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Chapter XV

-Rutledge Asylum, Lobotomy Room-

Shadow's P.O.V

I'm not sure to what to call this now...

I'm not sure whether to call this hell or something worse than that...

But I guess I deserve this after I broke my promise to her...

I let her die... So I really do deserve this.

I still couldn't believe it, I let her die. I hate myself for letting that happen. I told her that we would both be together after I had escaped, but looking at it now, that was nothing but a lie. Minatsuki is right about what she said about me...

I am weak...

I slowly opened my eyes, only to find myself within a different room, and yet I was in the same heavy atmosphere. My vision was all blurred up thanks to the drug overdose. I know, a lot of people die from drug overdose, but to be honest I'm surprised to be alive after good knows how much drugs were coursing through my veins. I knew I wasn't alone in the room; I had sensed someone with me, just circling me like a hawk stalking its prey. By this presence I knew exactly who it was.

The snake witch known as Medusa...

"Good, your not dead yet." She said to me, "I have to say you're much stronger than I thought you were, some of my subjects don't survive a drug overdose either that or they would spit there last lunch." I just shot a glare to the witch who was now in front of me. I felt her hand under my chin, she took my chin and forced me to look at her despite the fact I was blind.

M: "I'm also surprised at the fact, most of my subjects and or victims start begging me to kill them. But not you... You don't break so easily, but as they say there is more than one way to skin a cat..."

I started to shake when I felt something sharp near my neck, and she slowly trailed it down to my chest; from what I could tell it was some kind of knife although I was unsure of the type. I tried not to whimper in pain, when felt the tip of the blade slowly making a cut across my chest through my shirt.

M: "Don't worry, I don't plan on killing you... However I do plan on making you suffer, and not just from drugs."

I felt the weapon on my face and tip on my cheek; she dragged it across my face, almost to my nose. When she took the knife away from my face I felt blood trail down from my face.

M: "I can make you sufferer over and over again, until you go crazy. But I know you don't want that to happen to yourself, cause you know you won't last much longer. So tell me what I want to know, and I'll see to it that your suffering will come to an end."

I felt her face close to mine as she made her offer. I start to move my mouth and she said, "A little louder please." I than spit some blood on her face. It was probably the stupidest thing I ever did.

I know what your asking, why was it stupid?

Because the moment that happened I felt the blade right on my leg, and she started to push the blade into my leg, slowly and painfully. God it hurt like hell; the only thing I could do was just scream at the top of my lungs. I felt her let go of the blade so it could just stay there in my leg. "Now that was rude..." I heard her say with a bit of anger, "I'll be honest with you, at least your friend had some respect."

I froze when she had said that. I just put my head down and just tried my best to hold back tears. I felt her hand now on my head; from her grip she was grasping my head, and again I was forced to look at her despite my blindness. "Really?" I heard her say, "Your going to cry over it now? And here I thought you were a grown man at least try to act like your one..."

All of a sudden I heard the door opening; obviously I couldn't tell who it was, all I can tell is by the sound of his voice, it was a person named Nazo. "What is it?" she asked with a hint of anger, "Can't you see I'm busy?"

N: "It's as you suspected Medusa, the humans have infiltrated the asylum, however they are accompanied by Andrew Detmer."

M: "The half?"

N: "Indeed."

M: "Hmph. I never did think Detmer. No matter, he will be taken care of."

N: "What do you want us to do?"

M: "Set the plan in motion, and make sure they don't find out our little project. As for Shadow, make sure they find him."

N: "Understood Medusa."

I heard her walking towards the door, she was about to leave when I heard her say, "As much as I would wish to kill you after your manners from earlier, I know very well that you cannot die just yet, besides I have to make you ripe." I picked my head again looked in her direction.

"Ri... Ripe?"

Suddenly I felt something sharp enter my neck. I cried out once more in agony this time as I began to lose conscious again.

-Main Room, Rutledge Asylum-

Sherlock looked around the main room as the group followed him from behind. Envy let out a whistle as he took a look around. "This place is bigger than I thought."
He said looking around, "Yeah, this place is huge." Yumi said.

