Yay! I hit the big 100! Arigatou to everyone who took the time to review this little story of mine, and I hope you'll also take the time to check out some of my others, including my two Eiri/Shuichi one-shot songfics.
This is the epilogue of Missing Amethyst Eyes, and the significance of the title is completely revealed. If anyone can guess what it is, they all get chocolate! And although someone asked for a lemon, I think it's a little late to put something like that into the story in the final chapter. It might get a bit suggestive though, just to make it interesting.
One of my reviewers said that they didn't like the story because it was a Mary-Sue and God forbid that Shuichi and Eiri solved their own problems. I know they're not going to read this, but as I was looking over chapter eight, I realised that Eiri and Shuichi actually do pretty much solve their little drama on their own… so even though this particular reviewer didn't like it, there are still 99 reviewers out their who liked some aspect of this story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gravitation, or any of the songs I used throughout the duration of this story. If I did I'd be a very rich 16-year-old.
Missing Amethyst Eyes
Epilogue
ONE YEAR LATER
Eiri was pacing his study, waiting nervously for his partner to come home. He smiled to himself as he noticed how easily the words 'partner' and 'boyfriend' and 'lover' came to his mind these days whenever he thought of Shuichi.
Why was he so nervous? Well, today was the day that the 24-year-old's newest novel was released, and as always, his editor had given him a copy of the book. He usually rejected receiving a copy of his own, but this time, he'd taken one… not for himself, but for Shuichi.
In truth, it wasn't the book that made him nervous; it was the delicate golden promise ring he had attached to a length of elegant red ribbon and placed inside the book, so that it would fall open to the dedications. He hadn't been able to work out how to give it to his pink haired koibito without making a total sap of himself; until Kana had given him the perfect opportunity.
Eiri's head snapped up as he heard the front door slam loudly. "Eiri, I'm home!" a hyperactive voice called joyfully.
'Well, here goes nothing…' Eiri thought, picking up the book from his desk and walking out into the living room. "So I can hear." He said, lifting his love up by his waist until the shorter boy was sitting on the dining room table, and placing a gentle, tender kiss on his young boyfriend's slightly parted lips.
"Mmmm…Eiri…" Shuichi mumbled, flicking his tongue across Eiri's lips, seeking entrance and surprising Eiri enough to allow him inside and granting his lover's wish. It was unusual for Shuichi to be in control of this kind of situation. Eiri leant into the warmth of Shuichi's body as the rock star deepened the kiss.
Eventually, Eiri reluctantly pulled away, although he was almost willing to forget his whole plan just for a while, while he manoeuvred his little rock 'n' roll sex god into the bedroom to make music far sweeter than anything on an Ancient Curse, Nittle Grasper or Bad Luck album. But he couldn't, not after he'd come this far. Not after he'd finally opened up enough to do this.
"Eiri!" Shuichi moaned with disappointment. "Please… can we?" he motioned his head towards the bedroom.
"Not right now." Eiri told him with a smile and a kiss on the cheek. Shuichi sighed dejectedly.
Eiri lifted him gently off the table, and he giggled as he was carried lightly towards the couch. Shuichi, even after a whole year, wasn't used to being treated so this… wasn't used to Eiri being this romantic.
"Eiri, what's going on?" Shuichi asked him, giggling again.
Eiri smiled down at him as he lowered him on to the couch and sat down beside him. "It's our anniversary." He murmured.
Shuichi laughed a little. "Which one? We have a lot of anniversaries Eiri love. There's so many break up and getting back together anniversaries that I've lost count."
Eiri had to admit that this was certainly true, so he wasn't overly surprised that Shuichi had forgotten. "Baka, it's the anniversary of our first meeting, when we met in the park that night."
Shuichi's eyes widened. "Oh my God, you're right!" Shuichi threw his arms around Eiri's neck in a warm, tight hug. "Who would've thought that the anniversary of the benefit concert that got us back together would be so close to the anniversary of our first meeting?"
Eiri removed the small novel from his pocket where he had placed it earlier and carefully disentangled himself from Shuichi's embrace, before settling the book into the boy's hands.
"What's this?" he asked, confused.
"Open it and see." Eiri told him with a small, mysterious smile.
Curiously, Shuichi looked down at the book in his hands, and noticing that it was Eiri's latest accomplishment, ran his fingers over the cover before flicking through it from the back. As he reached the beginning of the book, it fell open to the dedication page, and he saw the thin piece of red ribbon that marked the page. Carefully Shuichi lifted it up so that he could examine it closely.
