Ashura, domo arigatou gozaimasu for sharing your views, for giving me new ideas and discussing crap with me. Really enjoyed it. Sank you for your support. Really appreciate it! Honto!! Uso Ja ne!!
Asma-chan, Shokrun(Persian for thank you) for lending me your ears and for being you! Arigatou for your continuos support!
To Katie and Miyoko, thank you for telling the members of ASK. I also have the DVD, Katie –san, but I don't know why I can't hear it.. sigh.. Must get my ears checked.
Ice dragon goddess and Kakarots, Thank you for reviewing me!
Echo-san..I don't know much about cameras.. Gomen if I wrote anything wrongly and thank you for telling me that!!
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Chapter 3- More trouble?
'I wished to announce that I will quite Bad Luck.'
Hiro and Fujisaki almost fell from the chair when they heard the abrupt announcement. Mr. K, who was drinking water before that, spurted out the water he was drinking at Sakano.
Hiro stood up and grabbed Shuichi's arm and forced him to turn to face him. 'What the hell are you saying, Shuichi? Is this some kind of joke?' Hiro said, his heart pounding faster each second.
'Shindou-kun, you carry your jokes too far!' Fujisaki said as he stood up.
Shuichi still said nothing. He hung his head down, staring at the microphone. After a few painful seconds, he looked up.
'Gomen, Hiro, Fujisaki, K-san, Sakano-san. I…. I will quit Bad Luck with effect from today.'
'Shut up. Give me a reason in 10 seconds or I'll shoot you right away.' Mr. K was there by a second, pointed his gun at Shuichi, an angry expression written all over his face.
Reporters were taking pictures, asking more and more questions.
'Urusai!!!!!!!' K shouted, pointed his gun upwards and shot a few shots. The reporters zipped their mouth straight away. Hiro and Fujisaki are so used to it that they don't feel a single thing. Both of them folded their arms and waited for K to deal with Shuichi.
'That's better', K nodded and point his gun back to Shuichi's head. 'Naze?' He asked again.
'Ore…' Shuichi stopped. He didn't know how to continue. His mind is totally blank, his heart drumed faster and his palms are sweating.
'Gomen.. I'm tired of singing, I don't want to sing anymore.' Shuichi whispered. 'I…. I'm sorry, I need to go.' Shuichi pushed K and Hiro away and ran to the door, opened it wide and escaped.
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'What is the fool doing?' Yuki Eiri thought angrily as he saw the live interview from the television.
'Damn Shuichi for zipping his mouth about the note, damn the note, Damn everything.' Yuki cursed. He took his cell phone and dialed Touma's phone number. 3 rings later, Touma answered.
'Eiri san, what is going on? Why Shuichi wanted to quit Bad Luck?'
'I was going to ask you that!!!' Yuki spat out angrily, walking to and fro in his little living room.
'You don't know anything about it?' Touma sounded surprised.
'Damn it!! No!! I only knew he received a mysterious note, that's all.' Yuki tried to control himself from shouting.
'Wakata.. I'll investigate personally myself, Eiri-san' Touma replied and clicked off.
Yuki threw the cell phone away and sat on the couch. He took out his pack of cigarette from his breast pocket, only to find that there is not a single stick left.
'Ch….' He cursed for the 10th time.
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Aizawa has never felt better. Seeing Shuichi quitting Bad Luck, Hiro and Fujisaki's shocked look, Mr. K furiousness, was all enough to brighten up his day. There's a glint of cruel satisfaction in his eyes. He stood up and called J, a friend of his who work in the triads.
'J…Plan A, done. Proceed with plan B.'
Just as he replaced the telephone, Ma-kun came rushing into his room.
'Tachi, …'he panted … 'Did you see the news?'
'Oh..yes.. I saw it..' Aizawa grinned.
'Tachi, please stop it. I don't want you to get into trouble.' Ma-kun pleaded.
