Disclaimer: Clamp owns everything, also our souls.

Warning: mentions of rape, and also blood

Pairing: implied KuroFay

Also a quick note, as pointed out by flying mirror, there was some weird parts in chapter 2, and after replying of what I thought was wrong, I found out that my horisontal lines hadn't transfered from word. I have fixed all the chapters and put in lines between parts, and I am sorry for anyone that might have gotten confused by it ^.^ and thanks a lot to flying mirror!

Part 4

The ninja gives a growl as they hit the ground again, and for the first time he is happy to see them in the lady's chamber again, as he had feared that without the mage, they would be taken out of this loop, whatever It was. Soon the guards comes in, and then the Lady herself comes to stop the guards, but the next that happens, is something new, as Mokona noticed it first.

"Kurogane… Syaoran… they are twins again." They look down at the small forms by her feet, and it was true. One boy at each side. "Does that mean that one of them is…"

One of the boys runs over to them, and motions for Kurogane to bend down. Then, as he bends down, and before he can do more, the grinning boy pulls at his face, making a big smile. "Kuro-tango!"

Mokona cheers, and jumps over to the smaller mage, that snuggles it content. While everyone in the circle seemed to lose their memories at each reset. He, that had become aware of the circle itself, could still remember what had happened, as the Lady had in the end.

Kurogane fights a need to hit the idiot on the head over the scare he had given him, but decides against it, as he didn't want the guards to toss him out.

"It looks like Yuui likes you a lot." Elda giggles, as she comes over with Fay, which were looking nervous at the people his twin liked.

"Fay! This is Kuro-tama! The one Yuui told you a lot about!" Yuui cheers, as he keeps pulling at Kurogane's face, and the nervous Fay comes over to try too and soon both boys are giggling, as they pull at his face. "And that over there is Mokona, and that is Syaoran! They are all really nice and will play with us!"

"Are you the ones that Yuui went on adventures with in his dreams?" Fay asks amazed, and a look from the other twin told them it was his cover story, he said what he wanted.

"Yeah, we have gone on a lot of fun adventures." Syaoran laughs, as he smiles to the amazed boy. "I bet we can take you along the next time!"

Fay skips excited, before he hugs his brother happy, and the two of them runs around to play a little with Mokona, as the rest slowly progressed as it always did, just that they were twins instead of just Fay. They had no idea what was going on, but they felt like someone would explain it when it was all over.

Whatever curse had been put on this world, it was one of the cruelest Kurogane had ever seen.

"It is so weird to see Fay so small." Mokona giggles, as the small boy climbed up on Kurogane's lap after he had made sure his brother were asleep and he had snuck off to them. "Did you go all the way back to the start and get born again?"

"I bet I did, but I don't remember anything else than from a few days before you came after now." He laughs, as he keeps climbing all the way to Kurogane's shoulders, where he looks quite proud of himself. "I got a hint from my mother before she died. She said that as long as I and Fay were together this time, we might be able to stop the bad ending."

"A hint? How?" Kurogane asks, as he grabs the feet from kicking his shoulders.

"She said she knew who I were all the time. The dreams were my memories, so I have been caught up in this circle as well, but somehow I just remember the one where King Ashura saved me. It seems my mother had been the one who asked him to come, and just save one of us from this circle if he could."

"But, did she know why this is happening?" Syaoran asks, as he had been reading over Fay's notebook again.

"I don't think she knows… or she was unable to tell me." Fay yawns, as he nuzzles his face down on top of Kurogane's head, making a little nest, as it felt safe to be so small on top of Kurogane. "But as long as we save father, and me and Fay never leave mother's side, it should all be a perfect ending, and we can leave this sad place."

"But, what will happen when we break the circle?" Mokona stammers. "Where will everyone here go?"

"I don't know… most probably, everyone here are just souls cursed to repeat everything, like ghosts haunting without being able to stop."

"But, does that mean Fay Is a ghost too?" Mokona stammers, as it jumps on top of Kurogane as well. "Since Fay was originally from this circle as well?"

