Author's Note: Sorry about the long pause.

The Heartless

NG and Nori-Nori-chan

Tohma had left for work, and shortly after Sakano had too. Now, Yuki was home alone. Now, Yuki could try to sort everything out.

Tohma loved him.

No, not love, Tohma was obsessed with him. But why? Yuki couldn't think of one thing likeable about him. Not one. But then, opposites attract, right? That's why he and Shuichi had liked each other so much..wasn't it?

Gravitation.

Yuki sighed, rubbing his temples. He was having trouble remembering everything, even Shuichi's death. It was like eating all of sudden erased his memory. How sad.

He blinked around the huge, white living room he was in now. The atomic clock read three PM, sharp. Yuki frowned. He felt odd, like something was supposed to be happening, or would be.

Diiiing!

Yuki jumped as the odd doorbell rang, and stared at the door.

Din-din-diiiiing!

The doorbell dinged annoyingly. Yuki stood and went to it, opening it partly and staring out.

"TOHM--OH!!" whoever it was cried, banging the door open and smacking Yuki square in the nose. Ryuichi gushed apologies and helped Yuki back up, flinging a rather sloppily sewn-up Koumaguro around.

Yuki blinked at him, and Ryuichi blinked back.

"Is Tohma Here?"

"No."

"Is Sakie-Poo here?"

"Who?"

"Sakano."

"No."

"...Is Nori-Nori-chan here?"

"The cat or the person?"

"The cat."

"Nope. Neither of them."

Ryuichi pouted, and looked so much like Shuichi Yuki wanted to just hug him tightly and coo and play with his hair and...

"Yuki-san! Why are you hugging Ryuichi like this?" Ryuichi blurted, wide-eyed and looking adorably confused.

Yuki snapped out of his trance and flung Ryuichi away from him, shuddering. What was that all about? He didn't miss Shuichi that much, did he? But he did. It was like that stupid saying, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone.", or something.

Yuki sighed. "What do you want?" he half-asked, half-mumbled, adopting his famous impatient/annoyed look. But it didn't last for long, Ryuichi had eyes that could melt a rock.

"I was s'posed to come tell Tohma-kun that Koumaguro got all fixed again, and that Nori-chan wants to talk to him about something and.." he went on, explaining stuff that Yuki figured had to do with NG. Then Ryuichi started blabbering about his cats and how Nori-Nori-chan had gotten out..not really interesting, but better then staring at abstract art, Yuki thought.

"Okay, bye, gotta go now!" Ryuichi said finally, waving energetically and starting to run off. Yuki started to say something in protest. Ryuichi looked so much like Shuichi, it was almost disturbing. But Yuki missed Shuichi, missed his face, missed his voice, missed warm little body, missed his...

"Yuki-san! Why are you hugging Ryuichi like this, again?" Ryuichi blurted, snapping Yuki out of it once again. He muttered something and shut the door behind Ryuichi as he ran off, sighing and leaning against it.

He needed a nap.