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Scene 2-With walls around our weakness, and smiles to hide our pain

Yuki was feeling annoyed.

It was Tuesday morning and he was giving lessons in class 3-A. All the students were paying rapt attention to his lecture. All except one anyway. "Tsk, how dare that blob of pink hair fall asleep in my class! Too bad there's witnesses. I can't kill him here."

Being unable to commit murder, he settled for waking Shuichi up.

Shuichi was feeling terrible.

Yesterday, they had been worse than usual. He couldn't get much sleep because of the pain and now he couldn't help dozing off in the classroom. "How much longer am I going to have to take this? I'm tired. And scared.. so very scared."

Shuichi remembered what took place the night before and shuddered. He could remember their hands on him. Touching him. Making him touch them. And then-

"Shindou-kun, I feel hurt. Is my class really that boring?"

To the students, it looked as though Yuki had an indulging smile on his face.

Yuki held his plastic smile, and gritted his teeth when Shuichi didn't seem to hear him. He walked over to Shuichi's table and put his hands down on Shuichi's shoulders, getting an instant reaction.

Shuichi's head shot up from where he had been laying on the table and screamed hysterically, "Don't touch me! Go away…please don't touch me!…"

"Please don't hurt me..."

Yuki looked at Shuichi in shock. Shuichi had jerked back and was now cowering in his seat. Although Shuichi's last line came out as a whisper, Yuki heard it clearly.

Please don't hurt me...

Yuki was mystified. "What the…Why would I hurt him? All I did was touch him…Does he hate me that much?"

Yuki reached for Shuichi again. "Shindou-kun, are you feeling sick? Maybe you have a temperature."

Shuichi just sat trembling in his seat, mumbling over and over again to himself. His words were so soft, only Yuki heard them. "Please don't hurt me...I'll be good…so please…"

Hiro came over to Shuichi's seat; his bag slung over one shoulder and Shuichi's over the other. He soothingly calmed his friend down, "Shuichi, It's okay…No one's going to hurt you here…Come on, let's go."

Hiro helped Shuichi up and looked over to Yuki. "Sorry about that, Yuki-sensei. Shuichi's not feeling well. I'll bring him home now."

Yuki gave his consent and watched as Hiro supported Shuichi out. He said to Hiro, "Make sure he rests well."

Hiro nodded and left with Shuichi.

Yuki sighed. "What was that all about?"

He turned his attention back to the class. "Okay, guys. Show's over. Back to biology. As I was saying, nucleic acids are polymers consisting of nucleotides that are linked by phosphodiester bond. The nucleotides…"

As Yuki droned on, one of his students wasn't listening; he was concentrating hard on watching the way his lips moved, his body posture, his piercing eyes.

Yes, Yuki-sensei was perfect from her point of view.

Miaka wasn't in a very good mood though. "I can't believe the nerve of that Shindou! Acting all weak to get Yuki-sensei's attention! Well, it doesn't matter. He'll pay if he gets too close to Yuki-sensei."

She smirked maliciously

"I'll make sure he does."

XXX

Hiro kept glancing at Shuichi worriedly.

For as long as Hiro had known him, Shuichi had always been prone to start panicking whenever people touched him without warning. However, it was the first time Shuichi lost control during class.

He sighed. "I've always figured that Shuichi's mom abuses him or something but…I don't know for sure-he refuses to talk about what's going on at his house. He says I'm over-imagining things but…Ryuichi and I noticed that he always has unexplainable bruises…"

They continues walking in silence, both absorbed in their own thoughs.

Shuichi was mortified."I can't believe I lost control like that! And in front of that jerk of a teacher too. He's going to have so much fun torturing me tomorrow…"

At that thought, Shuichi groaned.

Hiro snapped out of his reverie, stopping when he heard Shuichi groan and looked at the other boy in concern. "What's wrong? Does something hurt?"

Shuichi stopped as well, embarrassed. "Nothing's wrong."

He fidgeted. "Hiro…sorry about what happened in class and…thank you."

Hiro shrugged. "No big deal. Hey, I got to play kooky!"

Although he would never admit it, he was feeling relieved that Shuichi seemed back to normal. "We're almost reached your house."

At that, Shuichi flinched. "…I don't want to go home."

After a moment, Hiro nodded. "Okay, I guess this means you're spending the night with me. Let's go get some food first then. My fridge's empty."

Shuichi was grateful. "Thanks, Hi-…"

Hiro interrupted Shuichi. "Oh, you're paying by the way. I didn't bring any money with me."

Shuichi stared at Hiro in horror. "What? No way! You eat A LOT . I'm gonna be broke!"

Hiro smirked. "Too bad, chibi."

"Don't call me chibi!"

"Yeah, yeah…whatever," came the nonchalant reply.

"You erro kappa!"

