A//N: Fai centered in this case doesn't mean our Fai/Yuui. It means the person who our Fai/Yuui got his name from. His twin.

The part shorter part in Italics and the longer part in regluar font aren't connected yet. They are different.

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The owner of the foot pulled it back onto dry land. The person had blond hair and blue eyes. He wore pants, a dark colored sweater and a long waterproof cloak that covered almost his entire body. No where near him were there shoes. He seemed to be out here in the middle of nowhere willingly barefoot. The young man sat on the ground looking at his foot, making sure it was okay. It was fine.

He looked out onto the lake. It wasn't healed. Not yet.

I sat in a far corner of the hall. My blue eyes are wide with fear, with shock. Over my blond hair, over my almost milk white skin, over my white and blue coat, over my entire body, there are spatters of bright red blood.

He approached me... "No! Stay away! Murderer!" I screamed before blood covered hands reached out and touched my face. I stared up at him, his fingers were so sticky. Not even I could have expected this.

"I won't kill you Fai...That would be too much for Yuui to live with. Even if you were supposed to die a long time ago...If I killed you now, he would kill himself before he had the chance to change the worlds..." He shook his head smiling that same smile that meant nothing. I could see the insanity behind his eyes, but I could also see the truth in them. He would not harm me...even though he had massacred everyone else currently in the castle right in front of my eyes.

"You poor Sage...you're a healer, you can't harm a fly..." He knelt in front of me. "Fai the Sorcerer, Yuui the Magician. Fai the Sage, Yuui the Mage. White and Black you are. Healer and Fighter."

I did not trust myself to say anything in reponse to what he said. So we were Sage and Mage, Healer and Fighter, we got along in this world. We covered each other...

I felt Yuui's magic signature quickly approaching the castle and my head involuntarily turned to the door. I could not stop my voice this time. Ashura wouldn't harm me...I believed that much, but what about Yuui? "Yuui! No! Go away! It's here! The beas--" Ashura's hand completely covered my mouth and nose. As I tried to breathe I could smell the foul blood on his hands.

"Be quiet. For someone who was supposed to die you are awfully loud. Aren't the dead supposed to be silent?" He'd said that since he'd brought us from Valeria. That I was supposed to be dead...but I wasn't. Neither of us had ever understood what that meant...aside from the obvious meaning. Nonetheless we had always been glad that I had in fact survived. "Quiet now. The dead don't speak. The dead don't interfere. Don't mess where you don't belong Sage. Yuui's future is what needs to be changed now. You've already screwed with it enough." He pulled his hand away from my mouth.

I did not speak. This seemed to please him. He stood to his feet and walked away from me, toward the door. Yuui...no Yuui, stay away! I wanted to scream this out as the large doors were pushed open. I did not, he might hurt me...or even worse he might hurt Yuui.

At last the doors completely slid open and Yuui ran into the castle completely unaware of the bodies that littered the floor around him at the moment. It didn't surprise me, when we were younger...Yuui had to be so used to the smell that could not reach me in the height of the tower. "Your Majesty! I will go looking for it!" Just like Yuui, such loyalty and love for anything that was good to him. "I do not care how many days it takes, I will find this beast and I will destroy it! I will protect Celes!" Go on Yuui, keep on talking with that confidence that no one else has. Such a weak confidence that depends so heavily on Ashura. You leaned so much on him, he will now crumble your beautiful nature...

"Well then Yuui, you'll have to destroy me now won't you?" I did not look at Yuui now I looked to the floor and pulled my hood over my head...I surely must look dead. I'm sorry, but I can't look up at this scene. Yuui will be so crushed. I was never anything special. I was just some healer, but Yuui...he was always everyone's favorite, including mine.

I heard something dull and solid fall. It was probably Yuui's body crumbling to the floor as he realized that his beloved King had killed everyone in the castle. "Don't worry, I let the citizen's slip through my fingers, they have all escaped to nearby kingdoms." Good. Yuui always cared so much about other people. Probably from spending so much time with the dead, it had made him so tender. It had made him so caring...

"YOUR MAJESTY!" That will do nothing Yuui...he is beyond your reach now. He is probably beyond even my healing capabilities. Kill him Yuui. It may be the only person you kill in your life, but kill him. Do not let him live for killing these people you liked so much...these people who loved you so much.

"The sleeping spell I taught you? You do know that magic fades. I will one day awaken and come for you..." I heard two things hit the floor, Yuui's light feet and Ashura's body.

There was silence for a long time. I did not look up. Yuui was probably grieving so much for Ashura right now he had forgotten about Chii. "Fai?" Yuui's voice sounded desperate. So he would come looking for me first. His feet moved, running quickly, I saw them pass in front of me. "Fai?! Fai?! Please! Don't joke like this! I can't lose you both!"

"I'm here." The running instantly stopped.

"Why didn't you say anything?"

I shook my head slightly under my hood. I didn't really know why...it was like the air had caught in my throat. "I...guess I was too much in shock..."

