The Room Chat

Kido curled up and groaned. Momo wore an obvious worried look, sitting down beside Kido and rubbing her back. "Commander-san? Can I ask a quick question?" Momo looked as a tired Kido nodded while shifting her eyes to look at Momo.

"Why are there so many medication bottles in your middle drawer and such convenient freezer for different types of cold packs on the bottom drawer?"

Kido's eyes shifted in uncertainty. Momo stuttered as she says "I-I'm not forcing you to tell me, I'm just asking out of curiosity, if you don't feel comfortable answ-"

"It's okay, I can t-tell you at least this since you found this sick leader anyways." Kido winced as she tried to sit up. Momo swiftly turned around and helped her up, letting Kido lean on her chest.

"Thanks…" Kido rubbed her head on Momo's chest to get more comfortable.

"Your question of curiosity, it makes a lot of sense for you to ask me it." Kido smiled gently.

"Commander-san, are you a sickly child?" Momo teased (Age-wise).

Kido giggled, "Yes I am sickly, but I'm not a child."

"Commander-san isn't retaliating after I teased her, was she always like this inside or is it that she hurts that much for her to not retaliate." Momo thought to herself.

"Surprising enough for you, Kisaragi, both of that are true." Kido shocked Momo with a sudden mind read to the point Momo jumped a little. Kido let out a small painful whimper, alerting Momo to rub her arms in efforts to lessen Kido's pain.

"Does Seto-san or Kano-san know about you being sickly?" Momo gently whispered to Kido.

Kido slowly shook her head in denial, "No one knows except my biological sister."

"Were you always secretly hiding away all your pain and suffering?" Momo looked down at Kido's head, looking sad.

"Mmn, I had to be strong as a leader so I decided to hide all these weak feelings, to properly protect and take care of the Mekakushi Dan as a strong leader."

Momo ran her thumb across Kido's cheek, surprising Kido of her sudden action.

"Commander-san, those emotions are what makes you, well…you."

Kido let out a long painful sigh, "I guess you're right, maybe I would have understood all of you guys if I hadn't shut these feelings in for so long…"

Tears fell from Kido's eyes as she hugged Momo's arm, and Momo who felt the hot wetness on her arm uses her other arm which was supporting Kido's back previously to rub Kido's back in efforts to calm and comfort the sick leader. "It's okay Commander-san…no, I mean Tsubomi-chan, it's okay to let out all your feelings now, I'm here for you."

"T-that's a good way to start, calling me that way." Kido stuttered and continues crying.

A couple of minutes later, Kido calmed and settled down feeling extremely drowsy.

Momo asked her if she wanted to sleep, Kido nodded. Momo softly lays Kido down and covers her with her blanket and turns on the humidifier before leaving the room.

It was getting late and most of the Mekakushi Dan where asleep, except Momo and Seto.

"Seto-san, are you not sleeping?"

"I wanted to ask you something…is Kido okay? She's never been like that before."

Momo nodded, "I had a little chat with her, she's fine, but now she's asleep again."

"Then that's okay, I don't want anything to happen to Kido, like Kano, they both hide their inner feelings a lot."

Momo flinched, luckily Seto didn't notice.

"Momo, since you and Kido are pretty close, can I ask you for a favor?"

Momo agreed, "You can, what's the favor about?"

"Help me keep an eye out for Kido, tell me if anything happens to her." Seto looked down to the floor with a worried and sad look.

"Mmn, I can do that, don't worry Seto-san."

Seto headed back to his room but was stopped by Momo's sudden question, "Seto-san, has anything happened to Commander-san before?"

Seto turned around and looked straight at Momo's eyes, "Yea, there was this one time before Aya-nee's death, Kano and I were getting beaten up by upperclassmen at school, we didn't dare to tell Aya-nee or Dad, so we told Kido who was at the next class, she came over and beat them all up, but after school, the older brother of the leader came over and beat Kido up pretty bad and threw her through one of the classroom windows and she dropped from the second floor to the first with glass piercing her. Kano and I didn't know what to do, but we eventually told Aya-nee who was in the opposite school building."

Momo's eye twitched, "Then what happened after that, to Commander-san?"

"Aya-nee came over and brought her back home, took all the glass out and patched her back up herself, she didn't want to risk Kido disappearing out of a sudden as she would that time."

"Seto-san, there's one thing I'm curious about, did that incident leave a scar on Commander-san?"

Seto nodded, "There's one about below her hairline somewhere around the upper neck, another one around her right shoulder, another one on her right elbow, and the last one on the right side of her right knee."

Momo gave an extremely shocked face, "That many?"

Seto nodded, "I still feel bad about telling Kido and letting her experience all that, I should have just kept it in and endured…"

Seto's eyes shifted to Kido's room door, smiled and looked at Momo, "Any more questions? If not I'll go and sleep, and you go sleep too, it's getting late."

Momo shook her head, "No more question, goodnight Seto-san."

"Goodnight"

Author's Note

Aki : Been a loooooooooong time since i posted a new chapter, sorry to keep some of you waiting, here's the new chapter and i decided to make Momo close to Kido and well a bunch of new flashbacks to childhood and scars and all and Seto's guilt, so yea.

Haru : Enjoy~~~

Signing Out, PEACE, KaitoRaphael