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Something New

He was in a dilemma, and a major one at that. Here he was at the grocery store and completely at a loss. What to do? What to choose? After he had consumed his gazillionth box of strawberry Pocky, Yuki, sick of finding empty Pocky boxes all over their apartment and having it smell like strawberries 24/7, told him to try something new.

At a mere suggestion of not having strawberry Pocky to munch on, Shuichi nearly fainted. He protested and pleaded and put on the cutest look he could muster but Yuki was adamant. And so, here he was, looking longingly at the neat rows of pink boxes of Pocky that he wasn't allowed to have anymore. With regret, Shuichi tore his eyes away from those boxes and proceeded down the aisle. There were rows upon rows of other neat and tasty looking things, but none held any interest for Shuichi. To him, not being able to consume Pocky anymore was like not being allowed to sing and that was a terrifying prospect.

Minutes later, he found himself once again in front of the Pocky shelves. He was about to cave in and reach for a box when his cell phone rang. Shuichi's heart skipped a beat. In his mind, he imagined Yuki, equipped with all of K's spying gadgets, making sure Shuichi stayed as far away from strawberry Pocky as possible and now that he caught him about to pick one box up he was calling him on his cell to prevent such an action. Shuichi's fingers were mere millimeters away from a box when the phone rang again. To answer or not to answer? Finally, after about the fifth ring, Shuichi took his cell out of his pocket and with a sweating finger, pressed the answer button.

"Shindou-kun! I thought you had died or something! It usually doesn't even take half a ring for you to answer your phone."

Shuichi almost fainted from relief. It was only Hiro.

"Hiro! Damn you! You scared me half to death!"

"Oh, did I? Didn't mean to! Heh heh. What are you up to?"

Shuichi thought for a second before answering.

"I don't wanna talk about it right now…" he finally mumbled in as depressed a voice as he could get, letting Hiro know that all was not well.

"Yuki bugging you again?"

"Yes… well, no, not really… I mean…no…"

"He better not be. Hey, look, I just called to make sure everything's going fine. I gotta run now… K's here. And you know what that means…Expect him at your place soon…Well, talk to you later!" and with that, both hung up and Shuichi was back to staring at the Pocky boxes. Maybe, perhaps just maybe he might be able to sneak one into their apartment without Yuki noticing. But surely he would find out eventually…

The whole situation was completely disastrous. Shuichi's eyes traveled the length of the aisle when his eyes suddenly hit a gold mine. Not like Yuki specified what he meant by 'something new'…Shuichi grabbed six boxes of the product and proceeded with a huge grin to the check out. About half an hour of hassling by girls and fans and signing of about a trillion different objects later, he finally made it out of the shop.

Unlocking the door to their apartment and rushing in to find Yuki, Shuichi proudly took the six boxes of the product out and showed them him.

"Check it out, Yuki!"

Yuki grabbed on to the table for better support. He had been up all night trying to meet his latest deadline, all he needed now was more:

"It's DOUBLE STRAWBERRY POCKY!"

And with that, Shuichi happily bounced out of the room to enjoy his new-found object of joy and bliss, leaving Yuki staring hopelessly after Shuichi's rapidly retreating back.

AN: Hi peoples! Thanks for dropping by and reading my story. I hope you liked it. And thanks to those of you who have posted reviews, I really appreciate it:D