Hey guys? Ya, I know what you wanna say, I should be working on my other stories before starting a new one, but this one was inspired by the Tsunami that happened in Japan the other day. I feel bad for them and I'm praying for their safety.

Hope you like it =] on with the story.

Disclaimer: I own nothing (duh, the show would have been the way I wanted)

Flood

Chapter one: The beginning.

A thud was heard when the red headed girl sat on her bed. She took off her heals and laid herself down on the pillow, and looked at the ceiling with tears in her eyes.

Her grandfather died and she had just returned from his funeral. The sweet loving man that took her in, in one of the hardest time in her life was now gone and the old fears of being alone came to her.

She got up slowly from her bed and walked to the balcony. The snow was melting and water was dripping from the tips of the trees, for it was spring. The season was supposed to bring happiness with it, but it brought more sorrow. She hugged herself; she hadn't felt scared and weak in her life for a long time, but she's felling it now.

In times like this; one person used to make her feel better, one person who she used to rely on. Shun, where are you? She thought. Tears fell even harder at the mention of this name. A set of unwanted images flashed before her eyes.

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Alice hid herself under a table as she felt the whole house rock hard. She tried calling for her mother, but it was with no appeal.

A quake had hit Japan that night, it happened in the middle of the sea, which caused huge waves to rise and hit the shores with such force, taking everything with them, from houses, cars, boats and people. The country was in complete chaos; it was the strongest quake for about 140 years or that's what the radio was telling her.

Fear made its way to the girl's heart, she was thirteen years old, all alone and defenseless against the mighty power of nature. She grabbed a little music box near her, she opened it and a small ballet dancer started dancing as the box played a tone, one made her calm a bit. She listened carefully to the sound, trying to ignore the voices of the wind and screams she was hearing, but it wasn't working. She raised her voice to sing along with the song while putting her hands on her ears. Everything around her was falling down on the hard floor, and she was getting more scared.

A few moments of silence came; nothing broke, no one screamed. It was the silence before the storm. The windows broke along with the front wall of the house causing piles of water to come in the house, her box stopped playing and she was taken by the current to hit the different walls of the house. Her head was coming out from the surface at times and at others it would be under water with her struggling to breathe.

The current of water got stronger and was now filling the house and she was at loss of breath. Soon, she couldn't breathe at all, she felt her eyes close slowly as she was drowning…that's when she felt a hand around her wrist, she looked up at the dark figure from between her nearly shut eyes. To her, it was her rescuer, her angel from above.

She coughed the water out of her throat, and then she raised her head to see who the person was. She smiled. It was her crush, Shun Kazami. She instantly rapped her arms around him, embracing him in a tight hug. He hugged her back, happy she was safe. When they parted, she took a look around her; they were standing on the roof. The view was horrifying, nearly everything and everyone was being taken by the high-leveled water. A few tears started gathering in her eyes.

"Tsunami waves did this, people are dying. I'm happy I got to you before that happened," Shun stated. Alice looked at him and nodded.

"But, Runo, Dan…Julie and Marucho, what happened to them?" she asked worriedly. Shun shook his head.

"I don't know anything about them, I came straight to you," he answered. She looked down, afraid about the possibility of her friends being dead.
She then remembered something; she looked at Shun, who was looking at the gray clouds, with a sad face.

"Shun…I…I lost the music box, the one you gave me, I'm sorry," she said looking down, avoiding his gaze. She looked up when she heard the sound of a splash. She looked around, not finding Shun anywhere. She glanced at the street that looked like a river, now. He was no where to be found. Her heart skipped a beat or two; her hands were tangled together in front of her heart. She stood alone on the roof, for two minutes or so.

"I found it," Shun said. Alice sighed in relief then looked down at the hole in the roof, where Shun's head was apparent. He gave her the coloured box and was about to drag himself up, when a violent roar was heard as a huge wave of water hit the house. It broke through the house and sent Shun away from Alice's eyes; the last thing she heard was his scream as he got carried away with the tide. Alice screamed his name out; she didn't know what else to do. She then felt her feet slip and in a second, she found herself in the water once more. Her tears fell down and she held tight to the box in her hands. Everything went black after that.