The younger looking mage looks sad down, as he gives a weak smile. "I don't know at all, for the first time in my life, I have no answers." Kurogane pats him hard on the head. "Ow! Kuro-tama is too strong!"

"We will find out as we go! All we know is that you are real, and not a ghost, so maybe, no one else here is either." Kurogane complains, before he pulls him down, and slumps the kid over his arm instead, Fay pouting as he sat down on his lap again. "And stop acting like a cat."

Fay smirks, as he lets out a mew, and he is about to try to climb again, when the door opens, and the other twin comes walking in, yawning big. Without a word, he makes out his brother in the room, and as quick as his little feet can take him, he makes a line for him. Then, before Kurogane can say anything, the second twin also makes a nest in his lap, falling asleep again. "Kuro-sama is so lucky! Having twins love him and everything!"

"Don't make me sound like some sort of old pervert." He groans, as he shifts a little to allow at least the actual kid to lie comfortable, before Syaoran comes over with a blanket to put over them. "Just rest a little, me and the kid will try to find any clues to this through the book."

"But Yuui isn't tired…" The mage complains, but his smaller body betrays him, and he soon snuggles content against his brother, listening to the soft heartbeats matching his own, all while the safe feeling of being protected emitted strongly from Kurogane. Thinking both of them had fallen asleep, he finds himself brushing both of them on the head, thinking about how cute they could look when they weren't awake.

"Fay-san's mother said that to end this, we needed to solve the mystery. I can guess the mystery is linked to the assassination of the prince, and then the suicide of the Lady?" Syaoran whispers, keeping his voice low, as he didn't want to wake the twins, or Mokona, that had become their sleeping plush now.

"Yeah. Until now, we thought that her suicide linked directly to the death of her husband, but it is as we thought. She was too strong to leave her children alone." Kurogane picks up his sake cup, still brushing the mage's hair gently. "So, something so horrible happened in those few hours, which made her unable to go on."

"And we can assume, that the time Fay-san remember his mother not dying before both he and his brother was in the pit, something kept that from happening." Syaoran looks through the notebook, as he reads over all the details of it again. "The difference seems to have been that they never left her side. Feeling like she needed them, they would spend all hours with her and even sleep with her to ease her pain."

"So, the emperor taking them away was the last chance for the final out."

Syaoran looks confused at first, before he nods with a weak smile. He had a feeling both of them had slowly come to the same realization. Sadly, it meant that Fay's mother had gone through something unspeakable, just after someone had assassinated her husband to get to her. Then in some timelines, even getting rid of her children for it.

"Tomorrow we go with the army again, and make sure we take the assassin alive. Then, with the proof, we return here, and if the mage never leaves his mother's side, a repeat of that timeline will buy us enough time to make sure the painful outcome don't follow." A happy mewl from the small mage, as he snuggles into Kurogane's pats. "Maybe… just maybe… there is a happy end to all this."

"Yuui and Fay has guard duty?" The confused boy asks, as he looks from his twin to his cool older friends, which were getting ready to travel with his father. "Isn't it just big boys that does that?"

"Usually, but this is something only the two of you, and Mokona can do." Syaoran explains, as he hands Fay the cheering Mokona. "While we are away, you two have to do something for us, it is the most important job you will ever have!"

Awe in Fay's face now, as he nods, feeling like the weight of the world was going being put on his shoulders. "Fay and Yuui can do it! And Moko-tan!"

"Good, I knew we could trust you." Syaoran chuckles, and pats him on the head. "Never leave your mother's side. The three of you have to be with her no matter what. If she tells you to go away, it is ok to throw a tantrum and cry a little, ok?"

"Are we going to protect mommy?" Fay asks confused, as he didn't know there was anything bad they needed to be afraid of.

"Yes, protect her from all harm until we and your father comes back, ok?" Kurogane looks stern at the boy, who looks as stern back. He would do anything for his mother! Even if he had to throw tantrums like a little boy! "Good boy."

