As a doctor, what is a disease to you?

If I say that disease just want to live with us would you believe me?

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Boom!

Kovuya gasped as the lightning flashed past him with the sound of thunder. He was awake, lying on the bed. Its 1:42 am, what time did he come back?

Ah,yes…

Panting for breath he was far away from the Mortuary, and he was almost home. Just need more strength. Slumped on the brick wall of a building he struggled to stay on his feet. Soon he reached his apartment, entering into the living room. He fumbled switching on the lights, but he managed to anyway. He lay on the couch positioning his feet at the balcony, he stared at whatever was outside the balcony. Soon he regained his stamina, it was 10 :59 pm he had better prepare for the next day.

So that means he slept about 2 hours and 43 minutes… about there. He closed his eyes again, and fell into slumber.

Beep! Beep!

His alarm rang ,Kovuya open one bleary eye and the morning light glared into his pupils. It's the next day, and is a pretty sunny one… Propping himself with one arm he face the window from his bed, that was a close one I had yesterday he thought to himself. Sighing he lifted himself off the bed and shuffled to the toilet.

"KOVUYA!" Maria screamed as she slam the door to his office open. Kovuya who was leaning back on his chair with his feet up on the desk fell backwards with a crash, leaving Maria to watch him pick himself up. He quickly snatched up all the documents he was reading, shuffling the papers before turning to Maria. "My apologies for my sudden accident,what is it that you wish to speak to me about?" "Yea, you will have to come with me now." He nodded his head before placing his work down and followed Maria to the conference room.

As he entered the room with Maria, he sees that everyone has gathered. CR-S01, Tomoe Tachibana, Hank Freebird, Naomi Kimishima, Gabriel Cunningham and Maria Torres. "Hey kov! Good to know you didn't decline our invitation" Kovuya stared at him for a while before saying "Maria only told me that I had to follow her" Gabe stared at him before shouting at Maria " Maria!Its was an invitation to the conference!" Maria stomped her foot before yelling back "For goodness sake! He would just say NO!" Maria was right about that. Gabe sighed before speaking to Kovuya "You can leave this conference if you like" Kovuya shook his head before answering "I'll be glad to hear this out"

"And… That's it!" Gabe said. Everybody sat in silence before Tomoe spoke "So, we are being moved to Caduceus because the government want us to be trained for biological attacks?" Gabe nodded "Yup, just like what Derek Stiles, Markus Vaughn and Valerie Blaylock have been doing all their years. Fighting these… disease" Naomi spoke "Wait, so you said every single one of us will be sent to Caduceus?" Gabe nodded again and said "Yup, every single one of you. Naomi, the government have decided to change your… surgical issues." Naomi made no response to that. "Hold on!" Maria spoke, everyone turned their heads to her "If you said that the government is moving us there and we have no choice, why did you 'invite' Kovuya if he has to know he is going to move?" Hank took Gabe's role "The government has actually given him a choice, they had actually sent a request to join Caduceus days before we were asked to join Caduceus too…" Tomoe asked "Did you get the request?"

He got it but he didn't want to go, he was thinking about lying and claiming he got nothing. Instead he said something else "I have not given them my answer…" This time Naomi questioned him "Why didn't you accept?" He was not a surgeon, he could see no reason why they should give him such an opportunity so great… he just could accept the request. Instead of answering Naomi's question, he turned to Gabe and asked him "Why would they send a diagnostician to fight back diseases?" Gabe could only stare at him before smirking "So that's why you didn't respond to their request!" Everyone now was looking at Gabe "well, Mr Smarty Pants, why don't you tell us what this Mr Puzzle is trying to tell us?" Gabe just shrugged and answered "He is right, what can a diagnostician do when fighting back GUILT or Stigma? Honestly I don't know, but its worth finding out right?" Gabe looked at Kovuya. "So, we're all going, are you?" Kovuya inhaled slowly, he hates it when all eyes are on him.

"yes"

As Kovuya entered into his office, somebody grabbed his leg. He looked down to see Alyssa hugging him, she seem sad. She looked up at him with red puffy eyes "You're going too aren't you?" Kovuya stared at her with surprise "I heard everything! I heard everything outside the room" she sobbed "I don't want you to go!" Kovuya bent down and hugged her, she was one of the reason why he wanted to stay in Resurgam. He also didn't feel like leaving the town, he can no longer help the Mortuary if he leaves. He held her shoulders and looked at her before he asked "Don't you have anyone else to stay with?" She shook her head violently " I don't want to go into the Orphanage!" "Isn't Naomi taking you along?" "She says she can't!" Kovuya thought for a while before letting go of Alyssa and walking to his desk.

