The case was dropped pretty quickly. Sasuke yelled at the officer who gave him the news, but in the end, there was nothing anyone could do about it. There simply wasn't enough evidence, and Itachi didn't remember what the woman had looked like. He did, however, tell Jiraiya about the pictures during his check-up. Because he had never been told Mida's name, he simply said that it was the nurse who spent a lot of time with him. Mida, who was listed as the boys primary nurse, was brought in for questioning, but explained that even though he was technically Itachi's primary, he had so many patients that the recently-graduated Kabuto Yakushi was the one who watched over Itachi.
"Does this look like the man who took pictures of you?" Itachi stared at the sobbing young nurse before him. He wasn't sure who he was, exactly, but he recognized him as the nurse who gave him a lot of his check-ups."Dunno..." "Poor thing, he must have blocked it out. But he did say that it happened during a check-up, and Yakushi was in charge of those." Kabuto cried out, pushing his glasses up to wipe at the tears streaming down his face. "N-no! No, I'd never-!" "Shut up." Jiraiya said sharply. He'd seen dozens of guilty people sobbing pathetically, but it didn't change what they'd done. Everyone looked from Itachi to Kabuto, then an officer grabbed the young nurse by the shoulder and pulled him from the interrogation room. "Please, no! I d-didn't... I swear I..." "I already told you to shut up, four-eyes. You're gonna have a hell of a bad time in prison." The door slammed behind them, and Kabuto was taken to the holding cells down the hall. Mida convinced Jiraiya that there was no need for a trial, and the poor nurse was sentenced to minimum-security prison for eighteen months.
Really, the only thing that went in Itachi's favor was the fact that he was released from the hospital immediately and sent to live with his older cousin, Shisui. Sasuke had talked their parents into it, and they readily agreed-anything to get Itachi out of their hair. Itachi also started seeing a therapist twice a week, and he loved living with Shisui and Sasuke. They had a cozy apartment near the school, with a , he got to call Mommy and Daddy on the phone sometimes! He still had nightmares that he didn't understand, and still hated being in crowded places, but he was slowly getting better. Maybe he'd be okay one day.
A/N: I'm sorry that nothing happened to Mida, but that's what often happens in real life. Rapists and child predators rarely go to prison, even though they deserve it more than any other type of criminal. The next chapter, or maybe the one after that, will be the last one.
