Chapter 2: Kawachi Nami
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"Who are you?" She carefully asked.
The person in front of her grinned and made a peace sign, "The name's Kawachi Nami, an upcomin' idol. Remember my name, 'kay!"
Atsuko wanted to face palm so hard at the moment hearing the personality's name. From what she had read and remembered from the profile of Minami, Kawachi Nami is a 17 years old teenager who is a short-tempered teen and she's also a little too sensitive.
Atsuko mentally groaned because a troublesome personality had appeared. She knows how troublesome a teenager can be and how annoying they can get. And seeing that Nami called her an old hag, the teen definitely belongs in the annoying and troublesome type.
Nami stared at the adult in front of her, "So, what's yer problem? I don't have much time cuz I have an audition!" The girl was tapping her left foot on the ground continously, indicating that she was waiting for an answer from the psychiatrist in front of her.
The psychiatrist heaved a deep sigh as she massaged her forehead, feeling suddenly dizzy by the appearance of one of Minami's personalities. She was only meeting the second personality and she's already feeling stressed. How can she even take care of another two personalities? Her head might explode.
Nami clicked her tongue, "Geez, yer wastin' my time, auntie! If you don't need somethin' from me, I'll go get going!" She was about to stomp away from the woman in front of her but got stopped by a hand that was holding her hand.
Atsuko was holding her arm, preventing her from walking away, "Nami-chan, I'll drive you to that audition place, okay? I'm Minami's friend and you can trust me! Seriously!" She tried to assure the teen.
Nami puckered her lips. The woman in front of her knows Minami, another personality living in her body. So that means the woman in front of acknowledges that Minami has D.I.D.
"You know Minami has D.I.D, right? Then, have you met Jane Doe and Kai?" She questioned, purely curious.
"I know that she's suffering D.I.D. Nah, I have only met Minami and right now I'm meeting you." Atsuko nodded her head first, and shook her head at the second question and then smiled after she finished her sentence.
Nami found it fishy, "Then, how can you know Minami has another personalities aside from her? Are you perhaps..."
Atsuko waited for Nami to continue what she was saying, "I am perhaps what?" She asked back.
"... Her best friend?"
The psychiatrist smiled hearing the question that was being asked to her. "I am. I'm her closest best friend." She grinned and chuckled nervously.
Nami then followed her chuckling, "I almost thought you're a psychiatrist! I was nervous because maybe you would erase me and the others but then I realized that from the look of your face, you can't possibly be a psychiatrist, auntie. You don't look smart at all!" Nami laughed so hard as she clutched her stomach with her left hand and her right hand was pointing right in front of Atsuko's face.
Atsuko almost lost her cool once again. This Nami personality is really too blunt and that makes her rude. All she wanted to do was to pull down the girl's hair and have a cat fight with her but she should be the cool headed one.
"Nami-chan, so how about my offer? Yes or no?" Atsuko asked once again. She had to stop Nami from auditioning because that'd be a trouble if she passed and became an idol.
Nami grinned, "Minami's best friend is my best friend too! I don't mind havin' an auntie as a best friend. So what's your name, auntie?"
Atsuko twitched everytime Nami called her auntie. She really like really almost reached past her patience line. But she had to be patient because Minami and/or Nami is her patient. And patient means she has to hold down her anger.
A forced smile came up on the psychiatrist's lips, "My name is Maeda Atsuko. Nice to meet you, Nami-chan. And stop calling me auntie or old hag." She stressed up on the last words.
Nami nodded eagerly, "Okay, Atsuko obaa-chan! Let's eat somethin' first so that I can easily sing to my heart's content in the audition!" She dragged the flustered Atsuko a bit forcefully.
"Wait, no calling of obaa-chan either! Hey! Listen to me!"
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They entered the restaurant where Yuko was waiting for Atsuko earlier. Nami fortunately had requested to eat at this restaurant because according to her, the food there tastes superb and will be able to fill her energy to sing in her idol audition.
Atsuko spotted Yuko along with Haruna, already eating their food while being chummy with each other. Well, Yuko was trying so hard to feed Haruna mouth to mouth but the taller woman refused; more like acted that she wanted to refuse the squirrel's affection.
