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Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
50
Views:
4,320
Reviews:
6
Recommended:
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I do not own Gravitation or the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
40: Blissful Memories
Kin no Shuichi
Written by: Chochowilliams
Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation or the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Summary: Shuichi and Eiri are working things out after a mistake on both of their parts nearly ended their five-year relationship. But what about Bad Luck? What does the future hold for them?
Chapter Summary: The release of Hiro and Suguru’s side project is not the olive branch Shuichi had in mind
Warning: M/M, romance, angst, OOC-ness, language, character death Shuichi/Eiri, implied Eiri/oc, implied Shuichi/oc
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A/N: Thank you to lilgurlanima, David boreanaz‘s wife247, ferler, Mrs. Hatake Itachi, Kaoru Sayuri Kamiya, for your reviews. We are nearing the end. Five chapters left.
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Chapter 40: Blissful Memories
Taking a sip of his tea, Eiri scanned the newspaper laid out before him on the table at the back alley diner. It was an out of the way place that you would walk right passed if you did not know it was here. He just happened to stumble upon it one day when he was trying to flee from a pack of ravenous housewives.
He was setting his teacup down into the saucer when a bold headline in the center of the page caught his immediate attention.
Bad Luck Officially Announces Release of “Back to Zero”
Curiosity getting the better of him, he scanned the article.
Tokyo, July 25, 2009 - After nearly three years of silence, Bad Luck released a statement last night confirming the arrival of Back to Zero on August 31. Preorders begin tomorrow for the 12-track album co-produced by Suguru Fujisaki and Aya Miyagi (ASK’s Infinity, Temper‘s Babylon, Nittle Grasper‘s Sleepless in Tokyo). Back to Zero will be available on CD and digital download through NG Productions. The title track, the first single from Bad Luck’s highly anticipated third album, will be released to radio this Friday.
While the band’s manager, Claude “K” Winchester, was quoted as saying that Back to Zero is sure to “change the face of pop music with its breath taking-ly beautiful tear jerker love songs”, critics and fans alike are giving the album mixed reviews. Some reviews are saying, “It was well worth the three year wait”. Others are slamming the album as nothing more than another “sad, sorry attempt at trying to recapture what had apparently been the highlight of BL’s career by reworking Gravity [the bands most successful album to date]. It’s painfully obvious they failed miserably.”
Back to Zero is the first album of new material from the pop band since their junior album Give It Back was released over three years ago.
Eiri sighed heavily. Looks like Shuichi was right.
“I’d be surprised if Back to Zero didn’t end up being a huge commercial flop and of course if that happens, they’ll all blame me even though I was the one who tried to warn them against recording this crap.”
Taking another sip of his tea, Eiri turned the page of the newspaper. He would have to remember to tell Shuichi that he made the papers again. For some reason even after five years, he still got a kick out of it.
“No way. Are you serious?”
Eiri lifted his head from the newspaper and watched as two high school aged girls walked passed his table with their heads pushed together. They were speaking in low, hushed tones. Both had serious expressions of their faces. They shuffled into the booth behind him, one girl on either side.
“Would you like a refill, sir?”
Eiri turned his gaze from the girls who were now leaning over the table with their heads together and speaking adamantly to see his waitress waiting patiently at the end of the table with a coffee pot in her hand. “No, thank you. Just the check please,” he said, returning his attention back to the newspaper.
“Of course, sir.”
Not catching the disappointed expression that crossed the waitress’s face before she turned and rounded the crowded diner expertly back to the work area behind the counter, Eiri prayed that Sayo and Shuichi hadn’t trashed the condominium while he’s been away. He swore it was like having two children sometimes.
“-just released Back to Zero.”
That caught his immediate attention.
“I know,” replied the other girl, “but Hiro-san twitted it last night. He and Fujisaki-kun are going to be releasing their own solo CD-”
Eiri went tense. Because Shuichi had a tendency to go off on a tangent, he had quickly learned to tune his partner out. This has been the cause of much friction between the pair, but listening to Shuichi drone on and on and on and on always seemed to give him killer migraines. He was sure, though, that if Shuichi had mentioned something about his band members releasing their own album he would remember, even if he was an expert at ignoring his partner’s constant ramblings. “You,” he barked as he rose slowly from his seat and turned towards them. “What did you just say?”
