Seething

All Shuichi could make out from his brief conversation with Tohma were the words Yuki and hospital. By the time Shuichi had actually made it to the hospital he was in a terrible state of panic. It was only after racing around the hospital like a complete idiot for a good fifteen minutes that he was able to gather together enough common sense to ask a nurse for directions.

Shuichi stumbled into Yuki's room exhausted, "Yuki?" Yuki was sitting up in bed talking with Joe and Todd. Shuichi launched himself at his love, "Oh Yukiii you're alive! I was so worried!"

Todd and Joe had managed to grab Shuichi before he made full contact with Yuki's injured chest, well almost.

"OW brat!" Yuki moaned, "Are you blind? Get off of me!"

Shuichi finally noticed the bandages across Yuki's chest, "What happened?"

"I had a run-in with that Anthony guy. He left you a message, before Joe chased him off."

The look in Yuki's eyes made Shuichi's heart stop, "What was the message?"

"Shuichi and I need to talk." Yuki looked at the Joe and Todd, but they both just stood there not taking the hint, "Alone!"

"Oh you mean us." Joe said as he headed out of the room.

Todd didn't want to stand around in the hallway so he made up an excuse to disappear, "Joe, my laptop is out of power I'm going to go find a place to plug it in and check on a few things. I'll be back up in a bit."

"Fine, just don't get lost." Joe leaned against the wall to wait for Shuichi, when to his amusement an angry little blond man came storming up the hallway. Tohma was about to enter Yuki's room when Joe stopped him. "They want to be alone for a bit."

"What?" Tohma looked at the stranger and noticed Joe was staring at him curiously.

Then the little light bulb of recognition clicked on in Joe's mind "Hey! I remember you from the studio. You're Shuichi's boss right? How ya doin'?"

Tohma put on his best fake smile, "Fine."

"Will you do me a favor? When Shuichi comes can you tell him I went to get somethin' to eat."

"Yea, sure." Tohma said only half listening as he peeked through the tiny window on the hospital room door.

"Thanks." And with that Joe started off for the Hospital café, in the wrong direction.

Back in the hospital room, Yuki gently tilted Shuichi's chin forcing Shu to look at him. Shuichi withered at the look in Yuki's eyes, "You need to quit playing this game. You're a singer, not a hero. I have a feeling something bad is going to happen if you don't. This isn't worth getting yourself killed over. Promise me you will stop this?"

Shuichi was overcome he wanted nothing more than to take Yuki up on his offer and just forget everything else. "Yuki, I-I can't." his voice cracked.

Shuichi struggled to keep himself together but he was failing miserably, "Yuki, You don't understand. I can't just quit now."

Yuki couldn't believe his ears, "Why?"

"Yuki, I want to forget really I do, but I'm scared. I'm afraid of my powers, I'm afraid to sing, afraid of losing you, even my dreams." Shuichi trailed off.

"What dreams?"

"Every night for the past few days, I've been having the same dream. I'm lost in the dark I can't find my way out or wake myself up no matter how hard I try. I'm trapped and the really scary part is that I can feel something looking for me. I can't see it, I just feel it searching relentlessly the in the dark for me. No matter how far I run I can't get away from it. Every night it's been getting a little bit closer before I finally wake up. Yuki, I don't want to know what happens when it finally finds me. I am so scared. As much as I love you I just can't stop now."

Yuki let go of Shuichi and lay back on the bed with a huff. Defeated, sore, and tired he stared at the ceiling, "How do you know all this crap isn't just a product of your deluded mind?"

"Yuki, I'm sorry please try to understand. You have to trust me."

"Shuichi, am I still important to you?"

"W-What do you mean by that?"

"Even though your life is in danger you're telling me you can't stop because of your stupid dreams? Do you care at all about what this is doing us, to me? Why are you…" Yuki was about to say more but he ran out of coherent thoughts.

"Yuki, I'm so sorry. I know this is all my fault and I love you more than anything, but you have to trust me." He hugged Yuki. Shuichi wished he could just stop time right here and never have to let go, "I will never leave you, I promise."

Shuichi could see over Yuki's shoulder that Tohma was staring at him from the other side of the hospital room door. The plastic smile was gone from his bosses face. Replaced with a glare that would rival Yuki's. Tohma said nothing, he didn't have to. He merely gave the tiniest head tilt towards the hallway and Shuichi understood the message.

"I have to go Yuki. Tohma needs to yell at me for a bit."

"Don't try to kick is ass again." Yuki groaned as Shuichi left him.

Shuichi followed Tohma as if he were being lead to his own execution. It was one thing when a fight just blossomed out of a regular conversation. It was another thing all together to jump into the volcanic pit of Tohma wrath with your eyes open. Tohma didn't stop until they had made their way out to the hospital and into the parking garage. "Oh perfect, he's going to kill Me.", thought Shuichi as he looked around for an unmarked black sedan.

Tohma finally stopped and rounded on Shuichi, "I don't care what this game you're playing is called, but it ends here and now!"

"Tohma, you don't understand." Shuichi tired to explain himself, but it was no use.

"Why do you insist on putting him in danger?" Tohma spat cutting Shuichi off, "He could have been killed today! I will not have this anymore! You are a danger to him, I can see that clearly even if he can't!"

Shuichi didn't want to start another fight with Tohma, but he felt the anger already starting to prickle beneath his skin.

"Shuichi all you think about is yourself. Have you ever given a single thought to what Yuki needs?"

"Tohma, please let me.."

"You're selfish little bastard! All he wants is for you to be safe and to stay by his side!"

Shuichi felt the prickle spark into a flame, "Tohma."

"Shut up! I'm sick of you. You're better than Kitazawa!" Tohma roared.

With that Shuichi's anger broke free.

Oh good your still here!

This chapter got out of hand so I had to break it up a bit. I am happy to say I have mostly finished the story so chapters will be going up much quicker from now on.

Next chapter: Tohma is in deep shit.