Fay blushes happy, as Kurogane pats him on the head, then he takes a hold of Yuui's hand, and they nod determined to each other. They would not fail! Not this time. Even if they were the cursed twins, just this once, they wanted to break the curse, and bring happiness to those they loved.

"You want to sleep in my bed?" Lady Elda looks confused, as her sons had been quite cuddly after their father and new friends left. "I thought only babies did that?" She looks accusing at Fay, who pouts as he starts fuming, not liking how his past tantrums were used against him.

"O… one of the ladies told scary stories…" Yuui hiccups, as he starts faking tears. Their mother looking horrified as he starts crying. "She said that if small twins go around at night alone, a scary thing called a curse will get them!"

Elda looks worried at her sons, as both of them were crying now, and as she didn't have the heart to tell them that the lady had probably meant it another way, she pulls both her sons into the bed. "It is ok, you can sleep here with me, and I will protect you from all curses."

Yuui gives a pleased grin to Fay, who were amazed over his brother's skills. Elda gives a smile, as she wraps her arms gently around both boys, which nuzzled against her. "You two are growing so fast, I don't think we will all fit in this bed in a year."

"Ah! Fay isn't going to get bigger then!" Fay stammers, as he were horrified over the thought of not being small enough for his mother to cuddle him. "Fay and Yuui will be small and cute forever!"

"Oh? Just for mommy?" She giggles, as she brushes his cheek.

"Yeah! Because Fay is amazing like that!" He cheers, and beams with pride as Yuui hugs unto him too. He loved his mother and Yuui over everything in the world! After that came his daddy, but he felt like he would love him more if he was home more as well! Maybe he should tell his daddy the next time he came home? That if he didn't come home more, he would decide to love Mokona more than him? Since Mokona was home with them. "Fay is the best in the world…" He drifts slowly off, and soon falls safely asleep, hugging unto Mokona, as Yuui hugs unto his right side, and his mother hugged unto both of them.

The night passed peacefully, and in the morning hours, the seer comes with the news about the assassination in the same way it had been delivered the last time. The second prince had survived, but this time, they were interrogating the assassin, as the travelers had taken him alive.

"Your husband has told you to keep yourself and the princes' safe, and they will return as quickly as they can." The seer bows to her, before he walks to inform the emperor of the news so they could await future actions.

"Why do we have to keep safe mommy?" Fay stammers, as he and Yuui clutches to the hem of her robe. "Did something bad happen?"

"Someone did something bad, but your daddy and his new friends stopped him. So we just have to wait for them to come back home again later today." She explains, and the twins nods understanding. "How about you two go and get some breakfast? Mommy will come after soon."

"No! Yuui and Fay is protecting mommy!" Yuui yells, as he hugs harder unto her. "We aren't leaving mommy's side!"

She giggles before she nuzzles them both. "You are such nice boys. Ok then, just let me get my shoes, and we can go together to eat?" They nod eagerly, as they felt like they had just won. Their daddy would be so proud of them when he came home!

Soon they are on their way to eat, the happy boys running around chasing Mokona, as they didn't care about any of the court that were staring at them, whispering between themselves about the misfortunes that were sure to follow twins.

Everything seemed to be nothing but peaceful for them, until they were on their way back to the room, and as they were skipping hand in hand behind their mother, someone suddenly grab of both them and Mokona. "Ah! Let us go!" Yuui cries, as he tries to kick the guard away, but it is too late, as they are tossed into one of the servant rooms, that is quickly sealed up. "Mommy! Mommy!"

"Fay! Yuui!" They can hear their mother yell, as she was pulled away. "Let me go!"

