Hey guys I'm back yeah I know I'm late. Guess what though from here on out this story and my next six fics will be co-written with KousukeAsazuki. Yep that's right she and I will be working together, and we have six fics coming out soon after this one. More info on the fics will be given later on in the story. Here's a list of their names in order I'll at least give you those...
1. Sisterhood
2.College Drama
3.ROADTRIP!
4.Tides of Fate
5.Diary of a Blade Child
6.Melodies of Destiny
I want to thank alpha2nd and KousukeAsazuki. To alpha2nd for the birthday shout out in her fic, and KousukeAsazuki for the birthday fic she wrote me which by the way rocks and you guys should deffinately read it. So I want to give a shout out to both of them and their fics you should so read all of them.
Recap: Eyes is now on his way to Europe with the rest of the Shining Stars kids and is starting to get along with his new co-workers well some of them. Even with all the commotion that's going on around him all Eyes can think about is Kanone and trying to find him. Also Eyes finds comfort in the most unlikely of person, Ryuichi. Can Eyes find Kanone and survive the next eight months on tour?
itallics are Eyes' thoughts
Chapter four: Rivals and Allies
Disclaimor: I don't own Spiral or Gravitation or any other characters featured in this fic.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity when in truth it was only about four hours(1) they finally landed in Europe well London to be exact(2). Eyes was happy to be off the flying contraption because truth be told he didn't trust those flying pieces of crap as far as he could throw them. Eyes couldn't believe he was in his home country again he'd been gone for so long it kind of felt a little wierd to be back. After they made it out of the airport and to the hotel( just barely making it past crazy rabid fans) Tohma finally brought up the topic Eyes had been dreading for a while, their sleeping arrangments. Eyes knew Tohma was going to make them pair up in rooms NG Records had money to sponsor and pay for everything but individual suites.
Tohma finally came back from the front desk with the room keys in hand "Okay everything is situated all that's left is decideing who stays in which room with who which by the way is already decided so there's no room for arguement.", he said smiling happily. Eveyone gave him a the look that said 'typical' and prayed that they ended up with someone they could stand to be with. "Alright so the first key goes to Noriko who will be sharing the room with Cagalli", both girls let out a relieved breath they could put up with each other seeing as their personalities complmented each other. "The next will go to Hiro and Suguru, and the third to Shuichi and Ryuichi.", both parties looked happy with their pairings and gladly accepted their respective keys.
They were down to the last pairs Eyes knew Tohma had his own room there was no doubt about that this brought his roommate options down to two people Kouji and Dark if Eyes had to choose he hoped it was the former. "I already know Nakuru and I are sharing a room so you don't have to say it.", said Riku taking the key from Tohma and handing it to Nakuru "It's nice to see we have more people with commonsense on this tour.", Tohma said earning a 'hey!' from the said "idiots" of the group. Eyes was hoping with all his might that he didn't have to share a room with Dark he didn't know if he could spend how ever much time they were spending in London with the amythest haired youth. "Alright it seems we're in a little complex situation since there's three of you boys left.", Eyes' head was reeling with thoughts along the line of 'please don't make me stay with that perverted idiot' and 'if I'm forced to stay with him I'm most likely going to kill him'. " Eyes you're going to be staying with Kouji...", 'YES!' "and Dark." 'DAMN!' Eyes was glaring daggers at Tohma "Excuse me?", he asked he couldn't had possibly had heard him right he couldn't have. "It seems the three of you get the biggest suite . I couldn't have poor Dark staying by himself now could I and little Kouji is too young for his own room.", Tohma said that smile of his never waffering.
Eyes couldn't believe he was hearing this. "You couldn't just give me my own room?", he asked his voice as even and uncaring as always, but you could tell Eyes was about to straight lose it "I could but then what would be the fun in that?", Eyes wanted to kill Tohma so badly he could envision how hw was going to do it. "Ah come on Eyes staying with us won't be that bad.", said Dark grinning too happily for Eyes' liking "I have no problem staying with Kouji it's you I have a problem with.", Eyes said picking up his backpack snatching the keys from Tohma and heading off to find their room.
