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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"As the winter was getting closer and the weather got chillier, diseases as flu and even influenza spread through all the wards of the hospital of Kuroshima. And ward K10-3 was no exception./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"This morning Miroku was first to get up in his and Inuyasha's room, which was quite normal. The man changed his clothes and turned towards his friend.../span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"And the dog-boy started coughing. It sounded like it came deep from his lungs./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha... Are you okay?" Miroku asked, worried. "Just a sec, I'll get a nurse."/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Miroku jogged through the corridor and stopped in front of the office. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Morning, Miroku. What's the hurry?" asked Mitsuhiro, who sat at the computer./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha isn't feeling well", Miroku said. "He's coughing really bad."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"...Oh..." Mitsuhiro sounded worried. This could be bad. Inuyasha wasn't the first patient in this ward to be sick, really sick, now past a few weeks./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro got up from his chair and got on his way towards Inuyasha's and Miroku's room. Miroku followed him, but:/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"It's better that you stay away from him", Mitsuhiro said and stopped Miroku behind him. "If he is sick, we must make sure the disease doesn't spread."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Miroku nodded and walked away./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Knock knock", Mitsuhiro said while knocking Inuyasha's room door. He could hear the boy cough. The man opened the door and walked in. Inuyasha kept coughing./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Hi, buddy..." Mitsuhiro said quietly while he knelt down beside Inuyasha's bed. The boy's face was red and he was dripping in sweat. Mitsuhiro sighed and touched his forehead.../span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Oh!" the man flinched and quickly withdrew his hand. "I'll be back", he said and walked out of the room./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Where's the thermometer?" Mitsuhiro asked while looking for it in the office./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Here", said Kaede, and handed over the thermometer to Mitsuhiro. "Is someone sick?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Yup yup. It's Inuyasha. He feels really warm and has a horrible cough..." Mitsuhiro nodded./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Before getting to Inuyasha, Mitsuhiro got himself a chair. Now he sat on it beside Inuyasha's bed. As the thermometer was digital, he pressed it's button and put it in the boy's mouth. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Try your best not to cough. Just a little while and it will beep", Mitsuhiro spoke calm. /span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"As Mitsuhiro had said, it didn't take long for the thermometer to beep. The man took it.../span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Oh no..." he sighed. "103.3 F... I must talk to the doctor. But first, I'll get Kaede to bring you some medicine."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha curled up under his blanket, shivering./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro marched through the main corridor. Then he happened to meet Miroku./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Well, uh, how is he?" Miroku asked./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Really bad. So, don't go in the room. We don't want you to get infected."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Miroku nodded with a sad face./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"That's it", Mitsuhiro sighed as he got into the office. "We need the doctor right now. Inuyasha has a fever of over 103 F."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"All the nurses stared at Mitsuhiro eyes wide./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"I'll call the doctor. You, Kaede, go give him some medicine", Mitsuhiro said. Kaede nodded and went to the medicine room./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"The old lady walked the corridor. She had a bottle of juice and a white pill in a small plastic cup with her. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Koga came to her. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Is Inu sick?" he asked, raising his eyebrow./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"...How did ye know?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Don't be stupid. I'm a wolf. I can hear a zillion times better than you humans. And I can hear him coughing."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Yes, well, ye are right."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Is it bad?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Maybe. But this is none of yer business. Go back to the living room."/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Kaede opened the door to Inuyasha's room. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha... Inuyasha, how are ye?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"The boy coughed harsh. Kaede walked to him and handed over the pill to him. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Here, take this."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha sat up weakly, took the pill and swallowed it with the juice./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Good. Now rest, the doctor will be here soon to see ye."'/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha couldn't get any sleep, as his cough kept him awake, and his head and throat were killing him./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Then, finally, he heard a knock on the door. It was the doctor and Mitsuhiro./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Hello there, Inuyasha", the doctor greeted and walked beside Inuyasha's bed. "I've heard some bad news about you today. We suspect pneumonia, but first we'll have some blood tests as fast as possible. And as you share your room with Miroku, we can't keep him out of this room all day and night, we will move you to the isolation room for as long as you are sick."