*o* You guys like this ficcie? OH sankyu!! I'm glad you're enjoying this…story that will be full of angst o_O And just so you know, there will be no Mary-Sues (whatever those are, but I think I'm catching on to the meaning :P). It's going to be…not so complicated, and I don't even think that it'll be a long fic either. Whatever is of it, please enjoy. And please enjoy this chappie! It doesn't have THAT much torture in it…none much…^-^ Review responses at the bottom ^-^

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Water and Blood


Poison




"Wait, so how is this that we're going to set this up?" Miroku asked. We was definitely the brains of the group today. "If Inuyasha and Kagome-sama go to the 'future', then who does that leave this child with?"

Kagome pondered about the question. She looked over at Jaken for a few seconds. The youkai was currently holding back the will to kill Rin as she continued putting flowers in his hat. "I wouldn't be wise to leave her with…Jaken…" she said, sputtering his name in disgust. She then looked over at Sango, Miroku, and Shippou with a smile on her lips.

"For what reason do you smile, Kagome-sama?" Miroku asked. He definitely didn't like the smile that dribbled on her lips.

"You guys…can take care of her for now…" she suggested.

"What are you doing, you brat?!" came Inuyasha's erupting voice. All turned to him and looked for a few seconds before they all let out a small smile. Rin was standing behind him, rubbing those ears of his.

"Kawaiii…~~" Rin squealed happily. "Sesshou-maru-sama's ears aren't fuzzy like these," she said sadly after a while.

Did that mean she'd touched his ears before? He allowed her to do that?!

"But Sesshou-maru-sama's fluffy…thing…is really fuzzy. I named it Fluffy!" she said, putting a smile with her uplifting words.

It was quiet for a few seconds and Jaken stood there, his jaws slacked as he stared at Rin. He knew that Sesshou-maru definitely didn't want to let that one out, especially to his half-brother. That was it, Rin had just commited an act of blasphemy!

Miroku snorted. Everyone looked at him, the person who was usually calm and collected (except around women). He gave a short laugh. What was so funny? This was disturbing. Sesshou-maru plus Fluffy didn't quite add up… "Fluffy…" he muttered to himself.

Sango suddenly smiled at the word. It was pretty funny, and ironic, being that it was derived from Sesshou-maru's pelt. It wasn't long until everyone was laughing, discluding Rin and Jaken, who thought that poking fun at his Lord's name was an act of sacrilege.

"Nani?" Rin asked with her head cocked at one side. "Why is everyone laughing? Evreyone should be sad that Sesshou-maru-sama is missing!"

Everyone thought she was kidding, which made them erupt into tumultuous laughter.

Rin's eyes slightly watered as she looked at all the people. But she wasn't happy! She wasn't happy at all! Her Sesshou-maru-sama was missing and everyone was laughing. "No one cares about Sesshou-maru-sama?" she asked. But it was a bit more of a statement than none. She erupted in tears and took a few steps back from the group who obviously had no want or care to help her.

"Jaken-sama…" she drawled. The youkai turned to her. "Let's go, Jaken-sama. Sesshou-maru-sama's little half-brother doesn't care about Sesshou-maru-sama…" She started walking toward Ah'Un.

"Hey, where's she going?" Shippou asked, looking over at the retreating girl's direction.

The laughing ceased and everyone watched for a few seconds before Kagome spoke up. "Rin-chan! Where're you going? We said we'd help you."

~*~

Much discomfort. The inu youkai felt much discomfort for a few seconds. But what was this? He was still in his Western Lands. He was still in Sengoku Jidai. He was just…sitting against a tree.

Right?

Something filled his nostrils. He mentally cursed. The foul smell of humans was stinging his nose. He could hear someone speaking. Some people speaking. Humans? Those filth. It was definitely a different dialect, but it was still Japanese. As if it had gone through some transformation.

Look…nothing shows us here that he is a human. Look at the print out of the structure of it's genes that I just made.

…This is interesting…It is as if…this thing is…a higher life form. It has some attributes of a human, as opposed to looking like some sort of animal. But take a look here, at the eyes…

He winced a something cold and salty practically pried his eye open. He gave a short snarl, content when the instrument was taken away from his pupil.

Wow…and those aren't contacts?

No…

Do you think that this was once a human and someone took hold of it? As in…they performed scientific experiments with it? Changed or modified it genetically?

That…could be possible. But we have to remember that just because we are ahead of most of the world with our science today doesn't mean that we can actually carry out what we want to do. I don't think anyone has broken through with genetically modifiying a human after they were born…

That's true. And also…look at the eyebrows in comparison to the hair. They're the same color. The hair color is natural. But how does someone go about having silver hair?

He gave another warning snarl as the aforementioned part of his face was gently fondled, then his hair was tugged on lightly. Could they not hear him? What was this?!

It's waking…

Should we inject another dose of the drug to get it to doze off?

That would be good. We don't want anything to happen before we finish giving this brief examination. Thorough examination will come later.

All right, doctor.

