Fanfiction time again!
Title: Along the Moonlit Bay
Author: ekas
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Pairing: Kurogane/Fai
Rating: R
Word Count: 7,098
May contain: Kurogane/Fai, Fai/Kurogane, past Kurogane/Souma, Tomoyo crushing on Souma and Sakura, Yuuko, xxxHolic characters, random CLAMP characters appearances, Yuzuriha possibly crushing on Fai, both Mokona, crack, and Syaoran/Sakura
Author's Notes: This was originally supposed to be just one long fic, but when I realized how long it was getting, I decided to split it up into three parts.
I have learned never to post on a Saturday because nobody will ever read it. I'm hoping Friday will be better.
This is part of my Horitsuba Gakuen series.
The rest can be found below in chronilogical order even though I refuse to write them in chronological order.
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Summary: Fai convinces Kurogane to spend a romantic weekend with him, but it's not that easy when they have to share the beach house with some of the students, Yuuko, and Souma. Fai's finding it difficult to spend time with Souma, and Kurogane is having anything but a relaxing break. Will Yuuko and the girls be able to save what relationship they have, or is it doomed to fall apart under the pressure?
Categories: Drama, angst, crack, romance
It's like a soap opera in here.
Dedicated to: lumivalkea because she is awesome and has left me amazing reviews on most of my stories and she wrote the Lemon Tea Chronicles.
Also to evercool, because she really needs a break.
“Rise and shine, Kuro-sama!” He was positive the voice was far too cheerful for whatever time of morning it was, but he knew it was before six because he had yet to hear his alarm. He heard his curtains being opened, and he rolled over with a curse at the bright light that invaded his senses. Why did he have to have an apartment on the eastern side of the complex? He wearily rubbed his eyes and blinked until the digital display on his clock was clear. Five twenty-seven.
“Do you take happy pills every eight hours or something?” he asked as he rolled back over, burying his face into his pillow in an effort to get a little bit more sleep.
“Silly, Kuro-myu, you know I don’t do drugs.” A kitten-soft bundle plopped on the bed next to him, wrapping itself partially around him and nuzzling him happily.
Since he was still half asleep and his brain still was not functioning properly yet, he nuzzled back against him for a few moments. Then his brain turned back on, and he pulled away with a low growl. “How the hell did you get in here anyway?” because he wouldn’t be able to sleep at nights if he thought the blonde could sneak into his apartment whenever he wanted.
“I was a magician in another lifetime, and I still have magic fingers.” Kurogane stared at him; Fai smiled back in the obnoxiously bright and shiny way. Did the man have no decency? His smile was brighter than the damn sunshine already.
“Idiot.”
“Let’s just say I have my ways,” and with a smirk like that Kurogane instantly decided he really didn’t want to know how he had gotten inside.
Fai had rolled onto his back, probably because maybe just once he had had enough of snuggling or Kurogane had the sneaking suspicion that Fai wanted something from him so he needed him in the best mood possible. He was putting his money on the second one, especially since the man never seemed to get enough physical attention. “You know we have that break coming up, right?” How could he possibly forget one of the few weeks he got off work. “So I was talking to some of the girls about what we should do over break-“
“The girls?”
“Yeah, you know, Tomoyo-chan, Sakura-chan, Yuzuriha-chan, Miyuki-chan, Hikaru-chan, Umi-chan…” His eyebrow twitched when he realized they were all students. He had more than a few problems with the blond discussing their sex life with High School girls, not the least of which was he had enough problems with people suspecting things let alone what would happen with the blonde confirming all of them. He also thought it might be illegal, and he wondered why the girls kept talking to him. “Anyway, they suggested the two of us go away somewhere.” The blonde had rolled back over and was idly walking his fingers along Kurogane’s bare chest. “A romantic weekend,” he leaned up to kiss Kurogane gently on the cheek.
“Go somewhere?” Fai made a small noise of confirmation and kissed Kurogane again and again and began trailing kisses along the man’s jawline. “And where exactly are we supposed to go?” he asked, burying one of his hands in the silky blonde locks.
“Ah. See that’s when it comes in handy to have friends.” He almost growled an angry response but was forestalled by the man planting a firm kiss on his lips. “Tomoyo-chan is the daughter of a very wealthy family, and they have a large house on a stretch of private beach. We could go there for the weekend.”
His mind had only half-processed the information; he had a feeling something was off about this plan, but he decided to engage his time another way. “Sounds good.” His other hand had started caressing the smooth skin, and he rolled himself over the lean body.
“Of course,” the man said between kisses, running his hands along Kurogane’s back, “since her parents don’t know us, Tomoyo and a few others will have to be there as well.”
That his brain processed instantly, and he pulled violently away from him. “The hell? You call that a romantic weekend, spending time with a bunch of high school girls?” The idea was simply ludicrous; it definitely topped the list of crazy things Fai had come up with simply in the time he had known him. He rolled off the bed and began rummaging around in his dresser for a suitable outfit to wear for the day. He would just go to school earlier and disappear in his office for a while to get away from the blonde.
“Please, Kuro-chan? Tomoyo-chan showed me some pictures and it looked beautiful. I think it will be the perfect opportunity for use to have a romantic weekend. The girls have already promised to leave us alone.” He ignored the man and slammed the bathroom door shut behind him. There was absolutely no way he was going to be spending part of his precious time off with students. He didn’t want to see any of their faces even for a moment over the break.
He got undressed and turned the cold water on in his shower. “Kuro-tan, I really think you need to reconsider,” the blonde said as he lazily stepped into the bathroom. Kurogane reflexively covered himself with the nearest towel. Fai rolled his eyes to the side. “Kuro-rin, I’ve seen it plenty of times before, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
“Force of habit,” he said defensively, though he refused to put the towel back where it came from when Fai was still in the room and hardly listening to him.
“I really think we should go to the beach house. We can’t afford to go anywhere half as good on our salaries.” Fai shrugged and smiled at him. “Well, I’ll let you think about it. Right now you need to take your shower and get ready for work. I’ll make you breakfast.”
“It had better not be something sweet,” he called as the man sauntered out of the room. That was the only benefit of having the idiot over so early in the morning. The man could cook; whenever he did not cook things completely loaded with sugar. And he always felt much more energized throughout the day when the blonde made him a proper breakfast.
Though he was a bit surprised the man hadn’t tried to join him in the shower. Then again, the shower was the one place where he was sure not to get molested. The last time the blonde had joined him in the shower, he had merely washed himself and helped to scrub Kurogane’s back. He thought it had been just a little bit weird for Fai.
By the time he was finished with his shower, Fai had already made him breakfast and set it out on a plate. Actually, three plates and a bowl. His eyebrow twitched, and he wondered if that would develop into some sort of tic. “Eat up, Kuro-rin. You wouldn’t want your students to beat you in the practice ring today. You know they’ve been trying ever since Souma defeated you a few months ago.” There was that damn twitch again; why did the man have to bring that up at the worst possible moments. All he wanted to do was forget that day ever happened. Fai sat down on the chair next to him, picked up a piece of toast, and shoved it into Kurogane’s mouth. “Face it, Kuro-myu, your students learned you weren’t invincible that day.” But the man’s enigmatic smile was trying to send another message to him. He just wished he was able to translate.
He removed the toast from the blonde and ate the rest of his breakfast on his own, Fai sitting by his side, watching him, tapping his foot rhythmically and humming some strange tune Kurogane had never heard before. He assumed it was from the man’s home country, wherever that may be. Looking at him out of the corner of his eye eating the breakfast the blonde had so eagerly prepared for him, Kurogane realized there was a lot he did not know about Fai. Maybe a vacation would be good for them, if only the girls would not be there.
“Ah, finished, Kuro-sama?” He nodded and the blonde cleaned up his dishes while he finished getting ready for work. “Ready? I’ll drive. The forecast is calling for rain this afternoon, and I wouldn’t want Kuro-sama catching a cold before our romantic weekend.”
“I’m not going on that trip,” he growled as he followed the man out the door.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
“Tomoyo-chan, is everything ready for the vacation?” Fai asked as he was eating lunch later in the week with Tomoyo and Sakura. Kurogane never ate lunch with him so Fai was always forced to eat with some of his students or Yuuko instead.
“Yes, I have the final approved guest list right here,” she said with a bright smile, holding up a folded piece of paper.
Fai took it from her and quickly scanned the contents. “Ah. I see you managed to convince those four to come along as well.”
“Yes, they actually seemed quite excited.”
“And Souma agreed to come?” he said with a forced smile which Tomoyo didn’t notice.
She nodded with stars in her eyes. “I was so happy when she said ‘yes.’” She took the list back from Fai and placed it in her bag. “The question is, have you convinced Kurogane-sensei to join us?”
“Just leave Kurogane-sensei to me,” he said picking up one of the rice balls Sakura had brought (they were made by her father) and plopping it into his mouth.
