But then she wouldn't have expected such a thing from a government building. This was the sort of place where families of civil servants lived, and she'd gotten a small bit of that. Not that she'd wanted such a 'bonus', as it meant that she was going to be living by herself amongst people that she didn't know. Unfortunately, it'd been determined that she would be best taken care of by placing her in a place where the set up was spartan, and there was no hiding the 'government issue' nature of it all.
If she'd been asked, she'd have admitted to wanting to stay with Doctor Mizuno. Being bumped from place to place hadn't been fun, but when she'd gone to stay with the doc, she'd been hoping that she wouldn't have to move again. There she'd had friends, and there she'd felt like she could actually live as herself, rather than the image of what people expected of a girl as strong as her.
Yet, she was now stuck here, where the officials would give her a training regimen, with the knowledge that the doc hadn't wanted to let her go either. Knowing that, she knew that she could never be angry with the doc, and could hold onto the tender feelings that she had for the only adult who she saw as a 'parent figure' since her own had passed on.
She just wished that she knew where the doc and Ami had wound up.
"It's so nice of you to want to help out," Kumori told her daughter as she sent an approving smile to the child.
Ami blushed shyly over the box that she was stumbling with, and ducked her head a bit. "I just wanted to help you with your new clinc...."
"I know, and I'm thankful for that. Still...."
"Hhmm?"
"You do have other things that you can do, right?" the doctor asked, raising her brows slightly. "Don't you have things that you're interested in?"
"That just it. I like this. Being a doctor like you's just what I want to be when I grow up!"
"Is that so? Well then, maybe you'll be able to help out with the patients when you're older."
"Really?" the little girl asked, hope making her eyes grow large.
"We'll see. But for right now, I've got to handle things myself."
"That's right.... Isn't today when Mai and her brother are coming?"
"Good memory."
"Thank you. It's just that it's so bad that he has to see doctors like he does though. And that she has to work so hard to take care of him."
"I can understand what you mean," Doctor Mizuno softly agreed, knowing that the young redhead's promise to her dying mother had been something that she wouldn't forgo, while:
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