The Chapter After That

Shuuichi had to walk home, due to the fact that he didn't have a driver's license (since no one at the DMV would believe that he was 19) and because he had spent all his bus money on sugar, spice, and those little pencil erasers that were shaped like colorful animals and just made one feel all warm and mushy inside.  By the time he got to Yuki's apartment, he was appalled to find Tohma there, sitting with Yuki, his Yuki, and smiling that weasely smile, and laughing that girly laugh, and drinking his Yuki's beer with his Yuki.  Damn Tohma and his car.  Oh, that Tohma just bugged him sooooo much.

            Luckily, he had noticed Tohma in the living room before his usual shout when he returned home, so he remained quiet, and the two did not notice his presence.  So he snuck around the divider between the living room and kitchen and watched silently.

            "Really, I hope no one is permanently affected by this," Tohma was saying.  Shuuichi knew that they were talking about him and Shuuichi's Special.  Trust Tohma to go running to Yuki whenever Shuuichi did something that he didn't like.

            "Tch, the little brat is going to pay for this," Yuki said with a twitching eyebrow.  Shuuichi nearly gasped.  Yuki, his Yuki, was agreeing with Tohma?  No!  His world shattered around him.  Yuki was gonna leave him for Tohma!  He just knew it!

            "Go easy on him, okay, Eiri-san?" Tohma said with his smile.  "I think it was kind of cute, ignoring the life-threatening part."

            Cute?  Cute?  Did Tohma just call Shuuichi cute?  And behind his back too?  Well, even though it wasn't really behind his back seeing as though he was sitting here listening to it, it sure was intended to be.  How insulting.

            Yuki 'tch-ed' again and took a sip of his beer.  He turned to Tohma.  "You want something to eat?  It's about dinner time."

            "Well, I should be getting back home.  I told Mika I'd be there for dinner—"  Tohma stopped, because he then realized that Mika wouldn't be their for dinner either, seeing as though she had run away with his cousin.

            "Stay here," Yuki ordered in his flat voice.  "I got some of the brat's leftover pizza.  It's pretty good."

            How could Tohma refuse Yuki?  He couldn't, so he didn't.  So…he didn't leave…and stayed there…for dinner…

            Yuki got up and approached the kitchen with Tohma shadowing him.  Shuuichi gasped and desperately looked for an escape.  He quickly slinked into the nearby pantry closet as Yuki and Tohma passed, and as their backs were turned, he snaked out of the kitchen into the living room.  There, he saw their glasses of beer sitting on the table.  Now was his chance; if he waited until after Tohma had left, Yuki would be on the lookout for him from Tohma's warning.  He had to do it now, just slip some of Shuuichi's Special into his glass, and then hide around the corner.  When Yuki drinks it, he'll just jump out and draw his attention so he doesn't look at Tohma first.  Yeah, that's what he'll do.  It was the perfect plan, completely and utterly foolproof.

            And so, with the stealth of a disgruntled mailman on his way to make a delivery at Madam Fufie's Living House of Spiders and Puppy Dogs, Shuuichi slid .2mL of Shuuichi's Special into the glass, then immediately took a hiding place around the corner into the hallway just as Yuki and Tohma emerged with two plates of pizza.

            Shuuichi waited silently around the corner.  His heart was beating so hard at the thought that finally Yuki would stop rejecting him once and for all.  He decided it'd be best to watch them for Yuki's sip of his beer, and so he peeked his head just barely out around the corner.  It was then he realized his horrible mistake.

            You see, he when he had come in, he noticed Yuki was sitting on his left, and Tohma was sitting on his right, and so he memorized that.  But when he went to put Shuuichi's Special in Yuki's drink, he had turned around so he was facing the same direction that the two were, and facing that way, Yuki was on the right while Tohma was on the left, but Shuuichi had not considered that, and he slipped it into the left glass which he had thought was Yuki's, but now with a terrifying revelation, he realized he had slipped it into the very glass of Tohma Seguchi, who was now lifting it to his lips to drink.

            No, this was bad, because Shuuichi knew the first person Tohma would see after he drank it would be Yuki, and since Tohma already had feelings for Yuki, they would only intensify, and with Tohma hanging off of Yuki every single second of every single day, Yuki couldn't help but fall in love with him.  Shuuichi would just die if that happened, so he did the first thing that came to mind, which, keep in mind, isn't always the best thing.  He lunged.  At Tohma.

            Unfortunately, he wasn't quick enough, because Tohma had already pretty much downed the last of his drink.  Shuuichi shoved him to the floor and shook him furiously, with Tohma's head banging against the floor with each pound.  Tohma grabbed Shuuichi's wrists, putting an end to the senseless violence that Shuuichi was bestowing upon him, and opened his eyes dreamily to gaze lovingly upon the pink-haired singer.

            You would have to be an idiot to call Tohma an idiot, because Tohma is not an idiot.  In fact, sometimes Tohma can be called a genius.  So, as you can imagine, his brilliant mind immediately realized what had happened, especially since he knew about Shuuichi's Special, and his eyes flicked back and forth between the newly appeared, now completely adorable Shuuichi and his empty beer glass.  Realization engulfed his eyes, but the fact that he knew that he had been drugged by Shuuichi did not change the fact that the drugs were working.  And he decided, being the manipulative bastard that he was, he might as well get what he wanted as long as the effects were working.  And he wanted Shuuichi, so he would get Shuuichi.  End of discussion.  He just hoped that Yuki wouldn't hate him completely after this, but he'd deal with that later, because now all he wanted was Shuuichi, and he would get Shuuichi.  End of discussion.

