-Gravitation Fic-

A Day In the Life of...

DISCLAIMER: The characters here are not mine –pout- they belong to… well… someone else… .

Summery: This fanfic was inspired by my rabidly obsessed little sister's fantasy of what would happen if we could peel Shuiichi out of Gravitation. It is kinds like… Shuiichi meets world. The real world that is. Yay!

(Welcome to the Real World – 1)

Well, last night he had gone to bed next to Eiri. It hadn't been a nice night, they got in a fight and now they were sleeping, dur what else do you do at night. He decided he would apologize to Eiri in the morning. So when he rolled over this morning and cracked his eyes and the person that was next to him was not Eiri. Not only that but it was some young girl that he didn't know from a hole in the wall, he shrieked. Yes he did. He screamed like a girl and fell off the bed and onto the floor. Thud. His scream was greeted by a scream of her own. Erica Smith (because Smith is an amazingly common last name and incriminates no one…) would sit up blinking, pulling her comforter up to her chin. Large blue eyes simply blinking at the pink haired boy sitting on the floor next to her bed.

"OWWY!" The boy's violet eyes seemed to get unrealistically wide as he rubbed his sore butt. That bed was like… really high! And it hurt to fall on his bum!

"Who are y… you look li…" Erica stammered, still wrapped in her blanket she would reach forward and grab a copy of her Gravitation manga, that her mother and sitter didn't know she had, lest it get taken away for the explicit boy on boy sex drawn within it's pages. "Shuiichi Shindo?"

"How do you know me." He said standing up and looking at the book in her hands, in order to do this, he had to invade her bubble by leaning over the book which was facing her, a bubble that she valued enough to push him away, because his hair running under her chin tickled and he was way too close to her chest! Gay or not, he had to back off now.

"Three feet!" She said looking crossly at him as he landed on his bum again.

"But I don't think I like three feet… it hurts." Shuiichi whimpered from his place on the floor.

"Get in the closet." Erica insisted.

"What!" He said. "I don't care who knows that I'm gay"

"Not that!" Erica squeaked. "The closet, my closet! I need to get dressed and I don't want you looking at me!"

"What? Oh!" He would get all little and chibi and scamper into the closet. Erica would get up and get dressed making sure that he was not staring at her while she did so… not, she supposed, that he really would want to… since he was gay after all. What was she going to do with him? How was she going to explain this to her mother? All of this and more went through her mind when her sitter, Kate, knocked on the door.

Erica ran over, shoving the doorknob, which was broken into the door and turning it so that it would open.

"Come here!" She said grabbing Kate's hand and pulling her into the room.

"What?" She asked. Kate was not used to being ordered into Erica's room, usually she was ordered out of it. Erica pushed her little sister out of the room before she closed the door. "Not you, Raven."

"But I wanna come in too." She whined stamping her foot.

"No. It is Erica's room." Kate said sternly, they only went through this fight every other day. "If she says no, it's no."

"Not fair!" Raven said running off into the living room at the other end of the house.

"Life isn't fair." Kate said softly, making sure that Raven didn't hear her. "Now what do you want Erica."

"I have a boy in my closet." She said.

"What!" Kate said, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at Erica.

"No it isn't like that. I know it sounds weird, but it is Shuiichi Shindo." Erica said, that rabid fan girl look on her face.

"What are you talking about?" Kate asked. Erica had come up with some crazy ideas before, but this one certainly topped the cake.

"I'm not kidding!" Erica said growling. She was exasperated. They could hear Raven and her other little sister Jaimey running around out in the hall.

"No running!" Kate yelled through the door, the footsteps stopped running and started walking.

"Um… can I… come out now." Shuiichi asked from the closet. Kate jumped and looked over to see the little pink haired boy standing there. He was dressed in only a pair of pants, which much was not obvious until he stepped out of the closet.

"Holy…" Kate said softly.

"Hi." He said running his fingers back through his hair. He would start looking bashful but no sooner had he started really thinking about than did his eyes become little more than dots with tears literally pouring out of them. "I don't know how I got here! I don't belong here! I wanna go home!"

As he was fussing he would sit on the floor, his legs feet to feet and his hands down on the floor.

