Mizu: Filler chapter working towards the end. I had to rethink what I wanted to do and then I needed to find a new thing that would keep the story rolling until the end. Then, after days of doing nothing but acting out like a million different scenes inside my head (and the failed drawing attempts of scenes), I finally came up with this. Sorry for the short chapter! Disclaimer time! I own neither Junjou Romantica nor Gravitation. If this story is anything to go by, I'm glad I don't. If I did, I can guarantee that our beloved stories would be complete and utter trash.
Just Coincidence?
Chapter Eleven- Hated Traditions
"Nii-san!" a shrill female voice sounded as a brunette girl ran into the hospital room.
"M-Maiko?" Shuichi blinked.
The said girl flung herself onto the bed, successfully tackling her blind brother to the bed. Misaki, who had previously been letting Shuichi touch his face so he could "see", jumped backwards into Usagi-san's chest. The girl started crying into the boy's chest as the other two males in the room tried to make some sort of sense of this.
"O-Okaa-san (1), O-Otoo-san (2), and I just got home from visiting Obaa-san (3) when we got the message from the hospital!" Maiko cried, holding onto the pinkette for dear life, "I was so worried that something happened to you!" (4)
"I-I'm fine, Maiko," Shuichi tried to comfort, closing his eyes in hopes that his sister wouldn't notice, "Where's okaa-san?"
"Sh-She and otoo-san are checking in at the front desk. The nurse saw how worried I was and let me go ahead," Maiko explained, slowly sitting up and drying her tears, "What happened?"
"Well, my band isn't called Bad Luck for nothing," Shuichi chuckled, "I just got caught in a tough place for a while."
"He makes it sound like a boxing match," Misaki whispered to Usagi-san.
"He doesn't want to worry Maiko," Usagi-san stated.
"Shuichi!" another woman's voice shouted as a woman with light brunette mixed in with some gray hair ran to the boy's side, "Are you alright!"
"I'm fine okaa-san," Shuichi chuckled, keeping his eyes closed.
"Honey, did you find him?" a man with fading black hair asked as he skidded into the room.
"He's right here," Shuichi's mom said, putting a hand on her son's cheek, "Are you sure that you're okay?"
"I am," Shuichi said, letting at a slight sigh.
"…Shuichi," his mother whispered, "How about you open your eyes for us?"
Shuichi flinched, "I-I rather not. It's really bright in here."
"There's only one light one, Nii-san," Maiko said, confused.
"Shuichi," his mom said again, rubbing his cheek comfortingly, "Please open your eyes."
Shuichi hesitated for a second before slowly opening his amethyst colored eyes. His mother then raised her other hand in front of his face, only about an inch from his nose. She outstretched all of her fingers and then took a shaky breath.
"How many fingers am I holding out?" she asked.
"Um…" Shuichi gulped, "O-One?"
He heard his mother softly curse as his sister gasped, "You can't see, Nii-san!" Shuichi slowly shook his head no as tears appeared in his eyes.
"What really happened, son?" his "father" asked, walking up to his side.
"…Misaki and I were kidnapped by a man named Aizawa Taki," Shuichi started.
"Who's Misaki?" Maiko questioned.
"Um…me," Misaki nervously said, waving at the family.
"Anyway, Taki was the vocalist for a group called A.S.K. He had been dropped from NG and was jealous of me and my own band," Shuichi continued, eyes drifting down onto the bed, "This happened towards the beginning of my career. He…He and a few goons he hired off the street raped me to try and make me quit Bad Luck."
"Why did you let them!" Maiko snapped, instantly being hushed by their parents.
"I let them because if I didn't they would try to hurt Yuki," Shuichi whimpered, "Not physically but they would destroy his image. I couldn't let them do that."
"Those bastards!" Misaki and Maiko shouted loudly as the blonde that was mentioned walked into the room.
"Oi, brat~! I'm back," Yuki announced as he entered, "Eh?"
"Yuki~!" Shuichi beamed, stretching his arms back and looking towards where he had heard the voice, "Come here!"
