"It's good to see you again," smiled Shindou Midori, Shuichi's and Maiko's mother, as she welcomed both Shuichi and Hiro. Midori was petite woman with pale pink hair, blue eyes and warm smile.
Shuichi and Hiro came for Maiko's birthday party, as was the tradition for five or six years now.
Hiro attended every family event in the Shindou family. He was almost as a second son to Midori and Hiro's mom was Midori's best friend.
"It's nice to see you again too, Midori-san," Hiro smiled at the woman, "You look great in this green dress… Are you sure you are not Maiko's sister?"
Midori laughed, "Aww… polite as always Hiro-kun. How is Chiyaki-san?"
Hiro started talking about his mom, how she finally let go of the thought of him being a doctor and even buying on of theirs CD's. And she actually liked it, praising both Hiro and Shuichi.
Midori giggled, "It was about time, with your album being platinum."
They all sat in the living room. Midori brought some refreshments, and soon the table was full of various food, as if she was trying to feed a small army. Shuichi couldn't help but comment on that, even though, he was probably the one eating the most.
"Geez, Shu I am so jealous of your metabolism," Maiko sighed.
"Too bad, you have to get fat," Shuichi smirked.
"What did you say?!" exclaimed Maiko, as Hiro was trying to stifle a laugh. Arguments like this were nothing new. Shuichi and Maiko bickered a lot, but they also would die for each other.
"Nothing," Shuichi tried to look innocent, but Maiko didn't buy it.
"Ha, as if I would believe that," she threw a pillow from the couch at him, smacking him in the face.
The two siblings bickered for a bit, with Hiro teasing them both, when Midori came with big leather bound book and exclaimed: "Picture time!"
Maiko groaned, knowing this will only lead to embarrassing stories and even more embarrassing questions.
Shuichi smirked, knowing fully well how their mother loved bringing up those photos at every possible chance and how Maiko hated it.
"Oh and remember this time when you bathed and…" Midori showed them a picture with child Maiko in a bath.
"MOM!" Maiko yelled, to stop her mom from really embarrassing her in front of Hiro, who was chuckling amusedly.
"You know," Hiro said, "We always talk about Maiko's embarrassing childhood… but what about Shu?"
"Uh, well," Midori started, but Shuichi shrieked, successfully cutting her off.
"Aaaa…ahahahaha… story time over!" Shuichi said nervously, grabbing the picture book and running off with it.
Hiro blinked, "What happened?"
Maiko and Midori looked at each other in confusion.
"Well… Shu-chan doesn't like to talk about his childhood," said Midori.
Hiro was confused, "Why? Did something happen?"
Maiko shrugged, "We don't know… nii-san was a-…"
"Present time!" Shuichi exclaimed as he returned to the living room.
He distracted everyone from the talk, and got them focused on presents for Maiko. Nobody said a word about the incident afterwards.
- G - G - G - G -
"So, how was your visit?" Eiri asked, liting a cigarette, while still typing on his laptop.
"As always," Shuichi leaned to Eiri, "We gave my sister presents and my mom had truckload of funny stories…"
The pink haired man then hugged Eiri and gently kissed him on a cheek.
"Hmmm, and what about stories about you?" Eiri smirked, as he pulled Shuichi closer, putting his cigarette in ashtray and started to kiss him on the throat to get him in good mood, hoping to get some blackmail material.
"Mnnmm, there was one time," Shuichi started, tilting his head to the side, to give Eiri more space, "Me and my b-…"
Suddenly Shuichi's eyes widened, he squealed and pushed himself away from Eiri, but in doing that, he also lost his balance and ended up falling on his back.
Eiri blinked in confusion, and then he raised an eyebrow, "What the fuck are you doing?"
Shuichi quickly jumped to his feet, "N-Nothing… I just realized… that I need to… write a song… yeah… or K-san will kill me…"
And with that, he quickly left the room, not giving Eiri time to question him.
Shuichi sat on the couch in the living room, with hands hiding his face.
"What the hell am I thinking..?" he murmured softly, "Ten years without incident…"
He grabbed his notebook and pen, to get his mind of the ordeal, and to please K with some new lyrics. The singer got so engrossed into his work, that he didn't notice hours go by, until it got too dark to see. He blinked a few times and looked around. He stood up, and switched on the light. Then he grinned gleefully at the new song and red it through.
Začátek formuláře
Watashi de wa nakatta to omotta
hikari no naka de
shurui no hitotsu de atta
kichō na shinju
naki tai toki
watashi o hikiokosu koto ga deki mase n deshi ta.
yurusare nakatta
subete no gomenasai
Gomenasai
watashi wa anata o shitsubō shitte i masu.
saigo made Gomenasai
yūjin ga hitsuyō na koto
ima yō
subete watashi ga kangae ta mono de wa nakatta
totemo mujaki
sensai na ningyō datta
jiki no
anata ni denwa shi tai toki
soshite anata no tasuke o motomeru
jibun jishin o teishi shi te kudasai.
subete no Gomenasai
Gomenasai
watashi wa anata o shitsubō shitte i masu.
saigo made Gomenasai
yūjin ga hitsuyō na koto
ima yō
watashi wa yume datta to omotta
mirāju
sore ga mie ta node, honmono datta
tokken
anata o tsutaeru shi tai toki
misu o okashi
watashi wa arui ta
subete no tame no Gomenasai
Gomenasai, Gomenasai,
yūjin ga hitsuyō na koto
ima yō
anata o saseru Gomenasai,
Gomenasai, Gomenasai,
saigo made Gomenasai
yūjin ga hitsuyō na koto
ima yō
Shuichi frowned.
