Purple Down(1) Chapter 5, a skip beat! fanfic

-Chapter 5-

Shosuke sat in the corner of the bar, his head against the darkened window as Taji and Takuji came up to him. "Taji-san said you needed to talk to me?" Takuji said sitting down as Taji patted the elderly man on the shoulder and then moved away towards the bar. Takuji lowered his crossed his fingers resting them on the table. Takuji face fell, knowing that he very well may not like what Shosuke had to say.

"I have one question." Shosuke said turning his bright blue eyes towards him, "Was Yumiko taking any other medications?"

Takuji let out his a breath of air he hadn't known he was holding before nodded his head, "She had bad depression, so she was taking an antidepressant called Phenelzine Sulfate, it's pretty strong one actually." he shook his head looking at the man "She suffered when her mother died, so she started seeing a shrink to help her. Do you want their name, I have no problem giving permission."

Shosuke, "No. I got what I needed. Thank you, Takuji"

Takuji bowed his head as he rose from his chair, he went back to Taji and Haru before leaving the bar once again. Haru went to lock the door while Taji sat down across from him. He said nothing knowing that Shosuke was processing something in his head. Something that he wasn't willing to share with either of them just yet. Taji wondered exactly what it was he was figuring it out, all he knew personally knew was that something was off in that hospital and the way that Honami has pushed off the whiteout marks and ER initials.

"Haru…." the man walked towards Shosuke and Taji, "I need a favor again." Haru only nodded his head "I need her tox screen results." Haru gave a nod pulling out his cellphone and making his way towards the backroom. Twenty minutes later he returned hanging him a faxed document.

Shosuke, "The tox screen shows acetaminophen, it shows aspirin, and it shows antihistamine. No sign of meperidine. There is no sign of phenelzine in her system." He ran a hand through his hair sliding the paper over towards Taji.

Taji, "but we know that she was on it that." fact he had overheard Takuji telling Shosuke that and he doubted the man was lying about it.

Shosuke looked at Taji, "We do." he tapped his finger for a moment before something seemed to click in his mind, his eyes turned towards Haru "Do you think you can get someone to run another tox screen on her, not from the hospital?"

Haru, "Shouldn't be too hard. More so now that I know what you are looking for."

Shosuke and Taji stood off to the side, just out of the line of sight when the door opened. So when Komiya stepped out for his smoke break, Shosuke moved towards the door leaning against it, preventing anyone from exiting while they spoke. Taji smiled warmly at Komiya. "Hello, Doctor Komiya." Komiya nodded his head taking his pack out to have a smoke. Clearly not bothered by the fact they were waiting for him again.

Shosuke "We need to talk."

Komiya sighed putting his smoke back in his pack, "what about?"

"The whiteout on the day Yumiko died," Shosuke said looking at him. Komiya ran a hand through his hair.

"I was exhausted having just come off the cancer ward. I wrote meperidine without thinking but I gave her acetaminophen. I know there is paperwork required when you write out a narcotic but I just didn't have time for that. I know it was wrong." Yet that didn't have the same truthfulness that they had come to know about him. That was far too scripted for either man's taste. Shosuke looked at Taji who gave a slight nod of his head.

"I see so you confess to falsifying hospital records. Shosuke that's a class E felony if I'm not mistaken," Taji said looking towards him before looking back at Komiya.

Komiya ran his hand through his hair again "Look when people look at me, they see this dark skin color and think I must be worse than their own. Nevermind that I'm half Japanese that doesn't matter to them. They just see a bad doctor when they see a normal Japanese doctor, they see an even worse doctor when they look at me. I have to be twice as good as everyone else just to be seen in the same as a bad doctor." This time the truth was clear in his voice.

Shosuke sighed, "but you are a good doctor though… why are you lying?" Komiya hit his fist back into the wall, not wanting to say anymore. Taji took his face in his hand, his eyes turning violet as he ran his thumb across his lips.

"I need you to be honest Komiya, we looked at the records, you rarely make mistakes and the mistakes that you do make are never whited-outed. We also noted that the rounds start around 6:00 pm but that night, they didn't start until 9:00 pm, why is that?"

Komiya eyes never left Taji as the man's hand dropped from his face, "We were waiting for the Chief of Medicine"

Shosuke frown slightly before looking towards Taji who was holding Komiya's glaze, "Why was Honami late?" Taji gave a slightest of nods yeah he thought it was strange that they would have to wait for her too.

"Honami-san was delayed for a retirement party for one of the service chiefs" Komiya wasn't forcing it, he clearly wanted to speak deep inside but something had been holding him back.

"So she had a good time?" Shosuke asked.

"She smelled like she had been drinking if that's what you are asking."

Shosuke closed his eyes. "We need the whole story Taji," he said and his partner frown.

"Lucky me he's not fighting it at all then." he flashed a smile at Komiya "You really do want us to know the truth don't you?"

"I can't keep doing this, what example am I setting for my little girl?" his voice sounded so broken. Shosuke eyes flashed violet for a moment as he looked towards the man.

"Then how about you tell us. We'll make things right for you" Taji said gently.

Taji sat against the wall, his right knee bent as he rested his head on it. The knowledge they had learned had taken a good part of the day. Komiya had just gone inside when Shosuke moved to sit down next to Taji, he held out his hand and Taji dug into his coat pocket and handed him his cellphone "When are you going to get your own?" his voice betrayed how drained he was, he leaned his against the wall as Shosuke texted who he could only guess was Haru.

Shosuke lifted his eyes towards the darkening sky they had been sitting in silently for a while now, each taking in the information that they did know now, "It's almost time…" he said as the cell phone began to ring, flipping it open Shosuke hit speaker.

"Are you alone?" came Haru's voice.

Taji shook his head slightly, "Yes, but you are on speaker"

"I will send you the detailed report after I hang up but it seems the Good Doctor has a problem."

Taji chuckled softly "Yeah I think we got that figured out."

"I spoke to two people, I recorded their statement and should it be required they are willing to testify against them. Their names are Matabei and Chie. I will send those as an attachment for you."

Shosuke "anything else on the records?"

"Yes, it seems Komiya corrects a lot of their work, the reason they work those hours seems to play into account of their daughter she has Fibrous dysplasia of bone, there is no cure. The girl needs the hospital, with that knowledge it is easy to use him."

Shosuke "Send me everything."

"Of course." with that the phone went dead and another buzz, Shosuke noticed that he indeed seemed to correct many things, before playing the record conversations before handing it the phone to Taji who went through the same motions.

"So what're your plans for Komiya?"

"Nothing… they are a good doctor. We only have one target. Shall we go see the Good Doctor?"

Taji shook his head, "You know he can't be let off the hook." He motioned towards the information on the phone, "They still played a part."

Shosuke's eye trailed towards the phone, "This time they can…"

"You saw something didn't you?" he said flipping the phone back open looking through the information was sent to them.

Shosuke stood up before holding out his hand for Taji. "Maybe, but now we have all the pieces. Let's go." Taji sighed grasping his hand and got to his feet.