Title: Insane or not Insane?
Theme: 012: Insainity
World: Crime AU
Word count: 4281
Status: Complete
Date started:2011
Date Finished: 2011
Extra: This is so old
snow. Itachi took note of this, as he watched the snow white girl rock back in forth on the brown rocking chair. The only color the room seemed to show was her ebony black hair that seemed to fall over face like a soft pouring waterfall.
"Who is she?" Itachi asked, looking at the young doctor. The doctor was Itachi's age young, handsome and prideful. He always made sure all the moves he made were worthy for the movies, brushing his hair back, in way that would be attractive but made him look more ridicules.
"We honestly have no idea?" the doctor said pushing his hair back in that ridicules fashion, "She says she is Princep Nix Alba" he crossed his arms, "But as a tease she changes her name, to Nive Candidum,"
Itachi looked at the girl, "Princep means princess in Latin?" Itachi questioned not too sure himself. He tilted his head, as the girl made some movement to look out the window, before she looked back to her fingers and began moving them in a delicate fashion. A hand sign perhaps?
"Princep does in fact mean princess," Came a bored voice of another doctor. He stood few inches taller than Itachi; almost six feet. Itachi glanced at the handsome man standing next to him, his golden-green eyes, were studying the girls every move, in hopes that she might unravel the mystery behind her. His lips curled on the cigarette butt, as he took one last puff from it and flicked it in to the ash tray. While his raven black mane rested lightly on his shoulder and was in bad need of a trimming but he still looked handsome.
"Hn," Itachi answered looking back at the girl, as she continued rocking on the rocking chair, "So her name is…"
"She calls herself Snow White, in Latin," the man said.
"Hn," Itachi's eyes narrowed at the girl's small figure. Was she playing with them? Or was she mentally insane?
Itachi's knuckle lightly knocked on the window. The girl stopped rocking and tilted her head in Itachi's direction. Though Itachi couldn't see her eyes threw the thick locks of her ebony hair, he could feel her staring, "Bullet proof glass," Itachi stated glancing at the guard watching the door.
"Well she is a criminal after all," the movie star doctor said, brushing back is his black hair, "After all she was found poisoning a man. The judge found her guilty by insanity; she kept repeating the same words 'the queen told me so,' 'I had to,' 'I am snow white my means of killing is poison,'"
Itachi glanced at the man, "Get me a red apple, Kozo," Kozo was only repeating what Itachi just read. The girl was still staring at them from inside, she had stopped rocking a while ago her hair still acting like a curtain in front of her face.
Itachi began to wonder if she could truly see them.
Kozo came back holding an apple and a knife. Itachi took them, Snow White stories always were related to the forbidden fruit; the apple.
'Let's see how well she can keep up with her little game,' Itachi thought throwing the apple in the air and catching it.
"Paging Dr. Hunnutsuka, Paging Dr. Hunnutsuka," came a soft female's voice from the intercom.
"I wish you luck," The golden green eye doctor began walking away, might as well see what they want.
Itachi flashed his badge to the guard before entering the room. The girl sat up straight as soon as Itachi entered. Itachi placed the apple on the window still and sat across from the girl.
Itachi watched her. He wasn't surprised when he noticed that she was pretty. Some of the officers on the scene of the crime wrote that she was pretty, while others wrote she was good looking. And with the entire buzz about her saying she is Snow White she had to be the fairest.
'White as snow, red as blood, and black as ebony,' the words bounced around in Itachi's head.
The girl fit the description; perfectly her skin was snow white and fair it hardly a blemish in sight. Her right cheek was bruised from a quarrel with a cop and her hands held marks from her fingernail from balling her hands into fist for far too long.
Her lips were blood red and plump. The type of plumpness women went to get surgery, to achieve the kissable lips. She had it naturally, but it was set in a deep frown, the one that looked like it would take forever to put it in a smile. She had high cheek bones, but none of the rosy cheeks some fairytales seem to tell Snow White having. Still the red lips seem to have given the girl some color from her bland black and white look.
Her hair was ebony black, and it seemed to be going in every which way for the lack of a brush, the doctors found it unnecessary for her to have a brush. Doctor Hunnutsuka explained the things such a brush and other small supplies weren't kept in the room with her for the insane always found ways to use daily objects as a weapons. Still her hair managed to keep the soft look to it, and attempted to frame her face but again with the lack of the brush it failed, making her face look a bit wider.
Her eyes were ash black; something the fairytale failed to mention was Snow White's eye color. Itachi always imagined Snow White to have these ocean blue eyes to enhance the make believe snow princesses' beauty. But this girl had dull ash black eyes pushing away Itachi's idea on any blue eyed princesses. They were sharp, with long thick eye lashes, giving her eyes a very curious look to them. But for now her eyes seemed to be staring at the apple. Her eyes would flutter to his face to then back to the apple.
