Chapter Three

Author's Notes: Poor Ryuichi-chan. This chapter gets good and I hope that yall like.

The doorbell rang and Ryuichi lifted his head. He slowly got up and walked over to his apartment door and opened it.

"Hey, Ryu!" said Noriko with a smile.

"Hello there," replied Ryuichi with a small smile and offered her to come inside. She did so and took looked around. She then took her attention back to Ryuichi and noticed that something was wrong, for he was not his normal hyper-active self.

"Is there something wrong?" asked Noriko.

Ryuichi walked over to the couch and sat down. Noriko followed and looked at him. He started to recall the other day when he cried in Shuichi's arms. For some reason, he had felt alone the past couple of days and not even Noriko or Tohma could ease his pain. But the other day he noticed that he was not lonely when he was around Shuichi. He didn't know why but he knew that he had feeling for Shuichi but knew that Shuichi would never love him back. Shuichi was in love with Eiri Yuki, not him.

"Uh..Ryu?" asked Noriko again and sat down next to him. She put her arm around him. "It is okay, you can tell me what is wrong."

"I don't really know what is wrong with me. Shuichi and I went to the karaoke bar the other day and when I was singing I started to cry. I was looking at Shuichi the whole time and I felt happy but sad at the same time when I looked at him. So I really don't know what is wrong," exclaimed Ryuichi as he looked down at the floor.

"I see," said Noriko. "Do you have feelings for Shindo?"

Ryuichi looked at her wide-eyed. She must have figured it out by the way he had answered her. He didn't really want her to know but he knew he needed the advice. He nodded which made her smile.

"Well, it seems that Shindo is very lucky then. To have you have feelings for him is quite the honor," she said.

"But he will never love me back. He is in love with that Eiri Yuki and I don't want to take his happiness away," replied Ryuichi with a frown.

"You have a good point but it doesn't hurt to have a little competition. You can always win his affection," said Noriko with a wink.

Ryuichi shook his head. "If he gets hurt because I have feelings for him then I will never forgive myself. But that doesn't mean I am going to give up."

"Well why not go see him. He showed be done working," said Noriko. Ryuichi nodded and grabbed Kumagoro off of the table.

He looked over to Noriko and gave her a big smile. "THANKS, Noriko-chan!" She returned the smile and nodded as he walked out the door.

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Shuichi yawned as he and Hiro walked out of the studio building.

"That was fun, I can't wait to tell Yuki," said Shuichi happily.

"Are you sure Yuki-san would actually congratulate you?" asked Hiro.

"Nope I guess not," said Shuichi as he put his hand behind his head and smiled sheeplishy which made Hiro laugh. Shuichi then stopped, seeing Ryuichi coming towards them. Ryuichi stopped infront of them and smiled.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" asked Shuichi.

"I am feeling better, thanks for asking," answered Ryuichi. "Would you like to go to the park with me?"

"Uh, sure I guess so," answered Shuichi before looking at Hiro.

Hiro smiled. "It is okay, I was going to go home and call Ayaka. Go have fun." Shuichi nodded and watched Hiro walk off. He then took his attention back to Ryuichi.

"Lets go!" said Ryuichi as he started to run in the direction of the park.

"Hey, wait up!" said Shuichi as he ran after Ryuichi.

The two arrived at the park and were sitting on a bench and watching people pass by. Shuichi glanced over at Ryuichi who was looked down at the ground with Kumagoro in his lap. Shuichi noticed his eyes were the same as the other day.

"Sakuma-san, why were you crying to other day?" asked Shuichi. He wanted to know, for after he had walked Ryuichi home to make sure he was alright, he had felt guilty. He thought he had done something wrong to make his Kami-sama cry.

Ryuichi looked into Shuichi's eyes. How beautiful those eyes were and how they made Ryuichi's knees weak. He didn't understand why he loved the pink-hair singer but he did and he was glad. Shuichi was the one who made Ryuichi's sadness melt away. "I was.....just having a bad day."

"Oh, well I am glad that you are feeling better now," replied Shuichi with a smile. His frown soon faded as tears formed in Ryuichi's eyes.

"NO, I am not feeling better now. There was a time when I was lonely and sad. No matter what Tohma or Noriko did I was still sad. But I realized the other day that you are the one that made me happy," said Ryuichi.

"I don't understand what you are trying to say, Sakuma-san," said Shuichi.

"The point is, I am in love with you, Shuichi!" said Ryuichi and watched as Shuichi's eyes grew wide. He then bent foreward towards Shuichi.

Shuichi stood still has Ryuichi kept getting closer. He knew that Ryuichi wanted to kiss him. But no, he couldn't love Ryuichi, for there was only one man he loved in this world and that was Yuki.

Before Ryuichi's lips were on his, Shuichi pushed him away and got up off the bench. Noticing now that Ryuichi was looking up at him with eyes full of tears he ran off. He heard Ryuichi call for him to stop but he didn't, for all he could think about was running.