Title: Earthquake
By: Kibethan, who's very sorry for taking so long to update.
Disclaimer: Kibethan doesn'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: Um...I can't warn you, or else it would give away the chapter.
Chapter 12
At first, Shuichi wasn't exactly sure what was happening. He thought that he was imagining the ground moving because he was so happy and that the Gods were happy with him so they were just jumping up and down with him. He was just so happy at seeing Yuki.
But when someone screamed "Earthquake" he was shaken back to reality. Almost everyone had still been asleep, but they were all jostled awake when it started happening. The little kids started crying again; Hiro, Kyogoku, and Kugyou started gathering them all up and tried to move them to a safer location. The area around the hospital rubble was no longer safe.
Shuichi immediately ran to start helping them too. Yuki, on the other hand, just stood there, not exactly sure what to do. He noticed that Shuichi's band mate (he'd finally remembered that his name was "Suguru") was still just lying there. He decided that the wisest thing to do would be to try and help him. He ran over there, grabbed him, and started to get out of the area.
He was almost completely out of the area too, when he heard a cry of help. He wheeled around and saw Kousuke running around trying to dodge the rubble that was flying everywhere.
Yuki watched in horror as a large piece of rubble crashed down on top of the boy, pinning him flat. At first, Kousuke has screamed a heartbreaking painful scream, which practically broke Yuki's heart, but when it was sharply silenced, that's when Yuki really worried.
Unfortunately, he couldn't really do anything about it with Suguru in his arms. He set off to rid himself of the burden so he could see if he could do anything about helping Kousuke...that is...if he was still alive.
The entire time he was contemplating everything, the ground was still shaking. Luckily, though, it was starting to slow down to the point of being able to walk a bit more steadily, so Yuki was able to run to where the rest of the group was and put Suguru down.
While the K was doing a head count, he ran back to where he had last seen Kousuke. During the time that he was running, he was also calling out Kousuke's name trying to find out if he was awake or not. The closer he got to where Kousuke was, the grimmer it was starting to look. Kousuke still was answering him. When Yuki looked around, it didn't seem like there was any chance that anyone (especially a child who was hospitalized with God knows what) would've survived being hit by any debris that had flown around here.
He finally got to the piece that had hit Kousuke. It was a lot bigger than he had first thought, although, it wasn't too big for Yuki to move. He didn't want to move it, though, because he would've had to roll it, and he didn't want to cause Kousuke any more pain than necessary. He walked around to where he would've been able to see Kousuke's face, and grimaced when he finally did see it. Kousuke's eyes were closed and there was a pained expression that was written all over his face.
Kousuke's eyes sprung open.
They were glossy and feverish. Yuki's breath caught in his throat. He rushed to Kousuke's side. Even though he had only known the kid for maybe an hour, he didn't like it when anybody was in pain.
Kousuke looked at him, barely recognizing him.
"Yu..." Kousuke trailed off as he started coughing. It worried Yuki to no end that Kousuke was coughing up blood. Kousuke looked really scared. He knew that coughing up blood was a bad thing. His eyes turned to be full of fear. Yuki wanted to erase that fear, but he couldn't. Yuki watched helplessly as Kousuke's eyes turned blank.
He rolled the rubble off of Kousuke, no longer caring if he hurt him. It didn't matter if he hurt him more, as long as he didn't die.
He put his hand up to Kousuke's throat to feel for a pulse. The boy's skin was so pale and clammy. He couldn't feel a pulse, no matter how hard he tried to. He felt around for what must've been five minutes, trying to get a pulse. His eyes finally drifted to below his collarbone, where the boulder had been.
He was shocked when he could see clearly that all of Kousuke's ribs had been broken, as well as his back. Several of the rib bones were sticking through his chest, having had been snapped.
There was no way that Kousuke would've been able to survive that, and he hadn't.
Kousuke was, quite obviously, dead.
Yuki bowed his head, trying to hide the tears that were starting to come to his eyes. Shuichi came running up to him, and was dismayed when he saw him crying. It was then that he noticed Kousuke lying on the ground.
He sunk to his knees and started sobbing. He had tried so hard to not lose anybody, but the sight of the mangled body before him was too much. The other adults of the group (excluding Hiro (he was watching the kids) and Tohma (still very feverish)) ran over to see what the problem was.
When the two doctors saw the boy they started demanding what had happened. Kousuke had been their patient for a long time and had been one of the best one's that they'd had. When they asked what had happened, all Yuki had to do was point to the piece of rubble that was now covered in Kousuke's blood and they figured it out pretty quick.
All of the people that were standing then knelt and started praying for Kousuke. They were no longer praying for him to live, for they all knew that he was dead; they were praying for his soul to be saved and that may he forever rest in piece.
Kousuke was the first death in the earthquake that Shuichi had actually seen. The sight was burned into the back of his eyelids and whenever he closed his eyes, he saw the mangled sight.
He buried his head in Yuki's chest, looking for some consolation. Yuki however was hard pressed to give it. He needed to receive it too.
He felt like it was his entire fault because he hadn't tried enough to save the young boy. He felt like he had killed somebody else, and inside, it killed him.
Yuki's mind was overloaded and he collapsed beside the body.
End Chapter 12
I apologize! I apologize! Okay, I have an excuse. Are you ready? I got home from work on Friday, and my computer wasn't here. "Mom. Where is the computer?" "Oh, Heather, we took it in to get fixed." "Oh." Okay, maybe it didn't go exactly like that, but that's the gist of it. Also, sorry that this chapter is a wee bit short, I promise that the next chapter will be longer.
Okay, author's notes:
Ildreen Love: Sorry that it didn't exactly translate to mean longer chapter, but maybe it will next chapter, Dagger Maxwell: It's hard not to be obsessed with Y/Y, but it's weird considering I'm not a huge fan of Yu-Gi-Oh..., Kitty in the Box: I'm glad you liked it, emerald-jade: With a name like Heather, I'm glad I'm a girl too...(I didn't realize that there were very many Kousuke's, sorry), Beste: yep!, oOTsukasaOo: yep! that's who I'm referring to, Lady Alexiel: I'm glad you like it, Dark Mimiru-chan: well, I try..., Anna Sartin: Really? Awesome! Although, I looked in there and didn't see it..., goku-the-saru: GET WELL SOON!, Raimu: I'm glad you like it, Soralover1: I'm glad you like it and are my number one fan, Elements: As usual, awesome review! I loved it! Both of them!, Moonfairyhime: Thank you, Empress Sarah-sama: Thank you for the amazing critique, I didn't realize that I had made so many grammatical errors in the first one,
And that's it.
Don't expect an update tomorrow, because according to my mom, who has been urging me off the computer for the last fifteen minutes, I don't get to write a chapter tomorrow!
Until whenever I get the computer long enough to write a chapter again, good bye.
Oh, and Kousuke was from D.N.Angel. Good job to Beste and oOTsukasaOo for getting it right.
Reveiw, please!
(P.S. I apologize for any errors in this chapter, I was a bit rushed)