Disaster
Chapter 9
Standard Disclaimer
Who's Playing Who
"Are you finally up?" Yuki asked with no surprise in his voice as Shuichi's eyes fluttered open after a week of sleep.
"Ah," replied Shuichi, flinching, "My body hurts all over. What happened?"
"You apparently got stupider. I was told you got yourself hit by a truck," Yuki explained uncaringly, "Why weren't you watching where you were going?"
"It's your fault," Shuichi accused, not quite remember if it was true or not, "I was too busy thinking about you and why you suddenly broke up with me!" Most likely that was what it had been, Shuichi decided. He had started to think about Yuki all the time after the break up (not that it was different than before. He thought about Yuki all the time before the break up too).
Yuki sighed and walked out of the room, not saying anything.
"Yuki! Yuki!" Shuichi shouted, trying to get out of bed in order to follow his ex-boyfriend.
"AHH!" Shuichi screamed from the pain. He wasn't going anywhere.
"Shuichi's awake now, exactly the same as ever," Yuki said simply, "Can you drive me back, Tohma?"
"Yeah. Wait for me, I'll be out in a minute," Tohma replied, surprised at Yuki's short visit and at the uncaring voice that anounced that Shuichi was alive and well.
"Suguru," Tohma said, turning to his nephew and whispering in his ear, "You better make your choice on whether you can give Shuichi up or not. I'm giving Yuki back his free reign of his life."
Suguru confidently nodded his head twice as a reply.
"Alright, I'm off then," Tohma announced to no one in particular.
"Yuki, I need to apologize," Tohma said when he was driving Yuki home.
"This is a first," Yuki replied.
"You don't have to keep away from Shuichi for me," Tohma said, "And you really are the best thing for Shuichi, whether you know it or not."
Yuki smirked, "What brought about this change of heart?"
"Shuichi may be playing on your nerves but…at least you never had a break down like what Tatsuha did to you," Tohma explained.
Yuki was silent, inwardly trembling at the memory of it.
"Plus, you've been slowly turning into your old self, I can see it," Tohma continued, "Shuichi turns you human."
"Yeah, I guess he does," Yuki agreed, "I just don't see how that's a good thing."
"Oh, believe me," Tohma assured, "That's a very good thing."
"Shuichi, I have something to tell you," Suguru mumbled as soon as he stepped into Shuichi's room.
"Suguru? What's wrong? I'm not dying, am I?" Shuichi asked worriedly.
"I'm breaking up with you," Suguru said, trying his best to keep his eyes focus on his once-boyfriend.
"What?" asked Shuichi, clearly hurt. Why was everyone breaking up with him without any warning?
"I'm breaking up with you," Suguru repeated.
"B-but why? What'd I do wrong?" Shuichi asked, starting to cry.
"I'm preventing you from true happiness," Suguru explained, "If I wasn't in the way you would've already convinced Yuki to take you back. You still love him, right?"
"Yes," Shuichi admitted, looking at the ground.
"You love him more than you could every love me, right?" Suguru asked.
"N-no!" Shuichi shouted, looking up at Suguru, "Well, I mean…kind of…I guess I do…yes."
"So go after him," Suguru urged, getting up to leave, "I'm not in the way anymore."
So go after him,
I'm not in the way anymore.
The same words kept repeating themselves over and over in Shuichi's head.
So go after him,
I'm not in the way anymore.
The sadness in Suguru's voice broke Shuichi into a crying fit every time he thought of them. Sure, they had never slept together and he did love Yuki more, but he did love Suguru to some extent, it was just more as a friend than as a lover.
So go after him,
I'm not in the way anymore.
Why couldn't he love Suguru? He was so much more self-sacrificing than Yuki; he clearly cared for him more. No, he loved Yuki, a cold-hearted and selfish bastard, and everyone knew it.
So go after him,
I'm not in the way anymore.
He loved Yuki with every fiber of his being, no matter how bad a person people might think he was.
So go after him,
I'm not in the way anymore.
He and Yuki did belong together, whether Yuki knew it or not. He would convince Yuki to accept him back and he would convince Yuki that nothing could keep them apart.
Bang bang bang
"Shuichi?" Yuki asked opening his door on the singer.
"Yuki!" Shuichi screamed, jumping onto the writer.
"You seem better," Yuki observed, not taking notice of Shuichi wrapping his arms around his neck.
"Mm-hmm," Shuichi agreed, burying his nose in Yuki's hair.
"Our plan worked, by the way," Yuki said, "Tohma promised to leave us alone."
Shuichi laughed, "I'm surprised we actually put one over on Tohma. I never thought your stupid plan would work."
"But it did, didn't it? You should put some more trust in me," Yuki replied.
"I'm never going to do anything like this again," Shuichi promised, "It was way too real."
"But look at the good that came out of it," Yuki urged him, bringing him inside to the living room, "Hiro likes me more, Tohma's going to keep his nose out of things…"
"Suguru got really hurt," Shuichi said, burrowing deeper into his lover.
"I was wondering about that," Yuki responded, "But don't worry, Suguru's a tough kid, he'll bounce back."
"Yeah, well, I'm just glad I finally get to be with you again," Shuichi declared.
"Same here, Shuichi," Yuki replied, using Shuichi name just because he knew it'd make the teenager even happier.
The End
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