research log entry 1: I have completed the preliminary examination of the DNA and behavior of the specimen. It seems that it shares characteristics with humans, canines, and an undocumanted species. Using the grant from the scientific research foundation I am going to make a complete documentation of the specimen's behavior, anatomy, physical and mental capabilities. I am going to start with the physical and mental capability documantation. First we will CT scan his brain and record brainwaves, and maybe even get a tissue sample to test the efficiency of the subject's electromagnetic brain impulses.

Dr.Adam Smith

Inuyasha looked intently at the mirror. He had his nose maybe 2 inches from it and he was concentrating very hard. He had been clawing at a single spot on the mirror for half a day now, and he had managed to get maybe a half inch layer of glass off of an elongated circle maybe 3 inches wide. There was still maybe 3 inches worth of glass to chip away before he had a hole in it, but now the glass was transparent and he could see through it. He was looking in and could see a dark room. There was no one inside but he could see large inanimate objects with many knobs and colorful bumps on them.

All of a sudden it became bright in the newly revealed room, and two people came in. Neither was the doctor who had scared Inuyasha so badly 3 days prior. They were heading toward one of the large objects when one suddenly turned and pointed at him, a shocked look on her face. She said something Inuyasha couldn't hear to the other and then turned back to Inuyasha. She grabbed a black piece of paper and advanced toward where his peephole was and covered it with the paper. Inuyasha's view was blocked.

Inuyasha growled to himself and went and sat in a corner where he had arranged the shreds of padding and cloth from the walls he had ravaged into a pillowish thing and sat on it. He grabbed one of the food packets and began searching through it to se if there were any of the good things in this one. It turned out there weren't. He tossed it to the other side of his small square room and closed his eyes.

Inuyasha had snapped out of the slump he was in after the incident with the doctor and had began pacing about the room and eating some of the food in the packets. Some of them had good stuff and some had just plain nasty things, like that green gloop and the hard orange things. Inuyasha shuddered at the thought of them.

He had found himself ofton thinking of Kagome while sitting around with nothing to do. It had started with just one inquisitive thought to what she might be doing at the time but he had started thinking about her more and more until most of the time when he wasn't trying to get out of the room she filled his thoughts.

He felt the place on his neck where the rosary had been before the doctors had removed it. 'Well, there's one thing to look forward to when I get out of this hole, I'll never be sat again.' he thought. For a moment his thoughts went to his fire rat haori and the tessaiga, he hadn't seen them since getting out of the ambulance almost a week ago.

His thoughts were interrupted when Inuyasha heard something. It was from the direction of the door to his room. He turned and intently stared at the door, silently praying for it to open and let him out. He jumped about three feet off the ground when a voice from above him suddenly said "hello?, in case you can understand us we are going to be moving you to a research facility a few miles away. You can cooperate willingly or we'll have to tranquilize you again.". Inuyasha recognized the voice to be one of the, what were they called? lurces? yeah lurses that had been around after he came in from the ambulance.

"well duh I can understand you, do ya think im an idiot or something?" Inuyasha yelled up to the three tiny holes in the ceiling. "when are you gonna let me go? HEY!!" he yelled at the little sound holes.

Before the sound holes answered Inuyasha he heard the metal on metal screeching that meant the lock on his room's door was being removed. He readied himself to fight and then remembered what the sound holes had said.

" you can cooperate willingly or we'll have to tranquilize you again".

Inuyasha had no idea what tranquilizing really was but he guessed that it was the aeronide, the nose burner spray that Dr. Smith had sprayed him with. It wouldn't be worth it ro get sparayed again he decided and tried to calm himself down.

Much easier said then done. As he came to realize that in the end his strength wouldn't work with these things, that for the first time in his life he would have to give up to an enemy without a fight scared him.

He could feel his heart beating in his chest, as he thought of what he was going to have to do it sped up. He heard the sound of the lock being removed from the door grew louder and his ears flattened to his head.

By the time the door finally started to open he was trying hard not to show his fear, it was all he could do to keep his lower lip from trembling, he could hear his heart thumping in his chest so well that he was afraid that the humans may hear it as well.

The first people to enter were 3 men with guns. Inuyasha could smell something like gunpowder coming from them and knew they weren't sleep guns. Sharp red lights came from them and shone on his forehead and chest.

Inuyasha willed himself not to show his fear, but he was pretty sure now that he had what his mother had called the "homeless puppy" look on his face.