Everyone else soon after did the same heading off to their respective suites leaving Tohma there still snickering from Eyes' reaction he knew the young pianist was pissed which only made his plan more enjoyable. Tohma again didn't relize someone was behind him so you could see the look of surprise on his face when Ryuichi came out of no where."You're schemeing something again aren't you? You knew that boy would be pissed if you put him with Dark so what are you coming up with this time Tohma?", he asked all traces of his usual goofy self gone. Tohma turned to face Ryuichi with a sly smile on his face "Why must you assume I'm up to something dear Ryu?", he asked trying to sound innocent, but Ryuichi wasn't buying any bit of it the last time Tohma went schemeing things got very messy and a lot of people got hurt(3). "Don't play stupid Tohma I've known you for years so I can tell when your conniving ass is up to something.", Ryuichi said with an exasperated sigh. Tohma siged as well you would think that after all the years he'd known Ryuichi he'd be use to him switching between personalities, but even now it still caught him off guard but he couldn't let Ryuichi in on his grand plan because he played a key role in it so he couldn't know not yet. "I assure you I'm not up to something well nothing completely bad that is.", but that didn't mean he couldn't tease the hell out of Ryuichi.
"Tohma I'm serious I don't want those kids hurt in any way especially Eyes that kid seems like he's been through enough.", Ryuichi was getting frustrated with Tohma his friends mysterious yet stubborn and always secretive personality was very irratating at times. Tohma smiled at Ryuichi's concern for Eyes he had conted on this "It seems we've found a soft spot for our young silver angel haven't we Ryuichi?", hook line and sinker Ryuichi promtly shut up at that comment. "And if I have so what it's no different from when I took interest in Shuichi.", Ryuichi said in deffense Tohma smiled cunningly " You and I both know that boy is different there's an air of mystery about him that draws you to him as it does to me as well.", Tohma decided this conversation was getting neither him or Ryuichi anywhere seeing as how neither was going to back down. Tohma put that same signature smile back on and turned to leave, but not without adding "Don't worry yourself Ryuichi no harm will come to the boy my plan may just help him.", with that Tohma turned and left Ryuichi alone with his thoughts. Ryuichi was worried he didn't want any of the kids getting hurt in anyway, but he wanted to believe Tohma he was one of his best friends so he decided to believe Tohma and trust his judgement so he switched back to his cheerful goofy side and went up to his room.
now back to Eyes
Eyes was pissed no that was putting it mildly Eyes was beyond pissed, why was he pissed you asked? Well at this moment him, Dark, and Kouji were in an elevator on their way to their suite and Dark kept talking! The worst part he talked about stupid things from cars,clothes, himself, movies, himself, and cows! Why the hell was he talking about cows! Could this fool be that dumb Eyes was about to permanently shut the purple haired idiot up, but surprisingly Kouji beat him to it. "Dark I know you have a lot of interesting information to share with us, but could you possibly SHUT UP!", Kouji was seething with annoyance and Dark seemed to shrink back and miraculously actually shut up at the young boy's out burst. Eyes let out a relieved sigh happy to actually get some peace, but like I said before luck wasn't on Eyes' side because then Dark started clicking his tounge to entertain himself (the hotel had a lot of floors and they were near the top). At first Eyes and Kouji tried to ignore it but after a minute well... when the elevator door opened lets say Dark wasn't feeling too good they found their suite easily enough when they unlocked the door they were shocked to see how big the suite was.
Tohma wasn't kidding about how big it was now Eyes had been in some extravagant suites before but this one beat them all by a long shot it was huge they had a foyer decorated with expensive vases,plants,sculptures it was beatiful. On further inspection they dicovered they had a living room with a really big entertainment system it had a plasma screen television with seround sound,PS3 was that even out yet? It even had a few games to go along with it there was also a dvd player and kareoke system and stereo system Dark and Kouji looked like they were in heaven and went straight for the systems. Eyes went to finish looking around it seems they also had a kitchen and a pretty big bathroom that had a jacuzzi tub Eyes liked that fact cause at this rate he was going to need all the relaxation he could get it also had a balcvony with a beautiful view. He went on to check out the bedrooms there were two of them which were very spacious and had big queen sized beds the first one had shades of purple and black while the second had shades of blue and black.
