Never Say Never
Chapter 1
Yuki glanced around with obvious distaste. "Tell me again why exactly I am here," he said.

"You made a promise," Tohma replied with a smile. "To be exact, you promised to Shuichi to attend the party following if their new album sold 1 million." With a grin, he added, "I thought you'd learned by now"

"Well, obviously not." Yuki glared around again. Everybody was there. In addition to Tohma, Sakano, K-san, and the band itself, also Noriko, Mika, Ryuichi, Tatsuha, and Ayaka had decided to show up. At the moment, Ryuichi, Ayaka, and Bad Luck were all laughing at something, Tatsuha casting lovesick glances at Ryuichi, Noriko and Mika talked, and Sakano and K-san had a conversation of their own.
Seeing Shuichi eating candies, Yuki sighed. "He's already on a sugar high bad enough," he grumbled. "He'll probably wreck the house in whole once we get home tonight if he continues on this rate"

"What shall we do now?" asked Ryuichi then, loudly enough to be heard by everyone.

"I know!" exclaimed Shuichi with a joyous gleam in his eyes. "Let's play 'I've never"

"Yeah!" replied Hiro just as enthusiastically. "Let's play!" He snatched a can of beer from the nearby table.

"What's that?" asked Yuki, raising a blond eyebrow in question at the two. "Explain yourself, now. I'm not getting involved in anything I do not know anything about"

"It's easy," Shuichi said happily. "At first, we settle to sit in a ring, and everybody takes a can of beer." At this, he made to do so, only to find his lover glaring at him threateningly.

"Oh, no, you don't," Yuki snapped. "You're bad enough on sugar high; I won't let you get drunk as well. Nothing with alcohol for you today, Shindou!" With a stern look, he snatched the can of beer away.

"Hey!" protested Shuichi. "I'm an adult, Yuki! I can make decisions for myself!" As he was fixed a cold glare from the blond novelist, however, he quickly forgot about his complaint.

"The boy's right, Yuki, you know," Tohma said with a smile. "He's an adult, by physical age, if not otherwise. Therefore, he should be allowed to decide what he drinks or doesn't drink"

Now, Yuki raised an eyebrow and glared at him, too. "I see," he said, "I see that it's not you who has to deal with him when he's bouncing off the walls and there are no others to slow him down. This brat," he emphasized his point by tapping the pink-haired head with his finger, "is simply baka"

"If I may continue?" asked Shuichi grumpily. As Yuki oh-so-generously nodded in affirmation, the pink-haired boy went on, "So, anyway, each one takes a turn to say, 'I've never,' and then something that they have never done. Then everybody who has done that has to drink from their can"

"So, basically," the tall blond said coolly, "it's just an excuse to drink?" Now, Shuichi opened his mouth to protest, but was waved off. "Oh, lay it off, you brat," sighed Yuki. "Let's play, if it's so exciting to you"

"Yay!" Shuichi was truly joyful, although Yuki still wouldn't allow him get anything but a can of sugar-free coke. The others all grasped a beer can each and settled into a ring.

After a moment of looking at each other in the eye, wondering who would start, every eye in the ring had somehow travelled to Tohma. The angelic-looking blond sighed and smiled. "Very well," he said, "I'll start the game, then. So... I've never played guitar"

Opening his can and drinking, Hiro smirked. "That's lame," he said teasingly. "So lame"

"I know," Tohma replied evenly. "I am kind of counting on you others to make some horrible confessions"
Then, everybody looked at the next person in the ring, excepting them to say something. "I do believe it's your turn, Mika," said Yuki, smirking at his sister and raising an eyebrow. "So, what is it"

"Okay. Hmm... I've never cheated on my lover!" announced Mika, smirking at her two brothers.
The others all exchanged glances, none daring to drink. Tatsuha and Yuki, however, glanced at first at their big sister, then at each other, then again at their sister. Then, they both took a swig.

