Chapter 1- Earth

Suddenly, out of nowhere the house started to shake. Lamps dangled in the sealing, paintings' fell down from the wall as people hid under their desks. An earthquake had hit Japan with full force. It topped 8.9 on the Richter magnitude scale and with a tsunami threatens to engulf the coast no one is safe.

Kaname hid under his desk as the earthquake begun. He tried to locate his co-workers in all the chaos. The most of them had hid under the big reception desk. They were scared, Kaname was scared. He had never been through a big quake as this one before. All the training in case off something like this had been forgotten as the fear had come knocking. His co-workers screamed as an object fell near them. This was bad, really bad. They needed to get out from the building and that's fast.

Kaname looked around for a way out. According to what he had learned they should stay under their desks but something in him told him that they should get out. The shaking didn't seem to get better either. Kaname felt somehow responsible for his comrades when he saw their scared and worried faces. It was now or never.

He signed to his co-workers to get out. Taking the lead, Kaname ran across the room with his suitcase over his head. Objects fell down all around him, he tried to avoid them but a broken lamp got his leg as it fell down. The others followed after him as he ran past them. They walked on scattered objects loos papers and broken glass. The door wasn't far away; everyone could feel the ease as it only where a few meters left.

Outside Kaname barely missed a huge chunk of concrete falling down from the house. As he got out from the office-building he saw that the other houses around was exactly in the same condition; cracked, bits missing or broken windows. Other people in the area had gathered outside. The shakings disappeared almost as fast as they had started.

Kaname knew that they had predicted an earthquake but they didn't know when, only where. He overheard another man's phone call with his wife. "...this can't be happening! So you are saying that there is a tsunami coming? And it's predicted to hit the coast any minute?..." A tsunami hitting the coast? But Zero works part time there...! What if something has happened to him? No, no it can't be true. He is okay, he must be. Kaname searched through his briefcase and found his cell phone, he dialled the number to his lover's work, he needed to know if he was alright.

*Beep...Beep* "Come on, pick up!"

"Kaname?" A voice said.

"Zero! O my God! Are you alright?" A worried Kaname asked.

"The earthquake was pretty bad here. It must have been an eight this time, right?"

"I think it might have been something like that."

"Are you okay Kaname?" Zero asked.

"Don't mind me" I called to tell you that-"

"Kaname! They say that a huge wave of water his coming right at us and fast! If I can't talk to you ever again you should know that I-"

The call broke and Kaname wasn't able to hear what his beloved Zero was going to say. The line was dead, other people around him tried to get their phones to work but their attempts was futile. He put back the phone in his briefcase. What was he supposed to do now? Everything was in ruins but the worst part was, what had happened to Zero? Kaname barely thought about himself. The strange call with Zero gave him the creeps. If the tsunami had hit when Zero was at his work, was he even alive? No, he couldn't think like that. He had to believe that Zero was okay. For both sakes.

Kaname ran to the closest subway station. He had trouble getting there because of all the things on the ground but nothing could stop him now. As he got there he was met by a huge mass of people coming up from the subway. He stopped one person to know what the matter was.

"The subway is not running." He got as an answer from the stranger.

"But how am I going to get home?" He asked.

"Just do like everyone else. Walk."

Kaname tried to come up with the possibility to get home before the night. He didn't. He began walking toward his and Zero's apartment. It would take hours before he got home. He walked among all the others and a huge line of people covered the streets. He walked and walked. His feet got sore but his heart bled even more as he only had one thing stuck in his mind; Zero's safety. Kaname knew that the tsunami probably had hit huge parts of the country by now. It was certainly thousand deaths and towns washed away. And Zero might be one of them. NO! He had to focus. Zero wasn't dead, he was fine. Perfectly fine. As if...

The line got smaller by every hour that past. Most of the people had reached home, if they still had a home. Kaname didn't have to walk much longer as he begun to see familiar buildings. He had walked for hours as he finally got home. Luckily their apartment complex was okay after the shakings. It was probably because of Kaname had insisted of buying a more expensive flat that would stand against nature "wonders" like these.

He turned on the TV as soon as he could. The news channels spoke about the quake, showed pictures and filmed material. He sat down in his favourite arm chair to watch the news.

"There was a big earth quake today as you all probably know. Japan has suffered huge damage as houses have been demolished. On top of that a big tsunami just like the one hitting Thailand year 2004, hit the country 30 minutes after the quake. As you can see on these photos, the wave destroyed everything in its path."

Kaname stopped breathing as he saw how the tsunami swallowed everything. He saw how cars floated among houses, wood and other things that used to be something. The wave wasn't something that you wanted to encounter. Crying children were filmed as they saw how their homes were washed away. When Kaname thought that he finally could breathe again a video from the area that Zero was supposed to be working in. It was all washed away, not a single house was left whole, everything was gone.

There was no freaking way that Zero was alive. If he was, it had to be a miracle but when Kaname saw those photos he couldn't believe in one.

His one true love is dead and Kaname could probably never find his body. What was he supposed to do?