Title: Fallen Comrade
Rating: M
Spoilers: Outo (Volume 7); reference to Kurogane's past (Volume 13)
Word Count: 100
Author's Note: I feel that Outo Arc confirms the family dynamic and the various relationships. I'll be working on more drabbles set in that arc then.
Recently edited for clarification.
They came back to find the cafe was wrecked but there were no traces of blood or signs of a murder gone afoul.
"Syaoran! Kurogane! Fai was attacked by demons!"
Blurry memories of a severed arm being devoured punctured Kurogane the same time his blood went cold.
"Was he...eaten...by demons?"
"Mokona doesn't know."
Which still meant the mage was dead.
He was horribly reminded when the blonde disregarded his own life earlier. Yes, he was an idiot but he was still as much a comrade of Kurogane's in this tangled mess.
And a comrade like him didn't deserve to die.