darki: GOMEN GOMEN GOMEN GOMEEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sosososososososooooooooooo sori about the extremely late update!!! It's not my fault as my internet has blown up so thank u for being so patient!!! Eep!!! and I've just been banned for eternity from the computer as my school marks fell down!!!!!!!!!!!! Aahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! So soriiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!! newayz, ready for the first day? No? lol, hope u all enjoy the ficcy!!!!!!!!!!

BEHIND THE INSANITY

By: darki and mishi

Nope, don't own this stuff.

Chappie 3 –

First Impressions

Sakura sat beside the metal tray that Devil was placed on. She stared around the room, with disgusted fascination. The entire room was a blinding white – everything was painted so that it seemed like one was in an unending world of white light. Sakura felt tears well up in her eyes "Poor Devil." She whispered stroking his hand. She shook her head. "What do they call, you, Devil? How barbaric. You already have nothing.... how can they even deprive you of a name? You have nothing left, no family or friends, no name, no life, no freedom..... just a chain." She clenched her eyes shut as a single tear slid down her pale face.

She jolted when she felt a tentative and gentle hand brush away the lone tear. Her eyes snapped open to stare into the captivating golden pools below her. "You..." she whispered. Devil smiled up at her. 'She's so pretty....' Devil thought dreamily. "Hey. Um, hello?" Sakura asked waving a hand in front of the dreaming Devil. He snapped back and stared with mute amazement at his hands and feet – they weren't locked down. He smiled gleefully to himself. 'I'm with a new person and they didn't chain me up!!" he thought happily. Sakura smiled tentatively back. 'Geez,' she thought to herself. 'this kid has either got the toughest spirit I've ever seen or one hell of a bad memory if he can still grin happily like that after being trapped in a hellhole like this for so long.'

Sakura touched Devil's shoulder gently who seemed to melt under her gentle touch. "Hey... Devil?" He slowly turned his head and gazed innocently into her own eyes. Sakura frowned. "Is that what they really call you? Devil?" He nodded slowly. Her brow creased into a frown. "That's not right..." she muttered. Devil sat up and rubbed his wrists subconsciously and cocked his head to one side to watch the odd girl sitting beside him. "hmmmm....." Sakura pondered over what name her patient could have. "Argh! I can't think up of a proper name for you yet as I barely even know you and vice versa! Ok, so let's get started shall we?? Oh, and I'm Kinomoto Sakura my the way. Call me Sakura though, no Ms. Kinomoto or anything like that, ok??" Devil stared at her with wide amber eyes. "Righty-o, off that dreadful table. We're going off to somewhere nicer to have a nice chat. You are definitely the sweetest person in here that I've met." Devil slid off the table obediently and followed silently behind her only to be shocked by Sakura turning around and with a huge grin grab his hand gently and sprint off down the hall.

~20 minutes later~

"Ughhh, the rooms here are all so UGLY and COLD." Sakura grumbled as she stomped down the hall no longer grinning but still holding on to Devil's hand. "This is so bloody annoying! This whole building is terrible!! I wanna go home...." she whined. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she spun around to peer up into Devil's face. "Devil, how much do you like this place?" she asked. Devil shook his head slowly. "So you don't like it?" He nodded. "How about I take you outside? You know, to the city." Devil's head shot up. He couldn't believe what this girl was so casually offering him! A chance to finally escape from this dreadful building that he'd been cooped up for his entire life and been attempting to escape from for god-knows-how- long. He nodded eagerly and with a happy laugh, Sakura led him down the hall.

Just as Sakura and Devil were about to leave a secretary called out to them from the front desk. "Wait! Come back here!" Sakura strode back with a suspicious Devil in tow. "Yes?" "Is that the Devil?" "Yes." "You can't take him out. It's against the rules." "Oh? And why not?" Sakura's eyes flashed dangerously as she continued on in a calm voice. "Because it's dangerously unstable and attacks anyone within his proximity. We cannot allow this creature to venture outside and harm innocent citizens and most importantly of all, sully our excellent faculty's image." "Oh, is that so?" Sakura narrowed her eyes. "Well, excuse me. I didn't know stupid you people are. Look, both you and I are within Devil's proximity. Has he attacked us? NO. And I've been – and still am for the past 20 minutes or so holding Devil's hand and has he hurt me? NO. So I highly doubt that he will harm anyone so I'm leaving and I take full responsibility of all of his actions. Goodbye." With that, Sakura dragged a confused Devil out the double doors ignoring the shocked lady behind her.

Sakura grinned at her patient as they stopped in Penguin Park. [A/N: sound familiar to anyone???] "So how are you feeling?" she chirped brightly. Devil smiled tentatively. Sakura looked at him in puzzlement. "Can't you talk?" She asked. Devil froze. This is it. he thought. She's gonna notice my other weird problems and ditch me like Maia did. "Devil??" Sakura asked again concerned about the lack of response that Devil was giving her. She reached out to touch his arm but stopped when he flinched and curled into a ball on the ground. "Devil, it's ok. I don't mind if you can't talk or anything. I was just wondering whether you just didn't feel like it or if you really couldn't. But either way it doesn't matter to me." Devil peered up at her. Sakura smiled lightly. "Come on let's go sit down on the bench." Obediently, he stood up and followed her over to the bench.

Smiling, she patted the seat next to her. "sit down if you want." Devil sat. Sakura sighed. "Devil, lets get this straight. You don't have to do anything but whatever you want around me ok? If you want to sit, you sit. If not, then simply shake your head or say no. It doesn't matter to me but it matters to you. Just act naturally." Devil sat there in silence staring at his feet. Sakura sighed. "Come on, you have to go back." He winced but got up to follow her.

