A/N: So I see this fic is getting a lot of traffic, but no reviews... very disappointing... I was gonna wait a while to post this, but I'm not ready to update All the World's a Fanfic yet and I'm trying to stay in the habit of posting something every week, so... here we go!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or its characters, or any other animes and characters I mentioned, but I do own the House and all the characters residing in the House... poor doomed souls...

Chapter 2

Inside Ward B, the trio was assigned to adjacent beds, which was rather convenient, but Himizu was puzzled.

"This doesn't make sense… according to your specific delusions, you two should really be kept separate so that you can recover without outside influence."

"True, this isn't how the place is supposed to be run at all…" Ryouko said as she glanced around the room. There were several young men and women sitting all around, most of them cooing over or making out with pictures of various anime characters. "Those should all have been confiscated when they arrived here."

At that moment, angry shrieks punctuated the air as two girls who were both obsessed with Sanosuke from Rurouni Kenshin from the looks of the pictures around their sleeping areas started fighting over which one of them Sanosuke was more in love with. Soon they were clawing at each other and pulling hair and generally trying to destroy each other. An alarm started going off and several nurses ran in, including Kurama and Risu. But instead of going to break up the fight, they started running around and making sure that no one else got involved in the fight. Risu tapped the shoulder of the nurse in charge of their training.

"Um, shouldn't we be stopping those two from killing each other?" she asked.

"Oh Togi, as soon as we get better health coverage, then we can get involved, but it's much better if we just sit back and observe and then send them off to another hospital once they tire themselves out," the nurse replied. "Kango, be a dear and stop that young lady over there from getting too close."

Kurama stepped forward and grabbed the girl, a plump girl with hair dyed red. She stared up at him.

"Your name begins with a K! So does Kurama's name! I love him so much! KURAMA!" she squealed. Kurama sweatdropped and prayed that his wig never came off again.

Eventually the fighting girls were too bloodied and exhausted to keep fighting, so they collapsed and were promptly put in strait jackets and carted off. Risu and Kurama cast glances back to Himizu, Ryouko, and Hiei where they were sitting on their beds, but then they had to hurry off. Himizu lay back on her bed and stared at the ceiling.

"Well this sucks. We need to figure out a way to sneak around this place and get the rest of the evidence we need." She glanced over at her two cohorts and was pleased to see that they had settled back into character. Hiei was lying on his bed and Ryouko had lain down next to him. She was lying on her side to talk to Himizu and Hiei had put one of his arms underneath her so that his arm curved around her and his hand rested on her hip, keeping her from accidentally falling off the bed.

"Yeah, but we'll need to talk to Kurama and Risu first. I hope they have keys so we can see some of the locked wards," Ryouko said. Himizu sighed.

"It's different being in the general wards. Usually we're locked in our private suites. It's restrictive of course, but still pretty nice. Plus, you know, not sharing with other fangirls and fanboys."

Ryouko was about to reply when a tiny brunette walked over to them. "Hey, why are you wearing a cloak like Hiei's?" she asked. A quick glance confirmed that she was a Hiei fangirl.

"Well, duh, because I AM Hiei," Hiei replied. Himizu dramatically rolled her eyes so that the fangirl could see.

You're not Hiei!" the girl exclaimed. "Hiei is SO much hotter than you! If Hiei were here, I would sense his presence because we are soul mates!" she added proudly. Hiei lifted an eyebrow. Now Ryouko jumped to her feet.

"You and Hiei are not soul mates! Hiei is mine! I had him first! And if you even think of putting your ugly paws on him, I'll destroy you! Now leave us alone!" she exclaimed.

The girl started laughing. "Wow, you really think that this guy is Hiei? That's so dumb! Any fool could see that that's not Hiei Jaganshi!" At this point, Himizu had to turn her head and bite her lip to keep from howling with laughter. Ryouko slapped the girl across the face.

"All you've done is prove that you're not a true Hiei fan!" she declared, sitting down next to Hiei again. The girl spluttered indignantly, but finally turned and left. Ryouko resumed her former position lying next to Hiei and he put his arm around her again. "How was that performance?" she asked.

"Very convincing," Hiei said with a slight grin. Himizu could no longer contain herself and the laughter exploded out of her.

"God, fanatics are so dumb…" she choked out. The laughter died when the door to the ward opened and Dr. Ika walked in. Himizu was on her feet in a second. "So what's it gonna take for you to let me out of here, huh?" she demanded.

"Sit down, I would like to have a little interview with you first," the doctor replied.

Himizu sighed and sat back down. "Fine…"

"First tell me how long you and Kinomi have been friends, Ami."

"Years… like since kindergarten at least."

"I see… And how long has she been having delusions about Hiei Jaganshi?"

