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"You haven't gone on an official date with the Intern despite being with home most of the time?" Hiiro asks me, wiping off the table to make sure it is clean. Who is he to judge me for not going on an official date yet? We've been busy.


The other day was a busy day for me since I was looking for Kuroto. But nope, he is hiding out somewhere. Then again, I should have thought about it some more. Why would he be where I can find him? That means others could find him and bring him down.


"If you're trying to reach you know who, you should stop. He'll come to you when you need him to," Hiiro states. "Right now you need to focus on going on a date with the Intern. And if you want to go on a date, looking like that isn't the way to go. Why do you have to look so casual most of the time? You were trying to get his attention before."


Maybe it is because I already have his attention now? I can't take all of the attention from his patients and things he needs to get done. He's a busy boy.


"Aren't you going to answer me?"


"I don't think I need to focus on getting his attention any longer really. I already have him don't I?" I just don't have him in his bedroom yet. I know we both want to get there, but we just don't know how we're going to get there when we're not drunk.


"You two are seriously the most pathetic pair I have ever seen."


"Like you could get anywhere with a woman."


"I could if I really wanted to, but I have no need to."


He doesn't feel the need to because he misses Saki a lot. I'm sure having me with Emu kind of rubs salt into his fresh wounds. They wouldn't be fresh if he would have moved on already, but I get it. He really did love her. He was just too young and dumb to appreciate what he had.


"You honestly probably could now that I'm thinking about it. You do have a lot of ladies who admire you here at the hospital," I say, shrugging my shoulders. "Honestly, Hiiro, is it that painful to the point you can't date?"


He looks at me, tossing the wipe into the trashcan somehow. He seriously has that much skill? What am I? A potato or something? 


"Saki was the only woman I could bring myself to love romantically due to her personality. I was pretty anti-social then." And nothing has changed. "But she wanted to get to know me and so I got to know her."


"Sounds pretty nice, Hiiro." I wonder what she was like. I probably won't ever meet her while I am here, but that is okay. I just want to see Hiiro do something other than pout. 


"It was a nice time for me and then it ended with her getting the Bugster Virus. That Bugster, Graphite, I hate him."


"He's pretty dead."


"I still hate him. Oh, I also hate Taiga." Yeah, sure on the Taiga part. They will probably get along later since I don't see them hating each other for that long.


I nod. "Whatever you say, Hiiro."


"I have been keeping an eye on everything around us and I haven't noticed any signs of dying out yet. I'm going to assume that things are going to be fine for a bit longer, but then we'll see something that isn't normal." He's switching the subject now. Good for him.


"How long do you think it'll take for that to happen?" I ask. I'm curious about what we'll see that doesn't belong.


"It doesn't even have to be something obvious to the eye. I would ask him about it, but he's off the radar right now. So, I'm going to assume that it can be something not obvious to the naked eye or a weather kind of thing that happens in movies."


"Are you saying it'll be something like a thunderstorm?"


"It is possible." He nods. "It could even end up being something strong like an earthquake. I don't know what it'll be yet and we should be ready to deal with whatever it will be at any moment."


I'm not sure how we can prepare for something like that. I want to have time to go on dates with Emu without freaking out if the world here is going to end suddenly or not. Whenever I see Jennie with Taiga again, I'm going to ask her if she has any ideas yet. 


"I have a feeling that will we see that man soon." He thinks we'll see Kuroto soon. "Knowing him, he'll keep things going in the way that they should be going."


"He told me that he would. I think he's bound by character," I reply. If he's aware that he's evil, he's going to keep being evil since that is the natural thing for him to do. It would be odd if he suddenly decided to be a good guy.


"It is odd that he decided to help this world, but I don't blame him. It is his home and he probably wants to keep it that way. If this world cracks, it could open up as a portal. I've been thinking about that and looking into science fictional stories online."


I laugh. "You have too much time on your hands."


"At times I do. Not every single day for me is a surgery. We have other workers who do a great job like I do." 


"But no one is better than you at doing surgeries. Anyways, you think this world might end up as a portal if it gets the chance to be? What would that mean for this world and the others?"


"Before this one gets destroyed somehow, it'll open up cracks of some sort. I think these cracks won't be actual cracks, but portals of some sort. Let's say you're out on a walk and you are enjoying it. Suddenly, you walk through something and end up in a place that is similar to where you just were. However, it isn't where you just were."


"Kind of like walking into an alternative universe, right?"


"Correct. I am glad you're able to keep up." He turns away from me, moving over to the stairs. He places his hands on the railing of it and sighs a bit. "It is extremely difficult to figure out what is in store for this world and how it came to this."


"I doubt even Kuroto knows what happened."


"Yeah, same." 


Hiiro is working harder than I am. I've been too busy trying to get a guy that I haven't been doing what I was told to do. Not that I wasn't told I couldn't get a guy. Kuroto only said the guy had to be someone who isn't Parad, so I think I have the right to focus a bit on a guy. It isn't like this every single day of my life at home, so it is good to get it out here.


