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Chapter 16
The Hoped hope

He looked in the ceiling staring at the cream colored paint looking down once he felt lust climb his legs and land on his stomach pressing her paws on him.

"What's wrong?" he asked picking her up resting the ball of fur on his chest as she relaxed on him licking her paw.

Nothing was wrong maybe she was just concerned? How often had he spaced out like this just lost in thought trying to comprehend why something so sad had happened to one they loved at their fingertips. He could have stopped it. He could have prevented it.

It had been two weeks since the death had happened and other than the last time he looked at it, there hasn't been another time since he visited it then. Her body. Since last week Uta had been leaving messages on Itori's behalf, she wasn't sleeping well and neither was she eating and that led to Uta having to be taking care of her in that vegetative state.

He rose up going to his bathroom washing his hands he knew today was the day. A body couldn't go over 2 weeks on just ice without beginning to decay and he didn't have the equipment to keep it any longer. He cleaned his hands sanitizing them as he went into the room closing the vault like door behind him. The coldness of the room was very intense as he moved to her body looking at her pale skin color that had become a little purple under the extreme cold along with the darkening of her lips. He turned the pipe on next to her body in the little sink of sanitizing the equipment as he cleaned them with hot water putting his gloves and his plastic apron afterwards.

He took the knife held it skillfully as he pressed it against her stomach and the blood began to surface as he slowly pulled it downward. He stopped half way about an inch in length and pulled the knife away. He just couldn't do it. It just wasn't right.

He looked at her again and realized something, the necklace she was wearing. More likely some symbolic jewelry. She said her parents were dead and she had no family, so it could be a gift from Itori or Uta. People who loved her.

He never wanted to do this, this wasn't his duty. She was to him just as precious as Itori and Uta. In such short time she made an impact on him, became a lover to Uta and someone who seemingly fit into the three's friendship like she was already there.

He looked at the blood and touched it and paused. It was warm.

Too warm. Too warm for the blood from the body of a dead person. The body is dead there is no oxygen able to be sent through the blood system and passing through the heart and into the blood stream to keep it warm and contain air. The blood should also be still since all movement in the body was halted and regardless of being in a cold room because the body is dead it shouldn't be able to produce heat to keep the body warm and the organs running yet…yet.

He looked at her, opened her eyes staring at her dilated pupils and then rested his hand on her heart. It was faint. It was very and extremely faint but it was there.

A heartbeat.

EXTRA

He sat for hours before he called someone who he thought might be of help, someone his boss knew well who would probably be able to configure what was going on.

"It wouldn't be possible. The human body doesn't work like that but maybe from the incident and punctured rib there wouldn't be immediate death, she would have been in a vegetative state not even a paralysis. Also with all that has taken place additionally without the other follow-ups a hospital would provide after 5 hours she would have lost the ability, or more like the ability of the body itself to sustain its capability to be in such a fragile state for so long. Something would have needed to maintain that progress; something would have been needed to make her sustain herself throughout that period of time. That is the mystery though. Is she a new test subject, or is this just an ideology? We can always test something like this since it's new to my research." –the man said looking at the body deeply intrigued as he observed the mild wound on her stomach pressing lightly as the blood seeped out from underneath.- "so fresh, so warm, no doubt that there is life."

Renji didn't know who to contact or even call regarding this issue, how was he to tell them 'I think she is alive' if it's possible that she is dead, or how could he say she is really dead if there is a chance for her to come back to life. He injected a blood transfusion needle into her hand as he managed to forcefully extract his blood and put it in a blood bag hanging it next to her.

Something would have needed to maintain that progress, only one answer lied ahead, what maintained that progress, must have been the blood.

It was more frustrating than he expected it to be. By the second day he had to let them know. The wound he inflicted on her… was proof of life as it slowly healed, her body wasn't reacting like the normal human body behavior since it was healing faster with his blood, could it have been that ghoul blood had healing properties unknown to man?

Both of them stood looking at the body. Renji looked at them and looked back down at kaisa who wasn't moving or anything but the sure sight of life was the slow rising and falling of her chest. The other man opposite of them was kanou's underling, Vertigo, a ghoul doctor. Famous on the black market but not very successful. At the same time renji knew he was safer than kanou who would use Kaisa. Instead vertigo was more interested in his discoveries rather than his experiments, plus his life was on the line.

"It's a slower heartbeat, fragile. She is very irresponsive to her surroundings. You could say she was comatose but, once she doesn't receive blood, she dies. I have tried a non-dosage for 30 minutes and her heartbeat nearly faded."

Renji looked up at him raising an eyebrow. "How is it even possible?"

Vertigo looked at renji then to them, "if I'm right Itori and Uta gave her blood and so did you, it could be that she is reacting to the RC Cells, it could also be that what is taking place is similar to kanou's work, just the more raw and layman version."

"Can this work with any other human?" Renji asked rolling his sleeves up to his elbows. This was new. This was beyond his knowledge.

"No I doubt it but then again, she has lived and grown around you, she has been exposed to you as a different species, maybe she had indivertibly received RC cells more than regular humans that has been slowly growing over the periods of being our kind, but after losing large amount of blood and suddenly replaced with ghoul blood it can only be safe to presume this comatose like state is due to the in-balance of the blood of human and ghoul inside her. We just have to continue until it becomes steady, maybe then she would regain consciousness."

"How much more does she need?" Renji asked looking at her.

"10…probably 20 bags, it depends…..I've never done this before."

"I'll supply it." He said without hesitation. It was best to keep her alive with all he could.

"We…..will supply it" Itori corrected as she caressed Kaisa's face the tears slowly streaking down as she looked at vertigo very serious.

Vertigo looked at her and smiled manically, "oh well I promise to do my be-"

"I don't need your promise….I just need it done" Itori said as she looked at him glaring heavily.

Kaisa livvvvves. And you can get to see her active in the next chap. Gosh having to write two chaps without her was like so hard she is the heartbeat of this story and i can hardly imagine how terrifying it was for you guys for those who thought she actually died cause in my head i just through this in before the bigger plot to test the waters and make it more epic for the main act. Thanks for the support so far have a blessed, happy and prosperous New Years. Please favourite, follow and Review.

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