"Hard to say… I think she kept them secret from me for a while… at least three years, but it could be as many as seven. That's when we started watching Yu Yu Hakusho."

"I see. And what about you, do you have any obsessions about anime characters?"

"I am attracted to a few of them, but I'm not obsessed. I know that they're only characters in anime and that they will never be around to date me or fall in love with me or marry me."

The doctor nodded. "Okay, tell me about Rei."

"He showed up at our school three or four years ago and he was pretty normal at first. He and Kinomi became friends and they started watching anime together and he admired how strong and powerful Hiei was. At first it was just envy but then it became an obsession and he started trying to talk and act like Hiei. Then he started to style his hair like Hiei. He was even trying to find red contacts."

"And when did he start to believe that he was Hiei?"

"About a year ago."

"And Kinomi?"

"At first she tried to ignore his delusions. But then… I don't know, it was like she realized that Hiei wasn't real, and she couldn't accept that, so she latched onto Rei as a surrogate for her love."

"When was this?"

"Just a few months ago. I tried to help them stop, but they wouldn't listen to me and things just got worse and worse. I was ready to give up when I heard through the grapevine that there was a place that could help people like them."

"It takes a very true friend, Ami, to help your friends at a time like this." The doctor's eyes were intently focused on Himizu. During the interview, she had absentmindedly crossed her legs, and this gap in her skirt was clearly distracting the doctor. Himizu finally was able to stop focusing on her story long enough to realize what was going on and she smacked him as hard as she could.

"Look you sick freak, we both know that I brought these people here because I realize they need help and you're only keeping me here because you're having hentai fantasies that involved me in a strait jacket, so let's cut the crap and you better just let me leave because you won't like what I do to you if the harassment continues!" she yelled at him. Dr. Ika stood up, his face flushed.

"I don't think I can let you go just yet. You're still having some paranoid delusions and some serious hostility issues, and I think we need to keep you under observation here a little longer. And I would watch your attitude or I'll send you to Ward X for some readjustment."

Himizu had a puzzled look on her face as the doctor walked away. "What did he mean by Ward X? There is no Ward X…"

Risu and Kurama walked in and started distributing medications and food to the inmates. A few people murmured their thanks to nurses Togi and Kango, but mostly they were ignored by patients too focused on their obsessions. Finally they reached Hiei, Ryouko, and Himizu.

"How are things going?" Risu asked.

"Not good. What have you guys learned?" Himizu asked.

"Not much," Kurama admitted. "We learned that the nurses have basically no health coverage and someone higher up decided that it was safer for them to not break up fights between patients and just send people to the hospital if they're injured in a fight or harm themselves."

"That's not how we set this up," Himizu hissed.

"Yeah, it gets better. The check-in procedure is basically what you guys went through. No matter how delirious a person is when they arrive here, no real attempts are made to help them. They're not separated from objects of their obsessions, and only a few medications are dispensed, mostly some mild sedatives to keep people relaxed, and a few people are on some antidepressants."

"What about counseling?"

"All the counselors were fired. Dr. Mortimer claimed that the budget could be spent in other ways that were more beneficial to the hospital."

"So all the fanatics that we've been trying to help are just being locked up in dormitory-style wards and kept under mild tranquilizers until they wind up fighting with other inmates or go even more nuts than they already were?" Himizu asked after several moments of silence.

"Yeah basically. And there are rumors that Dr. Mortimer is embezzling the money that used to be used to care for patients, and instead using it to fund his own experiments," Risu added. Himizu looked pissed.

"I knew it! That bastard! Wait, what happens to the people that go even more nuts than they already were? Are they being shipped to other facilities?"

"That's the really weird part… there are some records of them being shipped to other asylums, but Risu and I called a few during our break and they didn't have any records of receiving the patients," Kurama said.

"Odd… very odd… none of this is adding up… "Himizu muttered. "By the way, what do you two know about Ward X?"

Risu shrugged. "They didn't give us a tour of that place. They just said that access was restricted and the only people allowed back there were Dr. Mortimer and Dr. Ika. They won't allow any nurses back there at all, not even the most senior nurses on staff."

"Well then we'll just have to find out for ourselves," Himizu said. "Keys?"

Risu plopped a set of keys into Himizu's hand. "There. I'll use Kurama's copies if I need them."

"Thanks you two. We're going to wait until everyone seems nice and distracted, then we'll start snooping around," Himizu said.

"Right, we'll try to do the same," Risu agreed. "Good luck."

"Same to you." And Risu and Kurama left the ward. Himizu turned to Ryouko and Hiei. "Okay, here's the plan. You two are going to go search one part of the building. If anyone stops you, you're trying to find a place to be alone. That way you won't get in trouble." She was mildly surprised that neither one objected to this plan. "I'll take Risu's keys and search as many places as I can. Let's go."

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