Chapter 1: Swabbie Jin

"It wasn't as if I liked this place anyhow!" Jin bellowed as he stormed out of his house with a bag slapped over his shoulder. The wind around him was in furry to match the boy's mood. He had known he was a demon, though his own mother had tried to hide that from him. He wasn't a normal demon ether, he could control the wind.

Of course Jin had figured out how to control his power only to a minor degree. He needed training before he ripped something unintentionally apart. He continued down the narrow path, ripping the near-by shrubberies into pieces with his miniature twisters.

"That old hag! Well, it's good to be rid of her; she was quiet the bitch." Jin reminded himself as he turned around to look at his childhood home one last time. It wasn't a nice place (and the wonton destruction Jin had caused on his way out didn't help the general look). Jin nodded and turned his back to his childhood.

That's when Jin began a new journey in his life. He walked down the mountain side, though the little demon settlements on his way. Yes, Jin could sense that they were demonic settlements. He continued down the mountain until he finally reached the port city, Tibidabo. Jin walked into the city and only two blocks in he found a fork in the road.

Jin went strait. Strait into the tavern.

He calmly ducked down while entering to allow a chair to pass safely over his head. There was a bar fight going on. Four drunken humans were taking on one drunk demon. He was an ogre demon and Jin walked by ignoring the five drunken idiots. Most of the other people in the bar where watching the fight intently.

Except for this one woman. She was watching the door, waiting for somebody. She was human and had tied her brown, lightly bleached from the sun, into a lose, messy bun. Her skin had the glimmer of someone who spent their life at sea. Jin noticed that other than the bar counter, there was no where to sit but next to this women.

And Jin did not want to sit at the bar. The melee was preventing anyone but the bravest souls to sit that close to the alcohol.

"Excuse me Miss, but I've just got kicked out of my house and I wanted a drink, ya know? So came trottin' on into this here pub only to find that the safe seats are right here. Would you mind if sat down next to ya? I'm not planning on gettin' drunk like those dumb ladies over yonder. Nor do I plan to do anything to ya, unless you try to stab me back." Jin invited himself with his quick speech and charming Irish accent.

"My! You speak quickly! Oh, please have a seat. You must have had a rough day getting kicked out of your own home and all." She was kind and talked like a worried mother.

"It wasn't that bad, I was going to leave sooner or latter. I'm out of a job now though. Why's a women like you in here, anyway? As we can see, bars aren't safe places." Jin said quickly.

"She's waiting for me." A deep voice from behind Jin answered. Jin turned around to see that there was no-one there. "Over here." Jin turned his head around again to see a little man sitting in a the chair across from him. He had red eyes and anti-gravity black hair. He wore black and had a white band around his forehead.

"You're you?" Jin narrowed his eyes at the man suspiciously. The man didn't feel like a demon to Jin's senses, but he looked like one to his eyes.

"Which are more trusting, your eyes or your inner eyes?" He man asked him. "Neither. You trust all your senses equally. Where one is deceived another is given even more solid evidence." The man smiled. "I've been following you. With the proper training you could become one of the worlds' strongest Wind Masters yet. You're dangerously under-trained. And you're out of food, money, and friends. You need a job, no?" The man's eyes glowed red.

"Who are you?" Jin looked at him. He hadn't sensed this man at all.

"Are you sure you want to make a deal with me?" Jin looked surprised when the man made him think second thoughts.

"A deal?" The man opened his mouth to answer but had to jump up and kick a chair leg off its collusion course with the woman's head. It was all Jin could do to follow the man's movement.

"Yes, a deal." He had sat down in his chair as if the leg had never been thrown. "I give you room, board, and training, then you follow my orders without question. The things I will have you doing would be some simple guarding, holding your own in battle, and moving of large, heavy objects." Jin thought about the man's offer. He needed the training and this man could assure him with the skill he had displayed that Jin could not have to really think any of the work he would do would be hard.

"Okay, I think you gave me an offer I can't refuse." Jin remarked.

"But I will give you that offer on one condition." The man held up a single finger.

"Condition?" Jin raised an eyebrow.

"Put an end to that fight, and I'll offer you my offer." He pointed at the bar fight with a slight smirk. Jin got up. He considered not getting involved with those drunks, but then he realized that he needed this man's offer more than he wished to admit.

Jin found himself walking to the middle of the melee where all the attackers surrounded him.

"You want a piece of me, bub?" The ogre asked, letting drool fall to the floor.

"No, I just want the bar keep's attention, and you're the ones who have it. I'll send ya flying over the wee mountain top so I can have my drink. It's no fair for someone who traveled all day not to be not given his drink, ya know? So I'll fight for it." Jin said this too fast for any of the drunks to understand. They just assumed it was an insult and rushed Jin.

Jin swung his leg around in a perfect circle, cleanly knocking out the heads of all the drunks.

"His drink's on me!" The man yelled at the bar keep. "Order whatever you want. Oh, and give me a pint of ale while you're at it! And a glass of cider for the Miss." He gestured to the woman behind him.

"Give me a pint of beer!" Jin ordered the scared bar keep who went about making the drinks. Jin walked back over to the man.

"I'll take you up on your offer." He pointed at the man.

"Very well then. You give me your name and I'll give you mine." The man disappeared for a second and reappeared with the drinks. "Don't worry, I tipped the man."

"I am Jin." Jin answered the man's question. 'Whoo-wee! That man is fast. My eyes can't follow him half of the time and the half I can see him he had moved so far away it was pointless to have even looked.'

"I am Captain Jaganshi Hiei." He licked his thumb, brushed it across the side of his nose, and held it out, expecting Jin to do the same. Which Jin did, immediately recognizing the motion he swore under. It was the Pirate's vow. Unbreakable, but only useable by true Pirates. "Welcome aboard Jin!" Hiei smiled.

"Ah what have we here?" A man dressed nicely in merchant's yellow clothes approached them.

"Jin, this is my first mate Kurama. Kurama, this is your new shipmate Jin." Hiei withdrew his thumb from the vow. "Jin, this is Kurama's mother, Shiori, and the ship's cook, healer, behavior manager, and general mother." Hiei gestured to the woman. "And that good-for-nothing, untrustworthy, drunk ogre demon on the floor over there is Goki. He's even lower rank than you 'cause he's a drunken bastard." Hiei waved an arm at the unconscious ogre.

"Do I have a rank title?" Jin wondered.

"Swabbie. He's Slime." Hiei jerked his head a Goki. "I have a Second Mate, his name is Atticus. Well, now we all know who everyone is, let's have a toast to our new Swabbie, drink our drinks, and get our asses back aboard for the night!" Kurama produced a glass of wine and they did as their Captain ordered.

"To Swabbie Jin!" The various bottles hit one another.

"Jin, your first job is to haul back the drunk. Kurama will take your bag." And Hiei lead them back to the little boat they where currently housed at.

'Boy would that ol' hag of mine be havin' a fit right now! Her 'too damn full of himself' son's a pirate! It takes a real man to become one of those!' Those were Jin's last thoughts before he went to sleep.

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AN: See? A lot more interesting than the prologue. Expect more Jin funniness, Goki drunkenness, and Genkai senileness in the next chapter!