Sorry for the late update! You know how the holidays go with the last minute shopping and family everywhere you look all the cooking and wrapping gifts and you get the idea. Well hope you all had a happy holiday. I sure did! Yes here is your next chapter finally! It doesn't fit the movie very well at all BUT I started to think it was TOO much like the movie so I wanted to make it more mine instead of just following the movie action for action, hope it doesn't suck as bad as I feel like it does. Well I hope you like it so far! ENJOY

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh OR the movie War of the Worlds! SO THERE! XD

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Under the rubble

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Yami rested in the lounge chair somewhat awake. Jounochi had fallen asleep sitting down and leaning against the cold cement wall. Yami blinked his eyes trying not to let them close, though it was hard he managed to stay awake. It was so quiet. Yami could hear soft breathing from the other four in the room. Moonlight was still glittering in and lighting up the room just enough so that Yami could see everyone sleeping around him. He kept as alert as he could trying not to let sleep take over him. Things seemed peaceful so far but it wasn't morning yet. Yami was just about to doze off when he jumped up hearing the sound of glass braking. He snapped out of his momentary slumber and looked around trying to find the source. Glancing over at Furanku he found the bottle of whiskey broken on the floor. Yami sighed and sat down trying to calm his nerves. He looked over at Yugi who was still sleeping unaffected by the shatter. Yami sighed and leaned back and let his tired eyes rest.

He wasn't trying to sleep. Some times your body just does what it wants, and in Yami's case it wanted sleep. He rested in the moonlight from the window in a not so heavy sleep. It didn't seem more then minutes that he had slept before the light started to flicker into the window. It was dull at first and very far away then the light got brighter and brighter flashing faster into the window. Yami twitched as the light stirred him in his light sleep. His violet eyes gazed out the window as the flashes of intense light became stronger. Yami was still drowsy not comprehending what was happening out side the window. He dully thought to him self that there seemed to be a lighting storm approaching. Suddenly a huge crash of light hit less then a mile away, however the crashing sound was all to familiar. It almost sounded like it had hit right inside the room by how loud it was. Yami jumped to his feet in a panic.

"They are attacking! Everyone get up!" Yami shouted although the crash had already awoken everyone sending them into the same pain state Yami had fallen into.

"What is it!" Yugi cried trying to scramble to his feet grabbing his book bag. Furanku stumbled to his feet and pulled out his gun.

"Its about time, lets kick some invader ass!" He said loading his gun. Rebecca was in to much shock to know what to do. She sat on the floor hugging the warmth of the blankets with a look of pure horror. Jounochi grabbed Furanku by the shoulder and swung him around.

"Put that away! Are you crazy!" Jounochi shouted.

"I aint gonna watch them destroy my home!" Furanku said clutching his gun. The lightning crashed more and more. The dark room lit up as bright as day as the flashes struck all around. It was so loud it was hard to hear anything. Soon the ground began to rumble.

"What's happening!" Rebecca shouted. Jounochi glanced out the window as debris flew around smashing into everything.

"Where is the safest place in here!" Jounochi shouted.

"What are you..?" Furanku began

"Where would you go in a tornado?" Jounochi shouted.

"In that utility room there!" Furanku said pointing. Yami wasted no time in dragging Yugi into that room. Jounochi waved at Rebecca to run for the room but in all her horror she couldn't get her self to move.

"Common!" Jounochi called grabbing her and hauling her to her feet and towards the room. Furanku was reluctant to follow them.

They all braced them selves behind the water heater. The intense noise grew as the chaos just outside grew more destructive. They could hear windows blowing out and more crashes then rumbles from the ground shifting which started to cause the cement foundation under them to crack. Rebecca gasped and let out a ear shattering scream as the cement began to crumble. The ceiling above them started to give way. Soon the wall behind them started to cave in Jounochi and Furanku pulled Rebecca out of the way while Yami gave Yugi a shove to move him to a safer spot just as the cement crashed to the ground.

