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TSUBASA: ADVENTchronicle

INTRODUCTION

It's the COMING of LOVE!

Although they're completely oblivious, they can't fight the love coming in from all directions! The Advent Chronicles deals with their love, insecurities, pain, happiness, and all the things in between!

1. Honesty KPOV

That look on his face was more honest. It was the face he had been avoiding around us. It was a face not brought upon by us. The smiles... he said that was for us, because he enjoyed the time he spent with us.

All that stupidity... I missed it. The nicknames... I missed them. I wanted the mage to be happy again. Looking at him, I wondered what he was hiding now.

In the middle of the night, I heard the warning bells. Some sort of fight was starting and I wanted a part in it.

But before I could get out the door, it flung open and the mage flew in, holding me back. I didn't know what he was thinking. The mage wasn't known to be hysterical like this at any given time.

"Let go! What's gotten into you? I have to go fight!"

Desperately his single crystal blue eye searched my face and he shook his head.

"You'd die and leave me... I need you!" he crushed his lips to mine and I forgot what I was doing. I forgot my name.

The mage was crying and laughing and the best he could come up with was, "Oops." How's that for honesty...

2. Sincerity FPOV

I wanted to scream but I smiled softly instead. Syaoran wouldn't stop fighting and neither would I. Still, it was infuriating to see the work of this invisible evil and not be able to do anything.

Sitting in my room, I quickly took to playing with some small magic. A twist of my finger here, a flick of the wrist and a whisper of a foreign tongue... tricks I would never forget. And yet... a price I would probably have to pay. One eye left...

There were eyes on me. I wondered how long I had failed to notice. Kuro-rin was watching so I might as well give him a show. He had always wanted to see what powers I was hiding. Only I knew my real power amongst these people.

Might as well show him the monster I am...

I collected the silver and blue energy in my hand. "So pretty..." I mused, letting it fall into my other hand.

He held out his hand... expectant and unafraid. I chuckled. "It burns." He didn't flinch or move his hand in the slightest.

"Yeah? And you bite. Let's see which is worse." Kuro-pon sincerely trusted me for some reason. I wasn't used to this feeling.

I chuckled. "You asked for it..." And i let go. It was only a small energy, but it was enough to char his skin very nicely.

"You held back." he frowned. I couldn't help but laugh. Who was I laughing at, him or me...? I wasn't sure.

"Yes. I am particularly fond of your body and if I didn't hold back, you wouldn't have one."

He didn't believe me, but I could have burned him alive, unprotected like that. Probably would have even if he did try to protect himself to the fullest of his ability. "Your sincerity is touching." Kuro-pii scoffed.

"Hmm. I was just thinking the same thing."

3. Brevity FPOV

Everything in life is so brief. Blink once and you could miss the most important second of your life. Remembering the most painful times of mine, I was glad to think that it was only brief.

Sadness, as well as happiness, ends. That's why we celebrate - to remember. Memories last much longer.

I will be able to remember many tears and many smiles - many friends and many places. All of them are precious placeholders in time for me.

You can't appreciate joy without knowing the pain of sorrow. You can't enjoy love until you know what it's like to live without any.

We both know the loss of love and the brevity of life - now I can love him. I wonder if he can see it in me...

4. Mother KPOV

They call him Fai-mommy. It's embarrassing the way they tack anything and everything to a name these days.

But it makes me think of my mother. His eyes are the same as hers, and a while back he would have given his life for us the same way she would have. Not now. I won't let him. Not yet.

He's not ready for the responsibility that comes with being a good mother...

5. Anger FPOV

He gets so mad at me... well, he gets so mad. I can only guess that it's me he's mad at.

I do antagonize him so. He'd have to notice me then... acknowledge me. Sometimes he looks so far away that I feel like I'm losing him.

He's one of the few people I couldn't stand to lose. Of the three I travel with, I'm closest to him. Why? I needed someone like him - someone I thought would hate me from the start... someone who could break me.

What I needed was his anger...

But instead, he changed me.

6. Thanks KPOV

Some things can't be done on your own. I lived my life, for the most part, depending on my own strength and ability. In the world I came from, that was enough. I didn't need anyone else to sustain me. If people needed me, I didn't see it. It was about taking care of yourself.

There was only one world and it revolved around her whim then. And I disobeyed her. Still, it never occurred to me that she could throw me out.

Now I'm in a place that's much bigger. Where there are a lot of different people from many different places. People that aren't like me. They need people. I didn't understand the concept. And there were people who needed ME.

He needed me.

I didn't understand what for. The guy had serious hidden strength, greater than my own. And I hated it, because I couldn't see what he could possibly need me for. If I had power like him...

But he was frail... suddenly I was protecting his life. He wouldn't fight for himself. He ran away from the fight. The mage clung to me... to see if I would save him.

