"Talking"
'Thinking/Thoughts'
Shinobi of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Medallion
By Yami a.k.a Rachel
Chapter Four
Yami looked at Jack and said "Well it's very nice to meet you captain." She then looked over at Will and said "You must be Will?" Will looked a bit surprised but said "Yes, yes I am. And you must be Yami?" Yami smiled and said "Yes, that's me." The boat was silent for a few minutes. Then Jack said suddenly "Well I'm feeling rather good about this. Only there's one problem." Everyone looked at him waiting for him to continue. He looked at them all and said "We didn't try and get on the Pearl!" Yami and the rest of team seven almost fell on the deck in disbelief.
"That was the problem?!" Naruto said in his usual loud tone. Jack looked at him and said "Yes, that's my ship he's got and I want it back!" Yami couldn't help but smile. Jack sounded like a little kid who got his toy taken away. "Don't worry Jack, Barbossa's bound to try and come look for us. You'll get your chance to take back the Pearl." She said, trying to cheer the pirate up. Jack looked unsure, but smiled and said "Aye! Ye be right!" She smiled and was taken aback when he took her hand and guided her down to the lower part of the ship.
"Jack what are you doing?" She asked as they finally stopped down at the cellar. She could tell that he was looking for something. He sighed and said "Why is the-" but stopped when he found what he was looking for. "Ah! Here it is!" He got what he was looking for and handed it to Yami. Yami looked down at a bottle filled with a unfamiliar red substance. She looked from the bottle to Jack and said "What is this?" Jack seemed surprised that she didn't know what it was. "Why darling, that right there is rum. Some of the best stuff you'll ever have."
"Don't drink it Yami!" Sasuke shouted, coming down to meet the two. Jack sighed and said "Don't listen to the boy, just try it." Sasuke walked up beside her and said "Yami, it's alcoholic." Yami looked from Sasuke in surprise, to Jack in annoyance. Jack looked at the two and noticed that they had the same expression. Even their posture was the same. 'These two are too much alike.' He thought. He then clasped his hands together and begged "Please, even if it's just a sip!" Yami raised an eyebrow and looked over at Sasuke. Sasuke wasn't going to give in that easily.
Yami sighed and said "Okay, just one drink and promise you'll stop bugging me about it?" Jack got a huge smile on his face and said "Of course darling!" Sasuke couldn't believe what he was seeing. Yami, pushing her luck, asked "And if Sasuke takes one drink, you'll quite bothering him too?" Both Sasuke and Jack looked at her in shear amazement. "You can count on it!" Jack said happily. Sasuke on the other hand said "I don't think so!" "Oh come on Sasuke, think about it. You won't have to listen to him anymore if you just take one drink."
Sasuke looked from Yami, to Jack, and down at the bottle. After a few tense minutes, Sasuke sighed and said "Fine." Jack raised his hands in the air and said "Brilliant!" Yami couldn't help but giggle at his excitement. Did it really mean that much to him? Jack could tell that she seemed a bit lost by his attitude and he said "Rum, makes everything better darling. Go ahead, try it." Yami shook her head at his explanation and uncorked the bottle. She stared at the bottle a few minutes and Jack said "It's not poisoned darling, just take a drink!" For some reason, he was nervous.
Yami held the bottle to her lips and tipped her head back and let some of the red substance flow into her mouth. She swallowed the rum and made a face. "The first drink is always the hardest darling, but if you drink more, it will be like drinking heaven." Yami smiled and said "Maybe later Jack." She then handed the bottle over to Sasuke, who took it moodily. He looked at the bottle and said "I can't believe I'm doing this." He did just as Yami did and made the same face. Actually, he almost spat it in Jack's face. It wouldn't have been intentional though.
Sasuke put the cork back on the bottle and quickly handed it back to Jack. "How do you people drink that stuff!?" Jack took the bottle and put it back where he got it from and said "It's rather quite easy actually." The captain then went back up to the deck and to the wheel, leaving Yami and Sasuke by themselves. The two looked at each other and at the same time they said "I'm glad-", the both stopped and smiled. Yami said "You first." Sasuke smiled and said "I'm glad your alright. He didn't hurt you did he?" "Who, Jack?" Sasuke shook his head and said "No, Barbossa?" "Oh, no he didn't."
