-1A/N: Sob! Last chapter everybody! I can't believe this story is winding down. It's seems like forever ago that I started it. I'm glad that so many people supported it and encouraged the ongoing on it all. I'll try to make this a long one, but that is not a guarantee, so don't get yall's hopes up! But, once again, thank you all for reviewing my fic and I hope you all read my other stories too!

Oh! And if anyone likes Inuyasha, PLEASE read the one fic of Inuyasha called "Nostalgic Destiny" that I have up right now and somebody PLEASE at least review it this once! The reason it isn't too popular is because it's not a yaoi and it's about my own made-up character that is connected and acquainted with almost every single other character already in Inuyasha. But I PROMISE it will get better once I've put up more chapters and introduced my person. Even if it's a pity review, someone support me on this one? Onegai?

Sigh! With that out of the way, let's get on to the last chapter of "Looks Can Kill". Don't forget to read the DEAR REVIEWERS in the end and look for your pen name! If it isn't in there, then just know that I still love you and your review and your supportiveness! Also, don't forget that I am going to explain where I got the idea for this fic in the author's review.

And now, without further adieu, here is chapter 12 of "Looks Can Kill".

Chapter 12: The Culprit and the Conclusion

Shuichi's thin eyelids were no match for the sun's powerful rays of light struggling through the blinds of the window. The air was heavy in the room since Yuki had turned off the air conditioning before they went to bed, but overall Shuichi felt somewhat better than he usually.

Maybe today wouldn't be so bad. Plus, they were going to figure out how to stop the pill's curse at the doctors.

The vocalist yawned one more time and smacked his mouth together softly a few times, until he felt a familiar metallic taste on his tongue. He processed the strange flavor and confirmed that the taste was, in fact, blood.

"Wha-? Why do I taste…?" Shuichi then lifted his hand to his mouth to feel something slightly wet yet crusty under his nose. He pulled back his fingers to find that the blood was also on the outside of his face as well.

'A bloody nose? While I was sleeping? Weird. How did that ha-" The boy was cut off abruptly when he saw something a few centimeters away from his face.

Something that was, long, thin, and bloody.

The singer gasped, frightened at first that is was a bug or something of the sort, and leaped out of bed. But what he saw after gathering his thoughts and taking a real good look at the thing was so much more perturbing than any insect on earth.

He clasped his hands tightly over his mouth and widened his eyes like saucers. His legs began to tremble uncontrollably, and sweat was forming at his brow.

"What… the… hell?" He whispered in a raspy voice to himself.

That's when Yuki woke up to find his lover staring horridly at whatever was on the bed. The blonde scratched his head for a moment before looking down and letting out a small gasp of his own.

After a long observation of the object, Yuki quickly looked back up at Shuichi, seeing that the boy now had his hands off his mouth, and saw half-dried blood trailing down the boy's nose and to his upper lip. The author made a quick speculation over the whole bloody thing on the bed and blood on Shuichi's nose and what exactly the thing on the bed was.

"What the-" His statement stopped mid-way.

This was it.

This was the answer to all the questions they had been having.

This was the reason why all these things were happening to Shuichi lately.

THIS… is how the boy got so thin.

"Kami-sama…" Yuki shook his head incredulously.

The long, thin, blood-stained, crumpled up and dried out object lying on the bed before them was none other than a tape worm.

They both knew it too, there unbelievable faces said it all. In the middle of the night, somehow, a tape worm had crawled out of Shuichi's nose and onto the mattress, most likely dying soon after being exposed to the oxygen. It was something so strange, so unexplainable, that not even the great Eiri Yuki could begin to comprehend words to describe this outrageous phenomenon.

Shuichi didn't do anything but stare and gawk at the tape worm, his eyes still the size of plates. THAT thing had been living INSIDE him? Could things get any more sickening?

Yuki reached out his hand to touch the thing to see if it was still alive by any chance, but pulled back grimacing. How could anyone be able to touch that? The next thing he knew, Shuichi's thin form was crumpling to the ground in an attempt to faint. The blonde rushed out of the bed and held onto the boy, who was luckily still conscious, but barely.

Shuichi propped himself on one knee, lifted his head up, and stared at the stringy creature.

