A/N : You have no idea how much fun I had writing this one. Please enjoy it!
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3 - Elevation
"Hold the elevator!"
Kurogane pressed the button as fast as he could to close the doors.
"No!" Fai's voice rung loudly through the corridors, all of the students staring as he ran towards the elevator with amused grins on their faces.
The heavy metal doors began to shut, and almost as if in slow motion, Fai bounded the final gap with his arms outstretched, jamming himself between the doors as they sprung back open in reflex.
Fai rubbed his shoulder tenderly. "Why did you do that Kuro-sensei?" he whined, "You must have heard me calling!"
Kurogane smirked, "Of course I did, I just thought it would be funny if you missed it."
"That's not fair!" Fai said, hitting Kurogane lightly on the arm, "This is the teacher's elevator. Not your elevator."
Kurogane raised his eyebrows, "You're right, and it's good enough I don't have to ride it with the kids, but I have to ride it with you,"
Fai opened his mouth in mock horror, "Why would you say something like that-"
There was a jerk.
A heavy, metallic-sounding jerk.
The pair of teachers steadied themselves against the wall as the elevator came to a harsh stop. There was a strange silence and the lights flickered animatedly, taking the confined space in and out of total darkness.
"W-What happened?" Fai asked worriedly.
"Oh, well let me just get my engineering kit and torch and get back to you with that," Kurogane droned sarcastically.
"Did we stop?" Fai asked, disregarding the comment.
"What the hell do you think?" Kurogane snapped, surveying the motionless elevator.
"So-" Fai smiled awkwardly, "Do you think it's broken?"
Kurogane leant back against the elevator wall and slumped down to sit on the floor, "Probably,"
"How long do you think we'll be stuck like this?" Fai asked, copying Kurogane's actions.
"Not that long," Kurogane muttered, "Have you pressed the alarm button?"
Fai's eyes flickered to the elevator button panel, where there had once been faintly glowing lights around the buttons, there were now dark, empty rings.
"I don't think it's working," Fai said with a pained laugh.
"Great," Kurogane barked, "Well that's just great, I'm stuck in an elevator. I'm stuck in an elevator and nobody knows. There's no way to send an alarm and I'm stuck with a complete idiot,"
Fai stretched and laughed, "Hush up Kuro-sensei! This could be very fun!"
"How the hell could you describe a situation such as this as fun?" Kurogane snapped.
"We can play games!" Fai clapped his hands together.
"What's the fun in games when there's no alcohol included?" Kurogane muttered.
Fai wiggled a finger at Kurogane and then tucked his knees under his arms, "Kuro-rinta is supposed to be a role model for the children!"
"Well they're not here are they?" Kurogane said angrily, "In case you hadn't noticed, they're up there! You know, walking around in a vast, enormous space, they're not all crouched down on the fu-"
"No swearing at school Kuro-tan!" Fai intervened, "You never know who might be listening!"
"Nobody is listening, moron, didn't you hear what I just said?" Kurogane growled at Fai who simply smiled innocently.
Kurogane yawned and leant his head back against the cool metal surface. He slowly closed his eyes and relaxed against the elevator wall and to his relief, Fai stopped badgering him to come play or to come sing and lapsed into a period of silence.
Kurogane stirred, Fai was being too quiet, awfully too quiet, maybe he had gone to sleep too-?
"KUROGANE-SENSEI!"
"WHAT?!" Kurogane yelled, bashing his head violently on the elevator wall in shock.
Fai began to laugh, "That was so funny, Kuro-wan, you were really surprised! You should have seen your face!"
Kurogane clutched his head, silently fuming, "I swear," he said through clenched teeth, "You better leave me the fu-"
Fai put his hand in the shape of a cross and made a strange buzzing sound, "No swearing in school, Kuro-wink,"
Kurogane glared at Fai, who in return gave a foolish lopsided grin.
"It would be a very good idea," Kurogane said slowly, leaning back against the elevator with a hand against his head, "If you were to be very, very, very quiet,"
"Like a game?" Fai asked hopefully.
Kurogane rolled his eyes, "Yes," he snorted, "Exactly like a game. If you make noise, you have to do a forfeit,"
"Like a dare?" Fai asked with a mischievous glint in his eye.
Kurogane nodded and then placed a finger to his lips. Fai grinned and did the same.
-
Kurogane seemed to be falling asleep. It had been almost ten minutes since either had spoken, 'and how long does it take the average person to fall asleep?' Fai thought, 'Seven minutes? Eight minutes?'