"I'm glad your okay though." She then got a serious look on her face. "But now, we have to be extra careful. The key is no longer separated from the lock." Sasuke nodded grimly and said "I'm not going to let anything happen to any of my teammates." She smiled warmly and looked down at the black medallion, fingering it lightly. Sasuke went to touch the medallion, but ended up touching Yami's hand instead. The two looked up at each other and they drew in closer. Suddenly Jack shouted "She's gaining on us!"
Sasuke and Yami looked up and could see the crew running around the deck, doing everything they could to get the ship to go faster. The two ran up to the deck and saw Kakashi helping Gibbs and Naruto and Sakura were helping load the cannons. They ran over to their teammates. "Naruto, what's going on?!" Sasuke shouted over the other shouting. Naruto stopped what he was doing and shouted "Old Sponge Face is catching up to us!" Yami and Sasuke were confused then realized who Naruto was talking about. Barbossa was catching up to them. "Already?!" Yami shouted. "Apparently!" Sakura shouted.
As the boat tipped to one side, the four shinobi fell on the deck and skidded to the one side of the ship. Yami ended up falling on Sasuke and Sakura ended up falling on Naruto. When the ship tipped back and the deck was level ground, Yami got up and shouted "Sorry Sasuke!" "Don't worry about it!" He shouted back. The four eventually got up and ran to their sensei. "Kakashi sensei, what are we going to do!?" "Stand our ground, that's what we're going to do!" Gibbs shouted. The four shinobi looked at each other and nodded confidently.
Jack was doing his best in trying to make distance between the Interceptor and the Black Pearl. Will ran up to Jack and shouted "It's no use Jack, she's too fast. We have to fight!" Jack didn't want to admit it, but Will was right. Jack turned the wheel sharply and the boat soon was side-ways and ready to fire at the Black Pearl. Jack looked sour and said "I can't believe I'm going to blow holes in me own ship." Will looked at the on-coming ship and said "It'll be worth it Jack." He then ran to find Elizabeth. He found her helping Kakashi and Gibbs. "Elizabeth!" He shouted. Elizabeth turned around and shouted back "Yes?" "Are the cannons loaded?" "Aye! They are!" Gibbs shouted.
Yami and Sakura worked to load one of the cannons, while Sasuke and Naruto loaded another one. "Are we sure this is going to work?" Yami shouted to the group. "We won't know until we try!" Naruto answered. The four continued to load cannons and prepared to fire at the Black Pearl. Elizabeth was helping Will and Gibbs load the cannons in the lower part of the ship.
Barbossa smirked as he watched the Pearl get closer, but frowned when he saw that it was facing them side-ways. "What the blazes are they doing?" One of the pirates came up to him and asked "Sir, plan of action?" Barbossa looked from the Interceptor, to his crew. "Load the cannons!" He then turned back to the Interceptor and said to himself "If it's a fight ye want Jack, then so be it." He turned back to his crew and shouted "Hurry up ya pack of ingrates! Before they start shooting at us!" The crew started to move faster and Barbossa looked back over at the Interceptor.
Jack watched as the Black Pearl became parallel with the Interceptor. He got a sour look on his face and shouted "Get ready to fire mates!" The two ships were now perfectly parallel to each other. The undead crew smirked and laughed at the opposite crew. "Laugh it up now losers! We will get the last laugh!" Yami shouted. Naruto looked over at her and said "What are you trying to do, get us blown to bits!?!?" But Yami continued to stare at the other ship. At Barbossa to be more exact. "He's come for us." She whispered, holding the black medallion.
While down in the lower part of the ship, Elizabeth was holding her own medallion and said "He's come for us." Will quickly turned to her and noticed the medallion. Elizabeth looked at him and silently took the medallion off and handed it to Will. He silently took it and said "It's not your blood they need. It's my blood." Elizabeth nodded sadly. Will looked down at the medallion and said "The blood of a pirate." "Will I'm sorry-" She started, but was stopped by Jack's shout of "Fire!" Barbossa shouted to his own crew "Fire!" And the two ships were firing at each other.
Pirates from Barbossa's ship started to swing across on to the Interceptor and fight the crew. Yami was turned around by someone and it happened to be one of the undead pirates. "Got ya." He teased. Yami too shocked to move, didn't do anything. Suddenly, the pirates head was knocked clean off. Yami looked over to see Kakashi with a pistol pointed at where the pirate's head used to be. "Thanks." She said numbly. Kakashi smiled behind his mask and said "No problem." Sasuke and Naruto were once again working together to take out Barbossa's crew. "Why has it taken us this long to finally be able to work together?" Naruto shouted as he sliced one of the pirates. "Less talking more fighting." Sasuke responded, taking out another pirate.
