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Chapter 10 - Runaway
The summer had started turning fall. Tree leaves turned in beautiful colors and fell through the air. The hospital's environment was beautiful and so a very therapeutic and just to get some fresh air.
But unfortunately Kagome couldn't get out to enjoy the courtyard. As long as she didn't eat, she couldn't get out. And so she had a naso-gastric tube and all her moving was minimized, even walking around the ward. Her weight had to get higher, but for now she had gained only a few measly kilos, which wasn't enough for the ward's doctor. Kagome had been caught in the act of vomiting several times, so now she had a nurse looking after her 24/7. Also in the toilet and the shower. Especially in the toilet and the shower.
Now Kagome was sitting in the livingroom's sofa, shaking her legs fiercely to burn extra calories.
"Kagome, stop that", nurse Kaede said. Kagome stopped the shaking, but started flexing her thighs. No-one could see that.
Naraku had started counting days towards him leaving this ward. He would turn 25 next week, which meant he would be transferred to an another ward; in his case, the chronic ward, since he hadn't been violent or anything like that for years.
Naraku's farewell party was being planned. Every patient leaving ward K10 had a party like that, and Naraku was no exception. The party would be held tomorrow.
"Hurray! We'll bake a cake!" Jakotsu rejoiced at the ward's kitchen's door. If some patient in this ward was excited about the party, that was Jakotsu. He had proceeded in his treatment so much that he was let into the kitchen with nurses with him. Also Kagura was with them.
"Shall we make chocolate cake?" Jakotsu asked, excited. Nurse Sara, who was Sango's own nurse, searched the cookbook for the recipe for the cake.
"Here. The chocolate cake's recipe."
Soon the heavenly scent of chocolate cake filled the ward's air. In almost every patients this worked up some appetite, but not in one; Kagome.
Kagome spent most of days in the livingroom, monitored by the nurses. She sat on the sofa, staring at the drip stand, the bag of the food liquid from which the food dripped down the tube into her nose drip by drip. She was fighting against the urge to rip the tube off, but she knew they would just put it back. And that was an immensely painful procedure. Short, but painful.
"Run through the window."
Inuyasha flinched at the voice he heard within his head. He looked around, but couldn't see anyone.
"Run through the window. Do it today. Do it Right Now! Run through the window.."
Inuyasha growled. He knew that the windows were made of bulletproof glass. But he wasn't sure of his strenght – maybe he could get through. He stared at the window at the end of the western corridor's end. The beautiful autumn leaves hovered through the air. Inuyasha looked around to make sure there was no-one around, backed off a few steps...
"...besides, hell yeah I do my job!" one nurse laughed among the other nurses in the nurse's coffee room, where they were having a coffee break. But then...
Suddenly a huge crash and chinking of glass shards were heard through the ward. Every nurse had small alarms on their wrists, which started beeping so loud the whole ward echoed.
"Alarm!"
The nurses ran around aroung ward, but they got to the western corridor too late; someone had just gone through the window. There was a huge hole in it. Everyone knew, who the runaway was.
"Quickly call the police and the hospital's guards!"
"What's going on in there?" asked Jakotsu in his pink apron, standing in the kitchen's doorway. All the hospital staff were running around like there was a fire. Also Kagura peeked out of the kitchen.
"Inuyasha is on the loose!" some nurse shouted.
Quite far away from the hospital Inuyasha was wandering through the forests. He grinned a little, proud of his escape. He ran to a lake's shore and looked at his face's reflection on the water. He splashed the water on his face and hair, and shook himself dry like a dog. He sniffed around, and as he couldn't smell anyone, he let out a loud howl, which made the birds in the trees fly away. Finally he was free!"
The next morning there was an article about Inuyasha, a dangerous mental hospital patient being on the loose, in every newspaper. The news that arrived in K10 circled around the dining hall at breakfast, and everyone wanted to read it.
"So, now our Inuyasha is wanted!" Koga grinned as he chomped his toast.
"Ah, I remember the first time I was on the front page!" Jakotsu chirped. "Read the article, Kagura!"
"Alright", Kagura nodded, took the newspaper in her hands and started reading so loud that the whole dining hall could hear.
"A dangerous mental hospital patient ON THE LOOSE!
Yesterday from the mental hospital of Kuroshima a patient got away through the window. The runaway is a 15-year-old hanyou-boy with long, silver hair, dog ears and red eyes. He is wearing hospital pajamas.
The doctors say he's very violent and unpredictable. He has been diagosed with severe schizophrenia, and now as he isn't getting his daily medication, he will be even more dangerous.
The youkai police force has been sent after the boy.
