Tests Of True Love

~ Pre- Concert ~

Yuki had been stuck in his apartment for two straight weeks since Shuichi had become recluse after what had happened to him.

Hiro had dropped by many times trying to drag his band mate to the studio many times only to have him cling to the couch like a child.

Yuki was starting to go stir crazy, when Shuichi was clinging to him during one afternoon he had gotten to the point where he had wanted to yell at Shuichi till the pop star left him alone for a while.

Shuichi had been looking forward to the concert that was coming up soon, but he was still afraid to leave the apartment in fear that Tatsuha would grab him again.

One day Hiro arrived with K they were going to try and convince Shuichi to leave the apartment and make some public appearances; but with no luck they couldn’t get him to leave until Yuki was asked to help.

The blonde picked Shuichi up and carried him over to K and handed him over

“ here take him, I haven’t left this apartment in two weeks. Just make sure he has a ride home with someone, my brother might try something again” Yuki said as K and Hiro left with Shuichi between them.

Yuki shut the door as they left the building with Shuichi finally trying to get him used to being outside again.

Shuichi put up a fight as he tried to wiggle his way out of K’s arms. Hiro followed behind them on the way to the elevator.

“ Shuichi everything is going to be fine we’re going to the studio to plan what we are going to wear for the concert next week” Hiro said as the elevator went down to the bottom floor.

Yuki went out onto the balcony and watched for the three to come out of the building. K walked out with Shuichi and Hiro right behind them, they climbed into K’s car and took off.

The pent up writer went inside and grabbed his keys he practically ran down the stairs to the main level as he exited his building and went down the street for a long walk,

since Shuichi couldn’t stand being alone for more than a minute Yuki hadn’t left the house for a while.

He had forgotten how his life was before he met Shuichi that fateful night in the park almost three years ago. Yuki found himself sitting on a park bench on the exact sidewalk where they met.


K stopped his car infront of NG records luckily that day there was no mob of fans just yet that day; The group walked in the front entrance and up to the conference room on the second floor.

Hiro was so glad that he had his temporary cast removed from his leg the day before, he went up the stairs with Shuichi they entered the conference room Suguru was already waiting for them.

“ you finally got Shindou out of the apartment that’s great” he said putting down the magazine he was reading. Shuichi went over and looked at the magazine for a moment before sitting at the table.

K looked at the three “ I’m going to my office if you need me for anything just knock first or you’ll get your head blown off” K said laughing as he left the room.

Hiro took an empty seat “ well I already know what I’m going to be wearing what about you Suguru ?” he asked twirling a pencil in his fingers.

“ Yeah it’s going to be a simple trench coat and choker. That’s all really” he said turning to a page in a clothing magazine and points to a jacket “ that’s the one I bought yesterday” he said.

Shuichi was listening very closely

“ I know what I’m wearing but I’m not telling you will just have to see what it is” Shuichi said laughing. Suguru and Hiro looked at each other they began to laugh as well they were happy that their friend was back to normal.

Shuichi got up from his seat “ I have to go now, need to pick up my outfit for the concert and make sure it fits “ Shuichi said running out of the room and out of the building.

He arrived at a store and picked up his clothes and ran all the way back to the apartment.

Yuki had returned home from the park and was now sitting infront of his computer typing like a mad man, he finally had broken his writers block that had been keeping him from writing for the last couple of weeks.

Shuichi arrived at the apartment and put his key in the lock and opened the door. “ Yuuuuuuki I’m home” the pop star yelled into the apartment.

Yuki tightened his hand snapping the pencil he was holding. His writers block back and now he wasn’t in the best of moods.

He left his study as he pulled his glasses from his face, the writer looked over at Shuichi with a cold look in his eyes.

“ why do you always have to do that ?” Yuki asked annoyed.

The pop star looked down sadly he didn’t mean to make Yuki mad “ I just wanted you to know I was home” Shuichi said keeping his head down.

Yuki sighed “ whatever just stay out of my way you damn brat” He said sounding like his old self.

Shuichi cringed at the words he kept his head down “ I’m not a damn brat, stop calling me that” he said looking up at Yuki his eyes filled with tears.

Yuki glared at Shuichi “ just don’t bother me tonight, I’m trying to work on my novel”he said putting his glasses back on as he went into the study. Yuki had been thinking in his study he leaned his head back as he looked at the ceiling above him and the book case behind him. I need to think what am I going to write about. Yuki thought as he clicked the save button before leaning his head back again and removing his glasses as he rubbed his eyes to think.

Shuichi sat alone infront of the study door like a puppy, every few minutes he knocked on the door.

