Title: ブラインドサイデド
By: キベセン
Disclaimer: If I owned the rights to Gravitation there is a very good chance that I wouldn't have spent about one hour trying to loft my bed in a dorm room. As it happens, I did FINE on my own until I needed to put part of the bed on the other part. When that happened, I marched next door and asked if one of the guys living there would help me. One of them did. See, yeah, in that convoluted story I've told you that I don't own Gravitation.
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: Swearing, AU, OOC, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Chapter 15
Mistletoe anyone?
"What the hell?" Yuki thought as he awoke the next morning. Green and red decorations surrounded him. As far as he could remember, none of that had been in his house the night before. So what exactly had gone on? Yuki stood up and, after brushing the pine needles out of his hair, marched straight to his bedroom to confront Mika and Tohma. He was sure that they had something to do with it.
He burst open the door with enough force to wake a forest of hibernating bears –heck, he could even hear the neighbors about him yelling at him to be quiet- yet, the married couple remained asleep. This could only mean one thing: they had stayed up late the night before. And Yuki had a good idea of what they were doing too.
Of course, his loud banging hadn't woken up Tatsuha or Shuichi either, so they had probably been in on it too.
But, in the spirit of Christmas, because, after all, it was Christmas, Yuki decided not to wake them any of them up. Besides, a quick glance to his alarm clock next to Tohma's head told him it was hardly 6:00 a.m.
What was he doing up at 6:00, anyway? He couldn't figure it out. Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried to he couldn't fall back asleep. After thirty minutes, he swore under his breath and sat up. Sighing, he walked back into the bedroom formally known as his and picked out some clothes.
Yuki walked into the bathroom, and after deliberating for a while, decided to take a bath. Bathes were so relaxing and it was his last ditch effort to fall asleep, even if it was under the disguise of trying to wake up.
It didn't work and soon Yuki was all dressed and ready for Christmas.
A thought crossed his mind. Yuki raced back into the living room and sure enough, there was a Christmas tree standing in the corner and Yuki wasn't quite sure how he hadn't noticed that it was there earlier; it hadn't even occurred to him why there were pine needles in his hair. Beneath it was what seemed like hundreds of wrapped presents. Much to Yuki's surprise, even the gifts that he had gotten yesterday were under there. Thank goodness he had had them gift wrapped at the store, or else his family would know what he had gotten them.
Yuki heard a knock resound at the door. He whipped around looking for a clock. What time was it? He knew pretty well who it was. Where they there early? Everyone else was still completely asleep. The knocking kept on going at the door. Yuki quickly walked to the door and opened it. Standing in the doorway was none other than Ryuichi Sakuma.
Yuki let out a sigh.
"Hi, Yuki!" Ryuichi said, Kumagorou in his hands. "Where is everybody? Where are they! Why did you call me yesterday? I thought you had forgotten that I had given you my phone number when we saw you in the hospital room! I'm so glad you called! Who is this brother of yours who you say is obsessed with me? Oh yeah! You mentioned that Shuichi-chan was going to be here too! Is he? Is he!" Ryuichi was talking at a million miles an hour and switching topics like mad. Yuki found himself briefly wondering why Tatsuha was so obsessed with this guy.
"They're still asleep…" Yuki explain carefully.
"WHAT! It's Christmas morning! Wake them up! Wake them up!" Ryuichi immediately went into the living room. Upon seeing Shuichi, Ryuichi screeched in excitement. "It's Shuichi! It's Shuichi!" Ryuichi started dancing around.
Surprisingly, Shuichi stayed asleep. He must've been very, very tired. Tatsuha, on the other hand, woke up.
"Huh, what was that?" Yuki could hear Tatsuha mumbling to himself, "that sounded a lot like," Tatsuha looked up, "RYUICHI SAKUMA!" Tatsuha's eyes flew wide. He started hyperventilating, and for a second, Yuki was sure that Tatsuha was going to pass out.
Ryuichi was regarding Tatsuha with interest. He gave a questioning glance to Yuki. Yuki just nodded. Slowly, Ryuichi approached the hyperventilating boy. Tatsuha stopped breathing completely.
