hell to pay.

"At least let me pay you back? Maybe a meal?" Fai asked, saying the first thing that had come to mind as he saw the dragon almost leaving him.

Stopping for a second, its big red eyes moved to the human. It shouldn't be tempted but...it hasn't had much of a meal today. It turned around and blinked. Maybe...one meal would be okay and then it'll never have to see that human again. Just like always.

Fai grinned. "I'm guessing some kind of meat? There's some late night food stands open." On the plus side many restaurants catered to dragons of all sizes.

The dragon resisted rolling its big eyes as the human was musing. It didn't care at that point what to eat as long as it got to eat. Honestly, humans can be so picky.

"Great, I'll meet you downstairs?" He asked, thinking it'd be rude to ask a dragon for a lift, especially one he hadn't met before.

Nodding, the dragon soon descended downwards slowly as the human was out of its field of vision.

Fai managed to get down within ten minutes and was glad he hadn't been stood up. "Alright Mr. Dragon, I guess you're not a talker, so if you had a place in mind, lead the way."

Growling a bit, the dragon started walking a bit slowly as it went to a very common eatery that serves both humans and dragons alike just down the street. It was big but humble and it had a bar.

"You know there aren't a lot of dragons your size in the city, you must work as a laborer? Or a messenger?" He asked, making small talk even though his companion hadn't spoken once.

The dragon almost sighed. It wasn't much at the small talk but since the human was paying for his meal he might as note something. The beast then glanced at a dragon who was smaller than it doing some random labor across the street. It nodded its head over to that dragon; giving the human an answer.

Fai blinked and stared. It wasn't much of an answer, but he went.

The dragon growled in agitation. Well so much for that. The two got to the eatery as a waiter saw the dragon and nodded. "Oh, welcome. I have your spot reserved as usual." He then looked over at the blonde. "Oh and I see you brought a friend this time." He chuckled. Growling, the dragon passed the waiter and went to its usual spot.

It was an open air diner as it sort of had to be to accommodate some of its patrons. Fai took a seat across from his rescuer and grinned. "So you come here often enough the waiters know you by heart. I'm impressed."

"Hmmph." The dragon growled as it waited for someone to take their order.

"Was that a sound?" Fai teased before glancing at the menu. At least his boss didn't expect him to come back in to work the rest of the night and he'd only had an hour left of his shift in any case.

"..." The dragon turned its head away from the blonde with a small snare.

When the waiter returned his was beaming as Fai ordered. "And the same for you, sir?"

Looking at the waiter, the dragon nodded briefly.

With that he left. "Ah so you really are a Mr. Dragon, I had assumed with your size you were, but I hadn't really checked." Fai smiled, unable to help himself from joking. If his new friend wasn't going to talk he would talk for them both.

A noise rumbled inside of the beast's throat, not denying that fact but not really agreeing to it either.

"So do you have a name?" He asked. Fai had had meals with dragons before, smaller ones more towards his size or the size of a large horse, but this was entirely different and a little intimidating.

It was then that the dragon was stuck. He didn't want to reveal too much before the human but he doubt that the human would take the silence as an answer. Thinking quickly, with his sharp nail, he lightly wrote the kanji for black and under it 'Kuro' on his scales as his scratches were almost white on black anything. He wasn't going to see this human much anyway so this was as much as he can do.

The blonde saw the dragon at what it was doing as he tilted his head at the writing. "Kuro? Such a weird name." He pouted, unimpressed. "What about Kuro-rin instead? It rolls off the tongue better."

And just like that, the beast regretted writing part of its name. It narrowed its eyes as it let its hand down. It growled a bit.

Despite the two rows of sharp teeth in front of him, Fai laughed. "Okay, what about Kuro-wing? Kuro-scale?"

Several customers and a couple of workers have stopped and stared as the normally calm and distant dragon started growling and baring its teeth at the blonde human. Oh boy.

Fai waved off the growling, unscathed. "So tell me Kuro-san, do you normally fly around acting as pointy cushions for people?"

Baring its teeth to the human it shook its head before turning its head away.