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A Month Later
Shuichi bobbed his head in time to the electronic club beats that filled the soundproof studio from the speakers. When he heard the sound of distant pounding, he lowered the volume and swiveling his chair around, stood up and jogged across the studio.
“Fuji,” he greeted warmly when he opened the door to find his neighbor standing on the other side.
“Hey, Shu,” Ishi Fuji said with a half smile.
“What’s up?”
Fuji opened his mouth, but closed it without saying anything. He tipped his head to listen. “What’re you listening to?”
“Huh? Oh! Uhm…” Shuichi scratched his head sheepishly. A pinkish hue colored his cheeks. “It’s, uh, just something I’ve been working on.” He shrugged.
“Wow.” He listened to the music emanating out from the studio, moving his head in time with the fast bass beats. “I like it. Reminds me of The Free, Activate or Maxx from back in the 90‘s.”
Shuichi‘s face brightened at the compliment, though there was still some hesitation. “Yeah?” He beamed a wide toothy grin at the guitarist. “Thanks!”
“Is that stuff for Bad Luck’s next album?”
Snorting, Shuichi rolled his eyes. “Yeah, right. Not in this lifetime.” Even with the bad reviews that were saying the same exact things he has been trying to tell the guys since the onset of Back to Zero, there was no way Bad Luck’s next album would mix things up, if there were a next Bad Luck album that was. “So, what’s up?”
“Huh?” Fuji looked blank for a moment before remembering that there was a reason why he had come to see Shuichi. “Oh, yeah, well, the guys and I have a proposition for you.”
“Oh, yeah? Like what?”
“Well, we were wondering, if you wouldn’t mind…ya know…jamming with us.”
Shuichi‘s eyes widened in shock and surprise. “Really? Me? Jam? With you guys?”
Fuji nodded. “Yeah. I mean, since Chizo found God and quit the band last spring, we’ve sorta been in limbo, ya know?” He shrugged. “I mean, i-i-it’s up to you.” He dropped his gaze to the carpet beneath his sneakered feet.
Chizo Minase used to be the lead singer of Fuji’s band Torture, but sometime this past spring, she up and quit the nu metal rock band quite unexpectedly. The last any of them heard from her, she had entered the monastery.
Shuichi bit his lip as he considered the offer. Truthfully, he had a lot more in common with the guys from Torture than from his own band mates nowadays. In fact, he still has not spoken to them since they completed Back to Zero, which was set for release in a matter of days. The knowledge that Blissful Memories, a blues-jazz album that Hiro and Suguru had been secretly working on for the past year and a half, had been released through NG Productions a mere week after Bad Luck’s latest album came out did not help to mend their broken relationship any.
A month ago, Eiri had come home from his weekly appointment with his psychologist and said, “I didn’t know Hiro and Suguru were working on a solo CD.”
At first, he’d thought Eiri was joking around. Then he thought that maybe Eiri had over heard those children wrong, but one phone call had confirmed everything.
“Oh! I’m sorry! Did I not inform you? My bad,” Tohma said in that tone that was both innocent and devilishly sly at the same time.
He’d been furious! If they would have just come right out and told him, it would not have been such a big deal. He’d had his own share of side projects and if the guys wanted to participate in their own, who was he to refuse them? Besides, at least their side project had not interfered with Bad Luck as his had. Being upset over Hiro and Suguru putting out a solo album would be like the pot calling the kettle black. What angered him the most was that he’d had to find out from his husband who’d just happened to overhear a couple of girls talking about it.
Not only was he upset over the fact that Hiro and Suguru had not seen the need to inform him of something like this, but he felt it was unfair of them to deny him the opportunity to evolve the band’s sound, or at least come up with something a little more original than what they’ve been releasing lately, while at the same time, the two of them were secretly conspiring to put together an album whose sound was a complete one-eighty from anything Bad Luck had ever and would ever put out.
Besides, wasn’t a side project something like his clothing line or his perfume? An album that did not include him was something else entirely. He knew it was petty, but if they could do something as notorious as that, why should he be left out of all the fun? It could be argued that he had recorded those two songs for the Who is It soundtrack as a solo artist, but that was entirely different. And of course, there were those songs that Shinya “Black Cat” Okugawa had written for him…
A slow grin crossed his face. “Alright,” he nodded.
Fuji blinked. “Serious?”
Shuichi shrugged. “Sure. Why not?” It was not as if he had anything to lose.
--TBC---
Preview: The New Sparkly Shuichi
A/N: What exactly does that mean? Well, stay tuned to find out in the second to last chapter!
