Chapter 5: Attack of the Evil Receptionist
Author's Comments
Some of my characters are introduced in this chapter. I wasn't going to have them appear until later, but they are related to Mamoru so they wouldn't really miss their anniversary.
The first one introduced it Tsuchino, Kumo or Aradia Blossom (Shields) Weaver if you prefer her English name. She is the result of an affair that happened between Mamoru's father and Queen Serenity's sister, Eos. This makes her the cousin of Usagi and the younger half sister of Mamoru. She also became Usagi's sister-in-law upon her marriage to Mamoru. Eos was married to Orion king of Lilith, and upon their deaths Kumo became queen of Lilith. Lilith is known as the ebony moon, Earth's second moon. Kumo never died thus was never reborn and, being half Lunarian, was blessed a long life span. Although Kumo is Mamoru's younger sister she is older then him since having never died.
The others introduced are Megumi, Seigi, and Inochi Chikyuno or Autumn Rose, Tellus Aykin, and Terra Lily Culpepper. Megumi is Kumo's great, great granddaughter, Seigi is Megumi's husband and Inochi is their daughter. The cat is named Arachne. She is Kumo's guardian.
Oh yeah, I don't own Sailor Moon or anything other than the characters that I mentioned above.
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The next day, after Mamoru had left for work, Usagi got up and began digging through the phone book. She seemed to be having a hard time finding what she was looking for.
"What is it under," Usagi asked herself, "D? H? No F, or maybe M. No wait maybe S. Why can't they make this thing easier to use?" Usagi grew frustrated at the phone book and began pulling on her pigtails. Eventually she picked it up and threw it against the wall. She walked over to it and was about to kick it across the room, when she saw that it had landed on the floor opened to the page she had been trying to find.
She looked at it and couldn't decide which one to choose. She wondered how Ami couldn't have known a fertility specialist when there seemed to be so many of them. Eventually Usagi decided to close her eyes and choose which ever she pointed at. Her finger landed on a Dr. Isha Toukei. She then picked up the phone and dialed. After a few rings someone picked up.
"Hello, this is Dr. Toukei's office. How may I help you?" said a woman on the other line.
"Hello I'm Usagi Tsukino," she replied, "and I would like to make an appointment as soon as possible."
"You can come in today if you like. We seem to have many openings. How does ten sound?" asked the woman.
Usagi looked at the clock on the wall. It was eight forty-five, which meant she would have well over an hour to get there. She then looked down at the address in the phone book. "Hmm," Usagi said. "I'm sure I can make it there by ten."
"Ok Ms. Tsukino, I'll write your appointment down now." said the woman.
"I'll see you then." replied Usagi as she hung the phone up.
Usagi didn't have to leave right away, but she decided to go eat breakfast before heading to the doctor. She slowly opened the door to make sure Mamoru wasn't on the other side. As soon as she stuck her head out the door and looked around she heard someone shout, "Hello big sister cousin, Usagi!"
The blonde was so surprised that she let out a scream as she leapt from the ground, almost falling backwards in the process. "K-Kumo-chan?" she said with a startled look on her face, "What are you doing here?"
"I came to wish you and my big brother a happy late anniversary," said a woman with shoulder length half white and half black hair, as she held two matching hand knitted sweaters out in front of her. "I would have come by yesterday, but I wasn't finished knitting yours." She then pulled two boxes, covered in wrapping paper and bows, out from behind her back and said "Megumi asked me to drop off her and Seigi's gifts."
A black and white cat with red eyes and a crescent moon on its forehead jumped upon her shoulder holding a large piece of pink construction paper in its mouth. The paper had purple crayon colored on it, with glitter, various sizes of red paper hearts, and macaroni glued to it. The cat mumbled, "And Inochi's gift as well."
As she began trying to peer around Usagi and into the house Kumo said, "So where is that brother of mine?"
"You missed him; he already left for work." Usagi told her.
"Dang," she said. Then she began to smile and told Usagi, "I guess I'll have to come by after he gets off work, but since I have nothing to do I can hang out with you for awhile. So where are we headed?"
With that Usagi fell to the ground.
"Usa-chan are you alright?" Kumo asked looking down at the pig-tailed girl.
"Just fine," she said from the ground and sighed.
It was twenty till ten by time Usagi had gotten rid of Kumo. She had to drag her sister-in-law to breakfast to finally convince her to leave. She quickly ran outside the restaurant to wait by a nearby bus stop. Moments later the bus pulled up and Usagi got on hoping it wouldn't take more than twenty minutes to get there.
At nine twenty-seven the bus made it to Usagi's stop. She wasn't late, and on top of that she was three minutes early. Usagi was very proud of herself. She stepped off the bus and walked into a large building. It was filled with many doors and in front of her was an elevator. Usagi looked around and was unsure of which direction she needed to go. She began to walk down the hall reading the name on every door.
In a few minutes she had looped back to where she had started. None had been Dr. Toukei's office. She dropped down on the floor and started bawling which is when she noticed a large sign next to the elevator. It was a list of doctors' names and the location of their offices.
Immediately Usagi stopped crying and stood up. She walked over to the sign and quickly spotted Dr. Toukei's name. "Dr. Isha Toukei, fertility specialist, third floor room number 324," she said out loud as she read the sign.
