To Kill Your Own (Plot)

Laxus sat at a small cafe table outside, sipping from a cup that had long since been empty. Haka's hospital sat less than a block away and he stared at the front doors intently as people came and went about. You didn't bring the others along for this mission? Sylvia asked, but Laxus just shook his head, No, this is a more covert mission. Too many people and you draw too much attention. Quick in and out, I just want to get this over with. Ariagane snorted, That's what she said. Laxus placed the cup back down on its saucer as his target emerged from the hospital. Laxus stood up, placing a few bills on the table before heading towards his target in an even, but intent pace. As the two passed, Laxus ducked down a back alley for a few seconds.

When he emerged again it wasn't Laxus, but the doctor he had just passed. Checking his pockets and making sure the jacket fit properly, Laxus strode towards the doors of the hospital, not even breaking stride as the doors slid open silently. Laxus stepped up to the nurses' station, placing his arm against the counter top in a very nonchalant fashion. Nurse, could you please direct me to the location of a certain Felix Shinto and a Mr. Kane Yaju? Laxus asked, putting on his best smile.

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Hmm? Oh sure, Doctor. Matsumoto but I thought you were going on break? Sorry spoke out of turn, the Shinto patient is in intensive care, room 304, but the Yaju should be in surgery right now. Room 4 the nurse said while accessing some files on her desk and channeling chakra into a monitor screen to detect where they were after a couple of minutes. Of course she didn't tell him how to get to them for obvious reasons considering she thought he was a doctor and thus would know where to go. She would happily go back to doing what she was doing before he asked namely doing paperwork...which was odd because how could anyone be happy doing such perhaps she had been popping a few..

Yes well I was about to when I remembered I had been assigned two new patients this morning. Completely slipped my mind, and I always like to check in with all of my patients before going on break, just in case they need something. That way I won't be bothered during my time off, you know? Laxus, or rather Doctor Matsumoto, said smiling as he spoke to the nurse. Three oh four and room four, got it, thank you very much. Doctor Matsumoto said, turning to leave the desk and head for the stairs. Room 304 would obviously be on the third floor. With the Yaju in surgery, it would make things difficult to deal with him with so many people around, but the Shinto should be easy enough. Oh and nurse, try to remember the pain killers are for the patients. Laxus said over his shoulder before disappearing up the stairwell. Arriving on the third floor he would simply need to count the room numbers before turning to his right to find 304 on a metal plaque beside a door. The door was open for nurses and doctors to come in and tend to the patient easily. He entered quietly, careful not to wake the patient incase he was in fact sleeping.

The Shinto patient was currently asleep however his wife was in the room with him her head resting on his chest as she had likewise fallen asleep, their pre-teen daughter was awake and was currently reading a book deciding not to wake up his parents as it seemed the small family had slept in the hospital. It was a common practice usually a significant other would stay in the hospital in case anything happened to the injured so at least they could be present in their last moments. However most didn't see it like that, rather it was the unstated reason that they were in the hospital the prevalent reasoning was moral and emotional support.

When he entered the girl would look up from her book before smiling at the doctor shyly, she hadn't met him before but he was coming to check up on her father. Um..mom and dad are asleep but if you want I can wake her up so you can at least check him with out startling her? She said in a low voice

The doctor looked down at the bright eyed girl that stood before him and smiled softly before getting down to a squat so he'd be level with her. Placing a hand on her head gently he looked into her eyes, smiling the whole time, No sweetie, that won't be necessary. I'm just here to give your daddy some medicine and then I'll be off. Laxus said, rising to his feet again and going over to the little cabinet area standard in any doctor's office room, particularly the hospital. He opened the cabinet to find a row of different vials and syringes. As Laxus took down medicine and a syringe, he thought about the sleeping woman and child watching him. The guy just had to have a family. Normally things like this wouldn't bother Laxus in the slightest, but for some unexplained reason he was actually hesitating to kill this man, having second thoughts even. Some part of him felt compassion for this small family. Deciding he would make sure the man's widow and daughter would be well looked after--after all he was the leader of the Shinto clan--Laxus punctured the top of one of the medicine vials, careful not to actually fill the syringe with any liquid but simply make it seem like he was. The liquid itself was clear so it would be nearly impossible for anyone to tell there wasn't anything in it.