The psychiatrist wanted to laugh seeing the facial expression of her fellow psychiatrist because she was shoved in the face by her own girlfriend. Forgetting that she came with Nami to the restaurant, she walked to where her friends were sitting.
Nami was surprised as she saw Minami's supposed best friend suddenly walked away and left her. She followed the woman though, thinking that Atsuko had found a table where they could eat together. But she was wrong because Atsuko took a seat in front of two women who were eating together. Nami stood near them, hesitating wheter to sit down or not.
"Ooh! Acchan you're back! Nyannyan's here already and you don't mind that we've started eating right? You took so long so Nyannyan has already eaten your food. You can order a new one." Yuko greeted her friend as she saw her sitting down in front of her and Haruna.
But then Yuko noticed the woman who was awkwardly standing near them. She didn't know who was the woman but then she remembered that Atsuko went out of the restaurant to ask her new patient to join them eating lunch.
Yuko smiled and waved at Atsuko's patient, "Hey, what are you doing there! Sit down, sit down! Geez, Acchan how can you leave her standing there like a lost person?" Yuko offered Nami to sit down and then reprimanded Atsuko.
Atsuko then remembered that she came with Nami. She turned to look at the teenager and apologized for making her look like an outcast.
Nami took a seat beside Atsuko, "That's okay, Atsuko obaa-chan. Yer brain is forgettin' things cuz of your age.. I can understand that much." She smiled and patted Atsuko's shoulder with a sorry look on her face.
Yuko and Haruna burst out laughing hearing Nami's statement. The girl in front of them called Atsuko with obaa-chan and on top of that saying Atsuko's memories are fading because of her age was way too funny that they couldn't help but to laugh out loud.
"Hey! I told you not to call me obaa-chan! I'm still 25 years old, you know?!" Atsuko reminded and scolded the girl. She was really frustrated.
Yuko wiped the tears that came out of her eyes from too much laughing, "Hey, that's a good one! What's your name?"
Nami smiled and bowed her head to the woman in front of her, "My name is Kawachi Nami, 17 years old and I'm gon' be an idol! So remember my name cuz' I'll hit it big!" She made a peace sign again like earlier.
Haruna raised an eyebrow hearing what age Nami had just said, "Are you really 17? Well your height is like really.. Lacking... But you don't look like you're 17, more like the same age as Acchan." She asked while tilting her head.
Nami pouted hearing that. Well she might be lacking in height department... She turned to look at Haruna because she was about to get mad at her but then she got a clearer look of the beauty in front of her and she was instantly in awe.
"Are you a model? Whoa yer skin look so smooth, nee-san! Please share some tips for me! I want a skin like you!" Nami gushed excitedly.
Atsuko frowned hearing that Nami called Haruna nee-san. Haruna is older than her and Nami called her nee-san instead of obaa-chan! Does her face really look old or what?
Yuko then remembered that Atsuko's patient is suffering D.I.D so the person sitting in front of her might be one of the patient's personalities and not the main personality.
"Aah, you're not the mai- Oow! Why are you kicking me, Acchan?!" But Yuko's words got interrupted when Atsuko suddenly kicked her legs under the table.
She rubbed the sore spot where her legs got kicked and glared at the younger girl. She didn't know why Atsuko suddenly kicked her. She didn't say anything wrong. She was just about to say that Nami is not the main personality and it's a fact! She wouldn't say something wrong!
"Not what? I'm not what? Hey, Atsuko obaa-chan she was about to say somethin'! Why did you kick her?" Nami asked as she was curious on Yuko's unfinished sentence.
Atsuko nervously laughed, "She's not going to say anything! Right, Yuko? Anyway, what do you want to eat, Nami-chan? You have to eat so that you can sing to your heart's content, right?"
"Oh right! Where's the waitress? I have to fill my energy!" She energetically waved her hand around so a waitress could see her and take her orders.
Haruna giggled seeing the energetic Nami, "You're funny, Nami-chan. My name is Kojima Haruna by the way. And you're right, I'm a model." Haruna smiled softly at the supposedly 17 years old teenager after she had said her orders to the waitress.
