I think this story is a way for me to try different writing styles. I don't believe any of these chapters are written the same. Well, this one may be slightly like the first chapter... maybe.

Warnings: bad grammar, bad spelling, bad... everything?

Disclaimer: Here I am at home, straining just to see the computer screen as I try to figure out how I will pay three bills by the fifteenth of this month without a source of income. One of the bills, by the way, is for this lovely laptop I am currently using. So, no, I don't believe I own Gravitation.

GRAVITATION

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GRAVITATION

He really should have known better.

Really.

He should have.

But he didn't.

Because that's how Uesugi Tatsuha is.

He may be street smart but when it comes to actually thinking instead of running head first, he'll be the first to admit that he'll gladly hold his weapon in the air and charge without a second thought.

That's just the way he was made.

He liked to think that the deity above spent hours and hours scuplting him, and each piece was specifically crafted with Tatsuha in mind. No, not just any Tatsuha. But for him.

Uesugi Tatsuha.

Because he's special.

And everyone wants a piece of him.

Just not the one he wanted to give a piece to.

No, that one...

If there's one memory Tatsuha would never forget, it was the one his mother spent two hours telling him. Wait, no not telling. Teaching. Yes, that's the word.

"Remember this always, my son: each time you fall in love, each time you give yourself to someone, each time you let the mask you carefully created break, remember that each time you say goodbye to someone, you may have missed your chance. We only get one true chance to find our love and if you lose that chance, Tatsuha, then you may as well be lost forever. My mother told me this too, and I have told Mika and Eiri as well. Now, it's your turn. When you're older and start looking back at everything, you'll immediately zero in on that one. The one that all the fairy tales talk about. The one, Tatsuha, the one that got away."

Tatsuha slid down the wall he was against until his bottom touched ground. He was only a few blocks away from Eiri's house, but he didn't have any intention on going there; not anymore. He just came from there, so why would he go back? Why go back to a place where his brother was probably rubbing his forehead because of a migraine? Why watch as Shuichi devoured over twenty boxes of pocky? Why should he face the stares of Mika and her husband? Why should he endure the pain of watching Shuichi's two bandmates rip each other's tongues out? Why stand there, silently, as his ex-lover cuddled against some phoosey Shuichi knew?

Why should he let his heart be broken again?

He really should have known better than to let Shuichi convince him to come. He hadn't even been noticed; he just walked in, seen Ryuichi with that flimsy, then walked back out without anyone seeing him. They probably wouldn't care if he wasn't there. Why should they?

He's just the twenty-year-old kid from Kyoto.

The kid that not even his father wanted to see because Tatsuha reminded him too much of his late wife.

Again, Uesugi Tatsuha really should have known better.

He is the one that inherited his mother's disease.

Tatsuha laughed. "Genes from my dear father, personality from myself, and what do you know some bed-ridden disease that kills from my mother. Oh, my life is the best."

GRAVITATION

Seguchi Tohma wasn't evil. No, he just knew what was best for his family. Sure, he sometimes abused the power he held tightly, but to protect the ones closest to him, he would do anything.

So when Tatsuha left a few seconds after arriving, he didn't say anything. No one else noticed so why should he bring it to attention. Eiri had been trying to tear a box of pocky away from Shuichi, Mika was trying to break apart the two love nuts of Bad Luck, and Ryuichi didn't really seem to care as he was being flirted with. Of course, Tohma knew if he would have mentioned Tatsuha had came in, everything would have come to a stand still.

He also knew why Tatsuha had left Ryuichi in the first place. It was a secret kept only between him, Tatsuha, Uesugi Senior, and the private doctors he hired. Tohma knew it was better this way. When the time came for Tatsuha to leave this world, it wouldn't hurt as bad because it would be unexpected. If they had told anyone then there would be tears and fights and a whole bunch of other silly things Tatsuha didn't need.

So, no Seguchi Tohma wasn't evil. He liked to think he was a momma bird caring for her young. He just did it in a way that people percieved to be bad. But in time, Tohma knew, they would understand.

GRAVITATION

Bah... I can't remember the difference in age between Ryuichi and Tatsuha. I know the latter is sixteen but the elder? I haven't a clue.

Slowly, these chapters are becoming longer...