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Chapter 17: Lost

"Whaaaa, Yuki. Something touched me!!!!"

Yuki and Shuichi were currently in the ghost house having a more or less pleasant trip through spooky shadows, ghostly hands and spiders each one as big as your hand. Yuki was non so pleased trying in vain to pry one overly scared pink haired baka of his side.

"Cut it out already, Shu. It was only a fake thing whatever it was." Yuki ground out. However pleasant it was to have your lover cling to you it was getting rather uncomfortable being in a death grip for longer than five minutes as well as rather hard to breathe.

"But Yuki. I'm scared." Shuichi whined beside him.

In times like these it was as if Shuichi had never forgotten his memory. Yuki groaned. 'Maybe it should stay like this. He likes me and I'm sure it will be more with my charms AND the most important thing he's at least half way managable.' He glanced beside him and saw Shuichi cowering quietly beside him with at least three centimeters of space between them. Yuki frowned. 'Okay. Maybe I do prefer him with a full memory. Before he would have never listened to me.' Wrapping his right arm around Shuichi he pulled the smaller man closer while staring straight ahead into the dark as to avoid the curious glance he was definitely getting by now.

A few minutes later they burst through a door into the light and Shuichi squealed in delight to have escaped the darkness. Though he did not intend to give up Yuki's arm much to the blondes dismay who discovered his arm got rather numb from the constant pulling, hugging, squeezing etc. To distract the singer Yuki pulled what one consider a mean trick but what usually always worked with Shuichi.

"Hey Shu, how about I get some ice cream and you find as a nice spot to sit and relax for awhile, hm?!" Yuki hadn't even finished the sentence as Shuichi dashed off to find a nice shady spot in a small green area. Yuki shrugged and went to find an ice cream parlor. It wasn't very hard to find though it was rather annoying how the female behind the counter had looked at him. One could think she thought of him as ice cream at least she was giving him the same looks Shuichi reserved for all kinds of his favourite candy.

"Women. Always hungry." Yuki muttered annoyed.

Fifteen minutes later he sat himself beside his lover or at least his hopefully soon to be lover in the literally sense as he noticed the confused expression on Shu's face.

"What's up?" Yuki asked while manoevering the ice away from his pants to avoid spots where it started melting. Shuichi grabbed the ice cream forelorn and began licking which brought up some not entirely g-rated thoughts in Yuki's celibate brain.

'What's wrong with him? Not even an enthusiastic thanks? I mean hey I just bought him ice cream. The old Shu would be flipping by now.'

The new Shu meanwhile shrugged and gave him a grin. "Ah nothing I just met some friends who obviously didn't know I've forgotten some part of my memory. They were acting all weird. I mean you ever saw one from going nasty to sugar coating sweet in two seconds? It's kind of scary you know?!" He swallowed a big glop of ice cream with a thoughtful look on his face.

Yuki frowned. 'Weird behavior? Whoever that was must have mentioned something about me. How would they otherwise realize he forgot part of his memory?' But Yuki didn't have a chance to think any further about it. Shuichi had finished his ice cream and was obviously ready to try out something else. It was almost time to leave with the sun almost vanished in the west.

"C'mon Yuki. There's not much time left and I saw something interesting before we went into the ghost house."

Yuki sighed and threw the rest of his ice away. He followed Shuichi who was obviously looking for some thing only who he could find as they went further and further out of the park. Suddenly they stopped in front of a giant portal made of bushes.

'Welcome to the maze' Yuki read on a sign beside the portal.

"A maze?" He asked disbelievingly. "This gotta better be a joke."

Shuichi shrugged. "Ah, c'mon now. Don't be such a spoilsport. It'll be fun." With that he shot Yuki a grin and raced off into the maze. "Come and get me Yuki. If you can that's it."

Yuki scowled at the pink haired singer who just vanished behind a corner. Groaning he followed his lover. 'Just who plays hide and seek this late in a freaking maze? What if we don't find the exit?' Looking for a sign of his lover he corrected himself. 'What if I don't find Shu?' Yuki scowled. That maze was an entire stupid idea but he wouldn't give up that easily.

Half an hour later Yuki was ready to scream in frustration namely after a certain pink haired person with outragous ideas. It was getting harder to see and he would never admit it out loud but those damn shadows were damn spooky. Making you see things that weren't even there and those damn noises.

'How big is that thing anyway? Can't even hear that annoying pop music anymore.' Yuki looked up to see the first stars and a silvery moon at the night sky. The sun had gone completely down and Yuki began to wonder just when exactly they were closing the park. Hadn't they said something about midnight after the daily fireworks? Yuki checked his watch and once again cursed Shuichi's name. He had half an hour left to find his lover AND the exit if he didn't want to spend the night in that damn maze.

Just as he rounded another of those annoying endless corners and was ready to blow up the whole place when he ended up again in an dead end he heard a scream. A very familiar scream for that matter. Shuichi - and he didn't sound too happy. Actually he sounded downright terrified.

