Hiraeth (A HideKane/ KaneHide multichapter fic)

Chapter 15

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chapters like these are when I'm glad I have two parents in the medical field who don't question why I need to know how doctors would fix someone with a chunk torn out of their side lmao

Akira was never one to beat around the bush, so she told the nurse one thing and one thing only.

"I want to get out of this damn hospital."

"Ah, well, you see..." The nurse trailed off, and Akira sighed. Yes, she knew her wounds were going to take more than just a few days to heal, and no, she didn't care. All she was concerned about was what she was going to do about Nagachika-even though she felt utterly terrible.

The nurse changed her colostomy bag, gave her medicine, and asked if she needed anything. Akira said no, so she bowed and left, leaving her alone with her thoughts.

In the hours in which she was awake, Akira planned what she was going to do once she was out of the hospital, which she was hoping was soon. She'd gotten extremely lucky. It was been touch and go for a while, the surgeon said, but she hung on. The kagune pierced her side and took a chunk out, narrowly missing her kidney but shredding part of her large intestine. She received vascular surgery, as she had almost bled out before reaching the hospital because some blood vessels were hit. She also had to get a colectomy and a colostomy, in which part of her damaged colon was removed and the rest was diverted to an opening in her abdomen that allowed waste to leave her body since it could no longer go the normal route.

She'd have to properly thank Nagachika for that if she ever saw him again.

After fixing her insides, the doctors closed the large wound as best as they could and informed her that it would take about two weeks for her to be discharged. The first few days were misery. She felt like vomiting much of the time and could hardly stomach anything. Slowly, it began to get better, though it was still rather disgusting to see what should be inside her body on the outside. She tried not to look at that stupid bag more than she had to.

When she wasn't thinking about what she was going to do or wondering if she should ask for the bag to be changed-it always looked too full for her liking, even though there usually wasn't much in it-Akira tried to eat, took her medicine, saw a few visitors, and read the books and did the work they left with her. It was mainly the higher-ups checking up on her to see when she would be ready to return to work. She was as eager as they were for her to leave.

Finally, she settled on a plan she deemed worthy of taking to the higher-ups.

Nagachika would be best used as a resource for the CCG, she concluded. That fact was apparent. With his strength and perceptive nature, he could rival a First Class investigator. And, if Nagachika really were the infamous Flyer-and all signs said yes, he was-then the amounts of information the CCG could get from him were endless. Nagachika had been human; there was no question about that. He was as human as anyone could possibly be. So how had he gone from just a normal person to a well-known ghoul practically overnight?

Killing him would be such a waste. More than likely, Nagachika knew valuable information the CCG would love to get their hands on. Perhaps he even knew how one was turned into a ghoul or if there were a way to reverse it. She wondered, given the opportunity, would he return to being human?