Chapter 278: New car.

Haru spent time with his family in the hospital for a while before the doctors returned to run tests on him. After all, it wasn't every day that someone fell into a coma after being administered an anaesthetic. And they were worried that it might have long term effects on his brain.

But those worries were soon put to rest when they took him to get a scan of his full-body, and they found no irregularities. He looked perfectly healthy despite the fact that he lay unconscious for six months. There wasn't even a single sign of muscle decay, but they put that down to his parents being mages.

Since it wasn't unusual for mages to heal their loved ones in the hospital, but what the hospital in China didn't know was that Haru was a cultivator. They only knew who he was by the ID cards in his wallet, and that is how they contacted his family although his emergency contact number was still Zen's.

Zen called Krista as soon as the hospital had told him what had happened, and Andrew went to sit by his side while he was in hospital in China. After a few weeks, Krista managed to ask for him to be returned to Japan, and the hospital in Tokyo made it possible by sending a private airline to pick Haru up while keeping him connected to all of the monitoring machines.

Krista had to pull a few strings for that to happen, but it worked just fine, and she managed to get Haru home to them. It took a lot of effort, but it was better that way. Although the Chinese government wasn't notified of Haru being returned home.

"It looks all good, Mr Kitagawa. Your body is perfectly healthy, and your brain looks like it is doing just fine. We will go ahead and discharge you as soon as possible but just remember that if you feel any side effects such as dizziness or you have trouble recalling things, then come back to us as quickly as possible.

We aren't entirely sure what happened since we have to go off assumptions, but when they found you lying in the car after your accident, they said you had hit your head off the steering wheel." The old doctor that had run into the room earlier said to Haru while they were both looking at scans of Haru's brain.

"Is that so? Well, sure, I will be careful and come back if I feel anything at all." Haru said with a smile, telling the doctor what he wanted to hear.

But he still couldn't understand who was responsible for telling them that he had been involved in a car accident. His injuries were quite clearly due to the attack on Shanghai, but everyone seemed convinced that he was in a car accident.

He knew that the Chinese government wouldn't let any cultivators leave their country and go elsewhere, so he racked his brain while trying to figure out who had so much authority that they could change medical records and manage to get him back to Japan without the intervention of the government.

"Well then, Your parents are probably still waiting outside, so you can go ahead and join them now. I will let the rest of the doctors that were caring for you know that you are perfectly fine and you are free to leave now. I hope the best for you, and like I said, please come back if you feel anything wrong with your body at all.

Head injuries can be fatal if they aren't correctly looked after, so try not to strain yourself too much." The doctor warned once again before turning around and picking up the scans of Haru's brain.

"Yes, and thank you for your care," Haru said with a smile before leaving the room and walking out into the corridor to see his parents waiting for him while Luke held Saki in his hands.

"So what did he say? Is there anything that we should be concerned about?" Krista asked as soon as she saw him walk out of the room. She was worried that there would be some underlying health problems since he was comatose, but that wasn't the case at all.

"He said that everything looks good and that I am free to leave. Although he did tell me to come back if I start feeling any side effects." Haru smiled, Knowing that there wouldn't be any side effects left behind. But that was the only thing he smiled about, and his face went right back to its natural resting position as a thought ran through his head.

'Li Jun and Lao are both gone. And Suyin is dead. I don't have any right to be smiling like this.' The survivor's guilt quickly drilled its way into his head again as Luke and Krista celebrated with the good news that he had just given to them.

"That's great. Did you decide if you are coming back home? Your room is exactly how you left it, so I'm sure you will feel right at home." Krista smiled at him and then brought him into a hug as her recent dream of becoming a family again was starting to come true.

"Of course. I don't really have anything here or any friends, so I can't really do anything on my own. Thank you for taking me back in." Haru said with a slight bow of his head. He knew that his parents didn't like the fact that he had to live in China, but he did so anyway. And he was now an adult, they had no reason to let him come back with them, but they did so anyway, knowing that he was in a vulnerable situation.

"Hey! Don't you ever thank me again. I'm your mother, not a landlord. You are always welcome back home." Krista suddenly snapped after watching him bow his head in gratitude. Seeing him turn made her feel like he didn't recognise her as his mother, and that angered her slightly.

"I just thought that-" Haru tried to justify his action, but before he could say anything else, Krista put her arms around his shoulders.

"Don't think so much. That has always been the biggest issue with you. You are always worried about the future, and you never live in the present. I know because it's the same with your father. Trust me. If you stop thinking and start doing things without a second thought, you will be much happier." Krista advised him with a smile while rubbing his back.

"Okay, I will try." The words of advice that Krista had offered seemed to comfort Haru a lot more than he was expecting them to. She was correct; He always thought about the future before he did anything, and it always led to unnecessary worry.

"That's all your father, and I will ever ask of you that you try. It doesn't have to be an immediate change, but as long as you try, then you will start to see progress." Krista let go of him and then looked back at Luke, who was smiling while Saki brushed her hands against his facial hair.

"Now that Haru is awake, you're going to get rid of that horrible thing on your face, aren't you?" Krista asked while referring to the hair that had appeared on his face during the time that Haru had been in hospital.

"Well, You know I actually quite like it, and I thought that-" Luke began to explain, but with just a stare from Krista, he decided that it was time to part with his beard.

"But I was thinking about shaving it." He said with a forced smile as he looked at his hot-tempered wife.

"Good. Then how about us all head home?" Krista smiled, she had been waiting to say those words again ever since Haru was transferred to Tokyo and today was the day that she could finally say those words and feel like a family once again as they began to walk towards the exit.

The sun was bright as Haru walked through the revolving doors at the front of the hospital, and it made him clench his eyes a little since it was the first time he had seen actual sunlight in six months. It felt as though his eyes were about to burn out of their socket, but he bore with it as he followed behind his parents and walked towards the car park.

Haru looked around to try to find the blue sedan that he was used to his parents driving, but as Luke pulled out his car keys and pressed the button to unlike it, he was shocked to see that his parents had gotten a new car. They were now driving a high-end white SUV. It was unlike his parents to buy something so expensive, but he quickly remembered that he had given them a lot of money after the incident with the government in Shenzhen. Given that fact, it wasn't too unusual that they had a new car.

"You got a new car?" Haru asked as his dad opened one of the rear doors and began to buckle Saki into a child safety seat.

"Oh yeah, the cafe started doing well at the start of last year, and the old one was getting a little old and run down. It was better to get a new one instead of paying for repairs all the time." Luke said as he turned around to see Haru looking at his car.

He thought that his son had inherited his eye for beauty, but Haru wasn't interested in the car, just why they decided to buy a new one.

"Yeah, repairs. You took that thing to get repaired once, and then you tell me it's magically broken, and you need to buy a new one." Krista said with suspicion as she looked at her husband.

"But it is nice not being cramped while sitting in traffic." She then added with a smile before getting into the passenger's seat and then rolling down the window after closing the door.

"Hop in on the other side. You can help put the seatbelt on Saki. I can't quite reach it." Luke said to Haru as he struggled to stretch his arm around to reach the buckle on the other side.

"Okay," Haru smiled and then got in next to Saki to help buckle her into the seat and then sat down on the other side of the car and buckled himself in as Luke started the engine.