If I lied you'd know it instantly

[wheet_whoo]

This world was a lot rougher than many they had been to, and their introduction had cemented that in. A wild wolf pack had been their welcome committee, and Kurogane had taken the worst of it defending them.

They'd gotten everyone away, in more or less one piece, and luckily hadn't arrived far from a small inn at a cross roads. The inner keepers welcomes them in, even with Kurogane bloody and beaten, barely standing slung over Fai's shoulder. The provided warm water, salve for the wounds, and a fresh bottle of alcohol to disinfect things, but when Fai walked in with the inn keepers wife and the supplies in his arms, he found white tense faces, and Syaoran and the inn keepers minutes away from blows. He doesn't exactly ease the tension, but after finding out the issue, he certain makes sure that they won't be being asked to leave any time soon.

Walking into the room, he kneels quietly next to Kuro, lifting up the clean cloth and the alcohol.

"This will hurt." He says softly, not even trying to being any tease into it, much of anything. The information he has now bears heavily on him. Especially since, although it's so much it's also so little.

((Promt snagged from here))

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[forgedofdarkness]

Things were just going from bad to worse for them lately. So getting mauled by a rabid wolf pack seemed just be par for course. Kurogane wasn't the type to give up easily but the knowledge that Fai's survival now hung upon his own just made the warrior fight all that much harder but even he had found himself overwhelmed by the sheer number of wolves. And in true Kurogane fashion he'd been the one to intersect himself bodily between Syaoran and one of the wolves. It had been knee-jerk instinct to protect the boy despite all the troubles they'd been having lately thanks to the damned impersonating clone.

He'd been the one to take the bite rather than Syaoran because despite everything that had gone wrong in Tokyo, Kurogane still cared about the boy. His sacrifice however came with some unknown ties however as they would discover once they reached the inn. Kurogane was too out of it to even pick up on the pinched look of fear in the local's faces. Otherwise, he would have demanded they find somewhere else to recuperate. But as it was, he was so busy wrangling with the wounds and the strangeness that had overtaken him that he didn't even notice. It was ironic, he'd been the one to force the vampiric change on Fai and now here he was facing his own strange change instead yet there Fai was staying by his side through it.

Kurogane had curled into a fetal ball in an attempt to ease the pressure seemingly squeezing his very bones and innards. It hurt and he was no stranger to pain but this was unlike anything he'd face before. Dimly, he heard Fai's words and pained red eyes cracked open despite the fact that it felt as though he had ten pound weights pulling his lashes back down.

"Just get it over with." He grit out, fingers curling tightly in the bedding. "I think it's infected or something. Damned filthy wolves." Kurogane...had no idea what he was facing in the very near future.