Title: Blindsided

By: Kibethan

Disclaimer: I do say that I believe that I do not own Gravitation, as much as I wish that I do...and trust me, I really wish that I do...

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: Well, theoretically, this doesn't need to be here...but I've gotten so used to writing one, I'm writing one to warn you that this doesn't need a warning...meh...

Chapter 7

Unknown Tears

Yuki sat at his computer, just staring at the screen. His fingers weren't moving; no words showed up on the computer screen even though his hands were on the keyboard. He was currently not really all "there" in his mind. Simply put, he was out of it; his mind currently on exactly what had happened after Shuichi and Ryuichi had passed out.

It had been a strange occurrence, especially since it had happened to two people at the exact same time. K and Yuki for the longest time had just stared at the two of them, not really sure what they should do.

Eventually, the doctor had come in and promptly freaked out that there were two unconscious beings in his hospital and why, oh why hadn't Yuki and K called for help?

They just shrugged.

The doctor kicked them out, but made them stay nearby. He was going to have their heads if anything serious had happened to the two that were in la-la land.

Once again, Yuki and K had just stood outside, not really doing anything. The doctor had, after about an hour had passed, called them back inside. Shuichi and Ryuichi were once again conscious and they were talking animatedly to each other.

Strangely, Yuki had felt relieved when he saw Shuichi sitting up and smiling. Lord knows that that didn't happen very often. Perhaps it would start happening more and more now though?

Shuichi had smelled Yuki enter and turned towards him, a wide smile evident on his face.

"It's Ryuichi Sakuma! He's here! He actually came here!" Shuichi had been all smiles for the rest of them time that Yuki had been in there, right up to the point when Yuki had told him that he needed to leave.

When Yuki had told him that, Shuichi's eyes had immediately went big and began to fill up with tears. To be truthful, it had made Yuki more than a little bit uncomfortable. After Yuki had told Shuichi that he would be coming back, though, Shuichi's face had broken out into a grin that just radiated happiness.

Yuki, still at his computer, began tomove his fingers. Words began to fill up the page, gracefully. For the first time in a while, he was having the ability to write without writer's block.

An alarm sounded. Yuki swore colorfully. The alarm was set so that he would know when he had to leave to go to the hospital. After all, he was back on his schedule of every other day, and theoretically, he wasn't supposed to have gone yesterday.

Curse Shuichi for keeping him there longer than he had to be! And curse that bloody alarm for going off! He had finally gotten his flow of the words back! How dare the alarm stop him right when he was on a roll! How dare it make him go to the hospital?

Yuki stopped typing and fumed at the alarm for about five minutes before standing up. If he didn't leave now, he was going to be late getting to the hospital, and Ezaniya had made it clear on the first day that if he was late…well…there would be hell to pay.

Yuki hadn't really been able to sleep the night before, so he had gotten up extra early to try and work on his story, which is why he had been at his computer in the first place.

He opened the door to his apartment and made his way towards the hospital. It was still relatively early in the day and the people were just beginning to exit their houses and start to mill about.

Yuki entered the hospital, nodded a greeting to the head nurse, and headed upstairs to check in with Ezaniya about what he was supposed to be doing today.

"You're late," Yuki heard the second he walked in the door. He stopped short. That was not a good way to start the volunteering hours. He glanced at the silver watch that adorned his wrist.

"By barely five minutes!" he exclaimed, throwing his hands up into the air to emphasize the point. Ezaniya appeared to not be persuaded, but at the last second nodded and decided to just give Yuki a warning. If he were late again…well…then there would be hell to pay. What hell, exactly, he hadn't decided yet…but it would be hell.

Yuki started to walk out the door when Ezaniya called him back.

"What happened to Shuichi?"Ezaniya asked. Yuki was confused. Had something happened to Shuichi that he didn't know about?

"What do you mean?" he asked.

Ezaniya explained that Shuichi had seemed to be extremely happy and he was wondering what had happened to cause such a response from the normally stoic boy. Yuki shrugged and left the room, moving towards the kid's playroom.

Boy, were they ever happy to see him. Even though it had only been a day, to them it seemed like it had been, like, years. Years had passed by in their eyes. Needless to say, they were very excited when they saw Yuki enter.