Written by: Chochowilliams
Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation or the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Summary: Shuichi and Eiri are working things out after a mistake on both of their parts nearly ended their five-year relationship. But what about Bad Luck? What does the future hold for them?
Chapter Summary: The release of Hiro and Suguru’s side project is not the olive branch Shuichi had in mind
Warning: M/M, romance, angst, OOC-ness, language, character death Shuichi/Eiri, implied Eiri/oc, implied Shuichi/oc
Insert: --
A/N: Thank you to lilgurlanima, David boreanaz‘s wife247, ferler, Mrs. Hatake Itachi, Kaoru Sayuri Kamiya, for your reviews. We are nearing the end. Five chapters left.
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Chapter 40: Blissful Memories
Taking a sip of his tea, Eiri scanned the newspaper laid out before him on the table at the back alley diner. It was an out of the way place that you would walk right passed if you did not know it was here. He just happened to stumble upon it one day when he was trying to flee from a pack of ravenous housewives.
He was setting his teacup down into the saucer when a bold headline in the center of the page caught his immediate attention.
Bad Luck Officially Announces Release of “Back to Zero”
Curiosity getting the better of him, he scanned the article.
Tokyo, July 25, 2009 - After nearly three years of silence, Bad Luck released a statement last night confirming the arrival of Back to Zero on August 31. Preorders begin tomorrow for the 12-track album co-produced by Suguru Fujisaki and Aya Miyagi (ASK’s Infinity, Temper‘s Babylon, Nittle Grasper‘s Sleepless in Tokyo). Back to Zero will be available on CD and digital download through NG Productions. The title track, the first single from Bad Luck’s highly anticipated third album, will be released to radio this Friday.
While the band’s manager, Claude “K” Winchester, was quoted as saying that Back to Zero is sure to “change the face of pop music with its breath taking-ly beautiful tear jerker love songs”, critics and fans alike are giving the album mixed reviews. Some reviews are saying, “It was well worth the three year wait”. Others are slamming the album as nothing more than another “sad, sorry attempt at trying to recapture what had apparently been the highlight of BL’s career by reworking Gravity [the bands most successful album to date]. It’s painfully obvious they failed miserably.”
Back to Zero is the first album of new material from the pop band since their junior album Give It Back was released over three years ago.
Eiri sighed heavily. Looks like Shuichi was right.
“I’d be surprised if Back to Zero didn’t end up being a huge commercial flop and of course if that happens, they’ll all blame me even though I was the one who tried to warn them against recording this crap.”
Taking another sip of his tea, Eiri turned the page of the newspaper. He would have to remember to tell Shuichi that he made the papers again. For some reason even after five years, he still got a kick out of it.
“No way. Are you serious?”
Eiri lifted his head from the newspaper and watched as two high school aged girls walked passed his table with their heads pushed together. They were speaking in low, hushed tones. Both had serious expressions of their faces. They shuffled into the booth behind him, one girl on either side.
“Would you like a refill, sir?”
Eiri turned his gaze from the girls who were now leaning over the table with their heads together and speaking adamantly to see his waitress waiting patiently at the end of the table with a coffee pot in her hand. “No, thank you. Just the check please,” he said, returning his attention back to the newspaper.
“Of course, sir.”
Not catching the disappointed expression that crossed the waitress’s face before she turned and rounded the crowded diner expertly back to the work area behind the counter, Eiri prayed that Sayo and Shuichi hadn’t trashed the condominium while he’s been away. He swore it was like having two children sometimes.
“-just released Back to Zero.”
That caught his immediate attention.
“I know,” replied the other girl, “but Hiro-san twitted it last night. He and Fujisaki-kun are going to be releasing their own solo CD-”
Eiri went tense. Because Shuichi had a tendency to go off on a tangent, he had quickly learned to tune his partner out. This has been the cause of much friction between the pair, but listening to Shuichi drone on and on and on and on always seemed to give him killer migraines. He was sure, though, that if Shuichi had mentioned something about his band members releasing their own album he would remember, even if he was an expert at ignoring his partner’s constant ramblings. “You,” he barked as he rose slowly from his seat and turned towards them. “What did you just say?”
+---+---+
A Month Later
Shuichi bobbed his head in time to the electronic club beats that filled the soundproof studio from the speakers. When he heard the sound of distant pounding, he lowered the volume and swiveling his chair around, stood up and jogged across the studio.
