Whatever It Takes

By: Tycoon Girl

Disclaimer: I no own

Chapter One; Good Bye

The raven haired senior was bent over an essay with a red pen, scratching at all the mistakes that had been made by her little brother, Souta. She had always been rather smart and naturally got A+'s on everything she did. Kagome Higurashi was a perfectionist and never did anything halfass. Now she was tutoring her little brother as a favour to her mother. She sighed and rubbed her temples, momentairly peering at her younger brother whom was doing nothing. He sat, his feet on the desk, getting the mud that had been on his converse shoes all over the top. His jeans were baggy and he wore a red spitfire t-shirt. On his shaggy black hair he wore a black cap and he had his i-pod headphones in. Souta Higurashi was the troublemaker child. He got countless detentions and was purpetually getting in trouble for things that his teachers THOUGHT he might do. Souta Higurashi cut classes to go skateboarding. He was the best prankster Kagome knew, but his grades kept declining, and very rapidly.

"Souta? Souta, will you please take those head phones out and listen to me?" Kagome asked, setting her glasses down on his paper.

Her brother looked up, grinning sheepishly. He took the i-pod and stuffed it into his black hoodie pocket. "Yeah Kags?" he asked.

Kagome sighed. "Souta, you really don't have time to be goofing off listening to music. This paper is horrible. There are spelling errors to the words 'because' and 'together'. You spelled them 'bkuz' and '2geter'. Writing like this to your friends is one thing, but turning it in for a grade is another. You need to spell things out the proper way with the way your grades ar-" Kagome was intuppted by Souta taking his paper and ripping it up.

He stood and collected his things. "There. Problem solved. Listen Kagome, just because you were programmed not to fail at anything doesn't mean we regular humans are. Take your good grades and shove them up your smart ass." he grinned, slamming the door of the study they were in.

Kagome stood and pushed her glasses back on. She straightened her blue and black plaid skirt, chrisp white shirt, navy cashmere vest with the private school she attended on her left breast and the black tie. She pulled up her white knee-high socks and fixed her black loafers. Kagome collected her things and exited the study room that she had borrowed in the library. She held her books to her chest and walked back to her school's lush green campus that was right across the street.

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By the end of the day, her younger brother's words had nearly made her cry in every class she had, which was six times. She walked meekly through the crowded halls of her school, trying to get to her locker through the crazed teens trying to get to their buses or cars. Kagome went to her locker and set her things inside and pulled out her extra credit assignment that she'd recieved. Kagome pulled on a black school jacket and was suddenly pushed by a person rushing to get out of school. She smacked her face against the edge of her locker, shattering her glasses. Kagome pulled the empty frames off her face and looked around at all the blurrs. She couldn't see a damn thing without her glasses. "Miss Higurashi? Did you break your glasses?" Professor Ookami asked.

"Yes sir, I don't know what happened." Kagome said, closing her locker.

Her Professor was a very kindly old man, but it did not sit well with him to see so many students pick on Kagome, his star student. He wanted her to go on to become a doctor, lawyer or business person. Knowing her, she would probably exceed in every one. "Very well, I believe that Nurse Ayame still has another pair your mother dropped off. Follow me."

Professor Ookami led Kagome through the crowds, yelling and pushing when it was nessary. Kagome blushed and looked at the floor. She had never liked attention focused on her. They arrived in the infirmary and the young, red-headed nurse greeted them. "Hello Kagome. Professor. Did you break your glasses again little one?" she asked, smiling down at Kagome. Ayame had emerald green eyes and was in her early twenties, and was very kind to everyone, especially Kagome. Kagome nodded.

Ayame turned to a glass cabinet and opened it. "Oh dear." she murmured. She turned back to Kagome. "I'm sorry, it seems as if there isn't another spare." she said.

Kagome nodded. "I'll be fine. I'm walking home this afternoon since Souta has the car. Don't worry about me!" Kagome said, turning and crashing into the door frame.

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Souta grumbled under his breath as he picked his sister up. Kagome climbed in and shut her door. "Sorry about this Souta. It's just I can't see a thing without my glasses. Professor Ookami didn't want me to walk home like this." she said. Souta shrugged. He would be late for his band rehurasal now. Kagome couldn't help but feel bad about making her brother drive across town to get her. He went to a public school that was totally crappy, and she went to one of the best schools in the state.

Kagome climbed from the car that she and her brother shared. He sped off as soon as she closed the door, the tires screeching. Kagome sighed and walked slowly, her shoulders curled down in defeat. She went into the house and led herself down the hall to her bedroom and to the nightstand beside her bed and opened the drawer. Her hands felt for the extra pair she had in her case and slid them on.

