Fan fic Asylum - Chapter 3
Title: Asylum - Chapter 2
Characters: Kato Shigeaki, OC, Tegoshi Yuya, Masuda Takahisa, Koyama Keichiro, Yamashita Tomohisa, Ryo Nishikido, Fujigaya Taisuke, Kimura Takuya, Gackt.
Rating: G13
Disclaimer: I own the story ONLY
Yamashita and Erika had stopped him before he did something stupid, but he still had to go to an extra session with his doctor. Since he was busy that day, he had the session after dinner. The doctor looked tired and Shige felt sorry he had to stay because of him, and he told him so.
“Don’t worry about it. I’m here for you, to help you. Now would you please tell me what happened?”
“Nothing happened.” Shige answered.
“Only because Yamashita-kun stopped you before you did anything.” Shige debated to tell him the truth, about what the man had said but decided against it. As the man had said, he had power and how much could he trust Kimura-sensei?
“I just… lost it. I’m sorry.”
“Do you still see him with a distorted face?” Shige shook his head. “And how does that make you feel?”
“Confused.”
“Because now you think he might not be a bad man after all?”
“No. He is a bad man. I just don’t know about… maybe they were hallucinations, maybe I am crazy.”
After the session he went back to his room, alone. The doctor didn’t think it was necessary to make a nurse escort him, he would go straight to his room, right?
He walked the empty halls. Everybody was already in their room and everything was eerily silent. Then he heard the murmurs, like the one in his room. He looked behind him, nothing. He kept walking but he heard faraway footsteps behind him, again there was nothing when he looked. He kept walking but the footsteps were getting closer fast and getting louder, way too loud to be a person… he had the urge to start running and he was about to, when he heard Tegoshi’s voice.
“There you are! Don’t go running off on us! We were worried, little boy.” He said getting on the tip of his toes to pat his head. Shige moved his hand away. He saw Tegoshi wasn’t alone, Yamashita “biceps” Tomohisa was there. Yamashita sighed and rolled his eyes.
“I didn’t. Hey did you guys hear…”
“Let’s go to the rooms, it’s late.” Yamashita interrupted “By the way, I talked to the boss and you’ll meet him tomorrow.”
Shige was about to refuse when one of the nurses came behind them.
“Oh, no. You guys are not sneaking out again. You are gonna get me into trouble.” It was the man from his first night. What was his name?
“Ryo-kun!” Yep that was the name. “Why are you being so mean?” whined Tegoshi with a pout.
“I’m not but, again, I don’t want any trouble so forget it.”
“But we always make it worth your while,” said Yamashita.
Tegoshi approached the man and whispered something in the guy’s ear. The nurse opened his eyes wide and said: “Are you sure?” Tegoshi nodded. “Okay, we’ll see.”
“Yay! Thank you Ryo-chan!!” said Tegoshi jumping up and down and then giving the nurse a kiss on the cheek, as he did with pretty much everybody.
“He doesn’t do that to everybody. Just people he likes.” Yamashita said. Shige frowned. Well, it was probably that the way Tegoshi acted was not normal by any standard and he felt the need to explain.
After that, Yamashita went to the room he shared with Fujigaya, which was a few rooms away from his.
“What was that?” He asked
“We’ll talk when…”
“When I meet the boss, ok.” Shige interrupted. Then, they both went to their rooms.
In their room Tegoshi was about to get into bed and Shige was still thinking about the day sitting at the edge of his bed.
“What’s wrong?” Tegoshi asked with a frown. Maybe it would do him good to talk about it.
“I’m thinking about my mum’s visit today.”
“Oh, yeah. Happy 20th Birthday!”
“How did you know?”
“Pi told me, he heard.”
“Oh, well, my mother’s fiance came too.”
“Yes, Pi and Erika-chan told me about it. If you are in here I don’t think you are in much trouble though. They would have put you in an isolated room if it had been bad.”
“It’s not that. You know the faces I see? Well, He has a normal face now. What if I am crazy?”
Tegoshi sat next to him. “I don’t think so. But it’ll be good for you to talk to the boss and then we can talk more. Now go to bed and sleep.” His roommate got up and made him lie down and covered him. He was so tired that he let him.
