[Toko - week 1]

     I stared at the form I was asked to fill out last night. It felt like a insult, asking all my personal information. There were at least 5 pages but I was stuck on the first one. My poor new therapist, hopefully she'll get used to dealing with my laundry list of mental illnesses.

"Ohoho! New therapist huh? Doubt she can fix us." Syo laughed from inside my head.

"Oh shut up, she's not here to fix us. She's here to help us." I spat back at her.

With far too dramatic of a sigh I entered the room that I was going to spill my life to a stranger in.

—>

"You must be Ms. Fukawa, please sit down."

I followed the lady's instructions and sat. She had a large cream colored couch that was surprisingly comfortable.

"I assume you are Ms. Fukawa..yes?" She raised an eyebrow, tapping her pen on a clipboard like an annoyed teacher.

"Yes..my name is Toko." She must've read that we were a system on our sheet.

"Nice to meet you Toko. My name is Dr. Azuma, I hope you'll feel comfortable here." She gave a kind smile.

As far as therapists go I'm usually pretty terrified. However, she had a nice energy. Her hair was dyed a indigo blue and her dark turtleneck looked comforting. She had large round glasses that accentuated her pale pink eyes. She was very pretty for a woman who was about to psychoanalyze me.

    "I'm glad you made this appointment. Talk as much or as little as you feel comfortable with. And remember: everything you tell me stays in this room."

I nodded and begin to recount recent events..

—> 5 weeks earlier

"Toko don't you think we should be living together?"

I almost spat out my tea.

"W-what?!" What makes you ask that so suddenly?!" I sputtered.

My boyfriend of three years paced around the living room before stopping to sit down with me.

"We've been dating for years, usually couples move in together way sooner than this."

"I know but.."

"You're afraid it'll be too much of a change and you might split?" Byakuya questioned, although he already knew the answer.

"Yes.." I heaved a sigh and put my head in my hands.

I knew the alters were okay with us being in a relationship but him moving into our private space was another thing. If he touched Asa's garden or Syo's darts he'd be lectured big time.

"You know I love you dear, I just want to be able to be with you for more than a few hours or days at a time."

I nodded and reached across the table for his hand.

"I'll get back to you on it tomorrow, okay?"

—>

"And what did you end up doing to help decide?" Dr. Azumi inquired, scribbling something in her notepad.

"Well usually I call system meetings, it's where everyone gets together to talk about important things. So Syo, Asa, and I held a meeting to discuss it."

—> In the meeting

"So the issue on the table is Byakuya moving in with us, thoughts?" I started. Asa and Syo sat across from me inside of the brain. Syo looking bored and Asa looking serious per usual.

"Why should he move in with us? He's got the money! Let's buy a mansion!" Syo cackled.

"But my plants! We're not leaving them behind!" Asa argued.

"Woah woah slow down! Syo, we're not moving into a mansion and Asa, you're not losing your plants."

"I personally am fine with it then, all I ask is he stay out of my way when I'm fronting. I am not very fond of making friends with him despite his efforts." Asa decided.

"I'm game too! I get to tease the living hell out of him! Maybe even pretend to be yo-"

"No Syo. No breaking boundaries, you know he doesn't like that." I shut her down quickly. She blew a raspberry and crossed her arms.

"Thank you for the input, I'll let him know."

—>

"So when did he move in?"

"4 weeks ago I think? Might've been longer than that, my time perception is pretty off." I admitted.

She wrote something down briefly all while nodding in agreement.

"I assume it's just you dating Byakuya?" Dr. Azuma asked.

"Oh yes, the others don't have partners. Asa isn't interested in romance and Syo hasn't found anyone yet. Shes got some friends but nobody she really likes that way." I explained.

"It seems you have decent communication with your parts, is there a reason you wrote down that you didn't?"

"That's another story.." I winced at the memory.

—> 2 weeks earlier

I had noticed something off about Byakuya lately. For the last few days he's been really distant and has barely spoken a word to me. I knew something was up despite not knowing what.

"Hey hun are you doing okay?" I sat beside his current spot on the couch.

Silence.

"Hellooo?" I waved my hand in front of his face. He swatted the air to get me to stop, I did.

"What's up with you lately? I didn't do anything did I..?" I hung my head in shame.

"Not you at least." He finally spoke.

I rubbed my temple and groaned..of fucking course.

"What happened?"

"I was out in the yard and noticed some of Haga's plants by the window hadn't been watered. I wanted to help him out since so I took care of them. About an hour later I heard a pounding on our room door. Haga was fronting and didn't look too happy."

"Did you water one of the succulents?"

"Apparently, yes. I had no idea that they didn't need to be watered often! I'm not exactly skilled in gardening." As angry as he was at the situation he looked pretty remorseful.

"So when I tried to explain myself..I got yelled at really loudly. It freaked me out because..." He stopped talking to look at me sadly. I knew that he had issues with being yelled at due to his rocky childhood.

"Did you end up overwatering it?" I asked, gently placing a hand on his shoulder.

"It rotted..and it's my fault. Haga called me a disgrace."

"I'm sorry but I can't really do anything to help dear, this seems like an issue for you two to settle." I stood up and walked towards the bedroom, turning back to look at my sullen boyfriend. "I'm going to ask him to come out and talk."

[Asa]

"What am I doing out?" I tapped my foot impatiently while waiting for the host to answer.

"You need to patch things up with Byakuya, you really hurt his feelings. You shouldn't have yelled." Toko spoke carefully as if she was trying to not aggravate me more.

"Dude he totally ruined Erza! It's not fair." I huffed.

"I know..it isn't fair. But you got to work this out. I don't want to deal with unnecessary drama." Toko explained.

"Fine fine I'm going."

I pulled the body's hair into a bun and covered it with a hat, changing out Toko's glasses for my own before I walked into the living room.

"Hello Haga." Toko's boyfriend nodded at me from the couch.

"Hey." I sat a good distance away from him.

"First of all, I'm really sorry for overwatering your pl-"

"Erza."

"Yes, overwatering Erza. I honestly didn't mean to. I truly had assumed you'd forgotten to tend to it and wanted to help." He tried to explain.

"I told you when you moved in not to touch my plants, and I meant it. They're really important to me..I don't have much else to look after besides them."

"I know..I shouldn't have touched them at all. I promise from now on I won't." Togami made a pinky promise gesture with his hand. I tentatively linked my pinky with his.

     "I guess I'm sorry too. Toko had mentioned you didn't like being yelled at and I broke that rule too."

     "So no more breaking rules?" He smiled calmly at me.

     "Yeah..I guess so." I felt myself smiling back.

—>

[Toko]

     "So everything worked out between the two of them?" My therapist questioned.

     "Yep! Byakuya ended up purchasing Erza #2 the next day. Now he doesn't touch what he's not supposed to." I grinned happily.

     "Seems like you have a lovely boyfriend, it's rare to find someone who's understanding of the struggles DID patients go through. Especially when you have dissociative amnesia and aren't always aware of everything that goes on."

     "Oh yes, I'm quite lucky."

     "With that I'm afraid our hour is up. You're scheduled for next week, correct?" Dr. Azuma wrote something down in her notebook.

     "Yes, we are." I gave her a thumbs up.

     "See you then Toko, I hope you all have a pleasant evening."