AN/ Thanks for the reviews everyone! Like I said, I WILL (try) to put up a chapter every day. I WILL NOT leave you hanging for a week or months or years even! I am NOT one of those people. So no worries!

Anyway, sorry if I got the pant sizes wrong. But since Shuichi kind of has the same body structure as me, I based his size on mine. Because Shuichi IS really small. I'm 5'5" and I think he's close to that too… oh! And my Birthday is the day after Shuichi's! I am April 17th while he's April 16th! Rock on! Ahem, now let's get on with the story, WOOT!

Chapter 3: An Interference Worth Praising

"AS LONG AS NOBODY MOVES, THEN I WON'T HAVE TO USE THIS!" The unexpected intruder flaunted around his large shiny "toy". The people inside the store all reacted in their own ways. The cashier dropped the money he was about to hand to his two new customers, a woman screamed while her husband just stared wide eyed at the robber, a baby started to cry at the sudden outburst, and everyone else followed the man in black's orders, definitely not wanting a pellet of lead in their gut.

Yuki couldn't move even if he wanted to. The novelist had been in some freaky situations before, but this one topped them all. Why… out of all the men's stores in Tokyo, Japan, did the money desperate man had to hit this one! But, he had to keep his cool, no matter what. In a dilemma like this, you had to stay calm.

"EEEEEEKK!" Unfortunetely, the same didn't apply to Shuichi.

"SHUT UP, YOU!" The gunman pointed the barrel at the 19 year old. He squeaked and latched onto Yuki tighter, the older man (still not completely moving) taking one step in front of his lover.

Once the robber realized that no one was about to intimidate him, he turned toward the cashier and ordered him, "Hey you! Lock the automatic doors and get the cops on the line. If you want to live, then you'll do it." He threatened.

Without any hesitation, the trembling man logged onto his computer and did exactly what the intruder told him. "NOW EVERYONE GET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM AND LAY ON THE GROUND!" He yelled loud enough for the whole store to hear him. At first, the customers just stood there, wondering if they should comply, but once the man in black cocked his revolver, the group scrambled to the center and stayed there. One thing Yuki absolutely did NOT like having to do is take orders from someone else, but he knew that if he didn't obey, it would only result in an unhappy ending.

"OKAY! NOW ALL OF YOU GET DOWN!" His voice echoed through the facility. The people either got down on their knees or fully on their stomachs. The blonde got on his knees and whispered to his lover to do the same and stop fidgeting.

"Um… m-mister, uh… sir?" The cashier addressed shakily.

"WHAT!" the robber whirled around.

"Th-the police are on the phone." He wavered.

"Good. You didn't try anything funny, did you?"

"No! No, no!" The man flailed his arms around helplessly.

"Then stop jabbering and give me the damn phone!" The intruder held out his hand as the cashier dropped it there. The nervous demeanour of the man in black changed once he was talking with the cops. His voice was altered into a low maniacal tone and he smirked devilishly into the receiver.

"Hello, this is the Tokyo police. How may we help you?" A perky sounding woman's voice resonated to the phone.

"Yeah… I want you to send me 300,000,000 yen before I blow these people's heads off. Got it?" He said with a certain anxiety.

While the man's back was turned and the conversation was going on at the payment counter, the hostages were all whispering to each other about the whole predicament.

"What are we going to do?" One woman asked her friend nervously.

"I don't know! What if he's going to kill us all?" She questioned back.

"At least the police will be here if to put things under control, even if it's just the slightest." A man in a suit answered, a bit restless himself.

"Yeah. Maybe they can do something about this whole thing." An old woman prayed.

The singer very carefully turned to his unfazed lover and inquired, "Yuki, what are we gonna do?"

"Just be quiet and don't do anything the bastard doesn't want you to do. Otherwise, you'll end up with a hole in your already spacey head." He retorted, peeved at the scenario set out before him.

"Yukiiii… that's not very comforting!" The boy droned.

