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Loves Betrayal
Chapter 7- The fight for love
Hiro's POV
I couldn't help but just stare at him. This wasn't something that I really was expecting Tohma to do to me. I watch the blond just look at me with the same stupid smile on his face as he always does.
"And can I question why you are firing me?" I ask very calmly.
"You haven't been performing to your full potential, and you are holding back the band." he says.
I couldn't help but to let a smile form on my lips as I look at him. "Why don't you tell me the real reason that you are firing me? Cause I know that the lame excuse that you just gave me is nothing but that. So what was it, Yuki wanting me out of Shuichi's life or something?" I ask crossing my legs.
The sparkle that crossed his eyes told me enough. "Of course that isn't the reason. Now I will expect you to leave without causing a scene. I expect you to be out of here by the end of the day." He says, sitting back against his chair.
"And if I cause a scene?" I question.
"I know that you are smarter then that. You don't want to cause a scene as you know that the end result to that would be bad."
"So you are threatening me now, Seguchi?" I couldn't help but to ask again.
"You, of all people, should know that I don't threaten, Nakano-san. I just know that you aren't going to draw any unwanted attention to yourself."
I close my eyes and the smile spreads. "And what exactly are you going to tell the press when they ask why I am leaving?"
"I will simply tell them that you decided that you didn't want to do this anymore, so you quit willingly."
"So in other words, you are going to lie to the world, to make things better suit you. That is low, Tohma, even for you." I say, shaking my head.
He looks at me as if I just grew a second head. I think that he was completely flabbergasted that I would talk to him with such disrespect. The first actual emotion that I have ever seen on his face.
I stand up from my chair. "Don't worry, I will be out of here within the hour. Without a word to cause unwanted attention to 'myself'." I put in quotes with my fingers.
"That is very good to hear, Nakano-san. I'm terribly sorry that things couldn't work out. You may have made a really good musician one day."
I turn and I feel my lip curl at that comment. I am a very good musician and anyone that has heard me knows that I am the best guitarist in Japan. "I'm not sorry that you are firing me, Tohma. And would you like to know the reasoning behind this?" I ask, turning my head enough to see him.
He just continued to smile at me and his head tilts a bit. "And for what reason might that be?" he asks.
"Because if I had to continue to sit by, while you gloat in the fact that you and that fucking bastard hurt my best friend, I would fucking kill you." I say with much seriousness in my voice.
The blond just looks at me without flinching. He just continued to look at me with that stupid look on his face, which I badly wanted to remove.
With that set in the blonds head, I turn and make my way back to the door. Once I get there I open it up and was about to step out when I turn and look at him.
"Hurt him again, and you will regret the day you were born." I say before even waiting to see if he was going to reply to me.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath, before heading to the elevators. I press the button to descend to our studio for the last time. I shake my head and sigh out. "I should have known that this was going to happen. Well, I guess that is what I get for being a true friend to Shuichi. But this is not even in any way his fault at all." I say out loud to myself.
The elevator dings and the doors open. I get off and head towards the studio. I enter the room and everyone's eyes are instantly on me. Their eyes full of anticipation and wanting to know what happened.
"So what happened, Hiro? Are you in trouble for something? What happened? Come on, you have to tell us?" came the voice of my band mate, Suguru.
I walk over to where my guitar sits and pick it up. I unplug it from the amplifier and then put it away in the case. I stand back up and find a magnum in my face.
"And where do you think you are going? And why haven't you answered Suguru's question?" K says, cocking back the hammer.
"Do you really want to know?" I ask, not even backing away from the barrel of the gun.
"Well, of course we do." they all say in unison.
"Then I suggest that you sit down and listen very closely." I say. I watch K hesitantly put his gun back in the holster and take a seat next to the producer.
I set the guitar down and look at them all. I take a deep breath. "I am no longer employed by NG Studios. I was fired today at 10:32 am. The reasoning behind my firing, is because I am no longer an asset to you guys. If any of you would like that in simpler terms, I was fired because that is what that bastard Yuki wanted." I say, watching them.
