Naruto
The Corner Shop Help
"Welcome to the Corner Shop Help, your local psychiatrist!" Are you serious!? is all Tenten can think as she's thrown into getting psychiatric and reality help that involves green a corner psychiatrist, a whole lot of action and secrets.
From last time,
Tenten is on her way to her first psychiatrist meet. She has meet another so proclaimed psychiatrist and a hot guy with a bad attitude. What other people will she meet on her way to mental help?
Chapter 2- Step Two- Meeting the problem head on
"Ok, I'm down a block and to my… right," Tenten muttered to herself, holding up her hands to check if it was right. Satisfied, "Great! My first psychiatric appointment," she paused to reflect the deeper context of her words, "Not something to be proud of." Taking a deep breath, she slowly reached for the doorknob. Before she could grab it, the door burst open and angrily stormed out a pink haired girl, "GOODBYE, MOTHER!" They nearly collided when the pink-hair girl quickly skid to stop, "I'm so sorry. Are you alright?"
Tenten patted the dirt off of her, "I'm fine. Don't worry about it. Um…" Not finding a polite way of asking someone if they were mentally troubled, she decided to be blunt, "Are you a patient here?"
The other girl blinked for a long moment then started to laugh, "No, sorry that was kind of mean," she apologetically said, "but no, my mom owns the place."
Tenten gaped at her, "Your mom is a psychiatrist?" and winced, "Man that must be awkward at times."
The other girl rolled her eyes, "Believe it," she held out her hand, "I'm Sakura Haruno. Nice to meet you. Sorry again."
Tenten shook the hand, "Tenten, no problem whatsoever," she quickly looked around to see if anyone was coming, "Just between you and me, should I be scared. It's my first time coming, unwillingly."
Sakura grabbed her shoulder, "Nothing to be afraid of," Sakura dragged her inside, "I'll help you out today."
Tenten dragged her feet, "Weren't you leaving though?" she tried to grab a solidly planted object, "I'd hate to trouble you."
Sakura was really strong, "No trouble at all. I was just leaving to avoid my mom's speech of wanting me to take over the place."
They got to the front desk, Sakura smiled towards the receptionist, "Hi, Kurenai," she pointed to Tenten, "She's new. Tenten."
Kurenai understandingly smiled towards Tenten, "Don't worry. I can understand. Your relatives think you're losing it so they wanted to help you didn't they?"
Tenten paused in mid-escape, "How did you know?"
Shrugging, Kurenai sheepishly said, "After working here for a while you can categorize those who need help and those who don't. Everyone here's nice, so there's nothing to worry about."
Tenten's brow rose, "That's what they pay you to say, isn't it?"
"Well, yes," Kurenai admitted, "But it's the truth. Your psychiatrist will be with you in a moment. He went out for a jog."
"He?" Tenten asked confused, "I thought it was Sakura's mom who'd be doing it."
Sakura answered this question, "This place combines many psychiatrist to offer the maximum amount of service to our customers."
Kurenai grinned, "Spoken like an employee."
"Shut up," Sakura muttered.
Tenten wasn't any relieved.
--In Tenten's head--
A dark old man hovered over her, "Hello, little girl…what's your problem?" He slithered around her, "Aren't you a pretty one?" his head slowly went to the side, "Just like those girls," he said directing her by turning his head all the way around, "They were very sweet. Until they were gone." He cackled insanely while his head kept spinning around and around.
And then she was sucked down in to a mass pit of black.
--out of Tenten's head--
"NOOOOO!!"
-SLAP—
"Ow!" Tenten held her cheek, "That hurt." She looked up and saw Sakura and Kurenai standing above her.
"What happened?" Sakura asked.
Kurenai felt her forehead, "Do you need some aspirin or something?"
Tenten slowly sat up, "I was just overreacting myself," she sighed, "I was visualizing my psychiatrist. It was scary"
"I couldn't tell," Sakura dryly said.
"Well," Kurenai said as she reprimanded Sakura, "Why don't you tell us about it? You know, practice before the real thing?"
Tenten nodded, "Good idea," She thought, "Well, it was a creepy old man that killed girls and cackled insanely," she didn't notice the weird glance that Sakura and Kurenai were giving her, "Oh and his head spun around 360!"
Kurenai sweatdropped and muttered to Sakura, "You know, she's not off by much."
"Who does she have," Sakura asked, before the realization hit her, "Don't tell me she got—"
The door slammed open, "I'M BACK AND FULLY REAMPED!"
Sakura felt for Tenten, "Oh dear…"
--author's note--
Can you guess who it is? I bet you can't.
NinjaPower signing out!