Title: Autumn's Raine
Chapter 3: Many Things to Learn
Disclaimer: I don't own the Gravi characters. Would be nice if I did… then, then I could write naughty YxS moments and say they were perfectly IC no matter how I made them act! Mwahahaha! ::blinks:: Um… yeah. Sorry. ^^ Don't own them, do own Raine. There. ::goes back to think about the naughty scenes::
Warnings: Yaoi, a little AU, and probably some OOCness. ^^ Sorry! I try!
Notes: Okay, here is the next chapter! Thank you everyone for reading and reviewing this so far. ^__^ I'm glad people are liking it. I have to apologize though, for this chapter. ^^;; Not too much happens, and I think that they got a little bit… too OOC. But, I don't know, you'll have to tell me. I'm sorry if they did! Waaaaah, I'm trying! I've been sick lately and it was hard to finish this chapter. Well, go ahead and read.
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Shuichi huffed slightly as Yuki closed the door, he could hear the lock being turned. The two of them had been cuddling on the couch --or Shuichi was cuddling and Yuki was trying to push him off-- and then when Raine floated into the living room Yuki stood. Shuichi knew what would come next, and he had been right, Yuki headed straight for his office. "Yuuuu-kiiii! We have a guest today! Don't lock yourself up in there, besides its Saturday!" Shuichi placed his hands on his hips and pouted. He had a feeling he knew why Yuki was doing this, and he knew he should let him think, but he wanted him to get to know Raine just like he was going to. This was aside from the fact that Shuichi hated being locked out. "Yuuuki!"
"It doesn't matter. I have work to do." Yuki said from the other side of the door.
"Yuki! I know you don't have any deadlines for awhile! The least you could do is come out here and keep me and Raine company for a bit!"
"I told you already. I'll come out when I get this chapter done."
"What about breakfast?" Shuichi whined, "I can make us something to eat."
"I'm not hungry." Yuki sighed out, exasperated.
Shuichi also sighed; he knew that tone, Yuki wasn't coming out any time soon. "Fine." Shuichi's shoulders sank a little as he turned and headed down the short hall to the living room. As he entered he found Raine sitting on the arm of the couch. She was looking down at her dress; the tear across the front was covered by the wrappings Yuki had used to patch her up. Her wings were spread out; all four parts seemed to sparkle slightly. Shuichi hadn't noticed that earlier.
As Raine looked up at Shuichi she smiled. "Ah, Shuichi-san." Rained slowly stood up on the arm, bowing slightly in greeting --even though he had only been gone for a couple minutes--.
"Aw, you don't have to be so formal and stand when I enter!" Shuichi smiled and bounded over to the couch sitting next to Raine. "And just call me, Shuichi."
"Okay." She nodded, sitting down once more. "Shuichi it is."
"I'm afraid Yuki won't be staying here with us. He has work to do." Shuichi sighed with a frowned.
"Working?" Raine looked over at Shuichi, her smile disappearing as she felt and saw the frown on his face. "What does he do?"
"He's a writer." He looked down at Raine, trying to smile softly, "He writes romance novels. And he is very popular, especially with women."
She thought that over for a minute; she could feel some sadness lingering around Shuichi, but she didn't want to point that out, for fear of upsetting him more. So instead, Raine choose to go another way, "You must be proud. You're mate is famous?"
"Mm." He nodded, a genuine smile appearing on his face once more. Raine could feel the sadness ebbing away. "Yes, I am. It's cute to see all the women who swoon over him when we are out. Well, only because it annoys him!" Shuichi began laughing; it was always funny to watch how Yuki tried to be civil to all of the women when Shuichi knew he just wanted to run away from them. After a few minutes of Shuichi's laughing he calmed down and just sat their smiling.
"What about yourself, Shuichi? Do you work? Or do you take care of the house?" Raine turned to fully face him, her legs hanging over the arm.
"Oh! I work too; I'm in a band called 'Bad Luck'. I sing and write the lyrics… well, I try to write the lyrics anyway."
"Oh really!? I love music." Raine was now beaming, "I play the flute."