Usagi got into the elevator and pushed the button for the third floor. She began to watch the numbers light up as the elevator began to rise. As it reached the third floor it came to a stop and the doors slid open. The blonde stepped out and began to wander around looking for room 324.
Moments later Usagi stopped in front of a door that had "Dr. Isha Toukei, Room 324" written on it. She opened the door and went inside. "Hello, how may I help you?" a strangely familiar lime green haired woman behind a desk said, as she entered the room.
"Hi I'm Usagi Tsukino; I have an appointment." she replied as she intensly stared at the woman trying to remember why she looked so familiar.
The woman typed something on the keyboard in front of her. She then looked at the computer monitor and let out an extremely annoying laugh that made Usagi wish she were deaf. She looked over at the blonde, who was covering her ears, and said, "Your appointment was ten minutes ago, you'll have to make a new one and come back later."
Usagi told the woman as she uncovered her ears, "but I had trouble finding the place."
"Didn't you see the sign by the elevator?" the receptionist asked her.
"Um, yeah... eventually," replied the pig-tailed woman as a sweat drop formed on her head.
"Well that's not my problem," the woman told her. "Maybe you should go down the hall to Dr. Meisha's office and get your eyes checked. We can reschedule your appointment an two hours from now. That will give you plenty of time to get your new glasses"
"But," Usagi began as she was interrupted.
"Other people are waiting. Make a new appointment or leave. Hopefully you will have better luck being on time for your next appointment," the receptionist said.
Usagi looked around the waiting room. It was empty. "And she thinks I need my eyes checked," she thought.
"What are you still doing here? Make an appointment or leave," the green haired receptionist told her impatiently.
"Please can't I just see the doctor now?" begged the blonde.
"Make a new appointment," she repeated.
"But..." Usagi protested.
"Make a new appointment," she repeated again.
Usagi fell to the floor and began to cry loudly.
The woman covered her ears and said, "I don't think anyone took your appointment, so you can see the doctor if you just stop crying already."
"Thank you!" Usagi said as she dried her eyes and stood back up.
The woman got up from her desk and walked over to a large table where many stacks of papers sat. She began putting many, many papers into one large pile. She then picked up the stack and walked towards the pig-tailed woman. Suddenly she dropped it in her arms, which caused Usagi to fall to the floor papers and all.
"Fill these out and let me know when you are done," she said
"All of these? Isn't this a bit much?" Usagi asked from under the pile of papers.
"Maybe if you had been on time, you wouldn't have so many to fill out," the receptionist replied as she laughed.
"Do you have a pen?" Usagi asked as she covered her ears again.
The green haired woman dug into her pocket and dropped a pen on top of the papers that were covering Usagi, before saying, "Here, enjoy."
"Thank you," the blonde replied as the woman sat back down at her desk.
Usagi climbed out from under the pile and picked up a few of the papers. "Name: Tsukino, Usagi. Age: 21. Sex: Often," she spoke out loud as she began filling in the answers. She began giggling she began crossing out her last answer. "Oh wait, its not asking that. Female," she corrected herself.
Once she was done with the first page she began on her second, "Why were you late for your appointment? What?" Usagi said as she read the first question.
She looked down to a few of the other questions: Do you think this was more important that being on time? Can you tell time? Do you own a working watch or clock, and if so are they set to the correct time? Does the clock on your VCR blink 12:00? Do you know how to work small appliances, or do you only have problems with clocks? Are you often late to other appointments, and if so how can you improve upon this?
"I don't hear writing," the green haired woman suddenly said.
"But these questions..." Usagi said.
"Obviously someone doesn't want to see the doctor that badly," she replied as she began laughing again.
Usagi sighed and continued to fill out the numerous papers.
By the time she finished filling out all the papers she had gotten a cramp in her hand. Usagi picked up the papers and wearily walked over to the receptionist's desk. "I'm done," Usagi said as she dropped the papers on the edge of the desk.
The receptionist looked at a few papers on from off the top of the pile before digging through the rest of them and seperating a some into a smaller pile. She then put those papers into a folder with Usagi's name upon it. After doing this she stood up and said, "Right this way."
"What about the other papers?" asked Usagi.
"What about them?" she asked Usagi.
"You didn't even look at all of them," Usagi said. "Are you just going to leave them there?"
"I don't need them anymore," the green haired woman told her. "Now please follow me, so I can show you to the examination room. The doctor is waiting."
"You made me fill them out for nothing?" Usagi asked.
"Well I wouldn't say it was for nothing because I enjoyed every minute of it. However, if you are unhappy with where they are, I can file them now," the woman said as she smiled and pushed the papers in the trash can beside her desk. "Right this way," she said.
Usagi collapsed on the floor and fainted, but before she completely lost consciousness she heard the woman start laughing again.
When Usagi finally came to she followed the woman down a hallway. Moments later they stopped in front of a door. The woman opened the door and motioned for her to enter the room. She walked inside and the receptionist followed after her. The pig-tailed woman started to look around the room when something hit her in the face at high speed, which caused her to fall onto the floor.
"Put that on and sit down on the table. The doctor will be with you shortly," the woman said as she left the room with a smile on her face, and closed the door behind her.
"I don't like that receptionist," said Usagi from the floor. "I can see why they had lots of openings. She's worse than the timer."