Author: Atsu Tenshi
Disclaimer: If I am Maki Murakami, I'll make Tohma single while Mika rot in hell! Hehehehe…
Warning: Un-BETA, shonen-ai, some cursing words…
Title: Am I Lucky or Bad Luck?
Summary: A daring date game plus with a sexy hot bodyguard equals to…
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Reminiscence
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Shuichi was stationary in front of the grand supermarket entrance. He stood there like a statue, still…frozen…unmoving. His mauve eyes started to water. His breath started to hitch. He did go around the building to find his bodyguard but not a single blond-hair he could find. No Yuki…meant no Ric (you know, the driver)… and no Ric meant no Yuki…Shuichi felt a lumped in his throat.
Tatsuha was quite concerned as he watched the duplicate of Ryuichi in such state. "Ano, Shui-" Tatsuha was suddenly cut by a big wailed from the pink-hair boy who suddenly moved by doing a fit tantrum on the ground. "I CAN'T BELIEVE HE LEFT ME! I THOUGHT HE IS MY BODYGUARD!"
Shuichi started to cry as he sat on the ground hardly. He ignored the pain and cried even louder. Passers-by looked look at them weirdly and few rich ladies had came out from the supermarket to look at what all the fuss.
A wealthy fat old lady wore a big lavender flowery hat with huge jewellery all around her hands, neck and ears came out to the scene too. Her expensive apparel was so attractive to the eyes because of the garment's colour. Tatsuha winced of the brightness. That was one thing Tatsuha hated about rich women, when it comes to clothing, they would tend to be so simple and yet, so over. Example, the old fat, overweight lady with all that over-glamour surrounded her. She had a huge Siamese cat on her arms.
"What is happening here? What did you do the boy?" asked her to Tatsuha.
Tatsuha gulped.
Another mid-age lady around the thirties appeared to the scene and asked the same question, "Yeah, what have you done to this poor boy?"
And then, more and more women started to surround him and asking him all those threatening questions. Tatsuha had never felt terrified in his whole life. Ok, it was not as if he is a chicken. When it comes to men encircling him, it's normal because he could hit the hell out of them but…for goodness sake; these are women we are talking about! Tatsuha quivered under their angry intense stared. He had no guts to hit women! Yes, he admitted it! He is a big chicken when it comes to women surrounded him. They are like angry-lunatics waiting to skin you alive!
"Poor him, what have you done?"
Tatsuha paled…
"Did you know that you could be penalizing because of this!"
Tatsuha 'eep'…
"I think I better call the police right now!"
Tatsuha froze…
"You look like a bodyguard with that garment and you must be under him right? Are you abusing your patron?"
His heart stopped beating…
Shuichi, who was still crying on the ground as if the world is going to end, didn't notice any of his surrounding. He just kept crying when he felt someone else shook his shoulder. He stared up as his tears still fallen.
"Shuichi, you have to help me! They started to think that I am the bad guy here! Tell them-" and Tatsuha words were cut by another lady shouted at him to not shake the little boy like that.
Shuichi, back to his usual state, ignored his surrounding once again and cried even more. "See, you make that poor kid cry even more!" cried another lady.
"Did you grip him that hard?!"
"You touch that kid again and I'll call my bodyguard to hit your ass!"
Poor Tatsuha felt that as if he should dig his grave yard right there and be history!
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"Tatsuha loves to play hide-and seek with me! Well, actually he plays all the games that I play! I wonder why do you look a lot like Tatsu-chan? Hm, never mind, I guess it must be because of the saying that we have seven twins in this world and you are the second! I wonder where the five is."
Yuki just 'hn'. He could not believe this boy talk as much as Shuichi except that Shuichi is a bit shy but this one, hell! He could put out lots of migraine to Yuki.
"Did you know that there is an offer tonight in the amusement park?! They are selling half-price ticket!"
Yuki just nodded his head.
"Well, that's not really it! Nittle Grasper is going to perform in there tonight and other bands! I am sure it is going to be crowded tonight!"
Yuki yawned.
"Oh man, I'm late fifty-nine minutes. Tohma would be mad at me! He said that I must be in the studio at a quarter to four. Our performance is going to start earlier tonight."
