Stolen - Chapter Three - You are my Love
I'm.... not especially proud of this one. BUT it had to happen...
Chapter Rated : T For Kuro-rin's pottymouth.
Pairings, characters: KuroFai, Yuuko, Syaoran, Syaoron, TAO REN cameo (wtf?), Chii, some chavs, train commuters
Words: 2,511. and oh hay! a preview!
Stolen
Chapter Three - You Are My Love
“Aha! Kuro-sama-sensei’s come to help!”
“Eh? No, I-“
“Aww, don’t be shy, Kuro-myon! We won’t bite you!”
Kurogane glared at Fai, who was still too perky for his own good. He’d only gone in to see what time he should expect Fai home, and now here he was, getting roped into helping teach the revision lesson about muscles.
Wait, what?
“Fai, there is no way in hell I’m gonna-“
“Okay, class!” Fai turned to face his students, who had all gotten used to his strange quirks and no longer found him too odd, “Can anyone tell me this neck muscle?”
-
“Erm, is that the Pectoralis… major?”
“Not quite, it’s the Pectoralis minor.” Fai replied, still smiling with praise, “It’s a very common mistake, so don’t feel too put out, Syaoran-kun! Just try and remember that major, which is a Latin word, means big and minor means little! So the Pectoralis major are the big ones,” Fai put his hand on Kurogane’s chest, who tried his best to not blush, which was hard in front of a class of (mostly) air-headed girls who were only paying attention because Fai was cute and Kurogane was buff, “And Pectoralis minor are the small ones!” Fai continued, unaware of his lover’s embarrassment.
The lesson had gone very smoothly, until Fai requested that Kurogane could take his shirt and jersey off so that they could study the torso muscles. This caused one of Kurogane and Fai’s more sedate arguments, before Kurogane relented and removed his jersey, stating resolutely that he would not take his shirt off too.
He was more than slightly annoyed when he heard Syaoron, Syaoran’s twin, cough something that sounded suspiciously like “whipped”.
“Could you turn around, please, Kuro-pin-sensei?”
Fai went through the back muscles briefly, as they didn’t really need to know a lot about them.
“And this,” Fai brought his hand onto the muscle with a slap, “is the Gluteus Maximus!”
Kurogane yelped.
“What was that for, you crazy idiot?!” he yelled.
Fai just grinned and chirped “Sorry, my hand slipped!”
Kurogane heard snickering and instantly wanted to crawl into a corner and burst into flames.
X o X o X
“Fai, you’re so embarrassing!” Kurogane groaned as they entered their apartment later that night. He had spent the entire train ride home wallowing in humiliation as Fai had a one-sided conversation with him about their plans for spring break, which was drawing closer at an alarming rate. It seemed like it was just yesterday that Fai was giving his introduction lesson with a wide grin to frightened pupils that he could bend to his will.
Er, I mean teach.
Kurogane suddenly remembered something.
“Hey, what was that thing you were talking on the phone about? Back in Osaka?”
Fai looked up and blinked, his scarf halfway to the coat hook, “You mean when I did the Chemistry thing?”
Kurogane nodded, and Fai blushed before looking away.
“I’ll tell you soon, don’t worry.”
Kurogane stepped closer.
“Why can’t you tell me now?”
Fai paused, running it over in his mind. “Now… isn’t the right time.” he said slowly, before smiling up at Kurogane again, “I’ll tell you when it wants to be told, Kuro-wan!”
Kurogane studied Fai’s face for a moment, unable to decide whether he should pursue the matter further. He decided that poking Fai for an answer might just make him less likely to actually reveal it, and instead rested his forehead against the pale one with a gentle sigh, wrapping his arms around him.
Fai blinked, finding himself staring into the passionate depths of crimson that lots of people found terrifying. His smile fell back into place and he leaned up, making the two inch gap between their lips nonexistent. They kissed tenderly, but it was filled with so much emotion and caring that Fai was afraid that his heart would drum its way out of his chest.
