Chapter 2
It was too hot. Suguru's legs hurt, and he was hot. There was also something heavy on his chest. He kicked the blankets off, and got out of bed so he could walk to the bathroom. It was then that he noticed that he was in a hospital gown. The events of the past week came rushing back to him, and that the doctors had told him he'd never walk again. And here he was, halfway across the room. He half ran, trying to keep his cool, to the bed, where Tani still lay in her street clothes.
"Tani-chan!" he said, shaking her.
"No. no school." she said turning over.
"No, Tani, not school. Look! You're in the bed, and I'm way over here! Not in the bed! Standing on my own two legs!"
"Yep." Tani just seemed a little too groggy. Nothing was computing. He had to use the only surefire way of waking her up. He bent down, and gave her a kiss. Not a little kiss, either. It was an omigod-I-can't- breathe kind of a kiss. Her eyes finally opened all the way.
"Yes, Suguru-chan, you have my attention."
"I'm over here. Standing up. By myself. On my legs." It took her a second, but it soon sunk in just how big of a thing that was. She stood up, and walked towards the door.
"Oh. I see. I. I think. we need. a doctor, and." she fainted dead away.
Soon, Tani was in a bed at Tohma's house. Suguru was dressed, and in a wheelchair beside her bed when she woke up.
"Jesus, how long have I been out?"
"Three days. I guess you got really sick with worry . That's why I was so hot. Because you had a fever."
"They let you out of the hospital?"
"I think Tohma paid them off" Suguru chuckled. Tani eyed his wheelchair.
"What happened to walking around?" she asked him.
"See, funny thing about that. That night, when you were laying on me, you unpinched this nerve in my neck that was causing all the problems. But it got re-pinched again, but only halfway this time. I can still walk around, but it gets really tiring, and eventually I stop being able to do it anymore. So, I use the wheelchair until I need to walk around, or I use it if I walk around too much. One day, I may graduate to those metal crutch things. But, for right now, I use this most of the time. I'm so happy, though! I can still be in Bad Luck, and you and I." he blushed, "We can still be together."
"We could have still been together no matter what, Suguru." She kneeled beside the wheelchair. "This stupid old thing would never, ever come between you and I." He leaned in and kissed her, and the door was flung open. Mika walked in with a tray of food, saw the two fly apart from each other, and giggled.
"No hanky panky in my house, you two!" Tohma said as he popped up behind her. Suguru narrowed his eyes, and Tani turned brighter red than anyone thought was possible.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Seguchi-san." Suguru denied, as K walked in, and held up a fast developing Polaroid shot of the two less than a moment before Tani flew across the room.
"Oh, I think you do." K said in a very blackmailing tone.
"Be nice, K." Hiro said as he walked past everyone leading Shuichi.
"Oh, great." Suguru announced. "With two more people." Noriko and Ryuichi walked up behind the group of people. "Jesus Christ, it's a convention of idiots!" he yelled, not being able to take the headache. A gun was clicked right next to his head.
"Keep it down, sprout." K said quietly. Suguru gulped.
"It's so hot!" Shuichi whined. Ryuichi nodded with enthusiasm.
"Uh huh, uh huh! Tohma-san, Kumagoro wants to know if we can all go swimming in your pool. Please, please, please-please?"
"None of you guys have your suits." Tohma said. Noticing the look on everyone's face, his eyes narrowed. ". this was planned wasn't it?" everyone, including Mika, nodded with enthusiasm. "Well, alright! But next time, please inform me that I will be throwing a swimming party." Everyone left, and Mika took Tani to her room to see if she could find a suit that fit her. Tohma helped Fujisaki, whom was still quite weak, and had problems moving around a whole lot, change into his suit.
"You didn't tell her, did you, Fujisaki-kun?"
"No. I thought that maybe she was better off not knowing for a while. She worries so much about me when I'm not injured; her worry-wart is on overload right now." Tohma shook his head. He helped Suguru into his wheelchair, and then left the boy. Suguru contemplated whether or not to tell Tani about his leg braces. He left them behind in the room.
