Fan Fic Asylum - Chapter 8
Title: Asylum - Chapter 7
Characters: Kato Shigeaki, OC, Tegoshi Yuya, Masuda Takahisa, Koyama Keichiro, Yamashita Tomohisa, Ryo Nishikido, Fujigaya Taisuke, Kimura Takuya, Gackt.
Rating: N17
Disclaimer: I own the story ONLY
Chapter 8
Kimura sensei talked to them, as he’d promised but he hadn’t given them any information. The man was very ill and together with his mental illness had caused the nervous breakdown and the heart attack which had killed him.
As far as Shige and the others knew that had not looked like a simple heart attack. The good thing was that Kimura sensei agreed to let Koyama sleep in Yamashita’s and Fujigaya’s bedroom for now. What seemed weird to Shige is that he had agreed immediately without any real explanation. When he asked about it Tegoshi answered:
“Yeah, I thought it was weird too. I mean we’ve always have privileges. Mostly we bribe nurses and even some doctors. Pi can get info from peoples’ heads and Erika can get information from the ghosts.”
“What kind of information?”
This time Erika answered:
“It depends. With Nishikido san is either quick cash or a way to p-pick up a nurse or worker he likes. Yamashita reads what she likes and we tell Nishikido san. Then the g-ghosts sometimes know where money is hidden, account numbers, etc. We only g-give him information that won’t hurt anybody. Well, except for the nurses when he sleeps with them and then he never calls back. But they get over it.” She said this with only a slight stutter and she had a slight accent, Shige noticed. He had heard her before but without the heavy stutter it was easier to pick up.
“So they know what you guys can do?”
“Not really. We don’t tell them how we get the information and they don’t ask. I guess they are more comfortable not knowing,” said Tegoshi. “Though I think Ryo-kun might be on to us, but again, as long as we give him good information he is happy to look the other way.”
They went to get the others and found an empty office in an unused part of the building. These guys really knew their way around the place and how to get there without being noticed.
The three of them told what they saw and what had happened. Erika told them about the man still screaming after he had died (though not about the garden… of course not, there was nothing to tell)
“What was he screaming?” asked Maki.
“He kept saying no and… an-nather w-word.” She hesitated.
“The same word as the others?” She nodded.
“What word? What others? Do you guys have to be so cryptic?” asked Shige crossing his arms over his chest. He hated not understanding.
“Don’t be a grouchy old man,” said Tegoshi. “We will explain.”
“Well you are taking your sweet time.”
“Some things are not easy to talk about,” said Maki.
Shige looked down. “Okay, sorry. But can you explain this?”
“Remember that we told you that many patients disappear and that we know some are dead? Well, we know they are dead because Erika heard some of them. None of them knew what had happened to them but they kept repeating one word: ‘Suzerain’. We don’t know what it means.” Explained Yamashita.
After that it was decided that Yamashita would go with Koyama and Maki and talk to the boss and see if he could figure something out.
*******
Late that night, Yamashita was walking back from talking to the boss. He had said he had no idea what that word might mean and Yamashita couldn’t tell if he was saying the truth or not since, as always he couldn’t hear his thoughts even if he tried and he hated it in moments like this.
The boss had helped them countless times and he had been put in isolation for doing something good actually so Yamashita wasn’t sure why he felt this way.
He was scared. That was the bottom line. He was afraid that something really bad was going to happen and he wouldn’t be able to protect them. They were his family. Of course he loved his mother and sisters but he had never been able to talk to them. Before he was hospitalized he couldn’t even tell they were in the room and after… well, how much can you talk to someone who thinks that you are completely crazy?
No, this was his family. His brothers and sister and Maki… Instinctively he brought her closer to him and held her tight. If anything happened to her…
“What is it?” She asked in a whisper. Usually there was no one around at this hour, but why risk it.
“Nothing.”
“Don’t lie,” said Maki.
“It’s nothing new. I don’t like what is happening. I still think we should try to leave this place before something bad happens.” He said laud enough for only Maki to hear but not the other two were walking ahead of them.
“We can’t leave. What are we going to do outside? We have no one, not even our families. They would bring us back here.”
“We would figure something out. I don’t want anything to happen to anyone. I don’t want anything to happen to you.” He said softly.
Maki stopped him and looked up at him. “We’ll be fine,” she said firmly with both her hands on his cheeks and she kissed him softly. He kissed her back.
“Maki, I know something is happening to you. You are not sleeping…”
Maki kissed him again. “It’s probably the drug wearing off. If it gets worse I’ll tell you.”
“Hey! Someone’s coming.” He heard Koyama whisper. They run to one of the empty offices and opened the doors, which were always unlocked in this part of the building.
They heard two people talking.
