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Day 38: Sun Room

Matt had to bite his tongue hard to keep from insisting he would be perfectly comfortable in the library, really, and could he please stop being led around like freaking cattle? As the nurse drew him into the empty Sun Room, the answer to that seemed to be a resounding 'No'.

Great.

He was given the usual talk of 'be nice', 'maybe someone will come back and you'll have someone to talk to' and the strangely sincere 'we're getting a few books in braille, they just haven't arrived yet'. He was sure he believed that one, but it would be nice to not be singled out for a change.

Reminded him of grammar school actually.

What a coincidence, he hadn't been fond of grammar school either. Settling back on the seat he'd found himself in, the Daredevil closed his eyes and debated on the merits of a nap as he listened to the occasional person stop by and scribble something down before leaving. A message board or something? He'd have to ask someone about that.

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Chopper let out a soft shriek when the man growled at him, and quickly ran around the couch to (attempt to) hide. He was scary! Was he mad? All Chopper had done was ask about his ear!

The former reindeer watched the scary man from his hiding place for a moment, oblivious to the fact that he was not actually hidden at all.

When the boy squeaked and ran, Kurogane growled out a sigh and shut his eyes. He just wasn't in the mood, otherwise he probably wouldn't have been so hard with his words, but whatever. The boy had gone and he could get back to making his ear quit itching so badly!

He went back to twisted the finger in his ear, trying to make the itching stop, but he paused when he realized that he could still sense the boy who'd gone running. His eyes opened back, and he could see the boy at the far end of the couch, his body halfway hidden while the rest was very obviously sticking out. Kurogane paused a second in his itching to stare. "You still here?" he asked, this time with a less harsh tone, then he shrugged and after giving a, "That's not a very good hiding job, kid," to the boy, he went back at his ear again.

Chopper quickly corrected his mistake, now hiding his body behind the couch and peeking over the arm.

The scary man still had his finger in his ear. It didn't look like he was plugging it to block noise, so maybe... "Does it itch?" he asked after a while, curiosity overcoming his fear for the moment.

He still wasn't doing a very good job at hiding, and Kurogane doubted he would given his interest in his ear. Why did he care anyway? "Yeah, it does," he finally said just so that the boy might lose interest and leave. He didn't have his finger in it for nothing, after all.

Kurogane was trying to keep from bothering with the other ear as well, which had started tingling but wasn't bothering him just yet. If he just left it alone, maybe it wouldn't become a problem like his right.

He continued to peer at the scary man, glad he was less scary than he was earlier. "Do you have any other symptoms?" he asked. Oh, but what if it was something more simple? Just because his ear itched didn't necessarily mean he was sick. He added, "Is there anything in your ear?"

There. That would account for both possibilities. It was also possible that it just itched because it itched, but he was too focused on the possibility of something being wrong to think of that.

It hadn't worked, and now he was getting asked more questions. Great. He'd done it to himself though, so he had no choice but to put up with the small boy and his questions. Just so long as he didn't bug him too much or make him try and stop itching.

"What're those?" he threw right back, unfamiliar with the wording of the first question. Syntums? Were those (that? it?) what was making his ear itch? "And I don't know." His ear had just started itching after breakfast, so something could have gotten in it, but just what he didn't know. He would have thought though that he'd notice something going in his ear. Who wouldn't?

Ah... was the scary man unfamiliar with the word? "They're problems," Chopper explained. "Anything you notice about your body that's out of the ordinary. If I know what symptoms you're showing, I can figure out if anything's wrong."

He paused, and then added, "Your ear itching could be a symptom. Does it itch often?"

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"Hn?" Kurogane stared a bit. Problems with his body? It was just an itchy ear... or two as his other was quickly becoming more and more bothersome. He was still determined to keep focused on just the one though, and hope the other went away soon. "It just started itching after last shift. Things itch," he shrugged, not thinking it had anything to do with the boy's talk of syntums.

Last shift had been breakfast... Maybe it was a reaction to something? Or maybe it really was nothing, but he was determined to find out.

"What did you eat for breakfast?" he asked.

Food he nearly said, but even Kurogane knew that wasn't what was being asked. Then again, with all these questions, maybe the boy really didn't understand that you ate food at breakfast.

