IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA
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BY OTOHIME


At last the new chapter! Gomen ^^; I wanted to post it before but I was busy busy
with exams. Anyway here it is! It's mostly sappy stuff, there will be
more action in next chapter ^-^
By the way, thanks a lot for your comments, it made me happy to read them and
encouraged me to write more!
Hope you enjoy this chapter ^^

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Next morning Shuichi woke up with a big yawn on Yuki's couch. His back was sore.

"My! I will have to persuade Yuki to buy a bed for me, this couch is a pain! I
roll a lot sleeping and I have no space here... but now that I think about it...
Yuki's bed is wide enough for the two of us." Shuichi giggled. He was happy
living among all Yuki's things. So everywhere he looked to was full of Yuki's
essence. He closed his eyes and held his pillow, picturing Yuki waking him up
with a kiss and a warm smile everyday. A SD Shuichi snuggled against the pillow.

"That would be soo good!! Yukiii!!!!!"

Yuki appeared behind the door, he was drying his hands on a cloth. "So the most
baka kid in Japan is awake?"

Shuichi's daydream was cut in a moment, "Why do you have to be so mean?" *sniff*

Yuki got closer to him and kissed his forehead softly. "Ohayou"

Shuichi held him by the waist, resting his head on Yuki's chest for a while.
Then he looked at him with super-big and sparkling eyes " Yuki! Daisu..." he was
cut with a smack on the head.

"Why did you do that?!" He said rubbing his head.

"Baka! You were drooling my shirt!" he turned to go to the kitchen. "Breakfast
is ready, hurry up or it'll be cold"

'Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! I don't understand him!!!'

Shuichi went to the bathroom and began to comb his hair. He looked at his
reflection in the mirror, he was feeling happy and sad in a moment. 'Yuki kissed
me and said 'Ohayou' to me! But then he hit me';_; 'But he kissed me sweetly!'
He shook his head trying to clear it. "I'm confused! Well, what matters is that
I have Yuki all for myself!! Mwahahahaha!!! No girl can touch him, only me!!" He
laughed like crazy with a silly, funny look in his face.

"Stop fussing around!! You're so noisy, you are going to wake up the whole
neighbourhood!" a cried came from the kitchen.

Shuichi covered his mouth sweat dropping. "Gomen..." he spoke very quietly.

Minutes after, Shuichi entered in the kitchen as genki as always. Yuki was
reading the newspaper and finishing his coffee. He looked at him out of the
corner of his eye, feigning to keep reading. 'His smile can enlighten even the
darkest place,' Yuki thought with almost a smile while he watched cute Shuichi
happily enjoying his meal. 'What the hell I'm thinking??' 'It sucks, it sounds
like some of the cheap sentences of your books. Stop writing that sort of stuff
or they are going to mess your brain,' An inner voice told him.

Shuichi noticed a look over him so he raised his eyes quickly and caught Yuki
looking at him. He smiled to him and that was the only thing Yuki's heart needed
to leap. He never admit it, but this boy made him feel like nobody had made him
feel before. It was not only desire as for the girls he had gone out with
before. He was attracted to him not only for his cute face and body, there was
something deeper. It was his everlasting happiness, his deep care for him, that
emotion he always saw when he looked into the boy's eyes, the beautiful soul he
saw through them. But he had no right to love this sweet boy, he was damned
and didn't want Shuichi to sink with him in his own dark world of regret and
bitterness.

Yuki put the newspaper in the table and got up.

"Where are you going? You haven't finish your coffee," the boy said with a
worried look.

"I need some fresh air," He disappeared behind the door.

'What's wrong with him today? Hmn... I have to cheer him up! What can I do?
Let's see' Shuichi frowned trying hard to think something useful. Suddenly a
bulb appeared over his head.

'Yatta!! I can tell him about the sea idea! But...How do I say it to him?? If I
make a mistake he will never want to do it,' Shuichi was thinking for a while
and then he began to practice.

"Yuki! You seem bored as hell, do you want to go to the beach??" 'Hmn... it
doesn't sound convincing'

"Yuki! It has been a while since you got some exercise, you're going to get
atrophied. What about a little bit of rowing? 'No, it sucks.'

"Yuki! I was thinking... would you like to make me love in high sea?" 'My!
That's worse than the last one.'

Shuichi walked and walked and he was making a hole in the carpet. 'Oh! Yuki is
gonna kill me if he finds this. I have to cover it. I'll just move a little bit
of this table and...'

He was pushing the table with his face red from the effort when Yuki entered.

"What are you doing with my table?" He asked with a wary look.

"Me? I...I though that it would look better here, ehehe"

Yuki sat on the sofa smoking his cigarette. Shuichi decided that it was the
right moment, he would improvise.

"Ano...Yuki, do you want to go to the beach?"

He stared at him with a cold look, "No"

"No? Why not?"

"I said 'no'"

"Don't you like the sea?"

"No"

"Eh?? Everybody likes the sea! Why don't you like it? It's very odd"

"I just don't like it, that's all. Now stop babblering and start to fix the
carpet or I'm gonna kick your ass out of my house!"

"Gomen, Yuki, I will fix it in a moment" He took a pair of scissors and a
hammer and began to work. " I will finish in a moment, this is easier than I...
Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!" Shuichi cut himself with the scissors " *Sniff,
sniff* It hurts, Yuki!!"

"I should have known that you would do something like that" Yuki put a hand in
his forehead as if he had a headache. "Let me see if the cut is deep"

"I'm bleeding, but it's all..." Shuichi froze when Yuki put the injured finger
in his mouth and licked it gently. Shuichi blushed deeply. His lips felt soft
and warm around his finger, and the older one didn't stop looking intensely at
his eyes. Time stopped and Shuichi wasn't able to move or do anything, his eyes
cast a spell on him.
Suddenly he felt Yuki's tongue brushing against his finger and he began to giggle.

'Why is he giggling like that?!'

"Stop Yuki! You are tickling me!" He was laughing now with tears.

Yuki closed his eyes with an upset look. "Get up, baka. I have work to do and
you too, so better go now to find a broom and clean the mess you did"

"Hai!" Shuichi disappeared searching for the broom.

Yuki sat again in the couch and lighted another cigarette 'He is silly... but
still cute'


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"So did you tell him? And what he said?" Hiro asked resting his head on his
hand.

Suguru was doing some musical arrangements, Sakano was drinking his tea and Mr.K
was cleaning his weapon. That's what seemed, but all of them were paying more
attention to Hiro and Shuichi's conversation.

"Aa, but he said 'no'" Shuichi looked a bit depressed "I don't know how he can
write the books he writes. He is not very romantic sometimes"

"Did he tell you why not?"

"He said that he doesn't like the sea"

"That's not true!" A woman appeared from nowhere. "Eiri loved to go to the beach
when we were children. I know he still likes to."

"Mika-san! What are you doing here?"

"I came to see my husband. I was feeling a little alone at home. Wait a minute,
that's not your business!"

'Then I don't know why he refused the idea' Shuichi had a little sad look, and
Mika noticed.

"Come with me, boy" She took him by the arm and they went out in a second.

"What do you want, Mika-san?"

"Pay attention, Shuichi. I have an idea. I will help you to have a romantic
dream come true with my brother because I know you really love him, but you have
to do what I'm going to tell you, ok?" She began to whisper some things into his
ear. Shuichi didn't look very sure about it.

"Do you think it will be ok?"

"Ohohoho! Trust me. It'll be perfect!"


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