CHAPTER 23

Kagami lost an entire night of sleep after realizing that she inadvertently had unprotected sex with a customer, though it wasn't her idea. All she could worry about was the very idea of being impregnated under such boorish and unacceptable circumstances. If that was to be her fate, she would definitely have given her family the final reason for her to never be able to return home. Kagami didn't even have enough strength left to keep working the streets that night and took refuge in another box in an alleyway while fighting off rabid stray cats and dogs looking for food. She couldn't go back to Miyakawa's apartment since she was never given an extra key to it and Miyakawa herself was out all night, as was Ryuji pushing the drugs.

Watching the sunrise was a dearly missed sight for Kagami when she scooted out of her box in the alley and watched the burning orb lift into the blue sky. She wasted no time. Kagami rushed to the first hotel she could find and found the pay phones, inserted the loose change she had, and dialed the number on the card. She was expecting her first available session to be several weeks or even months down the road but when she mentioned her name to the secretary, it caught her off guard to hear that Dr. Kishimoto was expecting her call. What added to the surprise was that Kishimoto wanted to see her right away and would see her at noon that same day over her lunch hour. Apparently Kagami's family had been telling the therapist a lot, otherwise why would Kishimoto be so willing to bend over backwards to squeeze her into her schedule?

When the appointment was set for noon later that day, Kagami returned to the streets, only to remember that she had nowhere to go. The sun was once again in control of the sky, thus forcing all the animals back into their caves until the darkness of night would eventually return, their only ticket to sanctity and wickedness. Kagami did her best to keep the frightening incident of the previous night out of her head as she walked and looked for the first available restaurant to eat in. At only eighteen years old with no job, no real income, barely any savings, and a questionable future in the academic world, Kagami was smart enough to know she wasn't ready to become a mother, especially to a child that was forced upon her in her sordid lifestyle.

However, she also forgot to take another thing into consideration. The drugs that were already coursing throughout her system. Ever since Matsuri's and Misao's deaths, Kagami had more drugs in her system than the average local pharmacy. Even though she wasn't high at the current moment and after breakfast planned on fixing that, the drugs in her bloodstream were still attaching their harmful effects to her cells and a baby needs healthy bodily cells from the mother in order to grow and survive. Right now, Kagami was sick both mentally and especially physically but as always, the highs the drugs gave her were there to swoop in and obscure this fact from her cognitive comprehension.

She didn't know it, but Kagami was also in trouble with her weight and for once, it was a problem she sort of wished she had. She was losing weight, but not at the rate or through the circumstances that were considered healthy. The drugs numbed her appetite as she told Konata the previous day and it was beginning to come to a point where her ribs were beginning to constrict against her flesh. The little bodily fat she used to have was gone and her muscles were also beginning to atrophy as a result of her growing malnutrition. Kagami was on the verge of developing an eating disorder, yet another thing she couldn't afford to have if she was indeed going to be with child.

Kagami only picked at some scraps every now and then because despite the drugs making her feel invincible, she still felt self-conscious about her weight and liked it whenever she wasn't feeling hungry. The drugs however were obliterating her natural bodily mechanics and even if she went more than a day without eating anything solid, she wouldn't feel her stomach rumbling or hear it growling. She would only pick at a few things because she knew she needed to but it still wasn't enough to maintain a healthy weight.

When Kagami stopped at a small restaurant serving breakfast, all she got was a cup of coffee and a small fruit bowl, which would be the last thing she would eat all day. After she was done eating and left the restaurant, she secluded herself in another moldy and dreary alleyway to shoot the last of her heroin. This time however was going to be different as a result of the stress she was feeling, the growing malnutrition, and her overall decaying health.

As Kagami tied a tourniquet around her arm and popped up the vein, she couldn't stop trembling because of the little food she had in her system that was making her dizzy and lightheaded. She decided to take Miyakawa's earlier advice and start injecting the drug between her toes so she stripped off her boot and sock. Kagami guided the needle in-between her big toe until she hit muscle and she pushed the plunger, thus starting the vicious cycle all over again.

When she felt the effects of the heroin again, Kagami swayed back and forth and couldn't stop giggling with a twisted smirk on her face. Everything in her life was beautiful once again and perfect so she completely forgot about her latest prostitution incident and didn't even care that she had a therapy session later that day. Everything was perfect once again in her eyes. During the heroin's falling action of its effects, Kagami wandered back to Miyakawa's apartment. When she arrived at Miyakawa's apartment door, she tried to open it but discovered it was locked and began knocking on the door.