He slightly hissed as something stung him on his shoulder. He gave a grunt. He mentally cursed again. He was getting tired…

It isn't as if this specimen was born with some sort of progeria, going on with the silver hair factor…

What was this that he felt coursing through his body. He could literally smell the change of his blood. This thing that was put inside of him was what was making him tired again. Was it some sort of poison?!

Exactly. It's perfectly proportioned.

What's this…fur…thing?

He couldn't grasp anything anymore. The rest of the words were much a blur to him…


"We actually haven't done anything to look at that yet," said one of the scientists.

"Now tell me again…what was it that happened earlier today."

"Well…all I could really remember was arriving at the scene and seeing him sheath one of the swords at his side…"

At the statement, everyone looked at the two swords. For some reason…no one felt safe with the swords at the specimen's side like that. One of the younger one's reached for the Toujikin and successfully pulled it away from the side and set it aside. He reached for the other sword, then yelled loudly as an electric force pushed his hand away.

The longer they had this specimen, the more they found out about it!

"What the—"

It was as if the sword had some sort of forcefield around it or something.

"Let's not…worry about that right now…" said the doctor.

"Hai, Tokugawa-san…" muttered the one scientest as he cradled his hand.

"Let's go for a half an hour break for right now. We'll come back and give her a bit more of an examination…"

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I know, but just look at that structure…

His eyes fluttered a few times after he found it hard to have clear vision. Were his eyes even open? He cursed softly as soon as he was able to get his tongue working correctly. What was that that they'd injected inside of his body? It greatly impaired his senses, that was for sure.

A cold draft caressed his chest for a few seconds, and he questioned that. Greatly. Where was his sheild? Where was his upper garment?

Look at it's studded arm. It looks like a clean cut…

Yah, well judging from what we heard about about it before, it can still fight with only one arm, and pretty well to boot. Something about being able to use sword…

You know what I heard? That out of it's hand can come this…thing that is obviously an acid because it can chew through metals and flesh!"

There was a long, drawn-out whistle. Maybe we oughta get rid of the other arm, too, he suggested. Might be better for us.

His senses flared at the suggestion. He needed to get himself working again. He cursed mentally, pushing his body to cooperate with his orders. This poison that was put into him, it stunted his actions, didn't it?

What use would it be if it didn't have any arms?!

These humans were irking him…And—yes!—he could feel some of his senses slowly coming as they made unimportant conversation with each other in the strange Japanese dialect.


"True…I guess…"

The conversation was becoming less fuzzy to his ears.

"But look at the claws. I mean, they look like they were meant for killing!"

"Yah…that's something else that we'll have to watch out for." He wrote down some of the observation in a pad. He then paused and the two of them were quiet for a while. He looked over the facial marks of the creature. "And look at those marks. They look like tatoos…"

"But the skin isn't protruding, so it's obviously…well…real markings."

"You know…I just still can't believe that this is a male. I mean, looking at all the features: the hair, the facial markings, that red…stuff over his eyes, even the eyes and lips, and the lean body all hint towards a woman."

"Yah…" the other scientist was rather distracted as he looked at the marks on the face a bit further. Reaching out, he touched one of the marks again to see if it was a tatoo.

A hand tightly clasped around his neck, making him stop in his movements and let out a chortled gasp.

"Kami-sama!" the other scientist yelled as he took a few steps back. His eyes widened as he saw the male…specimen sit up, eyeing the scientist still tightly in his grasp.

"Human…" Sesshou-maru started darkly, "do not disgrace this Sesshou-maru's body with your filth…" He tightened his grip around the humans neck as he stood up. The man's feet lifted off of the ground and kicked around a bit as he let out whimpers of fear.

The other scientist, only thinking of one thing right now, quickly ran towards the door of the room and pressed the large red button plastered onto the wall, conviniently so for occations like these.

Sesshou-maru looked around for a few seconds, the human still twisting and shaking in his grip. What was this place. All of the walls were covered with metal…with no holes to breathe. It was as if it was an enclosed cage of some sort. There was nothing that he could grab onto without his hand simply slicking right over it.

When after a few seconds, red flared his vision, he looked around warily. There was a shrill sound that repeated itself over and over again, along with the red flashing off and on.

The tiniest of hairs on his neck prickled upwards. None of the situations he was in felt right. And—he cursed while dropping the human to the floor—he definitely felt danger in this situation.

When the 'cage door' was flung open, he gave a simple cock of his eyebrow. He went to grab Toukijin at his side, completely confuzzled (A/N: Don't bash my word >_>) when it wasn't there. Nor was Tensusaiga! Wait…how…who touched his swords? Humans couldn't dare bring their hands close to either of the swords without being repelled by their forces.

So now he had no weapons? What was this?

A few of those humans piled into the room, again with those things that were pointed at him earlier (but how much earlier?). His senses were flaring now. These humans…he didn't consider humans posing such a threat to him, but here they were in front of him right now, not fearing him, but leaning toward attacking him. And his hackles were rising…

He held his hand in front of him as to let out dokkasu…but something told him not to do that. He was…in too much…danger…And he was getting pissed. He wanted nothing more—demanded nothing more than to return from wence he'd come.