/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"And so Inuyasha was put into the isolation room. Now he was laying on the limb restraint bed, but of course not being strapped. He had pillows all around him and two thick blankets, but was still shivering./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro was sitting beside next to him in an armchair. /span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"It didn't take long before the laboratorian and took the blood sample of the boy. And only in less than our the results came – Inuyasha had pneumonia. The doctor prescriptioned him some antibiotics./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro sat in the armcair beside Inuyasha, tapping the pen in his hand agains the armrest. Inuyasha was coughing. Mitsuhiro really wished to cheer the boy a bit somehow... Then he got it!/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Say, what would you think if I told you the story of how you and me met for the first time?"/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"And so the story began./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"It was a normal midsummer day. A few young boys were playing soccer on a big field with goals. The field was on a shore of a lake. And this place was called the mental hospital of Kuroshima. There were lots of buildings and different kinds of wards, from childrens' to chronics'./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"It was quite rare for new patients to come, and the treatment times were very long, from years to life./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"But now there was a new patient arriving. An ambulance drove through the hospital and stopped in front one of the buildings. This was the childrens' ward./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"As the ambulance staff opened the vehicle's door, they saw something pretty adorable: a little boy in his father's arms. The boy had white dog ears and red eyes like devil's. He was holding a big, stuffed star toy./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Neither of the duo inside the ambulance seemed happy about this. The father stroke his son's hair with a sad face, and the boy growled at the ambulance staff with his fangs bared./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"You must go, son", the father said./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Two people sat in a room inside this building. A woman sat behind a desk, and opposite from her on the other side of the desk, sat a man with with almost shoulder-length, brown hair and bushy eyebrows./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"So, Mitsuhiro..." this woman, the doctor of the childrens' ward, said. "We're getting a new child here today. Actually, he's just arrived there at the outside door. The info we have received about him is seriously far from good. Are you absolutely sure you want to become his personal nurse?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro nodded with a little smile./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"All right then. You can start your new nurse-patient relation by going out and get him inside."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro bowed and walked out of the room. He walked through the corridor and opened the outside door. The scene was on. Inuyasha held to his father, and even if the ambulance staff tried to pull the boy out, Inuyasha just got more horrified and started screaming and fighting back./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Come on, we won't hurt y..." one of the staff said, but Inuyasha just scratched him. Mitsuhiro stared at this fight his eyes wide. Inuyasha was screaming. But not with words - he was just screaming./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro got closer ato the boy. He stood still about two meters away from him, trying to calm him down. He was good at calming down kids, as he had been working with children for years./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Hey there. My name is Mitsuhiro", the man said with a sunny smile. "What's your name?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha stared at the man with his red eyes./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"How old are you?" Mitsuhiro asked, still waiting for an answer./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Don't bother", said the father, who just got off the ambulance and put the boy down on the ground next to him. "He doesn't talk. Ever. You must get used to it."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro gave a look upon his upcoming patient. The boy hung on to his father's leg. Mitsuhiro sighed a bit and rubbed his neck./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Well, I think we will get along in time", he smiled./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha had a backpack with him. It was taken out of the ambulance. Suddenly Inuyasha sensed something bad is going to happen. His father knelt down on his level stroke the boy's cheek./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"I'll come here to see you. And I'll bring Sessh too", he said. Then when he stepped into the ambulance.../span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"HAAAAAAAA!" Inuyasha started screaming and tried to run after the vehicle, but both Mitsuhiro and one other nurse grabbed him and held back. But oh man this little guy was strong for his age! And those claws and fangs... Now Mitsuhiro finally understood how deep in shit he was. /span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"But he liked not only to help people in real need, but also taking challenges./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Before going in from the ward's main doors, Inuyasha was held by Mitsuhiro at the yard, to calm him down. It took quite a while, maybe half an hour, but finally, the little one walked slowly towards the nurse and looked up to his face./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Come, Inuyasha", Mitsuhiro smiled, took the backpack and grabbed Inuyasha's hand. They walked inside./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"There were lots of colorful pictures everywhere. Bunnies, rainbows, clouds, trees, butterflies, cartoon characters and alphabets in all colors. As Mitsuhiro led the boy through the corridor, Inuyasha looked around./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"You'll be fine, Inuyasha", Mitsuhiro said. "Daddy will come see you soon. I can also lend you the ward's phone so you can call him."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Then, whoops. Inuyasha doesn't talk. Mitsuhiro sighed. He knew the following years will be tough./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"They stopped in front of one door with the picture of Thumper from Bambi. There was also a small sticker, which said "Inuyasha"./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"This is your room. And guess what? You got your very own room! Not everyone here do", Mitsuhiro smiled as he opened the door. Inuyasha stepped in and looked around. There was one bed, nightstand and a closet. Mitsuhiro put Inuyasha's backpack on the bed and started unpacking it. There were very little clothes in it. There was a checkered quilt and crayons and pencils in it. And something weird. Maybe a chewing toy?