J.G: "We don't have time to sight see right now we need to focus on finding that kid."

Y.I: "Right Gibbs my fault."

T.D: "This place is pretty huge."

Z.D: "Were you expecting something better Tony?"

E: "What should we do?"

J.G: "We'll need to split up."

S.H: "Good plan, let's go."

J.G: "Let me finish!"

S.H: "I'm sorry, I don't talk orders from you."

K.S: "Guys there is a life at stake! Can't you two get along?"

S.H: "No I-"

K.S: "Good, Gibbs please continues."

Gibbs nodded his head and with that he continued. He had thoroughly explained that they would look in different parts of the asylum. It was not a single moment later that Sherlock found himself paired with Andrew Detmer, Yumi, Envy and Gibbs.

They had walked through the halls of the asylum, looking through holding cell to holding cell. Each one had an awful smell; each one had an awful sight. Some had dead bodies within some fresh some were old, which made the stench even more horrible.

"Oh God." Andrew said looking through the cells, "What has this bitch been doing to people?" Yumi simply replied, "This is what Medusa does to those that get in her way. She makes them go through something that is supposedly worse than hell."

Envy said, "She tortures them until they start begging for death." Andrew felt like wanting to vomit after hearing that. Envy ran ahead looking through the rooms, seeing if they could find who they are looking for.

G: "Did you find him yet?!"

E: "No! He's not in this one either!"

Y.I: "Gah! At this rate it'll take hours before we can find him!"

E: "Yeah, hopefully the others have better luck at finding him."

A.D: "Well, he has to be here! I saw them take him in here he has to be!"

G: "Calm down Andrew, if his here we'll find him."

A.D: "You better be right about that."

Hours had already passed and there was still no sign of Shadow or Medusa for that matter. The only they did find were more and more dead bodies within each cell or room, some strapped to chairs or beds, and some that were so gruesome, that they couldn't even look at. Sherlock began to wonder about Andrew Detmer. He knew there was some kind of connection between him and Shadow. Of course he had to know his little backstory. He walked up to Andrew so that he was next to him and he asked, "Do you have a minute?"

A.D: "Uh, can't this wait?"

S.H: "No."

A.D: "But we're in the middle of-"

S.H: "You've Shadow for, how long exactly?"

A.D: "Can't we discuss this later?"

S.H: "No, let's discuss this right now."

A.D: "No!"

S.H: "Andrew I ne-

A.D: "NO! MEANS NO!"

S.H: "Let me finish. What I was going to say is any information that you might have could be useful, and I need to learn more about who he is. Now tell me, how long have you known him?"

Andrew was silent for only a few seconds but than he finally said, "Since we were kids." Sherlock than asked, "Your from America right? Did he ever say how he got there?" Andrew nodded and he said, "He said he and Sakura, that little girl he's got with him snuck on a plane and flew to Minnesota where I lived."

S.H: "Did he ever say why?"

A.D: "He said he was trying to get away from someone."

S.H: "Medusa?"

A.D: "Well there was her and someone else that didn't like him or the family he stayed with."

S.H: "How did you meet him?"

A.D: "I saw him in the park on the swing sets with her. She was singing while he pushed her on the swing, "The Crooked Man" I think. He wore a hood when I first met him as a kid, of course he wore it to hide his appearance. I kept it a secret from my family that my friend wasn't human."

S.H: "Did he say anything else to you, when you were kids or when the two of you were in Baskerville?"

A.D: "How did you know about-"

S.H: "Your talent as a friend of mine would call it as well as your appearance gave it away."

A.D: "Okay."

S.H: "You didn't answer my question, did he say anything else to you?"

Andrew thought about it for minute but than he said to the detective, "He didn't talk about his past much. Whenever I asked where he was really from, he just give me the silent treatment, or he would try his best to change the subject." Sherlock gave a quizzical expression to Andrew.

