The Pirates Life for Me

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters in Inuyasha. I just use them in my story.

Super excited! This is the last chapter that I have to edit before I can begin writing more chapters. I read through the reviews of what people thought of my story back when I was first writing it and took into consideration a lot of the comments. A few of them helped me gather some ideas of what I could possibly do. And I hope you all enjoy. Also we have a few more people being introduced. One of which is a personal favorite. ^_^

Chapter 10

New Ship & Crew

Seeing that Naraku needed to have his attention taken away from me, Inuyasha began throwing a flurry of attacks towards Naraku. After what seemed to be an agonizingly long time, Inuyasha was successful in getting all of Naraku's attention and giving me the perfect opportunity to let a second arrow fly.

With the second arrow, I made sure to put more purifying powers within the small piece of wood before I sent it flying in Naraku's direction. This time, my blow struck home, directly in the middle of the large green vines. Almost instantly many of the vines started falling off of his body as the hole in his chest grew larger and larger with every passing second. This gave the six of us plenty of time to run away, with me on Inuyasha's back and the still unconscious Sango, Shippo, and Miroku all sitting upon Kilala. As far as we were concerned, Naraku was dead.

Now

Kagome POV

"Wow Kagome! You were awesome!" Inuyasha said with a huge smile on his face.

"Aww thanks Inu." I moved towards him and gave him a big hug. He slowly moved his arms around me and after the hug kept one arm around my back holding me against his side. He and I were sitting together on a sandy beach waiting for the sun to rise. Sango was still unconscious and Miroku was asleep directly next to her. Between helping in the fight and staying up all night to watch over her, he was exhausted and definitely deserved a chance to sleep.

"You know Inu, you did a really good job too." I said moving my head back so I could see his face from where my head perched on his shoulder. "I couldn't have shot him if it wasn't for you. Knowing Naraku, we would all be unconscious like Sango, or even worse dead if we hadn't worked together. And if I didn't have my miko powers gods only know what would have happened to us in the end." With my head still leaned back I sat up a little a softly kissing Inuyasha on his cheek closest to me. This had caught him by surprise and had him staring back down at me. After a few seconds of us looking at each other he slowly moved his head down towards me as he captured my lips with his own. The kiss was deep and intense, and would have been the best thing that ever happened to me, except for the very angry voice that interrupted our moment.

"Ahem." The voice said from a few feet away. "What are you two doing?"

This caused us to quickly break apart from each other, and looking around I noticed that the voice had belonged to Miroku. I thought he was asleep still! "I'm never going to hear the end of this." I thought solemnly to myself.

"I take it you two are comfy with each other now." Miroku said as he walked over to stand in front of us, causing us both to look up at him.

"Yes we are!" I said standing up to face Miroku better. "Inuyasha is a good guy. I don't see what you have against him. Yes, we kissed! But that's it, it's not like we were getting down and dirty. And even if we were it's none of your business, and anyways I like him and will do as I wish. And if that means kissing him then I'll kiss him." I know Miroku is only being protective of me, but sometimes he took the protective brother role a little too seriously.

"Whats all the yelling about? What happened?" A drowsy Sango asked after being rudely awoken from her slumber by my yelling.

"Miroku here is being a jerk. He saw Inu and I kissing and flipped out on us." I said, silently pouting.

"Wait. What?" Sango was instantly awake and attentive at the mention of Inuyasha and me kissing. "You and Inuyasha did what?" She exclaimed as she quickly made her way to Miroku's side.

"We kissed Sango. That is it. Like I told Miroku, I have feelings for Inuyasha and will do what I want when it concerns him, because it is neither yours nor Miroku's business." During the whole small outburst between Miroku, Sango, and me, Inuyasha remained speechless but didn't move from his spot on the sand.

"No, I'm sorry Kags. You're right; it's not mine or Miroku's place. And if you like Inuyasha then I respect that. But don't you think it's just a little soon for anything like this to be happening?"

"Like I said before, I care for him. And he obviously cares for me in return, or else he wouldn't have kissed me back. Right Inuyasha?" I was tired of being the only one speaking for Inuyasha and me, and wanted him to say something too. But unfortunately for me, Inuyasha didn't seem to register anything that had transpired between everyone. I called to him a few more times, all of which returned no response finally yelling his name I startled him back to the present. "Inuyasha!"

"What? Oh, I'm sorry Kagome. What did you want? I didn't hear you, I'm sorry." He said, sounding very apologetic.