She heard a rustling inside until the locks on the other side of the door were released and Miyakawa slowly opened the door slightly to peer out, as if she was expecting someone else. Her eyes scanned the area and when she saw it was Kagami and that she was alone, Miyakawa quickly allowed her to come inside and she abruptly closed and locked the door again. When Kagami saw everything that was happening in the apartment, the rest of the euphoria the heroin gave her was cast away and she wanted to scream yet again.

Ryuji was stretched out on Miyakawa's couch and his clothes were stained in blood. His right arm was wrapped in bandages and in a sling as he rested there with an IV needle jammed in his other arm administering pain killers. He appeared to be asleep but obviously something had happened the previous night and Miyakawa returned to her cousin's side, her hands covered by latex gloves also coated in his blood and kneeled down next to the medical supplies scattered all over the floor.

"Yuka…what the hell happened here?!" Kagami exclaimed.

Miyakawa immediately turned and shushed her angrily before replying. "He was shot last night by those fucking gangbangers. He took two rounds in his right arm and shoulder and one in his right side so we should count ourselves lucky. Poor bastard limped all the way back here and collapsed outside and I found him only an hour ago."

Kagami gulped and shivered as her whole definition of the word violence just became a little clearer and closer. Ever since she allowed Yuka Miyakawa and Ryuji Katsumoto to take over her existence, she always heard about this rival drug gang across town that they always had a fragile relationship with once but now it seemed that all the bubbling tensions finally came to a breaking point. Kagami was beginning to fear that her hallucinations of Matsuri and Misao telling her that she was in for a devastating future had truth to it. Misao warned her not to get into the car with the heavyset man and when she ignored that warning, Kagami was sodomized and robbed by him. Now there were elements of gun and gang violence being mixed into her life.

"Yuka…am I in danger here? Should I be worried?" Kagami asked weakly and stared at Ryuji's sleeping body with trembling fear.

Miyakawa turned back to her and presented a soothing smile for her and shook her head. "No, Kagami, you're not in danger and you shouldn't be worried at all. I know this looks scary but I promise you that you're safe with us and I won't let anything happen to you. This was just a bizarre occurrence and I promise you I'll take care of it."

Kagami nodded slightly as Ryuji began to stir. He started groaning in pain as the drugs he was administered weren't as powerful as the hard stuff but Miyakawa couldn't give him any of that. His body was recovering from serious physical injuries and hard drugs like heroin would only do more damage to his body that was trying to heal itself. He was on a less powerful brand of morphine that Miyakawa cooked herself but still couldn't be compared to the real stuff.

"What…the…fuck…?" Ryuji gargled as he tried to figure out where he was.

"You must be still, Ryuji." Miyakawa replied. "Those assholes across town did a real number on you but you're still with us. We'll get them back though; we'll fuck them up just for you."

"They…they got the…meth." Ryuji wheezed. "Tried to sell it to a guy on the street. It…it was an ambush. I had to…ditch the meth to escape."

Miyakawa shook her head. "Forget about it. Just lay back and relax, dear cousin."

Kagami stepped forward, still nervous and shaking from looking at the injuries. "Is…is there anything I can get for you, Ryuji?"

"Water would be nice." He whispered back.

Kagami nodded and swept into the kitchen to fetch a glass of water and Miyakawa took the opportunity to bring Ryuji up to speed on something. She lowered her lips to his ear and whispered, "Ryuji…I finished it…and it works."

Ryuji shifted his head to his cousin and raised his eyebrows weakly. "The…the drug you were gonna test on Hiiragi? It works?"

Miyakawa nodded as she looked back to see Kagami still filling the glass and she turned back to him. "I was so sure this batch was going to kill her…but it works."

Ryuji huffed with a feeble smile. "Congratulations."

Miyakawa smiled back at him as Kagami returned with a glass of water and even helped Ryuji drink it despite the conversation he just had with his cousin. Miyakawa was not only known for her legendary promiscuity, but also for her homemade drug culinary skills. She was always experimenting with different narcotics, hallucinogens, opioids, you name it; all in the never-ending quest to find a drug that would be the biggest moneymaker. For Miyakawa, she always aimed for the stars.