Yugi stumbled forward to his knees. It sounded like a freight train had smashed into the house. Instinctively everyone covered their head with their arms for some kind of protection. Everything was crashing down around them. A cloud of dust swamped in from the crumbling cement and lumber that the house was made of. Yugi pulled a hand to his mouth to keep from breathing in the powdery debris that was airborne all around them. The horrible loud destruction continued for what seemed like forever. Even after the terror subsided no one would budge from their spot for fear of striking up a new assault. Minutes passes as Yugi gathered the courage to open his eyes. He swatted the dust as best as he could as he slowly looked up. The powder was so thick he could barely see Jounochi who was two feet in front of him. Soon the dust began to settle and Yugi lifted his head to look around. Jounochi also was taking a look at all the destruction. It began to get seriously cold now that the house was damaged.

"Is everyone alright?" Furanku said still in a protective position over Jounochi and Rebecca. It was then that Yugi realized that Yami was no where in sight.

"Mou hitori no boku!" He jumped up and ran to the pile of rubble they had occupied just before the attack.

Jounochi now also noticed Yami was missing ran to help Yugi search. The only thing they could think to do was dig. They began removing rubble and getting it out of the way. Furanku was soon helping them lift lumber and chunks of cement away searching desperately from Yami. Rebecca stood up from her kneeling position. She shook her head as tears rolled down her dusty flushed cheeks. She was breathing erratically trying to get a grip on her self not wanting to see what was under the rubble.

Yugi dug through as fast as his small arms would let him. Yami had pushed him knowing that the cement was going to topple down where they were. He had saved Yugi's life and hopefully not at the cost of his own. Soon Yugi came across blood stained cement and in his horror he dug even faster. He over turned a large piece of dry wall a found a hand poking out from the rubble. They worked furiously getting Yami uncovered from the rubble. It was to everyone's complete terror to find that there was a heavy truss pinning Yami where he was. Jounochi wasted no time in trying to lift it off his unconscious friend. Furanku jumped up to help though it barely budged an inch. Yugi took hold of Yami's bloody hand looking over the seemingly lifeless body. He wiped the dirt and blood from Yami's battered face. Jounochi dropped to the floor next to his trapped friend. Everyone was quiet. It didn't seem to really be happening. Nothing felt real anymore.

Rebecca came forward wanting to have a closer look. Her mind was in shock seeing something so terrible. She had never seen anything like this. She was only a child still. Tears were pouring out though she did not make a sound nor did she move from her spot as she looked over Yami. He was blood smeared and bruised. His eye brow was gashed and his cloths were in shreds. She could no longer hold back her sobs. Jounochi looked up noticing Rebecca as she began to loose it. Furanku jumped up and covered her eyes and pulling her away from the seen. She began to fight and kick.

"No! Let me go! Get AWAY!" She cried sobbing more then changing to an out right scream.

Furanku just held the young girl as she sobbed. Jounochi got up to try and help control the panicked girl. She broke away from Furanku's hold and started to helplessly pound on Jounochi's chest, thinking maybe if she pounded hard enough this would all go away, or she would wake up in her room from this sick nightmare. She sobbed more as her arms became weaker. Jounochi just let her let out her frustration since she wasn't really hurting him and plus it would help her emotionally. Yugi however was in his own state of shock. He was gently holding Yami's hand hoping for a sign of life. He couldn't hear Rebecca's tantrum nor could he notice anything around him. He was completely numb. He also did not realize the tears that streamed down his cheeks. All he could see and feel was Yami, his tangled thick hair with dirt and blood, his pale weak face, his tattered blue attire, his cold scrapped bloody hand.