Walking down the street, Sakura halted and frowned. "Odd" she murmured. "I swear I just saw this alleyway a few minutes ago. Am I going in a circle?" She turned to Devil. "Devil—mmm!!!!!" Sakura's cry was muffled as a hand suddenly shot out of the alleyway clamping shut over her lips and dragging her into the dark alleyway. Devil whirled around when he heard the muffled cry and shot into the alley. He was shocked to see a man pinning Sakura to a wall with her screaming and clawing at him as he attempted to rip her skirt off. With a growl, Devil sprang onto the mans back and yanked the man's head back visciously. "what the hell??!" the man squealed before Devil punched him in the face. Snarling, Devil picked the man up and threw him down the alley and smirked with satisfactory when he heard him crash into a couple trash cans down there.

Kneeling, he touched Sakura's sobbing form. "Ohmygodohmygodohmygod......." she whimpered over and over. Devil caressed her hair hesitantly and was shocked again when she threw her arms around his neck and sobbed into his shoulder. "Oh my god, I almost got raped..... oh my god, oh my god...... if you hadn't been there... oh my god....." she moaned and buried her face into Devil's chest. He pitied and was frightened by her odd actions but gently cradled her. Sakura moaned again. "Take me home." She whispered. Devil peered down at her in confusion. How the hell was he supposed to find out where she lived and let alone get her back when this was the first time he had ever been out of Willows?! "I live on 334 Janyo, Shibuya-ku. Hm, funny how I feel so cold......" she trailed off and fainted from the shock.

Devil was really freaked now. NOW not only did he have to take this nice girl home, now she had fainted too and couldn't help him! Let alone the fact that if she was out cold, she would be a lot vulnerable to sickness if he recalled the chatter of the doctors correctly at Willows. Cradling his petite charge, Devil carefully stood up and began searching for her house. After emerging from the alleyway, Devil was relieved to see a information booth with free maps. He silently thanked his unknown parents for giving him fairly good genes that included intelligence and a talent in languages.

Although Devil had never spoken a word in his life, he could oddly enough both read and understand Japanese fluently. He had picked up the skill from the doctors yelling and probing at him constantly and started piecing together words from what doctors muttered about him and matching the syllables up with the characters on his medical records. Grabbing a map, Devil hunted down the address that Sakura had muttered and quickly found her street. Devil held onto the map subconsciously and sighed. To his surprise, he suddenly noticed that it was now dark and that it was getting quite chilly. He cursed in his mind when it began to rain. Frightened for the health of his charge, he hugged Sakura closer hoping that she wouldn't get sick and rushed off to her house.

~~Kinomoto Residence~~

"Argh, where's that little kaijuu got herself lost again this time??!" Touya groaned. He HATED it whenever his little sister disappeared on him. "I TOLD her to be home no later than 10:30!!" [A/N: yesyes, I know, it's still very early. Touya's VERY protective. ^__~] "Oooh, if it's that boyfriend again........." Touya cracked his knuckles ominously. "Touya, calm down." Fujitaka interjected mildly. "Otou-san, its 11:30!!!! One whole HOUR later than her curfew!!! Anything could've happened to her!! That's it, I'm going out to drag her little ass back here. Oh, she's soooo gonna get it when I find her. I'll-------" "Tooya, Sakura's a big girl now. She's fine. She'll probably be back any minute now." Touya's best friend, Yukito, placated. "Yuki-kun, she will NOT!!! And I refuse to calm down when my baby sister is wandering about the streets of Tomoeda ALONE withOUT an escort and god knows what else. In fact, she---" "Tooya, she's 17 now. You have to let go. She's almost an adult. Sakura knows how to take care of herself." Yukito butted in. "NO she can't!!!!! The little kaijuu is too softhearted!!!! And with her looks, any man would look at her with more than average curiosity. Like as if she's gonna walk through the door this second unscathed!!!!"

At that moment, a loud urgent series of knocks sounded through the house.

Touya lunged for the door with Yukito close by to ensure that his overprotective best friend didn't slaughter the poor person or persons behind the flimsy door. He poised ready to tackle Touya if the need arose to allow the poor victims to live another day. Touya opened the door.

"KINOMOTO SAKURA!!!!!!!!!!!! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS ROGHT NOW???!!!!! IT'S 11:45!!!!!!! IT'S EXACTLY 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES AND 64 SECONDS OVER YOUR CURFEW!!!!! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING????! AND YOU!!!!! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY SISTER??!!! SHE'S ONLY 17 AND SHE'S A VIRGIN AND STAYING SO TILL SHE MARRIES AT 40!!!!!!! YOU GOT THAT GAKI????!!! I'M SO GONNA------" Touya froze in the middle of his rant. He suddenly noticed that he wasn't screaming at his sister. He was yelling at a soggy, tall, anorexic boy cradling something limp. On closer inspection, the limp thing in the boy's arms was a person. On even closer inspection, that person was----------

"SAKURA???!!!!!!!!!" Touya screeched. "What the hell have you done to my sister???!!!! You have a lot of explaining to do kid!!!" And with that, Devil and Sakura were yanked into the house.

Ahahhhaa, cliffy!!!! And gomen once again for the terribly late update!!!! Eek!!!! I was banned from the computer (mainly ff.net I suspect -___-';;;;) and had a majormajormajorMAJOR writer's block. Newayz, pleaze review! Reviewreviewreviewreview!!!!!! That is the way to paradise!!!! Mwahahahahahhahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!!