CHAPTER One: Reunion

Disclaimer: I do not own anything having to do with Gravitation

Note: A labret pierce is a pierce that goes right underneath the lip, usually in the middle. It's really popular with emo kids and authentic rockers. I have one currently, it's in my user picture, just in case my description didn't make sense.

Also note, this story is probably really choppy because it consists of broken up chapters that I ATTEMPTED to meld together.

Hiroshi waited outside, anxious to see Shuichi. Had it really been three years since he last saw him? He saw a shadow in his peripheral vision of a man. He turned towards the figure and was shocked; it was Shuichi. But it didn't really look like him; he was as tall as Hiroshi was now. And His hair was longer, the same style for the most part but edgier. He had a labret pierce now, too. What really threw Hiroshi back was the way Shuichi dressed; darker clothing and jewelry… It looked weird to him, because Shuichi was always so bright and cheerful. Hiroshi thought Shuichi looked sexy now, but to him, he wasn't his Shuichi anymore.

"Hey, Shuichi! How've you been?" Hiroshi hugged his friend.

Shuichi shrugged "Not much, I'm happy to finally be out of that shithole."

"Wanna get something to eat?" Hiroshi got onto his bike.

"Not really." Shuichi climbed on too. "We can hang out at the park for a while."

"K." they sped off.

They sat at their old bench "I really missed you, man. So did everyone else."

"I missed you guys too. What's been going on since I've been locked up?" Shuichi joked.

"Didn't you read the letters? Ayaka and I got engaged months ago. The wedding's in two and you're our best man."

He smiled "Congrats, Hiro. And I'm honored. I didn't get to read them because they wouldn't let me. No even from my parents, they wanted to eliminate any possibility of 'mental infection'. I have them in my bag though, I was gonna read 'em when I got to my apartment."

"Your apartment? –Oh, that's right. Your contract ran out a few months after you were admitted."

"Damn. Mom's house it is then, I guess." He neutrally shrugged.

"You can crash at our place 'till you find a new apartment." He couldn't help but offer. Plus if his mom had to see him, she'd take one look at him and send him straight back to the loony bin.

"Nah, that wouldn't be fair to Ayaka. It's not a big deal, it'll just be weird trying to have a full conversation with them. Especially my dad."

Hiroshi just nodded, he knew that since Shuichi hasn't seen his family in over three years, he'd think they probably have shunned him for the incident. His father was very against homosexuality. He kept it all secret from them. His sister knew about him and Yuki but that was it. He didn't tell her when they broke up, or when he went out with another man just to get back at Yuki. -Tell Maiko? That would've been a bad idea. She would've accidently spilled the beans about everything. But all that trouble was for nothing, Hiroshi could tell that Shuichi knew that they knew everything. Even though he was too drugged up on morphine to even remembering being in the hospital, they had to have seen him, they had to have been told what happened.

"Do you wanna get a drink? I mean, we're sitting here like we've just been to a funeral."

Hiroshi laughed "You? Drink? When we used to drink you'd so drunk you'd pass out…And only after two drinks!"

Shuichi grinned, reminiscing with him "Yeah, well. I've built up a tolerance since then, bet now I could out drink ya'."

"Hahaha," Hiroshi stood up "sounds interesting, where to?"

Shuichi slung his backpack over his shoulder and smiled.

Hiroshi's motorcycle skid to a stop "…A bar? Since when've you been to a bar?"

"About a year and a half ago, the asylum would let me go out for an hour." He got off the bike.

"By yourself?" he cut the engine and followed Shuichi.

He opened the door "Nah, I had to be supervised by a staff member at all times. It sucked. I am kinda surprised they actually let me drink."

"Me too." He laughed as he took a seat at the bar.

The bar tender set two drinks down in front them "Hey, Shuichi," she winked "haven't seen you in here for a while."

"Yeah, well…I've been out of town. But I'm back now, so let the fun commence." He smirked.

The girl blushed "Really now? What'd you have in mind?"

"When's your break?"

A man from down the bar waved his arms in the air "Hey!!! BJs later, service NOW!!!"

She rolled her eyes and walked off to the 'cranky customer'.

Hiroshi blinked for a minute. "Were you… just flirting with a girl?"

"Yeah?" he raised an eyebrow.

"When did this happen?" he took a sip of his drink.

Shuichi shrugged, having to think about it for a minute "A while after I was admitted. I started with the chicks there, dude, they were CRAZY." He put extra emphasis on the last word, but as if it were a good thing.

Hiroshi smiled, shaking his head "What do you mean started with?"

"You saw that girl, right? I've had her and about three other girls that work here."

Hiroshi's mouth almost dropped wide open, he was almost speechless. It didn't really make sense to him that Shuichi had gotten more in two years than he'd ever gotten. Not that he'd actually complain about it, he loved Ayaka. But Hiroshi had always been the 'Mac daddy', so to speak. "But they work together, wouldn't that cause problems?"

Shuichi looked like he didn't care. He sounded like it too, "This one time I came in, two of the girls were working at the same time. They started fighting behind the counter, everybody in here cheered 'em on. It was hilarious, Hiro, you should've been here."

Hiroshi sipped on his drink, trying to keep himself from saying something that would make Shuichi mad.

The bartender ran back over, placing more drinks in front of them.

Hiroshi looked down at the new drink, he was only half way done with the one he had. He noticed Shuichi was looking at him daringly. He had his cup in downing' position, Hiroshi smiled "One, two, three, GO!" The 'stupendous' duo raced to finish they're drinks. Shuichi won and purposed a toast "Here's to one hell ova night." They both cheered with their new drinks.