Dark Wonderland's Detective

Disclaimers: The characters of Yu Yu Hakusho belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. The story as well as characters is from American McGee's Alice. However, I do own Doctor Shino (stem of bamboo) and Nurse Nagusami (consolation, comfort). Plus some parts will be different.

Post-series setting: months after the Makai Tournament

Sentence-flashback

'Italic'-thoughts

Prologue

??? POV

No...

It can't be... they're... they're...

No, it's not true! It can't be true!

It's a dream... a nightmare... That's it!

I was having a dream about all my friends dead and I will wake up in my bed, safe and sound, with them still alive! (Laughs insanely)

So come on, wake up, wake up, WAKE UP!!! (Stabs himself on the leg)

Uh... it's not a dream... they're really gone...

And it's all my fault... Everyone else will suffer because of me...

...I deserve to die with them...

Chapter 1 - The New Patient

Rutridge Asylum of Japan

Doctor Shino was writing a report at his desk. He was commenting on a case.

'What was that child's name again?' he can never remember English names well. All he could remember is that the first name came from a classic children's book...

Anyway, the case on her sounds absurd. Even though she's been let out since she was 'cured', he seriously doubts that she's completely sane. Of course, who knows what psychiatrists in England really think? He was about to classify it as nonsense when there's an urgent knock on the door.

"Come in," he said without looking up. A nurse in her mid- 20s with light brown hair appeared at the door looking flushed and gasping heavily.

"What is it? What's wrong?" he said, looking up at her.

"It's... our new... patient! We can't... calm him... down!" she panted.

"Well, did you use the tranquilizers?"

"That's just it! We can't do it because we couldn't hold him still! He's attacking everyone in sight! Come quickly!"

He immediately stood up and follows her out of the office and down the hall where the fight taken place. Just then, someone screams out, "Let me GO! I'm not CRAZY!! She's lying! PLEASE TELL THEM!"

"By the way you're acting now, do you think they'll even believe you!?" a young woman shouts back.

Dr. Shino and the nurse turn around the corner and he's in shock by what he saw. There were several men laying unconscious on the floor and some who are clinging to their head, arms, and legs or even below the belt! And right in the middle of this chaos, four people remained in a pile where the new patient buried, struggling to escape. He wasn't surprise that there was resistance, but no one had ever made this much damage around here before. 'Thank Kami for those martial art classes.'

"Sorry about this. He can be so damn stubborn." He turned his head toward the voice he heard earlier. A woman was standing next to him with annoyance across her face. She has long brown hair with brown eyes, almost at his height, holding a cigarette box.

"Um, no smoking is allowed in the building."

"I know that. I was going to light one outside, but then this happens." She points out the scene as the men were about to be thrown out.

"Help us Doctor! We don't know how long we can..." Just then, one of the orderlies cries out as his nose got hit.

"All right, someone hand me the needle and-" The young woman cuts in the doctor. "Are you sure you can handle him by yourself?" she asked.

The doctor sighs, "I had dealt with tougher ones."

Once said, he went towards the three men and the patient after the nurse gave him a tranquilizer needle. Shino looked at him and frowns. Hadn't he seen this boy before? 'I know I saw him somewhere...'he thought, then quickly shook his head. He'll worry about it later. The boy finally loosens himself free from the grips and glares at the doctor. The orderlies backed away as the patient and Shino stares hard at each other.

Shino is the first to speak. "That's quite enough, son," he said. "Now why don't you settle down and cooperate? We're here to help you."

"Help me? Ha! Like hell you'll help!" he shouts after a few seconds had passed. "How about you come with me before someone else gets hurt, including yourself?" Shino warns.

"How about you lettin' me go instead?" he countered, then looked angrily at the young woman. The woman stares back at him with no expression on her face. He turns to look back at Shino, ignoring her.

Shino then said, "You know I can't do that."

The boy sneers, "Fine, it's your FUNERAL!!" As he screams, he rushes toward Shino with his fist in the air. The doctor just shook his head and calmly step aside, just as the fist is about to hit him. Before the boy could react, Shino grabs the already outstretch arm and quickly secure both arms behind his back. "Hey! Let go! NOW!!" the boy exclaims.

"I'm sorry son, but I did warn you." Shino said calmly as he injects the substance in the boy's arm. The boy struggles to free himself, but the drug is already showing its effects.

Before he fell into unconsciousness, he said, "DON'T... Call... me... son..."

Now that the boy is asleep, he could take a better look at him. When he finally finishes examining the boy's face, he gasps. He had seen him before, on the news once or twice. 'I can not believe its him,' Shino thought. Then he orders the unharmed assistants to drag him into one of the padded rooms. He looks back at the young woman, as she struggles not to cry.

45 min. had passed and the boy slowly opens his eyes. Once he was focus, he starts to look around the room. It's all white and has a comfortable size, not too big or small. There's a mirror at his left and a bed at his right. Right beside him is a window looking out to the garden and ahead of him is a door with a little window on it. He just had a thought: that doctor put him in this room and worse, he was beaten! 'Oh, that's it! He's going down!!' he thought in anger and then starts to stand up. He finds that he can't move and notice that he is lying on the floor with a straitjacket on. He tries to break free, but couldn't. So he lay back down as he groans. Instead, he tries to remember how he got into this place or at least his name. The chemical from the needle made his mind fuzzy.

"Now let's see, my name's... my name's..." he said aloud. He can remember trying to kill himself again, this time with a knife. He was just about to stab himself in the chest, until someone calls him. That same woman he saw earlier yelled out his name, what it was...

"KAZUMA!!"

That was it. His name is Kazuma and his last name is Ku... Kuwa... bara... Kuwabara!

"Kuwabara Kazuma." he said to himself. As he said his last name, he winces. That's what they used to call him before... before...

"Kazuma." he firmly said. "Just Kazuma. Nothing else."

Lo and behold! The first chapter of The Decective of Dark Wonderland by my sister, Saya! Please R&R!