Author's Note: Yuki..crying? o.o; I definately ate too many cheese puffs..

Chapter Five

Complete And Total Corruption

Shuichi woke early, rubbing his eyes and yawning. He could hear the gentle ticking of Yuki's keyboard in his computer room, and wondered how long he'd been writing.

He stood, dressing quickly and walking down the hall, not pausing to look into the computer room or even mutter a "hello". He only stared down at his feet, shuffling along the expensize carpet and heading toward the front door.

"Shuichi." Yuki's voice came from the room, the ticking stopping and the sound of Yuki's chair rolling back instead was heard. "Shuichi I--"

SLAM!

Shuichi had left, slamming the large metal door shut and running down the halls. He didn't seem very athletic, but that boy could run when he wanted to, leaving Yuki no time to catch up. He was left standing in the doorway, with a shocked and sad expression on his face.

The writer came back inside his apartment, locking the many locks on the door and sitting against it. Then, he put his head in his hands, and cried.

The only Shuichi had ever done was cared, and he couldn't even pretend to be happy.

Shuichi knew Yuki had a bad past, sometimes he could hear him crying at night, the way he angrily reacted to things, his reluctance to be in public..but that was no excuse for rudeness, right?

He sighed, heading towards the studio. A good thing it wasn't too long from here, or the walk would have been very tiring. Maybe he could sing today..he did feel a little better with Yuki out of the hospital.

Minutes Later

Hiro blinked. "Shuichi..what are you doing here?" he asked, staring oddly at his friend.

"I came for practice.." Shuichi said, staring around. "Where is everybody..?"

"They don't get here until four, Shuichi.."

"But..but then why are you here?!" Shuichi asked, looking extremely confused.

"I'm supposed to set everything up, remember?" Hiro said, quirking an eyebrow.

"Oh..yeah..." said Shuichi, sitting at the table and looking sadly down at his hands.

"Something up?" Hiro asked, sitting across from him.

"Yuki's out of the hospital."

"Oh. Is that bad?"

"No..he's just..upset..about something..he's been fainting a lot..." Shuichi sighed, resting his head on top of his hands. "Oh Hiro..I don't know what to do..I've never seen him like this..I'm..I'm scared..." Shuici's shoulders shook with sobs.

Hiro placed a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, Shuichi..it'll get better, you'll get through this.."

Shuichi looked up at him. "You think so?" tears were running silently down his cheeks again.

"I know so."

He couldn't have been more wrong.

After Note: This by far has been the shortest chapter EVER o.o Good thing I update soon!