Crazy? Not me.
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Chapter 3: Losing the privilege of mommy…
"What about him?"
"Mrs. Hongoroshi, we seem to be having a difficulty adjusting him to our facility," the head nurse replied with mock-regret.
"What do you mean? Of course he's going to be having difficulties adjusting; just give him some time!"
"We'd love to, but that means we have to have him for some time. How does a week or two sound?"
"I beg your pardon? You told me that he'd only be there a few days!"
"Accurate, if he cooperated,"
"Do you expect a six-year-old to cooperate his first day there?"
"I suppose not, but he is acting up a bit…"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean…he's been very temperamental…" the nurse replied as she looked at the scene in front of her:
The nurses had finally pulled the irate hanyou away from the window, but he was far from subduing to them. He clawed with his bloody fingers and bit with his newly dulled fangs; he yelled and screamed incoherent shouts as he cried angry tears.
"Get away from me!" he shouted as he claimed over and over that he did not belong there. Two nurses got their grip on him and he yanked his hands back with a growl. "I'm not crazy, so let me go!" he yelled as more tears fell. "I just wanna go home!"
He pulled again as more nurses got a hold on him. They were holding his wrists behind his back, and he kicked violently.
"Temperamental?"
"Yes, he doesn't seem to like it here much. He's been acting up; we need a little longer than I originally planned…"
"How much longer?"
"A few days longer depending on how he acts around you."
"Oh? You mean I get to see him?"
"Yes, in about a week or so, then if he takes it well, he can go home."
"Are you telling the truth this time?"
"I was always telling the truth, at least at the time, but things change,"
"Mhm, and do you think they'll change this time?"
"That all depends all on your son,"
"Whatever, bye."
"Goodbye." the nurse replied as she hung up the phone and stared still at the scene in the boy's room:
The nurses had firm hold of Inuyasha's hands and held them behind his back. He was still kicking and screaming as another nurse brought in a chair, and his captors brought him to a sit on it. They started strapping metal covered leather binds around his wrists and ankles. He started growling at the nurses as he struggled. The chair creaked, but no matter how hard he pulled, the straps wouldn't break. He pulled harder until he could feel warm liquid rolling down his hands and feet. He glanced down long enough to see blood dripping onto the once white floor before he looked back up at his captors, face broken.
"Please," he begged, "Please let me go." Tears streamed down his face.
"I'm sorry," gasped out one of the nurses as she tried to catch her breath. "We cannot do that."
"You see?" Inuyasha heard as he turned his head toward the door to see the head nurse walk into the room. "If you misbehave, and this is the only way, this is what it'll be."
The other nurses left, seeing as they weren't needed any longer. She looked down at Inuyasha and smiled. "If I have anything to do with it, and I do, you'll never see the outside world again."
Inuyasha gasped. "You can't do that!?"
"And why not? Who would believe an insane half-breed over the owner of this facility?"
"I am not insane!" he shouted.
"Are you sure you're not?"
"Of course I'm sure! I know I'm not ins-!"
"You can sleep now," the head nurse said as she injected a liquid into his arm.
All went blank.
***
Inuyasha came to at the sound of someone talking:
"-A danger to be around!" Inuyasha could hear a woman yell. More muttering he couldn't hear came through, only catching bits and pieces:
"-Precautions…taken soon-" … "Termination."
Inuyasha's eyes snapped open as the word sunk into his mind. They couldn't be talking about him, could they? He closed his eyes and evened out his breath as he heard the presumed-to-be nurses walked in. He heard them stop by the bed they apparently moved him on.
"Termination? Why can't we at least try to break him?" he heard a third person ask. "I'm sure that with the right treatment, he can be just as safe as any human," he insisted.
"Not likely, he can never be safe to be around!" the head nurse said with integrity.
"Can we at least try? Treat him like a normal patient, and if he ever gets too out of control, then we can just get him on that chair again."
"Beasts like him will only learn through pain."
"Then we'll break him through pain, but not through death!"
It was silent for a moment and Inuyasha figured that the head nurse was contemplating it. Finally, he heard, "Fine."
Then he was alone once again. He tried to keep his wretched sobs as silent as possible knowing there was someone watching. When he heard the door open again, he tensed and held his breath.
"You're awake, kid?"
"…Yeah…" Inuyasha replied hesitantly as he opened his eyes, but he refused to turn around.
"Good, because it's lunch time," he heard the woman say.
Slowly, the hanyou sat up, ears hidden in what was left of his hair. "Lunch?" he asked cautiously.
"Yes, we don't starve our patients," the nurse snapped irritably.
Inuyasha slowly got off his bed and walked out as the nurse lagged behind. He stopped when he heard the head nurse approach and turned around. He saw the head nurse speaking quietly to the one that got him for lunch. The nurse nodded as the head nurse walked over. "I would like a word with you, if you will," she said as Inuyasha nodded and followed warily.
She opened a door to a private a room and shut the door behind Inuyasha. Before he could even turn around, she had him pinned against the wall. "Listen here you little mutt, I will have you broken, I just want to do it my way, and I know you were awake during our early conversation you little shit, so I know you'll behave extraordinarily well. Believe me when I say, that I will break your spirit along with your body," she finished in a hushed voice before she hit herself in the face so hard that there was a bruise already forming. She screamed as she smacked the wall with her hand and sat down on the floor. The nurse that was waiting in the hall came barging in.
"What's going on!?" she yelled as she went over to her boss. "Kagura, are you okay!?"
Kagura looked up. "I…I think so, he- he hit me…" she replied in a shaky voice. Inuyasha stared at the situation with wide eyes.
Kami, she's the insane one! He shouted in his mind.