He wheeled his way to Mika's room, he wanted to see if they had found a suit, If not, he wasn't going downstairs. It was too hard as it was to go up and down the stairs. He stupidly forgot to knock, and wheeled right in. Tani was seated in front of Mika and Tohma's vanity mirror, and brushing her hair. She had on a rather skimpy bikini. One the same color blue as her eyes, with a light purple pattern of Hawaiian flowers. She turned at the sound of the door opening, and saw Fujisaki.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to walk right in! Wheel! Or, uh." she stood up.
"Oh it's nothing you haven't seen before. Just because we're of age now doesn't mean anything's changed, a you don't need to feel awkward." She spread her arms and turned. "How do I look?" Her red hair was brushed to the side, and she looked fairly reminiscent of a Disney movie character.
"With your hair brushed that way. you. you look." he was trying his hardest not to laugh. "like. The Little Mermaid!" he burst out laughing, not able to control it anymore. She laughed, and threw her hair up into a ponytail. They eventually went quiet again. Fujisaki looked her up and down.
"What?" she asked.
"Put it back down." He said quietly. "I liked how it looked. spilling all down your shoulders that way." he stood up carefully, and reached up to the ponytail clasp. He undid it, and helped her hair fall. He ran his fingers through it slowly, until his hands rested at the back of her neck. He tipped her head back, and bent over so his lips barely brushed over hers. "Tani." he kissed her deeply, and smiled slightly when he felt arms snake up his chest so the hands attached could hold onto his shoulders. He moved onto her neck, and heard her sigh. He knew how sensitive her neck was.
"Suguru. Suguru." she kept saying his name, "Oh, god, Suguru. what if Mika or Tohma come in?"
"They'd leave. They know how long we've waited..." His hand ghosted up her side, but paused above her breast. "Oh." he stopped, and lowly slid to the ground.
"Suguru?" Tani asked, almost panicked. "Suguru?!" his eyes began to slide shut.
The last thing Fujisaki heard was a very familiar voice scream for Tohma.
Fujisaki awoke in Tohma's bed. Everyone stood soaking wet (except for Tani) over him. Tani was crying into Tohma's chest.
"Geez, Tani, overreact much?" he said to her quietly. Her head snapped up, and she pounced him.
"Oh, god! I thought that you were going to go back into a coma!" she hugged him tight, and he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"Nothing that serious. I. I just tired myself out, that's all." She nodded, almost knowingly.
"Then I won't tire you out again. If my presence is only going to tire you out, maybe I should go home."
"NO!" he said quickly. "Please don't go home. I want you here, with me." he quirked an eyebrow in a suggestive manner, one only she knew. She quirked a lip, and he clenched his eyebrows. All of this was unnoticeable to the untrained eye.
"Why are they just staring at each other, Tohma?" Ryuichi asked quietly. Shuichi also turned, quite interested in the answer.
"They're talking." Tohma answered without looking away from the two. He had long since learned how to interpret Suguru/Tani-ese. Ryuichi and Shuichi's eyes both got very big.
"THEY CAN READ EACH OTHER'S MINDS?" Both Ryuichi and Shuichi asked loudly. Tohma started, and looked at the other two.
"No." he said quite flatly. "They are communicating with the use of body language. He asked her to sleep with him tonight. She said she didn't know. He asked why, and she said she didn't know again. He said please, and then you two started shouting, and I lost my concentration so I don't know what the answer was."
"It was yes." Mika said to him, turning around to face him. "So I most definitely do not want him sleeping in here." Tohma nodded.