When they parted, Fai looked away slightly, his decision made.
“Hey, what’s this?” Kurogane asked rhetorically, reaching up to brush a way the single tear that was running down Fai’s cheek. Fai gave a bittersweet smile and placed his hand over Kurogane’s, nuzzling it affectionately.
“I realised…” he started slowly, quietly, as if afraid of ruining the mood by speaking louder, “When we were separated, even though it was only for two weeks…” he frowned, rolling words around in his mind, searching for an appropriate way to phrase whatever he was going to say. He then sighed and bowed his head, starting again.
“We never really meant to start a relationship, did we?” he asked, quieter than before, looking back at the confused gym teacher, “I’ve never stayed in one place for long. I’ve always stayed a few months, maybe a year, and then moved on… it was easy, I didn’t have to…make attachments… and I didn’t have to feel pain…”
Kurogane frowned… where was this going?
“But then, I came here, and something happened. I couldn’t leave. I tried to, I really tried to…” he whimpered, tears dripping slowly from his eyes “and then… when we kissed, I didn’t want anything to change… and I’m scared, Kuro-rinta, I’m so scared…”
Fai stood, head bowed, and Kurogane wanted so much to gather him back into his arms and do all the things his heart was longing for him to do. But he couldn’t, because Fai might never get his chance again.
“I thought going to Osaka last month would make me able to move on, but I just ended up needing to be here more... I needed to be with you more, more than I needed to run away… and I’m scared, because it hurt so much...” he choked out a sob, before looking up, his blue eyes glistening with tears, a wide, true smile on his lips, “But I realised… just now… that I didn’t need to be scared…” he rested his cheek over Kurogane’s heart and wrapped his thin arms around his waist, neither of them breaking eye contact, “It’s all because I’ve fallen in love with you, Kuro-sama…” he laughed softly, “I’ve fallen so helplessly in love with you… and it’s the most wonderful feeling ever!”
Kurogane was silent, and his face was blank with shock, before breaking out into the widest grin that anybody would ever see him in, and he hugged Fai tighter to himself, kissing him deeply. Fai mewled happily, though it was muffled by Kurogane’s mouth, and tiptoed into the warm, loving embrace that he had craved for most, if not all of his life.
X o X o X
Fai blinked slowly awake, slightly disorientated for a moment. He was lying on something that was very warm, very comfy, and breathing. He grinned down at Kurogane and pulled the blanket further around them, resting his head back on his lover’s bare chest with a content sigh, his first thought being how he wouldn’t mind waking up like this every morning.
The first thing Kurogane thought when he woke up, however, was to never sleep with his head practically rolling off of the side of the couch again.
“Morning sexy!” Fai chirped from somewhere on top of him.
The second thing Kurogane thought when he woke up was to never sleep on the couch underneath Fai again.
“Morning…” he grunted, head spinning after he looked up too quickly. Fai’s smile faltered and he sat back, cringing slightly.
“What?”
Fai’s megawatt smile dinged on and he replied “Nothing, Kuro-pii! But we should take a shower, we’re so sticky!”
Kurogane looked down. Yes. They were very sticky.
“I’d rather get a lot stickier!” Kurogane replied, smirking wolfishly and pulling Fai back against him.
Fai grimaced and flinched away.
Kurogane sighed. “Fai, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing!” Fai defended, looking away, rubbing his neck “It just… hurts a little…”
Kurogane smiled and patted his blonde head. “Let’s go get that shower.”
-
Fai mewled happily as Kurogane’s talented hands rubbed the knots out of his aching muscles, the hot water soothing anything the taller man would miss.
“I’m guessing you won’t want to do it on the couch for a while, then.” Kurogane’s amused voice commented from behind him. Fai hummed in response, sinking against the tiles.
“I dunno,” he replied slowly, looking over his shoulder, “If this is part of it, we might have to more often!”