"And my name is Oshima Yuko! A ps- ooww!! Acchan, why are you kicking me again?!" Yuko complained and rubbed her foot once again. Acchan had kicked the same spot and the pain was starting to reappear once again.
"Yuko is a photographer and Haruna is the model!" Atsuko lied and smiled nervously, hoping that Yuko would catch on her sign of not telling Nami anything about being a psychiatrist.
Fortunately, Yuko is one smart woman. So she understood why Atsuko lied though she had to be kicked twice first before she could realize it.
"Ah, yeah! I'm Nyannyan's photographer and girlfriend!"
Nami was shocked after she heard what Yuko just said, "Eh? What did'cha say? Girlfriend? You two are da-datin'?" She asked once again to make sure that she heard it right.
Yuko nodded her head eagerly and then snuggled closer to Haruna who in return tightened her hug on the squirrel like girl, "Yep! We're dating! I love my Nyannyan sooo much!" She smiled dreamily and pecked her girlfriend's cheek.
Haruna smiled, "I love my Yuuchan soo much too!" She replied with a smaller voice, still shy with public display of affection. That made Yuko happy though.
Nami turned to look at Atsuko and whispered at her, "You're friends with Ls? Wait, are you an L too?" She asked but then pulled back immediately when she uttered the last question at Atsuko.
Atsuko seemed like she was a bit confused, "What is L?" She questioned.
"Lesbian! Are you an L too, obaa-chan? Whoa I'm surrounded by Ls!! What if I get infected? No!! I don't want to be an L! I can't be an idol if I'm turnin' inton an L!!" Nami exclaimed and frantically pulled her hair, stressed about the possibilites of her turning into a fellow lesbian like the women in front of her.
Yuko scowled seeing how Nami reacted to her revelation of dating Haruna, "What? Do you have anything against Ls? Huh? You got a problem, you shortie? Huh?!!" She glowered at the shorter girl in front of her.
Nami scrunched her eyebrows, "Did ya just call me a shortie? Huh? Well baaba, ain't you a shortie too? Huh?!" She glared back and crossed her arms in front of her chest, a challenging look on her face.
Yuko also crossed her arms, "You're shorter than me, shortie! Ain't you a lil' rude huh?! 17 years old like you should just suck some milk from baby bottles at home! You ain't even tall enough to go outside eatin' at restaurants!" Yuko mocked and started to talk in Kansai dialect too even though she's not from Osaka or Kyoto..
Nami felt hummiliated, "You ain't that tall either to even be an L! And yer way too short for datin' a model."
Atsuko and Haruna facepalmed so hard seeing the childish bickering of the two shorties in front of them. What does height even matter in going to restaurant or dating a model? Their words really don't make sense at all.
Just then the waitress came bringing Nami's ordered meals, stopping them temporarily from their childish cat and dog bickering.
Haruna looked at her wristwatch and stood up, "Sorry guys, I have a photoshoot later so I'm going now. See you later Acchan and nice to meet you, Nami-chan!" She waved.
"Wait, Nyannyan! I'll drive you there because my lunch break will be over soon and I have to meet Mayuyu later for her session. I'm going too, see you around Acchan and go drink milk, Nami-chan!" Yuko waved and stuck out her tongue at Nami who was sending her invicible daggers with her eyes.
The two women finally left the restaurant and Nami sighed while eating her food. She actually had nothing against both of them for being lesbian but it was just rare for her seeing two women dating.
Atsuko on the other hand was thinking so hard on how to wake Minami up and put Nami to sleep so she wouldn't cause trouble by auditioning to be an idol. She got some sleeping pills in her bag and that might help. She considered putting a sleeping pill in Nami's drink while the girl isn't looking.
And she did that. She managed to put a sleeping pill in Nami's drink and the pill quickly dishelved inside of the drink. Atsuko mentally patted herself for being able to put the sleeping pill without Nami noticing anything.
Nami finished eating and drank her orange juice until it ran out. She barfed and grinned while patting her fully recharged stomach, "Thanks for the meal, Atsuko obaa-chan! When I debut as an idol, I'll treat you some food to repay this kindness back! Remind me okay!" She gave Atsuko a thumbs up and Atsuko just chuckled.