"Are you Tatsuha?" Ryuichi asked him with uncharacteristic calmness. Tatsuha nodded. Ryuichi gave a smile. "Hi! I'm Ryuichi Sakuma! Your brother called me and told me that you would love to meet me! I didn't realize that you knew Tohma! I probably would have met you earlier. On the other hand, why didn't you ever try to meet me through Tohma?" Ryuichi asked, his cheeriness coming back. Yuki snickered. Tatsuha had asked Tohma to set up a date with Ryuichi and him –well, not date persay, but, like, a meeting. But Tohma had refused, saying that it wouldn't be good for both of them. Tatsuha would pass out from Ryuichi's peppiness and Ryuichi would be sad that Tatsuha had passed out.
But Yuki had gone behind his back. Screw Tohma, Yuki was doing something good for his brother.
Ryuichi was continuing on talking like a maniac to Tatsuha who was starting to turn blue from lack of oxygen. Yuki noticed and walked up to his brother.
"Dude, remember to breathe." Yuki said behind Tatsuha's ear. Tatsuha nodded and gulped in some air. Ryuichi had finally stopped talking, realizing that Tatsuha's brain was still back on, "Hi, I'm Ryuichi."
"Are you okay?" Ryuichi asked Tatsuha. Tatsuha nodded. "I'm sorry. K-san tells me at times that I'm a little overbearing. Do you want to hold Kumagorou? It'll make you feel better." Tatsuha promptly fainted from happiness. Ryuichi looked down at the boy with a confused expression. "Hey? Are you okay?" He knelt down and tried to wake him up.
Yuki had watched the whole thing from the sidelines. Yep, he had definitely done the right thing when he had called Ryuichi. He had been a little bit worried at first that he would have a repeat of what happened in the hospital room (Shuichi and Ryuichi fainting), and, he had to admit, he was kind of halfway there (Tatsuha had fainted), but Yuki knew he it was the right thing anyway.
Yuki heard some more knocking on the door. Unless it was Christmas carolers (and Yuki heard no song), it would be them. Yuki glanced over to Shuichi. He was still asleep. Yuki debated whether to go and wake him up or not, but the knocking on the door persisted and Yuki decided that he better not leave guests standing out in the cold.
Ryuichi even paused in his attempt to wake up Tatsuha to see what Yuki was doing. Yuki opened the door for the second time in the day. Standing in the doorway bearing gifts were two people.
Hiro and Suguru.
"Where is he?" they both asked immediately. Yuki pointed onto the couch on the living room.
"He's still asleep; I think you two should go wake him up."
They nodded and walked over to their sleeping friend. Well, they hoped that he would still be their friend. Hiro and Suguru both nudged Shuichi at the same time. Shuichi remained asleep and Yuki vaguely wondered exactly how long it had taken them to decorate around him. He also wondered how the hell he hadn't woken up.
A scream shook him out of his thoughts. His mind understood when his eyes focused on the giant hug that Shuichi was giving Hiro and Suguru at the same time. Tears of happiness were shining in Shuichi's eyes. He knew who they were, and he seemed to be very happy that they were there.
Yuki went into the kitchen to let Shuichi reunite with his friends and Ryuichi try and wake up Tatsuha who was still passed out on the floor. Making breakfast seemed like the best thing to do at the time.
All the commotion had finally woken up Tohma and Mika and they walked into the living room in their pajamas with robes on to see what exactly was going on.
"Ryuichi?" Tohma spoke with surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"Yuki-san called me as a Christmas present for Tatsuha-chan…" Ryuichi trailed off and looked at the boy he was still trying to wake up. Tohma looked around, trying to find Yuki. Yuki stole a glance into the living room and upon seeing that Tohma was trying to locate him, ducked back into the kitchen.
Yuki rummaged through the refrigerator and came to a very startling discovery. They're food supply was, at best, minimal. Having so many people in his house was beginning to suck him dry and Yuki knew immediately that they didn't have all the supplies that they needed to make a Christmas dinner. He would be fine to go without it, but he knew that his sister would never go for not having a feast.
