Haku and Rin both bowed back to the doctor as much as they could from where they were sitting. Silence settled over the room, save for the beeping of machinery, until Haku spoke quietly.

"Why did you two leave?"

"I wasn't just going to stand around doing nothing, Onizuka-san," came Rin's answer, no hesitation in his words at all. He knew Haku and Yukio and probably Bon even were upset with his actions, but he didn't regret what he'd done.

"You could have stayed and helped at the Hyperion! Both of you!"

"Yukio was needed there more than I was."

"... you still should have told him."

Rin just grunted at that, looking away. Yukio wouldn't have let him go. They both knew that.