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Chapter 9

Loves Betrayal

Hiro opened his eyes and then quickly shut the again. Within a few minutes he slowly opened his eyes. He is confused on where he is. He blinks his eyes to regain his vision. "Hiro…you're awake." came the soft familiar voice of Shuichi. Hiro turns his head and smiles at Shuichi, wincing as he does so.

"Where am I?" he asks.

"You're in the hospital. I called the ambulance when you passed out after beating up Yuki." he says, staring intently at Hiro.

"Why are you staring at me?" the paranoid man asks.

"Why did you beat him up like that? And why were you there in the first place?" he asks, eyes already beginning to tear up.

"I beat him up cause he decided that he was going to lay his hands on you. I refuse to let him do that to the dearest person in the world to me. The reason I was there is because you left and didn't tell me where you were. I got worried and decided to check Yuki's and thank god that I did, cause if I wasn't there who knows what the psycho would have done to you." Hiro says, resting his head back on the bed.

Shuichi just put his head down as he listened to his friend. Deep in his heart he knew that Hiro was probably the only reason he is still able to stand. After a few minutes he looks back up at his friend. "I want you to promise me that you won't get involved anymore." he finally says.

"I refuse to make such an absurd promise to you, Shuichi. How can you even ask me to do something like that? You are being selfish when you do that." he says.

"I'm not being selfish. I am trying to look out for your well being. It is my fault that you got beat up in the first place."

"………"

"Now, make me that promise, Hiro. Promise me that you won't stick up for me anymore. I have to learn to take care of myself. You aren't going to be there for me all the time you know."

"No.." he simply replies.

"Dammit, Hiro. Why do you have to be so difficult? Why can't you make this one lousy promise for me?"

"I already answered that once. I'm not going to do it again. I care for you too much to make such a promise to you, so stop asking me." he says, studying his friend a little. There was something different about him but he couldn't pinpoint it.

Shuichi sighs and leans back against his chair. He turns his eyes to look out the window. He doesn't understand why his friend is making this so hard on him. He then turns his head back to Hiro and shakes his head. "Then you leave me no choice, Hiro. As of this day we are no longer friends." he says, getting up and leaving the room before Hiro could say anything to him.

Hiro watched at his friend got up and left without giving him a chance to say anything. He couldn't believe that Shuichi just ended their friendship. And all cause he was trying to help him out.

"Kuso…." he growls out. He couldn't get up and go after him due to all the wiring in him. He shakes his head and closes his eyes. When he did so the tears began to spill free. Shuichi was his only reason for even being alive still.

The alarm to one of his machines begins to go off. The attending nurse rushes in to see what is going on. The machine for his blood pressure is going off. She leaves the room and comes back with something to calm him down. She knew it must have been bad considering he was crying and shaking. "Why, Shuichi?" he asks before he becomes calm and leans against the bed staring out the window.

Down the hallway, about 15 doors, Shuichi stands outside the door with the name Uesugi Eiri on it. He sighs and places a hand on the handle. He opens the door and steps in and looks at the men in the room. He closes the door and continues to stand by it, his head towards the cold floor.

"Well…."

"It's done." he says, not looking up from the floor.

"Very good. I knew you were a smart boy." One of the men say to Shuichi.

"Yeah, yeah, can I go now?" he asks, still not looking up.

"You know, Shindou-kun, it is very impolite to not look at someone when you are talking to them or vice versa."

Shuichi reluctantly looks up from the floor and looks at them. He wanted to smack the smug looks off their faces. "So can I go now?"

"Not yet. There is one last thing that we want you to do…"

"No. I have already done enough. You can't make me do anything else." Shuichi protests.

"Have it your way.." one of the guys picks up a phone.

"Okay, okay. I will do whatever you want me to do." Shuichi says pleadingly.

"Again you have proven to be a smart boy."

"Just tell me what you want me to do, so that maybe one day I can go on with my life." he says, getting a little upset at this.

"We want Nakano out of town in 2 days. Matter of fact, I want you to ensure that he won't come back to Japan for any reason."

Shuichi gulped and stared at them. He looked at Eiri for some support, but got nothing from the sleeping blond. He shakily nods his head in agreement. The tears were again beginning to form on his eyes. "Now can I go?" he asks through clenched teeth.

"As long as you get the job done and get it done very quickly."

Shuichi nods and heads out the door with a sigh. He couldn't believe he was going to go through this. He stands outside the doorway for a moment before heading to the guitarist's room. Outside the door, he leans against the wall, tears falling down his face. He didn't want to do this at all…but they were making him. He dries up the tears with his sleeve and then turns to the door and opens it.

On the inside, he can see Hiro leaning against the bed. He takes in a deep breath and walks over to the bed. "Hiro.." he says.

Hiro heard Shuichi's voice and his head turns to him. He smiles at the strawberry pocky colored haired boy. The smile fades just as quickly as it came. He was hoping that he had imagined the whole thing with Shuichi, but he can now see that it wasn't imagination at all. He wasn't going to even say anything, no matter how much it was killing him not to.

"I want you to leave town also. I don't want to see you ever again for as long as I live. If you can't do what I ask then I don't want to even think about you being close to me." Shuichi says in a very cold manner.