“Like hell we will.” Kurogane muttered, smirking, “Come on, we gotta get ready for school.”
Fai groaned, already missing the warmth the other had given him, before begrudgingly going to get dressed.
X o X o X
For Kurogane, the day passed smoothly (especially seeing as the purple-headed Chinese brat wasn’t there to piss him off) and he was hurrying off to the science block before any revision classes could begin, obviously not wanting to repeat events of the previous day.
A quick peek into each science room told him that the students had left, and apparently so had Fai. That was, until he noticed the idiot’s bag still sat by the teacher’s desk, with Fai’s pencil case and planner and other papers scattered over the desk.
Kurogane made a mental note to start badgering Fai into tidying up after himself, especially seeing as Kurogane cleared up the blonde’s crap at home and didn’t want to end up doing it at work too. Then he realised that PE and science were on opposite sides of the school and so Fai’s mess was someone else’s problem, and decided not to bother.
“Are you waiting for Fai-sensei, Kurogane-sensei?”
Kurogane jumped, unaware of anybody else being in the hallways. He spun around to see one of Fai’s students, the blonde girl with a vacant expression and skin so pale that she could probably pass as dead.
“No!” he replied on reflex. Well, he wasn’t! He had only peeked in to see where the hell the idiot had gotten to, and had stood… thinking about it for ten minutes. He wasn’t waiting.
The kid blinked.
“Well… he was asked to go and see Yuuko-sensei near the end of lesson.” she added quietly, looking into the empty classroom, “I went to get my book and came back to see if he was still here… but I guess not…”
Kurogane nodded.
“I’ll go home then.” she stated, smiling kindly up at Kurogane, “Good night, Kurogane-sensei!”
Kurogane nodded again and started in the direction of Yuuko’s office. And it wasn’t because he was waiting, because proud PE teachers do not wait! It was because… It was Fai’s turn to cook dinner, and he wanted to know if Yuuko’d be much longer.
Yeah.
-
Kurogane knocked once and entered without waiting for permission. What in the hell was taking so long?!
Yuuko looked up and Kurogane, her face serious. Fai was halfway out of his chair before Kurogane was even in the room.
“Kurogane-sensei, could you please le-“
“He’s fine.” Fai interrupted, his voice weary, “We’re done here anyway.”
Yuuko paused, but nodded once.
Fai brushed past Kurogane without eye contact, his bangs covering his eyes.
“Fai-sensei,” Yuuko called,
Fai stopped.
“At least consider my offer.”
Fai licked his lips before giving a bitter smile.
“I won’t run any more, Yuuko-sensei,” he replied, no trace of a joke in his voice, “And I’d rather you’d leave it be.”
Fai walked off and Kurogane bid Yuuko goodnight, shutting the door behind him and jogging after the blonde.
“What was that about?”
“I wonder what we should have for dinner…” Fai grinned, ignoring Kurogane’s question.
Kurogane bit back an angry retort, settling instead for folding his arms and scowling at the posters on the wall. If Fai didn’t want to tell him, there was no use working them both into a temper over it.
Besides, he had something much more important to think over.
X o X o X
“You think this’ll be enough?” Fai asked, holding a big bag of noodles so close to Kurogane’s face that he could read the small print without squinting, “I usually make udon for more than two people, so I don’t know, you think we’ll eat that much? Should I just get two small packs and-”
“They’ll be fine, idiot.” Kurogane growled, pushing the bag away from his face and into the basket hanging off of Fai’s skinny arm.
Fai was silent for a few seconds, his eyes scanning the shelves, before he hopped off to the alcohol aisle.
Kurogane sighed; following (someone had to protect the public, after all) and making sure Fai didn’t put too much vodka in.
“Oooh! That looks nice! Neh neh, Kuro-min! What’s ‘saidaa’?” Fai asked loudly and quickly, introducing a bottle of Magners to Kurogane’s line of vision, his accent slipping into the near-incoherent, “I think I remember having it when I was younger, Yuui was making something with it and he-“
“Fai! Calm down!” Kurogane hissed, putting the cider back onto the rack, “You’re scaring the kids!”
