Shuichi the intellectual!

summary: shu goes intelectual! and he actually has a good idea! (*gasp*) does yuki like his idea? will he actually help shu?

disclaimer: duh. i dont own gravitation. if i did yuki would have at least used lub their first time (has anyone else noticed they didnt? i think that would have taken away some of the loud shout of OWW!! after they started in vol 2 of the manga)

a/n: this is gonna be really wierd. kinda spewed off of combining a few plotbunnies and something my friend told me and thinking about it for four hours when i stayed home sick. hope you like it! (its better than that makes it sound but it is really wierd) also sorry if i make some typos, im kinda listining to Bad Luck tracks on my comp and that's giving me a really wierd tempo to work to. p.s. i'm gonna be giving a bunch of these throughout the fic. i like putting in comments. p.p.s. i wrote some of this in a playground on my laptop surronded by a bunch of young, inocent kids (and my brother) who i didnt want to disturb for life so its a bit more prude at some points than i want it to be. heh. -.-;;

timeline: about four years after the forth volume. a bit ooc-ness but that's cuz of the 4 years later thing not my inability to stick to the original plot of the series.

rating: pg-13 going on R for some references. most parts are pg-13 though

*****************************************************Chapter one**********************************************************

"Yuki?"

"Hm?" Eiri Yuki mumbled down at the pink head of hair nestled against his chest.

"How come whenever we do something together, it's always sex?"

Yuki was startled at the question. "don't you like..."

He was cut off. "oh, I don't mean the sex isn't great. it is. its awesome. its just... whenever were finished you either just get up and put your clothes back on and go back to work of fall asleep. the only time we ever spend together besides in bed I'm usually on stage and your in the audience."

"umm... i don't know what else we could do together. don't ask me to go sappy romantic, cuz I won't."

"Oh, I'm not asking you to. I just wondered if there was something we could do together, y'know, something you would do with a friend, not a lover."

"...I don't really have any friends that weren't at one point in time my lover..."

Shuichi smacked a hand to his forehead. "you mean to tell me you have never had any really friends that you spent time with?"

"..." Yuki looked down at his hands and twiddled his thumbs. "umm... yes?"

"oh." a blank silence hung in the air. suddenly, the young star spoke, "are you almost done with your latest novel?"

Yuki was startled by the sudden change of pace in the conversation but was glad for it. He didn't like where the conversation had been going. "Uh, yeah, I just finished it. I was going to give it to the editor today." "Great! then we can spend some time together!"

"Actually we can't. I have to finish the series, remember? Can't disappoint the fans." They both knew that Yuki cared little for keeping his fans happy or making deadlines.

"I thought this was the last novel in the series? I could have sworn my sister said you put that in the afterward of the last one."

That surprised Yuki. He didn't know his Shu-chan could retain such small pieces of information. "umm... well... oh, yeah. that was the last novel in the series."

Shu smirked a bit. "Do you have any ideas for your next series?"

"Not really, no. Why?"

"Doesn't it seem a little strange to you that you have written twelve novels, spanning five different plot lines while we have been together and all of them had been strait?"

Once again Yuki was surprised to hear that Shu knew this much about what he had written. "Not really, should it?"

"Well you _are_ in a gay relationship and all you have written about is strait people. Dosen't that strike you as kinda weird?"

"I guess... what are you suggesting?"

"Well, what if..." Ding dong. Shuichi was cut off by the doorbell.

Eiri yelled (from the bedroom across the hallway through the foyer to the front door) "Who is it?"

"It's your editor! (I'm making it a different editor from the time where Shu fainted after being dumped by Shu and ending up in her apartment then a hospital)"

Yuki groaned. "What time is it?" he shouted once again.

"It's 11, Yuki-san!" she shouted back, "do you have the manuscript finished?"

"Yeah, yeah, just let me get dressed."

his editor was pleasantly surprised by this. Yuki-san had made a deadline for the first time in ten months! She then blushed when she realized that for Eiri to have to get dressed he had to be naked. She, like almost every other female Yuki Eiri had ever known, was seriously turned on by him. She still didn't realize that he was with Shindo Shuichi and had been for just over four years. (a/n: I'm setting this a while after the series as you can kinda tell but i don't know much about the rest of the series after about volume 4 cuz i only read the scans of five and six and had to skip some tracks. so this isn't gonna delve to deeply into back story even if it could)

The door finally opened and on the other side was a very bed headed tired looking Yuki Eiri. he was wearing wrinkled pants and a button-up shirt that was only buttoned up to about three buttons, leaving most of his chest exposed. She was practically salivating. That is, until another bed headed, well known young man appeared behind Yuki in similar attire. It looked to the editor like Shindo Shuichi, lead singer of the band Bad Luck, had spent the night with Yuki-san. and what was worse, he appeared to be wearing the man's shirt as a robe! All three people went into the house to sit down. The editor sitting on the small couch and Eiri sitting on his most comfortable lounge chair. This didn't strike the love struck editor as weird until Shu sat down on Yuki's lap. She expected Yuki-san to push the young man off, but much to her surprise, (and probably Shu's) Eiri wrapped his arms tightly around the boys chest and stomach (a/n: for a picture of this please refer to the bottom panel on page 167 in the manga vol 2 except with Shu more relaxed and receptive) and he kissed the boy on the junction of his neck and shoulder. It was then that the young editor noticed several small, fresh pink marks all along the boy's neck and chest (a/n: heh heh. hickeys.) It wasn't until just then that she realized that she had no chance with the handsome author. (a/n: well, duh. he isn't desperate enough to sleep with his editor even if he wasn't with Shu)

