Phobia ~*Kento's Session*~
~*TorrentScythe*~
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"All right, doc, you wanted to see me next?" Kento asked.

"Yes I do. Please take a seat at that couch over there. I'll be with you in a second," Dr. Schwartz requested.

Kento shrugged as he took his seat on the couch. He watched as Dr. Schwartz carefully put a plastic bucket in the middle of the room. The water in the leak drop straight into it.

"Now that that's done," Dr. Schwartz said as he walked over to the chair by the couch. "How about we start out with introducing ourselves? I'm Dr. Schwartz," He said, extending out his hand.

Kento just stared at his hand for awhile, then back up at Dr. Schwartz. He grinned as he gave Dr. Schwartz a high five.

"Kento," He said simply, "But then, of course, you already know that,"

"Yes, and the hard way, too," Dr. Schwartz as he grabbed his notebook and pencil. "Now let's begin,"

"Sure thing," Kento agreed with a nod. He looked around the office and laughed. "Oh boy will Rowen have such a heart attack when he sees these books. I can just imagine him running out of this place within seconds," He chuckled some more.

"What?" Dr. Schwartz asked, looking at Kento.

"I said that-,"

"I know what you said,"

"They why'd ya say 'what'?"

"Never mind. Let's turn back to your problem-,"

"Hey doc. This couch is very comfortable," Kento commented, "Where'd you get it at?"

"Well, it came complete with the office, so I really have no idea. Now Kento, let's focus back-,"

"Oh wow, I'm really thirsty," Kento said, "Got anything to drink?"

"Kento! Focus!" Dr. Schwartz emphasized. Kento just rolled his eyes and stopped his talking. "Now, what seems to be the problem with you?"

"Well...let's see...where do I begin?" Kento asked.

"You can begin by explaining your fear," Dr. Schwartz suggested.

"How'd you know I have a fear?"

"Your friend, Cye, told me. So, tell me,"

"Well...it's sorta weird...,"

"That's just what Cye said,"

"I'm all of a sudden afraid of food, ya know? It's uncanny. I mean, I can't eat. I love eating. It's my life. But now I can't eat any food with chickening out," Kento said as he sat back on the couch.

"Food, you say?" Dr. Schwartz asked. He tapped his chin with the eraser of his pencil. "This is truly odd. Cibophobia is a very serious problem,"

"What? Did you say Cyberphobia,"

"No, I said Cibophobia,"

"Cyberphobia?"

"NO! Cibo! Cibo!"

"You called?" Kento and Dr. Schwartz looked at the door to see Cye leaning on the doorframe.

"Sorry Cye, the doc was tellin' me how to pronounce Cyber. Sorry if we accidentally called your name," Kento laughed.

"No, it's Cibo," Dr. Schwartz said.

"I heard Cyber,"

"Cibo,"

"Cyber,"

"Cibo!"

"What? Tae Bo? What does Tae Bo have to do with this?" Cye asked. Dr. Schwartz and Kento just stared at him for awhile then got back to their argument. Cye caught sight of the water streaming into the bucket. He quickly shut the door.

"...Well it's either I'm hearing wrong or you're just plain stupid, and believe me, this Kento Rei Huang hears right! Ain't that right, Cye?" Kento turned to the door and saw that it's already closed, with no Cye in sight. "Cye?"

Dr. Schwartz took in a deep breath. "Okay...okay...let's drop the subject...," Obviously to Dr. Schwartz, Kento is quickly not becoming one of his favorite patients. "Anyway, you seem to have a serious case of cibophobia-,"

"Cyber," Kento said quickly.

"Er...whatever. This is very serious and it needs to be healed quickly. Let's start by how this whole thing happened,"

"Well let's see...two days ago I got into a fight-,"

"A fight?" Dr. Schwartz asked, remembering his session with Cye. "I'm starting to see a connection here...were the rest of your friends in a fight?"

"Yeah,"

"So it was more of a free for all?"

"You might say that,"

"Amongst friends?"

"WHAT?! As if I'll ever attack my friends. Man, I know I can knock them senseless,"

"All right," Dr. Schwartz said as he took some notes. He then started stroking his beard. "Now we're getting somewhere-,"

"Oh wow! Is that a Palm Pilot on your desk?" Kento asked as he stood up from the couch and walked to the desk staring at awe at the Palm Pilot.

Dr. Schwartz sighed as Kento walked past him. "I spoke too soon," He muttered as he stood up and followed Kento. "You know what? I'm starting to believe you have ADD...,"

"Wow...that is really cool! A Palm Pilot! Huh? Wow! What a neat pen-,"

"Back to your seat, Kento," Dr. Schwartz said. Kento sighed as he walked back to the couch. He sat down and looked at his psychiatrist

"You're no fun," He said.

"It's either you have ADD, or just delaying the inevitable of seeing a piece of cheese at the end of our session," Dr. Schwartz said calmly.

"Actually, I'm just making your day a complete hell," Kento said innocently with a smile.