“I don’t think I can.” Said Shige.
“Okay, then I’ll sing you to sleep!” Oh god, the guy was just too loud! But he started singing in a soft voice: “Wishing on a dream that seems far off, wishing it would come today…”
Shige frowned. What was with this guy and all the signing? However he said nothing. Tegoshi went to his own bed but continued signing softly.
Shige couldn’t believe it but he did become sleepy and finally fell asleep
*****
It was difficult, but the shadow made it out. An eternity inside and now it was out and it was what it was supposed to be. The shapeless dark cloud expanded and contracted, as if taking a deep breath. It turned corporeal. Its bones and flesh felt different on the outside.
It moved its head left and right. The eyes were completely white with a bluish sheen, lidless and sightless. It didn’t need to see just to feel sense. With a shriveled up, almost non existence, nose it sniffed and found a scent, a feeling. Madness, that’s what humans called it, the creature remembered. It would have smiled if it had lips covering the blackened pointy teeth. With a shiver it turned into a shadow again. Aahh that was so much more comfortable.
The scent led it through halls and rooms and humans. They all looked good, tasty but it wanted the one. The madness was beneath the surface, barely there but it was so much sweeter when one helped bring it about, it remembered that too. It found the human, female, yes it remembered he had preferred females before being caught and imprisoned.
It tried to enter the room and let out a frustrated yell. The room was bared but it could wait a little longer, it could lure her out, where she was alone and vulnerable. Alone, get her alone. When humans were with company they where closed up. It didn’t know why and it mattered not.
The madness was there, so was the vulnerability and the creature started whispering. The female human would not hear it but her subconscious would. She was dreaming. Again, the creature would have smile.
******
The next day Shige had to admit that he was a little nervous and he wasn’t sure at all that he wanted to meet this boss. Yes, Tegoshi seem like a nice guy, in spite of his quirks, and his friends seemed okay. Three of them had stopped him from making a huge mistake. But they were locked up in a mental institution.
So are you thought Shige.
Shige was sitting by himself in one of the couches in the entertainment room when he saw Erika come in. She started to walk to the couch but she hesitated when she saw him. Shige smiled a little and made room for her on the couch. She started walking again and sat next to him but he looked out the window.
“Um… thank you for yesterday.” She nodded. “I would have really done something stupid.” She said nothing. “Do you understand what I’m saying? Do you speak Japanese?”
“I sp-speak J-japanese.”
“I know, I’ve seen you speak to the others. I guess I make you nervous.” Shige sighed. “That’s okay, I’ll leave you alone”
“N-no, that’s ok-kay. Stay.” Erika said grabbing him by the arm. He settled back on the couch. Erika took a deep breath and said: “D-don’t worry about yest-terday. T-That was not a g-good m-man.”
“No, he wasn’t, and my mum is going to marry him and there is nothing I can do to stop it cause I’m locked up here cause I couldn’t just stop and think before I jumped on the bastard and...” Shige stopped and looked a little embarrassed. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t…”
“That’s okay, I understand.” She said putting her hand on his arm. He didn’t know why but his heart fluttered. And she had said the whole phrase without stuttering, Shige thought.
He looked at her and said: “Thank you.” She smiled a little, and she had a nice half smile. Like always Shige found himself wishing he could see her whole face.
ldquo;Hey! You two are already talking!” Shige heard Tegoshi’s voice say. Erika moved away from Shige making room for Tegoshi to sit between them. “So how was your session today?”
ldquo;The same as always, I guess.” The sessions were pretty much as every session he’d had with a few weird questions…
“Today is my turn again! Kimura sensei is my 7th doctor in this institution.” He said.
“What do you mean?” asked Shige and Tegoshi laughed.
“Doctors don’t know what to do with me, so they ask for a transfer. It usually happens after the first time I have an episode. I don’t blame them, they can be scary.”
“Why are you here? You never told me.”
“Split personality disorder and schizophrenia. Same doctors labeled me differently but those two seem to be the consensus”
“You have more than one personality?” Shige asked. Okay his roommate did change moods pretty quickly but, split personality?
Tegoshi only shrugged. “I guess you could say that, in a matter of speaking.”