Yuki snapped and blinked. Tohma…? Neh, that's impossible.
"Tohma looks like an angel in the outside, kind and yada, yada but then in the inside, I think he's evil! He's scary…or maybe not! But I think his wife is scarier than he is! When I stay with them, she always shouts at me for ruining her house! Well, actually, I am not ruining her house! I am just decorating her house with my painting! I drew lots and lots of pictures at the wall. You know… like the art of…err, Pika…Pika…Pikachu!"
"You mean, Picasso!" Yuki corrected.
"A…yes…Picasso!"
The car suddenly came to a halt. Ryuichi quickly opened the door before the driver could open for him. He jumped to the pathway in front of a big building entrance and posed comically in front of Yuki. He shouted, "WELCOME TO NRG (1) SOUND RECORD STUDIO, TATSUHA NO.2!"
Yuki winced. He was glad that he only had to guard Shuichi. He imagined that if he had to guard both Shuichi and Ryuichi, hell he sure that he will get deaf within a week!
"Now, could you please lead me in so that we could get over this! And one thing, my name is not Tatsuha no. 2, it's Yuki and secondly, please DO NOT SHOUT AT ME BECAUSE I AM NOT DEAF, GAKI!"
Ryuichi, as if the roar from Yuki did not affect him anything, stood there with a big grinned. Yuki's shoulders drooped. What the hell with this boy? He is a total enigmatic!
Ryuichi walked slowly towards Yuki and within a second blink, he gripped Yuki's hand and pulled him towards the studio record. It was unexpected to Yuki so he was like that, been pulled like a puppet until they reached into the lift that had been readied open and there where he snapped out from his own stupor.
He watched Ryuichi pushing the button '3' and he felt something warm at his right hand. He looked down and saw that his hand entangled with Ryuichi's. He quickly untangled and pulled away. Ryuichi gazed at him innocently but he knew that somewhere inside those gazes, Ryuichi was hurt.
"Tatsuha likes to hold my hand."
Yuki sighed. Is this boy denser than I thought?
"Look," Yuki started. "Since you so into this Tatsuha thing, I tell you this…Not. Everyone. Is. Like. Tat. Su. Ha. Understand?!"
Ryuichi looked at him blankly. Yuki smacked his own forehead. So he is denser than I thought!
Yuki was still facing Ryuichi when the lift reached the third floor and the lift's sliding opened, revealing someone who stood in front.
"Ryuichi, I thought that you had forgotten! Thank goodness you are here and…"
Yuki's cold exterior broke to pieces and his face turned pale. I know that voice. It's…
"Uesegi Eiri…it's been long time since the last we met in New York."
…Tohma.
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Tatsuha unbutton few buttons on his shirt, revealing his pale chest. "Phew! Thank goodness those old-hags didn't eat me! Man, they all reminded me of Mika!"
"Mika?" Shuichi asked.
They both had back into the limo without anyone got hurt or more exactly, without Tatsuha getting hurt. Shuichi had somehow stopped crying along the way and how the hell Tatsuha could get out from all those old-hags cluctches, he had no idea. His head was a bit blurred. All he remembered something like someone was suddenly appeared from nowhere and was telling something and all he did is just nodding his head. He frowned…and it hit him. It's Sean who helped me! I'll thank him later.
Tatsuha remembered Shuichi's inquiry so he quickly replied, "She's my sister. I can't believe that Tohma actually marry her!"
Shuichi gasped. "Seguchi Tohma is your brother-in-law?!"
"Yes and that was how I could get the job to become Ryuichi's slave!"
Shuichi smiled but it turned out more to be a sad smiled. His thought was mostly on Yuki. He had called the manor and the maid said that he has not arrived yet together with Ric.
"What if he was kidnapped?" Shuichi mumbled to himself. "Who?" asked Tatsuha.
"Yuki. If Ric was kidnapped, I don't care, but Yuki, is a no-no." (A/N: Poor Ric!) Shuichi continued, "I had tried to call his hand-set just now but I could not reach him because there was no line."
"Usually underground has no line and lifts-" Tatsuha stopped and something snapped him, "THE LIFT!" Shuichi jumped from his seat when Tatsuha shouted triumphantly.
