Meow… I just realized that Tohma is the president of N-G RECORDS … not N-G Productions… oh well…

The ladies walking out of N-G Records- young and old- were all surveying the lanky, model-like blonde leaning against his impressive car. Of course Yuki Eiri was fully aware of those stares; he was definitely used to all the interests in his unusual hair colour and beautiful face (Yuki knows his good looking alright). Currently, this blonde was puffing out ring-shaped smokes from his mouth- that was his sixth cigarette; he had to keep smoking to keep himself composed.

A lot of things were going through his mind; Yuki was not sure whether Shuichi had heard his apology, he was not sure whether Shuichi would even forgive and forget his actions that morning, he kept thinking about what Seguchi Tohma had told him not long ago, and most of all, he did not understand why he concerned himself so much with the brat's life and feelings. The president of N-G Records had not commented anything else on the matter of Shuichi dating Tachi, and Yuki was not the kind of individual to squeeze things out from another human being. Well, he would try to slowly coax his patients in to telling him the important things (important to them at least; to Yuki, the problems of his clients were really insignificant), but with people like Tohma, he just would not bother at all.

Suddenly, Yuki sensed the presence of the young man he was waiting for. He looked up and through his dark shades, his eyes followed a small built person walking out of the modern building. Even with the brown wig, a baseball cap and yellow sunglasses, that person was unmistakably to Yuki the boy he had been thinking about a lot lately.

"Hey…" Yuki called out softly.

Shindou Shuichi stopped in his steps and did not take long to find the source of the voice. He stared at the blonde. Contemplating for a while whether he should ignore the said person, he then decided to walk over to Yuki. "Hey to you too…" Shuichi said when he was just a few feet away.

And they stood there in silence. Fate, or perhaps some other strange divine power- had gave them, maybe rather had given Yuki, a chance to see the intriguing boy again after the first time they had met. Who would have thought that Tohma would send Shuichi to see him? And what did I do? Yuki Eiri had totally blown it by being a total asshole. He was not going to repeat that. Chances would not come twice. Again… what is wrong with me… why do I care?

"If that's all you want to say, then I'm out of here…" Shuichi stated dryly; Yuki did not reply. Fine. As the singer turned to leave, the blonde finally spoke.

"I… came to see you…"

Coming back face to face with Yuki, Shuichi bluntly asked. "Why?"

"… to apologize…"

"Apology accepted," was the curt reply.

Both of them felt a little awkward after that, especially Yuki. Lack of anything else to say, the blonde asked, "Want a lift home? Dinner first maybe?"

Pausing for a while, Shuichi then answered, "Nah… I'll be riding with Hiro. He's the guy with the long hair just now."

"… yeah, I know… I… realized that you didn't need help when I saw him…" Yuki did not expect his offer to be declined, but what could he do?

So it WAS him back there, Shuichi thought.

After a while,Yuki figured out that the best thing now was to save his self from further embarrassment; he has quite a huge ego after all, and so he would not want to stay around and chat after been turned down. "Well… goodbye then… I should be off too…"

Numbly, Shuichi nodded his head a little. "Okay…" Do something you dumb-dumb, say something other than that! Hand on the driver's door handle, Yuki then heard the purple-red haired boy add, "Can I take up your offer on another day?"

With the tiniest smile anybody in this world could manage, Yuki turned around and answered, "Of course." Shuichi detected the smile, and so he gave one of his own back.

"Sorry for the wait!" Nakano Hiroshi said while he jogged towards his best friend. "I couldn't find my keys." Slowing down his steps, Hiro noticed the atmosphere around Shuichi. The vocalist was not exactly smiling, but his violet eyes definitely were! "Oookay… what just happened?"

Looking at his buddy, Shuichi replied innocently, "What?"

Pushing up his left eyebrow, Hiro continued, "Well… it feels different. I would know if you're in a good mood…" The guitarist was pleasantly surprised; he thought that he would have to work hard to get his best friend out of the slump the artist was in (especially after the encounter with a damn bastard he knew).

"I dunno… just felt a little lighter," Shuichi said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Right, okay. Let's go. We'll pick up some pizzas on the way." After passing a helmet to Shuichi, the two best friends since high school then rode off on Hiro's motorcycle.

Up in a room located on the fifth floor of N-G Record's building, ASK's lead vocalist, Aizawa Tachi was gritting his teeth. He had seen the huge smile after the Cadillac had left. Who was that foreigner-looking bastard to HIS Shuichi?

Hurm… can anyone actually guess where this story is going anymore? To those who did not understand who Tachi was referring to as the foreigner-looking dude, it's Yuki…