A/N: Everyone. Remember when I said the next chapter wouldn't take long… no, I did not lie. MY hard drive died on me, so my entire story was lost in that horrible massacre… therefore, I had to re-write this story. I am beyond upset, because usually the first try is the best, and I finished the story… I didn't think the second one was up to par to the first. Well, I don't know, I need everyone's opinion on this chapter. I was so devastated I thought I wouldn't want to continue this story, but since the reviews still came in, haha and I like the fans, I did so.
Also did say I wanted it only to be 20 chapters, but hehe hehe, I had no heart to end it at ch 20 xD, so im moving ahead to finally end at ch 21. I think…. Hehehe. But I'm still upset, I HATE HD crashes I HATE. People, comfort me ;;
Warning: Lots of shit talking in this one. xD and cliché-ness, ugh –shame-.
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"What?" Eiri looked at Riku who stared back at him, not a trace of the vibrant bride she was supposed to be.
"Do you love me?" She suddenly asked him.
"What" Riku, not now-,"
"Do you love me?" She repeated again, this time more firmly. Eiri didn't answer right away as he continued staring at her like she was out of her mind. This wasn't called cold feet anymore, it was close to close crazy, in his case. The priest who was before them was even more confused than Eiri and the congregation who were all quiet. He didn't want to say anything in case he'd get yelled at… that usually happened when he conducted a wedding, he sighed.
Eiri opened his mouth to say something, however closed it, continued staring at her, but she didn't back down a single bit.
"Of course I love you." He finally answered. "Now stop playing games, and get married already." He turned to the priest and signalled for him to continue.
"Ah, oh, ok, so, Riku, will you take Eiri Uesugi to be your lawfully wedded husband?" he repeated once more, hopefully getting a better response now.
"I already said. No." she answered him.
"Well not a better response, but not an unusual one either." The priest said shrugging.
"Riku stop this shi-," the pastor coughed lightly, so Eiri was forced to stop midway, he breathed in calmly before continuing, "… nonsense. You're not making any sense, and everyone is watching." True enough, the congregation were in silence, very engrossed in the whole screen playing out.
She shook her head, "No. I'm more concerned about our future especially my future than the people in this place."
"We can talk about it later." He told her, but it just led her to fume at him.
"You don't understand do you? No, I guess you don't, caused you don't have a heart to begin with." She turned and walked out of the tent, leaving the groom and priest at the alter without looking back.
"What the-, Riku!" Eiri quickly ran after her. Once they were out of sight, the entire room erupted with noises, everyone and their brother were talking about the incident that just happened.
Mika was holding her breath the entire time, and finally released it when the couple left. She furiously turned to her husband, "What the hell just happened?!" It was obvious Mika Seguchi was freaking pissed off of what happen earlier. Her husband further annoyed her by giving her his famous 'smile'.
"I truly have no idea what actually happen, darling." He replied to her. Mika's vein popped, "Somehow I knew that! I wanted you to give me a legitimate answer!" Tohma continued smiling, he was used to his wife's temper, it didn't scare him, but he didn't want to further anger her.
"How about an answer that pleases you?"
"… I want an answer that explains this mess!!!"
"… Ok." He turned to walk away when Mika confusingly grabbed him.
"Where do you think you are going?!"
"Where do you think then? Of course to get an answer to explain this mess, dear?" he continued smiling, Mika should get used to that smile by now, but it just got onto her nerves! She was about to say something when Tohma pointed behind her, "You better say something to the people, dear. This is definitely going to reach the press." He sighed, "I've got to handle that later."
Mika turned around to see everyone demanding what's happening and what was going to happen. She put on her best hostess smile, "Excuse me, everyone. Please calm down, I'm sure everything will right back on track. Do stay in your seats."
"Oh, and you better ask them to stay for the food darling. There won't be any wedding after this."
"WHAT?!" But Tohma was already missing from her side. "UGH that scam!"
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"RIKU!... RIKU!" Eiri finally caught up with her, grabbing her to face him, "What the HELL do you thinking you are doing?" Eiri was bewildered with Riku's charade back at the alter, he sensed something was wrong.
Well duh. She did blow up at him.