“I really hope you and Kurogane-sensei can have a great romantic weekend, Fai-sensei,” Sakura chirped in. Her face was bright red prompting Tomoyo to give her a sympathetic chuckle.
“Ah. Thank you, Sakura-chan.” She brightened up a bit and returned to eating her lunch. She seemed very eager for a change of conversation, or at least no longer to be part of the one Tomoyo and Fai were having. Her lunch she seemed to find much more appealing. “There’s the big puppy now.” Sakura dropped her sandwich into her lap as Fai stood up and started waving wildly. “Kuro-sama! Over here! Come join us!” Kurogane kept walking without even a glance towards them, though everyone else in the general vicinity turned to stare at them. “Huh. I guess he must not have heard me,” he said dejectedly as he sat back down in the grass with a pout.
“Oh, Sakura-chan, let me get that for you.” Fai resumed interest in the greater world and watched with mild amusement as Tomoyo picked the sandwich out of Sakura’s lap and handed it to the blushing girl.
“Um, Tomoyo-chan, is Syaoran-kun coming to the beach house as well?” Fai got the impression Sakura would have fidgeted with her hands if it would not have caused the sandwich to fall back into her lap.
“Of course, because Sakura-chan requested we invite him,” which only seemed to make her turn a brighter shade of red.
Fai giggled and both girls turned to look at him, Tomoyo somehow managing to capture one of Sakura’s hands in hers in the process. “To be young and in love. I would like to be one of those again.”
“But, Fai-sensei, you are in love, aren’t you?” and Sakura suddenly looked so serious that he was unsure of how to respond to her.
“I just remembered I have something I have to do,” he told them as he stood, brushing the grass off his pants. “I’ll see you girls later.”
“Fai-sensei!” Sakura called worriedly after him. He waved back over his shoulder at them. Tomoyo would do her best to soothe Sakura’s distress. On his way there he put his hand in his pocket to make sure he still had both things he needed.
He was only deterred in his search once when Emeraude stopped to ask him a question about classroom duties.
He looked at his watch to see how much time was left in the lunch hour before stepping into the office next to the kendo equipment room. Fai thought himself very lucky that his prey’s back was turned, all evidence pointing to he was putting paperwork away. “Kuro-tan!” he called, launching himself towards the other man.
Kurogane stumbled, tried to grab onto something, and landed on the floor with Fai in a heap on top of him and papers floating down around them. “The hell?” he growled as he sat up, and Fai found himself conveniently placed between his thighs.
“I was feeling lonely,” he said, running he hands underneath the other man’s shirt.
“You were with hose girls you like so much; how could you possibly have been lonely?” Fai merely smiled up at him as he pushed Kurogane’s shirt up and planted a kiss directly above his waistband. “Horny is more like it,” and Fai could hear the smirk in his voice. His only response was to start pulling Kurogane’s dark pants down.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” he snarled with a bit of surprise making his voice higher pitched than usual. He grabbed both of Fai’s wrists in a vice like grip which caused him to wince. “We don’t have time to be doing that now.”
“Kuro-sama” he said, lifting his head to look up at Kurogane with half-lidded eyes, “don’t tell me you’re turning down a free blowjob. That’s really all I wanted to do for you.” Fai could see the suspicion lurking in those red eyes, but the hand that tangled in his hair pushed him down as Fai reached into his pocket to touch the one item and to pull the other out for use.
After he was finished, he kept his promise and merely crawled into Kurogane’s lap, snuggling against his chest, idly stroking Kurogane’s chin. He learned early on that Kurogane liked to be pampered and touched when he was on a sex-induced high. Kurogane, fortunately enough, had never figured it out himself which Fai often used to his advantage. Kurogane had closed his eyes and had tilted his head back to give him easier access, unconsciously, of course. “Say, Kuro-rin, you want to go to the beach house with me, some of the students, and a few other supervisors, don’t you?”
“Sure,” he mumbled, scratching himself against Fai’s hand when he had slowed down. Fai giggled and returned his full attention to pampering Kurogane, giving him a small kiss on the temple for his troubles.
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A few days later Kurogane was driving a fifteen passenger van down the highway with Fai in the passenger seat and twelve other passengers in tow with all their luggage shoved under the seats. “Why the hell am I doing this again?” he asked, crouched over the wheel.
“Watch your language in front of the children, Kuro-rin,” Fai scolded. “And if you really want to know why you’re here, I can always play the tape again.” He pulled the tape recorder out of his pocket and held his thumb threateningly over the play button.
“Don’t you dare play that tape in public!” he snapped. A quick look in the rearview mirror showed the three students directly behind him looked politely embarrassed, a few of the others just looked highly amused. “And why is Souma here again?”
“The girls needed female supervision,” Fai told him, and Kurogane was grateful to see him slip the damn tape back into pocket. He was fairly sure it was illegal to play something like that in front of fourteen year olds.
“Okay, so why is the witch here?” he asked, and he saw her smirk at him in the rearview mirror.
“For one thing, the boys have two supervisors, so the girls should as well. For another, I doubt the two of you will be doing much supervising.” He tried to glare at her as best he could while still keeping his eyes mostly on the road.
“What about the other three?” he asked, looking at the suspicious looking group in the back seat.
“We exist in this universe which is more than I can say for some people in this vehicle.”
“And I’m best friends with Sakura-chan,” the girl contributed, “And Doumeki-kun and Watanuki-kun are good friends with Syaoran-kun.”
“I’m just here to spend the weekend with Himawari-chan!” and the other boy’s eyes turned to hearts. But they soon turned to daggers as he glared at the boy on the other side of her. “But why does he have to be here!” The girl giggled. Kurogane’s eyebrow twitched.
“Hey, witch, you’re in charge of those three.”
“Alright,” Fai began in his lecture voice, turning around to face his students. “If anybody asks this weekend, Kuro-sama is Syaoran-kun’s father, I’m Sakura-chan’s father, Tomoyo-chan is Kuro-rin’s sister, Souma-san is Yuzuriha-chan’s mother, and Yuuko-san is the mother of the triplets. Any questions?”
“Can I be Fai-san’s girlfriend for the weekend?” Yuzuriha boldly asked.
“Sure. Any other questions?” Was that really the way the man taught?
“What about us, Kurogane-sensei?” A small black creature jumped onto his shoulder.
“Yeah, what about us?” It’s white twin started to jump around in his lap.
“Don’t do that while I’m trying to drive!”
Fai mercifully removed the white manjuu and pulled it into his own lap, thought whether it was from concern for their safety or jealousy, Kurogane really couldn’t tell. His ego liked to tell him it was jealousy. The black one jumped back to sit contently in Yuzuriha’s lap.
“Fai-sensei, Kuro-rin was mean to me.”
“That’s Kuro-rin-sensei to you,” he snapped. In retrospect he realized he probably deserved to be chuckled at by some of the girls, but at the moment it only served to really piss him off.
As if things weren’t bad enough, the white manjuu was crawling around in Fai’s lap and suddenly it exclaimed, “What’s this?” The next thing he heard was gasping and panting, and yes, that was definitely his voice moaning Fai’s name. The blonde had snatched it back and turned it off as quickly as he could, but it wasn’t nearly fast enough for Kurogane’s tastes.
Nobody in the back seemed to notice; he still wanted to throw both things out the window, but a rather large semi truck racing towards them was strong enough persuasion to keep his focus entirely on driving.
“Fai-san, I’m going to need a copy of that tape you were waving around earlier,” Yuuko said once they were safely back on the right side of the road.
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“Wow, Tomoyo-chan! This place is really incredible,” Sakura said, twirling in a circle in the entrance way to the house. Fai was the last one to enter with the white Mokona perched on his shoulder, closely trailing Kurogane who was carrying both their luggage. “This really does look like a great place to spend the weekend.”
“I’ll show everyone to their rooms,” Tomoyo said, leading them up the stairs. Her parents had requested assigned rooms so they would know who to blame for any damages. “Doumeki-kun, Watanuki-kun, you two will share this room. Syoaran-kun, yours is right across the hall. Yuzuriha-chan and Himawari-chan will be next to Doumeki and Watanuki, and Sakura and I will share the room next to Syaoran’s.”
“Mokona, why don’t you keep Sakura company while Tomoyo shows us to our rooms,” Fai suggested. It happily bounded off and followed Sakura into the room.
Tomoyo led them a little further down the hall. “Yuuko-san, this is your room, and Souma-san is right across the hall.” And not so far from Tomoyo’s room, Fai noted. He wondered if there were any secret passageways behind the walls, because he thought it would be great fun if there were. Tomoyo waited until both women were inside their rooms with the door shut behind them before leading them a little further down the hall. “Kurogane-sensei, Fai-sensei, this will be your room.”
“Thanks for showing us last, Tomoyo-chan. You know how shy Kuro-rin can be; he wouldn’t want people openly knowing we were sharing a room.”
“I’m not shy!” Tomoyo and Fai both giggled
Souma stepped out of her room and into the hallway. “Kurogane-san, is something wrong?”
