Touma
Touma Seguchi, the most powerful man in Japan, well at least seemed to be, sat behind his desk and listened to his brother- in- law on the phone. It was at first a surprise to hear Eiri's voice, but as soon as Eiri started to talk he saw the reason for the call. It was only for Eiri's benefit, and nothing to do with the well being of Touma. All though this disappointed Touma it was not at all shocking.
" Touma, can you do a background check on a one Shuichi Shindou, and a Maiko Shindou ," Eiri said in a disgruntled voice.
" I suppose Eiri, since I would do anything for you," Touma stated the obvious, but wrote down the name on a piece of paper.
" Bye," Eiri said quickly and hung up.
Not at least shocked by Eiri hanging up on him, Touma thought about the names that Eiri had given him. The first one seemed familiar. He thought it over again, Shuichi Shindou. Where had he heard that name from? As if a sign from God, his office phone started to ring.
" Hello," Touma spoke to his secretary.
" There is a one Shuichi Shindou on the phone for you," The secretary said in a mono tone voice, that drove Touma batty. But this time he ignored it as he heard the name. It was like his job was becoming easier and easier from when he had first became president.
" Put him on the phone," Seguchi spoke into the speakerphone.
" Ok," there was a click and Touma heard a young man in the background talking to his friends.
" Hello, Seguchi, Touma speaking," he spoke in the phone and the talking on the other ended as if God had spoken.
" Ummm… hi, I am Shuichi Shindou," the young man seemed extremely nervous.
" Yes, I know," Once again there was absolute silence.
" Well you gave me your card to contact you… about the band Bad Luck.. The one your cousin is in," As soon as Shuichi said this, it clicked in his mind. He knew exactly who Shuichi Shindou was, but the question was why did Eiri want to know.
" Ahh, I know exactly who you are, if you do not mind," as if anyone minded meeting Touma Seguchi, " I would like to set up a meeting."
" Okay, great," Shuichi sounded pleased, who wouldn't be.
" Well actually, I was wondering if today at 3:00 would be a good time to meet?" Touma asked but didn't really need to wait for the reply.
" Absolutely, we would be honored."
" Okay see you then, Mr.Shindou," Touma said and hung up the phone. He just loved when his job came to him. It always made life so much easier.
Shuichi
As soon as Shuichi got off the phone with Mr. Seguchi Touma, head of Ng productions, he was screaming his head off and running in circles. What else was he suppose to do? How could he not be happy?
" Shuichi what did he say?" Hiro asked wondering what had got Shuichi so excited.
" We are meeting Touma Seguchi at three o clock today," Shuichi yelled at Hiro and ran around in circles.
" Really so soon, that is not like Touma," Suguru who had seemed to go unnoticed finally moved from the couch and sat on Hiro's lap.
" Why do you seem suspicious, maybe he realized that we are just as good as Nittle Grasper," Shuichi questioned Suguru as if he was trying to bring the band down instead of stating a fact.
" Shuichi calm down, I just stated that it was unusual. There is no need to get defensive," Suguru said in a serious tone even though he showed a hint of smile as he watched Shuichi.
" Well we have to start getting ready," Shuichi said as if he had forgotten the whole Seguchi issue and realized something.
" Shuichi it is only 11:45, we have lots of time," Hiro stated.
" Hiro, are you serious, we have to look our best. And right now you don't look your best," Shuichi said in a serious tone.
Hiro, though , pretended to take offense to Shuichi's comment and threw a pillow at his pink head. This caused Shuichi to go wild and start chasing after Hiro. Hiro who had been sitting on the couch with Suguru on his lap had pushed him off , suddenly. This also caused an angry glare from his boyfriend who started to chase after him.
Eiri
Eiri Yuki was sitting at his laptop trying to do a little private investigation work on his own. He needed to find out who this Shuichi Shindou was and who this Maiko Shindou was. If he found this out it could maybe solve his problem, hopefully. But as usual, with his luck he had gotten no where. He just had to hope that Touma would get information on who he needed as quick as possible. Because the one thing that Eiri hated the most was not knowing, it absolutely pissed him off. He wanted to know if the boy that he had been thinking about non stop was this Shuichi person. He needed to find out.
His cell phone started to ring and he looked at the caller id. It was Touma. He thought about not answering it, but he might have news on the Shindous .
" Do you have any information for me?" Eiri said as he skipped any greeting.
" Yes, well sort of. I am going to be meeting this Shuichi Shindou at 3 today. And I know that he is part of a band called Bad Luck, but I have nothing on a Maiko Shindou. Although I do think she might be Shuichi's sister," Touma said ignoring the fact that Eiri didn't even say hello.
" Well maybe I will just happen to stop by your office today," Eiri pointed out .