Mika watched, a couple hours later, as Tohma conversed with the two. First, he was smiling, and they were two. Then, he turned a little more serious, and Tani blushed, and Suguru turned a little defensive. Tohma went back to diplomatic, but the damage was done. Soon, Tohma and Suguru were shouting at each other, and Tani was looking angrily at Tohma. It was when Tohma and Tani, both naturally non-yellers, seemed to be shouting at each other, that Mika knew that something was seriously wrong. Tohma stormed out of the room that he had been in, where Mika had been watching from across the hall, and slammed the door. He marched directly into the piano room, slammed that door, and locked it. Mika let him be, until she heard what she liked to think of as Tohma's death music. Whenever you hear that music, you know there is someone Tohma is preparing to, or had already, hurt. He played it before he went out to walk with Aizawa. She was certain he played it after what happened to Yuki Kitazawa. She had heard that music trillions of times, and each time, Tohma had come back into the house with news that he fired a band or an employee or someone that had been messing with Eiri lately never bothered him again. She reached into the medicine cabinet of the bathroom closest to the piano room, and grabbed the key. She walked back, and heard the song beginning to crescendo. She unlocked the door, and watched the rocking form of her husband. She hated Beethoven's 9th symphony. She laid a hand gingerly on his shoulder, and he started, and the music automatically stopped.
"Kid's can be so pigheaded sometimes, eh, Mika dear?" he asked her.
"What happened earlier, Tohma?" he stood up at his wife's soft words, and picked up his glass of Scotch.
"Would you believe me if I told you that Suguru just threw his whole career down the drain?"
"Most likely not. What made him do that?"
"It's not important. He just ruined his whole persona, however, and for what? For one night with a girl, that's what." Tohma slammed his glass down on the bar. Mika hadn't seen him this angry in a long time.
"But not just any girl, Tohma. It's Tani. I think that they're story will be great for making a new one, right?" He slammed his hands on the bar at her words. "This isn't all this is about, is it? You've been this way since. since Eiri married the little Shindou brat!" Tohma whipped around and glared at Mika, Mika's first clue that he was pasted. Her second was the empty bottle of Vodka. And another mostly empty bottle. And the almost empty bottle of Scotch.
"Don't mention that! How could he!? How could he??!!? How could he just open right up to Shindou that way? Eiri-san and I spent so much time. and he tells the world? He tells Shindou? And then marries him? Was Shindou there to hold him when he had just killed a man? Was Shindou there to clean up the blood and. whatnot? To cover the tracks? No. Just me! And who does he want out of his life!? Me." Tohma collapsed on the bar, and hit it with his fist. A very taken aback Mika gaped at him a moment.
"I should have known." she said quietly. "It was all about him. IT'S ONLY EVER BEEN HIM!" she screamed. The sound of his wife shouting at him sobered Tohma up a little bit.
"Mika-san." he said quietly. "Please, calm down." He started when he heard a bottle crash.
"NO!" she shouted at him. "I won't calm down this time! Why the hell did you even marry me, Tohma Seguchi? So you could be closer to Eiri?"
"I married you because I love."
"Don't even say that you love me! I'm way past that fantasy!"
"So. so what?" he said quietly. "So what if I don't love you that way? How many couples actually love each other?"
"Tani and Suguru."
"Tani and Suguru are two 18 year old kids with raging hormones and big dreams. I think that they even know that love isn't real, Mika, not like your talking about."
"You love Eiri." She said smugly.
"That's different." he said back. "Mika, please, come back to reality. I thought we were older than this."
"You realize, don't you, that I'm only ever lonely? I mean, you take as many lovers as you please, but I."
"Oh, Mika, please, if this is what this is all about, by all means, take a lover. I don't know what could have given you the idea that I was against it, but please, I'm all for it!" he smiled at her. She stared at him, incredulously.
"No, Tohma, this is not what this is all about." She closed her eyes a moment, as though gathering her strength. "Tohma, I want a divorce." His smile was instantly washed away.
"Mika dear."
"Uesugi-san." She said to him. "Or Mikarin. I am no longer your Mika dear. As far as I am concerned, we are complete strangers." He moved towards her, and she backed into the bar. He reached out his hand to touch her.
"Don't touch me!" she shouted at him.
"Mika. when?" he said quietly.
"So long ago." His eyes searched hers for a moment.
"I need you, Mika."
