Disclaimer: Inuyasha! Inuyasha! Do I own you?

Inuyasha: (scoffs) Of course not b-tch...

Do I own you now?

Inuyasha: NO! Piss off! And start the chapter already!

Alright, alright...But first I have to say some'ing...

AN: (clears throat)Hey peoplez (That's not a typo just the way I like to spell peoples)! Last chapter was long, I know, and it was that way because I had a lot of time on my hands...Besides, you gotta start out with a bang! Right? And that was at first, so... Wait, was it 'go out with a bang' ? Oh well...
Anyway, because I'm starting school again, chapters might come in a little late (just a little!), and short, but not too short or too long. Such a chapter is this one, Chp.2! But every once in a while I'll throw in a good, long chapter...

Inuyasha: Enough talk! Where's the chapter?

It's right here, calm down! Read and review please.

Hint: Kagome's thought are still in 'italic', and they're always her thoughts unless told/read otherwise.


Something freezing kept sort of poking Kagome on the cheek, and a noise of "drip, drip" resounded in the distance. The environment in which the young girl was in, appeared blurry in her vision as she opened her eyelids. She sat up sluggishly so that she wouldn't be rewarded with a headache if she rose harshly, although she practically already had one from a recent bump on her head. Did I hit my head? she thought. Her surroundings substantialized, and she saw an arched tunnel made of old stone bricks. She realized she was sitting on a wet and dirty floor, and that the cold thing that had touched her was a drop of water that fell constantly from the ceiling, she brilliantly discovered this when she looked up and the drop fell into her eye; an uncomfortable experience. Then she saw many other drops and "drip, drip," was all she heard still, all the way down…

She stood up and turned around, only to find a brick wall. She walked closer to it, trying to remember how she got there. She twisted and turned her head this way and that, but didn't find the slightest indication of an exit. Then she took the risk of getting another wet drop into her eye, and inspected upwards, she quickly closed her eyelids for safety, but no drops were felt, so she opened her eyes again. She gasped in awe as she spotted a distant tint of light, which meant two things, she thought, #1 It's day, and #2 I must have fallen!

They were pretty obvious perceptions, really…

Wow! I fell a long way down; I'm surprised I didn't get brain damage! She resumed searching for an exit, only this time she put her hands on the wall on her front and knocked against its bricks as she listened for hollow spaces…Nothing…, she thought desperately. There was no ladder, or magic brick, so she was forced to take the only available path. She turned around once more and walked carefully down a dripping hallway. Here and there a drop landed on her head.

She was close to the end of the hallway, when she heard voices and footsteps echoing. She paused her walking and crouched down so she could peek at the horizontal hallway (in front of her)perpendicular to the one she was in. She saw that not too far away were three men that looked about twenty years old. They were all wearing different outfits, but no shoes. Therewas serious need ofnailclipping because their fingernails were so long, almost claw-like.Then they stopped walking. Oh no! Maybe they saw me! Kagome worried, but kept peeking. She saw that the men quickly turned to the right, on the same step, Odd… They were staring straight at the stonewall now, and didn't move for a few seconds, still looking at the wall. What's so interesting about a wall that doesn't even have wallpaper? She thought.

Then one of them shouted " 045231498!" and the whole place shook with force, it was coming down! Was there an earthquake? But suddenly, the wall the men shouted a bunch of numbers to, opened up a piece of it that was shaped like a door, it was a door! The men entered casually, as if walls opened up like that every day.

Kagome was stuck with nowhere to go, so she followed the men, and just when the wall was about to close with all its earth shattering movements, Kagome managed to sneak in. She felt guilty for some reason, but then scared when the wall closed loudly behind her. She walked down yet another stone hallway. The men were long gone. Wow, they powerwalk, or something… and she seemed to have walked for half an hour when she reached…an elevator? But this placed looked too old and weary! It didn't even have stairs! But even though this was very fishy, Kagome still pushed the elevator button. Almost instantly she heard a 'ding' and the metal door opened, she stepped into a normal-looking elevator, with wine-red carpeted floor and reflecting metal (not mirrors) on all sides. The doors of the elevator closed, and Kagome had no chance to turn back from what she was getting herself into…

She saw that the elevator didn't have any buttons with numbers topress fordifferent floors, but it was moving, she felt it. Soon came another 'ding', and the door opened again. She stepped out, and was greeted by a grotesque feeling, kind of supernatural, and the vague thought of the misunderstood outcasts at her school popped up. So maybe there's something interesting hidden secret around here? Another stone arched hallway was encountered, which made the elevator really seem out of place. She walked forward, the only way she could, and found that there were various metal doors on both her sides. The ones to her right all read "Training room #1" and "Training room #2" and so on. The ones to her left read numbers too, but instead of reading "Training room" they read "Dormitory #1…" The doors stretched as far as her eyes could see. Kagome saw that one door, "Training room #3", had a crevice and she decided to use her newfound skill of peeking, and what she saw was so…normal… It was like a gym, maybe it was a gym. There was an instructor who repeated movements while counting "1,2! 1,2!" and about twenty people in front of him copied the uppercut he was demonstrating. So this is kickboxing?

