Title: Blindsided

By: Kibethan

Disclaimer: I do not, under any circumstances, own the rights to Gravitation. Man, I wish that I did, but I do not.

Summary: Yuki isn't exactly a favorite in the public's eye, so his editor decides to shape him up 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: Meh, the usual. Minor language and OOCness…

Banned

Chapter 16

Yuki sighed as he dipped his hands into the soapy water. Washing dishes had never been his strong suit, but here he was, forced to do something that he didn't want to. And why? Because the second that the December 26th had hit, all of his relatives had up and left to go back to Kyoto, Ryuichi had left to go and visit K, and Hiro and Suguru had taken Shuichi out for the day.

That meant that he was left alone. And blast it! Mika hadn't done dishes the night before, claiming that she was too tired and would do them in the morning. Of course, just as Yuki suspected, that hadn't happened.

He dipped his hands into the water again bringing a sponge up to wash the pot that was too large to fit in the dishwasher. Most of the dishes had been put into the dishwasher, but even the machine had it's limits and soon it was all filled up and Yuki was left to do the rest of them, lest they never get done.

His mind wandered. It wandered back to the day before when he had been forced to kiss Shuichi. No, given the choice he definitely would not have chosen to kiss Shuichi. Yet, as much as he would never do it on his own, he was glad that he had. It had been one of the more enjoyable times of his life as of late.

And he had to admit, as much as he tried to keep his mind from going there, he had often found himself wondering what it would be like to kiss Shuichi. The boy had just looked so delectable. But he had refrained, the age difference between them never leaving his head.

What was he going to do now, though? Not kiss Shuichi again, that was for sure. Yuki slammed his hands into the water in frustration, a little bit of it splashed up and hit him. There was nothing he could do.

Yuki was letting his mind wander some more when the phone rang. Forgetting that his hands were wet, he walked over to answer it. As soon as he touched the phone he remembered the soapiness of his hands, but by then it was too late. With a furrowed nose he talked into the receiver.

"Hello?" He asked. Expecting a –relatively- quiet reply he was quite surprised when he heard someone shouting loudly in his ear.

In fact, they were shouting loudly. Incoherently. That coupled with the fact that he couldn't understand their voice very well, so he couldn't figure out who it was, was seriously starting to annoy him.

Yet, he would try a calming approach.

"I'm sorry, what? Who is this?"

"What the hell do you think you were doing!" the voice replied. Yuki could hear somebody crying in the background. "He's 17 for Christ's sake! How could you possibly think that it would be okay to do something like that! Where was your logic! You're never allowed to come back here again!"

Yuki had had enough of this vocal abuse. There was only so much being yelled at he could take before he yelled back. He had even gone farther than his normal point, but he could take it no longer.

"Go where? What are you talking about and who the hell are you!"

"Fucking gay pedophile!"

Yuki slammed the phone down, not about to take another verbal onslaught from somebody he didn't know. Him? Gay? Possibly. A pedophile? Hardly. Kids definitely were not his cup of tea. Yet…

…could the guy possibly have been talking about Shuichi? There was no way that he could've known about the kiss though. Tohma and Mika would never, ever, tell anybody. Neither, he was pretty sure, would Tatsuha. Ryuichi was a hard person to read, but despite his seemingly obliviousness, Yuki was pretty sure that Ryuichi would not tell anybody either, except maybe K, but K wouldn't tell anybody.

All who was left was Hiro, Suguru, and Shuichi. As much as he wanted to believe that they would never tell anybody, he could never be too sure.

There was always that crying in the background that needed to be explained and, for some reason, couldn't be. His wet hands were long, long, forgotten.

The phone rang again, and Yuki was reluctant to pick it up. It could be important; yet, it could be whoever had called him, calling him a bad person again. Yuki couldn't take any more of that. The phone continued to ring. Over and over and over. It was like his editor calling him when she had been informing him that he would be working at the hospital.

What if the person calling him was his editor? Yuki decided that he would answer the phone, but if he started hearing people yell at him, he would hang up immediately.

"Hello?" he asked tentatively. "Who is this?" The person didn't answer. "Hello?" he repeated, over and over. All of a sudden, much to his surprise, on the other side of the line he could hear someone crying and other people trying to comfort the person. It would've seriously pissed him off –so many weird calls!- if he hadn't recognized the two voices trying to calm the crying person down.

