A/N: Wow, chapter 16. I never thought I would get to such a high number. I'm kinda happy with myself. I'm trying really hard.^^;
Satoshi is getting surprisingly hard to write now, since his personalities been changing a lot since the beginning.
So here is yet another chapter, and I really hope you enjoy it! And please review at the end if you can!
Satoshi stayed silent as he and Kasumi went back upstairs in the elevator. The quietness was unbearable, although he had had plenty worse. He was nervous and scared, but his face wouldn't show it. A small ding and the door slid open. Satoshi followed the red head down the hall, feeling mildly sick. He could smell the sickness, blood and death that floated around. Hospitals were never a comforting place, but it was worse than he remembered it to be. The scent was horrific.
"Satoshi, this is it," Kasumi alerted, making the boy refocus. He took a deep breath before entering the room. Again he was surprised when he saw something or someone fly at him, wrapping their arms around him. A familiar bandanna and brunette locks.
"Haruka..."Satoshi identified aloud, earning a nod from the girl.
"You better know who I am," she said with a small giggle. Satoshi then turned his attention to the blue haired girl who was laying in the hospital bed, conscious.
"Hikari...I'm so so-"
"No! Please! I don't know what happened, but I know it wasn't you who hurt me. You didn't do this. So...there's no need for you to apologize," Hikari spoke softly with a kind smile. The raven haired boy was completely surprised. No yells, no screams, no violence or looks of utter disgust. No. They were each happy and kind, as they had always been, glad to see him. Hikari extended her hand out to him, urging him to take it. With a tiny smile, he did so, but as soon as their skin met, he yanked back his hand, letting out a hiss of pain.
"What's wrong?" Haruka asked concerned.
"Why is your skin so hot?" Satoshi hissed, holding his hand. Confused, Kasumi placed the back of her hand against Hikari's forehead.
"You feel normal though. You don't have a fever"
Hikari paused a moment before reaching out and touched his other hand gently, which caused him to wince.
"It's not me. You're ice cold," Hikari said slowly. He put his hand to his cheek, but didn't feel any coldness at all. He felt normal to himself. And Kurenai had constantly touched him without it hurting him. But then again, the three before him were normal.
"Er-that doesn't matter. How are you feeling?" Satoshi said quickly changing the subject. The change didn't go unnoticed, but the three decided to let him do so.
"I'm much better. It still hurts a bit but I can move it around pretty easy. I'm even going to be released tomorrow afternoon," Hikari assured with a big grin, moving her arm back and forth to prove her statement. Satoshi breathed a sigh of relief. "And you?" Hikari asked back quietly, looking up at him.
"..." Satoshi remained silent, looking down at the white floor. Haruka placed her hand on his shoulder, careful not to touch his skin.
"I understand if you don't want to say anything, but you know, we are your friends."
"You can tell us anything and we'll listen," Kasumi nodded in agreement.
"Just whenever you're ready, okay?"
"..."Silent, the thin boy turned around, walking towards the door, all pairs of eyes on him. "I'll be outside if you need me."
"You better not disappear again," Kasumi ordered, a mixture of seriousness of playfulness in her voice. Satoshi looked over his shoulder at the three and nodded.
"I won't. I promise."
They didn't hate him. They didn't look at him with disgust. They were kind and warm. They didn't know what he's done.
"Oh, this is rather messy," Kurenai said with a look of disgust and interest as she stepped over another corpse as she and Shinji continued down the long white corridor. The ones who had been killed by Satoshi were still lying on the ground, their corpses not moved since he escape a few days ago. The smell was starting to get worse, but it wasn't her job to move such destroyed was the pokemon's, slowly but surely eating away the remains.
"What should we do Kurenai-sama?" Shinji asked his superior, following several steps behind her.
"We get him back. He's the best we've worked on in years, and we're so close I can't just let him go. An if we let him roam free much longer, chances are he'll do something stupid," Kurenai explained casually, gotting things down on her clipboard.
"W-what exactly do you mean by that?"
"Well, we don't want the boy to go and kill himself now do we? He was able to regain his memories, but we still turned him into a monster," the women said with a grin. "And now he's aware of that. Could you live with the fact that you had killed hundreds of people and pokemon?"
"I see," Shinji sighed, understanding. "Then I guess we should do it soon then."
"That's what I said, didn't I?" Kurenai growled. "At least he'll be easy to find. Chance are he's back into Kanto."
"What makes you think that?" Shinji asked confused.
"He thinks he killed his darling little friend. He needs to find out if he did or not. So he's gone to check. Ah, people with emotions are so easy to figure out," Kurenai grinned, bursting into a fit of giggles.
A/N: One of my friends said something that was kind of funny. She said the way Satoshi turned out kind of makes her think of Cloud Strife(ff7). I find that incredibly funny, and kinda true.
Anyway, I'm working hard on this, although I'm having trouble were to go from here.
So now the group is somewhat reunited again. Brock isn't going to be in here more than he was in one of the earlier chapters with the phone call, but I'm trying to debate whether or not to put another male character in here. I was thinking Paul for a small moment, but I don't see how that would work and I'd probably get confused because of the other Shinji already(oops). So maybe I'll put Gary. And for those who want it a hint of palletshipping. But that's up to you. He won't play a huge roll though. Up to you people though. Ew, the corpse eating pokemon kinda is gross to me but cool. They have really bad sanitation there in the organization i guess^^
Well thank you again for reading and please review if you can! I love it when you do! Thank you again!