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Hoodwink

Verb – to deceive or trick

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There Kikyo saw. Was it the same girl that had killed Naraku? Yes, it had to be her, Kagome. She wore the same ponytail, was about the same height, and had about the same figure. What is she doing here on this island? What a coincidence.

Kikyo had to do something. The girl did not turned around when she had said her name out loud. Kagome was still walking ahead, bickering with the person next to her. She followed the pair back to the dock. Kagome was boarding Angels nor Demons ship. What was she doing on that ship? What had happened to her ship and crew? Had Angels nor Demons defeated them? Kikyo continued to ponder.

"Captain, are we sailing tomorrow morning?" One of the crew members asked. When Kikyo heard this, she thought up a good plan. This might be her one and only chance to avenge Naraku.

"Yes, right when the sun breaks over the mountain," replied the captain, presumably.

To do this, Kikyo had to find a way to get on the ship before it would set sail. She had to return to her crew and inform them that she would be gone for a few days and that they had to stay at the dock until she would return.

Afterwards, she was going to sneak aboard the ship, Angels nor Demons. What she would do next, she did not know; but as long as she was aboard the same ship as Kagome, she could then find a suitable time to get rid of her.

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"Inuyasha, I feel bad for doing this," Kagome said as she set down a stack of books on the table. She looked over to Inuyasha, who was getting annoyed with her. The two of them, although they bitter a lot, have been doing pretty well together. They both knew that the reason for them being together was to find the treasure, but Kagome couldn't help but wonder what would happen after they found it. What if they didn't find it at all? What would Inuyasha do to her then? She kind of enjoyed his company, it was somewhat relaxing.

Inuyasha sighed, staring over at her worried glance. However, he tried to calm her down, "Are we humans or are we pirates?" Although it had only been a little over a week since they meet each other, every time he was with her, he felt like he could loosen up. He didn't have to be the captain that everyone looked up to or depended on. He was just Inuyasha.

The two had searched all around the island for books about Vestode H. Fealis. Instead of buying the books however, they took them and threatened the owners that if they didn't give the books over then they would die.

Kagome rolled her eyes at him. "We're pirates and humans."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes at her also. He smirked, "Humans are beings that have no lives but to sit there and work. They're weak. Pirates, on the other hand, own the sea. We do whatever we want and whenever we want to," he was about to continue, but was cut off my Kagome.

"Ok, whatever, captain," she threw a book at him, to her surprise he caught it perfectly, "Now let's get to work. This clue will lead us to the treasure." With everyday that passed, their conversations became more normal. They did not have to think of what to say to each other, it just came out. It was actually not as stressful being around each other as before.

"Vestode H. Fealis," he said to himself. "What could be so special about him? Was he the one that hid the treasure?"

"He might be the one," Kagome pondered to herself also, "I mean, he was known as the Devil of the Seas, so he would have looted many towns and stolen a bunch of treasure. Do you think he hid the treasure at the bottom of the sea?"

"He could have, but if he did then we probably can't get to it then."

"The seas are so big, and plus, we would never be able to dive down there." She flipped open one of the books and started to read.

Inuyasha sighed, "Here we go again."

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Kikyo headed back to her crew. She first went into her room and to grab her sword and just to be safe she hid some daggers inside her jacket.

She then walked into Naraku's room, to say that she was going to avenge him.

His photo hung on the wall. She touched his face with the tips of her fingers. "I'm going to take my revenge. That girl will pay for what she did to you. Tonight I will slit her throat and let her blood pour into the sea. But don't worry; I'll bring you back some blood also. She will suffer a slow and painful death."

Kikyo suddenly felt a chilling breeze brush past her hair. It was as if Naraku's spirit had come back hearing this. "You're death will not be forgotten. How you have suffered, it will always live on. I will make the girl pay," she said vehemently.

Just as Kikyo was about to leave the room and go back up to the deck to tell her crew members that she would be leaving for a bit, she noticed an empty spot on the ground. A chest used to lie in Naraku's room. Naraku had vaguely answered her questions about the chest when she had asked him about it.