Just what he'd had, he still didn't know, but he could explain it, he guessed. "Some little meat and bread things, fruit and..." he stopped, and a look of disgust came over his face. Right, that milk. He'd been so intent on itching his ear that he'd forgotten just how rotten that stuff had made him feel. He still didn't feel all that great, and now that he'd been reminded, the taste had come back to his mouth. "Nnnn..."

If the itching was part of an allergic reaction, the bread or fruit could have been culprits, but... It had sounded like the scary man was going to say something else, and now he didn't look so good.

Chopper reluctantly gave up his hiding place, slowly scooting around the couch and climbing to stand on it. "Let me see your ear."

He shouldn't have waited until the end to drink it and gotten it over with first. Then maybe he wouldn't have had the lingering taste now, well after the fact.

His thoughts were pulled from the milk when he was suddenly being asked to let someone see his ear. "Hah?" he blinked at the boy, then turned his head and gave a very firm, "No." What was this kid wanting his ear for?!

Chopper frowned, the expression looking almost like a pout. The scary man wasn't very cooperative either... "You're supposed to listen to doctors," he said. He wrapped his hands around the man's arm, trying to tug his hand away from his ear.

Geeze, was he pouting now? Kurogane growled, letting one eye settle on the boy. "Why the hell would I do that? And you not one anywa-- what are you doing?!" he barked suddenly, feeling the small hands trying to pry at his arm. "I didn't say you could touch me kid!"

"Aah!"

The scary guy was mad again! It had been a mistake to try to help him! Chopper let go of the man's arm and scurried back, finding his "hiding" spot at the end of the couch again.

He'd hoped with that the kid had gotten the message, but with how the last time had gone, Kurogane didn't look away and found the kid only ran to the edge of the couch once again. "Don't just go touching people without permission," he growled to him, calming, "And you still suck at hiding," he added, pointing to the end this time.

He tried to keep the finger pointed, but he couldn't take it anymore. His other ear just wouldn't stop and, swearing angrily, he ended up with another finger in his ear. "What... the hell?!"

Chopper fixed his position for the second time, peeking over the arm of the couch once more.

It looked like the itching had gotten worse... probably. He stared at the scary man nervously, and ventured after a long silence had passed, "You might be having an allergic reaction to something." It was just a guess, since the scary man wouldn't let him examine him, but something he ate at breakfast could have triggered a reaction. The bread, maybe? The fruit was possible, too, but fruit allergies usually were oral. "Or an ear infection..."

He could still hear, even with his ears being all but plugged up by his itching fingers, but that didn't mean he understood just what the boy was getting at. Not that he'd really understood anything about the kid except for the fact that he was the worse person he'd ever seen at hiding himself.

"Reaction to what?" he asked for the heck of it. Whatever allergy or symptom or he didn't know what, he wanted it to stop bothering him and make his ears stop itching!

Did the scary man not know what allergies were, either? Chopper hadn't thought about that; he knew that not everyone was a doctor, but he was used to humans knowing at least a little about these things...

"Maybe to something you ate at breakfast," he suggested from his position at the end of the couch. "But not necessarily. It could be from some other allergy, or an infection. Have you had water in your ears recently?"

Kurogane couldn't help what he did and didn't know. If it hadn't been in his world or it had and he'd just not dealt with it for some reason or another, then how the hell was he supposed to know anything?

He recalled when the showers had been, but with how those nurses were in there, his ears hadn't had any water left in them after that. So if it wasn't that, then something at breakfast...? Nnnn. "Don't tell me milk does this? I'll kill that idiot!" he yelled, anger building. If it really was milk, then Fai would be paying for this. Big time!

Ah... milk? That was possible.

"Some humans do have milk allergies," Chopper stated. "And some are lactose intolerant... Did you have milk recently?"

He halted his thoughts for killing the magician and looked back again. "Lacto-what?" he blurted, then gave a small nod. "Yeah. That stuffs terrible, but I promised this guy I'd drink some as long as he stopped not eating." That had been a while ago, but Kurogane hadn't seen Fai refusing to eat anymore. At least he hadn't had that nasty stuff for nothing.

Chopper nodded. "It might be a reaction to the milk, then. I can't say for certain that it is, but it seems likely."

Another thing the scary guy said concerned him, though... "Someone isn't eating?"

That did it, he was never going near milk again, let alone drinking it. He couldn't have his ears itching like this at night!

"He's eating. He wasn't, but now he is."

He nodded again. "Good. Malnutrition and starvation are bad for the body."

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