Title: Blindsided

By: Kibethan, ya'll don't need to know my real name, though, maybe, you do know it? O.O

Disclaimer: Well, because Hiro and Ayaka were boyfriend and girlfriend I obviously don't own the rights to Gravitation. If I did, that would've never happened and Hiro would've been instantly hooked up with K. Poor Suguru, he's always alone…

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: This chapter might contain some yaoi…wait…of COURSE it does! Ya'll would hurt me if it didn't…oh, but it might contain some swearing too…ALSO! Look up words at your own risk.

This chapter is dedicated to Elements! Happy Birthday and thank you always for e-mailing me back…even when it sometimes takes a long time for me to reply…;; I always look forward to talking to you when I see you online!

Chapter 11

Not Many Options

It had been a week.

A whole week since Shuichi had revealed to him what seemed to be his deepest, darkest, secret. Thoughts of who "he" was and what "it" was still plagued Yuki's mind, but he had learned to live with it.

At the beginning, it had consumed him. He hadn't been able to think of anything else. He had had a vacant look on his face each time he had gone back to the hospital to do his volunteer work.

The kids had definitely noticed. Usually when he came into a room they would jump onto him, almost knocking him done, yelling and screaming. When they did it last time he came, however, they didn't rouse a response out of him. He just stared blankly ahead. Even the characteristic scowl that he usually had placed on his face was gone.

Oh yeah, the kids definitely noticed, and they took advantage of it. Yuki had agreed to things that he never would have agreed to in the first place. He now owed all of them ice cream and a trip to Disneyland when they got out of the hospital. He would have never agreed to that if he had actually been listening.

Ezaniya had noticed. Usually when Yuki checked in to tell him that he was here to volunteer, Yuki's tone of voice would betray that he definitely didn't want to be there –though, lately, his tone of voice didn't convey that message as much; it was still a little bit there though. However, in the past week, if Yuki had even remembered to check in at all, his voice had been monotone, devoid of all emotion possible.

On the times that Yuki had forgotten to check in, Ezaniya had found him in the playroom being unknowingly bullied by the kids there. Ezaniya had sat by the door and listened in, laughing as Yuki had agreed to do God knows what.

Hell, even Shuichi had noticed that something was wrong. Sure he couldn't tell by the body language that Yuki was using because he couldn't see, but he could tell that Yuki was being uncharacteristically quiet. A couple of times he had even thought that Yuki had left the room because it was so quiet. Only when he strained hard and heard the sound of breathing that wasn't his own did he realize that Yuki was, indeed, just sitting there –or standing, he couldn't really be sure.

He had to wonder exactly what it was that Yuki was doing while he was just sitting there.

"Pervert," Shuichi had said. That word had snapped Yuki out of his reverie, if only for a little while.

"What?"

"Pervert," Shuichi repeated, knowing that he was going to finally be able to get Yuki to respond to something.

"I'm not a pervert," Yuki stated, trying to defend himself.

"Sure you are. You're sitting alone, quiet, in a room with a cute, sexy boy such as myself. Who knows where your hands are and what they're doing at the moment. I keep half expecting you to start moaning…"

In another uncharacteristic moment, Yuki had blushed bright red, unable to believe that Shuichi had been hiding that dirty mind from him.

The last person that had figured out that something was wrong with Yuki was his editor, Mizuki. She had called him a couple of days ago to chew him out for forgetting to call her every other day. It had been days since he had called her and she was starting to get worried, not to mention pissed.

When she had called, however, he had completely neglected to answer his phone, getting her to actually walk to his home and up to his doorstep and ring the doorbell. After the sixth time ringing the doorbell and he still hadn't answered the door, she had almost broke the door down to make sure that he wasn't in there dead.

However, she had rung the doorbell once more, for good measure. Luckily she had; Yuki had answered the door as she was about to kick in the door, barely dressed. Had she burst in earlier, she probably would have been greeted with a scene that she –unlike many fangirls- did not want to see.

Even though up until that point she had suspected that Yuki's mind was being occupied by something else, she was absolutely positive when she gave him a lecture and he didn't once interrupt her and try to defend himself.

Nope.

He just stood there and took it, promising to call in a week –Mizuki had changed it from every two days because she knew that Yuki would never remember to call.

Everybody was worried about him, but nobody actually decided to take action and do something about it. They all just watched him, or got him to do things that he wouldn't usually do.