"What happens if I get stuck here when the world is destroyed?" 


"Then you would probably slip into a crack in the world or die. I'm not going to assume it is death instantly, since we don't know all of what will happen just yet. It is too hard and complex for us to truly understand. We can only come up with theories about what is going on and what will happen." In other words, nothing is set in stone with what will happen to me if I don't do what I need to do.


"I should probably talk to Kuroto when I can. I know he's not harmful, so I can let my guard down a little. Anyways, I'm going to go and talk to Emu. He wanted to hang out with me for a little when he goes on break."


"I'll stay here in case of any emergency calls," Hiiro replies, turning back to me and letting go of the rail. "You can focus on getting intimate with the Intern. I'll handle the thinking for now since you're not going to come up with anything better than I have." And he's right on that. I hope he doesn't mean that I'm stupid.


"Whatever you want, do it!" I grin. He's not that bad of a guy.


~.~


"It is so nice out here!" I exclaim, looking up at the sky. The outside of the hospital is quite nice and has a good spot to stare at the sky. 


"This bench isn't the best bench to sit on, but it'll do."


I look away from the sky and back at Emu, smiling. "How's work going for you? I know that you're watching people do things and trying to pick up it all. It probably isn't that exciting."


"Uh...I guess you can say that it isn't all that exciting, but I like doing it. I'm going to help so many people get on with their lives once I'm done with all my training. I have always wanted to put a smile on the faces of those who need help."


He's so sweet! I know that he had an experience that made him want to do this. Honestly, I think that is how most things work. We experience something that influences us to go a certain way in life or we're raised a certain way and we go down the path it has shown us. My path is unknown since I'm kind of stuck here.


"I'm glad you like doing your job. It would be bad if you hated it," I say, laughing a little. "I know it isn't funny, but I'm thinking about working at a place I hate. I think I would hate to work with someone like Taiga."


"He is difficult to get along with, huh? He took my gashat before," Emu tells me. "I know you don't know him that well, but you probably know his name...Kiriya Kujo."


"Kiriya Kujo..." He's dead right now because Kuroto offed him. He tricked him into meeting up with him and offed him after Kiriya met with his daddy.


"He helped me get them back and he was a good liar. But he was a pretty good friend in my eyes and he just did what he thought was right. I can't believe he acted like he didn't know Kuroto was a Kamen Rider. I feel stupid that I thought he lied."


How can one not feel stupid about that? However, it was a complex situation. Parad took Kuroto's place and pretended to be Kamen Rider Gemn. Kiriya went along with it because he looked bad and he finally got the level three gashat he wanted.


"You didn't do anything wrong then, I'm sure. When things look a certain way, we see it that way. Like if someone kills someone by accident, but someone saw it far away or in a different angle. They will believe that what they saw is the real story behind what happened," I tell him. Where did I get that from?


"You are too kind." He looks in to my eyes, smiling softly. His eyes are just so warm and soft looking, which makes me want to keep looking at them all day long.


"You're better than me." He is better than me. He's kinder and way more useful than I'll ever be to this world. "Oh, before I forget, how about we go on an actual date? Hiiro told me that I should go on one with you." He was more like a jerk about it, but I'll pretend he wasn't. 


"Hiiro wants us to go out on an actual date? What's wrong with playing video games and reading medical books together?" He looks so confused now. I don't blame him because Hiiro has been kind of odd towards us. It is like he wants us to go out and have a good time so he can be alone.


I shrug as Emu pouts a little. He probably is thinking he's not treating me well as a boyfriend now. Good job, Hiiro! 


"I guess I can take you out to eat somewhere. Where do you want to go?" Emu asks me. "Actually, knowing you, you want to go and eat fast food. Just remember not to do it all the time."


I laugh, looking away. "How did you know that I would want to do that?" Fast food is delicious, but bad for the body.


"Because you love greasy food and you are slightly a slob at times. Not that I mind," Emu answers. "So, how about it? I'll walk you there after I get off."


I look back at him and grin. "Sounds wonderful to me."


While Hiiro is busy thinking about things, I'll worry about my date. I will find Kuroto later and talk with him. But first, my date needs to go well. If it doesn't go well, I'll be upset.


Now, that reminds me, where in the world is Parad? He's been hiding away and that doesn't seem like a good thing. I just hope he doesn't find out about me and Emu. At least, not yet.


A/n: And here's another chapter. I know it isn't the best chapter in the world, but sometimes you need some chapters that function as filler chapters. What was that? A Kiriya name drop? :o Hm...I wonder what he'll do once he shows back up (if you don't know what happened in the show, I think you should look it up or watch it first. Up to you). 


I think in two chapters we will get back to where we left off with the events in the show. It will complicate matters and make things more difficult on Elkie. Trust me.

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