While trying to decide which room he wanted a set of wooden double doors caught his attention he decided to go over and check them out and to his surprise it was a bedroom and not just any bedroom but the biggest bedroom! It was humongus it had a king size bed with royal blue silk sheets and comforter it also had its own entertainment system and it had a couch and love seat and its own bathroom and it was a big one at that, and a balcony, but to top all that it had a grand piano as well! Oh yeah Eyes found his room he went and set his backpack on the bed their other luggage had been already dropped off in the foyer so he had to go and get his things before Dark and Kouji noticed knowing they were going to protest. He managed to get most of his things in the room but unfortunatly the two other teens noticed "Hey who said you get the biggest room?", protested Dark who wasn't looking to happy Kouji on the other hand looked like he could care less for real. "I decided so if the two of you don't mind I'm tired so I would like to go to sleep good night.", with that Eyes slammed his two double doors in their faces and locked them and took himself on to sleep.
the next morning
Eyes laid in bed tossing and turning ocassionally letting out a moan which seemed to be mixed with grief and pain it was that dream again, but from the looks of it it was ten times worse Eyes never tossed and turned this much. Eyes' cries woke up a peacefully sleeping Dark who was closest Dark went over to Eyes' room but then remembered the ill tempered silver haired teen had locked it, but what Eyes didn't know was that Dark was a master at breaking and entering. With great ease Dark picked the lock and opened the door and was greeted with the sight of a very distressed Eyes tossing and moaning in his bed with genuine concern Dark went to attempt to wake the teen from his nightmare . Dark began to shake Eyes in an attempt to wake him, but that didn't work he was still tossing and now seemed to be mumbiling things in his sleep Dark continued to shake Eyes and began to call out his name. After a minute or so Eyes began to calm down at this moment Dark took the time to get a truly good look at Eyes he was if even possible even more beautiful when sleep.
Dark couldn't help his next action as his face began to get closer to Eyes, but unfortunately for him Eyes chose that moment to wake up. Dark stood petrified staring into Eyes' beautiful blue orbs so he didn't see Eyes' death glare that had doom written all over it he didn't see the fist come straight for him and connect with his head, but he did see one thing he saw stars lots and lots of stars. Eyes continued to glare at Dark who was now on the floor semi-concious he usually never lost his temper enough to actually hit someone but Dark just had a way of pushing his buttons I mean honestly the purple haired teen practically begged Eyes to beat the living hell out of him. Eyes got out of bed and headed to his own personal bathroom(which Eyes at this point was loving for obvious reasons) to get ready for the long day ahead of him.
When Eyes came out of his room dressed and ready Kouji and Dark were in the kitchen area reading what seemed to be a letter. Walking over to them Eyes looked over Kouji's shoulder to see what was so interesting about the letter. The letter turned out to be a letter from Tohma(how it got there we will never know) saying to meet down stairs at ten. Eyes looked at the clock then back to the letter then to the clock again it was now 9:36 a.m. "Um...when do you two actually plan to get ready?", he asked pointing at the clock seeing as how both boys were still in their pajamas. Kouji and Dark looked from the letter to the clock then to the letter again and all was quiet until..."AAAHHH!",both boys raced to the bathroom which resulted in a fight over who was going to go first. Eyes sighed and decided to head down stairs simply because he wasn't in the mood to listen or referee another fight.
It was needless to say that Dark and Kouji were the last ones there even Shuichi and Ryuichi beat them there and that's saying a lot. Ounce everyone was there Tohma explained that they were heading over to the stadium where they were to perform to practice much to the group of teens' dismay. So that's exactly where they were now in stadium waiting for instructions which seemed to be taking forever and Nakuru and Dark were starting to get figity and when that happened they started to get annoying. But it seems that today luck was on his side for Tohma and K (Shuichi's manager) finally were ready to give them their instructions "O.k. kiddys here's how it goes you're going to get up stage and perform one of your songs it doesn't matter which one.", K said gazing upon each of the kids "Now how about Cagalli you go first". Cagalli didn't look to happy about being first "Why me can't Nakuru or Eyes go first?", K on the other hand wasn't having it "I said get up on stage!", he comanded pointing his ever famous gun at her. Cagalli sweatdropped and headed for the stage everyone in the music buesiness knew not to cross K because if you went against his orders you were most deffinately likely to get shot.