Yuki wracked his brain and the only thing that he could think of to do would be to run out to the store. What store, though, would be open on Christmas morning? Well, he didn't exactly need to run out at that exact moment. He had enough food to make a decent breakfast for everybody, and he would have to wait until after everybody opened their gifts (Shuichi and Tatsuha had already gotten their presents from him) before he went out. It got dark early, so going out would most likely happen at around lunchtime.
Tohma walked into the kitchen with a stern look on his face. Yuki, however, didn't notice; he was still trying to figure out where to go to get all the food that he needed. Tohma cleared his throat and Yuki wheeled around, all thoughts about getting food forgotten.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Why did you invite Ryuichi?"
"It seemed like the perfect gift for Tatsuha. Besides, he had nowhere else to be. Would you want your own band mate to be alone on Christmas, Tohma?"
Tohma had nothing to say to that and left the kitchen in a huff. Yuki knew that he'd simmer off and be cool again. He was just a little pissed at the moment for being undermined.
Yuki finished making breakfast for the eight people. There wasn't enough room to eat in the kitchen and Yuki didn't really have a dining room –he lived in an apartment usually by himself- so breakfast was going to have to eaten in the living room.
"YUUUUUKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIII!" Yuki winced as he heard his name reverberate around the apartment. He was almost finished dishing everything up and so he ignored the yell. Yet, the person yelling his name didn't stop. It was quite the contrary, actually.
The vein in Yuki's forehead gave a loud throb. He almost started shouting obscenities towards the person until they continued talking.
Or rather, Shuichi came bursting in the kitchen, knocking over Christmas decorations, and he threw his arms around Yuki.
"Thank you so much! Hiro and Suguru just told me what you did! This is the happiest Christmas present that you could've ever given me!" At that Shuichi started giggling. Yuki had to smile; he had known it was the perfect gift, but it didn't really hit home until Shuichi had told him so.
Yuki patted Shuichi on the head and pushed him back into the living room towards his friends.
It had been incredibly difficult for Yuki to track down Hiro and Suguru the day earlier. He had gone to the orphanage and found out that Hiro had been old enough to move out, and so he had. Suguru was still there (he was only 16, after all), but he had been in a music lesson and hadn't been there. Also, Suguru was the only person who had known where Hiro was living.
The nuns didn't even know. They had the address to where he had moved as soon as he moved out of the orphanage, but he had since moved out of there and had told nobody except Suguru. And, of course, as was said before, Suguru was in a music lesson and not to be disturbed.
Even when Yuki had finally met Suguru, he was reluctant to tell Yuki where Hiro lived –who wouldn't? Yuki looked like a weird criminal. Luckily, though, for Yuki, Hiro had come in to visit Suguru at that exact moment and Yuki was able to talk to them.
When Yuki had finally met the two of them together, he was surprised to learn that they were fairly normal. For some reason, he'd been expecting them to be evil mean people. And, at first, it had seemed like they were like that. Yuki had been all ready to do a guilt trip to get them to come, but he was pleasantly surprised to find that he didn't have to. As soon as they found out that he had tracked them down as a present for Shuichi, they immediately said that they would and they asked him what time that they should show up the next day at his apartment.
Yuki finished dishing up the food and called everybody into the kitchen to come and get it. He may have made it and served it up, but he'd be damned to act like a maid and give them the food too.
Tatsuha had finally woken up and so he got his food. After breakfast, which everybody greatly enjoyed, the opening of the presents was to be commenced.
They took turns opening up the gifts one by one. Sure, it was a process that took a long time, considering the number of gifts underneath the tree, but it was one that kept things from getting too hectic.
Especially since Shuichi had a little bit of trouble opening his presents and seeing them. So, every time that he opened one, Yuki would explain to him what it was and what it looked like. Hiro would then try and relate it to something that he might have been able to see so he would be able to imagine what it was.
It was a good system until he opened a present that Yuki didn't want to have to explain. He immediately glared around the room, trying to figure out who had given Shuichi such a gift. It was sex toy. Not only was it a sex toy; it was a sex toy that was supposed to be used between two males. Never mind that Shuichi was too young for it to begin with.