Tomoyo happily raced down the hall to the older woman’s side. “Souma-sama, there’s something I wanted to show you in this room,” and she grabbed Souma’s hand and pulled her back into the room.
Fai deduced it was probably the best for Kurogane because her former pupil was still blushing and trying to stammer some excuse for her that he couldn’t come up with. “Come on, Kuro-chan,” he said, dragging the luckless teacher into the room with him. He left Kurogane in charge of getting their things together, and he danced across the room and pulled back the huge curtain. “Hyuu~! This must be what Tomoyo-chan wanted to show Souma,” he said, taking in the breathtaking view of the ocean, seagulls flying effortlessly above the perfect blue of the water, reef barely visible to the left.
Kurogane didn’t respond to him, and Fai waltzed back over to him. The other man seemed deep in though, which was really a horrible way to spend a romantic weekend, so Fai pushed him onto the bed and straddled his lap. “Souma doesn’t know about us, does she?” he asked, tilting Kurogane’s chin up so that he would have to look him in the eye.
“Does it really matter if she knows or not?” he challenged.
“Well, I figured since you told me what happened with you and her after the Kendeppa incident,” the familiar pains of jealousy and insecurity only serving to make him angry which he really did not want to be so he plastered a smile on, “I figured you would come clean to her about us as well.”
“Why should I?” Kurogane growled, biting at Fai’s fingers which he instantly pulled away. “I didn’t even have to tell you anything. When that happened, you and I weren’t…” Kurogane trailed off, and Fai tried not to let his disappointment show because he really wanted to know how he had planned on finishing that.
“We were fucking then,” he said, and he pushed Kurogane so that he was on his back on the bed. He seemed a bit stunned, and Fai quickly crawled up to pin him down by the shoulders. “Are you suggesting that we’re doing something different now?” and he forced his way in between Kurogane’s thighs. Distracting the other man with a kiss, Fai started undoing his belt. When he felt the other man lose his hesitancy in returning Fai’s kisses, slipping his tongue into his mouth, Fai took the opportunity to break the kiss and flip Kurogane so he was on all fours.
“What are you doing?” Kurogane growled as Fai tugged his pants down. He struggled to get Fai off of him, but the blonde managed to keep him in the proper position, even managed to slip two of his fingers inside. “Who said you could do that?” and the phys ed teacher continued to struggle against what Fai viewed as the inevitable. He kind of liked it when Kurogane struggled; it made the final reward all the more satisfying. If only Kurogane would stay still long enough for him to get inside…
“Kurogane-sensei! Fai-sensei!” a lilting voice called from the other side of the door.
“Just a minute, Sakura-chan!” Fai called, running a hand through his hair and stuffing himself back into his jeans to make himself look presentable again.
“I just wanted to let you know the rest of us are meeting in the foyer to walk to the beach together. Would you like to join us?”
“We’ll be there,” and he could hear Sakura bounding away down the hallway. With a small sigh of disappointment. Fai noticed Kurogane had rolled onto his back, put a good few feet in between them, and was refastening his pants as he watched him warily.
“So we’re just going to leave and go to the beach? After all that?”
“No, silly, we’re going to get changed and then we’re going to go to the beach.” He moved to his suitcase and started rummaging around for something suitable to wear. “Besides, you weren’t exactly being enthusiastic,” Fai chided as he pulled out his swimwear.
“That’s because no one gave you permission to top,” Kurogane said sullenly, going to his suitcase. He didn’t have to rummage around, and Fai noticed it was much more organized than his. Fai preferred the disorder of his suitcase and closed it with a shirt dangling out the side.
“You can rub sunscreen on me if you would like, Kuro-chi,” he said, holding up the bottle of sunscreen suggestively. With a loud “tch,” Kurogane slammed the lid of his suitcase. “No, then?”
Forty-five minutes later they were all situated on the beach, no one else around. Himawari, Doumeki, Waatanuki, Yuzuriha, and the Mokona had started up a volleyball game, girls versus boys. Well, girls and a white thing versus boys and a black thing. Syaoran and Sakura had gone off in search of shells. Tomoyo had gone with them with her video camera out, but she soon rejoined some of the others. Fai, Yuuko, and Souma had all set up lounge chairs and were enjoying the sun. When Tomoyo rejoined them she sat down in the sand in between Yuuko and Souma. As for Kurogane…
“Fai-san, is Kurogane arguing with that crab?” Yuuko asked, sitting up in her chair and lowering her sun glasses to get a better look.
Fai didn’t need to look, he kept his eyes closed behind his glasses. “Probably. He’s been having a rough day.”
“He needs to learn new ways to take out his sexual frustration,” Yuuko said as she settled back down in her chair. “Tomoyo, can I do your hair?” she asked, turning her attention to the girl next to her.
He heard Tomoyo agree, and he shook his head before turning to watch the luckless teacher. He appeared to be losing whatever argument he thought he was having with the crustacean. Perhaps he had been too cruel to him earlier. Well, he would just have to make it up to him later that evening. From his current viewpoint, however, he was quite enjoying the view he had of Kurogane’s ass.
The perfect image was ruined by a pink frilly swimsuit suddenly invading his line of vision. “Fai-sensei, look at this seashell Syaoran-kun found for me.” Since it was already blocking his view, he quickly surveyed the shell Sakura was holding in front of her. It was about the size of a flashlight and was pure white except for an intricate pink pattern. “Have you ever seen anything like it?”
“I don’t study seashells,” he told her with a gentle pat to her arm, though he really hadn’t seen anything like it before. It almost looked like a feather. “Maybe you should hold onto it. It can become a precious memory for you and Syaoran-kun.” Sakura’s cheeks were tinged pink, and Fai couldn’t tell if it was from the sun or from a blush.
“Fai-sensei, do you need something to drink?” Yuzuriha surprised him, dropping down to her knees in the sand on the other side of him. Sakura was so startled she almost dropped her precious seashell.
“Is the game over already?” He noticed Tomoyo had pulled her camera back out and was filming the three of them.
“No, Syaoran-kun is just temporarily taking my place.” At least her swimsuit was not pink and frilly. “Can I get you anything?”
“Sure, you can get me a drink. Yuuko-san, Tomoyo-chan, do you want anything?” he asked, figuring he could make her usefulness extend to the others as well. If it was him he might just slip something into Souma’s drink. He didn’t want to think things like that because Souma had technically never did anything wrong. She didn’t know. He tried to ignore the little voice that tried to tell him Kurogane was the only one to blame.
“A drink would be wonderful,” Yuuko said, throwing her head back and placing an arm across her forehead.
“I’ll have one too. Souma-sama?”
“Yes, please.”
“Bring one for Kuro-tan-sensei too!” he called as she went running across the sand back to the house.
“I’ll help her bring drinks for everyone else as well,” Sakura said cheerfully before rushing after her, cradling the seashell to her chest.
Within a few minutes, a very stern-looking Kurogane sat down in the spot Sakura had just vacated. “So tell me, Kurogane, what did that poor crab say to you that made you so enraged with it?” Yuuko asked once he settled down.
“The damn thing pinched me,” he said gruffly, and Fai pushed his glasses to his head when he seemed to recall Kuro-sama favoring his left foot before he sat and now he was cradling it in both hands.
“Let me see,” he said, and he had to pry the man’s hands off his foot. His big toe was swollen and bleeding from where the crab had broken skin since it had mostly missed its intended target. Fai dropped out of his chair and into the sand, placing a hand on Kurogane’s chest as he supported him back to his feet. “We should get you back to the house and have that taken care of.” And while they were at it, he might just take him upstairs to their room for a little extra special care.
“I have a first aid kit right here so he won’t have to walk anywhere,” Souma said, and Fai frowned when he saw she pulled it directly out of her bag without rummaging. He pouted as he dropped Kurogane into his chair. Souma was forestalled in her effort to stand by Tomoyo pushing down on both her thighs,
“Why don’t you let Fai-san take care of that? He took care of Kurogane-san’s bruises after you beat him the practice ring so I’m sure he’s used to it.” Fai decided Tomoyo was getting a definite A on her next lab. Ninety-eight percent to be exact, just so to not arouse too much suspicion.
She passed the box over to Yuuko who with an odd combination of disdain and laziness passed it to Kurogane. “Maybe eventually you’ll learn not to get into fights you can’t win.”
“Witch,” he snarled as he snatched the box away from her and handed it to Fai. The blonde decided now would not be a good time to join in the Kuro-teasing, mainly because Souma seemed to be staying out of it. Yuuko was looking at him as if she were disappointed he did not add his own remarks or even make a comment and even Kurogane was looking at him as if there was something wrong with him.
Luckily for him, Sakura and Yuzuriha came back with trays full of glasses filled with ice and lemonade. “Eh, what happened to Kurogane-sensei?” Yuzuriha asked as she set her tray down on the stand in between Yuuko and Kurogane. Sakura nearly dropped her tray when she caught sight of her teacher’s foot.
