TaraYuki-Uesugi here. Hey ya'll! I'm back with an update. Wow, an update the day after I posted the fic. Awesome! I'm so inspired by this fic I can't help but keep writing! But don't worry, starting tomorrow I'm working on all the other fics I need to get out there. Especially Fame(I know some of you guys asked me about it lol) So yeah, enjoy! I like this chapter.
Oh and in this Chapter there's alot of switching between Eiri and Shu, ok? So bear with me.()
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And now……….On with the show……..FINALLY lol………
There was a knock at the door. "What?" Eiri said as he removed his reading glasses and peaked from behind his laptop. Mizuki popped her head into the office. "Your limo is here, Uesugi-san, to take you to Murai High School." Eiri sighed and looked at his watch." Already?" he said as he stood from his leather office chair. "Yes, sir." Mizuki replied with a nod. Eiri walked from behind the desk, past his assistant and out the door. Mizuki immediately shut the door and followed. She began to explain Eiri's schedule to him.
"Now, here's the winner's poem. It's been typed and placed in a plaque and here's the trophy he'll receive. I picked his poem out myself. It's very beautiful, almost like a song." Eiri continued to walk as he took the items from Mizuki. They stopped in front of the elevators and Eiri jabbed the down button. Within seconds the door elevator door opened and they entered. Mizuki pressed the ground floor and continued to speak. "His name is on the bottom of the plaque so you don't have to memorize it. Now there will be several photographers there from about eight different papers. Make sure you speak to all of them or it will be a complete waste of time and they'll say you're a stuck up asshole again." Eiri smirked. The elevator door opened and Eiri began to make his way to the main entrance, ignoring the greetings from some of his employees.
"You're not coming?" he asked as they stepped outside and stood in front of the limo. The limo driver climbed out of the front seat and immediately walked over to Eiri and opened the door for him. "No, I can't make it, though I'd love to meet the kid that created the poem. I really do like it. No, I have to stay behind and put the finishing touches on the meeting for when you get back. We have to pick the cover for Akemi Sekai's new book before it goes to print." Eiri climbed into the car. "And sir, please smile, ok?" Mizuki pleaded with her boss. Eiri put on his sunglasses. "Whatever." and the driver closed the door. "God, I hate Fridays."
"Everyone please enter the auditorium quietly. Make sure you sit with your homeroom class please." Mr.Tanaka instructed to the high school students as they filed into the auditorium. Shuichi and Hiro took a seat near the back ignoring Tanaka-san's instructions to sit with their class. "Alright Hiro, this is it." Shuichi said excitedly as he rubbed his hands together. Hiro smiled. "I see the idiot's all revved up." Shuichi looked at Suguru and glared as the boy pushed his way through the aisle and sat next to him. "Aren't you supposed to be sitting with your class?" Shuichi said coolly. "Shut up. Shouldn't you?" Suguru retaliated. "We're older." "By one year." "Alright you two." Hiro said before they could start an argument.
Shuichi gave one last glare to Suguru and turned his attention to the stage. "I wonder who the president of Golden Publishing is?" he wondered aloud. "Eiri Uesugi" Hiro and Shuichi turned to their younger friend. "How do you……." "He's Tohma's brother-in-law. Tohma married his sister." Shuichi's mouth dropped. "And you didn't tell me?" Suguru shrugged "It's not that important. I don't know him all that well and I intend to keep it that way."
"Not that important!" Shuichi yelled standing. "I swear I could………" "What do you mean by 'and I tend to keep it that way'?" Hiro asked, pulling Shuichi back into his seat.
"Well, Eiri Uesugi isn't the nicest person in the world. To be honest, he's a complete asshole."
"Hey Shindou, good luck! I hope you win!" someone yelled out. Bad Luck was quite popular at Murai high and word got around that Shuichi entered the contest. Shuichi smiled. "Thanks!" he turned back to Suguru. "Continue." Suguru obliged. "I've met him a few times. He's cold, and doesn't talk much. He just glares all the time."