Tatsuha continued, "The lift! The NRG (1) Sound Record Studio lifts! All the lifts there have no line so, if you got stuck there and the emergency bell broke, then you're dead! Your Yuki must be in the studio now! Sean, drive back to the studio!"
Sean gave an 'alright' thumb and started the engine.
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Yuki and Ryuichi sat on the readied armchairs in the main office. Tohma was talking to a woman, ordering some-sort of refreshment for the three of them. After the woman had nodded and walked away, Tohma turned to them and he gave a big sweet smile to Yuki.
Yuki just glared back at him. It was not his number one plan to stuck in this stupid place but it was because of that stupid brother-in law of his moreover, his damn ex-employer. Yap, he had once worked under Tohma, as a bodyguard of course and that was when he was still in New York, and before Tohma met his sister and also before Yuki migrated to US. The stupid damn Seguchi Tohma just had to make his damn life harder than ever! He wondered why he worked under Tohma in the first place. Was it because he felt so attached to him long ago? But now…all those feelings had gone. Or was it still there? Was that feeling still stuck to him like a second skin, and he, Yuki Eiri, the most cowardice human in the world, just had to run away, just as he had ran away to US?
Betrayal…Yes, a word that signifying a deep scar in his heart. How he hated the man that was now in front of him, smiling amiable as if he had done nothing in the past. As if…they have met for the first time…yea, just like their first acquaintance last time.
Guilty…?
Ryuichi broke the silence between them, "Ano Tohma, how did you know him?"
"That's because he is my long-term acquaintance," Tohma replied, his smile never ceased. He sat facing them and asked, "So, what makes you here, Eiri?"
Yuki twitched. "Would you stop calling me Eiri?!"
"My, my, that's rude, you know. Then, should I call you Eiri-san like I used to called you." Yuki twitched more.
"Just call me Yuki, ok! And don't start reminiscent about the past because hell, I don't want to hear anything from you!" Yuki barked at him madly. He had never lost control like this ever and this idiot-Tohma-guy just had to get into his nerve!
The door was knocked and entered the previous woman that Tohma had been talking to. She brought the refreshments on the tray and put them onto the table.
Ryuichi remained silent and just stared at the both of them as if he was like a third wheel in this conversation. He never knew anything about Tohma's life in New York and he was very sure that the carbon copy of Tatsuha must have something to do with the past life of Tohma.
"Of course I won't. By the way, you haven't answered my question yet."
Yuki just realised that. After he saw Tohma, he had actually forgotten his purpose of why he had stepped into this building.
Shuichi…Before even Yuki could voice out, the door was blast-opened by something or rather someone, someone with the most tantalising mauve eyes with pink-hair barged-in. Shuichi howled Yuki's name as he ran towards him.
"YUUUUUUKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
And jumped unexpectedly onto Yuki. He hugged him tightly around the neck.
Everyone in the room froze but not until when someone shouted 'Ryuichi' and another shouted 'Tatsu-chan' and then 'I miss you' and 'I miss you too' and blah…blah...
Feeling the light body touching his, made Yuki suddenly uncontrollably blushed. In such position where he was lying on the floor with Shuichi on top made him feeling awkward. Hesitantly, he pushed Shuichi's body from him so that he could sit-up right. Shuichi let himself pushed by the hand of Yuki, and sat on the floor cross-leg, staring at tempting golden-amber eyes of Yuki.
"Yuki, why did you leave me?" asked Shuichi with a sniff. A silent guilt hit Yuki's heart but cursed silently after he realised that.
"Aniki, so it was you who after all his bodyguard. Phew, I thought that I would die before I could find his bodyguard!" Tatsuha voiced out.
Shuichi and Ryuichi blinked and shouted at the same time, "ANIKI?!"
Tatsuha and Yuki winced at the said sound.
"Well then Eiri, I am sure that you have found-" Tohma's sentence was later cut by Shuichi who was shouting like crazy saying that he could not believe he actually meet Seguchi Tohma and most of all his no.1 God, Sakuma Ryuichi. He quickly stood up, forgetting about Yuki, and shook Tohma's hand and ran towards to Ryuichi and shook his hand too. The ever-eager-friendly Ryuichi, could not help but hugged Shuichi and showed Kumogaru to him.