Sakano completely fainted, not even he knew about this.
Suguru and K just looked at me with wide eyes and dropped jaws. There was silence in the room for a good five minutes before finally K spoke up.
"And why would Yuki Eiri want you fired?"
A smirk again formed on my lips and I say "Because Yuki is pissed off at me, for being a friend to Shuichi. Jealously is how I am seeing it at this point in time. He can't make his own lover as happy as I can make him."
Confusion crossed the blonds face and he tilts his head a bit. "Since when did you and Shindou-san have something going on?"
I felt my face deadpan and I shook my head. "Not that kind of happy. God K, get your head out of the gutter and back on your shoulders. No, the fact that I was actually doing things with Shuichi yesterday is what pissed off the……Yuki."
K nods his head as he tries to process the information.
Suguru finally speaks up. "And how do you feel about this? I mean, are you going to do something about it?"
I look at him and shake my head. "What am I going to do? And to be honest, I am glad that I got fired, cause that has lessened my chance of going to jail."
"What the hell are you talking about? Why would you go to jail for being here?"
"I refuse to work with someone as corrupt as your cousin. I refuse to sit here and watch as he basks in the glory of the things that he has done." I say. I knew what the next question would be, but I wait to see if I could be wrong.
"What exactly has he done, Nakano-san?" Came the voice of the unconscious producer.
"Plotted against Shuichi with Yuki. By this I mean that he and Yuki plotted against Shuichi in the most horrible way thinkable."
"And exactly what did this little plan consist of?" K asked, intrigued to know.
"Shuichi walking in and catching the two of them fucking on the couch." I say very bluntly.
I watched as the eyes grew wide and the tension in the air thickened a bit. I don't think that I can remember a time when the room was so silent.
"Well, if there will be nothing else, I must be going now." I saying, bending down and picking my guitar back up and walking towards the door.
"But…what are you going to do now, Hiro?" Suguru asks, turning his head to look at me.
"I don't know as of yet. I am sure that I will find out when it happens. It was very nice working with you all and I surely will miss all of you." I say as I walk out the door and head towards the front of the building.
I enter the elevator and press the button to head down to the lobby. I can faintly hear them playing a Bad Luck song on the radio. A smile forms and I close my eyes listening to it. The smile fades as quickly as it formed. I begin to think about how I am going to tell Shuichi, so that he doesn't go into work and do something that he might regret doing, and exactly how he will react to the fact that it will no longer be us.
The ding of the elevator and the opening of the doors is the only thing that causes me to escape my thoughts. As I step out of the elevator I head towards the secretary. I tell her that I am leaving, and she looks at me with sympathetic eyes. I simply give her a smile and head out the door.
As I exit the doors, I see a familiar car pulling up to the curve. I couldn't help but let my eyes narrow at the figure inside. I watch him get out of his car and shut the door. He looks up and sees me, a cocky smile forming on his face as he begins his accent to the building. I begin my descent down the stairs and we cross each other once I hit the bottom.
"That's why you don't mess with me. I will destroy you." he says, eying me out the corner of his sunglasses.
"If you weren't such a fucking bastard, then maybe Shuichi wouldn't run to me for help and comfort." I retort back at him.
"If he wasn't so annoying and being such a brat all the time, then I wouldn't have to kick him out."
I could feel the anger rising within me. "You knew what you were getting into, so I don't want to hear your pathetic excuses." I say through clenched teeth.
"And if you would know where your boundaries are then you wouldn't be going through this." he says in a disgustingly calm manner.
"I never over stepped my boundaries, I merely tried to do things with him so that I could try to calm the mess that you put him through." my hands tighten around the guitar case.
"You still stuck your nose in places that it shouldn't be." he says, actually looking at me now, that same smile on his face.
