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Bah Humbug, Saith the Ninja (Kurogane/Fai)
Title: Bah Humbug, Saith the Ninja
Prompt: Christmas 2008 theme: Christmas is for lovers; Kurogane/Fai for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evercool
Series: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Character/Pairing: slight Kurogane/Fai; implied Syaoran/Sakura
Rating: G
Wordcount: 686 words
Excerpt: Traveling made it hard to keep track of time. It was one season in one place, a month in another, and it was no surprise that Christmas had sneaked up on them, because in the country before this one, it had been mid-summer.
Traveling made it hard to keep track of time. It was one season in one place, a month in another, and it was no surprise that Christmas had sneaked up on them, because in the country before this one, it had been mid-summer.
"I love Christmas," Fai trilled, and Kurogane grunted. He wasn't sure why the magician loved Christmas so much. Neither of them had had the holiday in the places where they had come from.
Sakura was bright-eyed as she agreed, and Mokona as well. Syaoran looked at Kurogane, worried. Kurogane sighed and ruffled the boy's hair.
"I'll help you find something when we go into town for work again," he told the boy, and Syaoran smiled, and maybe Kurogane smiled a little too, because it was good when the kid was happy. He wasn't happy enough. He focused his whole self on finding those feathers, until he was an empty shell with a purpose. He needed rest. Kurogane was devoted to his princess, but he had his own meditations. He'd be crazy otherwise.
The snow outside their little apartment was a foot deep and it wasn't very long before Fai suggested they go outdoors and make a snowman. When Kurogane refused, Fai pushed him out of the door, using a wiry strength that no one expected from the skinny guy, and so there was no help for it but to throw snowballs at him.
Kurogane won the snowball fight, but after they went back inside, Fai put a cold hand on Kurogane's neck, and they all laughed at his shock.
Kurogane grunted. But it was sort of funny.
*
Kurogane didn't mind the weather, really. They had large coats to keep them warm, even if Sakura sort of did look like a marshmallow all wrapped up. He imagined it was difficult, coming from a desert place.
The wind bit at his face as he and Syaoran walked to town, but the boy didn't complain. He never did. He just went out, with Sakura guiding him forward.
Kurogane had Tomoyo to guide him. Well, she'd thrown him out here on his own, basically, but he was headed home to her, to do his duty. And he, well, he sort of had the magician too, to remind him that they were traveling with children, to be calm, even if Fai was really too calm for most situations.
It was easy enough to promise a shopkeeper a morning's light work in exchange for two small gifts (and some candy for the manjuu, because it would complain otherwise). This was a little tourists' town, bustling with business for the Christmas season, apparently, and the sort of physical labor they generally did left plenty of space to think around the edges.
Syaoran hummed the Christmas carols that played on the radio that the shopkeeper left out, hymns to a strange god, and they worked.
*
When they got back, Fai had managed to procure a small evergreen from somewhere, and he and Sakura were decorating it with beads and strings of popcorn. Fai tried to get him with something called "mistletoe," but from the way he and Sakura were giggling, it seemed like a bad idea. For the purpose of distraction, he took out the small box he'd gotten from the shopkeeper and thrust it into the magician's hands.
"You got me a present, really?" Fai squealed like it was a big deal. Which it wasn't, because everyone gave each other presents around here.
When Syaoran was presenting his gift to Sakura, Kurogane took the mistletoe from Fai and tucked it under his coat. The manjuu jumped up on his shoulder and tried to kiss him, but he gave it the candy instead.
Sakura's eyes lit up when she opened her box, and Mokona and Fai were thrilled by their presents as well, so maybe this Christmas wasn't such a bad idea, after all. As long as it kept his group quiet.
"Thank you, Kuro-papa~!" Fai said cheerfully into Kurogane's ear, and in the spirit of Christmas, Kurogane did not actually hit him.
Prompt: Christmas 2008 theme: Christmas is for lovers; Kurogane/Fai for
evercoolSeries: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Character/Pairing: slight Kurogane/Fai; implied Syaoran/Sakura
Rating: G
Wordcount: 686 words
Excerpt: Traveling made it hard to keep track of time. It was one season in one place, a month in another, and it was no surprise that Christmas had sneaked up on them, because in the country before this one, it had been mid-summer.
Traveling made it hard to keep track of time. It was one season in one place, a month in another, and it was no surprise that Christmas had sneaked up on them, because in the country before this one, it had been mid-summer.
"I love Christmas," Fai trilled, and Kurogane grunted. He wasn't sure why the magician loved Christmas so much. Neither of them had had the holiday in the places where they had come from.
Sakura was bright-eyed as she agreed, and Mokona as well. Syaoran looked at Kurogane, worried. Kurogane sighed and ruffled the boy's hair.
"I'll help you find something when we go into town for work again," he told the boy, and Syaoran smiled, and maybe Kurogane smiled a little too, because it was good when the kid was happy. He wasn't happy enough. He focused his whole self on finding those feathers, until he was an empty shell with a purpose. He needed rest. Kurogane was devoted to his princess, but he had his own meditations. He'd be crazy otherwise.
The snow outside their little apartment was a foot deep and it wasn't very long before Fai suggested they go outdoors and make a snowman. When Kurogane refused, Fai pushed him out of the door, using a wiry strength that no one expected from the skinny guy, and so there was no help for it but to throw snowballs at him.
Kurogane won the snowball fight, but after they went back inside, Fai put a cold hand on Kurogane's neck, and they all laughed at his shock.
Kurogane grunted. But it was sort of funny.
*
Kurogane didn't mind the weather, really. They had large coats to keep them warm, even if Sakura sort of did look like a marshmallow all wrapped up. He imagined it was difficult, coming from a desert place.
The wind bit at his face as he and Syaoran walked to town, but the boy didn't complain. He never did. He just went out, with Sakura guiding him forward.
Kurogane had Tomoyo to guide him. Well, she'd thrown him out here on his own, basically, but he was headed home to her, to do his duty. And he, well, he sort of had the magician too, to remind him that they were traveling with children, to be calm, even if Fai was really too calm for most situations.
It was easy enough to promise a shopkeeper a morning's light work in exchange for two small gifts (and some candy for the manjuu, because it would complain otherwise). This was a little tourists' town, bustling with business for the Christmas season, apparently, and the sort of physical labor they generally did left plenty of space to think around the edges.
Syaoran hummed the Christmas carols that played on the radio that the shopkeeper left out, hymns to a strange god, and they worked.
*
When they got back, Fai had managed to procure a small evergreen from somewhere, and he and Sakura were decorating it with beads and strings of popcorn. Fai tried to get him with something called "mistletoe," but from the way he and Sakura were giggling, it seemed like a bad idea. For the purpose of distraction, he took out the small box he'd gotten from the shopkeeper and thrust it into the magician's hands.
"You got me a present, really?" Fai squealed like it was a big deal. Which it wasn't, because everyone gave each other presents around here.
When Syaoran was presenting his gift to Sakura, Kurogane took the mistletoe from Fai and tucked it under his coat. The manjuu jumped up on his shoulder and tried to kiss him, but he gave it the candy instead.
Sakura's eyes lit up when she opened her box, and Mokona and Fai were thrilled by their presents as well, so maybe this Christmas wasn't such a bad idea, after all. As long as it kept his group quiet.
"Thank you, Kuro-papa~!" Fai said cheerfully into Kurogane's ear, and in the spirit of Christmas, Kurogane did not actually hit him.
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