I went back and corrected the last chapter. It's pretty much the same as before, it's just some of the wording has been changed around and Kuma's name has been fixed. Stuff like that.

I hope I didn't mess up on any of the names. If I did please just let me know and I'll get them fixed for everyone.

Chapter 16: 100 Pure White Rabbits

"I did NOT steal Kumaguro! I would never do anything to hurt Sakuma-san like that!" Tatusha cried out as security began to escort him outside.

How could things have possibly gone this wrong! All he had wanted was Sakuma's smile and now he was being haled away. This was so unfair, and that stupid woman was the one basking in the smile that should have been his. There was something seriously wrong with this situation!

His eyes scanned down the hallway, when he saw the one person coming down the hallway that knew, without a doubt, of his innocence.

"Seguchi-san, please tell them I didn't do it!"

"He didn't do it." Tohma gave a pleasant smile to the guards, before politely asking what exactly Uesugi hadn't done.

After a few minutes of explanations he told security to head back to there posts and that he would handle the situation. He asked everyone back into his office for a few minutes. Once everyone was seated, and Tatsuha had an icepack on his cheek, Tohma settled himself behind his desk, trying to figure out exactly where to begin.

He felt responsible for the mess and the scene, but he wasn't sure where exactly to begin.

"By the way Shirokawa-san aren't you suppose to be at work?"

"I'm on my lunch break right now." She glanced at the package that Noriko had safe guarded for her during the entire mess. Narumi knew she owed her a large thank you whenever she got the chance to do so. "Sakuma-san had left his lunch at home and I..."

"Narumi-chan... Narumi-chan!" Ryuichi was hiding behind the sofa tugging on her sleeve. "Ryu-chan! Please!"

He was grinning up at her like an idiot. He was so happy to have gotten his precious Kuma back. Narumi couldn't help but to call him Ryu-chan... even if it was a bit strange.

Had she really even earned the right to call him that?

"I was bringing it for him."

"Perhaps I should explain why Uesugi-san is here..."

"There isn't any need!" Narumi could feel her blood beginning to boil at the thought of what that man had done to Ryuichi. "Last night neither of us got any sleep. We both spent the entire night...

"You didn't!" Tatsuha's eyes were wide, and the look on his face was shock. He didn't want to believe it but what she had just said had they? He was having mental images of the two of them together all night long... had she... in order to comfort him...

No! He screamed in his mind. Why wasn't it me there!

The mental image of him comforting Ryuichi over the loss of Kumaguro, of his hands soothing his distressed idol was a dream of pure ecstasy.

How dare she!

"Oh no the time! If I don't leave I'll be late getting back to class!" Narumi leapt to her feet and hurried to the door. She left some parting words of advice for Ryuichi as she closed the door behind her. Tohma didn't stop her. "Ryuichi you have to stand firm on the issue! Don't let them walk all over you!"

"Okay!"

Narumi left the three of them in Tohma's office. She couldn't help to be worried, but... a part of her kept repeating. Tohma wouldn't let anything happen to Ryuichi. She may not be particularly fond of him, but one thing she was sure of he at least cared enough about Ryuichi to be protective of him.

She had thought about what had happened before and that was the only thing she could think of to explain his behavior. Still it loaned her enough comfort to leave the two of them in the same room together. Surely with such a protective friend present nothing bad would happen to Ryuichi.

She let that thought be her comfort as she hurried back to her classroom.

He absolutely would not forgive her for taking advantage of Sakuma-san like that! She had obviously brainwashed Sakuma-san into caring for her or nothing like that could have possible have happened. Sakuma was too pure hearted to be so easily corrupted.

Tatsuha had followed Ryuichi's career since the very beginning. He knew Ryuichi's every personal habit, every like and dislike. There was absolutely nothing about Sakuma that he didn't know, and now this stupid bimbo of a girl was trying to steal him away.

No way!

"Uesugi-san you like bunnies too?" Ryuichi smiled happily as he played with Kumagura. Tatsuha was surprised when his eyes began to turn sober and his movements slowed. It was a face he had often seen but it had only been on stage. Always in life he was so carefree and happy it was rare for him to be so serious. "Perhaps they are comforting. Do you think?"

Ryuichi stood with Kuma in his arms. Such a serious expression didn't suit him very well. Somehow it seemed more than a little worrisome to Tatsuha. Ryuichi needed to smile. That was the face he had long since grown to adore. This side was cute in it's own way but it was more a bother than anything else to him. Ryuichi just wasn't Ryuichi without a smile.

"You think they are comforting?"

Ryuichi nodded his head, before opening the door.

Perhaps that was the reason Tatsuha was stealing rabbits. Ryuichi thought. They were comforting. Still... for him to do stuff like that...

"Saguchi-san, can I use your phone for a minute?"

Tohma let Tatsuha use it, but the question of what he was going to use it for remained a big question. Nothing had really been cleared up at all. Perhaps he wanted to tie things up. As long as Ryuichi didn't end up crying was all that mattered to Tohma.

"Yes. I need to buy a 100 rabbits. Yeah, they're a gift. I'll pay by credit card. That will be okay, right? Can you deliver them for me? That is fine. The address is..."

Tohma leaned back and listened wide-eyed. Did Tatsuha realize that Narumi and Ryuichi were roommates? Somehow he doubted it. This was after all the first time Ryuichi had ever had a roommate, and Tatsuha hadn't exactly been paying close attention at the party. In fact they had to practically pry him off of Ryuichi in order to get him home that night. What a mess.

He just hoped that when Narumi started crying at all the rabbits that Ryuichi wouldn't get upset. He was starting to wish to be there when the gift arrived.

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