Yuki broke into a run. Later on he couldn't really anymore explain just how he had found Shuichi that quickly when he had been lost in that maze for over half an hour. He just found him. Though his lover was not alone. Two unknown men loomed over Shuichi who sat on the ground holding up his arm to protect his face. A third stepped out of the shadows and Yuki felt cold rage in his blood as he recognized the face in the moonlight.

"You!" He hissed out between clenched teeth. His whole body was tensed as he clenched and unclenched his fists willing his body to relax. No way he was giving that asshole the pleasure to see him flip. Yuki took a deep breath and his body went completely calm and he let a cold smile settle on his lips. His eyes transfixed on the blackhaired man he totally ignored his lover on the ground.

"So we meet again Yuki Eiri." Aizawa drawled arrogantly. "Funny it doesn't matter to whom of you I talk," He made an intonation on the last word and grinned maliciously,"the other half always is not far behind." The singer of ASK looked from Yuki to Shuichi who seemed to be frozen on the ground eyes wide open not once leaving Aizawa. "Today seemed to be my lucky day though. I've heard some weird gossip a couple of days ago. It was so outragous I didn't believe that fool but when I saw you in the Ferris wheel I got a bit suspicious and decided to ask our lovely pinkhead here myself." He carressed Shuichi's soft hair with a superior smile on his face.

Yuki didn't bat an eyelash which seemed to piss Aizawa off. Yanking Shuichi up by his hair he hissed. "This whore here forgot about you I heard – only about you. Luckily some other events which transpired between us as well. Otherwise he wouldn't be sitting here frozen on the ground." Aizawa laughed. "No, he'd be running to his lover for help." He looked at the other two men. "What do you think? How about we help him remember a bit?"

That was when everything went out of control. The next moment the three men were on Shuichi who instantly came out of his stupor and started to kick and scream. Yuki who had hoped to keep Shuichi out of this grabbed blind in cold rage the next best man and smashed his face onto the ground with a satisfying crack. The second went down shortly after and Aizawa who was currently stradling Shuichi was yanked back a second later.

Yuki smirked at the confused looking singer. "You see it doesn't matter in which situation but usually it's about brain", he tapped with his finger at his temple,"not about brawn."

With a furious howl and something that sounded like 'I'll wipe that damn smirk of your face.' Aizawa ran fist raised towards Yuki.

In the end the smirk stayed intact which one couldn't say exactly say of the face of ASK's frontman. With everybody taken care of the smirk vanished from Yuki's face and he rushed over to Shuichi who was curled up on himself on the cold ground. But as soon as he tried to pull him into his embrace the smaller man lashed out and began kicking and screaming.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!!! I WON'T LET YOU DO IT AGAIN!"

The blonde froze. 'Oh shit. Oh Shit. Oh Shit.' He raked his hands through his hair staring horrified at his obviously very scared lover. 'Christ, don't tell me it's true he freaking forgot the rape only to remember it now.' Yuki looked furious and considered to kick Aizawa a couple times more just for good measure though that wouldn't solve anything either. Well maybe cooling down his temper but at the moment he had more important things on his hand. Or rather one thing namely getting his lover to calm down.

Before he could consider what one has to do in a situation like this Shuichi started to cry and he did the only thing that came naturally to him when it involved a certain pink haired baka. He pulled the struggling sobbing mess into his arms and hold him tight until his struggles ceased and Yuki was sure Shuichi was more clear in his head.

"Sshhh. It's okay, Shu. I've got you. Everything is gonna be okay. I promise." He continued stroking Shuichi's hair and whispering calm words to him until Shuichi spoke.

"Yuki." He let out a sob and pressed his face into Yuki's shoulder so that the rest of the sentense came out rather muffled. "Yuki. What's real?"

Yuki frowned. 'Did he hurt himself again?' He inspected Shuichi's head which was kind of difficult in the dark and with so much fluffy hair but it seemed okay. "What do you mean, Shu?" Yuki asked finally dreading the answer.

Shuichi let out a shaky breath. "I can see things in my head. Things just like now and worse and … Yuki? Are those … memories? Is … are they real?" Shuichi began crying again clinging to Yuki's jacket as if his life depended on it. Yuki sat frozen on the ground holding his shaking lover in his arms contemplating what he just heard. How was he supposed to explain to Shuichi that he had been raped by this scum? He didn't even know what exactly Shuichi's overactive mind was coming up with. Maybe reality and fantasy were already messed up by his fear. Yuki sighed. It was time to tell Shuichi the whole truth. Or else he would crack .     

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Okay, that was pretty uncreative. I took Aizawa to be the bad guy again but well he was an asshole in the anime. Anyway who else you think would be a good bad guy in a GRAVI story who deserved his ass being kicked? Actually I think the chapter turned out pretty weird. But well I'll let you decide. I was only pretty surprised that you accepted the last chapter so easily. I really didn't think it that good. Until next Friday…

P.S. Hey guys, small question: What do you think? Which kind of ice cream flavours would Shuichi and Yuki eat? I wanted to mention it in the story but didn't after all since I simply couldn't decide.