“Did you take care of Subaru-san?” It was Kimura-sensei
“Yes. He had no family so there weren’t any problems. Ueda is starting to show the same symptoms, so is…” And the voices were too far away to distinguish words.
They stayed still for a while and then left the office and returned to their rooms in silence.
*****
They were all sitting together and Yamashita was telling then about what had happened the night before.
“Who is this Ueda guy?” Shige asked.
“He is a patient here. He has the room next to yours.” Now, Shige remembered him. he hadn’t really talked to the guy but Tegoshi had pointed him out.
“Yes,” added his roommate. “He wasn’t doing so well, about a week before you came, he seemed to be missing sleep. I tried to talk to him about it and he just acted all mysterious saying something about dreams and that I wouldn’t understand.”
“And the boss didn’t know anything.” Shige said but Yamashita hesitated.
“No, he didn’t.” he finally answered.
“But…”
“He just said he didn’t know the meaning of the word and that he would tell us when he knew more.”
Shige frowned.
“But he was lying.” They all looked at Koyama. “You think so too, right Pi?” Yamashita took a big breath and nodded. “Yes, that’s what I felt. And he feels guilty about it.”
“Wait, can’t you read his mind and tell if he’s lying?” Shige asked.
“No, I’ve never been able to read him. It happens with some people. Kimura sensei is the same and Tegoshi is difficult to read… though maybe it’s because his head is usually a mess… sorry.”
“That’s okay,” the other man said. “My head is a mess.”
“But you both think the guy is lying.” Shige said.
“I felt guilt and something else; I think he’s not telling us everything.” Koyama said.
“I’m sorry Tegoshi,” started Yamashita. “I know you trust him and I do too but…”
“He is lying. I know. I’ve been thinking about it for some time. And if Koyama’s felt it I believe him. He might have a good reason, though.” He sounded sad.
“I’m sorry, but what do you mean with ‘you felt guilt’?” Shige asked to remind the rest that he didn’t read minds and he didn’t know what the hell they were talking about.
“Tegoshi didn’t tell you about me?” Shige shook his head. “Well, I’m an empath. I can feel what everyone around me is feeling. It’s overwhelming when I touch the person or if I’m too close to them.”
“And you can feel the feeling of the boss, Kimura sensei and Tegoshi?”
“Yes, Tegoshi’s head may be a mess but I only feel the feeling not the reason behind it.” He took a big breath. “Come on, I’ll tell you the story, but not here. Come, walk with me.”
*******
March - 1961
The man went in the ramen place and sat down. It was getting late, the negotiations for the purchase of the land took some time and he was hungry. It didn’t matter, he had gotten the land and the construction at the site could start as soon as his people could manage it.
He looked around, the place was run down but clean. The city was small but it seemed like it might thrive in the future. It really was of no interest to him but he figured it wouldn’t hurt.
And old man approached the table and greeted him he ordered and then started to eat.
“So, what brings you here, sir?”
He looked up at the old man. “I just purchased a piece of land about an hour from here.”
The man’s eyebrows shot up. “So you are moving in?”
“Eventually. But I’m a doctor. My name is Shigo Katori.” He bowed his head and the old man bowed back. “I’m going to build a institution here.”
“Well that’s good news, though we do have a hospital rather close, about a half an hour going north.”
Shingo smiled. “I see. But it’s not that kind of hospital. It’ll be a psychiatric hospital.”
“Will it now? And where is it going to be? Folks here won’t be too happy having crazies running around.”
“They will not be running around. They’ll be cared and tendered for. It will also bring jobs.”
“Mm. In my day, you took care of your own not send them out to strangers.”
“I understand many think like that but…”
“I didn’t mean to offend you, sensei. But I am still curious, where are you planning to set this institution of yours?”
“The lot about an hour of here to the way of the mountains.”
The other man visibly paled. “Sensei, you better not go there. The place is cursed. Some say is the very gate to hell.”
Shingo repressed a smile at the local superstition. He didn’t do a very good job.
The older man shook his head. “People these days. That place is bad news. You better believe me.”
Shingo decided to just change the subject; superstitions were usually very rooted in these small cities and an argument would get him nowhere. “Excuse me,” he asked after he paid. “Do you know where I can spend the night?”
The man sighed but gave him directions.
He walked to the small inn, still smiling at the silly fear in the man’s eyes. No superstition would deter him from his dream. He would use his fortune to build the biggest, most modern psychiatric institution.
He asked for a room and went to bed.
They would have the latest innovations, the best doctors in the country. He would have to contact his partners and tell them that the place was perfect. He hadn’t been sure at first but when he went to the site he knew. That was the right place.
He would talk to his wife too. They would have to move with their two sons.
The old man’s words rang again in his ears.
Superstition, nothing more.
Yes, nothing more.
The place is perfect.
Yes, of course, perfect.