"Mommy!" Fay cries terrified, as they were hitting terrified on the door, soon only hearing distant screams from their mother. Mokona starts jumping hard at the door too, but it wouldn't budge, as the emperor's personal guards were of the strongest magic users in the country. Fay stops hitting, and tries to use a magic spell he had learned on the door, but it just flies off, hitting the wall behind them. He didn't know enough spells! Everyone said he and Yuui had some of the strongest magic, but they were too small to learn it yet! Some people had even said that no one wanted to teach them before the emperor was dead, so they wouldn't become more powerful than him. "Mommy…"

"Fay." Yuui takes a gentle hold of his twin's hand, and he feels their bond become stronger. The problem with being born as twins, was that even if both of them would one day individual have more powers than the current emperor, they as children had only half of it each. However, together they had enough powers, and even if Fay was too young to ever have been taught magic, Yuui had an extended lifetime of knowledge. "Let us go and save mommy, just this one time… let us make a happy end."

Fay takes a hard hold of his twin's hand, as he nods through his tears, and he watches amazed, as Yuui holds his fingers up, and the seals on the door melts away.

"Ah! The door is open now!" Mokona cheers, as it opens the door before them eagerly. "Let us go!"

The three of them runs down the hallway and towards the place where they could hear their mother scream, and even if some of the guards tried to stop them, Yuui easily smashed them all away with their powers combined. "Fay… no matter what, don't let go of Yuui's hand." Fay nods eagerly, as they come to the door to their mother's room, and Yuui sends off another magic attack, breaking the door into splinters, before sending it at the man trying to hurt their mother.

The emperor gives a scream in pain as one of the splinters hit his eye, and he stumbles back and off the bed. "Mommy!" The twins runs over to their shaking mother, who quickly got her torn robe back on, before she hugs unto her sons.

"You little pests! I thought no one were allowed to teach you magic!?" He yells in pain, as he pulls the splinter right out, and sends it hard towards the sobbing Fay, but Yuui reacts quick, and uses a spell to break it. "Cursed twins! I will…"

He sends off a powerful attack again, and Yuui tries his best to remember all the spells he knew he could use and that would be strongest. Some of his memories were hazy after he had become small again, but he would still do his best. All those years with King Ashura and all those spells that the King had let him learn. He rather wanted to think that it might have been for something like this.

The Lady hugs hard unto her sons, as the magic around them were going haywire, but as the room seemed to start falling apart, a shield appears around them, as Yuui was doing his best. If Kurogane and Syaoran had done what they had to do, he would do what he had to as well.

One last attack from both sides and as the energy hit in the middle of the room, the entire room seemed to blow up, and a giant shield appearing around them as their mother pulled them to her chest, protecting them from all harm.

The smoke soon settles, and Yuui looks slowly up, hoping that the attack had hit the emperor harder than them. Nevertheless, he looks mortified, as the emperor were still standing, laughing insanely as he were covered in wounds. "I am the emperor of Valeria! I am not about to be defeated by some cursed twins! You were just born twins because you should have been mine! If I was your father… everything would have been ok…"

Elda hugs her sons closer, as he starts coming towards them with a sword made of ice. She had always known he had resented his brother for taking her away, but she had never thought it had been this bad. He had always seemed so silent and calm! To think that he had planned an assassination of his own brother in silence, and then thought she would be his if she became a widow.

"In one reality… I know it has to be us… For that one chance… I'll keep on going…" He staggers slowly towards them, tears in his eyes, as he was muttering things only Yuui and Mokona understood. "I loved you from the moment you smiled to me… you… saw me as a person, not the emperor. But then… you saw him, and you never smiled like that to me again."

"And you thought I would love you If you killed my husband?! Without Hideki, I would rather never love a man again!" She yells, as she tries to cover her son's ears, as she didn't want them to listen to this.

"Those twins… ever since you gave birth to them… your eyes has been on only them and him! They will suffer for eternity! My brother will meet his end… you will be my wife, and your cursed twins will lie at the bottom of the sinners' pit!" He lashes out with his sword, and as Fay were clutching screaming to his mother, Yuui is unable to grab his hand in time, the sword coming towards them quickly.

However, the sword never reaches them, as the sword and the arm holding it falls hard to the floor. Yuui looks sobbing up at his savior. "K… Kuro…"

"Hey, I thought a part of the plan was to keep alive." Kurogane growls, as he looks down at the shaking twins, mother and white bun. "You owe me for this mage."