They then went to Atsuko's car which was parked near the restaurant and fortunately not in the hospital because Nami would suspect her as a psychologist if she had parked it inside of the hospital.
Both of them got inside the car with Atsuko behind the steering wheel and Nami beside her in the passenger side. Nami let out a yawn after she finished buckling up her seat belt and rest her back on the comfy seat. Atsuko cheered inside of her mind because the sleeping pill worked.
Atsuko started the engine and began driving towards nowhere bacause she had no intention of bringing Nami to where her audition took place. That would be troublesome after all.
Nami was growing sleepy and in the end she gave up on staying awake. She fell asleep and Atsuko huffed out a sigh of relief after she fell asleep. Now all she has to do is waid for her to be awake and turn into Takahashi Minami once again.
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Minami slowly opened her eyes, her conciousness starting to appear back. As soon as she opened her eyes, Atsuko's face came into her view. She jumped back, startled by the face of her psychiatrist.
Atsuko smiled, "Are you awake? You've been sleeping for quite a while already." She uttered while letting out a sigh, relieved that Minami was the one to be awake, not the other personalities.
"Dr. Maeda? What happened? Who came out? Kai, Nami or Jane Doe? What did they do? How long was I asleep? What time is it right now? Where are we?" Minami bombarded the psychiatrist with her questions. Well she was frantic after she collapased in the alley and that was all she could remember.
Atsuko was surprised by the amount of questions her patient had just thrown at her, "Whoa, easy there, Minami! And I thought I told you to drop Dr. Maeda and just call me Atsuko? You called me Dr. Maeda and I don't want to answer your questions if you're still calling me by that." Atsuko sulked as she looked away from her patient who was dumbfounded.
"Right A-Atsuko. Sorry. So please tell me?" She awkwardly apologized and pressed on asking her questions to be answered.
Atsuko grinned after she heard Minami called her by her first name. How Minami called her was quite special according to Atsuko because Minami has a soft yet comforting voice, she feels at peace whenever Minami pronounced her name.
The psychiatrist then began telling her that Kawachi Nami was the one who comes out and also Atsuko had said sorry for putting Nami to sleep by force with sleeping pills.
A surge of reassurance filled Minami as she heard that Atsuko managed to stop Nami from auditioning as an idol yet again. After all, Nami is one ambitious girl and would never give up on making her dreams of becoming an idol come true. She felt a sense of respect after Atsuko told her that she prevented the worst.
Minami let out a tired smile at the woman beside her, "Thank you for your help, Atsuko. I wouldn't have been here if it weren't for you. Thank you so much, I mean it." She thanked Atsuko with sincereness evident in her voice.
Atsuko shook her head, "It was nothing, Minami. I don't do that much." She shrugged her shoulder but then turned to look at Minami once again, "Well, from what I had observed during Nami's awaken state, she seems like she doesn't like psychiatrist. She also mentioned about psychiatrist erasing her and all.."
"Well, all three of them had said or rather.. Tried to persuade me not to contact any psychiatrist... They are scared that their existance might be erased so that's probably why Nami is sensitive about psychiatrist... So you didn't tell her your proffesion?"
Atsuko once again shook her head, "No, I sensed that she might be petrified of me if I revealed that I'm a psychiatrist who is treating you right now so yeah.. I didn't tell her. I told her I'm your best friend instead, hope you don't mind?" She smiled sheepishly and rubbed the nape of her neck.
It was the patient's turn to shake her head, "I don't mind at all! And you're really smart Atsuko, I'm amazed by your quirky brain." Minami complimented out of pure astound.
Atsuko blushed at the compliment the shorter girl gave her, "I'm not that smart..." She muttered quietly under her breath, embarrassed by the compliment.
Minami heard her though, "Well, in my mind, you're smart! Your ideas are over flowing and you're also understanding and kind... I'm glad I met you, Atsuko. Really." Minami smiled as she held the psychiatrist's hand, squeezed it for a while and then released Atsuko's hand from her grip.
Feeling shy with the amount of compliment, Atsuko cleared her throath and looked away from the patient. She felt a sudden giddiness in her stomach when Minami suddenly held her hand and squeezed it. She felt like there were tons of butterflies dancing around inside of her belly and she felt awkward.