One of the little girls ran up to him and wrapped her small arms around his legs, a puzzle piece clasped in her hand. She looked up into his face, pleading, in the little kid way, to please, please, please finish the puzzle with him.

How could he resist? It was the puppy face. Evil biker dudes can't resist the puppy face, so of course he wouldn't be able to. He allowed himself to be led over to where she was doing the puzzle. It was a different one from last time, and, thankfully, this one was easier than the other had been.

That wasn't saying much, though, because it still took them quite a long time to finish the puzzle. It didn't help that as soon as they had finished it, the little girl ran and got yet another puzzle for them to do.

And once again, Yuki couldn't say no. Unfortunately, the second puzzle was quite a bit more difficult than the first one had been, and he was stuck forever trying to figure out which pieces to piece together. What in the world was a kid's playroom doing with such a complex puzzle? It was frustrating Yuki, for sure it was frustrating the kid too.

Well, it was evident that she was frustrated; her face was scrunched up, but she was determined to finish the damned puzzle, as Yuki was now referring to it as. Eventually, after what seemed like hours, but in fact had been, well, hours, they finished it.

The two of them looked at it with awe in their faces. They hadn't expected it to be so pretty when it was finished. Yuki glanced at his watch and his eyes widened. It was almost 3 o'clock. He had promised Shuichi that he would visit him today.

Before the little girl could get up and get another puzzle (which it looked like she was about to do), Yuki politely told her that he had had fun, and that now he was going to go and visit somebody in a different room.

Her eyes had went wide her eyes had started to fill up with tears again, but Yuki managed to turn away before he had been caught in the full grasp of the puppy dog face. Yelling a quick goodbye to the rest of the kids, he exited the room and walked towards Shuichi's.

As he got closer and closer, he began to hear angry noises coming from inside. The closer he got, the louder they became. At first, he wasn't sure where they were coming from, but it became evident as he moved closer. He started walking faster, trying to figure out why those noises where coming from there.

It just didn't make any sense. Why would Shuichi be angry?

He opened Shuichi's door. Inside was a sight that he never thought that he would see. Shuichi was sitting on top of bed and punching his pillow to death. He was aiming to kill that pillow. Yuki didn't want to know what the pillow had down to deserve such a fate, but he was sure damned glad that he wasn't the subject of Shuichi's wrath right then.

He never wanted to face this wrath ever. It was scary. Shuichi's face was turning red, and there were tear tracks down Shuichi's face. His eyes were filled with tears that were just waiting to be shed.

Quite obviously something, or someone, had really ticked him off. Shuichi was so distracted with mauling his pillow, that he didn't even notice that Yuki had entered the room.

Yuki was surprised that Shuichi was so mad. He ran over to where Shuichi was and grabbed the pillow away from him. He swore that he could hear the pillow muttering a word of thanks.

Yuki started talking to Shuichi, trying to call him down, but there was no evidence to support that Shuichi recognized who was in the room with him right then. Yuki was so afraid that he was back at square one again with Shuichi. They had been finally starting to make some progress and Shuichi was getting better. But now, well, something had happened.

Yuki was determined to find out what it was. Yet, Shuichi wasn't recognizing him at all. Yuki was at a loss for what to do. He could smile, but that wouldn't help Shuichi. He could run and get Ezaniya, but he certainly didn't want to do that. He was a little bit confused as to why there were no nurses coming in when one of their patients was so clearly distressed.

But then again, when had they ever come in. They only seemed to be really worried when one of their patients was unconscious.

Go figure.

Yuki groaned. Between the puzzle and this, he was full of frustration. At least he had managed to finish the jigsaw puzzle, now he was trying to figure out the puzzle that was Shuichi. It was not an easy task, that's for sure.

Shuichi was just sitting there on the bed. He was silent, his arms hung limply at his sides since Yuki had taken the pillow away from him.

Yuki tried over and over to get Shuichi to respond to him, but nothing was working. He gave a loud, annoyed sigh and left the room. He didn't even bother saying goodbye to Shuichi.

He would return though, for some strange reason, he always returned. It baffled even him.

As he left, unbeknownst to him, a single tear ran down Shuichi's face, followed by another and another. Shuichi grabbed Mamoru-chan and sobbed into him.