" It is your choice, but if you do. I will be looking forward to the reunion between you two. I do mean between Shuichi and you of course," Touma stated.
" Well goodbye Touma."
" Good bye Eiri."
Shuichi
Shuichi, Hiro, and Suguru enter Ng studios at precisely 2:50. They were ten minutes early and hope that Touma Seguchi saw this as a positive aspect to the band. Especially since Suguru told them that it was a major pet peeve of Touma's for a client to be late. As the group walked to the elevator to go up to the top floor to Touma's office, they found that it was broken. Which meant that they would have to walk the 25 flights of stairs to reach Touma's office. Good thing that they had come ten minutes early.
Shuichi the most energetic of them all, thought that the best way to conquer stairs is to run up them. Which he soon, found out at the tenth flight, that it wasn't. It had only made him sweaty and tired, but he pushed himself to make it. Looking at his watch, Shuichi found that he had only four minutes to reach the top floor and 15 flights to go. Sprinting like a mad man, Shuichi ran up the stairs in a matter of seconds and reached the top with a minute to go.
The secretary who had been starring at Shuichi, was perplexed with a strange look.
" Why didn't you take the elevator?" she asked.
" It was broken, maybe you should have it fixed," Shuichi said in an out of breath tone. As soon as he said it though the elevator dinged and a disheveled Hiro and Suguru stepped out of the elevator.
" What are you doing in the elevator?" Shuichi gave them a dirty look.
" Well we were about to go up to the stairs behind you, but the elevator opened, and you were already halfway there. So we decided to meet you up," Hiro said as he fixed his shirt and tie.
" No you just pretended to hit the button, so you could say the elevator was broken, and then as soon as I was halfway up the stairs you hit the button and you and Suguru got in the elevator."
" Now Shuichi why would I do that?" Hiro asked.
" Because you didn't get enough of him in the car , so you decided to do it in the elevator," Shuichi was about to continue, but her heard a loud clearing of the throat.
" As much as I want to hear about my cousin making out with a man in my elevator, I would like to start our interview," Touma Seguchi spoke and Suguru's face turned scarlet.
Obediently, the three followed Touma into his office and they each sat in one of the three chairs surrounding his desk.
" So as I was saying the other day I would like to have you as one of my band," Shuichi nearly jumped out of his seat but Touma continued, " but like everyone else you have to start out low."
" Yeah, sure," Shuichi pleases with anything agreed.
" How low, cousin?" Suguru, the smart one, asked.
" As an opener for a band called Ask," Touma stated, " and then we will see where you guys will go from there."
" I suppose we can live with that," Hiro said as he looked at his two band member's.
" Well I will give you a producer and I will expect lyrics by the end of the week,"
" Okay," Shuichi was surprised at how the meeting seemed to go by really fast.
" Suguru , I will contact you later with more info, but I have just received note of something that needs my attention," Touma told Suguru.
" Okay well I guess we will be going," Shuichi said as all three of them got up.
" Oh Mr. Shindou, if you don't mind , I would like to ask you a couple questions with out your band members," Shuichi looked confused, and Suguru gave Touma an odd look.
But none of the band members wanted to offend the great Touma Seguchi, so Shuichi remained.
" Umm what would you like to know?" Shuichi was extremely nervous to be left alone in a room with Touma.
" Just a couple of things, because I might need to do an article on your band. It is basically standard procedure of an upcoming new lead singer," Touma said, which was a complete lie.
Eiri
Eiri was on his way to Ng, to see his brother-in-law. He had received a phone call saying that Shuichi Shindou had arrived and that if he wanted to meet him, he had better put his ass in gear. Well he didn't exactly say it like that, it was more like cute scrumptious ass, which totally offended him and crept him out. But he needed to see the kid again, he needed to know what was going on.
Driving like a mad man, Eiri Yuki, reached Ng in a matter of five minutes when it would have usually took him ten. He parked his car carefully and ran inside the well decorated building. As soon as he reached the elevator, it seemed like it took forever to open up, but he knew it was quicker than the stairs. What idiot would take the stairs if he was in a rush?
As Eiri reached the top most level, he was relieved that it was only 3:20, the band still had to be in the meeting with Touma. As Eiri walked to Touma's office he ran into a guy with green hair, that resembled Touma.
" Sorry," the guy said, and Eiri wondered if he was part of the band. If so where was the rest of the band.
" Hnnn, " Eiri grunted pass the man and continued to Touma's office.
Not knocking, Eiri walked right into a conversation between Touma and the guy who he had first met at the store. The guy who he seemed to be on his mind, for the last couple of days.
" Oh Eiri, nice to see you as always," Touma greeted from his all powerful desk.
