Title: Blindsided
By: Kibethan
Disclaimer: If I owned Gravitation, then I wouldn't feel so bad about not having this chapter out sooner...
Summary: Yuki isn't exactly a favorite in the public's eye, so his editor decides to shape him up to seem like a good guy by volunteering him to volunteer at a hospital. What will happen when he meets a particularly interesting patient by the name of Shindou Shuichi?
Half-warning: There's some ooc-ness in Yuki's character...I apologize, I was in a sappy mood...
Previously on "Blindsided"
"And, you're apologizing to me?" Yuki asked, still in shock. He couldn't believe that that was happening.
"Yes," Shuichi repeated for the last time, "I'm so sorry."
Chapter 6
Mamoru-chan
When Shuichi had told Yuki that, Yuki had been in absolute shock. For minutes afterwards Yuki had his mouth hanging slack-jawed like a fish and his eyes had just been wide and unseeing. Two people that had also been admitted into the hospital walked past the two males.
"Tsk tsk," one of them murmured to the other, "I thought that they were supposed to keep the crazy ones locked up in a separate wing…" Even that rude comment fell on Yuki's deaf ears, which was probably a good thing, because if he had heard that, there would've been hell to pay.
Shuichi, not being able to see what was going on, and not hearing the comment, immediately assumed the worst. He thought that Yuki hadn't accepted his apology. His eyes clouded over and he sunk down to his knees on the floor. His empty gaze was directed down; tears filled his wide eyes.
"I guess now I know how it felt when I rejected you," Shuichi whispered quietly to himself. His tears hit the floor with small 'plops'. The sound of the tears seemed to break Yuki out of his reverie.
He shook his head from side to side, trying to clear his mind. He gave a small start when he noticed Shuichi sitting on the ground in front him, silently crying. Sighing, he figured that he ought to do something about it.
Unfortunately for him, comforting somebody had never exactly been his forte. In fact, he was usually the person that made the other person want to cry. He'd never felt the need to comfort before. Now that he was feeling it, he didn't know what to do.
Being the writer that he was, he broke up what he was looking at into parts. Shuichi was in pieces on the ground. Okay, now, if you break that up, you get two things. Shuichi was on the ground and Shuichi was crying. The first thing, at least, Yuki could try to do deal with.
Trying not to startle the distraught boy, Yuki called out to him and helped him up to his feet. Shuichi didn't really look like he understood what was going on, but at least Yuki could lead him back into his room without too much trouble.
Gently guiding Shuichi down the hallway and around the corner, Yuki opened up Shuichi's room and gave Shuichi a gentle shove inside.
Yuki then turned around and closed the door so as to get some privacy. Taking Shuichi's shoulder, he put the sat the boy onto his bed. Shuichi, feeling the reassuring comfort of his blanket immediately lay down and wrapped himself up. He turned so that he was facing away from Yuki, even though he couldn't see him.
Yuki had a feeling that Shuichi could feel when he was looking at him, so he directed his gaze elsewhere. While he was looking around the room, he spotted the teddy bear that he had given to Shuichi.
He gave a start. He certainly hadn't expected Shuichi to keep it. Yet, there it was, in all it's glory, sitting on the little bedside table, facing Shuichi. Yuki bit back a smile. So maybe Shuichi had really been sorry when he apologized to him.
His mind thought back to the day before…golly…had it only been the day before? It seemed like it had been so long ago. Only yesterday Shuichi had hated him and rejected him. Only yesterday he had sworn that he would never enter the room that he was currently in again. Only yesterday he had been in the hospital.
Wait a minute…did that mean that he would have to come back here again tomorrow?! After all, Ezaniya hadn't known that Yuki was coming in today. Yuki let out a small growl.
Shuichi heard the growl and turned towards Yuki. For the first time he seemed to be aware that he was no longer sitting out in the hospital hallway, but was actually sitting in his own little room.
Yuki, seeing that Shuichi was finally starting to be aware of his surroundings, decided to question him.
"How did you know it was me?"
Shuichi raised his head up.
"Do you forgive me?" he asked quietly. Yuki gave out a loud sigh.
"Yes, I forgive you, now, how did you know it was me?" he repeated so exasperatedly.
"You forgive me?" Shuichi asked, yet again. All Yuki wanted to do was grab Shuichi head and smack into him that he forgave him. If he hadn't, why would he have dragged Shuichi all the way back into his room instead of leaving him broken down in the hallway?
"I forgive you! Now, would you please answer my question?!"
"What question was that?" Shuichi asked, tilting his head slightly to the left. A vein in Yuki's forehead throbbed. He was starting to see red and he was just about to march out of them when he got a control on his temper. Slowly, he breathed in and out, trying to calm down.
"How did you know it was me?" he asked very slowly, as though talking to a small child.
"Oh! That's easy," Shuichi started answering; "I could tell it was you by the way you smell. Your smell is very distinct and I knew right away that it was you. That's also how I knew where you were. Just followed my nose!"
