Kuro Tadashi - The Boy and the Doctor Epilogue

Epilogue: Our Home

“I’m home!”

It had been six months now since that day… Hiro was fully healed and back in school, exceeding the expectations of everyone… And he was happy to run up the road leading to the cape now. “Kuro-nii?” He ran to Black Jack’s office dropping his backpack on the floor.

Black Jack looked up from his work, a warm smile on his face.

“Welcome home. How was school?”

“Great!” Hiro chirped going to him bouncing in place a bit. “The teacher’s letting me do college math and stuff now! It’s really cool! And she even said she thinks I might be an actual genius!”

Black Jack smirked.

“No surprise to me. You burned through all the medical text books I threw at you.”

Hiro smirked.

“Yep, even the ones you said I wouldn’t finish in a day. I proved that wrong!”

“That you did… and in time…” Black Jack, ruffled his hair a little. “Helped me a lot in the OR.”

Hiro smiled hugging his arm.

“Yeah… I wanna know all I can so I can help you more Kuro-nii… And when I’m a grown up I’m gonna be a doctor too!”

“That’s my little brother…”

“Hee… Hey…” Hiro got a sly look on his face. “You know… I think you look like you need a slice of pie at Aunt Cass’s place…”

“Hm… Well… we’ve both been working rather hard… that last patient we did an operation on was quite the pain in the neck.”

“Yeah kept arguing with us over the best kinda treatment.” Hiro huffed. “Stubborn old man… So I think we earned it… Dr. Hiro’s orders!”

“Let’s go then.” Black Jack smiled. “All on me.”

Hiro cheered before running for the car.

“Pie with extra ice cream! And a milkshake since you owe me for that bet!”

Black Jack sighed a bit, but smiled as he followed the boy out.

Things have been different since I took Hiro in… some good… some bad… but over all…

He ruffled the boy’s hair before getting in the car with him.

It’s better he is here… he needs me… and I need him.