“He got in an argument with a crab,” Yuuko said, picking up a glass and holding it out for Yuzuriha to pour her a drink. Fai was impressed with her uncanny ability of getting people to unconsciously do her bidding. “Apparently they couldn’t decide which one was more of a crab, so the animal attacked.” Sakura gasped and Yuuko casually took a sip of her lemonade. “The crab was only acting in self-defense.”
“Kuro-sama, stay still!” he order, trying to keep the man’s foot in place long enough to wrap a bandage around it while he shouted profanities to the woman next to him. He only settled down when Yuzuriha handed him a drink, Sakura having long scurried off to give respite to the volleyball players. “That should help make it feel a little bit better,” once the bandage was finally in place. Kurogane grumbled his thanks as Fai moved to sit on the chair by his knees, and Yuzuriha handed him his drink.
“Maybe we should go for a swim soon,” Yuzuriha said, looking up at the sun. The volleyball players came over to sit in the sand next to them.
“It is getting hot out,” someone agreed, but Fai really hadn’t been paying attention.
“But Kuro-tan can’t go swimming now,” he said, placing his hand on the injured man’s leg to let them all know he had absolutely no intentions of allowing the poor man to stay on the beach by himself. Yuzuriha, Himawari, and Sakura seemed to be crestfallen at the prospect, but he really didn’t think Kurogane should be left alone just because he had run into some ill luck with a crab.
“I’ll stay with Kurogane-sensei,” Yuuko said, reclining back in her chair.
“You can’t leave me alone with her!” Kurogane protested, but Sakura and Yuzuriha had already grabbed each of Fai’s wrists and were already dragging him to the water so all he could do was smile apologetically over his shoulder.
“Souma, why don’t you go with them? They could use the extra supervision and we don’t want the girls molesting Fai-sensei.”
Souma agreed and went towards the water, Tomoyo trailing happily behind her with her camera.
“You just wanted me alone, didn’t you?” Kurogane accused, and she rolled her eyes as his narrowed at her.
“It’s about your agreement to provide me with gay porn. You haven’t been satisfying enough recently. It’s time to collect your dues.” He tried to scuttle off the chair, but fell into the sand as a result. She reached over to help him back into the chair before Fai returned to investigate. “Actually, I need to talk to you about the romantic weekend you supposedly have planned with Fai-san,” she informed him as he brushed the sand off his body. “It might not be as easy as you think.” He glared at her in the way she had learned to interpret as him thinking what she had just said was crazy, but he was starting to think he may be crazy because he thought there was the possibility she may be correct.
“Why is that?” he finally asked sullenly. She got the impression he was only talking to her because even her company beat staying alone on the beach.
“Just because you decided to be honest with him and tell him about Souma does not mean he would do the same for you.” She thought she would let him wrap his mind around that for a while, and she tilted her head back to fully soak in the sun.
“So there really is someone else,” he said, and he had turned his head so she could no longer see his face.
“I don’t know. All I know is he has secrets he has never shared with anyone else.”
“We all do. I already know that,” and she knew from his tone that he possibly knew less about the science teacher than she did.
“If it’s any comfort, he does seem to be rather fond of you, and you are the one he chose to be with this weekend.”
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“Did you have a good day with Yuuko-san?” Fai asked once they had retreated to their own room, Kurogane a good twenty minutes after the blonde because the students really didn’t need to know they were sharing a room with a single bed. He merely grunted as he started pulling out his things to get ready to sleep. “Uh, Kuro-sama, I have a small problem.” With a sigh, he slammed his suitcase shut and turned around to face the man who was grinning sheepishly at him. “I forgot my toothbrush.”
Kurogane blinked. And blinked again. Fai was still wearing the same guilty expression. His foot still throbbed so it was not a dream or a hallucination. “You brought enough condoms to last any sane person an entire lifetime but you forgot your toothbrush?” Fai nodded, and Kurogane wanted to kill something.
“At least I have my priorities straight!” he said with a big, goofy grin. “Besides, one of those condoms was already wasted because somebody was being uncooperative earlier.”
“No, it was wasted because somebody decided he wanted to go to the damn beach instead,” he growled in response. He hated it when Fai tried to blame everything that went wrong with their sex life on him.
“Could you go get me a toothbrush from somewhere while I take a shower?” Kurogane stormed off before he decided to strangle the blonde. Once he was outside the door, he realized how much of a mistake that had been, and he limped the rest of the way to Tomoyo’s room. “Do you have any spare toothbrushes in this place? Your idiot teacher forgot his,” he informed her as soon as she opened the door.
“How could someone as neat as you forget your toothbrush, Kurogane-san?” Souma asked innocently from where she was sipping some tea in the window.
“It wasn’t me. It was the blonde.”
“I’ll show you where they are,” Tomoyo said, stepping out of the room and closing the door behind her. “My parents like to keep new ones here for circumstances such as this,” guiding him down the hallway. “How is your foot doing, Kurogane-sensei?” she asked as he limped along behind her.
“It’s been better, but the idiot’s first aid helped a lot. Then he sends me on a walking search for a toothbrush,” he added bitterly. Tomoyo giggled, and Kurogane watched her for a moment. She didn’t look that much like her older sister if he remembered correctly. “Hey, is Souma okay… spending time with you?”
“I’m not sure, but I think it’s getting easier for both of us. We’ve learned we can help each other through the pain.” She stopped in front of a closet and rummaged around in it for a few moments. He could barely make out a tear running down her cheek. But when she turned around she gave him a fake smile that could rival any of Fai’s. “Here’s your toothbrush!”
When he got back to the room, his eyebrow did the twitch thing again when he found Yuzuriha sitting on the bed with Fai. She was giggling insanely which he thought was completely unnecessary since the blonde really wasn’t that funny. “Ah! Kurogane-sensei,” she called when she caught sight of him “are you here to talk to Fai-sensei too?” An ominous thunderclap rolled overhead.
“Yuzuriha-chan, could you excuse us for the evening? Kuro-rin-sensei and I need to talk about adult things.”
“Okay! Good night, Fai-sensei, Kurogane-sensei!” and she bounded out of the room with the energy only a fourteen year old girl fueled by ice cream could posses.
“Goodnight, Yuzuriha-chan!” Fai called after her before turning his attention to Kurogane. He was suddenly reminded of the way the proverbial cat watched the canary. “So, Kuro-chan, what are we going to do now that all the kids are going to sleep?”
“I brought you a toothbrush,” he said, tossing the object in question towards a perplexed blonde. He limped halfway through the house to get the stupid thing, and damn it, the man was going to use it.
“But I thought we were going to play,” and he always found it difficult to resist the pout, but his foot was throbbing and his mind was worrying and he really didn’t care how sad the blue eyes got. The man was just going to have to learn to deal with reality. He tried to stare the blonde down for a bit, but that only seemed to increase the intensity of the pout. “I thought Kuro-sama liked to play with me. I like to play with you.”
He found the last of his resolve melting away. “After you brush your teeth,” he instructed. Before bounding off into the bathroom, Fai gave him that smirk that always made him wonder what kind of game the man thought he was playing.
He sighed as he sat down on the edge of the bed. Sometimes he really wondered if it was all really worth it. But within a few minutes, the man was back, nuzzling against his neck in just the right way and his hands were already pulling up his shirt and he suddenly remembered why. He was getting into things rather quickly, because, damn it, he did not want to get interrupted again, and he had soon rolled them over so the blonde was underneath him, thin body wriggling enticingly against his. A flash of lightning followed by a crack of thunder that caused the electricity to go out made him pause for a moment and pull slightly away. “You’re not afraid of the dark, are you, Kuro-chan?”
“Don’t call me that,” he growled, and another flash of lightning illuminated the man’s face briefly. Fai wrapped his arms around his shoulders attempting to bring him back down.
He jumped three feet to the left when their door suddenly slammed open on perfect timing with another bout of thunder. The two Mokona bounded in the room.
“Fai-sensei!”
“We don’t like the dark and thunder,” they yelled in unison as they jumped into the bed. Kurogane was beginning to think everything on the beach was on a mission to keep him from getting laid over the weekend; Fai was already snuggling with the white one.
“Ah, Kurogane-sensei, did you come here for Fai-sensei to protect you as well?”
He was about to growl a negative response, but stopped when he realized they would tease him more for the real reason why he was in that room. “Yes.”
“Fai-sensei will protect us all,” the black one said as it snuggled up against Kurogane’s side. “We just need to have a sleepover in Fai-sensei’s room,” the thing mumbled, clearly already falling back asleep. Afraid of the dark and thunder his ass.
Kurogane risked a glance at the blonde and wondered if he could have gotten rid of the things if he would have told them the truth. But Fai wasn’t looking at him and seemed to be rather content watching the white thing sleep nuzzled against him. “Oi,” he called softly and the man raised his eyes to look at him. “Good night.”
“Good night, Kuro-sama. I’m sure tomorrow will be much better.”
~End of Part 1. Please review if you read.
