Title: Obsession Meets Reality: Chapter 6

Authors: Dark Nuriko and Mayhem's Angel

Disclaimer: We do not own any part of Gravitation. We just spend hours playing with the characters of a genius.

Warning: YAOI! Hot delicious gay man sex! If you got a problem with that, take it elsewhere.

Notes: Tatsuha – Written by Nuriko

Ryuichi – Written by Mayhem

Eiri – Written by Mayhem

Lemon can be found on AFF, gurabiteshiyon, or by emailing Mayhem. (bakuraxryouand Subo-chan will get their copies soon.)

This is it. We've reached the end of this long ride. We want to thank all of our totally awesome readers and reviewers. We really appreciate the encouragement you give us, even through the not so quick updates, and the seeming lack of a plot. It makes us happy that you all love it so much and have been such faithful fans. So, with our love and thanks, we now give you the final chapter of Obsession Meets Reality.

XXXXX

Tatsuha arrived at his home in Kyoto shortly after sunrise. It had been almost an all night train ride, but he had made it. Sighing, he pulled his luggage with him up the steps, only to see his brother standing there, glaring at him. Obviously, Tohma worked fast, and wouldn't let Tatsuha get away with what had happened.

Eiri glared down at his brother from the steps. "'Morning. Have a good trip?" He asked, almost managing to sound like he cared.

Tatsuha sighed and glared up at his brother. "Oh, it was a blast," he grumbled as he wiped his red eyes to hide the fact that he had been crying. He tried to duck his head and slip past his brother and into the home beside the temple. He managed to make it to his room before realizing his brother had followed him. He tossed down the suitcase on his bed before moving to begin taking down all his posters and pictures of Ryu.

"What are you doing? I thought you loved the crazy singer. Now that you've had him, you're done with him? Doesn't seem right to me..." Eiri said from his position on the doorframe

Tears slowly slipped from red rimed eyes and fell onto the pictures in his hands. "It isn't that, Eiri. Ryuichi... Sakuma-san has problems, just like you used to... only worse. And if I stay with him, I'll hurt him. And I don't want to hurt him any more."

"Have you talked to him about this? Are you sure it won't hurt him more of you leave?"

"He loves me too, Eiri, and I know this will hurt him. But better I hurt him now while it's still new before things got too serious and I wind up killing him," he said, his tears still falling.

Eiri didn't have anything to say to that. Instead, he moved out of the doorway, revealing where Ryuichi had been standing behind him. The older man came closer, taking in all the pictures of himself and the fan memorabilia all over the room. Finally his gaze settled on the tear streaked face of the man he loved. "Why?" He asked brokenly, his own red eyes leaking salty tears

Tatsuha gasped and looked up at Ryuichi. He was here? Why had he come here? Why? "I don't want you to be hurt worse."

"I won't. I'd be more hurt if you left." He took a few steps closer, not noticing as Eiri left; his job now done. "I'm getting a lot better since we met. I'm happier than I have been since I don't remember when. You made that possible. I can be myself now, I don't need to hide; I don't cry for hours every night until I finally sleep; I don't have an unknown longing in my heart anymore. I have - had everything I needed when I was with you."

"But I was causing you pain. You even passed out from me asking you something simple. I don't want to hurt you. Never you."

Ryuichi shook his head sadly. "I said that being with you helped it. I never said I was healed. But being with you would have given me something more, someone to love and depend on, and someone to trust and care for, to support and share my life with. Now I have nothing again."

"I still love you Ryu. I just don't want to see you as you were at the club." He closed his eyes and let the tears fall, his body shaking.

"I'll tell you everything. Anything you want to know, I'll tell you. I don't want to have any secrets from you. I don't want to be like I was at the club either."

Tatsuha collapsed onto his bed, pictures falling from his limp hands and the pain in his chest seemed to become too much for him. "I don't want to know like that. I just want to learn what you're willing to share with me."

He sat down next to the youth. "There will be some things I can't tell you right away. That's why I've been avoiding telling you for as long as I can. It's really painful for me.'

He nodded, understanding that. "I can understand that. Really. I just want you to be honest with me. I know I'm immature and still a fanboy at heart, but I love you. I want you to be able to trust me with whatever you feel you can. I won't look at you differently for it. For you're the one I want to stay with. Nothing can make me think any differently of you."

Ryu took him in his arms, holding him gently. "I love you too. And I do trust you, and will be honest with you. But you might not think that when you learn everything."

Tatsuha cuddled so close he felt like he was trying to share Ryuichi's whole being. "If I can love my brother, after everything I know about him, I can certainly love you. Through it all. As long as you really want to stay with me, then I'll remain by your side, no matter what Tohma thinks."

"I really do want to stay with you. I don't care what Tohma thinks about us. I'll stay with you forever."

"Tohma seems to hate anyone who isn't Eiri in my family, doesn't he?" he said with a false laugh, even while he remained warm in Ryuichi's arms.

Ryu gave his own hollow laugh. "Yeah. He does."