Even if he hadn't known then for very long, he definitely recognized the voices of Hiro and Suguru. Pieces of the puzzle started to click into place. If Hiro and Suguru were the two comforting voices, then the person that was crying was most likely Shuichi.

And, unless there was huge coincidence, the person crying was probably the same person who had been crying in the background of the call with the very angry person. Not many people would know what Yuki's phone number was, especially people who could ban him from a certain place, so the number of people who could have called him was being slowly narrowed down.

After making a list of places where the trio of boys might have gone and then checking it against the people who knew his phone number, there was only one person that fit the list.

Ezaniya.

It was Ezaniya that had called him to tell him all those things. Ezaniya had called him a "fucking gay pedophile". It all hit Yuki like a ton of bricks and Yuki's hand released the phone. He didn't even register that it had fallen until it bounced on the carpet and onto his foot. Even then, he barely felt it.

Ezaniya didn't want him to go back to the hospital. If he couldn't go back to the hospital, then he wouldn't be able to fulfill his volunteering thing for his editor. When his editor found out about the not being allowed in the hospital, then she might decide that Yuki wasn't worth the trouble anymore.

And what about Shuichi? It that truly was Ezaniya, then there was no way that he would let Shuichi come back to his house. Yuki remembered the crying over the phone, the way Shuichi had hiccupped a little. For some reason, just the thought of Ezaniya making Shuichi cry filled him with rage.

It was just a little misunderstanding after all. Ezaniya didn't want him to come to the hospital? Well then that was exactly what he was going to do. He was going to force Ezaniya to listen to him, no matter what.

Now with a mission, Yuki grabbed his coat and marched out the door, leaving the phone still on the floor, and the dirty dishes still in the sink.

When Yuki arrived at the hospital, he marched inside, but was immediately kicked out by the security guards. Up until then, he was sure that there was a chance that he was wrong and that it had been some completely different people who had been crying and yelling at him and calling him bad things. The sight of the guards, though, out to get him convinced Yuki that he had been indeed right. Apparently Ezaniya had figured him out and knew that he would try to come to the hospital.

Yuki tried and tried to fight back; to be able to get in, but it was all to no avail. The security guards at the hospital were strong and just kept on throwing him back out into the street. Yet, Yuki had kept coming back, determined to get in to talk to the doctor. Just when Yuki thought that they were going to relent and let him in, they threatened to arrest him instead and Yuki definitely didn't want that to happen.

With defeat written all over his face, Yuki turned and started walking home. As he got closer and closer he started to think really hard –as he had been doing for most of the day. The old Yuki would have never taken no for an answer; he would have demanded to see Ezaniya, to explain his side of the story.

Come to think of it, the old Yuki would've never kissed –even if he was forced- a seventeen year old boy. As Yuki thought more and more, the cold glint that had used to be in his eyes returned. Nobody misunderstood him and then didn't let him explain his side of the story.

Yuki whipped around and marched back towards the hospital. As he expected, the security guards were there and they were more than ready to take him down and arrest him. As soon as they saw him, they whipped out their tasers, in their minds he had been giving fair enough warning and he was probably going to start resisting arrest.

Yuki didn't care. Yuki just set his mind on the place that he needed to be and continued walking. His distinctive change in behavior shocked the guards, but didn't stop them for long. Soon they were after him, hot on his tail. They knew that if they let him get away, it would mean their jobs.

Yet, Yuki still didn't care. He just picked up the pace and, by some stroke of luck, he managed to slip into the elevator just as it was closing. He had no doubt that they knew he was going to get off at the fifth floor to go to Ezaniya's room, so he decided to get off on the fourth floor –fourth floors are the coolest floors anyway- and take the stairs to the fifth floor.

By taking the stairs Yuki managed to avoid the guards because, just as he had thought, they were waiting for him to exit the elevator. Mentally grinning Yuki walked to Ezaniya's office. Without bothering to knock on the door, Yuki burst in. He could hear voices on the inside so he knew that there was somebody in there.

With an icy glare on his face, Yuki looked accusingly at Ezaniya.

