Chapter 4: A request from the lady doctor

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He had no idea what made him come in this place. It's not that he wanted to come but let's just say it was part curiosity that pushed him. At first, he was surprised that this person knew his number. Then this person suddenly asked for secrecy to meet in this place because they have something important to talk about.

Now he knew that meeting Kaoru Kamiya would make his life complicated.

The secretary pointed him to this room and now he was having doubts whether to enter or not because the person behind this door might be a serial killer or a dangerous stalker. Suddenly the door opened and the lady beamed brightly, too brightly for his taste, at him and pulled him inside.

"What were you doing standing outside looking like a lost kid?" She pushed him in her couch and sat across from him and looked at him from top to bottom. "Hmm…so the rumors are true…" Suddenly she laughed when she realized what she had just said. "OHOHOHOHOHOH! Where are my manners? I'm Dr. Megumi Takani, but you can call me Megumi."

Kenshin felt he was in an asylum and he was stuck with a weird lady in a room.

"I'm…"

"Kenshin Himura." She finished for him. "I know we haven't met yet but I wanted to properly thank you for bringing Kao-chan in here and for staying with her, while I'm gone. By the way, do you want some coffee or chocolate drink?" Kenshin refused both offer.

Now Kenshin was sure this woman was a stalker and a dangerous one. "How did you know? I didn't give my name when I brought Kaoru in here. Heck, I was even surprised when they suddenly took her from me without questions. As if they already knew who she is."

Megumi leaned back on her chair and sighed. "The school is not the only place she dominated. When she started her first year, she always visits the hospital after her class and sometimes she ate her dinner at here together with the patients when she got tired with eating ramen."

"Doesn't she cook her own dinner?" Kenshin asked but Megumi snorted at that.

"Oh please, she can cook poison but not real food."

"So what she said to me back then that she's a cooking master girl was a lie?" Megumi laughed and nodded.

"Cooking Master Girl was the cartoon she always watches back then." Megumi chuckled then she looked at him very seriously. "You don't seem to be what I expected but Kaoru must have seen something that made her fond of you." Kenshin's eyes nearly popped out when he heard that.

"Are you trying to tell me that Kamiya…likes me?" Now that thought disturbed him deeply.

Megumi laughed at that. "Oh please, she doesn't even know the word. She thinks that everyone is her friends but for your case…she would say that you're a special friend with special case…although I don't know what she meant by that." Megumi gulped unconsciously as she half expected for Kaoru to just burst in her door and murder her for doing this. "Kaoru never jokes around strangers; she's always quiet and sometimes she's serious with them." Megumi took a sip from her coffee. "This is the reason why I called you in here." She clasped her hands together and crossed her legs. Kenshin sensed something in here so he leaned forward to listen.

"Did you know that ever since you had brought her in this hospital, Kaoru has been telling me, and I suspect mostly everyone who was close to her, what a great and good guy you were?" Kenshin eyebrow rose at this. "I have never seen her so happy like that before…other than the times she went home to Tokyo. Since her parents appointed me as Kaoru's guardian, and since sometimes she didn't listen to me and she seems fond of you, I would like to ask you to take care of her from now on."

"What? Just because she seems so happy doesn't mean she like me…" Megumi cut him off one time.

"Kaoru never let any man touch her but you…you manage to carry her here without any broken bone in you."

"Why is that?" Kenshin had been curious about this since the first time he had met her.

Megumi looked away and bit her lower lip. "I would tell you about this because you seem to be a trustworthy person. When she was a kid she believed that boys carried germs but I managed to change her mind. However my efforts had gone to waste during her second year in high school." Kenshin didn't like what she was going to say. He just wished he hadn't asked that question. "It was around afternoon at that time, she was called by her classmates to help a friend who was drunk at that time. Since she believed all of them were girls she went in there to help. She was surprised to see that everything has been fixed and told her to wait at the living room together with their classmates. That classmate turned out to be a man who tried to…attack her, good thing she managed to escape, I don't know how. She came to me running, she didn't cry but she kept on shaking when she told me everything. It must have been a great trauma for her because she fainted after that then she woke up not remembering the incident. I asked her parents to transfer her here so she would be safe." Kenshin's blood boiled at that time. He felt like he could kill that man. He loosened his deadly grip at his knee and vowed to look for that man. "Since she didn't tell me his name I wasn't able to kick his ass but her brother has taken care of it, young as he may be…he may be a dangerous person to mess with just like Kaoru." Megumi coldly said. "If she ever remembers, please help her." She knew she was making a right choice for telling him, because she has a feeling this man would change everything.

