Again, thanks, Hrtofdrkns for the idea. But now note that there are few words to describe this chapter – There wil be blood.
Chapter 42 – Murder
There were many patients in the ward of K10-3, who had simply killed someone, usually more than one person. But what connceted them was the fact that they were criminally insane – otherwise they would be in jail, maybe even on death row – like Jakotsu. But it was almost positive that since he was insane, he will spend his life in here, even though he was only 28 years old.
It was a nice summer's day. It was calm and quiet in the ward of K10-3. The TV was on and the sofa was filled. Álmost all the patients were there, just a few were in their rooms.
Kagura was hearing laughter in her head. And not only laughter, also really serious voices. Voices that ordered her to kill someone. Unlike Jakotsu would do in a moment like that, she just storted and slapped her cheek. But she had to admit that she was craving for some human blood. And so she got on her way.
She walked the corridor and got to the farthest end of the eastern corridor. She knew she couldn't do it in the main corridor. She just stood against the windowsill and crossed her arms. Now she should just wait for the prey.
It did take a while, but Kagura wasn't in a hurry. But finally she sensed with her demonic senses that someone was coming closer. Then she saw someone peek in from the connection of the eastern and main corridor. Perfect! It was a female nurse!
"Is everything okay, Kagura?" she asked and started walking towards the woman.
"Come here. I wan't to tell you somethin'." She wiggled her finger towards her.
But it was the nurse's biggest mistake ever. Kagura made the nurse listen to a whisper, but when the nurse got close enough, Kagura did something horrible.
She grabbed the nurse from her jaws and ripped them apart. A crack was heard. Then she quickly put her hand into the nurse's pocket and took what she was looking for – small, folded scissors. She cut the nurse's tongue and pulled it out. Then she stuffed her hand all the way down her throat and ripped everything up and apart with the scissors. Finally she ripped apart the nurse's chest and dug out her barely beating heart. The nurse let out her final scream.
Inuyasha could hear the scream and smell the blood, even though he was in the northern corridor. He knew something was wrong, and got on his way, following the scent.
He appeared to Kagura in less than a minute. His pupils shrank and he petrified when he saw the horrible mess. He started growling and started taking slow steps towards the women. He jumped towards the body, but as fast as Kagura was, she could dodge him. The boy landed on the bloody body, and Kagura dashed away – to the showering room. Inuyasha stood on the body on all fours. He sniffed it and could tell there was no way to rescue her. He was covered in blood.
The nurses had heard the 'final scream' and appeared to the northern corridor... And saw both bloody Inuyasha and the bloody body. Of course they could only tell Inuyasha had killed the nurse.
"I-I-Inuyasha, have you...?" one nurse stammered. Mitsuhiro rushed to the boy and quickly grabbed from his armpits.
"Do the alarm and call an ambulance!" someone shouted. Loud alarm started sounding and in less than a minute the ward was filled with nurses. Now the problem wasn't the killed nurse – she couldn't be saved. But Inuyasha. There were 12 nurses altogether, since the K10-3 nurses had prepared of a once-in-a-lifetime fight. But something was wrong – Inuyasha only growled and didn't let nurses coming near – but he didn't attack.
"Listen, Inuyasha..." Mitsuhiro said, calm, walking closer to his patient. "I don't know what the hell has happened in here but now what is going to happen is that we will give you an injection and limb restrain you. And as I always say; easy or the hard way. You choose."
But as the nurses attacked him with he injection syringes, Inuyasha started fighting back. But he had no chances against 12 nurses. He was sedated in less than a minute.
"Now, get him in the isolation room one", Mitsuhiro shouted. Six nurses were carrying the boy all the way to the isolation corridor. They rushed like it was about life and death. They opened the door, put on the lights and put the boy down on the limb restration bed, starting to strap him."
"I bet he won't be let off for a while", one nurse mumbled.
The amubulance did come here fast, but as the nurse who opened told the amublance nurses that the nurse is already dead, they just took the body from the corridor's end.
"Her jaws are torn apart, tongue dragged out, throat, esophagus and chest ripped apart... This is not something a human can do."
The nurse's dead body was put in a black sack and taken away by the ambulance.
Inuyasha laid unconcious, strapped on the bed. Mitsuhiro sat beside him with a very sad face. He wasn't angry. He was lost. What had happened? Inuyasha would never, EVER kill anyone! What is going on?
Inuyasha woke up in three hours. He was so dazed his eyesight was blurry and his ears were humming.
As Mitsuhiro noted that the boy had opened his eyes, he sighed and pet his chest.
"Now or never you should really tell us what happened in there", the man said with a quiet voice. "Do you know what this can mean? They might take you away from here. Somewhere a lot worse than here. Away from all your friends, your family... Away from me."
Inuyasha stared at him with his half-closed, tired eyes. He was still covered in dried blood. And will be, unfortunately. There's no way he could be given a shower.
