A.N. Hy everyone. I had some free time and I thought it would be nice if I continue my story so this is chapter 10. Enjoy!

As for the 'Disclaimer' I brought two 'friends' to help me with it ;)

God: Sayuri-girl doesn't own Gravitation or the characters.

Lucifer: But I could mess up with her mind and make her think she does. That would be fun. (evil smirk)

God: No you won't do that.

X. Enemies and friends

Taki was fuming. 'How was he able to take our fans away?' was all he was thinking of. He couldn't figure out how the pink-haired moped managed to win the crowd to such an extent that they kept asking for Bad Luck even after Ask had been playing for a half an hour. They never managed to win them back and that was what enraged Taki.

So he made up his mind. He would look for as many information about that Shuichi guy and find something to ruin his career. His mind was set on this the next day and he started his research. And soon enough he found what he needed. Shuichi was attending the same university as he was.

When he returned to the campus he asked around about the young boy and his questions didn't remain unanswered. Shuichi Shindou was 19 years old, 'a freshman huh?', he was majoring in literature, English and music, 'Wait, I never saw him in the music class, which means he must be in the choir.' and he was Eiri Yuki's dorm mate.

At this last piece of information, Taki's eyes widened in surprise. 'That is a point to start from. I've heard about the events that occurred during the first day of school between Eiri Yuki and a freshman that was signed to be his dorm mate, but never thought it was the baka in question.' Taki thought, a devilish grin blossoming on his lips.

He was pleased with the information and was now developing a plan in his mind to get rid of the boy. 'I'll go to Eiri Yuki and ask for his help. After all, from what I've heard, he must hate Shuichi. It will be piece of cake to ruin him.' Taki was by now lost in thoughts, not noticing where he was going. So obviously he bumped into someone.

"Oi, what you're doing? Don't you see where you're going?" he yelled at the boy, recollecting himself from the ground. The bumping made them both fall on their buts.

"I'm sorry. I wasn't looking." came the response. 'Wait a minute. I know this voice.' Taki thought and looked at the boy in front of him. If he still had doubts about who he was, the pink hair and the violet eyes dissipated them.

"You little twerp. I will personally take care you go down." Taki told him, before storming off to his next class.

Shuichi was a little amazed by the other's reaction. He didn't do anything wrong and besides, he apologized, didn't he? 'We are rivals but he doesn't have to be that mean. I didn't do anything to him, besides wining his fans' hearts the other night.' At this thought Shuichi's smile widened and the over energetic boy got off the floor.

At that instant a thought, or more likely a memory popped out from nowhere in Shuichi's mind: 'I'm the one who'll make your life miserable, you little twerp.' 'What was that? Where did that come from?' Shuichi thought. His smile faded away at the mere realization it was a small piece from the nightmare he had after the night he spent with Eiri. 'But who said that to me? And why? Why would I dream of somebody threatening me?' When he entered the classroom, he saw the cold novelist already at his place waiting for the lecture to begin, and as Shuichi was taking his seat next to him, the lecturer entered, so he fought back his troubled thoughts and paid attention to the teacher.

During their breaks, Taki was looking for the perfect opportunity to speak with Eiri, but he didn't find any. The halls were always crowded and he decided it was not a good idea to talk with the novelist about his plan when there were so many people around them. So he waited until lunch time, when he spotted him under a huge sakura tree in the campus.

Taki approached him and said:

"You Eiri Yuki?"

"And who wants to know?" Eiri responded with another question.

"Taki Aizawa. I am from the band Ask."

"The band that was outmatched at its own concert by a debutant band?"

"Yes." Taki said, an eyebrow twitching in anger, not wanting to be reminded of that. "And the ones outmatching us were Bad Luck. Its lead singer, Shuichi Shindou, is your dorm mate."

"I know who its lead singer is. Actually I know the band. After all we are dorm mates, so I get to hear him singing quite an amount of time." Eiri added with a cold and neutral voice.

"I came to propose you a deal. I want to see him going down and I know you can't stand him, so I was thinking we should work together to accomplish our desire." Taki's eyes were now lightened with rage.

"Hnnn." was all Eiri said, wrinkling his nose in disgust. "And what exactly are you planning to do to him?" he asked nonchalantly. This gave Taki the wrong idea the novelist was about to accept his proposal so he continued:

"I was thinking of hiring some bullies to take care of him. You know: beat him and maybe even have their ways with him." Taki said, eyes gleaming red with malice and delight at his plan, glaring daggers in the direction of anybody who dared to look at them.

At this point in their conversation, Eiri's eyes were full of contempt for Taki and said in a cold voice:

"You are low Taki. And I would never do that, no matter how much he gets on my nerves. And actually, he did sing way better than you." Eiri said, an eyebrow quirked in annoyance. "You're envious on him and I suggest you leave that brat alone." he added in a threatening voice.

