"Gomen ne, Yuki."
That was the last thing that Yuki Eiri heard before he got involved in car accident that landed him in the hospital – the last place he wanted to be confined in.
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Where am I? Yuki asked groggily as he opened his eyes slightly, wondering where the hell was he. His head felt terrible and the sudden bright blinded his eyes. As soon as he got used to the light and his vision focused, Yuki took a long glance around the room and absorbed the familiar surroundings. Oh damn.
But instead of wondering how he had ended up in the hospital, his thoughts wandered back to the last conversation he had –
"Yuki desu."
"Yuki…?"
"Shuichi."
"Yes… uh, how have you been?"
"What do you want? I've got work to do."
"Uh, I'm sorry…Yuki."
"For?"
"Gomen ne… But, I don't think that we should see each other anymore…"
"WHAT?"
"I'm with Hiro now. "
"Forget it."
"Gomen ne, Yuki."
Then it hit him. Yuki had been dumped. For the first time in world history, romance novel writer Yuki Eiri had been dumped.
"Damn that brat." Yuki gritted through his teeth before a sudden wave of nausea hit him and into the room came bouncing a rabbit that popped up right in front of his face.
"Kumagoro says 'hello'!" A cheerful voice blasted into Yuki's ears. He barely had time to register anything into his mind before he was blinded by something pink.
"What the hell – " Yuki shouted in shock as he pushed the pink thing out of the way, before two big eyes made its way in front of Yuki's face. Make that two big shiny bright innocent eyes.
"Konnichiwa! Ryu-chan desu! You're Yuki Eiri, no?" The figure, which Yuki presumed was human, opened its mouth and shouted at Yuki, causing the pain engulfing his head to increase.
"You don't have to shout!" Yuki retorted back, pushing the two big shiny bright eyes away. "What the hell are you!"
"Ryu-chan desu!"
"Do I know you? No, so get out!" Yuki shouted at the 'human-like' thing standing in front of him, clutching the pink rabbit tightly, as he answered his own question – something that he had never done before.
"Ah… sumimasen, Eiri." A kind, familiar voice rang out and Seguchi Tohma stepped into the room, closing the door behind him. Yuki's eyes darted out to the newcomer, sending a death glare that was carelessly ignored.
"What is the meaning of – this?" Yuki asked with an icy tone, motioning to the 'human-like' thing that bounced around, clutching something pink. Tohma merely smiled and proceeded to introduce them.
"Eiri, this man is Sakuma Ryuichi, whom Tatsuha-san is obsessed over. Ryuichi, this is Yuki Eiri, the man that Shindou-kun is obsessed over."
"Was." Yuki corrected Tohma with another death glare. He glanced at Ryuichi, the supposed God of Rock that Tatsuha and Shuichi was obsessed over. Ryuichi certainly didn't look anywhere near being a God of Rock. "And…?"
"Well, apparently Shindou-kun had asked Ryuichi to look after you due to his inability to leave his tour halfway upon hearing of your accident. Surely you would have been more sensible than to drive into a tree, ne?"
"…Whatever."
Then a perky voice interrupted the silence hanging in the air. "Yuki-san…? Can
I call you Ei-chan? Shu-chan said that I was supposed to look after you and
make sure that you don't do anything stupid until you got better and leave the
hospital – "
Yuki tried silencing Ryuichi with a glare, but the singer seemed unable to convey the message to shut up.
" – so Ei-chan, what do you think of that?" Ryuichi beamed with a bright smile plastered wide across his face.
"I don't need to be taken care – "
"Now Eiri, Ryuichi has taken time out of his hectic schedule, which costs me another two million a day, to visit you. Please do appreciate our effors. And I must say that Mika-san is quite pleased that there is someone to take care of you. She had offered to come herself – "
Yuki paled at the thought of his very naggy sister nagging at him endlessly. "Alright, as long as he doesn't interrupt my work."
Tohma paused before answering. A very sly smile crept up on his lips as he answered casually, "But you're not going to be touching that laptop of yours until you get better."
Yuki opened his mouth to protest but bounced out Ryuichi from nowhere. "Ei-chan! So what do you want to do todaaaaaaaaay~~?"
"I guess I'll be seeing you, Eiri." With a tip of his hat, Tohma stepped out of the room, leaving Yuki and Ryuichi – alone.
"Sleep." Yuki threw the covers over his head, hoping to block out the happy and very loud voice of Ryuichi and at the same time, convey the message that he did not want to be disturbed.
But alas, Ryuichi began to sing a lullaby with a happy voice… no, soothing… no, annoying… no, gentle… no, irritating… just a voice that lulled Yuki to sleep.
The next time Yuki opened his eyes, Ryuichi was nowhere in sight. Oh good…
Not.
"Ei-chan! You're finally up!" a familiar – and loud – voice rang again in Yuki's ears. Then came Sakuma Ryuichi bouncing in the room, carrying Kumagoro in one hand, and a packet of something in the other. "Kumagoro asks 'how are you' today!"
Yuki wondered if that was a question or statement. But he plainly replied, "What can I say? Your voice is blasting into my ears making my already-painful headache even worse."
But it was ignored by Ryuichi all the same.
"Ne! Ei-chan! I learnt how to fold paper stars yesterday when you were sleeping! Let me teach you too!"
"I don't want to learn."
"Come on! It's really fun!"
Giving in so as to try and ease his headache (more like trying to get Ryuichi to stop shouting), Yuki spent the next hour or so, learning how to fold paper stars.
And after a really long one hour, the bed could be seen with littered with paper stars. On Ryuichi's side were neatly folded stars in perfect shape. While on Yuki's side were just squashed stars that were all deformed in some manner?
"Ugh! I can't take this anymore!" Yuki shouted as he gave up on trying to perfect the last star he was trying to fold, squeezing it too hard and causing it to flatten instead of popping up. He threw it to the ground, only to be picked up by Ryuichi.
"Try again! I couldn't get it for a long time either!" Ryuichi beamed, shoving another fresh paper strip in front of Yuki's face.
"I don't want to try anymore! I've been trying for the last two hours already! You know what? You're twice as annoying as Shuichi was!" Yuki retorted back at Ryuichi, losing his temper, before he threw the covers over his head, scattering the different shaped stars all over the floor.
Ryuichi finished pressing his last star and bent down, collecting all the stars from the ground. He placed the ones he had made, that were pretty easy to differentiate from Yuki's, into a bottle and settled it on the bedside table next to Yuki.
"Does it mean that if I was twice and annoying, I would be able to give you twice the happiness?"
Yuki froze at that comment. Since when did Ryuichi spoke like that? And in that serious tone – But Ryuichi spoke again, before Yuki could react.
"Oyasumi nasai, Ei-chan."
With that, Ryuichi opened the door and shut it, quietly so as not to disturb Yuki in his 'sleep'.