"Kumo-chan, this is Shuichi and Shuichi, this is Kumo-chan!"
Shuichi shook the pink-bunny doll hand. "Hello, Kumogaru."
With this kind of thing, Ryuichi was so happy to find someone, other than Tatsuha, to actually treat Kumogaru well. "Wah! I like you Shuichi! You are kind to Kumogaru, not like other people!" Ryuichi glanced to Yuki after he said the last word.
"Well then, we have to go now Shuichi," Yuki pulled Shuichi away from Ryuichi, feeling slightly jealous of what he saw. Damn, he hated that kind of feeling.
"Matte (wait), Yuki. I want to know what with this 'aniki'-thing!"
"Yeah, me wanna know! Kumogaru-chan wants to know too!" Ryuichi joined-in.
Tatsuha suddenly appeared to the scene and said out loud, "This is my brother. His name is Uesegi Eiri and I'm his proudest little sexy bro namely, Uesegi Tatsuha." Yuki twitched and whacked Tatsuha's head with the pink-bunny that he had quickly snatched from Ryuichi.
Shuichi digested the sentence that was spoken by Tatsuha. Somehow he felt something confusing. Uesegi Eiri…
"Oh well, I'm sure that we better have to end till here." Tohma interrupted. "Besides, we are already an hour and a half late because of Ryuichi," Ryuichi pouted. "And so we have to go now."
Tatsuha sighed and waved a bye-bye to his brother, "Bye-bye bro. I wished I could spend time with you longer. I mean c'mon, we have been separating with each other for like…one and a half year!"
Shuichi's eyes widen. Tatsuha slapped Shuichi's shoulder and smiled. "So long to you too, Shuichi! I have a very great time with you today, minus the frightening-angry-old-hags-that-thought-me-the-sexy-Tatsuha-abusing-the-adorable-Shuichi," and Tatsuha winked right in front of Yuki. Yuki gripped his hand to control his fist from bashing his brother.
Tatsuha, realizing the state of his brother wrapped his arm around Yuki's shoulder and whispered to his ear, "Don't worry, aniki. I won't still your boyfriend. But he's kinda cute, you know!"
That's it, Tatsuha had actually made the wrong moved and he got a hard bashed from his brother.
Before Yuki and Shuichi left the main office door, Yuki could feel the intense stare from Tohma.
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On their way back, none exchanging sentence to one another. They arrived at the manor few minutes later but not before they went back to the supermarket to purchase the pocky (which actually the two trolleys that filled with pocky still remained at the corner of the supermarket, untouched).
It was five in the evening and Shuichi was left with an hour to get ready. "Yuki, you have to get ready in an hour because I am going to the amusement park."
Yuki just nodded and pushed the big mahogany-twin door for Shuichi.
On his way to his room, one question kept repeating in his head. Shuichi dipped his both hands into his trousers' pants as he slow his paced. He was curious that why did Tatsuha said Yuki's name is Uesegi Eiri instead of Yuki Eiri.
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"Hello, may I speak to Ayaka please?"
"Yes, Ayaka's speaking. May I know who is on the line?"
"Oh Ayaka. Thank goodness! You are my saviour! My only hope!"
Ayaka sweat-dropped. "Um…I am?"
"Oh forget what I say! Anyway, this is Shindou Shuichi, Nakano Hiroshi's best pal in the world!
"Hiro-kun?"
"Yeah, you know…Hiro the tall famous sex-god cute handsome guy that you all so crazy of, that I'll doubt any of you would go for other guys!"
"Oh, Hiro your boyfriend…"
"My…MY WHAT?!"
"Your boyfriend, isn't he?"
Shuichi choked. "Wha…err…"
"C'mon, the whole school knows. Both of you always are there for each other, sometimes holding hands on public…hugging, li-"
Shuichi was blushing as he quickly stood up from his cushion and walked to and fro around his room. "Ok, ok, I know where you are getting on. I mean, c'mon, it's not my fault for us to do some orchestral manoeuvres in the dark (2), it's just acting for the public…oh damn, why am I telling you this! Ok, let me get this straight, could we please pull down this Hiro and sin and pleasure thing? Fine, Ayaka, are you free now?! If you are not free, you must be free! You are free, the better it is!"