They both looked to the side, where a small group of hooded teenagers stood, staring back at them.
Kurogane cocked an eyebrow. “What are a group of brats doing in the alcohol?”
One of them grinned. “Buy us some Stella?”
“FUCK, no!” Kurogane practically yelled, making them all yelp and skitter away. Fai laughed loudly.
“I thought I was ‘scaring the kids’?” he commented through giggles, putting Kurogane’s favourite Sake into the basket instead.
Kurogane grumbled and followed the crazy blonde, inwardly glad he’d managed to cheer him up a bit.
X o X o X
Luckily for them, the train wasn’t as crowded as usual, probably something to do with how late it was. Kurogane didn’t care, and he understandably preferred the trains empty; it eliminated the chance of their dinner getting stolen.
Kurogane was holding the bags after being annoyed by Fai’s whining of how his arms were getting tired and the plastic was pinching his skin and Kuro-woof wouldn’t get any for a while if he didn’t take the damn shopping off of him.
Ah well, at least Fai had given him a nice kiss in gratitude. Or praise. Or both.
They were stood by the door (as it seemed to be the only place that the windows hadn’t been tagged or scratched into opaqueness), and while Fai was staring at the towns shooting past, Kurogane was staring at Fai, nerves rising in his chest.
He swallowed thickly and coughed. Fai looked up at him quizzically. He felt the blush rise on his face and he began to panic slightly.
Ah hell.
“Marry me.” he blurted out.
X o X o X
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Fai’s eyes were wide, and his skin was pale, his expression one of shock.
“M-marry?” he asked after a while, his voice shaking and high.
“…Yeah” Kurogane confirmed, dread solidifying in his gut.
Fai swallowed, frowning slightly, looking back out of the window. Kurogane waited nervously for his answer, slightly regretting ever asking the question in the first place.
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Chapter Rated : T For Kuro-rin's pottymouth.
Pairings, characters: KuroFai, Yuuko, Syaoran, Syaoron, TAO REN cameo (wtf?), Chii, some chavs, train commuters
Words: 2,511. and oh hay! a preview!
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Chapter Three - You Are My Love
“Aha! Kuro-sama-sensei’s come to help!”
“Eh? No, I-“
“Aww, don’t be shy, Kuro-myon! We won’t bite you!”
Kurogane glared at Fai, who was still too perky for his own good. He’d only gone in to see what time he should expect Fai home, and now here he was, getting roped into helping teach the revision lesson about muscles.
Wait, what?
“Fai, there is no way in hell I’m gonna-“
“Okay, class!” Fai turned to face his students, who had all gotten used to his strange quirks and no longer found him too odd, “Can anyone tell me this neck muscle?”
-
“Erm, is that the Pectoralis… major?”
“Not quite, it’s the Pectoralis minor.” Fai replied, still smiling with praise, “It’s a very common mistake, so don’t feel too put out, Syaoran-kun! Just try and remember that major, which is a Latin word, means big and minor means little! So the Pectoralis major are the big ones,” Fai put his hand on Kurogane’s chest, who tried his best to not blush, which was hard in front of a class of (mostly) air-headed girls who were only paying attention because Fai was cute and Kurogane was buff, “And Pectoralis minor are the small ones!” Fai continued, unaware of his lover’s embarrassment.
The lesson had gone very smoothly, until Fai requested that Kurogane could take his shirt and jersey off so that they could study the torso muscles. This caused one of Kurogane and Fai’s more sedate arguments, before Kurogane relented and removed his jersey, stating resolutely that he would not take his shirt off too.
He was more than slightly annoyed when he heard Syaoron, Syaoran’s twin, cough something that sounded suspiciously like “whipped”.
