summary: We all see Ryuichi as a very happy thirty year singer. But what do we really know about him? And why does he really have Kumagaro? R&R Yaoi Don't like? Don't read!
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'Kumagaro "talking"
'thinking'
'Ryuichi's suicidal thoughts'
"Lyrics"
/Quick Flash/
Flashback
Dreaming
"talking"
"phone talking" (person on other end)
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That's it. So, hope you like this!
Enjoy!
Chapter 3: Stumbling Upon...
/He mopped up Ryuichi's wounds before the nurse came, insisting on cleaning and wrapping the wounds herself. However, though the nurse started asking Ryuichi small questions, Ryuichi nodding or shaking his head slightly for each, his tired eyes were locked with Tatsuha's, and Tatsuha did his best to make himself look taller and more manly. Irritatingly eyeing the nurse the whole time...'Bet you're enjoying that, eh bitch?'
But in between his jealous thoughts and Ryuichi's closing eyes, Tatsuha new that he'd made some sort of small connection in Ryuichi's mind. He'd just have to keep it growing and tenderize it until it was ready to be brought out.
That was fine by him./
Tatsuha yawned for the upteenth time that day.
After Ryuichi's wounds had reopened, Tatsuha was immediately shoed from the room, without a thank you or anything! And since Ryuichi was under physical, mental, and emotional pressure, or so the doctors and nurses had said, no one could see him right now. Tatsuha pulled out his cellphone once more and began searching numbers. He just couldn't stand sitting there all day alone.
Finding the number he wanted, he pressed 'select' and the number instantly dialed.
It was Yuki, his older brother's, number; but Tatsuha didn't want to speak with that grump. He wanted Shuichi Shindou, the Ryuichi look-and-act-alike lead singer of Bad Luck.
'Shindou-kun won't give me any crap, unlike Mika and Yuki',Tatsuha thought
A few seconds after the phone began ringing, a monotone, deep voice spoke: "Moshi moshi, Eiri Yuki here. Who's calling?" Tatsuha mentally growled. 'Of all the people to pick up the phone...Shindou-kun's probably asleep!' "Hello, aniki..." Tatsuha said blandly.
There was a pause as Tatsuha waited for Yuki to respond.
"...Tatsuha...where the hell are you? What have you been doing?"
Tatsuha rolled his eyes. He had expected Yuki to respond like this, which is why he wanted Shuichi to pick up. "Look, aniki, can I speak to Shindou-kun...Shuichi?" Tatsuha heard an exhaling of air and knew his brother had lit a cigarette.
"The brat? He's taking a shower...has to get ready for one of his worthless concerts..."
Tatsuha heard Shuichi's protesting voice from a distance, so he assumed Shuichi had just gotten out of the shower in time to hear Yuki's regular, insulting statements.
"Hai, well get him on the phone, aniki. I know he's out of the shower now."
"...Why should I? It's been a week little brother...A week where you've been too busy making Ryuichi 'gifts', and planning stupid lovesick themes and all of that crap...and now you're telling me what to do? You've got some balls Tatsuha-baka."
Tatsuha growled loud enough for Yuki to hear. "Hai, well...y-you are the baka, Yuki-baka!" But all Yuki responded with was another exhale; Tatsuha could almost smell the whispy smoke coming out of his brother's mouth. 'Probably thinks I'm an immature bakayaro...' Tatsuha thought scathingly.
"Tatsuha, you are an immature bakayaro..."
'Thought as much...' Tatsuha thought grimly. 'Time to change strategies...the puppy dog talk...'
"Aniki...onegai...it's urgent..." Tatsuha heard his brother sigh...in defeat. "Fine...but two minutes only, then you are telling me what you've been doing and what's so urgent, got it?" It was a demand. It was always a demand from Yuki. But Tatsuha was happy enough that Yuki had even listened to him. "Tatsuha...!" Tatsuha nodded, but then remembered that Yuki couldn't see the gester and quickly responded, "Hai, hai, two minutes is more than I need, just let me talk to Shindou-kun, aniki!"
A few seconds later...
"Hai, moshi-moshi, Shuichi Shindou here!" Tatsuha had never been so relieved to hear the pink-haired singer's voice...well besides other times.
"Shindou-kun, thank goodness! You need to come to the Tokyo Wings Hospital(1) right away! Ryuichi...had an accident." Tatsuha pulled the phone five inches away from his ear just in time as Shuichi did the expectant Shuichi reaction to a crisis: "NANI? IS HE OK? OH TELL ME SAKUMA-SAMA IS OK!WHAT HAPPENED? ARE YOU WITH HIM? LET ME TALK TO SAKUMA-SAMA! ONEGAI, ONEGAI LET ME TALK TO SAKUMA-SAMA! WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Tatsuha's face turned into the chibi mode and he blinked twice as he heard Shuichi sobbing like mad.
Shuichi sobs became background sounds when Yuki came back on the phone, "What the hell did you say to him? The brat is crying all over my bed sheets!"
Yuki made it sound like he cared more for the sheets than Shuichi, but Tatsuha knew that his aniki loved Shuichi A LOT, his past just kept him from saying it openly. This was Yuki's way of dealing with it. "Tatsuha-baka, if you want to live past your nineteenth birthday(2), I suggest you start explaining-!" "-Come to Tokyo Wings Hospital, both you and Shuichi, I'll explain then! Sayonara." With that, Tatsuha hung up the phone just as Yuki started- "Tatsuha-baka, if you hang up that phone-!" -CLICK.
Tatsuha knew he would pay for that, but it was good for Ryuichi as well as Shuichi.
He did feel bad for the fact that Shuichi would most likely miss his big concert...There was going to be a riot, Tatsuha was sure of it.
