Chapter 277: Idiots

Krista looked up at Haru and clenched her hands a little tighter as she tried to build up the courage to tell him exactly how long he had been in a coma. She felt worried that he might cry if he found out how much he had missed, but she knew that she couldn't lie to him about it.

"Well, um." Krista stuttered as she tried to get the words out of her mouth, but it seemed like whatever she tried wasn't working, and she felt useless that she couldn't even talk to her own son. She looked down for a moment before then suddenly making eye contact after finding the courage that she struggled to locate.

"It's been about six months since you first arrived here in Japan, but you were in the shanghai hospital for two weeks before they decided to transfer you to Tokyo so we could be by your side," Krista said with each word, making her look down in shame, but Haru squeezed her hand this time to comfort her.

"Mom, It's okay. I'm okay. I feel wonderful, so I'm sorry for worrying you." Haru said with a faked smile that was seen through the moment he showed it to his mother.

Krista took a deep breath before looking him in the eyes again.

"You're not fine, Haru. I'm your mother. I can see when you are hurting. And I know that you are feeling guilty for what happened. But I just want you to know that it's not your fault, and everything will be okay now." Krista suddenly stood up and hugged him again before turning to the door as it suddenly jolted in its frame.

"Sir, you can't go in there." The voice of one of the nurses called out as someone pulled down on the door handle.

"Like hell, I can't? My son is in there!" Luke's familiar voice called out from the other side of the door as the door suddenly jolted again before flying entirely open, revealing Haru lying on the bed.

"Dad?" Haru asked as Luke stood in the doorway, holding a toddler with short black hair in his arms. Luke's eyes darted around the room before looking directly at Haru, who was still lying in his bed with Krista's arms around him.

"H-Haru." Luke seemed at a loss. It was as though his whole world came crashing down around him as he looked over at Haru.

At first, Haru thought that Krista was the one hurt more by what had happened to him given the fact that she had dark eye bags and but Luke looked like he was the one the most affected by Haru being comatose.

His beard had grown out much longer than it had ever done before, and the tip of his hair strands was beginning to grey from the stress of seeing his son, day in and day out, laying in bed without so much as opening his eyes.

It was almost as if Haru had died, and they were just looking at his body every time they visited him, and that wasn't good for their daughter.

Krista and Luke had decided that they would split the job of looking after Haru and only allow Saki to visit once every week, so she didn't get too used to seeing Haru like that.

It seemed as though Saki was the only thing that kept them going as they had to deal with doctors and nurses constantly telling them that there was nothing wrong with Haru, and they didn't know why he wasn't waking up. It was a mystery to them.

Every specialist that came to see Haru left feeling perplexed and apologised profusely for not being able to do anything despite being an expert in their field. They just all came to the conclusion that he was sleeping. Or it was at least something similar to falling asleep.

I tore Krista and Luke apart, and they would constantly argue until they saw that their pointless fighting was affecting Saki's behaviour, so instead of shouting mindlessly at each other, they came to a compromise and scheduled the dates and times that each of them would sit by Haru's side.

They concluded that Krista would visit later in the night since she had to work during that morning most days, and luke would take the mornings. But every weekend, they would go to visit together and take Saki to see her older brother.

It became less painful for the two of them once they started to schedule things, but it still hurt to see him like that, so as Luke heard that Haru had woken up from one of the doctors, he rushed through the corridors while holding Saki in his arms and then running straight towards Haru's room.

He didn't even take the time to register his visit with the nurse outside and rushed right past the security guards and into Haru's room.

"Haru!" Luke called out once again as he looked at his son lying on the bed.

"Yes?" Haru asked as though he didn't know why he was being shouted at, but before either of them could say anything. The toddler in his arms held out her arms and shouted out.

"Take! Take!" While looking at Luke.

"Take? Take what?" Luke asked, confused. It was so out of the ordinary that it took his mind off the fact that Haru was awake, but he soon figured out what she meant as she pointed over at Haru.

"You want to go to your big brother?" Luke asked as he looked down at Saki, to which she nodded her head enthusiastically and pointed at Haru yet again.

"She can speak now? The last time I saw her, she was only a baby. Where did this come from?" Haru asked, surprised by the fact that his two-year-old sister was talking.

"Well, You could talk when you were two also. I guess you she is just a quick learner like yourself." Krista smiled, not thinking anything of it, but Haru, on the other hand, knew the truth.

The only reason he could talk when he was an infant was that he was reincarnated and already knew how to talk. He then looked at Saki with suspicion as Luke carried her over and placed her down on the bed.

"You made your mother, and I worry so much. Don't ever do this again, please." Luke said while covering his eyes. He couldn't hold in his emotions any longer and broke down crying. Krista was quick to comfort him and brought him into an embrace.

But as no one was paying attention to Saki, she crawled around the bed until she was behind Haru and then used his back to hold herself upright before putting her arms around his neck.

"Daddy, worry! Mommy worry! Me Worry!" Saki said before pulling her arms tighter around Haru's neck as though she was trying to choke him, but given the fact she was only two years old, she didn't have enough strength to come close to harming anyone.

Krista and Luke both looked up to see Saki hugging Haru from behind and then looked at each other with questioning eyes.

"What?" Krista asked Luke with her eyes wide opened.

"Did she just…?" Before anyone could say anything else, Haru bent over quickly, causing Saki to flip over his shoulder's before catching her in his arms.

"Don't try to choke anyone, okay? That's dangerous. You could hurt them." Haru said and then pinched her nose before looking up at his parents, who were staring at Saki with a look of concern on their faces.

"She really does take after her older brother, doesn't she?" Luke asked as they looked at Saki, trying to get back up, but Haru kept his hand on her shoulder and let her rest her head on his lap.

"Get off." The words came out of Saki's mouth with a struggle.

Haru looked down at his sister with suspicion as he thought about what Li Jun had once told him. People who are reincarnated as babies would develop quicker than those around them, but not all of them had memories from their former lives, yet they would still learn how to do things that were natural to them before they died during the early years of their new life.

'Could she be?' Haru thought to himself as he looked down at her and then noticed her smiling and looking up into his eyes.

"Wah! Argh! Mommy!" Saki started crying since she couldn't move, thanks to Haru resting his hand on her shoulder.

Krista's eyes turned dark and evil looking as she looked at Haru.

"Haru! Don't make your sister cry. I know that you just woke up from a coma, but if you test my patience, I will kill you!" Krista shouted before picking Saki up into her arms and comforting her.

"Did your mean big brother hurt you? Do you think mommy should hurt him to get payback?" Krista asked Saki while hugging her.

Haru couldn't hold it in anymore. He went into a fit of laughter before falling backwards onto his bed. He tried to cover his mouth with his hand to stop himself from laughing, but he couldn't hold it.

After everything that had happened to him, he found it funny that his parents remained that same. He felt instantly welcomed back into the family even after being away from them for four years. Only a specific type of people could be the same after that amount of time, and Haru now figured out what type of people his parents were.

"Idiots," Haru stated while laughing to himself.