Eyes walked into Kanone's apartment, a small bead of sweat dripping from his hairline. Kanone looked up from a book he was reading, "Oh, hello, Eyes." Kanone went back to reading, "Where have you been?" At hearing no reply, Kanone looked back up to Eyes. The pianist was looking at Kanone, a hint of sadness in his eyes, "Eyes? Where have you been?" This time the question was a demand for information.

Eyes walked past Kanone and paused before leaving the room to go to sleep, "I told you I wouldn't give you up without a fight, Kanone. Ayumu learned that the hard way." Eyes then went and laid down, falling asleep immediately.

"Eyes?" Kanone called from the living room, worry evident in his voice. Kanone got up to wake his lover but his phone rang, stopping him. Kanone removed it from his pocket and flipped it open, "Make it quick."

"Is that how you always answer your phone? That's not a good way to make friends." The voice on the other line scolded, "Are you busy?"

"Kousuke." Kanone identified the voice, "And what would you know about making friends?"

"I happen to be very popular!" Kousuke whined, "Forget it, answer my question."

"And you say I'm rude." Kanone muttered, "What do you want? And... how did you get my number?"

"Ayumu gave it to me. He asked me to call you, but if you're busy..."

"Where is he?" Kanone interrupted, "Is he alright?"

"Well..." The voice on the other end hesitated.

"Kousuke..." Kanone said in a warning voice.

"I've got to say, Eyes really did a number on him. By the way, tell that bastard to watch his back." Kousuke sounded angry and Kanone was confused, which he didn't like.

"What happened. Kousuke, answer me!" After hearing only silence, "Kousuke where is Ayumu?"

"He's at the hospital. Eyes attacked him. If you don't know what happened I shouldn't be the one to tell you. Ask your boyfriend, and stay away from Ayumu, you don't deserve him." With that Kousuke shut his phone and glared at it for a second, deciding whether or not it would be a bad idea to hurl it against the wall. He decided against it and walked back into Ayumu's room.

"Hey." Ayumu greeted him, "Did you talk to Kanone?"

"Yeah, but Ayumu, I really think you should stay away from him. He's done nothing but cause you pain. I don't want that for you."

"Kousuke I understand you're concerned for me, and that's very sweet of you. However, I still need to talk to Kanone."

"Why?" Kousuke thought, "Why does he need to talk to him? Aren't I enough?" Kousuke shook his head and sighed, "Fine then Little Narumi, do what you want. Excuse me for caring."

"Wait, Kousuke! What..."

"Just forget about it, I'm sure Kanone will be on his way down here, so you can talk. I'll be back later, I have some business to attend to anyway, I'll see you later, Ayumu." And with that Kousuke left in search of some way to vent his anger...and he knew just how.

Kanone rushed into the hospital and ran up to the receptionist's desk, "I need the room number for Ayumu Narumi."

"Let's see, Narumi you say. Hmm..." The woman at the desk typed in some information, "Ah, here he is. Ayumu Narumi; Room 234. It's on the second floor, you can take that stairway right over there." She pointed to a nearby staircase.

"Thank you." Kanone said as he ran up the stairs. Kanone scanned the room numbers until he found Ayumu's. In his haste he never forgot his manners and knocked, "Ayumu, it's Kanone."

"Come in." Was the reply he got.

Kanone walked into Ayumu's room, shut the door, and rushed over to his bed, "Are you okay, Ayumu? What in the world happened?"

"You mean you didn't ask Eyes about it?" Ayumu said a bit bitterly.

"Eyes? No, he was asleep by the time I got Kousuke's phone call. I tried waking him up, but he seemed very exhausted. Ayumu tell me what happened."

"Are you happy, Kanone?"

"Happy? Ayumu, you're in the hospital, how could I be happy?" Kanone asked, dumbfounded.

"I mean with Eyes, are you happy with him. You love him, right?"

"Ayumu, we've already had this discussion. Right now I'm concerned for you. Now what exactly are you hiding from me?"

Ayumu sighed, "How does he always manage to turn our conversations in his favor?" Ayumu wondered. "Kanone, all I'm going to tell you is that Eyes attacked me. He did it because he doesn't want us together. I seriously think he intended to kill me. If Kousuke hadn't found me..."

"Eyes did this? But..." Kanone remembered back to his conversation with Kousuke, "That's right. Kousuke said Eyes was involved in all this. So Eyes tried to kill Ayumu to keep him away from me. Eyes, why did you do this? Why couldn't you just trust me when I said I loved you?" Kanone sat down next to Ayumu and grabbed his hand, "Ayumu, I'm truly sorry that this happened. I had no idea Eyes would do anything. He did say he wasn't going to give me up, but I had no idea he would do anything this drastic."

"Does he not know that Eyes and I set up a meeting. Does he not know anything about that?" Ayumu thought a bit more and then turned to Kanone, "Kanone, did Eyes say he was going to meet me to discuss anything yesterday?"

Kanone thought a moment, "No, he was acting strangely, but when has Eyes ever acted normal?"

Ayumu smirked at this, "Eyes and I set up a meeting. he wanted to play a game to see who would win you and who would back off."

"W-what? Are you serious? Ayumu, why would you agree to something like that?"

"Because I...I love you, Kanone. I was willing to risk everything for you. Eyes never specified any rules for the game. He only told me a meeting place. When I got there he was waiting for me, and then he..." Ayumu trailed off.

"I can't believe he would do something like this. Did he think it would make me love him more? He can be so foolish sometimes." Kanone sighed and looked sadly at Ayumu, "Don't worry, Ayumu. I'll get this all sorted out."

"Kanone, don't do anything to risk what you have with Eyes. I...I don't want to see you unhappy."

"Don't worry, Ayumu. I can handle Eyes myself." Kanone leaned down and gave Ayumu a soft kiss. He looked at Ayumu and smiled, "I miss doing that."

"I do, too." Ayumu was going to say more, but then he remembered Kousuke, "Kanone, I hope everything works out for all of us." Kanone only smiled at Ayumu, afraid to say anything more. He got up and walked to the door, raising a hand in farewell before leaving the hospital.

When Kanone returned home, he unlocked his door and opened it halfway before it thudded against something. Kanone looked down at the object blocking his way, "Is that...a foot? What the...Oh, no." Kanone slipped inside his apartment and ran over to the unconscious form on the floor, "Eyes? Eyes, wake up!" Kanone shook his lover a bit harshly, "Eyes! Damn, who did this?" Kanone looked around and saw nothing out of place, "It doesn't look like there was a struggle and it doesn't look like a robbery...why would someone just break in to attack Eyes? And who? No one could possibly know he was staying here." Kanone pulled out his cell phone and called an ambulance. After the ambulance left, Kanone grabbed his coat and keys and headed out the door, unable to ride in the ambulance since he wasn't family to Eyes (in the hospital's eyes, anyway).

Before he could open the door, though, he heard an all too familiar voice, "Yo, Kanone. Where are you headin' off to in such a hurry?"

Kanone turned around and glared at the person inside his apartment, still submerged in the shadows, "What are you doing here? Did you attack Eyes?"

The person laughed a little, "Yeah, that was me. You can't say he didn't deserve it though."

"What do you want? I'd say you've finished your business here."

The mystery figure stepped forward, "Not quite..."