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Warning!

As you can make it out from the chapter's name, this is a really macabre chapter.

Chapter 21 – The Bloodshed

A horrid storm had been raging all through southern Japan, where the hospital of Kuroshima located in.

None of the patients of K10-3 had been out for four days. The nurses tried to entertain the patients any way possible. Now they were playing bingo. But as Inuyasha was wearing a straightjacket, someone else had to play for him. And who else could it be than Koga? They sat side by side. As Koga heard the numbers that Inuyasha's paper had, he filled them frankly, not switching Inuyasha's paper with his own.

Now it was the second turn. Kagura had won the first, and she had picked a bag of candy as her prize. And after two other turns, the last one began.

"B 8", Mitsuhiro, the keeper of the game, called out. And...

"Bingo for Inu!" Koga shouted and ran to Mitsuhiro. He gave his friend's piece of paper to him. He checked it and nodded.

"Yes, you won, Inuyasha!" he smiled. "Come and pick your prize!"

There were two prizes left – a packet of cookies, aaand... A bottle of Moutain Dew – his favorite drink! Inuyasha turned his eyes towards the green bottle.

"You want this?" Mitsuhiro ensured, and Inuyasha nodded once.

As there were pretty many patients in the ward, most of the patients were left with no prizes. Now Inuyasha and Mitsuhiro were sitting in the living room. The man had just opened the soda bottle Inuyasha had won, and started giving him it to drink.

But even as nice this day had gone, of course some things had to go wrong.

Inuyasha flipped out completely just about one hour against the nice game of bingo. He fought against hallucinations in the corridor by kickind and banging his head against the wall. The nurses didn't hesitate, but sedated him immediately and took in to a isolation room. Let's not strap him on the bed, they thought together, and so they left the boy alone and shut the door with a huge bang.

Just as they had taken care of Inuyasha, suddenly everyone in the ward could hear crackling. The lights strated flashing fast, when suddenly everything went dark.

As it was already pitch-black outside, no-one could see almost anything. Mitsuhiro got carefully to the office and found the flashlight. He used the tannoy to call every patients to the living room immediately.

As the man got to the living room, all the patients were counted... But one was missing.

Jakotsu had heard the call, but didn't care – he had other things in his mind.

He neither saw much in the darkess, but enough to open one of his bags on the bottom of his closet. And what was in there?

His most valuable thing. Something he had saved for this very moment.

A knife. Maybe not as big as the one he almost killed Naraku's own nurse Goro with a while back, but still very sharp. He cut his palm, looked at the blood started leaking out and smiled his insane grin and laughed a few times.

Jakotsu kept giggling, when suddenly he started hearing fast steps, getting closer... And then he heard the door being knocked.

You'd think Jakotsu would try to hide the knife, but hell no! As the door opened slowly, Jakotsu stood up and smiled at the door with his insane gaze. Mitsuhiro saw the knife. He flinched in fear, turned around and accidentaly dropped his keys. But he couldn't turn back to pick them up.

Jakotsu was faster than Mitsuhiro, so even as he did take the keys, he caught up with me man he was chasing... and stabbed him.

"Hnngh!" Mitsuhiro bit his teeth and held his throat, there Jakotsu had stabbed him. The blood spread slowly towards his collarbones. He had to get somewhere safe! But where?

He thought about Inuyasha's isolation room – but he had no keys! He still ran to the door, and dear God, the door was open! But why? Anyway, Mitsuhiro ran in, and saw Kaede sitting on the ground on her knees, next to Inuyasha, trying to talk to him.

"Oh hi, Mitsuhiro!" the old woman greeted. She was smiling for two seconds, but when she saw how the man was bleeding she gasped horrified.

"Oh my dear God!" she screamed. "We must call ambulance! I'll get to the office..."

"NO!" Mitsuhiro shouted and shut the door with a huge bang. "It's Jakotsu with a knife! There's no way we can make it through!"

"Let's do the alarm!" Kaede shouted, pressed her alarm button... But it didn't work. Maybe because of the storm.

For a while neither of the adults said anything, but suddenly both turned at the boy.

"Could it be..." Kaede wondered.

"Inuyasha, you must help us."

Inuyasha stared at him with an angry face.

"You must do something. You must kill... well maybe not kill him but... Save us! Save the whole ward! I must get to the hospital!" he said. Inuyasha could smell the blood and see how it slowly spread on his nurse's neck.

"We'll release you from the straightjacket, and then you'll help us safely from here."