Recently, she had been experimenting with a drug that packed such a powerful punch, it had the liability of killing the average person after a single hit. It would send the brain into hyper drive and the user would feel unprecedented rage while losing the ability to feel pain, as well as losing any emotional connections with other humans. Long story short, it would turn anyone addicted to it into a remorseless and raging animal. Miyakawa injected a bit into Kagami while she slept after she treated her for her injury to her buttocks after she was raped and robbed. Miyakawa knew it worked because a side effect of the drug was nightmares and when she heard Kagami scream herself awake the previous morning, she knew her experiment worked. She not only turned Kagami's body into a profitable sex toy, she also turned it into her own personal chemistry set. Of course, Kagami didn't know any of this because as powerful as the drug was, it would wear off the fastest. The drug itself was a black powder that resembled black tar heroin but of course it made heroin look like sugar when comparing its high effects.

When Ryuji finished drinking the water, Kagami backed away and turned to Miyakawa. "I…I need to meet someone at noon today."

Miyakawa turned to her. "Really? Who?"

Kagami wanted to keep this therapy session in the dark as much as possible. "Oh it's just a friend who keeps trying to pry into my life. But don't worry I'll get rid of her today."

Miyakawa shrugged. "Sounds good to me. Remember…if she says she loves you…it's a lie. Only I love you."

Kagami slowly looked away and lowered her head and softly replied, "Yeah…"

Kagami stuck around Ryuji for awhile longer to make sure he was okay but as soon as all he began to feel better, the twin-tailed girl excused herself to go take a shower and get ready for her appointment later that day. Miyakawa didn't know where Kagami was going but as always she didn't care. If anything, Kagami was now more expendable to her than ever before. The twin-tailed Hiiragi raked in the cash and now proved to be a successful test subject for her drug so it didn't matter what Kagami did. Still, Miyakawa had a devious plan in mind for Tsukasa that involved the drug.

As the two cousins heard the running water in Miyakawa's bathroom, Ryuji grabbed her attention as Miyakawa sat next to him on the couch and he said, "So it really works?"

"Well…I'm pretty sure it gave her one fucked up nightmare because I could hear it in her screams." Miyakawa added. "I injected it into her while she slept so as far as the rage is concerned I won't know again until she has an event that causes a trigger. If the event is traumatic or dramatic enough, it'll turn her into a screaming, bloodthirsty, homicidal maniac. If Kagami was ever violent with her family or anybody else before…just wait until she gets more of this shit into her system."

Ryuji coughed. "Will she be as psychotic as you are?"

Miyakawa formed a small grin and chuckled. "I don't think the student will ever surpass the master. But still…it would be nice for Kagami to be just like me. We could be sisters."

"You already have a sister, Yuka." Ryuji said.

Miyakawa froze for several seconds until she suddenly ripped her infamous serpent dagger out, held Ryuji down, and put the blade to his throat as she growled and reared a face ready to kill. Miyakawa panted with infinite anger and hissed, "That worthless cunt is not my fucking sister you scrawny little scrotum! You hear me?! If you refer to that bitch as my sister again…I'm gonna forget you're my cousin and I'll wear you like a fucking coat! Understand?!"

Ryuji all the while seemed unfazed by his cousin's sudden explosion of anger and simply rolled his eyes. "What happened to you was sixteen years ago, Yuka. I know it fucked you up something fierce but what's done is done. I'll admit your sister fucked you over…and especially my dad."

Miyakawa tightened her grip on her weapon and pressed the blade harder against his neck and it started to part his skin and the girl looked as if she was ready to slice his throat at any second. A truly dark and disturbing memory was poking at Yuka Miyakawa that was responsible for why she was the way she was today.

"You know you never told me…why didn't you ever kill me when my dad did what he did and he was put away for it? In your mind I thought that gutting me like a trout would be the ultimate revenge for what he did to you." Ryuji replied calmly.

Miyakawa took a few deep breaths and pulled the dagger away. She sheathed it again and turned. "Let's just say you've proved yourself useful ever since we got into this business. I just keep you around because you're good at business."

Ryuji sighed and decided to change the subject. "So what are you going to call your new drug?"

Miyakawa welcomed the fresh breath of dialogue and reached into her skirt pocket and pulled out a small baggie full of the black powder and smiled at it. "I'll call it…Satan's Blood."

