Chapter 5
Wow, I'm really cranking these out now! I saw that you guys were all a little weirded out by the Yuki and Suguru pairing. But, in reality, whom do you think Yuki (2) would turn to when your former lover started sleeping with another guy, in your house! You would automatically turn to the person that offered any bit of condolence. And just to let you all know Yuki (1) still does love Shuichi, even if his instincts took over down in the basement. Feh, let me just get on with the story. We left off last chapter with Suguru getting Yuki ready for a meeting where he gets to be the entertainment. We don't yet know what kind of entertainment, and it should be interesting to see how Yuki deals with it. I'm going to be starting off where I left off, in the dark universe, with Yuki and Suguru in the basement.
Standard disclaimer: I don't own ANY of the characters from Gravitation who are the sole property of the genius Maki Murakami.
Suguru was the one who finally broke away "I guess you didn't change your mind." Yuki sighed and backed away from Suguru, who was sporting a smirk on his face, and ran a hand through his hair. 'Shuichi is so going to…oh yeah…he's with Hiro now, isn't he…'
"I guess you better help get me ready now…" Yuki looked away from the tattooed boy to the wall.
"Yeah, I suppose, but seriously Yuki, if you ever need to talk, just tell me." The Suguru before him was so different from the one that was upstairs, the one that had held the knife to his throat without hesitation.
Yuki nodded "So, what needs to be done to get me ready?"
"Well, why don't we start by washing your hair and getting some stuff into it." Yuki made a face but Suguru only pointed to the hot tub, which Yuki saw was now only an oversized bath. Sighing, Yuki took off his shirt, trying to ignore the blatant stares coming from Suguru.
"Do you mind?"
"No." Suguru smirked and continued staring. 'Shuichi is going to kill me if this ever leaks out.' Scowling, Yuki quickly took off the rest of his clothes and stepped into the bath, all in less than 5 seconds, the knife that Suguru carried still in his mind.
Yuki saw Suguru frowning in disappointment and flashed his trademark smirk "Well, let's get this done already." Suguru nodded and walked over to a cupboard next to the bath and opened it. Inside were what looked to be a dozen or so bottles of shampoo, conditioner, soaps, and perfumes. Not one for anything more than a dash of cologne, Yuki frowned. All the fruity smells were more Shuichi's side of the field, or at least they were until he decided to go wacko.
"So, almond, pumpkin, musk, or lavender. Which would you like?" Trying to think which would be the least attractive since he was going to be entertainment at a party which he didn't want to go to, he choose almond.
"I'll go with almond I guess."
"All right, almond it is." Picking and choosing between the dozen or so bottles, Suguru came back with five.
Yuki's eyes bulged "Five! FIVE! Why couldn't I just wash my hair and leave it at that?" Yuki was just about to stand up to leave the hot tub, when he remembered he was naked with a very interested boy in front of him. That kept him firmly seated after that.
"Because Yuki, this is one of the many things that Shuichi insists on." Suguru sighed and ran a hand absentmindedly over his zetsumei tattoo. "Come on Yuki, just let me do this, you've never made a fuss before!"
"First off, I don't make fusses, I make arguments. And second off, YOU NEVER FUCKIN DID THIS BEFORE!" Yuki mentally calmed himself before continuing "This whole damn day is weird. Ever since that power outage and that…damned…wall." Yuki sounded confused. "That fucking trick wall or something. I tripped over that dictionary that I threw at Shuichi and I fell towards a wall, except I, ow!" Yuki scowled as Suguru began running a comb through his hair.
"Can you just shut up and let me get you ready?" Suguru ran the comb through Yuki's hair, getting out all the knots, before opening up one of the many bottles. Out of it wafted a faint almond smell. Rubbing it into his hand, Suguru began carefully running it through Yuki's hair. Yuki closed his eyes and just enjoyed having the ointments rubbed into his scalp. After finishing with his hair, Suguru moved onto Yuki's skin, careful to massage in oil into every inch.
"YUKI! SUGURU! ARE YOU GUYS DONE DOWN THERE YET! YOU KNOW WE SHOULDN'T KEEP TOHMA WAITING!" Suguru looked up from what he was doing to the direction of the door leading back to the rest of the house.
"We are almost finished down here, we should be done in about 5 minutes milord!"
"MAKE IT 3!"
Suguru sighed, "We better hurry up, the boss calls."
"Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. What do I have to wear to this fucking party anyways?"
Suguru pulled out an outfit from the mahogany closet and Yuki's eyes widened "No…fucking…way…"
(Yay! Change of POV! I know that this section was really short, but I couldn't think of much more to write for this universe right now. Never fear though! I will come up with something for the next chapter.)
"I wonder if that Yuki really is from a dark universe."
They both turned to face the guest bedroom's door then said in unison "nah…"
"So what should we do Tohma? I mean Yuki's obviously scared of us, so he won't let anyone near him!" Shuichi looked close to tears at the idea of his true Yuki being trapped in a dark universe where, potentially, he was being abused.
"Well, I think the first step is getting Yuki to trust us, then, well, maybe we can get him to re-create what happened when he went through the portal. Maybe then we can cross over and get Yuki back. But really, I don't know. All of this is so fantasy like, that it's hard to comprehend. All we can do is just try."
"If we cross back over… what would we do with the Yuki we have here? I mean, we can't leave him in the other place after seeing what it's done to him."
"Of course not. He would stay here." Tohma thought dreamily about the thought of an extra Yuki running around.
"Well let's do it then! The sooner we get Yuki back the better!" Tohma grabbed the back of Shuichi's shirt to stop him from jumping off the couch.
"Wait! We have to go slowly, remember? We don't want Yuki to close up." Shuichi nodded and went in slow motion to Yuki's door. Tohma sighed 'I guess there's no stopping him.' Tohma looked up just in time to see him fall in the middle of doing a slow-mo.
Bang!
Tohma shook his head and turned away. 'Idiot.' Shuichi picked himself off the floor, blushing furiously. Shuichi continued walking to Yuki's room, walking at a normal speed now. Tohma sighed and stood up, straightening his wine colored shirt. Following the soft patter of feet slightly ahead of him, Tohma sighed, and for one of the few times in his life, he knew for a fact that he wasn't in control of the situation. Hearing the click of a door handle, Tohma knew that Shuichi had opened the door and entered the bedroom. Carefully side-stepping a pile of clothes, Tohma peered into the bedroom and saw Shuichi on the floor in front of the door leading to the adjacent bathroom. He was trying to coax Yuki out, but he wasn't having much luck.
"Yuki come on, I swear I won't hurt you! And Tohma promises too! Why don't you just come out and we can talk about all of this!"
There was silence on the other end, then "I don't want to talk! I've seen the way you've 'talked' to people. Or more of you talking, random slaps, and the other just cowering. I don't want that. I'll just stay in here thank you very much."
Shuichi looked at Tohma pleadingly. Tohma took his cue and walked forward, around the bed, and stood in front of the bathroom door.
"Yuki, I don't know what it was like in the other place, but this universe is different. Here, Shuichi still loves you! Hiro lives at his own apartment, as is dating Ayaka, not Shuichi! And I have no idea what I did in the other place, but here, I'm just the president of a company, who isn't someone to be afraid of!" He looked at Shuichi "Right?" Shuichi nodded and Tohma turned back to the door.
"O-other place? What do you mean?"
"Why don't you come out and we can talk about this face to face instead of talking through a door."
There was a brief pause and then a click was heard, as the lock was undone. Shuichi and Tohma stepped back as the door handle turned, and a red-eyed Yuki stepped out. Yuki wiped his eyes, and Tohma saw his cheeks glistening with spilled tears.
"Okay, we can talk, but I want you and Shuichi to stay on the other side of the room." Yuki folded his arms and looked resolute at the idea. Tohma turned immediately and sank in a chair on the opposite side of the room than Yuki. He turned his head towards Shuichi and saw the fight going on behind his eyes.
"Shuichi, come sit over here next to me. Yuki's obviously not comfortable having us sit near him right now."
"But-" Tohma threw him a quick glare, full of meaning. Sighing, Shuichi came over and sat in a chair in front of the window and pulled his knees up to his chest, staring at Yuki.
"Yuki, I have one question. In the other universe, how did I, I mean, the other me, fall in love with Hiro, and just well, leave you there?"
"What do you mean other universe?" Tohma told Yuki of their theory about the dark equivalent.
Yuki just stared for a while, then looked over at Shuichi "Hm… well, I suppose I could tell you that, although I'm not quite sure even what really happened. Why don't I first give you some background information on our 'dark universe'." Looking around, almost as though making sure no one would over hear, Yuki started telling what the people were like in the other universe.