"Well that doesn't automatically make someone an asshole" Hiro said defensively. Suguru shook his head. "No, but I've seen him when he does speak. He says whatever is on his mind no matter how cruel it is. He throws insults around like it's nothing. No one ever stands up to him though, they're all too afraid."
Hiro and Shuichi sat back in their chairs and looked at the stage once again as Suguru finished "Wow." Hiro said. "This should be interesting then." Shuichi and Suguru nodded as they silently agreed. Soon there was a tap on the microphone on the podium.
"Hello, everyone." Mr. Tanaka said with a smile. Everyone immediately silenced." As you all know, Golden Publishing held a poetry contest here at Murai High School and today is the day to announce the winner" The air in the auditorium tensed. "Now, poetry is………….."
Shuichi, Hiro and Suguru immediately sighed as Tanaka began one of his famous speeches. "That man can never just get to the point can he?" Shuichi said as he pulled out his lucky pen and began to play with it; completely ignoring the principal. Small conversations broke out all across the hall but that didn't seem to faze Tanaka-san.
"This way, Uesugi-san" one of the faculty advisors said as she led Eiri to the auditorium. She led him back stage in the wings. "Just wait here until Tanaka-san announces you." she whispered with a smile. Eiri just looked at her, his face blank of any expression. The woman gave a nervous smile and quickly left. 'My Gods, this is stupid' he thought to himself. He looked out on the stage and it seemed as though the principal was giving a speech. One that didn't make any sense none the less. Eiri rolled his eyes and remembered that he had the trophy and the plaque in his hands. He decided to take this time to read the poem Mizuki had decided was the winner.
Halfway though the read, he raised an eyebrow. 'What the hell is this shit?' he thought to himself. By the time he had finished he had a headache. It was crap. Complete dribble. 'Was this the best poem? For fucks sake.' he thought to himself 'Mizuki, you have shitty taste.' he sighed as the principal finally came to the end of his speech.
"Yeah, I totally have this new riff that I want to work into the song. I think it'll sound great." "Awesome, I can't wait to hear it. I bet it's great." Hiro and Suguru had started a conversation and were now talking across Shuichi who seemed entranced by his lucky pen.
"And now without further ado, here is Mr. Eiri Uesugi to announce the winner of the poetry contest." "It's about time "Hiro said as he sat back in his seat. Shuichi was still playing with his pen. Eiri walked out on stage and immediately whispers broke out and girls were giggling all over the place. Eiri rolled his eyes.
"Whoa." Hiro said. "Is that…….." "Yup, that's him" Suguru confirmed. "Don't let his looks fool you. He's a complete ass." he crossed his arms across his chest and looked to the wall on his left. "Shu, Shu look." Hiro said as he nudged his friend with his elbow in the arm.
"What Hiro? I'm…….whoa." Shuichi finally saw what Hiro was so surprised about. His eyes were set. Transfixed on the beautiful creature that had just walked out on the stage.' He's an angel' Shuichi thought to himself. "Fujisaki, are you sure he's an asshole?" Shuichi asked, his eyes never leaving the stage. Suguru snorted. "What you have a crush on him or something?" he smirked. Shuichi shook his head no, obviously not hearing what Suguru had said. Otherwise they would be on the ground wrestling right now. "No it's not that, it's just…….."
A soft clatter to the floor broke Shuichi out of his trance. "Aww shit!" he said as he climbed over Hiro and began running down the aisle stopping at each row and looking on the floor. Suguru rolled his eyes and shook his head. "I don't get why he doesn't leave that damn pen home" Hiro shrugged.
Eiri walked over to the podium; ignoring the audience and some the cat calls from the girls. Or was that the teachers? He wanted to get this over with as quick as possible. "Hello." he said into the microphone and placed the items on the podium. "I want to say that there were many great poems." he said, totally bullshitting considering the fact that he hadn't read one of the poems entered. Except for the piece of crap in his hand. "But as you all know there can only be one winner." he smiled.
"Excuse me, excuse me." Shuichi said and he crawled on the floor down the main aisle. He stopped at each individual aisle and looked in between legs for his lucky pen. He continued his search until he was four rows from the stage. Then he saw a glint of blue on the ground. "Excuse me!" he said as he crawled through legs in the aisle. Some of the girls yelled and the boys complained.
