Title: Earthquake
By: Someone who is currently on the search for a specific Gackt poster on-line and failing miserably. A.k.a. Kibethan
Disclaimer: I don't own Gravitation, that's easy enough to understand.
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: Very mild swearing
Chapter 9
Shuichi was surrounded by complete darkness. He was in a world without pain.
'Where am I?' he wondered to himself. He spun himself around and around until he got dizzy looking for any shade of light. He looked towards his feet, but he couldn't see the ground. He even tried kneeling down and feeling the ground and was very surprised when his hands went past his feet without hitting anything.
'Does that mean that I'm floating?' The prospect was very strange. He wondered where he was, but didn't think about it too much. He felt like there was something big that he was forgetting, but he couldn't seem to remember it, no matter how hard he tried.
He liked the floating in darkness. It made him not have a care in the world. As soon as he let his mind start to drift, he started to forget things. In what seemed like a few minutes to him, he had almost forgotten everything, including his own name.
He didn't care though. In the darkness, it was peaceful. All of a sudden there was a light somewhere in the distance. It seemed so out of place in all the darkness that he starting floating towards it, trying to get closer to find out what it was.
It was a lot farther away than it looked, but he was very persistent and kept moving towards it.
He wasn't any closer after he had been going towards it for what seemed like an hour. It started to annoy him that it was taking so long, so he started to run. He was surprised because he wasn't getting tired at all after running.
Finally it seemed like the light (it was white) was starting to get closer. It was pretty, just like Yuki.
Yuki!
Who was Yuki? He couldn't remember. Shuichi stopped running. He was just short of entering the white light. Yuki...Yuki...it seemed so familiar.
He sat down trying desperately to remember who Yuki was. Why was he so familiar? He searched his brain for the answer but was having a hell of a time of it. His brain wouldn't remember anything. He put his hands to his face, trying so hard to remember. The white light was temporarily forgotten. Actually, if he had been paying attention he would've noticed that the light was getting smaller.
There was something fuzzy in the back of his brain; his brain was trying to think of it. Yuki...blond...all of a sudden it all came back in a rush.
Yuki was his lover, the person he loved most in the entire world. He had been in an earthquake. Suguru! Suguru was still hurt! And Hiro. Hiro was there too. He couldn't leave them alone.
He couldn't believe that he had forgotten! He started running away from the white light. As far away from it as he could. He realized that the white light was a bad thing, something that if he entered, he would never come out of it. If he went in, he wouldn't ever see Yuki again. He wouldn't let that ever happen.
He kept running; the white light was getting even smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely. Shuichi slowed to a jog trying to find a way to exit the darkness. He started screaming for somebody to help him get out. He kept screaming over and over.
"Help me! Help me! Help me!" He screamed until his voice was hoarse. Even them he kept trying to scream, though it was coming out a squeak. He started jumping up and down. On one of his jumps, he jumped particularly hard and went sailing down.
He fell, and he fell, and he fell. He just continued on falling. At first, it had felt like such a rush, but as he kept falling longer and longer, it started getting incredibly boring. He looked down and his eyes widened as he saw the ground. He was sailing fast towards the ground. It was no longer pitch black, but slightly gray.
He searched around frantically for a place to grab onto something to slow himself down so he didn't kill himself when he hit the ground. Alas, there was nothing to be had.
Shuichi flew towards the ground and hit it. He was surprised when he figured out that he had landed in his body.
Shuichi's eyes flew open. In an instant, all the pain returned to his body and he groaned. When he groaned, his caught the attention of the doctors. He started to sit up, but Kugyou gently pushed him back down.
"Rest your body. It needs it." Shuichi did as he was told and he stayed lying down. Hiro came running over as soon as he realized that Shuichi was awake. He started shouting, and some small happy tears were running down his face. Hiro was crying? That had never happened before.
Shuichi looked over towards Suguru. He was still out cold. Shuichi inched himself a little bit closer to him. He turned on his side, and whispered into his ear.
"Suguru. Stay away from the white light! I mean it! Stay as far away from it as you can!" Feeling that he had done all that he could, he turned back onto his back into a more comfortable position.
He wasn't tired at all; after all, he had just had a giant nap. But he still just lay there, completely calm. Hiro was talking to him, filling him in on all that had happened while he had been unconscious.
