Disclaimer: This creation is based the outstanding "Gravitation."— which is not mine… You know the rest, right?
Rating: Uhm… P-13? To be safe… due to some mild swearing…
Note: New songs and characters (which I already mentioned previously) are still coming up (although not in this element)— and are still mine… :P if it sounds too familiar… then it's just a coincidence… or it's not mine… My cousin made me a theme song for this fanfic! Hurrah! Of course, Bad Luck's performing the song much, much later…
ELEMENT 1:
Numbness
It was winter in Tokyo. The sweltering heat that used to greet them during this time of day was replaced by a gust of blistering cold snow, which made most— even the sun— hide.
Shuichi made his way through the bustling crowd, unaware that he was the only one who wasn't searching for somewhere to protect against the snow. He's mood and spirits were low, but he carried on as if everything was alright.
He already finished writing one song for their next album, and everyone loved the lyrics… but the moment he tried to sing it… he couldn't put any feeling to the words, no matter how hard he tried. He, of course, then played the stress card. (No one looked convinced, but nobody stopped him as he left the studio.)
"I'm just a little stressed out," he had said, "I'll be better in the morning."
But the truth was, he would never be better— not until the day winter ends.
Shuichi then decided to stop reflecting on the sad events that happened, as he passed by the park. 'Yuki loves me…' he said to himself, 'he just had a really bad headache… He didn't mean it… he didn't mean it…'
But the more he said that, the lesser he was convinced.
'Tell me something,' a voice inside said, 'did he ever say he loved you?'
Shuichi closed his eyes and smiled, 'of course not… then he wouldn't be Yuki…'
Yuki glanced at the chair that, like the rest of the house, felt empty. He leaned back and closed his eyes, while saying to himself, 'he'll be back… he'll be back...' But the more he said it, the lesser he believed.
He soon got irritated. (Due to sudden nicotine starvation… he took Shuichi's advice after all…) He wanted to punch or poke someone's eyes out— but he had no one to blame, but himself.
'Damn,' he thought angrily as he quickly lit a cigarette to calm himself down, 'keeping myself sane without cigarettes— during winter— is going to be harder than I thought. Maybe I should start with just four sticks a day…'
He leaned back on his chair again and felt the numbness wash over him…
And he knew he was going to be like that until the day snow stops…
Stress. Yeah right.
Hiro wanted to tell Shuichi that right there and then, but when he saw the misery in his best friend's eyes— he felt powerless. He couldn't do it.
Must be his poor-excuse-of-a-lover's fault again, Hiro decided as he followed the pink-haired vocalist out of the NG building and into the streets, 'I'll teach him a lesson as soon as Shuichi starts crying…'
Shuichi sat on the cold park bench, hugging his knees close to his face.
Where can I possibly sleep tonight? Shuichi asked himself. He didn't want to go to Hiro… it might just end up with the guitarist punching Yuki's eyes out.
Shuichi thought about one of Tohma's hotels, but then changed his mind... Maybe it would give Tohma the impression that he wanted sympathy…
He didn't want sympathy…
He wanted Yuki…
'Just when things finally work out… something has to come in the way,' thought Shuichi sadly, 'I… I want to go back to Yuki…'
"But how?" Shuichi asked himself.
"How what?" asked Hiro, coming up from behind him.
"Nothing," said Shuichi, wiping the tear on his cheek.
"Just stress?" asked Hiro, sitting beside his best friend.
"Uh huh…"
"Or does it have anything to do with snow?"
"How did you figure it out?"
"The moment you couldn't sing a single note right… but then again, I always know…"
"But you didn't…" 'leave him with a bloody nose?… Wound him?… Kill him?'
"No," said Hiro, reading the pink-haired singer's mind.
"Thanks," said Shuichi meekly, 'for not confronting him."
"Who said anything about 'not confronting' him?"
"Then why…?"
"We had an agreement and I plan to stick by it… I will only severely make him pay if you cried for any reason other than your own stupidity…"
"Believe me," said Shuichi, "I'm crying because of my own stupidity right now…" 'Note to self: don't cry because of Yuki… in front of Hiro.'
Shuichi stood up and showed Hiro a brave smile. 'My stupidity…' his head repeated over and over.
'You can't fool me,' thought Hiro, 'but I'll let this pass… just like everything else…' "Let's just go home okay? Don't worry about it," said Hiro.
— end of element—
note: observe that I used numbness as my element title (notice that I used element instead of chapter… it's a secret I intend to keep before the last chap— err— element…)… Hehe. Secret. :P
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