Mighty Long Fall

Chapter 1: Snowstorm Day 1

Author's note:
I've never written any kind of fan fiction before, and definitely never any real person fic. But I was browsing Toruka fanfic the other day during a snowstorm and lost power. I didn't feel like using my data plan and decided to just write my own. Honestly I meant this to be a cute one shot, but, my power was out for a few hours and it ended up being longer than anticipated. Also there's probably all kinds of factual errors, especially the first few chapters. I had no internet to fact check. Also apologies for grammatical errors in advance.
Also legal disclaimer: Toru's going to joke a lot about freezing to death, and classic tropes on how to survive a snowstorm. I have no idea how to survive a snowstorm, I may be Canadian born and raised, but who knows whether or not the rumours I've heard are true. Don't test out any of his theories on survival, ok?
Anyway, without further ado. I don't own one ok rock, Toru and Taka are probably both straight, no offence intended, nothing in this story is remotely canon.
There's another author's note at the end. I have no idea how to link to it.

Toru was sitting around his apartment watching the news. Usually he never paid any attention to the news channel, but there was a terrible snowstorm in Tokyo and his bandmates were all planning on coming over that night.
He sighed as he looked at his messages, Ryota and Tomoya had both cancelled, but he hadn't heard anything from Taka for 20 minutes. Taka had said he left his apartment and was heading over, but had yet to show up. Taka only lived a 5 minute train ride away, but there were delays on trains and traffic jams everywhere.
Toru sat there, watching the tv praying there would be no breaking news alerts of “25 year old man freezes to death”. He sighed, pushing thoughts of Taka freezing out of his head and decided to call him.
“Hey, where are you?” Asked Toru, full of concern yet grateful Taka had picked up.
There was mostly static at the other end, no sound of Taka which worried Toru even more. Then the line dropped. Toru sighed and made note of the time. If Taka hadn't showed up by 6pm, he would go out for a search party.
He stared at the time on the tv as he debated whether or not to just go out and search now. If Taka was in danger, it was bloody freezing outside. The news anchor was on the screen, talking about how frostbite could happen within minutes in this kind of weather.
“Then why the fuck are you standing outside…” Toru said out loud to his empty apartment.
He turned off the tv and went to grab his winter gear before heading to search for Taka. Snow storms in Tokyo were rare, but he did have a bit of winter gear. He wondered if Taka also had any winter clothing. What if Taka had decided to go out wearing just a basic coat thinking it wasn't that cold?

Toru left his apartment and the cold hit him instantly. It was absolutely bloody freezing and the snow was almost to his knees.
He thought about how short Taka was. If the snow was almost hitting Toru's knees, it was definitely above Taka's knees. How would he be able to move? Perhaps he never fell, maybe he was just stuck.
Toru got to the corner near his apartment. It had taken him 10 minutes to walk about 15 feet.

“What are you doing outside, you fucking idiot?” He heard a familiar voice yelling at him.

“Trying to find you. You messaged me more than half an hour ago and you hadn't showed up” replied Toru as Taka got close to him.

Taka was close enough that Toru could clearly make out his features, but Toru could see him struggling with the snow and it took Taka forever to reach him.

“There's a fucking snowstorm Toru. The train was delayed” responded Taka as the two men struggled to walk 15 feet back to Toru's apartment.

Toru looked over at Taka, he didn't look like he was cold. Although the station wasn't much farther than where he had actually met with Taka.

“I called you, you picked up and then the line dropped. I thought something bad happened” mentioned Toru.

“Cell service on the subways suck” noted Taka as they finally reached Toru's apartment.