-1A/N- LoneAuthor hope this chap will answer some of your questions I wont say any more than that for now.

Disclaimer: Sigh do you really think I own Gravitation? If I did this wouldn't be a FAN-fiction so nope I don't own it.

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Summary - everyone is filled in on what Shuichi has been hiding.

HELP!

Chapter 3

Mika's POV

As Tohma led the doctor upstairs I turned to Hiroshi and K in hopes they knew what had happened "Hiroshi, K what happened to Shuichi?"

I could barely hear Hiro when he spoke "I don't know. I just got here, but if I had to guess I'd say it has something to do with Yuki."

"What do you mean 'it has to do with Yuki'?" I ask

"Shu's been coming into work with odd bruises all over himself. But when ever I bring it up he blames them on his clumsiness, but come on falling does not cause hand shape bruises to appear on your body! I'm sure Yuki was hurting Shu I just didn't know how badly he was hurting Shu." Hiro answered sadly

"But, Why was he hurting Shu?" I ask 'I swear you can't get anything out of a man unless you ask a direct question!'

"I don't know maybe he was drunk, or maybe he was high, better yet he was probably out of beer and cigarettes! He's your brother you tell me why he'd hurt Shu! Because I SURE AS HELL DON'T KNOW MIKA!" Hiro was fuming when he finished.

"You'd never guess the real reason he was beating me more than usual." said a sorrowful voice coming from the stairway making everyone jump we turn to see Shuichi clinging to Tohma's side the doctor coming up behind them. Hiro was by Shu's side in a split second taking notice of the visible damage on Shu.

"Shu, What happened? Why did Yuki do this to you?" Hiro asked sympathetically.

Shuichi's POV

I glace at each of the people in the kitchen never letting go of my hold on Tohma. After a moment I let go of Tohma and sat at the round kitchen table with a sad sigh "if you really wish to know why I'll tell you." I said quietly taking a deep breath "to put it simply I made Yuki mad…" I stopped in the middle of my sentence to figure how to tell everyone how I managed to make him that mad.

Mika broke the brief silence "But how'd you make him mad?"

'I guess I should just come out and say it' I thought to myself "I broke up with him this afternoon, but he found out the hard way that that I was leaving him about a month ago when he came by the studio Hiro, K you both know that I was called to Tohma's office when I got to work, right? Well apparently Yuki came by while I was talking with Tohma…" I was quiet a moment while I tried to hide the blush rapidly across my face and neck I glanced at Tohma and saw the slightest nod to continue "Yuki… over heard me talking …no I should say he over heard me confessing… my ..feelings towards Tohma…" I fell silent as two loud "WHAT?"S hit my ears.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU MEAN YOUR FEALINGS FOR TOHMA?" Hiro yelled

"W.. well I have strong feelings towards Tohma… and I didn't want him to rush into anything so I told him to just think about it" I told them quietly. "It was about that time when Yuki started to hit me while yelling at me that 'I shouldn't be cheating on him'." I could feel the inevitable tears pricking at the corners of my eyes I tried to fight them as I went on "I didn't know what he was talking about at the time. I did not know that he was talking about me and Tohma!"

Hiro looked Shu over concern written all over his face "Shuichi, why'd you hid this from me? Why'd you keep it from everyone else for that matter?"

"because Hiro I didn't want to worry anyone." I buried my face in my hands as the tears that I had been trying to hold back began to spill out I couldn't hold them back.

Tohma's POV

When Shu started to cry I couldn't stop myself I wrapped my arms around his small slightly shaking body from behind his chair and softly whispered in his ear "I'm sorry Shuichi this is my fault…" before I could finish my self blame Shuichi scrambled out of his chair and clung to the front of my shirt 'he sure is clingy' "NO! It's not your fault I should have left him before coming to you! So, Please Tohma don't blame yourself!" I wrapped my arms back around him holding him gently as he cried into my chest. Silence filled the room until Hiro broke it.

"Say, Seguchi how did you know that Shu would need help?"

K answered before I could even think of how to answer "I told him that I had seen Shuichi putting a bandage on his stomach in the bathroom before he came into the studio. Then we decided that we were going to move Shuichi away from Yuki after work, well we left early and got there only to see Yuki with a firm grip around Shuichi's neck." I felt Shuichi shudder when K finished and I couldn't help but think that there was more to it 'this could get bad' I thought to myself.

TBC

A/N-- First off thanks to all reviewers!

I know I'm ignoring Yuki at the moment he'll appear in chapter four

Now I have a question that I hope my Reviewers can help me with. Ok so here it is…

Would you prefer longer chapters with longer wait periods or shorter chapters with maybe a day or two in between?

Your opinion matters to me! So please let me know what you think