'But Ryuichi will be really happy to see Shindou-kun; I did the right thing.' Tatsuha left to go to the waiting lounge to meet Yuki and Shuichi. he never once thought to call his brother-in-law, Tohma.
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Tatsuha was just heading towards the stairwell, when he realised: "Shit! I have to piss and...shit!" He ran down the hallway, into a nurse. Both collided and fell on contact. "Sir," the nurse groaned, rubbing her forhead, "You...aren't supposed to be running down the halls. Can I help you?...Itai, itai...!" Tatsuha got up, helping the nurse up as well. "Hai, gomen-nasai about that, but well..." The nurse raised an eyebrow. "Hai...?" Tatsuha leaned closer and whispered, "It's time to let Shamoo and the tank water back into the ocean(3)...if you catch my drift..."
The nurse did one of those free fall movements (A/N: ya kno, when they fall to the floor all of a sudden) and a large sweat drop went down the side of her head. "That way...to the left on the next hallway..."
"ARIGATO," Tatsuha yelled as he made his way down the white corridor.
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After Tatsuha had...done his business, he began walking down the corridor once more to see Shuichi and Yuki. He was fast-walking because the hospital didn't have any air scent sprays...And he had left a large stink...
A few seconds later when someone else went into the bathroom proved that: "HOLY KAMI! EGH! PEW! WHAT'S THAT KAMI AWFUL SMELL? HOLY-gag. Tatsuha picked up the pace to an almost jogging stance, then finally broke into an all-out run when a man said, "'scuse me, sir-?" "It wasn't me!" Tatsuha yelled in the poor man's face. "I, um, just wanted to know where the lounge was..." Tatsuha was long gone. He had been running once more, dodging everyone in his path...except an old door.
BAM/CRASH!
Tatsuha had pushed the door open by the sheer force and verocity that he had been running...and the door had been locked!
Tatsuha lifted his head from a box that had broken his fall...which was full of dirty patients hospital robes!
Tatsuha "bleghed" and pushed himself backwards, away from the box...into a large filing cabinet. Yelling (the door was shut), he kicked at the filing cabinet, which only hurt his foot like hell.
With his final kick, however, one of the filing drawers fell out, exposing millions of papers and small notebooks under the "S" section.
Tatsuha did a double take when he saw one of the names inscribed on an old, black and white composition book.
On it was written in different colered crayons: Ryu-chans Diary, NO PEEKIN! Tatsuha could have laughed at the style of the book, if it hadn't been for the name. Ryu-chan...there were probably plenty of Ryuichi's and Ryu-chans, but Tatsuha had a gut feeling it was Ryuichi SAKUMA's diary.
Tatsuha opened the book, and sure enough in a doctor's hand-writing on the side:
Composition Diary Number 1
Patient: Sakuma, Ryuichi
Age: 6-7 years
Diagnosed with: CDS (Child Depression Syndrome(4)
"Child's Depression Syndrome," Tatsuha muttered. But he kept reading.
Family issues: Parents fighting, deliquent brother, alcholic father, chain smoking mother
"Sakuma-sama has a brother? His parents...are drug abusers?" Tatsuha shook his head.
Self Issues: low-self esteem, mild depression, daily nightmares, bad eduacation, often left out at school
Tatsuha frowned, but kept reading.
Year: 1982-1983
Tatsuha did a double take. Thinking over his math he thought: 'Sakuma-sama said he's about thirty years old...but it's two-thousand-six minus thirty plus six, equals...nineteen-eighty-two!...Then...Ryuichi isn't thirty...he's twenty-five! HOLY KAMI! Why would he make himself older?'
Tatsuha just couldn't believe it...what was going on?
Then, Tatsuha saw the page on the left of the doctor's notes: Diary Report 1: 1/5/82
He read on, and was shocked at what he found...
DunDunDun!
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Yuki banged his hands on the sign-in desk, where the nurse at the head was cowering. "Where the hell is Ryuichi Sakuma," Yukigrowled more than yelled. Shuichi was behind him, sniffling pitifully.
"G-gomen nasai, s-sir...But I can only let family in...!" Yuki bared his teeth and the nurse scuttled back more, as though hoping to melt into the wall. Tohma was there as well, along with Hiro, K, Mika, and Seguchi. Shuichi had called them, in tears, immediately upon Tatsuha's phone call.
Tohma went up to the frightened nurse, softly pushing Yuki aside. "We're the only family he really has." He explained. The nurse nodded, though she was really frightened of Yuki. "Room 231, take the elevator."
As they walked, Tohma angrily scanned a newspaper article about Ryuichi's cutting. He balled up the paper in his hands.
'Why didn't Tatsuha call me immediately?' Was Tohma's one big thought. While in the elevator, Tohma said to Yuki and Mika, "I'll kill that fanboy brother of yours, Mika, Yuki."
Mika's glare towards the elevator doors intensified, but Yuki answered for the both of them: "Not if I do, first."
END CHAPTER 3
MissesLadyLuck: It's short but, well, I FINALLY updated! I'm sick today, so, yeah
(1) They're in Tokyo and no, Tokyo Wings Hospital isn't real, I don't think.
(2) In this, Tatsuha is currently seventeen
(3) A phrase I made up: means Tatsuha has to take a big crap and piss...yeah U
(4) I don't think there really is a Child Depression Syndrome (CDS) but bare with me, people!
Ok, tell me what you think:
Yuki and Tatsuha (as well as Shuichi) on the phone
Tatsuha's bad luck
Ryuichi's new (lowered) age! (heheh...made for Drama, isn't really like that n Gravitation, so...)
Tohma, Yuki, and Mika's reaction's to Tatsuha
What do you think is in Ryu-chan's diary?
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