"Wha… wha… Yuki?" The singer didn't know what to say. Except… why? How did this happen? What caused that thing to make it's way inside his body? The vocalist asked all these questions under his breath, but loud enough so Yuki could hear him speak.

Making sure that Shuichi wouldn't try to pass out on him anymore, the author slowly stood up along with his lover, and led him toward the living room to sit and calm down. The sight was a little too much for Shuichi.

After a moment's silence and contemplating, Yuki spoke.

"Shuichi… do you know what that was back in there?" He pointed to their bedroom door.

The boy nodded slowly.

"Are you sure you know?" Yuki asked again just to make sure.

After a pause, Shuichi shook his head "no".

'Great. He's too traumatized to answer me properly.' The writer thought helplessly. 'How's he going to take this next bit of information then?'

The blonde brushed some pink hair out of the musician's face and tilted his chin up toward him. They kissed briefly, and that's when the light came back to Shuichi's eyes.

"Y-Yuki?" He inquired meekly. "What… was that thing?"

"That was a tape worm Shuichi. Do you know what a tape worm is?"

"Uh-huh. Kind of… I know enough about them that they're really bad for people."

"That's right. Those who get tape worms can get sick, and some die if the problem isn't treated soon."

The boy nodded, his eyes still glazy.

"But, what's strange, is that the people who usually get tape worms like those are either malnourished (like poor children in Africa, quite a few of them have different types of worms), or their body was not treated with proper care somehow."

"… Well… I've been on a diet…"

"Yeah, but there's tons of other people in the world on diets, Shuichi. So how come you got a tape worm?"

"Mmm…." The boy thought about it. "I don't… know…" He was still a little traumatized by what was laying on their bed in the other room.

"So… what I think, is that your diet itself had something to do with that tape worm. Can you guess what part of the diet probably nestled that little parasite into your stomach?" He asked as if he were a teacher and Shuichi was the student.

The pop star looked down forlornly as his brow hardened.

"Could it have been……?"

"Yes…?" Yuki urged.

"…… that seafood I ate a few days ago? I think it was a little undercooked… and it tasted pretty fishy." The boy scrunched up his face in slight determination, while Yuki almost died from Shuichi's never-ending stupidity.

"Argh… no baka! The PILL, Shuichi. That TW Pill!" He practically yelled at him. Shuichi flinched and shook his head to rid himself of the ringing in his ears.

"Oh! I almost forgot about that. Yeah…… hey! Maybe that's why it's called the TW pill. I get it now! TW stands for tape worm! Whatdya know!" The singer's little light bulb went off.

"It took you that long to figure it out?" Yuki rolled his eyes.

"Well, when did you?" He pouted.

"When I first saw the tape worm." The author snorted.

"Liar!" Shuichi pounded a fist on the older man's chest.

Yuki couldn't help but smirk on the inside. At least his brat was back to his normal mood. It was a little scary to see the pink-haired vocalist almost half-dead a while ago. And Yuki knew now, that everything was okay. It was all over. He wasn't sure how he knew, he just did. Something inside of the blonde was telling him, now that the culprit living inside of Shuichi for a week or so, was vanquished (in one way or another), the danger placed upon his little lover was lifted, and life would return to normal again.

Phew! Out of all the rough patches in the couple's lives together, this one took the cake.

"Yuki? Are you okay?" Shuichi blinked up at the man and tilted his head slightly in confusion. The blonde was just… staring at him.

"Hm." Yuki half smirked, half smiled at him and brought the boy's head to his chest comfortingly. "Do you feel alright?"

"Um…" The musician blushed. "…. yeah. I'm fine… now…"

"Good." Yuki responded softly. "It's good to have you back, Shuichi." The writer looked down at him. Shuichi gazed back up at him, no particular emotion written on his face.

"But we'll have to fatten you back up, that's for sure. You've definitely lost too much weight."

"Hey, are you saying I was fat before?" The boy glared.

"NO!" Yuki blurted out urgently, causing Shuichi to almost fall of his lover's lap. After some awkwardness, Yuki cleared his throat and restated in a more delicate tone. "Ahem… no, Shuichi. You were fine the way you were even before taking that damned pill. And I don't think anyone would want it any other way." The blonde smiled one of his rare smiles, ending up with a giddy Shuichi.