Just before he could say anything, Taki saw the boy in question approaching them. He couldn't believe his eyes. 'The cold hearted Eiri Yuki threatened me? And more than that, he is actually spending time with this punk?' He was brought back to reality by a cold voice:

"Time for our study, Taki, so kindly leave us alone."

'Is this really happening? Is the distant novelist actually tutoring a freshman? That is a first. I never heard about him tutoring anybody and now he does it for a pink haired freshman?' These were his thoughts when he was making his way towards the cafeteria. And although he was not paying attention to anything else besides them, he still heard the boy's words:

"So Eiri, what are we going to study today? Literature or English?"

'The kid calls him by his name? There is something fishy over here.' So he changed his mind and instead of going to lunch he plopped on the nearest bench from where he could see the two but not be seen back. So he could analyze them and see what he could use to bring down that Shuichi Shindou.

"Both. Pay attention, brat, at the first lessons. Because, if now we are going to study them separately, one by one, later on we are going to combine them." Eiri said, his eyes fixing the small boy in front of him. 'His frame body is so petite and his face is so childish you wouldn't say he is a university freshman.'

Eiri decided they should start with literature. So they started discussing one of his novels. He was explaining Shuichi the basics of a novel and what he should expect from different points of view and when he asked the singer his opinion upon one of the characters and its actions, Eiri couldn't stop casting glances at him. Every time Shuichi couldn't explain something or didn't understand he pouted in a very cute way that was driving the elder boy insane.

This made him think at the night they spent together, at the way Shuichi's skin reacted at his touch and at the lust burning in his eyes when he burst into Eiri's room. 'This is not good. I'm supposed to concentrate on the literature lesson, but somehow I find it hard when he is so close to me and he pouts in that specific way of his. It makes me bend over and kiss him.' But this was no good. He couldn't do that. He made a promise and Eiri Yuki was not a person to break a promise.

After having enough literature for the day, Eiri turned towards Shuichi and started asking him questions in English. In the beginning they were simple, like "What is your name?", "How old are you?", "Where are you from?" but steadily the questions became tougher and tougher, until the point Shuichi couldn't understand anymore, Eiri receiving a very adorable pout from the childish singer because of that.

"I did this because I wanted to know how much English you know. And I am pleased to find out that you are not a complete zero at this subject. Well, we will start with the basics and we will steadily work through everything that is discussed in the lecture." Eiri said.

And so the lessons continued, Shuichi listening to Eiri and taking notes and Eiri explaining the basics and asking him to repeat the pronunciation of various words.

Shuichi was too preoccupied to observe the glances the novelist was casting upon him, but Taki noticed them and it instantly hit him. 'There must be something between them. Perfect!'

The following weeks passed by quickly and Shuichi was getting more and more tired. Their album had been released a week after the concert and it had huge sailings, bigger than Ask's first album had, and now the boys were caught up with the rehearsals.

Shuichi's day was very busy. He had lectures to attend to, the lessons with Eiri during the lunch break, which, as Eiri said from day one, were now completely in English, some more lectures after that and then rehearsals. At least Shuichi could see he was progressing in both subjects and he was thankful to Eiri for that. He came to enjoy their lessons under the sakura tree and the novelist immediately saw the change in the boy. If in the beginning he was tensed and he listened very carefully to everything the elder boy said, now Shuichi was relaxed and the pleasure that was written on his face when spending time with Eiri showed the latter one the brat's feelings for him were growing even stronger.

Taki saw that too and now he was sure that Shuichi had strong feelings for the novelist. He wasn't sure if Eiri felt anything for him, but that didn't matter. After all he wanted to ruin the singer and not the writer. He didn't find it cautious to play with the novelist and try to harm him in any way, considering he was Tohma Seguchi's brother-in-law.

Coincidence made that one day Eiri went to talk with Tohma about having one of NG's bands at their party at the end of the school year. After discussing for some time and Tohma deciding upon sending Bad Luck, they both attended Bad Luck's rehearsal, the latter one asking the novelist if he would give them a lift back to the campus after they finish. He was pleased to see the boys working hard for their second album to be released and announced they would have a concert of their own in a month's due time, adding:

"And this is not all. Ryuichi asked if you would like to sing with him again, this time one of your songs, though."

"Really? Of course I would sing with him. I adore him, he is my idol." Shuichi said in a little voice. He couldn't believe this was happening; it was too good to be true. He felt as if he was dreaming and if that was the case, he never wanted to wake up.

"But this is not all. Eiri had a wonderful idea today and I have one more thing to announce you. You will be the band singing at your own party at the end of the school year. I suggest you work hard for both the events and do not disappoint me." Tohma added.

When Shuichi heard this, he gave a cry of happiness and started jumping off the walls. He was ecstatic; actually he was only being Shu-chan, the over energetic and over joyful boy. Even when in the car, settled in the passenger's seat, next to Eiri, he was still overreacting and repeating in a singsong voice: "We finally have our own concert. And a duet with THE Ryuichi Sakuma."

Shuichi kept like this during the entire ride back to their university and he was so distracted by his thoughts that he didn't notice one Eiri Yuki staring him down, hunger obviously written in his eyes.