And talking about a shower... Kagura had ran to the women's showering room. As the blood she was covered with was still wet, she could wash it all off slowly, using all the liquid soap that was perfumed to cover the least scent of blood.
She threw away her bloody hospital clothes and took new ones from the cloth closet. Now there was no way she could be suspected!
The next days were very hard. Inuyasha was howling and screaming almost all the time, and he had stopped eating and drinking. And so he had been put on a naso-gastric tube.
"Inuyasha, calm down..." Kaede tried to console the boy who was yanking roughly, but couldn't get off the straps. "It's okay, things will work out. Mitsuhiro is coming to the evening shift. He will be with you all the way from evening until the night."
Even though as disgusting this misfortune was, none of the nurses were angry at Inuyasha – they knew Inuyasha didn't do it for fun (unlike Jakotsu).
"Please, Inuyasha, stop the yanking", Kaede pleaded. As Inuyasha had been given a cannula, giving him seatives was easy. And so one nurse came and injected the sedative to his cannula. It was so sad seeing Inuyasha like this.
None of the patients had seen Inuyasha ever since this misfortune. Only Koga had smelled the blood, but couldn't make out what on earth was going on. Some patients had seen a body being taken out of the ward. Everyone was a bit quiet. But why was Inuyasha in the isolation room? Why was he screaming non-stop? Something was wrong.
Inuyasha was laying still. As he was heavily sedated, he wasn't yanking anymore. He was listening some people around his bed. He was so dazed he couldn't even tell who they were.
"I don't think this can carry on any longer."
"I agree. It is not safe to keep him here anymore."
"You must give him a chance!"
"He has had his chances. We must think about all the other patients and nurses."
"But he needs me! We have grown together! What if he can't manage any more losses?"
"This is not anything we want to do."
"It is the only way."
"W-will you put him in jail?!"
"Oh no, just somewhere even more strict place than here."
"Does something like that excist?"
"Yes, there is a one facility for the criminally insane in the north."
"What on earth can we tell his father?"
"The truth."
And so Mitsuhiro went to the office and grabbed the phone. He held it in his hand and sighed. He felt so nervous that his hand was shaking a bit. He called Inuyasha's father.
"Hello", said the low voice from the phone.
"Well, hello..." Mitsuhiro answered. "We have, uh, some very bad news."
Mitsuhiro told the youkai man everything that had happened. (That is, how the nurses thought happened) How Inuyasha had ripped apart one nurse and killed her, how he has now been limb restrained for three days, in tubes and sedated... Inutaisho couldn't say a thing. Mitsuhiro had stopped talking, but the man still kept quiet.
"Are you serious?" he asked a high pitched voice.
"Yes..."
"W-w-wh... What will happen?" the man stammered. "Is he put in jail? Death row?"
"Oh, no no no, he is still simply insane, he will maybe be put in an another facility... as our doctors think we can't offer him as structured treatment that he needs."
"But what about you? Inuyasha loves you!" Inutaisho shouted.
"I know... But they don't listen to my words."
"Could you please bring him the phone?"
"Of course."
Mitsuhiro walked to the isolation room one with the phone in his hand. Kaede was sitting beside the boy, but walked away as Mitsuhiro came in.
"It's your daddy", Mitsuhiro said quietly and placed the phone against the boy's dog ear.
"Dear son..."
Inuyasha started whimpering, but not only that – Mitsuhiro saw one tear drip down his cheek.
"I know you had to be really... Really... Upset when this happened. I... I don't blame you. Nobody in there does, I..."
"...Didn't do it", Inuyasha suddenly whispered. Both men, Mitsuhiro and Inutaisho, heard this and went all quiet.
"What did you say?" Mitsuhiro asked. Inuyasha didn't answer.
"What did you say, son?" Inutaisho demanded.
"Didn't do it..."
Could it be? What if this was a mistake? What if it was Jakotsu? That could be possible.
"Kaede, come here for a moment", Mitsuhiro told the old lady sitting on a chair next to the isolation room's door. "I'll still have a few words with his father."
Kaede sat down next to Inuyasha and sighed when she saw the few tears.
"Mind of I...?" she asked and slowly reached towards his cheek, wiping the tears away. "Ye know, son, I think there's really something wrong here."
"What if Inuyasha didn't do it?" asked Inutaisho.
"It is possible... We really must start inspecting this."
"But how?"
"Hmm... I have an idea!"
"Koga!" Mitsuhiro shouted. The wolf boy was sitting at the round table of the living room. Doing nothing. He turned his eyes towards the man and raised his eyebrow.
"Wha?"
"Now we are in real trouble. Do as we say so you can help us save your friend."
"Fine. What do you want me to do?"
"Sniff around the ward. You must smell the blood of the dead nurse."
"Okay."
And so Mitsuhiro followed Koga, who was walking around the ward, sniffing the air. Then suddenly he stopped.
