Title: Earthquake
By: A quite embarassed author, Kibethan...
Disclaimer: I do own a face that turns bright red whenever I'm really embarassed (like I was today...), but I don't own Gravitation.
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: I don't think that there's any swearing in this chapter, but be on guard. There might be.
Chapter 7
Two bodies lay down beside each other on the ground. They were both alive, for the moment, even though both of them were unconscious and they were giving the appearance of being dead.
At least, that's what Hiro thought. It scared him to no end to think that he might be the only band member left of Bad Luck after everything went back to normal. He wouldn't ever be able to pick up a guitar again. In fact, he would retire his guitar formally in public, just to prove to the world that Bad Luck cannot exist without it's three original members (after Noriko...of course).
Kugyou-san and Kyogoku-san were each examining one of the bodies. Kugyou-san always had a hand on Suguru's wrist, making sure that his heart kept on beating. Kyogoku-san did the same thing for Shuichi.
"Shindou-san's head injury is quite serious," Kyogoku-san had told Hiro after he had examined him. "I'm very surprised that hasn't collapsed until now." Hiro nodded, taking it all in stride. Or rather, he was acting like he was taking it all in stride. In his mind, he was breaking apart, and he was afraid that soon he would be passed out beside his band mates.
He thought about Ayaka, surprised that he hadn't thought of her yet. He was even more surprised of the fact that he was only half-wondering if she was hurt or not. Of course he'd be worried if she was hurt...after all, she was his girlfriend...but right now, all that he cared about was the fact that Shuichi and Suguru were both dead-looking. He didn't know how Ayaka was, so he just assumed the best and went on worrying about his friends.
He sat down next to the bodies, and just stared at them. Kugyou and Kyogoku found it slightly disturbing, the way that he didn't blink, but they just figured him to be in deep, deep thought.
And he was in deep thought. It was funny how after an earthquake, you get to thinking. You were lucky, but what if you weren't so lucky next time? What if next time was your time to go? Hiro didn't know if he could stand the fact that someday he would die. It hadn't really occurred to him before, but now that he thought about it, didn't everybody die some day? The thought was depressing, but no matter how hard he wanted to change his thoughts, his brain was stuck.
He changed his mind about retiring his guitar if Shuichi and Suguru died. If they died, then he would follow right after them. A quick slit of the wrists, and it would all be over and they would be playing their music for the big guy in charge. His eyes darkened considerably when he contemplated suicide. But, it was only if Shuichi and Suguru died, and currently, they were both alive. With any luck, they would stay alive too.
Hiro was still deep in thought, when he heard what he thought was yelling and a gunshot. It didn't make a whole lot of sense, why he thought he heard a gunshot, because guns were basically illegal in Japan, and the only person that he knew that had one was K.
K.
If he heard a gunshot, that meant that K was here. His eyes focused on what was in front of him, and he found himself nose to nose with Tohma. He gave a small yell and backed away as fast as he could. K and Sakano were being informed by Kugyou and Kyogoku how Shuichi and Suguru were.
"We found you," Sakano said. "You're alive! I can't believe that you're alive!" Sakano was shouting really loud, completely amazed that they weren't dead. Hiro though, was going to be deaf by the time it was over because Sakano was shouting right into his ear. How would it be, to have a deaf person playing the guitar? Well, if Beethoven could play the piano while being deaf, he could play the guitar. He continued to listen to the blast head on.
Tohma walked up to Sakano and tapped him on the shoulder. Sakano spun around so fast, that he fell over. Hiro was relieved that the yelling in his ears was over, even though they were still ringing.
"We went to N-G, you weren't there," Tohma accused him.
"If you didn't notice, N-G is currently not in working condition! Of course we weren't there."
"You shouldn't have left without telling someone."
"We needed to get Suguru to the hospital. Besides, whom was I going to tell? One of the many people that were running away from everything?"
"You got Suguru to a collapsed hospital, yeah, I'm sure that that really helped him. Because of you, Eiri is being forced to worry about Shuichi!" That last comment caught Hiro off guard. He had never really figured that Tohma was somebody to raise his voice, but he guessed that that happened to lots of people. Not only was Tohma accusing him of intentionally making things worse for his friend, he was also insinuating that he had talked to Yuki. He could let go of the fact that Tohma was accusing him of something that he would never do, because he was so curious as to when Tohma had spoken to Yuki.
"You talked to Yuki."
"Yeah, actually, he called me, all worried at Shuichi. He didn't even ask if I was all right. He didn't care at all."
"Should he have?"