"What's with the family reunion in here?" Yuki questioned as he slowly walked up to his lover and sat in the nearby chair, avoiding his sister at all costs.
"We just received the message that he was in here," Shuichi's mother explained.
"Shuichi was just telling us what happened," the pinkette's adopted father stated.
"Where are you in the story?" Yuki asked, not wanting Shuichi to have to relive it anymore than he had to.
"I just told them about the first encounter with Taki," Shuichi said.
"You never told them?" Yuki blinked, placing a hand of Shuichi's protectively.
"I didn't think it was important. I wasn't that badly hurt. I didn't contract any disease and there's no way I'd get pregnant," Shuichi said, finishing with a light chuckle.
"I suppose so," Yuki whispered before turning to the Shindou family, "About two weeks ago, Taki came back and took Shuichi and Misaki here to an old drug house. Shuichi had made a deal with Taki saying that so long as he didn't touch Misaki, he'd let them do whatever they wanted to him-"
"Shuichi! Why did you do that!" Maiko demanded.
"Because I've been through that before!" Shuichi snapped at his sister's ignorance, "Misaki hasn't! He has only ever been with Aki and that's how I was going to keep it. I've been raped before so I am no where near being a pure person! But Misaki is!"
"Shuichi," Misaki whimpered from the corner.
"Anyway, Taki kept them locked up for about a week until they finally managed to escape," Yuki continued, squeezing Shuichi's hand gently, "When they thought they were in the clear, Taki shot Shuichi in his leg. That's when we captured Taki, though, and took to jail."
"But that doesn't explain why he's blind," Maiko pouted.
"We don't really know why but the doctors think that he had an allergic reaction to the anesthetic," Akihiko spoke up.
"I see," the two parents whispered.
"Misaki, can you do me a favor?" Shuichi asked.
"Of course, Shuichi," Misaki said, rushing to his side.
"Can you go to the vending machine and see if they have any pocky?" Shuichi asked, a light blush dusting his face.
"Sure," Misaki chuckled, "What kind?"
"Strawberry," Shuichi beamed.
"Be back in a bit~!" Misaki chanted as he walked out of the room.
"Finally!" Misaki cheered when he finally found the one vending machine in the entire hospital that had strawberry pocky.
"Misaki!" a familiar voice shouted out to him.
"Hm?" Misaki blinked as he turned and saw Akihiko's father running towards him with another man with jet black hair and dark blue-violet eyes, "Usagi-chichi!"
"Where's Akihiko!" the father demanded.
"W-Why?" Misaki questioned, taking a nervous step backwards.
"I just saw his car parked in the emergency room parking lot!" Fuyuhiko snapped.
"Oh, that," Misaki let out a relieved sigh, "Usag-er Usami-sensei is just visiting one of our friends who was emitted into the hospital last week. That was the only place we could find parking."
"I see," Fuyuhiko sighed, relieved as well, "Thank goodness."
"Why don't we drop by and say hello, Fuyu?" the other man proposed.
"That sounds good," Fuyuhiko smiled, "It's been ages since he's seen you Ryo."
'Ryo,' Misaki thought to himself, 'Why does that sound so familiar?'
"Misaki?" Fuyuhiko questioned.
"Yes!" Misaki squeaked, attention immediately completely focused on the elder of the Usami family.
"Can you show us to the room?" Fuyuhiko smiled gently.
"S-sure," Misaki said, quickly purchasing the pocky and starting down the hallway, "This way.
'Usagi-san isn't going to like this,' Misaki thought to himself as they came upon the door.
"Aki, you haven't changed a bit," Shuichi's mother's laugh was heard.
"Atsuko (5)?" Ryo blinked as the three walked into the room.
"Oji-san?" Akihiko gasped.
"Akihiko?" Ryo gaped.
"Ryota!" Atsuko gasped, jumping to her feet.
"Ryota!" Misaki and Yuki gasped, all eyes on the new comers.