"...Yeah, Tohma, K, and Sakano found us too..." For the first time Shuichi noticed them lying down somewhat near him. They were asleep because it was night. "Tohma tried attacking you because...Oh! Get this! Yuki called Tohma's phone too see if you were all right. That's why Tohma attacked, but Kugyou and Kyogoku stopped him. It turns out that he was running a fever..." So he had a fever, it didn't really excuse much, though. Shuichi always knew that Tohma sort of had a thing for Yuki, even though he was married.
Shuichi looked over at Tohma sadly. But then, what Hiro had said slowly began to sink it.
"Yuki was worried about me?!" He started exclaiming. He tried to sit up again, but like before, Kugyou put his hand on his shoulder keeping him down. "That means that Yuki knows about the quake! It means that he wasn't on the flight when it happened at that he is safe!" A giant weight was lifted off of his shoulder.
Yuki knew. Maybe Yuki would be trying to come to Japan to check on him! Okay, that was almost too much to hope. Besides, if Yuki came to Japan, he might get hurt. No. It would almost be better if he stayed in America. Even though Shuichi wanted to see him more than he'd ever wanted to see somebody in his life, he really didn't want him to get hurt.
But, if Yuki had done something as reckless as find his way to Japan, Shuichi wouldn't mind all that much. Like he had said before, though, it was almost too much to hope for. Especially since generally Yuki wasn't that reckless. It was usually Shuichi who was the one who was getting into all the trouble.
The best part of all, though, was knowing that Yuki was worried about it. It set a permanent grin on his face. It was a huge grin too. Yuki cared! Yuki cared! Yuki cared!
He was very glad that he hadn't followed the white light. He hoped that Suguru was making the same decision as him. He wanted him to wake up really, really bad. Just to prove that he was all right. Yet, Suguru kept right on sleeping, his eyes closed. He wasn't listening to Shuichi's thoughts.
Shuichi didn't care though, and he kept right on willing Suguru to wake up, to get away from the light that Suguru was surely following like he himself had. He had his eyes closed in such deep concentration that he didn't see Suguru twitch. In fact, nobody had seen him twitch. But he had. Suguru was heading on his way back.
Shuichi kept right on thinking him awake, not noticing how now instead of just twitching, Suguru was starting to shift around a lot. When Shuichi heard a lot of rustling, he cracked his eyes opened. He saw Suguru shifting around, so he starting crying out, urging him to wake up. He was almost there, so close!
Shuichi attracted the attention of the other people, and instantly they were all by Suguru's side, all encouraging him to wake up. They were making a lot of noise, but they didn't care. Suguru who had been practically pronounced dead was in the process of waking up! After hours of waiting, Suguru's eyes finally did something that everyone wanted them to do.
They fluttered open.
Everybody gasped. All the little kids who were in the group (for they were still there) started crying. So did a lot of the adults actually, even Tohma who was still recovering from the fever got teary-eyed at the sight of his cousin waking up. Suguru's eyes were unfocused at first, but Shuichi could tell that he was in the process of trying to focus them.
Suguru was awake.
He wasn't dead.
"Shuichi. I stayed away from the white light. Just like you said."
End Chapter 9
I finished! Wow! I really didn't think that I was going to get that one out on time...but, then again, I always think that... I again apologize for any spelling errors. There might be some...
A review of reviews:
Dntfckwifme: Is the time difference between here (where I am) and there (where you are ) 8 hours? I'm curious..., baka-onna2003: There might be another earthquake..., lemur130: What time on 11/3? I might have school..., Sadako Sumeragi: An update a day keeps the flames at bay...that's what I always say..., MC-88: I like being huggled, na no da!, Little Fox Kit: There's always something to say! You just have to search for it, goku-the-saru: Katie, you want everyone to die..., Dagger Maxwell: I'm 17 and going off to college next year too! I also need plushies!, Seven7: Actually, some people did die. I don't remember off the top of my head. Fat free cookies? And Happy Belated Birthday!, Youki no ko: Hehehe, Yuki's got quite the ambition to get towards Shuichi, ne?, Elements: I'm keeping up my pace, so you keep up yours! I suck in my Japanese class too...
And that is that!
I finally volunteered today at the YMCA! I taught cycling because the instructor didn't show up, and I was the most qualified person there (I mean, come on! I've taken all the classes expect C.P.R.) and there was somebody there to do C.P.R. in case of emergency! I'm so happy! (Did I mention that I wanted to be a step and cycling instructor?)
Anyway...yeah...I'm done...please review! Until tomorrow (which is theoretically in 1 hour and 47 minutes away)...ja ne! Hey! I think it's almost 6:15 (A.M.) in England!