Shuichi just sat there with a confused expression on his face while Yuki faltered trying to decide what to tell Shuichi it was. Yuki heard snickering coming from Tatsuha and immediately turned his glare to him. As soon as Tatsuha saw the glare, he burst out laughing.
Shuichi was still massively confused. He ran his fingers down the length of the item.
"It feels kind of like latex…" Shuichi said. "What is it?" Yuki turned an uncharacteristic bright red.
"It's, um, it's…uhhhhhhhh…" he couldn't figure out what to say. A lot of the other houseguests were trying –unsuccessfully- to hide their laughter by now. Sure they didn't exactly consent giving such a gift, but they thought that Yuki's reaction was absolutely priceless.
"I know what it is! I've used one of those before," Ryuichi piped up, thinking that no one could figure out what it was, "It's a sex toy!"
Shuichi turned bright red and politely thanked whoever got it for him for getting it for him.
Yuki decided that Shuichi was just too polite for his own good. After Shuichi opened a present, it was then Yuki's turn to open one. He grabbed the nearest one, opened it, took a look at what was inside of it, checked who gave it to him (he already knew), then took a dive at Tatsuha.
"What?" Tatusha exclaimed as he was tackled, hands trying to get around his neck to choke him. "They're a pair! They go together! Just like you two!" At that he dissolved into a fit of giggles.
Yes, what Tatusha had given him was the second part to what he had given Shuichi. Eventually Yuki calmed down after Tatsuha had started turning a blue color in the face. Nobody had tried to help Tatsuha, figuring that he deserved it.
The opening of the presents continued after Yuki had climbed off of Tatsuha. Yuki was pleased to find out that no one else had given him, or Shuichi, anything else embarrassing that he'd have to explain what it was.
By the time that everyone had finished opening up their gifts, it was around lunchtime. Yuki remembered from before that they didn't have enough food for lunch, let alone dinner and so he announced that he was going to run out to get some groceries, if anyone would like to come with him. It was something that he didn't want to have to do (get groceries), but knew that he had to.
Mika didn't volunteer to go with Yuki, but she volunteered to clean up the wrapping paper that was strewn all over the room. Yuki knew that he had been on her good side ever since she had opened up the gift that he had gotten her. That perfume was so expensive to buy, so she had rarely bought it for herself but she absolutely loved it.
Everybody else except Shuichi also volunteered to help clean up. Yuki knew that Shuichi hadn't volunteered because he didn't think that he'd have been very much help. But Shuichi did volunteer to go with him shopping, to keep him company.
So, after they had gotten all bundled up, they set out. Shuichi wasn't wearing as many layers as Yuki, but when Yuki confronted him with it, Shuichi said that he would be fine. Yuki just shrugged and hoped that that would be true. Yuki opened the front door and was surprised to find that it was snowing. Shuichi felt the snow on his face.
"Oh, Yuki," he sighed, "It's a white Christmas."
The snow had piled up in the driveway where Yuki was parked and he was much, much too lazy to shovel it, so they walked. Shuichi was okay with that because they were, after all, bundled up. He put his hand out and Yuki grabbed it and started leading him through the snow to the nearest grocery store (which was fairly close).
Unfortunately for them, it was Christmas. This meant that the store that would usually be open for 24 hours was open no hours. This also meant that they were going to have to find another place to shop.
"Don't worry," Yuki consoled a steadily growing colder Shuichi, "the next grocery store isn't too much farther away."
Yet, the same thing was true for that grocery store. And the next one. And the next one. Hell, the next three grocery stores that they tried were closed. Finally, after walking an extra hour they came across one that was open.
The one person who was on duty was quite surly for having to work on Christmas day when everybody else had gotten off. In a quite literal sense he had gotten the short end of the stick (they had drawn straws).
Yuki and Shuichi didn't care though; they were happy to be out of the cold. However, the happiness of the person working there ended up being directly related to the amount of food that was stocked on the shelves. Never had Yuki seen a store so empty. Almost everything was gone. There were pretty much only obscure foods left.
"You should've come here earlier," was the persons response to when Yuki asked him where all the food went.