Author: ekas
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Pairing: Kurogane/Fai
Rating: R
Word Count: 7,098
May contain: Kurogane/Fai, Fai/Kurogane, past Kurogane/Souma, Tomoyo crushing on Souma and Sakura, Yuuko, xxxHolic characters, random CLAMP characters appearances, Yuzuriha possibly crushing on Fai, both Mokona, crack, and Syaoran/Sakura
Author's Notes: This was originally supposed to be just one long fic, but when I realized how long it was getting, I decided to split it up into three parts.
I have learned never to post on a Saturday because nobody will ever read it. I'm hoping Friday will be better.
This is part of my Horitsuba Gakuen series.
The rest can be found below in chronilogical order even though I refuse to write them in chronological order.
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Chocolate Bonding
All other challenge fics can be found here.
Summary: Fai convinces Kurogane to spend a romantic weekend with him, but it's not that easy when they have to share the beach house with some of the students, Yuuko, and Souma. Fai's finding it difficult to spend time with Souma, and Kurogane is having anything but a relaxing break. Will Yuuko and the girls be able to save what relationship they have, or is it doomed to fall apart under the pressure?
Categories: Drama, angst, crack, romance
It's like a soap opera in here.
Dedicated to: lumivalkea because she is awesome and has left me amazing reviews on most of my stories and she wrote the Lemon Tea Chronicles.
Also to evercool, because she really needs a break.
“Rise and shine, Kuro-sama!” He was positive the voice was far too cheerful for whatever time of morning it was, but he knew it was before six because he had yet to hear his alarm. He heard his curtains being opened, and he rolled over with a curse at the bright light that invaded his senses. Why did he have to have an apartment on the eastern side of the complex? He wearily rubbed his eyes and blinked until the digital display on his clock was clear. Five twenty-seven.
“Do you take happy pills every eight hours or something?” he asked as he rolled back over, burying his face into his pillow in an effort to get a little bit more sleep.
“Silly, Kuro-myu, you know I don’t do drugs.” A kitten-soft bundle plopped on the bed next to him, wrapping itself partially around him and nuzzling him happily.
Since he was still half asleep and his brain still was not functioning properly yet, he nuzzled back against him for a few moments. Then his brain turned back on, and he pulled away with a low growl. “How the hell did you get in here anyway?” because he wouldn’t be able to sleep at nights if he thought the blonde could sneak into his apartment whenever he wanted.
“I was a magician in another lifetime, and I still have magic fingers.” Kurogane stared at him; Fai smiled back in the obnoxiously bright and shiny way. Did the man have no decency? His smile was brighter than the damn sunshine already.
“Idiot.”
“Let’s just say I have my ways,” and with a smirk like that Kurogane instantly decided he really didn’t want to know how he had gotten inside.
Fai had rolled onto his back, probably because maybe just once he had had enough of snuggling or Kurogane had the sneaking suspicion that Fai wanted something from him so he needed him in the best mood possible. He was putting his money on the second one, especially since the man never seemed to get enough physical attention. “You know we have that break coming up, right?” How could he possibly forget one of the few weeks he got off work. “So I was talking to some of the girls about what we should do over break-“
“The girls?”
“Yeah, you know, Tomoyo-chan, Sakura-chan, Yuzuriha-chan, Miyuki-chan, Hikaru-chan, Umi-chan…” His eyebrow twitched when he realized they were all students. He had more than a few problems with the blond discussing their sex life with High School girls, not the least of which was he had enough problems with people suspecting things let alone what would happen with the blonde confirming all of them. He also thought it might be illegal, and he wondered why the girls kept talking to him. “Anyway, they suggested the two of us go away somewhere.” The blonde had rolled back over and was idly walking his fingers along Kurogane’s bare chest. “A romantic weekend,” he leaned up to kiss Kurogane gently on the cheek.
“Go somewhere?” Fai made a small noise of confirmation and kissed Kurogane again and again and began trailing kisses along the man’s jawline. “And where exactly are we supposed to go?” he asked, burying one of his hands in the silky blonde locks.
“Ah. See that’s when it comes in handy to have friends.” He almost growled an angry response but was forestalled by the man planting a firm kiss on his lips. “Tomoyo-chan is the daughter of a very wealthy family, and they have a large house on a stretch of private beach. We could go there for the weekend.”
His mind had only half-processed the information; he had a feeling something was off about this plan, but he decided to engage his time another way. “Sounds good.” His other hand had started caressing the smooth skin, and he rolled himself over the lean body.
“Of course,” the man said between kisses, running his hands along Kurogane’s back, “since her parents don’t know us, Tomoyo and a few others will have to be there as well.”
That his brain processed instantly, and he pulled violently away from him. “The hell? You call that a romantic weekend, spending time with a bunch of high school girls?” The idea was simply ludicrous; it definitely topped the list of crazy things Fai had come up with simply in the time he had known him. He rolled off the bed and began rummaging around in his dresser for a suitable outfit to wear for the day. He would just go to school earlier and disappear in his office for a while to get away from the blonde.
“Please, Kuro-chan? Tomoyo-chan showed me some pictures and it looked beautiful. I think it will be the perfect opportunity for use to have a romantic weekend. The girls have already promised to leave us alone.” He ignored the man and slammed the bathroom door shut behind him. There was absolutely no way he was going to be spending part of his precious time off with students. He didn’t want to see any of their faces even for a moment over the break.
He got undressed and turned the cold water on in his shower. “Kuro-tan, I really think you need to reconsider,” the blonde said as he lazily stepped into the bathroom. Kurogane reflexively covered himself with the nearest towel. Fai rolled his eyes to the side. “Kuro-rin, I’ve seen it plenty of times before, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
“Force of habit,” he said defensively, though he refused to put the towel back where it came from when Fai was still in the room and hardly listening to him.
“I really think we should go to the beach house. We can’t afford to go anywhere half as good on our salaries.” Fai shrugged and smiled at him. “Well, I’ll let you think about it. Right now you need to take your shower and get ready for work. I’ll make you breakfast.”
“It had better not be something sweet,” he called as the man sauntered out of the room. That was the only benefit of having the idiot over so early in the morning. The man could cook; whenever he did not cook things completely loaded with sugar. And he always felt much more energized throughout the day when the blonde made him a proper breakfast.
Though he was a bit surprised the man hadn’t tried to join him in the shower. Then again, the shower was the one place where he was sure not to get molested. The last time the blonde had joined him in the shower, he had merely washed himself and helped to scrub Kurogane’s back. He thought it had been just a little bit weird for Fai.
By the time he was finished with his shower, Fai had already made him breakfast and set it out on a plate. Actually, three plates and a bowl. His eyebrow twitched, and he wondered if that would develop into some sort of tic. “Eat up, Kuro-rin. You wouldn’t want your students to beat you in the practice ring today. You know they’ve been trying ever since Souma defeated you a few months ago.” There was that damn twitch again; why did the man have to bring that up at the worst possible moments. All he wanted to do was forget that day ever happened. Fai sat down on the chair next to him, picked up a piece of toast, and shoved it into Kurogane’s mouth. “Face it, Kuro-myu, your students learned you weren’t invincible that day.” But the man’s enigmatic smile was trying to send another message to him. He just wished he was able to translate.
He removed the toast from the blonde and ate the rest of his breakfast on his own, Fai sitting by his side, watching him, tapping his foot rhythmically and humming some strange tune Kurogane had never heard before. He assumed it was from the man’s home country, wherever that may be. Looking at him out of the corner of his eye eating the breakfast the blonde had so eagerly prepared for him, Kurogane realized there was a lot he did not know about Fai. Maybe a vacation would be good for them, if only the girls would not be there.
“Ah, finished, Kuro-sama?” He nodded and the blonde cleaned up his dishes while he finished getting ready for work. “Ready? I’ll drive. The forecast is calling for rain this afternoon, and I wouldn’t want Kuro-sama catching a cold before our romantic weekend.”
“I’m not going on that trip,” he growled as he followed the man out the door.
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“Tomoyo-chan, is everything ready for the vacation?” Fai asked as he was eating lunch later in the week with Tomoyo and Sakura. Kurogane never ate lunch with him so Fai was always forced to eat with some of his students or Yuuko instead.
“Yes, I have the final approved guest list right here,” she said with a bright smile, holding up a folded piece of paper.
Fai took it from her and quickly scanned the contents. “Ah. I see you managed to convince those four to come along as well.”
“Yes, they actually seemed quite excited.”
“And Souma agreed to come?” he said with a forced smile which Tomoyo didn’t notice.
She nodded with stars in her eyes. “I was so happy when she said ‘yes.’” She took the list back from Fai and placed it in her bag. “The question is, have you convinced Kurogane-sensei to join us?”
“Just leave Kurogane-sensei to me,” he said picking up one of the rice balls Sakura had brought (they were made by her father) and plopping it into his mouth.