"Like a dog?" Yuki asked dryly. Shuichi just nodded childishly, not catching any of the sarcasm that was flowing off of Yuki in waves. Yuki wanted to smack his palm against his forehead, but somehow he managed not to. He was really starting to get the hang of this whole 'thinking before acting' thing. "So," he started a completely different topic, "you kept the bear I gave you…" Yuki trailed off at the bright red blush that seemingly stained Shuichi's face.
Shuichi nodded.
"Um…yes. I kept it. It was too soft not too!" he explained quickly, hoping that maybe Yuki would by it. Shuichi's eyes held what he was really thinking though.
"Uh-huh," Yuki said teasingly, "I see how it is." He smirked. Shuichi couldn't see the smirk, but he could sense it. Immediately he started on a ramble giving excuses about why he kept it.
"…and I just couldn't get rid of Mamoru-chan…" Shuichi kept going. Yuki jerked his face towards Shuichi.
"Wait…Mamoru?" he interrupted Shuichi. Once again, Shuichi blushed as he realized that he had let something slip.
"Um…yeah…Mamoru. It's his name."
"You named it?"
"Yeah, Mamoru."
"To protect?" Yuki asked sincerely. "Why?" Yet again, Shuichi was blushing and this time he was taking his reason to the grave with him, no matter how much Yuki poked and prodded, Shuichi was not going to give in.
Yuki sensed this and gave up trying to make Shuichi tell him what he was doing. Yuki was completely astonished by the 180 that had taken place in Shuichi. Like he had thought before, only yesterday the two weren't on talking terms.
What had caused Shuichi's sudden change of heart? He looked at Shuichi, the poor blushing boy had his head directed towards the floor again, and decided that the change of him getting some useful information out of him would probably be nil.
Still, though, he wondered. His thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door.
Both Shuichi and Yuki's head snapped towards the sound. Yuki looked at Shuichi. As much as he knew, Shuichi never got any visitors. Shuichi was equally as confused.
With furrowed eyebrows, Yuki walked over to the room door and swung it open. Enter Ryuichi and K. And I mean really enter. As soon as the door had even started to open, Ryuichi had flung it open with an admonished flair. K, as always, had walked in quietly behind him.
"You!" Yuki screamed loudly. Shuichi turned towards Yuki; a questioning look was plastered all over his face. He was very lost. He didn't recognize the person's smell at all.
"Yep. It's me…" Ryuichi started.
"Oh my God!" Shuichi interrupted. Shock had replaced the questioning look. He knew exactly who was currently in the room with him. "Sakuma Ryuichi, Sakuma Ryuichi, Sakuma Ryuichi…" he repeated over and over. He was taking in very deep breaths very fast. Then he screamed.
Loud.
Really loud.
Yuki and K covered their ears. Ryuichi just stood there, as though he was used to it. Which, of course, he was; fan girls were always screaming after him. Carefully, Yuki uncovered his ears.
Shuichi started rapidly talking about how much he loved Nittle Grasper and how he could die happy now that Ryuichi was in the room with him.
Frankly, Yuki wondered why Shuichi was thinking about dying, but he didn't think too much about it, worrying only about that fact that Shuichi probably wasn't getting as much air as he should have been. Shuichi's face started turning purple…but he didn't stop talking.
Yuki was almost even more preoccupied with, though, why Ryuichi and K were in the room with Shuichi and himself. His mind couldn't come up with any reason except some strange, strange coincidence. And even that seemed highly implausible.
And, yet again, he was still wondering why Shuichi was so happy and not the angry person he had been just a single day before.
Just then, Ryuichi spotted the teddy bear. Of course, he recognized it right away. He joined Shuichi and was freaking out.
"Ohmygosh!! This is the person that you gave the teddy bear too?! So cute! So cute! So cute!! I knew that I did the right thing when I helped you!" Ryuichi was talking just as rapidly as Shuichi currently was.
Before long Yuki and K had two people who looked exactly the same and talked exactly the same doing the exact same thing.
Meh.
Ignoring them, Yuki decided to ask the levelheaded person, K, why they were here. K admitted without much hesitation that Ryuichi had been curious as to what Yuki had done with the teddy bear and had enlisted K's help in tracking him down.
Yuki now knew what the eyes he thought he'd felt on his back had been. It made a lot more sense now that he knew that. Yuki and K were engrossed in their little conversation when they heard two thumps and Ryuichi and Shuichi's banter was cut off.
Confused, they turned towards their two comrades. They're eyes went wide when they saw that both Shuichi and Ryuichi were passed out. Shuichi was on his bed and Ryuichi was on the floor.
Ryuichi and Shuichi had passed out from hyperventilation.
"Damn," K said, "Ryuichi passed out from hyperventilation again, and he apparently taught Shuichi how to too…"
End Chapter 6
Well, at least this chapter didn't take me quite as long to get through...I actually managed to finish it in...a little over two weeks. The next one will be out sooner, I promise! I actually have a plotline coming up in my mind; one that will work with what I've already gotten in here. By the way, this bloody chapter was done yesterday, but as soon as I went to post...BAH!...fanfiction stopped working...
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