As Onodera still being sheltered, more and more people are getting involved.
MAN IN WHITE SUIT
"Ritsu…Ritsu…" Takano kept on calling out while lightly tapping the sleeping person's cheeks.
If he wakes up now…he's going to be in H-state…So many things to consider…
Ritsu lied on his back blinking sleepily, searching for the voice that was calling out to him. He slowly sat up scratching his eyes.
"Shin…what gives?"
Takano flicked his tongue with impatience and hurriedly put bonnet and scarf around Onodera's neck.
"What-what's going on…Shin?"
"Shin…Shin…shut-up and just wear this." Takano ordered throwing a thick jacket on Onodera's lap, with a pair of shoes.
"Listen, when I return I want you all done. Okay?"
Takano ran towards where Onodera's medicine and pills were being kept. He literally stuffed the duffel bag that formerly contained his spare clothes. All that was important was Onodera's stuff.
Without telling anything, he grabbed Onodera's hands and pulled him towards the dark backside of the institute. Even though he was a doctor of the institute, sneaking a patient out was a major no-no. It was quiet helpful that Onodera was in H-state and he sees him as Haitani Shin. He was all being obedient.
The two of them jumped over the low fence and disappeared into the breaking dawn.
A steady hum of machines and monitors filled the entire room. Men roaming around lazily sipping their coffees and chatting filled the space.
"Chief! Chief!" a man around his early twenties yelled as he dashed to the man lying on the table with a book covering his face.
The man removed the book on his face and annoyingly moved his head to check why their greenhorn member was yapping so early in the morning.
"What? You're so noisy Leon!"
"Ch—Chief!" Leon chirped gasping for air, "We got an order from the headquarters in Hokkaido! Mr. Usami Akihiko sent a job to us!"
Upon hearing the name, it was as if all the men in the room stopped from doing whatever they were doing. Their eyes focused on Leon as he handed their chief a Samsung Tablet containing the job order. The room was intense, waiting for their Chief's orders.
A playful smile formed in the corner of the Chief's thin, perfectly formed lips. "Squad B…ready your asses out, we've got some cleaning-up to do."
And with that all the men wearing black from head to foot yelled like blood-lusting beasts. They were a part of Usami's private military group. Squad B was the group assigned in Nishijima Prefecture. Going to Nishijima Mental Institute was a piece of cake.
"Dr. Yokozawa, you're early than usual!" the head nurse greeted as he grabbed the patients records in the stack.
Yokozawa Takafumi was still wearing his for-all-I-care look on his face. He really was trying to be friendly but his face has always been like that. Serious looking and indifferent.
He was having a hard time sleeping last night so he decided to just go to the institute early. His car was on coding so he used the train. And as he walked on the streets towards the Institute's gates, he noticed a truck parked not far from it. He stared at it but he didn't pay any more attention than he would seeing a dog poop on the ground.
He was done visiting the Food and Preparation room and he was heading out to the doctor's quarter to get his phone. As he was walking, he noticed the distressed nurse on the reception, search for a file while a tall man in front of her was waiting.
"I'm sorry Sir. But the patient you are asking about is not on the visiting list." The nurse explained flustered.
Yokozawa walked towards the commotion and placed his arm on the high table. "What's going on here?"
The nurse's face lit up upon the sight of his savior. "Dr. Yokozawa! Uhm-well…This man is here to visit one of our patients…but the one he's looking for…"
Yokozawa, annoyed at how long the nurse was taking just to tell the story when she can just say it short faced the man, just a little taller than he was and frowned.
"Good morning. I'm Dr. Yokozawa. You're here to visit someone? May I know the name?"
The nurse heaved a sigh of relief and disappeared at the scene leaving the two men alone.
The man wearing a white suite smiled at Yokozawa. "Ah—Dr. Yokozawa, pleased to meet you." The man greeted extending his hand. However, Yokozawa ignored it. The man in front of him, with his wavy hair and dazzling smile was making him uncomfortable. The man was smiling but his smile was like a porcelain doll's; breath taking but soulless.
"I am looking for Onodera Ritsu." The man replied lowering his ignored hand.
At the mention of the name, Yokozawa's brow raised. "That patient does not receive any visitors. So please, leave."
Yokozawa turned his back and started walking to his real destination. The man chuckled a little.
"No talking it out I see…"
A buzzing appeared and a voice came out from the ear phone attached in his ear.
"Chief…all the men are in their position…the order to kill all the doctors and nurses and everyone, ready to be executed."
"Good, wait for my signal. And can someone please look out for Leon, that newbie might do something again."
"Aye Sir!"
The institute was working on the usual routine. Doctors doing their rounds, patients absorbed in their worlds, nurses doing their assigned tasks. But Yokozawa was feeling uneasy at everything. It was peaceful, as if they were in the eye of a storm.