Yes. At the beginning of the week he had not been able to get his mind off of it. Even he had known that he needed to get his mind on something else. But he just hadn't been able to. However, he was starting to get over it.

And now here he was, seven days later, and not having to go in to the hospital. Yuki wracked his brain trying to figure out what he could do for the whole day.

He could, hmm, read? Yuki quickly crossed that out, arguing with himself that there were no good books out, except his own.

Seeing a movie was also out because there were no good movies either. Yuki went through possibility after possibility and finally decided that he only really had two options.

He could stay at home and mope, or he could go to the hospital and visit. Neither option seemed particularly desirable, but he had deduced that those were definitely his only two.

He decided to stay home and mope. What could possibly be better than that? He had stayed in his boxers and plopped down onto the living room couch, a beer in one hand and the remote in the other.

However, upon turning on the T.V. he had realized that there was nothing on except daytime soaps and he would rather be infibulated than watch those. Sure, it was fun to write drama, but at least his books didn't involve, "last week on Pregnant Days in Tokyo, Megumi got pregnant with Kazuki's baby…or did she! We found out it was actually Daisuke's, who is currently in a coma from being hit by a car, driven by Megumi's own sister, Ayumi, who was angry at him for having an affair with Miori (the slut!) who is secretly pregnant with Kazuki's love child. Meanwhile, Satoshi caught Aiko sleeping with his father! And worse! She's pregnant too!"

Even though he would've rather been infibulated, there was nothing else on so he watched the first minute and after Megumi revealed her true love for Daisuke, he shut it off, not being able to stomache another word of it.

Yuki hadn't just changed the channel; he had shut off the entire T.V., afraid to ever turn it on again. He had a feeling that Megumi's high squeaky voice was going to haunt him for the rest of his life.

Yuki just laid there for a while, staring at the ceiling, the pattern beginning to burn itself into his retinas. He blinked and sat up. Moping around the house was turning out to be much lamer than he had originally thought. His only other option, he had figured, was to go to the hospital.

So that's where he was headed.

Still in his boxers –and he had only had a sip of the beer!- he opened the door to head outside and was instantly bombarded by freezing cold. Oh yes, it was still winter. He shut the door and went to put on some more clothes.

It was an absolutely beautiful day out, sunny, but with a biting cold. He put on multiple layers before attempting to make the journey outside again. As he was walking down the street, he wished that he had been smart enough to drive to the hospital instead of walking; it was so cold!

While he was walking he saw all the green and red spattered everywhere, as well as the lights hung up on all the houses and he realized that it was almost Christmastime. This brought about a whole new fear in Yuki.

Was he going to have to visit his parents? His brother? His sister? Was he going to have to get them presents? Should he get Shuichi something?

He paused in his steps; what kind of things would Shuichi like anyway? He had already gotten him a teddy bear. Yeah, he didn't need to get Shuichi anything else.

He continued his walk to the hospital. A light layer of clouds settled itself over him, and it started to snow softly. Instead of stopping to feel the snowflakes on his face, Yuki quickened his pace, eager to get out of the cold. He much more preferred the heat.

Once he got to the hospital, instead of checking in with Ezaniya, he just walked right up towards Shuichi's room. He figured that since he wasn't officially volunteering that day, he could bypass the visit to Ezaniya.

As he neared the room, he could hear hushed voices whispering rapidly. He approached closer. The voices seemed to be coming from right in front of Shuichi's room. Yuki mildly wondered what they were talking about. Okay, so mildly wasn't exactly the right word. He was extremely curious. Yuki sat down nonchalantly in a seat, close enough to hear what they were saying. He hoped that the two that were talking were into their conversation enough so that they wouldn't notice somebody around them. His hopes were answered.

Yuki was shocked, though, when he actually took a close look at exactly who it was that was talking outside of Shuichi's room.

It was Ezaniya. And a nun.

Okay, so he could kind of understand why Ezaniya might be standing outside of Shuichi's room. After all, Ezaniya was involved in Shuichi's life daily. The nun, however, Yuki couldn't understand.

He watched their body language closely. Sure, he could hear them all right, but communication is only 10 verbal. The nun was pacing back and forth in front of Ezaniya. With his glasses on, Yuki could tell that she was incredibly nervous and worried about something.

Ezaniya looked worried as well, his hands wringing around a piece of paper that he had been carrying. Yuki struggled to get a little bit closer.