To see if his life was worth saving...

His soul... his resolution... they were weak. And it had nothing to do with his strength.

"Thanks... for believing in me." he said, smiling. And I understood that he needed me. It made little sense, but I believed it and I would continue to save him as long as he thanked me.

Because I'd know he was still waiting... still wanting to be saved.

7. Smile FPOV

I smiled a lot to make up for the hole deep in my heart. But there were a lot of times I couldn't help but smile, regardless of what I felt on the inside.

It was better than being healed. Then, it was as if there had never been a wound there at all. And I had to convince myself of something I should have already known, or should have known. But I doubted myself, because I couldn't feel it.

If my brain really worked like everyone else's. Sometimes I wondered if my brain wasn't broken. It seemed like everyone else's brains were on the FM frequency, while I was on the AM. My logic wasn't the same.

With them, I smiled because I wanted to. That was the miracle that they were for me. I was happy. Truly happy.

And I hadn't been that in forever. Every smile was a treasure, every day was a gift. I was all about enjoying it. Every day, every smile... one at a time.

8. Promise KPOV

When he asked me for a favor, I was wary of his real meaning, his true intention. He had a way about twisting words around. Not very innocently either.

"Oh come on! Please?!" he pleaded like a child. But at least his eyes looked innocent enough. Unless he learned to manipulate that, too.

Even my impression of him was manipulatable!

"Damn it." I cursed under my breath. "Fine."

"A promise." That sounded too corny to be simple. "Make me a promise, Kuro-sama." I raised an eyebrow suspiciously. I wouldn't walk into this trap so easily unprepared.

That could mean anything, after all. "What kind of promise?"

"That you'll take what I say next seriously and you won't judge me too rashly when I say it. Can you? Will you? Please!?" It still sounded to simple for him. For me it would be difficult if it turned out to be something bad. No wonder he asked. But I still agreed.

"Good. Then here goes. Simple or complex version?" It was already too simple to be any good. So I decided if I picked the complex version it might make it easier to understand.

I grinned smugly. "Confuse me. Give me the complex version."

He laughed. "I thought you might say that. The less I say the more confusing it sounds, so... here goes. Remember your promise!" Like he needed to remind me. That was what started all of this in the first place.

"I love you."

I had to bite my tongue to keep my promise.

9. Love FPOV

Every day I learn new things. Each new world is an adventure. But the most I ever learned was in the dimensional witch's den.

Friendship, hope, price... I had to put my life on the line in a split second decision to get my way. I had to put myself aside for a second and intertwined my fate with theirs for the gift to run to other worlds.

Why? I needed it. But, there was another motive, hidden in that first second of arrival. Everything was so quick that it got lost and muddled. But...

Ever heard of love at first sight?

It exists, but don't listen to the stories. It's much different than that. It was more powerful and much more sudden. For that brief moment, I couldn't breathe and I wasn't calm on the inside, regardless of what I looked like.

He wasn't the type I imagined myself falling for. Kurogane was strong, angry and impatient. At first, I was certain he would hate me.

Lucky for me, he wasn't that smart. I'd get to stay with him a little longer - love him just a little longer.

10. Forever KPOV

If life is so brief, why do we concern ourselves with the concept of forever? People say it all the time... as if they'll ever get to see forever! It's impossible for any human to achieve.

So why?

Words like 'I'll love you forever' mean nothing. So why do we say them? Why do we long to hear them?

How come the words make my heart beat faster? If they came from anyone else, why wouldn't they mean the same thing? Am I really this pathetic to fall for such meaningless, untrue words? Do I hope for something impossible?

Yeah. I really am and I really do.

I would secretly go just as far to hear him say them to me, as long as he meant them. My heart would explode and soar the same.

And though I wouldn't admit it to anyone else, if it was just the two of us, I'd say it with just as much meaning.

Forever... however long that is, for us.

11. Grace KPOV

There was this perfect balance in everything he did. It was probably linked to the way he lived his life before. He was probably constantly testing himself to see what was too much and what wasn't enough and changing his life to put it back in balance when he tipped the scales.

In his well-tempered smile... in his soft, padding footsteps... in his musical laugh... everything seemed so perfect there. Everything was done with care, in an almost methodical way that was so natural to him, that it was difficult to notice him doing it unless you watched closely.

His beauty was something that shouldn't have been given to a man. It wasn't normal for a man to look that surreal and feminine. And so fragile... his magic was the only thing put in place to fix that balance, to help him fight back against his natural frailty. But that wouldn't help him much, now, would it?

Someone as out of balance as him NEEDED that stable life. He needed the routine stability to keep himself alive. Any surprises could mean the end of his life. He was praying for something to keep himself in good graces with the powers that be.

It was all he could do to make himself agile and graceful, to keep himself from falling over his own feet...



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