Ch. 27

Ch. 27

Kotoko and her kids headed out the house later that morning, with smiles on their faces. Kotoko was especially happy, because it was just going to be them. She knew that being a nurse sometimes called for long hours and the kids would be hard at studying as soon as they started school back.

The day was turning out as peacefully as it could for the little family. Around lunch they had found a nice spot in the park to eat their food they had just bought. Kotoko's happiness blossomed even more as she watched her kids eat their lunch. Her husband and the rest of her family had commented that the kids took over her apatite.

"Mom you sure look happy today," commented her son, Yuga as he too had a big smile on his face.

"Yeah, mommy, we haven't seen you smile this big in a while," also commented her daughter, Ayu.

"Let's just say, today almost reminds me of when we would go the park with your father on our day offs; today just assures me that we really will be okay from her on out," smiled Kotoko.

The kids smiled at each other and attacked their mother in a big hug. Kotoko laughed as her hugs squeezed her. "Okay you two, get back to your lunch, then you can go play for a bit."

"Mommy, will you push me on the swings?" asked the little girl.

"Sure honey, but…" Kotoko smirked at her daughter as she took a big bight of her food.

After lunch, the family of three spent the rest of the time in the park either playing, or either taking a walk down one of the many paths.

At one point they walked by an ice-cream stand, and just like she promised she bought her kids each an ice-cream. As they sat down to enjoy their ice cream, a tall looking man almost ran past them, almost. At the perfect time Ayu's ice-cream fell out of her hands and she began to cry.

"Oh honey its okay," Kotoko said trying to comfort her daughter.

"Excuse me," said the man, Kotoko turned around to see the tall, muscular man, holding another ice-cream. "I saw what happened and bought another ice-cream for the little lady."

"Oh, thank you," said Kotoko as she took the ice-cream handing it too her daughter.

The little girl stopped crying and smiled up the man. "Thank you very much, sir."

"What a polite young lady," said the man. "I would hate to see a family outing ruined to a fallen ice-cream."

"Well again thank you…" Kotoko started to say, as she began to bow.

"Nishigaki, Dr. Nishigaki," the man said bowing back, as he finished for her.

"I'm Mikado, Ns. Mikado," Kotoko introduced herself.

"Wait, your full name wouldn't happen to be Kotoko Mikado, would it?" asked Dr. Nishigaki sounding surprised.

"Um, yes, it is," stated Kotoko as she pulled her kids a little closer, wondering how this supposed doctor knew her name.

"I'm sorry if I just scared you, but I work at Tonan Hospital and I heard your name when they told us about your transfer," Dr. Nishigaki explained to her.

'That almost reminds me of my third year in high school,' thought Kotoko. "Well, it's nice to meet you," Kotoko spoke as she bowed again. "Oh, these are my kids Yuga and Ayu."

Ayu was almost done with her ice-cream, and Yuga… was looking at the man with an almost a blank expression. He was thankful that the man, but was now getting annoyed that he was wasting his family's precious time.

"Nice to meet you two," slightly bowed the doctor. "Well I hope to see you kids soon, and Mrs. Mikado I hope we work well together," he exclaimed as he left, winking towards Kotoko.

Not faced Kotoko waved to him as they went their separate ways.

"He was nice," stated Ayu as she threw away her wrapper. Her brother looked a little unsure.

"Yeah he kind of was wasn't he," said Kotoko not really thinking too much about it. "Well at least I'll know one more face when I start my new job tomorrow."

"Yeah," both her kids sighed.

Kotoko looked at her kids feeling a little guilty that she will have to leave them alone; even if they were still going to get to hang with Yuki, and get to know their other grandparents more, it still hurt.

"Okay kids, where to next?"

(A/N): Hello everybody, finally another chapter here, and I'm just going to go ahead and say this, "there will always be at least one or two chapters more every weekend. However there will only be one chapter this coming next weekend. I did start this chapter last night, but was not able to finish writing last night because of the weather, and my internet was not working. This chapter is not as good as I want it to be, but I hope you all will like it. Thank you everyone and I do ot own MK-LT