Title: Earthquake
By: Hehehe...me! Yep! Me! Kibethan. RA RI HO / LA LI HO
Disclaimer: Hmm...I could give you a whole list of things I don't own, and I can tell you that Gravitation would be on it!
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?
Half-warning: Actually, I don't think that there's any swearing in this chapter...
Chapter 5
Shuichi slowly stirred; his eyes fluttered open. He was still outside of the collapsed hospital. Suguru was still unconscious next to him. Hiro, on the other hand, was nowhere to be seen.
Shuichi sat up quickly, making his head throb terribly. It was so bad that he had to lie back down. He tried to think of where Hiro could possibly be, but it was next to impossible considering that fact that his head felt like a building was collapsing on top of it.
He was at a loss for what to do. He thought that it might be a good idea to go into the collapsed hospital to see if there was anyone there that needed help. He kind of figured that there would be people in there. But, the more he thought about it, the more dangerous it seemed like it would be. What if the rubble shifted and crashed down on top of him? What if there was another aftershock?
To prove his point, the ground rumbled.
Shuichi braced himself against the floor (with his arms covering his neck and head) as the ground started to shake to life again. He hoped that Hiro was safe wherever he was. The hospital rubble shook with the ground and flattened itself into the ground a little bit more.
All thoughts of not running into the rubble vanished when he heard yelling coming from inside there. Yelling that sounded suspiciously like Hiro's voice. Leaving Suguru laying on the ground, he ran towards where he heard the yelling, calling out Hiro's name. How could Hiro be in there? He had been totally spacey when he had been with Shuichi before. There was no way that he could've been better by now. Unless, of course, Shuichi had been out longer than he thought. Shuichi pondered that for a few seconds, until he realized that Hiro was still somewhere in the hospital.
Nothing mattered right now except getting Hiro out of there.
"Hiro! Hiro!"
"Shuichi? Shuichi help!"
"Where are you?"
"Follow the sound of my voice!" And Shuichi did, without abandon; because now he knew for sure that it was Hiro, and not just somebody who sounded exactly like him. Shuichi followed Hiro's voice to what seemed like the end of the earth. Except, it wasn't the end of the earth, it was just to around the side of the building. It only seemed like the end of the earth, because Shuichi kept running into dead ends where he'd have to climb a giant piece of the building to continue.
Shuichi soon discovered that Hiro was trapped behind a huge piece of concrete. He quickly figured out that in order to move the piece, it would take a lot of people. Only, there weren't any other people there, so he'd have to figure it out for himself.
He examined it, and tried pushing it from the side, out of the way. That didn't work. He tried pulling it from the front. That didn't work either. He even tried using his awesome mind power to levitate the concrete, and for some strange reason, that worked even less than the other attempts.
He sighed in frustration, trying to come up with some way to get it out of the way so he could get to his friend. After examining it over and over he finally came up with a way that it would possibly move. But it might be a little bit dangerous. He didn't really care though, he wanted, no, needed, to get Hiro out of there.
He started to dig underneath the boulder. He had dug for a while, and was getting sweaty and dirty (along with the bloody that he already was) when the boulder gave a little shudder. Shuichi quickly jumped out of the little hole that he had dug himself into, and the boulder fell a little bit forward.
It wasn't quite far enough for Shuichi to slip by, so he went back to digging in the dirt. After another ten minutes of digging, the boulder slipped a little bit further in. This time, it was just far enough for him get in.
"Hiro! Are you still there?" When Hiro didn't answer for a minute, Shuichi almost had a heart attack. "Hiro!"
"I'm here. Sorry. Keep following my voice." Shuichi followed his voice for a little bit further; he was amazed that he'd been able to hear him through all of that rubble.
He spotted Hiro sitting on the ground, still clutching his arm.
"You're alright!" They said at the same time.
"I was worried," Hiro told him, "you were out for an hour."
"What were you doing in there?" Shuichi asked him, not at all caring about that fact that he had been out for a little over an hour.
"I was seeing if there were people in this building that needed help. Especially if there were any doctors that could make sure that you and Suguru were all right. It was so long."
"Did you find any?"
Hiro gestured to behind him, where about 20 people were, mostly kids. Shuichi's eyes bugged out. He couldn't believe that he hadn't noticed the crowd at all.
"Thank you, Shindou-san, for helping get us out of here." Shuichi scratched the back of his head with his hand.
"Um...you're welcome," he said bashfully. "We should get out of here, before the rest of the building comes down."
"Yeah." The group (Hiro included) followed Shuichi to the opening. Everyone managed to squeeze through the tiny little opening that Shuichi had opened between the pieces of the building.
It was obvious that Hiro had managed to find the pediatrics ward of the hospital, because of all the kids. The adults, that were in the group, had to help some of the children around the bigger pieces of rubble. A little girl, named Megumi, which had been hospitalized because of a broken leg, was having a particularly hard time making the journey.
Shuichi noticed her plight, and let her climb on his back. It was a little bit harder with her on his back for him to move, but he decided that in the long run, it was faster than having her hop on one foot all around the boulders.
The people in this group hadn't really gotten hurt that much in the earthquake, or the collapse of the building, which surprised (and relieved) Shuichi. Almost all of the kids had streaks of dried tears running down their faces, though. They were all out of tears though.
Either that, or the adults had managed to calm them down. That could be; Hiro had always had a way with kids. A way with kids that Shuichi hoped that someday he could have. The more he thought about it, the more like the latter was the reason why the kids were so calmed down. Especially since a great deal of them were hanging onto some part of Hiro's clothing, making sure not to get lost.
Shuichi continued on making his way back to where he had left Suguru. Maybe one of the pediatrician's could help him. He led to group back to the front of the building.
It took about thirty minutes for them to finally back to the front. But really, that was to be expected because they were traveling with so many kids. Suguru was still lying there, right where Shuichi had left him, and, for a moment, Shuichi was afraid that Suguru had died in the time it took for him to reach Hiro. He was deeply relieved when he saw Suguru's chest rise a little bit.
One of the pediatricians (hereby known as Kyogoku-san) immediately raced to his side, without needed to be told a thing. After all, it was in their blood to help people. Another one of the pediatricians (hereby known as Kugyou-san) followed in Kyogoku's shadow. They immediately began trying to figure out what injuries he had, although, it was a little bit difficult without any instruments. But they figured it out anyway.
And when they did, they walked away with their heads bowed. Both Shuichi and Hiro both figured out immediately that something was wrong.
"Shindou-san, Nakano-san, your friend is in a coma from which he probably won't wake. A coma from which he will probably die," Kugyou-san informed him. Shuichi and Hiro both gasped. Memories of Suguru immediately flooded their minds.
Memories of when Suguru had joined the band after Noriko had joined back up with Nittle Grasper. Memories of when Suguru was yelling at Shuichi to get his mind off of Yuki and back onto his work. Memories of Suguru yelling at Shuichi whenever he did something wrong.
Shuichi frowned, he'd almost forgotten about those. He was willing to forgive them, though, if Suguru woke up. He did not want Suguru to die. Even if Suguru was a little mean (he was related to Tohma for God sake's) Shuichi couldn't imagine being in the band without him.
His mind was overloaded, and for the second time in only a few hours, Shuichi passed out.
End Chapter 5
Alright! Another successful chapter...done! I have been trying my hardest to produce a chapter once a day. (So far, I've been doing it...) to tell you the truth, I wasn't actually expecting to get this chapter out, since I upped my limit to at least 1,500 words a chapter (this one's 1,518). But I did.
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