"Really!?" Shuichi was also beaming. "Isn't it great!?"
"It is!" Raine nodded. "It's soothing, don't you think?"
"I agree!"
"You need to sing for me, Shuichi!"
"Well, I can play you one of our singles!" Shuichi jumped to his feet, "Wait right here." With a smile on his face, Shuichi disappeared down the hall and went into Yuki's and his bedroom.
"What's a single?" Raine blinked. A second later Shuichi came running back in with his portable CD player and Bad Luck's single 'Glaring Dream'. Raine blinked and cocked her head to the side as he sat back down next to her, holding out what he brought. "What are those?"
"Eh? You don't know what these are?" Shuichi was stunned, to say the least. He couldn't believe she had never seen a CD player or CD before, but there she was shaking her head no. "Wow! What do your… people do to listen to music?"
She frowned, as if that was a stupid question, "We play for each other when asked."
"Whenever someone asks?"
"Basically." She nodded.
Shuichi's eyes widened, "Wow. That's cool. Well, we don't have to do that." He paused a moment, wondering how to explain the miracle of recording. "Mmm… mmm…" He placed the two items --three if you count the over the ears headphones-- onto the seat next to him and began tapping his chin with his index finger. "Well, it's kinda like this. If a person is a good musician, doesn't matter if it's singing or just playing an instrument, then a company will sign them."
"Sign them?"
"Yeah." He nodded, "They invite them to work for them, record their songs and then produce these." Shuichi picked up the CD and placed it next to Raine on the armchair. She shifted slightly to look at the plastic case. It looked sort of like a box, though it looked too thin to hold too much. But what did catch her attention was the picture on the top of it. It was a picture of Shuichi and two others, one on each side of him.
"It's you." Raine stood up on the arm, moving over to stand right next to the CD case.
"Yep! And that is Hiro and that is Fujisaki." Shuichi pointed to each of his band mates in turn.
Raine nodded slowly, studying the picture. Shuichi was holding what must have been some type of loudspeaker, since he seemed to be singing into it, Hiro was playing what looked like a guitar and Fujisaki was playing some type of piano. "My, Shuichi… humans have interesting instruments. They don't look like ones I am used to."
"Oh?"
"Yes. Like that." Raine pointed to Fujisaki's keyboard. "It looks like some type of piano."
"It's a keyboard."
"Key-board?" Raine took her time sounding out the word.
"Right. It's similar to a piano, but can do much more!"
She nodded slowly, "Is that so? Very interesting."
"Here, you can hear!" Shuichi picked up the portable CD player and then frowned. He looked at the headphones and saw his problem. "These are too big for you!" He whined. "Mmm… Maybe Yuki won't mind me playing his stereo, just this once!"
Shuichi nodded to himself, dropping the CD player back on to the couch as he stood. He snatched up the CD and then bounded over to the large stereo that was in one corner of the living room. Yuki had bought it while Shuichi was on tour, though he didn't know why. The writer rarely listened to music, but Shuichi didn't question it at least not to Yuki directly.
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Yuki sat silently in his office. He didn't even bother to turn on the laptop in front of him, he wasn't planning on writing. He just gave that as an excuse to Shuichi, he didn't want the pink whirlwind bugging him and telling him had work was the best way to avoid that. And even then that wasn't much.
He just couldn't believe what was happening. Yuki didn't want to admit it, but he had to. There was an actual Sprite, a living breathing fairy-like creature, in the living room talking with his lover. That was something that didn't happen, and didn't even seem possible.
Yuki leaned forward in his chair, placing his face in his hands as he leaned his elbows on his desk. 'I don't want to believe it… but… I have to. I saw her with my own eyes. I held her… I… I talked to her.' He thought to himself. 'Maybe I've gone insane. Maybe Shuichi has finally made me an idiot like him, and I'm now hallucinating.
Yuki sighed, that explanation was taking the easy way out. 'There's no other explanation. She's real. Sprites are real.'
He leaned back, letting his arms fall down onto the desk. "I need a cigarette." Yuki glanced around his desk and didn't see his pack of cigarettes, or his lighter. 'I must have left them in the living room. Damn.' For a moment he debated on whether he should risk going out to the living room just for his cigarettes. After a moment he decided it was worth it.