"Nothing, don't worry about it." I said walking away from my three friends.

"Kags, we better get to work." Miroku said.

"Yea we do. We can't just sit on this beach forever." I replied, slowly walking back to the group.

"I suggest that we steal a ship, because I know that I for one don't want to sale on the Demon anymore. Not after everything that happened last night." Inuyasha suggested.

Laughing I walked towards Inuyasha and leaned my back against his chest. "Inuyasha, you don't steal a ship, you commandeer it. And yea, I agree, we really need a different ship; one that wasn't ran by a psychopath like Naraku. And we need to figure out who the new captain will be."

"Well, I already know who I want to be captain." Miroku said.

"Yea, me too." Sango added.

"Add me in." Of course Inuyasha had to chime in.

"Well, obviously I'm left out of this, who do you guys want to be captain?" I asked.

"You, Kagome." Miroku said. Sango and Inuyasha all nodded in agreement towards Miroku's statement.

"What me? No, I couldn't. I couldn't be the captain. I don't deserve that.

"Kags, its majority vote, you're our captain." Sango said.

"Fine majority vote wins, but can I take the job of captain and pass it on to someone else? The person I have in mind is much more deserving than I am."

"Who is it?" Miroku asked.

"All three of you must agree with me first, and then I will tell you who I've chosen."

"Fine Kagome. As captain you can do as you see fit, just as long as you are the second in charge. So who is your captain of choice?"

"Ok, awesome. My choice for captain is Inuyasha." I said with a smug smile upon my face.

"What!" Everyone exclaimed. My proclamation caused Inuyasha to step away from me a little out of surprise, causing me to stumble backwards a little.

"Yes, I chose Inuyasha. I didn't pick him because of my feelings towards him, which would have been irresponsible. I picked him because he is devoted, caring and much stronger than I am, so he would be able to protect all of us if needed. And personally, being able to protect those under you is a major role of a good captain. He is also very smart, as we've seen from his previous plans, and from what I've heard of his past life style, he is good at controlling things and being a leader, which I on the other hand am not. So as you can see, I have made a good choice. The only reason that you guys, Miroku and Sango, don't want Inuyasha to be captain is because you don't know him like I do. But once you get to know him you will understand my reasoning. I promise."

"Wow, Kags, thanks. I didn't think I would have been the one you picked." Inuyasha said moving back towards me and hugging me from behind.

"Do you except my decision?"

"Yes Kagome, I except." He said as he made his hug a little stronger around my middle.

"Then I hereby proclaim Inuyasha as our new captain. So what do you say we do Captain Inuyasha?"

"First off, you three do not have to call me Captain Inuyasha. Secondly, I believe we should 'commandeer' a ship as Kags said earlier. And thirdly, I say we go hire a crew. How does that sound?"

"Good job Inuyasha." I said as I turned around to face him placing a small kiss upon his lips.

Many hours later

Inuyasha POV

"Ok, everyone, line up in a straight and orderly line!" I bellowed to all of the men in my new crew. "I'll be your new captain; you will address me as such or as Captain Inuyasha. This," I said gesturing towards Kagome. "is Kagome. She is the second in charge. You will obey her as well. Do not disrespect her, or you disrespect me. Also, these two, "I said gesturing towards Miroku and Sango, "When the times call for it could be in charge. If that happens you will obey them. If anything happens to Kagome and or me, you will listen to them and obey everything they say to you. Understood?"

"Aye aye Captain!" Everyone shouted.

"Also," I continued. "The ship you will be working on is called the Shikon. It was just recently commandeered and renamed, it's previous name and crew is unimportant. What is important though is that we will be leaving port in a couple of days. So collect your belongings and be ready by the tide change of that day. Understood?"

"Aye aye Captain." Everyone once again said.

"Ok, now I am going to go down the row here, and I expect you to give me your name. That is it, nothing else. You already know what you do, and I probably do too." I said addressing everyone lined up in front of me.

"Who are you?" I asked addressing the first person in line.

"Koga. Sir." The brown haired man said with a smug smile as he was eyeballing Kagome, my Kagome.

"Ginten."

"Hakkaku."

After a few more minutes, I had successfully gone down the row and knew everyone's names. Now hopefully I could remember them all quickly.

End of Chapter

A/N Ok everyone. Party time! Last chapter is completely edited. :D Super exited. Now's the hard part, writing chapter 11. Hopefully it won't take me too long, but I have exams this week, so I'll see how it goes. I should have a new chapter up before the end of the week though. Wish me luck! :3