A Turn For The Worse

Rune Alchemist Kaori

Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation

A/N: Two updates in one day! Aren't you all so lucky? After not updating in so long I finally hit a creative period. Considering I was sick all day and didn't go to school I had time to think about what I was writing, but if it's shit, you now know why.

Chapter 9

A whole week went by decently alright. Yuki was due to start chemotherapy soon, something he wasn't exactly looking forward to considering it would be hard to hide his leukemia from the media when he lost all his hair. Shuichi was surprisingly helpful to his lover as of late, and was barely annoying at all. It was on Friday though, that they got a peculiar phone call. When Yuki hung up Shuichi was looking up at him expectantly, wondering what was going on.

"Yuki... who was that?" the singer asked quietly.

"The hospital.." Yuki said.

"Is something wrong?" Shuichi asked fearfully.

"Not exactly... it seems someone wants to be a donor for a stem cell transplant..." Yuki said quietly.

"What does that mean?" his lover asked, looking up at him, still worried, not sure of what a transplant was, and not understanding what stem cells were, but for some reason to him, it didn't sound like a good thing.

"If I get a stem cell transplant usually the disease goes away, if the transplant goes well and my body accepts it," Yuki said softly, smiling down at his little lover.

"Well that's a good thing!" Shuichi exclaimed happily.

"Mmm... but... who could have known about it?" the author said, "I only told you and Tohma..."

"Does it matter?" Shuichi asked.

"It kind of does to me," Yuki replied, "I don't want all this getting out to the media. I want to keep it hidden as long as I possibly can."

"I'm sorry Yuki... if I hadn't complained to Hiro, Seguchi-san wouldn't have found out," Shuichi said, laying his head on Yuki's chest. The author sighed in annoyance, but lightly stroked Shuichi's soft pink hair until the boy got over his little fit and relaxed.

"I have to go the hospital to meet the donor, but you should be getting to work. I'll see you tonight," the author said gently as he received a sweet kiss from his lover, which he gave into willingly before he pushed away to leave, ushering Shuichi out the door to just to make sure his lover left for work.

Yuki walked into the hospital, not exactly sure what to expect. He wasn't sure who could have possibly found out about his leukemia. He hadn't told anyone, so why would he have a donor? He spoke to receptionist, who pointed him towards a room. The author took a deep breath before he walked in.

Shuichi was noticeably more chipper today. No one questioned it though, just happy their lead singer was willing to work. After a while though Hiro finally had to ask.

"Shuichi, did something good happen?" the red-head asked his friend.

"Sort of," Shuichi said, "But I'm not supposed to talk about it." The boy smiled as he left to go get some water. Suguru rolled his eyes.

"Why do we have such an idiot as our lead singer?" he asked. Hiro had to laugh, it was true, maybe cruel, but true and even though Shuichi was his friend he would not deny that his friend was a little... slow sometimes.

"I wonder what happened though..." he mumbled.

Yuki was stunned. So much that he had completely frozen up. He stared at the person in front of him.

"Hello Eiri..." came that all-too-familiar voice.

"Tohma," Yuki managed to get out, "What... what are you doing here?"

Tohma smiled, a real smile, as he pulled the stunned younger blond into a gentle embrace.

"I had to think for a long time about how I could best help you, and I decided this was the best way to help," the N-G president told him.

"But... why would you... I don't understand..." Yuki said, looking up at Tohma. Why would Tohma do this for him? He knew that his annoying brother-in-law was always attempting to look after him, to an excessive amount sometimes, but to do something like this... he hadn't ever thought that the vain, stuck-up older man would do something like this. Tohma still smiled.

"Because you mean more to me than anything, and I will always be here for you, to help you in any way I can," he told the younger man, the smiled and said in a more chipper voice, "Either way, since there's no real introductions needed, we can go through all this paperwork..."

"I'd heard you were away from N-G for a while.. You were figuring out if you could be a donor weren't you?" Yuki asked, looking slightly ashamed that he had been thinking badly of his brother-in-law, and silently forgave him for the whole psychotic, scary siblings thing as he saw the slight nod from Tohma.

"Tohma... thank you..." Yuki whispered as he too began to sign the crap load of paperwork they had to fill out together for this. He saw Tohma's serious expression quirk up into a smile then slide back down as he signed a seemingly endless amount of papers.

"You may want to call Shindou-san and tell him you'll be late, since he always worries so much for you," Tohma told Yuki, pointing the phone. The author frowned. Shuichi would be upset and try to come to the hospital or something drastic like that. His little lover was always like that. Still, if he didn't call, Shuichi would freak out, just as Tohma had said, and search for him everywhere.

Yuki dialed his number to leave a message and let Shuichi know he'd be late. It was going to be a very long night.

End Chapter 9

A/N: Xedra: If Tohma dies without his gloves it's all your fault! J/k

Anyway, hope you all enjoyed. I think my writing skills are picking up a little. Review please:-)