Chaos ensued as the duo disturbed the peace of the neighborhood with their squabbling.

XXX

The next morning, Yuki was teaching class 3-A in the biology lab.

Both Shuichi and Hiro were absent.

Yuki's class was having a tutorial session. A group of girls were asking him questions regarding homework, their intention glaringly obvious."Don't they have better things to do than pretend they don't understand my lecture? They're wasting my time."

"Sorry we're late, sensei!"

Shuichi and Hiro burst into the classroom, both panting madly.

Shuichi pointed at Hiro. "It's his fault we're late."

Hiro glared at Shuichi, indignant. "Hey, it wasn't my fault that the alarm clock didn't work, okay!"

Shuichi retorted, "It wasn't that it didn't work! You turned it off the moment it started ringing!"

"That's because I was so tired! You kept me up all night, you know…"

Yuki stood in front of the classroom, eyebrow twitching. "Are they ignoring me…? Geez, he made me feel so worried and now he's late doing who-knows-what with Hiroshi…"

Wait a minute.Worried?

Yuki ignored that thought. "Will the both of you kindly take your seats?"

Funny how Shuichi was the only one who felt the invisible ice daggers.

He shivered.

XXX

Miaka was filled with hate and jealousy. Yuki had asked Shuichi to stay back.

She was rushing to her next class, mind swirling with vengeful ideas. "How did Shindou do it? Alone with just Yuki-sensei in the lab…I would kill for a chance like that!"

She slammed her locker shut. "Shindou Shuichi…I'll make sure you regret sucking up to Yuki-sensei!"

"Just you wait."

XXX

Yuki was enjoying himself. Oh yes, he was.

"….And after you're done with that, wipe all the window panes and clean the sinks…Oh, you can do whatever you want with the rubbish . Just make sure everything looks neat and representable. And when you're done, clean the…"

Shuichi was beside himself with fury. The blonde jerk had made him stay back to clean the lab out as punishment for being late.

"How come only I have to do this? Hiro was late too,"Shuichi protested.

Yuki gave a sadistic grin. "Ah, but you see, this is the second time you're late. Or have you forgotten, Shu-chan?"

Shuichi really wanted to throw something at Yuki's pretty face. Preferably something that would leave a scar. "Don't call me Shu-chan!" was the best argument he could muster.

Unknown to both of them, they had a spectator.

Tohma Seguchi watched the banter between Yuki, his brother-in-law and a furious looking pink-haired boy. He was amazed.
"Eiri isn't pretending to be nice."

Yuki noticed Tohma at the doorway.He picked up his briefcase and strode over to Tohma, ruffling Shuichi's hair on the way. "See you around, brat. And make sure you clean up properly…That is, unless you want more punishment."

With a beatific smile, Yuki closed the lab door and left with Tohma.

Shuichi stared at the door in outrage. "Is he trying to kill me with an overload of work?"

He looked around the lab, wondering where to start.

He caught sight of some paper. "A-hah! He left his documents behind."

As an idea formed in Shuichi's head, he snickered.

Revenge is sweet.

XXX

Yuki and Tohma were having coffee at a nearby café.

Tohma surveyed Yuki from beneath his hat. "Mika is worried about you. "

Yuki only grunted in reply, "She always is."

Tohma shook his head slowly. "Eiri, you don't have to do this. You don't have to listen to your father's wishes all the time. Why don't you just live your life lthe way you want to?"

Yuki's tone was icy. "What I do is my own business. Keep out of it."

Tohma sipped his coffee, inwardly sighing. He already knew Yuki would say that..

Yuki's heart was locked to everyone. People generally viewed Yuki as a pleasant yet distant man. Only his family knew his true personality. Yuki had no friends.

Tohma suddenly remembered the pink-haired youth he had seen bickering with Yuki earlier. Yuki had been able to behave like his true self.

Tohma commented to Yuki, "I see you're pretty close to that student of yours."

Yuki stared at Tohma incredulously. "Has he finally lost his sanity? Close to someone? ME?"

"Shuichi? Of course not! What made you say that?"

Tohma observed Yuki's expression carefully. "You sure looked comfortable with this Shuichi. You didn't bother putting up your pleasant act in front of him."

Yuki was stupefied. "Well, you looked wrong! He's just an ordinary school brat!"

"I see," was all Tohma said.

Yuki fumed. Tohma obviously didn't believe him.

Well, Tohma was wrong.

Yuki wasn't close to Shuichi. Yuki wasn't comfortable with Shuichi. And Shuichi was most definitely not special to Yuki.

Yuki nodded vehemently.

Tohma was so very wrong.

There! My second chapter is done.Phew, this sure took a long time...By the way, Miaka is a made-up character who's obessesed over Yuki. Hope you guys like it!And as always, please review.