Then she walked further and pushed the door "Training room #7" moderately, and she saw the same gym-like formation; only this time it was martial arts instead of kickboxing. Maybe the dormitories were different? She nudged the door of "Dormitory #4", only it didn't open, it was locked. So she searched for one that was opened, and clapped softly in triumph when she stood outside opened "Dormitory #13", and she saw, a , a…Normal bedroom, pretty plain with only a bed with a cheap gray mattress and a brown desk, that's it. No chairs, no mirrors, no nothing…

She gave up her search for something out of place (other than the elevator), until she came across a room that didn't read "Training room" nor "Dormitory" and a random number. It read "Surveillance", and Kagome gave into temptation and looked inside, she saw about thirty mini TV screens all put together behind many desks. There were two people inside, sitting on the chairs and their backs faced Kagome as they watched the screens. Kagome squinted at the screens but only to aid her vision to watch the screens as well. From all that she could make out, the screens each displayed different rooms, like dormitories, and training rooms, but also countless hallways. This place was huge! Kagome watched a specific screen, and then her eyes traveled speedily down all the screens. Something caught her eye in one of them, but Kagome passed it quickly only to realize what it was moments later and faced the interesting screen again. It looked like someone she knew! Finally… she was relieved. But when she saw the head of the person turn, she wasn't too happy that the only one she knew in this place was the one she had followed here in the start! The blond boy! Maybe if I talk to him he'll recognize me and show me the way out! She thought happily. She read the captions of the screen that said "Prime Dormitory". Where was that again?

She ran out and up and down the hallway, and found out it led to many other hallways with many other metal doors. No! Now she had to stop on front of every door to read what it was carefully, to make sure she hadn't been there already, and then kept on. Now and again, people marched by, they were more like soldiers from an army, so Kagome decided it was best to stay out of their way so she hid every time they passed by, and then resumed her quest. After like years of searching, she found the door that read "Prime Dormitory". Yes, now to talk to that boy…she reached for the handle and pulled, and pulled, why wasn't it opening? Oh great, it's locked! Kagome thought. She heard footsteps, but from where? She stepped aside when she acknowledged they came from inside the room.

A woman with long and shiny, straight, black hair and sunken eyes walked out gracefully. She was wearing and old miko outfit, which Kagome only recognized from the pictures of Feudal Japan in her history book. Another detail that managed to completely alarm Kagome was: that woman stole her face! She looked almost the same as her omitting the fact that this woman was more refined and elegant, plus had a powerful sense about her. This woman didn't notice her presence and left to attend some business. Kagome was still for a minute when she remembered her reasons for being there as she looked inside. The blond boy was sitting behind a metal desk, slumping back on his chair with both his feet on top of the desk: a lazy but known position. But wait a sec, his hair wasn't blond anymore, it was silver-white! And it wasn't short either; it was estimably up to his waist. And to add to this shocking truth, two of the most soft, real looking doggy ears were cutely placed above his head, and a short blond wig lay on the desk. Kagome was in awe, but still didn't believe the realistic look he had; it was perfect for Halloween… There was a "tick, tick" coming from somewhere, and Kagome hoped to god it wasn't in her head or she had become insane. It was just a clock on the room's wall behind the strange boy. Kagome was starting to be filled with anger. She didn't know how to get out and go home, plus she was stuck in a place she guessed was one of the most successful gyms in Japan, and to add to the 'Alice in Wonderland' feeling she had in her gut the only person she knew turned out to be a boy gone doggish!

She summoned all her frustration and stepped right into the boy's office. Her stomping startled him, and mostly when he saw her furious, familiar face he was shocked. "I—WANT—OUT!" she screamed.

" WHA-AT! How did- ? Who send -? Huh?" He screamed at first, and then questioned her appearance that was so unanticipated.

"I don't know! I followed you into a dark alley where I fell and hit my head and it really, really hurt! And now I've been puzzled trying to get back home!"

He closed the door to this dormitory, and jabbed her body to his securely with his strong arms, with such agility that just wasn't humanly possible.