"I'll make you bigger dinners for weeks." Yuui hiccups, as he looks up at the guards that had arrived. It seemed they had fought their way through the Emperor's own guards, but had gotten help from the Lady's guards as well. After all, the emperor had made sure the Lady had the best guards, so she would be safe at all times.

The mage looks worried at Kurogane's arm, as it seemed like he might have pushed it too hard again. It had been the same with the battle against Fei Wong Reed. He had been so worried for Syaoran that he had almost broken his mechanical arm apart.

"Brother! I am taking over the throne from this moment on." Hideki yells, as he holds his sword towards the emperor's neck, as he were screaming insanely now, from the loss of an arm, and of his true love. "The assassin gave away your plot, and your guards gave it away by raising their hands towards us. You will be imprisoned in the tower, for the sin of trying to kill your brother."

"Ah! I will reset it again… it has to be reset again!" He screams, as he tries to use his magic, but Yuui grabs one of the splinters, and before the spell could hit his mother, he sends it to take the emperor's second eye as well. One last desperate scream, before he collapses to the floor, and soon the guards take him away to a place where he would suffer for his sins.

Fay were screaming terrified now, his mother hugging him hard as she was trying to calm him down again, and soon Hideki comes over as well, hugging his son and wife gently as he hadn't thought he would get there in time. They had tried to send through more messages after they found out who the mastermind was, but the seer had been blocked off from hearing it. Instead, the emperor had intercepted it, and he might have acted in desperation.

Yuui starts sneaking out of the hug, as he could see Mokona's earring glow. Now they would have to see if they had been able to break the circle. Even if none of this was the truth, even if it was just dreams. It had been at least one good dream.

As he had gotten over to his companions, Mokona lights up, and as the light starts enclosing them, the sobbing Fay comes running towards them, but his mother stops him, smiling to the mage as she waves to them. "Thank you Yuui, I knew you could do it. If anyone could break his curse, it had to be you."

He nods, as he wanted to reach for her, and pull his entire family with him. However, he couldn't do that. It just didn't feel like it was something he had the right to do. The light finally close around them, and he feels his body change back to his current age. Kurogane holds unto him, being sure to hold him from collapsing, as he seemed a little spent.

Slowly the walls around them grows back, as the parts that had frozen and broken had returned. Warmth returned to their travel, and they understood that they had gotten out of the eternal loop.

Light breaks through to them, and they arrive at their new destination, Fay looking shocked into identical blue eyes, as they once more entered the kingdom of Valeria, but this time, it wasn't in the past, or inside the cursed circle. This was Valeria now, as affected by their actions in that one reality.

"Welcome home, Yuui." A warm smile on the other twin's face, as he hugs the mage hard. The shocked mage hugging back, as he were unable to understand what was going on. Had they changed the past? If so, shouldn't he be fading as well then, and would his past be rewritten? However, he still had all the memories from being taken away by King Ashura! "Don't worry, your timeline wasn't changed. You are still from another reality than this one, so I am not your Fay, but by entering the timeline again, you are my Yuui."

"I don't understand any of this." Kurogane growls, as he were trying to keep a stern face, it was enough crying from the kid and white bun right now.

"Then allow me to explain it all." They turn towards the throne, where the former Lady, and now Queen, sat. "My brother in law had great powers, but he couldn't use them as he should, since he was lazy. So, when his plan on getting me back failed, and I in one moment of weakness ended my own life, my sin, and his lack of control, sparked one wish: What if there was one chance and possibility of a happy end?" Fay walks over to his mother, and as she smiles to him, he hugs her hard. "His powers made millions of different realities, all of them working as one world. Each time the world was empty and no person was left alive, it would crumble and start the next one. You Yuui, are from one of the collapsing worlds, but someone with equally great powers as your uncle took you out of it. Then after that, your reality collapsed, for a new one to start. This is the last reality, and only one left where anyone can enter Valeria now."

