Title: Earthquake
By: Kibethan! A still very embarassed author.
Disclaimer: If I owned Gravitation, I can assure you that I would not be writing fanfiction.
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: Swearing in chapter! Swearing in chapter!
Chapter 8
We join Yuki on his flight to Korea. The sun is shining, the birds are singing...well, they would be singing if there had been any birds up there. All was currently peaceful. Though, not for long.
"I ordered that drink 10 minutes ago! Where is it?" Contrary to what you might think, it wasn't Yuki that was making a racket, it was a person sitting behind him. The cute steward (who's name was Daisuke) was having a hard time keeping the person pleased. Did he think that he was the only person on the flight?
"I'm sorry, sir, it's just, these people asked me for stuff first, so I needed to get it to them first."
"How dare you? Don't you know who I am?" Yuki was starting to get pretty pissed off. This guy was ruining his flight! It was a long flight too, and if the guy was going to be throwing a tantrum for all 20 hours of it, he didn't think he'd be able to handle it.
It's best to take care of problem right away, right?
"Excuse me, you're disturbing everybody here," Yuki said to the guy. The guy turned his attention away from Daisuke –who was very grateful- and to Yuki. Yuki held his ground, even though the guy was trying to give him a glare.
"Ex-CUSE me? Are you butting into my conversation?"
"It's hard not to when you're yelling like that."
"Don't you know who I am?" the guy asked him. Yuki had to admit that he looked familiar, and he was getting curious as to whom this guy was.
"No, I don't know who you are. But do you know who I am?" That caught the guy by surprise.
"No. Who are you?"
"I'm the author Yuki Eiri! Now bugger off and leave the steward alone."
"A fucking writer is going to scare me, so you bugger of--, wait, did you say Yuki Eiri?"
"Yeah, I did." For a moment a flash of fear ran through the guys eyes, and Yuki wondered why. Maybe he had done something to him in the past? "Who are you?"
"I'm not gonna fucking tell you."
"I suggest that you tell me."
"You did bad things to Ma-kun," the guy whispered. Yuki's eye's widened. Now he recognized the guy. He couldn't believe that he hadn't recognized him right away. It was Taki Aizawa, the bastard to did horrible things to Shuichi. Yuki no longer had any civility towards the guy and was going to start swearing him out, but he didn't get a chance because Taki looked so scared and wasn't currently doing anything bad to anybody so if he yelled at him he would get in trouble and possibly arrested in Korea.
He couldn't let that happen if he wanted to get to Shuichi as fast as he could. His plan was to fly to Korea and then catch a boat that would take him to Japan. It was a foolproof plan; nothing could go wrong. At least, that's what he thought.
One giant nap later the plane was landing in Korea and he could put his plan into action. As soon as he stepped off the plane he realized that he had made a huge tactical error.
He couldn't speak Korean. He couldn't read Korean. He couldn't do anything that had to do with the Korean language at all.
He was screwed.
He walked up to the front desk and asked if they knew where he might be able to catch a boat to Japan. Only, they didn't understand him. And he didn't understand them when they told him that they couldn't understand him. He tried speaking slower; it didn't work. He tried speaking louder; it also didn't help.
He got lucky though, because while he was talking louder, someone walked by that spoke Japanese and was able to become a translator for him for a little while.
"Can you ask them if they can tell me where I might be able to catch a ship to Japan?" The lady did what he asked her to do, and then told him what they her. He thanked her profusely and followed her instructions to go information desk.
The person who was sitting behind the information desk couldn't understand Yuki either and it frustrated him to no end. He started banging his head against the desk until the person reached out his hands and stopped him from doing it again. Yuki tried once again to communicate with the woman, this time using hand signals for water and for boat. He was gesturing to himself and trying to convey that he wanted to get onto the boat.
People were once again looking at him and laughing. His vein is his forehead throbbed. He wanted to scream so horribly. He momentarily stalked away from the desk and went into a bookstore. He searched around looking for any kanji. He finally spotted a Japanese-Korean, Korean-Japanese dictionary and immediately went and bought it.
He went back to the desk, the book in his hand. When the person behind the counter saw him return with a dictionary, she started laughing. He flipped through it and found the word for boat, and said it. The woman started laughing again at his horrible pronunciation. She grabbed the book and flipped through it, looking for the translation for how she would call the place for him and ask them to give him on a ticket for the ferry that went between the two countries.
It took them over an hour, but they eventually understood each other, and the lady was giving him directions on how to get to the ferry terminal. It involved a lot of driving, so she went ahead and rented a car for him too.
Yuki thanked her and followed her directions. The directions worked perfectly too, so soon he had a car rented and was driving towards the ferry terminal.
He had flown into Seoul, and the ferry terminal was in the very southern part of Korea, so it was quite a long drive. Three hours later, he finally got there. He was in luck because there was a place to drop off the rental car at the ferry terminal, so he could just walk on, which he did after he picked up his ticket.
When he handed his ticket to the person collecting them, he gave her a wide grin. It was a true smile, but it was kind of weird coming from him. The lady smiled back and continued on.
He was finally on his way to Japan. He didn't care that he would land nowhere near Tokyo. He figured that he would be able to make his way there pretty easily. He needed to get to Shuichi, even if Shuichi was dead.
The weather was absolutely beautiful, blue skies and everything, so the ferry was able to leave on time. The water wasn't too choppy, thankfully, and the passage was going smoothly. The passage was long, about a couple of hours. The rocking of the boat lulled Yuki right to sleep, even though he shouldn't have been tired because he had just slept for almost fifteen hours.
Yuki saw Shuichi. He was lying down on the ground with his pink hair spread out like a halo around his head. His eyes were closed in eternal sleep, never to open again. Yuki himself was dressed all in black. For the first time he noticed other people around him, Hiro, Suguru, Tohma, Mika, K, and Sakano were all there. They too, were all dressed in black. Shuichi's mother and sister were also there. Everybody was crying, and to his surprise,e so was he.
He was at a wake.
He was at Shuichi's wake.
A voice in his head started talking to him.
"This is what will happen if you choose wrong. You must choose right! If you choose wrong, Shuichi will die!" The voice continued on talking to him for a while, always telling him that if he chose wrong, Shuichi would die.
"Choose wrong at what?" Yuki tried asking the voice. But, like most voices do, it didn't answer. Instead, it started laughing evilly.
Yuki woke up instantly. The hairs on the back of his neck were sticking up, and he was in a cold sweat. The dream had scared him incredibly. He didn't want to ever have to go to Shuichi's wake. The dream had affected him way more than he ever thought was possible. He was so scared that he started shaking. What if he had already made the wrong decision?
No, that wasn't possible. The voice had said that he would know when he made it. It couldn't have happened yet because he didn't know if he made an important decision yet or not.
Still though, what if he had? Yuki contemplated that for almost a half an hour when an announcement came on the P.A. system.
"We are now arriving in Japan, please remember to grab all your belongings when you exit the ferry and also follow the signs toward customs."
'I'm finally in Japan,' Yuki thought.
Chapter 8
Finished! Yay!
One quick thing. I don't know how many of you know, but there was an Earthquake in Japan on Saturday. (Kind of creepy, ne?) Anyway, the magnitude was a 6.8. The magnitude for the earthquake in my story, if you recall, is an 8.8. An 8.8 is 100 times greater intensity, and released 900 times more energy. Just thought that you guys ought to know.
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That's it. Oh! And nobody even tried guessing where Kugyou and Kyogoku came from! I guess I'll give you a hint (though it'll give it away...) Their first names are Koki, and Aoi. That help? Review me and tell me! Still like, right? Thank you!