Ok, so here's the third chapter. Just like I promised.


After three hours (new record, by the way) he was in front of the door of the temple, his eyes hardening at the boxes at the entry; he didn't have to ask to know that those boxes were his brother's belongings. He walked inside, to his father's office, not even bothering to knock. It did surprise a bit to see his sister there, but he brushed it off.

He slammed the papers into the table. "Sign at the signalized places." He groaned.

"Why are you doing this? You never cared about him." His father said as he took the papers and signed at the blank spaces.

"Because I thought you did. But I'm not letting my brother live in hell because of his father's negligence." He said and lit a cigarette, knowing how much his father hated it.

"Eiri…"

"What?" He barked, his golden eyes ice as cold, leaving his father with an open mouth. "Just finish to sign those damn papers so I can be gone."

Not even Mika tried to say anything so when his father was finished he snatched the papers and left the house. He put all the boxes inside the car and drove back to Tokyo, not wanting to spend more time than necessary in there.

When he arrived, it was past ten in the night.

"Tat-chan! Come help me!" He yelled, but he was only met with silence. "Tat-chan?" Nothing. Fearing the worst, he ran inside. He found him sleeping in the kitchen, two dishes full of food on the table. He smiled and shook his shoulder softly. "Tatsuha, hey, wake up."

The dark haired Uesugi opened his eyes and looked at him before smiling at him. "Eiri? When did you arrive?"

"Right now. You didn't have to wait up for me." He said, brushing the soft black strands.

"But I wanted to. It feels nice knowing I don't have to eat alone anymore." He said.

Eat alone…?

"Ok, then, we'll heat it up again." He said and Tatsuha beamed. "I'll go slip into pyjamas. You should too. Your stuff is at the hall."

Tatsuha nodded and ran to the entrance, seeing the four boxes. "Eiri? What's in the boxes?" He didn't have so many clothes.

"I have no idea. He had left them on the door." He yelled back. "Just look for the pyjamas and tomorrow you can organise all that stuff."

"Ok." He did as told and once he had it, he put it on and went back to the kitchen. "Dinner is ready!" He said as he re-served them on the dishes.

"Smells delicious." Yuki said as he sat down on his usual place.

"Thank you aniki."

Once more they ate in silence and when they were done they moved to the master bedroom, the elder drawing him into a tight embrace once more.

"So, what do you want to do tomorrow?" Eiri asked.

"I don't know, I didn't think of actually doing anything." Tatsuha replied his head resting on his big brother's chest.

"Well, I did. How about we go buy you a room for your own?" He suggested.

"Why?"

"Well, I guess you'll need your intimacy, Tat-chan." And so do I. He thought. "And you need a space to keep your things, to study…"

Tatsuha nodded. "I-I'll look for a job." He blurted out after a few minutes of silence.

"A job? What for?"

"I don't want you to take care of me totally. I want to help you. Even if I can't bring a quarter of a quarter of a quarter of the money you make I…" He trailed off, closing his eyes when he saw Eiri's hand move to his face.

He is going to hit me. Because I'm worthless. And he doesn't like worthless people. No one likes worthless people.

He was trembling in fear, but Eiri only ruffled his hair, as he had been doing all the time since he arrived the night ago.

"I told you it's ok, Tat-chan. But if you want to work I could find…"

"No! I want to do it myself! You've done enough as it is." He interrupted and instantly looked down.

"As you wish." Eiri only said before kissing his forehead. "Good night, Tatsuha."

"Good night aniki."


Next morning, when Tatsuha woke up he saw that his brother was sleeping on his stomach, on arm draped over his own waist and facing him. He moved some of the blond strands to see his face more clearly and he lied down also in his stomach, facing him and observing him.

He had no idea why he was doing that, but he felt the urge of observing him in peace, with that worried face he had all the time around him, or with the cold mask he wore around everyone, minus Shuichi. He felt so jealous of the singer, he got to see his brother's real self and he couldn't even a glimpse at it unless the blond was sleeping.

He kissed his brother's brow before standing up and going to the shower. Once he was dressed in his own clothes (jeans and a shirt) he went to the kitchen to prepare some breakfast. He wanted full Japanese today.

He checked the fridge to see if there was any fish and when he saw none he decided that he would go buy some. Good think his brother was in the best neighbourhood in all Tokyo, that meant the quality of the ingredients couldn't be better! He beamed at that thought and took his brother's wallet and left a note on the fridge just in case Eiri woke up while he was gone.

He trotted down the stairs, not wanting to take the lift and headed to where he remembered the supermarket was. He did notice people staring at him and he regretted not having a hood with him so they would stop looking at his bruised face. It was then that a whisper reached his ears.

"Wow. I never thought Eiri-sama would look so good with black hair!"

"Right? And his eyes look so nice in black to! I never imagined he would wear contact lens!"

Oh. So it was not because of his bruises, it was because he resembled Eiri.

