Whatever It Takes

By: TycoonGirl

Disclaimer: I no own

Chapter Two; Not Really

Kagome stepped into the room. Sunlight from a bare window hit her glasses, causing them to gleam brightly. The wooden floor was covered in dust and the walls were lined with empty bookshelves that were also caked in dust. In front of the window there was a large wooden desk, also covered in dust. She stepped forward and the floor boards creaked under her. Her footprints were left behind her as she stopped before the desk. There was a chair behind the desk. She moved quickly around the desk and started flinging drawers open. However, every single one of them held nothing.

Souta came to the enterance of their father's study. "Kagome, what are you doing in this room? You know mom doesn't want us in here." he spoke.

She slammed her fist on the desk, tears welling behind her eyes. "Damn it! Everything's gone! All of Dad's work...it's not here!" she cried, her voice tight and angry.

"Why do you want Dad's research anyways? Mom moved it somewhere ages ago." Souta said, coming forward to his sister.

Kagome straightened and blinked, not allowing her tears to fall. "Nevermind about why I want the damn papers, I just do! Do you have any idea where they might be? Think Souta, this is very important to me!" she said, grabbing his shoulders.

He pushed her hands off him. "No. I don't know and I don't care. You're so friggen smart, you figure it out." he said, stalking from the room. Kagome swore and set the room back to what it looked like orginally and locked the door behind her.

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The doorbell rang and Kagome rose to answer it. She opened the door to find the group of doctors and the Taisho brothers on her doorstep. Her back went stiff. "What do you all want?" she hissed, blocking the entry way to her home.

Dr. Koga stepped forward immeadately. "Listen, we just want to talk with you. Can we please come in?" he asked, somehow slipping past her. She swore and stepped aside to allow the others enterance into her home.

"First off, is Sakuya or Souta home?" Dr. Myoga demanded, looking around the house.

Kagome was silent for a few beats. "Only Souta is here. My mother is away on a business trip and will be for the remainder of this month." she replied, leading the large group of people into the formal living room.

Dr. Sango sighed. "Do you know if Souta has been tested on?" she asked, sitting in a chair.

Kagome scowled and threw her hands in the air. "How do you even know I've been tested on? Leave my brother out of this." she growled.

Suddenly Souta appeared from the basement, smoke following him. "Yo." he greeted everyone before shuffling into the kitchen. "Okay, we'll leave the stoner out of this." Inuyasha snorted. Kagome crossed her arms, very irked.

"Anyways, what we came here for was to try and purswayed you to allow us to run a few minor tests on you. It would be of great benifit to you and us." Dr. Miroku said.

Kagome shook her head. "No. I've already given you my answer and it was a no! And it hasn't changed and it won't!" she cried.

A long scilence filled the room then Dr. Kaede sighed and stood. "Very well. If you don't want to then there is nothing that we can do. However if you change your mind, contact Sesshomaru or Inuyasha. I hope you have a nice day Miss. Kagome Higurashi." she said, leading the group to the door.

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She woke the following morning, her barcode throbbing repeatedly as if someone where making it do so. She groaned and went to go shower. Kagome dressed in her school uniform and grabbed her A+ worthy homework, adjusted her glasses and left in her car for school. She parked in the back of the lot and walked quickly across the ashpalt to the red brick building with large cream roman coloums in the front, near the enterance. Kagome entered and went to her locker, then to her class.

The day was passing slowly for her when she went to lunch. Instead of getting lunch she went to a table in the corner that was empty and started doing her homework. When she was done, she stared out the window, her chin propped up in her hand, covering her mouth. Her elbow rested on the table and she closed her eyes for a moment but that didn't last long. Her eyes snapped open and she sighed quietly.

Everytime she closed her eyes she was haunted with memories from the days her father was alive. The one she'd seen just a moment ago was of her peering up at her father whom was injecting a metal-like fluid into her veins and assuring her it was okay. The surroundings looked familiar, but she had not seen anything like the place in her home.

The bell rang and she stood, gathering her things. She walked quickly to the exit, acidentally colliding with Kagura. "Watch where your going loser." Kagura snorted.

She ignored her and continued on her path to the door but was slowed when she felt a hand wrap around her upperarm. She was jerked around to face Kagura. "Who the hell do you think you are, not apologizing to me for crashing into me?" she snarled.