Yuki soon became enraged at the annoyance on the other side of the door.

The writer moved quickly across the room, he pulled the door almost off the hinges at that point.

“ cut that out, you annoying little brat!” he yelled his shoulders rising and falling from the anger he was releasing.

Shuichi fell back against the floor
“ but Yuki” the pop star said softly.
“ get the hell out of here, now!” Yuki screamed kicking his smaller lover toward the front door.

Tears filled Shuichi’ s eyes as he got his shoes on and ran out the door, he didn’t want to wait for the elevator instead he took the stairs almost tripping as the tears blurred his vision.

Yuki slammed the door shut and went back into the study and sat infront of his computer again he glanced at a picture of him and Shuichi; a look of pure protection in his eyes in the picture of them together as his pictured self had his arms draped over Shuichi’ s shoulders and crossed over the boy’s chest.

Yuki looked at the picture on his desk once more before placing down against the table as he tried to get back to work He’s just an annoyance that’s keeping me from working right now, He needs to grow up some times Yuki thought as he began to type again.

Shuichi ran the distance back to NG records into the main conference room where Hiro and Suguru were still talking about the concert.
Hiro looked up when Shuichi came in “ what happened?” he asked leading his friend to a small leather couch so he could sit down.

Suguru stood and walked over to his two band mates, “ yeah Shuichi you can tell us what happened” he said trying to be comforting.

The normally perky pop star took in a deep breath as he cried
“ I...I was... at the apartment..... and...... Yuki... was angry at.... me ... and ... when I ...sat in front of the study door and knocked on it.... he came out furious at me and....told me .... to .... get out.... and ..while ... I was laying on my back.... he kicked me to the front door....” Shuichi said as he started sobbing again.

Hiro sat next to his friend

“ hey Suguru, go get Touma for a minute”

Hiro remarked pulling Shuichi into his arms to calm him down

“ it’s going to be okay, we’re here for you don’t worry” he said softly letting his friend cry on his shoulder.

Suguru left the room returning soon after with his cousin, Touma was briefed as he went to see Shuichi.

Being Yuki’ s brother in law made him feel obligated to confront the matter at hand.

Touma sat on the other side of the young singer

“ For now I think you should stay with Hiro, at least until this passes.” he said looking at Hiro and Shuichi,

Touma noticed something on Shuichi’ s side “ what in heaven’s name is that?” Touma asked moving the tee shirt up a bit to reveal a large bruise forming on the singer’s right side and lower back.

Suguru looked over his cousin’s shoulder at the bruise, he motioned for Hiro to take a quick look. Shuichi sat up

“ that is where Yuki kicked me”

he said looking down at the floor the tears still falling silently now.

“ but I was asking for it, I was being a pain and I should have stopped so I deserved it”

Shuichi remarked, the three others in the room looked at him with a pure look of shock on their faces. “ No one ever deserves to get hit by some one who is supposed to love them” Touma said softly putting his hand on Shuichi’ s shoulder.

Hiro got up swiftly he went over to the chair and grabbed his jacket and helmet

“ I’ll be back in a while” the red head said as he started to leave; Shuichi nodded his head when ever there was a problem he stayed at Hiro’ s place where he used to live as well before he moved into Yuki’ s apartment.

Suguru took Hiro’ s place on the couch next to Shuichi,

“ everything is going to be alright you’ll see” he said trying to cheer the singer up.

Hiro left the building climbing on his bike he roared off toward Yuki and Shuichi’ s apartment he was going to keep his promise of going back if Yuki hurt Shuichi on purpose. Hiro parked his bike and went up to the apartment getting past the buzzer with the copy of the key that Shuichi had.

He knocked on the door and waited for Yuki to open the door, “ Get lost you damn brat” Yuki yelled pulling the door open. Hiro stood there “ I told you I would be back if you hurt Shuichi on purpose” he said crossing his arms across his chest.

Yuki stood there “ I don’t have time for this, so go before I call the cops” Yuki remarked swinging the door closed, Hiro stopped the door before it shut all the way

“ You have a commitment problem so you take all your love and turn it to hate when Shuichi gets too close and you yell at him breaking his heart every time. I want you to think it over hard how much you hurt him, then if you think your civil enough again then come to the concert like you always do” Hiro said leaving down the hall toward the elevator.


Yuki closed the door before he went and sat on the couch, he closed his eyes and opened them again “ Do I really have a commitment problem?” Yuki asked himself leaning forward his head in his hands, large amounts of his hair fell between his fingers. He sighed loudly playing the event that happened earlier that evening.