Police will take in observations and hints of the runaway. Walking near the Kuroshima hospital is highly forbidden until the runaway is caught."
That paper kept circling the dining hall from table to table, as everyone wantned to read it again. Some people thouht it was exciting and funny that Inuyasha had got away.
"Yaba daba boo, Inuyasha!" Jakotsu crowed.
"I wonder if they can catch him..." Sango though out loud.
"Of course they will! There's the youkai police forces after him. He's got no chance!" Miroku nodded while drinking his coffee.
"But what if he meets a human in the forest... Or wherever he is...?" Kagome thought terrified.
"Well, as insane he is, I don't think he would kill anyone who just bumps into him", Koga said.
"But what's worse, he will most likely miss My farewell party!" Naraku shouted out.
"Alright, men. Everyone identify the boy's scent?" the youkai police leader asked. Everyone shouted 'yes!' There were ten sturdy men in the patrol. Inuyasha had no idea what he was about to face.
And so he ran. He jumped over every tree root and bush, circled every tree and sniffed the air. Now he could smell a huge pack of youkais – and the scents got closer and closer, no matter how fast Inuyasha ran.
"Men! Let's scatter!" one poiliceman shouted. Half of them went east, other half to the west. They all smelled Inuyasha – and he wasn't far away.
"Who's got the sedatives?" one police asked.
"I do", another answered and showed everyone a gun, which shot small arrows, that contained strong sedatives.
"Load the gun. We are close."
Oh shit! Everywhere around him Inuyasha could smell scents that were getting stronger one by one. Finally Inuyasha stopped running, getting ready for a fight. He bared his fangs and squeezed his fists.
"Get ready, men!" the leader shouted only a few trees and bushes away from the boy. He was embattled, and the circle of the policemen got closed and closer. Inuyasha looked everywhere around him, panicky.
"Ryagh!" he shouted, trying to scare the policemen away. No good, so Inuyasha attacked one of the poilcemen.
"Now!"
And so a quiet shot was heard. First Inuyasha didn't understand what had happened. Then he saw it; there was a small arrow sticking up his left bicep, and in no time, Inuyasha started feeling dizzy. Then he fell in a state like sleep and fell down on the treestumps and moss.
"Good job, men!"
The policemen took the barely concious boy with them and carried him out of the woods. When they got to the highway, there were a few police cars and an ambulance. The ambulance nurses took Inuyasha into the van on stretchers and strapped him with belts. The police- and the ambulancemen shook each others' hands with smiles.
"Then, on the way to Kuroshima!"
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, Naraku!
Happy birthday to you!
The whole choir of patients of the ward K10. Not all patients sang, but Jakotsu sang for them. Naraku didn't really like the song – he was the God. Not to be called like a human.
"Happy birthday, Naraku!" nurse Kaede shouted, and everyone started clapping.
"Okay now... I'll have a short speech", said a nurse called Goro. He was Naraku's own nurse. "Five years and two months ago Naraku was brought here, in this ward. The way has been rough, and we have gone a long way until this day. We love to let you to the next ward, and maybe someday you will live outside the hospital. Applause, Naraku!"
"God...", Naraku puffed quietly, but couldn't help but smile when he heard the clapping and Jakotsu whistling.
"So, let's cut the cake!"
Mitsuhiro stood in the central corridor, looking out of the window, looking for the ambulance to arrive. He had just a few minutes ago received a call of good news from the police. He knew Inuyasha would be really dozy, so he had brought a wheelchair.
Finally the ambulance arrived in front of the building.
"Okay now, I'll go get Inuyasha", Miroku called out to the dining hall.
Mitsuhiro stepped out of the building K10's doors at the same time as Inuyasha on the stratchers was taken out. Inuyasha laid on them like a dead fish. The ambulance people unwrapped the belts and lift the boy in the wheelchair that Mitsuhiro had brought. Inuyasha couldn't object.
"Thank you!" Mitsuhiro thanked as the ambulance drew away.
"Okay now, Inuyasha. Time for some cake!"
Inuyasha's head hung against his right shoulder as he was pushed along the corridor. And when he appeared in the dining room's door, Jakotsu stood up from his chair and shouted:
"Hallelujah! Inuyasha! You returned!"
Everyone's faces turned at the arrivals, and after a short silence the whole hall filled with 'hurrays' and applauses.
"So nice to see you!"
"Didya' know that you got in the news?"
Inuyasha didnt' answer. He was carted to his standard table. Mitsuhiro brought him a piece of cake and a glass of milk, starting to feed the boy.
"Isn't it nice to be back here?" Mitsuhiro chuckled.
After this incident all windows were made six times stronger.