"Why?"
"Because…" took a deep breathe, "I want you to be my fake-date, will you, pretty please?"
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Yuki had just finished showering when suddenly his handset was ringing. With only a towel clad around his waist, he quickly rushed to his dressing room and searched for his handset. He threw all his pile of clothes here and there to search for it but none. It was still ringing and Yuki rushed to his bedroom and searched on the bed, under the bed, on the dressing table, the study-table, and the coffee table. He searched every single hole of his room.
"Damnit! Where the hell it is?!"
He scratched his head and looked at his surrounding. He was afraid that it was an important call. He was very sure that it was somewhere in his room now because the sound was the loudest from where he was standing.
"What the hell?" Yuki cursed more.
In the end, he just gave up and before he stepped out from his room, he looked at the laundry basket beside him and the handset's vibration was louder from there. He quickly pulled every item of clothing out from it and in the end, he found his handset. He totally had no idea how could it end up inside the laundry basket in the first place.
He clicked one of the buttons and a voice croak from the other side of the line.
"My god, you took as if one thousands years for you to pick up. I nearly thought that you are dead or something!"
Yuki frowned. He recognised the voice quite well. "Nakano Hiroshi. What do you want? And how the hell do you know this number?!"
"From the cute-adorable-Shu of course and jeez, calm down Yuki or you'll get wrinkles if you keep getting angry!"
"Just rot in hell for all I care!"
"God, Yuki! Why are you so piss-off? I can't believe that Shuichi is attracted to such man like you!"
Yuki blinked. His tongue could not form any words but Hiro continued.
"Oops, my bad. I should have not said that! Err…just think that I have not say that Shuichi liking…you know."
"I don't care who that baka likes or something! Just spit out, Nakano. Why the hell are you calling me?"
"Call me Hiro. I felt like eighty when people call me Nakano."
"It is better that this is important because if it is not-"
"Fine! Fine! I'll spit it out now. You know that Shuichi is going to the amusement park tonight right? He's going with me and whoever his date is and of course plus with you. I have no idea whether he's bringing more bodyguards but I think only the four of us since three tickets with-"
"Nakano, you ramble more useless words I'm sure that-"
"Ok, ok, ok, just don't! I'm at your mercy right now. See?"
Yuki was silenced for a while. His face held a boring-look. "Look Nakano-"
"It's Hiro!"
"YEAH WHATEVER! I AM GOING TO PUT-"
"OH MAN, NO, NO! Ok, hear what I am going to say right now. Yuki, you have to be my date for tonight. I know your job is to protect your lover-boy-"
"Lover-boy?"
"I mean, Shuichi. I know you have to guard him but you are still considering being my date tonight. I don't care whether you are a homophobic, a homosexual, a bisexual, or an asexual but you just have to. So, urm…will you?"
Yuki was silenced for a few seconds.
"Urm…Yuki?" Hiro broke the silence.
"Is this some kind of a sick joke?"
"Of course not!"
"Then tell me, why would I say yes?"
Now, it was Hiro's turned to be silent.
"What, cat got your tongue, Nakano?" Yuki smirked.
Hiro snapped. "Of course not, jeez!"
"So, go ahead. Answer me, why would I say yes?"
Hiro sighed. "Urm…well…uh…I…I don't know…"
"Then I say no!"
"No, no, wait! I think know why!"
"Just give up, Nakano. You won't make me say yes."
Hiro's eyes glinted as he grinned evilly, "Hehehe, well…I could…"
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For the first time ever in Shuichi's life, he just realised that Ayaka was simply stunning with that simple brown attire of her. But just for a while because someone, who was much more far stunning than Ayaka, distracted Shuichi's attention to…
My god! He is dead gorgeous!…Yuki.
Yuki didn't wear his usual-bodyguard-attire but instead a tight suave style blue-stripe shirt with dark trousers.
Yuki felt eyes on him. He turned his head to Shuichi and frowned. "Oi baka, stop gawking at me like that. You look like a fish!"
Shuichi realised his embarrassing-behaviour especially in front of Ayaka. Shuichi grinned childishly as his face turned into a deep scarlet.