"Well I might say you're annoying me very well," Dr. Schwartz commented.

"Thank you," Kento said. He sat back.

"All right, now that you've annoyed me up to my limit, let's continue our session, shall we?"

"Sure, doc. Whatever you say,"

"Now, Kento, We'll start by doing some tests,"

"Aw man! I hate tests! I always do terrible on them,"

"Not that kind of tests. I'll show you some pictures and you'll tell me what you see in them,"

"Ooooh! You mean the ink test,"

"Yes, the ink test. Ready? Here's the first picture," Dr. Schwartz said as he held up the poster board with a huge black splot.

Kento studied hard on the picture. "That would me an wild boar fighting off another wild boar for the remaining of that human body in the middle with no head,"

"...All right...," Dr. Schwartz said uneasy as he held up another poster board.

"A gladiator fighting against another gladiator,"

"Er...," Dr. Schwartz rose up an eyebrow in confusion. "All...right... Moving on to the next picture-,"

"Dr. Schwartz?" Dr. Schwartz and Kento turned to the door to see a young woman holding up a tray. Kento was just staring at her in awe of her beauty. The long flowing blonde hair. The trim body. The soft, blue, angelic eyes. Back to the trim body.

"Miss Matsudera. What brings you here?" Dr. Schwartz asked the volunteer worker.

"The deli man brought your turkey sandwich," She said.

*Wow! Even her voice is kawaii!* Kento thought, completely ignoring the whole part that she just said 'sandwich'.

"Wonderful. I'm busy right now, so if you'll place it on my desk, that'll be just great,"

Miss Matsudera nodded with a smile and obeyed Dr. Schwartz's command. During that time, Kento was trying to get a good view of her ass, just so he can brag off to Sage that he saw the ultimate piece of work. Yeah, that's right, show Sage who's better. Before she left, Miss Matsudera bowed and closed the door behind her.

"She is absolutely kawaii...," Kento said, just staring at the door. Dr. Schwartz let Kento stared lovely at the door as he retrieved his sandwich. He sat back down by Kento and took a bite out of it. Kento turned back to Dr. Schwartz and saw the turkey sandwich. He started shaking and he quickly jumped up and hid behind the couch.

"Oh right...I forgot...," Dr. Schwartz muttered as he put the sandwich back in the bag. He set his sandwich on his desk, then he walked to where Kento was hiding. "Are you okay?"

Kento glared at him "Ooooh! I see where this is leading to. I'm getting on to you, doc! You're trying to take revenge on me! So you sent in that cute babe and in here hand is the, well of all things, food! Coincidence? I think not!"

"You sure do jump into conclusion," Dr. Schwartz commented. "Well...it looks like you're not moving from that spot, are you?"

"Not in a long while, thanks to you," Kento said, sticking his tongue out at him.

"Well why don't you tell me when you first realized your fear of food?" Dr. Schwartz asked.

"If my memory is right...it was two days ago when I was taking Cye to the kitchen because of a headache he was having...,"

***Flashback***

"Are we there yet?" Cye asked Kento as they walked down the stairs.

"Almost, buddy. Just hang on," Kento reassured. They reached the bottom of the stairs and Kento guided Cye into the kitchen. Kento was staring straight at the kitchen door. For some reason he was having an uneasy feeling. He decided to shrug it off. "All right, here we go. The kitchen," Kento said as he opened the door.

"Better not eat the food. I smell some breakfast," Cye commented. Kento's stomach was tying up in tighter knots. He peered in and saw Mia washing an apple. He was staring mostly at the apple.

A jolt of fear rushed into his mind as Kento watched the apple. Just a plain, red, harmless apple. He felt his heart beating faster as his shaking hand gripped the door. His breath was shortening.

Mia finally turned her attention from washing the apple and to Cye and Kento.

"Good morning guys. How are you feeling? I'm making some delightful breakfast-,"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cye and Kento screamed as they burst out of the kitchen. They raced up the stairs. Kento's feeling for food had only been giving him weird, scary feelings. Is there something wrong with him?

***Flashback Ends***

"Then, we talked to Ryo. We talked, and Cye went to see Sage, so I decided to see Rowen. I chatted with him for a bit, and we were all called into the kitchen for breakfast. But this is where the fun begins. Me and Cye got into this argument and Rowen and Ryo got into it, so it was just chaos in the kitchen...,"

***Flashback***

Cye and Kento were pretty much looking at a pissed off Ryo with a pancake on his head and a pissed off Rowen that seem to be soaked a bit.

"Uh oh...," Cye and Kento muttered.

"Oh you really pushed your limits," Ryo said angrily, glaring at Kento.

"C'mon! Let's go! Right here right now!" Rowen declared to Cye and Kento.

"C'mon, Sanada!" Kento challenged.

"Ladies first!" Ryo yelled.

"Don't let me stop ya!" Kento yelled back.

At the same time, Ryo and Kento had begun throwing stuff at each other: plates, silverware, cups, small drawers, small boulders, whatever they can lay their hands on in the kitchen. (Small boulders, eh?)