"Che." She che'd. "It's too late for that." He closed a hand around her arm.
"I. I won't let you go." She tried to get away, but he wouldn't let her, they struggled, until she flailed so hard that she hit the bar. "Mika." he said, as he knelt next to her. She got up, and ran from the room. He got up also, and followed her to their room, where she had a half finished suitcase on her bed.
"You planned this, Mika." He said accusingly. She began to throw things in the suitcase. He grabbed her wrists. "Mika, stop it! You're being a fool!"
"Let me go!!" she screeched at him. He did, and she went to the other side of the room.
"I won't let you leave me, Mika! I'll sooner kill myself." he bellowed at her. She attempted to throw a vase at him, but she was so weak that it landed in front of her. She dropped to her knees in the shards, and sobbed. He knelt beside her, and began to pick up the shards.
"Stop it." She said to him.
"We wouldn't want you to cut yourself on these, now would we?" he said to her, smiling. "Now that all that foolishness is over, would you please unpack your suitcase, Mika dear? We need to go to bed soon." He got up, and threw the shards. "I think," he said, "That I have a song that I was interrupted in the middle of." He left the room. Mika curled up on the floor, and sobbed. Tohma would never let her leave.
Author's notes:
Wow. I never really meant for Tohma to get that violent. First of all, there is a bar in the piano room because it seems that Tohma and Mika would probably entertain guests there. Second of all, Tohma gets all mean and mood-swingy because he is drunk after all. He just hides it well. He doesn't slur or anything. But two bottles (and I mean big bottles) of Vodka and another of Scotch or whatever's in Scotch (so I don't know my alcohol!) will mess with you! Third of all, he won't let Mika leave because he is convinced that without her there, the loneliness would consume him. It's probably true, too. Eiri and Shuichi aren't really married. They just had a ceremony (probably to shut Shuichi up), one Tohma was not invited to. You can imagine that he would have a fit. I shouldn't have to go in-depth into Suguru and Tani that night, it should just be common knowledge that they slept together for the first time. That will be where the first one picks up.
It was too hot. Suguru's legs hurt, and he was hot. There was also something heavy on his chest. He kicked the blankets off, and got out of bed so he could walk to the bathroom. It was then that he noticed that he was in a hospital gown. The events of the past week came rushing back to him, and that the doctors had told him he'd never walk again. And here he was, halfway across the room. He half ran, trying to keep his cool, to the bed, where Tani still lay in her street clothes.
"Tani-chan!" he said, shaking her.
"No. no school." she said turning over.
"No, Tani, not school. Look! You're in the bed, and I'm way over here! Not in the bed! Standing on my own two legs!"
"Yep." Tani just seemed a little too groggy. Nothing was computing. He had to use the only surefire way of waking her up. He bent down, and gave her a kiss. Not a little kiss, either. It was an omigod-I-can't- breathe kind of a kiss. Her eyes finally opened all the way.
"Yes, Suguru-chan, you have my attention."
"I'm over here. Standing up. By myself. On my legs." It took her a second, but it soon sunk in just how big of a thing that was. She stood up, and walked towards the door.
"Oh. I see. I. I think. we need. a doctor, and." she fainted dead away.
Soon, Tani was in a bed at Tohma's house. Suguru was dressed, and in a wheelchair beside her bed when she woke up.
"Jesus, how long have I been out?"
"Three days. I guess you got really sick with worry . That's why I was so hot. Because you had a fever."
"They let you out of the hospital?"
"I think Tohma paid them off" Suguru chuckled. Tani eyed his wheelchair.
"What happened to walking around?" she asked him.
"See, funny thing about that. That night, when you were laying on me, you unpinched this nerve in my neck that was causing all the problems. But it got re-pinched again, but only halfway this time. I can still walk around, but it gets really tiring, and eventually I stop being able to do it anymore. So, I use the wheelchair until I need to walk around, or I use it if I walk around too much. One day, I may graduate to those metal crutch things. But, for right now, I use this most of the time. I'm so happy, though! I can still be in Bad Luck, and you and I." he blushed, "We can still be together."
