Summary: They always stuck together through thick and thin, the good times and the bad. All different personalities, but they share one thing in common: love can't be masked and gave up on by admitting human frailty...rather by following what their heart says, not their heads.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation, at all. End of story.
PS: I am a huge pervert, so please excuse... XD
Chapter One:
"HIYA!" Shuichi yelled into the microphone, a raging audience in front of him and the rest of the band. "Nice crowd we have tonight! We're Bad Luck, and we are ready to rock! Give me a scream if you all agree!"
An earsplitting scream erupted from the audience, making Shuichi's grin broaden.
"That's just what I wanted to hear! Here's Welcome To My Romance!"
The beat of the sythesiser, the hum of the guitar ran through the veins of the three men performing. Sweatdrops swimming down their bodies, music coursing under their skin, they were one with the song, one with each other, on perfect que along side each other.
Donna fui ni boku ga suki de
Naze suki ni natte no atte nante
Anata no mimi moto Kotae shiiru
Wagamama wo yurushite
Konna boku wa anata no koto
Anata ishouni nanimo kamo
Shitteshimau unmei nano sa
Subete wo nugi sute you
Tozasareta sou mune ni
(Just like first love)
Tokimeki omoi dasasete ageru
Baby, let's get together
Baby, let's get together
Welcome to my romance
Shuichi, one hand gripping the mike, the other pulling on the collar of his already too large muscle shirt, leg tapping to the beat of the music, flashed his sexiest smile, making the crowd go wild.
Unmei no deaite hito wa
Kawaru to daremo ga iukedo
Chigausa hounto no jibun e to
Kawatte yuku no sa
Tsumasaki kara misuteriasu na
Kiss de nanimo kamo tsuzunde
Anata no sono ai no fun dake
boku ni shoumeishite yo
Kawasu toiki no naka de
(Can you feel my love?)
Ima futari wa umara kawaru no sa
Baby, let's get together
Baby, let's get together
Welcome to my romance
Striking a chord, fingers wandering in perfection across the synthesiser, a mouth on the mic... Shuichi fell to his knees, sending a wave of screams across the stadium, eyes wandering across the crowd, hands wandering his body...
Welcome to my romance tonight (tonight)
Futari no jikan atte mo kowaku nanka nai sa
Shunkan no memori...kitto kagayakakeru hazu dakara
You wanna kiss...soretomo
You wanna touch...Romance ni youkoso
I know what, what you want
I can tell you
Aishikatomo aisarekatomo oshiezuni Wild na...
So tell me what you want me to...
(So tell me what you want me to)...
Let's make love
Kawasu toiki no naka de
(Can you feel my love?)
Ima futari wa umare kawaru no sa
Baby, let's get together
Baby, let's get together
Welcome to my romance
The last chord was struck, the music died away, leaving the buzz of the amplifiers, inaudible against the rage of the crowd. Shuichi stood back up, bowed to the crowd, faced his band mates giving them his accomplished smile. They smiled back, giving him a thumbs up.
"Good job, Shu!" Hiro yelled, trying to be heard over the sceams of the fans.
Suguru nodded. "You made the crowd go insane!"
"No! It wasn't just me! You guys helped, too! Remember that! It was your awesome playing that set the stage!"
They smiled back at the pink-haired lead singer, admiring his selflessness.
Shuichi turned back to the crowd. "Hey, hey!" he said into the mic. "Save some of that energy! We still have a lot more to go!"
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It had been another successful fundraiser for the university. There were numerous raffles and door prizes, donations, a carnival, a beauty pagent, and it was all ended off by the local, yet highly popular band Bad Luck agreeing to play for free, racking in the school over ten thousand dollars worth of profit. The most successful the school has had in years, the headmaster had said. The concert had been the most successful, though, bringing in more than half the profit. Selling at ten dollars a ticket, and more than five hundred students buying, the principal praised the band and suggested that they do this more often.
Though the band assured that they would be happy to do it as much as they can, there was one band mate that had other things on his mind. Shuichi returned to his dorm with a heavy heart. He closed the door lightly, since it was late and he didn't want to disturb his room mate, not wanting to bring out that bad attitude of his. Yuki hadn't shown up for the concert like he said he would, so he just wasn't in the mood. Unfortunatly, he was still awake and peeked his head out of his bedroom door, watching Shuichi with a cold stare.
"Oh, hey, Taki. Sorry if I woke you.."
"Your boy toy left a note for you. I put it in your room."
"Thanks."
"And you be sure to tell that headmaster of ours, if he wants to have more gigs with you and your gay band, he needs to move it somewhere else. There are people here that try to sleep."
"I'll be sure to let him know, Taki. Good night."
Taki grunted and shut his door with a bang, making Shuichi flinch. He stared blankly at the closed door for a while before walking slowly to his room. He saw the note Taki mentioned sitting on his bedside table. He opened it and recognized the messy handwriting on it.
Shu,
I'm sorry that I didn't make it to your concert. I had a deadline I had to meet. I should have told you sooner. Meet me in the cafeteria in the morning at 10. Breakfast is on me.
Love,
Yuki
Shuichi felt a smile play on his lips. Ah, Yuki and those deadlines of his.
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"Oi, Shu, where you are headed in such a hurry?" Hiro called seeing Shuichi running down the hallway, backpack trailing along behind him, gripped in his dangling arm.
Shuichi stopped, his legs still making the running action, though not moving from the spot he was in. "I'm meeting Yuki for breakfast."
"Alright. I'll see ya in class."
"Bye, Hiro."