I couldn't help what happened next. I take the hand that was free of the case, and I felt it connect to the side of Yuki's face. I watch as the sunglasses break and fall off his face. When he looked back up at me, I could see the anger in his eyes.
"Now I have placed my fist where it doesn't belong." I say dropping my guitar case.
"You fucking punk. What the fuck do you think you are doing?" he asks heading back towards me.
"Paying you back for all the times that you made Shuichi cry, you fucking prick." I retort with much anger.
Before I knew what was coming, I felt the immense force of the blonde's weight. I held my head up as I crashed to the ground with Yuki. A large fist came down and connected with my jaw. A small sound of pain came outs as I watched the warm, crimson colored liquid fly out of my mouth.
I saw the next hand coming down to meet the other side of my face and I blocked that one from happening. He did catch my arm, though and that hurt like hell. I watched as he pulled back to punch me again. I took my hands and shoved them into Yuki's chest, pushing the blond off me. I scramble to my feet and I watch as he hits the ground.
Yuki quickly got back on his feet and was glaring at me, blood dripping from the corner of his eye and the base of his mouth. He spits out the blood and then heads back towards me. I brace myself this time, ready for the impact. Fists flying, I watched as both swings connected. Yuki's connects to the right side of my nose, as mine connects to his jaw.
I'm not too sure which one of us cried out first or which one was even hit first. I do know that we both backed up a bit, a little dazed. We stand there glaring at one another, completely unaware of the crowd that started to gather around us. Yuki and I fly back towards each other and we again connect coinciding punches.
We continue to beat each other, until we were forced apart. I see that Yuki was being held back by one of the security guards. I seethe and look back at who has me. It was K…and I know that there is no way that I was getting out of this one. I calm myself a bit, but still continue to glare at the author.
"What the hell do you two think you are doing?" K asked, keeping a hard, firm hand on my shoulder.
"If he wouldn't have opened his fucking mouth, then I wouldn't have had to punch him." I say, glancing back at the American.
"If you would learn to mind your business, then you wouldn't be in this mess." Yuki retorts back at me.
I opened my mouth to say something, when I was cut off by the hand of K. "Take him in and get him cleaned up." he says to the security officer.
"And I will take you home." K says pushing me towards his car.
I make a stop and pick up my guitar and then realize that there is a crowd of people standing around and talking about it. I sigh out and go to K's car. I quickly get in and put on my seatbelt.
K gets in on the other side and shuts his door. Before he starts up the car, he looks at me over his glasses. "So, would you like to tell me what happened?" he asks.
I look at him and nod my head. I know that I wasn't going to be able to get out of this. I begin to tell him everything, not leaving a single detail out. After I was finished, I finally look up at him and he shakes his head at me.
"Have you ever considered anger management?" K asks.
I felt my blood begins to boil once again. "I don't need anger management. I need to never see that blond bastard ever again." I say while taking my shirt off. I pull down the visor, and look into the mirror. Yuki did some damage to my face, I check it over and then use my shirt to clean off the blood.
"Just don't do that again, Nakano. I don't want to see you thrown in jail for it." He says to me before starting his car and driving off.
"So what is going to happen to 'Bad Luck' now that I am out." I ask, wanting to change the subject.
"I don't know. I have to wait to see what Tohma has in store and exactly how Shuichi is going to react to it all."
"I will make sure that he comes to work and that everything continues as it did. I won't let him ruin his career cause I can't stand his boyfriend." I say. I wince out in pain as I hit the side of my nose wrong. "Oh great, he broke my nose." I say to myself.
"We will see what happens." K says, driving. "Maybe I should take you to the hospital instead of taking you to your house." he says.
"No, just take me home. If I think that I need to go to the hospital then I will go later." I say, looking at him.
"As you wish. But if you die, even if you don't work here, I will come find you bring your ass back to life, and then kill you again."
My eyes get wide and I look at him and smile a bit. "Oh my god. Did the great Claude ((A/N: I hope that this is the right name…There is so many that I don't know which is right.)) Winchester crack a joke?" I ask.
