Shuichi's Interesting Life

Summary: After the war, Shuichi had changed his name and went to a normal high school. He later made the band Bad Luck and we know what happened after that. However, the past seems to be coming back and Shuichi won't be able to avoid his previous life anymore.

I do not own Gravitation, nor do I own Gundam Wing. They belong to their respective creators and their companies.

Shuichi could honestly say that he enjoyed the life he had right now. Sure he missed his friends dearly, especially after all the experiences they had faced together during the war, but he thought it was best for him to leave. There was no place for him in times of peace, and his friends had someone else there to care of them. At first they all had trouble adjusting to the new peaceful atmosphere, but slowly everyone else had adjusted in their own way. He didn't want to interfere with the others' new lives, so he used his talents and left.

The first thing he did was to make his new identity, Shuichi Shindo, which also included a full background, and what happened to his parents for him to be an orphan in his teens. Luckily for him, the war had caused a lot damage to important buildings where he could have been found out. After that was done, he distanced himself from all of his friends, this was done slowly so that the others would not notice. He knew that if he did not find a way to permanently sever the ties, then his friends would surely look for him. He faked his own death, and made sure that he had supposedly died in an explosion with him taking his own life voluntarily. He wrote a letter to his friends, his final farewell to them. When all of this was done, he constantly prayed to any deity that would listen that Quatre did not use his Space Heart to find him.

Weeks after he had made his new life, he was still paranoid of being discovered, but he started to open up a bit more. He had enrolled himself in a local high school, and found life to be a bit more than what he thought his would be. He was allowed to be himself and not be punished by anyone, especially not Doctor J. Contrary to popular belief, he did know how to be sociable, he was normally a very hyper child, similar to Duo. During his training and in the war, he hid that side completely, and was sometimes envious of Duo. Now without any pressure of having to fit a certain role, he enjoyed his new found freedom and made friends very easily. He made another best friend, Hiroshi Nakano, who Shuichi enjoyed calling him Hiro. Hiro was the one that introduced him to music, and got him hooked to Nittle Grasper. Ryuichi Sakuma was now his top idol, and he wanted to become a singer like him, and when his competitive side started showing, he started to want to become better than him. That was how Bad Luck was formed.

He could honestly say, he was absolutely scared of Touma Seguchi when he first met him. His first reaction was that Quatre found him and was going to be pissed. After quickly relaxing, he found differences between the two and that his worst fears hadn't come true, yet. He resisted the urge to use his computer skills and do background research on him. When he made his new life as Shuichi, he a promise to himself to not use any of his skills unless it was extremely necessary. There were only a few times that he showed his true skills, but he used it in a completely goofy manner to make himself seem less threatening than he usually was. He didn't defend himself from ASK's attack and rape, he felt that he deserved punishment for everything he did. He did, however, use his skill to track down Yuki.

He regretted very little of his new life and the decisions he made, though most of his regrets stemmed from his past life. The one thing he did not regret, nor did he have any intention of loosing was Eiri Uesugi, also known as Yuki. At first, Shuichi didn't know what he wanted from the relationship, all he knew was that Yuki made him feel better. Whenever he slept with or at least in the vicinity of Yuki, he had no nightmares. Shuichi saw past all of his masks, he did have plenty of experiences with masks, and found that he liked Yuki very well, though he also liked not having nightmares everyday. He did act very desperate when it came to Yuki, and found that Yuki did care for him as well. Soon the relationship developed to where it was now. Both were practically married to each other, and everyone else accepted that they needed each other, some were more reluctant to accept than others.

And thus, the actual story begins, Shuichi had felt the need to tell Yuki more about his past. He had gotten the urge several times before, but his need for Yuki and his doubts of how it would end kept him from telling him. Shuichi would not have been able to survive and bounce back if Yuki had reacted negatively to Shuichi's past, which kept him from ever mentioning the war. He liked his peaceful sleep, thank you very much. But now, he had a bit more courage to go through with it completely. Yuki had finished the book he was working on a few days ago, which meant that there was little chance of Yuki already being in a bad mood due to a deadline.

Shuichi stood by the entrance to the kitchen, he watched entranced as Yuki made food for them. He swayed a bit, his nervousness getting to him as he thought of a way to bring up the needed conversation. From where Yuki was making the food, he saw his lover's nervousness. He didn't speak and instead let himself be watched, waiting for Shuichi to speak his mind. After a few minutes of not Shuichi's staring, Yuki proceeded to hum while he cooked in order to not do something he would regret because his lover was taking to long. He hummed his lover's latest song, and he swayed slightly to the rhythm, he completely forgot the reason he started humming in the first place. Shuichi felt that the discussion could wait after dinner, or another day entirely.

The food was ready and Yuki was the first to snap out from his thinking. He stilled hummed and swayed, but he was once again focusing on his lover. He smirked as he noticed that he had his lover's complete attention and found his leverage on getting to know what his lover wanted to ask him before. He casually put the food on the dinner plates. The table was already set and Shuichi sat down obediently after Yuki gestured to the chair. "Like what you see?" Yuki purred into Shuichi's ear as he lowered the plates onto the table.

Shuichi's mind refused to work, he was trying really hard to answer the simple question, but his hormones and Yuki had completely affected his functioning. Instead of the answer he wanted to give, he only gave out a strained "Hn." Yuki chuckled as he knew that he was going to get what he wanted. After dinner was eaten and Shuichi washed the dishes, both of them were in the living room; the television was yet to be turned on.

"What is it that you wanted to tell me earlier?" Yuki calmly asked Shuichi.

Shuichi wanted to deny the question, but he thought about his need to tell Yuki. "Yuki, would you still love me even if my past isn't great?" Instead of stopping for an answer, Shuichi told him everything at once, knowing that if he stopped even once, he would not have the courage to continue what needed to be said. "In my past I did a lot of things that I regret, but what I did, I did for a good cause. I was part of the war, and I fought for what I believed in, in order for their to be peace. I killed a lot of people, some were innocents that were there at the wrong time and place. After the war was over, I changed my name and started a new life. I didn't want my past to catch up with me, which is why I didn't tell you before. Before I met you, I had nightmares constantly, but you somehow made them disappear. I didn't want to go back and I was scared of you would react to me telling you." Shuichi couldn't say anymore, he was openly crying by now and the words refused to come out.

Yuki pulled Shuichi and trapped Shuichi in his arms. Shuichi in turn curled himself in his lover's arms and let go of all the emotions he was feeling. Yuki rubbed his lover's back, occasionally softly scratching his hair, all in an effort to calm and relax the slightly younger male. He knew that the other left out a lot, but said what needed to be said between them. After a long time of crying, Shuichi was slowly calming down, his tears were slowing down in speed and frequency. Yuki lifted Shuichi's face in order to be able to see the other's eyes. Shuichi relaxed some of his anxiety after seeing that the love Yuki had for him had still not left his eyes. Yuki then leaned in some more and kissed the other's remaining tears away. "Idiot!" He murmured softly. "Do you really need to ask that after all the time we spent and all the things we went through? I love You, and while neither of us are perfect, I just want you to be you and be happy. Like you don't care about my past, I don't care about yours. But thank you for telling me."

Shuichi grinned happily at his lover and pulled Yuki into a heated kiss which caused Yuki to moan slightly. Shuichi smirked at his lovers response and the evenings previously ignored hormones made themselves known again with a vengeance. Yuki regained some of his senses and turned the tables on his lover. That night turned out to be a very steamy night. The revelation didn't change the feelings of either of them.