Even though Yuki had wanted to give his guests an at least semi-traditional Christmas dinner, it didn't look like that would happen. Grabbing whatever he could of the shelves he decided that he was going to have to make do with whatever was there.
Bacon, bread, chicken wings, meatballs, celery (even most of the vegetables where gone!), rice, and eggs were the only real things left. Yuki figured out that he could make fried rice with the bacon, rice, and eggs –with some of the spices that he had in his house thrown in. Then they could have chicken wings, meatballs with barbecue sauce, and celery as side dishes. For dessert Yuki managed to find some pocky.
It would have to make do. Yuki grabbed enough so there would be plenty for everybody and then he brought it to the cashiers. It had been a little bit awkward for them, since they were the only people in there.
"Will this be it, today?" the guy asked. Yuki gave him a curt nod and paid for it. They only had two hands since Yuki was still leading Shuichi around. So Yuki could carry things in one hand, and Shuichi could carry things in the other. Yuki equally distributed the weight of the grocery bags and gave one of them to Shuichi. He then grabbed Shuichi's other hand and led him out of the store; they were on their trek home.
The snow was starting to fall harder and the temperature had dropped a couple of degrees. Before long both of them were absolutely freezing; even though they were bundled up, they were shivering like mad. Shuichi was shivering even worse than Yuki since he didn't have on as many layers. The only thing that kept Yuki moving was the fact that he knew that he had hot chocolate at home. In fact, he had quite a lot of hot chocolate at home because he always kept buying it thinking that he didn't have it.
Yuki's hands were becoming numb –even with gloves on- and he almost dropped the groceries that he was carrying. He stopped moving and Shuichi almost ran into him. Yuki grabbed all the groceries out of Shuichi's hand because he figured that Shuichi's hands were just as cold. Shuichi thanked him.
Because they were so cold, they started walking slower and slower so it was taking longer and longer for them to get home. Shuichi gave a final shiver and then collapsed into the snow that was forming around them, his legs having lost all of their strength.
Yuki dropped the groceries and then dropped to his knees.
"Shuichi?" he questioned.
"S-s-s-s-so c-c-c-c-c-cold," Shuichi stammered out, his teeth chattering. Yuki turned around so that his back was facing Shuichi.
"Get on my back," he instructed. Shuichi, rather awkwardly because he couldn't see, managed to climb onto his back. Yuki had put down the groceries and guided him on. When Shuichi was firmly attached to his back, he picked up the groceries and continued walking towards his apartment.
Shuichi snuggled closer into his back. Yuki's steps started getting slower and slower. His whole body felt numb. When he was sure that he was going to collapse, he caught sight of his apartment.
With reserved strength, Yuki stumbled towards the door and opened it. Once he was inside, he collapsed with Shuichi still on his back.
Everybody looked at them when they entered. They would never admit it, but they were getting more and more worried at what was taking so long and were about five minutes away from sending out a search party. Even Ryuichi was worried that something bad had happened to them.
Immediately Tohma and Hiro led Yuki and Shuichi into the bedroom to get changed out of their wet clothes into dry ones. Tohma dried off Yuki and dressed him in layers of flannel while Hiro did the same for Shuichi.
While they were getting into different clothes, Mika had taken up the duty of putting away all the food that they had bought. Suguru had helped her and both of them admitted to Yuki when he emerged from the bedroom that they were a bit surprised at the food choices that he had made. When Yuki explained that there had been no other food in the store and what he had been planning on making, they nodded and immediately told him to go sit down in the living room, saying that they would make it, but they might ask for more help later. Yuki gasped, asked them if they were kidding and, when they said that they weren't, happily made his way into the living room.
Someone had started a fire in his fireplace and he was quite glad. Shuichi was currently sitting beside it, so Yuki went and joined him.
All of a sudden, Yuki heard a squeal of delight come from behind him. Yuki turned around just in time to see Tatsuha bearing down on him. Quick as a flash, Tatsuha pressed Yuki and Shuichi's heads towards each other.
"You two are under the mistletoe! So you have to kiss!" Tatsuha explained excitedly.
