Ch. 35

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Ch. 35

The rest of the day Kotoko kept a pleasant smile on her face, except when Naoki was around. When they were in Karin's room both did their best to act like nothing was wrong with each other, and not worrying the married couple. However, Watanabe knew something was up with his old friend, and the nurse who used to be head over heels for him.

While his wife was sleeping again, Watanabe took the opportunity to get some lunch and talk to his childhood friend. Lucky for him he didn't have to walk far as he saw Naoki walking down the hall with another doctor. "Nao- I mean Dr. Irie can I talk with you a bit."

"We can discuss the matter at a later hand," said the doctor leaving what looked like a slightly annoyed Naoki.

"What happened?" Watanabe asked confused with and a hint of worry.

"Don't worry about it," Naoki said trying to get rid of his annoyance from the doctor before. "So what did you want to talk about, is it about Karin?"

"Actually no, it's about what's going on with you and Kotoko," stated Watanabe. "Did something happen between you two? I thought I heard her yelling about something, heck I bet you could hear her all the way from your parent's house."

Naoki sighed, of course one of the people in his life would start noticing something was off, especially if they were almost as smart as he was. "Everything is okay," Naoki started to explain. "I was just telling her something, and she might over reacted a little."

"A little," said the other man raising an eyebrow. "Naoki…"

"I don't want to really explain it right now," Naoki started to say. "Just focus on your wife right now, and you will find out soon I can assure you."

Giving his old friend one more look, he sighed and let it go, for now. "So what then were you and that other doctor talking about?"

"Apparently you're not the only one who has noticed our, or more like Kotoko's attitude towards me," stated Naoki again, this time his eye twitching a little bit. "Dr. Nishigaki was trying to ask me what happened with Ko- I mean Ns. Mikado, and he also informed me that if I don't fix whatever I have done he will "still" from me."

"How could he "still" her from you when you're still technoly married to Sahoko?" questioned Watanabe. "Heck you're…"

Naoki shot him a glare before he could finish that sentence. "Don't you even talk about that here, there are too many ears and gossip hounds." Naoki sighed, "Plus I would be the center of attention again just like back in high school."

Watanabe looked at him curiously. "I want to know how long you plan to keep this up."

"What are you talking about?" Naoki questioned his old friend.

"I'm talking about this false happiness," Watanabe started to say. "At first I was a little surprised that you came to me first about this, but was shocked when you told me to put it on hold. Is it because of …?"

"Yes, and I don't want her involved when the press gets wind afterwards." Naoki's every once in a while mask of stone cold face dropped a little to show his true emotions. "She's already going through to much as it is, no thanks to me." The last part was in a muttered whisper, but it wasn't to quit that his friend did not hear him.

Noticing that he hadn't given something away, Watanabe let everything be, for now and gave his friend some advice. "Naoki, I may not know what is going on right now between you and Kotoko, but before anything happens I suggest you need to make sure you have everything together' because one slip up could cause the biggest down pours on your life."

Naoki before he began to walk off looked at his friend square in the eye. "I think it's a little too late for that speech.

Watanabe watched his friend walk off sighing before he went back to check on his wife.

"Naoki what have you done?"