Chapter 3
Okay people, some of you are STILL confused. Not that I blame you. All of this alternate reality stuff is kind of confusing. Okay, here goes a third try at explaining all of this. I'm going to use numbers. Our universe is 1. The alternate universe is 2. The Yuki from Gravitation is a 1, as are we. Now, Yuki (1) is trapped in universe (2). Yuki (2) went through the portal as Yuki (1) and is trapped in universe (1). Okay! Any better? That's the best I can do I'm afraid. If any of you have ANY suggestions on how I can explain this better, please, review and tell me in your review. Now then, we left off last time with Yuki unconscious with Suguru staring at him creepily through those heavily lidded, mascara outlined eyes and Shuichi is in the bedroom with Hiro (any guesses on what they're doing? And no, they're not baking cookies). Now, later on in this chapter, we're going to be switching to the POV of Yuki (2) in universe (1). This will be very interesting (in my opinion) to see how Yuki (2) acts after Shuichi (2) has been treating him cruelly for, presumably, a few years. Okay! And…action!
Standard disclaimer: I don't own ANY of the characters from Gravitation who are the sole property of the genius Maki Murakami.
Yuki's eyes fluttered slightly and he groaned as a roaring headache started to dance across his forehead. Sitting up, Yuki put his head in his hands, trying to alleviate the pain.
"Good, you're awake." Yuki's head shot up at the sound of the voice and quickly regretted it as his head began to pound. More slowly now, he lifted his head and opened his eyes. There, less than three feet away from him were the staring, mascara surrounded, eyes of Suguru. Yuki gave a yelp of surprise and threw himself backwards from the source of surprise. Once again, not a good thing for a pounding head. Sitting as far back on the couch as he could, Yuki stared at into the eyes of the person who'd pressed a knife to his throat not long ago.
"What the hell are you looking at?" Suguru just stared at him. "Well?"
"You."
"Huh?"
"I'm staring at you."
Yuki looked at Suguru closely "oh…" Suguru smirked and pulled out a knife from his back pocket. On it, inlayed in wood, was the same character that was below his eye, zetsumei, or death. Taking out a piece of wood from the same pocket as the knife had come from, Yuki saw what looked like a half finished chess piece of himself.
"Tilt your head a little to the left" Yuki looked at Suguru incredulously.
"Why the hell are you carving me into that little block of wood? And further more, my nose defiantly doesn't look like that." Yuki glared at Suguru a little more for good measure and smirked.
Setting down the knife, Suguru looked up at Yuki from lowered eyes and repeated, "tilt your head a little to the left" except this time, he raised the knife threateningly. Yuki's smirk fell right off his face and he turned his head slightly to the left.
They were both silent for about five minutes before Yuki turned to look at Suguru "What is going on here?"
Suguru didn't even look up but replied, "What do you mean? You said I could carve your face last night so that's what I'm doing" now he looked up "don't tell me you changed your mind."
"Um…. I actually don't remember any of that. What I meant was why Shuichi's with Hiro and why you have all the" he pointed to Suguru's face where the tattoos were.
For the first time, Suguru's face contained an emotion, confusion "what? These? Yuki, you know I got these after entering the brotherhood. You were there, remember?" Suguru seemed to be engulfed in memories for a while, then shook his head and turned back to the carving "as for Shuichi and Hiro, you should know better than I do. All I know is that Hiro's like-" the sound of a doorway opening was clearly heard, and Suguru shut up and quickly stood up, shoving the carving and knife down his back pocket.
"Well, I see the slave is awake." Yuki looked down the hallway and saw Shuichi leaning against the wall, smirking. Shuichi looked at Suguru "did you get the lights fixed?"
"Yes sir, it seemed to be-"
"Whatever, I really don't care as long as they're on." Shuichi turned to go back down the hall then stopped and turned back to Yuki "you better not embarrass me anymore in front of Hiro" Shuichi left down the hall and went into the bedroom, shutting the door behind him.
(Okay! The time you've all been waiting for, or at least I hope, the switch of universes. We are now in the universe that the manga takes place in. The dark universe's Yuki is now the main character here, but in the "good" universe. Well, if that made any sense, let's start.)
"Fuck!" Yuki stumbled over something and fell towards what looked like a rapidly approaching wall. Except, for some reason, he never felt it. Instead, he stumbled through the wall into another hallway, exactly like the one he just left. 'Um…okay…' Looking behind him, he saw a very solid looking wall. Putting his hand to it and shoving, he was somewhat dismayed when it turned out to be just that. A solid wall. Walking down the hallway, still with his hands in front of him since the lights were still out, Yuki came into what would have been his living room, and it still was, sort of. It looked about the same, except there were a few things missing. For one, the posters that Shuichi'd insisted on putting up weren't there. Yuki looked around for them, knowing that when Shuichi'd come home and find the posters missing, the first place he'd look is Yuki. Another thing missing was Shuichi's favorite taser. Yuki could've sworn that it'd been left on the floor after Shuichi'd used it on him.
Hearing the distinct sound of the key being inserted into the door, Yuki spun around to face the door, desperately giving the floor a last sweeping glance for the missing posters.
"YUKI!" A pink bundle of energy hurtled to him and Yuki braced himself for the punch. Instead, he was knocked to the floor in a tight bear hug.
"Huh?"