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She slowly opened her eyes. Her vision was blurry, but after blinking once or twice it became clear. She sat up straight; she was in some sort of a white bed. She looked at her hand were many wires were attached to it. She glanced at the monitor, where her heartbeats were shown. The green light was moving, up and down, drawing a zigzagged line that showed her heart was beating normally.

A nurse came to her, a smile lit up her face when she saw the young girl okay and alive. She checked Alice one more time to make sure, and then she gave her room to talk.

"How did I get here?" she asked with a confused expression on her face.

"A rescuing boat brought you here, you are very lucky," the nurse said, putting her hand on Alice's shoulder.

"What about Shun? He was in the house…they must have saved him too," Alice added, shaking a little bit.

"I'm sorry, we didn't check in anyone with that name. If he was saved, he might be in another hospital," the nurse said and left, leaving Alice to her thoughts.

After a day or so, her grandfather came back from Russia and took her with him. Scared to let her live in Japan all by herself.

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A knock on the door, waked her up from her dream like state. She wiped the tears away, from both, her grandfather's death and Shun's…She wasn't sure if he was dead or not, but remembering the way he washed by the waves harshly gave her no other thought to wander in her head for the past few years that passed.

She walked to the door and opened it for the knocker. She saw her aunt and uncle standing in the door way, wearing black as herself. She moved aside to let them in.

Alice sat on the bed and they did the same. Her aunt gave her an assuring hug. Alice gave her a weak smile and opened her drawer and got the music box out. She opened it and listened to the tone.

"You really like that box, don't you?" her uncle stated. She nodded her head, after all, how could not she be, and it was a gift from her lover.

"Honey, I know loosing your grandfather was very hard. You are nineteen years old now, but that doesn't mean you should live alone. How about you come and live with us?" her aunt asked. Alice opened her eyes and looked at her aunt. It was true she can't live alone, Alice was always afraid of loneliness, a feeling that began returning to her heart.

Six years ago, she was separated from her family, her parents died in the flood. Moreover, she was taken away from her friends whom she shared 13 years of her life with. She missed their laughter, their pranks and their company. With them, she was never scared. She had been missing them, ever since, for she wasn't allowed to go back to Japan.

"I would love to…but, there is another place I should be in first. I want to go and visit Japan; I want to figure out my next move there. I always felt I belonged there, not here. I'm sorry," she said, standing up, a determined look appearing on her face.

"But, you were born here. We are here!" her aunt said. Alice grabbed the light green box and looked at the ballet dancer.

"Yes, but…my heart is there, with a person I don't even know if he was still alive yet, with my friends whom I don't know their condition as well," she paused for a second, and then closed the box, stopping the tone.

"I need to know if they were okay, I need to get back a few pieces of my life there, maybe I'll be as happy as I was at that time. Besides, after my grandfather's death, I figured out life was too short, I need to find some answers," she said, whispering the last part. Her aunt was about to say something, but her husband stopped her.

"If that's what you want, then…we won't stand in your way," he said. Alice smiled at him and she gave both of them a hug.

After about a week, everything was ready for her leaving. She stood in the airport, holding her suitcase. The two remaining family members she had were there; hugging her and wishing her luck, hoping one day she would find the answers she need and come back home.

Another one was there as well; it was her neighbor, Alex. He was her best friend for the past six years. He stepped forward and gave her a hug himself, then handed her the music box.

"You forgot it," he explained. She took it from his hands and thanked him; she didn't know how she had forgotten something as important as it.

Her flight number was announced on the speaker; she took a deep breath, and then walked towards the gate waving her goodbyes.

After about five hours the plane landed in Japan.

Alice got out of the plane and entered the airport after being greeted by a couple of ladies. After finishing her paper work; she left the airport in a taxi.