As Laxus did this, he said over his shoulder to the girl, Sweetie, why don't you run out to the nurse's desk and see if they have any candy, maybe a lollipop? Tell them Doctor Matsumoto sent you. You don't need to be around to watch your daddy get medicine, doctor stuff can be really gross. Laxus then took the empty syringe over to the man sleeping peacefully in his hospital bed. For a moment he looked down at the sleeping woman, her head protectively in his lap. On the bright side the man would die in his sleep, no fear, no pain, no suffering at all. Looking at the man's arm, Laxus selected a particularly plump looking vein in the man's forearm and gingerly pierced the man's skin with the needle. It would feel like nothing more than a slight pinch, something that would rarely wake anyone, never mind someone that was probably heavily medicated. Laxus took another second, pausing to think, before ignoring his heart and listening to his head. He pushed down on the plunger of the needle, sending nothing but air directly into the man's veins. He would be dead in a matter of minutes. Laxus would dispose of the syringe and turn to leave from the room, not wanting to stick around.

The girl would smile before nodding and closing her book before walking off to see the nurse at the front desk. Meanwhile everything went smoothly his wife didn't wake up due to Laxus being silent while he didn't wake up because he was heavily drugged. The Kikaichu in his body didn't react mainly because they were likewise sedated and his Chimera Ants terrified any who might of tried to react, it was merely an instinct thing, on the regular they might of tired to fight back against any invading object but they were too hopped up on morphine to be of much use. It was common knowledge that Shinto were typically given more morphine to drug them into bliss due to their hive typically attempting to purify via consumption their blood stream, give them enough and the hive itself will be drugged allowing the Shinto to succumb to the effects. Now it was just the matter of getting out of the room and then finding the second target. So far so good, as the daughter would probably not get back until he was already out of the room and on his way somewhere else.

Confident that at least one target was taken care of, Laxus left the room and headed back for the stairs. He passed the nurses' station where he could see a small girl on tiptoes reaching up for a lollipop from the nurse behind the counter. Without giving her a second look, Laxus turned left and took the stairs down two at a time. For people visiting relatives, as well as assassins like himself, the hospital had been gracious enough to post plaques at the door of each floor in the stairwell. The plaques were maps of the hospital's layout, with each room numbered and each area labeled. As it was, Laxus managed to locate the surgery section of the hospital quite easily and descended the stairs back to the first floor. Walking past the first station he had encountered the high nurse at, Laxus turned down a corridor and walked through a set of bleach white doors that swung freely on their hinges. As he counted the rooms, few other doctors and surgeons passed him. Finding room four he opened the door and stepped into the preparation room. The actual surgical room would be behind a large wall, most likely with a window in case the family wanted to watch, and a second door for the doctors to enter into.

Currently their were two surgeons while 5 nurses and one intern were currently assisting him with the surgery, apparently the patient had taken a kunai to the knee and it had resulted in a blood clot which ended up in his lung. So in addition to having to amputate his lower leg they also had to fix the clot lest he end up eventually having his lung collapse which wasn't fun, not at all. If Laxus wanted to enter he would have to change into scrubs as well as decontaminate himself the force of the water most likely ending up disrupting his transformation technique and revealing that he wasn't in fact, Doctor Matsumoto. So entering the room was most certainly out, pity seeing as it would of been much easier if he could simply act as if he wished to observe the surgery as a fellow resident unfortunately for him though that couldn't be the case. He would have to find another way to dispose of his target as currently the surgery was half way done and was going smoothly with no problems what so ever. His chest cavity was open and his leg was being stitched up while the necrotic parts were being disposed off.

