Standard disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation it belongs to Maki Murakami.
I would also like to inform you that this is only a working title right now.
Also this is not I repeat NOT a self insertion. There may also be slight bits of OOC, I'm trying to keep it to a bare minimum though.
Thank you – Exceptince
GambleShindou Shuichi walked down the street thinking about the success of his band, Bad Luck. He smiled happily as he neared the home of his lover, Yuki Eiri. He's so busy thinking about Yuki and his band that he doesn't see the woman walking towards him. She's to busy looking from a slip of paper to the buildings to notice Shuichi coming towards her. The two of them collide with a thud and both are sent backwards landing on their asses.
"Ouch!" The pink haired nineteen year old said as he looked at the young woman opposite to him on the sidewalk. "Sorry I wasn't looking where I was going." He stood up and offered her a hand up.
"No it's my fault, I was looking for a house and not paying attention." The girl in a knee length grey skirt and jacket said in accented Japanese as she got up and brushed the dust off her ass. She looked at her watch. "Now I'm really late for my appointment." She picked up her brief case from the ground and looked at him. At that moment it started to rain. "I hate to ask, but you don't happen to live around here do you?" She said as the drops stained their clothing.
Shuichi smiled pleasantly despite the cool rain. "I do. What address are you looking for?" She showed him the paper. "That's Yuki's address." He told her. 'She must be an editor or something, though why they'd send a new and foreign editor instead of the usual one is beyond me.' "Your in luck I'm going there myself."
The girl smiled. "That's great! I've been wandering around for almost thirty minutes." She tells him as they walk to Yuki's apartment.
"Yuki! I'm home!" Shuichi called out as he and the foreign girl walk in soaked by the rain.
Yuki walks in the room and sighs with annoyance as he sees Shuichi's hair and clothes dripping on the floor. The blond man tosses the boy a towel, then pauses staring at the girl next to his lover. "Whose this?" He demanded.
"I brought your new editor," Shuichi informed him as he dried his wet hair and went to get her a towel. "She got lost on her way here."
The blond man continued to stare at the girl, his eyes cold as she rubbed her short hair dry with the towel Shuichi handed her. "I don't have a new editor you idiot."
The pink haired boy looked from Yuki to the girl confused. "But she had a piece of paper with your address on it. She said she was late for an appointment. I just thought she was a new editor."
"Why would my publisher send a new, English editor?" He asked.
The girl looked at the two men arguing. "I'm very sorry Mr. Yuki. You have a right to be angry, I'm so late for the appointment, I should have been here almost three hours ago."
Yuki looked into Shuichi's face before sighing and telling the girl to come sit down. "I do have an appointment with someone, but not until much latter." He admitted. "So who are you and what are you doing here?"
"I'm here from Gamble Publishing." She said as they sat down around a table. "Adel Gamble." She told him.
"I wasn't expecting you." Yuki told her bluntly.
Adel smiled. "I know you were expecting my brother Henry to meet with you. But I thought you would appreciated conducting business in Japanese rather then being forced to converse in English. Besides, something unexpected came up."
"What came up?" Shuichi asked getting interested in the conversation.
"The business expense vouchers for Henry's last trip to Japan." She told him. "He managed to spend almost a thousand dollars on a Geisha girl."
"Should you be telling us that?" Shuichi asked his eyes wide at her forward attitude.
"So they sent you?" Yuki asked skeptically.
"I'm the only one in the office who knows how to read Japanese." She shrugged. "Anyway, I'm sorry for being late, and please excuse my unprofessional appearance." Adel gestured to her wrinkled and wet and slightly dusty clothing. "I came right for the airport."
"Your not late." Yuki told her. "Your appointment isn't until tomorrow Morning."
She was about to say something but Shuichi interrupted her. "That's good, I'm on live on a music show in an hour." He sounded excited. "Are you going to watch me Yuki?"
Yuki rolled his eyes. "We'll see." Was all he said.
He looked at a clock in the corner of the room and got up. "I've got to get going if I'm going to make it on time." He got up to go.
Yuki's eyes dart from Adel to Shuichi. "Wait Shuichi, take her with you."
Shuichi looked slightly disappointed but smiled and nodded. "Okay, come with me Adel." They both walk out the door. Yuki silently waits watching the door. Shuichi pokes his head in, "I'll hurry back." He tells the blond before leaving.
"Your Shindou Shuichi aren't you?" Adel asked him as they walked to the studio, her eyes wide with excitement.
"Yes, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself." He said sheepishly.
