Notorious Love

May of 1715,

Kagome Higurashi sat inside huge wooden ship that belonged to her fiancee and smiled excitedly as she was about to get married. He was one of the

richest men in the Caribbean. He also appeared to be one of the most humble men of that social class.

Most of all, she was excited about going home to spend time with her father. 'How I wish he was here to see me get married,' Kagome thought as she

looked at her dress. Yet, he was at home attending to some business with their family friend Lord Sesshoumoru.

Her father had been a wealthy businessman for years involved in international trading of fine merchandise from Japan.

Meanwhile, her mother had passed away when Kagome was just a small child, leaving Mr. Higurashi to care for the child and hire nannies to care for

her. All of that was shattered recently when her father's business went bankrupt and faced heavy debt. So, this left Kagome in a position of an

arranged marriage to a man of high class. Yet, it did not matter to Kagome since she loved her father and greatly respected his wished even though

she had appeared to fall madly in love with Mr. Hojo Luckett during their last year and a half of courting the lady.

"Miss Kagome," one of her servants encouraged by gently tapping her on the shoulders. "It is time to do your hair and put your wedding attire on ma lady."

"Oh Bettina,you do not have to call me by those proper names. You are more than welcome to call me Kagome but never anything else."

Bettina giggled. "Master Luckett is so lucky to have you and you to him. Kagome, you are such a lovely young lady who will make a fine wife."

"Yes, I am honored to marry such a man and mainly someone who I happen to love. That is all that matters and father always knew how happy I was to be marrying someone who is a desire of the heart."

"Miss, I much say that I envy you. A young lady such as yourself marrying a true prince with the heart of a true prince."

Kagome picked up a powder puff from a vanity and threw it in Bettina's face. "Now stop, you know that I hate being called 'Miss'. Besides, it is time to do my hair."

Bettina giggled back and then picked up Kagome's brush and began to stroke the young lady's thick hair gently and gradually put it up with little

pearled pins.

Meanwhile Kagome looked into the mirror at a young human Japanese face staring back at her with a nervous but smiling face while shooting glimpses

of a long white hand made taffeta gown that was worn so perfectly on a white dress form.

Hojo stood on deck watching the sun began to dip below the blue horizon in the West as he saw Kagome step out of her room out in the early evening

humid air looking like a princess in her beautiful wedding gown. He studied her for a moment saw that she was in a beautiful white taffeta gown than

Bettina had made for her. Her thick raven hair was pulled up into a tight bun with a blusher veil that had not been pulled over her face. To him, she

looked like a princess who turned to see him staring at her.

"My dear Kagome, you look beautiful," he commented walking over to her and kissing her gently on her mouth.

"Hojo Luckett," Kagome laughed, "You know it's bad luck for a groom to see a bride before a wedding."

"Yes, but I wanted to look at you one more time before the wedding," he coaxed. " One of my favorite things is seeing a lovely lady in a wedding gown."

Kagome looked at him smiling and replied. "Well Hojo, you can get plenty of looks of me later. Right now..." She was interrupted.

"THERE'S PIRATE SHIP ON THE HORIZON!" One of the crew members shouted from the crow's nest.

"You're joking," Kagome replied looking up laughing. "TOMMY, that is a nice thing to pulled on one's wedding. You will sailor, always pulling your leg at the wort possible moments."

"No Kagome," Hojo replied trembling. "Look over there," he said pointing her in the over the western horizon.

She looked over and sure enough there was a black ship silhouetted ship against the beauty of the setting sun.

"Tommy, how do you know there are pirates my good man?" Kagome asked.

"Because, of my telescope. There is a pirate flag flying free on that ship and it is a Jolly Roger."

"Are you certain?" She asked

"YES!" Tommy wailed.

The scenario was unreal and it seemed like a dream.

"Kagome, get to safety, please." Hojo replied cutting into her thoughts

"But…" She tried to reply

"No buts go!" Hojo bellowed in a tone that she had never heard him do before.

Kagome turned around in disbelief and kept on moving as fast as she could to hide herself knowing and hearing horror stories of males pirates raping

young women such as herself. She also knew they could even stab their vicitims in the front with their daggers and kill them.

She heard a very loud rumble that quaked the ship so hard that she observed several seamen and wedding guests fall overboard into the sea.

The impact was so hard that she tripped and and fell on her new wedding down. As she attempted to get up, her new shoes tore her gown on the

bottom. None the less, as she got up, Kagome could now see that the other ship across from their's was a pirate ship because there was the Jolly

Rodger flapping in the evening breeze. Yet, there was something about this ship that didn't seem dangerous to the young woman but she still didn't

know why.

"Miss Higurashi," one of the crew men stated firmly cutting in her thoughts and helping her up. "Please get to safety because this is the most

dangerous pirate in the Caribbean." He pointed Kagome to him who had jumped high into the rigors.

"Who is he?"Kagome asked curiously.