Jet Benz arrived at the porch and came out Hiro who was wearing white hard-collar shirt embroidered with black lining and a black phoenix design at the left side of his clothing. Tight blue jeans plastered to Hiro's well-built muscles like a second skin.
He grinned devilishly to Shuichi but faltered later when he saw Ayaka who, was standing just beside Shuichi. It was Shuichi's turned to smirk cruelly.
Hiro and Shuichi stepped forward to each other. Since Shuichi is shorter than he is, he held his head lower until his forehead touched Shuichi's, their noses almost caressed with each other. If other people were looking at the scene, they would think that the two teenagers would be sucking at each other in a moment.
"This is gonna be fun, right, Hiro-kun?" whispered Shuichi as his breathe caressed Hiro's soft skin.
"Exactly, lover-boy." Hiro smirked playfully.
# tbc #
A/N: I know that I must have lots of grammar errors because I am too lazy to check so instead, I post it straightaway. I am sorry that I have to stop there too and I am very sorry for the very, very darn late update! I know that all of you would have cursed me to death or even planning to have a big wrath with me. I truly apologised. SCREW THE DAMN EXAMS! I'm just 14 and why should I suffer?! And then, these past few months I have to attend four camps! My piano royal exam is coming in a few months time! My fencing is cramping my hands and legs! My taekwando is cramping the whole parts of my poor body! My tuition-classes are non-stop! Damn, I feel like dying!
(1) and (1) I am not sure whether it is NG or NRG. At first, I put NG (because I saw lots of author using the NG) but then, when I checked back the manga, it is NRG. Anyway, if any of you know which and which…free to tell me please kay.
(2) Hehehe, 'orchestral manoeuvres in the dark' is taken from the Gravitation manga. This is one of my favourite scenes where cough Hiro licked and sucked Shuichi's ear in front of their classmates (this was when they are still in high school and before they known as Bad Luck- I mean, hey, their band name is 'Genius Shu-chan and his Electric Lover'-and more).
To the reviews:
Happy Utena-Loving Yuki – Jee, you make me bashful. Thanks a lot for the review. Well, actually I'm still having problems finding a BETA for myself. It's kinda hard. I got one BETA reader but she only BETA on one particular category…not anime! And sorry for this very long update! And this is the only thing that I could give for the absence of few months…
HikariChang – Oh yeah… Well, if you stick to this story until the end, you will be more surprises, as there are more! Sorry for the long wait.
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puffin – me sorry for the take-times to update. Screw my darn school! Srew my darn tuitions! Screw my darn piano (but hey, I still love attending piano class)! screw my fencing class (I don't really hate the fencing class, I still love it as I love the coach – he's cute!)! and screw my martial-art class! And most of all…SCREW THOSE STUPID CAMPS! THEY JUST WASTED MY TIME (and I am wondering that why the hell am I still attending it)!
sakaki04 – oh well, you could wrath on me for all I care because I deserved it. Thanks for reviewing.
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Spoiler for the Nextchapter
"Why do you have to do that?" Yuki shouted to Shuichi. He was almost scared to death when he saw that stupid darn stunt done by Shuichi.
Teary eyes stared at angry amber. "Be…because…because Ryuichi-"
"I don't care about him. Try to think about yourself! What will happen to you if I was not there, baka?!" Yuki shouted angrier than ever. Shuichi was trembling as he hugged himself. His crest-fallen face was covered behind the bangs of his hair. Fed-up with the boy's attitude, Yuki shoved him to the wall hard and trapped him so that he would not be able to get away.
"Damnit, just answer my question!"
"Why do you care?" tears started to fall and his voice trembled slightly.
Yuki looked at the boy. Silence engulfed him. He just could not answer that. He knew the boy needed the truth and he could not simply say it. Thousands of unknown voices reasoning his head but in the end,
"Because I care…"
"Yea…cause I'm your stupid patro-"
"More than that!" Yuki cut him.
Shuichi tilted his gaze to face Yuki. His heart beat painfully in his chest. His sobbed has gradually started to cease. They stared at each other like that until Shuichi reached out for Yuki's face and caressed his paler cheeks due to the cold night.
"Then, prove it to me…" Shuichi's soft voice whispered to the night.
Atsu Tenshi