The teenager said that, "That's it. But there was something else too, before we were both taken to Baskerville." Sherlock was by now even more curious. "What did he say?" he asked. Andrew took a deep breath. "He said that he-"

"GUYS GET OVER HERE! WE FOUND SOMETHING!" They heard Envy yelled. Immediately Andrew and Sherlock ran over to the rest of the group. Sherlock asked immediately, "What is it?" Gibbs answered, "We found a trail of blood." Yumi said, "Looks they've been moving him from one room to another."

"Why would she do that?" Gibbs asked, "Each room is a different torture area, one is worse than the other." Envy said, "I think is to make people go crazy." Sherlock looked closely at the trail of blood. "He's been moved recently." He said out of the blue, "Come on!" With that Sherlock ran. "HEY! WAIT!" Gibbs shouted as he ran after him. The others soon followed.

Soon Sherlock stopped at a door that had said, "Lobotomy" which apparently was the same area where the blood trail stopped. The others soon caught up and they each caught their breath. "Give us a little warning will you?" Yumi said while catching her breath. Sherlock checked the blood on the floor.

"He's in here." He announced, "How do you know that?" Andrew asked. Sherlock took off his glove and wiped the blood on his index. He showed it to Andrew and said, "The blood is still fresh."

Sherlock was about to go inside the room until Gibbs stopped him. The agent took out his pistol, and opened the door slowly. He looked around the room while holding his pistol, than after a while he said, "Clear." With that they entered the room. They heard ragged breathing right in front of them; Sherlock turned on the light and there was a humanized hedgehog. He had red and black, and he wore a yellow shirt, with blue jeans, and he wore a gray scruff with a ying-yang symbol in the middle of. Over his shirt he wore a jacket that was of silver that the same ying-yang design just like his scarf.

"Shadow!" Andrew exclaimed as he rushed over to him, "Shadow! Shadow, wake up!" They heard give out a moan as he slowly came too. Shadow only opened his eyes halfway and they immediately saw his eyes were pale red, and they saw multiple injures and blood stains on his shirt. He turned to Andrew's direction said in a raspy voice, "An...Drew...?"

A.D: "What has she done to you?"

Y.I: "Good lord, what's wrong with his eyes?"

G: "Shadow, how many fingers do you see?"

Gibbs had held up only three fingers but Shadow had answered before coughing up blood: "Six...?" "It's official, he's gone blind." Envy said. Sherlock had seen many vials that had laid on a nearby table. He looked at the one vial that was filled. He picked it up, opened the vial and he took a whiff. "Cialis." Was the entire Detective said.

Y.I: "What?"

S.H: "They've been giving him Cialis."

E: "What's Cialis?"

G: "It's a type of drug, that can make a man go blind if they take enough of it."

A.D: "So what? Are you saying that he can't see anymore?"

S.H: "No, the effect of the drug is temporary. Judging from his condition, they've placing many drugs in his veins, that's why his weak right now.

A.D: "How long is the effect?"

S.H: "It should last for a few hours, after that his vision should be back to normal."

A.D: "Why would they give him Cialis?"

E: "It's probably Medusa, she must've give him that stuff, so he wouldn't see what she looked like."

S.H: "Probably."

Y.I: "Okay, enough with the conversation, let's get him out of here!"

S.H: "Right."

Sherlock immediately went ahead, and undid the bindings that trapped Shadow's wrists and legs; he put Shadow's arm around his shoulder and helped him off the chair; Andrew supported his friend on the other side. "Don't worry you two, we'll cover you!" Envy said. Gibbs was the first to exit out of the room; he held out his gun as he went out. "Clear!" He whispered.

With that they got Shadow out of the room. Gibbs activated his com-link and connected the others.

"We found him, meet us at the front entrance."

-Later at the Rendezvous-

The rest of the group met up with Gibbs group, and they were all shocked to see the condition Shadow was in. "Holy shi-!" John exclaimed, "Is he okay?!" "He's alive, but barely!" Yumi replied, "We have to get him out of here!"

G: "Ziva! DiNozzo! Guard Sherlock, and Andrew! The rest of you take formation!"

All: "YES SIR!"

They got all outside of the asylum and kept formation however they were greeted by the snake witch Medusa, and a similar humanoid hedgehog, named Nazo. They all stopped in their tracks when they had seen them. "Ah! So nice of you all to drop by!" Medusa exclaimed as they saw her face form a smile.