"It's Captain Takahashi and he would kill anyone who gets in his way."

Kagome blinked back, and the crew member helped her up. The crew man then gasped.

Kagome turned around to catch a glimpse of Captain Takahashi.

He was now perched on rim of the crow's

nest smirking at everyone deviously and shouting, "Bring me whatever booty you can find. Also, remember we shall kill no passengers."

Kagome was shocked at his orders as she was just told that he was very continued to studying the young looking pirate.

'Are those fangs?' she asked herself by watching him open his mouth. Moreover, Kagome noticed that he had seemed to long finger nails that were.

almost like claws. "I can't let him kill my fiancée or harm anyone still aboard this vessel," Kagome told herself cautiously out loud by picking up a sword laying on the ground. As this was happening, Captain Takahashi's crew began to ransack the ship others held passengers, crew members, and Bettina hostage near the port side of the ship. "On second thought maybe I better fight off this crew and in my wedding gown. I DO not care what Hojo ordered of me."

The curious bride remembered that she had taken many fencing lessons and knew that she could put those skills to a good use.

Although she was in a wedding gown, Kagome charged at two grimy criminals in a very angry voice. "Let them go!" Kagome shouted as she stood

inches away from two of them.

]"And who are you?" One of them asked her with a blue loose cotton shirt, small ponytail, and small gold hoopearrings . He looked rather perverted as he stared at her bossom and looking as if he would touch her if he got his hands on her.

"That's none of your concern you bastard. Now you release them and go back to your ship and we carry nothing and I heard your captain already give you orders not to harm anyone on board," Kagome spat.

In response, he laughed at her. "Who are you to push us around little princess?" He asked her.

"Who are you to take over this a ship and terrorize its people," Kagome bit back.

"You'll have to deal with the captain miss," another replied passing by while looking up and motioning for the captain .

It was then that was captain jumped from the crow's nest and into Kagome's very presence face-to-face.

."Well, well," he barked at her smirking. "It looks like we have a prim little princess whose harassing my men," he stated looking at her. "She's got a sword and it's a shame that she' been fighting in a wedding dress too. How precious."He stepped towards her watching her eyes widden and tremble. "You ought to know better than to mess with people like us," he added intimidatingly as he ripped her veil out of her hair.

It was then that Kagome got a closer look at the captain. He was relatively handsome with his long flowing silver hair and gorgeous golden eyes,

and yes he did have fangs and claws. "Hey, give me be back my wedding veil.

"Who says I have too wench?" He taunted.

Who said that you could take it? Isn't that stealing?" Kagome said throwing it right back in the captain's face.

The captain stepped closer to her and getting into her face. "Do you know who I am?" He asked growling at her. "Cap...tain…Takahashi," She answered quietly and carefully.

"Aren't you a smart wench," He smirked and was about to say more when he was interrupted.

"Kagome!" Hojo shouted as he rushed to her side pushing the strange pirate. "I thought I had told you to get to safety."

"Ohhh, is this your lovely fiancée'?" Captain Takahashi asked him in a sarcastic voice. "She was harassing my crew members with a sword and is currently not wearing proper attire too," he chuckled before say Hojo's name. "Hojo Luckett, well well we met again I see."

"Hojo what is he talking about?" Kagome asked curiously clinging to her fiancee.

"Nothing," Hojo replied sheepishly.

"Ahhh….it looks like someone is not honest with the one he is going to spend the rest of his life with," Captain Takahashi

teased.

"You do not have any right to talk to him that way you wretch," Kagome said as she then walked up to the strange pirate and slapped him.

"How dare you slap me wench," he retorted. "And you, since you slapped me so disrespectfully and distracted my crew, I will have to take you to my ship and teach you some respect" he continued looking at her with a sneaky look while smirking.

. "What?" Kagome asked turned to look at Hojo in disbelief who had tried to reach for her but was stopped by the two crew members and held down.

Kagome, on the other hand couldn't believe her ears as it was all happening so fast fast.

"Now, take this wench my ship and lock her up until I know what to do with her."

"You will not have me you creep," Kagome shouted as she tried to run but Captain Takahashi jumped in front of her.

"Look what he have here, a female cat afraid of an Inu hanyou."

"Hanyou?" She asked. He was a hanyou? Her eyes widened as he picked her up and threw her over his shoulders holding on tightly to her waste so that she could not break free. "Let me go," Kagome stated trying to kick him and bite him.

"Wench, you're a feisty one for now and I will have to fix you."

"Fix me? How do you propose you are going to do that?"

"Ahh...that will have to wait love," Captain Takahashi replied as he jumped fifty feet into the air.

Now Kagome was scared not knowing what the estranged captain was and not know with is strength that he would trick her in

dropping her into the ocean. Meanwhile the Captain smiled about having a new prisoner. 'I think I will fix you by putting you to work. After all, you are a spoiled one.'