“Could you turn around, please, Kuro-pin-sensei?”
Fai went through the back muscles briefly, as they didn’t really need to know a lot about them.
“And this,” Fai brought his hand onto the muscle with a slap, “is the Gluteus Maximus!”
Kurogane yelped.
“What was that for, you crazy idiot?!” he yelled.
Fai just grinned and chirped “Sorry, my hand slipped!”
Kurogane heard snickering and instantly wanted to crawl into a corner and burst into flames.
X o X o X
“Fai, you’re so embarrassing!” Kurogane groaned as they entered their apartment later that night. He had spent the entire train ride home wallowing in humiliation as Fai had a one-sided conversation with him about their plans for spring break, which was drawing closer at an alarming rate. It seemed like it was just yesterday that Fai was giving his introduction lesson with a wide grin to frightened pupils that he could bend to his will.
Er, I mean teach.
Kurogane suddenly remembered something.
“Hey, what was that thing you were talking on the phone about? Back in Osaka?”
Fai looked up and blinked, his scarf halfway to the coat hook, “You mean when I did the Chemistry thing?”
Kurogane nodded, and Fai blushed before looking away.
“I’ll tell you soon, don’t worry.”
Kurogane stepped closer.
“Why can’t you tell me now?”
Fai paused, running it over in his mind. “Now… isn’t the right time.” he said slowly, before smiling up at Kurogane again, “I’ll tell you when it wants to be told, Kuro-wan!”
Kurogane studied Fai’s face for a moment, unable to decide whether he should pursue the matter further. He decided that poking Fai for an answer might just make him less likely to actually reveal it, and instead rested his forehead against the pale one with a gentle sigh, wrapping his arms around him.
Fai blinked, finding himself staring into the passionate depths of crimson that lots of people found terrifying. His smile fell back into place and he leaned up, making the two inch gap between their lips nonexistent. They kissed tenderly, but it was filled with so much emotion and caring that Fai was afraid that his heart would drum its way out of his chest.
When they parted, Fai looked away slightly, his decision made.
“Hey, what’s this?” Kurogane asked rhetorically, reaching up to brush a way the single tear that was running down Fai’s cheek. Fai gave a bittersweet smile and placed his hand over Kurogane’s, nuzzling it affectionately.
“I realised…” he started slowly, quietly, as if afraid of ruining the mood by speaking louder, “When we were separated, even though it was only for two weeks…” he frowned, rolling words around in his mind, searching for an appropriate way to phrase whatever he was going to say. He then sighed and bowed his head, starting again.
“We never really meant to start a relationship, did we?” he asked, quieter than before, looking back at the confused gym teacher, “I’ve never stayed in one place for long. I’ve always stayed a few months, maybe a year, and then moved on… it was easy, I didn’t have to…make attachments… and I didn’t have to feel pain…”
Kurogane frowned… where was this going?
“But then, I came here, and something happened. I couldn’t leave. I tried to, I really tried to…” he whimpered, tears dripping slowly from his eyes “and then… when we kissed, I didn’t want anything to change… and I’m scared, Kuro-rinta, I’m so scared…”
Fai stood, head bowed, and Kurogane wanted so much to gather him back into his arms and do all the things his heart was longing for him to do. But he couldn’t, because Fai might never get his chance again.
“I thought going to Osaka last month would make me able to move on, but I just ended up needing to be here more... I needed to be with you more, more than I needed to run away… and I’m scared, because it hurt so much...” he choked out a sob, before looking up, his blue eyes glistening with tears, a wide, true smile on his lips, “But I realised… just now… that I didn’t need to be scared…” he rested his cheek over Kurogane’s heart and wrapped his thin arms around his waist, neither of them breaking eye contact, “It’s all because I’ve fallen in love with you, Kuro-sama…” he laughed softly, “I’ve fallen so helplessly in love with you… and it’s the most wonderful feeling ever!”