K.S: "Medusa..."

M: "Of course! Who the hell else is it going to be?"

E: "And I see you brought your little dog with you too."

N: "What was that you little insect?"

M: "Calm yourself Nazo."

Medusa eyed herself towards the detective and doctor. She simply said, "Ah, you must be Sherlock Holmes, and John Watson. It's an honor to finally meet you." Sherlock took a good look at Medusa, however he couldn't make anything out.

"Try all you like, you won't be able to find anything, well useful anyway." "Oh, you thought of everything, haven't you?" Sherlock said actually acknowledging her, "Why, thank you." The witch said.

S.H: "I heard that you were cruel to your victims, but I didn't think you would torture your victims with drugs, especially to him."

M: "Well, he wouldn't cooperate with us, so we had to do things the hard way."

K.S: "By killing him?!"

M: "Oh no god no, he is a valuable specimen so I can't just let him die."

A.D: "Then why were you torturing him you bitch!?"

M: "He had something valuable, I tried to get him to talk, but as I said before he wouldn't cooperate, so we had to do the alternative."

S.H: "Let me guess, the valuable thing he had, it's the passcode to his phone, is it not?"

Medusa let out a chuckle and said to him, "You read me like a book, dear Sherly." She turned her back towards them and started to walk away. "Where do you think your going?" Gibbs said holding up his gun towards her. She slightly turned her head towards them. "I would love to play with all of you. I do have a tight schedule." She said as she walked away. She turned to Nazo.

"Take them." She said to him as she suddenly vanished into thin air. Nazo got into his fighting stance, as did Yumi, Envy, and Korra. Andrew released Shadow's arm and joined the others. "You guys get him out of here, we'll hold him off as long as we can." Yumi said to them. Gibbs nodded his head. "Let's go he said to the group." John went to Shadow's side and supported him along with Sherlock.

With that they heard booming sounds in the distance that could only be from the small group of kids. "Will they be alright?" John asked over the sounds, "Well they survived a lot worse than that." Suddenly shots were fired near Sherlock and John's feet. Suddenly a hooded man appeared in front of him and pulled a gun in front of them.

J.W: "JESUS!"

Gibbs and his team turned around. "PUT THE GUN DOWN!" All of a sudden four more men in hoods appeared in front of them and started to fight with Gibbs team; distracting them from their leader. The hooded man held the gun to them and said, "Hand him over old man!" The hooded man yelled.

S.H: "Why would we do that?"

H.M: "Cause I'll kill you if you don't!"

Sherlock took a look at the man and he could tell who he was from, the designs on his hood, which had a skull with two pistols shaped like a cross behind the skull, which had said the name, "Grim Reaper".

S.H: "You're the leader of a bounty hunter gang. That's rare, I never have encountered a bounty hunter gangs have you John?"

J.W: "Really Sherlock? Now is not the time."

H.M: "That's right, I am a hunter. They put a bounty on his head and for the little girl. My comrade and I would've succeeded."

S.H: "Oh, so the teenager that died was a member than?"

H.M: "Yeah. That little bitch killed him you know?"

J.W: "Hang on, she didn't kill him. She's just a kid why the hell would you think that!?"

H.M: "She's a goddamn freak, what the hell do you expect? Freaks kill! That's all they do is just kill for the hell of it. It doesn't matter if it's a bloody kid or not, they're all the same. Now if you'll excuse me, I like to take my bounty."

As the man made a grab for him, Sherlock yelled, "JOHN!" And John immediately grabbed his arm and pinned him, but the hooded man countered and grabbed Sherlock. Losing his grip on Shadow he fell to the ground hard and Shadow fell to the ground on his hands and knees.

The man held his gun towards the hedgehog. "You've caused a lot of trouble for me and my boys mate." He said, "Now you're gonna pay. It's good for me anyway, since you're more valuable to me dead than alive."

As Sherlock and John went to stop him from shooting they were surprised to see the hedgehog grab the man's arm and flip him over so that he landed on his back. Shadow tried his best to stand on his own, but was a bit wobbly.

