A/N: This fic is set 6 months after the end of the series, and the events of the OVA Lyrics of Love don't happen. Also, I'd like to thank sangokagome for Beta reading this, her suggestions for improvement helped me greatly.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gravitation or any of the characters. I do own the Original Characters.

Chapter 1: The Eye of the Storm

Shuichi walked as fast as he could towards the N-G building. He tried to avoid the stares he got from the public. He was late and he knew K would shoot him just for that. He wasn't worried about that, he was torn up inside, from what happened last night with Yuki, and this morning. Normally he didn't mind the stares, but it was different this time. He made it inside the building and walked past the receptionist, "Mr. Shindo-"

He ignored her and walked up to the elevator doors, which were conveniently open. Shuichi slipped inside and leant against the back wall. He wondered what the hell Tohma Seguchi would say; Bad Luck and Nittle Grasper had a joint tour of Japan coming up. And then K, he would hold him at gunpoint to make him tell what happened. The elevator stopped, and the doors opened. Ryuichi Sakuma leapt in onto Shuichi.

"Shuichi, you finally made it!"

"Yeah Ryuichi, I'm here," Shuichi replied, his voice obviously not in it.

Ryuichi let go and looked his fellow singer in the face, "Shuichi! Your face! Who could do that to such a pretty face?"

Shuichi smiled, only for a second, but Ryuichi saw it.

"Its nothing."

Ryuichi was staring at his left eye, an appalled look on his face.

"But, a black eye isn't nothing, is it Kumagoro?" Ryuichi said to Shuichi and his bunny plushie. He also had the look of a confused child. By now the elevator had started moving again.

"Shuichi," Ryuichi had the rarely seen seriousness to his face, "Was it Mr. Yuki?"

Shuichi was quick to defend him, "I was the one who annoyed him, I kept on at him, talking and-"

Tears welled up in his eyes, "He's been so cold again."

"Then why are you still with him?"

Shuichi looked directly into Ryuichi's eyes, he honestly didn't know why. He didn't have to put up with it but he did. Why did he have to be like that? Shuichi remembered that he was warm and loving when he returned to Japan 6 months ago, but he'd gradually fallen back to how it was before. And Yuki had basically told him it was over.

"I don't know."

Ryuichi had meant it when he had said pretty face. Shuichi had a beautiful face, and he was wasting his efforts on Eiri Yuki. Why should he be with someone who treated him like that? He should be with someone who would love him no matter what.

'Like me,' Ryuichi thought.

He saw Shuichi's tears, why should he have to suffer?

"Shuichi, do you want to be with Yuki anymore?" Ryuichi asked, still serious.

They looked at each other. Shuichi was thinking, Yuki had already ended it, and did he want to try and get back with him this time?

Shuichi put a hand up to his black eye, and felt the pain of his touch.

"No, I don't."

The elevator stopped, and the doors opened. Ryuichi killed the serious look and put on his usual cheery face.

"Come Shuichi! We've got to practice singing!"

He bounced out of the elevator, and Shuichi slowly followed. He watched Ryuichi go down the corridor from the doors of the elevator and thought, 'he does look kind of cute like that.'

He sighed, now he had to repeat last night's events for K and the others.