Stawberry Pocky 3
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Shuuichi sighed and shut the door to the place he and Yuki shared behind him. He was bone tired, and being depressed about Yuki didn't help. He went through the rooms with his usual cheerful demeanor, only to find no one home.

Ryuuichi had wanted Shuuichi to come home with him. Shuuichi tried his best to explain that he wanted to be with Yuki, and even though Ryuuichi let him go home, he hadn't seemed convinced. He told Shuuichi to call if there was ever "any bad stuff happening" and Shuuichi needed someone to talk to. Well that was not exactly what he said, "Kumagorou" said half of it, and it was all silly sounding, but Shuuichi trusted Ryuuichi. He had a way of seeing to the heart of problems, and trying, in his own rather successful, but childish way, to solve them.

Shuuichi lied down on the couch when he couldn't find a sign of Yuki or a message from him anywhere, but he couldn't sleep. Remebering what Ryuuichi said, he picked up the phone and began dialing...

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Yuki handed the clerk money in exchange for the cigarettes. He couldn't believe he had been so careless as to run out. Worrying about Shuuichi, he told himself. He didn't know why he worried, he surely shouldn't after all. Shuuichi was annoying.

Writing was exhausting work, but it had seemed easier now that he could look forward to Shuuichi coming back in the evenings. Even though his presense distracted Yuki and left less time for writing, he was getting more writing done these days than before. Yuki didn't get writers block, he had trouble writing sometimes, but writers block was for when you were actually inspired to write the material. It was as mechanical as writing an essay for him. He used the same formula over and over and it always resulted in success...except lately..

His fans noticed the difference, he was seeing an increase in sales since he started sleeping with Shuuichi. The damned brat was changing him. Yuki was happy the way he was. Which was why when Shuuichi went out with Ryuuichi tonight, he decided to leave the house as well. He deserved time out of the house. He had run into someone right before dinner though, and so he was late getting back home.

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Ryuuichi stepped out of the shower and dried his hair. "Kumagorou thinks getting clean is a good thing right?"

"Oh yes Ryuu-chan!" Kumagorou "answered." Kumagorou jumped at the phone ringing. "Ryuu-chan better get the phone!"

Ryuuichi picked up the phone and hit talk. "Hello? This is Ryuu-chan!"

"Sakuma -san?" Shuuichi's hollow sounding voice echoed over the line.

"Shuu-chan..are you sad?"

"Yuki's...not home. I'm worried. He never goes anywhere really..."

"Shuuichi..."

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Note: MoonAngel 002 suggested not including Hiro in this chapter ...don't kill me kill her. I'll put the 4th part up tomorrow sometime.