He switched on the monitor of his computer, went to his e-mail where the request from the government was. He began typing.

'Thank you for your request and I'm glad to say that I will accept your offer. Unfortunately before I leave to Caduceus I have one condition.'

He paused, and look at Alyssa who was looking at the screen. Oblivious to what he was going to write next. He spoke "Are you going to miss Joshua?" She nodded but said "I will miss him but Josh has his mother, he should be alright. Josh doesn't come to this hospital anymore, his mother won't let him…" He turned away from Alyssa and stared at the screen, shrugging his shoulder he continued typing.

'I wish to bring a young girl who has attachments to Doctor Naomi Kimishima. I believe this is not much to ask. My deepest apologies for such a late response

Signed
Kovuya Kifo'

He leaned back on his chair, the Mortuary can be his past… he is a 'mortician' that will never be noticed. Well neither did he want others to know that he was sneaking into the Mortuary and claiming he works there sometimes. Meeting Naomi there was actually unexpected but everyone thought he works there, good thing they don't tell anyone his name in the Mortuary. Alyssa was squealing in delight as she saw what he had typed out and sent. "Don't get too excited Alyssa, we are asking the government you know…" She nodded before skipping to his shelf and pulling out a whole bunch of Medical Science book to read. He was going to miss everything here, but like a Diagnostician. They have to observe their surroundings just like their patient. They have to find ways for their patient to adapt to their disease the less painful way as possible. This time, he has to find ways to drop all these attachments in this town or they would become a disease to him in his new environment.

He wonders if there is any other deceased waiting to be embalmed…

Creepy thoughts….

Naomi was walking down the corridor before bumping into Tomoe. "Oh! Hello Naomi." Tomoe smiled "hello Tomoe… Tell me, have you heard about the Ghost Mortician?" Tomoe thought for a while before answering "I think I have heard of that somewhere, we can ask Maria, I think she was the one who told me about this ghost…"They continued walking down the corridor and entered the doctor lounge. Maria was sitting with Hank, Gabe and Cr-s01 near the window, she turned and looked at them "Hey guys!" she waved "come over!" Tomoe and Naomi took a seat with them. Tomoe began "Maria, do you remember that gossip you told me about? The Ghost Mortician…" Maria thought back for a while before answering "Oh yea! The creepy Ghost Mortician that has been doing all the work in the Mortuary! What about it?" "Well, it seems like Naomi is asking about it" Gabe snorted "Naomi? Why would you look into these stuff Naomi?" Naomi answered " Because the Ghost Mortician will no longer bother then Mortuary soon" Everyone stared a her "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Maria waved her hands up "Look Naomi, I know you can 'speak' to the dead but why did you even speak to that…. Ghost?" Gabe sighed "Maria, you do know its not a real ghost right? Its actually someone sneaking into the Mortuary and 'volunteering'" "Yea, yea I know that!" Naomi spoke " What would you do if you saw the Ghost Mortician?" Maria rolled her eyes "I'll just see what that little Ghosty is up to! That's all." Gabe muttered "I'm just wondering why that ghost won't show itself out, there is nothing wrong doing that job!" S01 spoke "Unless he already has a job…"

Everyone looked at S01, Hank spoke "what do you mean?" S01 looked up from his cup of coffee and spoke "Maybe that ghost, like what Gabe said doesn't want to be known for some reason. Maybe the ghost already has a job and is taking this Mortuary as a side job, or volunteering… Either way, I think the ghost wants to be left to do what it wants since it has not done any harm" Naomi had the urge to tell them who it was but it might have an effect on Kovuya, if they leave this town its most likely that he would find another Mortuary and start the process as the Ghost Mortician again. He seemed to be really close to the deceased for some reason. Naomi sighed and said "If I tell you the Ghost Mortician is a lot more closer to us than you think, what will you do?" Maria shrugged and said "He did nothing wrong, but I guess I can understand people will treat him differently if he actually joins to be a Mortician…" Gabe nodded and said " Personally if he really loves to be 'closer to the dead' I'd tell him to let go of his previous job and rally live out his life as what he wants to be" Naomi thought for a while before answering " I've got special access to the monitor room, we can see who is there, but we will have to go early to see the Ghost…." "This is gonna be one heck of a day" Gabe muttered.