I see him go for his gun and I say "I was only kidding, there is no need to result to such violence."
He grunts and soon pulls out in front of my house. "Take care, Hiro. I will still be watching you."
I merely nod my head and open the door. I get out and take my guitar case with me. "See ya later, K. Don't hurt anyone too badly." I say with a smile on my face.
With that I closed the door and head up to my apartment. I walk up the stairs and put the keys in the door. I unlock the door and walk in. "Shuichi, I am home." I call out.
Suddenly there is a flash of pink hair and I am now on the floor, with a Shuichi straddling me. I watch as his eyes get wide as he looks at me.
"Hiro…what happened?" he asks tracing the cuts on my face.
"I got into a fight, Shuichi. Don't worry yourself with it though." I say getting up off the floor, taking him with me. I hold him up as I take my shoes off and then walk into the other room. I set him down on the bed and sit down next to him.
"Did you sleep alright when I left?" I ask, looking at him.
"Yep, I did. Thank you for letting me sleep in. I really needed the rest after…." I placed a finger over his lips to silence him. His violet eyes peered up at me questioningly.
"Let's not talk about that, alright? I don't want you to cry again." I say removing my finger.
He nods his head and then begins to tell me about what he did while I was gone for the few hours I was gone. "So why are you home early?" he finally asks.
I look at him and smile a bit. "I was allowed to go home early. Since you weren't there, there was nothing for us to do." I say. I don't really want to tell him what is going on at the moment.
I watch as he looks at me skeptically and then nods. "Oh. Am I going to be in trouble when we go back to work tomorrow?" he asks
I close my eyes and shake my head. "No, you aren't going to be in trouble when you go back tomorrow." I say.
"You mean when we go back tomorrow." he corrects me with a smile.
I shake my head and look at him. I watch as the smile fades from his beautiful face and he looks at me, confused. I reach over and brush back some of his hair. "No, Shuichi. Like I said, when you go back."
"I don't understand why you won't be there." he says. You can feel the concern radiating off his body as he looks at me.
I sigh out and close my eyes. "I didn't want to tell you this right now, Shuichi, but I got fired today." I finish opening my eyes and looking at him.
The tears began to brim the corners of his eyes. "Nani?" he cries out. "They can't do that to you. Why did you get fired?" he asks the tears spilling free, falling down like a salty waterfall.
I pulled him into a tight hug. "Please don't cry, Shuichi. I caused myself to get fired. I told Tohma off and threatened his life." I lie. Well, I didn't completely lie about it.
"Why would you do something like that, Hiro? You know that I can't continue this without you. You know that you are the only thing that kept me going through all of this." he muffles out through my shirt.
"You can continue this, Shuichi. You know that this is your dream and I was here enough for you to accomplish this. You don't need me anymore for you to continue to shine." I say to him. I hold him very close to me and sigh into his hair. "Please don't give up on this, Shuichi. You can continue without me. Even if I am not in the studio with you, that doesn't mean that I won't be here for you. You know that you are my best friend and I will always be here no matter what." I say, caressing his back.
The sobs continued into my shirt from the singer. I press myself against him and bury my head into the crook of Shuichi's neck. "Please, don't cry anymore. I didn't want you to feel like this. I couldn't allow them to get away with hurting you."
"What are you talking about? What really happened Hiro?" Shuichi asks.
I close my eyes and sigh out. I bring myself up from the crook of his neck and look him in the eyes. "Tohma fired me this morning. He told me that it was because I wasn't performing as I should be. I don't care what he says, I know that it had something to do with Yuki. Well, I left and then got into a fight with Yuki, cause he told me that I shouldn't mess with him, he would destroy me." I say, closing my eyes and turning my head.
When I closed my eyes I missed the pain that ran through Shuichi's eyes and then the anger. He places his hand on the back of my head and brings me towards him. "Its okay, Hiro. I'm not mad at you for not telling me the whole truth. I am glad that you told me though." he says, caressing my back.
