AN) Yeah another chapter! Ok so this is really late I've been busy at school but that's over now so I have lots of free time and the first thing I did was sit down and finish this chapter. Please enjoy! and REVIEW.

Shuichi sat fidgeting in Tohma's office the president had called him up and he had no idea what was going to happen. Tohma was behind his desk apparently in the middle of an important deal because he hadn't even looked up when Shuichi had entered the room. Shuichi had wondered off in his own thoughts of what Yuki might fix for dinner and didn't even realize that Tohma had finished his conversation. The president of N-G let out an exhausted sigh and leaned back in his chair taking Shuichi in.

The boy had filled out more being at Eiri's, he had obviously gained a few need pounds he didn't look as frail as he had before. He also seemed happier, beforehand when Shuichi had been left to his own thoughts a smile never presented its self on his lips, but now just sitting there it reached all the way up into his eyes. Tohma hated what he was about to tell him.

"You seem happy Shuichi did recording go well today?" Tohma asked leaning on his desk. Shuichi snapped out of his thoughts and nodded enthusiastically at his boss.

"Yeah two songs were recorded today and Yuki-san promised to make me dinner tonight. He's a really good cook you know. He won't let me near the kitchen though because I'm a klutz. He won't let me do the laundry either but that's not really fair because it was only his socks and underwear that I turned pink and nobody notices that anyway." Shuichi had rambled as long as he could; trying to stall whatever news it was Tohma had to give him.

"Well I'm glad that you two seem to be getting along if that's what you want to call it. Shuichi-kun I called you here for a serious reason. Your parents just contacted me they want you to come spend this weekend with them." Tohma didn't smile as he said this there was nothing happy about forcing the boy to go visit his parents. Shuichi seemed to pale and he looked at Tohma with sorrowful eyes. Shuichi loved his parents but he didn't want to go visit them.

"How am I getting there?" He asked quietly staring at the ground.

"The train would be best I can have someone escort you there and back if you want."

"No that's not necessary I can go by myself, when do they want me there by?"

"Eight o'clock tomorrow so you will have to leave by six in the morning. I'm sure Eiri would be more than willing to give you a ride."

"Yeah I'll ask him." Shuichi stood to leave this news had just ruined his entire day.

"Wait Shuichi-kun here are your tickets." Tohma held them out to the reluctant teen.

"Don't worry I'm sure everything will be fine. You're famous now I'm sure they're proud of you and can't wait to have you home." Tohma tried unsuccessfully to cheer him up.

When Shuichi got home Yuki had already finished dinner. It was all Shuichi could do to force the food down his throat he was so scared of going to see his parents. Eiri noticed the sudden change in behavior but wrote it off as stress from work. Shuichi went up to his room after he picked at his food for a good half hour, and Eiri could hear him walking around and then silence. He was in his study and glanced at the clock on his lap top, it read seven thirty. He wandered briefly if he should go up and see what was wrong but decided the singer probably had a bad day and wanted to be left alone.

Shuichi crept down the stairs as quietly as he could. He glance down the hallway to see the light was off in Yuki's study, that was good it meant the author was in bed and would probably be there for most of the day.

Shuichi snuck out of the house around 4 A.M. carrying his duffle bag. He caught a taxi to the train station and waited till it was time for his boarding call. He toyed with the idea of pretending he had missed the train and going back to Yuki's but the punishment he'd get for that when he got home would be far worse than what he was bound to get now. He boarded his train with a sigh and sat staring out the window, remorse welling inside him for not telling Yuki where he had disappeared to.

When Eiri awoke lunchtime had already come and gone. He took a shower then sat in the living room staring at a black TV screen. His thoughts drifted to the singer and he found himself wondering what he should make for dinner. It was Friday so the singer usually got home at around seven. Eiri went to his study to work on his novel until it was time to make dinner.

So here he was at the dinning room table it was nearly nine o'clock and the brat still hadn't come home. He toyed with calling to find out if he was on the way but decided he didn't want to look worried, besides the singer had probably told him the day before that he was going to be late and he hadn't remembered. He ate and put the rest of the food in the fridge for when the singer got home, then went back to work.

'Three minuets he has three minuets to fling himself through that door before I tear him a new one when he does get here.' Three minuets later Eiri had his phone to his ear and dialed Tohma Seguchi's cell phone number, the president of N-G answered immediately with a "Hello Eiri-san."

'Where the hell is he Tohma?" Eiri asked getting right to the point.

"Where is who?"

"That damned kid where the hell is he I told him if he's going to be out after eleven that he needs to call me and tell me."

"Eiri, Shindou won't be back until Sunday he went to visit his parents for the weekend, didn't he tell you?" Tohma was surprised to say the least.

"What! Why the hell did he go to visit them? Did someone go with him? You know that they mistreat him." Eiri was furious.