"Would you like a piece?" Itachi asked, holding the apple up.
Her eyes fluttered to his face, and for a brief second she made some eye contact, before looking out the window again.
"I don't take things from strangers," the girl said, her hands began playing with a small lock of hair braiding it and unbraiding it. She had a light accent in her voice that helped her voice sound more soft.
Itachi cut the apple anyway into four pieces, and placed on an empty plate near the window still. She was eating he noted, his eyes scanned the room for anyplace to the girl would hind the food, he found none except for an empty bathroom. He glanced at the girl as she was still staring at the apple hungrily. Or not?
Itachi took note of this, the girls eyes moved to watch his hand as he scribbled something about her and frowned they sent in another doctor the watch her.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"Uchiha Itachi,"
The girl nodded and looked back at the apple as the man took a piece and ate the ripe fruit. They didn't say anything for a long time. Time slowly crept by and the girl began rocking back and forth on her rocking chair.
An hour passed and three uneaten pieces of the apple still lay on the plate. The white core was turning a light shade of brown. Itachi got up but left the apple there. As he walked towards the door, he could feel the girl's eyes burning on his back, realization clicked in, he turned towards "Snow White".
"They say you call yourself Princep Nix Alba, in Japanese that means Shirayuki-hime,"
"That is correct," the girl said, "Scared?" A twisted inhuman smile came across the girl's blood red lips.
Itachi didn't say anything, just continued where he was going with the subject, "Shirayuki-hime is too much of a mouth full. May I call you Yuki?"
There was a long silence filling the room's air, as the girls smile turned in to a look of surprise. She tilted her a little bit, before once again staring out the window.
"It is alight" she answered.
"See you tomorrow, Yuki," Itachi told her exiting the room.
"Yuki" turned towards the door the man had just exited from and blushed. She always liked the name Yuki. A man had called her that long ago, when she was eight, his golden–green eyes always looking kindly at her. Whatever happened to the golden-green eyed angel that promised her to fly?
"Have you made in progress with girl yet," Dr. Hunnutsuka asked, his hands shoved deep into his pocket, "Or should I call her Yuki,"
"Hn," Itachi answered opening the door and walking back inside the room.
A week had passed and still no progress, the girl was answering to her name "Yuki" but that was about it. She turned her head as soon as the door open she had been walking around in circles glancing around the clock every few seconds.
"Sorry, I am late," Itachi told her, she moved once again to sit on her rocking chair. Itachi took his usual seat across from her and cut the apple into four pieces and put it back on the plate, "Your eating," Itachi said noticing a half eaten plate.
"You told me if I don't eat I won't go outside," she looked outside longingly her eyes roaming to the sky, "I would love to go outside," She once again began braiding and unbraiding her tangled up hair.
Itachi didn't say anything, he did promise her that but still the question remained was she insane or wasn't she? Was she playing games with people or did she know what she was doing? Did she truly believe she was snow white or was it still a game?
Itachi put a comb on the window sill the girl watched it then looked at him her eyes smirking. She caught him in this game, but still her trust with Itachi wasn't full. Itachi's eyes narrowed he wasn't going to allow her to win.
"I brought you a comb for your hair," Itachi told her. The doctors wouldn't like the fact that he brought a brush but he felt that it was one way to gain her trust. Trust that could give him information. Information to decide if the girl was guilty or not. Guilt to see if the girl was insane.
Her eyes roamed from the comb to the apple, a few times over, before she smirked and leaned back on her chair. She had her eyes closed and began speaking in very rapid Latin. When she opened her eyes again she was staring at Itachi.
"Where's my mirror?" She asked her pupils slightly delighted.
Itachi didn't say anything, and the girl once again looked at the comb. Itachi noticed the burse on her right cheek was nearly gone. The reason the cop hit her was because she attacked him when he grabbed a little round pocket mirror with strange markings, from the crime scene.
After a while the girl grabbed the comb and hesitantly began brushing the locks of her hair, before her brush movements became more confident. She was in a happy bliss, brushing her hair.
"Yuki," Itachi finally said.
Yuki looked at him, "Only you are allowed to call me Yuki," she told him putting down her comb.
Itachi heard that she fought with doctor Kozo, when he called her Yuki. She nearly made the doctor cry and run out the door. Also trying to make a get away with the broken hearted doctor but the Dr. Hunnutsuka caught her and placed her back in to her room.