"… Thank you… Yuki." The singer snuggled up closer to him and sighed happily, the older of the two rubbing Shuichi's back all the while.

"Oh, and one more thing." Yuki mentioned. "You know that you aren't going to be in that modelling shoot now, right Shuichi?"

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After calling the doctor, having him come over to put the tape worm in a bag for examination, going over to the doctor's office, and checking Shuichi's condition out, they were given the proper information on how to nurse the boy back the health. The singer was ordered to stay in the hospital for a few days before getting up to walk again because he was in such a poor state. There, they gave him healthy foods and nutrition pills along with vitamins to get back all the weight he lost. Yuki spent the night next to Shuichi's hospital bed until he was released from his confinement (or at least that's what Yuki called it, though he knew it was all to benefit Shuichi).

Yuki made a report about the TW Pill to officials about how what they were doing was illegal, and sued the company that made the vial drugs with his own two hands. Shuichi also got his money back for buying the pill.

Later on, the couple went out to buy new mattress sheets for their bed, which had been "soiled" but the grotesque tape worm and the nasty blood, according to Shuichi. Yuki didn't see why they couldn't just wash back to normal, but the boy said he wasn't going to sleep in that bed until they got new, clean, white sheets. Well… Yuki hadn't had sex in a while, so he decided it was better to get new sheets if it meant the baka coming back to bed with him.

Saying that the hyperactive pop star was a glutton for the rest of his retaliation was an understatement. He ate every possibly thing he could get his hands on, from pizza to pocky, from fried chicken to frog legs, from okinomiyaki to octopus puffs (or better known as takoyaki). Yuki only watched in sickening horror as the boy gobbled down every meal at the table. It almost made the author want to throw up. How could anyone eat that much food? Well… Shuichi was a big exception, really…

Shuichi already half knew he would have to miss the modelling shoot for The ONE. It had been pretty heartbreaking for the vocalist, though, after everything he'd been through, it didn't seem like such a big deal to him now. As long as he was alive and Yuki was always there to support him no matter what, nothing seemed to matter.

Everyone at NG was glad to have their genki little singer back to normal (or whatever normal was for Shuichi), and they got right back down to writing and playing music once again. It was probably the most amount of singles they'd sold since no one knew when!

"Glad to have ya back, Shuichi." Hiro placed a hand on his shoulder proudly.

"Thanks, Hiro." The boy smiled back up at him.

"Yeah! We were getting really worried!" Suguru joined in.

"Yes! And I so missed having my usual prey around for target practice too. HA HA HA HA…!" Mr. K laughed maniacally, which, in an odd way, made the singer feel a little better about being his old self again.

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Later, at Yuki's condo, things were starting to heat up again after quite a few days.

"Nnn, Yuki…" Their dinner ignored, Yuki had practically leaped across the table to ravish the boy's neck, backing Shuichi up against the kitchen counter. Licking and sucking his way up to the singer's mouth, where the two made out in an endless battle of passion.

Yuki pulled the vocalist's waist closer towards his and placed his hand behind Shuichi's head, deepening the kiss.

Shuichi grabbed the back up the older man's shirt and held on with all his might, his hands trailing slowly downwards to that ass he liked so much. Ditto for Yuki.

After minutes of smooching, the lovers separated and breathed in deeply to regain breath.

Yuki said to Shuichi, panting. "You better not do anything stupid like that again, baka."

Shuichi looked at Yuki fervently, his eyes glistening with love and laughter. "Don't worry. I like me just the way I am." He smiled lightly and wrapped his arms and legs around Yuki abruptly, almost causing the writer to fall. "Now, what do you say we take this little escapade into the bedroom with our new, clean, white sheets?" The boy rose an eyebrow suggestively.

"I have a feeling they won't be that white when we're done with them." Yuki whispered to him in a husky tone, making shivers crawl up and down Shuichi's body and a gasp emit from his pink lips. Shuichi didn't feel so fragile anymore under Yuki's touch. Having his normal weight back felt a lot more reassuring than when he was losing.

