Resarch log: Using the girl still proves to be extremely useful. Earlier today when I took a bone marrow sample the subject didn't even attempt to struggle, his brainwave pattern stayed constant proving that he wasn't trying to do any escaping at all. Although the use of the girl seems to be working I still feel that I need to make the specimen less.... dangerous if I am going to go much further in my research. I was thinking of amputating the hands, leaving him harmless, but we're not ready to do anything that drastic, not yet. Things like that will be postponed until we have more data on the specimen. I have decided to simply remove the claws and fangs, and with plenty of sedatives he'll be all but helpless. A pressing issue is funding, my grant is running low and the international scientific research bureau is questioning my means of testing. They will not take my specimen from me. I'm going to redo the paperwork so that it says that our main objective is finding new ways to combat disease and cancer, that's always popular. Who knows, maybe my specimen is a miracle cure. Not that it would matter, he's mine now.

Inuyasha felt horrible, both his mind and body had been beaten to the point of death. The thought of Kagome being hurt because of him had been a bad enough mental hammer, but now he had to deal with the fact that tonight was the new moon. He was going to be human. Here.

He winced at the pain of the procedure being done on him at the time. The research team had deemed him too "violent" to be around safely, so now they were "declawing" him. His fangs were next.

As they lifted away the third claw from his right hand he felt like screaming, he had never known how sensetive his hands were. Of course he couldn't have screamed, they had put him on a sedative that made him completely paralyzed yet completely aware and awake. The pain was horrible.

The worst thing was that he could smell his own blood that was being soaked into a small spongelike thing under his hand, he could hear the sound of his detatched bloody claw falling onto the steel tray beside Smith as he deposited it there and turned to work on the next finger.

Inuyasha had thought that he would start to get used to the pain, he had when they had done a different procedure on him earlier that day. They had cut his skin away from an area of bone on his hip and had begun drilling into it with a small drill. At first it had seemed like it would kill him, he had had wounds before but they were always the result of a swift attack, they didn't last any longer than the time it took to blink an eye. It had felt like they had been drilling for hours, the sound of the drill had begun to make his ears ring (think dentist), but gradually the pain had become less intense after a while.

But not now. It was as if his body was mad at him for letting it's weapons, his claws, be torn off like splinters in a foot. It felt like liquid fire was being rammed uner each claw and left to burn, after the claw was removed the pain didn't stop. Inuyasha could only hope that they grew back, he had been planning to use them to kill this repulsive thing cutting at him.

This was Inuyasha's only thing he looked forward to other than his time with Kagome every week, he woud wait until he was sure he could kill him, Kagome would be endangered if he failed, and kill Smith. At first he had been wanting to end it quickly and be done with it, but now he had begun wondering about ways to make him suffer before he died.

It was not for himself that he wanted this, Smith had threatened Kagome, and he would be damned if he let her be hurt after he had finally told her he loved her.

Inuyasha was torn from his thoughts of Smith's demise by an overwhelming rush of horrible pain, the had finished his right hand and were now rinsing it with a clear strong smelling liquid that seemed like it gave him more pain than he was capable of feeling (medical grade rubbing alcohol. Not the stuff in your medicine cabinet, it burns skin if it's not dilluted.)

The pain reminded him of his dilemna of the new moon. Smith left everyday, although inuyasha had no idea what time it was seeing as he hadn't been outside for weeks. He knew that it was his only hope that Smith left before he transformed.

And if that wasn't enough, Inuyasha suddenly realized that the chemicals and sedatives he could feel being pumped into his blood would probably kill him as a human.

Another wave of unbearable pain wracked his body as the claw on his left hand was all but ripped away. It took nearly two hours but finally the process of removing Inuyasha's claws was completed, although the pain did not falter. Smith walked out of the room as another researcher wrapped the freely bleeding fingertips in white gauze, which almost immediatly staining dark crimson with Inuyasha's blood.

Inuyasha faintly heard the door close and snap locked as Smith reentered the room. Inuyasha noticed that he was saying something, but couldn't understand what they meant. Something about a 'dental procedure' and 'upper and lower canine removal' (A/N- for the bakas out there canines are also teeth, the pointy fanglike ones)

Something cold was jammed into his mouth and pried his stiff jaws apart and held them there. An extraordinarily uncomfortable amount of distance was between them.

Inuyasha managed to open one eye just the tiniest amount to see what was happening. Many people were extremely close to his face, and were messing with his mouth. One of the researchers handed the bored looking Smith a pair of what looked like huge pliars. Inuyasha felt their cold steel pressing in his mouth and closing over his tooth, he closed the vibrant gold eye again to brace for the pain of his tooth being wrenched from his jaw. He felt some pulling and even an attempt to swist the fang out, but Smith was not strong enough to tear it from Inuyasha's jawbone. Though it hurt, the pain didn't even compare to the other things done to him earlier.