Kagura's voice snapped him out of his reverie: "Lynda, bring Inuyasha to my office immediately," she requested as she stood up on wobbly legs and walked out after a moment. Lynda grabbed up the squirming Inuyasha and brought him back to the office he originally woke up inside. Kagura was giving him a glare from her desk as she shooed Lynda out. "Now then," Kagura started. "What should we do with you? I say no lunch, dinner, or breakfast in the morning…"
"You crazy!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Crazy? Oh no, not me, you," she replied with a smirk.
"And besides that, you're a major hypocrite! You're a demon too!"
"You stupid boy! Do you see any youkai here? No, just the mutts come here, that and the actually mentally imbalanced… Now then, I'm thinking something a little more serious than just not eating. You need to be put through something that will allow you to realize that you are no better than youkai. In fact, you are much, much worse. So, what do you think I should do?"
Inuyasha looked at the deranged woman in front of him with fearful eyes. "I think you should give me a reprimanding tap on the wrist, say 'bad boy' and then let me go."
Kagura laughed an almost wicked laugh. "Of course, I know what we'll do. It's still a bit chilly out, so not many people will use the freezer…" Inuyasha's eyes widened as he tried to piece together what she was implying. He didn't have the chance, however, as Kagura stood and walked up to him. She grabbed the back of his neck and suddenly he was out cold again.
***
Inuyasha's eyes fluttered open to the sound of something clicking. He was getting sick of this whole pass-out-because-some-crazy-woman-thinks-you-should-be-dead thing, and now he didn't even know where he was. The first thing that came to mind was cold it was in there. The second thing was him realizing that the clicking was actually his teeth chattering. And last, but certainly not least, he noticed that he was, once again, bound to a chair. The only difference? This one was metal, and so were the binds holding him to it.
His breath quickened as he soon realized that he was in the meat freezer. Dead carcasses of animals were hanging all around. "Help! Somebody!" he shouted, or rather, rasped. His voice sounded a lot like Rose from Titanic when she tied to get the rescuers attention. Cold, rescuers, huh, ironic…
He tried moving his arms and legs, but it only caused the metal to bite into his dry skin painfully. It was so cold, he couldn't tell if he was burning, or freezing. "Help!" he rasped again as he tried to pull free from his cold binds. Wow, feels like I'm in a Saw movie… he thought dryly as he tried to keep from shivering. He breathed out a breath he wasn't aware he was holding, and the vapor came out frozen in mid air. He cried out multiple more times and yanked his binds until his ankles and wrists were rawer than a potato. He wasn't sure how much time had passed before he fell into a cold-made sleep.
Click, click, click, click, click, mutter, click, click,
Inuyasha cracked open a frost-covered lid when he heard women's heels walking toward him and the door creak open. He could see a vague shape come toward him and he opened his blood-crusted lips. "Hello?" he mouthed more than asked.
"Hello." Inuyasha mentally cringed at the sound of Kagura's voice.
He felt warm gloved hands unhook his binds, and then lift him out of the seat. He opened his mouth to scream, with nothing coming out of his frozen windpipes, as he felt skin from his back, rear, and legs tear painfully away from the muscle.
Kagura carried him out of the freezer and back to her office. Once she had him seated, she started bandaging his raw writs, ankles, and his…well, everything else. "Do you see what I can do?" she said finally.
Inuyasha nodded while his teeth chattered painfully.
"Good, now then, the other nurses feel we should give you a journal…so…um, here," she said tossing a thin, black book to him. It hit his torso and fell to the ground. "Well? Pick it up!" Kagura yelled as she slapped him across his frozen face. The pain doubled because of the cold and frost went flying across the room, but Inuyasha's eyes were blank the entire time as he bent over and picked up the black book. She smirked and called in a nurse to lead the hanyou back to his room.
That night, when he could keep his hand straight enough to write, Inuyasha cracked open the journal.
Journal Entry One:
I know I'm not crazy… I need to find a way out of here…
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Journal Entry Two:
I can finally eat again, but I was caught out of my room, so I can't eat for another few days while I'm bound to a chair in my room…
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Journal Entry Three:
I was supposed to go home… mommy never came to pick me up. Maybe she doesn't want me anymore…
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Journal Entry Seven:
I've been "acting up" so they transferred me to a new room after re-clipping my nails and everything else that marked me as a hanyou. There are no windows, and I have to stay bound to my chair during the days except for when it's time to eat. Still no sign of mommy…
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Journal Entry Nine:
I'm not allowed out of my room at all now. They bring my food, if I eat at all…
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Journal Entry Sixteen:
They have me on medicine now. Momma hasn't been to visit…
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Journal Entry Twenty-Eight:
My therapist thinks I'm crazy too… Mom? Why aren't you here yet?
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Journal Entry Forty-Four:
The nurses here think I'm making a lot of progress. Maybe I'll go home soon?
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Journal Entry Sixty-Two:
I ruined my chances… I tried to run when Kagura wanted to strangle me. They say I just imagined it, and now their testing me for schizophrenia. Mother, where have you gone?
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Journal Entry Sixty-Four:
Good news: no schizophrenia. Bad news: they still think I'm not well enough to leave. I'm back on my chair. No parent yet…
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Journal Entry Eighty-Two:
Found out they were putting sleeping pills in all my food, this explains so much. I…don't think I'm crazy… Am I? Is that why you won't come back?
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Journal Entry Ninety-One:
Third month in this hellhole. Don't know what to do, Izayoi's visiting today…
**Okay, I finally have this chapter finished. I knew what I wanted to accomplish, and I knew what I wanted to happen, but I just could not write it the way I wanted to. Tired now, maybe write the next chapter for "Childhood Remix" tomorrow. Maybe not. Either way, please review, and see ya next time!**