"What are we going to do?" the nun asked. "With Christmas coming up the orphanage is running low on money. We don't have the funds to continue to pay for Shuichi's stay in the hospital. Maybe he should just come back…"

"No, he can't go back. He doesn't know his way around the orphanage by heart. He wouldn't be able to get around. Not to mention, isn't he still there?"

"Yes, Taki is still at the orphanage. He's just as troublesome as always too. Under normal circumstances I would never bring Shuichi back. But, but," the nun stopped moving and stared right into Ezaniya's eyes, "we can't afford him to stay here."

"I could pay," Ezaniya started, "I could use some of my paycheck to continue to keep Shuichi here. I'm sure if we worked together we would be able to gather the money…"

"I will not have you use your own money, Ezaniya-san."

"But what other options are there? Could he possibly be adopted?"

"Nobody is willing to adopt a 17 year old blind boy."

Yuki listened with baited breath. Shuichi was going to have to leave? But…where would he go? As the nun had said, he would only be able to go back to the orphanage. And this Taki person…was he, "he"?

Yuki continued on listening.

"Is it possible," Ezaniya asked, "for Shuichi to just live with somebody else? Not necessarily be adopted, but just living with somebody?"

"The law state's that, no, that's not allowed because Shuichi is a minor."

"He's seventeen. He'll be eighteen very soon, though!"

"Desperate times call for desperate measures. Why, Ezaniya, do you have somebody in mind? Surely not yourself; you have 4 kids already and don't have room or time for somebody else."

"No, not myself, but I do know of somebody that I think has the time and room."

Yuki held his breath. No way. There was no way that Ezaniya was even considering volunteering him, right? No, he would just have to sit patiently and hope that he mentioned who he was thinking of. Apparently the nun was thinking the same thing.

"Who are you thinking of, Ezaniya-san?" she asked politely.

"His name is Yuki Eiri, he volunteers here at the hospital and has actually taken Shuichi outside before. He would be perfect."

"Isn't he that good-for-nothing author that's always getting into trouble?" Yuki was so in shock that he didn't even register that what the nun had just said was a complete and udder insult to him. Ezaniya had volunteered him. Had volunteered HIM to do watch after Shuichi!

"He's not all that bad. Sure he's a bit rough around the edges, but he does like Shuichi and I think that he's getting better. He has everything that Shuichi would or could possibly need…"

"NO!"

The nun and Ezaniya wheeled towards the loud outburst.

"Yuki-san?' Ezaniya asked. "What are you doing? Why are you here?"

"This is Yuki?' the nun asked Ezaniya.

"I won't do it! I won't! I won't! I won't! I can't watch after Shuichi!"

"I guess there's not point in asking how much of our talk you've heard, isn't there?" Ezaniya asked dryly.

"You won't do it?" the nun asked, tears starting to shine in her eyes. She was quite obviously very stressed out over this thing. "You won't even do it, even during the Christmas season?"

Yuki stared at her, ready to yell at them again. Yet, he found that he couldn't shout. The reason, of course, being that he was staring at a nun with tears in her eyes. Who could possibly resist the tearing up nun? Certainly not Yuki.

"I, I just couldn't watch after Shuichi. He and I still only barely get along and my house might not be 'blind-friendly' if you know what I mean."

"Yuki-san," the nun started, "Please, PLEASE take him. We are completely out of options. If I could think of something else, I would. Won't you please watch him until another option opens up?"

"Well…I…"

"Eiri-san," Ezaniya started, using a more familiar name, "if you do this I will consider this your volunteer work and you won't have to come to the hospital again. I will call Mizuki-san and let her know. We are truly begging you."

With that both he and the nun got down onto their knees, silently begging. Yuki knew he wasn't going to be able to say "no". He was going to have to watch the brat because he couldn't bring himself to say "no" to a begging nun.

He couldn't say "no" especially around Christmas.

"Fine. I'll do it."

Even as he said those words, Yuki was starting to regret them. But he couldn't take them back.

He was just going to have to learn to live with having Shuichi live with him.

Fuck.

End Chapter 11

Sorry about ending with a swearword; it just seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Okay, so, Hi! I'm Ki-chan! Nice to meet you! Yes, it seems like it's been an awful long time since I've updated. I'm sorry. I truly didn't mean to let it be this long. Just…just…things happened. And I'm moving into my dorm on September 16th! Scary!

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