"And the winner is……" Eiri said as he lifted the plaque to read the name.
"Ha, I found it!" Shuichi yelled as he stood in the middle of the aisle. Everyone looked at him but he didn't care. He had his pen.
"Shuichi Shindou."
"Huh?" Shuichi looked around confused as the auditorium erupted with applause and cheers.
'What the……" "Are you shitting me?" Suguru said as he stood from his seat. "H-he won." Hiro said shocked. "Impossible." Suguru said. "I can't believe it." Hiro began to laugh hysterically. "Go Shu-chan!" he called.
Shuichi continued to look around confused. He still wasn't quite sure what was going on. "Go Shuichi!" he heard someone yell "Wooo!" "What?" he said. "You won." one of the girls said as she stood clapping. She had screamed earlier when he crawled under her legs. "I-I won?" he asked looking at her and she laughed. "Yeah."
"Shuichi?" Eiri called and Shuichi looked up at the stage. Immediately he felt butterflies in his stomach as he looked at the blonde on stage and froze. "Go on." someone said as they pushed him. He was finally able to feel his feet again and began to walk to the stage slowly. His eyes on Eiri the whole time.
'This kid must really be popular.' Eiri thought to himself as he listened to the yells and applause from the students. He couldn't see where Shuichi actually was so he just waited patiently.
Soon a boy began making his way to the stage.' Pink……….hair?' Eiri thought to himself as he watched a very shocked Shuichi walk up to the stage. 'I can't believe it.' Shuichi thought to himself. 'I won!' As he walked up the stairs to the stage is heart was pounding so hard he thought sure everyone in the auditorium would hear it. But he wasn't nervous because he was going on stage. He's been on stage many times singing with Bad Luck, especially in school. The stage was his second home. No, he was nervous because of the angel that stood on the stage waiting for him to approach. The beautiful blonde stranger that was staring at him.
Shuichi froze. 'When did I get up here?' He looked around at all the people in the audience applauding. Then he looked forward and straight into golden eyes. He blushed and looked down. "Here you go." Eiri said handing the small trophy and the plaque to Shuichi. "T-thank you." Shuichi said taking it but he kept his eyes cast downward. "Come on, let's get this over with. We have to take pictures." Shuichi nodded and walked over to Eiri. He blushed as Eiri grabbed his hand and began to shake it and smile for the cameras. Right then, reality hit him and Shuichi realized that he had actually won. 'This is it. This is our big break!' he thought to himself. He turned to the cameras with a new found confidence and held up the peace sign to go along with his huge smile.
'He's so weird.' Eiri thought to himself as he glanced at Shuichi out the corner of his eye. 'Cute, but weird.' The boy looked so happy that he had won. Eiri couldn't let him get away with thinking that he was a great writer. Eiri smirked to himself and pulled Shuichi into a one armed hug as the cameras continued to flash. He noticed Shuichi blushed and chuckled.
"You know that thing you call a poem." he whispered through his smile into Shuichi's ear. "It's crap." He felt Shuichi stiffen. "A five year old could have written something better than that." Eiri began to feel the boy shake with anger. "If it's such crap, then why did you pick me to win?" Shuichi asked, his smile never faltering but the vein on his forehead easily gave away his true feelings.
"I didn't. My assistant did. I never would have picked something like that out." Shuichi didn't answer. Eiri was enjoying himself. So he decided to continue. "And what's with the pink hair, huh? You look like a freak." 'What is with this guy?' Shuichi thought to himself. 'He's not an angel, he's evil. He's got to be the devil! Blonde hair or not!'
"Pink happens to be my favorite color, asshole." Shuichi said pulling out of Eiri's arm and facing him, but still keeping his voice low so that no one heard. "And what's up with you? Your hair is blonde and your eyes are light. If anyone's the freak it's you, dude." Shuichi turned around and struck a pose for the cameras. Eiri was taken aback. No one has ever talked to him like that. No one has ever had the balls to. He smirked. 'Interesting' he thought to himself. It seemed as though Shuichi was fearless….. or just extremely stupid. Not caring that the older male was indeed his senior or that he was extremely powerful in the business world. He treated Eiri like any other person he didn't like and something about that made Eiri amused.