Laxus looked at the surgery and frowned, this would be much harder than the last one. He could just wait for them to be done, and finish off the Yaju later while he sat in recovery, but Laxus wasn't exactly patient. Perhaps we could be of service? Ariagnae said through the hive mind link. Indeed young master, we could be of real use in a tender situation such as this. Laxus smiled, having mostly forgotten about his tiny tenants. Very well, one of each, a black chimera to tear through the ceiling tiles and a green one to- Laxus began but Ariagnae interrupted, Relax, we know what to do. At that, two ants, a green and a black, dropped from Laxus's pant leg and began scaling the wall as Laxus looked on at the surgery intently. The ants would climb up into the ceiling, the black one making a hole by ripping through the tile with its mandibles. The green one followed shortly there after and several seconds later would attempt to drop from the ceiling in the operating room, onto the surgeon as he worked in the patient's chest cavity. If all went according to plan, the ant would land without a trace and vibrate slightly so the surgeon's hands would slip, preferably severing an artery or cause some other such important mishap.

The surgery was going well and when the surgeon's hand was vibrated he would miss the lung he was supposed to cut and would slice into the artery which fed blood into it, everyone would raise their eyebrows in shock and the surgeon would begin to bark out orders so that they could attempt to save him the surgeon's hand lightning up with green chakra before quickly mending the cut artery, thankfully he was saved just on time though now there was the problem of all the blood leaking into the patient's body one of the nurses working on draining it out. If not that they had chakra that could of been a fatal mistake, but chakra was a wonderful thing and could heal small precise but deadly cuts in a matter of seconds depending on how much chakra is pumped out. It would seem that the ants would have to do something more interesting to kill the man as it seemed having the surgeon miss a cut wouldn't exactly work.

Young master, they seem to be more capable doctors than I initially anticipated. Sylvia said and Laxus just nodded solemnly watching the doctors patch up their mistake, or rather the Green Ant's botched attempt at assassinating the target. Tch, figures. Watch and learn young blood. Ariagnae said with a hint of mischief in her voice. Ariagnae don't do anything too- Laxus began but stopped as the tiles above the operating room seemed to glow and radiate light. What did you do?! Laxus demanded. You're welcome. Was Ariagnae's simple reply. Tiles lit with flame began dropping from the ceiling all around the doctors, nurses, and patient. Without hesitating, Laxus opened the surgery room door and yelled in, Electrical fire, you have to evacuate! In the short time the ant had been up in the rafters, it had made quick work and already the entire ceiling seemed to be asunder with flames. Sylvia, tell your green ant to slip into the chest cavity of the patient while everyone is distracted. Laxus said as the alarms all throughout the hospital began to go off.

The intern would panic while the nurses rushed to shut off the equipment as the alarms blared, everyone panicking in their own right, the surgeon thankfully wouldn't jump from the sudden fire and end up slicing the victim up with his chakra scalpels perhaps his near miss had allowed him to be more careful this time around. Regardless no one would notice the green ant slipping into the body during the ommotion so that was a success. They couldn't use any water to put out the fire so the intern would break the glass for the fire extinguisher before pulling it out and attempting to put out the fire after pulling out the pin. So far however no was was paying direct attention to the patient as they were all rushing to put out the fire so that it didn't engulf them all in flames or even worse set off the oxygen tank consuming them all in a fiery explosion.

As the surgical staff busied themselves trying to put out the fire, the green ant would land softly in the warm, fleshy part of the chest cavity.  It would then proceed to make its way behind the beating heart, latching on and becoming stuck between the heart muscle tissue and tissue of the chest cavity.  Young master, my soldier is in position. Sylvia reported as Laxus watched the panic stricken doctors run about the room in a frenzy.  He looked at the patient, laying on the table, completely unaware of the world around him.  Doctors weren't the bringers of life, they simply prolonged it.  Laxus however, he came to realize in that instant, was the ender of lives.  Do it. He said with little compassion before exiting the room, letting the surgery room door swing back and leaving the others to deal with the fire.  If anyone asked, he'd simply say he was going to get help.  Inside the Yaju, the green ant would begin pulsating, sending vibrations directly into the heart that would counter-act the contractions it normally performed.  The heart would slow down, beat by beat, before finally coming to a stop.  Laxus left the room as the machines read out a perfect flat line.

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Mission Complete.