Eyes was interested to see what his co-workers could do he had heard some of their work, but he wasn't very familier with what they really did because he never took much interest in it. Cagalli went over to the band members who were to play their songs for them and told them the one she wanted she went over to the microphone and listened as the music began to play it was a fast paced song and seemed to be mixed with pop and rock. Cagalli closed her eyes and began to sway and then...
Miss independent, miss self-sufficent, miss keep your distance,mmmm
Miss unafraid, miss out of my face, miss don't let a man interfere, no
Miss on her own, miss almost grown, miss never let a man help her off her throne
She seemed completely absoebed in the song it seemed like the song was an extension of her like she was singing about herself Eyes wouldn't put it past her if she was.
So by keeping her heart protected she'll never, ever feel rejected
little miss apprehensive said ohh, she fell in love...
What is this feeling taking over? Thinking no one could open the door surprise, it's time, to feel what's real. What happened to miss independent no longer need to be defensive? Good bye, old you, when love is true.
When miss independent walked away, no time for love that came her way. She looked in the mirror and thought today time for her to see. How beautiful love could truly be. No more talk of why can't that be me I'm so glad I've finally seen...
What is this feeling taking over? Thinking no one could open the door surprise, it's time,
to feel what's real. What happened to miss independent no longer need to be defensive?
Good bye, old you, when love is true.
With that the music began to slowly fade out and Cagalli opened her previously closed eyes suddenly a clapping and laughter were heard. Everyone turned to see four figures up near the entrance they from the looks of it weren't any older then Eyes, Nakuru, Dark, and Cagalli the mystery figures began walking down to where the group was. The group consisted of three guys and one girl and you could tell they were up to no good "Well well well what have we here I'm surprised and disgusted of all the places for you losers to start your tour you pick the same city as us.", said one of the boys Eyes figured he was the leader out of the group he was pretty attractive too he seemed to be a little taller then him and he had dark blue hair which came to his shoulders and his bangs fell over his eyes which were a beautiful turquoise.
"What are you doing here Caleb?", yelled Dark looking pissed as hell "Why Dark I thought you would've known my band's on tour as well didn't anyone tell you oh but I guess you were to busy ass kissing your way to the top of the musical charts to know since it's the only way you could get there seeing as how crappy of a singer you are.", Caleb replied a cocky smile on his face. That reply seemed to do exactly what Caleb wanted it to do which was push Dark over the edge "You bastard!", Darl lunged towards Caleb but Cagalli and Kouji held him back "Don't Dark this jerks not worth getting upset over.", said Cagalli who was glaring daggers at Caleb and his crew. "Gee Cagalli could you be anymore of a slave owner let go of the boy's leash already.", said the girl of the group you was smiling evily at Cagalli "You shut up Arielle!", she screamed now mad(yeah she has a short fuse). "What's going on over here?", called K who took this time to show up "Ahh it seems the Black Moons are here as well it was nice of you kids to pay us a visit, but I think it would be best if you four left", he said glarring at group. Caleb grinned innocently at K "Hey it's all good man we were just leaving.", with that they turned to leave, but it was then that Caleb took notice of Eyes.
"Hey I know you, you're that famous piano player Eyes Rutherford aren't you?", he said Eyes wasn't liking the look on Caleb's face right about now which caused him to put his guard up full force and was now glaring at him as well. "How observant of you it seems you actually have some brains in that huge head of yours.", he said smirking this caused Caleb to smirk as well "Beauty and attitude I'm liking you more and more.", Eyes was deffinately not liking the twisted smile that Caleb was wearing now "Hey pretty thing how about you and me hang out sometime and get to know each other?", he asked winking Eyes glare if even possible intensified. "I don't think so I don't associate with trash.", he said turning his back to Caleb to head towards the others "If you don't a associate with trash then why are you hanging with those losers?", Caleb said motioning towards Dark and the others Eyes turned back towards Caleb "Who I do associate with is none of your business, but rest assure I won't be associating with you any time soon why would I want to hang around some second rate garbage band anyway?", Eyes couldn't help but smirk at the pissed off look on Caleb's face but what he didn't expect was Caleb grabbing his arm and pulling him towards him.
