The promised time was after lunch. It was just ten o' clock in the morning now. Mireille and Kirika simply had to wait until the promised time came. "Mireille.." Kirika said in a soft voice. Mireille stopped browsing in the internet and glanced at Kirika. "Hmm..?" Kirika walked to where Mireille was. "This is not too serious, isn't it..?" "..." Mireille looked at Kirika, who was now in front of her. The shorter one of the two looked up to see a pair of blue eyes was gazing at her. As the brunette was about to speak more, Mireille said, "Hope so." The blonde smiled. "Looks like you really like her." Kirika replied her smile and whispered something which Mireille couldn't hear clearly. "..." "What did you say, Kirika..?" asked Mireille. "Nothing." was the brunette's reply. Mireille and Kirika waited, as they drank tea, chat and played with the sleeping Adeline. Finally it was lunch time. Kirika and Mireille had lunch in a small restaurant near the apartment. After that, they went to the clinic. Once again they saw the oriental building which painted yellow and red. They walked over to the front door. There, Mireille knocked a few times. Just seconds after, Mireille and Kirika could hear someone's footsteps were approaching the door from inside. The door was slowly opened and they saw the familiar face greeted them. "Hello." Dr. Naomi said as she smiled. Dr. Naomi first looked at Mireille, before she glanced at Kirika. Her facial expression changed a little when she saw the Japanese girl's face. The female vet was obviously tried to hide her disappointment to see Kirika. "Come in, girls." It was the second time for both Kirika and Mireille to step into the clinic. As expected that they came to visit, they were brought to a deeper part of the clinic. It was likely that Dr. Naomi's house was inside the clinic. "We can talk here." The female vet finally said, as she stopped walking. They were standing in an empty and tidy room which has only a big blue sofa, a regular TV, and a table. The room was painted white rather than yellow or red, which made it different from the rest of the rooms. From the furniture above, it was as if the room was designed to receive guests. Mireille and Kirika sat on the big sofa, while Dr. Naomi walked to another room. When the female doctor showed up, she brought a chair with her. "Doc..." "I will sit here, it's okay." Dr. Naomi cut off Mireille's line, as she placed the chair in front of the two, despite the empty space in the sofa. The female vet first made herself comfortable to sit on the chair before said "So.. about your parents, Mireille.." "Huh..?" muttered Mireille, confused. "I'm really sorry that they were already dead." Dr. Naomi said calmly. She knows?! What is the real identity of this woman, for god's sake..! Mireille felt uncomfortable with the topic. After all, she fully aware that it was Kirika who killed her parents, tough Kirika never wish for it. The blonde had already forgiven Kirika for sure. But, this topic was too sensitive for the brunette, in Mireille's opinion. The blonde remembered the last time the Japanese girl apologized to her, both of them almost cried. Mireille glanced at Kirika, and saw that the brunette made a slight reaction. A very little one, which could be realize by Mireille only. "Kirika..?" Mireille asked in a worried tone. Kirika smiled at Mireille, "I'm okay." "Actually I will talk a lot about Mireille's parents, Kirika." Dr. Naomi said, smiling. Kirika said nothing and remained quite. Mireille stared angrily at Dr. Naomi, tough the vet herself seemed to ignore it. "Kirika.. maybe.. maybe you want to wait outside for a while..?" The Japanese girl looked up to see Dr. Naomi. Kirika hesitated first, but in the end agreed and whispered, "Okay." The brunette stood up and walked out from the room. Mireille felt guilty to brought Kirika here, as the brunette in the end had to wait outside. Dr. Naomi obviously didn't want Kirika to hear the conversation. Convinced herself that Kirika had left, Mireille said in an angry tone, "You bastard. Don't you have any other ways to make her leave this room?!" The blonde's voice was not firm, as she was really angry to the doctor in front of her. "I'm sorry for that." Dr. Naomi apologized. "But I can't help it. You brought her here." "Leave that for later." Mireille said, as she looked at Dr. Naomi. The blonde asked sharply in a serious tone, "Who are you..?" "I'm currently a vet." The older girl said shortly. Mireille hesitated for a moment, before asking, "Is it Kirika in the photo you have?" Dr. Naomi wore some surprised expression. "Photo..??" The blonde said lazily, "Don't play dumb with me." Then she added coldly, "You were the one who drop your wallet on purpose. Admit it yourself." The female vet laughed. "It was due for you to recognize me." "It is really Kirika..? Mireille's voice was barely heard. "Yes." Mireille had prepared herself to accept any answer. "I don't trust you though. Why do you have it..?" "Someone gave it to me." "What for..?" Dr. Naomi lowered her head, before a second after she looked and stared at Mireille's blue eyes. Mireille also looked at Dr. Naomi's eyes. A pair of crisp brown eyes met with blue ones. "You wouldn't believe me." Dr. Naomi finally said. "What do you mean..?" Dr. Naomi answered seriously, "I am Kirika's mother." Tough Mireille had mentally prepared herself, she gasped the moment she heard that sentence. Kirika's mother.. The similarity between Kirika and Dr. Naomi actually was not too obvious. But still, Mireille did recognize it as time passed by. For one example, both Kirika and Dr. Naomi's eyes were kind of similar, especially the colour part. Mireille observed Dr. Naomi. If Kirika have a long hair, with black for its colour, would she be like her..? After a long silence between them, Mireille said, "I don't believe you completely, tough from physically, you two do resembled each other." "I have proof with me." "Show me." Mireille insisted. Dr. Naomi went to another room of the house, and brought a thick book with her when she came back. Inside the book there were a photo album and a birth certificate. The