"Shhh! Shut up before he hears you, baka!" Shuichi did as he was told. The author's knees were starting to hurt from putting pressure on them, and the stupid guy was still yakking on the phone! Since no one seemed to be doing anything about the current catastrophe at hand, the novelist concluded that he would have to come up with something to get them out of here. The police wouldn't be able to do diddly squat about the hold up, with all the hostages the guy had and all.

"Yeah. And you better get it here before midnight tonight, or you can say goodbye to these little mice I've got trapped in here with me." He hissed mischievously into the receiver before hanging up. The intruder appearance changed once again into his merciless, uncaring self. He quickly shifted his eyes around to see if anyone had moved or gotten up. No one had dared to budge. Sitting in the same spot for nearly an hour was upsetting the baby of a woman in the back of the group, therefore it began getting fussy and made little griping sounds.

"Hey! Shut up yer kid before I blow it's tiny little head off!" The man in black snarled. At first, the mother was shocked at how rudely he talked about her bundle of joy, but did NOT want a headless son once she left the store, so she swiftly tried to calm the child down to where it's voice had softened into soft whimpers. Shuichi felt bad for the baby and felt exactly like the kid at that moment. He wanted to cry his eyes out if things went on any longer. But held back defiantly. He wanted to show that he could be brave in these situations just like his courageous lover.

A few more minutes passed, and still no sign of the cops. The cashier must have called a station very far away, the bloody idiot. Who knew how long they'd be stuck there. One thing was for sure, no one wanted to stay until midnight to find out! But something astonishing happened through the cutting silence of the room that no one would have dared to do. Out the corner of Yuki's eye, he spotted a man in about his mid 40's sneaking up behind the cloth's racks to ambush the robber! The novelist had to wonder at first where the guy had come from, but then noticed the dressing rooms not too far away. Could he have been hiding in them the whole time, waiting for an opportune moment like this? True, the intruder did have his back turned, but if the sly man were to make any noise in the repressed silence, then it was lights out for him!

The 40 year old was getting closer to the man in black, and by now everyone had seen him and kept quiet. Fortunately, the robber hadn't become aware of the hidden customer. And just when the people's only hope was about to jump him from behind…

"Hey! Look Yuki! Someone's going to try and save us! Boy, am I glad he didn't come out of the changing rooms when we were held up!" Shuichi had apparently just seen the man that was attempting to turn tables on the bad guy.

"Oi, baka yaro!" Yuki yelled at the oblivious boy.

At once, the alert bandit twisted around in time to see the rebel hostage grab at the revolver. The struggle went on for a few seconds, the robber trying to kick the 40 year old into getting his gun out of his grasp, and the man trying to pull it away from the dangerous intruder.

"Come on, man! You can do it!" A shaggy looking college student cheered for the good guy.

"Damn! We could have gotten out of here by now if it weren't for the loud mouth on that stupid kid!" A single man growled. Shuichi dipped his head in embarrassment and shame. It's not like he meant to give away his position, the pop star was just excited that someone had given them a chance for escape and couldn't help but shout it out. But even his lover, Yuki, was glowering at him from above, making Shuichi feel even more like an idiot. If only there was something he could do to make up for it! Maybe he could help the guy fight! But Yuki would only get mad if he interfered anymore. But he couldn't just watch!

No sooner had Shuichi gained a large amount of confidence, did the robber finally rip away the offending hands on his weapon and slam the hostage onto the floor.

"Huh. Somehow I missed you. I better check the stalls too…" The man in black came towards the now defenceless 40 year old sitting on the ground. "… right after I blow your brains out for that little stunt you pulled!"

"Ahhh!" He shielded his head with his arms in fear of the bullet that was about to be shot through his fragile skull. The robber pointed his barrel at the failed hero's head, pulled back the trigger, and…

"Stop!" Shuichi lunged up from his sitting place and made a break for the gun.

"What! Who told you to move you brat!" The gunman yelled. And before he could react, the singer pounced on him, the pellet of lead firing up into the ceiling instead. Without hesitation, the 40 year old scrambled back to the group and turned back to see the vocalist striving to get the revolver on the ground. Since the bad man's arm was stretched out far above his head, Shuichi grabbed a hold of his arm and bit down hard. A terrible shriek came from the other as he dropped the object, which gave Shuichi a chance to salvage it. Once he caught hold of the weapon, the boy leaped up off the guy and was about to head back to the hostages and take control of the situation, but ended up getting tripped by the man in black's hand. It wrapped around his ankle and snagged him down along with the robber.