He turned to the other men and held up his hand towards them. With a flick of his wrist a yellow substance appeared at the tip of his fingers, and in a single moment, the four hooded men fell to the ground in a single shock.

He fell to the ground again, but this time he had felt nauseated and just spit everything back up onto the floor. He wiped the gunk from his mouth and turned to Sherlock.

"You… Okay…?" He said with a raspy voice. Sherlock said as he reached towards him, "We're alright, how about you-" Before he could even finish, Shadow batted his hand away from the detective, but he fell against a nearby wall and felt nauseated again. He held it in and said to the detective with the first words that came to his mouth, "Appreciate… Help… I'm… Fine…"

John said to the hedgehog, "You're not fine, you've been drugged." The hedgehog to turned to the doctors direction and replied, "Sur...vived… Worse…" John tried to help him up but he had batted his hand away from him adding to his dizziness.

J.W: "Can't you see that we're trying to help you?"

S: "How… Can… Trust you…?"

J.G: "You don't, but know that we ARE trying to help you."

S: "Wh… Why…?"

S.H: "Because a certain little girl would heartbroken, if she heard we bought back another dead family member."

Shadow lifted his head up in the detective's direction, giving him an "Are you serious look?" as he said, Wha…?" Suddenly Sherlock saw the leader get up holding a crowbar; he lifted high in the air with rage in his eyes. Knowing that it would kill Shadow with one blow in the condition he was in, he immediately went and shielded him from the impact of the crowbar.

"SHERLOCK!" Everyone shouted.

Everything had gone dark for the detective after the impact.

-An hour later-

"Sherlock? Sherlock?"

The detective slowly came to; He found himself back in his flat on the couch. He soon realized that there was a bandaged wrapped around his head, and that his coat and scarf was removed. He was stared down by Sakura as well as the two dogs. Sakura sighed in relief when she saw him waking up. "Thank goodness you're okay." She said almost in tears. Sherlock sat up right on the couch and immediately asked, "How did I get here?"

Sakura answered, "John brought you here after all of got back from Rutledge."

S.H: "Where's John and the others?"

S.K: "They're with Gibbs, John went with them after he treated you."

S.H: "And Shadow?"

S.K: "His with Gibbs."

Sakura sat there in silence for about a moment, then she spoke up and said, "John told me what you did for him." Sherlock turned to Sakura as he tried to get the dogs off of himself. "And?" he replied. She took a deep breath and said while gently pulling the dogs off him, "Thank you. For saving him I mean." Sherlock was surprised to hear gratitude from another person. He said hesitantly, "You're welcome."

Sakura and Sherlock placed the two dogs within their crates, and Sherlock had tucked her into bed. As he did Sakura had said, "Donovan-san is wrong about you. About you being a freak."

Sherlock froze at what she had stated.

Well I know the feeling

Of finding yourself stuck out on a ledge

And there ain't no healing, from cutting yourself with the jagged edge

"I overheard Anderson-san and Donovan-san talking about you. They kept saying freak, or psycho." She said, "Personally I don't think you're either of those things." Sherlock looked and asked her, "Why do you say that?" She simply replied, "Well, you're just misunderstood, like Shadow and I. When you try to help others, people think otherwise, don't they?"

I'm telling you that

It's never that bad

Take it from someone who's been where you're at

Sherlock opened his mouth to say something, however he quickly shut it, not knowing what to say. Sakura smiled and said, "It looks like I was right wasn't I?" Sherlock nodded and said, "Yeah, you are correct." Sakura's expression had changed.

S.K: "People call you a freak, because of your gift, right?"

S.H: "That is also correct."

S.K: "Oh I see. I've been called a freak to, sometimes a monster."

S.H: "Is it because of what had happened at the orphanage?"

Sakura nodded her head sadly and said, "Yes."

Laid out on the floor

And you're not sure

You can take this anymore

"What exactly did happen there?" Sherlock had asked. Sakura had answered him hesitantly.

