Here is chapter 4. I'll try to keep the update speed at one chapter every 2 days, let's see if I can keep it that way throughout the story. I hope you enjoy it. Please follow fav and leave a comment if you do.
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Megumi entered the "Meguri Ai" and looked at the woman sleeping at the bar with an almost empty bottle of Whiskey at her side. Mary Jane Yoko looked at her and sighed as he glanced at Mihoko's sleeping form. The okama had called her a couple of hours ago to come and get her friend but Megumi had not finished her shift yet and had to find someone to cover the rest of it before going to pick up her friend.
"Sorry I couldn't get here sooner" Megumi apologized to the owner of the bar.
"Don't worry, she passed out shortly after I called you." Mary Jane replied. "I had guessed that the reason she was coming here with you again was because of a bad breakup but I didn't expect it to be this bad."
"She really liked this boyfriend" Megumi explained before approaching her friend and shaking her awake. Mihoko groaned as she opened her eyes and looked at her best friend with her eyes almost shut.
"Megumi?" She asked, a little uncertain about who the person who'd woken her up was.
"Yep" Megumi replied, helping her up. "I thought you told me you were going to stay home today. Watch some tv."
"I just felt like going out. Get my mind off the breakup." She said. "Perhaps I should go back to work."
"You are on vacation, you still have a few days left." Megumi reminded her.
Almost three weeks had passed since Megumi returned from Toronto and found out about Mihoko and her boyfriend splitting up and how badly the breakup had affected her. Her best friend had not been well since then. She had spent the night of Megumi's return drinking, crying about Ogata and ranting about men in general. She had also cried about not being able to work. Apparently, the week after the breakup, she'd barely slept and that had affected her work. Worried, both about Mihoko and any potential lawsuits, her superiors at the Perinatal Care Center had given her some time off to get back on her feet and go back to being her usual, competent self. After hearing that, Megumi had invited Mihoko to stay with her. After all, the apartment she was living in was one she had shared with Ogata and both Haruka and Megumi thought it would do Mihoko good if she spent some time away from it. So far, their plan wasn't working as they'd expected.
"Megumi, do you think I should go back to Lifesaving?" Mihoko asked, snapping Megumi out of her thoughts.
"What?" Megumi couldn't help but ask, completely caught off guard by Mihoko's question.
"I've been thinking about it for a while now. I want to go back to Lifesaving" Mihoko told her friend, groaning in pain as her headache increased.
"Let's talk about it when you are not hungover" Megumi said kindly as she helped her friend towards the door which Mary Jane opened for them, waving goodbye with a worried expression as they walked past him.
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"I was talking seriously, you know?" Mihoko said after waking up the next afternoon.
"Hey, good to see you recovered from the hangover." Megumi greeted her friend, looking away from her laptop's screen. "About what?"
"About going back to Lifesaving" Mihoko said.
"Not that I wouldn't love to have you be part of the team again, but I thought you found your true calling as an OB-GYN working at the Perinatal Care Center. Why do you want to come back?"
"Do you remember around half a year ago, when there were several serious traffic accidents due to an earthquake?" Mihoko said. Megumi nodded, it would have been hard not to remember that day. It had been a really busy day for both the members of the EMS and the hospital staff in general. "I helped tending to the injured at the scene of one of those accidents. I acted just like I was taught to act in a situation like that. I helped save some lives and even helped a pregnant woman deliver her baby. It was a terrible situation and, sometimes, I felt as scared as in my first years in Lifesaving. However, I also felt like I belonged there. Helping people during those kinds of situations. Tending to them before sending them to the hospital. I don't regret having become an OB-GYN, it's just that I feel that I belong in Lifesaving."
"Aren't you just feeling nostalgic?" Megumi asked.
"I thought so too at first. I buried myself in work, to the point where I ended up pushing Ogata into the arms of some Kindergarten teacher" Mihoko answered while shaking her head. "But the feeling has only grown stronger. I want to go back."
"I think that you are only remembering the best things. I've seen you go through a lot when we worked together as flight doctors. And I clearly recall that, the last time you worked in Lifesaving, you couldn't wait to get back to the Perinatal Care Center." Megumi reminded her. It wasn't that she didn't want her friend working back at Lifesaving. It was that she remembered how much Mihoko had suffered sometimes during her time at Shohoku and she didn't wish for her to suffer like that again
"Megumi, you don't need to remind me of that. I know how I felt about Lifesaving, I remember the worst times more vividly than I do the good ones. Despite that, I still want to go back." Mihoko replied, sounding sincere.