Time was moving so slowly and Fai was getting restless and bored. Things had to move quicker! Slowly and as quiet as he could possibly be, Fai leant forwards and looped his hand under Kurogane's leg and up to the back of his knee and then he began to tickle him gently. Kurogane twitched a little and made a noise in the back of his throat. Fai smirked and kept in his laughter and then he began to tickle Kurogane with a more energetic force.
"WHAT THE-?" Kurogane snapped back off the wall with a shiver and kicked Fai's hand away from his leg.
Fai stared intently into Kurogane's angry and confused eyes and then let his lips play into the most secretive and knowing smile. Fai raised a hand and pointed it at Kurogane.
"What?" Kurogane asked grumpily, eyeing his fellow teacher in discomfort.
"You broke the silence and made a noise," Fai said in quiet singsong. "That means you have to do a forfeit,"
Kurogane grunted, "Whatever," he mused, "That game wasn't real,"
Fai pouted, "Of course it was! You said if we made a noise that we'd have to do a forfeit, therefore, you have to do a forfeit!"
Kurogane stared at Fai in disbelief, he began to wonder why it looked like the blond was practically shimmering in triumph, "I only said that to shut you up,"
Fai nodded sadly, "Yes, I suppose," he said faintly, "I mean, I can understand how some are too cowardly to carry out daring tasks and I can understand why people go back on their words and-"
"Fine!" Kurogane snapped, "Give me the damn dare,"
"You have to pull a sheet over your head and run up and down the streets pretending you're a ghost!" Fai exclaimed, "And you have to shout 'Boo!' at all the people that you-"
"That's just fine," Kurogane said in disdain, "But tell me, where are these strange streets of the town that is the elevator? Are there some sort of tiny race of people living here that I can't see but can scare? What about the sheet, huh? Are you keeping it in that empty hollow space in your idiotic head-"
"Oh!" Fai laughed, "You want a dare you can do now? Well, I don't know, Kuro-sensei, there's not much that you can possibly do, uh-"
"Well why don't you get creative and start thinking on that?" Kurogane asked, turning around so his back was towards Fai, "Meanwhile, I'll be-"
"Got one!" Fai grinned.
Kurogane spun around again "What is it?"
"I think Kuro-sensei should give me a great big kiss right here on the lips," Fai said in all seriousness.
Kurogane could already feel his cheeks beginning to flush, "That's-"
"Come on Kuro-tan, you do it all the time," Fai rolled his eyes.
"Not in school!" Kurogane hissed, "We never-"
Fai raised his eyebrows playfully, "There's nobody around,"
"It wasn't that way when you were stopping me from cursing!" Kurogane glared.
"That is because cursing is a filthy thing to do!" Fai exclaimed, "Wouldn't you agree?"
Kurogane shrugged and ran a finger across the collar of Fai's white coat. Fai blinked.
"Well come here then!" Kurogane commanded in an embarrassed hiss.
Fai smiled carelessly and allowed himself to be pulled in, their lips merely brushing breifly at first, then there was sigh and the enclosing warmth of hands upon hands and kisses upon skin, meeting once more at the lips and fingers dancing, running, tantalizing through hair and through fabric. They broke apart and lapsed into silence. Silence and smiles and delicate blushes.
"You know," Kurogane said, "You spoke too. I thought the rule was make a noise, do a forfeit."
Fai brought his chin to his knees, "I guess you caught me, what's my forfeit?"
Kurogane shuffled his eyes around the elevator and swallowed, "Uh- you think that really vigorous movement would make this thing, uhm, snap and crash?"
"Kuro-tan!" Fai gasped.
"What?!" Kurogane snapped.
"You're such a pervert! People have to use this elevator!" Fai cried, jabbing Kurogane in the chest.
"Okay! Okay!" Kurogane grumbled, "It was just an idea,"
-
"I'm so god damn hungry," Kurogane growled, shuffling awkwardly against the wall.
"That's because it's way past dinner time," Fai said lightly, "Everyone will have gone home now, the school is probably locked up,"
"Damn," Kurogane rested his head against the elevator wall, "I knew I should have had extra food at lunch time,"
Fai sighed, "I might have something in my case," he reached across to the side of the wall where his black breifcase lay propped against the metal surface.
"You've had food in there all that time and you never told me," Kurogane snapped.
Fai pulled out a bunch of notebooks and textbooks and placed them on the floor, "Now I'm sure I've got something in here, here, Kuro-chan, hold this," Fai handed Kurogane an object and continued digging through the case.
Kurogane stared at the object in his hand for a moment then raised his head slowly to glare at Fai who was now holding a squashed piece of cake in his hand.
"What the hell is this?" Kurogane said slowly, his voice shivering with anger.