"I knew that was your voice!" Ryota beamed, quickly walking up to his ex-wife, "What are you-"
"Hush!" Atsuko snapped, clamping a hand over his mouth, "We just got him to go to sleep."
"im?" Ryota blinked.
"…e-eiri," Shuichi whimpered from his spot on the bed.
"Shu," Yuki whispered, rubbing the rock star's cheek gently, "I'm right here, brat."
"Why do you still call him that?" Akihiko growled.
"Cause that's his pet name," Yuki growled back, "You don't hear him complaining."
"That's cause he's passed out!" Akihiko snapped.
"He's the only person I know that I've ever given a pet name too and he knows it!" Yuki snapped.
"Both of you hush!" Atsuko snapped at the quarrelling boys.
Shuichi groaned as his eyebrows furrowed together. Within the next second, his beautiful amethyst eyes opened and glittered with the beginnings of tears. Yuki forgot about his qualms with the Usami and brought his baka's hand to his face to show him that he was still there.
"Yuki," Shuichi sighed happily.
"Sh-Shuichi," Ryota stuttered, eyes locked onto the figure on the bed.
Shuichi stiffened the second his ears caught onto the sound of his biological father's voice, "Sh-shit."
"Y-You're alive!" Ryota shouted, trying to rush forward only to be blocked by Akihiko, "Move, boy!"
"I will not, oji-san," Akihiko shook his head no.
"G-Get out," Shuichi trembled, eyes locked onto where he hoped was the wall (though to everyone else, it looked like he was looking at Yuki's groin XP)
"Why? Why have you been hiding from us?" Ryota demanded.
"I haven't been hiding!" Shuichi snapped, eyes squeezing shut, "You just never took notice of things!" "Why, then, did you run away!" Ryota shouted, being held back now by both K and Akihiko.
"Because I hate everyone in our damn Usami family except Aki!" Shuichi shouted on the top of his lungs, only to start coughing violently.
"Shit," K cursed, "Now look what you've done! If he loses that voice of his, I'm going to personally put out a hit on your hide!"
"Shuichi!" Maiko and Misaki cried, rushing to the pinkette's side.
"Please, Shuichi," Fuyuhiko begged, "At least tell him why-"
"Because he didn't give a damn about me!" Shuichi screamed, hands flying up to cover his head as painful memories raced forward to greet his conscious self, "He didn't give a damn that his son was raped! He didn't give a damn that his son's fiancé, someone who he loved, committed suicide! He didn't give a damn that he own fucking son was broken inside!
"The only thing that he cared about was what was going to happen to his branch of the fucking family!" Shuichi finished before his coughing restarted, only this time spitting out small specks of blood.
"Stop yelling, brat!" Yuki snapped, covering the boy's small hands with his own to calm him, "You're going to ruin your voice."
"Get him out of here!" Shuichi ordered, trying to fight off memories of arguments and fights that he and his father had had all his life, "Just make him go away!" "I'm not going anywhere!" Ryota shouted, pushing the two men off of him, "Not without my son!"
"He's not your son!" Atsuko snapped, pushing the man backwards.
"What the hell are you talking about!" Ryota snapped, "Of course he is!" "Not in my book," Atsuko growled, "Not after he came to my house four years ago, crying his tears out and flinging himself into my arms. Not after he told me everything that had happened to him and why he didn't want to be an Usami anymore. I can't say I blame him. He left for the same damn reasons that I left you."
"O-Okaa-san," Shuichi whimpered.
"It's alright, sweetheart," Atsuko smiled back at her son, "I'm not going to let him hurt you anymore."
"This is ridiculous! Who ever said that I was going to hur-" Ryota started to say.
"You will!" Misaki snapped, stepping forward, "Shuichi told me everything! You tried to make him marry again after only a month since Kiyomi died! That's heartless! And don't you dare say it's business! Playing with your son's healing emotions is not business! He needed your comfort! Not your stupid family traditions! You and your fucking family traditions should have been put off to the side until your only son had fully recovered!