Kagome sighed and pulled her arm away. "I believe you are mistaken. It should be you whom is apologizing to me. You bumped into me, not the other way around, and may I suggest that when you speak to others you try a mint before hand and try to be more polite." she said in a deadly calm voice before turning and striding away.

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She closed the front door behind her and sighed. Some days were just plain exhausting for her. Kagome went to her room and changed into loose jeans and a black t-shirt. Kagome grabbed the rusted old key off of her desk that was to her father's study and decided to go take one last look at it. She unlocked it and shut the door behind her.

Kagome noticed something on a bookcase. It was a some sort of symbol. She pressed her fingers to it and there was a grinding sound as a bookshelf sprung off the wall, revealing a dark hole behind it. She gulped as lights sprung on. Kagome gathered her nerves and stepped into the steel corridor.

Her footsteps made dull clinking noises against the cool steel. When she reached the end of the long hall she came into a lab. This was the place! The place from her memories. Kagome looked around, astounded. The place was cold, so cold that she could see her breath and so cold she should've brought a jacket. She shivered. The room was made out of steel and there were test-tubes, beakers, bunsen burners and other things set up on steel and glass tables. There was a freezer in the back and then there were stacks of boxes in the back of the room.

As she creeped over to the the freezer she felt like things were some-how going to get really creepy in a minute, and sure enough they did. She peered through thick glass to see what was like a giant ice-cube that fit into the room. In the middle of the frozen ice was her father, holding his throat as if gasping for air. He wore black slacks and a white lab coat. His glasses had been knocked astray and were frozen floating to the bottom. His eyes were bugged out in panic. She gasped and backed away.

Kagome quickly went over to the boxes and found her father's research. Kagome knelt and read through it all and looked at the syurm left. She put everything back and ran, shutting the bookcase behind her. She huffed and exited her father's study, locking it behind her. Her heart was thumping wildly and she went to her room and shut herself in.

The things that been in her father's research...she shuttered at the thought. When she was five years old her father had come up with a soultion for the milatry to have the perfect robotic soldiers, something called 'metalization'. He had not used it on anyone or anything before his presentation to the government so when they gave him a monkey to test on, it died and so did the two hundred after that. After awhile a man named Naraku approached Dr. Akira Higurashi and demanded that he become a test-subject. Kagome's father had refused, leading to when the research he'd been doing stopped. Kagome now suspected that this Naraku person had drowned her father and frozen him in the ice as some sort of cruel joke, then took over the project and research in the disguise of her father. That was probably when the man whom had claimed to be her father started using other humans as test subjects, including her.

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Kagome skipped dinner, having no real appitite. She was trying to prepare how she would approach Inuyasha or Sesshomaru for their help. She completed her homework and went to find her brother. He was eating pizza and watching television. He looked up. "Did you clean up dad's study after ripping it up?"

"Yeah, yeah I did. Souta...listen, I know we haven't exzactly gotten along since we were young...but, I just want you to answer me a question. When I turned six and you were five, do you remember any different things that dad did? Like any durastic changes in his personality?" Kagome asked.

Her brother snorted. "No. All I remember is Dad becoming less and less in my life, finally becoming really nasty. I guess he was too busy showering you and mom in presents to give a crap about me." he said stiffly.

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Kagome had three classes with Sesshomaru and one with Inuyasha. During the class periods she shared with Sesshomaru none of the other popular people were in the class, so it would be the perfect oppournity to talk to him. She took a deep breath in last period history. The bell rang and she walked across the room to him. He looked up. "Can I help you Kagome?" he asked. "I've reconsidered. I need to talk to everybody. I found something..." "Alright. We'll be over in an hour." Sesshomaru said.

Kagome drove home and changed into long pants and a blue long-sleeve shirt with three buttons up the front. She pulled her hair back, showing off her barcode. She grabbed her key and went downstairs as the doorbell rang.

She opened the door and stepped aside so that the doctors and the Taisho brothers could enter. "We're all glad that you decided to change your mind about us. May I ask why?" Dr. Sango inquired.

"I found my father's research and his lab." she said, crossing her arms.

Everyone collectively gasped when they registered Kagome's words. "This is exellent news! Can we see it?" Miroku asked, shaking Kagome by the shoulders. Her teeth clacked together.

"Ow. And calm the the hell down. Of course you can, that's why I called you here. Though it is freezing down there. I'm surprised I didn't catch my death down there. Anyways, if you have a weak stomach, I suggest you stay away from the window near the freezer." she advised, leading them towards the door to her father's study.

