OH MY GOD IT'S OVER~
Stolen Chapter 12 - The Sun
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Stolen
Chapter 12- The Sun
The battle’s almost won; we’re only several miles from the Sun.
Dinner was eater in silence. The chicken was burnt and the potatoes were dry, but nobody felt the need to speak. Sakura knew she had filled two plates too many, but she still hoped that some miracle would mean both servings would be consumed. Across the table, Yuui poked the potatoes around on his plate, still feeling too nauseous to actually put them into his hungry mouth. Nobody would coax him into eating; none of them felt the real need to.
They were mourning someone they hadn’t known for two days, and they were also mourning the man who had spent weeks, months searching endlessly for him, and the two adults present mourned the twin waiting in another world.
Words weren’t necessary.
He excused himself from the table and took one of the untouched plates to the other Kurogane, who had still not moved from his spot. Yuui nudged and prodded the taller man until the dinner was begrudgingly accepted and eaten.
Yuui sat on the edge of the bed, not wanting to go back into the other room just yet for some reason. It felt like… like something inside was making him stay in the room with them… with Fai.
He turned his head to look at the blonde scientist. Like twins, they both looked exactly the same, though Yuui could tell that he himself was much older. He reached forward absently to brush Fai’s fringe from his forehead, the palm of his hand resting there. The skin was still a little warm.
A sharp zap made him jerk his hand away and hiss and then left him to stare bewilderedly between his palm and the blonde.
“Just static.” he mumbled in reply when Kurogane asked what the sound was for. When Kurogane had finished his dinner and Yuui no longer had a reason to stay in the room, he stood and swayed slightly - probably just exhaustion - and took the plate to be washed up.
X o X o X
Yuui sat in the dark on a windowsill, nibbling his thumb pensively and staring blankly out across Celes. The so-called infinite blizzard had become finite and finally passed, and for the first time in his life, Yuui could see the landscape in all its glory. He wasn’t looking at it though. He was wracking his overtired brain for answers.
He knew what the static had really been, but it was very peculiar and not to mention extremely unlikely for magic to behave in such a way, even magic as strong as his was. Even if it was what he suspected, there was no reason for it to be behaving in such a way, other than the sudden overuse of it after what he guessed had been years without it.
The door creaked open and then closed behind him, and the heavy footsteps his roommate created were quiet and cushioned against the loud humming of his thoughts.
“You should sleep.”
Yuui rubbed his head and answered truthfully, no longer in seeing the point in lying to the ninja.
“Too much… stuff going on,” he mumbled, his aching eyelids descending over his tired, unfocused eyes, “couldn’t sleep if I tried.”
“Have you tried?”
When Yuui didn’t answer, Kurogane tried to shift him in a bedwards direction and wasn’t too surprised that the mage only put up one minute and eight seconds’ resistance.
“Your wounds are gone.” he remarked, grabbing Yuui’s chin and lifting it gently to inspect the pale neck, where two thin red lines had been earlier. A look down at the blonde’s arms said the same story; all the cuts had healed. Even the one he’d gained while washing the dishes after dinner.
He ran a tanned hand over Yuui’s palms. Not a trace of injury.
“Mmm…” Yuui hummed, not really fully awake anymore, “S’my magic, it heals…”
Both blue eyes snapped open and the two men stared at each other in sudden realisation.
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“So, what are you doing?” one of the Kuroganes asked warily.
Yuui rubbed his hands together, brows knitted, “I’m gonna fill Fai with my magic; it should work like a defibrillator…” he elaborated a little at the blank stares he got in return, “Magic heals the vessel it resides in, and because Fai and I share a soul, the magic won’t realise he’s a different person and it should restart his heart enough for it to keep itself going and then the antidote can actually travel through the bloodstream and heal him. Like jump-starting a Dragonfly.”
“Right…” they both replied unsurely.
Yuui sighed, “I’m gonna zap his heart so that it’ll work again,” he summarised, sitting over a still very comatose Fai and settling his palms over the other’s cold temples. He paused and, after instructing the other two to keep their distance, started slowly feeding his magic into Fai, watching and feeling for any rejection. Apart from the initial resistance, his magic was fooled and started flowing freely into the other body and Yuui had to work hard to keep concentration; too much at once could start Fai’s heart too strong and just give him a heart attack.
He breathed heavily and sweat gathered at the base of his neck at the strain of holding his magic back. It really was too strong; he would need to pull away soon. Not until-
There!
Yuui gasped a laugh as he felt it, weak but there. A beat.
One, Two. Ba-bump.
He paused, and his gut fell as the beats stopped. He removed his hands, rubbed them together, and tried again, this time giving short bursts of life into the other man, trying to will his heart into beating on its own.
Ba-bump… Ba-bump… Ba-bump…
Yuui panted and laughed happily, stopping the magic flow but still feeling the other’s heartbeat grow stronger every second.
“I did it” he whispered, voice laced with exhaustion, and slumped forward. Both Kuroganes darted forward and caught him, the ninja lifting him away and holding him close. He was fast asleep; the day’s events finally taking their toll on him. The other was at Fai’s side, holding the back of his hand to the blonde’s mouth.
Hot breath tickled his skin and he breathed the biggest sigh of relief he could ever remember making, before checking the weak heartbeat with two fingers.
The pale skin was warming up. Fai would make it. He grinned elatedly and suddenly felt like laughing and dancing at the same time. The other Kurogane left the room, presumably to put Yuui to bed, and he kissed Fai’s forehead and then the knuckles of his right hand, holding it tightly, feeling the skin warm up as life returned to his body.
It didn’t take long for the blue eyes to flutter open, clear and so full of life that the PE teacher didn’t ponder the speed of his recovery even for a second as he kissed the lips he loved so much, still gripping Fai’s right hand in his left and a handful of blonde locks in his right, stroking knuckles and scalp at the same time.
Fai laughed breathlessly as they parted, and Kurogane’s larger-than-life grin grew.
“Hey,” he murmured.
“Hello,” Fai agreed.
THE END
I’m not going into one of those OMG THANKS FOR READING I LOVE YOU speeches, so basically:
It’s over, I hope you liked reading, and no, I’m not writing an epilogue.
=D
Lots of Love,
Dao Lian / Yuui-Nyanko
PS: There is a thank you, actually. This is the first multichapter fanfiction I've ever finished, so thank you all for pushing me hard enough to actually finish it XD