Disclaimers: Gravitation doesn't belong to me. If it did I'm sure the creator would weep at what I have done to it.
Notes: Now we're back to another YukixShuichi interlude. Told from Yuki's point of view this time. I'm not sure when Japanese schools get out, but we'll just say that it's some time early April.
~*The Bible of Kumagoro—Getting Closer To Your God*~
I sighed as I finally left my office that morning, determined to make myself some coffee. I needed the caffeine. I'd been up writing almost all night as well, and it was beginning to take its toll on my mind. I could feel my body begging for sleep already. I'd managed to squeeze an hour or two in at some point, but Shuichi really had forced me behind in my writing when he'd forced me to go with him to that kid's house. I still hadn't managed to catch up, even when he was away. It was then that I'd fallen even more behind. I couldn't write without the assurance that Shuichi was nearby. I needed him around when I was bored.
The idiot was still asleep, and I was curious enough to check the clock. Four AM, not that bad. I was normally out around three. Making my way to the kitchen I started my coffee brainlessly. It didn't take much thought to make coffee, after all. Even Shuichi could do it. However, in my tired state there was no way that I was going to be able to write without it. Therefore, I wandered back into the living room as I waited for the coffee to finish.
I sat down on the couch next to Shuichi, a hand resting on his side gently. For some reason I never grew tired of looking at him, especially while he was asleep. He looked so peaceful, something you rarely got to see while he was awake, he was normally too busy running around and cheering energetically to relax. I couldn't help but wonder how I must look while I'm still asleep, if Shuichi had ever sat awake and watched me sleep like I do him on those occasions when I can't sleep.
Shuichi moved slightly, turning to burry his face in his pillow, clutching it to his face even in his sleep. I smiled slightly and stood up, fairly sure that my coffee was done already. If not than it would be soon.
I had been right, it was done. I poured myself a cup and walked back to my office, met with a dull stare from Shuichi. He made a whining sound and sat up, staring at me dully.
"Why do you always have to do that so early in the morning?" he demanded, still not fully awake. "I mean, can't you sleep normal times? Or at least semi-normal?" I shook my head and Shuichi sighed, falling back to lie down on the couch. "I'm never going to get back to sleep," he whined and I set my cup down on the table across from him, sitting back down on the couch as he lied back down. He smiled up at me happily, taking one of my hands in his.
"Why don't you wake up then?" I asked and Shuichi pouted up at me, pulling his blanket higher. "Well?"
"I'm tired," he whined again, a hand unconsciously reaching up to wipe sleep from his eyes. "If it wasn't for your stupid coffee I'd still be sleeping peacefully," he bitched, squirming a little bit, making himself more comfortable. "Why don't you sleep instead of drinking that coffee? It'll do you more good," he offered, pulling on my hand gently. Slowly he raised his other harm to encircle my waist, sliding it up my back to push me ever closer to him. "Come on," he whispered sweetly, lips brushing against mine as he spoke.
"Not a chance," I answered softly, closing the space between us. Shuichi squirmed a bit more as we kissed, pressing himself closer to me. I slowly moved to pull the blanket away from him, letting it hang off the side of the couch. As we pulled apart I picked him up so we could change positions, leaving me to lie on the couch, with him lying on my chest. "You're spoiled, you know that?" I asked as he curled up against me, burying his head under my chin and closing his eyes.
"I'm vaguely aware of it," he offered in return, yawning as I covered us both with his blanket. We both fell asleep shortly, and I didn't care that I was once again giving into him, it was worth it sometimes.
He was already gone when I woke up, and I felt strangely alone. True, I was used to waking up alone, but not after falling asleep with Shuichi. He normally slept longer than I did. Then again, Shuichi hadn't been pulling all-nighters writing for the last couple of days. I guess it was to be expected.
I growled as the phone rang, reaching over my head to pick it up. I still wasn't quite awake. "Hello?" I bitched into the receiver, waiting for the other person to respond.
"Nice to see you're in a good mood, as always." Great, Hiro. Why at a time like this? I didn't get along with him, everyone was aware of that. Why in the world had he felt the need to pester me this time? Shuichi had a cell phone for a REASON. "Anyway, I was calling as a friendly reminder that there's something you'd BETTER not forget today," he snapped and I sat up. Was he THREATENING me? "I would check and see if there's anything special you might want to remember today," he offered cheerfully, and I heard the phone click as he hung up. The NERVE of that little punk. If he wasn't Shuichi's best friend I would have made him regret ever speaking like that to me.
Sighing I got up and walked back into my office, starting my computer up from its standby faze. What time was it? 5:24, lovely. There went a lot of my writing time today. My eye traveled automatically to the blinking date next to the time, wondering why in the world it would be doing that. I knew that it blinked when I had an occasion marked, but the only occasions I marked were my due-dates for my books. Strange…
Curiously I actually checked the date, clicking on it. Oh. Well, that explained a lot. I figured it out before the program even opened up, but the written reminder only confirmed the information for me. Sighing I closed down the calendar and leaned back in my seat. I was sure this meant that I wasn't going to get any writing done today.
"Umm…Yuki?" I blinked and looked over towards the door where Shuichi was standing patiently, arms crossed behind his back as he smiled cheerfully. "I made you some more coffee, since the stuff you made this morning was cold," he offered sweetly and I nodded. He nodded once in return and turned to leave.