Kurogane was silent, and his face was blank with shock, before breaking out into the widest grin that anybody would ever see him in, and he hugged Fai tighter to himself, kissing him deeply. Fai mewled happily, though it was muffled by Kurogane’s mouth, and tiptoed into the warm, loving embrace that he had craved for most, if not all of his life.
X o X o X
Fai blinked slowly awake, slightly disorientated for a moment. He was lying on something that was very warm, very comfy, and breathing. He grinned down at Kurogane and pulled the blanket further around them, resting his head back on his lover’s bare chest with a content sigh, his first thought being how he wouldn’t mind waking up like this every morning.
The first thing Kurogane thought when he woke up, however, was to never sleep with his head practically rolling off of the side of the couch again.
“Morning sexy!” Fai chirped from somewhere on top of him.
The second thing Kurogane thought when he woke up was to never sleep on the couch underneath Fai again.
“Morning…” he grunted, head spinning after he looked up too quickly. Fai’s smile faltered and he sat back, cringing slightly.
“What?”
Fai’s megawatt smile dinged on and he replied “Nothing, Kuro-pii! But we should take a shower, we’re so sticky!”
Kurogane looked down. Yes. They were very sticky.
“I’d rather get a lot stickier!” Kurogane replied, smirking wolfishly and pulling Fai back against him.
Fai grimaced and flinched away.
Kurogane sighed. “Fai, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing!” Fai defended, looking away, rubbing his neck “It just… hurts a little…”
Kurogane smiled and patted his blonde head. “Let’s go get that shower.”
-
Fai mewled happily as Kurogane’s talented hands rubbed the knots out of his aching muscles, the hot water soothing anything the taller man would miss.
“I’m guessing you won’t want to do it on the couch for a while, then.” Kurogane’s amused voice commented from behind him. Fai hummed in response, sinking against the tiles.
“I dunno,” he replied slowly, looking over his shoulder, “If this is part of it, we might have to more often!”
“Like hell we will.” Kurogane muttered, smirking, “Come on, we gotta get ready for school.”
Fai groaned, already missing the warmth the other had given him, before begrudgingly going to get dressed.
X o X o X
For Kurogane, the day passed smoothly (especially seeing as the purple-headed Chinese brat wasn’t there to piss him off) and he was hurrying off to the science block before any revision classes could begin, obviously not wanting to repeat events of the previous day.
A quick peek into each science room told him that the students had left, and apparently so had Fai. That was, until he noticed the idiot’s bag still sat by the teacher’s desk, with Fai’s pencil case and planner and other papers scattered over the desk.
Kurogane made a mental note to start badgering Fai into tidying up after himself, especially seeing as Kurogane cleared up the blonde’s crap at home and didn’t want to end up doing it at work too. Then he realised that PE and science were on opposite sides of the school and so Fai’s mess was someone else’s problem, and decided not to bother.
“Are you waiting for Fai-sensei, Kurogane-sensei?”
Kurogane jumped, unaware of anybody else being in the hallways. He spun around to see one of Fai’s students, the blonde girl with a vacant expression and skin so pale that she could probably pass as dead.
“No!” he replied on reflex. Well, he wasn’t! He had only peeked in to see where the hell the idiot had gotten to, and had stood… thinking about it for ten minutes. He wasn’t waiting.
The kid blinked.
“Well… he was asked to go and see Yuuko-sensei near the end of lesson.” she added quietly, looking into the empty classroom, “I went to get my book and came back to see if he was still here… but I guess not…”
Kurogane nodded.
“I’ll go home then.” she stated, smiling kindly up at Kurogane, “Good night, Kurogane-sensei!”
Kurogane nodded again and started in the direction of Yuuko’s office. And it wasn’t because he was waiting, because proud PE teachers do not wait! It was because… It was Fai’s turn to cook dinner, and he wanted to know if Yuuko’d be much longer.
Yeah.
-
Kurogane knocked once and entered without waiting for permission. What in the hell was taking so long?!