Inuyasha didn't answer with words, but turned around his back straps against the nurses. As Mitsuhiro had to hold the door shut, Kaede took the straightjacket off so nervous and scared her hands were shaking. As Mitsuhiro's throat was bleeding, holding the door was very painful. The trio inside the isolation room could hear kicking, pounding and laughing through the door.

"R... Ready...?" Mitsuhiro asked panting, weak from losing blood. He opened the door...

And in one second Inuyasha shooted out from the room and punched Jakotsu on the face. The man was no match for him as now Inuyasha was just his normal self – not drugged or wrapped. Inuyasha grabbed the knife from his hand and threw it away. Then he bared his fangs and bit him in the ear. He gnawed him so hard blood was spilling. You could hear him growling like a ferocious hound. And finally, Jakotsu's left ear was ripped off. But that wasn't the biggest problem he had. He was bleeding very badly – and this time, masochistic or not, he was in great pain.

Inuyasha beat Jakotsu up just harder and harder, until the man passed out. Inuyasha stopped, shook himself like a dog, rubbed his blood-covered hands and puffed.

As the man laid on floor, bleeding, Inuyasha turned back towards the isolation room. Mitsuhiro was sitting down, leaning against the wall. He seemed very weak, and was panting worse by the minute.

Inuyasha sat down on his dog pose next to him and tilted his head. The boy was really concerned.

"We must call for help", Kaede said and started walking the dark corridor to the office. She grabbed the mobile phone:

"Hello. We need two ambulances to the hospital of Kuroshima, immediately."

The ambulances arrived in no time, sirens sounding, Both men were in great danger, and were carried into the ambulances in just a few minutes.

But there was someone who wanted to come the ambulance, too.

Before the ambulance where Mitsuhiro was in was about to leave, Inuyasha tried to get in. First the ambulance staff didn't let him in, but Inuyasha started growling a bit.

"Let him come", Mitsuhiro said with a weak voice. Inuyasha sat next to him, his ears drooping. As there was blood everywhere from Mitsuhiro's cheek to his collarbones, Inuyasha did something Mitsuhiro couldn't really have believed:

The dog boy licked his chin. Mitsuhiro looked at the boy. He looked so sad, like a little puppy. Something he had last seen back in the days when Inuyasha had just arrived at the hospital as a little child, missing his dad. But those days were eight years ago.

Mitsuhiro was taken straight to the ER. And Jakotsu? No idea, Inuyasha didn't care. Maybe he got in a car accident? Hopefully he did.

As Mitsuhiro was put in a hospital bed and was surrounded by doctors, Inuyasha got really worried, but he was kept away.

"Look, pal, I know you are worried of this friend of yours, and it is true that he's really badly wounded, and we have to take him to a surgery right away."

Inuyasha tried to make his way through the doctors. He wanted into the surgery with Mitsuhiro.

"No. You can't come. You must wait in the waiting room."

Inuyasha had no choice. He slacked in an armchair in the waiting room and just stared at nothing. Every now and then, he gave a look upon the clock.

"Oh dear Inuyasha!" shouted an old woman's voice coming closer. Inuyasha turned at the voice and saw Kaede.

"I'm so glad to see ye well!" she said and stroke the boy's shoulder. She started digging her bag.

"Here are yer medicine, and..." she digged the bag again. "Here's the Mountain Dew ye won in the bingo. Here ye go."

Inuyasha put the pills in his mouth and started drinking.

"So, we'll just wait", Kaede sighed and sat on the armchair next to Inuyasha. "I'll be here with ye."

The surgery took long. Too long, Inuyasha thought. Then a doctor walked to them. Inuyasha's ears shot up.

"Is the surgery over?" Kaede asked.

"Not yet, but it is nice to tell you his in steady state. You don't need to worry."

Kaede bowed at the doctor as he went away.

"Okay now, son. Ye haven't eaten since breakfast. We should go to the café for something to eat", Kaede said and got up from the chair. Inuyasha growled a bit and turned his ears back.

"Come on now. Sitting here won't make his surgery end any faster."

Inuyasha got up and followed the old lady to the café.

"Not just something like a can o' Mountain Dew", she said strictly and wiggled her finger. "Take anything ye want. I'll pay."

Inuyasha looked at the glass cabinets and what was in them. Finally he picked a cream doughnut.

"That's a good boy", Kaede smiled. Then she saw Inuyasha staring at the cold cabinet. "Okay, okay, ye can have some soda too."

She wasn't surprised to see Inuyasha picking a Mountain Dew. He put it on the tray, and Kaede paid for them.

"Carry these to our table", Kaede said and started walking to one of the tables next to a window. Inuyasha followed her and sat down. He looked out from the window and leaned his forehead against it. His ears went drooping.