"No! What the hell are YOU," she jabbed his shoulder, "TRYING" she
jabbed again. " TO FUCKING DO?!" and three jabs to that.
'Ouch!" Eiri gripped his shoulder, "That hurt! Whats your problem!"
" You were going to marry me!"
"…That's the purpose of this fucking day isn't it?" Eiri said calmly, but his insides were boiling, what was this woman's problem?! No wonder he settled for men sometimes, they were less naggy!
"ARGH YOU FUCKING IDIOT." She fumed horribly. "You were going to marry me without LOVING me."
"No, I think I very much 'loved' you all night long for the last few years didn't I." he smirked, causing Riku to flare up even more, she took off her 5 inch high heels and ready to hit Eiri when-,
"WHOA Slow down there Riku!"Eiri and Riku both turned to see Tatsuha speak up, together with Hiro and Ayaka… behind them, the whole of Star productions in tow.
"What the hell… this isn't a fucking show everyone, go back and eat the damn cake." An annoyed Eiri said.
"On second thought, hit him right on the nutters, Riku, I'll give you 10 bucks for it." Tatsuha said as he sneered at Eiri. Riku sighed and waved her hand at him.
"Eiri, you don't love me do you? You were going to marry me when you clearly don't love me." She said bitterly, "How can you go through something like that without loving someone? I know you're born cold…" the audience nodded at that, "But going into a miserable relationship like this… you're stepping up to make other people miserable too."
Eiri blinked at Riku, where was this woman trying to get? "And why would I marry you if I didn't love you?"
"… To drown out your pitiful sorrows. Because you cant face the fact that you loved my cousin and always will, and it kills you to know that. That and another hundred reasons why. In short, you don't love me Eiri at all, and you don't want to marry me at the first place. You thought you could hide this from me, till death do us part, but I knew something was wrong when Shuichi came in, everyone started acting weird, and that's when I realized hell, there's something here everyone knows, but I don't! So after travel work, I decided to stay with Ayaka, who told me everything." Ayaka gasped when her name was mentioned, she turned red when everyone focused their attention on her.
"Ayaka?"Hiro stared at his girlfriend for a long while before she decided to nod slowly.
"I had to! She asked to stay over, and I didn't think it was right to leave her being oblivious to the situation. Everyone knew when Shuichi came back, havoc would happen and it did." Ayaka meekly looked up at Eiri. "I'm sorry Eiri-san, I didn't mean to tell, but Riku looked so desperate I had to tell her, it wasn't right to leave her out in the dark either…" But Eiri kept his blank look on. " It's alright if you don't forgive me." She nodded, "But I'm sorry I didn't tell you either Hiro…"
Instead of Eiri, the person she was most afraid of was to hurt Hiro, she didn't tell him anything, resulting to a worrisome Hiro. Plus they promised to tell each other everything. Luckily for Ayaka, she was dating Hiro and not Eiri.
"It's alright." He smiled and pulled her to his side. "I understand, I really thought the worst." He laughed, "Guess it was about Shuichi and Yuki again as usual."
"Yes, as usual." Riku glared at Eiri, "You make bad decisions mister, and this by far is the worst."
"So, you lied to everyone."
"Don't try to denunciate me Eiri. You lied to yourself and everybody that you know, I won't get into the details of how much you hurt the people involved, I'm sure you know." She then sighed and she stopped glaring at him. "You… don't love me. I get that. I accepted that, at first I didn't believe it when Ayaka told me the story… But whenever I was around watching the both of you, you're the most responsive then Shuichi. I saw how you reacted to everything Shuichi did, I… can't beat that." Her voice broke a little, and she looked like she was about to cry.
"I… lost to my cousin." She said with a light laugh, "And that was fine, because I love him and you do as well even though you didn't show it. I don't want whatever happened 5 years ago happen again. Shuichi doesn't know it, but he thinks he's not valuable enough to live. I wonder who thought him that." She tilted her head whilst looking at the cold blonde man before her. "I suppose the reason why he left Japan so soon is my fault as well." She sighed then shook her head.
"So, what do you want to do Eiri?"
Everyone was truly enjoying the story that was for sure, and was left praying that Eiri would actually give her a satisfactory answer. They too, thought the situation was screwed up and the least the famous novelist would do is realize his stupidity, no matter how proud he was. Or, at least realize he still had time to get to Shuichi.