Yuuko looked up and Kurogane, her face serious. Fai was halfway out of his chair before Kurogane was even in the room.
“Kurogane-sensei, could you please le-“
“He’s fine.” Fai interrupted, his voice weary, “We’re done here anyway.”
Yuuko paused, but nodded once.
Fai brushed past Kurogane without eye contact, his bangs covering his eyes.
“Fai-sensei,” Yuuko called,
Fai stopped.
“At least consider my offer.”
Fai licked his lips before giving a bitter smile.
“I won’t run any more, Yuuko-sensei,” he replied, no trace of a joke in his voice, “And I’d rather you’d leave it be.”
Fai walked off and Kurogane bid Yuuko goodnight, shutting the door behind him and jogging after the blonde.
“What was that about?”
“I wonder what we should have for dinner…” Fai grinned, ignoring Kurogane’s question.
Kurogane bit back an angry retort, settling instead for folding his arms and scowling at the posters on the wall. If Fai didn’t want to tell him, there was no use working them both into a temper over it.
Besides, he had something much more important to think over.
X o X o X
“You think this’ll be enough?” Fai asked, holding a big bag of noodles so close to Kurogane’s face that he could read the small print without squinting, “I usually make udon for more than two people, so I don’t know, you think we’ll eat that much? Should I just get two small packs and-”
“They’ll be fine, idiot.” Kurogane growled, pushing the bag away from his face and into the basket hanging off of Fai’s skinny arm.
Fai was silent for a few seconds, his eyes scanning the shelves, before he hopped off to the alcohol aisle.
Kurogane sighed; following (someone had to protect the public, after all) and making sure Fai didn’t put too much vodka in.
“Oooh! That looks nice! Neh neh, Kuro-min! What’s ‘saidaa’?” Fai asked loudly and quickly, introducing a bottle of Magners to Kurogane’s line of vision, his accent slipping into the near-incoherent, “I think I remember having it when I was younger, Yuui was making something with it and he-“
“Fai! Calm down!” Kurogane hissed, putting the cider back onto the rack, “You’re scaring the kids!”
They both looked to the side, where a small group of hooded teenagers stood, staring back at them.
Kurogane cocked an eyebrow. “What are a group of brats doing in the alcohol?”
One of them grinned. “Buy us some Stella?”
“FUCK, no!” Kurogane practically yelled, making them all yelp and skitter away. Fai laughed loudly.
“I thought I was ‘scaring the kids’?” he commented through giggles, putting Kurogane’s favourite Sake into the basket instead.
Kurogane grumbled and followed the crazy blonde, inwardly glad he’d managed to cheer him up a bit.
X o X o X
Luckily for them, the train wasn’t as crowded as usual, probably something to do with how late it was. Kurogane didn’t care, and he understandably preferred the trains empty; it eliminated the chance of their dinner getting stolen.
Kurogane was holding the bags after being annoyed by Fai’s whining of how his arms were getting tired and the plastic was pinching his skin and Kuro-woof wouldn’t get any for a while if he didn’t take the damn shopping off of him.
Ah well, at least Fai had given him a nice kiss in gratitude. Or praise. Or both.
They were stood by the door (as it seemed to be the only place that the windows hadn’t been tagged or scratched into opaqueness), and while Fai was staring at the towns shooting past, Kurogane was staring at Fai, nerves rising in his chest.
He swallowed thickly and coughed. Fai looked up at him quizzically. He felt the blush rise on his face and he began to panic slightly.
Ah hell.
“Marry me.” he blurted out.
X o X o X
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Fai’s eyes were wide, and his skin was pale, his expression one of shock.
“M-marry?” he asked after a while, his voice shaking and high.
“…Yeah” Kurogane confirmed, dread solidifying in his gut.
Fai swallowed, frowning slightly, looking back out of the window. Kurogane waited nervously for his answer, slightly regretting ever asking the question in the first place.
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