Going in Circles

Disclaimer: Inuyasha doesn't belong to me.

Chapter 2

He took her by the waist and picked her up. Kagome, who had no idea what was going on, started to kick and flail.

"What are you doing?" she screamed in his face.

"Let me show you." He said changing his voice in a much gentler voice than the villainous one before. Kagome didn't stop from her kicking and flailing. However, she didn't have to keep it up for long. Within a few seconds Hiten had dropped her to the floor and she sit there on her bum.

He was messing with the chains that were attached to the floor and ceiling. It was then that kagome realized what was just about to happen.

'Shit! I've got to get out of here! But how?' I really have no option than to go through with this. Not unless...' Kagome thought as she fell lifelessly to the floor.

Hiten turned from what he was doing and tended to the body on the floor. He checked for a pulse. After a few moments he punched Kagome in the stomach. He eyes flew open in shock and she was struggling to breath because of the wind being knocked out of her.

Hiten picked her up by her hair and she winced in pain. His mouth reached her earlobe and he whispered menacingly into her ear. "You will never pull a stunt like that again. If you ever pull something so stupid again, we will have you killed. Got it?" She nodded understandingly. If she didn't react she would be in even more trouble than she already was. She may hate this place, but she really didn't want to die.

He didn't let go of her hair until he was sure that she had gotten his message loud and clear. Afterward, he told her to stand still and not to move. She obeyed.

SLAP! came the sound of the whip harshly striking her lower back. Her wrists and ankles where attached to the chains. This was her punishment, getting stricken with a whip while she was helpless in mid-air.

Her eyes were shut tight, all scrunched up, as if trying to block the pain. There was a one-way mirror in front of her. Hiten had explained things to her while he was setting up.

This was a new type of punishment, a punishment that was experimental and was going to be observed by scientists to see its effectivness.

Kagome let out a scream as the whip hit her with brute force. Her shirt was in tatters and had fallen off completely. Each time the whip came, it got more and more painful. The whip stopped. Kagome still had her eyes closed. She was still afraid of getting hit. She couldn't have her eyes closed for long though. Eventually curiosity got the best of her and she opened her eyes.

Her head was slumped and she looked down at the pool of blood near her feet. As soon as she had opened her eyes she was hit with the evil snake of a whip. Each strike felt like a poisonous reptile biting her in the back.

She could hear faint words in the background, it was Hiten telling her to listen to what he said before. He must have been yelling at her when he was hitting her. She must've not heard him because all she could hear was the horrifying sound of the whip against her flesh.

Hiten didn't stop either the shouting or the punishment. Kagome would soon be unconscious from the blood loss, but that didn't stop him. Besides he hadn't been able to take out his anger on someone in ages.

Kagome felt reality slip from her. Her eyes were getting heavy and her brain fuzzy. She could now only hear the distant slaps of her skin, which she could no longer feel any pain.

It was only moments after that, that she lost reality completely.

Hiten, seeing what happened, stopped himself from what he was doing. He let the poor girl hang there as he left the room to consult the others in the room with the one way mirror.

(Inu's POV)

I sit in my room, wondering what was happening to Kagome. I knew that she had gone off to the caverns. I myself have gone there a couple of times. It's this place where the come up with these types of "creative punishments" that just mean sheer torture for whoever is being punished.

The one time I was there, they cut me in places and put some weird toxins into them. The other time I was there they put me into this freezing cold room that they left me in there until I passed out.

I move over to the bathroom and put my face in the sink with running water. I spread the water over my face and stare at the mirror-less wall. I recently tried to kill myself with a shattered mirror. That's how much I hate it here. I walk back into my room—or should I say Miroku's and mine.

I smack the sleeping pervert over the head for no apparent reason. I guess I'm just really pissed off.

"Inuyasha!" I hear a pissed off Miroku scold me. "What the fuck did you do that for?" I look at him like I didn't do anything. He looks back at me and I sit on my bed and go to sleep. Maybe if I hold my breath long enough I'll pass out and maybe die.

"Miroku..." I say with my eyes shut.

"Yes?" comes the reply

"Will you kill me?"

"Inuyasha..." I hear his pitying voice. "Do we have to go through with this again? I'm not going to kill my best friend. Why don't you have Sango kill you? You know that she would more than happy to do so." I sigh. I really want to die. I want Miroku to kill me, and I want him to do it now. Maybe if I get him pissed at me he'll kill me then. Naw, I shouldn't bother with it tonight, I'm just too tired.

After Miroku realizes that I'm not going to answer him he tells me good night and goes to bed himself.

'If only we didn't have such screwed up lives, then maybe we wouldn't have to be here at this very moment...' was the last thought that left my mind before I fell asleep.

End

Next chapter: You get to find out how they got to the lab in the first place. Hope you like sadness and drama because that's all there is in the next chapter.

Bye for now!