“I really hope you and Kurogane-sensei can have a great romantic weekend, Fai-sensei,” Sakura chirped in. Her face was bright red prompting Tomoyo to give her a sympathetic chuckle.
“Ah. Thank you, Sakura-chan.” She brightened up a bit and returned to eating her lunch. She seemed very eager for a change of conversation, or at least no longer to be part of the one Tomoyo and Fai were having. Her lunch she seemed to find much more appealing. “There’s the big puppy now.” Sakura dropped her sandwich into her lap as Fai stood up and started waving wildly. “Kuro-sama! Over here! Come join us!” Kurogane kept walking without even a glance towards them, though everyone else in the general vicinity turned to stare at them. “Huh. I guess he must not have heard me,” he said dejectedly as he sat back down in the grass with a pout.
“Oh, Sakura-chan, let me get that for you.” Fai resumed interest in the greater world and watched with mild amusement as Tomoyo picked the sandwich out of Sakura’s lap and handed it to the blushing girl.
“Um, Tomoyo-chan, is Syaoran-kun coming to the beach house as well?” Fai got the impression Sakura would have fidgeted with her hands if it would not have caused the sandwich to fall back into her lap.
“Of course, because Sakura-chan requested we invite him,” which only seemed to make her turn a brighter shade of red.
Fai giggled and both girls turned to look at him, Tomoyo somehow managing to capture one of Sakura’s hands in hers in the process. “To be young and in love. I would like to be one of those again.”
“But, Fai-sensei, you are in love, aren’t you?” and Sakura suddenly looked so serious that he was unsure of how to respond to her.
“I just remembered I have something I have to do,” he told them as he stood, brushing the grass off his pants. “I’ll see you girls later.”
“Fai-sensei!” Sakura called worriedly after him. He waved back over his shoulder at them. Tomoyo would do her best to soothe Sakura’s distress. On his way there he put his hand in his pocket to make sure he still had both things he needed.
He was only deterred in his search once when Emeraude stopped to ask him a question about classroom duties.
He looked at his watch to see how much time was left in the lunch hour before stepping into the office next to the kendo equipment room. Fai thought himself very lucky that his prey’s back was turned, all evidence pointing to he was putting paperwork away. “Kuro-tan!” he called, launching himself towards the other man.
Kurogane stumbled, tried to grab onto something, and landed on the floor with Fai in a heap on top of him and papers floating down around them. “The hell?” he growled as he sat up, and Fai found himself conveniently placed between his thighs.
“I was feeling lonely,” he said, running he hands underneath the other man’s shirt.
“You were with hose girls you like so much; how could you possibly have been lonely?” Fai merely smiled up at him as he pushed Kurogane’s shirt up and planted a kiss directly above his waistband. “Horny is more like it,” and Fai could hear the smirk in his voice. His only response was to start pulling Kurogane’s dark pants down.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” he snarled with a bit of surprise making his voice higher pitched than usual. He grabbed both of Fai’s wrists in a vice like grip which caused him to wince. “We don’t have time to be doing that now.”
“Kuro-sama” he said, lifting his head to look up at Kurogane with half-lidded eyes, “don’t tell me you’re turning down a free blowjob. That’s really all I wanted to do for you.” Fai could see the suspicion lurking in those red eyes, but the hand that tangled in his hair pushed him down as Fai reached into his pocket to touch the one item and to pull the other out for use.
After he was finished, he kept his promise and merely crawled into Kurogane’s lap, snuggling against his chest, idly stroking Kurogane’s chin. He learned early on that Kurogane liked to be pampered and touched when he was on a sex-induced high. Kurogane, fortunately enough, had never figured it out himself which Fai often used to his advantage. Kurogane had closed his eyes and had tilted his head back to give him easier access, unconsciously, of course. “Say, Kuro-rin, you want to go to the beach house with me, some of the students, and a few other supervisors, don’t you?”
“Sure,” he mumbled, scratching himself against Fai’s hand when he had slowed down. Fai giggled and returned his full attention to pampering Kurogane, giving him a small kiss on the temple for his troubles.
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A few days later Kurogane was driving a fifteen passenger van down the highway with Fai in the passenger seat and twelve other passengers in tow with all their luggage shoved under the seats. “Why the hell am I doing this again?” he asked, crouched over the wheel.
“Watch your language in front of the children, Kuro-rin,” Fai scolded. “And if you really want to know why you’re here, I can always play the tape again.” He pulled the tape recorder out of his pocket and held his thumb threateningly over the play button.
“Don’t you dare play that tape in public!” he snapped. A quick look in the rearview mirror showed the three students directly behind him looked politely embarrassed, a few of the others just looked highly amused. “And why is Souma here again?”
“The girls needed female supervision,” Fai told him, and Kurogane was grateful to see him slip the damn tape back into pocket. He was fairly sure it was illegal to play something like that in front of fourteen year olds.
“Okay, so why is the witch here?” he asked, and he saw her smirk at him in the rearview mirror.
“For one thing, the boys have two supervisors, so the girls should as well. For another, I doubt the two of you will be doing much supervising.” He tried to glare at her as best he could while still keeping his eyes mostly on the road.
“What about the other three?” he asked, looking at the suspicious looking group in the back seat.
“We exist in this universe which is more than I can say for some people in this vehicle.”
“And I’m best friends with Sakura-chan,” the girl contributed, “And Doumeki-kun and Watanuki-kun are good friends with Syaoran-kun.”
“I’m just here to spend the weekend with Himawari-chan!” and the other boy’s eyes turned to hearts. But they soon turned to daggers as he glared at the boy on the other side of her. “But why does he have to be here!” The girl giggled. Kurogane’s eyebrow twitched.
“Hey, witch, you’re in charge of those three.”
“Alright,” Fai began in his lecture voice, turning around to face his students. “If anybody asks this weekend, Kuro-sama is Syaoran-kun’s father, I’m Sakura-chan’s father, Tomoyo-chan is Kuro-rin’s sister, Souma-san is Yuzuriha-chan’s mother, and Yuuko-san is the mother of the triplets. Any questions?”
“Can I be Fai-san’s girlfriend for the weekend?” Yuzuriha boldly asked.
“Sure. Any other questions?” Was that really the way the man taught?
“What about us, Kurogane-sensei?” A small black creature jumped onto his shoulder.
“Yeah, what about us?” It’s white twin started to jump around in his lap.
“Don’t do that while I’m trying to drive!”
Fai mercifully removed the white manjuu and pulled it into his own lap, thought whether it was from concern for their safety or jealousy, Kurogane really couldn’t tell. His ego liked to tell him it was jealousy. The black one jumped back to sit contently in Yuzuriha’s lap.
“Fai-sensei, Kuro-rin was mean to me.”
“That’s Kuro-rin-sensei to you,” he snapped. In retrospect he realized he probably deserved to be chuckled at by some of the girls, but at the moment it only served to really piss him off.
As if things weren’t bad enough, the white manjuu was crawling around in Fai’s lap and suddenly it exclaimed, “What’s this?” The next thing he heard was gasping and panting, and yes, that was definitely his voice moaning Fai’s name. The blonde had snatched it back and turned it off as quickly as he could, but it wasn’t nearly fast enough for Kurogane’s tastes.
Nobody in the back seemed to notice; he still wanted to throw both things out the window, but a rather large semi truck racing towards them was strong enough persuasion to keep his focus entirely on driving.
“Fai-san, I’m going to need a copy of that tape you were waving around earlier,” Yuuko said once they were safely back on the right side of the road.
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“Wow, Tomoyo-chan! This place is really incredible,” Sakura said, twirling in a circle in the entrance way to the house. Fai was the last one to enter with the white Mokona perched on his shoulder, closely trailing Kurogane who was carrying both their luggage. “This really does look like a great place to spend the weekend.”
“I’ll show everyone to their rooms,” Tomoyo said, leading them up the stairs. Her parents had requested assigned rooms so they would know who to blame for any damages. “Doumeki-kun, Watanuki-kun, you two will share this room. Syoaran-kun, yours is right across the hall. Yuzuriha-chan and Himawari-chan will be next to Doumeki and Watanuki, and Sakura and I will share the room next to Syaoran’s.”
“Mokona, why don’t you keep Sakura company while Tomoyo shows us to our rooms,” Fai suggested. It happily bounded off and followed Sakura into the room.
Tomoyo led them a little further down the hall. “Yuuko-san, this is your room, and Souma-san is right across the hall.” And not so far from Tomoyo’s room, Fai noted. He wondered if there were any secret passageways behind the walls, because he thought it would be great fun if there were. Tomoyo waited until both women were inside their rooms with the door shut behind them before leading them a little further down the hall. “Kurogane-sensei, Fai-sensei, this will be your room.”
“Thanks for showing us last, Tomoyo-chan. You know how shy Kuro-rin can be; he wouldn’t want people openly knowing we were sharing a room.”
“I’m not shy!” Tomoyo and Fai both giggled
Souma stepped out of her room and into the hallway. “Kurogane-san, is something wrong?”