Dr. Hunnutsuka accidently called her Yuki instead of her throwing tantrum she smiled and allowed it and slept on the bed, calling him Akito. Akito was Dr. Hunnutsuka's deceased cousin that went insane near the end of his life. Was it ironic the girl mentioned Dr. Hunnutsuka's cousin or was she once again toying with them?
"I'll remember that," Itachi told her, "Now I have a question for you,"
She looked at him, "I know you didn't poison the comb," she held the brush to light and looked at it, "If you kill me then you get no answers," she gave out a light laugh, "You are only sitting with me to get answers,"
Itachi only raised an eyebrow a millimeter. This girl was comical; she still wasn't the touching the apples Itachi gave her seeing they weren't poisoned. Or was that Itachi's imagination, could he be going insane just sitting with the girl? The girl continued brushing her hair, humming a soft tune and staring at the apple.
"Why did you kill the man?" Itachi asked. Itachi decided the reason she still didn't eat the apple, was not because he was going insane with girl. The reason Yuki had yet to touch the apple when Itachi was around was because she didn't trust him yet.
"I already told the officer and the court that he was nothing more but a mere servant, one of the red queen's pawn," her eyes moved to Itachi, she was staring at him mockingly.
Pawn? Like a game of chess. The girl made a lot of reference to the Alice in Wonderland story book, even fairytales.
"He was planning on, over throwing your queen," Itachi said remembering the reports he had read on her.
The girl mumbled something in Latin, before smiling at Itachi, "I only server the queen,"
"Hn," more silence.
Itachi finally got up as the time session with her ended.
"You're not coming tomorrow are you?" The girl asked looking at Itachi as he reached the door, "Tomorrow is Sunday, none of the therapist come on Sunday, they rather sit with their family," there was a slight sadness in her voice as she said the word family.
Itachi thought of his own family, his mother had been nagging at him to take a day off and come and visit the family. His father had been on his case telling him that he was an Uchiha and as the Uchiha's prodigy, he belongs in the front of the line when it came to crime scenes, not in the back studying the mentally insane. He had his jealous brother, which use to admire him but now stood to the side and glared at him. And who could forget his tons of admiring family member that saw him as a piece of meat that was meant to be worshipped instead of human. He could hold up on the family visit, he glanced at the girl; she was more interesting at the moment.
"No, I'll see you tomorrow Yuki," Itachi told her, "Maybe we can go outside just like I promised,"
The girl jumped from her seat and ran up to Itachi her face lighting up, "I'll be allowed outside,"
"If I get permission," Itachi told her petting her head.
"She repeated the words Mirror, Mirror earlier," Dr. Hunnutsuka said, as Itachi shut the door, "She also said her queen is the Queen of Hearts,"
Was this girl really Insane or was she playing with their heads?
Itachi watched as the sun sat in the middle of the sky the next day. Yuki sat next to him petting a white rabbit, which should have been a cute moment but she managed to make it look sadistic. Her lips in a slight sadistic smile, her fingers caressing the rabbit, looked a bit off and she was mumbling to the rabbit asking it questions in Latin.
It took a long time to convince Lady Tsunada to let the girl out. In the end Lady Tsunada came to visit the girl herself to see if the girl was trust worthy enough or not to let out of her room. Tsunada allowed it, telling Itachi if she were to run away he would be in trouble, even being as cruel as to making a joke that he would lose his head. The girl only laughed at this, chanting words in Latin.
"Yuki," Yuki let the rabbit go and looked at Itachi, "What was that the white rabbit, sending a message?"
The girl only smiled not saying anything, as she watched a bird fly by, "I wish I could fly like the a free bird,"
Itachi was half tempted to make a joke, on the typical Disney princess and their love for animals but she wasn't a Disney princess, she was a girl pretending to be a fairytale princess stuck in an insane asylum.
The girl soon fell asleep resting her head on Itachi's shoulder. Itachi glanced at her; he was getting attached to her, that wasn't good. Today she took the apple Itachi handed her and took a bite from the bottom. When asked why she bit from the bottom, the girl said there was less poisons on the bottom then the top.
Then came the serious, part her childhood. When doctors before Itachi tried opening up about her childhood, the girl would scream and shout, crying that she hated her father and where they stood now. Though they both severed the queen loyalty her father was on a higher plate then Snow White. Her father; the black Joker. Itachi got no different reaction than any other doctor and decided to take her out.
Her reaction only raised more questions, with Itachi. Was she insane because of her father? Because of her childhood? This whole queen business and Wonderland talk was a mean to protect herself? Or was it all real? Was in fact this group of people that worshiped a queen so greatly that they were willing to kill people who didn't agree?
Characters: Itachi x Yuki, Yamato x Shadow