Shuichi continued running down the halls until he came to the cafeteria. He spotted Yuki sitting at a lone table in the back reading the newspaper. He took a breath to calm himself and to catch his breath, straightened his clothes, and marched over to him with one of his pretty smiles on his face.
"Alo, Yuki!" he said sitting in the chair across from the blonde. "Sorry I'm late. I was arguing with Taki. He was hiding my socks."
"That loser needs to get a life." Yuki replied, still reading the paper. "How was the concert last night?"
"It was great. The headmaster said that it was the band that was the most successful for the whole fundraiser."
Yuki grunted, folding the paper and placing it on the table, then rummaged in his bag that was sitting on the floor next to him. He pulled out a number of food items such as chocolate chip muffins, sausage and biscuits, and fruit juice boxes.
"Ah, Yuki, my favorites! You're so sweet!" Shuichi blushed and grinned like a school boy.
Yuki smiled. "But, I saved the best for last." He pulled out a box of strawberry flavored pocky sticks. He thought Shuichi's head was going to explode from him holding in his excitement.
"Ah, thanks, Yuki!"
"Whatever, brat." Yuki replied, not caring to hold back a grin.
He and Shuichi have been together for a while, and pretty much the whole school knew, nor did they care. Everyone admired the couple of how unafraid they were to be themselves. But, the two have always had their philosophy. It didn't matter what people said or thought, because nothing else mattered as long as the two who were together thought everything was perfect within themselves. And those two did.
The couple ate in a comfortable silence, Shuichi's cheeks still a light shade of pink. He would sneak glances at Yuki, who would look back at him after noticing, and he would avert his gaze and giggle like a fifth-grade girl with a crush. Yuki always thought that this act was cute. Sometimes, Shuichi did it on purpose just to get Yuki's attention. Either way, the two enjoyed it in the end.
"Want me to walk you to class?" Yuki asked, gathering their garbage.
"You don't have to. I don't want you to be late for class.."
"Too late now."
"You are already late?!"
"Yep."
"Just to stay with me?"
"Uh-huh."
"AW, YUKI! I LOVE YOU!"
Shuichi grabbed Yuki around the neck in a bear hug.
"Alright, alright, brat, let me go before you break something."
"Sorry." Shuichi blushed again.
"Mr. Shioshima's class, right?"
Shuichi nodded. The two left the cafeteria and headed towards Shuichi's class.
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Hiro and Suguru were standing outside of the classroom talking, waiting for Shuichi...and flirting.
"Come on, Hiro, quit it! Not in public!"
Hiro was teasing Suguru by nibbling on a tender spot on his neck. Everyone who knew about Shuichi and Yuki knew about Hiro and Suguru. Though the two weren't dating that Yuki and Shuichi, they were what some would call "friends with benefits." The two were really close and cared about each other, so it was one of life's unanswered questions as to why they haven't asked each other out.
Hiro said it was because he didn't want to ruin the good thing that they already had and Suguru said it was because he didn't want commitment with Hiro and then have it come crashing down because of a silly fight. Did I mention that Hiro and Suguru fight a lot, too. And over the most idiotic things, too. Like, who left the toaster plugged in overnight and who gets the last slice of pizza. But, they always end up forgiving each other after about an hour or so. Sometimes less. Depends on the situation. Either way, they were a match made in heaven and everyone still wanted to know what was keeping them from getting together. They just thought that their explanations were just excuses. That there was something more into than they were letting out.
"Hiro, stop, people are staring!" Suguru giggled, trying to push Hiro off of him.
"And since when did I care?" Hiro answered, wrapping his arms about Suguru's waist and pulling him closer, his face buried in his neck.
"Hiro!!"
"Don't you two know the meaning of 'get a room'?" Yuki asked as he and Shuichi walked up.
Hiro looked up and grinned. Suguru blushed. Shuichi shook his head. Yuki rolled his eyes.
"They are just showing the pleasures of PDA, Yuki." Shuichi said poking Yuki on the side.
"I have already told you a thousand times, I am not for Public Displaying of Affection."
"I know." Shuichi pouted.
He knew Yuki would take back those words later and ravish on him the school grounds later. But, sometimes it just felt like he really meant it. Shuichi didn't want to make him do anything that made him feel uncomfortable.
"I'll see you this afternoon." Yuki said to Shuichi, bending down to plant a sweet kiss on his lips.
Shuichi's mood brightened. He grabbed Suguru and Hiro by the arms and led them into Mr. Shioshima's history class, ready for learning (if you call thinking about new ways he can 'bring Yuki the most pleasure' learning, while the teacher gave his lesson). He was glad that Hiro was so smart and helped him with his homework. Otherwise, Shuichi wouldn't be passing.
After History, Hiro and Shuichi parted with Suguru to go to Music, the two best friend's favorite class, and on that Shuichi is actually really good in and passing on his own.
"Hiro, why don't you go on and freaking ask Suguru out?! Everyone knows that you like each other, so what's keeping you?!"
Hiro sighed. "If I have told you once, I have told you a thousand times, I don't want to ruin the good thing that him and I have. Besides, we act like we are going out, so I think that's good enough."
"Yeah, y'all bang like you are going out, too." Shuichi said elbowing Hiro playfully in the side.
"Hey, you are Yuki are like freaking rabbits!" Hiro replied elbowing him back.
The two laughed at their dirty jokes as they made their way to class.
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(A/N): Okay, this was a slow first chapter. It kind of sucks, too. It was basically to get people aquainted as in social status and stuff like that. Yuki is also a lot nicer in this fic, too. I hope that's okay. He might get a little meaner later on, but for now I think I will stick with the way he is now. PLEASE REVIEW! Let me know what you think!