Shuichi learned three things through this experience:

1) Never take anything from strangers

2) Don't do drugs

3) Always consult your doctor before taking any type of medicine that's affect you physically or mentally

Okay, so those three things are a little vague according to the incident Shuichi went through, but they were close enough, right?

Anyway, all felt right around them. Everything was circulating as it should, and everybody looked as they should.

It just goes to show you, that no matter how empty your tummy becomes or how hungry you get, there's always someone there to fill you back up, whether it's with food, or with feelings.

THE END

A/N: AND THAT'S THE END! Though, I felt like there should have been something more to it. It was a little hasty I've got to admit, but a lot of people's endings to their stories are. I don't think we do it on purpose, it's just that it's hard to come up with a good ending, ya know? Does everyone here who writes fan fiction have the same problem sometimes?

Anyway, how'd everyone like it? Weird? Gross? Strange? Or were you expecting something more? Well, let me tell you, tape worms, no matter how harmless they look or seem, are actually very dangerous to those who carry them. They are NO JOKE! If you don't get rid of them after a while, they can be fatal. So if anyone does happen to get a tape worm in them, consult your doctor immediately!

Well, I got this little plot from an urban legend, about how a woman wanted to lose weight so she could fit into some outfits and feel young again (she was about in her late 20's). Well, she tried a pill that she saw in the newspaper and ordered it, took it, and noticed the difference in just a few days! The thing was though, she was always very hungry and ate a lot without getting any bigger! Well, after a few days, she started getting dizzy and malnourished for some odd reason. Once, she almost fainted, but caught herself in time. With this, she thought she was just a little feverish and went to bed early, deciding to see her doctor tomorrow morning. But when she woke up, she felt her nose had bled through the night, look to her side, and jumped out, stunned to find a dead tape worm on the mattress, all shrivelled up. And the rest goes on as how she'll never do something that stupid again and returned to her natural health.

Phew! Well, that's the story! Hope you like it. And now for the last…

DEAR REVIEWERS

ryuu- takahashi: Umm, you kind of told everyone, what is practically, the basis of the story before I put the last chapter up which would reveal myself what was bothering Shuichi. I know that people don't really read other people's reviews, but for those who do, you might have just ruined the surprise ending for them, and I know how frustrating that can be. Please people, DON'T mention a word about it when I'm already at the LAST CHAPTER! It's like someone from the 70's coming out of the movie theater of Star Wars and saying loud and clear for everyone who is going in the theater to watch it for the first time, "Wow! I can't believe that Darth Vader was Luke's father!" But, thanks for the review anyway!

zel-chan: Sorry for stopping things like that. I don't like cliff-hangers too much myself. Your English sucks? Are you foreign? What nationality are you?

shuichiandyukiforever: I… have no idea. I don't remember when this is set because I've erased all my previous chapters so I can't find out. Sorry! But yeah, I think it's set somewhere after the whole series and stuff…

Chacha: I am glad you are better now! And I hoped you liked the happy ending to this story.

Jake Da Freak Of Nature Luv…: Well, Jake and Joe, no more cliff-hangers for you guys! Yay!

Dejichan4444: WOOT! COOKIE! (takes the cookie). Thanks! Well, you got your answer! (licks fingers). And thanks for being so passionate about my updates. It means a lot to me to get awesome reviews like this!

LonelyInACrowd: Ummm, how long did it take for you to write all those 'updates'?

Angel And My Star: Well, that would've been cool if he turned green, since it's my favorite color, and I know at least MY fat goes to my thighs, though I'm not so sure of Shuichi. LOL! If he was so small, then Yuki wouldn't have been able to hear him scream!

catti-dono: Steven King? Eek! Freaky man! I haven't read any books of his though… I should start.

Deaira: I hope you didn't hurt yourself falling out of your chair! Wow… I would NEVER be able to give up reading fan fictions for lent. So I guess this chapter is kind of like your reward for holding off for so long. Congrats!

A/N: Well everyone, thanks for reading this fic, Looks Can Kill. It's one of my best ones yet and I hope that you all will read my other stories too! Especially my poor Inuyasha one (sob). WITH NO REVIEWS! But at least I have 150 something reviews on this fic. Thank you all for your support and gratitude. I'll see you next fic hopefully! Saiyonara!