AUTHOR NOTE: DUDE. O.O i am so so so so SO terribly sorry for taking so very very very very very very LONG. i am mad at myself for not updating for SO LONG. please dont kill me! um...well the reason why i havent updated is because of school, and i have been either too busy, or completely forgot, to update. again, sorry. but i will stop rambling on and on about my sorrow and let you read the story.

Disclaimer: i do NOT own Gravitation, or basically anything in this story. if i were to own ANYTHING, it would be the plot and made up names...but im not even sure if THOSE are mine. oh well. -sob-

'thoughts'

"conversation"

ReCap of last chappie:"POCKY!" Shuichi states as he chomps down on the little strawberry covered stick. As he was walking, he got to thinking. Hmm... I wonder what I'm gonna do when I start my new "job". I wonder if there will be any cool teachers there. Nah, they are probably all old and mean. Yay. I get to sit around with a bunch of overly hyperactive teen girls, and a bunch of mean old grouchy teachers. This is gonna be SO fun. Yeah, right. Why doesn't K do it? It isn't fair! It just isn't! Why me? I have the worst luck. Blah.

By now, Shuichi had gotten to his apartment, and pushed himself in to find...

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Chapter Two:

...a certain black haired man, looking through his stuff.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing! I'm gonna call the police!" Shuichi, out of fear, takes his pocky box and throws it at the man.

"Hey! What was that for!" The man states and turns around. It was Tatsuha, one of the men at work, who knew Shuichi better than anyone else there.

"TATSUHA! DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN! WHAT IF I DIED OUT OF FEAR? DO YOU HAVE NO PITY? Geez. I really thought I was being robbed! Watch what you do from now on!" Shuichi ranted on about how scared he was.

"Geez, man. I didn't know you'd be freaked out by me being here...ANYWAY! What I came here to tell you!...you weren't here so I had to wait...OK! Dude! I get to be your partner! Yay! Imagine how fun it'll be! I'll be the dark mysterious girl who mysteriously knows you who mysteriously clings to you all the time who SEEMS to like you who-" and by this point Shuichi cut him off.

"Woah woah woah! Hold on a minute. YOU'RE my partner? How can this be? They told me I'm the only one that could do it. THOSE LIARS! Nevermind! But yay! I'll have someone I know there so I won't be as nervous around all those girls! When did they tell you that you'll be my partner!" Shuichi was in hyper mode from both the pocky he'd had earlier and the good news. But by now, Tatsuha was spacing out about something else. Most likely...

"Did you see Ryuichi today, Shu-chan? He was so cute! He was wearing those shorts and that tight shirt, and he was holding Kumagura, (AN: is that how you spell it?...I can't remember...XD) and he was just SO CUTE! And..." By now Tatsuha was rumbling incoherent things.

"Yep. How'd I know? Oh well, I'll leave him be for now because I'm hungry! Time to eat dinner!" So Shuichi left Tatsuha to his little love thoughts and went towards his kitchen. He pulled out the microwaveable steak dinner and set it in for five minutes. He then went back to Tatsuha, who was still mumbling incoherent things. "...Tatsuha? I'm making dinner, do you want anything?"

"Oh, no thanks. I already had dinner! Well, I'll be going now, seeing as I've delivered the message and there's nothing else to talk about...I'll see you tomorrow at work probably!" And with that, Tatsuha left Shuichi to eat his frozen dinner by himself, to ponder on what would happen in about a week's time.

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A/N: you guys, i am so sorry for coming with this short, pathetic excuse for a chapter, but i need to get something out, AND im almost finished with the third chapter, and it should come out very soon. BUG ME TO DEATH UNTIL I DO. PLEASE. i need to be forced to do it, otherwise i will most likely forget. thanks to all who have actually stayed with me this far. it makes me so happy! and if you read this, please just leave a review telling me, truthfully, what you think of it, and how well the story is going. and tell me if i have made any mistakes, please.THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. until next time! hehe!