"Yuki Yuki Yuki Yuki! Guess what? K said that we can appear on Music Fan next week!" Yuki pictured the cruel eyed blonde who was famous for torturing unpopular producers and shuddered. "Yuki? What's the matter are you cold?" Yuki looked up at the large purple eyes, filled with concern that were staring right at him.
Flinching, he turned away "I-I'm sorry Shuichi, I-I don't know w-what happened to the posters! I swear! They were gone when I got out here!" Yuki closed his eyes and cringed.
"Huh? What posters? Yuki, look at me! Tell me what's the matter!" Yuki just closed up even more at these words. Mystified, and frightened, Shuichi did the only thing that he knew usually cheered Yuki up. He kissed him. Yuki's eyes widened then he broke the kiss and propelled backwards with a look of terror on his face.
Stop! I already told you that I don't know where they are! Just let me go!" Yuki started to sob. Shuichi was in utter shock. The only other time he'd seen Yuki cry was after guys from Ask had gotten him, and this was defiantly not like that. Yuki was crying for seemingly no reason.
He decided to play along for awhile "Yuki! I don't care about the posters! Just calm down, your scaring me!" Yuki just curled up in a ball and cried some more. He started to say something under his breath and Shuichi leaned forward to try and figure out what he was saying.
"Don't come…I've been good…no knifes…zetsumei…where are you…doors…" What he was saying was making no sense. This scared Shuichi more than anything. Yuki always made sense in what he was saying. Backing away slowly, Shuichi stood up and went to the bedroom, making sure that he closed the door. He could still hear Yuki out there but it was quieter now. Sitting on the bed, Shuichi ran his hands through his hair, and felt a lone tear travel down his face. Yuki'd obviously been through something traumatic and Shuichi could do nothing about it right now. Yuki seemed terrified of him.
Shuichi picked up the phone on the side of the bed and quickly dialed for Tohma's office. He'd know what to do as much as Shuichi hated to admit it.
"Hello?"
"Tohma! Thank God! You have to come over right away! Something's happened to Yuki and I don't know what to do!"
"Shuichi? That is you, right?"
"Yeah"
"Well slow down and tell me what the problem is."
'Well, I came home from practice and Yuki looked at me, terrified. I thought that he'd just had a bed day or something so I hugged him except then he started to cry and said something about knifes, doors, and zetsumei. He's still out there in the living room crying! Tohma, I've never seen him cry before! What should I do?"
There was a short pause then Tohma answered, "Shuichi, I want you to go into the living room and try to talk to him. Don't move towards him, he obviously feels threatened. I'll be there in 5 minutes."
"Okay! But please hurry, he's scaring me" Shuichi hung up the phone and walked to the door, opened it and walked into the hallway. Coming into the living room, Shuichi saw Yuki in a corner, his arms around his legs. He was still crying, but at least he wasn't sobbing anymore.
"Yuki?"
Yuki's head popped up and he stared at Shuichi, tears streaking his face "I-I'm sorry master, I-I couldn't help it, please don't do anything to me!" 'Why the hell is he calling me master?'
"Okay Yuki, I won't do anything to you, I promise, okay?" Yuki nodded "Alright, now then, I don't want you to call me master anymore, okay?"
At this, Yuki hesitated "B-but Hiro said that if I don't then he would tell Suguru" this made no sense what so ever. Shuichi didn't know what to respond.
"Well…that's okay, I won't tell Hiro if you don't" Shuichi smiled slightly and was rewarded with a slight smile from Yuki. 'Well, we're getting somewhere.' At that moment the bell rang, and Yuki jumped at the sound. Looking around wildly, Yuki took one last glance at Shuichi then ran into the guest bedroom. Shuichi sighed and went to the door. Opening it, he wasn't surprised to see Tohma.
"Tohma! Thank god! He just ran into the guest bedroom when he heard the door bell ring."
Tohma took off his leopard print hat and hung it on the coat rack "Okay, did he say anything else?"
"Yeah, he said that if he didn't call me master, Hiro would tell Suguru. But that doesn't make any sense!"
Tohma sighed "Well, it obviously makes sense to him." Tohma took off his feathery coat and hung it next to his hat. "Why don't you show me where the bedroom is, but make sure you stay out of sight. Yuki obviously is scared of you." Shuichi nodded then started down the hallway.
"It's that door right there." Shuichi pointed to a mahogany door on his right. Tohma nodded the made a shooing motion towards Shuichi who nodded hesitantly and went back towards the living room.
Opening the door, Tohma peered inside "Yuki? It's me, Tohma, I just wanted to talk." Yuki looked up, saw him, and turned death white.
"No, no! I told Shuichi that I had to call him master! I told him! Please believe me!"
"Yuki, it's okay, I'm not going to do anything to you, I swear!" Tohma took a step forward and Yuki screamed, dashing into the adjoining bathroom. "No, Yuki! Wait!" Tohma sighed as the door slammed and the lock was turned. This was going to take awhile.
Yay! Finished at last! Now you guys can see why this is rated M. That is one seriously messed up Yuki. Just when Shuichi is getting him to calm down, Tohma walks in and "ruins" it, but maybe Tohma will talk some sense into Yuki later on. So! I need reviews badly, and if any of you are STILL confused, well, just review it and I'll tell you the answer to your confusement in the next chapter. Okies, I'm off to work on my other story now, so you might not get another chapter from here for a week, tops (I hope). Well, I will see ya'll in the next chapter! R AND R!