"So, because we made a happy ending, that happy ending became the real Valeria?" Mokona stammers, as it had jumped up on the Queen's shoulder, and she nods. "So, Fay has a world to come home to?"

"You all have." The real Fay smiles, as he looks from his brother to his friends. "Valeria is a country of peace now, and if you ever need to rest between your travels, you are free to come here."

"I'll definitely come visit!" the mage cheers, all his worries gone now, as he grabs unto Kurogane. "And Kuro-pon will too! He really, really want to drink some of the milk in Valeria next time!"

"I am not you bastard!" Kurogane growls, as he smacks the mage hard on the head.

"Kuro-wanko is so mean." He whimpers, as he hides behind his laughing brother. "Protect me Fay."

"Don't pull others into your fights!" Kurogane keeps yelling at both twins now, as Syaoran looks at the warmer looking palace. It was still ice and snow outside, but the palace had less ice decorations, and people could walk around without coats now. The second prince had really made this country better.

"W… where is your husband? Lady Elda?" Syaoran asks in the end.

"My dear Hideki is no longer with us." She whispers, as she brushes her sons' cheeks gently. "He died from sickness 10 years after you were here last, and I have ruled in his place until Fay is ready to take over."

"Aren't you really sad without him?" Mokona pats her gently on the cheek.

"Of course I am, but we had many good years together, and I will never repeat my sin." Mokona nods.

"But… you remembered what happened in each reality… why didn't you just… not do your part of the set point?" Mokona asks confused, as it had wondered about that.

"Because the actions all of us did had to be decided by our own actions in the past and no one but the emperor or outsiders could change any of it. Even if the emperor tried to change things, he wanted to make a happy end, but only if it was a happy end for him. One time he were able to keep from hurting me, but in the end, he gave in again. He went insane over the years, and sadness took him over. He always remembered the past times, and relived it repeatedly. To blame Fay and Yuui for it all, was just his way of saying he wasn't at fault. He could do what he wanted, and to make himself feel better, just say it was the curse of the twins."

"It is easy to blame everyone else for their own mistakes, it is what cowards do." Kurogane complains, and he is about to say more, when Mokona starts jumping confused, its earring glowing. "Already?!"

"Ah… but I can't leave already…" The mage whispers, as he holds hard unto his brother's hands, feeling himself being pulled upwards. "AH! Your name, I always wanted to give it back…"

"No, it is ok." He smiles gently. "I took your name as well, so until the day your travels are over, I'm ok with being Yuui, I have been so many years no after all."

"I'll come back to visit, I promise! Fay… mother!"

Kurogane keeps a firm hold around the mage's side once more, as he felt like he had a growing fear that he would run back to his own world if they didn't hold unto him. He would give him a yelling later for not being careful, but now wasn't the time for that, as their Fay was fighting tears. In the end, he turns towards the ninja, and buries his face against his chest. Kurogane groans nervous, before he sighs and hugs back. He didn't like being afraid of losing his loved ones, and the fact was that the idiot of a mage before him, was probably the one he was afraid of losing the most.

"I… I really hope the next world is a warmer one… not too warm, but just perfect." Fay whispers, as he forces on a big smile for his companions.

"And has lots of fresh and good food!" Mokona cheers.

"And also some really nice people." Syaoran shoots in.

"I just want sake and food." Kurogane snorts, trying to hide how happy he was as Fay laughed gently. He understood that the mage was happy for a world where his family could be found, but he also seemed to understand it was not actually his family. The Fay he had wanted to raise from the dead, were still dead, and he would forever be. His mother that took her own life after being disgraced was still dead, as well as his father that had died from blood poisoning. He might visit the happy Valeria from time to time when he needed it, but he would never be able to see it as his home.

After all, his home were nowhere else than where he travelled. Where his new small family was, and even if no one was related by blood, no one would ever be left behind.

-The End-

Thanks for those that read ^.^ I hope you enjoyed the story, and if so, I can happily say that I will probably be continuing it. I have a Halloween story coming up, where the KuroFay gets a little more love, so look forward to it ^.^

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