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[Tsubasa RC] Kurogane x Fai: Theme #01
Fandom: Tsubasa RC
Pairing: Kurogane x Fai
Title: Frozen
Author: maboroshi_hime
Theme: #01; cold hands, cold feet
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRONiCLe belongs to CLAMP.
Archived @ 30 Themes
Summary:

Theme #01: Cold hands; Cold feet
"Frozen"

Mokona was going to die a miserable death. Whether it was to be cooked for dinner or if Kurogane had to personally throw the damn thing in the first bottomless pit they come across, the fluff-ball was dead meat.

Could it not wait a few days before spiriting them away from the hot springs of Urika Country to this frozen wasteland? If not, could it at least take them to a frozen wasteland that was not the home country of the fool who called himself a wizard?

Fai was, if possible, even more eccentric and random than before now that he was 'home'. He insisted on swimming through waters with temperatures below freezing to get to the palace when they could've just as easily waltzed up to the doors. Then, he led them through the maze of walls and corridors, insisting that this was the way to get around even though they were most certainly walking in circles.

When they finally managed to reach 'a destination', Fai started talking to a net. Really, what kind of sad, lonely person talks to a net? Never mind that 'the net' became 'a girl' in the next moment. The girl, following Fai's request, ushered the other three to go dry off, but not before sneaking a snuggle in a sickeningly adorable picture that turned Kurogane's breakfast into pre-vomital matter.

Now the two of them were alone. Kurogane was still wet from the swim and Fai was... miraculously dry. Damn wizard.

"Nyan," Fai pranced around him in a circle. "Kuro-pon is cold?"

'Kuro-pon' was a fine moment away from taking the wizard's staff and hitting it over its owner's head repeatedly when suddenly, Fai threw his big blue overcoat around Kurogane and held his cold hands up in his own warm ones.

"Don't worry." He said, smiling, joking manner aside. "We'll leave here soon enough."

The stench of blood in the air suddenly struck Kurogane, a smell so vivid and ancient that he wondered how he could've missed it before. Instinctively, he glanced in the pool released by the girl. There was a man in the water. He was decked in shades of black, the complete opposite of Fai in every imaginable way, but none less striking.

"Ashura-ousama, allow me to introduce Kuro-sama." Fai said, more to himself than to the man in the water. "Kuro-tan, meet Ashura-ousama."

For once, Kurogane did not retaliate. What were the words Fai said once when battling the Kiishimu in Koriya? 'If the person sleeping in my old world awakens, then I might get caught', was it? Was this person the one he was inferring to?

"You made us swim through the lake and go through that maze because..."

"I didn't want the two of them to see the bodies." Fai glanced over and, once again, grinned that false, silly grin. "I would never do that to Sakura-hime."

For a second, even though he was both dripping wet, even though he's under Fai's coat, and even though he's chilled to the bone by an unseen wind, he doesn't care one bit.

. O . W . A . R . I .