Tomoyo happily raced down the hall to the older woman’s side. “Souma-sama, there’s something I wanted to show you in this room,” and she grabbed Souma’s hand and pulled her back into the room.
Fai deduced it was probably the best for Kurogane because her former pupil was still blushing and trying to stammer some excuse for her that he couldn’t come up with. “Come on, Kuro-chan,” he said, dragging the luckless teacher into the room with him. He left Kurogane in charge of getting their things together, and he danced across the room and pulled back the huge curtain. “Hyuu~! This must be what Tomoyo-chan wanted to show Souma,” he said, taking in the breathtaking view of the ocean, seagulls flying effortlessly above the perfect blue of the water, reef barely visible to the left.
Kurogane didn’t respond to him, and Fai waltzed back over to him. The other man seemed deep in though, which was really a horrible way to spend a romantic weekend, so Fai pushed him onto the bed and straddled his lap. “Souma doesn’t know about us, does she?” he asked, tilting Kurogane’s chin up so that he would have to look him in the eye.
“Does it really matter if she knows or not?” he challenged.
“Well, I figured since you told me what happened with you and her after the Kendeppa incident,” the familiar pains of jealousy and insecurity only serving to make him angry which he really did not want to be so he plastered a smile on, “I figured you would come clean to her about us as well.”
“Why should I?” Kurogane growled, biting at Fai’s fingers which he instantly pulled away. “I didn’t even have to tell you anything. When that happened, you and I weren’t…” Kurogane trailed off, and Fai tried not to let his disappointment show because he really wanted to know how he had planned on finishing that.
“We were fucking then,” he said, and he pushed Kurogane so that he was on his back on the bed. He seemed a bit stunned, and Fai quickly crawled up to pin him down by the shoulders. “Are you suggesting that we’re doing something different now?” and he forced his way in between Kurogane’s thighs. Distracting the other man with a kiss, Fai started undoing his belt. When he felt the other man lose his hesitancy in returning Fai’s kisses, slipping his tongue into his mouth, Fai took the opportunity to break the kiss and flip Kurogane so he was on all fours.
“What are you doing?” Kurogane growled as Fai tugged his pants down. He struggled to get Fai off of him, but the blonde managed to keep him in the proper position, even managed to slip two of his fingers inside. “Who said you could do that?” and the phys ed teacher continued to struggle against what Fai viewed as the inevitable. He kind of liked it when Kurogane struggled; it made the final reward all the more satisfying. If only Kurogane would stay still long enough for him to get inside…
“Kurogane-sensei! Fai-sensei!” a lilting voice called from the other side of the door.
“Just a minute, Sakura-chan!” Fai called, running a hand through his hair and stuffing himself back into his jeans to make himself look presentable again.
“I just wanted to let you know the rest of us are meeting in the foyer to walk to the beach together. Would you like to join us?”
“We’ll be there,” and he could hear Sakura bounding away down the hallway. With a small sigh of disappointment. Fai noticed Kurogane had rolled onto his back, put a good few feet in between them, and was refastening his pants as he watched him warily.
“So we’re just going to leave and go to the beach? After all that?”
“No, silly, we’re going to get changed and then we’re going to go to the beach.” He moved to his suitcase and started rummaging around for something suitable to wear. “Besides, you weren’t exactly being enthusiastic,” Fai chided as he pulled out his swimwear.
“That’s because no one gave you permission to top,” Kurogane said sullenly, going to his suitcase. He didn’t have to rummage around, and Fai noticed it was much more organized than his. Fai preferred the disorder of his suitcase and closed it with a shirt dangling out the side.
“You can rub sunscreen on me if you would like, Kuro-chi,” he said, holding up the bottle of sunscreen suggestively. With a loud “tch,” Kurogane slammed the lid of his suitcase. “No, then?”
Forty-five minutes later they were all situated on the beach, no one else around. Himawari, Doumeki, Waatanuki, Yuzuriha, and the Mokona had started up a volleyball game, girls versus boys. Well, girls and a white thing versus boys and a black thing. Syaoran and Sakura had gone off in search of shells. Tomoyo had gone with them with her video camera out, but she soon rejoined some of the others. Fai, Yuuko, and Souma had all set up lounge chairs and were enjoying the sun. When Tomoyo rejoined them she sat down in the sand in between Yuuko and Souma. As for Kurogane…
“Fai-san, is Kurogane arguing with that crab?” Yuuko asked, sitting up in her chair and lowering her sun glasses to get a better look.
Fai didn’t need to look, he kept his eyes closed behind his glasses. “Probably. He’s been having a rough day.”
“He needs to learn new ways to take out his sexual frustration,” Yuuko said as she settled back down in her chair. “Tomoyo, can I do your hair?” she asked, turning her attention to the girl next to her.
He heard Tomoyo agree, and he shook his head before turning to watch the luckless teacher. He appeared to be losing whatever argument he thought he was having with the crustacean. Perhaps he had been too cruel to him earlier. Well, he would just have to make it up to him later that evening. From his current viewpoint, however, he was quite enjoying the view he had of Kurogane’s ass.
The perfect image was ruined by a pink frilly swimsuit suddenly invading his line of vision. “Fai-sensei, look at this seashell Syaoran-kun found for me.” Since it was already blocking his view, he quickly surveyed the shell Sakura was holding in front of her. It was about the size of a flashlight and was pure white except for an intricate pink pattern. “Have you ever seen anything like it?”
“I don’t study seashells,” he told her with a gentle pat to her arm, though he really hadn’t seen anything like it before. It almost looked like a feather. “Maybe you should hold onto it. It can become a precious memory for you and Syaoran-kun.” Sakura’s cheeks were tinged pink, and Fai couldn’t tell if it was from the sun or from a blush.
“Fai-sensei, do you need something to drink?” Yuzuriha surprised him, dropping down to her knees in the sand on the other side of him. Sakura was so startled she almost dropped her precious seashell.
“Is the game over already?” He noticed Tomoyo had pulled her camera back out and was filming the three of them.
“No, Syaoran-kun is just temporarily taking my place.” At least her swimsuit was not pink and frilly. “Can I get you anything?”
“Sure, you can get me a drink. Yuuko-san, Tomoyo-chan, do you want anything?” he asked, figuring he could make her usefulness extend to the others as well. If it was him he might just slip something into Souma’s drink. He didn’t want to think things like that because Souma had technically never did anything wrong. She didn’t know. He tried to ignore the little voice that tried to tell him Kurogane was the only one to blame.
“A drink would be wonderful,” Yuuko said, throwing her head back and placing an arm across her forehead.
“I’ll have one too. Souma-sama?”
“Yes, please.”
“Bring one for Kuro-tan-sensei too!” he called as she went running across the sand back to the house.
“I’ll help her bring drinks for everyone else as well,” Sakura said cheerfully before rushing after her, cradling the seashell to her chest.
Within a few minutes, a very stern-looking Kurogane sat down in the spot Sakura had just vacated. “So tell me, Kurogane, what did that poor crab say to you that made you so enraged with it?” Yuuko asked once he settled down.
“The damn thing pinched me,” he said gruffly, and Fai pushed his glasses to his head when he seemed to recall Kuro-sama favoring his left foot before he sat and now he was cradling it in both hands.
“Let me see,” he said, and he had to pry the man’s hands off his foot. His big toe was swollen and bleeding from where the crab had broken skin since it had mostly missed its intended target. Fai dropped out of his chair and into the sand, placing a hand on Kurogane’s chest as he supported him back to his feet. “We should get you back to the house and have that taken care of.” And while they were at it, he might just take him upstairs to their room for a little extra special care.
“I have a first aid kit right here so he won’t have to walk anywhere,” Souma said, and Fai frowned when he saw she pulled it directly out of her bag without rummaging. He pouted as he dropped Kurogane into his chair. Souma was forestalled in her effort to stand by Tomoyo pushing down on both her thighs,
“Why don’t you let Fai-san take care of that? He took care of Kurogane-san’s bruises after you beat him the practice ring so I’m sure he’s used to it.” Fai decided Tomoyo was getting a definite A on her next lab. Ninety-eight percent to be exact, just so to not arouse too much suspicion.
She passed the box over to Yuuko who with an odd combination of disdain and laziness passed it to Kurogane. “Maybe eventually you’ll learn not to get into fights you can’t win.”
“Witch,” he snarled as he snatched the box away from her and handed it to Fai. The blonde decided now would not be a good time to join in the Kuro-teasing, mainly because Souma seemed to be staying out of it. Yuuko was looking at him as if she were disappointed he did not add his own remarks or even make a comment and even Kurogane was looking at him as if there was something wrong with him.
Luckily for him, Sakura and Yuzuriha came back with trays full of glasses filled with ice and lemonade. “Eh, what happened to Kurogane-sensei?” Yuzuriha asked as she set her tray down on the stand in between Yuuko and Kurogane. Sakura nearly dropped her tray when she caught sight of her teacher’s foot.