Aizawa's grinned automatically disappeared. He grabbed Ma-kun's shirt and locked his eyes to his. 'Look, if you don't want to a part of this, stay out, quit the fucking band. I can find someone to replace you. If you're with me, then just shut the fuck up!'
'Ma-kun, there's no need to be worried. After all, if Shuichi is out, it will benefits us eh, Aizawa?'
Aizawa and Ma-kun turned their attention to the door. Their third member, Ken leaned against the opened door and smiled.
Aizawa gave a cruel smile and said, 'Ever heard of if you can't beat them, you join them?' This is exactly what you must do now, Ma-kun.'
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'Oniican, open the door!! What's wrong with you?' His sister banged at the closed door. She's been doing that for the past 5 minutes and her brother is still not opening the door. She gave up and sighed as she looked at the door with a 'No entry' sign. She wondered what is going on with her brother. The last time when he ran of from Yuki, he still opened the door to pull his meals into the room.
'If you want to eat, just open the door, niican,' she said and put the tray down on the floor before taking one final look at the door and headed downstairs.
Shuichi stared into space in his room. He thought about everyone and everything. He could still pictured Hiro's shocked face, K's furious expression, and Yuki…. he wondered what Yuki is doing. 'He must be shock too.' Shuichi thought, and curved a sad smile.
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Hiro, Fujisaki, K and Sakano formed a search team to look for Shuichi. Sakano and K went to the amusement park, while Fujisaki has been assigned to go to the park and the possible places that Shuichi might go, while Hiro went to look for Yuki.
Hiro drove his motorcycle to the maximum speed, breaking every traffic rule possible. Shuichi might have told Yuki something, he thought. After all, Yuki is his angel. He always tells him everything. But still, he could not erase the fear that Yuki might not know anything. Shuichi has been damn secretive this time.
Hiro arrived at Yuki's apartment exactly 10 minutes later. He checked his wristwatch. 3 and half hours after the disastrous interview session. He jabbed his thumb on the bell for numerous times, cursing when he got no response.
Yuki was waiting for Touma's telephone call when he heard the bell ringing. His first thought was Shuichi, but quickly erased it when he remembered that Shuichi has a key to his apartment. He hoped that it wasn't Mika or Tatsuha. Those 2 idiots are being busybodies these few days, especially Tatsuha. He keep on appearing on his doorstep, trying to find out what are they doing, which caused much irritations to Yuki.
Hiro forced his way in as soon as Yuki opens the door.
'Don't you always wait for people to invite you in?' Yuki asked, irritated. He has no mood to see anyone yet. Shuichi's problems are already driving him nuts and there comes another Hiro. He could half-guessed why Hiro was here, in his apartment. He knew Hiro wanted some answers about what happen to Shuichi but even he doesn't have the answers this time.
'Where is Shuichi?' Hiro blurted out, clearly ignoring Yuki's remark
Yuki grew more irritated. 'How the hell would I know?'
'He didn't tell you anything, did he?' Hiro folded his arms, head bend slightly, a few locks of hair fell into the front as he spoke.
'No.' Yuki leaned against the wall, took out a cigarette and lit it.
'Teme.. you knew didn't you? You purposely kept quiet!' Hiro accused, his fist clenched into a ball by his side.
'I told you I don't know!!!' Yuki barked.
Hiro grabbed Yuki's collar and pushed him against he wall, slamming Yuki's body on it. Yuki dropped the cigarette on the floor and bored his eyes to Hiro. 'You don't care for Shuichi, am I right? You used him as your sex toy, used him as you please and threw him out when you feel like it! You never care for Shuichi's feeling! Never!! Do you have any idea how it'll hurt Shuichi? We're in a middle of a damn tight situation and you're not even cooperating! Forget it! You don't even know what is happening!' Hiro spat out.
He wanted to say these long time ago, when Yuki first threw Shuichi out. He kept quiet for Shuichi's sake, but now, he found that he could not control his anger anymore.
Yuki's devilishly handsome face immediately turned dark, anger replaced his cool face. He pushed Hiro away with one push, which caused Hiro to stagger backwards. Before he could even steady himself, Yuki punched Hiro on his face.