Hope you enjoyed this new chapter!
Characters: Kato Shigeaki, OC, Tegoshi Yuya, Masuda Takahisa, Koyama Keichiro, Yamashita Tomohisa, Ryo Nishikido, Fujigaya Taisuke, Kimura Takuya, Gackt.
Rating: N17
Disclaimer: I own the story ONLY
Chapter 8
Kimura sensei talked to them, as he’d promised but he hadn’t given them any information. The man was very ill and together with his mental illness had caused the nervous breakdown and the heart attack which had killed him.
As far as Shige and the others knew that had not looked like a simple heart attack. The good thing was that Kimura sensei agreed to let Koyama sleep in Yamashita’s and Fujigaya’s bedroom for now. What seemed weird to Shige is that he had agreed immediately without any real explanation. When he asked about it Tegoshi answered:
“Yeah, I thought it was weird too. I mean we’ve always have privileges. Mostly we bribe nurses and even some doctors. Pi can get info from peoples’ heads and Erika can get information from the ghosts.”
“What kind of information?”
This time Erika answered:
“It depends. With Nishikido san is either quick cash or a way to p-pick up a nurse or worker he likes. Yamashita reads what she likes and we tell Nishikido san. Then the g-ghosts sometimes know where money is hidden, account numbers, etc. We only g-give him information that won’t hurt anybody. Well, except for the nurses when he sleeps with them and then he never calls back. But they get over it.” She said this with only a slight stutter and she had a slight accent, Shige noticed. He had heard her before but without the heavy stutter it was easier to pick up.
“So they know what you guys can do?”
“Not really. We don’t tell them how we get the information and they don’t ask. I guess they are more comfortable not knowing,” said Tegoshi. “Though I think Ryo-kun might be on to us, but again, as long as we give him good information he is happy to look the other way.”
They went to get the others and found an empty office in an unused part of the building. These guys really knew their way around the place and how to get there without being noticed.
The three of them told what they saw and what had happened. Erika told them about the man still screaming after he had died (though not about the garden… of course not, there was nothing to tell)
“What was he screaming?” asked Maki.
“He kept saying no and… an-nather w-word.” She hesitated.
“The same word as the others?” She nodded.
“What word? What others? Do you guys have to be so cryptic?” asked Shige crossing his arms over his chest. He hated not understanding.
“Don’t be a grouchy old man,” said Tegoshi. “We will explain.”
“Well you are taking your sweet time.”
“Some things are not easy to talk about,” said Maki.
Shige looked down. “Okay, sorry. But can you explain this?”
“Remember that we told you that many patients disappear and that we know some are dead? Well, we know they are dead because Erika heard some of them. None of them knew what had happened to them but they kept repeating one word: ‘Suzerain’. We don’t know what it means.” Explained Yamashita.
After that it was decided that Yamashita would go with Koyama and Maki and talk to the boss and see if he could figure something out.
*******
Late that night, Yamashita was walking back from talking to the boss. He had said he had no idea what that word might mean and Yamashita couldn’t tell if he was saying the truth or not since, as always he couldn’t hear his thoughts even if he tried and he hated it in moments like this.
The boss had helped them countless times and he had been put in isolation for doing something good actually so Yamashita wasn’t sure why he felt this way.
He was scared. That was the bottom line. He was afraid that something really bad was going to happen and he wouldn’t be able to protect them. They were his family. Of course he loved his mother and sisters but he had never been able to talk to them. Before he was hospitalized he couldn’t even tell they were in the room and after… well, how much can you talk to someone who thinks that you are completely crazy?
No, this was his family. His brothers and sister and Maki… Instinctively he brought her closer to him and held her tight. If anything happened to her…
“What is it?” She asked in a whisper. Usually there was no one around at this hour, but why risk it.
“Nothing.”
“Don’t lie,” said Maki.
“It’s nothing new. I don’t like what is happening. I still think we should try to leave this place before something bad happens.” He said laud enough for only Maki to hear but not the other two were walking ahead of them.
“We can’t leave. What are we going to do outside? We have no one, not even our families. They would bring us back here.”
“We would figure something out. I don’t want anything to happen to anyone. I don’t want anything to happen to you.” He said softly.
Maki stopped him and looked up at him. “We’ll be fine,” she said firmly with both her hands on his cheeks and she kissed him softly. He kissed her back.
“Maki, I know something is happening to you. You are not sleeping…”
Maki kissed him again. “It’s probably the drug wearing off. If it gets worse I’ll tell you.”
“Hey! Someone’s coming.” He heard Koyama whisper. They run to one of the empty offices and opened the doors, which were always unlocked in this part of the building.
They heard two people talking.
“Did you take care of Subaru-san?” It was Kimura-sensei
“Yes. He had no family so there weren’t any problems. Ueda is starting to show the same symptoms, so is…” And the voices were too far away to distinguish words.
