chp 2

The town of Higurashi was a quiet town at night, just the soft lantern lighting the cobblestone ways with a warm glow. When his ship came into dock, he felt like he had fallen into a sleepy time town. You know, those towns were nothing happens, and all the people are predictable and boring...

Well when morning came, he was sorry to say he was right...

He walked off the ship, into the nearest tavern, called the Black Raven. All the people in there were either cloaked crooks, or drunken regulars. Inuyasha pulled out a few Pints and placed them on the table,"Whiskey, on the rocks..."

He whewed, and looked around the bar. No one looked very interesting, but he tried the guy next to him for information.

"Hey old man, do you know anything about the Higurashi family?"

The cloaked nodded,"Aye, but ye be warned that they be a mighty frightful family."

This intrigued Inuyasha,"What do you mean..."

The figure coughed, in laughter,"Arrr, I be jokin' wit' you lad. They just be a noble family who founded this town. The mistress lost 'er husband to piracy years ago, and lives with 'er father, the founder of this town..."

Inuyasha's whiskey was here now, and he chugged it down with thirst quenching satisfation,"Continue, this conversation seems to have more to it than just the mistress of the house hold."

The cloaked figure coughed a laugh,"Aye, me point be, the mistress' first daughter.."

Inuyasha laid down a few more Pints on the counter, ordering another whiskey for both himself and this man.

"Me myself have ne'r seen the girl, but she's said to be of incredible beauty. Hair like a raven's wing, soft as silk, lips pink and tender for the takin', body as if carved from marble. 'er eyes are said to be so intense, that when ye be lookin' in 'em, yer joints start to stiffen, and yer bits n' pieces start to rise, just from 'er brown eyes."

"You seem to know alot about a girl you've never seen."

The old man chuckled,"Aye, she is a legend in this town..."

Inuyasha shot down his whiskey,"Where are they, you've intrigued me with this girl of yours."

"Follow south o' the tavern, and you'll come to a vender sellin' fish. Take the left street where 'e be, and follow that down til you find a huge white mansion. That'll be the Higurashi family."

"Thanks..."

He walked out, whipping open the swinging doors dramatically on his way out. But he needn't go far, to find the brown eyed beauty the man spoke of. She was indeed, amazingly beautiful... better that the man in the tavern described her. She wore shoulderless dress, that exposed her breasts quite erotically. She was just walking around, her fan in hand, fluttering about her flustered face.

He was intriged immensily by her...

He walked over,"Excuse me miss..."

She turned around, her brown eyes sparkling with golden highlights,"Yes sir? May I help you..."

"May I inquire to whether you are the miss Higurashi?"

She smiled,"Kagome Higurashi, how may I help such a gentleman as yourself?"

"I was actually wondering, if I may speak to your grandfather?"

She looked at him questionately,"And what for?"

"Man's buissnes miss, please understand..."

She glared,"Am I not trusted because I am a woman?"

"No ma'am, its just..."

Damn she was even more beautiful angry,"I just need to ask him something about a map..."

Her eyes went wide, she whispered into his ear,"The Shikon Map..."

He nodded, and she pursed her lips,"Please come with me..."

She took his hand, leading him down an alleyway. He could hear her heart thump, and smell her fear.She looked around, then she pulled his sword out from his belt, and held it against his throat,"You thieving pirate, how dare you try to steal the map from the Great Dog Lord!"

"Hey wait a minute, I am..."

But she covered his mouth,"Shut up you mongrel, I'm not afraid to deal with you!"

He bit her hand lightly, but enough to make her let loose,"I am the dog demon's son!"

She blinked,"Of coooourse you are, you are not Sesshomaru. I know you aren't, I have met him..."

"No, I'm Inuyasha..."

She lowered the sword,"Inu...yasha..."

She dropped the sword, and backed away with her hands behind her back,"I'm so sorry..I thought...that..."

He rubbed his neck,"Bitch..."

She had a look of shock streaming through her face,"Excuse me..."

"You heard me..."

Her face went into a growl, and she clenched her hand into a fist,"Hey, I'm only protecting my family ya jerk!"

"Yea, just assuming a guys out to get your family. Uh HELLO silver hair, DOG EARS!"

"What are you talking about, you have a hat on!"

He looked up, realizing he did have a hat on,"Yea well...Silver hair! Gold eyes!"

"Any one could use a potion or wear a wig! Besides, I didn't kill you, or even hurt you!"

"You jumped me in an alleyway!"

"Oh grow up, like I was gonna do it with witnesses, how dumb do you think I am!"

Through it all, through all that shit she just pulled...

All the could think about how hot that was, pulling out his own sword, in that dress...

AGH! Stop thinking about how totally perfect she is!

He watched her walk down the alley,"Follow me, we're going to my grandfather's..."