Again Hiro looks at his friend with a devastated look on his face. "Why are you saying all this to me? What the hell happened to you? Shuichi' I know that this isn't you, tell me what you did with my best friend you son of a bitch." Hiro growls out.

"I am Shuichi." he says with emphasis. "This is the real one that I keep away because you only want to see the over hyper immature one. Well, I am done being like this and I am tired of you coming in and messing things up or making things worse. You aren't a very good friend if this is what you have to do. Matter of fact, you haven't been acting like a best friend at all, no…you are acting like some possessive bastard who thinks I am his property." his eyes narrow after saying this.

Hiro is completely flabbergasted by all this. He doesn't really know what to think about it. "You don't mean what you just said, Shuichi. There is no way that you could really feel like that." he says, trying not to let his voice crack.

"Suit yourself, Nakano. You have a mere 2 days to get out of Tokyo. This is your one and only warning. Get out of town if you know what is good for you." Shuichi practically spits out.

Hiro was lost on this whole thing. Now he knew that this wasn't about him beating up Yuki or anything of the sort. It went farther then that but what exactly. . Shuichi never uses his last name, no matter how mad he is. It was now his goal to find out before the 2 days. Hiro forced his head to nod.

"Good. I will also be coming to your house and picking up my things and dropping off the things I have of yours. After that I will never talk to you again." he says turning to leave again.

"Shuichi please…" he began before being interrupted by Shuichi's hand flying up. "I don't want to hear anything. I especially don't want to hear you begging for anything." Shuichi retorts before opening the door and closing behind him.

Hiro again was stunned at this. He couldn't believe what was happening. He really needs to find out what is going on with his friend. He buzzes in the nurse so he can get his papers to get out of there.

Shuichi returns to the room where the men are conjugating. When he walks in there is only 2 men in there. He looks around a little confused. "Well, it is done…" he quietly says. The other man looks up at him and smiles. "Good to hear, Shindou-kun. Now you are free to leave now."

"But I want to stay and talk to Yuki." he whines.

"I said have a nice evening, Shuichi."

Shuichi sighs and nods his head and walks out the door. He walks to the elevators and presses the button. When the door opens, he looks down the hall to see Hiro leaving his room in his normal clothing. He steps onto the elevator before he was noticed. He presses the button to go down and get out of there. Once he reaches the ground floor, he takes off out of the hospital.

Hiro leaves the hospital and heads back to his house. This was one night that was way too much for him. He couldn't believe that he could be losing his best friend after all that. About this point is where he wants to just die. Shuichi is his life even if the pink haired boy don't know it. He flags a cab and gets in and tells him where to go.

"Why would you say that, Shuichi? He asks himself. He didn't realize that he said that out loud.

"Having problems with someone?" the cab driver asks.

Hiro looks up and nods his head. "Yeah, just a little bit. Nothing that won't be fixed soon, I am sure." he says more to try to convince himself then anything.

The cab driver nods and continues to drive towards the destination.

Once there, Hiro pays for the ride, thanks the man and gets out. He looks up at his lonely apartment where he has so many fond memories of his friend. "I will go and talk to him tomorrow after all this has blown over." he says out loud to himself.

With a smile he makes his way up to his apartment. He takes the keys out of his pocket and then inserts them in the door. He unlocks it and steps in and flips on the light. He walks in and removes his shoes and shuts the door.

He walks in and sees the house as he left it this morning. The bed a mess from where Shuichi slept and the clothes he let Shuichi wear the night before on the floor. He sighs out and heads over to his dresser. He grabs his clothes and heads to take a shower.

The shower last for about 15 minutes. He gets out of the refreshing shower and dries himself off. He pulls his night time pants on and looks at himself in the mirror. He moves his head from side to side to see the extent of the damage. He shakes his head and picks up the brush and brushes out his long hair.

After that he goes back out to his room and lays down on the bed and drifts off to sleep. In the middle of the night he wakes up from his slumber due to a bad dream. He sits up and looks around and then lays back down in his bed. He was closing his eyes when he suddenly heard a noise in the room. He sits up again and says "Who's there?" trying to see but couldn't because of the darkness.

Suddenly, a dark figure emerges from the shadows and makes its way to the red head. "Why can't you get the clue to leave Shuichi alone?" the voice said.

Hiro looked at the person and his eyes got wide. He didn't recognize the voice of the culprit. "I told him I will leave…what the fuck more do you want from me?"

Bang

With those being Hiro's last words the man says "I want you dead…."

-TBC-

A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update and I am sorry that it isn't as long as the others have been. I started a new job and they are working me to death. Please be patient with me when it comes to updating. There are some days that I will have to work double shifts….yeah that is going to be great. So please don't get to angry if I don't update as often as I was. Please tell me what you think about this one.

Reviewer thanks: I would like to thank everyone who reviewed this story. There are many reviews this time, so I cant thank everyone individually like I would like to. I appreciate everything that you guys have said negative and positive alike….though there hasn't been to much negative. Thank you all again for reviewing and I really hope that you like this chapter. Can anyone guess who did it? This is going to be great. -hugs to everyone-