Author's Notes:
So... I've been challenged by someone... Maniacslaugh... To complete at least 2 of my stories before school starts next Monday... Heh.. Fine, then! I'll win! : D
(maniacslaugh is a Petshop of Horrors and Yu-Gi-Oh fic writer XD)
I don't own Gravitation!
Chapter Two
Shuichi sighed happily, opening the bathroom door. Nothing relaxes a person like a nice, hot shower. He was just drying up his hair with a small towel slung across his shoulders when he heard Yuki's voice. And the writer didn't sound happy at all.
"What the fuck happened here?" He growled out at the singer. "Why is there a giant hole in my ceiling? What did you do now, brat?" Shuichi looked up and groaned. It looked even worse from down there.
"Well.. You see, K shot at the ceiling and then-"
"That damn Yankee! If you would at least go to your fucking work on time, I'd never have to fix anything here! You're such an idiot! You always break my walls and furniture! And if you don't, that idiot American does because of you! You have to fix the ceiling the second you come back! I don't care if you're tired or if you'll break your fucking fingers with the hammer, just do it!" The writer got up and stomped off to the kitchen to get some breakfast. 'He really isn't a morning person... But I guess he must still be half asleep – he won't remember any of the stuff he just said by the time I get back!' The boy thought and got his hair dryer. He plugged the noisy device in and dried his short hair. After a few minutes, when his hair was sufficiently dry, he shut off and unplugged the machine. Now that Eiri was in the kitchen and only half conscious, Shuichi could go up and get his doggy. He also had to clean up the nasty surprise his pet left for him before leaving the house. Excited about seeing the dog, Shuichi ran up the stairs and flung the bedroom door open but gasped and froze when he saw who was inside. Somehow, he managed to forget all about K!
"You took your sweet time, Shuichi. I've been waiting here for over half an hour! You're a man! You should only have to jump under the shower and jump right out! Only girls spend so much time in the bathroom. Now come on, everyone's waiting!" The American got up off the bed and walked over to the pop star.
"Okay, just give me a second, K! I'll be right down, I'll just take care of this first." He said, pointing at the poop he stepped in earlier that morning.
"Fine, but be quick about it!" K told him and disappeared downstairs. With the unwanted man gone, Shuichi ran to the bathroom and took a roll of toilet paper. He rolled off a very long piece and balled it all up to clean up his pet's mess. It took the whole roll to make the floor spotless clean – though he'd have to get some freshener for the room, and probably an anti-bacteria spray. But he didn't have time to worry about that now! He quickly dumped all the used up paper in the toilet and pressed the flush handle. He ran out and dived under the bed to see if his puppy was hiding under there.
"Humphrey? Humphrey, are you there?"
"Whoof!" The dog was licking Shuichi's face a second after he called him.
"Hahaha! Stop that, not now! Come on, we have to go!" He laughed and grabbed the small animal. He put him carefully inside his old duffel bag and zipped it up just enough so that he wouldn't escape but he'd still have some air. "Don't worry, you just have to stay here for a little bit. Yuki can't see you! So if you just stay here, quietly, everything will be alright!"
"Woof whoof!" Came the barked out reply.
"Alright!" Shuichi lifted the bag up and descended down the stairs. He put on his sneakers and got up to leave. It was pretty warm so he didn't need a coat or anything. "I'm going to work now, Yuki!" He called out to the novelist. "Bye!" There was no reply but Shuichi wasn't expecting any – Eiri was already really grumpy this morning after waking up to see a hole in their bedroom ceiling. The singer took the bag in hand and ran out of the house, hardly stopping himself from swinging the bag. He jumped into the passenger seat of the car K drove him to work in every day and put his seatbelt on – he learned the hard way that you should always wear a seatbelt when K was driving.
"What's with the overnight bag? You going somewhere, Shuichi?" His manger asked, pulling out of the driveway.
"N-nothing. I just have some stuff in it, that's all."
"Ah."
When K changed gears from reverse and sped up way faster than the actual speed limit allowed, the puppy must've felt sick or scared because he started whimpering inside the dark bag.
"Huh? What's wrong with you, Shuichi? You not feeling well?"
"Um, no, no, I'm fine... It's just a bit fast, that's all..."
"What are you talking about? We're going real slow today! Look, there's traffic ahead so I can't go as fast as usual." Shuichi looked up at the unmoving line of cars ahead of them and groaned. They'd be stuck there for ever!
After fifteen minutes of sitting in the traffic, Humphrey started getting a bit restless. Shuichi had the bag lying across his lap but with the sides of it randomly moving, K could start to suspect something so the singer moved it to lie along his legs. The puppy must have liked it better this way because he crawled over to the end that Shuichi's stomach was touching and sat down in the small depression between the boy's stomach and his legs. Even though the dog seemed to be settled now, Shuichi was still worried.
"Hey, K, can't you get out of the traffic somehow? Can't you just turn around and take a different route or something?"
"Why? What's your hurry, Shuichi? You're never so eager to get to the studio. We're stuck here now because of you, you know. If you only would have gotten up on time, we'd already be there..."
"I know, I know! But come on! I want to get there fast because, I, uh.. You see, I.. I need to go to the bathroom!" Shuichi lied.
"Why? Do you need to powder your nose?" K laughed at his own joke.
"No! I need to take a piss!" Shuichi shouted, annoyed at being made fun of.
"Then I suggest you hold it. Don't forget that it's your fault we're stuck here. Deal with it." The American told him heartlessly.
