Title: Earthquake

By: Still me, Kibethan

Disclaimer: Own Gravitation, I do not

Summary: When an earthquake occurs in Japan and Yuki is in America, how will Yuki and Shuichi cope with being away from each other during this time, and will Shuichi even survive long enough to be able to be with Yuki again?

'Nother half-warning: There's a teeny bit more swearing in this. Hope none of ya'll's is offended. (Sorry, my English just went out the door...)

Chapter 3

Chairs were flying everywhere as the building collapsed around Shuichi, Suguru, and Hiro. Shuichi (with Suguru in his arms still) was sprinting for all he was worth to get out of the building. Hiro was right on his tail, cradling his arm.

Shuichi reached the door, turned around and backed through it. A split second later after the three of them got out, the building hit the floor. A relatively small chunk of the building hit Shuichi in the arm and almost caused him to drop Suguru. It also caused a huge gash in his arm, which began to bleed immediately. Of course, Shuichi didn't have any bandages, so he just let it bleed.

There were mass amounts of people outside. Everything was in chaos; Shuichi almost gasped. People were running every which way trying to find a safe place to stay, or trying to find a hospital. There were sirens ringing everywhere.

Shuichi started walking towards the nearest hospital, because he figured that that would be the best thing to do because if Suguru didn't get help soon...well, he didn't really want to let his mind stray down that path.

He took two steps, and was immediately run into by a woman in a hurry and was knocked down.

'Ow...' The woman who ran into him didn't even stop. Shuichi picked himself and Suguru off the ground, only to take another step and be knocked down again. He groaned and stood up again...and was knocked down again.

"Goddamnit!" he screamed out loud. "Quit knocking me the fuck down!" His patience was very quickly running thin, no matter how hard he tried to keep a sunny disposition. The weather wasn't helping either. It had started out as an absolutely beautiful day, with sunny and blue skies, and had quickly turned dark with black clouds of smoke covering the skies from a firestorm (1). And just like the weather, his mood was rapidly changing.

He picked himself and Suguru off the ground for the fourth time, and when another person ran into him, he braced himself and shoved back, knocking the other person to the ground. The other person (a man as luck would have it) glared at him evilly.

"I'm sorry..." Shuichi began apologizing.

"Yeah, and you should be sorry!"

"What?"

"You should be sorry, you knocked me the fuck down."

"Listen, I didn't mean too..."

"Look punk, are you trying to start something?" Shuichi was in absolute awe. Here they were, in the middle of disarray (he was carrying a body for goodness sakes), and some idiot was picking a fight with him! It shocked him to no end, and almost made him forget that he was currently mad at the world. Almost.

"No! I don't want to start anything; I'm trying to get my friend to the hospital and I keep getting knocked down. Now get the hell away from me!" He screamed at the man and he started acting really crazy. Luckily, like he hoped, the man was scared away. So there he was, back at his task at attempting to get Suguru to the hospital.

You would think that if you were walking around a city carrying a very broken unconscious body that somebody might stop to help you, but that was not what happened in Shuichi's case. Nobody cared.

All of sudden, it didn't matter that they were the band Bad Luck (which is seemed like they currently had a lot of). They were just ordinary people in the same boat as everybody else, trying to figure out what to do next. They weren't going to be favored over other people for being celebrities today.

Shuichi continued his task of walking to the closest hospital. He happened to know where it was because of one time that K-san got a little bit "gun happy" and accidentally shot Sakano-san in the foot. They had had to rush him to the hospital. So Shuichi walked on, with Hiro still behind him. Hiro had been laughing hysterically when Shuichi had had the brush with the pissed off man, so Shuichi was worried that Hiro was going into shock from his broken arm. Usually Hiro would've started to fight the man for him.

Shuichi started to walk into the doorway of the hospital. Well, he would've started to walk into the doorway, had the building not been completely collapsed in front of him.

"It's gone," he muttered to himself. "It's gone! No! It can't be gone! That was the one of the biggest hospitals in Tokyo!" All of a sudden his resolve broke and he kneeled in front of the building, Suguru dropping limply to his side.

Throughout the entire time since the earthquake, he'd been telling himself that it would be okay. Everything would be just fine. Maybe it was all a dream (he'd even tried pinching himself, just to make sure). But now...it wasn't okay now. Because he didn't know where the nearest hospital was, Suguru would probably die. Hiro wasn't in his right state of mind. NOTHING was fine. He had sugarcoated everything, and it had just all come crashing down on him.

"Just like Yuki always says..." he muttered. His head jerked up. Yuki! He hadn't thought of him at all during this entire experience. Did Yuki even know that there had been an earthquake? What if Yuki's plane had already taken off and didn't have a place to land? He couldn't believe that he hadn't thought of Yuki at all! Yuki was usually the first, second, and third thing on his mind. He had been so happy this morning, when he knew that Yuki was coming home, that he had even skipped to work. This morning seemed so a lifetime ago. But, here he was, kneeling down in front of a collapsed hospital that has God knows how many trapped in it, with Suguru and Hiro by his side.

He knew that he should try and help and get the people who are trapped out of it, but he was just so tired. All of sudden, he felt very dizzy and he fell onto his side.

'Hmm...maybe I've lost more blood than I thought...' The wound on his head and arm were still bleeding freely. He gently closed his eyes, and the last thing he thought was:

'Yuki...please help me...'

End Chapter 3

(1) A firestorm is a storm that is...well...um...caused by fire. I could go into a lot more detail, because I just learned about firestorms today in my Earthquake class, but I don't want to bore you!

Wow, another chapter done and done! Can you believe that I have written each one of these chapters straight from scratch every day. None of it is done the day before! Here's a review of reviews:

Lesca: Do you really think that I would kill of Suguru? No matter what Katie says..., Dntfckwifme: The jealous bug has bit me bad! I wish that I lived in the U.K.! I went to Ireland last year and absolutely loved it!, emerald-jade: I don't actually have a beta. And, I'll be the first to admit that I had no clue what "prose" was and went right to the Merriam-Webster website to find out. Thank you for the compliment, Youki no ko: Thank you for the review! I'll try and keep up the angst, Suki: Well...I try..., lemur30: I've kept the idea coming...and it will keep on going...just like the energizer bunny!, goku-the-saru: You aren't allowed to torture me! I updated!, baka-onna2003: Yep, the next one is in Shu-chan's point of view. In case you haven't figured out...it'll be every other one..., Moonfairyhime: Thank you for the compliment, it's greatly appreciated!, Tanuki-dono: I love long reviews! Thank you so much! So there was an earthquake in Alabama? Wow, didn't think that that was really possible...that's awesome! Earthquakes I can handle, Tornados? No way! I lived in Fort Worth when I was in 4th grade and have ever since been terrified of tornados. (Not that I ever was in one..but, I digress...)

I feel kind of bad, since that was so long...but, I always liked being acknowledged for reviewing, so I'm assuming that ya'll do too.

Anyone else in an earthquake that just hasn't "reviewed" up! If so, please tell me, I'd love to hear about your experience!

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