When he arrived to the fish department, he waited in line, his ears still hearing the women (and some men) talk about him.

"Ah! Eiri-sama! Please go before me!" One of them exclaimed and in a matter of seconds, he was the first one in line.

"Uh… I'm sorry, ma'am, but I'm not Eiri…" He started.

"What?" Another one exclaimed.

"Well, his voice is a bit higher than Eiri-sama's…"

"Who are you then?" He didn't have time to answer. Not when a high-pitched voice and then a mop or greenish-brownish hair jumped on him.

"TATSUHA!" Everyone stilled around him.

"Ah! Sakuma-san!" He exclaimed.

"What happened to your face?" The singer asked. He only looked down and for a moment, serious-Sakuma-san made his appearance. "Well, well, it doesn't matter. What are you doing here?"

"I'm staying at Eiri's…"

"Oh! Nice!"

Once more, whispers filled his ears, but this time they weren't so nice. "Eiri-sama has a brat in his house?" "Well, he was going out with that Shindou kid." "Yeah, but he is a famous singer, have you ever heard of a brat like this one?" With each comment, each word, he was sinking lower and lower in his minds.

"He's Yuki-san's ototo!" Everyone looked at Ryuichi.

"Sakuma-san…"

"Besides, what does it matter to you with who is Yuki going out with? It's not like he is going to like any of you." He said and helped him stand up.

"Ototo? Eiri-sama has a little brother!" They gasped.

"He is so cute!" Someone said and Tatsuha couldn't help think they were all bipolar or something. "Please, order first Tatsuha-san!"

"I just want to of those…" He pointed at the fish he wanted.

"Anything else Tatsuha-san?"

"No. Thank you." Once he had paid (after he insisted as the woman didn't want to charge him Sakuma and he walked to Eiri's apartment.

"So, Tatsuha-kun, how long are you staying at Yuki-san's this time?"

"I-I'm going to live with him now…" He said and Sakuma only nodded, sensing that Tatsuha didn't want to talk about the reason of why he was going to leave with his brother. "W-what are you doing here, Sakuma-san?"

"I came to see a friend of mine from childhood." He smiled at him, going back to his childish behaviour. "If Tatsuha-kun is living with Yuki-san… We could meet sometimes and go take a coffee together!" He suggested.

And the younger of the two could only look at him with a star-struck look on his face before nodding. And even though he was so happy that his idol was suggesting this, he didn't feel like all the other times they had met. He hadn't felt the surge of getting down to his knees and worship him, nor to cry or make a public display of his happiness.

They arrived at Eiri's block of apartments and they said goodbye.

"See you around! Come one day to NG!" Sakuma said when he was on the next corned. He only nodded again.

When he entered the house, he saw that his brother was still sleeping, which meant he still had time to surprise him.

"Eiri…" He shook his shoulder from afar, knowing his brother was the god of grumpy people when he was awakened. And so, the blond made a gesture with his hand as if to brush something off. "Aniki, I made breakfast…" At those words, he seemed to wake up a bit. "C'mon, it's getting cold. And I don't want it to go to waste." He pressed.

"Ok, ok, I'm coming." He said although he didn't move an inch.

"Tea or coffee?"

"Coffee." Yuki replied as he started to sit up, rubbing his eyes.

"Kay. Don't take long."

He left the room and then notice he still had the wallet in his pocket and went to leave it at its place next to the door. It was then, that he caught a glimpse of a photo. Making sure he's brother wasn't around yet, he opened the wallet and saw not one photo, but two. One was of Eiri and Shuichi; they were both smiling. He recalled seeing the same picture in Shuichi's own wallet. The other one, though, was of him and Tatsuha, a few years back. He recognised as the last photo they took before he went to USA. He remembered that Mika had been in that photo, but it was now nicely cut off.

He smiled before he left the wallet on its place and went back to the kitchen. He was pouring the coffee when Eiri stepped in, his hair sticking in all directions and his eyes still sleepy.

"Where did you get the fish from?" The blond asked as he accepted the mug.

"Went to buy it." He confessed in a soft mumble, not looking at him, just in case his brother was mad at him. He had learned the hard way that if he didn't look people I the eye he wouldn't be hurt. Much.

"Oh. Something interesting happened?" He looked up, happy to see his brother didn't seem angry with him at all.

"People confused me with you, then Sakuma-san appeared out of nowhere, people thought we were going out…"

"You and Sakuma?" Eiri interrupted, feeling very jealous of that.

"You and I." He admitted, feeling fidgety at the thought of him and Eiri going out and… He's my brother damn it! What's wrong with me? I never had those thoughts before. But well, Eiri had never this kind to him before.

"That's interesting. So what happened?" He felt so smug inside at the thought of people thinking he was going out with him.

"P-people started to say that why would you have someone like me with you and then Sakuma-san snapped at them and told them we are brothers. And then they were acting nice again." He explained, feeling his eyes burn a little as his mind replayed the harsh words of the women.