"Just a second Yuki, I want to take some notes on this." Tohma took a pad of paper and a leopard print pencil from his bag "Go ahead."
"Well, I guess the first place to start is the formation of that stupid band of theirs, Bad Luck. Hiro and Shuichi'd been friends since middle school, and it was a known fact that they'd make a band one day. One day, when Shuichi was walking home in the park, he saw a stranger sitting on a bench, me. From that moment on, he decided that he'd get me, no matter what it took."
Shuichi smiled at the memories of his attempts at getting Yuki; the jumping in front of the car, dressing up as a girl, and the massive spaz moments in a dog costume.
"That's where things started going wrong. You see, in the park that night, he had come up to me, and asked me to go out with him. Let's just say I was more than a little surprised. Of course I said no! I mean I had my writing, and I was happy at that. But, the next week, I started to receive things in the mail. First it was relatively harmless stuff, a few black roses, a dead squirrel, but then it started to get bad."
Shuichi and Tohma looked rather appalled at the idea of a dead squirrel being harmless.
" After that, I started to receive packages. I almost cut myself on a box full of razors. Another time, when I was walking home from work, I was almost knocked unconscious when a cloth covered in chloroform almost fell on my head. After that, I decided not to go out anymore, and I just told the post office to burn the boxes. That same week though, just a day after the first package didn't arrive at my house per my order, Shuichi and Hiro showed up at my door. Shuichi had Hiro throw me against a wall, and hold me there while he found all the keys to the house. Once he was done, he locked the door and brought out his favorite interviewing toy, the taser. Let's just say I haven't seen the light of day since."
Tohma looked over and saw that Shuichi was looking kind of green "Shuichi, do you want to go outside for a little bit?"
Shuichi shook his head "No, I've got to hear this. You never answered my question though, how did Hiro and the other me get together?"
"True, okay…let's see, well, after they had taken over my apartment, they decided that they no longer had any need for their old ones, so they just moved into mine. For a long time, Hiro and Shuichi were just really good friends, and then the third member joined their band, Suguru. Of course, Hiro and Shuichi asked him to come to my house and live there to, I mean the house sure was big enough, so he agreed. I remember the first time he walked through the door he scared me. He was really quiet, soft spoken, but what really scared me was the blade that he carried around all the time. It was a beautiful thing really, on it, inlayed in wood, with the character, zetsumei, or death inlayed in the background. After that, Shuichi and Hiro stared getting together more and more. I don't know why it really happened, it just did. Poor Suguru, after the first night of Hiro and Shuichi being officially together, Shuichi made Suguru join the Cult of the Forbidden Night. When Suguru came back from his initiation meeting, his eyes were outlined in black, and he was covered in tattoos, the most predominant one being below his eye, the character zetsumei. After that, well, Shuichi and Hiro were together, and Suguru was to become my keeper." Yuki shrugged and sat back in his chair. "That's really all I know on that matter."
"Yuki, I want you to think hard. Is there anything that was going to happen today, or happen tomorrow that will put our Yuki into any danger?"
"Hm…there shouldn't be anything going on, I mean Shuichi usually leaves me alone…. wait! Oh yeah, Tohma was going to throw a party tonight and I was supposed to be the" he spat it out "entertainment."
Shuichi blanched at the thought "No fuckin way am I going to let Yuki be any…any…strip teaser!"
Yuki laughed, "If only it was that simple. Remember, this is the place where I got sent a box of razors to get me to go out with someone. This is a stress reliever party. Everyone brings their favorite weapon and toy. You then get to moves around and test everyone else's toy's with your weapon."
"Toy being…?"
Yuki looked at him and then suddenly pulled up his shirt. Usually, this would have made Tohma giddy, but now it just made his stomach turn to ice. There were scars running all over Yuki's body, and a rather recent burn over his abs. Covering almost his entire torso were little burn marks, almost as if someone had been flicking matches at him.
Aw! Poor Yuki! I feel so bad for him/sob/ But, life must go on, and retribution shall be doled out. So! I'm really really really sorry about getting this chapter out like 2 weeks after I said I would, but I just haven't found the time. I'd promise to do better, but I know I won't be able to, so I'll just say that I'm starting my next chapter. Please! I need reviews to feed this starved body! Anything would be fine, even just a "great". (Please don't just do that . ) But, I'll see you guys next time!
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