We're all mad here (Kuroko no Basket fanfic, Mental hospital AU)

Chapter 3

Sitting in the cafeteria, on a wooden chair Kagami slowly brought a white mug with some steaming coffee in it to his lips. He let the strong taste of deep black coffee take over his whole mouth. The liquid's hotness burned his mouth, and he had little problems at swallowing it all.

He followed from aside how Hyuga was standing a bit further away from him, pouring also some coffee for himself. He soon walked to the table, to sit on the other side of it, face to the redhead.

Taiga put a little note on how cute Junpei's mug was. Its base was deep red, but it had a picture of him and (probably) his girlfriend on it. It was taken in some amusement park, and they were enjoying balls of ice cream when that picture was suddenly taken.

As the doctor coughed silently, he also burning his mouth because of the coffee, Kagami was able to return back to reality. He raised his gaze to Hyuga's eyes, putting his mug back on the table. He'd let it cool a bit before even trying to enjoy it again.

"What do you think about this place?" he asked silently with his burned, numb tongue, he also putting his drink away from his hands.

"...It all seems so interesting," Kagami answered after three seconds of thinking. "I'm sure that this will be way more exciting than those years I spent as sale's clerk to get some money for the stuff I needed," he continued, making the other to sneer silently.

"I'm sure about that," he smiled quickly. "But before running off to your job, I think you'd better know something about our patients," the dark haired male added, now with a pure polite tone in his voice, face gone straight.

Taiga let his face nod a bit, leaning his body tighter against the back of his chair.

It'd be important so he could regulate the way he acted due to the issues of each inpatient.

"Let's start with Shintaro Midorima," he started his explanation. "He has schizophrenia," and in just a few words he had told him the most important thing.

"He has been here already for years. And during that time, his symptoms have become worse. Of course, he has better times when he's feeling really great and it seems like there're no problems with him at all. But some days he is literally afraid of everything," he told, looking straight at the other.

"He sees and hears things. To keep the situation calm, get him to tell you what he's being through. And play along. It might be a little shock if someone just said you about your reality that 'it's not true. You're imagining it all.'" Kagami nodded once in a while to tell that he was trying to let it all stick in his brains.

"About Ryota Kise, he has anorexia nervosa." the doctor continued with another patient's story.

"There're no other issues with him, but his avoiding of food. You have to keep your eye on him and make sure he'll enjoy his meal. And if you find him doing any kind of exercise, tell him to stop. Sometimes he might have some attacks of panic if he's having a bad day and is not amused of the way he looks. Be there for him, try to calm him down," Junpei said with the same straight, emotionless face.

"Aomine Daiki," he continued with another name. He didn't want to keep any of his explanations too long.

"His life has been very far from a normal one. When his parents threw him out, he started seeking for safe feeling and pleasure from drugs. When he ran out of money, he started to film porn of his gang friends and sold those tapes to anyone who wanted to buy them. Slowly his videos became more and more sick, violent, not easy to watch. When all that blood and pain weren't enough for him, he picked up three children and filmed something of them," he told, keeping his gaze locked on the table.