The Pirates Life for Me
Hey everyone, so yea I wrote this chapter and a few other chapters almost 6 years ago, and went back and noticed just how terrible it is, so I decided to edit and fix them, and possibly continue if I like it enough and get decent comments. Hope you enjoy. ^_^
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters; I am just using them for my story.
Chapter 1
Enemy Ship
Kagome POV
Hey I'm Kagome Higurashi and I'm a pirate on the Demon, which is personally a rather well known vessel. It's a relatively large ship, manned by a couple dozen individuals and home of several canons. It has three large black masts that help us maintain a decent, if not slightly faster than usual, speed. Instead of sporting the stereotypical mermaid figurehead our ship has what looks like a large black spider with a red marking in the middle and the eight long legs hugging the front of the ship and a woman's head protruding from the top of the spider. If you didn't guess, the captain of this ship is a bit psychotic and has a thing for spiders, especially the large and hairy ones.
Unfortunately for me though, I'm also the only female pirate on this god forsaken ship. I also have only one real friend on this ship, his name is Miroku Houshi. But everyone just calls him Houshi or Monk. I love Miroku to death, but he is a serious pervert. He always manages to find some way to grope me, regardless of the situation. Because of his, problem, he carries quite a few bumps and bruises all over his head. It truly is amazing that he hasn't suffered from a concussion yet by my hand. But in all actuality he is really fun to hang out with. I can always confide in him and trust that he will keep everything a secret. He is honestly the only person on this ship that I can even talk to, since I do not trust any of the other pirates onboard. They would just as easily stab me in the back if they had the chance to better themselves or get more gold.
While on the ship, my typical job is manning the birds nest. Since I'm a woman I find it much easier to shimmy up the pole than the other larger men that I work with. Even with that benefit I still find it incredibly boring. Maybe if I had someone to talk to or something to do, other than staring at the vast miles of sparkly blue ocean. But as per usual, I've yet again found myself sitting in the bird's nest, alone and incredibly bored. Some days, sitting up here isn't too bad, but more often than not I just hate it. Times like this are when I would rather be put on waste duty. Yes, I would rather be cleaning the ship and taking care of all the trash and other shit than sitting up here. Time really does seem to move on slowly when you're alone and bored.
After watching the empty horizon for any sign of life aside from the ship my patience or lack thereof, was rewarded. I spotted a ship about the size of the Demon, but was unable to distinguish its allegiance. I can usually tell whether the ship is crewed by pirates or not, but every now and then they're either too far away or I just can't figure it out until we're on them. It had been several weeks since I had last seen a ship, or land, and I was beginning to get jumpy from being holed up here for so long. Quickly reaching up to the small golden bell above me I started pulling the string like a madman, or mad woman actually.
"Ship on the horizon! There's a ship ahead of us!" I yelled as loud as possible in between the ear shattering rings of the bell.
Miroku POV
Ding! Ding! "Ship on the horizon! Ding! "There's a ship ahead of us!" Ding! Ding! Ding!
When I heard the bell in the bird's nest ringing, I looked up to the sky and silently thanked the gods. It has been several very long, and very quiet, weeks since Kags had spotted any type of life other than the vast blue sea. I look around the sides of the ship in amazement, silently hoping to see this new spectacle for my own eyes, but all I see is water. Lots and lots of water.
"I wonder what it's like up there." I think to myself as I rushed over to the bird's nest pole. "Ha… like I'll ever get the chance to find out. Well unless I want to get myself killed." Right when I finished my current train of thought I looked up from where I was standing at the base of the pole just in time to see Kagome already half way down the main pole. "Damn she's fast." I breathed.
"Hey! Kags! Where are they at?" I yell up to her, just in time for her to jump to the floor at my feet.
"East. And coming fast!" She replied in return, slightly out of breath.
"Hurry up and get changed, if they're as fast as you say you're going to need all the time you can get. So I'll go tell the captain that there is a ship on the way, which should give you some extra time."
"Thanks Houshi!" she says gratefully as she started to turn towards her quarters.
Kagome POV
"Thanks Houshi!" I say eternally grateful once again as I started to walk away. "I owe you big time. I promise to find some way to pay you back."
"Yea, whatever." He muttered. "Hurry up and go before you screw yourself over again. You know how he gets if you're not completely ready in advance."
"I know. Thank you thank you thank you." As soon as I finish thanking him, I feel I slight touch of pressure to my back end. And guess who the culprit was, Miroku. Without even thinking my right hand flew from my side and connected squarely with his face. "Pervert!" When I looked up at Miroku again, he was sporting a very bright, and very painful looking, red hand mark on his right cheek.
"Kags…" He whined "It's my cursed hand. It has a mind of its own, I can't control it you know that. Bad hand! Bad… bad hand!" He enunciated the 'bad hand' by slapping his right hand as if it really did have a mind of its own.
"Ugg…" I shrieked. "I'll never understand you!" I said storming off to my quarters. Being the only female did have its perks sometimes. Instead of having to share a room with several grimy and smelly people I had a whole room to myself, it was small but it was still mine.