Yuui ran to my side instantly. I felt his hand on my shoulder and his gentle touch pulled my hood down. "He didn't harm you?" I shook my head. "Are you okay?" I shook my head. I wasn't okay. I was horrified, I was shaking in my coat, I was scared, I was not okay.

He hugged me to him, even though I was covered in blood... "I'm so sorry. I'm just glad you're okay...I don't know what I would've done if I had lost you before I had to..." He didn't finish his sentence and left me wondering as his arms stopped touching me. "Come on...we better take care of him...and you. Did he kill Chii?"

I shook my head slightly, it seemed to be almost all I could do. "I think she's still in my room..." Chii. Yuui had created her a long time ago for me. She was like a pet cat or something, except she was supposed to be like a mother to me since I had always been so more heartbroken about our parents dying than he had. He had even created her to look like our real mother did. Only she didn't act like one. Oh well it was the thought that counted. I only wondered how Yuui had made a real live being from magic.

"Okay. Good. You're going to need her..." Yuui was now seeming to speak nonsense, he wasn't making any sense at all. He just seemed to be babbling about things that seemed important to him... "You wait here. I'll go get her. Pull yourself together."

"Okay. You too..." His footsteps ran off and I was alone again. I sat there shivering as if I were freezing, but I wasn't. I was just so scared. I wasn't afraid of death per-say. I was afraid of leaving Yuui alone. I was afraid of anyone missing me...if it didn't matter I could just die. Fuck, I didn't care. All the years in that tower wishing I would just die had never left me, I would always be suicidal to a point. Only Yuui kept me from actually doing it.

I heard Yuui's footsteps. I knew that Chii was with him even though I didn't hear her. She was always silent. After all she ran around barefoot. "Are you all right now?" I wasn't, but I nodded to please Yuui. I slowly stood to my feet.

"What now?"

Fai shook his head. "We take care of Ashura's body...we'll talk about the rest after that." He was keeping something from me. I could see it in his eyes. It didn't matter, he couldn't leave and that was all that mattered. I only needed him to survive. Nothing else mattered. He could do anything but leave me alone, I would be happy with him. Even if he could leave, and did, I would still love him. I would wait for him obediently like a dog. Even if I had to be mummified while I waited.

We moved Ashura's body to the underwater burial chamber. With Chii's help we buried him in one of the many graves in the room. He was just asleep, but luckily the magic in the water made it so that he could breath. As we looked down at him I could see the many bubbles that slowly came up from the bottom of the pit as he breathed slowly in and out.

"Now what?" Yuui pulled back on his coat and looked away from me. Why was he doing that? He never did that unless it was something really bad.

"I have to leave." He didn't even have to tell me that he wouldn't be taking me with him, that was all said in his tone.

"What?!" I stood to my feet, my knees felt like they would break from the pressure I put on them keeping them much more than perfectly straight, almost seeming to try to bend them backwards. He couldn't leave me!

"You heard...I'm sorry, but I can no longer stay in this world..."

"Why not!"

Yuui's face looked to me now, smiling sadly. I couldn't tell if he wanted to leave, or if he was regreting every word he said. He was too hard to read right now. Even for me. "Ashura told me so a long time ago. He said that once this happened that I had to leave. He never said anything about what would happen to me, or what to do with you, except that you were to stay here." His expression became even more saddened as he looked at mine. "Don't give me that look. It's fate, I can feel it...the drive to leave here now...Fai, you're tearing me in two." He hugged me tightly, I couldn't think, all I could think was that he was leaving me.

"I promise I will one day come back. How does that sound? No matter how much time passes I will not die because I have to see you again. Just promise me one thing in return?"

"Anything. I'll give you anything if you come back."

"Heal him." His head gestured to the pool of water that now held Ashura's body. "Don't wake him until you are sure he's healed enough, but try to heal him for me." His hands cupped my face. "You know how I am about people..."

"I know." My eyes involuntarily avoided his. He was leaving me. The one thing I had never thought would happen was happening. He was leaving me. I sighed deeply pulling myself away from his hug and I looked to the ground. "Fate huh?"

"Yes...I can feel that I must go...even if things had been different I would leave. Hey now." He took on his usual personality and grinned. "I'm sure that one day fate will pull at you too."

"Dead people don't have fates..." My voice was barely above a whisper. I hadn't meant to say that outloud, but Ashura's words rung in my head. Dead people don't speak, they are silent, thus they must not have fates either.

"Don't be that way Fai. You're not dead, not yet. You won't die for a long time. You're a sage after all! You have a full life ahead of you. Make the most of it." I found that his words would be hard to follow seeing as he was leaving me here alone in a frozen world. There was no life to make.

"I'll try."

"Good. Now." Yuui picked up his staff. "I promise I'll keep in touch with you. So don't be so sad, I'll think of you everyday that I am gone. I'll make sure of it." He couldn't promise me that, but I didn't argue.

"Good luck." I stared at the lettering that was being written on the air now. He merely waved once more before the magic swallowed him up, it left nothing behind. Flawless magic that it was.

I bit my lip and sunk to the ground. Chii sat her hand on my shoulder in comfort, but it didn't matter.

He was gone.