It Was Supposed to Be a Normal Day

This is an AU/Yaoi fic following a few relationships as they develop. Please read if you want. Review if you want.

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Chapter One

Iruka coughed as he came too lying on his stomach. Everything hurt and he was pretty badly buried under wreckage. He seemed to be in a type of recess or cave formed by the remains of the room. It was supposed to have been just another normal day. There had been no warning when everything went up in a blast that had thrown him from the mission desk.

"How did this happen?" Iruka wondered as he coughed some more at the dust that continued to spiral around him.

Another's weaker sounding coughing drew his attention. Iruka's heart leapt. Maybe his companions were still alive.

"Hello?" Iruka tried as he twisted his head to try and see through the darkness interspersed with bits of light through the wreckage.

"I-Iruka?"

"Genma?" Iruka called as he strained his eyes and gasped at seeing the jonin penned beneath a large beam on his chest very near, "God, Gen! Are you okay?"

"Don't…know," Genma panted out, shaking his head weakly where he lay on his back, "C-can't breathe…very well. Ruka, K-Kotetsu?"

Iruka's eyes widened as he realized that Genma was asking for their friend. Thank goodness that only the three of them had been manning the mission room when an explosion had rocked the building. Obviously, the roof had come down, but where was Kotetsu?

"Ko?" Iruka yelled, looking frantically around, "Ko, can you hear me? Try to call out if you can. I don't see him, Genma. Wait."

Iruka strained his eyes and noticed a still hand beneath some rubble and finally noticed Kotetsu laying on his side. Grunting, the chunin wiggled to see if he could get free. He gasped as a sharp pain ran up his leg, but he was able to pull himself forward just a bit to reach the other chunin and pull some of the smaller wreckage off of the still man. Kotetsu was bleeding heavily from his temple and his pulse was erratic, but he was breathing. All three of them were filthy from dust and debris, but they were thankfully all still alive.

"Ruka?" Genma breathed as Iruka worked to rip at his shirt to get enough cloth to try and stem Kotetsu's bleeding.

"Kotetsu is here, but unconscious," Iruka reported, pressing the scrap to their friend's temple, "His injuries seem to be pretty bad, but he's breathing. I think he might be trapped under the same beam that is on top of you. I'm the least hurt, but I think I've got a broken leg and possible internal bleeding. I keep tasting blood in my mouth, but I'm not dizzy or confused. You?"

"Barely feel…anything," Genma sighed, closing his eyes, "Can't breathe deep. Uhn!"

Iruka frowned as he glanced to see Genma cough up blood. The jonin's injuries were pretty severe. Nine times out of ten, the beam had caused broken ribs to puncture Genma's lungs. Not to mention the injuries that Iruka couldn't see.

"Keep calm," Iruka soothed as he ripped more of his shirt to wipe the blood from Genma's lips, "I'm sure help is on the way."

"Ru?" Genma whispered, glancing through the darkness at the chunin, "Dr-drowning in my blood. Not much time."

The words sent a chill through Iruka. Genma would die if they weren't found soon.

"You just hang on, Gen," Iruka urged, "Someone, help! I have injured here! Can anyone hear me?"

No answer, but Iruka continued yelling as he divided his time between checking on his two comrades. He yelled and yelled in hopes of being heard. Time was running out for Genma and possibly even Kotetsu.

"Ru?" Genma's weak voice called again a bit of time later as the chunin leaned over him, "T-tell Rai…tell him sorry. Promised to give answer…back from mission. Sorry."

"You promised to tell Raidou something when he got back from his mission?" Iruka asked as the other man nodded, "You'll tell him that answer. You'll be fine, Genma."

Genma shook his head slightly as he coughed up more blood.

"Answer was yes, Ru. Tell Raidou…for me…yes."

Iruka cursed as the jonin lost consciousness. So he screamed and yelled as loud as he could to get any attention he could to get his friends help. It felt like hours and hours that he yelled since his voice was hoarse and scratchy from coughing within this small recess that had formed as the roof came down, but he knew that it wasn't really that long of a time.

"Iruka?!" a voice yelled from a distance as Iruka's heart jolted.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Iruka yelled, "I'm here! Please! Genma and Kotetsu are possibly dying! The wreckage has us penned!"

"Genma!" another voice hollered as Iruka recognized Raidou's voice, "Genma, can you hear me? God dammit!"

"Gen and Ko are both unconscious!" Iruka yelled before shuddering as the wreckage above him creaked and shifted, "Be careful or you'll bring everything down on us!"

"Got it!" Raidou called as the creaking stopped, "Iruka, keep calling us so we can find you!"

Iruka continued calling out as he heard the unmistakable sounds of shinobi working together to reach them. There was a couple of moments that he thought the wreckage was going to come down on him and his comrades, but finally a painful streak of light shined down on him from above before a face blocked the light.

"They're here," Raidou called behind him, "Damn, look at that beam on Genma. It'll crush him if we shift this too much."

"Move," another voice snapped as Izumo's face glanced inside and his eyes brushed over everyone before grimacing when he saw Kotetsu's condition, "I can bind the beam with my jutsu by working my water ropes through the wreckage and looped over the remains of the roof. Kotetsu's legs are trapped beneath the beam too so we'll have to raise it slowly or all the rest of the wreckage will crush all three of them."

Iruka heard arguing voices before he found himself coughing wetly into a fist as blood dribbled from his lips. Kakashi's face glanced through the hole in the wreckage before thick, syrupy ropes flowed and wrapped around the beam and up through the mess on top of the buried shinobi. Hands worked frantically to pull more wreckage away as the beam atop Genma and Kotetsu creaked ominously as it was raised inch by agonizing inch.