Now this next part is even better than sitting in the bird's nest for countless hours, please note the sarcasm. According to everyone but myself, my favorite part of my life on this ship is the raids, or so everyone has the misfortune of believing. They honestly think that I enjoy dressing up as some primadona prissy woman. I have to fight myself into this incredibly fancy dress from some rich lady that by now is most definitely long past dead. Ha! It gets even better, I have to act like I've been captured and need assistance. But it has it's really big down side, this act only works when the other ship is not a pirate ship, since pirates really don't care whether your captured or not. All us pirates care about is the loot and other valuables, nothing else.
The dress that I have to wear is kind of pretty, I guess. But it is way too frilly for my liking. If it wasn't for the lace and the extreme puffiness, I might actually like it, a little. I do like the colors on it though; it's a dark crimson red color with black lace all around the trim. It has an incredibly high neck line, I hate those, and they're so itchy. I really don't see how women today can stand them. To top it off, it even has a little bit of lace on the top of the neck line which makes the whole itch factor even worse, as if that were possible. Moving down the dress, it has ¾ length sleeves with lace at the ends of the sleeves. Once you get down to the hips, it puffs out like a large umbrella. And there's lace all the way down the dress, as if trying to cover the crimson from the world. If I didn't hate all the lace so much I might say that the worst part of the dress was the fact that it reaches all the way to the ground, so when I walk you don't see toes or boots or anything just dress. You couldn't imagine how many times I tripped because of this damned dress. Lucky for me though, I have a small enough waste line that I don't have to worry about a corset or anything of the sort.
"Gahh, and I wonder why I ran away from home." I thought, while rolling my eyes. "Oh yeah, I ran away so I could avoid this annoying rich life style with the oversized mansions and the frilly dresses and the people that only care your money and last name. Oh and I can't forget about the lovely betrothal to the snobbish, self-centered, chauvinistic pig Hobo, eh er Hojo." I mutter as I quickly strip out of the grungy clothes that I was wearing and slowly struggle my way into the mass of crimson and black fabric that they call clothes.
"I can't believe it took me almost 20 minutes to get into that freak of a dress. Have I mentioned that I hate these dresses? If I could I would burn them all. I need to hurry or else someone, Naraku, will kill me" I think as I rush out the door and to the front of the ship.
Miroku POV
Turning the corner I finally came into view of the captain's door. "I really hate the captain." I sigh to myself. His name is Naraku Onigumo, some days he goes by Mr. Onigumo while other's he prefers Captain Onigumo, and on his 'nicer' days he prefers Captain Naraku. "Hopefully I'm lucky enough and it's a 'Captain Naraku' kind of day." I think as I stop right at the base of the door.
"What do you want Miroku! Get your lazy ass in here now!" Naraku practically screeched at me.
"Ah shit, guess I was found." I sighed. Did I mention that he is a hanyou? As in half demon, and half human, which means he can sense people, like myself.
"You heard me, now Miroku! Stop dilly-dallying and get in here!"
"Yes captain." I say as I quickly open the door, tripping in the process. "Umm… Captain Naraku sir, uh permission to speak please?"
"Whatever, just make it fast." He said nonchalantly with a wave of his hand in the air.
Now Naraku isn't any ordinary captain. He was, or is, a hanyou. But if you ever say that is he one he will just as quickly rip your head off. He is incredibly tall and has waist long jet black hair and menacing eyes, not quite sure what the color of his eyes are, but then again I don't usually pay attention to people's eyes unless they are a beautiful young woman. But alas there's none here except for Kagome. He is extremely muscular and never wears a shirt, unless the weather calls for it. He always wears black baggy canvas pants, and his hair is usually down, but right now, it is in a high, loose ponytail.
"Well, Captain Naraku," I stutter "Kagome has spotted a ship in the horizon. She said it was coming from the east and heading fast." I said, scared completely shitless by this point.
"And where may I ask, is Kagome?" Naraku asked in an angry, whisper like voice. He was slowly losing what little of his temper he actually had.
"Well, Captain Naraku, sir, she is in her quarters changing." I try to say with an indifferent voice. "Shit! She's going to get it now and it's all my fault too! Me and my big fucking…" I start mentally chastising myself, only to have my internal anger interrupted by Naraku.
"You are dismissed." Naraku said, quickly turning his back to me and returning to whatever it was he was doing before I entered, finally allowing me to leave his quarters.
"Thank you sir." I said, trying to sound like he didn't terrify me completely, I quickly left his room, slightly bowing my head before closing the door behind me.
Kagome POV
By the time I reached the bow of the ship the other ship was only a little ways away. I could clearly make out the designs and could even count the people on the ship. I was slowly scanning through the people on the ship when my eyes caught someone that looks a lot like a woman pirate.
"Holy crap man! Is that a girl on that ship! And she looks like she might be my age too! Holy shit, I seriously have to find Miroku, he can help me." I think to myself, as my excitement for the raid quickly increases over the possibility of meeting another female pirate like myself. Turning around, I look around the ship and quickly spot Miroku hurrying his way out of Captain's quarters.
"Miroku!"
End of Chapter
A/N So like I said, I wrote this fanfic several years ago, and was only editing and adding/ fixing some spots. I hope you guys like it. Hopefully I can keep this up and at least get the rest of the chapters edited before too long. Hope you all enjoy. Feel free to let me know what you think, I would greatly appreciate it. :3