Her room was covered in a large mural she'd done. Her talents were amazing in art, but in school she never showed her abilites to anyone. Kagome changed into a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt. She went into the high-gloss kitchen and pressed the answering machine. Her mother's voice floated out.

'Hello Kagome, Souta. Listen, I won't be able to make it home again tonight. Just order pizza or chinese. I don't care. You both have your own credit cards. Anyway, tommorow morning I'm flying to Tokoyo for a week to close a business deal. It might take two. In other words, I'll be gone for most of this month. If either of you need anything call me on my cell. If I don't answer then call my pager, but ONLY if it's an emergency. I love you both. See you in a month.' BEEP.

Kagome frowned and went to the notepad that had her brother's messages on it. She wrote on it. 'Souta, mom gone for month. Call cell only if emergency.'

This was typical of their mother. She after all, was the sole provider for them and their spending after their father had been assassinated after a historical relic he'd discovered got lost. Kagome sighed and pulled her silky black hair into a bun and pulled on her white tennis shoes. She headed out the front door of her three story villa, onto the street. She walked through her neighborhood and into historic downtown. Kagome entered a small pizza shop and ordered a cheese pizza to go.

She was waiting for her pizza when she heard a cackle from the corner booth. Her brown eyes found themselves looking over at Kikyo, Yura, Kagura and Kanna along with the two Taisho brothers from her school. Kagome ignored the group as they never acknowledged her seeing that she was less than popualr. She was the defination of loser to the, and they were worshiped by all. Well, all except Kagome. She paid for her pizza and was walking by a table when a pair of drunkards grabbed her. One man pulled her to straddle him and she set her pizza down and slammed her elbow into the man's shoulder. He cursed and tried to punch her, but she dodged and slipped away from him. Kagome took her pizza and ran from the shop as fast as she could, which was pretty fast. She went into her house and slammed the door.

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The next morning Kagome dressed in her school uniform and gathered her completed schoolwork and went into the kitchen and called her eyedoctor to get a few new pairs of glasses. She got into her car and drove to school. Another day that held no challenges for her. She only attended acedemic classes. Never gym because she hated drawing attention to herself and never art. She was too good at it all. Damn her father for those scientific tests he tried on her. He'd given her some sort of pill that the FDA hadn't even heard of. The work of a madman. But she didn't mind her father. She'd figured out that in the last three years of his life he was being controlled by an even madder madman scientist with something he'd created. So now Kagome was indeed, something similar to a robot.

Kagome sat in her classes, spacing out, while her hand still scribbled notes quickly. "Miss Higurashi, the princapal could like to see you. Take your things." Professor Roma said. Kagome stood and collected her things. She moved at a quick pace to the principal's office. He was a nosy old green toad.

She knocked on his door. "Enter!" came a squeak.

Kagome entered the office and sat in a chair beside the two Taisho brothers, a black haired man with piercing blue eyes, a brown haired man with kind violet eyes, an elderly woman wearing a patch on her eye, a short man whom was about four feet tall, and a woman with long brown hair and fierce brown eyes. "Miss Kagome, we've been searching for you." the woman said.

She turned to the woman. "So?" she asked in a quiet voice.

"Well, first off, I think introductions are in order. I am Dr. Sango Mirashu and my husband, Dr. Miroku Mirashu." she said gesturing to the man with violet eyes.

"And I am Dr. Koga Wolfstein, robotics major." the man with piercing blue eyes said.

"I am Dr. Kaede Guiskiko, herbal and well...I'm a doctor for humans..." the old eye-patched woman smiled.

The short old man jumped up and down. "And I am Dr. Myoga Fishosan, brain surgeon." he said in a nasally voice that made Kagome want to shutter.

"I'm sure your aqquainted with Sesshomaru and Inuyasha Taisho. They are the ones funding our work due to...well, reasons I cannot elaborate on right now." Sango said. Kagome squirmed in her chair.

"What does all of this have to do with me?" she demanded, clutching the sides of her books so hard her knukles turned white.

Koga cleared his throat. "Well Kagome, when Sesshomaru and Inuyasha saw that display in the pizza shop, they instantly knew what you were and alerted us. We've been compiling everything we've got to work on a cure..."

Her eyes flashed with anger. Koga and the others watched in awe. They'd never seen someone with her condition show the amount that she was showing. "And what exzactly AM I?" she hissed venomly.

