Fic: Ever After (7.2)

[shadow_of_egypt]

Title: Ever After

Characters/Pairings: KuroFai, AshFai, SyaoSaku and DoumWataHima(ish?) Basically, anything implied (or outright stated in recent chapters of the manga with some pairings) in CLAMP canon that my mind stumbles across.
Rating: T

Summary: ‘Fairytale’ is a very trying place. Children get abandoned; loves fall under evil spells, and

Comments

[youkohiei_fan]

*__* the kurofai moments in this chapter...
and Haruka and Watanuki and just everything. Great chapter!

[shadow_of_egypt]

Thanking you~

[xxfurryfirefoxx]

I always look forward to your updates. Another amazing chapter! ^-^

[shadow_of_egypt]

Look backward, look backward! Because at least backwards is done when forwards is still unstarted and then I run around like a headless chicken flailing about people waiting and self appointed deadlines and guilt and angst and shifty plots and it's all OMGNO-flail-wtf-die.
...
Or, alternatively, you could just pat me on the head and give me a cookie, and let me get over my little fit of 'oh noes' myself. ^^;
....I'll just go get writing the next chapter now. >> *shuffles off to her corner*

[xxfurryfirefoxx]

Lol. *pats on head* Don't feel pressured. Better to wait for a good chapter then to get a crappy chapter every day. *gives cookie* :)

[illezabeth]

Haha Watanuki seems to just be piling up admirers as he goes! But I love the kudakitsune, and Zashiki-warashi is just adorable ^__^

However my favourite part has to be Fai's home-coming, and Kurogane realising he was clean ^___^, so cute. The KuroFai moments were just to die for, especially that bedroom scene and Fai's flirting ^_^ I love how even though at the beginning he didn't want to be anywhere near Human!Kurogane, he's now become gradually more and more curious. Of course I just love the fact that Fai can't see him in the first place XD, that was an excellent plot twist ^__^

[shadow_of_egypt]

Watanuki has his own canon harem, and the silly boy just doesn't realise it. I mean, seriously: Doumeki, Himawari, the Zashiki-warashi, the kudakitsune, Yuuko (questionably), the little fox (also questionably), Mokona, Kohane... They should get together and form a fanclub. >.<

Fai-kitty and his curiosity...*laughs and shakes head* Kurogane at the moment is that big red button clearly labelled 'don't press' - you've just got to press it at some point, haven't you?
On the not-being-able-to-see-one-another-thing...that's actually straight from the fairytale, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Some interesting variations of the tale have the husband and wife (yeah, they're actually married in the original) have children together - all without the 'wife' ever seeing what it is her husband exactly looks like in the dark. (During the daytime he's a polarbear.)

[illezabeth]

Haha that would be pretty funny, I haven't got very far into XxxHolic yet but I can alrady see the fanbase growing. Personally I think it's his own faul for wandering around in an apron all the time, he just looks so cute XDD

Haha that is precisely the feeling you get, hmm I like that hes seein Kuro-rin's softer side ^__^

Oh nice, I hadn't heard of that one ^__^ I'm sure it's good, but I think I prefer the KuroFai version XD

[shadow_of_egypt]

Ah, our darling Watapon. Everyone keeps comparing him to a hissy kitty and wanting to cuddle him. It's the sparkles he emits - they're infectious. (And I forgot to add Maru and Moro to his harem list, shame on me.)

'Softer' side? He forcibly takes Fai's alcohol, and throws him down on a bed! Not that, out of context a little, Fai would really be complaining about the bed-throwing but - right. Shutting up now.

...Practically no-one seems to have heard of this fairytale. *mopes* It needs more looveeee!!

[allyoucaneater]

i really had fun reading this :D Such complicated, yet simple chapter to read. And there's more characters ftw! i simply can't see where this is going to end, so I'm quite happy :D MOAR PLZ

hmmm.. what item...
tis hard question you're letting people to guess...

I'm guessing... a lot of things since you're mixing xxxHolic and Tsubasa together. OTZ
i mean.. it can be the Book of Memories(?), The Monkey Palm thing, those earmuff thingy that Watanuki used in Holic, those... spirit sake thingy (that i forgot the name) and all sorts of intangible things. I dare not guess.

[shadow_of_egypt]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, then. ^^ I'm not sure when the next chapter will be up, but hopefully not too long off.

As for your guesses~ you had some good ones, but you're still way off the mark. ^_~ Nice try. X3

[crys_tenkari]

*Hearts at Possessive!Kudaikitsune, and Adoring!Fox child.* Ahaha, as you mentioned in an earlier comment, Watanuki really does have his own harem/fanclub. A shame he is oblivious to it. *Would be Evil in his place, oh yes, would like never fetching her own drinks again...*

I thought you hit all the holic characters pretty dead on in this chapter. The crazy protectiveness of the tengu karasu? Makes me giggle like mad, as does Syaoran fleeing from them. It feels like it could be straight out of either canon.

I really liked the direction the interactions between Kurogane and Fai are starting to take - Fai starting to honour his commitment even a little is lovely, despite the circumstances of said commitment. =3 And Souhi as a peace offering is excellent.

Also. Haruka. <3<3<3 That is all.

Oh, Fai, you must make your poor liver scream even as you make Kurogane's brain attempt to find the escape hatch.

[shadow_of_egypt]

Lazy bum. *amused by your Evil Plans* And Watapon spends so much time complaining about Doumeki's fan-following...silly, silly boy.

In some world somewhere, Kuro-daddy is shaking his head at little puppy for fleeing in the face of five little men on flying surfboards.

Ah, well...Kuro-chan wanted commitment from Fai, and he's going to get it. ^_~ Silly ninja should've been more specific, as Fai is a force to be reckoned with. "Kuro-tan, we need to do couple things."

Haruka love? Oh my. ♥

Let us pretend that Fai has a magical liver - which he probably does - and that it processes alcohol very quickly without killing it or himself, yes? ...And there's an escape hatch? I want an escape hatch.