They stayed still for a while and then left the office and returned to their rooms in silence.
*****
They were all sitting together and Yamashita was telling then about what had happened the night before.
“Who is this Ueda guy?” Shige asked.
“He is a patient here. He has the room next to yours.” Now, Shige remembered him. he hadn’t really talked to the guy but Tegoshi had pointed him out.
“Yes,” added his roommate. “He wasn’t doing so well, about a week before you came, he seemed to be missing sleep. I tried to talk to him about it and he just acted all mysterious saying something about dreams and that I wouldn’t understand.”
“And the boss didn’t know anything.” Shige said but Yamashita hesitated.
“No, he didn’t.” he finally answered.
“But…”
“He just said he didn’t know the meaning of the word and that he would tell us when he knew more.”
Shige frowned.
“But he was lying.” They all looked at Koyama. “You think so too, right Pi?” Yamashita took a big breath and nodded. “Yes, that’s what I felt. And he feels guilty about it.”
“Wait, can’t you read his mind and tell if he’s lying?” Shige asked.
“No, I’ve never been able to read him. It happens with some people. Kimura sensei is the same and Tegoshi is difficult to read… though maybe it’s because his head is usually a mess… sorry.”
“That’s okay,” the other man said. “My head is a mess.”
“But you both think the guy is lying.” Shige said.
“I felt guilt and something else; I think he’s not telling us everything.” Koyama said.
“I’m sorry Tegoshi,” started Yamashita. “I know you trust him and I do too but…”
“He is lying. I know. I’ve been thinking about it for some time. And if Koyama’s felt it I believe him. He might have a good reason, though.” He sounded sad.
“I’m sorry, but what do you mean with ‘you felt guilt’?” Shige asked to remind the rest that he didn’t read minds and he didn’t know what the hell they were talking about.
“Tegoshi didn’t tell you about me?” Shige shook his head. “Well, I’m an empath. I can feel what everyone around me is feeling. It’s overwhelming when I touch the person or if I’m too close to them.”
“And you can feel the feeling of the boss, Kimura sensei and Tegoshi?”
“Yes, Tegoshi’s head may be a mess but I only feel the feeling not the reason behind it.” He took a big breath. “Come on, I’ll tell you the story, but not here. Come, walk with me.”
*******
March - 1961
The man went in the ramen place and sat down. It was getting late, the negotiations for the purchase of the land took some time and he was hungry. It didn’t matter, he had gotten the land and the construction at the site could start as soon as his people could manage it.
He looked around, the place was run down but clean. The city was small but it seemed like it might thrive in the future. It really was of no interest to him but he figured it wouldn’t hurt.
And old man approached the table and greeted him he ordered and then started to eat.
“So, what brings you here, sir?”
He looked up at the old man. “I just purchased a piece of land about an hour from here.”
The man’s eyebrows shot up. “So you are moving in?”
“Eventually. But I’m a doctor. My name is Shigo Katori.” He bowed his head and the old man bowed back. “I’m going to build a institution here.”
“Well that’s good news, though we do have a hospital rather close, about a half an hour going north.”
Shingo smiled. “I see. But it’s not that kind of hospital. It’ll be a psychiatric hospital.”
“Will it now? And where is it going to be? Folks here won’t be too happy having crazies running around.”
“They will not be running around. They’ll be cared and tendered for. It will also bring jobs.”
“Mm. In my day, you took care of your own not send them out to strangers.”
“I understand many think like that but…”
“I didn’t mean to offend you, sensei. But I am still curious, where are you planning to set this institution of yours?”
“The lot about an hour of here to the way of the mountains.”
The other man visibly paled. “Sensei, you better not go there. The place is cursed. Some say is the very gate to hell.”
Shingo repressed a smile at the local superstition. He didn’t do a very good job.
The older man shook his head. “People these days. That place is bad news. You better believe me.”
Shingo decided to just change the subject; superstitions were usually very rooted in these small cities and an argument would get him nowhere. “Excuse me,” he asked after he paid. “Do you know where I can spend the night?”
The man sighed but gave him directions.
He walked to the small inn, still smiling at the silly fear in the man’s eyes. No superstition would deter him from his dream. He would use his fortune to build the biggest, most modern psychiatric institution.
He asked for a room and went to bed.
They would have the latest innovations, the best doctors in the country. He would have to contact his partners and tell them that the place was perfect. He hadn’t been sure at first but when he went to the site he knew. That was the right place.
He would talk to his wife too. They would have to move with their two sons.
The old man’s words rang again in his ears.
Superstition, nothing more.
Yes, nothing more.
The place is perfect.
Yes, of course, perfect.
Hope you enjoyed this new chapter!