BOOM!

"Hurry up!" Germany hissed. Switzerland climbed into the air vent. Only China, Hakari and Germany left. Germany grasped the edge and pulled himself up and inside. From the small space Germany could be heard saying, "Ugh. I can barely move in here."

"Welcome to the club."

"Shut up!"

China hoisted himself inside.

"Come on, aru."

Hakari tried to soothe his shaking limbs. He hated small spaces. They scared him.

As soon as he was inside, his breathing increased and he whimpered softly.

Hakari began to hyperventilate.

"Aru? Japan?"

"I...I-I can't!"

He pushed himself out, gulping in air and space.

BOOM! They were pounding on the door.

"Aru! What are you doing?"

China scooted back towards the room and stuck his head out.

"I can't," Hakari said.

"What? W-Oh."

"What now?" Prussia yelled.

Germany glared at him in the little tunnel. "Shut up!"

"China, what's going on?"

China frowned.

"It's Japan's claustrophobia."

There were a few groans.

Hakari blushed in embarressment.

BOOM! Hakari blinked, then pushed China in.

He put the grate back up, screwing the screws back in.

China looked at him in alarm. "Aiya! What are you doing?"

Germany's yell came from behind him.

"What the hell is going on?"

Hakari Japan backed away from the closed grate and looked around for escape. BOOM! The door creaked. Hakari leapt onto a desk and popped out a ceiling tile. He tossed his katana up and then jumped, grabbing onto the edge.

China looked back at the darkness. "Japan isn't coming!"

"What? Why?"

"He's claustrophobic."

"And?"

Hakari called, "I would only attract noise and slow you down."

China peeked through the grate. Hakari pulled himself up and into the ceiling. The door burst open and Hakari slid the tile back in place. "Let's go," Prussia said. "Shh!" China hissed. The doppelganger countries came into the room. Kurai narrowed his eyes. Then glanced at the ceiling. Not-Prussia groaned.

"Are you fucking kidding me?! Where the hell did they go?!" Not-France was just boiling with rage, but said nothing. Not-Sweden looked at Not-Finland. Not-Finland looked around. "There's a footprint on that desk," he murmured. China inhaled sharply. Kurai's head snapped up. "What?" Not-France asked.

Kurai shook his head. "It's nothing. I thought I heard something." Not-Sweden peered at him. "Hmm. What did you hear?"

Kurai cocked his head. "I do believe it was an electric spark." Not-Prussia huffed. "I wouldn't be surprised." Not-Finland was looking up. "You think they're in the ceiling," Kurai murmured. Not-Finland nodded. He drew his gun.

Hakari was breathing shakily and he didn't move. He could hear them moving below him. He heard the sentence he'd been waiting for. "You think they're in the ceiling." It sent a chill down his spine. He couldn't move. He couldn't grab his katana. It would be too loud. Suddenly, a bullet ripped a hole in the tile to the right of him. He rolled away from the targeted area.

"They're up there!" He sighed. He grabbed his katana and kept crawling and weaving through pipes and wires. Bullets kept firing and he kept going and then he was pretty sure he was in another room because the bullets didn't get any closer to him.

He had no idea where he was going.

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