Suddenly, something dawned on Megumi. "The Perinatal Care Center didn't really give you all this time off to get back on your feet. Did they?" She asked.
"They gave me a week off. I presented my resignation three days later." Mihoko replied. "I gotta say. It seemed like they were expecting it since long ago, since before the breakup. From what I've been told, my replacement began working there a week after they received my resignation. I didn't tell you any of this before because I knew you'd react like this, and because I think I wanted to get better before returning to Lifesaving. But now, I think I need to return to get over the breakup." She explained.
Megumi looked at her best friend, not saying anything for a few seconds. She felt a bit hurt that her best friend had not talked to her about this before but she couldn't say Mihoko's reasons for not doing so were wrong. She had just reacted like her friend expected her to after all. She looked at her friend's eyes, trying one last time to look for any hesitation. She found none, Mihoko looked completely sure about her decision. And, knowing how determined her friend could be when she wanted, Megumi knew that, even if she didn't help her get back her job in Lifesaving, she would try to get it back either way.
"Alright, if this is what you want, I'll speak to Doctor Tachibana tomorrow" Megumi finally said with a sigh.
Mihoko smiled at her in response and gave her a strong hug. "Thank you."
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"Say goodbye to Uncle Kōsaku" Keisuke told his son, opening the door of the taxi that was supposed to take them to the airport with one arm while holding his sleeping daughter with the other.
"No! Uncle Kōsaku is coming too! You said he was going to live in Japan like us! You said he was going to live in the same city as us!" Satoshi replied, crying as he hugged his uncle's leg.
"Your Uncle has some things to finish here first. When he is done, he will be going to Japan as well" Keisuke reassured his little boy.
"When will you be done?" The little boy asked between hiccups.
"Soon" Kōsaku replied. "I'll be there in seven weeks."
"Too long!" Satoshi cried, hugging the leg with more strength
"Satoshi!" Keisuke began to scold his son, however he stopped himself as he realized his daughter was beginning to wake up from her nap and that, if he continued, he'd soon have two crying children to deal with.
"Satoshi" Kōsaku said, kneeling in front of the little boy. "I need you to go to Japan before me. I need you to do something for me there until I arrive."
"What?" Satoshi asked, curious about whatKōsaku wanted him to do.
"Take care of Auntie Megumi for me. I'm worried about her and I trust no one else to protect her until I arrive." Kōsaku said. "Can you do that for me?"
"Yes!" The child replied, excited at the thought of his uncle trusting him so much and giving him such an important task. After that, he finally entered the taxi just as the driver finished putting their bags on the trunk of the car.
"I could take care of Megumi" Keisuke joked and Kōsaku threw him a murderous glare. "Ok, ok I'll leave it to him then." He added, chuckling at his friend's expression. "I don't know what she sees in you, you've no sense of humor at all."
"Get in the cab already" Kōsaku said, rolling his eyes.
"Ok, ok, I'm going" His friend replied, keeping an amused smile on his face. "See you in a few weeks."
Kōsaku nodded and Keisuke got on the taxi which left for the airport a few seconds later. Finally alone, the neurosurgeon pulled out his phone. It was 7 pm in Toronto, which made it 8 am the next day in Japan. He supposed it was a good time to call Megumi, so he pressed her number and did so. She picked up after two tones.
"Kōsaku" his girlfriend greeted him. "What's up?"
"Nothing, just wanted to talk to you. Is it a bad time?" He said.
"I'm on my way to talk to Dr. Tachibana. Mihoko wants to come back to Lifesaving as a flight doctor." She explained.
"I thought she was doing well in the Perinatal Care Center" Kōsaku said.
"She said she didn't feel like she belonged there, she says she belongs in Lifesaving" Megumi explained. "Where are you? I'm noticing a lot of background noise"
"I'm going home after saying goodbye to Keisuke and the kids. They just left for the airport." Her boyfriend answered.
"They should be arriving late tonight then. I'll call them tomorrow to have lunch." she said.
"I'm sure they'll like that" he replied.
"Listen, I see Doctor Tachibana so I need to end the call. Talk to you later." Megumi said.
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