Research log entry 3: I have finally found a volunteer to test the behavior of the subject. It seems that some 15 year old schoolgirl thinks she knows my specimen, which will make for even better research. Will the subject kill her outright? Will the subject react to her? If so then how? I am planning to record the subject with cameras in the walls and from the one-way mirror in the research facility. After the behavioral analysis we will get a brain tissue sample to run scans on.

Dr. Adam Smith

Inuyasha opened his eyes to bright, white light. He blinked several times to try to clear the goo which had accumulated while he had been unconscious. He then was overcome by a horrible gagging feeling whcn he tried to swallow, something cold and hard had been inserted deep into his throat.

When he tried to move his head a horrible pain filled his sensitive ear canals, something had also been pushed deep into each of his ears, apparently to keep him from trying to move. He started gagging again from the thing going down his throat, it was a horrible feeling to not be able to swallow so he again tried to move his head, which brought on another flash of pain in his ears.

He felt cold, very cold and numb and couldn't feel his body from the lower chest and down. The odd feeling of cold almost made him shiver, something he managed to prevent in order to prevent another flash of horrible pain in his ear canal.

When his vision cleared enough he saw that he was in a room with bright white walls, and even brighter lights coming from the ceiling. There was another mirror like the one in his other room. He strained his eyes and saw that he had multiple needles and tubes inserted into his skin, these seemed to be connected to boxes with flashing lights and zig-zagged lines that seemed to be moving on them.

Inuyasha was momentarily blinded by pain in his ears as his body tried to cough but couldn't due to the cold hard object in his throat. He closed his eyes again and tried to fall back into unconsciousness. He didn't want to be awake if this was his fate, to be stuck to a table and overcome by pain whenever he moved his head the slightest bit. No, he would wait until she came for him.

Kagome stared up in awe of the building before her. It was an immense steel skyscraper, colored a reflective silver that hurt her eyes to look at it. She looked again at the post it note in her pocket to make sure that this was the place. It was.

Kagome had spent the last three hours bicycling there from the hospital. It was a hot day out and normally she would have been exhausted, but she was immune to such feelings right now. Inuyasha was here, and she had to see him.

She lifted her head and tried to look confidant. Yeah, right. She walked up the cement stairs to the glass doors and was mementarily stunned by the blast of cold air after she entered them. It was freezing!

'why do they have it so cold here?' she thought as she brought her arms together in an attempt to warm herself. Rubbing her arms with her hands as she walked to the front desk she repositioned her head and tried again to look confidant.

'what if they don't let me see him? what if...' Kagome's thoughts were cut short at her arrival at the front desk. Sitting there was an older woman with a painfully tight looking bun. Kagome cleared her throat and was about to talk when the woman looked sharply at her and said:

"you're the research volunteer are you not?"

Kagome was slightly confused by the stern looking woman's words. 'research volunteer?" she wondered. She was again about to say something when the woman said "well? aren't you that 15 year old Higurashi girl who thinks she knows the subject?"

Kagome inhaled and asked "subject? I'm here to see Inuyasha, its kind of an emergency..."

Kagome didn't mean to be shy, she was actually trying to be the opposite but the woman at the desk was intimidating,

"the thing has a name? Well, if you're going to see it then you need to sign these papers. It discredits any of us here if you get injured or killed by the subject. Well? hurry up!" The woman shoved a pile of papers at Kagome and narrowed her eyes fiercely.

Kagome took the papers and signed on each of the lines without reading the content. There were quite a few, at least ten pages worth of paperwork with around five signatures each. Once finished Kagome put the papers back on the desk and stared expectingly at the birdish woman at the desk.

After inspecting each of the papers the older woman stood up and walked over to an elevator without saying anything. She glared at Kagome and squaked:

"well? are you coming or not?" She began tapping her foot impatiently as she glared at Kagome.

Kagome all but ran into the elevator to stand next to the woman. She smelled of sour perfume and mildew. Kagome did all she could to contain her anxiousness during the painfully long elevator ride, but it definitely made itself known.

Kagome was torn, she couldn't wait to see Inuyasha but was at the same time terrified of the state he might be in. The knowledge that it was her fault made it all the more horrible to her. Sweat began to bead on her forehead despite the frigid cold of the building.

When the bell on the elevator finally rung to signify their arrival Kagome must have jumped three feet into the air. This earned her a glare from the sour smelling woman next to her but Kagome didn't notice.

The door seemed to open so slowly for Kagome, she felt as if years passed before it was finally all the way open. When it finallt did Kagome just stared at the the open doorway, terrified of what she would see when she left.

Kagome was brought out of her stupor by the squawk of the old woman.

"well? aren't you coming?"

Kagome could hear her heart beating as she stepped out. Her footsteps down the cold hallway seemed deafening, though she couldn't hear anything but that and her heart pounding in her chest. As she walked down the hallway she locked her eyes on her feet and didn't look up until she heard the door creak open.

"wait here while they bring it out of sedation, this is the observing room. We're behind a two way mirror. If you'd look up from your shoes you'd see the thing, It's right there!" the old woman's squawk fell upon Kagome as she started shaking.

'look up Kagome, look up, look up' she told herself silently, she begged herself but her neck seemed to not be a part of her body anymore. She was terrified, she knew that the person who she knew she loved more than anyone was in horrible distress because of her and was right in front of her through a thin mirror.