            Tohma pulled Shuuichi closer to him and held him into a tight embrace.  Very tight.  It almost seemed that Tohma was holding Shuuichi tighter than Ryuuichi holds Kumagorou.  Almost.  Shuuichi struggled in his usual unsuccessful way of flailing his arms yelling, "He-help!  Yuki!  YUUUUUKIIIII HELP ME!!!!"  But as usual, Yuki just sat back, looking at the spectacle with pure amusement.  After all, seeing Tohma so weak with lust was pretty amusing (since Yuki was a little oblivious and never really noticed Tohma's unrelenting advances towards him out of weakness of lust), and also, seeing his best friend go at his lover was, as much as Yuki hated to admit it, very arousing.

            Shuuichi continued to struggle, and despite Tohma's strength, (which, surprisingly enough, he had a great deal of) Shuuichi would not run out of energy, and Tohma quickly realized that he was not going to be able to defeat Shuuichi like this.  So instead, he reached into Shuuichi's backpack, which was now conveniently located right next to him for some magical reason, took out a carton of Shuuichi's Special, and poured in into his own mouth.  Shuuichi, quite taken back by this gesture, since he had been expected Tohma to force it into his mouth as soon as he saw Tohma reach for it, stopped struggling and watched curiously.  He also wasn't expecting Tohma to force it into his mouth, and when Tohma did, through an open-mouthed kiss, Shuuichi stupidly swallowed it.

            Now, Shuuichi is an idiot.  And if you call him an idiot, it does not mean that you're an idiot for calling him an idiot.  It means you're pretty accurate.  I mean, Yuki calls him an idiot all the time, and I'd hardly call Yuki an idiot for calling Shuuichi an idiot.  Shuuichi, though, despite the fact that he's an idiot, was not idiotic enough not to know that he, too, was under the influence of the drug as soon as he opened his eyes, when suddenly Tohma looked so much more attractive.

            After a French kiss that lasted almost five minutes, Yuki was getting too bored (and perhaps too aroused) to just sit back and watch.  Not to mention the fact that he noticed Tohma's hands slowly making their way lower and lower down Shuuichi's body, and this made him a jealous boyfriend of sorts.  So he grabbed Shuuichi by the scruff of his neck and yanked him off Tohma.  Tohma stood up immediately and was glaring at Yuki, whom just stared back with his death-glare as he clutched onto Shuuichi as Shuuichi desperately tried to break free of Yuki's arms to get back into Tohma's.

            "Tohma!  Tooohhhhmaaaa!!!  Give me back my Tohma!" Shuuichi yelled as he attempted to pry Yuki's fingers from around his waist.

            "Your Tohma?" Yuki asked, sounding, if possible with him, a little hurt.  He angrily snatched the carton of Shuuichi's Special and shoved some into the pink-haired singer's mouth.  Shuuichi looked up at Yuki in horror, but as the drug took effect, his expression turned to that of pure and simple love.

            "No!  Shuuichi is mine!" Tohma yelled, and yanked Shuuichi back to him.  Shuuichi began to struggle against Tohma in much the same way he had against Yuki.

            "Yuki!  Yuuukiiii!!! Give me back my Yuki!" Shuuichi yelled.

            Tohma, copying Yuki's actions exactly, grabbed some of Shuuichi's Special and forced it into Shuuichi's mouth.  Shuuichi stood in a daze for even longer this time before the drug took effect.  After that, though, he belonged to Tohma, body and soul, for eternity—that is, until Yuki snatched him back and gave him another dose of Shuuichi's Special.  Then Shuuichi fell in love with Yuki again, until Tohma took him back with Shuuichi's Special.  But, instead of falling head over heels for Tohma, Shuuichi just fell.

            Tohma and Yuki stood there for a moment, staring at the limp body on Yuki's floor.  Yuki sighed, and with a subtle hint of fear in his voice, said, "Tohma, you killed him."

            But, much to Yuki's dismay, Tohma was already on the ground, cuddling Shuuichi's still body and spewing out phrases like, "Shuuichi, my love, what a tragic ending this is…  What can I do?  Just tell me what's wrong…  I should call I doctor…  I must get a doctor, right now…"

            Yuki's eye twitched.  How could Tohma fuss over his Shuuichi like that?  Shuuichi was YUKI'S!!!  And with that thought, Yuki dived, though not for Shuuichi, but for Tohma.  Tohma yelped as Yuki sent him flying into the wall, cracking it slightly, though not entirely breaking it since Yuki had reinforced it with steel to prevent Shuuichi from busting through it instead of using the door.

            "You're just jealous of Shuuichi's love for me!" Tohma cried, pointing his finger at Yuki.  "You know he won't ever belong to you!"

            "What are you talking about?" Yuki shouted back furiously.  "He was mine in the first place!"

            "Maybe so, but you've neglected him so much that he's been eyeing others," Tohma countered with that manipulative glint in his eyes.  "Don't you realize that that's why he created this love potion and poisoned me with it?  It's because he secretly wanted me all along.  He tried to give it to me several times before this, you know."

            Yuki's eyes flashed dangerously.  "You're lying!" was all he could think of to say.  He decided that Tohma wasn't really that smart; he just sucked out other people's intelligence and used it as his own.  Yuki advanced towards Tohma with his fist raised and was about to smash Tohma's pretty face, when he tripped over something that sent him tumbling to the floor.  He looked back to see the lifeless pink-haired boy sprawled across his feet.  It was then that he remembered Shuuichi, the lifeless pink-haired boy sprawled across his feet.

            Yuki retreated and gathered Shuuichi's body lovingly in his arms, and then he briskly exited the apartment, slamming the door in Tohma's face when he tried to follow.  Yuki carried Shuuichi down to his car and set him gently in the passenger seat, then started off to the hospital.