"Out for a late night fly then? You don't have a satchel or anything so you're not working." Fai mused as he had a finger under his chin.

"Are you always so damn talkative?" The dragon finally spoke; it's voice so low and dark that no human can achieve that level of octave.

Fai stared before his face broke out into a large smile and he clapped. "Aha~! Kuro-chan can talk~!"

"It's not Kuro-chan you moron!" It growled as he snarled at the human. "It's just Kuro! Either say that or shut it!"

"But Kuro doesn't sound right." Fai pouted in return just as their food arrived. Fai had got a relatively large bowl of noodles, mixed with shredded pork and vegetables.

The dragon scoffed as the waiter had to haul it in a very big bowl of the same order since dragons usually eat more than humans. He muttered thanks at the waiter who smiled in return. "Maybe for you but it sounds fine by me." He grumbled.

"Hmm...I still like Kuro-min better." With that he dug in. He'd forgotten to eat earlier in the day, too absorbed in his work to stop for lunch.

The dragon watched the human ate. It didn't take long to see that the human was starving and was practically shoving the meal down. "Watch yourself. Don't eat too fast. No point in eating if you're going to get a damn stomach ache later." It then started eating but at a slower rate.

"So concerned even now~. I'm flattered." Fai smiled. It seemed he wasn't so bad after all and a lot less scatterbrained than some of the dragons he'd met in the market or delivering a package.

"I'm not concerned. I just don't want to see the same dish going out of your puny stomach the moment you leave this place." The dragon scoffed as it continued eating.

"Meanie." Fai pouted before he continued eating. He had grown up, like everyone else in this city had with dragons protecting them living with them and doing menial labor just like they did. Their differences were only skin deep after all; at least he had always thought so.

The two continued to eat with some small talk here and there. Eventually, the two were exiting the place as the eatery gave Fai a discount on the whole thing.

It hadn't been terrible on his pockets either as most places accounted for their larger costumers and didn't expect them to pay more for food that was proportionate to them. "Well dinner was nice, I've never been there before. I'll have to go again."

"Mm." The dragon nodded before pausing for a moment. "So I guess I'll see you later...mn..." The dragon started walking away from the blonde.

"So Kuro-sky expects to see me later?" Fai gave a lazy smile as he stopped, hand on his hip.

The beast stopped for a second. It then scoffed as it continued walking away.

"Goodnight Kuro-growl!" Fai waved before he turned to head home.

"Not my damn name, human!" The dragon roared as it stomped its way through the streets; practically having anyone on its path move away suddenly; not wanting to get trample by the beast.

When Fai made it home, he sighed. It was always a decent walk when going around the city as long as it wasn't too far. Flipping the switch on, he locked the front door as he made his way through his house. Pressing a few buttons on the touch screen embedded into his wall he turned on the heat and the TV so he could listen to something.

As the blonde was moving all through the house, one of the bedroom doors opened and another set of feet were heard. There was a yawn. "Brother...is that you?"

"Sorry, I woke you up?" Fai smiled; seeing his brother, Yuui, in front of him, that blonde hair mussed.

"No, it's okay." Yuui smiled a bit at his older twin. "I haven't been asleep for long." He yawned.

"Still tired though, you should head to bed. I was going to go sleep soon anyways." He already had his coat off and put across a chair.

"Speaking of, where were you? I called your work place and said that you didn't return." Yuui frowned a bit. "Did something happen?"

"I feel off the arch above the building." Fai explained as he grabbed himself a drink from the fridge.

"...What?" Yuui's half-asleep mind slowly caught on to those words.

"I went to do some maintenance, Doumeki was gone already so we could have him fly up there and fix it. I slipped and fell and landed on a dragon's head."

"Oh...oh, okay." Yuui let out a sigh of relief. "Don't do that, brother, you almost scared me for a second." He then smiled. "But it was nice for a dragon to do that. Was it one of those messenger dragons passing by?"

"No, he wasn't carrying anything except me and that was because I was clutching to his face." He grinned twisting the bottle cap off and tossing it in the garbage. "I offered him a meal and we went out. He was pretty grumpy though."