That is, of course, if Shuichi was willing to open the door again.
"I want to…smoke."
The praying ceased and silent condemning went Eiri's way.
Riku nodded, "Thought so." Everyone else expected an angry response from Riku, but they didn't get it. In fact, the audience was even more furious at Eiri than Riku was. However, Riku was tired, she didn't know how else to get through to Eiri. Luckily she didn't marry him or she'd be in deep marital shit. "Up to you…." She turned to go.
"It's not easy." She stopped.
"What?"
"It's not easy admitting I still have feelings for someone after a long time… and it's not easy feeling terrible when you've hurt the person everyday." Eiri said with a straight poker face, but his words had true meaning. Riku and everyone were surprised at his response. It was unusual! And spoke from Eiri himself.
"Wow, bro, you noticed! There is hope after all!" Tatsuha said, and in an instant received a deathly glare from Eiri.
Riku smiled, "That was sufficient enough for me to understand your situation. I know this might sound cliché, and gawd knows, I hate being cliché…" she walked up to him and took his hand, "Why don't you go be genuinely happy for once and take the person you love with you? I'm sure he'll love to go along." She gave Eiri the most honest smile ever, "I would know, I'm his cousin."
Eiri blinked at her, gave her a small smile. He was right to pick a girl like her. He's been lucky with so many things… and he never noticed it. Riku was a fantastic lady, it's just a shame he had his heart stolen by a former pink haired maniac.
"Where is he now?" he turned to ask the members of shining glow and the managers.
"He's back in New York." Akeno said, "Probably at his apartment or the studio."
"Yes, I'll give it to you." Seiji nodded before Eiri ask for the address, "Anyone have paper?"
"Ugh, luckily I'm multi purpose. Your producer, your coffee maker and now stationary provider. I'm getting a raise." Yumi said, "Here." She gave him a paper and pen. Seiji grinned and quickly wrote down both addresses.
"Here. I might not like you Eiri-san, but my manager has his buns tied in knots for you for the last 5 years I've known him. Treat him well." Seiji said like he was giving his daughter away.
Eiri couldn't suppress a 'heh' when he said that. However
"I'm going to apologize to everyone for coming to a wedding that wasn't going to happen… excuse me--."
"STOP RIGHT THERE." A shriek pierced through the air. One can almost hear everyone groan. "Where the heck do you think you're going?! Eiri! Where are you going?! People are waiting for a damn wedding!" Mika dared up, her cheeks been red probably from the embarrassment of explaining the situation to the guests.
"Ugh… Mika…" Tatsuha groaned, his sister always had to step up and interfere at the wrong moments.
"Riku, Riku, my brother is a dick, that's a fact, but he can change, maybe after marriage and children… my brother can stop being a dick!" Mika said going to Riku and holding her hand.
"Er actually Mika, dickiness runs through the family, trying to get rid of it, might be fatal." Tatsuha joked, earning himself a glare this time from his sister. Mika was truly scary at times like these.
"Listen Mika, I adore you, it's fabulous to have you as my sister, but it's not going to happen because… because I want Eiri to be happy, and being with me, he wont be. Also, I want Shuichi to be happy-,"
"SHUICHI?!" Mika screamed the world down, "SHUICHI AGAIN?!"
Ayaka went closer to Hiro and so did the rest of them who were watching the scene. Mika was scarier than Tohma, and that was saying something.
"Shuichi…."Mika huffed, "What has he got to do with this?" another huff.
Eiri was smart enough to keep quiet the whole time, he thought this scene was just a waste of his precious time.
"Mika, darling." Tohma stepped up and touched his wife's shoulder softly as if testing if she might combust into a huge man eating dragon, "I'm sure they know what they're doing, no matter how stupid and reckless and … stupid it is, I think I hear the guests gossiping and piling out, should we get them before this turns into a big problem with the tabloids?"
Mika whipped around to breathe on Tohma's neck now, "Tohma don't you dare try to bullshit me out of this one."
"Of course not honey, But I think women's weekly is here and you don't want them to interview the guests do you? Especially after the beautiful decorations you've gotten so many compliments on." Mika gasped.