"Listen you little bastard I don't take kindly to being insulted or being rejected either so you better watch yourself.", he said with a deadly look in his eyes "Caleb let go of Eyes and leave him alone.", yelled Nakuru "She's right Caleb let go of him and just leave like I told you", said K in a deadly warning tone. Caleb on the wasn't listening to any of them as he continued to grip Eyes' arm which seemed to get stronger "If that's the case then you must stay mad all the time then with all the times you've been rejected.", Eyes on the other hand didn't seem afraid at all. Caleb seemed to snap at that comment and raised his other hand and was about to hit Eyes but was stopped when someone grabbed his arm "You're still causingall types of trouble aren't you Caleb you haven't changed a bit.", Caleb turned to come face to face with another teen he glared at the newcomer "Zander!", he spat. Zander smiled cunningly at Caleb "Now Caleb be nice to the angel after all you brought the insults upon yourself coming onto him like you did.", with that Zander bent Caleb's arm behind his back causing him to let go of Eyes and cry out in pain.
"Now why don't you do what K told you and beat it.", Zander said shoving Caleb towards his crew he turned and glared at Zander and the others "Fine but you and that silver wench better watch your backs next time.", with that he and his followers left. "Good ridence now we can get back to practice", said Riku causing the others to laugh a little "You haven't changed a bit since the last time we've all seen each other Riku", said Zander smiling brightly at the others "It's been a while Zander how've you and the others been?", said Dark who was finally set free from his restraints namely Cagalli and Kouji who all seemed to calm now. "Oh Cole and the others they're fine they're all back at the hotel I decided to go look around.", Zander turned his gaze to Eyes whose breath caught in his throat at the sight before now that he got a good look at him. Zander was in all aspects hot with long raven black hair tied in a ponytail but still had strands hanging out hear and there and he had bangs that fell over the most beautidul eyes he'd ever seen they were a ruby red color and seemed to shine. He had a pretty muscular build enough to show off his strenght but still had a lithe figure Eyes couldn't tear his eyes away from him "So this pretty little angel is the famous Eyes Ruthorford it's an honor really.", Zander said bowing.
Eyes could feel heat rising to his face but tried to hide it "Don't bow to me I'm not that great.", he said turning his head away from him "Well I hope Caleb didn't hurt you too much he can be a real ass when he wants to and that's putting it lightly.", Zander began to laugh making Eyes smile a little which surprised him this boy's laugh seemed to be contagious it was having an affect on him. "You're a shy one aren't? You know you're really cute when you blush.", Zander nor anyone else couldn't help but laugh at the expression that came over Eyes' face at that comment but Eyes quickly regained his compusure and gave Zander his trade mark glare. Zander saw that he had offended Eyes and quickly tried to make up for "I'm sorry, really I'm glad I've gotten to meet you it was a pleasure.", he said putting an sweet innocent smile which Eyes wasn't buying one bit. Zander saw this and smiled knowingly he hadn't expected Eyes to forgive or trust him like that he didn't seem the type. "Well it was great seeing you guys again and Eyes it was great meeting you I hope to see you all soon.", with that Zander turned to leave waving. "Alright guys lets get back to rehearsal.", commanded K turning back to the stage Eyes looked back to where Zander had left out of thinking for a moment then turned and headed back towards the stage.
I'm done I'm way past deadline but I'm done though. Now KousukeAsazuki will be doing chapter five so if you notice any thing different that's because of her.
So lets get started with the author's notes...
1.I have now idea how long it takes planes to get from Japan to Europe so I guessed it to be arounf four to five hours.
2. We all know Eyes is British so London seemed to be the most logical place for his origin.
3.I've never seen the Gravitation anime or manga so I'm going on the information I've gathered from the internet. From what I've gathered Tohma was the one who schemed to break up Shuichi's relationship with his lover Yuki now this is what I'm going on I don't know if it's true or not but it sure looked that way to me.
The song Cagalli was singing was Miss Independent by Kelly Clarkson but I'm sure everyone knows that.
This is usually where I put the preview for the next chapter, but since I'm not the one writing the next chapter I can't predict what's going to happen in the next chapter that's up to KousukeAsazuki.
So see you guys when it's my turn to write again.