"Yuki! What are you doing in here?" Ezaniya asked him. Yuki didn't answer but just continued to glare at him. His eyes only once leaving him to scan the room to see whom else were in there. Just as he had imagined, it was Shuichi and his friends.

Hiro and Suguru seemed quite shocked to see him, and Shuichi looked quite shocked to hear him. There was some relief of Shuichi's face as well, though.

"I asked you a question, Yuki, what are you doing here?" Ezaniya repeated.

"Why the hell did you call me all those things!" All calmness on the doctor's face left and his face took on the same stony glare that Yuki's held.

"Because they're true, Yuki-san! What the fuck were you thinking? He's underage! I could have you arrested!"

"For kissing him underneath the mistletoe? It's a Christmas tradition! Not to mention I was practically forced to do it! Or did you not hear that part?"

"Oh no, I heard that. But that doesn't change the fact that you did it! I can't believe I ever let you play with the kids in the kid's playroom!"

This was not going as Yuki had planned. He had thought that he and the doctor would be able to have a nice calm chat together, but as soon as Yuki had seen him, he had been filled with instant rage.

A knock sounded on the door.

"Come in," Ezaniya said. The door opened and in stepped the nun. It was the same nun that had begged Yuki to take Shuichi in, but, this time, when she saw Yuki she started muttering prayers under her breath. After she had finished, she took in a deep breath.

"Shame on you!" she scolded him. "Kissing an underage blind boy! I must take this child and bring him to the church so he can get rid of his sins so he'll still be allowed in heaven! When I first let you take Shuichi in, I had never expected that you would do something so horrible to him!"

Yuki stopped listening to the nun and looked fully at Shuichi for the first time since arriving in the office. He was sitting in his chair, his eyes were directed down and he was shaking slightly. Even though his face was directed down, Yuki could see dry tear tracks on his eyes. It was almost more than Yuki could take.

"Why are you here?" Yuki asked the nun, hollowly.

"I've come to take Shuichi. We're going to find another home for him, a home that won't sexually abuse him!" Yuki's mouth gaped open.

"Sexually…abuse? I barely kissed him! There was no touching involved! How the hell was that sexual abuse!" Yuki had tried so hard not to yell at the nun, but she was making it extremely difficult.

"You were on step away from picked him up and carrying him to the bedroom so you could have your way with him! I know it! Don't try to play the victim here, Yuki! Shuichi was the real victim! That's why I'm taking him with me!"

Shuichi put out a strangled sob and Yuki looked at him.

"Why did you tell them, Shuichi? Why did you tell them about the kiss!"

Shuichi hiccupped. Tears started falling out of his eyes again.

"I was really happy about it. I thought that they would be happy for me. I never thought that they would react like this," Shuichi said through hiccups.

Yuki came to realization that there was no way he was going to be able to get Ezaniya to change his mind, no matter how much he debated with him. Yuki kneeled down to Shuichi's level.

"You made a bad choice, Shuichi. And sometimes those bad choices end up affecting you worse than you could have ever imagined. Bye, Shuichi. Forever."

With those parting words, Yuki stood up and left the room.

End Chapter 16

Sorry for the long time between updates, guys. That has got to be the fastest two months of my entire life. That being said…oh my gosh! It's been ONE YEAR today since I started Blindsided! Isn't that wicked!...and a little bit scary? I have to mention. I have thrown a little bit of my life into this chapter. Well, only a little. The part about fourth floors being the best floors –that IS true. I live on the fourth floor of my dorm, and we are the coolest floor, by far. The part about the police carrying around tasers…well, here's what happened. Last week a guy on shrooms jumped off the third floor of my building (we enter from the outside, so it's really easy), at 2 a.m. and landed on the side and sort of fell onto a some bike racks. The police came and tried to make sure he was okay, but he started biting them, blah, blah, blah, so they tasered him. Like. 10+ times. Yeah, so that's why I said that.

