Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation cries about how unbelievably unfair that is

Yuki had kicked the kid out again. This time the little brat had been too annoying to have him be around for any longer. It was two days

before Christmas Eve and the kid couldn't stop smiling. It had gotten on his nerves so he told the kid to get lost until he lost that stupid

grin. The kid had just smiled and said alright. That had been hours ago and the novelist was beginning to get worried. Worried was not

something Eiri Yuki did, so it was now grating his already taught nerves to even conceive that he might care about the stupid brat. After

all the kid was 19 and could, for the most part, take care of himself. Oh who was Yuki kidding, the kid was a total scatterbrain and was

useless on his own. It came down to Yuki having to suck up his pride and call the brat's friend Hiro. If anyone could find Shuichi then

Hiro could.

Hiro was sitting around his apartment tuning his guitar when the phone rang. Picking it up he instantly regretted who greeted him on the
other end. "Hiro speaking," he said.

"It's Yuki. I was just wondering if you'd seen Shuichi today."

That made Hiro pause, look at the calendar and then mentally hit himself for what he was about to say. "Nope I haven't, but then again I
wouldn't expect to"

"What does that mean 'I wouldn't expect to'," Yuki chided from the other end.

"Well today is the 22nd of December so I expect Shuichi is in his usual hang, let me guess, he wouldn't stop grinning like and idiot no
matter what you said and so you kicked him out. Am I right?"

"Yea, but how do you know," Yuki's voice was starting to sound anxious, but that was probably just Hiro's imagination.

"I guess, based on your questioning, that Shu didn't tell you."

"Tell me what," Yuki demanded over the phone. The guitarist couldn't see his face, but he would bet his entire life savings that the
writer's eyes had just shrunk to the size of a pea and he was now glaring at the phone.

"You may find this hard to believe, but your not the only one with secrets," Hiro said.

He had now done it. Hiro had single-handedly caused the great Eiri Yuki to panic. What didn't Yuki know about Shuichi's past and
where had the singer gone on this cold winter day.

"You won't be seeing Shu until the 24th I imagine," Hiro stated calmly over the phone, but in actuality he was trying his hardest to even

talk. He was about to betray a trust that he had kept for his entire life. Hiro was about to shatter the image of an annoying, carefree

boyfriend for one Eiri Yuki. Worst of all he was about start something he would have to see through to the end and the end of this

wouldn't be all hugs and kisses. Someone was going to get the shock of their lives and the most likely person would be Mr. Yuki. Oh

how he was going to have to apologize to Shuichi when this was all over. That is if his friend ever forgave him for what he was about to

do.