Yuki, in too much shock to reply, felt his lips connect with Shuichi's. Shuichi gave a squeak of surprise and then, much to Yuki's surprise, relaxed into the kiss. Pressing his lips harder against Yuki's. Yuki then did something that he hadn't been planning on doing. He didn't pull away. He closed his eyes and went deeper into the kiss.
When they finally had to come up for air, Yuki and Shuichi backed away from each other. Shuichi's legs gave out and collapsed to his knees. Gently, he put his fingers to his lips.
The atmosphere at that time was so thick that you could slice a sword through it. Ryuichi, though, didn't notice at all.
"That looked like fun! Come on Tatsuha-chan!"
"Huh?" Tatsuha asked intelligibly.
Ryuichi grabbed Tatsuha before he could say another word and skipped over towards the mistletoe and planted a firm kiss on Tatsuha's lips. Not for the first time that day, Tatsuha fainted from happiness. Ryuichi looked at him in confusion, yet again, wondering what had happened.
"Why does that keep happening?" he asked nobody in particular.
"Now," Mika said, wiping her hands on an apron she'd found as she walked out of the kitchen, "Who else wants to help us make dinner?"
End Chapter 15
WOOOOOO! They've kissed! What will happen now, I wonder? And what was that between Ryuichi and Tatsuha? Is there going to be a pairing between them? We'll see! Okay, guys, that was about twice the size of a regular chapter. I did this for a couple of reasons. The first reason being that I like writing around Christmas time. The second reason is sort of an apology for taking a couple of weeks to update.
Now, for a quick update on why it has taken Kib-chan so freaking long to update. FIRSTLY, she was the happiest that she had ever been in her life on September 5th. Okay, time to stop referring to myself in third person. Here's what happened: I went to Bumbershoot (Giant-ass music festival: Lots of bands). Now, my absolutely favorite band, The Decemberists were playing there. We got there early enough that, while we weren't front and center, we were still front (my friend who is more obsessed than I am as front and center). It was an AWESOME concert. Now, while we were waiting around for the next band to start –a couple of hours, we were also waiting for our other friends to call. I hear my friends whispering beside me where I'm sitting (and we're sitting by a path) and they're whispering about Colin Meloy, who is the lead singer of the Decemberists. I look up, and sure enough, there he is. My friend so boldly called out, "COLIN!" and he turned around. I died, right there, and right then. He is to me what Ryuichi is to Tatsuha, if you get my drift. He is SOOOO cool. ANNNNDDDDDDD…the icing on the cake…I got a picture with him! It is a HORRIBLE picture of me, but I don't care! It's with me and him! ANNNDDD he took the picture, so he was holding my camera :huggles camera:. If you wish to see said horrible picture of me, check out my livejournal (Kibethan) I'm not sure which date it's under, but it's under a livejournal cut with lots of pictures that I took that weekend. Including some better pictures of me.
Also at Bumbershoot (I only went one day, it lasts all of labor day weekend), we saw Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and Tegan and Sarah (or however you spell it). The Ted Leo concert was VERY loud and some of my friends hated it and left. I, however, liked it so I stayed between the people all squished and such.
Okay, yes, that's one of my excuses. Ready for my other excuse about why it's been taken so long. Here it is: I moved…again…
Yes, while writing Blindsided I have moved twice. Now, this time, it was JUST me. I moved into my dorm room in my college that's 5 hours away from my home if you drive. I now, officially, live in Bellingham, WA. I moved in yesterday and earlier today I was sucking up wireless Internet at the mall. I didn't have the chapter done yet, or else I would have posted. My roommate hasn't move in yet, but I DID just meet one of my suitemates and she seems very nice. I'm debating on going and getting dinner but I'll probably end up just eating crumbled up giant cookie since getting food would involve walking around and it's getting dark and scary.
Note (written later): I did end up going out and getting dinner. I walked about…2 miles? To a place called "Tokyo House" where I got Gyoza and Bubble Tea. It was slightly light on the way there, however, on the way back…it was DARK…and freaking SCARY. There was a section of the sidewalk that had bushy bushes on one side and cars on the other and it was pitch black. I walked in the street during that part. I think most people now are at a thing in a different hall, but I'm not sure where that is, so I'm staying here.
