gravity of innocence

The hospital was noisier than usual. Nurses were running from one room to another .Someone was paging a doctor ,a sick man was moaning , a woman was crying ,a doctor was giving orders and another doctor was changing his uniform. The emergency part of hospital was always like this. It needed courage to stay here and watch a young kid or a pregnant woman die in front of you.

Doctor Eiri Yuki was standing next to a wall. He watched the people who were passing in front of him. Either they were nurses or doctors. He sighed. Sometimes he wondered why he chose to be a doctor. It was a difficult responsibility and it was more difficult and painful to watch someone die while you were trying to save their lives.

"Doctor Yuki! Doctor Yuki! Mr. Seguchi says there's something that he wants to discuss with you as soon as possible."

Eiri groaned but didn't say anything .Damn that annoying manager. Why they didn't give him sometime off? He leaned on the wall next to the window. It was autumn and everything was red and yellow. Running a hand through his blonde hair he lit a cigarette and inhaled.
If anybody saw him smoking in the hospital, they would rip his head off. A doctor smoking in the hospital was completely unacceptable but it wasn't like that he gave a damn. He always did what he felt like doing and this time there was no difference. Burning the cigarette on the ground with his foot, he left the emergency to meet his annoying manager. To his surprise, the other parts of hospital were intriguingly quiet.

'Tonight is so quiet. That's a relief. I really appreciate this silence.'

Doctor Eiri Yuki was one of the most famous doctors in the whole USA. You wouldn't find a person who knew what the meaning of word "Doctor" was and didn't know him.

Eiri's life was different from the others. He was born in a very obsessive family with an even more obsessive father who always thought that Eiri should become a monk. His mother was a teacher who always agreed to what his father said no matter how wrong he was but Eiri looked like anybody but a monk and his sister was never home to see what was happening so she was no help for Eiri and unfortunately his brother was too small to understand anything..

His hair was oddly blonde .although all of his family had black hair and his eyes were...golden. Exactly golden and no matter at what age, he was always taller than others at his age. People always said he had the sexiest face and sexiest figure in the world.
His form was lean but strong and he was good at sports. Hence, he was good at everything. At the age of 12, he knew everything that a 16-year-old student had troubles learning. No matter what the problem was, everybody knew that Eric was able to solve it.
He was a very determined and stubborn boy by nature.
When he attended high school every girl or sometimes some boys fell for him. It was not like that he liked them to do that. Always, he was either seen with a book or a notebook and sometimes he spent his time on walking in the rain at the seaside but it seemed like people loved him more that way. Everybody wanted to know what was going on in this sexy boy's head.

At the age of 17, he started his physical relationships which almost gave his father a heart attack and Eiri not accepting his father's request for becoming a monk made everything worse. He remembered after his father had found out that he had slept with three girls, there was a huge fight between them which ended up with Eiri going to his bedroom as coolly as he could saying he would have sex with anybody he choose to and his father couldn't stop him.
After that he was as unwelcome as some trash in his family. Not being able to tolerate such treatment he left his family house and left his parents and his sister behind. He didn't talk to them anymore.

Being the intelligent boy he was, he attended Harvard university .One year later he was the idol of every student in the whole university.
He wasn't a kind of student who studied 24/7 a week. The way he studied, the way he walked, the way he talked and they way he looked always made everybody crazy with admiration.

Soon, after being educated he left USA to England since he wanted to take his PHT there. First he had his PHT in heart diseases then he educated in medical psychology.

Finally at the age of 25, he was the most well-known professor, doctor as he liked to call himself in USA.

For two years he was working in the central hospital in LA and everything was just fine but life does funny things. It was last year when he found that their new manager was nobody but his damn brother in law.
Needless to say he didn't like this change of events at all. it only meant trouble since now he had to hang out with his sister, Mika, more often and the second problem and the more important one was the fact that he had spent one year with Tohma in England and unfortunately or maybe fortunately Tohma knew some secrets about Eiri that he didn't want to share with anybody.

Eiri softly knocked on the manger's door office and patiently waited.

"Come in."

Eiri opened the door. Surely enough Tohma was on his leather chair reading something that looked like a letter. There was a frown on his face that made his boyish face more adorable. People who didn't know Tohma enough always thought that Tohma was just a cute man, but Eiri knew more than that and he had seen the true face behind that cute face .Tohma was a man that when he wanted something he always got it,no matter what the case was.

Tohma looked up and seeing Eiri standing in front of him his face lit up.

"Oh, Eiri ! I'm glad you came yourself. I was afraid I should have come myself and talked to you since you never take my requests seriously."

Eiri rolled his eyes but didn't say anything. Tohma mentioned for him to sit and Eiri obeyed without hesitatation. His feet were aching from standing all day.
Being a doctor was certainly the most difficult job in the world.

Tohma reading Eiri's thoughts said:

"You don't have to work this much Eiri. You're working like a common doctor including doing heart operations and sometimes taking care of children psychologies and psychopaths and I've told you hundred times that you don't need to. Doing only heart operations is fine."

"And I've told you endless times that I like what I'm doing."

Tohma didn't say any thing; instead he smiled and opened a profile.

"Eiri, I need you to do something for me. It's a favor."

Eiri crossed his legs and waited for Tohma to continue.

"Yesterday a boy has been brought here from the emergency hospital. They brought him here and asked us to take care of him since they don't have enough money to take care of him. He's been in that hospital for almost six months."

"Is he from a poor family?"

"We don't know. The boy has been found in the middle of a street bloody, wounded and with pneumonia and He doesn't say what has happened to him and says he doesn't have a family."

"Go on."

"So they have brought him here since his condition is getting worse."

"You mean they were unable to cure pneumonia?"

"No, no, they boy has a strange heart disease and they were unable to operate him. I'm asking you to do that."

"Why don't you ask Doctor Butler? He's as good as me at heart operations."

"Because you are a psychologist and he's not. Police is curious to know what has happened to him. It seems that some people have done something to him and whenever somebody asks him he goes hysteric and ends up in CCU since he has a heart disease."

"How can I help you?"

"I want you to ask him what has happened to him. I don't want to see police walk in hallways Eric. The sooner this case is finished the better and then we have to persuade police to pay for the operation."

Eiri stood up and went toward the door. He just didn't feel like talking. His head was bursting from pain and his feet were still aching.

"Well, what are you going to do?"

Eiri opened the door and without turning around he said:

"Put his profile on my desk. Tomorrow I'm going to see him."

"Eiri, this boy is more stubborn than you. Please do your best and thank you by the way."

Tohma didn't hear any response since the door was already closed.


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