small, so frail, lost a lot of weight and his face gaunt. He looks like a little boy asking for approval. Shuichi had his first bite and enjoyed it, he's a good cook, smiling and looking happy, he dig in his rice and orange chicken.
Suddenly, the chopstick cluttered on the table and he started heaving, rushing to the bathroom to throw up the dinner and yesterday's meal. Shuichi rushed after him. Shuichi was closed to tears, his heart tearing apart seeing him so sick.
"You have to watch what you eat." Shuichi said, handing him the towel while he heaved his meal at the bowl. Yuki looked at him, his face so white, Shuichi's heart broke right then and there and held him close to him to hide his tears.
"Why can't I just eat what I like? I want to eat and live like everybody else! Is that too much to ask?" he said, looking at the boy with those dreamy golden eyes. I Shuichi lost himself in them for a moment.
"You should look at yourself in the mirror, you look terrible." Yuki said with a smile, tweaking the boy's nose at the same time.
"I can't believe you are saying that now." Shuichi said, turning pale.
"But, it's true, you're not the patient here, so stop looking like one." Yuki said, he tried to stand up and the boy helped him up.
"I just want to cook for you. I didn't know what you like or how you like your food, I just want to see you eat I what I cooked." Yuki said, and embraced the boy.
They went to the park, Yuki wants to play in the park, ride the swing and plant flowers all over the place, Yuki wants to plant a tree that he wants Shuichi to name it after him, it would be his tree.
"I marked it here somewhere." Yuki said, looking around, "There."
Kneeling down, "Come over here." Yuki beckoned. The boy knelt down beside him and helped him plant his tree.
"Think of me when the flowers bloom after I die. There's nothing here now, but there will be lots of them by Spring. I sprinkled flower seeds all over here, it would be beautiful like your face." Yuki said, touching the boy's face.
"Flowers don't bloom like that." Shuichi smiled.
"They don't? Isn't that how it works?" His face looking so forlorn all of a sudden.
That remarkable smile vanished and the boy wanted to see that again.