(InuYasha P.O.V)
I swim through the roaring waves, carrying the unconscious girl with me. I head towards my ship, just a few hundred feet away. We heard her yell and just saw her before she went under. Sango, Shippo and Miroku annoyed me to dive after her. I thought I was the captain here. They threw the rope down and easily caught it with my free hand. My crew pulled us up and on the deck, and I shake the water off me. I look down. Miroku was doing it again.
RUB RUB
SLAP!
"What is wrong with you!?" Sango screamed, "She's dying!" Miroku puts his hands up in defense. I roll my eyes and sit down next to her.
"What can I say?" Miroku asked, "It's this cursed hand!" I look down at the girl. She was pretty, tan skin, high cheek bones, high, curved eyebrows'. But her face was pale and she wasn't breathing. I sniff the air around her, making sure she didn't smell of death. I did smell death, but I also smelled a hint wood smoke and pine trees. She's not dead yet, but close.
"She's not breathing!" Sango exclaimed as she kneeled down next to her.
"Someone needs to give her breath back!" someone in the crowd yelled.
"I humbly accept the challenge to…" Miroku starts.
SLAP!
"Pervert." Sango said angrily as she crosses her arms over her chest.
"You people take too long." I say before putting my mouth to hers and blow air into her lungs. Her lips were as cold as the water. Her high cheek bones brought out her sunken face. I wonder what she has been through to look like that now. She was small, two thirds of my height. But she was beautiful. I was about to give up on my ninth breath when she started to cough up water. She shivered uncontrollably.
"Take her to my cabin, Miroku." I say softly. He nodded and picked her up. Sango followed closely behind with Kilala and Shippo on her shoulders. I sigh and look at my crew.
"What are you looking at!? GET BACK TO WORK!" I yell at them. They snap out of their daze and run around the deck, tripping over each other. Sometimes it's good to know that they think you're a demon. But I'm not a full fledge demon. I'm only half. But they didn't know that. The thought make me snicker.
(Keira P.O.V)
I wake up to find a hair ball at my side. I swat it away and sit up to stretch in a bed.
THUD!
"OW!" I freeze in mid stretch and look on the floor to where the hair ball landed. A little kid sat and rubbed his head. I look down to see I'm not in my own clothes. I'm in a loose fitting white shirt and loose fitting black pants with a black belt to keep them up. My hair was undone and fell around me like a veil. I look around for my own clothes and find I'm a cabin. To my left, the walls were all glass, giving me the view of the sea. The sunlight glittered off the water like thousands of tiny stars. To my right was a wooden wall with a desk. Maps and papers littered the area. And in front of me, the door with a brass knob. I considered to make a break for it, but thought better of it.
"Where am I?" I ask the hair ball while I put my hair up into a braid. "You're on Captain InuYasha's ship." Who the heck is InuYasha? Just then the door opens and a man come in. He had a loose fitting purple shirt and tight black pants with black knee high boots.
"Why hello!" he says a little too enthusiastic, "How are you feeling this fine day?"
"Good…." I say cautiously. Is this InuYasha?
"Great! Then there is one question I must ask you."
"What?" I snap. He grabs my hands, looks me in the eye and says,
"Will you bear my child?" I sit there, shell shocked. Then anger rolls though me.
SLAP!
"SICKO!" I yell at him. "GET OUT!" he made a pout face.
"AW, don't be like that." He pouted while rubbing his cheek where I slapped him. Just then a woman comes in. She was wearing a white skirt that barely touched her knees and a tight fitting cream shirt. She drags him out by the ear.
"Wait! Sango!" then she threw him out of the door and slam it shut. She turns on me, with a smile.
"Sorry about that." She says, rubbing the back of her head. "What's your name?"
"Keira…"
"Nice to meet you Keira, I'm Sango. And that guy was Miroku."
"Hey what about me!" the little hair ball said.
"Oh! Sorry! This is Shippo." She said as the little hair ball or Shippo jumped on her shoulder.
"Where are my clothes?" I say with an uneasy tone.
"Oh! Sorry! There are on the chair right next to you." she says. I look over and there they were. Blue shirt, brown pants, brown belt, but where's my boots?
"Where are my boots?"
"Still drying from last night."
"Can I go out on deck?"
"Are you sure you feel good enough to start moving around?"
"Yeah, I'm sure."
"Alright then, I'll show you out." She turned and started to walk out the door. I followed a couple of steps behind. We walk through the hallway and onto the deck. The sun blazed in my eyes as I put a hand up to block it. The crew man worked around us, swapping the deck and making sure the ropes were good and tight. I look up at the helm. A man with a red shirt and black bandana stood, his long, white hair billowed in the wind. Sango noticed my stare and leaned over.
"That's Captain InuYasha. He's the one who saved your life." Sango whispered. My eyes widen at saved my life.
"What did he do?" I asked with my hand over my mouth. She did the same.
"Nothing Miroku would've done." I laugh. He looked over to me and strutted over.
"What are you laughing at?" He growled at me. My laugh turned onto silence. Then I gave him a glare.
"Your ugly face." I reply in a cool voice.
"Is that the way you treat the person that saved your butt and let you sleep in their bed!" he yelled.
"It wasn't my choice; anyway, you didn't have to save my butt. You could've left me out there to die!"
His face got red. We stared at each other for a while, sizing each other up, seeing who will look away first.
"So, you don't care for your life?" he asks.
"There are more important people than me."
"Well in that case," he took out his sword that got three times bigger than his sheath, "let me help you that."
"I would accept, but…" I took out my katana, "I don't go down without a fight." He snickered. We got into our battle positions and circled each other. The crew made a big circle around us to watch the fight unravel. I look for a sign he might attack.
A flick of an eye,
A tension in his body,
A blink.
I kept his steady gaze. It was a flick of an eye to the right. He charge at me, his sword raised. I angle me blade to deflect the blow. Our swords met with a loud clang. The crowd roared. The blow wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Unless… he was going easy on me. I boil with rage, but I kept my face. I snicker, and he did the same. He disengages and back flipped backwards, landing in his stance.
"Show off." I mutter. I run towards him, sword at my side, planning to cut him on his right leg. He blocked and pushed on me. I had an idea forming. I pretend to stumble backwards, right to the railing. My legs caught and I fell. Putting my sword in its sheath, I grab the railing. I could hear feet running towards me. Inuyasha's face popped over me as I hoisted myself up and gave him a kick in the face using the rails as a platform to help. He staggered back in surprise, as I landed lightly on the deck. I pull out my sword and get ready for his attack. He runs towards me in the same fashion. I put my blade up to block. Our blades met but he did something different. He didn't put any weight on his sword; he wanted our swords to meet. My eyes widen with realization but it was too late. With a few flicks of his wrist, my sword went flying out of my hands. It clanged across the deck. We looked at each other. He snickered and swung his sword at my head. I duck and stepped behind him. I got him in a head lock. He twisted out and swung his sword again, this time at my legs. I jump and landed on my feet. He lunged, and I side step, leaving one foot out to trip him. Once he was falling, I land on top of him, pinning his left arm with my right leg and stretched my left foot so that his sword and hand were out stretched. I take out my hidden tanto (on my right leg) and put it to his throat. I win. He growled at me.
"Aren't you going to kill me?" he asked. Everything was silent, then, the cheering began. I stand up and put my tanto back.
"You're not worth it." I mutter and walk back to the cabin.