Chapter 6
Wow, I just got back from Animazement and I had sooooooo much fun! There must have been 20 or so characters from Naruto there, so Sasukes, Sakuras, and Gaaras. I have to say my favorite costume though were these three guys that dressed up as ninja from the village that hides in the mist. They had the most elaborate costumes ever, complete with a gas mask and weird goggles. Man they were cool /squeal/. Anyways, on with the story before I get side tracked anymore. Let's see, we ended with Yuki (2) telling Shuichi (1) and Tohma about the entertainment that he had been put through a few times. I guess I'll just start there and just continue!
Standard Disclaimer: I don't own ANY of the characters from Gravitation who are the sole property of the genius Maki Murakami.
"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.
Seeing this, Shuichi turned slightly green and turned away, unable to look at the scared body. Tohma however, couldn't take his eyes away from it, desperately trying to start a plan that would save his, no, Shuichi's Yuki from this kind of torture. Yuki pulled his shirt back down and looked over at Shuichi who was still staring adamantly at the wall.
"I-I'm sorry if this makes you sick, it's just that you need to see what the other universe is like!" Shuichi turned back to Yuki and Tohma saw that a lone tear was traveling down his face.
"I know, and now, more than ever, we need to find a way over so we can get our Yuki back!"
Tohma nodded and stood up "Well, we might as well start were it happened. Why don't you show us exactly where you fell through the wall?"
"Okay" Yuki got up as well and headed to the door, still visibly moving in a large radius around Shuichi and Tohma. Heading down the hall he stood in front of the office.
"This morning, I was walking down the hall in front of here and Shuichi threw a dictionary at me. See? Here it is. Later on, at night, after I woke up, the hall was really dark and I was walking along it from the living room when I tripped over the dictionary and I headed…towards…" he paused "…that wall" Yuki pointed to the wall on his left.
Frowning, Tohma walked towards the wall and slowly placed his hand on it, giving a firm shove. Nothing happened.
With a sigh, Tohma turned around "Well, it's not like I had any high expectations or anything."
"Tohma? What if we had to recreate the environment of that night exactly? I mean, didn't the power go out?" Tohma had never seen Shuichi look this dedicated to a task before.
"Okay, Yuki, why don't you go into the basement and flip off all the fuses. That way we can at least simulate the blackout." Yuki nodded and left for the basement.
"What can I do?" Tohma turned and looked at Shuichi.
"Well… do you remember if this is the exact place that the dictionary was this morning?" Tohma pointed to the dictionary lying on the floor.
"Um…. I think it was a little more over to the left, but yeah, it's in relatively the right place."
"Okay, good enough. I just need to know the general direction of the portal."
"Then yeah, that's the right place." At that moment, the phone rang. Both Shuichi and Tohma jumped, both having forgotten about the outside world for the moment. They looked at each other then Tohma motioned for Shuichi to get it.
Walking quickly over to the phone, Shuichi picked it up "Hello?'
"Hey Shu! Did you forget about practice or something? Sakano's going nuts looking for you and K is about to let a herd of bloodhounds out to look for you" Shuichi heard a faint barking in the background "Is everything all right?"
"Yeah Hiro, I'm fine, it's just that Yuki" Shuichi saw Tohma making frantic head shakes in his direction "er… it's just that Yuki's being…um…annoying! Yeah, Yuki's being a real pain in the ass right now and you know how I get when he's like that." Shuichi laughed nervously.
"Um…okaaaaay. Well, whenever you feel like telling me what's really going on, just call me okay? If that bastard has hurt you again, you better not be covering for him though!"
"He hasn't hurt me, I swear! Really, he's just being a little irritable."
"Uh huh, sure. I'm going to go call K now so when you get your senses back come to work, okay? We really need to finish up this album."
"Okay! Say hi to Ryuuichi for me!"
"Sure, sure…" Shuichi heard the click as Hiro hung up his phone. Sighing, he hung up his own phone then turned back to Tohma.
"Well that went relatively well I believe!"
Shaking his head, Tohma hid his face in his hands "Great, now Hiro is really suspicious." Suddenly all the lights went out. Looking over at the basement door, Tohma saw Yuki coming out.
"Okay, everything's set. I turned off all of the fuses that I could find." Nodding, Tohma set off down the hall again. Walking with his hands in front of him, Tohma came to a stop in front of the left wall.
"All right, let's try this again." Taking a deep breath, Tohma walked towards the wall and slowly placed his hand on it, giving a firm shove. Giving a small yelp of surprise, he fell through, hands first. Stumbling, he looked around and saw himself standing in front of the right wall. Looking around, he saw that Yuki and Shuichi weren't there anymore. Coming to a quick decision, he turned towards the living room. Looking around, he saw the room almost exactly like the Yuki back there had described it. Posters flanked the walls, covered in pictures of a trio of death bringers. Shuichi with his spiked out hair, Hiro with a skull guitar and knowing smirk, and Suguru, with the eyeliner and the kind tattoos that Tohma despised so much. Making a face, Tohma turned back, just in time to see Shuichi come through the wall.