"Naraku, what's in that chest?" Kikyo asked him one night sitting on his bed, "I've never seen you open it."

"I don't know, Kikyo," he had replied with little emotion. "When I took the ship from my parents it was already here. I've never figured how to open it. My parents used to tell me about some treasure when I was little. They were always looking for it. Obviously, they never found it and I had to travel with them for all these years looking for some treasure that didn't even exist."

Kikyo nodded. She knew that he was very grateful for getting rid of his parents, but she couldn't help but to think that the treasure could be real. What if it really was out there? They wouldn't have to work anymore for money. "How does it open? Don't you have the key or something?"

"No, they open when you align up some numbers together correctly," he was turning away from her, already bored of the conversation.

Kikyo went over the chest. She fingered the swirling dials to align up the four numbers. She guessed randomly and tried to open up the chest. It didn't even budge.

"Give it up, Kikyo. Unless you have the code there could be millions of possibilities."

Although he didn't show, Kikyo could tell that he wanted to find the treasure. She would see him in his room for hours trying to unlock the treasure. If he truly didn't care for it, he could have just tossed it away at any time.

She remembered that Kagome had taken the chest away when she had defeated their ship. She had remembered one of Kagome's crew members had taken the chest up from the room and carried it back to the ship. How could she have forgotten?

But it didn't matter; Kagome probably was unable to the open the chest, unless… she had the numbers. Kikyo shrugged it off. There was no way that Kagome would end up with the numbers if Naraku had the chest in the first place. She probably just thought it had booty in it.

With one last glance at the room, Kikyo left and headed up to the upper deck. She gathered up her crew mates and said, "I'm going to be leaving tonight for some business," she coughed, "Anyways, I need you guys to stay put and wait for my return. Anyone who doesn't follow the crew rules will be planked tomorrow after we set sail and anyone who dares to run away, good luck because this island is very selfish." With that, she walked off the ship and the crew sighed in relief behind her back.

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Kikyo wandered how she was possibly going to board the ship. Just as she was thinking, she saw a man carrying some rum onto Angels nor Demons' ship. "Perfect," she said to herself.

"Here, I'll get those for you. You're heading to Angels nor Demons, right?" she blurted as she grabbed the box of rum from his hand.

"Um, sure. Go ahead," he said suspiciously, "Whatever, I hate that crew. Be careful," and he walked away before she could respond.

As she was boarding the ship, a pirate stopped Kikyo in her tracks. "What do you think you are doing?" he asked spitefully.

"Oh… I," she stumbled, "I'm just delivering some rum. Every pirate has to have their rum, right?" She pretended to laugh. The pirate, however, did not.

"Fine, go ahead. Put it down those stairs," he pointed to his right, "Hurry and be quick. Don't try to pull anything funny."

"Of course," Kikyo quickly went down the steps, but just before she need, she had made a quick skim of all the pirates that were on deck. No Kagome.

She quickly set the rum down and looked around in the storage room which was right next to the cells. This ship was huge, even the cell room was bigger than her bedroom. No one was down there. She had to find her no matter what. Tonight would be the night.

She went up one flight of stairs and it turned out to be a huge hall of bedrooms. This crew was rich. The doorknobs were even made out of bronze. Comparing this three-floored ship to her two, this ship was what every pirate would have wanted. If only Naraku did not die at the hands of Kagome, they could have built a ship this big or even bigger.

She clutched her sword and swung open the first door. No one was there. The room had an average sized bed and a small desk in the corner. She did the same thing to the second as well as the third, fourth doors, still no one. Where could she be?

As she turned the knob of the fifth door, it was locked. She stepped back and took a good look at the door. There were carvings about the door. It was bigger than all of the previous doors and the doorknob seemed to be made out of pure gold. It couldn't be where Kagome was; she was a captive after all.

Just as Kikyo was about to move on to the next door, she heard two voices talking.