He walked over to Shuichi and once again smiled for the cameras. "I was born this way. Unlike you, I didn't choose to look like a freak." Shuichi shrugged. "Whatever. You're a freak of nature. I still think that's worse." He struck another pose for the cameras. The photographers were loving him and Shuichi loved being in front of the camera.
Eiri couldn't help but laugh. "You've got a big mouth you know that, brat? How old are you?" Shuichi shrugged. "I don't care what you call me or what you say about my writing. I still won and after today I don't ever have to see you again. And I'm 16" Eiri smirked. He couldn't let that brat win that easily. He couldn't just let him go. Not when he was so entertaining. "Humph" was Eiri's only reply as he walked over to the podium and tapped the mic. "Excuse me." he said and the crowed immediately silenced. "As a surprise for the winner, starting Monday Shuichi Shindou will be coming to work with me for one week to see how things run at a publishing company and how the writing process works." Eiri gave one of his trademark smiles and the audience went wild, especially the girls and the female teachers.
"What!" Shuichi yelled as he stopped posing for the cameras and walked over to Eiri. He put his hand over the mic to muffle his voice. Not that he thought anyone could hear anyway, with all the women screaming. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" he asked in a hurried whisper. "I don't want to spend the week with you. I don't like you. I HATE you." Eiri smirked. "You didn't think I'd let you win that easily did you, freak?" Shuichi glared and was about to say something back but was cut off by his principal.
"Uesugi-san, how thoughtful of you!" he exclaimed as he bowed in front of Eiri. Eiri smiled an evil smile as he looked at Shuichi. Shuichi continued to glare at him. "Shindou-san." his principal said as he stood upright again. "This is wonderful. I want you to take pictures and do a full report on your experience while you're there." Shuichi's mouth dropped. "A-a report!" Mr. Tanaka smiled. "Of course, Shindou-san. This is a once in a lifetime experience and I want you to share it with the school." Mr. Tanaka smiled and walked away.
Shuichi turned to Eiri. "You!" he said, his eyes narrowing. "This is your fault." Eiri smirked and turned to walk off stage. "See you Monday, damn brat." he said as he raised his hand and waved goodbye. With his back still facing Shuichi, he disappeared into the shadows offstage. "I hate you Eiri Uesugi." Shuichi said to himself as he crossed his arms across his chest.
"Wow Eiri, that was……….unexpected" Eiri turned to his left to see his brother-in-law walking into the light from the shadows. He decided to ignore the urge to ask him what the hell he was doing there. Eiri ignored him and continued to walk. "I thought you didn't like children." Tohma continued as he followed. "I don't "Eiri responded. "Then why did you just invite him to spend the week with you at Golden?" They exited the building and as Eiri approached his limo, the driver opened the door. He turned to Tohma and shrugged. "He's entertaining." and with that he climbed into the limo and the driver shut the door.
Tohma just watched the limo take off in shock. 'Has Eiri......found someone he actually likes?'
"That Prick!" Shuichi yelled, standing. He was too angry to sit down. They were currently outside on the lawn during their lunch period. Well, Hiro and Shuichi's lunch period. Suguru once again had study hall and was dismissed early." You were right Fujisaki, he's a total ASS!" Shuichi was flaming mad.
Suguru shrugged as he took half of Shuichi's sandwich. "I told you. People are totally afraid of him because he's so mean. I've seen him make people cry before. He's crazy."
"I don't care how crazy he is, he has no right to do this! And now I have to do a report because of him. Ahhhhhhhhh, I hate him!" Shuichi plopped down on the ground next to Hiro and crossed his arms across his chest. "What exactly did Uesugi-san say to you?" he asked as he pulled out his guitar. He liked to play in the sun outside and he always brought his guitar to school on Fridays.
"He said my poem was crap and that a five year old cold have written something better .And that he didn't choose my poem, his assistant did."
