Me: ok, here's the next chapter that every1's been waiting for. Enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation, and I never will. If I did, you would see me taking many pictures of certain moments. –shifty eyes-

"Come on, kid," Aoshi said. "Their deaths were going to come sooner or later."

"But did you really have to do that?" a thirteen-year-old Shuichi asked the older fox.

"Humans need to learn when to let go, just like you apparently. You let them get too close to you. Knock it off."

"But, Aoshi."

"I know that you're a softy, but still," Aoshi said. Harshly he said, "Toughen up and quit getting attached! Humans are back-stabbing creatures that don't deserve to walk on this earth! They disrespect everything that they see, hear, or even touch!" His tone went a little softer before stating, "We foxes are different."

"We use them, so are we really any different from them?" Shuichi asked as he lowered his head, staring at the bloody ground.

"Yes, we are different. We don't disrespect the planet, or pollute it. Humans, on the other hand, do everything in their power to destroy it." Aoshi bent down, lowering himself to be level with Shuichi. He tilted the hybrid's head to look up at him. "Their deaths are nothing but help towards the earth. The less she has to worry about the creatures that crawl on her, the better she'll feel." He cocked his head to the side a little, not breaking eye contact with Shuichi. "Don't you want her to feel better?"

"I do," Shuichi replied as he stared at the dead body on the ground.

"Shuichi, learn to stop getting attached to whoever you encounter. You'll feel better about the deaths." Aoshi stood and walked off, leaving Shuichi behind with the corpse on the ground.

"But how?"

Shuichi's eyes quickly opened from the dream. "Not a dream," he said to himself. "Just a memory." He felt the arms around his waist tighten slightly, making him roll his head back a little. "Yuki?" he called out, thinking that it would wake the human. He slipped out of the grasp that Yuki had on him and sat up. He just couldn't help but stare at the sleeping human, thinking how peaceful he looked whenever he was in his own world of dreams. He glanced at the clock for a second. "Three in the afternoon?" He stretched his arm above his head. "Man, I'm sleeping way too much."

"Why do you say that?" a tired voice next to him asked. Shuichi looked down at Yuki with a small smile on his face.

"I don't normally sleep this much," Shuichi simply stated.

"What made you start now?"

"I don't know," Shuichi replied as he stretched his back. "I've been sleeping a lot more since I was with you last, the night before the Red Sun rose." Shuichi climbed over Yuki's body and sat down on the man's firm stomach. "Maybe it's because you wear me out," Shuichi sexily stated as he licked his claws with the tip of his tongue. "Who really knows? Maybe I've been getting less sleep than I thought when I was disguised as a human."

"I doubt that," Yuki said. "You are really hard to wake in the morning."

Shuichi smirked before getting off of Yuki's stomach, grabbing a pair of shorts and putting them on, before walking out of the room and into another. "There are some showers over here. You better wash my scent off of you in case Aoshi sees you. He can catch my scent faster than I can catch his."

Two hours later-With Aoshi

Aoshi stared out the window impatiently. Shuichi had been gone since he woke up. Splinter said that he saw him, but he left to go somewhere. Aoshi even went to Shuichi's hide-away, but Shuichi didn't answer. 'He better not be with that human,' Aoshi thought. He was suspicious that Shuichi was melting for a human. Ice Heart kept denying it, but Aoshi knew better. 'Hmph, we'll have to teach them a little lesson.'

"Aoshi," someone from the door called to him, making Aoshi turn his head to look at the demon. He was another fox demon, but wasn't a red-head. He had gleaming yellow eyes with blue hair that was so bright, it looked white.

"What do you want?"

"Ice Heart's back," he replied.

Aoshi tilted his head upwards a bit. "Bring him here for me. Ice Heart and I need to discuss something important." The blue-haired fox bowed his head slightly before going out of the room and closing the door. A few minutes passed until the door opened again, but it was Shuichi who came inside in his humanoid form. Aoshi looked over to the hybrid fox with a serious look in his eyes. He went over and grabbed Shuichi by his shirt, pulling the pink-haired teen to him. He sniffed at Shuichi's hair and neck, trying to find a trace of something that wasn't Shuichi's scent. The only different scent he caught was the scent of cigarettes and alcohol.

