The Things We Do Not Say - Part 5
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redfiona99Author: Red Fiona
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, their situation or the worlds they travel in, CLAMP do. No money is being made from this piece of fiction.
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.
Characters: Fai and Kurogane, with mention of Sakura and Sayoran as well as others.
Rating: PG to PG-12, nothing worse than what's in the manga.
Content: Romance, drama and Fai/Kurogane.
Spoilers: Up volume 22
Previous chapters: Chapter 1 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/525492.html
Chapter 2 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/538051.html
Chapter 3 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/592814.html
Chapter 4 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/604209.html
Summary: Kurogane's way has always been solve the problem first, be angry later. He accepts the price for this.
There was a moment where Kurogane wanted to kill Fai. It wasn’t mercy that stayed his hand, but the knowledge that living on despite killing Sakura would hurt Fai more than a swift sword stroke ever could. There are lots of things he doesn't think about in that moment, but knows deep down instead. First amongst them is that he wasn't this vindictive before, he would have given the man a quick death instead. He's sure that this isn't what Tomoyo had wanted him to learn, but he's so angry at this betrayal.
Then Sakura spoke, like she’d planned all of this, which would explain why she’d been so withdrawn recently. It was the only thing Kurogane understood about what was going on. He didn’t know why Sakura had planned this, or why Fai had tried to kill her.
He also knew that Fai had no part of Sakura’s plan; that much was plain from both their faces. Kurogane doubted that Fai would even have recognised Sakura’s words without her touch; he was so far gone in his grief and shame.
Then came the Chess Masters’s explanation, if it could be called that, with help from the witch, which really couldn’t be called that, although she seemed to be the only one making any sense at this point. The witch was also the only one who understood how badly he wanted Sakura to be here so he could knock some sense into her.
They had had the time to decide whether to go to Celes, not that there was any choice with the Princess in danger, not for any of them, but the rest of it had happened so quickly. Ashura-o revealing and unravelling Fai’s past, which must have done with magic, because all of them saw it, as though it was happening in front of them at that moment.
Kurogane would be angry later, but now he had to deal with this.
Ashura-o was going to kill them all, and Fai wasn’t stopping him because of, well, whatever stupidity of Fai was stuck on, because the past was the past and couldn’t be changed, so Kurogane had to take matters into his own hands.
Kurogane was sure that if Fai could distract Ashura-o, he could take out Ashura-o, but Fai didn’t seem to want to let him kill Ashura-o. If Fai couldn’t do it, Kurogane couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t let Kurogane do it. Ashura-o wanted to die, appeared to want it more desperately than Fai ever had.
It was over-confidence on Ashura-o’s part that enabled Kurogane to succeed, because Ashura-o had thought him too injured to be able to do anything more. It was just the distraction that Kurogane needed to do the job.
That was only the start of their problems.
Kurogane barely heard the voice in his ear telling him how to get them out of there. It would be painful but if he did it quickly he should be able to hang on for long enough to get to the next world before he passed out from pain and bloodloss. He was not going to lose Fai.
He’d known plenty, more realistically more than two and less than ten, soldiers who’d been able to fight perfectly well without their non-sword arm.
Kurogane was glad that it was only that arm that he would have to sacrifice, cutting would have been much slower with the other, and then he would have to re-train for longer. His original training had covered fighting with your non-dominant hand, no good training wouldn’t, but it was still noticeably weaker.
He would still have given either for this to work.
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Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, their situation or the worlds they travel in, CLAMP do. No money is being made from this piece of fiction.
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.
Characters: Fai and Kurogane, with mention of Sakura and Sayoran as well as others.
Rating: PG to PG-12, nothing worse than what's in the manga.
Content: Romance, drama and Fai/Kurogane.
Spoilers: Up volume 22
Previous chapters: Chapter 1 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/525492.html
Chapter 2 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/538051.html
Chapter 3 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/592814.html
Chapter 4 - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/604209.html
Summary: Kurogane's way has always been solve the problem first, be angry later. He accepts the price for this.
There was a moment where Kurogane wanted to kill Fai. It wasn’t mercy that stayed his hand, but the knowledge that living on despite killing Sakura would hurt Fai more than a swift sword stroke ever could. There are lots of things he doesn't think about in that moment, but knows deep down instead. First amongst them is that he wasn't this vindictive before, he would have given the man a quick death instead. He's sure that this isn't what Tomoyo had wanted him to learn, but he's so angry at this betrayal.
Then Sakura spoke, like she’d planned all of this, which would explain why she’d been so withdrawn recently. It was the only thing Kurogane understood about what was going on. He didn’t know why Sakura had planned this, or why Fai had tried to kill her.
He also knew that Fai had no part of Sakura’s plan; that much was plain from both their faces. Kurogane doubted that Fai would even have recognised Sakura’s words without her touch; he was so far gone in his grief and shame.
Then came the Chess Masters’s explanation, if it could be called that, with help from the witch, which really couldn’t be called that, although she seemed to be the only one making any sense at this point. The witch was also the only one who understood how badly he wanted Sakura to be here so he could knock some sense into her.
They had had the time to decide whether to go to Celes, not that there was any choice with the Princess in danger, not for any of them, but the rest of it had happened so quickly. Ashura-o revealing and unravelling Fai’s past, which must have done with magic, because all of them saw it, as though it was happening in front of them at that moment.
Kurogane would be angry later, but now he had to deal with this.
Ashura-o was going to kill them all, and Fai wasn’t stopping him because of, well, whatever stupidity of Fai was stuck on, because the past was the past and couldn’t be changed, so Kurogane had to take matters into his own hands.
Kurogane was sure that if Fai could distract Ashura-o, he could take out Ashura-o, but Fai didn’t seem to want to let him kill Ashura-o. If Fai couldn’t do it, Kurogane couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t let Kurogane do it. Ashura-o wanted to die, appeared to want it more desperately than Fai ever had.
It was over-confidence on Ashura-o’s part that enabled Kurogane to succeed, because Ashura-o had thought him too injured to be able to do anything more. It was just the distraction that Kurogane needed to do the job.
That was only the start of their problems.
Kurogane barely heard the voice in his ear telling him how to get them out of there. It would be painful but if he did it quickly he should be able to hang on for long enough to get to the next world before he passed out from pain and bloodloss. He was not going to lose Fai.
He’d known plenty, more realistically more than two and less than ten, soldiers who’d been able to fight perfectly well without their non-sword arm.
Kurogane was glad that it was only that arm that he would have to sacrifice, cutting would have been much slower with the other, and then he would have to re-train for longer. His original training had covered fighting with your non-dominant hand, no good training wouldn’t, but it was still noticeably weaker.
He would still have given either for this to work.
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