"Look, son, it's really sad to see ye so depressed, but..." Kaede said and sipped her coffee. "... ye're acting a lot nicer and calmer right now that usually... or more like ever... When I heard ye followed Mitsuhiro all the way to here in the hospital, I was shocked!"

Inuyasha started gnawing his doughnut.

They didn't really hurry with the eating, but when they left the café, Inuyasha almost ran away.

"Inuyasha! Slow down!" Kaede shouted. Inuyasha stopped, but didn't towards the lady. As she got up to him she pet his shoulder.

"Ye know what? We need a leash for ye."

They got to the waiting room. Inuyasha sat in the armchair.

"Wait here", Kaede said and and walked away.

"Hello", she said as she got in front of this clinic's office. "We are friends of Mitsuhiro Akiyama, who was taken in here for a surgery about four hours ago. Is his surgery over?"

"Mitsuhiro Akiyama..." the woman behind he desk said and started browsing her computer. "Oh yes, he's in the recovery room... No, wait! He's already in the ward."

Now Inuyasha joined them, as he had heard the name 'Mitsuhiro' being said.

"The intensive care?" Kaede asked.

"Oh no, just the normal surgical ward. Floor four."

"Thank you!" the old woman smiled. "Come, Inuyasha."

"Don't ye worry, son", Kaede pet Inuyasha's shoulderblade as they were standing in the elevator. They stopped on the fourth floor.

"I wonder where he is..." Kaede wondered... But suddenly the boy just walked away, sniffing. Kaede smiled – Inuyasha could smell him!

He stopped in front of the third room. He grabbed the door's handle and opened in fast. There were two beds in the room, and Mitsuhiro was right in the first bed.

"I'll get us chairs", Kaede said and walked out of the room.

Inuyasha rushed to Mitsuhiro and grabbed the bed's reiling. The man opened his eyes and smiled a bit.

Inuyasha's ears were flat against his head, and he let out a few whimpers.

"Sorry... I can't really... talk... right now..." Mitsuhiro said with a hoarse vocie. "Heh... Now we are... somehow like same..." he grinned, but started coughing like no tomorrow.

Inuyasha grabbed the reiling and put it down... And again he did something he hadn't done to Mitsuhiro ever since under then years of age... He leaned his head against his nurse's chest. The boy could hear his raspy breath and steady heartbeat, and closed his eyes.

"Here're the chairs..." Kaede said as she was carrying two chairs into the room... But stopped at the doorway as she saw the sweet moment. She smiled and walked quietly to them and put the chairs down.

"Here, son. Sit down", she said and pushed the chair to the boy. He sat down, and so did Kaede.

Mitsuhiro was in really poor condition. Kaede was the only person who talked in this room...

But Inuyasha and Mitsuhiro held hands. This made Kaede smile.

Now they had sat beside Mitsuhiro for a bit over two hours. Kaede had started to pack her things.

"That's it, son", she said as she got up from her chair. "I'll call the taxi to take us back to Kuroshima."

Inuyasha seemed like he wasn't going anywhere.

"Oh please, Inuyasha. This day has gone so well. Now don't protest or we have to call an ambulace to get ye."

Inuyasha resisted for a while, but finally followed the old woman all the way to the hospital's main doors, and from there to the taxi. He sat next to Kaede in the back seats. His ears were still drooping. Kaede grabbed his hand.

"Don't ye worry, he will make it."

Inuyasha was really desperate for the next ten days. Mitsuhiro was nowhere to be seen. He was getting really worried. He was acting all different from the 'real' Inuyasha. He had a desperately poor appetite, he did nothing but lolled in the living room's sofa... But there was something good: he was aggressive in no other way than growling when someone approached him.

Then eleven days since the bloodshed Inuyasha was sitting on a windowsill, looking outside... He had sat there for hours.

When suddenly:

He saw a familiar car. It was THE car! Inuyasha's ears hopped up, he got so excited he fell down from windowsill on his back. He got up and dashed on all fours for a few meters, got on his feet and ran all the way through the ward.

"Oo, look'it, Inu!" Koga grinned as the dog boy ran by him.

Inuyasha stopped at the ward's door, and saw him – Mitsuhiro! Inuyasha scratched four scrtaches on the glassy door. Mitsuhiro smiled a bit, opened the door and came in.

The man had pretty rough looking stitches on his throat, but he seemed well.

"Missin' me?" the man grinned and hugged Inuyasha with his right arm. Inuyasha closed his eyes and leaned against him a bit.

They were so happy to see they were both alright.