"But no," Misaki continued, surprising everyone at the sheer volume of his voice, "You were so afraid of losing some of that precious Usami image that you were going to force him to marry any girl that seemed to have enough money to save yourself! What if she turned out to be worse than Kiyomi! How could you practically sale your own child for such a selfish reason!" A resounding smack was heard throughout the room. Shuichi's eyes shot open upon the sound. Tears started to flow from them and he immediately tried to stand up.
"Misaki!" Shuichi and Akihiko snapped as the stunned brunette stumbled backwards a few steps.
"How dare you speak to me in such a way, you filthy commoner," Ryota growled at the boy.
"Don't talk to Misaki that way!" Akihiko growled at his uncle, stepping in front of his lover, "How dare you lay a hand on my lover, oji-san!"
"Lover? Ha, what a lousy little lover you've chosen for yourself, Akihiko," Ryota chuckled darkly.
"Stop it, Ryota," Fuyuhiko growled from behind him, "You're starting off on the wrong feet if you want your son back.
"Hush up, Fuyu," Ryota sighed, "I know what I-"
He was suddenly caught off when a strong kick landed against his stomach. The power of the kick sent him toppling backwards onto the ground on his back.
"Shuichi!" everyone gasped as the pinkette stumbled a little bit.
"Shut up," Shuichi growled, staring off somewhere, "I don't want to hear anything else from you."
"I don't particularly care whether you want to or not," Ryota growled back, slowly standing up, "You're coming home right now."
"Hell no I'm not! My home isn't with you! It's with the person I love!" Shuichi shouted at his father, ignoring the pain in his vocal chords.
"Ha, who the hell would that be?" Ryota smirked until Yuki stepped up beside Shuichi with the glare he used on Taki after the first time firmly placed on his face.
"I am," Yuki said.
"I see," Ryota said, "You've got to be kidding me. Two Usami kids are gay? What a disgrace."
Ryota sighed then looked towards his son, "But no matter. I'm sure that we can find a woman who'd be willing to over look such a thin-"
"Shut the hell up!" Shuichi and Yuki snapped, both punching the stubborn old man and sending him flying out of the room.
"I. Am. Not. A. Fucking. Usami!" Shuichi shouted at the man just before slamming his door (after finding the door that it, "I'm the amazing vocalist for Bad Luck and lover of Yuki Eiri! My name is the Great Shindou Shuichi! Don't you dare forget that, you damn old man!"
Random Notes:
(1)- Okaa-san means mother
(2)- Otoo-san means father
(3)- Obaa-san means grandmother
(4)- I'm trying really hard to teach myself some more japanese so if you guys could tell me if I'm right that would make my day. I also decided to do this at the last second so if I slip up and switch back to English, please don't be mad. Sorry if I didn't use any pieces of the language right. If I didn't, feel free to use K's magnum on my head.
(5)- I don't know Shuichi's mother's name. I got out my list of names that I've been wanting to use and picked out a name for her. It means kind or warm child. (btw, I'm too lazy to give Shuichi's adopted dad a name right now. Maybe next chapter or something)
Mizu: Once again, sorry for the short chapter.
Shuichi: How the crud was I able to punch him?
Mizu: He was very loud, just like you. It wasn't hard to figure out where he was when everyone else was being quiet.
Shuichi: Ah.
Mizu: Oh yeah! Btw, this story is starting to draw to a close. There will probably only be one or two more chapter left for this story.
Inner mind people: Yay! Nearly there!
Mizu: But I just might think of doing a short sequel to this story or something along those lines.
IMP: Awww…
Mizu: What are you complaining about now?
Misaki: I think that they want a break. You've been so busy with school papers and voice lessons and memorizing stuff like that. Add that with all the brainstorming you've been doing for all of your stories, I think that they were looking for a break from at least one story.
Mizu: Oh, suck it up, you pansies. *throws tissue boxes at the IMP* We've still got a lot of work to do and you guys know very well that your work will never be done. Anyway, to you guys, sorry about that. Reviews are still extremely welcomed as well as any suggestions. Ciao for now! Oi~! Don't you guys dare start picketing my inner mind office!