Welcome to my second Gravitation fic! My first one was a oone shot, but this one is considerably longer. This is dedicatedto my best friend Carly, thanks for the support on this one!
Disclaimer: I'm doing this now soI don't have to do it again for a while; I don't own Gravitation.
Missing Amethyst Eyes
Chapter One
"Awww, c'mon Yuki!" The pink-haired teen whined, tugging persistently at the blonde's arm. "Take me out somewhere! Please!" he begged. Eiri Yuki growled in annoyance, trying to ignore the wide, innocent eyes that complimented the puppy dog face so adorably, the face that would make him melt if he looked at it. So instead, he glared determinedly at his laptop and snapped. "Go away, you brat! I have a deadline to meet and four chapters to write!"
"Awww, Yuki! Please!" Shuichi, 'affectionately' termed 'the brat' whined again, turning the puppy dog eyes to full power.
Yuki decided he had to do something before his resolve crumbled. He grabbed Shuichi by his shirt collar and hauled him to the font door. "GET OUT!!!!" He yelled, perhaps a little more forcefully than he'd intended. "Go and bug Hiro for a change!" he slammed the door in Shuichi's face.
At Hiro's
"Hey, Shuichi. You get kicked out again?" Hiro asked the other boy gently. Shuichi nodded and sniffed. "C'mon in, you can crash here tonight and go back in the morning. We can have a jam session, how does that sound?" he said kindly.
Shuichi smiled weakly. "Thanks Hiro, you're the best."
Hiro smirked. "I know I am!" Shuichi groaned and aimed a half hearted punch at his best friend.
Back at the apartment
"You threw him out again!!" Mika demanded incredulously. "Eiri this has to stop! It's getting ridiculous!"
"Oh, knock it off!" Yuki snapped. "He'll come back. He always does." He added confidently.
"Yeah, but one day Eiri, he won't come back." Mika replied. "You break his heart every time you do something like this, and one day little brother, he won't come running back, and only then will you realise how much you need him."
"Wow Mika, I'm impressed. Did you come up with that one all by yourself?" Yuki drawled sarcastically. "Now if you don't mind, I have a book to write."
Mika sighed, "Alright Eiri, have it your way. But one day you're going to realise I'm right, and by then it will be too late."
"Yeah sure, whatever. Seeya." Yuki said shortly, hanging up the phone.
On the other line, Mika too hung up the phone, a thoughtful look on her face. "And I'm going to prove it to you." She said to herself. "Tohma, Get the car!"
"You okay man?" Hiroshi Nakano asked his best friend.
Shuichi smiled weakly. "Yeah, I'm fine Hiro. I'll head back in the morning." He answered.
Hiro scratched his head. "Sounds like a plan." He said cheerfully. He sobered. "But I'll never get why you keep going back. You're just gonna get hurt again dude."
"Because I love him." Shuichi replied simply.
"Yeah, I know you do, but how much more crap can you take from him?" Hiro demanded.
Shuichi sighed. "I dunno Hiro, I dunno."
At that moment, there was a knock at the door. Hiro went to answer it, and Shuichi heard him invite the visitors in. "Mr. Seguchi, Mrs. Seguchi! It's good to see you!"
"We're looking for Shuichi, is he here?" Mika asked briskly.
"Yeah, Yuki kicked him out again." Hiro answered.
"Yes, I know; that's why were here." Mika said, "I have a plan. It involves both of you."
"Come on in then." Hiro said, bemused.
"Hi guys." Shuichi greeted them. "What's up?"
"The way Eiri treats you is what's up!" Mika answered. "I've had enough!"
"So what's your plan?" Hiro asked.
"To make Eiri realise how much he needs Shuichi." Mika replied.
"I like it!" Hiro said, "But how?"
Tohma smiled. "Jealousy." He said. "We propose that we make Eiri believe that Shuichi has found someone else; another guy."
"That's where you come in Hiro." Mika said, "If you're willing. You're the most likely and believable choice."
Hiro was silent for a while, and then he grinned. "You know what, it sounds like fun! I'll do it!"
"But Hiro it's… I mean – are you sure you…" Shuichi protested.
"Awww c'mon Shu, it wouldn't be the first time we pulled an act like this." Hiro reminded him. "Remember that music competition at school?"
"Hmmm, you've got a point there." Shuichi conceded. "But Yuki won't like it when he finds out what we've done."
"Theoretically, by the time we have to tell him, he won't care." Mika said.
Shuichi thought the idea through, and asked. "When are you putting this plan into action?"
"Next time he kicks you out, pack up your belongings and come here." Tohma answered.
"I dunno…" Shuichi said doubtfully.
"Oh, c'mon Shuichi! How much longer will you be able to take this treatment before it kills you?" Hiro demanded.
That decided him. "Fine, I'll do it." He said. "But I have one question though."
"Yes?" Tohma prompted.
"Why are you doing this for me?" Shuichi asked. "I know I'm not exactly your favourite person, either of you." He said, looking from Tohma to Mika and back again.
"Because we have come to realise that you have been better for Eiri than either one of us could've ever realised." Mika said, smiling at him. "You've done things for Eiri; health, personality, and more, which no one else could have hoped to achieve. You've made him happier than even he's realised, and we thank you for it."
The Next Day
"Yuki, I'm home!" Shuichi called into a silent house.
"Oh joy." A sarcastic voice muttered from the office. Yuki came into the living room. "I have a deadline in four days, if I don't have my manuscript finished by then Kanna's gonna freak, so don't bother me. Got that, brat?"