"I'm sorry Eiri I thought he would have told you. He probably knew you would react this way and decided against it. I wouldn't worry though his parents love money and they know that Shuichi is already making a good deal they aren't going to do anything rash." Tohma was lying and Eiri knew.

"What the hell ever I guess we'll find out when he gets back." He said and hung up. This was way to much stress for him and for the first time since Shuichi had been with him he decided that the best way to deal with it was to go out get drunk and find a girl, and that's what Eiri Yuki did for the next three days.

Shuichi had to take a taxi to get to his parents the whole way he was willing the tires to go flat or the engine to explode anything to save him from having to go home. He couldn't help but be hopeful though that they would be proud of him he was doing well Tohma had even told him so. There was no way they could still treat him like they had. With thoughts like that he paid the driver and walked up to the house. He opened the door and was met with silence he set his stuff down and began to look for his mom she usually didn't work on Friday's and since the door was unlocked he assumed that she was home. He walked into the living room and stopped dead his mom was sitting on the couch staring at him hatred burning in her eyes Shuichi didn't see it though he wasn't willing to. He approached her ready to give her a hug but stopped as she stood up; he realized that she was holding a copy of the magazine that had come out last month that featured Bad Luck, the one he had to get drenched for. Before Shuichi knew what was happening he was knocked to the floor clutching his cheek. His mother began to scream at him he wasn't sure why. She was yelling something about the magazine the pictures of Shuichi looking like a whore.

Suddenly she grabbed his hair and pulled it she picked the magazine up again and flipped it open shoving one of the pictures in his face.

"Look at you look at what you're wearing! And right there a huge hicky on your neck did you think I wouldn't see that?" She continued to scream things at him and hit him but Shuichi had slipped into his own world pretending that it wasn't happening. It wasn't until she had dragged him over to the stairs that lead down to his room in the basement that he realized she was going to lock him in. At first he pleaded through the door with her begging her to let him out but no reply came he sat leaning against the door looking at the magazine that she had flung at him before locking him down here.

A good five hours had passed since he arrived at his parents and he hadn't heard a thing. Eventually he heard steps coming toward the door and his mother angry voice coming through the wood.

"Your sister's going to be home soon you stay quiet down there the last thing I want is your influence on her you disgusting whore!" Then there was blissful silence again. Shuichi couldn't help but cry at the awful words he thought that maybe he had finally won their love but his mother seemed to be even more disappointed then when he'd left. He heard his sister return home and listened as her and his mother laughed and talked, he wished he could go out he loved his sister more than anyone else in the world she was always loving towards him it was the only thing his parents would ever get mad at her for being nice to her brother.

He finally made his way down to his room and looked around everything was as he had left it. He crawled into bed and his thoughts drifted to Yuki he wondered if the novelist would be mad when he returned home and the thought brought tears to his eyes again and he cried himself to sleep.

When he woke the next morning he discovered that his door had been unlocked and chanced going out. No one was home and there was a note from his mother not to touch anything. He knew from past experiences that this meant to touch absolutely nothing. If he did it would be his father that beat him this time not his mother and those beatings were always worse. He went to the sink and drank straight from the tap he wouldn't risk getting a glass dirty. He wandered around the house looking at things, the newest family portrait hung above the TV, he wasn't in it.

Nothing happened the rest of the time he was there he stayed in his room and when it was time for him to leave his parents weren't even there they had simply left his bag sitting next to the door. He decided to walk to the train station because he wasn't due to leave for another four hours no point in paying for a taxi just to sit and wait. He got there just in time and felt his mood lighten as he hopped on the train. It had begun to rain on the way home but even that couldn't bring him down he was so thrilled to be going back to Yuki.

He decided to hail a taxi back to Yuki's since it was raining, but decided to get something to munch on from a vending machine first. He reached into his bag to get his wallet and found that all of his money was missing. He retraced his steps mentally trying to figure you were he could have lost it but every time his mind came back to his parents house. He couldn't except that his parents had taken the money he was after all a forgetful clumsy person so he'd probably lost it himself. Somewhere in the back of his mind though Shuichi knew it wasn't true.

The walk through the rain had drenched him and he was shaking by the time he got home. Shuichi arrived home at six to find that Yuki had gone out, he thought momentarily about trying to cook his own dinner to prove to Yuki he could but decided he'd rather have take out. Three boxes of Chinese and a whole cheese cake later he decided he should probably take a shower and go to bed. Shuichi had been so hungery thathe didn't even realize he was still in hisnow somewhatwet clothes.Shuichi crashed on the couch it was where he liked to sleep because if he woke up he could watch TV. Yuki had gripped at him about it at first but soon let it drop telling the singer, "Fine I don't give a damn if your brain liquefies and oozes out your ears just don't wake me up." Shuichi fell asleep wondering if Yuki really liked him at all or was only putting up with him because of Tohma.