She forced herself to shake her head and began to slowly lift her neck to look at Inuyasha. She finally opened her eyes and felt her throat constrict instantly at the sight before her.

There, on the other side of the one way mirror, was Inuyasha. Kagome felt herself blinking as if trying to clear her eyes, it couldn't be him there, there was absolutely no way that that was her Inuyasha.

Kagome couldn't see most of his face due to some kind of device wrapping around his mouth and head, but she could see his eyes. They were squeezed tightly closed, as if Inuyasha was desperately trying to wake up from a horrifying dream but couldn't wrench his eyes open.

His once thick and lustrous silver hair was gone from half his head, shaved off to allow a multitude of wat looked like plugs to kagome to stick to his scalp. On the other half of his head it had been unskillfully cut to about five inches, and it seemed to have faded to a dull grey.

Kagome felt her eyes drifting to the rest of his body. He was wearing a pair of light blue hospital shorts, revealing skin that had become extremely pale and had taken on a grey tinge. There were more needles inserted into his skin than Kagome could count, and most were connected to machinery next to the steel table he was bolted to.

Kagome's vision then became completely blurred with tears that soon became cold from the frigid air, she was only aware of the tight feeling of her throat and an odd burning in her chest. She had not breathed since initially seeing Inuyasha, which had been maybe 3 minutes ago. She closed her eyes and forced herself to take a breath.

The cold tears ran down her face unchecked as Kagome felt a wave of nausia overcome her.

'this is my fault, Inuyasha is like this because of me. It's my fault, oh god, what have I done?' Kagome thought.

She lifted her head upon hearing a metallic snapping noise, she looked back at Inuyasha and inhaled sharply. The metal thing that had been wrapped aroun Inuyasha's head had had a six inch rod which had been inserted down his throat, probably to keep him from moving. Her throat tightened further at the thought of what that must be like.

She felt herself go completely numb when she saw the doctors remove the thing from his head. Rods much like the one in his throat had been put into Inuyasha's sensetive ears, they were almost an inch long and had become coated with a yellow crust while inside his ear canal.

Kagome couldn't take this anymore, she turned around and began sobbing freely, this was the most horrible thing she had ever seen. Of all the horrible things Kagome had witnissed in the feudal era this which occured in her own "civilized" time was the one that hurt her the most.

She stood there for a few minutes, facing the wall of the observing room and sobbing. It was her fault. All of it. She had caused this to happen to Inuyasha, the person she cared most about in the world. She stood there until she heard the door connecting the room she was in and the one Inuyasha was in open. She stiffened and turned to look at the two doctors, or reseachers or whatever they were. They both wore white lab coats goggles and face masks, giving them an inhuman appearance.

"you can go in now, he should be out of sedation in ten minutes. We have to lock you in so it's now or never" came one of their muffled voices.

Kagome nodded and stepped slowly towards the open door. She paused before entering and rested her hand on the doorway. It was shaking. She made herself continue into the room, stopping a foot from the doorway she had come through. The door closed and she heard multipe clicks and metallic noises, she was locked in.

The room was eerily silent, and Kagome had the feeling that she was being watched. She ignored it and walked slowly to the steel table on which Inuyasha lay. She felt her jaw shaking as she looked at him up close, it was horrible.

Up and down his arms and chest were dark mottled bruises where tubes had been under Inuyasha's skin for extended amounts of time. Now the tubes had been removed and she could see the slowly oozing holes in his skin where they had been. He had a particularly large one on his neck where a tube had been inserted into his jugular for one reason or another.

She reached out with a trembling hand and gently stroked his cheek. It was disturbingly cold, Kagome was afraid for a moment that he was dead. She then noticed the very slight rise and fall of his chest as he breathed and was able to cast away that fear.

Her shaking hand traveled across his cheek to his soft pink and silver puppy ears, which were also cold. This scared her, she remembered them being warm and soft, but they were instead frigind cold, almost as cold as the air, and had a sticky residue to them. There was a crust of pus in the inner part of his ears, probably from having those metal rods stuck in them.

Kagome felt fresh tears flow down her face as she looked at the expression on his face. Inuyasha's normal expression while sleeping was one of perfect peace and innocence, like a child's. Now he looked terrified, as if he was trapped in a nightmare from shich he couldn't awaken.

'he is..' Kagome found herself thinking, which was true. This was not their worst nightmare, no, it was a nightmare so horrible that neither of them had even been able to have. A nightmare that their minds couldn't conjure up. No, this nightmare was no nightmare, it was real, horrible as only reality could conjure.

Kagome stroked his remaining hair and let the tears fall. She couldn't help but blame herself. As her fingers trailed across his cheek she was reminded again of how cold he was. She then remembered that she had worn a jacket, it had been a bit cold in the morning when she left. She took it off and wrapped it around Inuyasha's shoulders.

She flinched when she noticed Inuyasha's unconscious body shudder, his breathing grew more heavy and his fingers started twitching. When she looked back to his face she saw that he was starting to open his eyes, the beautiful golden eyes that had always seemed to radiate their own kind of light.

She slipped her hand into his and whisered "Inuyasha? I'm here.. please wake up". She noticed a tear fall from her eyes onto his cheek as she gazed intently at him.

She heard him speak then, a frail sounding whisper she had never imagined that he would ever talk in.

"Kagome...."

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yeah, im evil to leave you with such a bad cliffhanger. I'll think of a better one later. Please review, and thanks to all of you that have.