"I knew that." Suguru whispered to Hiro. Hiro smirked
"Shut up, Fujisaki!" Shuichi yelled and then continued. "And then he called me a freak because my hair is pink. But then I called him a freak of nature cuz he has light hair and eyes and I told him that was worse." Hiro and Suguru looked at Shuichi like he was mad. They couldn't believe that he had said that to a senior, especially Eiri. Shuichi didn't notice and continued. "And then he said I had a big mouth and I told him I don't care what he says about me cuz I'm never going to see him again and then he made that announcement about me going to work with him for a week." Shuichi finally took a breath and looked at his shocked friends. "What?" he asked innocently.
"Dude, no one EVER speaks to Eiri Uesugi like that." Suguru said as he looked at his friend bewildered. "Are you crazy?"
"Yeah" Hiro cut in. "You probably pissed him off. That's why he's making you go to work with him. He's going to make you pay for what you said." Shuichi pouted. "I don't care how pissed he is. I'm not afraid of him. He can kiss my ass for all I care. He started it. If he didn't want me to be nasty to him then he shouldn't have been nasty to me first" Hiro shook his head and resumed playing his guitar. Suguru snorted. "Ok dude, whatever you say. But no one has ever spoken to Eiri Uesugi like that and got away with it." Shuichi rolled his eyes. "I don't care. I'd like to see him try and make me pay."
"So we've narrowed it down to these two covers." Akemi Sekai's editor said as he unveiled the posters of the two covers. One was pink with the words "Secret, Love and Death", the title, written in red and a bloody knife on the bottom. And the other had a lilac background with the title written in a dark purple. On the bottom was picture of a heart leaking blood. "Personally, I think this cover is the best." the editor said as he pointed to the pink poster. Akemi Sekai sitting on the right side at the end of the table, nodded looking smug. Her editor continued. "I think it's the best because I think the color catches the love aspect of the story and I think the knife captures the death." There were about twenty executives around the table and they all nodded in agreement. They all turned toward Eiri for the final decision.
Eiri sat at the head of the long table tapping his pen lost in thought. He couldn't stop thinking about that boy that won the poetry contest today. 'Shuichi Shindou.' he thought to himself. The boy had made a lasting impression on him. More so than his pink hair, his personality was unforgettable. Eiri liked the fact that the boy had guts. Meeting someone that didn't fear him intrigued him. 'My favorite color happens to be pink, asshole.' Shuichi's voice rang in his head and couldn't suppress the smirk that came across his face.
"Uesugi-san?" Mizuki's voice pulled Eiri out of his thoughts. He didn't pay attention once the whole meeting. He was lost in thought . "What?" he said as he came to his senses. "Which cover?" Mizuki asked. Eiri looked up for the first time and looked at both covers. He stood abruptly. "I could care less. Mizuki, you pick one. I have more important things to do." and with that he left the meeting room, slamming the door behind him.
Mizuki sighed and shook her head. He always did this to her. She basically ran the company when it came to making decisions like these. She really was the best assistant he's ever had. Akemi Sekai crossed her arms across her chest and pouted. "Why do I deal with this company when he acts like this all the time?" she complained. Her editor began to clean up the demonstrations and sighed. "Because he's the best." he answered. Akemi "humph"-ed and silently sat back in her chair. She knew he was right.
Eiri entered the elevator and pressed the 51st button to his office. He really did have more important things to do. He climbed out of the elevator and walked to his office. Once situated in his chair, he turned around and faced the panoramic view window behind his desk that over looked the city, lost in thought.
'Now how am I supposed to keep that damn brat busy for a week?'
End of Chap 2
Alright ya'll Chapter 2 is up! YAY! I like this Chapter. I think Eiri and Shu are gonna have an interesting relationship. This fic is so much fun to write. I'm having a ball! Chapter 3 is already started lol. Yeah, I'm totally enjoying myself.
Next Chapter: In Chapter 3 Shuichi goes to work with Eiri and we see how they get along during the week that Shu is at Golden Publishing. It should be ……….interesting. Stay tuned! Lol
Well, Until next time………..
Zaijian