So here Eiri was in a bar no clue what time it was and a tad on the drunk side. A woman came up and began flirting with him he took the bait and asked if she wanted to go home with him forgetting Shuichi for the time being the boy had been gone for three days anyway. The woman accepted and they were soon driving back to his place all thoughts of the singer erased from Eiri's mind.

Shuichi woke with a start he didn't know what had disturbed his sleep. He could hear whispers and unsteady steps filtering in from the hallway. Terrified that it might be a robber or a murder he flicked a light on to see who it was. Yuki stood in the hallway his date pressed against the wall with his hand up her shirt. The woman looked stunned while Yuki just stood there trying to figure out what was going on and who was in his house. Shuichi shot up off the couch.

"Um sorry I-I didn't mean to." He stuttered then took off to his room like a bat out of hell. Eiri let out and irritated sigh as he backed away from the women and lit a cigarette.

"What was that? You said you lived alone. Was that your kid?" the women spat out.

"Yeah he is my kid you got a problem with that you can leave." Eiri watched as the infuriated woman stormed from his house. He then made his way up to Shuichi's room to talk to the boy. He knocked lightly but no answer came so he simply opened the door and went in. Shuichi was lying on his bed head phones on and facing the wall. Eiri knew the kid was sheltered and probably the most naïve person he'd ever met but he seemed to be taking this way to bad. Eiri simply flopped down on the bed next to Shuichi his hands behind his head and gazing at the ceiling. He could feel as Shuichi jumped up and plastered himself against the wall. He tore his head phones off and Eiri could hear the music filtering through.

"Why do have to scare me like that!" he shouted.

"Well my date took off and now I'm lonely so I thought maybe you would keep me company." Eiri replied nonchalantly back.

"Sorry I didn't mean to ruin your night."

"You didn't besides I think I'm still a little tipsy from all that drinking." Eiri said covering his eyes.

"You shouldn't have driven home then. You're not setting a very good example." Shuichi said turning his music off. Eiri looked up at him the boy was obviously mad at him.

"Fine Mr. Morals I guess none of us could ever live up to your infallible life, you're so perfect so pure." Eiri had planed on continuing but was stopped short when Shuichi's hand connected with his face. Something had flashed across the boy's face that he couldn't place like the comment had physically hurt him.Shuichi immediately pulled back and began crying holding his now stinging hand. Eiri reached out a hand to touch him but the vocalist shied away from him obviously scared he was going to be hit.

"NO just go away leave me alone." He whispered. Eiri didn't want to "just go away" but he wasn't sober enough to deal with the situation. He got up and went to the door.

"We'll talk in the morning." He stated then left and layed out on the couch. Shuichi cried himself to sleep it was the sound that Eiri himself drifted off too.

The next morning was bright and sunny it seemed to be mocking Eiri. He pulled himself off the couch and made his way to the bathroom he stared in the mirror it took a good minute for him to realize where he'd received the black eye. He dashed up the stairs in threes to make sure Shuichi was alright. The boy was still in bed and appeared to be having a nightmare. It wasn't what you would think he wasn't thrashing around or crying out. Eiri could simply tell it was a disturbed sleep his face didn't have its usual peaceful look and every so often a light whimper left him. Eiri approached slowly he was sure Shuichi would still be angry with him and was also worried he was the cause of his disturbed sleep. He sat down on the edge of the bed and placed a hand on the boy's forehead he felt like he had a fever. Eiri stopped to think and he realized that he hadn't been home when Shuichi had returned from his parents. As Eiri looked at him he realized that Shuichi had a black eye just like him. Something awful must have happened to him at his parents and that's why he had shied away the night before and struck out, his parents had been beating him again.

"Shuichi wake up." He said touching his shoulder. Shuichi's eyes darted open in fear and he stared at Eiri.

"I'm sorry Shuichi I didn't mean to scare you last night." He said releasing the boys shoulder.

"S'okay." He slurred out sitting up and putting his head in his hands it felt like someone had hit him with a truck. He didn't know why but he began to cry silently. Eiri didn't realize at first and was scared when he forced the boy to finally look at him and saw the tears running down his face.

"Jesus Shuichi what happened?" He asked wiping the tears away. Shuichi sniffed a few times before he latched onto Yuki tightly.

"I-I'm just happy you're not mad at me… and I home." The last part was whispered as Shuichi fell unconscious. Eiri shook him a few times but he wouldn't wake up. He placed a hand on the singer's forehead confirming his fear the boy was indeed running a fever.

AN) Well I'm not sure if I'm going to do the typical Shuichi is sick Yuki takes care of him or not. I'm thinking of just skipping to where Eiri gets to meet his parents. From here on out there are going to be a lot more reasons that this is rated M though. Tell me what you think if I should just go to his parents or not. Review!

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