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In the midst of the morning activity, Tsukasa Hiiragi was on a quest. She was once again up early and after finishing her breakfast she confined herself to the living room where several family photo albums were sitting on bookshelves. Tsukasa paged through each one and was selecting old memories to be used during Kagami's intervention in the hopes that her sister would only be surrounded by the good times. Tsukasa was also one of the first ones to complete her intervention letter to Kagami, only illustrating the depth of her dedication to her.

Of course, Tsukasa also required a box of tissues by her side for this mission, especially when she would see all the images of a Kagami from a not too distant past where she graced the world with her smile. So many memories frozen in the pixels showed how much the Hiiragi twins truly loved each other and they never knew a single sad day in their lives as long as they were together. Tsukasa dabbed her eyes with one of the soft tissues as she came across the last picture ever taken of her and Kagami together. It was of them in their graduation gowns with mortar boards on their heads and diplomas in hand in front of Ryoo High School as the cherry blossom petals fell around them.

Miki abruptly came in after finishing the dishes from breakfast and felt her heart constrict already so early in the morning when she saw Tsukasa sitting on the floor with five different family photo albums open and scattered around her. One series of pictures that caught Miki's attention was when the family went to the amusement park one day when the twins were much younger. One of the pictures showed Kagami and Tsukasa inline for a rollercoaster. Kagami looked enthusiastic about it but Tsukasa was clinging to Kagami's arm in fear. The very next photo however was taken after the rollercoaster ride and the roles had switched with the twins back inline and Tsukasa was begging to go on it again.

Miki bent to her knees and placed her hand on Tsukasa's head. "You know how proud you make me, right Tsukasa?"

Tsukasa slowly turned and looked at her mother with puffy eyes and nodded. "I do…but sometimes I wish I could be more proud of myself. I think I failed Kagami as a sister."

The Hiiragi housewife felt her heart clench again. "Why would you say that, Tsukasa? Out of all of us, I think you have more of a right to not want to help Kagami the most. She broke promises to you, she hit you and assaulted you twice, she even used your own love against you so she could do drugs and prostitute herself in our home. Why do you feel that you're the one who has failed her? The way I see it, it's the other way around. Kagami is the one who has failed you."

Tsukasa shook her head. "Kagami is my fraternal twin sister, my best friend. I gave everything I had to make sure that she was never upset and that she only knew happiness. Yet ever since that party…all she's ever known is sadness and devastation. I tried to be there for her…but all my best efforts were in vain. I couldn't make Kagami smile again; it was the drugs that made her smile again. Mom…it hurts so much to know that I was so easily replaced with whatever is in that syringe or in that glass pipe. Am I that easily replaceable…and with drugs of all things?"

The youngest Hiiragi twin began crying again with the open photo albums all around her and Miki hugged Tsukasa closely. She kissed her youngest daughter on the top of her head as Inori and Tadao also entered the living room to the emotional scene. The family did their best to reassure Tsukasa that Kagami's choices weren't her fault but it was a much harder challenge than one would think. The twins spent literally their entire lives together and even though they were fraternal, they might as well have been identical.

Each twin played a part for the other whether they knew it or not and for Tsukasa to feel that her entire existence in Kagami's life was expendable and easily replaced with drugs of all things only drove a knife deeper and deeper into her heart. Tsukasa was the purest and most loving one of the Hiiragi daughters and it was true when she told Kagami during one of their last encounters that she didn't know how to not trust Kagami. All she was capable of was trust and love so she was basically being forced to go against her natural instincts, something that obviously turned her into a weeping mess.

For the next hour, Tsukasa continued to page through all the different albums and search for the right photos that would make the biggest impacts on Kagami. Tsukasa was in a sense creating a timeline of Kagami's life for the purpose of the intervention that Konata was still planning and collaborating with the rest of their group on. Tsukasa did however take reassurance when Konata texted her the previous day and told her that she found Kagami and that she was in good health and that she was able to deliver Dr. Kishimoto's business card to her. Tsukasa unfortunately knew that there was no guarantee that Kagami would take the appointment so she was left with praying once again as her only tool.

When Tsukasa found enough pictures she wanted to use in the intervention, she retreated back to her room and couldn't help but sit on her bed and hug one of her stuffed animals lining her bed. The stuffed animal she hugged to her chest and face was a dolphin and Tsukasa took comfort in the plushy contact. She inadvertently sniffed and it was a gesture she would soon regret. A foreign substance snuck its way from the plush into Tsukasa's nose and it hit her like a ton of bricks.