Cye ran inside from the backyard. "Hey, what's Rowen afraid of?" Cye asked.

"Books," They both replied at the same time, not taking their eyes off each other and throwing more miscellaneous stuff at each other.

"Books, eh?" Cye questioned and drew his attention to the one of the surviving drawers.

"Hey chubby! C'mon! Let's see what ya got!" Ryo yelled as he avoided another boulder. Kento was glaring at him. Looks like Ryo wasn't getting enough.

"Well c'mon, tiger boy! You're gonna have to do better than that!"

"Eat me!" Ryo yelled as he became smart enough to throw Kento something that will really harm him: a single pancake. Kento quickly shut his eyes and charged towards Ryo.

"Cheater!" Kento screamed as he shoulder rammed Ryo into an open cupboard. He quickly shut the door and looked around for something to block the door. And that's when he saw the table. He quickly grabbed the table to block off Ryo's escape. He looked down and saw all the pancakes on the ground. He was surrounded by them. Ryo, that bastard! He must've placed all the pancakes on the floor while they were throwing stuff. Kento leaned back on the wall, feeling his sweat trickle down the side of his face. He looked to his left and saw Cye already there. Kento stared up at the ceiling, breathing hard. He tried to regain his sanity, but it would never come.

***Flashback Ends***

"Boy is Ryo a bastard! I swear of all the low down dirty tricks to pull-...and I'm starting to sound like Cye. I should stop right now," Kento said.

"I see...," Dr. Schwartz looked up at the clock. "I did had one more test for you, but sadly our time is up,"

"Sadly?" Kento laughed.

Dr. Schwartz just stared at him for awhile. Just looking at Kento just made him wish for his retirement to come sooner

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"Oh no. His hour's almost up," Sage said about Kento as he looked up at the clock. He looked around. Cye was sitting in his chair looking at everything BUT the window. Rowen was still being comforted by Mia. Ryo was playing around with his hands. "Ryo...there's only you, me, and Rowen that have to go,"

"So then...who's going next?" Ryo asked. Sage and Ryo looked over at Rowen, then back to each other with a grin and a nod. Then the door slammed open and Kento bounced into the waiting room.

"Whoo-hoo! My moment of hell is done! Done I say! AHAHAHAHA!" Kento laughed.

"Ooookay, I think he lost his marbles. Don't you think so?" Sage asked Ryo. Ryo just nodded.

"Oh Sage! Wait until I tell you what about the kawaii lady that walked into the office!" Kento said as he ran straight to Sage. Dr. Schwartz walked out the door of his office. Mia looked at him.

"Did Kento give you hell?" She asked.

"You might say that," Dr. Schwartz said with a nod, "So, who's next?"

"Rowen," Sage and Ryo said, instantly pointing to the boy by Mia.

"What?" Rowen asked, confused.

"Go Rowen. It's your turn to see Dr. Schwartz," Ryo said.

"Yeah yeah! Go," Sage agreed.

"Do I have a say in this or something?" Rowen asked.

"Nope. Not at the slightest," Ryo answered, smiling.

"Ryo! You are so mean to Rowen!" Cye yelled.

Rowen stood up shakily. He shrugged and followed Dr. Schwartz into his office.

"Now you have a fun time, all right?" Ryo said waving, still smiling. Rowen just glared at him and didn't liked the way that Sage was acting. So he did what any other person would do. He flipped him off and slammed the door.

"Tch. Touchy, aren't we?" Sage asked. He looked at Ryo. "You know, I think he's pissed at you,"

Ryo just laughed. "As long as I'm not going next, I'm perfectly fine,"

"But sooner or later, Ryo Sanada, sooner or later, it will be your turn!" Sage said. He added the evil laughter.

Ryo wasn't liking the way that Sage was laughing. He turned to Mia. "All right, hand me your car keys. I'm outta here,"

"But Ryo, You haven't even gone through your appointment," Mia said.

"Then give me the car keys," Cye said, extending out his hand. He also didn't like Sage's evil laughter. It gave him the creeps.

"But it's raining outside. I'm not gonna risk you crashing my jeep,"

"It seems a lot better than hearing Sage's evil laugh, let me assure you,"

"Cye!" Sage yelled.

"How's Rowen gonna coop up in there?" Kento finally spoke up. Everyone looked at Kento. "I mean, Dr. Schwartz's office is filled with books,"

"Oh...Kento's right...," Cye said.

As if on cue, Rowen began screaming bloody murder.

***End of Kento's Session***

Narrator: So what exactly will Rowen do? Will Dr. Schwartz keep up his sanity, especially since he has three more Ronins to go? Will Kento ever see that volunteer worker again? Answers revealed in the next episode!
What? Next episode? This isn't a show? What? It's a fanfiction? I'm being paid to do a narrating for a fanfiction? That's not part of my job description! That's it! Where's my agent? I'm getting this cleared up!