'He is so cute and adorable when he acts like this that I can't take it anymore. I want to taste him one more time and these are the perfect moment and place.' Eiri thought, a smirk blossoming on his lips at the mere thought of the boy's reaction. So after both entered their dorm, Shuichi still taking about the concert and the duet, Eiri pinned him to the wall, for the second time, and shut him up with a passionate kiss.

He was expecting the boy's eyes to widen in surprise but he didn't expect him to kiss back. And he definitely didn't expect the little moan that escaped Shuichi's throat when he slipped his tongue in the boys mouth, exploring every inch of it and taking in the pleasures and scents it could offer.

They were both lost in their lustful desires and before they knew it they were lying on Eiri's bed, Shuichi on his back and the novelist on top of him, kissing passionately. Eiri was the first to break the kiss for lack of air and he started planting small kisses on Shuichi's neck trailing off to the boy's collarbone. Next he moved on getting his T-shirt off. Once he succeeded, he started planting ghost kisses down the boy's bare chest, looking for his right nipple. When he found it, Eiri took his time in caressing it with his tong, licking it and kissing it and gently sucking it and after that he kissed his way to the other one, giving it the same treatment as its twin got. At this unexpected attention and pleasure, Shuichi's back arched, which made the novelist turn his attention from the boy's left nipple and kiss his way to his belly, applying the same treatment to the navel. Shuichi escaped a soft moan and entangled his arms to the novelist's neck and his legs to the novelist's waist. Slowly, but surely, Eiri returned to the singer's mouth, taking it into a fierce kiss. Shuichi's hands looked for the buttons of the novelist's shirt and started undoing them, never breaking the kiss. Once he was done with it and his fingers met the pale skin, he turned his attention from Eiri's mouth and started kissing his neck down to the collarbone. Soon enough they both were approaching the climax and so Eiri took the initiative once more and started unbuttoning the boy's pants and literary ripping them off of him, boxers too and let Shuichi's small, trembling hands to get off his pants and boxers. While Shuichi's body was begging him to continue touching it and treat it with his kisses and caresses, he stopped a little to look at the wonderful sight in front of him. Shu's pink locks were ravished and dampened with sweat; his eyes were filled with lush, pleasure and love; he was gaping for air in an attempt to calm his body's shivers of pleasure. After taking in all that was Shuichi, he dived down kissing him and caressing his nipples while taking him.

After a while, Eiri collapsed next to Shuichi and gathered the pink bundle of energy in his arms. Before falling asleep the singer said in a horse but small voice:

"I love you Eiri." and with that he fell asleep in the blonde's arms. As a response, the novelist tightened his grip and closed his eyes, trying to fall asleep. But he couldn't sleep after what the little brat just said to him. 'I don't love him, but I have to admit I wouldn't let anything happen to him. And I definitely have to take care of that Taki Aizawa before he hurts my little Shuichi. Wait. Did I say my Shuichi? Eiri you idiot. He doesn't mean anything to you. Stop thinking like that.'

Eiri was falling for the boy without even knowing it. And God was pleased to see that they were slowly, but surely, falling for each other. He was happy to see the younger boy managed to somehow snick into the cold novelist's heart. It meant that half of the job was done. His soul mate loved him from the bottom of his heart. All that remained now was for Eiri to fall in love with him and, from the way things occurred, God knew that the novelist already adored the young boy he was holding in his arms.

While the two boys were lost in the depths of pleasure, Taki received an unexpected visit. Lucifer had been watching the pair from his kingdom the entire time since their first night together and he wasn't pleased with the turn things took. He was furious because it seemed that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't separate those two. But he saw an opportunity in Taki. So he decided to pay him a surprise visit. Of course he would never know, but that was the best part.

Back in his room, Taki was finally asleep. He had been spending most of his free time thinking at what to do about Shuichi. And Lucifer found him in this vulnerable state of mind. It was easy for him to manipulate Taki and play with his thoughts. Of course that he made the boy set up his mind about hiring some bullies to hurt the younger singer. And he gave him the assurance that the latter one was in love with Eiri. This was what Taki would use against Shu and he would ask for the boy's cooperation if he wanted Eiri's reputation to remain intact. And this meant Shuichi had to leave the band and never sing again and keep quiet about the reason of doing it.

Of course these were all the Devil's plans, but Taki had some of his own too. So he wasn't an innocent boy who was corrupted by the great Lucifer. The Devil needed no hard work in this case, just a little push in the right direction. That is 'right' direction for things to end up the way he wanted. And that's what he did. He gave Taki the little push he needed to fulfill Lucifer's malicious plan.

A.N. I hope you like this chapter and you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it ;)

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And I have to thank one of my readers and reviewers:

Supershu-chan, thank you very much for your reviews. They really help me and keep me going with this fiction ... especially after last chapter was not what I wanted it to be. I always enjoy your reviews ;)

And to all my readers I thank you too.