A/N: Well, Shuichi's lost it now and will do everything in his power to lose weight! But, is that necessarily a good thing? Hmmm… you'll have to find out later then, won't you? smiles Hm? attention is directed at the TV Oh boy… Aqua Teen is on… I've only seen so many episodes of that, and there's only a few that I like. It's kind of obnoxious… but anyway… I saw the preview for Naruto on Cartoon Network last night! Kakashi looked freak'in awesome! He's my favourite bishounen from that anime by the way. I LOVES HIM SO MUCH! I wonder how their voices will sound utter horror upon my face My friend said Naruto had a teenage boy's voice. I think he should have a more kiddish voice, like Luffie from One Piece or something. I've already seen episodes 1- 141 of Naruto in Japanese (my friend downloaded them for her friends, ain't that so sweet? glittery eyes), and it's very good, so I hope they don't edit or sensor out too much stuff… well, anyway… ON WITH CHAPTER 2!

Chapter 2: Star-Craving Hungry!

BAD LUCK was taking a break from their hard day of work so far in the lounge. Suguru was messing with some tunes in his head and writing them down on paper, while Hiro was snacking on some potato chips from the vending machine. Shuichi was watching a Nittle Grasper video, drooling at the dancing form on TV that was his idol.

"Hey Shuichi. Want some Lays?" His best friend asked, holding out the bag to the pile of pink goo in front of the television. Regaining his composure, the singer responded plainly.

"No thanks."

"…Um… okay." The red head reluctantly drew back his mini lunch and quirked an eyebrow. Since when did Shuichi ever refuse food? Even Suguru had to pause for a moment to think about what the vocalist had just said.

"Shuichi?" Hiro asked hesitantly.

"Yeah?" The boy's eyes still glued to the TV screen.

"Are you… feeling okay?"

"Never better! Why?"

Um, nothing. Just wondering since you don't seem to be hungry."

"…Hungry?" The pop star ceased his constant bouncing to the tune Ryuichi Sakuma was singing and lowered his head darkly.

"Uh, Shu? Y-you alright?" Hiro almost dropped his bag of chips in fright at the state his friend was in.

"…… You don't know… what it feels like…" Shuichi started out slowly, his band mates silently urging their leader to continue. "… to have been STARVING TO DEATH FOR ALMOST A WEEK NOW!" The boy turned around shakily, tears spewing out of this eyes and wearing the most pathetic looking face a human being could ever have.

"Shuichi? What are you talking about?"

"I haven't eaten hardly anything for a week now! All of my favourite foods… I can't eat them! I think I'm going to whither away Hiro! Sooner or later my body will be found in the park, rotting and empty from the lack of nourishment I've been craving!" He clung to the guitarist's shirt in agony, his pupils constricted in pain.

"Well, how come you can't eat anything?"

"Yeah. I've never seen you in such a sorry state, Shindou-san." Suguru folded his arms in irritation. With all the noise, he could hardly get any work done here!

"Well, you know that big photo shoot for The ONE in two weeks? I wanted to lose some pounds before I modelled for them, so I thought a diet would do me good. But then I found out that ALL of my favourite foods have all these sugars and fats in them! And now I can't eat them anymore until afterwards! If I go one more day without pocky I think I'll go insane!" He clutched at his stomach and slipped to the floor, trembling from his hunger.

"ALL the food you eat has that stuff in it? Wait, how do you know this?" Hiro brushed his chest off.

"Yuki told me… Even STRAWBERRIES have sugar in them Hiro! STRAWBERRIES! He cried.

"Uh, that's a fruit, Shuichi."

"But he said that…"

"Sigh… listen Shuichi. Whatever Yuki told you… it's not tr-"

"OKAY! Let's get back to work! Up and at'em Shindou! Get your vocal chords ready, because it's gonna be a loooong night! Remember, we still have two albums to finish!" The trigger-happy Mr. K barged through the door and pointed his gun upward at the ceiling.

#Later that evening#

"Tadaima." The boy called weakly throughout the house. His stomach growled to no end, but he couldn't let it get to him!

Yuki was puzzled over this dramatic flaw in Shuichi's usual genki attitude and emerged from his hibernation in the office to see what was wrong. "What's eating you?" He asked.

"Myself!" Shuichi wailed into the floor. He had collapsed a while ago from exhaustion.

"What are you moaning about brat?"

"I mean that my own insides are about to eat themselves because I'm so hungry!" The singer sat up and sniffled. "I didn't know that dieting could be so hard! Especially when you can't eat any of your favourite foods."

"Are you still going on about that? Look, you shouldn't be complaining about something like this. There are fatter people out there that are way bigger than you and actually NEED to lose some weight. Don't you think it's kind of selfish for you to be whining about something that's hardly your problem?"

"… But… The ONE…" He pouted. Was Yuki mad at him?

"Would you forget about that stupid magazine? It's not worth starving yourself over. If you want to eat something, then do it! I promise that you won't gain ten pounds just by eating one box of pocky."

"But… you said…"

"Sigh…" Apparently, he had taken it too far with the joking last time. Did his lover really believe that strawberries contained sugar? But if he told Shuichi that he was just teasing him all along, then the boy would definitely NOT be happy. No sex for a week… he couldn't even think of that…

"Well, have you tried working out WHILE you diet?"

"I thought singing was working out." He blinked.

"No. It's not. Working out is like going to the gym and running on the tread mill. Or doing push ups, or whatever. Have you ever done any of those?"

"No."

Yuki found that hard to believe for a minute, then said, "Then why don't you work out and eat at the same time? You'll be able to scarf down your childish food while losing weight in the gym. That doesn't sound so hard, does it?"

"No… but I've never been to a gym."

"Then I'll take you." The novelist regretted those word the first time they left his mouth.

"Really! You'll help me work out, Yuki?"

"I only said I would take yo-"

"And you'll become my personal trainer?"

"Now I did NOT say tha-"

"And that means you'll be able to spend more time with me!" The boy was ecstatic with joy now. And, unfortunately, Yuki just couldn't resist his koibito's pleads and whimpers for him to say yes.

"Sigh…… fine. I'll help you train and get into shape for that stupid shoot." The blonde rolled his eyes, wondering how the hell he would live through this.

"Yay! Yuki's going to be my personal trainer! All mine and no one else's!" He was getting pretty excited about this.

The author trudged back into his study and began typing his recent novel again. How had he gotten himself into this? Maybe if he hadn't made Shuichi so frantic about his body weight then he wouldn't have to show up in a public gym tomorrow with his lover in sweaty gym clothes, with his hair all messed up, and his shirt drenched with perspiration from the heat of working out, his tired gasping pants resonating from his lithe body, and those tight gym shorts forming perfectly around his curvy little ass… maybe this trip to the gym wouldn't be so degrading after all.

A/N: Woo hoo! Yuki's having some little fantasies about Shuichi at the gym! I wonder what kind of "work out" they'll be doing there… though it won't be all smutty, it will get pretty steamy in the next chapter. So look forward to it, kay!