Tsubasa Chronicle Fan Fiction ❯ Everyone Must Face the Dark ❯ The Discovery ( Chapter 5 )

Title: Everyone Must Face the Dark
Author: Spirixx
Genre: Drama/Romance/Action
Rating: M for …mmhmmm good
Pairing: Kurogane/ Fai
Spoilers: Read up to Shara
Summary: The mysterious six months Kurogane and Fai spent together.
Word Count: Too lazy… about 1000 a chapter

Warnings: There is some talk of Yukito/ Touya but nothing REALLY graphic. Oh and there are very graphic scenes regarding Fai, Ashura, Kurogane and Fai's adopted father (a character I created). There is hot sex and violent rap in this story… somewhere so be warned. I tried to make the rape scene short because I don't like rape. There is only one of those scenes.

Disclaimer: As much as I wish I do not own Tsubasa or Card captor Sakura.
Distribution: Also posted on Media Miner and Ficwad.

Dedication: To my cat. While tying this she decided to get her head stuck in my glass of cool refreshing and now furry milk. It was her who inspired this chapter, well parts of it.

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Chapter 5

The Discovery

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Yukito told Kurogane how to enter the blonde's dream world but he didn't like it. Not one bit. He was… uneasy at the thought of invading such a personal place. A man's mind is his own, the one place where no one should be able to get him. Kurogane respected this. The ninja was interested in finding more about his companion but not like this. He had hoped with time the mage would just tell him.

 

It was dark as Kurogane watched the blue mage tense and pant in his sleep, as if he were running or fighting. He new this man had a past but who was he to wonder around in it without leave to do so?

 

Fai cried out in a voice Kurogane could not hear, even in the silence of night and that settled the matter. That was it. He was going in and whatever happened would just have to happen. Yukito has told him how to gain entrance but it seemed silly to a warrior, a practical man in all ways.

 

The dark man shifted the pale one over to make room for his muscular form. The cot was barely string enough to hold him and for once he was glad the mage weighed next to nothing, ignoring how much that worried him.

 

All he had to do was fall asleep while touching the mage and that would form a bond between them, one that would lead Kurogane to him in the dream world. The closer they were, either emotionally or physically Kurogane didn't know for Yukito had not specified, the stronger the bond on the other side. Lying on the cot and thinking that he couldn't get any closer either way he allowed himself to drift, one callused hand wrapped around a soft one.

 

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Fai quaked as he saw his king approach his younger self. The man's dark beauty glowed in the moonlight as the breeze lifted his crow black hair.

 

“No…”

 

Fai could only whisper. This wasn't happening yet his eyes had never lied to him prior to this horrible moment in time. Paralysis taking over his trembling form as Fai watched the king part his sensual lips and spoke to the younger mage. Fai couldn't here the soft whispers but he knew them… knew them for they were the last words he ever heard as a free human being.

 

I want to help you…

 

The silky sweet voice cut through the carnage of the younger Fai's soul. It was at that time that they connected past and present, the two Fai's souls becoming one. Or at least that what the older Fai thought was happening for all the wounds on little Fai were reopening on the older one, each nail scrape, bruise, teeth mark and spilt skin. The mage looked at his blood soaked closed and prayed he wasn't about to witness what caused these. It was too late.

 

To his horror the scene before his eyes shifted. Little Fai was still there but unmarked and quite happy. He sat on a tree stump whistling and swinging his 14 ear old legs. He was a pretty boy, not much different from the man he became but that only applied to his good looks. This boy was happy and unscarred.

 

“Hello!?”

 

Little Fai called out cheerfully, looking for someone in excitement. His new father was to meet him there with a birthday surprise and the boy just couldn't wait.

 

A Fai without shadows and secrets… the older Fai shuddered as he knew that this would soon change. This day that changed his life.

 

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Kurogane was in his blue paradise once again. It was cool, crisp and resembled a pet store for two little animals awaited his arrival. Kuro-pup and Fai-kitty sat under what appeared to be a glass cherry blossom tree, its glistening petals falling as if made of silk. Not at all stunned or in awe of this glorious site the ninja bent over and grabbed the blonde cat by the back of its neck. He brought those ocean eyes up to his own blazing ones and simply asked;

 

“Are you my bond? My `guide'?”

 

The cat nodded once.

 

“Now listen here cat, that healer said that in this world I can control how things work because I created it. So start talking.”

 

Kurogane growled this into the cat's face. He didn't like being here and wanted to be gone quickly, a man's life was at stake. The cat just looked him in the eye and stayed completely quiet, not a purr or even a meow. The ninja grew angry and shook the cat once, jarring him a bit.

 

It was then the dark man noticed that the cat's mouth was open, speaking silently. He drew the feline to his ear to hear him better and….

 

“KURO-RIN!!!!!”

 

For the first time since Kurogane mat the mage he felt like the suicidal one. The kitty continued its loud name song while bouncing on his head. It seemed the cat had an endless supply of original ways to say “Kurogane” cutely.

 

“We too are created by you, much like this world. He is annoying because you expect small animals to be that way after your encounters with Mokona and since he is based on a man who uses foolish nicknames, those are all he can think about because that is all you can think about when combining annoying and your mage.”

 

The warrior whirled around, taking note in the cheers from his passenger. Who had answered his internal voice for he knew he did not ask allowed what the hell was going on.

 

The black puppy looked up at him and… winked?!

 

“Yukito-sama surely explained to you how this all works. I am what you think I am. I am you; therefore I know what you are thinking and am able to answer-”

 

“Where is the mage?”

 

Kurogane cut him off. There was no time for this nonsense. The blonde was in trouble and here he was discussing the meanings of dreams and realities with two figment of his imagination.

 

“Don't worry about his immediate welfare, at this moment he is perfectly fine. The only harm that can be done here is self inflicted. No one can hurt him but himself. Although he is trapped in his own hell, he will not wake up with scars. He may not even wake up with memories of this event…”

 

The dog went into deep thought that strangely reminded him of the healer.

 

“I remind you of him because you relate him with answers and being here. You are also wondering where your nightmares are. In truth you have very little. Not because you have had an uneventful life, for that is far from true. You have no nightmares here because you have already dealt with them on your own. You have fought and grieved and moved on. Your companion has not, that is why he is so overwhelmed.”

 

This irked something in Kurogane's mind but because of the damn cat jumping and singing on his head he could not grasp it. Pissed off and worried he swiped the blonde animal and hurled him into the horizon. The cat screamed in joy as he flew through the air leaving an eddied filled trail of silk petals in his wake.

 

“Kurogane-sama, do not misunderstand me. When you say the mage broken and bloody before, that was not just a hint of what was going on but also a fear you have not coped with yet. You fear for his health and therefore you are haunted by his unwell form. Come. Let us follow the cat and find your friend. He needs you.”

 

And with that a strangled scream pierced the sky. It was saturated with ain and fear.

 

Kurogane ran.

 

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This chapter was fun to write. I like dreams and have them in almost everything I write for it is in dreams we learn are true twisted selves. Like last month I had a dream about a massive roast standing in my door-way. It haunted me for a week, standing and staring at me without eyes. I knew it wanted something but I could not figure out what. So one dream I decided to hug it and I haven't seen it since. See even meat gets lonely.

 

The next chapter is pretty graphic so I thought I would warn you. I made it as short as possible because it tears me up to write about someone's pain.