For Him: Transcend

Rating: K+ (o.O I know right? Not M rated? What's wrong with me!)

Pairing:ShuichixYuki

POV: Hiroshi Nakano

A/N: Yeah. I wrote this one while listening to Saddness and sorrow. If you don't like Naruto, you should at least hear this song. It's really sad. Though Yuki has had no real impact on this fic, I still couldn't help think of him and what it would be like if something like this ever happened. We're not going to go there.

It hurts to tell the truth to the one's you love. Because you know it will hurt them more than it will hurt you. But how do you tell someone that their life partner of seven years... Is gone?

You wonder how they'll react. Will they cry, scream, faint... or die... The latter seemed most appropriate for someone like Shuichi Shindou. The only thing he cared more about than his music, was a lover who, up until now, we never believed was ever there for him.

Now that he was... We all came to the realization that Shuichi was Shuichi because of who Yuk was to him. There was no light or darkness, no good or evil to Shuichi. It was always, only, every Yuki. The man was my best friend's entire world, and now there was nothing left but an empty void that none of us would be able to fill.

It tore my heart in two when he didn't shed a single tear... It spoke volumes of the devastation that took hold of him in a choking grasp, refusing to allow him to breath, think. So we cried for him. All of us. We mourned the loss of not only our band member's lover, but the life said band member no longer felt.

It's been nearly two weeks since Shuichi lost his love to a fatal car crash. Two agonizingly slow weeks his Shuichi gave up on trying to be strong, and just let his misery consume him. I had yet to see him cry or break down in a fit of relentless sobs at the though of never being able to tell the novelist how much he loved him, or hold him in his arms again.

I had no idea what it felt like to lose someone so precious, even still, nothing seemed right about the world anymore. It was as if the carpet had been swept out from beneath all of us, sending us crashing to the floor of reality with no means to pick up all the pieces.

By night I received the phone call, I had no tears left in me. Just the sickening acceptance that everything was going to be okay now. Bad luck was through. The band would embark on a new journey, wrought with joys and perils alike. We would all find happiness, or find death ourselves. The story would continue on for all of us, and we'll look back on the fond memories we shared with our friend and smile.

He might have chosen to end it all, unable to bear the thought of waking up every morning alone and dead inside. But the memories he... the memories they both let behind would remain with us forever. A testimony to the love these two souls shared that transcended, not only life, but death itself.

Thinking back, I wonder if Yuki would have done the same if it had been Shuichi that had died in that crash. Standing here in the cool autumn afternoon gazing at the twin headstones of the most talked about couple in Tokyo, I liked to think so.

Yuki might have been a heartless prick most of the time, but no one would have put up with Shuichi for that many years if love wasn't involved. Shuichi always said the novelist had a softer side. Wherever they were, I hope he was showing it now. I prayed for so many nights after Shuichi passed that Yuki would know the sacrifice Shuichi made to be with him.

With a broken heart that would never fully mend, I left the graveyard that day, tears in my eyes and a prayer in my heart as the words etched into those stones rang through my thoughts.

"For Two Who Loved. They Were Never Meant To Be Apart. Eiri Uesugi 'Yuki' and Shuichi Uesugi. May You Find Peace For Eternity In Each Other's Arms."

Tohma had picked the words carefully. He above all of us, suffered the loss just as equally as Shuichi, but in the end, no doubt remained as to who needed the novelist more.

In the end, we're all pawns in this fucked up world. But Shuichi and Yuki? They were in a world of their own... Nothing could touch what they shared. Not even death. I only wish I could've been there to hold Shuichi and tell him goodbye as he joined his lover in death.

Attending the first funeral broke my heart. Attending the second one damn near killed me. But I knew there was no other way. Shuichi was gone the moment he was told of his lover's passing. At least this way, no one has to suffer anymore.

Today is a day for celebrating. Not the death of two very loved men, but the love they proudly showed for each other in the face of adversity and everything else thrown at them.

I am Hiroshi Nakano, and I'm now a firm believer in love after death. Shuichi wouldn't have it any other way.

OWARI

No Coments at the end of this one guys. Leave a review if you want my to do another chapter though another POV. I had Tohma in mind, but I'm open for ideas.