I stood in the back of Akisame's clinic with Miu and the girl named Kisara. I was carefully bandaging her arm while Miu got her chest. I heard a loud commotion from behind the curtain and the white haired boy Akisame had rescued earlier yelled;
"Let me out of here! I'm leaving! Erghhh! Ouw! Let me go! Now!"
"I thought that I told you to lie down!" Akisame said. I heard something land on one of the beds and guessed that my lover had thrown the boy onto it.
"You're not going anywhere while you're hurt!" Akisame said. "Kensei the needle!"
"Okay," Kensei said. "Go to sleep." The boy fell silent. I turned and began riffling through the drawers, looking for a robe for the girl.
"Are you Miu's mother?" the girl asked.
"No," I said. "I just play her mother for school functions. I'm the girlfriend of the doctor who treated you."
"You pretend to be her mother?" she asked, confused.
"Anytime Miu has some kind of school thing that parents go to, I go and support her and tell people I'm her mom," I explained. "Her real mothers dead."
"She's like my big sister," Miu chirped with a smile.
"Must be nice," the girl said.
"It is," Miu said. "She's even teaching me to drive."
"I've had to postpone that while I'm pregnant," I sighed. Miu's smile never wavered.
"I don't mind," she said. "I would die if anything happened to Kimiko because of me." I smiled and leaned over, kissing her cheek.
"He sure is a lively one, isn't he," I heard Kensei remark. "He broke three ribs and he's still going strong. That's impressive."
"He seems to be really worried about his comrades for some reason," Akisame mused.
"Well, I'll let you worry about this one," Kensei said. "I've got my hands full trying to help the girl Miu brought back. I'm a busy..Uhn…" I peeked out from behind the curtain and saw Akisame had grabbed Kensei and was pulling him away from our area.
"I've already treated her," Akisame said. "She doesn't need your help. Leave the rest to the Miu and my Koibito. The last thing the girl needs is someone gawking at her."
"I hope that somehow this will keep you from having a scar," Miu said as she finished the bandages.
"Thanks," Kisara said. "But I don't care."
"Not too bad!" Akisame exclaimed.
"Sorry, my hand slipped," Kensei replied.
"Very fast, Kensei," Akisame complimented, "but you still didn't get me."
"Ah! I have to go!" I heard the white haired teenager cry.
"So where's the needle?" Akisame asked. "Let's try this again."
"But…there's nothing else I can do!" Kensei cried, shocked. "I've already tried everything!"
"I must go!" the boy shouted. "I must help them! They need me!"
I pushed back the curtain, watching as Miu helped Kisara walk out to the main area, clothed in the rob I had given her.
"Are you sure you can't let him go?" she asked. "The Shinpaku alliance is having their final face off with Ragnorock right now."
"She's right," Miu said. "And we should probably try to get ahold of Kenichi so he can be there to help."
Akisame was holding the boy to the bed with a finger on his forehead.
"Captain Shirahama!" the boy cried. "I'll call him and I'll ask him to come home right now! We need him!"
"The last time we let you use the phone to call someone, it caused some trouble," Akisame said. "You got so excited making the call, you exhausted yourself completely." The boy thrashed on the bed.
"If I didn't call Thor, they'd be dead!" the boy yelled. "Now get me the phone! Telephone! Telephone!"
"Geez this is annoying," Akisame sighed. "Knock him out."
"Stop this," I scolded, laying a hand on his stomach. "You'll hurt yourself."
"Now calm down, Akisame," Kensei said. "He's too weak for anymore acupuncture."
"Just let him go, doctor," Kisara said. "He just wants to help his friends." Akisame sighed and pulled back from the boy.
"As a fellow fighter I'm compelled to let him go," he said. "But as a doctor I know he's in no condition."
The boy struggled against my hands, pushing himself up. He finally sat up and coughed, gripping his chest.
"What are you gonna do when you get there?" Kensei asked. "Just sitting up took almost all of your energy."
"Well I may not be able to fight with them, even so," he said, "I can cheer for them!"
He began to do some weird hand movements and chant 'Shinpaku'.
"Still going," Kensei observed.
"And he should be in a lot of pain," Akisame remarked.
The bed suddenly lifted and I yelped in surprise.
"Apapapapa!"
Apachai held the bed over his head, a big smile splitting his face.
"Apachai?" Akisame asked.
"Opera boy can go cheer on his buddies as long as he follows the doctor's orders and stays in bed, right?"
I turned and saw Sakaki leaning against the doorframe with a smile on his face.
"This is the perfect way to make that happen," he said.
"Apachai will be very careful not to hurt singing man and will put him somewhere safe!" Apachai said, still holding the bed up.
"I swear it's like talking to children," Akisame sighed. "None of you has any common sense."
I took Akisame's hand in mine and looked up at him.
"Come on Doctor," Kisara said. "Don't say that. We all mean well." She cringed and Miu gripped her arm as she swayed a bit.
"My love," I said. "You were young once and you can still be just as stubborn."
"Akisame, I understand," Miu began. "If you really don't want us to go, we'll stay here, okay?" Akisame lifted my hand and kissed it, gently.
"Nonsense," he laughed. "Personally I love going against common sense whenever I have the opportunity."
Kisara smiled at him and I giggled, reaching up and kissing him. He returned my kiss, wrapping his arms around me.
"I will be carrying you, my darling," he said.
"Of course," I said with a smile. "Come girls, let's go get some food."