“Fuji,” he greeted warmly when he opened the door to find his neighbor standing on the other side.
“Hey, Shu,” Ishi Fuji said with a half smile.
“What’s up?”
Fuji opened his mouth, but closed it without saying anything. He tipped his head to listen. “What’re you listening to?”
“Huh? Oh! Uhm…” Shuichi scratched his head sheepishly. A pinkish hue colored his cheeks. “It’s, uh, just something I’ve been working on.” He shrugged.
“Wow.” He listened to the music emanating out from the studio, moving his head in time with the fast bass beats. “I like it. Reminds me of The Free, Activate or Maxx from back in the 90‘s.”
Shuichi‘s face brightened at the compliment, though there was still some hesitation. “Yeah?” He beamed a wide toothy grin at the guitarist. “Thanks!”
“Is that stuff for Bad Luck’s next album?”
Snorting, Shuichi rolled his eyes. “Yeah, right. Not in this lifetime.” Even with the bad reviews that were saying the same exact things he has been trying to tell the guys since the onset of Back to Zero, there was no way Bad Luck’s next album would mix things up, if there were a next Bad Luck album that was. “So, what’s up?”
“Huh?” Fuji looked blank for a moment before remembering that there was a reason why he had come to see Shuichi. “Oh, yeah, well, the guys and I have a proposition for you.”
“Oh, yeah? Like what?”
“Well, we were wondering, if you wouldn’t mind…ya know…jamming with us.”
Shuichi‘s eyes widened in shock and surprise. “Really? Me? Jam? With you guys?”
Fuji nodded. “Yeah. I mean, since Chizo found God and quit the band last spring, we’ve sorta been in limbo, ya know?” He shrugged. “I mean, i-i-it’s up to you.” He dropped his gaze to the carpet beneath his sneakered feet.
Chizo Minase used to be the lead singer of Fuji’s band Torture, but sometime this past spring, she up and quit the nu metal rock band quite unexpectedly. The last any of them heard from her, she had entered the monastery.
Shuichi bit his lip as he considered the offer. Truthfully, he had a lot more in common with the guys from Torture than from his own band mates nowadays. In fact, he still has not spoken to them since they completed Back to Zero, which was set for release in a matter of days. The knowledge that Blissful Memories, a blues-jazz album that Hiro and Suguru had been secretly working on for the past year and a half, had been released through NG Productions a mere week after Bad Luck’s latest album came out did not help to mend their broken relationship any.
A month ago, Eiri had come home from his weekly appointment with his psychologist and said, “I didn’t know Hiro and Suguru were working on a solo CD.”
At first, he’d thought Eiri was joking around. Then he thought that maybe Eiri had over heard those children wrong, but one phone call had confirmed everything.
“Oh! I’m sorry! Did I not inform you? My bad,” Tohma said in that tone that was both innocent and devilishly sly at the same time.
He’d been furious! If they would have just come right out and told him, it would not have been such a big deal. He’d had his own share of side projects and if the guys wanted to participate in their own, who was he to refuse them? Besides, at least their side project had not interfered with Bad Luck as his had. Being upset over Hiro and Suguru putting out a solo album would be like the pot calling the kettle black. What angered him the most was that he’d had to find out from his husband who’d just happened to overhear a couple of girls talking about it.
Not only was he upset over the fact that Hiro and Suguru had not seen the need to inform him of something like this, but he felt it was unfair of them to deny him the opportunity to evolve the band’s sound, or at least come up with something a little more original than what they’ve been releasing lately, while at the same time, the two of them were secretly conspiring to put together an album whose sound was a complete one-eighty from anything Bad Luck had ever and would ever put out.
Besides, wasn’t a side project something like his clothing line or his perfume? An album that did not include him was something else entirely. He knew it was petty, but if they could do something as notorious as that, why should he be left out of all the fun? It could be argued that he had recorded those two songs for the Who is It soundtrack as a solo artist, but that was entirely different. And of course, there were those songs that Shinya “Black Cat” Okugawa had written for him…
A slow grin crossed his face. “Alright,” he nodded.
Fuji blinked. “Serious?”
Shuichi shrugged. “Sure. Why not?” It was not as if he had anything to lose.
--TBC---
Preview: The New Sparkly Shuichi
A/N: What exactly does that mean? Well, stay tuned to find out in the second to last chapter!