Yuki, with a frown plastered on his face, stood up and made his way to the office door. He quickly unlocked the door and began to make his way out the door. Yuki froze as soon as the loud sounds of Shuichi's latest single began pounding throughout the apartment. He blinked, and stood their for a couple of minutes and then scowled. After taking a deep breath he stomped the rest of the way to the living room. "IDIOT!!!"
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"Okay, Raine." Shuichi smiled, flopping down onto the couch, the stereo remote in his hand. "Here we go." He aimed the remote and pressed play. It only took a couple seconds for the music to begin, and very loudly. Shuichi had turned the volume up before he turned it on.
Raine blinked, her wings twitching slightly. "…" The 'music' was loud. A little too loud for her tastes, but she didn't say anything. She could feel the pride radiating from Shuichi, and she didn't want to risk spoiling that. She turned more towards the 'stereo'. She had never seen a stereo. And a lot of what Shuichi had been talking about confused her. And even now, she was confused. There was music booming through the room, but there was no one singing or playing in front of them. She guessed this is what Shuichi had meant when he said 'record their songs'. After a brief music intro she could hear Shuichi singing, well the 'recorded' Shuichi was in any case. He had a nice voice.
She settled down again, sitting on the arm and just enjoying the music. Just as she was about to make a comment to Shuichi another sound was heard through the apartment.
"IDIOT!!!" Both Shuichi and Raine froze at the sound of Yuki's voice. Shuichi was quick to shut off the stereo, hiding the remote behind him just as Yuki appeared in the living room. "What do you think you are doing, Brat!?"
"Eh… nothing?" Shuichi shrugged, trying to look innocent. Raine could only stare at Yuki with her mouth agape. She could feel anger coming from the blonde.
"That didn't sound like nothing." Yuki was trying to sound calm, though it wasn't working very well. His eyes were set at a glare and now had his arms crossed tightly over his chest. "What did I say about the stereo?"
Shuichi's shoulders slumped. "Not to use it with out asking…"
"Right." Yuki nodded, "And what were you doing?"
"…using it…"
"Right again. Maybe you aren't as stupid as I thought."
"But, Yuki~! Raine asked to hear me sing, so I told her she could listen to my new single. So I went and got my portable CD player and the 'Glaring Dream' CD. Then she said that she didn't know what any of this stuff was! Can you believe that Yuki, she had never seen a CD or a CD player before! So I had to explain them! And then when I was going to let her hear the CD I realized that she couldn't use the headphones!" Shuichi picked up said headphones for Yuki to see. "Her head is too small and she wouldn't be able to hear the song correctly if they didn't fit on her head! So- so I figured you wouldn't mind me using the stereo so she could hear me sing!" Shuichi took a deep breath after he finished his explanation. Raine was slowly nodding through out this.
"…I see…" Yuki's eye twitched slightly, showing his irritation. "Well…" Yuki wasn't sure what do say now. At first he was mad that Shuichi purposely disobeyed him. But it wasn't that big of a deal, he only told him not to play the stereo because it was new and Shuichi had the tendency to wear things out fast. 'Especially my patience.' Yuki thought with a smirk.
Yuki watched Shuichi's expression for a few minutes; his young lover was refusing to look at his face, staring intently at his feet it appeared. "Fine." Yuki finally whispered out, a little exasperated. "You can use it, but not so loud." With that Yuki moved to the coffee table, snatched up his cigarettes and lighter that were laying there, and then made his way back to his office.
Shuichi's head snapped up as soon as Yuki spoke, and he could only stare as he watched the writer grab a couple of things and then disappear once more. Slowly it dawned on him what Yuki had actually said and he smiled. "Waaah, Yuki isn't mad!!"
"…" Raine just continued to stare.
"Yuki must love me!"
Raine shook her head slowly. 'Very interesting…'
===to be continued===
CCT: Okay! There it was. ^^ Not… too horrible was it? Baaah, it sucked didn't it!? Damn the Dayquil, it messed with my mind.