"What?" Mitsuhiro asked.
"I think..." Koga mumbled and walked to the women's showering room – and to the laundry basket in there. He took it and emptied it... And he found a bloody shirt and pants.
"These have been worn by Kagura."
"Oh my god..." Mitsuhiro held his hand before his mouth. "Don't get me wrong but I am glad we have you in the ward!"
Mitsuhiro ran through the ward all the way to the office.
"Everyone! Call all the nurses in here right now!" he shouted out. Nurses ran to them and sat on chairs. "Listen. We all knew something was wrong with this
murder accident. It wasn't Inuyasha!"
Everyone mumbled with each other.
"Well, who then? And how do you know?"
"Koga smelled bloody clothes in the women's bathroom that belonged to Kagura."
"... Could it be?"
"Maybe Inuyasha was there trying to save her!"
"Let's go talk to Kagura. Let's see what she'll say about this."
One male nurse went to Kagura in her room. As the man walked in from the door, Kagura turned her eyes towards her. From his eyes, she could tell she was screwed
"Tell me, Kagura, do you know something about the murder that happened here three days ago?"
First Kagura stayed quiet, but finally sighed and leaned her forehead against her hand.
"Heh, actually... I did it."
The nurse's eyes widened in horror. He took a few steps back.
"You're serious?"
"Oh yes."
"That's it. You're coming to the isolation room with me right now!"
As Kagura was actually always very calm, she followed the nurse all the way to the isolation room two without any objecting. The nurse pushed her in and slammed the door shut. Then he jogged to the office.
"Everyone! Come here everyone!"
First, one nurse called the doctor, and others listened to the nurse's story. It was Kagura who had killed the nurse, Inuyasha had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe even trying to save her.
"And Inuyasha has been strapped, force fed and sedated for three days, being innocent?" Mitsuhiro sighed. "This is horrible. What if his father sues us for malpractice?"
"The doctor will be here soon to see Kagura. Let's ask her to check on Inuyasha, too."
The doctor came and walked to the isolation wing, going the room two first. Kagura was sitting on the limb reastraining bed and turned towards the doctor and two nurses coming in.
"So, Kagura, I've got some bad news for you", the doctor said. "You are charged for murder. But I can tell you almost one hundred percent that you won't go to prison, but you maybe won't remain here."
Next the doctor and Mitsuhiro went in the room where Inuyasha was, strapped on the bed.
"Well, hello, Inuyasha", the doctor greeted. "We have something to tell you that you should be glad of – we found out you are not quilty of this. If you start eating normally, we'll let you off the straps. We are really sorry that you had to go through this because of a mistake."
"Okay now", Mitsuhiro sighed as he sat down and the doctor left. "I always knew it wasn't you. I'm so glad this problem was solved before anything irreversible happened. The dining time will be soon. I will get you some. And of course, you will eat, will you?"
The food came, and Inuyasha ate it with great appetite. Now it was just a matter of time when the doctor would come and – hopefully – let Inuyasha off the straps. And then se did:
"As I said: We are very sorry that you had to go through this", she said as the nurses were unbuckling the straps. But everyone agreed Inuyasha would spend this night in this room or the bed, of course not strapped in any way. Mitsuhiro brougth him a better pillow and blanket.
"I will be here in the morning. Get ready for a shower!"
Being sedated, Inuyasha slept all night without waking up once. But finally heard knock, more like a bang, on the door. He turned towards the door.
"Good morning!" the man, Mitsuhiro said as he came in. "As I told you last evening, now it's time for a shower!"
Inuyasha couldn't walk, but with a wheelchair they got to the showering room. Mitsuhiro took Inuyasha's clothes off and sat the boy on a shower chair. As there was dried blood everywhere, Mitsuhiro got ready for a long wash.
And it was long alright. Mitsuhiro rubbed the blood off, using as much as soap as possible. Then his hair, which was the worst. It took incredibly almost 1,5 hours until the shower was finished. The man started drying Inuyasha.
"You have heard this before but we are all so sorry about how you had to go through this hell."
Inuyasha stared at him.
"I think I can make it up to you."
Inuyasha's hair was still wet, but as Mitsuhiro had to leave the ward for a while, Kaede agreed to dry the boy's hair with the hairdryer.
"Mitsuhiro did wash ye well", Kaede smiled. "No stain of blood anywhere!"
Inuyasha did enjoy the drying, but suddenly he could smell something even nicer. He could smell Mitsuhiro come in from the door, walking towards the shower room, knocking and coming in, with his hands behind his back.
"Guess which hand?" he grinned. Inuyasha didn't react. Mitsuhiro rolled his eyes, knelt down on the boy's level and gave him a bottle on Mountain Dew. Inuyasha took it and opened it, starting to drink it. Both nurses smiled. It was so nice to see him enjoy something