Tsukasa quickly looked up and saw her vision become blurry, along with colorful dots popping all around her and she suddenly felt sick. She dropped the stuffed dolphin, making the animal's back zipper open slightly and Tsukasa knew something was wrong with her. Feeling woozy and nauseas, Tsukasa stumbled to her door and called for help through her groggy voice and Miki, Tadao, and Inori rushed up the stairs to find Tsukasa on the floor twitching violently.

Miki immediately began to panic as she held her daughter in her arms while Inori called an ambulance with her cell phone. Seeing that Tsukasa was still conscious but very weak and sick, Tadao swept into Tsukasa's room to find the cause of his youngest daughter's sudden condition. He found the stuffed dolphin on the floor but saw something else leaking out the side of it from the opened zipper. It was a white powder that kept flowing out at a slow but steady rate.

He picked up the stuffed animal and opened the back of the doll and was horrified at what he found. Tens of small baggies filled with white powder were stuffed inside the dolphin and it was suddenly clear to Tadao that he had discovered another one of Kagami's stashes. One of the baggies had ripped and the powder was seeping through the plushy material and Tsukasa sniffed it. Tadao didn't know it, but his youngest daughter had just gotten her first taste of heroin. What he also didn't know was that there were stashes like this hidden everywhere in his home.

An ambulance soon arrived but when they discovered the cause of Tsukasa's condition, they didn't take her to a hospital. Luckily for Tsukasa, the amount of heroin she accidentally sniffed wasn't enough to give her a complete overdose but the paramedics still had a drug with them that would counteract the heroin's effects. They rested Tsukasa on a gurney in the ambulance and injected her with a pharmaceutical drug called Naloxone, a substance that was designed to block the opioid receptors in the brain and render the heroin powerless and even destroy any potential addiction. The fractured Hiiragi family was overjoyed when they saw the Naloxone's effects start right away and Tsukasa woke up feeling much better.

Regrettably, because of the circumstances surrounding Tsukasa's minor overdose, the police had to be called and they had to dismantle the Hiiragi household to find the rest of Kagami's drug stashes. The family was forced to stand outside while the neighbors and any passing bystanders watched multiple police units disassemble their beloved home and carry out stash after stash. Kagami had hidden the rest of her drugs in some of the worst places imaginable. She hid them in more of Tsukasa's stuffed animals, under another toilet lid, behind dressers, taped underneath dresser drawers, in the tool shed in the backyard, and even under the floorboards within the shrine. To Kagami, nothing was sacred anymore.

To the Hiiragi family, Kagami had truly crossed a line by this point. She used their home, their place of sanctuary not only as a brothel, but also as a cache for drugs and now Tsukasa was drastically affected by it in a very serious way. Miki and Tadao as well as Inori were humiliated once again by Kagami when they were forced to watch all the eyes of the neighbors watch the police turn their beloved home into a crime scene until all the drugs were confiscated. Just as the rest of the family was ready to give up on Kagami for good and call off the intervention, Tsukasa once again was there to keep them on track despite what happened to her. They didn't know whether to be in awe or to be worried about how much Tsukasa was still dedicated to Kagami, even though she was now responsible for her first overdose in addition to all the other traumas Kagami had put her through so far.

Was Tsukasa still following blind love or was she becoming delusional?

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Kagami felt her heart pounding in her chest. Why was she so nervous? All she was doing was sitting in the waiting room of Dr. Kishimoto's office. It wasn't like she was under arrest or going to jail or to rehab. All she was going to do was sit through an hour's session with a therapist and then she would be able to leave with no questions asked. Still, Kagami was still fearful of what this session would bring. She knew that this psychologist would do whatever it took to steer Kagami towards rehab and recovery but at the same time would use her intense grasp of discourse to persuade her.

The phone suddenly rang on the receptionist's desk, making Kagami jump slightly despite the calming noises of the soft music and flowing water of the tranquility fountains. The receptionist picked it up and replied quickly before hanging it up again. She then turned to Kagami.

"Hiiragi? Dr. Kishimoto will see you now." She replied with a smile.

Kagami nodded and walked down the hallway until she found the office with the therapist's name on it and she peered into the open door. She saw the doctor sitting in her big chair with a bento box on her lap and she was finishing the last of her meal. To Kagami's surprise, the bento box was pink and even had a butterfly image on the lid, something she would expect from a younger female student or even Tsukasa but not someone like a well-educated therapist.

