[Yami]

And if only I could, I'd make a deal with God

It had been nearly a week since he'd been found. Six days, exactly, and five hours--though, Reiji had not been conscious for a great deal of it. The injuries he'd sustained had mostly been healed at this point, thanks to the aid of professionals who better knew what they were doing than the man who had found the boy. Everything still hurt--but it was manageable, now, at least.
    There were still other things wrong with him, though. And whatever journey toward normalcy he was striving toward, the boy still had a great deal more to go. Though most of it was fuzzy and difficult for him to place, his present living situation had left him in rather poor state, with several permanent marks. Some physical, some less so. But he was alive. And for the time being he was safe. And, really, he couldn't have hoped for anything more than just that.
    Today, Shiro was taking him to meet again with.. someone.
    Reiji didn't speak much, and when he did there were several words he struggled with. Names were particularly difficult--pronouncing and remembering them alike. So he couldn't remember who it was that Shiro said he was being taken to see, but he wasn't sure if there was much he could really do to protest or argue even if he did have a better idea of what was going on.
    At this point, he'd mostly given up, anyway. The old man had made it quite apparent that he didn't have any interest on killing or harming Reiji--so he'd been deemed as trustworthy. For now, at least. The Kyōbō boy still wasn't sure entirely how things would go moving forward--things could still turn south, he was certain. So, he didn't want to get his hopes up too high, but... it... seemed... like it was going to be okay.

Nue Toru  | 308 | let's go~

GLASS HAS GANGNAM STYLE

[Nue Toru]

Toru found himself outside of his usual research laboratory and instead sat within a small examination room. He had still brought a good deal of his work with him, several messy stacks of papers taking up most of the open counter space within the exam room. The head medic was sat cross-legged on the exam table, with a paper in either hand and several more scattered in his immediate reach upon the exam table. Mumbling to himself, somewhat incoherently; the medic was currently going over a variety of notes related to the precise control and extension of chakra from points that would generally be considered uncommon such as one's spine or heart. There were several jutsu the somewhat crazed Nue was in the process of developing in conjunction with one another and he would be damned if a request for a physical of some vagrant took him away from his work for too long.

Eventually however, the time for his requested duties would arrive, a nurse cautiously opening the door and just barely stepping into the room to inform him that the patient had arrived. There was a slight twitch within Toru's body, but his ever present smile remained transfixed as if it was a permanent feature of his body and his dull and seemingly lifeless eyes rolled up to try and meet the nurse's shifting gaze.

"Show him in then."

The words themselves were professional and the tone mostly a pleasant one, but there was some element to the pacing at which he said them which gave off the impression that he should not have had to instruct her to do such. Perhaps the nurse had intended to make sure Toru did not want to make the boy wait or wanted to make sure he was not interrupted at a delicate moment, but in his eyes all the nurse had done was manage to waste a few more seconds of his time.

With the boy to arrive any second, Toru began to gather up the various papers scattered on the exam table, hopping off of it and moving to settle the papers in hand back into the few messy stacks of research papers around the room. Moving his hands behind his back. All in all Toru looked every part a doctor with his neat white coat, but the smile which seemingly threatened to split his face and two paired with the dead fish-like eyes somewhat ruined the otherwise professional appearance.

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