"Graugh! Fine!" He was already tired of hearing that everything was his fault – even if it was. After a good few minutes of silence – during which the traffic started to ease up a little -, Shuichi felt something really warm on him. It couldn't have been the puppy – he's been sitting in the same place for some time now- Shuichi's mind went blank for a second as he realized what the sudden, really warm sensation could be caused by. He picked up the bag and squeaked in surprise – the bag was leaking and his pants had a large, wet stain on the crotch.
"Shuichi! I told you to hold it! You have a bladder worse the size of a walnut!"
"It's not my fault! I told you to hurry up and get to the studio!"
"It is your fault – if you'd only been on time, we'd already be there! You wanna try to convince me why it's my fault? Then talk to the Magnum!" The American threatened with his trusty weapon.
"WAH! No! Look, just forget it! It's all my fault! Now can you please just drive so we can get there and I can change into some clean clothes?"
"Ooh look, the traffic's clearing up." K noticed and moved forward. The sudden change in his manager's mood didn't surprise Shuichi. It took them another half hour to arrive at the NG recording studios. K parked the car and Shuichi got out, careful to cover his wet jeans with the duffel bag that 'woof'ed when he yanked it out, forgetting what was inside it. The singer gasped and looked over at K, hoping that the American hasn't noticed. He sighed with relief when he saw his manager was still in the car, getting his guns out of the back seat.
The two of them walked hurriedly down the halls of NG to their studio before anyone saw that Shuichi had a little 'accident'. When the boy opened the door, he was met with Hiro and Suguru's death glares and Sakano's hysterics.
"Shuichi-kuuuun! Why are you so laaate! You have one week before the release of your new album and there's still sooo much work to doooo! You can't just skip work whenever you please! You have an obligation if not to the NG then to your fans to release new songs on time! You've wasted half a day of work! AAAaaahHHh! What are we going to do noowww? We won't get that time back annd we cannot under any circumstance postpone the release! You have to be more responsible now! You're a professional now! Waah! What will I tell the Shacho if you're not done on time? He made it very clear that we have to have this album done on tiiime! Seguchi-san will murder me! I know he will! I'm a failure as a producer! I should just save our boss the trouble and kill myself! I just know that he'll-" Shuichi ignored Sakano's incoherent ramblings – it's not like it was the first time the guy acted this way.
"Why are you so late, Shuichi? I thought you knew that we still have to plan and record the rest of the songs? What hap- wait... Did you.. Piss yourself..?" Hiro asked, puzzled, when he noticed the dark stain that was very visible on the light jeans now that Shuichi was no longer trying to hide it.
"No! It was my doggy! He peed in the bag and I had the bag on my lap!" Shuichi whined.
"Yeah, right. I know that you don't have a dog. There's no way Yuki-san would ever allow you to keep one."
"Shindou-san! Will you just stop trying to get out of work already? We're behind schedule as it is! Now that you're here, get in there and sing! Myself and Nakano-san already recorded the instrumentals for this song while you were taking your time to get here." Suguru addressed the vocalist, beyond annoyed at his attitude to work.
"But it's true! Wait! I'll show you! Look!" Shuichi wanted to prove to them that he wasn't lying so he set the duffel bag on the floor and unzipped it. As soon as he pulled the flap aside, the black puppy jumped out happily and barked a few times."
"So who did you steal it from, Shuichi? Does Yuki-san know?" Hiro asked, coming to pet the dog.
"I didn't steal him! He followed me home!" Shuichi shouted defensively.
"How did you get Yuki-san to agree to let you keep a pet? A small puppy like this is a lot of responsibility, Shindou-san..." Suguru pointed out, petting the small animal as well.
"Um.. Well... Yuki doesn't exactly know about Humphrey..."
"Humphrey?" His band mates asked in unison.
"Well, yeah, I heard the name somewhere and thought it was perfect for him..." The singer said, twiddling his thumbs.
"Wait, did you say Yuki-san doesn't know about the puppy? Shindou-san! You have to do something about it! You know he will find out what you've done and we have too much work to do for you to be sulking about because of something stupid like a dog!" Suguru scolded the older boy.
"Humphrey isn't stupid! And Yuki won't find out because you're all gonna keep your mouth shut! I'll just raise my little doggy in secret! And Yuki will never have to know about our child because he doesn't use the upstairs anyway! Why would he look for our beautiful son there of all places?" Shuichi was off in dreamland, too absorbed in his fantasies of raising a child -puppy- in secret to notice the confused looks on the faces of everyone around him.
"Why did you bring him in something like an overnight bag?" Hiro asked, getting over his confusion quickly. There really was no point in trying to understand the hyper vocalist.
"So that Yuki wouldn't see him."
"Then why didn't you take him out in the car?" K queried. "He probably wouldn't have pissed all over you if you had."
"Because... I... Don't know..." Shuichi realized that there really was no point in having kept the puppy inside the stuffy bag all this time. Maybe K would've even tried to get to the studio sooner if he knew...
"Anyway!" Suguru interrupted his ponderings. "Now that you're here, Shindou-san, let's get to work! We can talk about little Humpy after we're done."
"Humphrey."
"Whatever!" Shuichi gave the dog one last pat on the head and jumped into the recording booth, full of energy. He was really pumped up now and it showed in his singing.
Ending Notes:
Well.. Not much happened in this chapter, really, but it felt right to finish it here XD
And that way, maybe I can have the story finished in the next chappie.. XP
So anyway! Hope you enjoyed and sorry for any OOCness that might have occurred XP
Thank you for reading! ^.^
Please review to let me know what you think! :3