Furanku decided to let them have a moment to them selves. He pushed his way out of the small room to see how much damage the rest of the house had taken. From the larger part of the basement the night sky was now visible through the gapping hole in the house. The first floor was crumbled to the ground which caved mostly into the basement. Furanku sighed knowing his house was now gone. He looked around for a way out of the basement. He didn't see anything right away noticing that the stairs had collapsed. He had to resort to pilling anything he could find to climb up to the first floor. After safely making it out of the basement he found the easiest way out side of the collapsed house. He ran quickly for the garage which was half gone too. He pushed through the piles of wood that had crumbled and found his way to the work bench. Luckily it had been mostly spared so he could find what he was looking for. He gabbed the item and ran back to the house jumping down into the basement again. He walked back into the room where the situation hadn't changed much. Rebecca was sitting hugging her knees quietly as tears rolled down her cheeks. Jounochi sat next to Yugi who was still holding Yami's hand helplessly. Furanku walked over and began to plan out how to go about freeing this friend of Jou's from the rubble.

"Jounochi, go find some of those blankets we had." He ordered. Jounochi looked up confused wanting to question his motives.

"Just do it boy!" Furanku snapped not wanting a thousand questions. Jounochi obeyed and left the room. Furanku kneeled down next to Yugi and put a hand on his shoulder.

"I'mmo get him outa there, but I need your help kid." Furanku said. Yugi was quiet surprised by his willingness to help out and by his calm tone of voice. He looked up at the man who now had a determined look on his face. Jounochi had now returned with the blankets. Yugi moved as Furanku spread them out right in front of Yami. He sat down the item he had retrieved from the garage an slid it under the truss that was pinning Yami to the ground.

"Okay I'm going to use this car jack to lift this thing offa him and then you two need to gently pull him out from under there, okay?"

Yugi who was still in a state of shock only half understood what was going on but nodded in compliance. Furanku began to jack up the stand as is a car was on it. The truss started to lift up slowly. As soon as it was lifted enough to get Yami out from under it Yugi and Jounochi both slid Yami out from under the truss and onto the blankets that were laid out. Furanku let the jack down quickly then took to checking the boy who had been trapped. He checked to find a pulse right away which was there faintly then he check for breathing. Although he was indeed breathing the short painful gasp like breaths worried Furanku. It had to bee a sign of badly broken ribs or a punctured or collapsed lung. Rebecca stood up walking over to see Yami quietly. She covered her mouth nearly overwhelmed in her emotions once again as Furanku pulled open Yami's shirt to see how bad the injuries were. He placed a hand down to feel for broken ribs causing the seemingly lifeless body to spring to life flinching in the sharp pain the touch caused him. Rebecca yelped and took a step back.

"Is he okay! Is he alright!" She shouted. Jounochi quickly quieted her. Yugi flinched him self seeing Yami in so much pain over a small touch. His chest was black and blue and you could tell where the truss had landed.

"He is alright girl, he just need some rest ya hear me? Now shhh!" Furanku said covering Yami with a blanket since it was so cold.

Rebecca slowly sank to the floor sniffling and rubbing the tears from her eyes. Yugi sat next to Yami holding him as he rested. Furanku reassured him that Yami would be alright and that he was no longer in any more danger which was a huge relief. Jounochi leaned against the cement trying to gather his sanity back while Furanku went to dig though the rubble for any kind of supplies. Yugi was in a daze, so much in fact he didn't notice the movement below.

Violet eyes fluttered open although the vision was blurry at first the image of a person above him slowly came into focus. He blinked looking up at Yugi a little confused since the last thing he remembered was running into the small room in the basement. At the time he thought it would be a good idea to try and sit up however the pain was so intense he quickly melted back into Yugi's warm hold. Finally Yugi broke out of his daze to see Yami relaxing back into his lap after foolishly trying to get up. Yugi held tightly as he watched the pain spread through Yami's body dully. It was a relief to see life signs from him, but Yugi was still concerned for his yami. He pulled the blankets tighter to keep Yami warm while trying not to hurt him. Yami finally settled in his soothing spot on Yugi's lap.