Shuichi nodded meekly. "Yes Yuki."
"Good." Yuki said and kissed him, lifting the shorter teen into his arms and carrying him towards the bedroom.
Gently he laid the boy on the bed and kissed his neck, making Shuichi moan and arch his back towards him.
And thus both day and night passed, and Shuichi's incoherent mind began to wonder is all their plans were truly necessary.
3 days later
"Yukiiiii! I'm bored!" Shuichi whined for the hundredth time that day.
"And your point is?" Yuki answered irritably for the hundredth time that day.
"I wanna do something! Can't we go out somewhere?" Shuichi pleaded.
"No, we can't." Yuki snapped.
"Pleeeaaase!!"
"No!"
'Okay, time for a change of tactic.' Shuichi thought to himself. He shrugged. "Fine." He left the living room, where Yuki had stupidly stationed himself for the last day before Kanna came to collect his manuscript.
'Finally, he's gone!'' Yuki thought. 'Sweet Jesus I thought he'd never leave me a…lone.' He lost his train of thought as Shuichi sauntered nonchalantly back into the room, his shirt unbuttoned, revealing a firm, sleek, well defined torso , determined to get what he wanted. Yuki's breath caught in his throat, and it looked as if Shuichi had no idea what he was doing to the older man. 'This is so inconvenient.' Yuki thought, somewhat incoherently, 'I have to do something about him.'
'You know what you want to do to him.' Another part of him whispered.
'True, but that's not the point' abruptly cutting off the traitorous little voice, he got to his feet and made his way over to Shuichi. "You know, you're really testing my resolve." He said brokenly. He trailed his fingers lightly over Shuichi's skin, making him shiver agreeably.
Shuichi looked up into his eyes and licked his lips seductively. "I know." He whispered, and he pulled Eiri down and kissed him gently. Eiri, in a moment of weakness, kissed him back hard. He was almost completely lost in his desire before his mind caught up and he pulled away, breathing heavily.
"No you don't." he muttered. "Not this time." He pushed his hair out of his eyes and stepped away from Shuichi.
"Yuki?" Shuichi asked softly, fearing the worst.
Eiri took a deep breath to calm his nerves. "I think you'd better spend the night at Hiro's house." He said.
"But why?" Shuichi looked hurt.
Yuki, unable to bear the look of devastation in Shuichi's eyes, turned his back to him. "Because I said so." He answered coldly, wincing at the tone of his own voice. "I can't concentrate with you around."
If he'd been watching, he would've seen that Shuichi had gone incredibly pale. He had hoped it wouldn't have to come to this; putting their plan into action. Now the time had come, he didn't want to go through with it.
"How much longer will you be able to take this treatment before it kills you?" Hiro's words rang through his mind like a hammer on hot metal.
"Fine, I'll go." He said softly. He went to his room and packed what he needed, then headed for the door. "Goodbye, Eiri." He said sadly.
When he was gone, Eiri sank back down in his chair and put his head in his hands. "He never calls me Eiri…" he murmured to himself. He was silent for a long moment, then he said aloud; "He'll come back, he always does." But Mika's voice echoed in his mind, like an ill omen of things to come, it gave Eiri a sense of foreboding.
"He has to come back."
"Here, take it." Yuki handed the completed manuscript, on time for a change, to the ever smiling Kanna.
"Thankyou, Mr. Yuki, I'm so pleased you made the deadline."
"Yeah, yeah." Yuki muttered sullenly.
"So, happy or sad ending this time?" Kanna asked brightly.
"A bit of both. The heroine still gets to live happily ever after, but there's a slight plot twist and she doesn't end up with who everyone will think she will." Eiri answered.
Kanna got to her feet. "Well, I look forward to reading it!" she said. "I'll get out of your way now; I expect Shindou-san will be home soon."
Yuki sighed, trying to hide the fact that he was worried about his young lover. "Yes, I suppose he shall."
That was 4:00 pm.
10:00 that night
"Why isn't he home yet?" Yuki asked himself. He picked up the phone and dialled Mika's number, not really knowing why he felt the need to tell his big sister that Shuichi hadn't come home. When the phone rang out, he tried her mobile
"Hello?" her voice, sounding somewhat sleepy, came across the phone line.
"You're wrong Mika! You have to be wrong!" he said, almost yelling.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa Eiri! Calm down! Now, take a deep breath and tell me what's wrong." Mika said, sounding concerned. Although she was pretty certain she could hazard a guess as to what her brother was so worked up about.
"The damn brat hasn't come home yet!" Eiri knew how pathetic he must've sounded, how panicked.
"Oh, really?" Mika grinned wickedly. "Is my little brother finally getting the message?" she asked.
Eiri scowled. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were enjoying this." He said suspiciously.
"I won't deny it, yes I am enjoying this" Mika replied with smug satisfaction evident in her voice. "Because I was right."
"He'll come home, he always does." Eiri said defiantly, surprised at his use of the word 'home', sounding more confident that he felt.
"Don't be so sure little brother. This time, it might be you chasing him."
"I seriously doubt that." Eiri retorted, becoming bored with the conversation. "I'll talk to you later." He hung up.
In Kyoto, Mika hung up her own phone and called to her husband, "Tohma, we're going home, now!"
"Why?" Tohma inquired.
"The bird has flown." She informed him, using the old cliché, "Time to put our plan into action."
With a grin, Tohma reached for the car keys.