Her thoughts were interrupted by Yuki's voice. (a/n: yes the last few paragraphs were pretty much just her thoughts) "Well here's the manuscript."

"umm... do you have any idea of what your next series will be about? I mean just so i can tell my superior?"

"erm, well I did kinda have the idea to maybe... naw, the female fans wouldn't like it."

"Why don't you tell me. I mean, I _am_ a female AND a fan of your books so..."

"Oh all right, Shu, you explain. don't tell her anything you haven't told me"

The editor raised her eyebrow at this. They were going to go on the idea of Yuki's little rock star lover? (a/n: yea I know he's not technically rock, he's techno but it does have a nice ring to it)

"Umm, well, I noticed that Yuki had written only strait plots for the past few years at least, and well, since that's not his current area of expertise, per se, I thought maybe he could write about a gay couple and stuff kinda like that. Whaddaya think?"

Yuki was startled. He didn't know that his lover could sound so smart!

The editor blushed at the confirmation that the author _was_ in a gay relationship. She then said, "you'll probably lose a few devout readers, but you'll probably also gain several more. You'd be surprised how many girls love hearing about normal, hot guys that are together in a gay relationship." (a/n: teeheehee! but WE all know just how many girls love reading yaoi and shonenai fanfics and manga!)

Yuki was surprised at this revelation. He decided to ask a more personal question. "Do you think the music world would mind if their teen idol was an out-of-the-closet gay?"

She blushed again. "Not really. I think Shuichi and his band would do just fine. I mean, think of Aba, that American group." (a/n: they're a group of drag queens who wrote all the music in Mama Mia in case you didn't know)

Shu nodded his head thoughtfully. Yuki looked confused. "Aba?"

"Yeah. They're a group of drag queens who were and are pretty popular in the US. I think Bad Luck will do just fine. I mean, don't you and Hiroshi- san hug all the time, Shuichi-san? And that hasn't really effected you're popularity, has it? And you don't have to come outright and say that either of you are gay. You can just say you decided to write about a gay couple for a change of pace."

Yuki had a sudden idea. He thought he knew a way that he could spend more time with Shuichi and get work done without having sex. "How do you think a book having two authors would sell?"

"Um, Yuki what are you taking about?" Shuichi asked, confused.

"Could you excuse us for a second please?" Yuki asked his editor as he gently pushed Shu off of him then pulled him towards the nearest room, the office.

Once they were in the office, Yuki started explaining his plan. "Well Shu, I was thinking about what you said and I figured out a way we could spend more time together outside of the bed. We could write about how we got together. We don't have to use our names or we can. We can write a novel about how we got together told in first person point of view. We could each write about our thoughts about different parts of our history. That way we would actually be killing three birds with one stone. (a/n: pardon the expression, animal lovers, I'm a vegetarian too) We would be spending more time together, we would find out how the other felt throughout our relationship, and we would solve the whole problem of you bothering me as I worked. What do you think?"

Shu grabbed Yuki in a tight bear hug. "That's exactly the type of 'other stuff' I was talking about Yuki! You read my mind!" And with that closing statement he kissed Eiri firmly on the lips and pulled him back to the living room.

"Back to what I was saying, sorry for the disturbance," Yuki said apologetically to his editor. (a/n: this last line was really ooc but Yuki is in a good mood. he pleased his boyfriend AND made it so he wouldn't interrupt his work)

"Oh it's no trouble at all." she said, startled at Yuki's sudden kindness.

"Anyway, as I was saying, I thought maybe me and one other author, who will not be named unless he wants to be, could write a novel about a gay relationship, each of us writing from one of the main character's points-of- view. We would both write about the same occasion and then continue with the plot line."

"hmm. That sounds interesting. Why don't you write the first few chapters and I'll run it by my superior. And I would mention that the other 'author' is not really and author, but is just writing this amateourly."

On this point Shuichi put his two cents in, "Well, maybe the other author's writing style will be perfect for the character he's writing! hmph."

**************end chapter one*******************heh. i know. Weird place to stop. I just want to thank lain-chan for indirectly giving me the core of this plotbunny. if you don't see how (which u probably won't) I'll explain later! Thanx for reading and don't forget to review! I got really bad responses on my other fics but this one is much better! (don't read the other fics unless you're a fan of Orson Scott Card's books! heh. actually, just read "school" if you have read his books. my other fanfic is really rude)

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