Kagami cleared her throat, catching Kishimoto's attention. She smiled, put the bento box aside, and stood. "Kagami?"

Kagami nodded suspiciously.

Kishimoto deepened her smile and bowed. "I'm so happy to finally meet you. I've heard so much about you and I must say that I was very excited to receive your call this morning. Please come in and have a seat."

Kagami wasn't expecting such sincere hospitality and she slowly took the invite as Kishimoto closed the office door to give them privacy. The twin-tailed girl slowly took a seat on the soft couch but hesitated at first as a result of her previous injury by the man who raped and robbed her but she pushed through it and sat down on the cushions as Kishimoto sat down in her chair.

"So Kagami, what brings you to my office today?" She asked.

Kagami couldn't help but glance around at the office and saw a bunch of knick-knacks on a massive bookcase in addition to hundreds of books on psychology. She turned back to the psychologist and replied, "A friend was pressuring me into a single session with you and then I could go back to living on my own with the drugs. I'm sure you're already up to speed on my status."

Kishimoto nodded. "I am and you're right. I did desire at least one session with you for a few reasons. My biggest reason is because I've been talking with your family and I've come to the conclusion that they love you to death and they want to help."

Kagami looked away. "They can't help me. No one can help me. The only thing that gives me the strength to tackle the day is shooting heroin or smoking crack."

The therapist once again nodded. "I understand. Addiction is a very powerful thing, Kagami. Still, I believe that you and I have a lot to talk about."

Kagami still didn't want to dive into her addictions so she desperately searched for a distraction and she soon eyed the picture frames on Kishimoto's desk. There were four of them together. One was of Kishimoto in a wedding dress next to a man in a tuxedo that Kagami assumed was their wedding, the next showed her with the same man at a ski resort with the scenic snowcapped mountains in the background, the third was of them together in Hawaii on the beach with the ocean and setting sun in the background. The fourth and final one was of a much younger girl in her teens giving a piggyback ride to an even younger girl through a small stream in the woods who was smiling and laughing happily while waving at the camera. Something about the little girl waving to the camera seemed familiar to Kagami.

"Is that your husband?" Kagami quickly asked.

Kishimoto was already onto Kagami's smokescreen attempts but nevertheless played along. She smiled and turned her chair to the pictures and picked up the one of her wedding. "Yes. His name is Azuma Kishimoto and he's a pediatrician. We've just recently celebrated our ten year anniversary."

"And who are the kids?" Kagami asked as she pointed to the last picture on the desk.

Dr. Kishimoto quickly gulped and looked back at the picture. "The older girl is me and the little girl is my sister."

"What's her name?"

Kishimoto turned around and made a smokescreen attempt of her own. "Anyway, how are you feeling today, Kagami?"

Kagami gave her a confused look but soon scorned and sat further back in the couch while crossing her legs and folding her arms. "I'm fine. Do you mind if I light up some damn crack in here?"

Kishimoto nodded. "Yes actually I would mind I'm sorry. I have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to drugs."

Kagami rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Listen I don't even know why I came here aside from trying to keep my friends and family away from me."

"And why would you want to do something like that, Kagami?"

"Because I'm hurt and I'm dealing with it the best way I know how in addition to being sick of them constantly putting pressure on me to act right otherwise I'll fuck my life up, and because I don't want to keep taking all their bullshit about how I'm either destroying my life or their lives. It's my life, damn it!" Kagami started to become angry while Kishimoto remained calm in her seat.

"I see. Do you want to talk about all of that?" She replied.

Kagami suddenly clammed up and kept glaring at Kishimoto. "No. I think I should go."

"But you've only been here for five minutes, Kagami." She retorted. "If you don't want to talk about you we can talk about anything really. It's your hour after all. We could talk about sports, or the weather, or politics if you're interested in that."

Kagami tightened her frown and believed she was being screwed with by the doctor and she stood and said, "Fuck this. I'm out of here."

As Kagami walked towards the door, Kishimoto added one more potential topic. "Or we could talk about my little sister."

Kagami stopped momentarily and turned to the psychologist. "Why the fuck would I want to talk about your sister?"

Kagami once again turned and placed her hand on the doorknob but stopped when Kishimoto added more.

"Because I think you know my sister. My sister's name is Yuka Miyakawa."