Everyone crammed into the monitor room and watch one by one the employers left the Mortuary, and finally the Boss left. "So everybody left, when is the Ghost coming?" Maria asked, Naomi answered "It takes time for it to come, around 8 …." So they ended up lazing about in the room, suddenly they see a movement in the reception. "What was that?!" Maria hissed, everyone looked at the screen showing the Reception, there was movement anymore. Again there was movement at the corner of the screen, this time it was in the first operating room. Before they could see who it was, there was only the swinging of doors in the monitor "Whoa, this guy gives me the creeps just watching here" Gabe shivered. Second operating room, third, fourth, fifth. Tomoe said "He is looking for the body!" The body was in the 13th room and he was approaching it. Eleventh, twelfth ,thirteen. The door swung open and a hand held it. The person entered the room but. "What the? I cant see a thing!" Maria growled. She was right, the ghost was wearing the uniform, the cap was hiding the hair and the fringe was covering the Ghost's eyes. Being dressed in the uniform no one could see what was the actual clothes the ghost wore.

The ghost got it its work, confident in every stroke it did, embalming it and draining it. It wasn't long before the ghost was done with the body and the deceased was sleeping. " Swiss cheese, he's good" Gabe murmured Then, somebody entered the reception, it was the boss. "Looks like the game is about to begin" S01 whispered.

Someone was here again, placing down the blade I had just cleaned I ran into the staff, Quickly I stripped off the uniform, hung it back to where it was and rushed back into the operating room.

Its coming from the reception again I quickly made my way to the left and stopped the doors from swinging back. I ran down a few rooms and stopped, the footsteps are quite far away but it is still approaching. Then I realized, I was in the 16th room! The stairways to the basement was in the 10th room. I heaved sigh, I'm in big trouble The person is now going through the operating rooms if i goes all the way to the end i would be cornered. Only one way to get out of this mess is to run past the boss somehow. Since the boss was going through the operating room i can go out by the corridor, the only thing is when the boss suddenly decides to exit the operating room and into the corridor. I looked, at the door in front of me where it leads to the corridor, the lights were off… Maybe… Maybe I can just miss the boss by being the ghost. The shadow will be my corridor. Exited the operating room, the lights shone through the circular glass ,I just have to steer clear of the parameter of the light, if I go too close to the circumference of the light I am bound to be caught.

Instead of staying as close a possible to the wall opposite the doors, he stood in between the doors of the two operating rooms, the blind spot. He made his way slowly,darting to the next blind spot as the boss too made her way down the operating rooms. Fourteen, thirteen… The boss's footstep stop and he froze, she was in the thirteen room. He crouch down and slowly moved to the twelfth room. She had not move after he managed to the twelfth room. He straightened himself slightly so he was just bending down. Quickly he moved down the room.

"She missed him!" Tomoe exclaimed "Well that's one heck of a smart Ghost, passing by without you ever knowing" Gabe muttered "Wait, wasn't the ghost wearing purple shirt?" S01 asked "Yea he was, so?" Maria raised an eyebrow. S01 looked at her "Didn't Kovuya wear a purple shirt today?"

The tenth room, I wasted no time running to the stairs. Using the same method, I slid down the railing. Stopped myself and took a few puffs, I'm going to need to get myself another load of Inhalers. I looked around myself, rows and rows of 'drawers' all hosting the lifeless. One day I will be there too.

"So, he is a Mortician with no actual experience…" Gabe muttered. Naomi spoke "I did a research on him, he has almost a photographic memory but he cannot use that 'ability' very well" Hank asked "What do you mean?" "It's most likely he has watched Morticians do their work and he only just following their movements." Naomi spoke as she looked at the screen." Well, then how can you explain the fact that he knows where to cut and drain all the blood" Gabe demanded " Logic…" Was her response. Maria spoke "Maybe that's why the government want him, he knows how to 'cut', but its just that he is not skilled in Surgery, only in embalming" S01 muttered "You may very well be right…"

Why would a doctor say that diseases would want to live with us?

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They cannot help the fact that they harm us…

Its their nature…