Hearing that, it made him want to protect the stupid and clumsy woman who suddenly barged in his life.

"Kaoru is a very cheerful person. Sure she can be childish and a spoiled brat but that was the way she brought up." Megumi's tone became lighter. "She's the only daughter in her family so his father always treats her like a princess, who doesn't know any household chores. Her mother treats her like a baby because she easily gets sick. Even though she was treated like that, she never acts like a snobbish rich brat you usually knew."

"So I wasn't wrong when I called her a baby princess." She nearly sputtered the coffee she was drinking when she heard that.

"You called her that? She must be pissed at you…but I'm amazed because…you're still…um…alive." Kenshin's face darkened when he remembered the fan's club Kaoru had made awhile ago. Megumi's eyebrow rose at that and Kenshin imagined a fox ears coming out from her head. "So what do you say?" Megumi asked once more.

Kenshin suddenly stood up and went to the door. His hand was on the doorknob when he turned his head to look at her. "Thank you for telling me those things. Even you didn't tell me to take care of her, I would still do it." Kenshin bowed and left the room.

Megumi waited for a few more minutes and reached for her phone. "Anna, please connect me to Kamiya residence."

Megumi was glad at how things turned out to be. Now she just hoped Kaoru wouldn't know this or else, she had to say goodbye to her happy days.

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I wonder why in the world Yahiko and Misao kept on calling me this night? It's not that I mind Misao's call but Yahiko could bury himself alive if he would just call to annoy me. I sense something fishy in here. The moment my phone rang again I glared at it and picked it up.

"Hello, I know what you guys are up to. I would know it sooner or later so you better say it to me right now or else you will die in seven days!" I said in a no nonsense voice.

"What?" The amused voice I heard on the other line did not belong to my annoying brother or Misao.

"I mean…hello?" I squeaked. This was so embarrassing. The caller from the other line must have thought he called the mental hospital.

"I don't know if I would die in seven days by some freak that comes out from the TV but that is best greeting I have ever heard."

"Himura? Is that you?" I sighed in relief knowing it is just him. "What bad forces of nature made you call me at…?" I looked at the clock and it was already 9:00pm. "…this time of hour?"

"I just wanted to know if you have come home safely." I smiled at what he said. I let myself do it because he couldn't see it.

"Why, are you afraid I would be abducted by aliens? Don't worry I am already one of them." I laughed at my joke and knew he was grinning too.

"I already know you're one of them when I met you."

"So is that the only reason why you called or is it because you can't sleep and you want me to sing you a lullaby?" I just can't seem to get serious at this time. I wonder what's wrong with me.

"Tomorrow is Friday right?"

"Yeah." I cautiously said.

"Can you come with me to some place after your meeting?"

My schedule is free for tomorrow and I would hate to just stare at the wall when I get home, so I agreed.

Suspicions I had awhile ago was completely forgotten. We talked for an hour because Himura said; I had to go to sleep. He acts like my father and it's completely annoying in hell.

The next day, I felt like the time is going way too fast. I started to fidget at my seat and when Himura started to notice my strange reaction, I stood up and tried to talk to my classmates about the stuff that was happening. I welcomed Akiha's pestering at that time hoping it would make me forget this uneasiness I feel. I spent my lunch at the student council room talking with the president and vice president about the activities we were having. After class, I took my pretty time walking very slowly to the student council room hoping it would lengthen the time I had. During the meeting, I kept on giving questions that I hoped would make our meeting longer. But, damn that president for answering everything with a big smile on his face. I was the last to go out of the room after the meeting.

I don't understand the reason on why I was stalling. He was just asking me to go to some place I don't know. It wouldn't even harm me to go, in fact I didn't realize that saying yes would be easy but…but actually doing it, oh no.

I took a deep breath and went to the music room. What would he say if I can't make it by faking a stomachache? But I guess it was too late to back out because Himura opened the door with a scowl on his face.

"What took you so long?" He took my bag from my hand and held my hand on the other pulled me. "I hope we're not yet late." He muttered.

"Late for what?" I asked innocently.

He just grinned and pulled me.

Please someone save me!

AN:

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