Research log: The girl has proven extraordinarily useful. She will make a fine constant in my tests and will also ensure that no legal action is taken against me. Also, if I am correct, she will give me the perfect means to ensure full cooperation of my subject. As soon as I put this plan into action the real tests will begin and we can finally make progress, It's been nearly a month since we have found the specimen and no real tests have ocurred. I will assume that the specimen has intelligence similar to that of a slightly above average human when addressing him while I put my plan into action this afternoon.

Dr. Adam Smith

Inuyasha was experiencing another very odd and frightening dream, though this time it wasn't of a memory. It was a dream of sounds and scents as well as images. He heard her scream, he knew that Kagome was in danger, and he was helpless on the floor.

The feelings of horrible uselessness burned within him until he felt it, the power, the anger, the joy at the thought of their blood on his claws. He was going to transform, and this time he felt no inclination to fight it. He gave himself up to it willingly, and at the same instant his eyes flashed open and the steel restraints on his arms and legs shattered. He stood up and felt the marks burn onto his cheeks and the power that would give him freedom at last cleared out the sedatives in his blood.

Because he had given himself up to the demonic side willingly, a part of his consciousness remained, blended with the feral mind of heis demonic side. His fierce crimson eyes locked onto those of the man who had attacked HIS Kagome, how dare he attack her?

As he looked forward to the warmth of the man's blood on his claws and the sound of his feeble human neck cracking, he felt something strike him. It caused no damage of course, but how dare they interrupt him? He grabbed the man by the neck and flung him against the wall, he was nothing. Then Inuyasha's demon face spread into a terrifying feral grin as he advanced upon the scared frozen man who still held the neck of Kagome.

The foolish human then did something that enraged the furious demon further, he tightened his grip on the neck of Kagome, who wrenched forward and broke free. In the time it took to blink one's eye Inuyasha was holding the shrieking researcher a foot above the ground by the neck, his claws gouging the soft flesh.

As the warm blood dripped down his arms Inuyasha savored the terror the man was emanating, it was as if he could smell it. Soon their would be no more of it, the wretched human would be dead at his feet. But there was always the rest of the humans in the room. He and his Kagome could enjoy the fear of every last one of the dying researchers.

He turned his head, suddenly curious to see how much Kagome was enjoying the terror of these feeble humans. He was a bit curious at her reaction, she wasn't enjoying it. She was.... afraid. Of him. This made him hesitate, how could she be afraid in such a moment of joy? There was no way. He must be mistaken.

Inuyasha turned back to the man in his claw, ready to snap his feeble neck and gut his tender flesh when it hit him, the horrible spray. Inuyasha's heightened demon sense of smell couldn't take it, it assaulted him, attacked him. What made it all the more painful was that his demon side didn't understand pain, so it couldn't cope.

He shrieked and writhed on the floor for what seemed like endless agonizing hours, wishing for anything, even death, if it would bring an end to this pain. Then he heard his Kagome's voice, and blessed unconsciousness took him over. -----------

When Inuyasha felt the cold, the first sign that consciousness was returning, he pushed it away. Instead of waking up he brought up the last mental image of Kagome up in his mind. Then hearing returned, and he realized what was waking him up. An extraordinarily high ringing filled his ears. It was so high he could almost not detect it, yet it made his head pound and wouldn't let him ignore it.

When he pressed his ears against his head he realized that he could move. That got his attention. They must have woken him up on purpose, for some reason.

He opened his eyes and said,

"Ok. Ok, I'm awake. Turn off the noise and just get it over with."

The ringing stopped and Inuyasha's eyes adjusted to the stunning brightness of the room. Not that it did any good, Inuyasha's head was clamped forward so he could look at nothing but the glaring lights directly above him. He squinted against them.

He then heard the bored and average sounding voice which gave him so many feelings of wrongness say;

"Well specimen, we've learned quite a bit about you by now. But not nearly as much as we want to. We have so many tests to conduct on you now, and most of them seem quite painful."

Inuyasha was a bit confused by what was being said, it just didn't make any sense to him. He waited a few moments to see if the voice would respond. When it didn't Inuyasha carefully composed himself so as not to seem afraid and replied;

"keh, I'd like to see you try. There's no way you're going to keep me here, I'd like to see you try to keep me from escaping."

Inuyasha heard Smith's footsteps uncomfortably close to him. After a while his composed and unfeeling voice answered;

"It had occurred to me that you might respond that way. In the case that you don't wish to cooperate something..... unfortunate may happen to that girl. You're quite a dangerous specimen, if she continues seeing you it wouldn't be suspicious at all if she was killed or injured in some horrible way. I keep forgetting her name"

Inuyasha inhaled sharply, scared and disgusted by what Smith was saying. Smith would hurt Kagome, and pin it on him if he didn't cooperate.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha said. His voice had cracked when he said it, revealing all of the fear for her he had been desperately trying to hide.

Unknown to Inuyasha Smith smiled maliciously at the fear he was causing Inuyasha.

"Yes, that's her name. So, tell me, are you going to cooperate now?"

Inuyasha's eyebrows pulled together and he bared his teeth in anger, how could this horrible thing want to do somethin like that to Kagome?

"If you dare so much as think about doing that, I will tear you end from end in the slowest possible way myself. I will make you wish you were dead, no, I'll make you wish you had never been alive!"

Inuyasha began struggling fiercly against the restraints. He found himself atonishingly weak, he just couldn't move very well. He concentrated on breaking just one tiny piece of the restraints, if he could do that then he'd be able to break the rest. After a few munutes Inuyasha had thoroughly exhausted himself, metal he would normally have shattered in an instant continued to restrain him. Yet still Inuyasha didn't give up, pouring all of his effort into getting out to protect the one he loved.

Behind him Smith began to laugh a demented laugh, enjoying Inuyasha's struggle. He was helpless! It was these kinds of things that had made Smith so eager to take Inuyasha into this torture chamber, the situation of him being completely in control of this being that was so many times more powerful than he.

"You see specimen, you are helpless. If you were smart you would agree, and then you would at least know that this Higurashi girl whom you seem to be infatuated with is safe. Or do you simply not care about her?"

It was this statement which broke Inuyasha. He ceased his struggling at once, and went limp. He just hung there for a time, and then sighed and closed his eyes and said;

"I'll do whatever you want. Just don't hurt Kagome. But know this, If I find out that Kagome has been hurt in any way, I will cause you more pain than is humanly possible. I swear it."