"Ah, I see." Yuui went up to Fai and hugged him from behind. "That's good. I was worried about you and thought for the worse. But I was so tired from today that I couldn't do anything. I'm sorry."

"It's alright, you need to rest anyways." He turned around smiling and gave his brother a kiss on the cheek. "So how was your day?"

Smiling at the kiss, Yuui chuckled. "It was chaotic to say the least. But that's what happens when you own the busiest cafe on the block."

"That's true; I hardly catch a glimpse of you from all the smoke and bodies moving around." He laughed. "Come on; let's go relax on the couch, unless you want to go back to bed?"

"I want to spend as much time with my big brother as I can." Yuui smiled. He and Fai have been working hard nearly every day lately so they hardly get a chance to wind down together. Oh how they missed the days of innocence and carefree time. "So the couch it is."

Smiling he pulled Yuui with him to the couch where they both slumped down. Their apartment was on the small side, but they made due and would probably get something bigger later on when Fai got his bonus. "I wonder if I made the new. Probably not since Kuro-chan rescued me, but it'd still be fun."

Partially on top of Fai, Yuui laughed softly; the nickname went over his head due to how tired he was. "You'll probably just on the sliver of news updates on the bottom of the screen." Small news always went unnoticed if they were on the bottom of the screen so if the story of Fai being rescued from certain death by a dragon ever made it on TV, it wouldn't last very long.

"There's goes my chance at being famous." Fai mourned the loss covering an arm over his eyes.

"I'm sure you'll get another chance of falling off the arch and to certain doom another time." Yuui sarcastically stated as he grinned.

"Maybe." He grinned and ruffled Yuui's hair.

Yuui chuckled as he closed his eyes; enjoying the quiet moment and his brother's warmth. "So...about that dragon who saved you, anyone you know before?"

"Nope. He was just flying by." Fai shrugged.

"Huh." Yuui nodded. "I guess it was just a coincidence of some sort. Or dumb luck; either way."

"I'd rather of hit him than a dragonfly." Fai replied as they settled down.

"Haha. Well I'll be sure to thank him for the trouble if I get to see him." Yuui yawned. "And dealing with you, I would have to."

"I wasn't that bad, he just growled a lot." Fai pouted. "And I paid for dinner."

"And I bet you tried to make small talk with him too, right?"

"Of course, it took forever for Kuro-tan to even say anything."

"Maybe because he wasn't a talkative type? You should at least respect that when dealing with people like that." Yuui then blinked. "Wait, Kuro-tan?"

"What?" He asked curious. "He says his name is Kuro, but that can't be right, so I gave him a better one."

"Oh boy..." Yuui rolled his eyes. He should have known that Fai would rile up the very dragon that saved him. "You shouldn't do that, you know. I'm surprised he didn't bite your head up for butchering his name like that."

"I'm pretty sure he could have eaten me whole had he been mad enough." Fai countered. "But it was fine, Kuro-rin wasn't so bad."

"Well while I'm glad that the two of you had some manners, don't forget; some dragons aren't used to humans acting so friendly at them. Might give them the wrong idea."

"Wrong idea?" Fai wasn't sure what Yuui meant. He'd always been friendly to everyone.

Yuui fell quiet after that. He didn't want to bring up what had happened today while at the cafe. Sometimes you just never know the kind of people you'd be serving or what stories they might bring but it certainly didn't make him feel any better. "Tired yet?" He asked instead.

"A little, I've had an exciting day." He smiled in return, relaxed and content.

"Apart from falling and being rescued, of course." Yuui chuckled.

"Did you want to go to bed? If not, I was thinking of passing out here." Fai tiredly suggested since the couch was a great place to sleep as any at this point.

"Funny. I was thinking the same thing." Yuui closed his eyes as he chuckled.

"Hyuu~ we really are psychic." Fai hugged his brother tightly, laughing before he eventually stopped and settled into a comfortable position.

Yuui had to laugh as well before settling down and soon drifting off to sleep. He really missed those moments when it was just him and his brother. Time sure does go by quickly when you're all grown up.

TBC

I apologize for the weird endings of each chapter from then on. I don't want to make them too long but not very short either.