birth certificate somehow seemed convincing from the old looks, and Kirika's name was written there. Her name really is Kirika, eh..? The blonde didn't want to check longer on the birth certificate, so she took the photo album out. Mireille saw the photo of the woman who seemed to be a younger version of Dr. Naomi with a man who was likely to be Kirika's father from the look, and maybe, Kirika on the age of 2 or 3. They were posing in front a small house. The next photo was the photo of the three of them laughing cheerfully in a room. The sound of flickered pages of the album was the only one heard in the room as no one talked. The more pages opened, the wider Mireille's eyes became. The blonde found it hard to not realize the similarity of the girl in the photo with Kirika. Finally the last page had been seen by Mireille. "How do you know that this girl," Mireille pointed at the little girl who resembled Kirika in one of the photos, "is Kirika..?" "I have checked it when I took a bath with her." Mireille exclaimed, "TOOK A BATH?!" "Yes." Dr. Naomi said calmly tough the doctor wore a shocked expression as to hear the blonde exclaimed loudly. "Why did you exclaim..?" Mireille felt embarrassed on herself. "Er.. Sorry. I just didn't hear about it from Kirika." Mireille gathered up her mind. "So, how did you convince me..? You just took a bath... with her." "I saw the birthmark." Mireille raised her eyebrows. "Birthmark..? Where?" "Behind her left ear. A very small one." Such a small birthmark, Mireille herself knew nothing about it. "I see." Dr. Naomi smiled, "So, you believe me..?" "Not really.. " "Your doubt was already enough for me to prove it." The female doctor said. Mireille decided to ignore the female vet for a while. Her mind wondered to Kirika. Her first meeting with Kirika. She remembered all the story the brunette had told her. The Japanese girl's ambition. Kirika's smiling and sad face. Suddenly Mireille felt some kind of hatred towards Dr. Naomi, as Kirika's mother. Mireille tried to hold her emotion and asked, "Say, you threw her to Soldats, didn't you..?" Dr. Naomi nodded weakly. She said furiously, "Say if I do believe you. Tell me, why did you leave Kirika alone..? Thanks to you for throwing her away to Soldats, she became a prodigy of an assassin who only knew how to kill..! What have you been doing until now..?!!! Are you really a mother..??" "I..." Dr. Naomi smile faded upon heard this. The female vet then shut her mouth and became silent. As Mireille was about to shouted more, she saw Dr. Naomi was slowly shaking. Strangely, the doctor was about to cry. Mireille felt a bit guilty to say all the things back then, tough the blonde didn't even consider to apologize. "It's true. I... I am not qualified... to be a mother. Threw... threw her away like that.." Dr. Naomi was sobbing, as she was also shaking greatly. Mireille just kept silent and waited for Dr. Naomi to stop crying. After about ten minutes, Dr. Naomi had regained her calmness. Decided not to argue about Dr. Naomi "un-motherly-like" further more, the blonde asked calmly, "Dr. Naomi.. What is your purpose, telling me all this..?" Dr. Naomi took a deep breath and said, "I gave up for Kirika just about two weeks ago. But all of the sudden, you and Kirika went to my clinic." The female vet looked up at the ceiling as if she was remembering the moment. " Just then I realized that she is my daughter I have been searching for. It is all based on my feeling. So I arranged all of this to know you and her more." Mireille listened to the older woman patiently. Dr. Naomi looked at Mireille seriously. "Could you please... make her acknowledge me..?" "What..?!" Mireille asked out of confusion. "I can't just jump in and said to Kirika: Hey, you have a mother living near here!" Doesn't she realize that she have made her waited too long..? I thought her parents already died..! Dr. Naomi smiled. "I just had a feeling that you can help me somehow." "You yourself must tell her." Mireille said sharply. "Tough I doubt that she will believe you." "But still I need your help." Mireille kept silent. Help.. As Dr. Naomi could read Mireille's mind, she smiled and said, "Yes. Maybe you can let me visit or invite her more." There was actually another question in Mireille's mind. The blonde decided to speak it up. "What would you do when she acknowledges you..?" The female vet smiled and said matter-of-factly, "Of course I will bring her back home." With that last sentence, their conversation end. Mireille felt that it would be too long for Kirika to wait for her. The blonde knew the best that Kirika wasn't a fool. The brunette surely enough would know that something she couldn't know was happened between Mireille and Dr. Naomi. Mireille said goodbye to the female vet and walked out from the clinic. She found Kirika was outside the clinic, embracing a wild cat. The cat ran away the moment Mireille showed up. "Sorry to make you wait this long." said Mireille. Kirika smiled. "That cat accompanied me, so it's fine." The Japanese looking girl stood up and said softly, "But I hope I receive an apologizing gift." Mireille laughed. "I'll treat you an ice cream, then." They went to the park, not far away from Dr. Naomi's clinic. There they bought two ice creams from the ice cream man. Mireille and Kirika then walked to sit at the bench. It was evening now, and most people were outside at this time. They could see people walking all over, while most children happily played in the park. The scenery was comforting and peaceful, and the two quietly enjoyed their ice cream. "Kirika.." Mireille glanced at the younger girl beside her. "I'm sorry that Dr. Naomi had made you waited outside." The Japanese girl smiled slightly and whispered, "It's okay." Kirika licked her ice cream and asked in a soft voice, "So.. It's about your parents..?" "U.. Uh..." stuttered the blonde as she licked her vanilla ice cream. The Japanese girl had now stopped licking her ice cream and started to stare at Mireille, as the brunette's brown eyes glowing brightly and a bit, naughty. Not again...
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