At seeing Yuki drink, Shuichi's eyes veiled over threateningly. The blond threw him a glare. "Oh, shut up, you crybaby," he snorted. "I haven't cheated on you. I've had other lovers before you, you know"

Shuichi sniffled still for a couple of times, then suddenly seemed to brighten up. "Yay!" he exclaimed. "You're only mine now, no matter how many others might want you!" Now, he clutched onto Yuki's arm, hugging it tightly. He happily ignored the novelist's glare as well as the way the blond man rolled his eyes towards the ceiling, concentrating on nuzzling the captured arm instead.

"I'm not yours, you are mine," said Yuki calmly. "Now, let go, brat. You're wrinkling my shirt"

Shuichi indeed let go, looking happy as ever. Then he turned towards the next person in the ring, who happened to be Suguru. "Su-chan!" he said cheerfully.

"It's your turn"

"Me?" Suguru raised an eyebrow. Then he said, smirking, "I have never thought that Eiri Yuki looks sexy"
Yuki blinked in the most uncharacteristic way. Whether it was because of Suguru's words or because Shuichi, Ryuichi, Ayaka, Noriko, and even Tatsuha drank, nobody could tell for sure.

"Tatsuha!" exclaimed Mika, scandalized. "What -- but -- what --" She didn't seem to be able to form a coherent sentence. Instead, she just stared at her youngest brother, eyes wide.

"Oh, come off it, Mika," laughed Tatsuha. "It doesn't mean that I'd want to sleep with Eiri, far from that. I just happen to know that I look very much like him, so he must be pretty sexy, too"

Now Yuki, having recovered from his shock, drank from his own can, too, smirking at Tatsuha. "I would say that you have too big thoughts of yourself, brother," he said with an amused expression, "but somehow, I don't think that'd be too wise a thing to say." Then, they both laughed.

"Hey," said Tatsuha then, "it's your turn, Eiri!" He pointed at his brother, who, sure enough, was sitting next to Suguru. For a moment, Yuki looked thoughtful.

Then, however, a smirk spread over his lips.

"Uh-oh," muttered Shuichi, the words escaping his lips unnoticed. Like everybody else, he was now watching Yuki concentratedly, waiting to hear what the blond novelist had to say.

"I've never," Yuki started, a slight smirk adorning his lips, "I've never had sex on the kitchen table"

Now, Tatsuha bursted into laughter, shaking so much with it that he couldn't even manage the swig he was attempting to take. Most of the others looked shocked at Yuki's choice of subject, Shuichi was red as a beetroot, and Ryuichi was desperately trying to cover Kumagorou's poor little ears. Mika and Tohma, however, merely glanced sideways each other, smiled briefly, and both drank from their own cans of beer.

"Oh, damn," muttered Yuki under his breath. "I so didn't need to know that. This game is truly a bad idea"

"Hey, it's your turn, Shuichi!" exclaimed Hiro, never one to take much time to get over any shock or stunning revelation he might stumble over. "What dark, dirty secrets shall we now discover"

Shuichi looked thoughtful for a while. Then he said, "Well... I've never heard my lover say, 'I love you"

Nobody drank. Instead, they just stared at Yuki, who calmly took a gulp of his own beer. Noticing everybody's eyes still on him, he sighed in irritation. "Oh, for fuck's sake," he muttered. Turning towards Shuichi, he snapped, "Okay, I love you, you stupid, annoying, idiotic brat. Happy now"

"Yes!" In an instant, the pink-haired vocalist was hugging him, having an almost choking grip around his neck. "I'm so very very happy now, Yuki! And I love you, too"

"Baka," muttered Yuki, trying not-too-gently to shove him away. "Get off me, you little leech"

"Hey!" Tatsuha said as he got over his laughing fit. "Now you have to say something else, Shuichi"

"What?" Shuichi blinked, then seemed to understand. "I've never slept with anybody of the opposite sex"