Atsuko wanted to avoid the topic of her being smart, kind or whatever, "Hey, Minami, tell me where you live, it's quite late already. I'm going to drive you home."
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Yuko was studying about her patient's profile when suddenly the door was opened. She put down her glasses and then spun over to see who had entered her room.
It was Haruna. Her girlfriend seemed tired as she wasn't smiling when she entered Yuko's session room. The squirrel like psychiatrist walked to her girlfriend and hugged the girl for a short while.
"What brings you here, Nyannyan? It's already late. Didn't you say you want to just sleep after your photoshoot earlier?" Yuko inquired as she pulled away from the quick but as always, warm and loving embrace.
Haruna then smiled a little, "I just wanted to see you. We've been busy lately and today at the restaurant, we weren't alone... I miss spending time with Yuuchan alone." Haruna breathed out before she leaned down to place a quick peck on Yuko's cheek.
Yuko squealed in happiness, "Aw, I'm so happy! I also miss you a lot lot lot, Nyannyan! Let's go on a date this Sunday! I've got no appointment with any patients that day. Are you free on Sunday?" She jumped on her girlfriend and hugged her tightly.
"Okay! You better not cancel it like the last time! If you cancel it, say hello to the couch for three weeks." Haruna threatened as she pulled back a little to look at her short girlfriend.
"Eh~ isn't three weeks too long?! But don't worry! I'm not going to cancel it and I don't even have the intention to! We're going on a date this Sunday and it'll be amazing!" Yuko grinned and snuggled closer to the model's chest.
"Okay. You've promised, Yuuchan. Don't break your promise, okay?"
"I won't! Now gimme a kiss Nyannyan! I miss your lips too! We haven't kissed for 6 hours! That's too long already and my lips miss you dearly." Yuko puckered her lips, wanting to meet with Haruna's soft lips.
Just when those two lips were about to meet, the door flung open with a loud bang, startling the two lovers. Both of them looked at the door and found Atsuko behind it.
"Oops! Looks like I've interrupted a good time. Well sorry Haruna but I have to talk with Yuko. I won't take long!" Atsuko pulled her friend by her friend, leaving Haruna hanging with her mouth still puckering from earlier.
Yuko moped as Atsuko had interrupted her kiss with her dear girlfriend. It was so close!! But Atsuko had to appear and pulled her away from her gorgeous girlfriend. Luck really wasn't on her side.
"Don't sulk, Yuko. I need your advice here."
Yuko huffed a loud, "How can I not sulk? You've interrupted my kiss with Nyannyan! I was so close to feel that lips again but you just had to slam the door! Ugh... What advice do you need by the way?" Yuko complained first but asked anyway.
Atsuko gave out a big grin and she also scrunched her nose, showing immense happiness just from her expression alone, "Advice in making someone to fall for me!"
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A/N: hey guys! Sorry for the delayed update! Hahaha i got a lil bit busy and had no time to update the story. Anyway, here's the second chapter! Thank you all for reading the first chapter and patiently waited for the second chapter!
Replies:
@black_maa: thank you for reading! Haha and acchan should really start to study minami
@yuko: kai should be revealed soon... Or later!
@Ren-kun: they did fight! Lol. And i wonder if kai would really be a playboy.. Hahaha
@deguchi: i might really start to reconsider making a new personality for minami lol
@AI712: i'm glad that you think this story is interesting! Here's your update!
@phoenix0i: i made nami to have kansai dialect because i think that'd suit her personality
@Drakon: majimina might appear... If i really want to write it.. Hahaha
@Yhuii: i'm happy that you find my story interesting, thank you! And i wonder what acchan would do to..
@cisda83: thank you for thinking my story is interesting! Hmm i can't answer your prediction because then i would spoil it! Hahaha
@Ruka Kikuchi: nami's out and this chapter happened. Hahaha here's your update!
@lezperv: well, in my head, nami's quite brash so that's why she called acchan an old hag lol. And about minami as a creative producer and how she works with her DID.. Well it will be revealed soon... Or not so soon.
I'm really happy with all of the thankyous and all of the comments i've received. I never thought i would get so many comments hahaha. Once again, thank you for putting up with me and please anticipate the next chapter!
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