"Why is that man looking for Onodera, it's the first time." Yokozawa muttered to himself. That's when he realized he haven't seen Takano as well.
After tucking his phone in his green coat pocket, he stepped out the doctor's quarter and he almost lost his footing when he saw Sakaki, one of the doctors in the institute lying on his stomach. A pool of blood forming beneath him.
Yokozawa shook Sakaki. "Oi, Dr. Sakaki…" He called out. But the doctor's mouth that wasn't able to scream remained motionless.
With heart racing, Yokozawa started running around the institute to see what was really going on. It was quiet, eerily quiet. "What the hell is going on…"
When Yokozawa stepped in the therapy room, he felt the food he ate since last night go up to his throat. He was a doctor. But never in his career have he seen a bunch of bodies lying under a sea of blood.
"My god…" Yokozawa unconsciously muttered. He dashed to the side of the wall where the emergency button was located. He almost smashed the button but no sound came. "Fuck." He dialled a number in his phone, but there was no signal. Squad B was tampering the entire signal in Nishijima Institute.
Yokozawa knew already that the institute was under sabotage. Do the people in Special ward know what's going on? Are they still alive? Will we be able to come out here alive? These were all Yokozawa's question running in his head.
When he reached the Special Care ward entrance, he didn't have to slide his pass. The entrance was all open. He slowly walked, hearing his heart beat in his ear drums. He never would have imagined that the soles of his shoes can sound this loud and deafening.
The reception area was deserted. He knew it already. He gulped. His cold sweat running down from his forehead to the tip of his nose and neck.
He saw one door open, and he didn't have to enter to see that the people inside it were already dead…the pool of blood was leaking to the door.
His knees were shaking, but he was determined to see if there was still someone alive. He continued to walk the long hallway. But everyone was lying on their own pool of blood.
He brushed his sweat-streaked hair back and took a deep breath. He then ran back to the entrance of the Special Care Ward. And then he saw the visitor earlier standing in the entrance, his hand on his stomach, a huge spot of red on it.
"Ah, why did I wear a white suit? I'm so stupid." The man muttered to himself. Then he noticed the doctor he just talked to a while ago.
Yokozawa ran to the man.
"You! Why are you still here?! You're shot?" Yokozawa blurted running to the man.
"Ehh…no I—" The man began.
Yokozawa grabbed the man's coat and started undressing the man who was caught surprised.
"Don't move, we have to stop the bleeding!" Yokozawa ordered. Yokozawa was so focused at treating the man's wound. The doctor in panic pulled his handkerchief from his pocket. He was about to pull the man's shirt when at the corner of his eyes, he saw another man in black aiming a gun at the two of them.
As fast as a lightning, the bullet dashed straight to them. Yokozawa, living to his virtues as a doctor who saves life, he jumped over the man in white suit shielding him from the bullet. The bullet pierced Yokozawa on the side. Blood started to stain Yokozawa's green coat.
"Chief!" Leon shouted. "Are you okay?"
"Stupid! To whom are you aiming the gun?!"
"Ei, Chief, just be glad the stupid doctor shielded you. After all I was really aiming at him."
Yokozawa, gasping for air, winced as the pain grew worse. He was still on top of the man in white suit. He wanted to stand but his body was already numb.
The man smiled at Yokozawa, who was trying to look him in the eye, Yokozawa's head on his chest.
"Doctor. You saved the wrong man."
It was painful for Yokozawa as the man tried to stand up and pushed him on the side. Yokozawa closed his eyes, feeling his consciousness fading away.
"Chief, he's still alive. I'll give him another one of my babies." Leon said and aimed the gun at Yokozawa's paling face.
"Stop. Leave him like that, he'll die of bleeding anyway." The chief ordered.
"Are you sure?" The newbie asked. His eyes opened wide when he saw his Chief's stomach with a spot of blood. "Chief, are you injured?"
The man with the wavy hair, touched the spot where the blood was with his long, expert fingers. "No, this isn't my blood. Some nurse who tried to stab me with a scalpel."
"Ah…I see." Leon said with relief.
"Leon, go to meeting area 1 and meet with the other guys. We'll put this entire piece of junk to fire."
"Aye Chief!" The greenhorn saluted.
When the younger man disappeared, the man in white suit scooted over Yokozawa.
The poor doctor never felt so humiliated in his life. As blood spilled in the corner of his mouth, he opened his eyes and found the man's face above his.
"You're such a hero shielding me doc. I am touched."
"Fuck…you…" Yokozawa said in a croaky voice.
The man in white suit stabbed Yokozawa on the spot where the wound was using the scalpel that was used on him earlier. And with that, Yokozawa drowned into blackness.
The men in black swiftly disappeared on the area, with the burning Nishijima Institute for a background.
