Disclaimer: I guess, being true Gravitation fans, we all know which ones are from the series/manga and which ones are from the imaginations…

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…

When they speak aloud, I use "this", when they think, I use 'this', when in the phone, the other person speaks (like this), and when they sing, I use this…

Sorry if the thoughts in the previous chapters were kinda mixed up… I only used italics… But now, I edited the thingies and I used 'apostrophes' instead… :) You can read it again if you want to understand it properly… Then again… Here's my next element…

ELEMENT 3:

Useless

Hiro sat casually in one of the restaurants across the NG building. He knew that having Yuki and Shuichi together again would just hurt him— buy hey, that's what martyr best friends are for, right?

"You're— you're Hiro right?" a voice behind him asked.

"Not too loud," hissed the guitarist.

"Oh my gosh! It is you," she squealed, "can I have your autograph?"

"Sure," said Hiro, "name?"

"Just send it out to Ayaka."

"Ayaka?" Hiro repeated in disbelief.

"Yep! Ayaka…that's my name," said the fan, "why? Is there something wrong?"

"No… here," said Hiro, giving the piece of paper to Ayaka, "I just… never mind… thank you for supporting Bad Luck."

"Umm… okay," said Ayaka cheerfully, kissing Hiro on the cheeks, "thank you!"

Hiro casually stood up, paid for the meal and walked out of the restaurant. He sighed inaudibly, 'that reminds me… Ayaka's calling me in fifteen minutes… I guess I'll have to break Shuichi and Yuki's happy reunion…'

"Hello?" asked Hiro, as he arrived outside his door, "is it SAFE to come in?" He joked.

He listened for any smashing or smooching sounds.

After a few seconds of silence, Hiro simply assumed they were making themselves presentable and knocked again, "I'm coming in now, okay?"

Hiro opened the door and looked around the unusually tidy living room.

'Maybe both of them left early…' decided Hiro, 'at least I can have Ayaka all to myself...'

The phone rang.

It was Ayaka.

"Hello (hi)," said Hiro, "I almost forgot you would call…(That's sad…) Until a fan came… (Good fan. I didn't know you had fans!) Well of course I get my share of fans… (I thought the vocalist gets all the fans.) Red-heads are just as attractive as pink-heads… (I wouldn't know about that…) Well, brown-heads on the other hand… (What's that supposed to mean?) Just kidding, just kidding… (I'm laughing from the inside…)"

He sat lazily on the couch in front of the TV and propped his feet on the table. Then he noticed Shuichi's letter.

"(So, have you eaten dinner?) Uh-huh…" he said as he pulled the hurriedly-written letter from under a book, "(I cooked chicken.) chicken huh?… I love chicken too… (that's because you're chicken) I'm not chicken… (Yes you are… chicken!) Hey!… (Can we have some sort of party?) I guess we could do that… (Christmas party…?) Christmas?… (I'll be coming over in two weeks time.) You're coming?… that's great… (so, how's Eiri? Are they finally getting married?) Yuki's doing fine… Nope, their not getting married… (…)You know what? I'll call you tomorrow— cause I've got some things to do… (I understand.) Oh-kay… (Can you call at about eight in the evening? I'm going out the whole morning… business.) I understand… (good night… I l—love you.) good night… I do too…"

Hiro leaned back, 'that was a stupid lie… /the 'I've got to do some things' part/' he thought as he opened Shuichi's letter.

"Hiro… Took all my stuff with me, except a few things that couldn't fit into my bag… Don't worry, I'll be okay…" 'no you won't' "Don't find me okay?… I'll be back when I've figured everything out… I guess I just need to be alone for a little while— just like that time about four years ago when Grasper broke up— but I do appreciate your help. Thanks a lot, Hiro… but this is something I have to do by myself. Hope you understand… Shuichi."

Hiro read and reread the letter.

It didn't make any sense.

Why did Shuichi leave? Was he afraid of showing Hiro his tears?

'Wait a minute…' Hiro thought, 'where's Yuki?'

end of element—

note: um… I'm so sorry that's it's all Hiro— I'm not saying it's a bad thing (avoids tomatoes thrown by Hiro fans)— I presume what I'm doing is pathetically obvious now… I'll admit it. Yeah, I was buying some time— but I had to write another element to enhance the detail on Hiro's life (since he's the best friend and everything)— and I'm waiting for reactions and reviews… I will repeat this part: I'll really 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. :) Shuichi and Yuki's fate depend on it… :)