He heard Smith make an angry and annoyed sound and stand up. He said;

"Get me the electric drill. We're just going to have to remove the nerve first and then try to get it loose"

The researchers hesitated, for some reason they seemed reluctant to follow Smith's orders. One of them said back to Smith;

"That's not completely necessary, we could just get dental tools for extracting teeth. You know our grant will be cut if we keep doing unneccesary things like this"

Inuyasha could feel Smith's fury at this defiance, he was about to yell something at the researcher when a very frazzled yet excited looking researcher burst in the door to the testing room, almost forgetting to lock the door behind him, a taboo with the researchers. He stood there for a moment, with the other researchers looking at him expaectingly. Finally, he exclaimed;

"the tests proved positive! we can get an additional grant! The sample marrow from the subject not only wasn't infected by the cancer cells, it destroyed them! We've got something!"

They all began talking all at once in excited voices. It seemed almost as if they had forgotten Inuyasha for a second and all started to leave the room. But of course Smith would never leave his specimen unattended.

"Akuo!" he barked at one of the researchers who had been migrating out of the room.

The researcher turned to look at Smith nervously.

"yeah?"

"you will stay here with my specimen while I look into this. If he tries to move- which I doubt he will- use this."

Smith handed the researcher an elecric rod, the kinds they use on cows when trying to herd large groups. Akuo took it nervously and examined it for a second.

"yes sir" he responded.

Akuo was not a real researcher, he was an intern from college who had taken to "field study" because he was failing. He and Smith were more alike than they knew. Every pet Akuo had owned, and there had been many, he ended up killing. He had a history of arson as well.

Inuyasha was not aware of anything that was happening, he had been struggling to stop the transformation he had felt begin. Luckily one of the researchers had stepped on the cord that powered his sedative pump, so the chance of him dying from a sedative overdose as a human was slimmed.

He didn't even really notice that he was starting to be able to move again he was concentrating so hard on not letting his transformation show for as long as he could. At this point he was pretty much all human, all he had left was his demon appearance.

On the other side of the room Akuo turned on the electric rod.

"so, freak, what's it like? you know being a freak" he said as he walked towards the steel table where inuyasha lay pinned.

"Actually, I don't think you're a freak. You're a monster, a monster that shouldn't be allowed to live. Of course, If I killed you now I'd get in a bit of trouble." he said as he fingered at the ugly looking wounds and mottled bruises on his neck.

He had been the one whom Inuyasha was about to kill when he had gone demon, the one who had grabbed Kagome by the neck.

Inuyasha wasn't listening to anything he said he was concentrating so hard on keeping his appearance. All of a sudden he felt a burning shocking pain in his midriff, Akuo had jabbed him with the metal rod. Inuyasha's eyes shot open from the pain and shock.

Instead of being the vibrant gold they were every other night of the month they were slate grey. Akuo didn't notice the change in eyecolor he was enjoying the pain he had given Inuyasha so much.

Then he jabbed Inuyasha in the neck with the electric rod. This broke Inuyasha's concentration, he screamed in pain and his hair began to fade to black and his ears migrated to the sides of his heads. Instead of the lustrous blue black hair he had usually had as a human Inuyasha's hair was dull and greyish, and his eyes held none of the flecks of violet and lighter greys they usually had as a human.

This of course was noticed, the young researcher gaped for a moment at the now human Inuyasha glaring at him and then started grabbing with shaking hands for his walky talky.

When he finally got it he said into it in a shaky voice; "boss... Something's happened to the specimen, it changed again!...............No, this time it turned into a human! Somehow he woke up and is moving around a little..............ok.......ok, well hurry, last time it was awake around me it almost killed me!"

Inuyasha had a feeling of cold impending doom in his now human body. For some reason he could move some, the sedatives must have been disconnected somehow. What he wanted to do more than anything was to struggle and find a way out of his restraints, they had been partially removed to tear out his nails.

But he didn't.

He wouldn't dare, he might put Kagome in danger. Instead he tried to savor being able to move for a little while. He tried to move his fingers, which was a bad idea. The pain of the procedure returned, but worse because he was now a weak human.

Then, he felt the sudden burning shock of pain again from the electric rod on the back of his neck. Inuyasha screamed in pain from it, the pain was all the more worse now because he was so weak as a human.

He fell limp on the cold table from the electric shock and simply lay there. And then he heard the sound that terrified him the most, it sent horrible shivers up his spine.

Smith had walked in and said;"Interesting. It's human"