“He got in an argument with a crab,” Yuuko said, picking up a glass and holding it out for Yuzuriha to pour her a drink. Fai was impressed with her uncanny ability of getting people to unconsciously do her bidding. “Apparently they couldn’t decide which one was more of a crab, so the animal attacked.” Sakura gasped and Yuuko casually took a sip of her lemonade. “The crab was only acting in self-defense.”
“Kuro-sama, stay still!” he order, trying to keep the man’s foot in place long enough to wrap a bandage around it while he shouted profanities to the woman next to him. He only settled down when Yuzuriha handed him a drink, Sakura having long scurried off to give respite to the volleyball players. “That should help make it feel a little bit better,” once the bandage was finally in place. Kurogane grumbled his thanks as Fai moved to sit on the chair by his knees, and Yuzuriha handed him his drink.
“Maybe we should go for a swim soon,” Yuzuriha said, looking up at the sun. The volleyball players came over to sit in the sand next to them.
“It is getting hot out,” someone agreed, but Fai really hadn’t been paying attention.
“But Kuro-tan can’t go swimming now,” he said, placing his hand on the injured man’s leg to let them all know he had absolutely no intentions of allowing the poor man to stay on the beach by himself. Yuzuriha, Himawari, and Sakura seemed to be crestfallen at the prospect, but he really didn’t think Kurogane should be left alone just because he had run into some ill luck with a crab.
“I’ll stay with Kurogane-sensei,” Yuuko said, reclining back in her chair.
“You can’t leave me alone with her!” Kurogane protested, but Sakura and Yuzuriha had already grabbed each of Fai’s wrists and were already dragging him to the water so all he could do was smile apologetically over his shoulder.
“Souma, why don’t you go with them? They could use the extra supervision and we don’t want the girls molesting Fai-sensei.”
Souma agreed and went towards the water, Tomoyo trailing happily behind her with her camera.
“You just wanted me alone, didn’t you?” Kurogane accused, and she rolled her eyes as his narrowed at her.
“It’s about your agreement to provide me with gay porn. You haven’t been satisfying enough recently. It’s time to collect your dues.” He tried to scuttle off the chair, but fell into the sand as a result. She reached over to help him back into the chair before Fai returned to investigate. “Actually, I need to talk to you about the romantic weekend you supposedly have planned with Fai-san,” she informed him as he brushed the sand off his body. “It might not be as easy as you think.” He glared at her in the way she had learned to interpret as him thinking what she had just said was crazy, but he was starting to think he may be crazy because he thought there was the possibility she may be correct.
“Why is that?” he finally asked sullenly. She got the impression he was only talking to her because even her company beat staying alone on the beach.
“Just because you decided to be honest with him and tell him about Souma does not mean he would do the same for you.” She thought she would let him wrap his mind around that for a while, and she tilted her head back to fully soak in the sun.
“So there really is someone else,” he said, and he had turned his head so she could no longer see his face.
“I don’t know. All I know is he has secrets he has never shared with anyone else.”
“We all do. I already know that,” and she knew from his tone that he possibly knew less about the science teacher than she did.
“If it’s any comfort, he does seem to be rather fond of you, and you are the one he chose to be with this weekend.”
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“Did you have a good day with Yuuko-san?” Fai asked once they had retreated to their own room, Kurogane a good twenty minutes after the blonde because the students really didn’t need to know they were sharing a room with a single bed. He merely grunted as he started pulling out his things to get ready to sleep. “Uh, Kuro-sama, I have a small problem.” With a sigh, he slammed his suitcase shut and turned around to face the man who was grinning sheepishly at him. “I forgot my toothbrush.”
Kurogane blinked. And blinked again. Fai was still wearing the same guilty expression. His foot still throbbed so it was not a dream or a hallucination. “You brought enough condoms to last any sane person an entire lifetime but you forgot your toothbrush?” Fai nodded, and Kurogane wanted to kill something.
“At least I have my priorities straight!” he said with a big, goofy grin. “Besides, one of those condoms was already wasted because somebody was being uncooperative earlier.”
“No, it was wasted because somebody decided he wanted to go to the damn beach instead,” he growled in response. He hated it when Fai tried to blame everything that went wrong with their sex life on him.
“Could you go get me a toothbrush from somewhere while I take a shower?” Kurogane stormed off before he decided to strangle the blonde. Once he was outside the door, he realized how much of a mistake that had been, and he limped the rest of the way to Tomoyo’s room. “Do you have any spare toothbrushes in this place? Your idiot teacher forgot his,” he informed her as soon as she opened the door.
“How could someone as neat as you forget your toothbrush, Kurogane-san?” Souma asked innocently from where she was sipping some tea in the window.
“It wasn’t me. It was the blonde.”
“I’ll show you where they are,” Tomoyo said, stepping out of the room and closing the door behind her. “My parents like to keep new ones here for circumstances such as this,” guiding him down the hallway. “How is your foot doing, Kurogane-sensei?” she asked as he limped along behind her.
“It’s been better, but the idiot’s first aid helped a lot. Then he sends me on a walking search for a toothbrush,” he added bitterly. Tomoyo giggled, and Kurogane watched her for a moment. She didn’t look that much like her older sister if he remembered correctly. “Hey, is Souma okay… spending time with you?”
“I’m not sure, but I think it’s getting easier for both of us. We’ve learned we can help each other through the pain.” She stopped in front of a closet and rummaged around in it for a few moments. He could barely make out a tear running down her cheek. But when she turned around she gave him a fake smile that could rival any of Fai’s. “Here’s your toothbrush!”
When he got back to the room, his eyebrow did the twitch thing again when he found Yuzuriha sitting on the bed with Fai. She was giggling insanely which he thought was completely unnecessary since the blonde really wasn’t that funny. “Ah! Kurogane-sensei,” she called when she caught sight of him “are you here to talk to Fai-sensei too?” An ominous thunderclap rolled overhead.
“Yuzuriha-chan, could you excuse us for the evening? Kuro-rin-sensei and I need to talk about adult things.”
“Okay! Good night, Fai-sensei, Kurogane-sensei!” and she bounded out of the room with the energy only a fourteen year old girl fueled by ice cream could posses.
“Goodnight, Yuzuriha-chan!” Fai called after her before turning his attention to Kurogane. He was suddenly reminded of the way the proverbial cat watched the canary. “So, Kuro-chan, what are we going to do now that all the kids are going to sleep?”
“I brought you a toothbrush,” he said, tossing the object in question towards a perplexed blonde. He limped halfway through the house to get the stupid thing, and damn it, the man was going to use it.
“But I thought we were going to play,” and he always found it difficult to resist the pout, but his foot was throbbing and his mind was worrying and he really didn’t care how sad the blue eyes got. The man was just going to have to learn to deal with reality. He tried to stare the blonde down for a bit, but that only seemed to increase the intensity of the pout. “I thought Kuro-sama liked to play with me. I like to play with you.”
He found the last of his resolve melting away. “After you brush your teeth,” he instructed. Before bounding off into the bathroom, Fai gave him that smirk that always made him wonder what kind of game the man thought he was playing.
He sighed as he sat down on the edge of the bed. Sometimes he really wondered if it was all really worth it. But within a few minutes, the man was back, nuzzling against his neck in just the right way and his hands were already pulling up his shirt and he suddenly remembered why. He was getting into things rather quickly, because, damn it, he did not want to get interrupted again, and he had soon rolled them over so the blonde was underneath him, thin body wriggling enticingly against his. A flash of lightning followed by a crack of thunder that caused the electricity to go out made him pause for a moment and pull slightly away. “You’re not afraid of the dark, are you, Kuro-chan?”
“Don’t call me that,” he growled, and another flash of lightning illuminated the man’s face briefly. Fai wrapped his arms around his shoulders attempting to bring him back down.
He jumped three feet to the left when their door suddenly slammed open on perfect timing with another bout of thunder. The two Mokona bounded in the room.
“Fai-sensei!”
“We don’t like the dark and thunder,” they yelled in unison as they jumped into the bed. Kurogane was beginning to think everything on the beach was on a mission to keep him from getting laid over the weekend; Fai was already snuggling with the white one.
“Ah, Kurogane-sensei, did you come here for Fai-sensei to protect you as well?”
He was about to growl a negative response, but stopped when he realized they would tease him more for the real reason why he was in that room. “Yes.”
“Fai-sensei will protect us all,” the black one said as it snuggled up against Kurogane’s side. “We just need to have a sleepover in Fai-sensei’s room,” the thing mumbled, clearly already falling back asleep. Afraid of the dark and thunder his ass.
Kurogane risked a glance at the blonde and wondered if he could have gotten rid of the things if he would have told them the truth. But Fai wasn’t looking at him and seemed to be rather content watching the white thing sleep nuzzled against him. “Oi,” he called softly and the man raised his eyes to look at him. “Good night.”
“Good night, Kuro-sama. I’m sure tomorrow will be much better.”
~End of Part 1. Please review if you read.