NOTE (written later than the first note): I just HAVE to say this. My RA came by and was picking up people to go to the thing at the different hall and I said, "why not?" and went with him. I got to play apples to apples with a bunch of anime people. How did I know they were anime people? Well, besides the two people wearing Megatokyo shirts, they just have a sort of air about them and I fit in well. I also met this other dude who was quite awesome to say the least (don't think he was into anime though) but at least he was from my hall. On a different floor but, meh, he was from Brooklyn. What was he doing in Bellingham?
OH! And I've decided that 1000 reviews is too tall. As much as I WANT that and would do just abut ANYTHING for that, I know it's not going to happen because there just aren't quite enough chapters left. :sighs: Oh well, maybe next time.
Onto a review of reviews:
Kitinu: I'm so flattered! You reviewed my story, Annie loves it: It's coming, it's coming, I swear, suckers love: Because it is so, so, cute, right, WhiteLightning: Sweet! Strange looks, Chiyoku Shibata: You mean, like he is in the anime, Yuki N Shuichi 4Eva: I probably would except it's not going to be that much longer, rebelyell59: WOOT! Thank you, Aacire: AHAHAHAHAHAHAH, I don't remember, but your review might have given me the idea for this chapter, Elements: heheeheheh, I talked to you at the mall…, Ashcat: Yep yep, it's awesome, awesome, ne, Grimy Grunhilda Grunt: I swear, if you're online next time I write one, I'll send it to you first, DarkMetalAngel of Destruction:chokes on fluffiness of this chapter: Was this enough, Sailor Epyon: You speak Chinese? That is so cool! The only thing I know is Nihao…, KinOfDragons: See, sometimes it's cute to be OOC, xunxin kohaku: I thought that it would be a good way to end the chapter, seiki: Yays! I'm glad that you like it, JadestarBoo: Well, ya know, I can do some wonderful things…hahahaa, pikapikaryuchan: I wish I could, I wish I could, Devin: I hearteth the tickling, JasLine: Oh man, I can't wait until next chapter, Kloudy Reignfall: WOOT! I started an addiction, Subo-chan: hai, hai, Tiki-chan: YAY! You reviewed! And, who knows, maybe it's not as impossible as it seems, Quack says the duck: I try, I try, I REALLY do. And, I'm starting to update more often, kind of, Angelic Scars the bloody angel: Shhhhh, don't point out my many mistakes that I forget about…:sweatdrops, Prodigy's Child: I have sisters reading it too? Are you the older or the younger, Flame-chan: YAY! I'm glad you like it! I'm glad you put this story in your C2 too! You get a virtual Ryuichi plushie for that, Sock rocker/Sakura Minamino: Funny you should mention school. I'm on the internet right now when I'm not quite sure if I should be…my computer hasn't been set up yet…, Sas: Yes, yes, pass it around. It is a fun game, DemonicDragon666: Yay! I'm glad that you like it, xo-silent-whispers-ox: But you reviewed it! YAY, -Cookie- Tohma 911: Heheehehe, sometimes its fun for Tohma to be a devil, FullMetalRitz: I got my internet back today! Hopefully for a while, animefreaktyan: phew! For a second I thought I was going to get a flame1 But instead I got a 10/10! Awesome, Ashley Vulpix: Kind of, skipping Christmas Eve and went right to Christmas, Aizawa Sakura: Impossible but doable? Is that kind of like…learning to fly? I know, and I know I can't get it, as much as I want it, And, yes, I know you wrote a thousand, Miss Ichigo: Yep yep, I know he's OOC too…, dark5731: Yay! I'm glad you got to review it though, Syaoran is kawaii: Seriously? Isn't that so cute, though?
That's it! I'm sorry that the author's note is so freaking long; I just thought you guys deserved to know why it took so long.
And, one more thing:
I'm thinking about changing the summary of Blindsided for when it shows up on the websites? You guys have any ideas? If I use your summary (which I might or I might not) I'll give you full credit.
-Kib-chan