"That's alright." She clapped her hands together. "I can't believe I got to met you. All through the plane trip to Japan I had the song Blind Games running through my head!"
"Wow a fan all the way from the west!" Shuichi said with stars in his eyes. "Ah I'm so happy to hear that!"
"I have a big favor to ask." She told him as they walked. "Could you please, please introduce me the rest of the band. I'd really love to meet them."
Shuichi smiled as they walked inside the TV studio towards the dressing rooms. "Okay!" He said excitedly.
"Shindou where have you been?" A highly wound up Sakano asked as he saw Shuichi coming down the steps. "Everyone's been waiting for you."
K walked up beside him. "Who's the girl Shuichi?" He asked in a relaxed manner.
"I'm Adel." Adel said holding out her had to K. "I remember you Mr. K, you were Ruuyichi's manager when I went to see one of his shows."
"Now I manage Bad Luck." The man with long blond hair told her and turned to Shuichi. "Shuichi it's almost time for you to go on stage. Hurry up and get dressed." He said as he nudged the vocalist towards the dressing room.
A few minutes latter K and Adel start talking. "It's nice to be able to speak in English for awhile." K told the girl as she sat across from him on a chair.
She smiled as she ran a hand through her short hair. "I know what you mean. Everyone is very polite but, sometimes I have to think about what they said a few seconds before I understand what they said."
K shrugged. "So why'd your father send you any way?"
"Well it's partly do to the fact that my idiot brother, Henry charged the time he spent with a Geisha girl to his company credit card, and our father found out." She laughed.
"And what else?"
"And I snatched the tickets and briefing notes off his desk while he was being chewed out." The dark haired girl admitted.
K rubbed he back of his blond head as he laughed and switched back to Japanese. "A born opportunist, I like that."
A random stage hand walks up to K. "Hey, heads up. Only thirty seconds to air." He told the American and went away. K nodded and got up to inform the band. Shuichi, Hiro and Fujisaki go onto the stage much to the anticipation of the fans and start to play Blind Game.
Within this rustling wind
The lights which surround me
Make sounds and blur my memories.
Surely it is impossible to forget the temptations.
Don't let me down
All you do is flirt
Cry for the sun
I can not see anything
Who is this screaming inside myself?
Blind game again
Just a determined doll
You can't fling away the dreams
You can not reach
Drastic game again
Just a threadbare doll
Destroying the forever unchanging night
Adel watches from the side wing, since she couldn't get a seat in the audience. She dances to the beat trying her damnedest not to hum along with the tune. K comes back to where she is and laughs as he watches her watching Bad Luck. Sakano walks up to K with a strange look on his face. "What's that girl doing?" K shrugged.
Twenty minutes later after the music show has ended and the band is back in their normal clothes. "Shuichi!" Adel called as she walked towards him. "That was the greatest show ever!" She jumps up and down with enthusiasm although her rumbled business skirt doesn't allow much movement.
Hiro and Fujisaki both stop and each put a hand on Shuichi's shoulder and drag him back to them. "Hey Shuichi, who's the girl?" Fujisaki asked.
Hiro leans in. "You didn't have a fight with Yuki and decide to use her as revenge on him did you?"
Shuichi gives them a disgusted look. "No way. That's mean! I could never do that to Yuki!"
Hiro leans closer to Fujisaki and whispers. "He knows he couldn't make Yuki jealous if he tried." Fujisaki nods in agreement.
"This is Gamble Adel." Shuichi introduces her. "She's a fan of ours all the way from the west!"
"Hi, I'm Nakano Hiro." He reaches forward and shakes her hand.
"I'm Fujisaki Sugaru." He offers her a hand as well.
"I'm so happy to meet you." She said as she let go of their hands and shifted from side to side unable to stay still. "I was wondering if I could have a big favor from you." She said humbly.
Fujisaki looked from Hiro to Shuichi and shrugged. "I guess so depending on what it is."
"I managed to get a copy of your CD." She paused and made an attempt to sit still. "I was wondering if you'd sign it for me?"
Shuichi jumped up and down beside her. "Sure we'd love to!" He turned to his fellow band mates. "Wouldn't we guys?" The two shrugged and nodded.
"Great!" She jumped up and down with Shuichi and looked around for her briefcase. Her face fell. "I must have left it at Yuki Eiri's apartment."
Hiro looked at her. "What were you doing at Yuki's apartment?" he asked and sent a look at Shuichi.
"I'm from a Canadian Publishing house." She told him suddenly becoming business like. "I'm here to see if Mr. Yuki san will sell a few of his manuscripts to be translated by us and sold in Canada."