The group paused, trying to tell what she meant. "Huh?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome turned to him and the others. "I found my real father frozen inside an icecube in the freezer." she said, inserting the key and opening the door.

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They gathered the research and quickly left the lab, shutting it up. Kagome led them to the living room and they all took seats. "I take it you've read all of this data? Well, what do you think Kagome?" Dr. Myoga asked.

Kagome sighed and sat back. "The truth is, I've had my suspicions about what I was over the past few years...and I wanted to take your help when you first offered it, but that would be betraying my father. I knew that he was a man that wouldn't easily use one of his own children for some stupid lab experiment, even if it was for the government. It turns out I was right. Last night when I was going over my father's research, I was able to tell the last log he made when it was actually him. It was when I was about six...that's when I learned about this man named Naraku. In my father's research it mentioned that the man demanded he become the first human test subject. After that I think that this Naraku guy was somehow responsible for the death of my real father and the lab tests done on myself and others. What I can't believe is that this man documented everything that he did and left my father's frozen ice-cube body in that freezer. And surely my father would've told my mother about something as important as a man approaching him to become a human tester...I want to know why she didn't stop him..." Kagome said, holding back tears.

The room was deadly silent. "Is that all? Can you remember anything more?" Kaede chided.

"I'd have to sit down and think for a few hours..."

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Kagome sat in a chair, her eyes closed. Her mind was whirring with thoughts and memories. Suddenly it hit her and she jumped up, her eyes bright, even though it was 2 a.m. "That's it!" she cried.

Inuyasha grunted and fell off of his chair as Kagome dashed past him. He rubbed his head. "What the hell was that about you stupid wench?" he grumbled.

She ignored him and went into the hall where the attic hatch was. She glared up at it. "DAMN IT! I'M TOO SHORT!" Kagome yelled, stomping a foot in her anger. She put her hands on the wall and lowered her head, tears threating to stream down her cheeks. Finally she turned and went into her room to get things to stack together so she could reach.

First she put a chair, then all of her pillows, then a few boxes and a stool. She climbed the wobbling pile and tried to push open the hatch. It wouldn't budge. "Damn." she muttered, sweat dripping from her brow. She lowered her head and set her shoulders on the lid and rammed her shoulders back, breaking the wooden door. The chair tipped and the stack tipped over. Kagome clung to the edge, her armpits sore as they were rammed right against the splintered wood.

She managed to pull herself in and stood shakily. Kagome brushed the dust off of her pants and turned on the light. With a trembling hand she wiped her forehead off and then noticed that there was a dripping noise somewhere. She looked all around the attic and saw nothing that would generate such a noise, then she looked at her arm and saw droplets of blood making the dull plinking sound on the old, musty two by fours of the attic's floor. She winced and ripped the hem off of her shirt and tied it around her arm.

Now that her wound was temporarily taken care of she looked around the unusually large attic. There were cobwebbs in every corner and dust was thick everywhere, including in the air. The only light in the dark and moldy attic was the single light bulb hanging from the rafters. She blinked a few times to adjust her eyes to the dim lighting and sneezed. She rubbed her nose that was now bright red.

Kagome took a step towards a large rectangular object that was covered in a white sheet. She let her fingers embedd themselves in the white cotton and then she ripped it off. The dusty cotton sheet slipped through her fingers and pooled at her feet. Kagome's eyes widened at the large door that was before her. It was a cool cobalt blue with a silver handle and a combonation keypad. She heard shouting from the hatch that led down to the regular house. "Kagome! Kagome? Are you alright?"

She walked to the hatch and dropped to her knees by it. She leaned forward so they all saw her face. "Yeah, I'm fine. I've found something though. I don't know if I should open it...plus there's a lock on there..."

Suddenly there was a noise that made Kagome jump. It was her brother and his band practicing at full volume. She pitched forward and let out a shrill scream. Before anyone could react Sesshomaru was catching Kagome in his arms. He set her down. "What happened to your arm?" he asked, taking it and un-wrapping it.

Before Kagome could reply Koga came forward and hugged her tightly. "I'm so glad you weren't hurt my dear Kagome. I don't know what I would've done if you had been injured too terribly. I've been meaning to ask you since the moment we first met...will you be my woman?" he asked.

"A...air..." she gasped, pushing him away. She coughed for a moment and straightened her glasses.