Onto a review of reviews:

Grimy Grunhilda Grunt: It's a little bit scary, cause Christmas is now in only one month! I can't wait until Christmas! WOOCHA, FullMetalRitz: Sorry it wasn't that long of a chapter. Next chapter I'll try and make it longer. PyrokineticFeral: Well, of course Ryuichi is like that. Tiki-chan: I love the Decemberists way too much. I mean, I have three full length CD's and three EP's. Ashcat: I think I'm getting more street smart. suckers love: I want Yuki to do my homework; that would be SO cool! Flame-chan: WOW! I'm so glad that you think that I'm so good! That seriously makes me want to squeal out loud! xo-silent-whispers-ox: Seriously, though! Man, I need to start wearing sweatshirts and more clothes. It's starting to get really cold. A couple of days ago, I tried to get myself used to the cold weather by wearing only a t-shirt, and I ended up only turning numb instead. DarkMetalAngel of Destruction: Come on, now. There is no such thing as too much happiness! Okay, so there is. But still! Redroseprincess678: Well, I can say that I've never done it blindfolded. But…it might be a little while before we get to the, um, sex part between them. Kloudy Reignfall: Yeah, sorry again for the super long author's note. I tried not to! But, I just felt I needed to explain why it had taken so long. rebelyell59: Thank you! I'm so glad that people liked that chapter! It had been a long time in the coming…if that makes any sense whatsoever. Sailor Epyon: If Ryuichi were to kiss me, I have to say I'd probably faint, too. I mean, seriously now. Quack says the duck: Does the duck say quack? Hehehee…sorry, that's an awesome name! I'm glad that you enjoyed it! Aacire: Hmm, I'd have to think. I think that Hiro might have been in the room, but everybody else wasn't. And there's a bee trying to get in the window, and it's a little bit creepy for me. shuxyuki: Well, I do try. And I did manage to get them to kiss. I have no idea how I did that. It has been 15 chapter though. GravityNeko: Sometimes, you just can't talk your way out of things, which is sad because I always try to do that. dark5731: Man, people really liked that chapter! I'm so glad that you thought it was good! I love it when people like my stories! Almighty SABE: With any luck, there will be more Yu/Shu and Ryu/Tatsu…of COURSE there would be. Where would I be if there wasn't? I'd be so sad. WhiteLightning: Well, he probably has, you have to admit, right? Ryuichi acts all innocent, but we know the truth. Shirubaa Kitsune: Cherry coke! Yummy! I wish there wasn't caffeine in Cherry Coke, because I've been trying to cut as much caffeine out of my diet as possible! DemonicDragon666: I'm so glad that you liked it! To-think-of-a-nice-name: Well, wouldn't you faint too? I certainly know that I would. And there might be a little bit of Hiro/Suguru. Subo-chan: I'm glad that you liked it! Syaoran is kawaii: Yeah, that does pose a bit of problem, doesn't it? Assassin of the Shadows: I definitely try for cute. It's what I try to do the most. Because cute is so cute, ne? ayu: Yes, relatively soon I need to have Shuichi not be blind. Well, maybe. I still haven't decided if I wanted to do that yet. ro-buddi: I knew it! You're a bad influence on me! That's why I keep thinking about all those sex toys and sex and hardcore yaoi and such! KagomeGirl21: Yay! I love it when people like my story! I'm going to have to take a wild guess and say that you like Inuyasha. –Cookie-Tohma 911: I'm so glad that you liked it! Your name is so hard to type. Sock Rocker: One would only hope, alas, that was not to be. Ashley Vulpix: Well, can't rush things, you know. Lina Hino: I stopped because my hands got tired of typing. Like they usually do. Devin: I concur! animefreaktyan: Yum…hentai…AHAHHAHA..I kid. That's awesome, though, that you liked this chapter. Elements: Curse you Japanese, Geology, and Linguistics! See! I can curse my classes too! Burning Sky: Ditto. I'm not that big on Gravitation fanfiction either. Gemini: Well, thank you very much! Yuri Yuki: When I finally get the time to do stuff, like, write. I is a busy person. goodthingI'mimmortal: well, I'm glad that you liked it as far as you got. That's got to say something, right? jimmy-kudo's-girl: I am to ask. Who is Jimmy Kudo? Famous person or a "special someone"? gokuthesaru: Duh, Katie, duh. But, that's part of what makes him lovable, right? Daisuke fan: That's because those two stories are awesome! Aizawa Sakura: By golly! You're right! I think it's one of those practice makes better sort of things! Loyal fan: Well, I'm certainly glad that you liked it.

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