He kept himself completely still but his eyes darted from one gun to another. Next to come in was doctor Smith. At the sight of the twisted being Inuyasha forgot about not showing his fear and his jaw started trembling (jaw tremorfear anxiousness)This human was just, wrong. Inuyasha didn't expect him to speak but he did. His voice had a strange accent to it, Inuyasha didn't know what language it came from.

"so, my specimen has decided to cooperate? perhaps its smarter than I expected"

At the sound of Dr. Smith's voice Inuyasha's ears flattened themselves against his thick silver hair even tighter. He never wanted to hear that voice again.

Unfortunately for Inuyasha Dr. Smith was exulting in the fear the mere sound of his voice had caused the subject. (Dr.Smith will always refer to Inuyasha as the subject or the specimen)

"we are going to move you to a more permanent location so as to research without having to deal with hospital codes and rules. Now doctor Umezu will you please sedate my specimen before it decides to attacks us?"

Doctor Smith was just loving the helpless look on it's face, like one of the stray mutts he would "experiment" with when he was a kid.

An older woman with greying hair in a short bun cautiously walked closer to Inuyasha. He didn't resist at all when whe took his arm and inserted a syringe into his smooth, lightly tanned skin. He watched the transparent fluid in the tube be injected into his blood with fascination.

'this is all they have to do to make me completely helpless?' he wondered.

Inuyasha flet his legs getting wobbly as his muscles loosened and numbed. They were all looking at him as if they expected them to drop over. The idea struck Inuyasha and pushed him out of his frozen state of mind. He was going to do something he had rarely done before, he was going to try and outsmart his enemies.

He feigned a collapse to the ground and lie motionless and limp. After a few seconds Dr.Smith left the room and the guys with the guns put them away and began to hoist Inuyasha onto a steel table with wheels and metal hoops to hold his legs and arms still. The clamps were shut tightly and painfully and the table started moving.

Inuyasha could see where they were going, an ambulance with more restraints inside. Inuyasha knew what he had to do to escape, the thought sickened him but not escaping sickened him worse. To never see her again...

Inuyasha now was starting to feel very unstable from the stuff they had injected him with. It would be hard to stay awake to do what he had to. When he finally felt the table stop he prepared himself for one more burst of energy.

Someone leaned over Inuyasha to unhook the cuff of his right arm from the table. He did so and recuffed it with much stronger chain to the inside of the van, and then unhooked Inu's feet and other arm.

When the person bent over and snapped the other cuff shut on Inuyasha's left hand Inuyasha managed to twist around at an angle, giving him better range of movement which he immediatly used in trapping the person's head to his chest. The man immediatly screamed and started flailing about, but Inuyasha kept his head trapped against his elbow and chest. He could reach the man's neck with his fangs.

"now, you bastards let me go or I bite." Inuyasha threatened. The thought of biting a human's throat out sickened the half demon, but he needed them to know he was serious, he wanted out.

Inuyasha could feel the sedative sapping more and more of his energy, only one of the two cart pushers was still there, the other had run to get help or something. The remaining one had pulled out his gun and was pointing it at Inuyasha.

The man whose neck was at an almost ninety degree angle stuck between Inuyasha's upper arm and chest started flailing again and striking Inuyasha with his fists on the side of his head, which Inuyasha didn't even react to.

And then at the exact same time almost three things happened, the man whom Inuyasha had trapped had gotten ahold of a surgical scalpel somehow, and stabbed it forcefully between Inuyasha's ribs, the man pointing the gun at Inuyasha fired and the bullet struck Inuyasha's leg.

This caused a reflexive reaction in the half demon, He sank his fangs deep into the side of the neck of the human right above the jugular. He bit down, hard, hearing a sickening crunching noise as the man's windpipe was crushed.

Inuyasha released the man who had stabbed him from his fangs a second later and snapped the chains holding his arms to the van. From somewhere he saw a flash of blue light and a blurry figure run off.

'huh....?' he thought dillusionally when everything started to blur, he felt an impact on his own neck. He reached and felt with a bloodstained claw and felt 4 darts which had lodged themselves deep in his flesh.

They had gotten him.

"NO! I want to be free, lemme go!" he screamed in a slurred, drugged voice.

He felt someone hit him across his face and another dart hit him in the neck. He couldn't see anymore, only blurs and points of light. Something very large and hard hit him on the head again.

Finally Inuyasha fell to the floor stained with the blood of the man who's throat he'd bit out and his own and lost consciousness. From somewhere another blue flash illuminated his bloodied face and then disappeared.

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next chapter: the newspaper - just guess what that flash was.

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