"I want my Yuuuuukiii." He wailed.

"Will you shut up?" Kate growled softly. "Before you wake up Charlie and Renee."

"Who?" He asked looking up at Kate.

"Charlie and Renee, Erica's parents?" Kate explained looking down at him. She had a bit of patients when it came to kids, but if this really was Shuiichi Shindo than he was eighteen years old.

"Kate why are you in there when the girls are out here, and what is going on in there." Charlie asked from outside the door. Kate would come forward and cover Shuiichi's mouth. "Nothing, we are watching TV, sorry Erica wanted to show me something."

"Ohh kay." Came from outside the door and the figure shuffled off. Kate released Shuiichi's mouth and looked at him. What the hell was she going to do with him? Sure she had lots of friends that Renee and Charlie didn't know about, she could, she supposed pass Shuiichi off as one of them, or their little brother. But the kid was obviously oblivious to living in the real world, and very anime. She would sit on Erica's bed and sigh softly.

"I need to get your sisters ready for school. I will deal with this when I am done." She said finally. "You guys keep quiet, no more yelling."

She got up and walked out of the room heading down to get the girls ready. This was a daily ritual that took from six thirty in the morning until seven forty-five when she finally finished and came back to the house. Shuiichi and Erica were sitting at the Kitchen table, Charlie had gone back to sleep, since you couldn't keep him awake before he had to go to work and Rach had already left for work. They were eating cereal and Shuiichi seemed to be a little lost. Erica was playing a CD that she had burned off of Limewire that was all Bad Luck stuff from the sound track. This seemed to keep Shuiichi sated, at least it was something familiar.

"How do you think I got here?" He asked Erica as Kate went to go look for something for Shuiichi to wear, he was little so she went down to the laundry room looking for something of Renee's or even of the girls for him.

"I dunno." Erica said thoughtfully.

"Do you know who I am?" He asked.

"Yeah! You are Shuiichi Shindo from Grav… I mean… Bad Luck." She wasn't sure that he would handle it well finding out that he was from a book, this was the fault of Fushigi Yugi, which she had been watching religiously for the last few weeks. In that Tomahome had reacted very badly when he found out that he was not real. Kate, now standing at the top of the stairs was wondering the same thing, but at the same time, he wasn't a lost puppy. The couldn't just… keep him.

"He can't stay here, Charlie will have a heart attack if he comes up and finds him here." Kate said. That was an understatement. Charlie didn't handle well to strange men in his house that he didn't know, or even strange little kids. "He is going to have to go to school with you."

"School! But I graduated already!" He said biting his lip. "I don't wanna go to school!"

"Well you can't stay here. That simple." Kate said rolling her eyes somewhat. She handed Shuiichi a shirt that she had gotten him. It was a simply black tee shirt that was actually Erica's and it would have to do for now.

"But, how… will they let him in?" Erica asked. Kate thought for a minute. She would finally get up and write a note, telling the school that Shuiichi was a cousin from Japan and that he was visiting and for a while would be attending school with Taylor if that was alright. Just as a visitor.

"Take this and go get ready, Shuiichi, you can get dressed in the bathroom." She said pointing to the small bathroom off of the kitchen. In her room Taylor would be doing the happy dance, the Shuiichi happy dance, like when he found out Yuki was all right singing:

"Shuiichi's in my house. Goin' to my school. My house my school…"

"Stop that and get ready Erica!" Kate yelled from in the hall way. She froze, blinking a few times before continuing, only quieter to dance. Finally she brushed her hair and got ready to go. When she came out Shuiichi was sitting on the living room couch with his black leather pants on, and her black tee shirt and a pair of a million shoes that her mother had gotten from a goth friend of theirs that went… ungoth. She stopped and blinked, he didn't see her, his head was no his knees and he was staring at the TV, but he looked a little… sad.

"Are you all right?" She asked.

"Yeah, Yuki is going to be worried about me though. I wish I could call him." He said. Blinking his violet eyes slowly before turning some to look at her. Finally he would smile, that light coming back to his eyes. "Ready to go?"

"Yeah." And with that, they walked out the door heading for the school some way up the road.