S.K: "The orphanage was in Japan. Shadow and I didn't necessarily stayed there, we just visit there to see other children who kept our secret. Shadow and I used to play with them. But one day, we found out that they each had been adopted into loving families. When we got there we found a couple of boys that were older than us and they somehow know about our secret, and decided to pick on me."

Sakura removed her sleeve and showed him some faded scars on her arm. "You noticed this before, didn't you?" Sherlock had replied, "Yes. These were down by small knives were they not?" Sakura had nodded her head.

S.H: "They used it to hurt you?"

Sakura had nodded her head again. Tears had started to form.

So just give it one more try

To a lullaby

And turn this up on the radio

Sakura had continued. "They did just so they could aggravate me. They even threatened to kill me. I shut my eyes and begged them to stop as Shadow tried the same. The threatens soon stopped, and I thought that they had stopped, but when I opened them…" Sakura had started to cry, not being able to finish her story. Sherlock placed his arms around her and let her cry within his chest.

If you can hear me now

I'm reaching out

To let you know that you're not alone

Sherlock began to shush her as he brushed his hand just above her hair as she cried. Sherlock had realized, that she wasn't so different from himself after all. Other than having a mind like his, she was also considered a freak like he was with his little gift. Everyone had thought that a helpless little girl like her was a monster, all because of a certain talent that she had that no one else was born with.

"Freaks kill! That's all they do is just kill for the hell of it. It doesn't matter if it's a bloody kid or not, they're all the same."

No. That man was wrong about that. That's one of the things that he had disliked about normal people. They never use their eyes, to see what was really in front of them. They saw a monster, they saw a freak, but that's not what he saw. He just saw a little girl, who had lost her family.

All he saw was just another human being. Why couldn't others see that? Oh right, cause they're idiots.

And if you can't tell

I'm scared as hell

Cause I can't get you on the telephone

Sakura had slowly pushed herself from Sherlock's chest and she said as she wiped her remaining tears, "I'm sorry. It was just too painful to talk about." Sherlock had said, "No. That's quite alright. You should get some sleep, you're going to need it." As Sherlock was about to leave the room, he had felt her grab his wrist. He looked at her noticing that she suddenly had fear in her eyes.

S.H: "What is it?"

S.K: "I don't think I'll be able to sleep."

S.H: "Why?"

S.K: "I'm afraid."

S.H: "Why are you afraid?"

S.K: "I don't know, I just am."

S.H: "What do you expect me to do about it?"

Sakura lifted her arm, and pointed to the violin that had sat on the other side of the room.

So just close your eyes

Well honey here comes a lullaby

Your very own lullaby

"Could you… Play something?" She asked. Sherlock looked at her, confused by her request. Sakura than explained, "Well normally, a story would put me to sleep, but when I'm afraid, my mother would play something on the violin." "Your mother played?" Sherlock asked. Sakura let out a little smile and said, "Yeah. It always sounded beautiful when she played, just like you Sherlock. Do you mind at all?"

Sherlock stood there for about what had seemed like an eternity, than out of nowhere he went to his violin, picked it up and began to play.

Sakura began to hum as he played, and eventually she had started to sing with the tune.

Please let me take you

Out of the darkness and into the light

Cause I have faith in you

That you're gonna make it through another night

As the detective continued to play he started to listen to Sakura sing with her angelic voice. He had to admit, it was beautiful to listen to.

Stop thinking about

The easy way out

There's no need to go and blow the candle out

Because your not done

You're far too young

And the best is yet to come

Sherlock heard her yawn as he had continued to play. "So far so good." he thought.

So just give it one more try

To a lullaby

And turn this up on the radio

If you can hear me now

I'm reaching out

To let you know that you're not alone

Another yawn had came.

And if you can't tell

I'm scared as hell

Cause I can't get you on the telephone

So just close your eyes

Another had came.

Well honey here comes a lullaby

Than another.

Your very own lullaby

Finally he had heard a light thud on the pillow. He stopped playing to see Sakura now sleeping peacefully. He placed his violin down and covered her with the bed sheets. Than he had unknowingly placed a kiss on her cheek.

Than he exited the room and went to the kitchen to receive an ice pack.

-End Of Chapter XV-

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