"Whoa…" Shuichi walked towards Tohma, starring adamantly at his double on the poster. "Man, if that's what I look like, then I can see why Yuki's so freaked out. I mean, I'm freaked out!"
"Yeah, and look, there's the taser that you…er…your other self used on Yuki this morning." At that moment, a noise down the hall startled them. Looking up, they saw a dark figure coming towards them, hands out in front of him, groping in the dark.
"Damn you Suguru, I thought you fixed this… oh well, I'll have Shuichi give you a little incentive later on…damn that scrawny soft nose bastard…" Tohma's eyes widened and he quickly headed towards the door.
"Shuichi! Quickly! Act insolent, stubborn, and angry. That's Hiro coming. We know that you live here, but I never asked about myself…" Shuichi nodded and Tohma quickly and quietly opened the front door, giving silent thanks for the cover of dark. Slipping out, he quietly closed the front door behind him, hoping that Shuichi did well, and didn't do anything that would endanger either of their lives. After the door had closed behind Tohma, Shuichi turned back to the dark figure, coming closer.
"God damn!" Shuichi saw the shadow trip, and head towards the wall. 'Oh no, that can't be good.' The figure hit the wall and kept going, now, presumably, gone from this dark dimension.
Cursing, Shuichi ran towards the wall, and ran head first through it. Coming out in his own dimension, Shuichi saw a very pissed off dark Hiro, looking around the living room in bewilderment with a cowering Yuki laying at his feet, a new bump on his head.
"What the fuck is going on here?" Hiro turned around and saw Shuichi "Hey Shu! I didn't see you there! Have you seen what this dickwad has done? He took down all your posters and hid the taser!"
"Er…yeah…I know, I told him to. I was thinking about getting rid of them anyways."
"What? After all that time you took getting them UP?"
"Yeah, you know, in with the new, out with the old. I've been thinking about getting some new chains or an iron maiden to hang up there."
Hiro smirked "That sounds more like you. I thought for a second there that you'd gone pansy on me." Hiro walked over to Shuichi and put an arm around his waist "I couldn't have my main "friend" become a pansy, could I?" He laughed and kissed Shuichi, running his tongue down Shuichi's jaw.
"Heh heh… yeah…" Shuichi tried to make it look like he was enjoying it, but found it rather hard with Yuki at his feet, even if it wasn't his Yuki. 'Man, how am I going to get him back to his dimension?'
"Um…Hiro? I'm really tired right now, I don't really feel like doing anything."
"Mmmm, okay, then I'll do everything."
Shuichi's eyes widened "NO! I mean, no, I really don't feel like it right now." He pushed Hiro away from him, hoping that he wasn't giving too much of a bad image.
Hiro's eyes narrowed and he stared at Shuichi "Fine, I don't care. I'll just sleep on the couch tonight," he grinned "After the party of course."
"Of…course…" Shuichi gulped then turned away from Hiro, and sat down on a couch, trying to look casual about the whole thing. Just then, the doorbell rang. 'Oh…shit…' Shuichi smiled and forced himself up off the couch "I'll get that." Shuichi sauntered up to the door, still trying to look like he owned the place, Hiro's brooding eyes following him the whole time. Shuichi paused in front of the door and peered into the peephole. It was the worst possible person that could be there…Hiro. 'No no no no no no no no, how could this happen?' Taking a deep breath, he positioned himself so that the dark Hiro's view would be obstructed. Opening the door, he looked out.
"Hey Shuichi! I just wanted to check up on you, to see if your all right and all. Can I come in?"
"Er…no."
"No? Um, okay. Can you at give me a reason why I can't come in?"
"Heh, not really, can you just trust me on this one and leave?" Shuichi turned on his patented Bambi eyes. Unable to withstand the full blast of the Bambi eyes, Hiro sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"Yeah yeah, whatever. Just, promise me that you're not being hurt, okay?" Shuichi nodded rapidly and was in the act of closing the door when footsteps came up behind him.
"Who the fuck is at the door? I hope it's that fucking Suguru. He's supposed to be on duty right now!" Shuichi's eyes widened and he tried to close the door but a hand quickly blocked it. The Hiro outside tried to peer around Shuichi to see who was speaking. Getting a glance, his eyes widened and he backed away.
"S-Shuichi! What's going on?" The two Hiros came face to face, the dark one forcing the door out of Shuichi's grasp.
"I agree with…myself…what the fuck's going on here?" Both the Hiros turned and stared at Shuichi.
"Er…would you believe a mirror?" Shuichi laughed nervously.
Yay! Finished! Fini! Rifinito! Terminado! Acabado! Geëindigd! Beendet! All of that hard work, and it only came out as 5 pages/sighs/ oh well! I'm happy with it the way it is. Please, tell me if ANY of you are confused about the two Hiro part. It was really hard to write that because even I kept getting confused. Just know that it's usually the dark Hiro that says, "fuck" or "dickwad" or anything like that. Okay, off to the next chapter! See you then!
BTW: The order of the words at the beginning (the other words for finished) are in this order: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, then German.