Inuyasha smelled blood. Alot of it. The smell and the sounds of screams coming from the emergency room were really starting to scare them, but he could still barely move, much less break free of the stretcher he was strapped to. He heard another agonized scream and flattened his ears against his head. He couldn't take this. He tried to gather all of his strength and break free of the restraints that he could have snapped in a second if he could move properly, but he could barely find the energy to tighten his muscles. It felt as if they had taken all of the energy that made him go and replaced it with ice.

As soon as he was rolled through the doorway of the emergency room uncontrollable instinctual fear and panic overwhelmed him. He was in pain, he couldn't move, there were people all around him bleeding and dying and screaming, and there was nothing he could do about it.

"We have a 4 car to human collision victim here! Get a blood transfusion ready!" one of the paramedics pushing his stretcher yelled to someone. Seeing that Inuyasha was conscious he leaned in close to him and said slowly and loudly "kid, do you know what blood type you are? you need a blood transfusion, this could save your life."

Inuyasha only turned his head the other direction and squeezed his eyes closed. He couldn't hear anything but the screams of the patients. When the paramedic leaned closer to try to ask again Inuyasha bared his teeth at him and made a growling noise. He was as scared as he had ever been in his life, this was worse than when he was human and in trouble because he knew that he was beaten in his usual form.

The paramedic turned to a nurse and said "take a blood sample and find out his blood type, he's not responding. I think we may need to get the head emergency room doctor for this, I think he's in shock" The nurse pulled out an empty syringe and drew a tube full of blood from Inuyasha's forearm. While doing so She noticed the claws and oddly structured hand. 'almost like a claw' she thought as she rushed to the testing room.

Many more syringes and I.V.s were pushed under Inuyasha's skin and a tube was roughly shoved down his nose and though his throat. From it he felt cold oxygen seep out and force him to breathe it. He was surrounded by yelling, frantic people and things were stinging and poking him, there were things stuck to his head and once again someone was pulling hard on his ears. He just couldn't take it. He started shaking and tried to block it out, but couldn't. Just before he passed out he heard "these ears won't come off! Could they... be real?!"

The head emergency room doctor had arrived. 'Poor kid' he thought. The kid's report had said that he had had a head on collision with a bus and was then run over by three cars and then pinned to the ground by a volkswagen. It was a miracle that he hadn't died on the spot, it seemed to defy everything he had learned in medical school that the kid had beed conscious in the ambulance. He looked in annoyance at the fake ears that were still somehos on the kid's head.

"I thought I said to take those things off?!" he yelled at one of the paramedics.

"they don't come off, sir. They're either surgically attached to his skin or those are his actual ears. He doesn't have any down here" the medic pushed away a thick lock of silver hair and revealed the earless sides of Inuyasha's head.

Before anyone could say anything more the nurse who had went to conduct the blood tests bustled into the room, very pale and out of breath. "the blood tests... he doesn't have any recorded blood type. Either there's a problem in our computer or he's some kind of genetic mutant. We're just going to have to give him O blood and hope he doesn't reject it" she managed to get out.

"Ok, start transfusing blood immediatly. We need head scans and X-rays to make sure he doesn't have any brain damage. And with that we can see if those ears are real or not."

The doctor looked at the odd looking now unconscious kid. He couldn't have been much older than 18. The velvety soft looking silver and pink ears did look real. He suppressed an urge to touch them as he signed the papers for the kid's X-rays. "ok, it seems he's in stable condition. Call me if his ital signs start to deteriorate." with that the doctor briskly walked over to the next patient in need.

Inuyasha woke to the taste of something extremely bitter in his mouth. He gagged and tried to spit it out but it had already been forced down his throat. He hesitated to open his eyes for fear of what he might see. The room he had lost consciousness in had been horrible, but he didn't hear any of the screams and moans of pain that he had earlier, and the stench of human blood and acrid chemicals had lessened. Now the predominant smell was something metallic. He opened his eyes and saw... nothing! He pulled at his restraints in anic but then realized there was something covering his eyes and something heavy draped over his body. The numbness of earlier had also lessened and he felt he could move easier, but was still quite weak.

In the background he heard someone say "might as well get a dental scan as well, his teeth seemed kind of unnatural when he snarled at me earlier."

Inuyasha began pulling at his restraints and moaned softly. This was wrong, it was wrong and he needed to escape. He felt something clamp onto his face and something was forced between his molars ( A/N-we all know what this is like, haven't you had those terrible X-rays at the dentist?) . He would have promptly spit it out had there not been something somehow holding his jaw closed.

"hey, I think he's come to. Kid, are you alright? we're just taking some X-rays, just like the ones you get at the dentist so don't worry about it, it'll be over soon" he hear from behind him. Inuyasha decided to hold very still for the next few minutes till he had the strength to break the restraints. Before he did however he felt the heavy cloak being lifted from his bandaged body and Something removed from his eyes. His eyes quickly adjusted to the dim lighting of the X-ray room and he saw two figures in light green outfits standing at some kind of altar pressing wierd bumps on it. (computer)

"ok, these will be done in about five minutes. Now that he seems to have calmed down we should question him" one of the voices said. Another answered back " I sure hope he has, did you see the bruise he left on your face from the ambulance yet? It's awful. Your whole cheek is purple"

The lights suddenly got brighter and Inuyasha was finally able to get a good look at his 'captors'. One was a middle aged man with a large fist shaped bruise on his cheek. There was nothing outstanding or prominent ih his features. The other was a younger guy with large thick rimmed glasses. They magnified his eyes to look much like an insect.

"Where am I? Who are you? Why can't I move?" Inuyasha questioned angrily. He couldn't let them sense his fear.

"Right now you're in the X-ray room of Central Tokyo hospital. You were in a bad car accident and you don't seem to be very badly hurt, but we're not sure yet. You probably can't move because of the three doses of sedatives we had to give you in the Ambulance to keep you from killing us" the guy with the bruise said.

"I'm a radiologist. We just finished taking X-rays of your skull, ribcage, upper arms, feet and knees, and teeth to check on your breaks and for brain damage. They're no different than the ones you get at the dentist. Oh yeah, and we want to see if your teeth and ears are real" the guy with the glasses said.

"keh, yeah they're real, and I WILL kill you if you don't lemme go, NOW" Inuyasha yelled angrily at the two frail looking humans. He tried to sound confident and unafraid but he was in actuality completely scared. He had no idea what an X-ray or a dentist was, and he didn't think he cared to find out.

---ok, this chapter may seem like Inu's being tortured but all that is standard emergency room stuff. The juicy parts start later. It speeds up from here, next chapter is where someone malicious is put in charge of Inu and the experiments start to begin. please review and tell me how I could make it better and/or what you think, and thank you so much for those of you who have reviewed----