[TRC] A Helping Hand (PG, Outo spoilers)

Title: A Helping Hand
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some violence.
Summary: Written for the kuroxfai_pop  challenge to swap around Kurogane and Fay's roles in a scene from the manga.
Author's notes: To make this idea work, it required two kind of unlikely things to happen -- first, that Fai would use magic to save one of his companion's life this early in the timeline, which he probably wouldn't have; and second, for Kurogane to get his ass kicked by a mook. I figured it was justifiable in this case because the oni aren't real, so Kurogane can't sense their auras; after all, he doesn't sense them sneaking up on him at all in the manga scene until Fai alerts him by throwing darts at them.

( Kurogane wasn't even sure that he wanted to be saved if it was going to mean he had to listen to Fai gloat. )

~end.