Yuki walked into Ezaniya's office without knocking. Ezaniya was talking on the phone, but one look at Yuki's face and Ezaniya told the person he was talking to that he would call them back.

"What's going on?" Ezaniya asked, as he laid the phone into its cradle.

"Did Shuichi have any visitors today?" Yuki asked him, leaning against the doorframe.

"Besides you?"

"Yeah, besides me."

"No," Ezaniya started. "Why?"

Yuki proceeded to tell him of what had just happened with Shuichi. Concern was written all over Ezaniya's face after Yuki had told him the complete story of Shuichi's episode, but he didn't make any moves to do something about it. He did resolve, though, to keep closer watch on who was going into Shuichi's room.

All of a sudden, a completely random thought made it's way through Yuki's brain.

"Is Shuichi allowed to go outside?" he asked Ezaniya; he was really, really curious whether Shuichi was allowed to or not. Ezaniya gave him a weird look.

"Yeah, he's allowed as long as he has somebody with him, but he never goes outside. Why?"

Yuki grinned, a gleam shining brightly in his eye. He had finally figured out a way to try to shake Shuichi out his depressive state.

"I'm thinking he needs to get a little fresh air…"

End Chapter 7

Wow, it's been...a while since I've updated this. To be honest, I had horrible writer's block...but isn't that always the way? Don't worry, I'm thinking that the next chapter will be up relatively soon, since I'm very much considering writing it tonight...

Since I have nothing to say, A review of reviews is in order:

WhiteLightning: Yay! I'm glad that you thought that it was funny! That makes he happy, clari chan: Will do, will do, Ruby631: Trust me...I was a teddy bear like that too, Shuuichi-chan: I'm so glad that you like it! I'm glad you think it's kawaii, goku-the-saru: We definitely need to play Mario Party more often..., Shirubaa Kitsune: Yes, it is getting good, and it will get better, Sailor Epyon: Thank you! I got accepted to the University of Oregon too, so now I have a choice, Lily Avalon: I meant to say that he recognized Ryuichi from his voice...sorry if it came off as different, Mizuky-chan: Yes, the teddy bear was named that for a reason, Dark Mimiru-chan: The angst will come back, the angst will come back, WhiteTopaz: The stuff on his past is coming up...eventually, I promise, ichigo-chan: I'll try to update faster, I promise, xxPetalsAndThorns9xx: Man, I just caught a cold today..., Ivin Artemis Draconis: Yay! I like it when people laugh, Crazi4Grasper: Hahahaha...updating faster, now :that's: funny...I'm gonna try though (that's what's really going to be funny...), Syaoran is kawaii: Live Action Sailor Moon Mamoru...:drools:..., Staryday: Another chapter, relatively soon, I promise, Kimika: :puts hand behind head, nervous laughter:...a...hahahaha...hahah, Elements: Hurray!A review from you! I alwaysenjoy those, Soralover1: They are adorable, aren't they, Kloudy Reignfall: Everything happens! That's my story, CrazyTR: Hurray! A AU story that you like, DarrkKatt: Boy, do I ever feel sorry for you..., Bram: I'm glad that you like getting replied to! That's why I do it! Because I :always: loved it when people replied to mine, Notta-chan: Thanks!...and man...being a geology major would be so hard...but I love rocks, DEE: Did you take this name from FAKE perhaps :nudge nudge:...I love FAKE, Tokyo kitsune: Thanks, I'm going to need it..., Falcon Zanbandia of Nightmares: hehehe...K is my favorite character, tammy: you shall see what happens next...it will be exciting, Sakura Minamino: No, I can see where they might call him "Yuki-sensei"...but I didn't think of that when I was writing it..., XmakeXmeXfeelX: I'm glad! It's what I try to do, Tasukis Devil:You're lucky, you didn't have to waitverylong...

That's it! Wow...:looks up:...that's a lot. I just felt like I should write things to people andmake them a little bitlonger because it's been so longsince I updated...

I'm sorry if I forgot anybody...but I'm pretty sure I didn't...

Oh! I finally saw the last Disc of Gravitation today! I almost started crying because it was over...

PLEASE REVIEW:down on hands and knees begging:

Okay, until next time, PEACE, and remember...Gackt loves you...You loves you too...

Ki-chan