"That's my cell phone," Fai said nonchalantly, brushing a few crumbs off his lab coat.
"You've had a cell phone in here." Kurogane stated in disbelief, "You mean you're telling me that you've had a phone sitting in your case while we've been cramped up in an elevator for hours on end?"
The cake hovered next to Fai's mouth as Kurogane's words sunk in slowly, he contemplated a moment and then began laughing carelessly.
"Oops?" he offered.
"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!" Kurogane yelled, "YOU DID THIS ON PURPOSE DIDN'T YOU YOU FU-"
"No cursing please!" Fai raised his hands.
"I DON'T CARE!" Kurogane shouted, "WE COULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF THIS COMPLETE HELLHOLE BUT YOU CHOSE TO JUST SIT THERE AND PLAY STUPID LITTLE GAMES?"
"I forgot it was in there," Fai stated as if it were obvious, "I would have told you if I'd remembered, really! I would, but the situation startled me so much that I completely forgot it existed!"
"My ass you did!" Kurogane snapped, "I bet you planned this all along! I bet it was you and that complete witch upstairs that made this thing break down in the first place!"
"Don't be silly, Kuro-chi!" Fai laughed, "How could Yuko-sensei and I do something like that? We're not engineers you know."
"Shut up!" Kurogane commanded, "Now you are going to take this phone and call somebody. You are going to call whoever it takes to get us out of here right now,"
Kurogane shoved the cell phone into Fai's hands. "Now," he repeated.
Fai smiled awkwardly and then looked down at the screen. His face fell a second before he began to laugh once again, more foolishly than before.
"What now?" Kurogane growled.
"No signal," Fai laughed, pointing at the screen.
Kurogane snatched the phone from Fai's hand.
"Don't break it!" Fai cried as Kurogane held the phone up in the air.
"I'm not breaking it!" Kurogane yelled, "I'm seeing if the signal gets better if you hold it from a height,"
"Oh," Fai smirked, "And does it?"
"Slightly," Kurogane said, beginning to stand, "Here, you'll have to climb on my back,"
Fai chuckled playfully, "If you say so, Kuro-sama,"
"Shut up," Kurogane said, concealing a blush, "Just get on,"
Fai hopped up onto Kurogane's back and wrapped his legs around his waist, "Okay!" he exclaimed, "It's getting better, but i need to go higher,"
"There is no higher," Kurogane muttered darkly.
"Of course there is," Fai said, wobbling slightly, looping his arms around Kurogane's shoulders, "I can get up here,"
Kurogane sighed and grabbed the soles of Fai's feet as he hoisted himself up so he was sitting on Kurogane's shoulders.
"Bingo!" Fai smiled and began dialing a number.
Kurogane held tightly onto Fai's free arm, keeping him steady.
"Hey Yuko-sensei!" Fai greeted the person on the other end of the phone, "Listen, this is going to sound really weird but Kurogane-sensei and I are trapped in the school lift, we were wondering if you could send someone to- oh. Are you sure? Yes, I understand but, oh, right, I see what you're saying, you're right, I didn't realise how late it was Yuko-sensei and, oh, yes, that's perfectly fine, I think, well, I hope, okay then, okay, I'll put him on the phone, two seconds, Kuro-tan!" Fai passed the phone into Kurogane's hands.
Kurogane steadied the cell phone between Fai's leg and his own ear, keeping a hold on the wobbling Fai.
Fai glanced down.
"Shut up!" Kurogane shouted into the mouth piece before pressing the off button with as much force as he could.
Tossing the phone angrily to the floor, Kurogane took hold of Fai's hands, "Kick your leg over so you're sitting on only one of my shoulders, okay?"
Fai twirled his leg over Kurogane's head and landed gracefully on a single shoulder, "Now what?"
Kurogane kept hold of Fai's hands tightly, "Now you jump,"
Fai returned the grasp of Kurogane's hands upon his and lightly hopped from his perch on Kurogane's shoulder. Kurogane steadied Fai until he landed firmly on the ground.
"So what did she say?" Kurogane grumbled, "How long until we're out?"
Fai tilted his head and gave a pained smile, "Not until morning I'm afraid, Yuko-sensei said that most engineering places would be closed and-"
Kurogane kicked down back to his spot on the floor and sighed.
Fai crouched down next to him, "Cheer up, Kuro-sama, it's not all that bad. What did she say to you?"
Kurogane blushed fervently and looked down at the floor. "She said, 'I don't know if you were wondering, Kurogane-san, but any sort vigorous movement will most definitely send this thing crashing to the basement."