"You're not going anywhere now! Tell me how you found this place?"

"I told you!"

"Oh yeah, you stalked me! Now who sent you!"

"I didn't stalk- and I wasn't sent!"

"Oh, ya don't want to answer me! Well, now it gets worse! You can wait here until the interrogation starts while I go off to a meeting to decide upon your sentence!"

"What sentence?"

But she was left alone to ponder on that inquiry as the dog boy left the room and locked it from the outside, his actions were just as fast as before. There she stood for a few minutes, dumbstruck, until the door was opened again. This time two people came in, a man and a woman looking as human as they come. They commanded her to sit her tushie (bottom) on the chair behind the desk. She complied.

"How did you stumble upon or humble residence?" The man asked, paying no attention to the fact he just made a rhyme and would make a good rapper in Kagome's mind. (AN: In her mind not mine…Just joking! I'm indifferent about this kind of music, and I don't take sides!)

"I told him, the other boy! I saw him walk into a dark alley, and my feet just took me there out of mere curiosity. Then everything was so dark I couldn't see, and I fell into a hole, then I hit my head. I was unconscious, but then awoke and found myself in this…place. Where am I anyway?"

"You are not authorized to asked questions."

"So, you say you just 'fell' in here?" the woman asked. Kagome nodded.

"If you don't want to be sentenced to hanging, then answer this: Who sent you?" asked the man.

"No one! Honest! I just want to head home!" Kagome answered sincerely.

"What is your name, how old are you, and what is your ID number? Answer me those three questions in that order." The woman directed.

"Um… Kagome Higurashi, just turned fifteen this Thursday, and 345673-something. I don't know my ID by heart."

"Oh really? Happy birthday!" the woman said rather unprofessionally, and the man cleared his throat to get back to the point.

"Right…Err…Don't worry about your ID number, we'll find it by your name and I'll be needing your address." The woman added.

"I live in the old Shrine, very near here." Kagome said, and stated all the proper names and numbers to describe her address.

"If the information proves false, we'll be forced to hang you. On the other hand, if you're not a liar then we will let you live." The man spoke.

"Live… and what about going home?"

"That will be decided later."

"What! "

The men and the woman bowed slightly, and left the room. Kagome reached out for the handle, but the door was locked. She was frantic now, what did they mean they got to choose whether she went home or not?

In another room that read "Conference room #1", close to "Dormitory #34", a meeting was being held over a certain young girl's fate.

"She's a spy! She has to be one of those crazy scientists!" a man with light brown fur and rabbit features pointed out from somewhere on a chair behind a big, rectangular table.

"We don't know for sure…she might just be another idiot who happened to fall into that stupid hole…" a man with a deer-like body remarked.

"Maybe… But we already have enough of those! If we let anymore 'enhanced' humans or experiments live here, we'll have to translate a reasonable amount of us across the state border to the next shelter!" a woman with cattish features argued.

"What should we do, leader Inuyasha?" asked the rabbit-man.

"Mmm…We will test her mental capability, and if she has potential we'll 'enhance' her as well…And that's that, no more 'talking it over', got it!" Replied the silvery head with amber eyes. And with that, the meeting was over and everyone parted to busy themselves with their own problems.

Kagome was still worried sick, sitting on the chair, at the same room as before. She rocked back and forth on the chair, as she tried to think everything through. Suddenly, two people came in, with white long robes and white masks that classified them as doctors. Kagome couldn't see their faces, or any body parts indicating gender.

They walked up to Kagome, and came close, too close and Kagome felt they burst her bubble of privacy. "Hey, stay away! Who are you? And I want to go home, you can't keep me here! And-" she didn't finish that sentence when one of the doctors gave her a shot; Kagome's worst fear since she hated needles, but she began feelingtired and couldn't keep up her eyelids when she finally dozed off.

Tick, tock (Gwen Stefani's...)

Time passed but Kagome didn't know how much the next time she opened her eyes. She saw a bright light, and wondered if she was dying… She couldn't see anything else except for that light so she finally accepted rather well the thought that she was dying. She saw a face far off in the distance, who was it? Maybe her dead grandparents, or her father who died when she was three? She looked closer, trying to make out the person's features. Wait; hold on, she heard a voice! It was low at first, but then it almost ripped her skull apart when it screamed. She got a migraine as she tried to understand the voice…

"Damn, Doctor! These scores are high! They are even higher than our current assistant-leader's!" a familiar rough voice…It sounded like that blond boy…

"Yeah! Just think how powerful she'll be when her mind receives the enhancement! I think no matter how squished we are at our little shelter, we can afford one more smart human with these "Potential" scores!" Another, lower voice shouted, and his face was dark and indistinct, just as the other one.

