AN. This chapter was a doozy to write, I was torn between two things that could have happened, but in the end I forced myself to pick one and pushed myself to get this chapter out.

This chapter shall explain some things and since Neuro kinda disappeared towards the end of the last chapter, he gets to take front stage first.

I hope you guys enjoy this chapter!

Disclaimer: Do not own the characters

Upon entering the building with the girl, Neuro knew right away something was strange, but he couldn't pinpoint what caused that feeling other than the usually amount of negative emotions.

Eyeing the girl's mother, while the girl walked up to the desk, he wondered, 'Why did she pick this place or how did she even hear of it for that matter?'

From what he knew of humans, he knew that they preferred a cheerful atmosphere rather than a gloomy one.

This whole situation was suspicious.

'The girl's mother wasn't bothered with her daughter's imaginary friend and then she suddenly was concerned about her… so then the answer is to bring her to an institute?'

It didn't make any sense to Neuro.

Ignoring the talking humans, Neuro took a closer look at the girl's mother and frowned. 'It looks like she is being controlled by something. Her eyes are clouded and her facial muscles are twitching slightly…'

"…should sign this." The human's conversation immediately became something that deserved his attention.

Warning the girl, she should feel privileged that he was even bothering and what did she do? She completely ignored his advice.

Neuro shook his head in exasperation as he watched the girl sign the paper. 'Doesn't she realize names have power? There she goes… just signing hers away.'

Keeping his eyes on the paper, Neuro waited to see where the receptionist would place it and frowned when she just added the paper to the mess in front of her. 'Disgusting human…'

He would have left things as they were, but the thought that someone would have power over his food source other than him left him with an odd feeling. He would get that paper and rip it to shreds if it was the last thing he did.

While the woman was distracted with her grooming, he reached for the paper only to be tugged away from the desk.

'What?'

Eyes narrowing, he took one good look around the room and soon realized what the problem was. While he was able to project most his spirit out of the girl's body in order to interact with objects, a good portion of him had to remain in the girl, thus this could only allow him to be a certain distance away from her; the very same girl who was being tugged down some hallways by some silver haired brat.

He closed his eyes in order to locate the girl's mind and when he opened them again, he was greeted with the familiar field of flowers.

Annoyed, he stood up from where he was leaning against the lone tree and began to pace off his frustration, 'Why does it bother me so much that they have possession of her name? It's her fault that she gave it away…'the reason continued to elude him and eventually he dismissed his thoughts when he only became more irritated about it.

Turning his attention outward, he hovered next to the girl and examined the one who prevented him from grabbing the paper.

Smirking slightly he thought, 'How interesting… he is not something you see every day,' and tuned into their conversation, maybe he would learn something.

After his little introduction, Sai turned his head forward and began to walk slightly faster while asking, "What caused you to be brought here? From what I can see you look normal enough."

Yako stumbled at the sudden increase of pace, but kept up easily with the boy, "My mom wants me to see a…"

Sai interrupted, "Wait here a moment."

Yako stopped moving. 'I wonder where he is taking me…well I guess this beats waiting in a boring room.'

Letting go of her hand, Sai jogged up to the next hallway intersection and glanced in both directions. 'Hmm, I think I hear people coming from the right hallway…it would be such a shame to be caught now…'

Hurrying back towards where he left Yako, he grabbed her hand again and at the intersection they took a left. "Now back to our conversation…let me guess, your mom wanted to take you to one of those mind doctors," Sai paused and Yako nodded in agreement, Sai asked his next question, "Are you insane by chance?"

Yako yanked her hand out of Sai's grip and stopped walking feeling offended, "No, I'm not insane."

Sai turned around to face Yako and frowned slightly, "It's just a question, no need to get all angry. I had a feeling you weren't anyway, you are too…" Sai paused searching for a word to describe the girl, "ordinary for a lack of a better word."

Yako deadpanned, "Thanks. I try to be normal."

Sai reached for the girl's hand again, "Now if you are done feeling offended, let's keep moving…I don't want to go back to my room just yet…This is the longest conversation I have had in awhile and I would like it to last a bit longer."

Yako frowned in confusion, "Aren't there other patients that you can talk to? Or what about your doctor…" she trailed off when she noticed Sai was silently laughing.

Sai grinned sardonically, "Yako, let me tell you right now that there are no real proper doctors in this place. As for…"

Alarmed, Yako quickly interrupted Sai, "What do you mean by no real doctors? Isn't this some mental ward?"

Sai rolled his eyes and opened the door blocking their way, "To put simply no it is not, but anyways the people who run this," Sai gestured to his surroundings, "place are more like scientists and you could say that us patients are more like their little pet projects."

Yako paled and whispered to herself, "What am I doing here then?"