"Just ignore them." Yuki said before pulling him into one arm hug.

He nodded and kept eating and once they finished Yuki went to take a shower and get dressed so they could leave and go by Tatsuha's new furniture.

After a whole morning in the most expansive furniture place Eiri knew, they had a whole new room. Now they needed to build it up. Biggest problem: they had no idea of how to do it.

"Hum… I think this goes in there, aniki."

"It can't be… and that thing isn't supposed to look like this!"

"We suck at this, don't we?" Tatsuha asked flatly.

"Totally. But I'm a writer, I'm not supposed to know how to do this shit." He grumbled under his breath. "They should have people to do it for us." He said as he rolled his sleeves up to his elbows.

They had been going at it for two whole hours when the doorbell interrupted them. They both blinked.

"Did you expect visits aniki?"

"Not that I remember…" They got up and went to the door, only to find Bad Luck and Nittle Grasper plus Sakano and K at the corridor outside. "What's going on?" He asked to no one in particular apparently, but Shuichi knew that the question was meant for him.

"I told them I was coming tonight and well… they kinda tagged along. Hope you don't mind, Tatsuha, but we'll be your guests tonight."

"My… guests?" He asked, blinking.

"You haven't told him yet?" Shuichi asked his ex-lover.

"Forgot about it." He only said. "I asked Shuichi to keep you company tonight since I have to go to this boring presentation of that new hotel so I can promote my book." He quickly explained.

"Don't be like that, Eiri-san, I'll be there too." Seguchi said and Yuki only snickered.

"I don't see how does this make it better." Even if their relationship improved a bit, it wasn't best Eiri had. Although sometimes they thought Eiri just acted this way for the old times sake. It was clear he cared deeply for Seguchi when the president of NG had an accident and he spent more time in there than Seguchi's own wife. "Anyway, now that you are all here and are going to use my house as a social gathering building, you are going to help us. Hope you like DIY work."

The looks on their faces were priceless and Tatsuha saw that his aniki was trying hard not to laugh at them. "Yeah, they could be great help." He said.

One by one, they all came in and once they had reached the soon-to-be-a-good-dorm they all blinked.

"What in earth is all that?" Noriko asked.

"Tatsuha's bedroom." Eiri replied. "But we ain't so good with it… so you are going to help us."

Now, it would be a lie if they said they didn't have fun building it. After so many tries they finally finished. It only took then 6 hours and thirty-two minutes. Not counting the previous too. It also turned out that Noriko was the best one of the lot, which left all the guys (minus Shuichi and Ryuichi, of course) feeling like they had lost a bit of manhood.

"Eiri-san, you should head to the shower if you want to make it on time for the conference." Seguchi said when they were all sitting on the living room, drinking either beers or sodas.

"Not like I want to but I have to."

"Oh, it's true, how is it going with Meiko-san?" Shuichi asked.

"It doesn't seem I actually changed editors. She's a demon just like all the others were. I think they assign them to me on purpose."

"It's the only way you actually do you work on time so probably they do." The pink-headed said and almost everyone chuckled.

"Anyway, K, Sakano and I are going to pick up some pizzas. Any preferences?" Noriko said and in less than three seconds, everyone was yelling. Tatsuha included, which make Yuki happy on the inside.

"I'm going to the shower, if I hear so much of something breaking, I'm throwing all of you outside." The youngest blond said as he stood up.

"I'm going to be heading home too. I need to shower too after building up a whole bedroom. See you around, Tatsuha." He waved good-bye and Ryuichi waved him with Kumagoro, all chibified.

"Bye Tohma!"

"Tat-chan." The black haired Uesugi turned around at the voice of his brother calling him.

"Yeah?"

"Come here for a minute." He stood up and went to him. "Expect me by midnight or so, there's no way I'll be able to stand those uptight assholes for more than three hours." He nodded in understanding. "And make sure those assholes in the living room don't break anything. And tell K that if when I come back I see one single bullet hole he'll know hell."

"Ok!" He was about to leave when he stopped short. "Aniki?"

"Yeah?"

"C-could I sleep with you today too?" He just needed to feel him close. At least for one more night.

Yuki blinked, taken aback a bit at that request. "Sure." He then kissed his hair and left. "Hey, you bunch of lazy assholes, I want you all out by midnight as I expect to be back by then. The only who can stay is Shuichi as he is the only I had ask to come tonight. And I want to see everything in perfect state. And that means no paint in my walls, floor, ceiling or any kind of furniture, you got that Sakuma?"

"Hai Yuki!" He lifted Kumagoro and Eiri fought the urge of face palming.

"And no one, absolutely no one is allowed in my room nor my office. That being said, take care of Tatsuha." He only said and walked to the door.


So... That it's for today. Next upload will come tomorrow, hopefully.

And it sucks not having Wi-Fi at home, it keeps playing hide-n-seek with me. It's super annoying.