"So we'll just leave them be, and when everything is done, we'll come back and get the details from them, I'm very sure Riku and Eiri will work it out," Sliding his hands around his wives waist, Tohma led her back to the crowd.
"Shit, my brother in law is cool that way." Tatsuha said shaking his head, if it was anyone to manipulate Mika, it was her husband.
Eiri wondered why Tohma was being so nice in this situation; he would have to ask Tohma when he got back. Clutching the paper Seiji gave him, he thought about it, did he, or did he not want to go? This was a new step for him, and he knew he was going to fuck up regardless, so what did he really want to do?
"Eiri…" Riku, the girl who gave her heart and soul to him, only to be broken down by him, gave him a soft sweet smile.
"You're supposed to hate me, you know." Eiri said.
"I know, I am, but it's better than marrying into years of depression and a dead cousin." she said without thinking, causing everyone to gasp at her last words. She sighed, "I' not kidding, if Shuichi can do it once, he can do it twice, especially now that everyone he knows is in Japan, no one is there to take care of him."
Eiri crumpled the paper into his pocket and nodded, "Who has the car?"
"I'll drive you!" Tatsuha said taking out his keys.
"Here your wallet." Riku threw his wallet at Eiri.
"How'd you know I was going to go…?"
"After what I had witness, I knew you still loved my cousin after 5 years." She said smiling.
Eiri looked at her apologetically; he was really sorry and hopes to make it to her somehow. "Thank you…"
"Don't thank me yet. Also I'm gonna kick your ass later on. Now go. I've got a crowd of guests to tend to. Not to mention your sister."
"Riku." She turned around. "I really would've gone on to marry you because you were a right companion…You're an amazing girl."
She smiled, "And I truly did love you." With that, she turned away.
"Man bro, you are one lucky bastard." Tatsuha said shaking his head. A fiancé who's nice enough to let him off the hook, an influential brother in law and an ex boyfriend who still loves him. Eiri gets everything.
"Ah, Eiri-san, here." Yumi gave him her American phone, "I trust you don't have a phone, and don't have Shu's number. I might not like you a single bit, but if you're the one Shuichi hurts himself over every night, and the only way to make him happy is…. You, I'll help. Cause Shuichi is precious to us."
"Yeah, and together with Riku, if you make him unhappy we're all gonna kick your ass." Akeno said.
Eiri looked at all of them, realizing how much Shuichi mean to all of them, and to him. Shuichi was indeed special, so he wasn't going to loose him again.
"You guys… are noisy …" he said bluntly before turning away, "Come on Tatsuha. And you better not use your pansy ass driving with me today."
Everyone there fumed as Hiro smiled and said, "That's his way of saying thank you. Don't worry it got me years to get used to it."
All of them there looked at each other, blinked, then said in unison:
"Bastard."
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A/n: OMG hahahah 7 months I was gone? Was it 7 months? And I promised it wouldn't take long. Shit, guys, I would've givien by may or something if the stupid HD did not crash, it was devastating, I was near to abandoning this, but I was 2 chapters from the ending, and decided, I should finish this. I wanna do this too:
Published: 09-06-05 , so people it has been exactly 2 years since this crappy story has been born! LOL. And again I can not thank the reviewers and readers enough, tell me what to do to embrace and thank you guys who's been reading my vivid crappy imagination on these two boys since forever. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. KISS KISS. Sigh. Also since the first chapter till now, I realize I've done a million mistakes in names and spelling and stuff, hahaha it's so funny, but I wont change it cause it shows how much I've done and morphed since then, tee hee. So thank you for those who pointed that out.
Also I know this chapter is full of CRUB. So please do share your thoughts, even if I did say I don't need your thoughts on it, hahaha.
Also, just wondering, should I make another gravitation story? If so, bout which pairing? After this, I'd be so sad cause this is my first real series that I actually –end- cause there is only one more chapter to go, and maybe some crappy omake, so guys share!!!
maybe do a sequal??? Please Vote and view so that she can put more brainstorming for the last chapter [long long chapters??--Jas
Thank you to my beta's. Lu who loves me, and Jas who pampers me D. As for a sequeal, eh, most likely I won't do it, just give me ideas, if I should ever make another gravitation story, hehe. Thank you darlings.