Kurogane guessed what Fay was getting at. "We can't get lazy," he said, new drink in hand. "Just because we're in a hot springs doesn't mean I'll stop doing drills. We're headed to Clow Country after this." He left the rest of the sentence unsaid: that they would need to be on top of their game to be able to save the children.
Despite how Fay felt about reliable, steady-as-the-beating-drum Kurogane, he realized he'd actually changed a lot. He'd never mention it to Fay at all, but before he'd met him or Syaoran or Sakura, Kurogane never took an order, not even from his princess - but Fay had had him cleaning and carrying heavy things for him within months.
Before Fay, Kurogane had killed almost every challenger to his strength just to prove he could. Now he drew his sword only to protect his makeshift family.
There had been a reason Tomoyo-hime had lied about the seal on his forehead. A good one.
He drank again. Yeah - tonight was a good night to get drunk.