"Where do you wanna go, miss?" the cap driver asked.

"Can you take me to the public park?" she said. The driver looked at her in the mirror with a confused expression. That's when she realized she had been speaking in Russian, she mentally slapped herself.

"I'm sorry, I said: can you take me to the public park, please?" she repeated, this time in Japanese. The driver nodded and started the car up.

During the twenty minutes journey, Alice kept gazing out the window. The life was back in Wardington, everything seemed repaired and it was nearly the way it used to be. The people were walking with a smile on their faces, the sounds of the whistles of the birds reached her ears. It lit up her heart.

Finally the trip ended, she paid the cap and it was gone, leaving her in front of the park.

She breathed in the fresh air, she put her suitcase down and ran around herself like a little girl, she was, for her little self was controlling her now. She held her suitcase and sat down on a green bench, she looked at the kids playing and enjoying this sunny day. She felt complete at that moment.

She stood up and started walking to the entrance and stood in front of the street. It was busy, and cars seemed to never stop. She tried to look pass them, when she was able too, tears started falling from her eyes and she was about to run, forgetting about the traffic. She saw a sign of a café across the street, the café that used to be there where she and Runo had worked together.

When the traffic stopped, she ran with all she got, making her way between the cars, whose drivers started at her with weird looks on their faces. Abruptly, she stopped in front of the doors. What if she went inside to find new owners telling her the Misaki's family died? She quickly shook those thoughts away and pushed the doors open.

The jingling sound made everyone take notice of her presence, including the blue haired waitress. She turned to look at the door with an annoyed look. She always hated working here, Alice said.

"I'm sorry, but it's the lunch break and we…" she trailed off when she saw the young lady standing in front of her. She stared for a while, but she shook her head after a minute or so.

"Sorry, you look like an old friend," she apologized, which made Alice giggle.

"Runo, it's me! I'm Alice!" she said. The two girls hugged each other tightly.

"I thought you died," they both said in union which made another set of giggles escape their lips.

"Runo, I found pudding in the fridge," a brown haired guy said as he walked out of the kitchen, holding a big bowl of the said pudding. Runo walked to him and took the bowl from him, then gave him a hit on the head.

"What was that for Runo?" he asked rubbing his head. They never changed, Alice thought, happily.

Runo sighed and turned his face to see Alice. He looked shocked to see her.

"Hey, Dan. Did you recognize me?" she asked.

"Well, there's one girl I know with red hair," he said then got free from Runo's grip and gave her a hug and she hugged back.

Runo forced all the customers to leave for it was her lunch break and sat down with Alice and Dan on one of the booths, laughing and remembering old memories.

"Wow, you rebuilt the whole place?" Alice asked. Runo nodded.

"Well, ya. It was hard times, believe me, but now it's much better," she said.

"I can't believe you guys are okay," she said.

"Same here. Where have you been anyway?" Dan asked.

"I got back to Moscow with my grandfather; he didn't let me say goodbye or anything. He wanted to leave as soon as possible," she answered looking down.

"Hey, it doesn't matter. You are here again. If Julie and Marucho were here, they would have been happy," Runo said and titled her head down. Alice looked at her with a scared expression.

"Don't worry, they're fine. Julie is in Australia and Marucho went to India to help his dad start a new company there," she quickly added raising her face back up. Alice sighed in relief.

"Runo…what about Shun?" she asked looking straight into Runo's eyes. Dan looked away, feeling bad for Alice, who asked her question again when she got no answer.

"Alice…Shun is…fine. Well, he is alive, but he is not himself anymore," Runo answered.

"What do you mean?" Alice asked. She was on the verge of crying.

"He can't remember anything, Alice. Nothing. Not me, not Runo, no one. He lost his memory," Dan answered for Runo.

"What?" Alice gasped.

So, that's chapter one, hope you liked it^^.

Again the story was inspired by the Tsunami that happened in Japan the other day, pray with me for their safety. And I promise to update some of my stories soon.