Eric ran after her, dropping beside Alex. He opened his mouth but nothing came out, tears pricked at his eyes. 

James whirled at Tsumai's voice and followed it through the rubble. He saw two dark figure crouching in the dust and went to them. "Alex!" He went for the wall that was laying over him and pushed, with Eric's help they got it off.

Alex watched in silent confusion.

Eric and James both went back to Alex. They both looked like they were going to cry. 'Whats wrong?' He thought, but he couldn't form words as he coughed more blood. "Otouto.'' He choked out, looking at James without moving his head. "I think... I broke something." He whispered. He was referring to the wall.

"I want to go with him!" James said, looking at Alex. He looked awful. His left eye was closed and bloody, the other was only barely open and was staring blankly at the sky. Both sides of his mouth were bloody as well, and he hung limply from Tsumai's grasp. 

"Alex -" Eric took james by the shoulders. "Hey, I'll go with Alexander. You shouldn't see him like this." He explained, James was going to argue but he stopped him. "I know he's your brother... but you have a family to take care of." He hugged James, "I'll go with him." James nodded, pulled away and took Shizuya from Maru.

Maru took Alex and disappeared to the Hospital."We need help over here!Maru yelled.

"I hope he'll be okay.Its all my fault!"She cried.

Eric was right behind him, but he was silent and watched as nurses came frantically to Alex's aid. A stretcher was brought out with white sheets and a breathing mask. Eric noticed that Alex was completely silent and still. he would have felt better if he was screaming bloody murder.

"Its not your fault!" James said, tears in his eyes too. He pulled her into a hug, making sure not to squish the baby. "Its not your fault." He repeated.

Alex could get a hold on what was going on. I barely knew what his name was, let alone everything else. He tried to speak, but nothing would come out. 

She started to cry."But it is!If I didn't have this stupid demon in me..the Akatsuki wouldn't be after me,then alex would have never gotten hurt that badly."she cried.

Maru stayed by Alex's side the whole time.

"It could have happened anyway." James said. "Its not your fault! Don't think its your fault." James insisted.

"Are you ok? Do you need t be seen as well? Sir? Sir!" "Hn?" Eric answered, coming back. "I said do you need to be seen as well." The nurse repeated gently, "Ah, no." Eric replied. The nurse nodded and went away, Eric made his way over to Alex.

Alex was put onto the bed and the mask was put over his face. The mask foged with each labored breath, but other than that Alex didn't respond. 

"But..."she stopped."Okay"she said,hugging him,gently.Shiuya looked up at them and reached up.Tsumai smiled and kissed James.

"Stay out here!"Maru ordered Eric as he followed the nurses and Alex.

James kissed her back, then looked towards the hospital. "I want to see him."

Alex looked at Maru silently. 'He can come.' He thought. He looked at Eric, his eye closing slowly. 'Don't cry... Why are you crying?' He thought, loosing consciousness.

"I told James that i would stay. So I am." Eric said simply, he didn't know that he was crying. 

"Lets go see him then"she said,taking his hand.

"Just stay out here,Please"Maru said,tears falling from his eyes.

"Ok." James said, nodding.

Eric stopped following Alex's stretcher, the nurses and Maru kept going.

Alex frowned when Eric stopped, his tried to move his hand. Something. But the only thing he managed was a few fingers twitching. He closed his eye, letting the darkness take him. 

Nurses rolled Alex into a room, not caring if Maru was following or not and stopped. They got to work immediately. His shirt was cut off and his wounds cleaned on his body, huge purple bruises covered his abdomen and chest. They then rapped his midsection and left shoulder in bandages.

They cleaned his face gently,a nurse opened his eye and shined a light into it. Waited a few seconds and did it again. They then rapped his eye and put droppers into the other. After that they hooked him to Ivs and a heart monitor and took his pulse and other things.

A nurse came up to Maru. "Would you like to know the details?" She asked quietly. 

"Ok." The nurse said. "Alexander has multiple bruises covering his body, nothing can be done for them unfortunately. He has four broken ribs and his right lung was punctured. That was healed and he should be breathing just fine now, a rib had punctured it. 

To be quite honest his whole left side was crushed. His left arm and leg are fractured and he may be blind in the left eye." She said, looking over at him. "He'll be in a lot of pain and will be very confused when he wakes up. He gave him something for the pain, but the way he is i wouldn't be surprised if it does nothing for him." With that, she left along with all of the other nurses.

Alex's leg and arm had been put into casts while the nurse was explaining everything and his mask replaced with tubes. His heart monitor was beating slowly, but it was beeping and liquids dripped from the bag beside the bed. 

Tsuma entered the hospital.She then went over to the nurses desk.

Maru sat beside him and buried his face in his hands.

James followed Tsumai in, but spotted Eric and went to him. "Hey! I thought that you were going to stay with Alex?" He said, getting upset. 

Eric, who was sitting up against the wall, looked up at James and whipped his eyes quickly. "Maru wanted me to stay out here... so i did." James sat beside him. "I want to see him." Eric said, "But I don't." He explained.

Alex's heart monitor started to beat faster, but only a little, meaning he was waking up.

"Tsumai, Maru is with him. Let's leave them alone for a while..." james called over to Tsumai. 

Tsumai looked at James.She went back over to him and sighed."Okay"she said,looking down.

Maru looked at him and sighed.

Alex's body started to move and his heart monitor sped up. Now that he had been given meds and treated he could feel exactly why everyone was upset. He clenched his teeth, the pain was excruciating. His breath hitched in his throat as the waves of pain washed over him full force. 

He screamed. His whole left side felt like it was on fire, or someone cutting his slowly and repeatedly all along his body. He could barely breath and he could only see a little, what he could see was foggy.