Sai spun around and peered closely into her eyes, 'I suppose I can be nice and explain things to her…' Making a noncommittal hum under his breath, he left her personal space and opened one of the doors lining the hallway into a spacious room with two sofas in the middle parallel to each other.

Walking over to the sofas, he made Yako sit down on one while he climbed on the other, "Let me tell you what most likely happened since I don't know the full details. I'm guessing these guys wanted another patient so they sent out their…" Sai paused and then shrugged, "Scouts you could call them, to find someone who had something," he paused again, "bad happen to them. That seems to a requirement of theirs for whatever reason. Anyways, then it's only a matter of time that they brainwash people surrounding their subject and have them convince the subject that they need to be admitted to this place. In your case they probably got your mother…" seeing the frighten look on the girl's face, Sai dryly commented, "I think you should be worried more about yourself rather than your mother, she is probably long gone from this place by now."

Yako shivered and hugged herself, trying to ignore the feeling of abandonment, "What is to stop me from leaving this place? There doesn't seem to be any guards and if I can get back to the entrance I can get away."

Sai snickered, "There are guards, but right now all of them are busy trying to find me at the moment."

Yako blinked, "Why are they looking for you?"

Sai ignored her question, "As for the reasons why you can't just leave, there are just two," he held up two fingers, "One, if you hadn't noticed on the way in, the fence is electric. Two, if you signed your name on any piece of paper in this place you are pretty much stuck, sorry to say. Once you hand over your name, even if you did somehow manage to escape, they can track you down easily."

Yako mumbled to herself, "Names have power…"

Sai smirked, "That's right."

Yako protested, "But wait, how is it possible for them to track me with just my name?"

He shrugged, "I don't know or if I did I can't remember now."

They fell silent for a moment, Yako trying to get her thoughts together and Sai patiently waiting for her next question.

Yako asked hesitantly, "So what do I do now?"

Sai stood up on the sofa and made a mocking sweeping motion with his arms, gesturing to the room. "Welcome. Please enjoy your stay."

Seeing the annoyed frown on the girl's face, he smirked, "There isn't really anything you can do and by the time they find me, I'll be taken back to isolation and as for you," he shrugged, "who knows what they'll do, probably take you to a room or something near the other patients."

Yako was curious, but also was rather hesitant to ask the question burning in her mind, 'Why do you have to be isolated?'

Sai took one glance into her eyes and immediately knew what she wanted to ask, 'Hmm so she wants to know…well I don't want to scare her off quite yet… a little lie never hurt anyone.'

Sai smiled, falsely sweet, "I don't mind the isolation terribly, even though I get rather lonely at times," for added effect he gave her some sad puppy dog eyes, "It is for my own protection… you see the other patients don't like me and they are rather scary," he shivered as if remembering something horrible, but in reality he was trying not to laugh.

Yako let out a shaky sigh, 'Oh great, this is wonderful…I'm trapped in a place with mad scientists and scary patients running about.'

"Don't be fooled worm, he is lying about something."

Yako jumped startled then frantically began to think at Neuro, unaware of the odd look Sai gave her, 'I take back the truce so please don't have me speak out loud right now…I…I thought you had left when I ignored your advice.'

Sai left his position on the couch and slowly crept closer to Yako, he noticed the oddly blank look in her eyes, 'Is she broken?'

Neuro scoffed, "I bet you are regretting that now."

She clenched her teeth, 'Yes… so why haven't you left when I got myself into this mess?'

Neuro paused before cryptically stating, "I didn't have any plans to leave."

Yako frowned, 'What do you mean…' Her thoughts cut off and she tensed when a loud noise startled her out of her conversation with Neuro, 'What was that?'

Sai had moved near the door and grabbed the knob, waiting for the right time to open it.

Glancing back at Yako, he saw that she had come out of whatever trance she was in, 'Well that's good. I still plan to have fun with her.'

Another loud thud and some harsh whispers behind the door caused Yako to become slightly more edgy.

Not in the mood to play anymore, Sai threw open the door and glared at the men who were nervously clutching their tranquilizing guns.

Keeping his back to Yako so she wouldn't see the cruel grin that spread across his face and with false cheer he addressed the men, "Is it time for me to go back to my room? Let me say goodbye to my new friend first then I'll come with you," transforming his cruel grin into a boyishly innocent one, he walked over to Yako and gave her a hug all the while saying loudly so the men could hear him, "This place isn't so bad and they will help you in no time, just like they are helping me," Sai let go of her and walked towards the men in the hallway, turning around for the last time, gave her a little wave and impishly said, "I'll come visit you later."

Then Sai and the men were gone and Yako was left alone in the room with the two sofas.

AN. I will try and get up the next chapter, hopefully, soon like this time.

Look forward to have another character to show up, if all goes well they will appear in the next chapter...I wonder who will it be?

Til next time then...