Yami and Sakura were holding their own. Sakura had pulled the same trick Yami had and tore off some of her dress so that she wouldn't trip over it while fighting. Yami had been fighting with Pintel once more and was doing very well for fighting an enemy that couldn't die. "Just give up poppet, I can't die. You're just waisting you energy." The pirate shouted over the battle cries. "I don't think so!" She replied. Although Yami had to admit, she was losing strength fast. She could tell by her reaction time to blocking. They were getting slower and slower. Pintel noticed this and said "Poppet, it's not me that's going to beat you, it's going to be fatigue."
Yami growled and was about to swing at him again, but just as she was about to, Ragetti came up behind her and knocked her out. She fell to the ground in a heap, lifeless. The two pirates laughed and Ragetti picked Yami up and flung her over his shoulder. Sasuke, who had just knocked another pirate off the ship, looked over to see Ragetti swing back to the Black Pearl with Yami over his shoulder. "Yami!" He was going to run after her, but just as he had made it half way over to the edge of the ship, Pintel knocked him out as well. The pirate lifted his limp form over his shoulder and swung back over to the Black Pearl.
"Where would you like them placed Captain Barbossa?" Pintel asked. Barbossa looked at the two unconcious shinobi and said "Take em' to me office." Pintel and Ragetti nodded. "Aye captain!" With that, the two pirates made their way to Barbossa's office and sat the two in chairs. They then set to work of tying them to the chairs. They set the chairs so that the two would be facing each other. "Should we gag em'?" Ragetti asked. Pintel looked at the two and said "No, the least we could do is let them talk." With that the two left to go retrieve Elizabeth.
Naruto and Sakura were about to swing over and try and retrieve their fallen teammates, but Jack stopped them "No! Leave them!" Naruto looked at him and shouted "Are you crazy!" "We can't just leave them!" Sakura added. Jack said "Trust me, we'll get them back, but now is not the opportune moment!" The two shinobi looked at each other unsure, but agreed anyway and stayed on the ship. Jack noticed Barbossa and swung over to the Black Pearl. Naruto and Sakura went back to fighting the undead pirates and trying to knock them back off the ship.
Meanwhile Elizabeth was down in the lower level of the ship with Will. Pintel saw the two and shouted "Alright poppet, your coming with us!" Will, however, was not about to let that happen. He left his spot at the cannon and rushed at Pintel. Will was so busy fighting Pintel that he didn't see Ragetti sneak around him. Not even Elizabeth had seen him as the pirate sneaked up behind her and knocked her out. He carried her up the stairs and said "I've got her!" Pintel and Will looked up at him and Pintel, acting quickly punched Will hard in the stomach. Will fell to the floor in pain as he watched the two run off with Elizabeth.
Jack was on the Black Pearl, trying to negotiate with Barbossa. "I tell ya what mate, how bout-" But Barbossa stopped him and said "Jack, Jack, Jack. Have ya learned nothing since the last time we met?" Jack looked confused. "Ya keep acting like that Jack and you'll never be getting the Pearl back." Just then Pintel and Ragetti came back on to the ship with Elizabeth. Barbossa looked at them and said "Take her back with the other two." The pirates nodded and did as they were told and tied Elizabeth up as well. When they were in the office, the noticed Sasuke and Yami were still out.
"Jack, ye might as well just return to yer other ship. Because you ain't getting this one. Not today anyway." Jack looked disappointed, but was smart enough to realize that this was not his opportune moment. He sighed and said "I'll be back mate, I'll be back." With that being said, he grabbed a line of rope, and swung back over to the ship. Barbossa, thinking he had gotten everything he needed, said "Hold ya fire men. We've won this battle." The undead crew shouted cries of victory. While Jack and his crew were glooming at their lost.
Barbossa didn't know that Elizabeth no longer had her medallion. Her medallion was now in the hands of Will, who was still in the lower part of the ship. Pintel and Ragetti had been in such a rush to bring Elizabeth back, that they didn't pay attention to the fact that she no longer even had the medallion to begin with. Jack on the other hand, knew very well that Elizabeth didn't have the medallion, but never said anything to Barbossa. He was waiting for his opportune moment. The Black Pearl made it's way to the Isla De Muerta, while the Interceptor stayed put and recovered and worked on a plan to save the others.