"Hey, brat," Shuichi blinked and turned his head to stare at me, hand still resting on the door handle. His violet eyes were opened a little wider in surprise, and he looked completely clueless while at the same time absolutely adorable. "Happy birthday." Shuichi's eyes lit up brightly, and a smile lit up his features as well.
"Yuki remembered!" he cheered happily, and before I could blink he was sitting in my lap, hugging me tightly. "I didn't think you'd remember," he cheered happily, being as quiet as possible seeing as he was right near my poor, vulnerable ear. I sighed and held him gently, running fingers through his hair. It was an addiction, I swear it.
We stayed like that for a while before Shuichi stood up again, smiling brightly. "I can't believe you actually remembered!" he cheered again, twirling around happily. "Sorry I'm being disruptive, but I'm just so happy!" he cheered once more, scrambling out of my office happily, probably off to celebrate by himself. Everyone was aware that I wasn't about to go celebrate with him.
I sighed and tried to go back to my work, opening the document and rereading the sentence I had stopped at in order to refresh my memory. As much as I would have liked to have some of the coffee Shuichi had made for me, truth was that I didn't need it anymore. He'd get over it eventually, right? Although, I couldn't help but feel guilty that Shuichi had gone to the trouble and I was completely ignoring him. Even I could feel guilty about such things, no matter how small and trivial they REALLY were.
I closed back down the document, not bothering to save what I HADN'T managed to get done. I would get some coffee, then Shuichi would want dinner, and then he'd probably be hanging all over me the rest of the day. Not to say I minded in the least. Actually, I might as well just take him out for dinner. I didn't feel like cooking much of anything at the moment. Besides, I had this feeling that I should do SOMETHING for him for his birthday.
I left my office slowly, still suffering from the effects of just waking up not too long ago. I sighed and dragged my ass over to the kitchen, pouring myself a small cup of coffee. At least it might serve to wake me up and restore my better sense of judgment. Taking Shuichi out today was probably going to end in some sort of disaster, but I couldn't care at the moment. Besides, if by some miracle things turned out all right, things would end up perfect the rest of the day. It was a rule with Shuichi. By doing anything with him, you were taking a fifty-fifty chance that the rest of your day was going to be either perfect or miserable. It depended on what happened while you were out.
As I walked back into the living room Shuichi was lying on the couch, happily chatting away with someone else on the phone. Probably Hiro. Not that I cared whom he was talking to. So long as they didn't bother me I could care less who was on the other end of the phone. Hell, I didn't care who was calling me half of the time, anyway.
Walking over to him I pulled on his hair slightly and mouthed the word 'dinner' as he looked up at me. He shrugged, still listening to whoever was on the other end of the phone.
'What about it?' he mouthed back and I pointed to the door. He seemed confused for a moment before muttering an apology to his friend and promising to call him back later. "So what's this about dinner?" he asked as he hung up the phone, sitting up and shoving it into his pocket as he stared up at me from the couch. "We going out?" he asked cutely, head tilting slightly to the side as he spoke.
"Yes. Do you not want to?" Shuichi shook his head quickly and bounced up, smiling happily at me.
"Of course I want to go!' he cheered happily, bouncing once to prove his excitement. I sighed and followed after his energetic form, which was currently bouncing over to the door. "So where are we going?" he asked as I followed him out the door, turning to lock it behind us. He had to know everything, didn't he?
"I don't know. You pick. It's your birthday after all." Shuichi's eyes lit up happily and he attached himself to my arm as we walked down the hallway. He was so energetic today, and for good reason. However, as adorable as he looked my arm was starting to tingle so I was forced to push him away from me halfway through the elevator ride.
"Um…wherever we went last time. That place was really nice!" Shuichi cheered happily and I winced. That place was not only really nice but really expensive. Not to say that I couldn't afford it, but it was more money than I'd normally spend going out to eat. However, as stated before it was his birthday and I could stretch it a bit for special occasions.
"Alright." Shuichi jumped happily, causing the elevator to shake about, before latching back onto me.
"Yuki is the greatest! I promise I'll make it up to you, Yuki!" he cheered happily, rubbing his cheek against my shoulder happily. I had no idea where he'd picked up that habit, but it only made him seem more catlike at times.
"It's a birthday present idiot. You don't have to pay me back," I stated clearly and Shuichi made a soft whining sound, standing up on his tiptoes so he could whisper in my ear.
"I want to pay you back." A flash of that evil smile and he was back to normal, skipping off to the car and waving at me to hurry up. Oh yes, today was going to be a GOOD day.
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Yay! Done with chapter 25 at LAST! I've been working on this for a long time now. This just wouldn't come out right and I couldn't find any sort of inspiration for it.
Oh, Brit-chan, the reason I don't post my lemon is because I don't want to change my story to R right now. Nothing else in this story deserves an R rating, so I don't want to rate it R for just a chapter or two of it.
Ok, now for my chapterly review begging. *Gets on knees and clasps hands* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW! They really do help me write faster. I got so many motivational reviews for this I was working on it the day after I posted chapter 24, I just got REALLY stuck for a while (which is why it turned out like it did).
See, I'm not lying. So PLEASE review. *begs*