Train Wreck

By the way, this chapter didn’t get the star treatment of my beta. Her computers broken. Sorry for any mistakes that you might find.

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Chapter 17: Catching up

“Shuichi,” A deep voice spoke just loud enough to be heard.

Shuichi eyes focused at the sudden sound and he slowly lifted his head, a smile gracing his lips as the voice spoke his name. “Eiri,” Shuichi said quietly as if reassuring himself that this was real. His tears returned and a sob escaped his lips but this time they were they sound of pure happiness.

“Stop crying Shuichi. I have a headache.” Eiri stated exhaling a breath of exhaustion. Knowing what Shuichi’s state of mind must be, Eiri added, “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. I’m not hurt and it is not your fault.”

Shuichi sniffed and wiped at a single tear that streaked down his cheek, closing in on his chin. “How did you know I was going to say that?” His tear clogged voice just starting to clear.

“Shuichi! How long have we been together? I know you better that anyone. Especially your parents. Plus you are not that hard to figure out. You can tell a decent lie when you have to but your emotions are still written on your face as clear as day.” Eiri said with conviction.

“Hiro? Fujisaki? Is Eiri really alright? Sometimes he’ll tell me he’s alright just to get me to shut up. But in reality he’s in pain and doesn’t want me to know. Just like that one time he had this fever and it was so obvious that he had one but he told me was okay and ended up going outside to meet with his editor and…”

“Whoa, Shuichi, I promise Yuki is okay.” Hiro cut into his friends’ tirade. “I mean he does have a few bumps and bruises but mentally he’s fine.” Hiro added casually.

“Yeah, who cares about the rest of him as long as his brain is okay?” Fujisaki said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
In the background, cutting out the argument, Eiri could hear the doctor saying something in a desperate voice. “Shuichi what on earth are you doing? Get down before you fall!” The rest was drowned out by Hiro yelling.

“Hey, that’s not what I meant and you know it!” Hiro argued, his brows nit together in anger.

“Guys,” Kyoko yelled, trying and failing to get their attention.

“If it’s ‘not what you meant’ than why did you say it?” Fujisaki argued back, a look of satisfaction crossing his face.

“GUYS!” Kyoko yelled more loudly than before, causing a few pebbles to shift.

Hiro stopped what he was about to say to Fujisaki and looked up in the direction of Kyoko’s voice. “What?!” He yelled up to her.

“Just thought all of you would like to know that Shuichi started climbing up the rocks. You might want to help him down when he gets to the top. You know, just in case he falls,” Kyoko informed them. “If you’re done arguing that is.”

Eyes going wide with disbelief, Hiro and Fujisaki opened their mouths to say something but Eiri beat them to it. “Why the hell did you let him do that? Shuichi get down right now!” Eiri’s voice sounding concerned and on the edge of worrying.

“No! I am coming over there so I can see you with my own two eyes. I need to make sure that you’re not hurt. And don’t say you’re fine Eiri Uesugi! Your voice gets this ‘angry for no reason’ tone to it when you lie. I am climbing over so I can see and talk to you and touch you for myself so stop telling me not to!” Shuichi yelled, almost to the top.

Shuichi ran forward, grabbing a hold of the rocks sticking out among the pile and has started to climb as soon as Hiro spoke a minute ago, trying to reassure him. No offense to the guy, he was Shuichi’s best friend and all, but it was a well known fact that he didn’t care much for Eiri.

“Shuichi, why do you have to pick these moments to be so damn stubborn?” Eiri yelled up to him.

“Because,” Shuichi started as he grabbed the edge of the rock sitting at the top of the pile. Panting, Shuichi continued, pulling the rest of himself into view on top of the small hill. “I know you hate it when I whine and it is always fun to see you go crazy. But I guess most of all…”

Eiri kept watching the hill waiting to see Shuichi’s face. There was a pause in Shuichi’s speech and for a split second, Eiri became over come with worry. Then a swatch of pink hair popped up over the top closely followed by amethyst eyes that immediately locked with gold.

Shuichi smiled when his eyes met with Eiri. He couldn’t help thinking how gorgeous Eiri looked despite all the grim that covered him at the moment. “I love you!”

Hiro and Fujisaki just sat back and watched the exchange, curiosity clearly shown on their features. After Shuichi made his declaration, Hiro turned his head to look at Yuki and saw a small smirk tilt the corner of the author’s lips.

Fujisaki simply sighed and rolled his eyes at Shuichi’s loving gaze. What was the expression? Love sick fool?

“Not that I want to ruin the happy moment or anything but I still got this old man over here. What am I suppose to do with him?” Kyoko yelled over. “And will you people help Shuichi get down so I can get his butt out of my face?”

“He doesn’t need a baby sitter, leave him there. I’m sure he will be fine on his own.” Fujisaki stated becoming impatient.

“What? Are you serious? I can’t do that. Besides, who’s going to tell him about his granddaughter when he wakes up?” Kyoko yelled back outraged at the very idea.

Rising one leg over to the other side of the rock hill, Shuichi stopped in mid motion to look back at Kyoko with wide, surprised eyes. “How, how did you know about that?” Shuichi asked his voice quiet and faint.

His breath coming in short gasps as the memories flashed before his eyes. The blood pouring down, her neck opening up and tilting back. The weapon coming within an inch of his own face. “I never told you about that,” Shuichi whispered hoarsely as his vision tunneled. Loosing his balance, Shuichi started to fall, promptly passing out on his way down.


AN: okay, I know that was short. I can’t help it. I have to go back and read my previous chapters to remind myself what I already wrote before I can continue.