Title: The Art of Gravitation
Author: AkiyaRae
Disclaimer: Rated R for eventuality to be honest I have no idea how this is going to turn out
Warnings: Uh, xXx but for now mates just remember I'm Aussie and I spell like any
good Aussie would.
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.: Chapter Ten - Kiss Me Confessions :.
"huh?" Was all Shuichi could say to the blonde's words.
"Eiri never told you?" Tohma asked, then shook his head slightly. "I can't say that I am surprised
that he didn't. I suppose thats what makes his relationship with my cousin so easy. Suguru already
knows..." Shuichi looked at him confused.
"What are you..." Shuichi paused a moment. "...talking about?"
"My wife has already informed you that there were many things about Eiri you did not know, didnt
she?" Tohma asked pensively.
"Well yeah, but I wanted to find them out on my own. but..." Shuichi stopped and looked up at the
man who was still relatively close in proximity to him. "..but it doesn't matter now because I'm not
with him."
"But it does matter." Tohma corrected, at the pink haired boys confusion Tohma decided he would
take pity on the boy and just tell him. "You like me, don't you?" Tohma was never one to be anything
but blunt and frankly this situation called for bluntness in its most brutal form.
Shuichi took a moment thinking over everything, but mainly on how electrifyingly correct the kiss had
felt. That kiss had moved his heart and head in more ways than a single kind remark from Eiri ever had.
Everytime he was around the blonde he felt an unnamed gravity pull him toward the man. Every time
Tohma did something, Shuichi reacted positively in one way or another, which could only lead to a
single word conclusion for his answer:
"Yes." Shuichi finally uttered, Tohma sighed inwardly in relief. "I think, I think I love you."
"Then it still is extremely relevent." Tohma stroked Shuichi's face again, his fingers unable to get
enough of that delectably soft skin. "What happened to Eiri was completely my fault. His undoing
was made by my actions, and my actions alone." Tohma had that unbearable sadness back in
his eyes. "I am to blame."
"Mr. Seguchi..." Shuichi started, being so formal sounded strange, so he opted for something that he
silently prayed the other wouldn't shoot him for. "...Tohma?" The reaction was surprise mingled with
thankfullness.
"In the city we lived in, Eiri killed them." Tohma paused watching as the vocalists eyes widened. "He
killed them all." Tohma breathed in. "And it was all my fault." Shuich was frozen for the third time in
the past three days as he let Tohma continue talking. "because of his non Japanese hair and eyes I
took him away to a place where he could belong. Gave him a tutor and a seemingly happy life." Shuichi
couldn't help but smile at that, untill Tohma's usually cheery disposition fell to that of a frown.
The vocalist extended a hand to Tohma's face stroking it in kind to what he had recieved moments before.
He knew this was hard to say, but at the same time he knew that he had to hear it.
"He was sold for ten dollars, and raped."Tohma's eyes closed as he leaned into the soft touch. "By the
tutor I hired him, by the man he had fallen in love with. Because of me Eiri was broken at such a tender
age. It's my fault he's so cold and distant seemingly unable to love." Shuichi had held his breath at
everything the other had said. "And I dont want to hurt you like that."
Shuichi stepped back a little. A small gust of wind blew his hair and a few leaves in a general direction to
the left. Tohma then let his head fall to the side, his eyes closed as he waited for Shuichi's angry outburst
or some well placed words that the blonde knew he deserved. But the silence only made for Tohma's lips
to burn with a final question, something he knew he soo badly wanted to ask the other but at the same
time was extremely tentative. But in the end the question burned too much and he had to ask it.
"You said you loved me, can you still say the same?" Shuichi smirked, Tohma's closed eyes made him
unaware of it, making him think the continuing silence meant that the other was mad at him.
"Are you a moron underneath all that smarts?" Tohma's eyes opened quickly looking at Shuichi with
a slightly hurt expression. "Of course I can say I still love you." Tohma couldn't contain the joy he had
felt at those words.
"Even though?" He asked just to confirm. Shuichi just nodded.
"Even though." He repeated firmly taking a step forward to kiss the keyboardist again. Tohma gladly
kissed back, but only for a moment parting only to ask a final burning question.
"Will you be mine? To have and to hold, never to part?" Shuichi almost squealed.
"Yes of course Tohma I'm yours!" He yelled clinging to the blonde. Tohma smiled sweetly and tilted
the others head, effectively ceasing the hyperactivity drive that threatened to boil over. Or maybe
it was the three words that had said after recieveing his yes that had silenced the boy, or maybe it
was the kiss he was now giving the shorter male, but Tohma knew in his heart it had been thee final
word that had made the vocalist quiet and reflective to the kiss.
"I love you, Shuichi."
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A/N: THIS IS NOT THE END! PLEASE WAIT FOR CHAPT 11 AND FIND OUT WHY THIS FIC IS RATED
M, yes Aya that means you can have your lemon. *nods*