He watched her walk away as if nothing happened,"Hey wait a sec!"

He ran in front of her,"I want an apology."

She looked thoughtful for a moment, and ended up smiling. She gave him a stare that made his heart rush. She was doing it intentionally too, the way she was twisting her shoulders from side to side, swinging her hips. How she almost focused all her movement on swinging her uh...chest...

"Know what, you do deserve an apology..."

She looked up into his eyes, making his heart jump in intense manly feelings. She leaned up to his face, pursing her lips,"And know what..."

She raised her hand to tenderly stroke his face," You'll get one..."

Suddenly her face went angry again. Her hand reached out and smacked him right across the cheek. His skin burned as he tried not to let it show that she hurt. She glared at him,"There's your apology..."

And shit did she slap him, he was sure it was red there. It stung immediately, and he pressed his hand against it, which only made it sting more. He spoke through his clenched teeth,"Shit..."

She merely looked at her nails, eyeing him with her beauty,"You deserve it...and to think I called you a gentleman..."

She walked off ,"Its this way..."

She was like nothing he had ever seen before. She could be the model girl, then turn into this warrior babe, then turn into a seductive, gorgeous woman, then turn around and totally be a bitch...

God she was perfect...

He bent down, and picked up his sword. He slipped it back into his sheath, and followed Kagome to the white mansion. She knocked on the door, and a butler opened the door for her. Her emerald green dress shimmered against the black marble floors. He was momentarily breath taken...

"You're coat sir?"

He looked at the butler,"Uh, thanks..."

He took off the trench coat and handed it to him. He watched Kagome climb the jet black staircase, standing there as if waiting for him,"Come one now, don't go off lolly gagging like an oaf!"

He glared at her, but followed anyways. Her skirt swished along the marble steps, her shoes tapping with each step. She walked like...something totally out of his league...

What was he doing, thinking about her like that, she was a bitch...

A gorgeous bitch...

God stop thinking nice things about her dammit! She slapped you moron, you're not supposed to think thats hot!

He just decided to think about Naraku for a second, and how fucking pissed off he was at him. The damn bastard, the damn idiot too. Who just jabs a hanyou in the chest and expects him to die. Honestly, he thought Naraku had alot more sense than that. There was something he was missing, something that didn't fit...

"Here, this is his safe room. I'll intoduce you two..."

She opened a huge steel door, that opened into a massive library of more books than he had ever seen in his life , than he even thought existed. An old man was reading from one of them aloud...

"There is only one thing in the world worse that being talked about, and thats not being talked about..." He said with a somewhat akward voice. He noticed the two new entrances into this library, and he took note of it. He placed the book down, and walked over to them,"Hello, and who might this be Kagome, a new suitor?"

She blushed,"Um...no sir, this is Inuyasha..."

She watched his face go from shock to interest,"So you finally found the map, I told that Inutake that the map was foolishly hidden. But of course, it has been oh...47 years since he hid the map..."

"But what is the map, what is the Shikon Chest?"

The old man chuckled mysteriously,"Do you know that old wife's tale about..."

"Wife's tale?" he interupted quite rudely. But not without consequence, the old man came up to him and smacked him on the head with the book he was reading,"Yes, WIFE'S TALE! A story women tell each other about their husbands, most of them end up getting back to the husband themselves. They have now been called wise tales, but the proper notion for the name is wife's tales. Now as I was saying..."

He sat down in a leather chair, and poured Inuyasha a cup of red wine. He took it gratefully, taking a sip, a little surprised by the flavor,"This is fantastic!"

"I would hope so, the grapes were grown and raised on Lady Kagura's volcanic isle."

"How did you get her permission for such privledges?"

The old man smiled mischeviously," Did your father ever tell you how he got his ship?"

Inuyasha thought about it momentarily,"No, I don't think he ever did..."

The old man turned his figner around the wine cup's rim,"Your father, the Great Dog Lord, was friends with me. But how we became friends is very unlikely. See, we were both pursuing a woman, named Izayoi..."

Inuyasha's face went into a bit of shock, that was his mother's name...

"She was a human, but your father was so entraced by her intellect and beauty, that it didn't matter to him that love between them was forbidden. Of course I had a mere crush on her, and soon I lost interest. But for a time, I rivaled against your father for you mother's heart. One day he challenged me to a fight, and I of course declined, I am a mere human with no special powers, I could never defeat him. Yet I knew that he would kill me anyways, so I proposed a deal. If I helped him with thy lady's heart, he would spare me..."

"So eventually you two became friends from your helping my father?"

"Exactly, soon those two fell in a very deep love. But soon the youkai found out about it, and they all had somethign to ay about it. Your mother was force to leave her beloved, and find safety somewhere else. Mainly, in me..."

"In you?"