He was no longer able to see as red clouded his vision. He would transform if need be. His hair flared about him as if some sort of tumultuous wind was rioting throught the room.

"He's changing!" one of them yelled. 'Or something…'

All took a step back and watched in a dazed stupor as he practically transformed in front of them into a giant…



Dog…?

This was beyond them. Some were too fascinated to be afraid. Some felt too threatened to be fascinated. It was definitely…a different sight. Not even different, but awe inspiring. But either way, everyone stared at the giant…gigantic transformation that'd just occurred.

And no one could believe their eyes. They blocked their ears unsuccessfully (they still had things in their hands) as barks, feral and angry, errupted about them. Some even sounded defensive…

Of course, no one believed their eyes until one of them was brutatily, hostily attacked and mauled by the teeth of the angered dog. And that was when all rational thought once again flowed into their minds and the knew that they had to put the dog 'to sleep'. Of course, not it was in the literal fashion, not actually killing him off.

This was too great a find.

So they all did their job in giving doses of shots to the dog. It moved about for a while longer, still trying to attack just a few, but it's movements too slow.

It came to a point where the dog walked in a couple of circles before setting itself on the floor and curling within itself (as a real dog would do) and then it fell into the sleep that it's much so craved for.

~*~

Sango looked at the girl sleeping against the houshi, whom she'd deemed worthy enough to sleep against. The houshi had an irritated look on his face. Her snickering only made him glower at him all the more. Kagome smiled over at him as well, whispering something to Inuyasha, which made the hanyou's ears twitch in annoyance.

Shippou was watching the little girl before he took some of Kagome's coloring instruments and drawing up her sleeping form. Inuyasha stood up a couple of seconds later, asking Kagome…nicely…if she would follow him.


"What is it, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked as she whispered to him. He obviously wanted to be quiet, being that he was in his stealth mode.

Inuyasha then glowered at her, crossing his arms slowly. "Kagome, we don't have to do this tomorrow," he said.

"What?" she asked. "Why not? The sooner the better."

"…Let's just say that this will be Sesshou-maru's lesson learned. He deserves it, anyway."

Kagome looked at him strangely. "Inuyasha…stop being so ambitious!" she nearly yelled. "If you want so badly to rid of Sesshou-maru, do it in this time. But right now, I don't even know what's going on in my time!" She paused for a few seconds. "For all I know, he could have killed Souta, or kasaan! I'm not going to waste time getting him back here!"

"Fine, wench. You go back tomorrow if you want to. I'm staying right here!" He snuffed in her direction.

"You're going…" Kagome said in a testy voice.

"No I'm not!" Inuyasha said loudly. He turned his back on her and was ready to walk back to the camp sight.

"Inuyasha…" Kagome said after a while.

"What?" he asked.

"Osuwari."

"Nan—gwah!!"

Kagome stormed past the fallen hanyou, muttering a few things afterwards that she knew he heard.

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Hmm…as I told you, not much torture. There wasn't any at all, actually :P. But anyway, I'm hope you peeps like this. I admit, yes, that it was a slow chapyer, but I assure you that the plot will be moving on by the next chappie ^-^ Anway, you guys must read my other story Black Heart, unless you already do ^o^. And check out my new story called Life is Pain pwease. It's a Sango/Kohaku kawaii story (No, they're not paired up >:O), but no ones reviewed it T_T. Is it really that bad?! Review responses:


MageofDarkness: Hmm…I'm really starting to like Evanescene…the singer has such a prettiful voice. Oh sad you say? Hmm…I guess you'll have to read on. I really wasn't trying to make it sound sad XD

Madame Arrow Foxfire: >_> Torture is coming soon, las! Just give it some time. ^-^

Yun Fei: Yes, he will be experimented on. Horribly T_T. But don't we ALL just love a lil' torture here and there? (I happen to love torture everywhere…). Hmm…Inuyasha and Kagome…I'll see about that. I'm sure of who it will be for now, though. But we'll see as the plot moves on.

Crystal Jewel: Yes, I DID update ^-^. This chappie too! Anyway, grr to emailing! I'll try resending you those piccys. As soon as possible *has had no time to write emails =_=*

Tsume Yamagata: *cowers and runs to computer* Hai, Tsume-sama! XD And yes, humans ARE roaches >_>

StarryEyedChick: Yah, well I don't know if Sess would kill the humans if it got to the point of him getting thrown into the future. Yah, Sess DIDN'T know what hit him. And they'll be hitting him a LOT more (hint hint). And what's so funny about tranquilizers :3?

Spectrum: Meh, I guess I'll fix those…sometime from now >_> Don't get started about Sesshou-maru! *hugs wailing Sesshou-maru* Shh, Sesshy-chan, all will be fine…She just doesn't like you cuz…um…she doesn't like you. Shhh…



Anyway, those are the review responses. Meanwhile…hm…kay, bye bye. And read my other stories >:O It is demanded of you!