Koga was still holding her hand, gazing at her expectantly. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha were both scowling. Kagome turned bright red as she felt Koga's hand stroaking her butt. She slapped him and pushed him away to go hide behind Sesshomaru. "No! That is so gross! You pervert!" she shrieked.

Koga rubbed his cheek. "That proves it. You want me, your just too shy to admit it. Don't worry my love, I know how you feel." he said, starting to walk towards her as if to embrace her. She shrieked and grabbed Sesshomaru's arm.

Sesshomaru hit him on the head. "Knock it off Koga. Kagome is off limits." he growled. Kagome let go of his arm and then looked up to the hatch.

"Don't even think about it wench. Your arm is hurt." Inuyasha snarled once he saw what Kagome wanted to do. She frowned and put her hands on her hips, a fire in her eyes.

Her glasses gleamed as if they sensed their wearer's mood. "Pardon me, Inuyasha, I don't believe my name is Wench. It's Kagome. KA-GO-ME, got it? Oh and while were on the subject of things you can't do, please, refrain from thinking you can control me." she said in a sweet voice, all the while stepping closer and closer to the hanyou.

Inuyasha backed away from Kagome, his cheeks tinged pink. He cleared his throat. "Keh." was all he could say.

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Author's Note: Hiya. I'm back again. Please read and review my story. I hope you like that I continued my story. I really like this story a bit more than my other ones, so I'm focusing on this right now. I got my inspiration from Full Metal Alchamist, though it's a totally different plot and there will be no more mention of anything in FMA from now on. Anyhow, now's the part when I add to the character discriptions.

Souta: is resentful of Kagome because she seems seemingly perfect and flawless...like a robot. So he makes nasty robot remarks, but he doesn't know how close he is to the actual truth of the matter. He is a stoner and frequently gets in trouble and is prone to host very loud band practises at all hours of the night.

Dr. Higurashi (Kagome and Souta's father): Madman whom supposedly used his own daughter as a guniea pig for his 'metalization' experiments, but was actually brutally murdered and turned into an ice cube. He was working for the government on the perfect robot soldiers but the formula killed the lab animals he was allowed to use. (To let you know, this part about their father will improve over the next few chapters, I promise you won't hate him as much as you do now in the ending of the story.)

Kagome: The quiet girl. Smart, and seemingly shy. No friends. Secretly yerns to know what happened to her, but tells people she doesn't. She likes to hide her true self and has a habit of being very nosy which leads to most of her discoveries. (Also, this discription will improve over the next few chappies, I just don't want to give too much of the plot line away in this!)

Mrs. Higurashi (Mother of Kagome and Souta): A powerful CEO who is never in her children's lives and dosen't like for them to call her unless it is an emergency. (THIS IS KILLING ME! I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE OTHER STUFF!)

Sesshomaru Taisho: The rich heir to his father's fortune. He has a mysterious reason for funding the doctors whom are intrested in 'metalization', that only he and Inuyasha know. Very handsome, a tad rude, and is the most popular guy in school along with his girlfriend, Yura. (Don't worry, the bitch isn't going to be around for long I'm going to...I should not have said that. Shutting up.) Compassionate to others and very strong.

Inuyasha Taisho: The misunderstood rich pretty boy. Mysterious reason...see Sesshomaru's blurp...powerful fighter, extremely popular along with his girlfriend, Kikyo. (She's not sticking around either...I hate Kikyo...well, it depends on what the pairings are going to be, if you know what I mean.) Rude and can be quite mean at times. Wants the best for everyone, just doesn't ask nicely.

Dr. Sango Mirashu: Married to collegue, Dr. Miroku Mirashu. Specializes in weapons for the U.S. government.

Dr. Miroku Mirashu: Married to collegue, Dr. Sango Mirashu. Specializes in myth and history research for the CIA or what ever.

Dr. Koga Wolfstein: Specializes in robotics. Has a crush on Kagome and wants her to be his 'woman'.

Dr. Kaede Guiskiko: Specializes in human treatments and herbs.

Dr. Myoga Fishosan: Specializes in emotional treatments and brain surgeon. (Yah, I thought having Inuyasha as the brain surgeon was just too damn ironic.)

Naraku: The bad guy. Killed Dr. Higurashi and took over his life to continue the research and tested on countless humans, including Kagome, whom then myseteriously dissappeared.

Alright. That is all. Not many changes, but some. The next chapter is going to be a cute little fluff chappie, but you should read it! Bye bye!