He himself was starting to realize the biggest injury on his body as it throbbed every few minutes. He noticed too that his breathing was staggered from the worst pain he had in his chest. It seemed funny to him that he felt wet. His weak arms couldn't lift up far enough to wipe it away as it grew itchy just above his eye. Surprisingly the next thing he saw was Jounochi. He was right above him making him feel as if he was upside down. He pressed a clean cloth gently against Yami's forehead trying to control the gash above his eye. Yami was confused as to where all the blood was coming from as the cloth was pulled away. He just continued to look up at Jounochi who seemed to be talking but he couldn't hear what he was saying. Jounochi pressed another cloth against Yami's forehead trying to absorb all the crimson liquid from Yami's gash. Yami gazed at Yugi now who was looking down at him moving his lips but again Yami couldn't hear anything. It was all too confusing. He once again saw the cloth pull away from his head soaked with blood. He wanted to itch his head again but his arm never made it up to his head. Soon he started to hear noise around him which was a relief because he really wanted to hear what they were saying. He blinked his eyes as the fuzzy noise came back to him.

"..onegai if you can hear us..say something!" Was the first thing he could hear. He wasn't sure who's voice it was yet since it was so far away. It was a request that he couldn't do. His lips parted in an effort to speak but that's as far as it would go. He looked at the bloody towel again wondering now if it was coming from his head which now seemed to make sense.

"How is he?" Still can't make out who each voice is.

"He woke up a little bit ago but he doesn't seem to hear us or know what is going on."

"Just a bit of shock I'm thinkin, ask him to look at you and see if he understands."

"Okay…" Nothing was really making sense yet. "Mou hitori no boku?" That sounded so sweet to his ears. It had to be Yugi's voice. "…Mou hitori no boku please look at me." Yami blinked again. Despite how fuzzy reality seemed to be at the moment Yami turned his had on Yugi's lap to search for his face. He stopped after finding Yugi's wonderful violet eyes. Right away Yugi smiled as the request was fulfilled.

"Yogata!" Jounochi sighed.

"You can hear me?" Yugi said looking down at Yami. Yami took a deep breath and managed a small nod.

"Aibou.." Was barely heard from his scratchy voice.

"Just rest please." Yugi said.

How could he argue with that? No more then two minutes later Yami was sound asleep on Yugi's lap taking small slow breaths as to not cause him self any more pain then he had too. It was great to see life out of the seemingly lifeless body they had pulled out of the rubble. Of course it was great to know Yami wasn't dead…yet. Jounochi stood up throwing down the bloody rag he held.

"What do you mean YET?" He shouted angrily.

"Exactly what you THINK it means ya pin head. We need to get out of here and find him some medical attention PLUS those things could be back any time now, we don't know what they are fully capable of!" Furanku yelled. The two argued for a few minutes before Yugi decided to speak up.

"He is right we have to find a safe place to go, but I don't know how we are going to do that." Yugi said as the two calmed down.

"We'll see how well the kid is a little later, then we'll decide where to go." Furanku said

"I wanna see Jichan!" Rebecca who had been quiet all this time was finally her self again.

"Yes, we should try to get to Tokyo.." Yugi said

"I'm not sure if that's such a good idea." Jounochi said

"I don't care! I wanna see JICHAN!" She shouted.

"It might be dangerous, it may have already wiped out Tok..oophh" Jounochi was halted in his sentence by an elbow to the stomach. Rebecca sniffled as she started to tear up.

"You think…you think Jichan is dead?" She said with pain in her eyes as tears poured out. No one spoke right away which only sent her gasping for breath as she began to sob.

"Rebecca…we don't know what has happened anywhere else, but we will look as long and as hard as we can until we find them." Yugi said. Rebecca sniffled regaining what little composure she had left and wiped her sloppy tears from her face.

"Lets all try and get some rest until it is a little safer to leave." Furanku said.