Disclaimer: Gravitation is owned by Maki-sempai… Not Gurae-san (a.k.a. me…)… Yes, yes… she's the lucky girl who owns Yuki, Shuichi, Ryuichi, Hiro, Tohma and all those cute guys…

Rating: Uhm… P-13? To be safe… due to some mild swearing…

Note: I repeat… 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 2:

Darkness

The disgruntled blond author hadn't continued his novel, nor done anything productive for that matter. In fact, he just spent the past days and nights locked up in his workstation sitting in front of his unplugged laptop.

'Snow… it's depressing,' thought Yuki drowsily, while leaning his back on his chair, 'it always reminds one of darkness…'

'Yuki…'

Sensei…

'Yuki...'

My family…

'Yuki…'

Shuichi.

"Yuki!" the voice said, "open up! I know you're in there!"

'So it wasn't a figment of my imagination?' Yuki asked himself, as he slowly stood up and walked out of the room for the first time in days.

Much to Yuki's surprise, it wasn't Shuichi (he imagined that the Yuki voice came from a child—)… it was Hiro, Shuichi's best friend.

The author, although he was a bit disappointed to see the guitarist, stood his ground and asked, "what do you want this time?"

"Why do you always have to be like this Eiri-kun?" Hiro asked, his eyes glinting wickedly.

"You know you can always punch me all you want," offered Yuki.

"Can't do that— no matter how much I want to— because Shuichi asked me not to…"

"Then I'm telling you— no asking you— to hit me all you want."

"Can't we just talk?"

"There's nothing to talk about," said Yuki, looking away.

"Then why did you kick him out again?" asked Hiro angrily.

"I didn't kick him out… he left by himself."

"And I'm supposed to believe that crap?"

"It's true…" 'Technically,' Yuki thought.

"Then why did he leave?"

"I don't know…" 'why I didn't stop him…'

Hiro heaved a sigh. 'This is so damn hard… I need a cigarette…' "I suggest you talk to him… I can't stand it when he sulks around all day especially if it's because of you," said Hiro, turning around to leave, "I won't be home until nine o'clock tonight."

'I guess this is everything,' thought Shuichi, packing the last of his clothes in his knapsack. He pulled out a letter and left it on the living room table.

'Goodbye Hiro…' he thought sadly as he covered his pink hair with a hood and left.

20 kmph… 30 kmph…

Can't this thing go any faster? Yuki thought impatiently.

35 kmph… 40 kmph…

The snow fell gently on the black car that was steadily accelerating on the road.

'Darn it,' cursed Yuki under his breath when he realized that the glass wiper was jammed, 'just hope there aren't pedestrians at this hour.'

'Don't think about it,' Shuichi told himself, 'don't think about Yuki…'

He looked at the different apartments across the street.

'There's an apartment for rent… I better go and ask about it,' he thought as he stepped into the slippery road, unaware of a vehicle that was fast approaching…

end of element—

note: I guess I'll be having trouble releasing the next element anytime soon since I'm still debating with my cousin (about whether Shuichi gets hit by Yuki or someone else… or whether he gets hit or not…) Well, more reasons to stay tuned eh? :) Like I always say… Please review. :)