"We could have still been together no matter what, Suguru." She kneeled beside the wheelchair. "This stupid old thing would never, ever come between you and I." He leaned in and kissed her, and the door was flung open. Mika walked in with a tray of food, saw the two fly apart from each other, and giggled.
"No hanky panky in my house, you two!" Tohma said as he popped up behind her. Suguru narrowed his eyes, and Tani turned brighter red than anyone thought was possible.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Seguchi-san." Suguru denied, as K walked in, and held up a fast developing Polaroid shot of the two less than a moment before Tani flew across the room.
"Oh, I think you do." K said in a very blackmailing tone.
"Be nice, K." Hiro said as he walked past everyone leading Shuichi.
"Oh, great." Suguru announced. "With two more people." Noriko and Ryuichi walked up behind the group of people. "Jesus Christ, it's a convention of idiots!" he yelled, not being able to take the headache. A gun was clicked right next to his head.
"Keep it down, sprout." K said quietly. Suguru gulped.
"It's so hot!" Shuichi whined. Ryuichi nodded with enthusiasm.
"Uh huh, uh huh! Tohma-san, Kumagoro wants to know if we can all go swimming in your pool. Please, please, please-please?"
"None of you guys have your suits." Tohma said. Noticing the look on everyone's face, his eyes narrowed. ". this was planned wasn't it?" everyone, including Mika, nodded with enthusiasm. "Well, alright! But next time, please inform me that I will be throwing a swimming party." Everyone left, and Mika took Tani to her room to see if she could find a suit that fit her. Tohma helped Fujisaki, whom was still quite weak, and had problems moving around a whole lot, change into his suit.
"You didn't tell her, did you, Fujisaki-kun?"
"No. I thought that maybe she was better off not knowing for a while. She worries so much about me when I'm not injured; her worry-wart is on overload right now." Tohma shook his head. He helped Suguru into his wheelchair, and then left the boy. Suguru contemplated whether or not to tell Tani about his leg braces. He left them behind in the room.
He wheeled his way to Mika's room, he wanted to see if they had found a suit, If not, he wasn't going downstairs. It was too hard as it was to go up and down the stairs. He stupidly forgot to knock, and wheeled right in. Tani was seated in front of Mika and Tohma's vanity mirror, and brushing her hair. She had on a rather skimpy bikini. One the same color blue as her eyes, with a light purple pattern of Hawaiian flowers. She turned at the sound of the door opening, and saw Fujisaki.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to walk right in! Wheel! Or, uh." she stood up.
"Oh it's nothing you haven't seen before. Just because we're of age now doesn't mean anything's changed, a you don't need to feel awkward." She spread her arms and turned. "How do I look?" Her red hair was brushed to the side, and she looked fairly reminiscent of a Disney movie character.
"With your hair brushed that way. you. you look." he was trying his hardest not to laugh. "like. The Little Mermaid!" he burst out laughing, not able to control it anymore. She laughed, and threw her hair up into a ponytail. They eventually went quiet again. Fujisaki looked her up and down.
"What?" she asked.
"Put it back down." He said quietly. "I liked how it looked. spilling all down your shoulders that way." he stood up carefully, and reached up to the ponytail clasp. He undid it, and helped her hair fall. He ran his fingers through it slowly, until his hands rested at the back of her neck. He tipped her head back, and bent over so his lips barely brushed over hers. "Tani." he kissed her deeply, and smiled slightly when he felt arms snake up his chest so the hands attached could hold onto his shoulders. He moved onto her neck, and heard her sigh. He knew how sensitive her neck was.
"Suguru. Suguru." she kept saying his name, "Oh, god, Suguru. what if Mika or Tohma come in?"
"They'd leave. They know how long we've waited..." His hand ghosted up her side, but paused above her breast. "Oh." he stopped, and lowly slid to the ground.
"Suguru?" Tani asked, almost panicked. "Suguru?!" his eyes began to slide shut.
