Tohoku's hope

Today is the day I go home. Today is the day I see our town after the tsunami. Todays the day we find my father.

My Mum's hands grip the side of the bus steadying herself we haven't been back to Tohoku since. My brother kicks the back of the seat we haven't seen our house since the wave-
"Don't expect anything" Mum says but I can't help but hope it'll be just the way we left it. I want to go back to my room and see all my books in alphabetical order my bed unmade as I left it in the morning.

The bus is packed people hand off the back and out the window, everyone just wants to go back home and rebuild what little life they have left. I was in school when the sirens went off we had to run to higher ground. It's funny all the drills we went through, but someone I knew this time was different no one cheered it was too quiet- as soon as we got out the school doors I saw the wave crashing down smothering building and houses. It was moving to fast I was sure I would never out run it. But I did somehow, somewhere- someone was looking out for me.
"Haruka?" I look up
"What time is it?" I glance down at my watch
"4:31" he goes back playing with his toy car, it's all my brother managed to save. We have nothing apart from the clothes off our backs and shoes that rub me and the bus it becoming warmer by the minute. Faces I once laughed with, stare vacantly out the window. It's as if someones switched all our emotions off- the fuse has been blown, how can I turn them back on again?

Finally we begin to move, my eyes walk the path my legs once did I watch and I wait the drive is long but it feels short the anticipation of what is to come taunts me.

Then I see it, nothing flattened land with the wind blowing through it, not one house remains not one garden just earth stripped down. A woman wail and others join in. My mother lifts her head and just stares with the same look as the rest of us.
"Haruka come" She gestures I didn't even notice the engine turn off, I wasn't the only one the bus begins to empty "Huy" I call he looks up and follows car in hand. I can't tell where we are standing it all looks the same. My mother knows she walks the road as if everything was the same, as if nothing had changed. We swerve and I don't think we are even in the right direction but she stops.
"Here" and I look I look where our house once stood I look down my road where the bus stop used to be at the end and I see nothing oblivion simply everywhere I look no where to hide. Huy sits he looks up at me I smile but I don't know why.
"Haruka, help me" She scavenges through what little rubble there is every so often pausing but sure enough we find thing, pots and pans a few items of clothing the door to my room. But this isn't home anymore "Mum, where is Papa"
"I don't know."

No one knows where they are anymore, who've they've lost if they're even alive I thought he would be here, I thought this was where we'd meet- but we may never find him at this rate, we were all taken to different rescue centers all to re-peice our lives apart. I leave him a note
Papi I'm here so is Mum and Huy we will find you and we love you
HaruXX
I don't know if the wind will blow it away, I don't know if he will even find it but I have hope, and thats all thats left now.