"Eek!" The pink haired teen yelped in bewilderment at the sudden action.

"I'll put so many holes through you… you'll be known as the human cheese!" The bandit began climbing up the boy's legs to take back his "toy".

"No! Stop it! Let go! Yukiiiiii!" Shuichi screamed while trying to scuttle out from under the man's hold.

"Shut up, you little bitch!" But before the robber could make another move, he was greeted in the face by a powerful kick that knocked him back about 10 feet. He sat up after the shock of pain and rubbed his left cheek, cursing under his breath. Above the 19 year old hostage, stood a tall blonde man with saffron eyes that would pierce through even the darkest of nights.

"How'd it feel, you bastard?" The author asked nonchalantly. "I hope it hurt, because next time, when I kick your balls in, you'll feel so numb you won't know when you piss your pants."

For a flicker of a moment, the man in black felt frightened of this bold statement, but slowly regained his balance after a while. "Oh, is that so, Mr. Bad Ass? I'd like to see you try it."

"Yuki…" Shuichi said meekly.

"Shush. Get back to the others."

"But…"

"Now."

Reluctantly, the boy frowned and scooted over near the people, holding the gun in his hands tightly.

"Aw, what's this? You gotta protect your little kitten, do you?"

Yuki twitched.

"If you ask me though, he looks more like a bitch than anything, wouldn't you agree?" He sneered maniacally.

If one swift movement, the novelist raced toward the robber and kneed him straight in the balls. The man in black started coughing and fell to the ground, sprawling in pain. "What? Did you think I was bluffing?" Yuki whispered darkly into the man's ear.

A wave of cheers came from the hostages behind him.

"Way to go dude!"

"Thank you so much sir!"

"Ha! I could've done that!" One of the guys joked with him.

But the loudest cheer of all was probably from his lover, Shuichi. "YUKI! You were so brave!" He hopped into the blonde's arms bridal style and hugged the life out of him.

"Yeah yeah… now get off. We all gotta get out of here." Though Yuki didn't let it show, underneath he was basking in the glory everyone was praising him for, not to mention relieved that this whole thing was over… but, sadly, it wasn't over for the bandit… not yet.

Once the intruder's senses came back to him, he stood up (still a bit wobbly) and flung out a sharp and shiny knife, just waiting for fresh blood to be spilt on it's sliver blade.

Shuichi was the first to notice the deadly object (since his head was over Yuki's shoulder from embracing him), and gasped…

"YUKI! LOOK OUT!"

AN/ Ha ha! Another cliff hanger! Sorry I didn't update on the weekends! I was a tad bit busy. So don't worry! I'm not giving up on ya! Anyway, I've got many downloaded stuff on my computer now! My friend came over this weekend and put some of her downloads on my desk top, so now I'm scarce on space. And so is she! So we had to resort to putting some of the episodes on CDs. If anyone wants to get free manga scanlations online, then I suggest you go to It's a really good sight. The manga I'd recommend for you all is Death Note, Bleach, Atashi wa Bambi (mostly for the girls), Azumanga Daioh, Ayashi no Ceres, Angel Sanctuary, Aishiteruze Baby, Baroque, Chobits, Escaflowne, Fullmetal Panic, Full Metal Alchemist, Fruits Basket, Helsing, Inuyasha, Naruto, Oh My Goddess, Ragnorak,

Ranma ½, Read Or Die, Rurouni Kenshin, Saiyuki Gaiden, Saiyuki Reloaded, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Spiral, Sukishol, Trigun, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Urusei Yatsura, Yu Yu Hakusho… and that's it! Some of these you've heard, I know. But I'm just telling you some of the manga that I like that are on the site. WARNING! Sukishol and Atashi wa Bambi are for girls (unless you guys out there like yaoi). Atashi wa Bambi is kind of both yaoi and straight, so it's really good. Ahem… anyway, see ya in the next chapter!