'Don't ever say I used Shuichi to satisfy my sexual desires! I never cared for Shuichi? If I really don't, then why the hell I ask Touma to investigate for me about the damn note? If I don't care, why the fuck I feel anger churned in my stomach when Shuichi refused to tell me what the note is about?' Yuki shouted out, stabbing his fore finger onto his chest. Yuki realized that he had said too much the minute he finished his last word. He turned his body towards the glass door. For the first time in his life, Yuki Eiri felt embarrassed.
Hiro grinned. He stood up carefully and said quietly. 'You do like Shuichi, don't you?'
Yuki felt the question stabbed into his heart. He doesn't know how or what to answer. Truthfully, this is the question that he could not answer himself.
Yuki was just about to give some lame excuses when Touma, Tatsuha and his sister, Mika came rushing into his apartment.
'Eiri-san,'
'Aniki….'
'Eiri….'
All three of them were panting as they said Yuki's name. Yuki stared at all three of them, an eyebrow raised slightly. Hiro looked surprised.
'Eiri-san, big trouble. Look at this!' Touma thrust the newspaper into his hands. Yuki's eyes widen as he saw the contents. A huge picture of Shuichi, naked, in a place that only god knows where. His hands were tied and his eyes were blindfolded. The only relieved was the picture was took in a certain angle that covered his important parts. The headlines read, 'Was Shuichi attacked?'
'Where did you get this?' Yuki asked silently, his anger has just reached to the highest level.
'That's the afternoon newspaper. I got it an hour ago as a special copy..' Touma explained.
Hiro snatched the papers from Yuki's hand. He was more shocked than Yuki.
Tatsuha took the remote control from the table and switched on the television. The entertainment news is already in progress. All 5 pair of eyes glued at the t.v screen.
'Today's hot topic.. Was Shindou Shuichi really attacked? Someone sent the pictures to the press, informing that the person in it is Shindou Shuichi of Bad Luck. But, there were no confirmations yet. Experts are called in at the moment to identify the picture. NG's head, Seguchi Touma couldn't be reached everywhere. We are now trying to get the famous writer, Yuki Eiri, which also happens to be Shuichi's lover to identify the picture.' The woman reporter spoke behind of hundreds of fans and reporters in front of NG building.
Yuki said nothing.
'Aniki,,,' Tatsuha began. He had never seen his brother this angry before.
The reporter continued. ' We've interviewed with Shuichi's fans and they themselves couldn't believe it was Shuichi.' Then, the screen moved to a different angle where it showed interview with the fans. The fans were sobbing, refusing to believe what had happened.
'Shit.. We need to get out of here. The reporters will be here any minute.' Hiro cursed.
'Eiri-san..I think it's a good idea to get out of here for a while.' Touma held his hand lightly on Yuki's arm.
Yuki said nothing and strode out of the apartment.
'Eiri!! Mika shouted and chased after him. Hiro switched off the TV and ran along with them, slamming the door shut.
'Where are we going?' Hiro asked as they settled down in Touma's car.
'My place.' Touma answered. He looked at Yuki who was seated at the passenger's seat. Yuki never look scarier. He kept quiet, gritted his teeth and clenched his fist tightly.
'Eiri-san..' Touma whispered.
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Cheers… J.' Aizawa tossed his drink with Ken and J. Aizawa drank the wine, welcoming the bitter taste into his throat
'Thank you J, for publishing that picture.' Aizawa smiled.
'No problem, Tachi…remember what you've promised me..' The other man spoke, curving an evil grin.
'I'll keep my promise…' Aizawa leaned nearer to J as he spoke. 'Shindou Shuichi will be yours.'
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Meanwhile, a shock Shuichi fell onto his knees as he saw the news on the television screen. He clasped both of his hands on his head and shook his head over and over again; unable to accept what he had just seen.
'This must be a joke…Cannot be..' Tears streamed down, wetting his cheeks as he whispered.
Chapter 3-owari-
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