It was 8am in the morning. Gordon had woken up from his sleep bright and early. He went about his usual routine. A cup of coffee coupled with reading the daily digital news. The 70 year old retiree was living a solitary, yet peaceful life.
His door bell rang. Gordon quickly stood up from his rocking chair and walked towards the door. Not very often would there be someone ringing his bell. When Gordon opened the door, he was given the shock of his life.
A man with scraps and cuts that ran along his arms and a bleeding ankle that stained his green door mat into a dark red. A younger looking boy was piggybacked over the man's back. His head was roughly bandaged up with a ripped cloth. The blood wasn't drying very well, resulting in the youth looking very pale.
"Ca...Call an ambulance!" The man with a bleeding ankle shouted out.
"Ye.. Yes!" The old retiree quickly went into his house to pick up his phone to call the paramedics. Within 5 minutes, an ambulance turned up and they went ahead to help Sato and Gray out.
Without care for his injury, Gray looked at Sato. Cupsing his hands with Sato's, he prayed. Please if there is a god out there, help keep Sato alive. That is all I ask for, Sato's recovery.
Luckily, the bandage had managed to keep Sato's bleeding to a bare minimum and he was able to receive aid in time. When Sato had finally gotten a bed in the hospital, Gray was then willing to get treatment on himself.
The whole experience was rather crazy for the doctors. Who would be so crazy enough to move around carrying another person when their ankle was this injured? The sheer willpower needed to push through the pain was ridiculous.
As the morning turned to night in the hospital, Sato and Gray had both underwent some minor operations. The two laid beside each other in the medical ward room. Gray kept watch over Sato as the boy was still unconscious. He was extremely grateful that Sato lived.
Two men in black came walking into the ward. Behind them was a mature looking woman. Her beauty surpassed the standards of top class actresses. What was even more shocking was her age. No one would be able to tell that she was in her late 40s. The lady without care for her image, ran towards Gray that laid in the bed.
"My dear Gray... Are you okay?" The lady stroked the face of the usually solemn man.
"I'm okay, mother." Gray spoke to the lady who turned out to be his mother.
"Good. Good." The lady could finally relax a little. "You had me so worried when I heard that you were hospitalised."
"You didn't have to travel down to see me, mother."
"What do you mean? You will always be my baby boy. How can I bear to see you get injured?" Gray's mother continued to shower him with love. It made the two bodyguards rather awkward as they stood upright, watching them.
"Mother, let me go. I'm injured remember?" Gray thought of an excuse to make her mother release her grip.
"Right, right. I forgot. Sorry dear." The lady finally recovered her composure. Her aura soon changed into one of a blood thirsty asura. "Who was the one that did this to you?"
"Some hermit terrorist organisation that I have working on cracking down for the past few years." Gray told the secret level information to his mother. The bodyguards had went to stand by the room's door.
"Why didn't you just request help from the family?" Gray's mother frowned.
It was not known to the public, but the Tobion family is one of the three big families of the world. They hold power in 10% of multinational companies in the world. Their main household was located in Country Y. However, they originated from Country Z.
Gray's father, Alex Tobion and Gray's mother, Melanie Tobion are the current head of the family. They hold absolute power in the family, with their son's, Gray and Noah, holding second.
"I can't just keep using the family's power to solve everything." Gray kept his explanation short. He didn't want to get his mother too involved in this.
"Well, look how it turned out. You even cause this young boy to become hurt." Melanie walk to Sato's bed as he looked at him sleeping peacefully.
"Yeah. I deeply regretting getting Sato into this mess." Gray blamed himself. "I shouldn't have let my emotions get to me during a mission."
"Emotions?" Melanie was shocked. She pointed at Sato. "You... You mean? You like him?"
"Yes I do." Gray did not hesitate when he answered. "I do not like him, I love him. I would do anything for him."
"You..." Melanie was so shocked by his son's answer that she started to feel faint. However, after a short minute, she recovered from her stupor. "Are you sure about your emotions for this boy? It is not just some fling?"
"Yes. And I forever will be."
"Okay..." Gray's mother rubbed the sides of her head. She started to connect the dots from his past too. "Now it makes more sense. When you were younger, I used to arrange some meetup dates for you, but you did not respond to any."
"No mother. Even if you had arranged guys for me, I wouldn't like then either." Gray answered honestly. His frozen heart can only be melted by Sato.
Just then, a knock on the ward's door sounded. Their conversation seized and a doctor came in. He was walked to the bed that Sato slept in to check on him. It was time to wake him up to check on his status.
"Mr. Sato, Mr. Sato..." The doctor spoke the Sato who was coming around. "Can you hear me? Follow my hand with your eyes if you do."
Sato's eyes followed the doctor's finger. Gray watched from the sidelines in anticipation.
"Wh... Where am I?" Sato asked confusingly.
"You are in Grace Hospital." The doctor answered him. Following which, he asked him a question. "What is your name?"
"Sato Takahashi." Sato winced his eye as his head throbbed a lot.
"What year is it?" The doctor followed up his question.
"2094?" Sato's answer made everyone in the room frown. The current year was 2097.