"I love you, Ryuichi. I'm sorry about the note, and the way I left."

"I love you too. That's okay, as long as you'll come back to me."

"I'll come back. For as long as you want me."

"Forever..." He whispered against his lips, bringing them together in a chaste kiss.

Tatsuha whimpered softly and before he could control himself, the chaste kiss Ryuichi had begun had turned passionate and full of Tatsuha's love. He had been so afraid that he would never be able to kiss Ryu again. That he would never be able to hold him, or touch him, or do anything with him. His desperation was certainly in his kiss as he pressed tightly against his lover and showed him exactly how much he was missed. His arousal pressed against the other's leg, for having the singer here was his most ardent fantasy and dream to date. And here he was, on his bed, and kissing him back, just as passionately.

XXXXX EDITED CONTENT XXXXX

The younger man fell boneless on top of him, and Ryuichi turned his face up to share a brief kiss. "That was beautiful."

He moaned softly. "It was... but I wanted to last longer."

The singer chuckled. "It doesn't matter how long you last. I don't care, because I can feel all your love, soft and slow or hard and quick."

He shivered at those words, glad to be resting on his lover. "I love you Ryuichi Sakuma. Yet, I'm really curious, and you don't have to tell me if you don't wish to, but what, besides my age, is so similar with the one you had been in love with?"

Ryuichi startled for a moment at the question, before taking a moment to think about it. "You look a lot alike. That's defiantly part of it." He thought a bit more, knowing Tatsuha wanted to know everything, but not sure how to tell him. "Your heart is only filled with pure love for the one you most admire, like his was. And I loved him back just as wholly, as I now love you. I needed to get past everything that happened then, and it's just a freakishly odd coincidence that you're so alike. You're not really all that same in personality though." He took another moment to gather his thoughts.

Tatsuha blinked before lifting his head to look at his lover. "So, he was like me... but not in personality?"

"Yes. You have way more confidence in everything you do, and a love for the life you're living. Souh never seemed to be that way. He always seemed to be unhappy with the world, angry that this had been his life. I was in love anyway, and it blinded me. I would do anything to make him happy, frequently missing work just to spend the day with him. Tohma wasn't very happy with this. He thought it was causing me more harm than good. In a way, he ended up being right."

He looked at Ryuichi and his heart felt as if it was going to break at the retelling of such a story. Yet a part of him was curious about one thing. But could he ask such a thing of his lover? He wasn't certain he should.

Leaning in close to kiss Ryuichi's lips, he cuddled as close to him as he could possibly get. Then, once he was resting against his lover, he uttered the words he really hadn't been wanting to say at all. His face was buried in Ryuichi's shoulder and his words were almost too low to hear as he spoke. "What happened to Souh?"

"He killed himself. I found him in the bathtub with his wrists slit open one day when I came home from recording. I tried my hardest to always make him happy, but nothing I ever did changed how he felt. I knew he loved me, but that apparently wasn't enough for him. It really hurt me. I couldn't stand it; I thought I had forced him to do this, to end his life. I blamed myself and withdrew from everyone. When I did have to be in public, I was a child version of myself. Always smiling and happy, a mask to hide the heartache I felt on the inside."

Tatsuha suddenly hugged Ryuichi tighter, his lips caressing the pulse at his throat. "No more... say no more. I'm sorry I brought up such painful memories."

"No, it's alright. I need too. I just want to make you happy too. As happy as you make me. When you turn those sad eyes on me when I can't, I feel like you going to turn into him and leave me forever. And I couldn't stand it if you did; I love you too much to let you go." He placed a soft kiss to Tatsuha's forehead, relieved to have told him everything.

Tatsuha laughed softly, bitterly. "I might leave... if I get upset or if we fight. But I won't leave you forever. It's better to let me cool down before attempting to talk with me. Yet once I am calm, and we can talk, the make-up sex would be fantastic."

"As long as you come back, I don't mind what you do." Ryuichi said; feeling relieved that everything was going to be better now.

"Of course. How can I torment you if I go away forever? I get to be the only fan that gets to sleep with his idol every night. Also, I get the bonus of being loved by said idol and getting to love him in return. You came for me... and saw my room. You accepted me as I am as well."

He grinned at that and looked down at Ryuichi with his eyes twinkling. "This means that you are mine... and while we'll have our problems, you'll have to pry me off with a crowbar."

Ryuichi laughed a light, happy laugh. "That's true, and I hope so, because I won't ever let you go."

He smirked and kissed Ryuichi's lips, nipping his lips. "Who said I'd let you let me go? A restraining order would be required for keeping me away. And even then, I don't believe it would work."

"I don't think it would either." Ryuichi whispered against soft lips, claiming them in a burning kiss, all thoughts on the happier future they would have together. There would be some rough spots, as there are in any good relationship, but they would over come everything and be better for it. After all...

Destiny is unstoppable and nothing can stop it once your obsession meets your reality.

XXXXX OWARI XXXXX