“Umm, have I met any of them?”
Tegoshi laughed. “No. Do you want to? You could meet Yuuko.” With that the other guy sat up straight. He put his knees together and rested his folded hands on them. He looked down and looked at Shige from the corner of his eyes. Then, with a breathy, soft and definitely feminine voice he said:
“Hello, Kato-san. I’m Yuuko.” She… he giggled a little. “I wanted to meet you but Yuya wouldn’t let me.” She ended with a little pout. Shige didn’t know what to say. Then Tegoshi burst out laughing.
“Oh, god, you should have seen your face!” He just kept on laughing. Shige slapped the other boys arm.
“Jerk,” he said. “You really got me there. Damn I really thought…” Tegoshi kept laughing and of course Erika joined him and soon Shige couldn’t help laughing with them.
“Oh, and speaking of diagnosis! Shige, guess why Eri-chan is here!” Shige just stared at him. He didn’t know how the girl would react; she didn’t seem comfortable being around him let alone talking about the reason that got her there. But she just rolled her eyes at Tegoshi.
“Come on Eri tell him. Oh, come on, Shige is nice, he won’t make fun of you or anything.”
“I k-know.” She said softly.
“Ok, I’ll tell him. Hallucinations and paranoia!” He announced as if he had just explained the meaning of life. Shige just stared. “Don’t you see? That’s why you are here, Shige. It’s meant to be, you are perfect for each other!” He finished with a huge smile. Shige just stared lifting an eyebrow. Then he looked at Erika, who just rolled her eye at him behind Tegoshi’s back. “You will realize it soon enough.” He said crossing his arms looking offended.
“What will they realize?” That was Maki. Tegoshi just shook his head. Behind Maki came the rest. Everybody said hello. Yamashita sat at the table (he had stopped referring to him as biceps after he helped him) and Maki sat next to him lacing her fingers with his. Fujigaya sat in one of the chairs and Koyama sat next to him (being careful not to touch him).
“Um, Yamashita, Koyama, thank you for your help yesterday.” Shige said with a little bow of the head.
“That’s okay. Don’t worry about it.” Answered Koyama while Yamashita nodded.
“No problem. Now, we have to talk about something else. We have to talk about tonight.” Yamashita said. “Tegoshi, do you want to come with us?”
“Yeah, I think its best.”
“Okay. Eri, you too.” Erika nodded.
“Excuse me,” interrupted Shige. “I don’t know if I want to do it. I don’t want any problems, this is obviously…”
“You have to meet him. After what happened yesterday we all agree with Tegoshi and it’ll be good for you to meet him.”
“I know you think so…”
“You won’t get into any problems, I swear,” said Tegoshi. “And it is important.”
“P-please,” Came Erika’s low voice.
Urgh! “Okay, fine. But I’ll be really pissed off if I get into trouble and I will start screaming for a new roommate,” He told Tegoshi, who just smiled and nodded.
“Someone’s coming,” said Koyama.
Kimura sensei was walking towards them with a young man who didn’t look much older than them.
“Hello, everybody. Tegoshi-kun, you were supposed to come to my office.” Kimura sensei said.
“It’s just that I wasn’t feeling particularly crazy today so it wouldn’t have been all that interesting.” The doctor just laughed at that, and the young doctor just stared a little uncomfortable.
“Sessions with you are always interesting, Tegoshi-kun. Well I wanted to introduce you to Masuda sensei here. I wanted to do it in private but this is fine too. This is Masuda sensei. He will be your new doctor from now on.”
“That was fast. I thought it would take longer for you to want to trade me.” Tegoshi said sounding disappointed.
“I’m not trading you and it’s not about you. I have to manage a lot of things in the hospital and I honestly think that Masuda sensei will be better for you. Masuda sensei, this is Tegoshi-kun”
The new doctor said hello. He sort of had a baby face and he looked kind. Tegoshi stood up and went up to him and, with his regular lack of personal space awareness, got really close.
“Hello,” he said and put his arm on the doctor’s shoulders. “Let’s have our first session. I hope you last.”
I hope you liked it. This is the song Tegoshi was singing: Japanese version / English version