"Surely you must have been aware that you were a test subject for something called 'metalazation'. No? Well, the story is rather long, but before I tell you, are you sure you want to hear this? Your father isn't the man you knew." Miroku said.

Kagome stood. "None of you know what your talking about. My father was a business man and nothing more. None of you have the right to intrude in my life like this. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to be going back to class." she said, walking over to the door and opening it. She slammed it behind her and went to her next class.

Her pulse was maddeningly quick and she couldn't get it to slow. Kagome's head began to ache and for once in her life she didn't care about what her teacher was saying. The barcode she had at the back of her neck pulsated more than it had in years. The barcode was the number of experiments done on her, the results and her test subject number. She bit her lip hard, causing a thin line of blood to appear on her bottom lip. Kagome endured the agony and was releaved to hear the end of day bell. She collected her things and ran to her locker to get what she needed for homework.

Kagome drove home quickly and ran into the house, past her brother and his group of mush-head friends. She slammed her door and changed into dark jeans and a purple t-shirt. She pulled her hair back into a ponytail and stood. Kagome had intentshions. She was going to get into her father's study that had long been locked up by her mother. Kagome went into the kitchen, ripping it apart for the key. Finally she found it behind a picture of herself and held it up, looking at it grimly. "Kagome, what the hell did you do to the kitchen?" Souta yelled.

She stood. "Something outside my programming." she sneered. She turned and ran to her father's study and unlocked the door. Those doctors had arisen her long dead curiousity and now she NEEDED to know what her father had done to her. The door swung open when she twisted the knob. She slowly entered the lab that she had been turned into what she was in...

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Authour's Note; Hi there. Yeah, you. Read and review my friggen story. Oh, and I also want you to know that this is my first cliffhanger, and truth be told, it's making my eye twitch leaving it right there.

I also want the people to know that are reading this, that it will get very complicated in the next two or three chapters, mkay? Ask me any question, as long as it's not stupid. Now my dear fans, I must help you to understand a bit more what the hell was going on in the above chapter, so...

Souta: is resentful of Kagome because she seems seemingly perfect and flawless...like a robot. So he makes nasty robot remarks, but he doesn't know how close he is to the actual truth of the matter

Dr. Higurashi (Kagome and Souta's father): Madman whom used his own daughter as a guniea pig for his 'metalization' experiments. (To let you know, this part about their father will improve over the next few chapters, I promise you won't hate him as much as you do now in the ending of the story.)

Kagome: The quiet girl. Smart, and seemingly shy. No friends. Secretly yerns to know what happened to her, but tells people she doesn't. (Also, this discription will improve over the next few chappies, I just don't want to give too much of the plot line away in this!)

Mrs. Higurashi (Mother of Kagome and Souta): A powerful CEO who is never in her children's lives and dosen't like for them to call her unless it is an emergency. (THIS IS KILLING ME! I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE OTHER STUFF!)

Sesshomaru Taisho: The rich heir to his father's fortune. He has a mysterious reason for funding the doctors whom are intrested in 'metalization', that only he and Inuyasha know. Very handsome, a tad rude, and is the most popular guy in school along with his girlfriend, Yura. (Don't worry, the bitch isn't going to be around for long I'm going to...I should not have said that. Shutting up.)

Inuyasha Taisho: The misunderstood rich pretty boy. Mysterious reason...see Sesshomaru's blurp...powerful fighter, extremely popular along with his girlfriend, Kikyo. (She's not sticking around either...I hate Kikyo...well, it depends on what the pairings are going to be, if you know what I mean.)

Dr. Sango Mirashu: Married to collegue, Dr. Miroku Mirashu. Specializes in weapons for the U.S. government.

Dr. Miroku Mirashu: Married to collegue, Dr. Sango Mirashu. Specializes in myth and history research for the CIA or what ever.

Dr. Koga Wolfstein: Specializes in robotics.

Dr. Kaede Guiskiko: Specializes in human treatments and herbs.

Dr. Myoga Fishosan: Specializes in emotional treatments and brain surgeon. (Yah, I thought having Inuyasha as the brain surgeon was just too damn ironic.)

Naraku: The bad guy thus far.

Alright. Now do you understand? (I actually only wrote this because I was bored...)

Now, before you all ask what the pairings are, they are un-decided, but there will probably be a love triangle in here somewhere, mkay?

Bye bye for now!

(That's supposed to sound creepy. Does it? Oh, hot damn, that just gave me an idea!)

Tycoon Girl