"I've got you, Iruka," Kakashi spoke as he eased through the larger hole in the wreckage and slowly extracted the injured chunin, "Try not to move that leg too much. Up we go."

Iruka gritted his teeth in pain as he was lifted and pulled from the mess around him. He watched as Lady Tsunade directed the rescue and had Kotetsu brought out next, tied to a backboard. The chunin had yet to even stir and Izumo was right next to his friend, looking beyond worried. Genma was rushed away next as the Hokage screamed for Shizune to prep for a surgery before the whole situation caught up with Iruka and he passed out cold.

"Mm," Iruka hummed as he slowly came to and opened his eyes to see Kakashi and Raidou's worried faces from the hospital bed he lay within, "The others?"

"Kotetsu is stable, but pretty banged up and won't regain consciousness anytime soon thanks to a decent head injury," Kakashi began as Iruka nodded, "You were bleeding internally and needed a blood transfusion. We are blood brothers now, Ruka."

"Ah. Thank you, Brother," Iruka snorted, feeling weak and tired, but much cleaner than before, "Genma?"

"Gen is still in surgery and it has been hours," Raidou groaned, hugging himself for a moment, "Was…was he in pain, Iruka? Did he know what was happening?"

"Yes, to both questions," Iruka admitted as the scarred jonin cursed, "The explosion?"

"A rogue nin affiliated with no other village," Raidou snarled, "Ibiki has the man now, but from what I've heard he's a raving lunatic."

Iruka groaned at the information. To cause such pain for nothing.

"Gen wanted me to tell you sorry that he couldn't tell you his answer after your mission, Rai," Iruka yawned out, "Told me to tell you 'yes.' I have no idea if he was just delirious from pain and didn't know what he was saying, but…Raidou?"

The jonin had choked as he turned away with shaking shoulders.

"Yes," Raidou whispered, shaking harder, "He said 'yes' and now…now I might lose him."

"Rai?" Iruka questioned as the other man turned to glance at him.

"I love him, Iruka," Raidou admitted, "I told him my feelings right before my mission and Genma asked me for time to think it over. He loves me too. Always has. He and I are close just like Kotetsu and Izumo, but Genma has never had a relationship with a man and needed time to see if he could give it a try. He said 'yes,' Iruka. He said 'yes' while drowning in his own blood!"

"Stop it, Raidou," Kakashi warned as the jonin glared at him, "Iruka cannot handle your panicking in his condition. Genma is still fighting. He's one stubborn SOB. He'll not leave if he can help it. Go out to the waiting room."

"Kakashi," Iruka sighed as his eyes grew heavier, "Be nice…Rai hurts…hurts."

"He okay?" Raidou asked as Kakashi smoothed a hand over the sleeping chunin's long hair.

"Drugged to the gills," Kakashi pointed out, "He's asleep so let's allow him to rest peacefully. Let's go wait for Genma, Rai."

Raidou breathed in deeply as he followed the Copy-nin to the waiting room. A forlorn Izumo was being comforted by Gai there.

"Thrown out of Kotetsu's room by a most un-youthful nurse," Gai supplied at Kakashi's questioning look, "Izumo-san is distraught."

"He took my shift," Izumo blurted as Raidou sat beside him, "I was stressed and Ko saw that and took my shift so I could get some down time and…and he shouldn't have been there. Ko should have been safely at home. Why did I allow him to take my shift? This is all my fault."

"Bullshit," Raidou huffed, "This is the fault of a crazy nin. If you had been in that explosion, Kotetsu would be sitting here saying it should have been him. I want to bitch and say that Genma shouldn't have been there. Wish it had been me and not Genma in that damn room, but that is like spitting into the wind. What good does that do?"

"Not much," Izumo breathed, "But he's so still, Raidou. Ko is never still. He's just so…so Ko."

The chunin breathed in shakily as Gai placed an arm around his shoulders again. Aoba raced in and glanced around before hurrying towards the group.

"What the hell happened?" Aoba demanded, "Half the Hokage tower is down. I was told that Genma was in the blast with two others."

"Iruka and Kotetsu," Kakashi confirmed as Aoba dropped into a seat.

The Copy-nin explained the situation as Raidou watched the sign above the operating room while he prayed for the one he loved.

"Please don't take him from me," Raidou begged in his mind, "Give Gen the strength he needs to pull through. Don't take him, God. I need him here."

Another hour passed and finally the light went off above the door as an exhausted Lady Tsunade stepped out.

"Hokage-sama?" Raidou called as he leapt up.

"Genma's torso was pretty crushed," Tsunade began as Raidou cringed at the words, "The good thing was that it was an even crushing so the damage was not as hard to repair and one of his arms needed to be reconstructed. One lung was punctured and his heart was grazed by a rib, but I've repaired all the internal damage. He's got a long road to recovery, but he'll heal good as new with time and proper care."

Raidou breathed a sigh of relief as he sagged. He'd come home from his mission to destruction and hadn't even had time to sort himself out from his exhaustion.

"Can I see him?" Raidou asked as his Hokage smiled gently at him.

"Two doors down on the right. I'll tell everyone else Genma's diagnosis," Tsunade nodded out, "He's temporarily on a ventilator so don't get upset. He looks bad, but Genma is one tough shinobi. He was determined to hang in there. Kind of like he had a reason to do so."

Raidou glanced up suspiciously at the Hokage before blushing and bowing deeply. He practically ran to Genma's door and stepped into the room only to freeze for a moment.

To be continued…