His eyes widened when he saw the ring hanging from the end. "Eiri… what?" he asked, looking up at his lover with tears stinging his eyes.
"It's for you, to show you that I love you." Eiri replied awkwardly. "It's a promise ring, a promise that I'll never let you go again."
Tears spilled from Shuichi's eyes as he once again wrapped his arms around Eiri's neck.
"Thankyou, I love it… I love you." He whispered into Eiri's chest.
"I love you too Shuichi-kun… but I should be the one thanking you; for healing me." Eiri whispered back, tears threatening to fall from his own eyes as he carefully slid the ring over Shuichi's finger.
They sat together on the couch, just content to hold each other, for quite sometime before Shuichi sniffed slightly and took another look at the dedication page.
For my Shuichi, I never knew how much I loved you until I had to live without you… thankyou for all the times we've had together, and thankyou for coming back to me when you had no real reason to.
Love always, Eiri.
And for our friends, without whom I never would've realised how much he truly meant to me.
Shuichi laughed through his tears and threw himself into Eiri's arms again, kissing him passionately.
"Hey! What's all this?" Eiri asked when Shuichi pulled away.
Shuichi waved the book in his face. "This… is the best thing you could possibly have done for me, thankyou." He said, and he received a very warm kiss for his troubles.
"Do you like the title?" Eiri asked him anxiously, barely noticing that Shuichi was undoing the buttons on his shirt.
Shuichi looked back at the book, now sitting on the coffee table. "Missing Amethyst Eyes… its perfect." He smiled, kissing the hollow of the blonde's neck seductively. He stopped suddenly, and Eiri suppressed a small moan. "Oh, that reminds me, I have something for you too, Kasey asked me to give it to you. I guess it's actually kind of fitting." He went to his backpack and pulled out a CD case.
Eiri took it from him. It was Ancient Curse's new single; "Missing Amethyst Eyes", a song that had only been sung once, almost a year ago.
"I never did get around to killing her." Eiri replied with a grin. He opened the case and looked inside.
There was a note written in Kaede's messy hand. "It's been a year since we performed this; we decided to release it in commemoration of that day. Thought you should have the first copy. Happy anniversary you guys (Hiro told us)!
Love Kaede, Akito, Saki, Haru, Sano and Kai."
Eiri chuckled lightly. "Cute, I guess we do kind of owe them for this, don't we?"
Shuichi laughed too. "Maybe just a little." He agreed.
He looked at the clock. "Aren't we meant to be going out with Tatsuha and Ryuichi tonight, to celebrate our anniversaries?"
"Yeah, but Tatsuha called earlier. Said they had to cancel… Ryu's taking him to Verona for two weeks to celebrate. He didn't know until today. It would seem that Sakuma has more brains than we gave him credit for."
"You mean you gave him credit for." Shuichi pointed out with a grin. "Where's Verona?"
"It's in northern Italy; it's where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was set."
"How romantic, Ryu really went all out this time." Shuichi sighed. "But I think what you did for me was way better." He added with a flirtatious wink that Eiri rewarded with a hot, passionate kiss.
When they finally broke apart, Eiri grinned wickedly, a look that made Shuichi go weak at the knees. "Shall we?" he asked suggestively, gesturing in the general direction of their bedroom.
Shuichi nodded, and quick as a flash darted away from Eiri, who was in hot pursuit of his lover's lithe body. Shuichi giggled as Eiri pounced on him, pinning him to the bed and kissing him possessively. But this time, Shuichi wriggled out from underneath him, a secretive, seductive smile on his face.
"What's wrong?" Eiri asked.
"Nothing's wrong. It's just that…" Shuichi trailed off.
"What?"
Shuichi leant forward and whispered heatedly in his ear. "Tonight it's my turn." Before he ran his tongue lightly down from the hollow of Eiri's neck to his collarbone.
Eiri moaned in surprise and pleasure. "I couldn't agree more love." he murmured, before he surrendered himself into his lover's hands.
As the book and CD lay resting on the table, they ignored everything but each other. If they had bothered to look, they would've seen that the novel had opened to the first page…
"Awww, c'mon Yuki!" The pink-haired teen whined, tugging persistently at the blonde's arm. "Take me out somewhere! Please!"…
Time to start a new chapter of their lives.
FIN