/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro put Inuyasha's few pieces of clothes into the closet. He sat next to the boy on the bed./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"So, as you may already know, I am your new personal nurse", he told and put his hand carefully on the boy's shoulder. The boy bared his fangs a little. "Oh, sorry", Mitsuhiro apologized and withdrew his hand./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"For a while they sat on the bed, neither of them saying anything. But then Mitsuhiro looked at his watch./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Look at the time! It's time for supper!"/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"And so they walked the corridor towards the dining room. Inuyasha looked around the room. There weren't many chairs nor tables, so that meant there weren't lots of patients in this ward./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro started collecting a meal for Inuyasha./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Would you like some cocoa?" he asked. He poured milk in it and added some cocoa powder in it. He shoke the bottle and gave it to the little boy. He grabbed it and started drinking... but walked out of the dining room with the bottle./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Hey, young man! You need to eat something! That won't do!" Mitsuhiro said./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha didn't react in any way, just disappeared from the room./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Well, okay then", Mitsuhiro sighed and let the boy go. "But this means you eat well tomorrow!" he shouted after him./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha couldn't sleep. He was laying on the floor in his room, drawing his daddy. He missed him so much. He was whimpering./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Suddenly someone came in from the door. Inuyasha looked up, and saw him – Mitsuhiro./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Can't you sleep?" he asked. But when he saw the boy drawing, he started smiling and got closer./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Oh, is this your daddy?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha looked straight in the man's eyes./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Wait a second", Mitsuhiro said and walked away. But it didn't take more than a minute when he came back, with a mobile phone in his hand./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"We have your daddy's number in this. Let's call him!"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro sat on the bed, Inuyasha joining him. The phone was beeping, and finally a voice said:/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"emInutaisho Kita."/em/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Here, Mitsuhiro Akiyama from Kuroshima, greetings!" Mitsuhiro greeted. After a short silece Inutaisho answered:/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"emWell how do you do! Is everything alright?"/em/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Yes and no. Inuyasha misses you very much. I bet he'd love to hear your voice." And so, Mitsuhiro handed over the phone to Inuyasha. As Inutaisho could hear his little son whimper, he came maybe a bit sad./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"emHi there, son. How are you feeling?"/em/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Whimpering./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"emWe are missing you here, me and Sessh. I promise we will come see you as soon as possible. Hey, Sessh, come and say something to your brother!"/em/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inutaisho handed over the phone to his elder son./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"emHello, Inuyasha",/em Sesshomaru said with his cold voice. Inuyasha kept whimpering. Sesshomaru gave back the phone to his father./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"emSleep well, son."/em/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"The phone shut. Inuyasha held it in his hands, still wanting to hear his daddy's voice./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Give it back. The call is over already."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"But Inuyasha didn't give the phone back. Mitsuhiro sighed./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Alright, alright, you can keep the phone."/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"The lights were put out. But still, Inuyasha couldn't sleep. He sat on his room's windowsil, looking out, depressed. He had just lost what was the most important to him – his family. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"He started howling./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro ran to his room. He was carrying his own backpack./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Are you alright? The man asked. Inuyasha looked at him with small tears in his eyes. Mitsuhiro sighed and walked to him. He stroked his dog ear... But the boy didn't bare his fangs./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"My shift actually just ended, but I can stay by you until you fall asleep. Now get down from the windowsill."/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Inuyasha jumped down and went to bed. Mitsuhiro covered him up and sat on the nightstand./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"Mitsuhiro had got ready for sitting there for at least an hour, but it took maybe just fifteen minutes for the boy to fall asleep. Mitsuhiro smiled and closed the door quietly as he left the room./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"That was our first day as a team", said Mitsuhiro, still sitting in the armchair beside Inuyasha. Inuyasha was coughing every now and then. /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;""span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"You don't remember those times... Or do you?"/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"For Mitsuhiro's surprise, Inuyasha nodded twice slowly. Mitsuhiro smiled and ruffled the boys head./span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-family: Candara Light, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: large;"It took a few days before Inuyasha got well and released from the isolation room. Everyone was happy seeing him again and well. And Inuyasha was the last patient in this ward this flu-season to get sick. /span/span/p