The sixteen year old smiled at her. "Well that's nice, to see Yuki expanding his market. How long are you going to stay in Japan?"
"Well I'm also on Vacation right now so about two weeks." She told him. Adel frowned. "I have a bad feeling it isn't going to be received well but I have to go back to Yuki san's apartment."
"Why?" Fujisaki asked.
"I have to get my briefcase." Adel told him. "It has all my money and my passport in it. But I don't think he's the kind of person who will laugh at this stupid mistake." She looked worried.
Shuichi piped up. "Don't worry, I'll smooth things over with Yuki. Come on you can go back with me." He said good bye to everyone and left the studio with Adel in tow. It had been raining again before they got out of the show and she slipped and fell on the wet street tearing a large hole in her already dirty skirt. Shuichi helps her up and she thanks him trying to suppress a yawn.
Finally they arrive at Yuki's apartment, Shuichi takes a key out of his pocket and opens the door. "Yuki I'm back!" The pink haired rock star called out as he stepped through the door with Adel close after him. He heard the tapping of his lover's fingers on computer keys. "I hope you don't mind but Adel needed to stop by to get her briefcase back."
The tapping sound stopped as Yuki saved what he'd been writing and went to see the annoying brat he called his lover, he'd have to speak with Shuichi about letting people come and go as they pleased. As he went he heard a thud coming form the front door and hurried to see what had been knocked over. He arrived to find the short haired girl collapsed on the floor with Shuichi freaking out beside her.
"Ahh, Yuki! What happed?" The rock star said with worried eyes. "She just fainted."
The novelist came closer and looked at the girl. "She's fine Shuichi." He told the younger man as he scooped up the sleeping girl and put her on the couch. Shuichi trailed after him and took her shoes to the front door.
Once Adel hit the couch she snuggled into the soft leather and flopped her arm over the side. Shuichi picked her arm up and put it on the couch, as he did he glanced at her watch. "Hey Yuki, her watch is wrong, it's only ten thirty, not five thirty."
Yuki cursed mentally. "She just hasn't reset her watch for the time change yet." He informed his partner. "For this kid it really is five thirty, in the morning." He glared in annoyance and pulled a blanket over her.
The two men moved over to the kitchen where Yuki poured himself a cup of coffee and then retreated to his study. The adolescent vocalist followed him and looked up at the object of his heart. "Yuki, did you watch me on TV? Did you see me on the music show?"
As he had many times before and would continue to do for who knew how long the novelist coolly ignored the younger male in favor of the keys of his personal computer. He let the smooth voice of the energetic singer wash over him, like background noise as he added a few more pages to his newest love story.
After he finished a chapter and was reasonably satisfied with it Yuki Eiri saved the file and turned off the computer. He looked over at Shuichi, who had grown gradually more and more silent. The twenty one year old checked to make sure it wasn't because he was sulking about not being paid attention too. He was surprised to see that the boy was dozing quietly in his chair.
He looked at the Shuichi, his head tilted forward and resting on his chest. In an uncharacteristic moment of kindness Yuki brushed the hair off the young man's face, brushing his cheek before gently shaking his shoulder. "Shuichi, it's late you should go to bed." He told him. "It's not good for you to sleep in a chair."
Shuichi opened his eyes when he heard Yuki call his name and felt his shoulder being shaken. "Yuki?" He looked at the blond sitting across from him, still partly asleep. Shuichi rubbed his eyes like a small child. "What time is it?"
Yuki checked the clock on the wall and was startled to see that it was almost midnight. He sighed Shuichi had an early morning tomorrow and so did he truth be told. "It's time to go to bed." The novelist said firmly.
The nineteen year old didn't argue that he wasn't tired and that he didn't mind. Though he thought about telling the other man that he would sit quietly until he was finished working but a yawn escaped his lips before he could say anything.
Yuki got up and stretched out his arms, Shuichi followed him from the room rolling his shoulders. Yuki noticed this and almost chuckled at his lover's strange display. "Why didn't you just go to bed when you got tired?" He asked as he changed out of his clothes.
Shuichi smiled sleepily and shrugged, 'How can I tell him that I just wanted to sit with him, without making him angry?' he asked himself. The musician yawned again and slid under the covers next to the warm body of his lover and snuggled in to sleep.
That's the end of the first chapter. I hope that you liked it, as I hope you noticed it was not a self insertion. I also tried to make it so it wasn't centered around Adel. This is my first Gravy fic, so please tell me what you thought, if I get reviews I'll continue, if not I'll assume that no one cared for the story. Thanks for reading it!