Kurogane stormed into the room they had obtained, searching for Fai who he suspected had drunk too much yet again. A quick scan of the room revealed the man, but Kurogane immediately felt that something was amiss.

"You're wearing dark coloured clothes," he stated, eyeing Fai suspiciously. Fai, who had his back to him and was sat rigidly with his arms crossed, only nodded in response. "That's unlike you," Kurogane continued, then remembered a problem with this fact. "You didn't get any dark coloured clothes! Those are mine!"

"These are my clothes," Fai snapped back, his voice deeper than usual. He sniggered slightly, screwing his face up in a failed attempt to suppress his giggles. He looked over at Kurogane, his eyes narrowed. "You are wearing my clothes!" he roared, then sprang to his feet, grabbed a lamp and waved it like a sword. "Imposter!"

"Wear your own clothes, you bastard!" Kurogane growled, balling his hands into fists. "The light blue ones!"

"Those belong to that lanky guy!" Fai hurled back at him, stepping forward in what would have been a menacing manner had his face not been contorted with the laughter he still held back.

"You are that lanky guy!" Kurogane bellowed. "And you're drunk!"

"I am Kurogane!" Fai yelled, waving the lamp in the air. "Where is Fai? What have you done with him, you bastard?"

"You are Fai!" Kurogane roared back. Fai shook his head vigorously, giggling madly to himself.

"Put on that magician's clothes and resume your real identity!" Fai ordered him, stumbling over hims own legs.

"I am not wearing those clothes!" Kurogane yelled, hauling Fai off the floor where he had just fallen.

"No more Fai?" Fai asked meekly, pouting at Kurogane. Kurogane shook his head roughly.

"Not unless you turn back into him," he growled, pulling him onto a bed. Fai fell back and splayed out over it.

"That needs magic," he proclaimed, pointing at the ceiling in what he probably intended to be a commanding way. "A magic potion! The key ingredient of which is more alcohol!"

"No!" Kurogane yelled, pinning Fai down before he could acquire it for himself. "You've had too much already!"

"Then there will be no more Fai! Doesn't that worry you?" Fai pleaded with him, sticking his bottom lip out further.

"Not at all."

They stayed in their positions in silence as Fai attempted to work around the newly presented obstacle.

"You're sure you won't turn into Fai?" he asked again.

"Yes."

"So how will you get Fai back?"

"You could do it if you just took your clothes off!" Kurogane roared. Fai brightened up immediately.

"If you insist," he chirped, wriggling first out of Kurogane's grip then out of his top. Kurogane moved back to the end of the bed, away from the blond who was now shimmying his way out of Kurogane's trousers.

"You weren't wearing underwear?" Kurogane yelled in anger. Fai collapsed on the bed again, rolling around in mirth.

"I'm Fai again!" he cried, waving his arms about madly. "What a terrifying ordeal I've been through!"

"You put yourself through it," Kurogane growled, turning away and folding his arms. "And me." Fai scooted over to him and draped his arms around his shoulders.

"So let me comfort you," he purred in Kurogane's ear, his hands wandering over the other man's body. "I need to reward my rescuer, after all."

Kurogane made only half-hearted attempts to push Fai away before succumbing to temptation.