„Geez, I can't give K this," he sighed, "They will ask questions…"
Suddenly a voice came from the doorway, "You are still here?"
Shuichi shut his notebook and whirled around, only to see Eiri leaning on the wall, tiredly rubbing his eyes.
"Ahaha, yeah… wanted to write a song, so K-san wouldn't kill me, but it's not going anywhere," he laughed nervously.
"That's not surprising," Eiri smirked.
Shuichi pouted, but decided not to comment on that. Instead he hugged the blonde man, gently kissed him on the cheek and dragged him to the bedroom.
- G – G – G –
"Shindou! You messed up again!" Suguru growled.
Shuichi collapsed on a couch in their recording room, "But Fujisaki… We have been at it for 3 hours. Let's get break!"
Suguru glared at the singer. He too was starting too feel all that training, but he didn't want to give up just yet. They had only done two songs, and he really wanted to record one more, before they go for lunch. But it seemed, he won't have such luck. Especially if nobody but the keyboardist was against a break. So he didn't have much of a choice.
"Fine," he sighed, slumping his shoulder, "Let's have lunch and after that, record this goddamned song."
Shuichi grinned and quickly bolted for the door, before Suguru changes his mind. Others followed him at much slower pace.
After lunch Shuichi insisted on getting snacks, so he went to a vending machine, that was in the lobby, for his favorite strawberry pocky. He noticed almond pocky and bought it absentmindedly too, only to stare at it afterwards.
'This is… Tohma's favorite,' he thought, 'Geez, I can't give it to him just like that… He will ask how I knew.'
Shuichi bit his lip. He made a motion to throw it away, but then he sighed in defeat.
"If I already bought it, I might as well give it to him," he murmured, as he headed to Tohma's office, simultaneously pulling out his cell phone and sending a text message.
Fortunately the blonde was not there. So Shuichi quickly put it on the table and ran away.
He returned to the recording room and froze. Others were holding his notebook, which he stupidly left on the table, when they were discussing new songs in the morning before recording.
"What are you doing?!" Shuichi yelled.
"We were looking for the lyrics you were working on," Hiro said, "Shu, what are those? They are really good, but you never mentioned them."
Shuichi jumped to them, grabbing the notebook, tearing the paper out and tearing it to pieces.
"I don't like it!" he exclaimed.
Others looked at him as if he was mad, but then Suguru facepalmed, "Damn those moody singers…"
The rest of the day went normally. Or better than normally, because Shuichi tried his best not to piss Suguru anymore, and without complain did everything that he was told. And when they were finally let go, he bolted through the door with only "Gotta hurry to Yuki!" explanation.
But in truth, he didn't head to his and Eiri's shared condo. He went to Maiko's school, to wait for her, because he wrote her earlier that he wanted to meet with her.
She was already waiting there for him, confusion clearly written on her face.
"Shu-nii, why did you want to meet so suddenly?" she asked as soon as she noticed him.
"What, can't I just spend time with you?" he tried to look innocent, but Maiko didn't buy it.
"Right, but really," she rolled her eyes.
Shuichi didn't want to discuss it on the street, and didn't want to go home, so he lead Maiko to a small pastry shop.
After they ordered, Maiko quietly waited for Shuichi to start.
"Well… how should I start," Shuichi nervously ran fingers through his hair, "Maybe… no… how about… I… You know how ten years ago refused to say anything else about me, just that my name is Shuichi?"
Maiko nodded, her curiosity quickly escalating, because Shuichi most of the time pretended that there was nothing from before ten years ago.
"Well… I was obviously old enough to remember who I was and who my family was… but I didn't want to. But now…"
Shuichi had to cross his arms, to stop them from shaking, "I had… I have a brother. I met him; he just didn't recognize me…"
Maiko's eyes widened, "OH MY GOD! Congratulation! How did he react when you told him?!"
"I didn't," Shuichi said simply.
"Why the hell not?!" Maiko wanted to smack the pink haired man.
"I… I don't want to meddle into his life… he has family, you know?" Shuichi tried to defend himself, "And besides… what would mom think? I don't want her to think I don't love her because she is not my blood family. Nor you…"
Maiko quieted down. She knew how sensitive Shuichi was about him not being her real brother. And this must have been really difficult for him to say.
"But doesn't he deserve to know that you are alive?" she asked softly.
There was silence for a few seconds.
"Yes… No… I don't know…" Shuichi looked away.
"I think you already do. You want to tell him. So tell him. We wont think of you any less… It would be nice to have another brother. And mom would gain some of yours embarrassing baby stories," Maiko smiled softly.
Shuichi laughed, "Yeah… She would love that."
"Hey… and who is your brother anyway?" Maiko leaned to Shuichi.
But Shuichi just shook his head, "I don't want to tell you… Not until I tell him."