The men inside the truck yelled in celebration. It was as if killing was a pleasurable thing for them.
"Wow, it's been a while since we were given a clean-up operation! Those blood…ahh"
"Yah, the surprised faces are the most priceless."
The men chatted away.
"Will you shut-up for a while!" The heated voice of the chief roared inside the truck.
The men, as if tucking their tails in between their legs fell in silence.
The chief then placed a headset over his head and opened the laptop where Usami Akihiko's grim face can be seen.
"Well, Mr. Usami, seems like your kitten got away before we even arrived at the mental institute."
"The hell of a job are you doing for me Kirishima Zen?" Usami hissed enough to make anyone scared out of their bones. But Kirishima Zen was one of the very few men who were not affected at all by the intimidating aura of the rich bastard for their Boss.
Kirishima smiled at the mad Akihiko who was currently on his flight to Nishijima Prefecture.
"Look Boss, never underestimate anyone. Your plan is leaked even before you called out on us, Squad B. So don't put the blame on us. Okay?"
"What do you take me for you scum?"
Kirishima laughed.
"Don't worry, we at least were able to turn Nishijima Institute into ashes with no trace whatsoever. All are burned because of an electrical malfunction. Period. Any new order Mr. Usami?"
"Hunt down Onodera Ritsu. Don't hurt him. Anyone who gets involved, erase them."
When he opened his eyes, all he saw was pure white. He tried to sit but the thick bandage on his side stopped him from doing so.
"Urgh—" he grunted.
A high-heeled shoes tapped on the tiled floor and stopped just before Yokozawa's bed.
"You're finally awake after two days, Dr. Yokozawa. I suggest, don't move around much yet."
"Huh? Who are you? Two days?" he asked incredulously.
Yokozawa, still with an aching head roamed his eyes around. He can already assume he was in a hospital. But how?
The woman doctor pulled a chair and sat on it.
"I'm Dr. Agata. So Dr. Yokozawa. You are the sole survivor of Nishijima Institute. Expect that the media will be coming after you. I suggest you take a leave and go somewhere far while the matter is in heat."
"What? Burned?" Yokozawa asked still gathering his scattered thoughts.
The woman in front of him, with dark brown eyes and short hair, flipped her hair on the side.
"The media says the place burned down due to electrical malfunction. Screw them. They're making us all look stupid. I was in the autopsy room; all the corpses have a shot either on the head or stomach."
"No one survived?" Yokozawa asked in disbelief, remembering his co-workers, his patients, everyone.
"You survived. Although it was still a mystery to us."
Yokozawa massaged his pounding temples. Remembering the soulless smile, the gun shot, the stabbing.
"You know. Dr. Yokozawa, one of the rescuers was my brother. He said he found you on the institute's garden lying unconscious. It was the only part of the institute that the fire didn't reach. You don't remember escaping there?"
With eyes closed, he tried to remember what happened but all he can remember was the part where the man in white suit, the bastard who he thought was shot, stabbed him on his wound.
"No…I can't remember anything."
The woman flicked her tongue. "How weird, the motive is really confusing."
"Huh?"
"You see, my brother rushed to you knowing you're hurt. Just by looking at you, he already knew you were shot. But when he checked on you, the bullet was already removed from your side and the bleeding being stopped by a white suit tied around you."
Takano sighed in frustration.
He was trying to make Onodera stop from crying but the latter just won't stop. His patient was bawling like a baby.
"Onodera, calm down. Okay? Calm down."
"Where is this? Why did you bring me here?! What if Miyagi comes back and I am not there! Shin isn't here as well!" Onodera cried throwing the pillows on the bed.
Takano, dragging Onodera, checked-in in a cheap motel two days ago. They haven't made a move for two days already. Onodera was the obedient guy after waking up and at 2 to 4 pm when he was in H-state…but when he was on D-state, he was nothing but a pain in his neck. And what adds to Takano's frustration, the sane Ritsu and him had an argument.
"Why didn't you tell me that Miyagi-san went to meet Usami!?"
"He was determined to put a stop to everything! I couldn't stop him even if I tried!"
"Do you know the meaning why you got all his assets and we're on the run now?! Miyagi is either dead or being tortured by Usami!"
Takano massaged his temples and shut his eyes hard. He was seriously getting irritated at the bawling Onodera. The Onodera in H-state would flirt at him speaking Shin's name. The Onodera in D-state was crying non-stop looking for Shin, and the sane Ritsu was mad at him. Where will he put his self then?
Doesn't he know I am putting myself on the line for him?
Chapter End Notes:
yey! i AM SO EXCITED WITH THE BURNING DOWN OF nISHIJIMA...LOL..FINALLY...
AND UHMM..poorTakano I guess...these are the times...a love can be tested i guess...muahahaha!
THANKS FOR READING! I AM SO GRATEFUL!^^