"Yes, I sealed her away in my mansion, away from the youkai that plagued her. She was in solitude here, but soon found that her love had produced something much more than she expected..."

Inuyasha knew what was coming,"She found out she was pregnant with me.."

"Yes, she was so happy too. I know you don't know it, but she often talked to you while you were in her belly. She promised she would always love and protect you..."

Inuyasha watched his face fall,"But unforetunately, for both of you, she became weak in the final times of her pregnancy. She knew that she would most likely give birth to a still born child, but she refused to give up. She prayed that you would be healthy and lively, and that it would be ok.."

"But she died..."

"Yes, and it was a terrible lose. Your father was there, while you were being born. He grieved her terribly, and for a time considered suicide. But when he began to watch you more carefully, he realized that you needed him more than anything. He vowed to protect you, and to love you the best a father could."

"So.."

"Your mother gave you to him, and he truely loved you. That is why you have the Wind Scar not Sesshomaru. Don't tell anyone, but Sesshomaru was an accident. Your father had a heart though, and took him in as his own so the poor boy didn't have to grow up alone in the world. Unfortunately, that backfired on him, for Sesshomaru never did know that he wasn't supposed to be. Now he's the arrogant, mindless..." He mumbled a few mord words under his breath..

"But I was an accident too..."

"But you were out of love, thats the difference. Besides, now you know, so shut up about the subject until after I have finished talking..."

Inuyasha decided this information was more valuable than his curiosity, so he tried to keep his mouth shut...

"Anyways, after your mother died, you father went back to pirating. He brought you along with him, and not your brother Sesshomaru. The reason, now we know, but something also happened around the time you began training to inheirit the ship. Your father gained another ship, a ship even you didn't know he had..."

"Yes, I do remember something along those lines.."

" Before he met your mother, your father found a map, a map that lead to the Shikon Chest. Lady Kagura of the Winds wanted to know more anout it, and in exchange for the knowledge. She built him this ship, and told him the map was to be hidden there. It took 39 years to build, but the map was there in the ship since the first day of building. It was hidden in a pipe, that never worked..."

"So techinacally the map has only been hidden for 8 years..."

"8 years at sea, 47 years hidden in his ship..."

Inuyasha felt almost supernatural right now, like he was in a fairytale of some sorts. This was so much like a dream it wasn't funny...

"Well Inuyasha, do you understand?" The old man Higurashi asked.

"Yea, I get it..."

He glanced over at Kagome who was sitting down quietly sipping at a glass of wine. Her eyes flickered on him for a moment, then turned away as if she didn't mean to have him she her look at him. He to turned away, a little embarassed at himself for looking over at her in the first place.

"How long with you be at port, Inuyasha?"

He thought about it,"The ship needs repairs, and we need to stock up on food and supplies. I'd say about 2 months..."

Kagome almost chaoked on her wine,"2 months! For all that!"

He looked over at her,"When you have a ship that big, you'll understand..."

She narrowed her eyes at him,"Fine..."

Old man Higurashi saw something in how she reacted, something he almost knew instantly could be something much more,"Inuyasha, please, you are welcomed to stay with us. Your crew as well..."

Inuyasha looked at Kagome, smiling,"As for most of my crew, they can stay on the ship. I'm sure you don't have enough room for all my men. But as for my first mate and I, yes please," He looked over at the old man,"We'd love to sleep in a bed that stays where its supposed to..."

Old grampa Higurashi smiled,"Yes, I do rememebr what a problem that was."

Kagome looked infuriated, and her cheeks became redder and redder. Her eyes glared at him, as he merely smiled,"I'd love to get to know your grandaughter much better, perhaps she would like a tour of my ship?"

"Oh yes, Kagome would you like to see his ship?"

Her grandfather looked excited, and she knew it wasn't lady-like to refuse an invitation. Grr, he had her pinned, she had to act on her best behavior when people were around. Geez, if only she hadn't jumped him in that alley, things wouldn't be so caught between a rock and a hard spot.

"That would be lovely,"She almsot growled through clenched teeth.

"Tis an honor, madame..." Inuyasha said charmingly.

She saw him extend his hand, to help her up. She accepted it, and got out of the chair, trying to keep on her guard. Inuyasha was gonna be a tricky one...

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Yay, the entrance of Kagome! A tour of the ship! Oh boy! Pictures will be up soon, just have to finish up a few things. Well, I think this is turning out rather well, don't cha think? This is so much fun to write, I must say! Anyways, yea its like 7 in the morning, and i'm up cause i have to be somewhere at 9 and I can't sleep nemore cause my dreams are keeping me like weirded out...

I dreamt the Shikon jewel was a candle ( you know your obsessed with Inuyasha when you start dreaming about it), yea anyways. I'm crazy good like that!

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