"So Kagome, did you figure out anything about Vestode yet?"

Kagome. It was Kagome that was in that room! Kikyo got to the front of the door and put her ear against it.

"Well, I found some things, Inuyasha. But I don't know if it's important," it was Kagome talking.

Kikyo's eyes widened. It was Inuyasha, one of the most famous captains. What was he doing talking to Kagome? Kikyo pressed her ear even closer to door. She wanted to hear what the two could be talking about.

"Let's hear it."

"Okay, so from the three books that I have looked at they pretty much all same things. He was a cruel pirate, blah, blah, blah. And then he mysteriously dies. The only thing I'm confused about is that our clue is just his name. What are we even looking for? Reading all these things… I just don't know to what to actually search for."

"I hate this. We have been doing is reading these books all day and how close are we to finding the treasure. As close as we were in the beginning."

The treasure, Inuyasha was talking about some treasure. Was it the same treasure that Naraku's parents had been searching for? How many treasures could be out there anyways? It had to be the same one, Kikyo decided.

"We have traveled very far! I first solved the riddle: 'All the sea you shall defeat/Never look too far/ the answer lies beyond/ 56-15 AD.' That got me to find chest on Ghost of the Seven Seas."

"You found that by accident, didn't you?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yeah, but that doesn't matter. Then after that I opened the chest and then I got the vile. And that was when I met you."

"Then we found this secret passage way in a saber shop and we found six words that translated into 'In Davey Jones' Locker lies he,' which lead to the Devil of the Seas, then changes into Vestode H. Fealis. How magnificent?"

Kikyo couldn't believe what she was hearing. She looked to her right and left, just to make sure no one was around. The treasure, it had to be the treasure. Kagome even talked about the chest that was on her ship.

"So we did go far," it was Kagome's voice.

"We're just solving clue after clue and we are getting no where." There was a crash in the room. Kikyo wandered what had happened inside the room.

"Don't just throw the book on the ground. What good is that going to do?"

"Kagome, I don't care. If you want to read more about Vestode H. Fealis, you can do it by yourself. But," there was a pause, "you have to tell me everything you find out tomorrow. Good night." He turned the lock.

"Night, Inuyasha," Kagome sighed.

Kikyo jumped. She couldn't be found here. She quickly darted down the stairs and into the storage room, as far away as she could get. The last thing she wanted was to be discovered.

Now Kikyo was going to have to think things over. She didn't want to kill Kagome tonight anymore, as she had planned before. Kagome was trying to solve the clues to get to the treasure. And as much as she hated to admit, treasure over Naraku and plus, the treasure was Naraku's in the first place, so she was doing him a favor by getting it for him. Killing Kagome would have to wait.

If she could, Kikyo was going to try to stay on this ship until it set sail tomorrow, and hopefully the treasure's location would be found by then. She would then kill Kagome and beat Inuyasha to the treasure. Everything would work out perfectly.

She would not be able to return to her crew tonight, hopefully they would still be waiting for her at the dock. And if they weren't, well, she didn't need them with the treasure that was soon going to be hers.

She heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Kikyo quickly ran behind some crates and hid herself. It was Kagome and another girl.

"What a day," Kagome said, sighing.

"Yeah, no kidding and now we have to sleep in this dirty cell again," the other girl said. She turned to a man that had just come down from the stairs. "And why, oh why, couldn't a regular pirate to open the cell, Miroku?"

"Because I love you, Sango," he winked at her, opened the two cell doors, and locked them up when they got in.

"Get out, Miroku," she sat with her back facing him.

"Sweet dreams," and he left the two.

Kagome and Sango talked for a bit more before they went to sleep. Kikyo tired, also slept on the cold, wooden floor.

In the morning, all three of the girls were woken up when they heard a voice yelling, "We found a stowaway!"

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Hey all, sorry if the romance is a little late, well, very late, didn't plan it to be this way, but with Kikyo in the scene, it may start now.