"Of course! He had the nerve to call my satellite phone to ask about Shuichi! He didn't care at all that I –his brother-in-law- was also in the earthquake. He was only cared about Shuichi!" Tohma was getting random, and a bit scary. He had a murderous look in his eyes. "But, it wasn't his fault at all. Shuichi poisoned him against me!" Hiro wanted to point out that in fact Shuichi hadn't poisoned Yuki again him, but that he had poisoned Shuichi against Yuki. Tohma walked over to where Shuichi was laying on the ground.
And then he attacked him.
Kugyou and Kyogoku were quick to protect their patient. They leapt up and grabbed Tohma around the arms.
"Seguchi-san, We suggest that you rethink your plan of action. If you attack Shindou-san, we'll be forced to turn you over to the police." Tohma looked wild, and continued to fight against their hold, but they were stronger than they looked. Finally, he calmed down and all but fell asleep.
Kugyou put the back of his hand to Tohma's forehead. It was way warmer than it should've been. Tohma had a fever. A relatively bad fever too. Kugyou looked Tohma's body up and down, looking for injuries. He was actually surprised, too, when he found a rather large gash on Tohma's stomach. He wasn't sure how he hadn't noticed it before, especially since it was bleeding quite badly.
Also, the wound was obviously infected. It was bleeding, but it was also oozing a sort of pussy substance. It looked quite grotesque, but he knew how to patch it up. He couldn't patch it up though, because all of his tools were inside the hospital.
Hiro looked on with interest. It was apparent that the fever had made Tohma say (and do) some things that he usually wouldn't have ever even considered doing.
But was Tohma really harboring those horrible feelings for Shuichi inside of him? If so, that would mean some seriously horrible problems in fairness. It seemed to him that Tohma would start doing things that would make things not go well for Bad Luck. K walked up to beside him.
"I know what you're thinking. Don't worry; I'll make sure that Tohma continues to treat Shuichi fair. I won't let him discriminate." Hiro murmured a quiet thank you and tried to figure out how the American had learned how to read minds. "Practice," K said. That just creeped him out and he walked away, trying to ignore the creepy grin that K was giving him.
Hiro was glad that Yuki was worried about Shuichi. When Shuichi came to, he would tell him all about it, and he was sure that Shuichi would be super happy. Yuki was the thing that meant the absolute most to Shuichi.
He walked back to Shuichi's side and sat down again. He started to talk to him. He had heard once that people in coma's had a better possibility of waking up faster if you talk to them, so he decided to try it on Shuichi, even though Shuichi wasn't yet in a coma.
"Yuki cares about you, Shuichi. He cared enough to call Tohma's satellite phone and ask him how you were doing. He cares that much about you. You should be really happy." K and Sakano were giving him weird looks, with Kugyou and Kyogoku just continued on making sure that their patients were okay. Hiro hoped that somewhere deep down Shuichi was getting his little speech, and maybe just maybe, it would wake him up. He ended it with a final thought:
"Come back to the land of the living."
End Chapter 7
Okay! I finished another chapter. I don't have very much to say, except for I went to the Pokemon Rocks America thing in Seattle today. I'm ashamed to say that I had a blast because it was free! And you could win stuff! And you could people watch! cough cough, okay, so now a review of reviews:
MC-88: keep the na no da's coming. I like them, especially in the form of a review, Sadako Sumeragi: Is once a day fast enough for you?, Moonfairyhime: Thank you for the review , lemur130: That's awesome that you're a student/teacher. And, um, no, he doesn't speak Korean, if you get my drift..., Dntfckwifme: Please get well soon! I don't like it when anybody's sick, it's sad..., Dagger Maxwell: Another person from the U.K.? I'm so jealous!!!! Actually, I jumped the gun when I said two months, I've known people who haven't updated for approx 10 months too, Sugar-Goddess: I'm glad that you like my story, I wish you luck to never be in an earthquake, ILLK: I can see your point...but you've never seen a freakily cute guy before?, Elements: Whoa! The way you update is so cool because of the way it works with your name...thank you for the review, Yuuji Kamui: I'm still trying to decipher, was that half flame/half not flame? I have a hard time thanking you for flaming me, but I'm glad that you still like it. (As for the going back and forth, wall to wall, it was a HUGE earthquake. I'm using artistic license, Seven7: You're right, you would've felt it pretty hard in the San Fernando Valley. I'm glad you weren't hurt. You aren't that old just because you're seven (ha! another seven...) years older than me.
I apologize if I forgot anybody. I also apologize for any spelling errors. Also, my computer has been acting really fucked up lately, so if I don't update for a day or two, it's because I'm getting it fixed. Thank you.
And that's that! Oh! And the name's Kugyou and Kyogoku, whice manga are they from? Review me and tell me! Virtual gold stars to all that get it right! (I'll give you a clue, they're both last names).