"What's the big deal, Aoshi?" Shuichi growled out as he pushed himself away from the older fox. Aoshi didn't answer him. "Did you think I was with the human? Do you really distrust me that much?"

"I do trust you," Aoshi replied. "But then you met that human. Remember when I spoke with them? You used to just let me confuse humans, but you didn't allow it with those two. You disappear everyday now, even sleep more. And something tells me that you've been telling Splinter things that you haven't been telling me. Not even he tells me."

"Do you really need to know everything that goes on with me? And is it a crime for me to speak with Splinter?! He my best friend in our gang!"

"And what am I to you?"

"Do you not know the answer anymore?"

"Did you forget who you are?!"

"I know who I am!"

"You sure as hell are acting like you don't! You have been acting strange ever since you came back!"

"I've been acting normal, Aoshi! You are probably just too blinded by hatred towards any human I get with to see it! I'm not attached to my last human! I'm not acting strange! Now stop acting like I'm cheating on you!"

"How the hell should I know that you aren't?!" Aoshi harshly yelled out.

"Because I'm not!" Shuichi yelled back. His tone went softer and calmer before he said, "You are the one acting strange, Aoshi. You used to be a great guy to be with. But now, you kill everyone that gets too attached to me and act like everyone is your enemy. I thought that you were just being overprotective, but you're taking it too far now. I'm going to my place tonight. Don't come over." Shuichi sharply turned and stomped out of the room, transforming as he walked out the door.

"Shuichi!" Aoshi harshly called out to him.

Everyone was quiet as he came down. Splinter was at the bottom of the stairs, waiting for Shuichi. "Everyone could hear you two fighting," he stated. "What's wrong? You two don't normally fight that bad."

Shuichi looked over to him. "He's just pushing it too far," was all he said before was walked through the crowd and out the door. The sky was painted gray, covering the gentle blue. The sun hid behind gray clouds, not shining any light onto the world below it. Shuichi walked into his place and locked the door once inside. He went to his night stand and shoved it to the side a bit. The spot where the table once was had a hole in the floor. Shuichi changed into his fox form. His fur was long, as was his tail and ears. Most of his body was pink, but his paws, the tip of his tail and ears, they were white as snow. Shuichi slipped into the hole and ran down an underground tunnel. Shuichi knew that Aoshi would follow his scent, so he just led his scent to his place and disappeared into the hole. That way, Aoshi would think Shuichi was inside when he was actually somewhere else. That was the main reason why Shuichi dug it.

A faint light peered through a small hole that only a fox could get through on the ceiling. Shuichi went towards it, getting out as soon as he reached it. He looked around before turning right and walking off. A loud dangerous growl from behind him stopped him in his tracks. Shuichi turned his head to see a large pit-bull growling at him, baring its fangs as it crouched down into a position that told Shuichi that this dog was about to pounce. Shuichi quickly took off running, causing the dog to chase after him. Seeing a fence up ahead, Shuichi ran up the boxes, knocking over a wooden plank that was balanced on them, that also hit the dog on the head, and leaped over the fence. He turned and sat down, smirking at the dog who was still trying to get him. He stuck out his tongue before standing, and walking off.

He reached an antique store after running around for a few minutes. 'Closed,' Shuichi read the sign in his head. 'Well, we'll see about that.' He ran around back and started to scratch at the door. He gave out a little whine before the door opened to show an old short woman. Her tawny hair was in a long braid as her silver eyes looked down at him.

"Well, well, well," She said amusingly. "If it isn't Ice Heart. You know you don't have to be in that form. Come on in." She turned around and walked inside as Shuichi changed back into his humanoid form (his human-like form, but he has ears and tail) before walking in after her. "So, what's been going on with you?" she asked him with a smile on her face.

"Nothing much, Granny Ai," Shuichi replied.

"Well, have a seat. Do you want anything to drink?"

"No thank you," Shuichi said as he sat down on a chair.