"My can is empty," Tatsuha complained after taking the final gulp of beer from his container. "How's it possible that you have any left, Eiri? You've drunk at least as much as I have"

"I drink less at a time," replied the novelist dryly. "Unlike you, my main intention is not to get drunk"

"Ooh," said the darkhaired one of the Uesugi brothers. "Yuki, you're such a nice little boy nowadays. I'm really shocked about your behaviour. Shu-chan must have infected you with his niceness"

Yuki merely shrugged. "If I kept him from getting drunk and then let myself do that, I'd never hear the end of it," he said. "The brat's bad enough even usually, so I certainly won't encourage him to whine more"

"Oh, shut up, Yuki," Mika snorted. "We'd all be out cold far before you got drunk, and you know it"

"Whatever." Yuki glanced to Shuichi's other side. "It looks like it's your turn, Sakuma-san"

"Oh, yes!" The man-child grinned broadly. "Well... I've never got Eiri Yuki's autograph"

"And neither will you get it now," replied Yuki dryly as everybody else laughed.

An hour and several rounds of "I've never" later, everybody was distracted in one way or another. Yuki stubbornly kept on making confessions about his sexual habits just to embarrass Shuichi, despite the fact the at the same time he was finding out more about Mika and Tohma's sex life than he'd ever wanted. Tatsuha drank on almost every turn, his mouthfuls becoming bigger and bigger all the time. At the moment, he was pretty well drunk, a pile of empty beer cans next to him.

Now, it was Ryuichi's turn. "I've never lied to Kumagorou!" he announced happily.

The others just shook their heads with small smiles. Yuki, however, took a drink from his beer can. Ryuichi's face immediately fell. "It is very nasty to lie to poor little Kumagorou!" he exclaimed.

"Oh, come off it," snorted Yuki, determinedly ignoring Shuichi's best -- which was not so good -- "shut-up-you-nasty-thing" glare on the side of his head. "It's just a stuffed animal, for fuck's sake"

"You are nasty, Eiri!" shouted the well-drunk Tatsuha. Now eyeing everybody in the ring and then casting his brother a particularly nasty glare, he then said,

"I've never... killed anybody"

Suddenly, there was a complete silence. Then Yuki stood up. "Come on, Shuichi," he said with a clipped tone, casting his little brother a death glare. "We are leaving right now"

"Right, that's it!" shouted Tatsuha with a slightly slurred voice. "Run off, you mean psychopath"

"That's rather enough, Tatsuha," Tohma said, his tone suddenly cooler than ever. "You have exactly ten seconds to take your words back. After that, I'll make you regret them"

"That's right!" the young monk snapped. "Do defend my brother, you, too! After all, he's the person you love the most!" Seeing that Tohma was taken aback by this, he went on, "Do you think I don't know about it? You only married Mika to be closer to Eiri. I bet the only reason why you haven't already committed adultery is the fact that Eiri won't sleep with you, and he's the only one you want! Or maybe," he then continued with a sly tone in his voice, "maybe he indeed does sleep with you"

"That's not true." Tohma's eyes were now bearing a dangerous, icy glint. "I do care for Eiri, that is true. However, I see him as a little brother -- not a potential lover. I've never had any romantic interest on him"

"That's what you say," Tatsuha replied heatedly. "However, it's not true, is it"

"Why not ask Yuki himself?" suggested Hiro coolly. "I bet he'd like to say something. Right, Yuki?" however, as he turned towards where the novelist had last been, he noticed that Yuki and Shuichi had indeed left already, having managed to slip out during Tatsuha and Tohma's row without anybody noticing.

"I think," said Mika slowly, casting a long glance at her younger brother, "I think that once you've sobered up properly, Tatsuha, you are going to be very, very sorry for what you have done."

Hello This actually is Demon-girl98 I would Like to thank linora for letting me take oover after she wrote 3 chapters of it