Yuki got up from the couch moving down the hall to the bedroom, the silence drilled into his brain making him realize even more that he screwed up yet again. He sat on his bed looking at the closet door that was open again, all of Shuichi’ s clothes seemed to be looking at him almost judging him after what he did. Yuki got to his feet closing the closet door so the clothes couldn’t judge him anymore.

Hiro returned to the studio, he parked his bike once again before going inside. Everyone was still sitting in the conference room waiting for him to return, Shuichi had finally stopped crying his face was very red and puffy. Hiro sat backwards on a chair,

“ Well I went and tried to talk to Yuki, but he threatened to call the cops so I left him to think things over” he said looking over at his friend.

Suguru glanced over at Touma for a moment at what had been said about Yuki.

Shuichi sighed “ hey Hiro can we go back to your place I kinda feel like going to bed” Shuichi said softly getting to his feet, he wondered if Yuki even cared if he didn’t come home that night. Hiro got up as well “ Alright then, we’ll see you two tomorrow I guess” Hiro said walking out with Shuichi, they went out to his bike and went back to Hiro’ s apartment when they got there

Shuichi went inside and sat on the bed that used to be his. “ Hey I thought up a new song, it’s not a real rock song it’s acoustic and I was hoping that you could help with that part please I want to sing it at the concert next week” Shuichi said looking at his friend as he sat on the window ledge.

Hiro grabbed his acoustic guitar and played a few cords, “ of course I’ll play but you need to write the lyrics down so I know what cords to play for the song.” Hiro said tossing a note pad over to Shuichi. After a few minutes the song was written down.

Shuichi gave it one quick read over before handing it over to Hiro “ there all done” he said getting off the bed. Hiro read the song a couple times “ This song is about Yuki isn’t it?” he asked. Shuichi had gone into the bathroom to change into some night wear for him to sleep in that night.

When he walked out he looked at Hiro for a moment “ yeah it is about him and me, if he comes to the concert next week I hope he notices that it is about us and how much he really hurts me”

Shuichi said pulling a pillow into his lap. Hiro smiled softly and put his guitar down on the chair next to him. “ how about we get some sleep and tomorrow we’ll show Suguru and Touma the new song.” Hiro remarked sitting on the bed next to Shuichi’ s

“ yeah your right we should get to sleep” Shuichi remarked as he climbed under the covers trying to get some sleep that night. He curled up under the covers it was hard to fall asleep without Yuki, Shuichi finally fell asleep after a while of tossing and turning. Hiro sat up thinking about how Yuki better show up at the concert to hear Shuichi pour out his heart in song that he came up with in just a few hours.

He turned the remaining light off and went to bed. The next morning bright and early Hiro and Shuichi went back to NG and showed Suguru and Touma the new song that would be played the next week. While talking about the song it hit Shuichi that he left his outfit for the concert at Yuki’ s, “ hey Hiro could we stop by the apartment I forgot my outfit there and I need to pick it up” Shuichi said as they left the studio to go and practice the song at Hiro’ s place.

Hiro gave a small sigh “ yeah let’s go, do you want me to go up and grab then we can go rehearse?” he asked climbing on his bike.

Shuichi nodded his head he didn’t want to see Yuki just yet. After driving across town they arrived at the apartment, Hiro climbed off “ I’ll be right back” he said opening the door and running up to the apartment.

Shuichi waited only a few minutes till Hiro was back with the bag. They returned to Hiro’ s and practiced for the rest of the week. Yuki was tearing himself apart the rest of the week that Shuichi hadn’t come back yet.

Finally the long waiting period before the concert was over and the night of the concert finally arrived. Yuki had finally decided to go to the concert that night and after he would try and talk to Shuichi and see if he could mend the pain he had caused the week before.

He had been thinking of how to make everything better again, then it hit him he called a florist and told them some information and hung up the phone as he got ready for the concert in two hours. Bad Luck had arrived at the Tokyo civic center where they would be playing their first big concert and not as a opening act for once.

Touma had gone with them to set up the box seat area for the VIP people that night, he counted the chairs and ticked off the names to himself of who was coming and where they would sit so as not to start anything. “ let’s see.. Ryuichi and Tatsuha are coming, Noriko and Yuki, me of course, K and his wife Judy, Mr. Sakano and ASK.

So that is eleven people, and there are enough chairs” Touma said going back stage to see what everyone was doing hours before the concert.

Hiro had been tuning his guitar ever since they got there, Suguru was fiddling with his keyboard as he sat against a small crate.

Shuichi was sitting on the floor looking at one spot on the wall where a poster hung.