The last thing Fujisaki heard was a very familiar voice scream for Tohma.
Fujisaki awoke in Tohma's bed. Everyone stood soaking wet (except for Tani) over him. Tani was crying into Tohma's chest.
"Geez, Tani, overreact much?" he said to her quietly. Her head snapped up, and she pounced him.
"Oh, god! I thought that you were going to go back into a coma!" she hugged him tight, and he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"Nothing that serious. I. I just tired myself out, that's all." She nodded, almost knowingly.
"Then I won't tire you out again. If my presence is only going to tire you out, maybe I should go home."
"NO!" he said quickly. "Please don't go home. I want you here, with me." he quirked an eyebrow in a suggestive manner, one only she knew. She quirked a lip, and he clenched his eyebrows. All of this was unnoticeable to the untrained eye.
"Why are they just staring at each other, Tohma?" Ryuichi asked quietly. Shuichi also turned, quite interested in the answer.
"They're talking." Tohma answered without looking away from the two. He had long since learned how to interpret Suguru/Tani-ese. Ryuichi and Shuichi's eyes both got very big.
"THEY CAN READ EACH OTHER'S MINDS?" Both Ryuichi and Shuichi asked loudly. Tohma started, and looked at the other two.
"No." he said quite flatly. "They are communicating with the use of body language. He asked her to sleep with him tonight. She said she didn't know. He asked why, and she said she didn't know again. He said please, and then you two started shouting, and I lost my concentration so I don't know what the answer was."
"It was yes." Mika said to him, turning around to face him. "So I most definitely do not want him sleeping in here." Tohma nodded.
Mika watched, a couple hours later, as Tohma conversed with the two. First, he was smiling, and they were two. Then, he turned a little more serious, and Tani blushed, and Suguru turned a little defensive. Tohma went back to diplomatic, but the damage was done. Soon, Tohma and Suguru were shouting at each other, and Tani was looking angrily at Tohma. It was when Tohma and Tani, both naturally non-yellers, seemed to be shouting at each other, that Mika knew that something was seriously wrong. Tohma stormed out of the room that he had been in, where Mika had been watching from across the hall, and slammed the door. He marched directly into the piano room, slammed that door, and locked it. Mika let him be, until she heard what she liked to think of as Tohma's death music. Whenever you hear that music, you know there is someone Tohma is preparing to, or had already, hurt. He played it before he went out to walk with Aizawa. She was certain he played it after what happened to Yuki Kitazawa. She had heard that music trillions of times, and each time, Tohma had come back into the house with news that he fired a band or an employee or someone that had been messing with Eiri lately never bothered him again. She reached into the medicine cabinet of the bathroom closest to the piano room, and grabbed the key. She walked back, and heard the song beginning to crescendo. She unlocked the door, and watched the rocking form of her husband. She hated Beethoven's 9th symphony. She laid a hand gingerly on his shoulder, and he started, and the music automatically stopped.
"Kid's can be so pigheaded sometimes, eh, Mika dear?" he asked her.
"What happened earlier, Tohma?" he stood up at his wife's soft words, and picked up his glass of Scotch.
"Would you believe me if I told you that Suguru just threw his whole career down the drain?"
"Most likely not. What made him do that?"
"It's not important. He just ruined his whole persona, however, and for what? For one night with a girl, that's what." Tohma slammed his glass down on the bar. Mika hadn't seen him this angry in a long time.
"But not just any girl, Tohma. It's Tani. I think that they're story will be great for making a new one, right?" He slammed his hands on the bar at her words. "This isn't all this is about, is it? You've been this way since. since Eiri married the little Shindou brat!" Tohma whipped around and glared at Mika, Mika's first clue that he was pasted. Her second was the empty bottle of Vodka. And another mostly empty bottle. And the almost empty bottle of Scotch.