"I can smell distress on you. Did you and Aoshi get into a fight again?"

"Yes. And this one was worse than our other fights."

"How so?"

"We were actually yelling at each other so loud that everyone else could hear us. And I could tell that he was resisting the urge to strike me."

"Well, Aoshi is Aoshi," Granny Ai stated as she sat in the chair that was across from the tale that Shuichi was at. "We all know that he is very protective of you. But why do you think he even had a urge to strike you in the first place." Shuichi lowered his head and looked away, completely silent. "Have you forgotten that everything I say to someone stays between me and that someone? Come now, Ice Heart. You know I won't tell another being about our conversation."

Sighing deeply, Shuichi stated, "I've been seeing my last human lately without Aoshi knowing, but he suspects it."

"Aoshi is no fool," the old woman said as she placed her cup of tea on the table. "We both know it. But tell me, why are you with your last human during the Red Sun?" Shuichi did not reply. "Well, I never thought that I would live long enough to see this. You melted for a human, didn't you? So, who's the human?"

"His name is Eiri Yuki."

"What does he look like?"

"Golden hair, hazel eyes, and the most handsome human that I've ever seen."

"Does this Yuki human treat you well?"

"Sometimes. He has a bit of a temper, but I know he cares for me, even though he hides it. Not only is it in his scent, but he actually shows it from time to time. Like when I was in a band and another band saw me as competition, he hired some thugs to do things to me while he took pictures for blackmail."

"Such a human is a disgrace to our world."

Shuichi smirked. "I agree. But when I told my human friend Hiro, he went and told Yuki what happened. I guess you can say that he was beyond pissed off. I heard that he almost broke one of the other band member's neck, someone who had nothing to do with it. Though Aoshi did do worse then that." He gave a small shudder before saying his next sentence. "And then that night, he said that he would disappear from my life."

"But knowing you, you didn't allow him to do so."

"Yeah."

"Well, you were always that way. Even when you were just a child. Once you got attached, good luck getting you away from the person or thing that you got attached to."

"Apparently, Aoshi believe so as well. And knowing him like I do, he will most likely try to get rid of Yuki and Hiro."

"Are you attached to this Hiro as you are to Yuki?"

"Hiro's a friend, Yuki is my lover."

"But you are attached to them both."

"Yes. And I fear that my attachment may put them in danger."

"They might already be in danger." Granny Ai noticed Shuichi groan in slight pain and lower his head onto his open palm. "I didn't mean to make you distressed."

"It's not that," he said. "I've been feeling strange lately. Since the night before the Red Sun rose for the first time this year. I've been getting headaches, feeling nausea, and I've been sleeping a lot more than I should. Aoshi is suspicious about it, and so is Splinter." Granny Ai gave him a strange look. "What?"

She got up from her chair. "Would you lie down on that couch for me?" she asked as she pointed to the couch against the wall. Shuichi gave her a weird look, but did as he was told. Her wrinkled hands covered his eyes sight as she roamed the other up and own his body, a few inches above the skin, so the hand was still in the air. Her hand glowed a faint yellow as it went up and down, until she closed her hands. She placed her hands on the sides, looking at Shuichi with stern eyes. "Does Yuki have feelings for you as much as you do for him?"

Shuichi sat up with a confused look in his eyes. "Yes, I told you that before, Granny Ai. Why?"

She sighed deeply before replying.

Me: because I'm evil and a complete $$hole, I'm ending this chapter with a cliff hanger. Now u must wait while I rite the next chapter. Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but u no what, I'm not all that bad. Here's a preview:

A knock on the door snapped Hiro out of his thoughts, making him jump a little. He placed the guitar on a chair before opening the door to see a soaked Shuichi with slightly red eyes. "Shuichi?!" he said shocked. "Get in here before you catch your death," he commanded as he grabbed Shuichi by his arm and pulled him inside. "What were you doing out there in the rain, man? Last time you did that was when Taki (was his name Taki? I don't remember) hired those thugs to rape you."

Shuichi looked up to his friends before saying softly, "We need to talk about a few things, Hiro."