"You're right! Just this once we'll make an exception…"

"Not another one! I'm getting sick and tired of all these exceptions!" a new voice entered the conversation, but from farther away so Kagome couldn't see his face, not that she would see his nose, or eyes or anything if he came near anyways…

"It's been decided Kouga, so suck it up!"

Kagome was furious, couldn't they keep it down? He head was killing her! She tried to talk, but she felt too weak and tired, so she just went to sleep.

She woke up again, but wasn't staring up at a light anymore; instead there was a white plain ceiling: no stones, no bricks. And there were gray walls. She sat up from unconsciousness for the second time that day (or she thought was the same day, it could have been over two days for all she knew) and she saw she was on a bed covered with a gray mattress, much like the ones she'd seen in the dormitories. She thought she was in one of the dormitories until she looked right and left and saw more beds on both sides. This seemed to be like one of those places were injured soldiers rested and healed from war. She blinked, twice, and then used all the brainpower she had left (for some reason she felt exhausted) to try and remember what happened. She frowned at her only memories: when she fell in or rather when she woke up after falling in, when she looked into the dormitories, and training rooms…Then what? Oh, she saw that blond guy from her school, and went into a room where she talked to him and…He said something about a 'sentence', and then there was an 'interrogation', and after that she—after that she…She couldn't remember! Her mind went blank just after the questioning, what had happened?

She heard noise, somebody was coming, so she made pretend she was still asleep snoring softly now and again. Her eyes remained closed, but she heard various people come in and stand just beside her bed.

"She's a late sleeper, isn't she?" a soothing woman's voice remarked.

"Oh well, we'll come back when she's awake to give her the choice of leaving or-" a man said, who didn't finish when he was interrupted by the same woman.

"No, we don't go through the usual process with this one, remember? Inuyasha gave us direct orders to perform the experiment without her knowing…"

"What? That doesn't feel right. Why would he say that?"

"Something about her "Potential" psyche scores being too high a number to pass up. I heard a rumor they were even higher than Kikyo's…"

"Higher than the assistant-leader's you say? Mm… I don't know, they're just rumors."

"Yes, at the end I suppose all they are is rumors…"

Kagome's strange dream came back to her at that moment. It was about her 'scores' and 'enhancement', and an 'exception'? But hadn't that been just a dream? Maybe it's time to wake up, Kagome, to make a run for it! I don't want to be experimented on! So she ran on pure adrenaline. She stood up from the bed, almost gave a heart attack to the two conversing people, but she didn't really notice them as she ran towards the doors they walked in through. Only there were no doors, when she reached the end of the hall, she was facing a gray wall. How had they come in this way?She delved the wall desperately. While the other two people just stood there, and for a good reason:

"There's no path to get out. At least not for you. The walls only open to our kind or the ones who know the code. Plus it has an eye scanner that determines whether you are authorized or not." The woman quickly stated.

"Oh…"Kagome's face fell, but turned around to face them determined "I want to leave! I don't want to be experimented on, and I just want to go home! It was supposed to be my birthday!" She cried, sounding spoiled or maybe just freaked, but really she was permitted to freak out because of the events that had taken place.

"I'm sorry to say you don't have a choice, we need all powerful beings we can recruit for the war." The man spoke.

"What war? I don't want to fight anyone! I want to leave!"

"You'll feel different about that, I'm sure, once we're through with the enhancement operation," said the woman.

"Operation! No! It's my choice! I don't want to-" she stopped yelling when she noticed the other people were closer to her than before…They had been sneakily walking closer and closer! "What are you doing?" she asked in a calmer voice, yet shocked, "Don't get near me! Get away!" she tried to back up, but she managed to bump into the wall.

"Don't worry, this enhancement won't hurt or damage you severely in any way." The woman took a handkerchief so fast it almost wasn't humanly possible. But wait, she wasn't using her hands to hold it, the handkerchief was just…floating there in front of her face! Then the woman held out her hand and made a gesture forwards, just then the handkerchief was pressed against her nose firmly. Kagome's body started to weaken as she fell to the ground. No, not again… she thought after the third time she had unwillingly fell into a deep slumber.


AN: So? Whatcha think? Bet you're confused now, huh?

And the plot thickens! (Dun-dun-dun!)

Don't worry, this whole story is a little deeper than the summary describes...BecauseI just couldn't word it right with the summary...

Well, again, please review, and don't take my pushiness personal that's just me! (sorry about all the typos, if you came across any...)

'Till next chapter!