Hojo rowed into a small island after spending one full month trying to get home. As he got out of the long boat, Hojo stepped on shore and was greeted by a

beautiful women. "Welcome home Hojo," she said kissing him on the cheek. "Thank you Tsubaki but I didn't get my latest Sacrifice. "Well, what happened?"

Tsubaki asked as she crossed her fingers. "I want as many souls as possible so that I can be more beautiful and live that life of eternity. "Let's just say

our friend from the past took her from me on our wedding day." At that, Hojo backed away and began to change shape as he became taller, with long black hair,

maroon eyes, and blue eye shadow. At that, he laughed and kissed Tsubaki on the full cheeks. "Ah, Naraku, that's much better." Naraku smiled and laughed

deviously. "Well, I will have to keep an eye on our little girl, won't we?" At that, the two of them stepped away from the beach and into a large island cavern.


Three days had passed since Kagome and Inuyasha had kissed, and the two found ways to avoid each other. Among the two, Kagome stopped eating with

the captain, and started eating with Sango, Miroku, Kaete, and Shippo. Beyond that, Kagome practiced with her sword every night with Miroku and Sango and

gradually got better. Inuyasha, on the other hand, stayed in his quarters most of the time and let Miroku steer the ship. One late night, Inuyasha lay in his bed

thinking heavily about life after Kikyo's death and how he became a pirate.

He drifted at sea for days on his ship with the crew keeping a close watch on him after Kikyo's death and proper Christian memorial services for his loved one. At the

services, Inuyasha tried very hard not to cry as men didn't cry and it was for women. As he stood at the service, how he longed to have seen her beautiful

face one last time as it would have been nice to bury her. However, her body was taken bv the nasty vermin who murdered his beautiful bride. 'Wait, Kikyo

wouldn't want this for me, she would want me to be happy and working as an attorney and I had agreed to take her sister in.' At that, Inuyasha walked away and

tried to smile at the hope that lay ahead.

Three days later, Inuyasha, stood in front of the firm in Barbados and was shocked as he noticed that the office was closed. "Exuse me," he asked a passing gentleman,

but what happened to the firm?" "What? Why do you ask sir?" "My name is Inuyasha Takahashi ,an attorney at law, and I was supposed to work here."

"I beg your pardon sir, but that firm went bankrupt months ago." 'You're joking," Inuyasha asked as he looked at the man with disbelief in his eyes.

"Are you calling me a liar sir?" The man asked dipping his hat at Inuyasha before storming off at the hanyou's curiosity. 'Now what do I do?'

he thought as he looked at the brick road. Sad, confused, and now angry, Inuyasha began to walk away knowing that he had lost two very

precious things in his life and that including Kikyo and his new job that he was promised a position as Kikyo's family had connections. But where

had they done in all of this? And how was he going to tell her family that she was murdered, and him loosing his job. And not only that, weren't

they supposed to meet Inuyasha and Kikyo at his new office and home? He began to get very worried and began to walk back to his ship when

three large shadows emerged from a dark alley way. "Ah...,"One of them said," It looks like the little doggy lost his career one of them said."

"Oh and it looks like he needs a haircut," another said as he pulled on Inuyasha's long silvery hair. "Hey, let me go," the hanyou stated growling

at them. "No, we can't as we don't want any snotty little hanyous around here," the third said as two held him down, and the first cut his hair to his

chin and punched in the face, making his nose bled. It was then that he was kicked in his sides and that was when his whole world went black.

Hours later, Inuyasha awoke finding himself lying on the streets in a lot of pain. At that, he tried to get up but his sides ached and his face stung

from the blows to his face. He sat up feeling lighter now that his long beautiful hair had been cut and his diginity gone. As he got up, Inuyasha

headed straight to a pub as he was read for a long drink and cared not whether his face had bruises on it and cared not about anyone or anything.

After all, Kikyo was gone, he had no job, and most of all, he had no one.

Inuyasha had been sitting in the bar for hours and was drunker than a skunk and had gotten the bar tender quite angry as he had drunk

three glasses of rum. "Ay' you, no one drink all the rum. Got that?" "What did you just say?" Inuyasha asked half drunk. "I said, no one gets

too drunk and you got to bloody drunk you bastard." That was all that Inuyasha could take and he swung bitterly at the bar tender. "All right sir,

you get your rump outside or I'll have you put in jail. Inuyasha angrily stomped out of the bar and vomited into the streets and staggered into the

nearby harbor where he stumbled upon a stout old man watching him curiously.

"Do you need some help sonny?" he asked the drunken hanyou. "Yes, my fiancee' is dead and now I belong to no one or need anyone. However,

I want off this bloody island. "Alright, I am captain Miyoga Zaki and we need men for our crew. "And you are?" "Inuyasha Takahashi, the worst

hanyou there is." "No no, you don't talk like that. In the mean time, you go inside the ship and get yourself some rest." "Ooohh," Inuyasha

moaned as he longed to pass out. "Kaete!" Myoga shouted as a young women stepped out and stood infront of Myoga. "Yes captain, ye need me?"

"Yes, take this man to his quarters and let him sleep." At that, she knelt down to pick him up when she noticed his face and his dog ears.

"Myoga, this is Inuyasha Takahashi, my sister's fiancee', however, I didn't recognize him with all those bruises and his hair. He...he..cut it."

"Inuyasha, where is Kikyo? And what happened to ye job?" "Do you really want to know?" Inuyasha snapped. At that moment, Inuyasha

looked up to notice a black and white pirate flag waving in the breeze.


Inuyasha thought about those memories 25 years ago and thought about how Kaete ended up working for pirates and never bothered

to care. He also thought about that fact that he had no romantic interest in her in all those years and wondered why. He also thought about

Kagome who looked just like her cousin and even took after her as she was seen scrubbing the decks, working in the kitchen, or even

her fencing skills. At that moment, he knew that she would never leave his site and especially with what Hojo did and who knows what else

he might of have done to his life.


Notes:This is a longer chapter and it has to be one of the darkest. Beyond that, Myoga is a human in this story.