"Don't mention that! How could he!? How could he??!!? How could he just open right up to Shindou that way? Eiri-san and I spent so much time. and he tells the world? He tells Shindou? And then marries him? Was Shindou there to hold him when he had just killed a man? Was Shindou there to clean up the blood and. whatnot? To cover the tracks? No. Just me! And who does he want out of his life!? Me." Tohma collapsed on the bar, and hit it with his fist. A very taken aback Mika gaped at him a moment.
"I should have known." she said quietly. "It was all about him. IT'S ONLY EVER BEEN HIM!" she screamed. The sound of his wife shouting at him sobered Tohma up a little bit.
"Mika-san." he said quietly. "Please, calm down." He started when he heard a bottle crash.
"NO!" she shouted at him. "I won't calm down this time! Why the hell did you even marry me, Tohma Seguchi? So you could be closer to Eiri?"
"I married you because I love."
"Don't even say that you love me! I'm way past that fantasy!"
"So. so what?" he said quietly. "So what if I don't love you that way? How many couples actually love each other?"
"Tani and Suguru."
"Tani and Suguru are two 18 year old kids with raging hormones and big dreams. I think that they even know that love isn't real, Mika, not like your talking about."
"You love Eiri." She said smugly.
"That's different." he said back. "Mika, please, come back to reality. I thought we were older than this."
"You realize, don't you, that I'm only ever lonely? I mean, you take as many lovers as you please, but I."
"Oh, Mika, please, if this is what this is all about, by all means, take a lover. I don't know what could have given you the idea that I was against it, but please, I'm all for it!" he smiled at her. She stared at him, incredulously.
"No, Tohma, this is not what this is all about." She closed her eyes a moment, as though gathering her strength. "Tohma, I want a divorce." His smile was instantly washed away.
"Mika dear."
"Uesugi-san." She said to him. "Or Mikarin. I am no longer your Mika dear. As far as I am concerned, we are complete strangers." He moved towards her, and she backed into the bar. He reached out his hand to touch her.
"Don't touch me!" she shouted at him.
"Mika. when?" he said quietly.
"So long ago." His eyes searched hers for a moment.
"I need you, Mika."
"Che." She che'd. "It's too late for that." He closed a hand around her arm.
"I. I won't let you go." She tried to get away, but he wouldn't let her, they struggled, until she flailed so hard that she hit the bar. "Mika." he said, as he knelt next to her. She got up, and ran from the room. He got up also, and followed her to their room, where she had a half finished suitcase on her bed.
"You planned this, Mika." He said accusingly. She began to throw things in the suitcase. He grabbed her wrists. "Mika, stop it! You're being a fool!"
"Let me go!!" she screeched at him. He did, and she went to the other side of the room.
"I won't let you leave me, Mika! I'll sooner kill myself." he bellowed at her. She attempted to throw a vase at him, but she was so weak that it landed in front of her. She dropped to her knees in the shards, and sobbed. He knelt beside her, and began to pick up the shards.
"Stop it." She said to him.
"We wouldn't want you to cut yourself on these, now would we?" he said to her, smiling. "Now that all that foolishness is over, would you please unpack your suitcase, Mika dear? We need to go to bed soon." He got up, and threw the shards. "I think," he said, "That I have a song that I was interrupted in the middle of." He left the room. Mika curled up on the floor, and sobbed. Tohma would never let her leave.
Author's notes:
Wow. I never really meant for Tohma to get that violent. First of all, there is a bar in the piano room because it seems that Tohma and Mika would probably entertain guests there. Second of all, Tohma gets all mean and mood-swingy because he is drunk after all. He just hides it well. He doesn't slur or anything. But two bottles (and I mean big bottles) of Vodka and another of Scotch or whatever's in Scotch (so I don't know my alcohol!) will mess with you! Third of all, he won't let Mika leave because he is convinced that without her there, the loneliness would consume him. It's probably true, too. Eiri and Shuichi aren't really married. They just had a ceremony (probably to shut Shuichi up), one Tohma was not invited to. You can imagine that he would have a fit. I shouldn't have to go in-depth into Suguru and Tani that night, it should just be common knowledge that they slept together for the first time. That will be where the first one picks up.