After about twenty minutes of silence we finally break apart. "I have an idea on what we can do. How about we go and make some music of our own? So that it can be just the two of us again, like when we were younger." I suggest to him.
He thinks about it for a moment and then he nods and stands up. "Okay. That sounds so fun. It's been awhile since it has been just the two of us playing." he says, eyes sparkling brighter then the stars at night.
A smile forms on my lips and I walk over to my guitar and get it ready to play. I watch him walk over to the keyboard and turn it on. He takes his hands and moves them around the keys and then stops. He looks up at me and smiles, all the trouble seeming to be gone from him.
I couldn't help but to smile back at him. I pick up my guitar and begin to tune it. After a moment, I look back up at him and say "Ready when you are, boss."
That caused a giggle to escape the strawberry flavored lips. He looks up at me and looks as innocent as he always has been. I couldn't help but to think about the days when we were younger. About how back then I used to be so fascinated with the pink haired boy. Now that I look at him, I grow to realize that the feelings that I had then, haven't changed. They grew and formed something that I am only a little familiar with. I smile at him and stand up. I bend down then to plug in my guitar and his keyboard.
Hours and hours later, we get done with that. I look at the clock and realize it is 10 o'clock at night. "Wow, that was completely amazing! So much better than when we were younger." I say, wiping some sweat off my brow.
"It's sad that we have to quit though. I was really enjoying that. I think that K would have shot us for playing as long as we did and for the great performance." he says with a huge grin on his face.
I nod my head. "Are you hungry?" I ask
He nods his own head and then says "Yes, of course I am. After a performance such as that, a person like me will be hungry." giggles escape after he says this.
"Then I think that I will make something to eat." I say, setting my guitar down on the stand.
I walk into the kitchen and begin to make something that will be quick and easy. I steal a few glances at Shuichi as I cook the food. I see that he has a notebook in his hands and he is writing something. I can't help but smile and continue what I am doing.
After a few more minutes, the food is done. "Shuichi, the food is…" I was cut off cause he was instantly at the table and waiting. I chuckle out and then serve him some food. I set down the food and then sit in the chair next to him with my own food.
We eat with no real conversation. Shuichi then looks up at me and asks "So, what are you going to do now, Hiro?"
I put down my fork and look at him. "I don't know at the moment. I will just live on what I have saved at the moment and decide from there. Don't worry, Shuichi, I will be alright." I smile at him.
He nods at me and then yawns. "I'm tired, Hiro. Can we go to bed now?" he asks, running a hand through his hair.
I pick up the dishes and take them to the sink. "Yes, Shuichi. We can go to bed if you would like. I will take the couch so that you can sleep comfortably." I say.
"I don't want to sleep by myself, Hiro. Please sleep with me tonight." he says.
"Of course. If that is really what you want to do, then I will do it."
He nods and grabs my hand and drags me to my bed. I hand him a pair of PJ bottoms and take a pair for myself. I walk into the bathroom and take a quick shower to clean up all the blood that was still on me. I get out and then get dressed. When I exit the bathroom, I see Shuichi already asleep on the bed. I feel the smile creep across my face and I go and crawl into bed with him.
I look at him and see how much he looks like an angel in the pale moonlight. I lean over and kiss him on the forehead. "Goodnight, Shuichi." I whisper before laying down and falling into my own slumber.
Early the next morning, I wake up to the fresh rays of sun shining through my window. I close my eyes to block out most of the light. I sit up and look around and next to me. My eyes get wide and I look around the room. On the floor I see the bottoms that Shuichi wore the night before. "Shuichi?" I call out as I get up from my bed. I go and check out the rest of the apartment. There was nothing.
Shuichi was already gone.
A/N: Sorry it took so long to update. I was having really bad writers block. I promise that it wont take as long next time for me to update. So tell me how you liked the chapter. I hope that you like this one…and I even made it longer this time .and I will update soon -hugs to everyone-
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