Shuichi
Shuichi had been sitting across from Touma Seguchi's desk answering weird question, when he walked in. Eiri Uesugi, the guy who had spent only yesterday with. Shuichi was about to say something about how weird it was seeing him, after only seeing him yesterday, but he forgot that was when he was Maiko. So instead he pretended to be uninterested as Touma and him spoke together.
" Oh Eiri, nice to see you as always," Touma greeted .
" Nice to see, you too. I'm sorry though I did not know you were with somebody else," Eiri said with false sympathy, but it went unknown to Shuichi.
" No, it is okay, Mr. Shindou and I were just about to say our goodbyes," Shuichi took this as a hint to leave.
As Shuichi walked out of the office, he was glad. He felt uncomfortable being in a room, with a man that he currently had a major crush on. Pushing the elevator button, he found that he wasn't quick enough to get away from the man, as the man screamed for him to wait. Pressing the hold button on the elevator, he wondered exactly why he did wait for the man.
" I am sorry that I interrupted your meeting," Eiri said again with false sympathy as he moved closer to Shuichi.
" Oh, it is no problem. We were done anyway," Shuichi moved closer to the wall as Eiri moved closer to him.
" Have I seen you before," Eiri moved closer to Shuichi, so their faces were only inches apart.
" N..no I don't think so," Shuichi stuttered as heart beat sped up.
" Oh it must have been another cute boy that I met the other day at the store," Eiri moved closer to Shuichi, and the lips were barely touching. Shuichi blushed and Eiri had him exactly where he wanted him.
" Yeah probably," Shuichi said through mixed feelings of wanting to kiss Eiri and wanting to runaway.
" Oh well then, maybe we should get to know each other ," Eiri pulled away and stuck out his hand, " I am Eiri Yuki."
" Shuichi Shindou," Shuichi said as he shook hands with the man of his dreams.
A Couple Hours Later- Eiri
As Eiri pushed away from his bed, he looked down at Shuichi. He was supposed to feel better, he had gotten what he wanted. Now, he should be able to concentrate, but as he looked down at the boy he realized that he couldn't . He never should have slept with him, because now he wanted more of Shuichi Shindou. He wanted more of something he couldn't have.
" Yuki," Shuichi blinked his eyes and sat up, " Where are you going?"
" To take a shower and when I come back I want you gone," Eiri needed him out, he needed to think.
" Why?" Shuichi questioned him.
" Because I got what I wanted, a good fuck." Eiri walked towards the shower not even waiting for Shuichi's reply.
When he was done the boy was gone and he thought about how he had gotten himself in this situation. A situation that seemed impossible to get out of. He was falling in love with a boy named Shuichi Shindou, no that wasn't possible. He couldn't be in love and what about Maiko Shindou, Shuichi's sister. He had found that out yesterday when the two had talked, but the whole thing was still so confusing.
Maybe he should just stop thinking about Shuichi and go with Maiko. At least she would keep him some what distracted until he would have to end it. Which was probably going to be soon.
Shuichi
Shuichi left Eiri Yuki's apartment in a hurry. He felt the need to get out of there even before Eiri had yelled at him. Everything in his life seemed to be getting more confusing. He was falling in love with a man that he could never have. It would have been easier to accept this, but because of the bet he would still have to see him at school and they were some what dating. Shuichi hated the stupid dare he had made with Hiro, if only it had never happened he could be happy right now. Happy for getting his band somewhere in the music world, but no!!!! He had to think about that stupid jerk face, who seemed to have a split personality. Why did everything strange happen to him?
When Shuichi reached the apartment he shared with Hiro and Suguru , he was exhausted. He just wanted to lay in his bed and sleep the rest if his day off, before he had classes to go to tomorrow. But although that is what he wanted to do, like the rest of his life, that plan started to go wrong as he walked in and saw Hiro and Suguru half naked, making out on the couch.
" You guys do you have to do that?" Shuichi asked them as he walked in the kitchen, because obviously he wasn't going to get any sleep.
" Umm yeah we do. Why are you home?" Suguru asked.
" Why wouldn't I be?" Shuichi called from the kitchen.
" Me and Hiro thought you would be busy with Eiri Yuki right now," Suguru stated.
" Yeah, what happened?" Hiro asked.
" He kicked me out, and I don't feel good. So I would appreciate if you guys could at least keep it quiet," Shuichi said as he walked to his room. Even though he was tired he most likely would not be able to sleep.
" We'll try," Hiro laughed and started to kiss Suguru.
" Thanks," Shuichi told them and went in his room, to think about how he was going to solve his problems. All his problems that seemed to focus on a certain blond haired man. A man, who Shuichi seemed to think about non stop for the last couple of days. Man was his life pathetic.
