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.

Ok, so I'm going to ask for some slack on this chapter, it's been almost 6 years since I've last written a chapter for this story. And I will apologize now to those who read the first 10 chapters and were waiting for an 11th chapter. I'm really sorry it took me 6 years to update. But I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 11

The Argument

"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.

Now

Inuyasha POV

Today was my first official day as captain upon a sailing ship. It was less than a week ago when everyone referred to me as Sir Inuyasha or Master Inuyasha, but now I am known as Captain Inuyasha, captain of the Shikon, a name befitting of the luster of the wood upon the ship when me, Kagome, and the other's first commandeered it.

I came up with the name almost instantly, for it reminded me of a jewel that belonged to a woman that use to also own my heart, Kikyo Urasue. Kikyo and I use to be betrothed several years ago, an engagement that had been set up by our parents, even though my mother had been fervently against the concept of betrothals. She believed that true love was something you stumbled upon, not something that was forced upon you. Anyways, as a betrothal present to her, I made her a necklace with a large pink spherical jewel in the center and small white jewels going up both sides of the necklace. She use to wear it everywhere we went, but a couple years back she disappeared and took my shattered hear with her. That was the past though, and I've moved on, now I have more important matters to think about, such as where the wind would take us.

Glancincing up from where I was standing behind the wheel, I looked around the ship and watched as my crew did their new duties aboard my ship. One particular person caught my eye, Kagome. Even after hating her previous job in tge bird's nest aboard the Demon, she insisted that she was still the best fitted for the job on my ship. I had tried to tell her that she didn't need to do anything if she didn't want to. But all I received in return was a dark glare and something along the lines of "Just because I am a woman and second in charge does not mean I have to sit on my ass and do nothing! I can be just as helpful and hardworking as any male crew member!" Before she stormed off to the main mast and climbed into the nest. Now Kagome was climbing down to switch shifts with Sango.

"Kagome!" I yelled at her retreating form. Trying again I called to her. But she ignored my calls. All I had wanted to do was appologize to her about what had happened between us earlier. But I guess I would have to try again later.

Kagome POV

I couldn't believe how infuriating men could be. He didn't honestly believe that I could just sit around all day and do absolutely nothing. Could he? I was useless enough back home before I became a pirate. But now I was no longer a Lady and could therefore do work and get my hands dirty.

"Screw him and his male beliefs." I thought as I climbed down from my position in the birds nest. I would prove to him that I could be useful and more hard working than any man. He would regret doubting me.

As I started making my way to the lunch room I heard Inuyasha calling my name, but I refused to succumb and talk to him yet. I was still too angry at him.

After grabbing some rancid looking food I mafe my way to a table far from where I normally sat to ensure that I would be alone. I was enjoying the short and quiet time to myself and was finally beginning to calm down when the doors crashed open, slamming against the wooden walls. Looking up from my globs of food, I saw Inuyasha quickly scanning the room; I could only imagine that he was looking for me. My thoughts were confirmed when he found me and made his way to my table.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha said once he reached my table. "The hell is wrong with you? I was calling your name earlier and you didn't respond or anything. I know you heard me, and I don't appreciate being ignored, especially since I'm the captain." Inuyasha was obviously angry, his normal pale white skin was flushed red with anger.

"Oh so you're the Captain so I automatically have to hang off of every word you say, just because you're the Captain. That's so wonderful. The position that I gave you is being completely used against me. What happened to you being my friend? But right now, I honestly don't give two shits if you're the Captain, I care that you were belittling me earlier by saying that I didn't have to work, I want to work, I don't care if I don't have to. I'm not going to sit around and be some prima dona like when I was living back home. And if you don't mind I really don't want to talk to you right now, so why don't you go and be a Captain somewhere else?" I was getting incredibly pissed at Inuyasha, and he just wasn't realizing it. After saying my small rant, I diverted my attention from Inuyasha back to my food and began to slowly eat.

"Too bad." Inuyasha said as he sat across from me. "We're going to talk."

"No we're not!" I yelled at him, slamming my hand on the table to enunciate my anger. "Right now I am way too angry at you to listen to you let alone talk to you. All I want to do right now is not be near you. So go away!" Inuyasha remained in his seat, not willing to leave the fight just yet. "I said go away!" The level of my voice was steadily increasing and more and more people were starting to look at us.

After several more seconds of Inuyasha and I glaring at each other, a man walked over to the table and placed a strong hand on Inuyasha's shoulder pulling him roughly away from the table. "The lady said go away." His deep voice was resonating through the very quiet room. "So you might want to respect her wishes." And with that said Inuyasha was forcibly removed from the table and shoved away. This man was amazing looking, dark complexioned skin, an angled face, and long flowing black hair that was brought together in a high ponytail. He was tall, a little bit taller than Inuyasha.

Unfortunately for me though, Inuyasha wasn't going to listen to anyone, not a pissed of Kagome and apparently not a mystery man who came to my aid either. After being shoved away from the table by the man, Inuyasha quickly retaliated with a swing of his right arm, aiming to punch the man in the face. The tussle between the two men was quick, and over just as fast as it started with Inuyasha being forcibly removed from the room by the man.

Once Inuyasha was gone, I looked at the man and thanked him. "Thanks for helping me; you didn't have to do that though, I could have taken care of it eventually." I said smiling at him a little.

"Haha well I don't mind helping a lady in need, especially when some jerk won't leave her alone." The man said, sitting in the seat that once belonged to Inuyasha.

"Well that jerk happens to be our Captain," I started.

"Yea, he's our Captain and you're our second in charge, Kagome. I know all of that, but that still doesn't give him any right to go against what you wanted like that. I don't know what was going on between you two, and I'm not going to ask, but when you said to go away he should have listened to you." The man said, looking slightly angry over what had occurred between me and Inuyasha.

"Oh, well thank you again then." I said beaming up at him. Even sitting I had to tilt my head up a little to look him in the face. "So apparently you know my name, but I still don't know who you are. Mind enlightening me? I would love to know the name of the man that helped me."

"My apologies." He said as he quickly and lightly grabbed my hand that was resting on the table. "My name is Koga. Koga Wolfe. It is a pleasure to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too Koga." I wasn't sure what to think of this guy. He was being so polite and courteous towards me, encountering someone like that while on a pirate ship almost never happens. At least not for me.

"If you don't mind me asking Kagome." Koga started, finally releasing my hand from his grasp. "I never see you around the ship, what is it that you actually do?"

"Oh, that would be because I work the bird's nest. Even though according to Captain Inuyasha," I practically spat out his name in annoyance, "I shouldn't be doing anything. Which is not true, I was working all the time on the ship that I was a crew of last time and I had no problem with it, so why does me being on his ship and second in command have to be any different?" My annoyance level was once again rising. "I can work just as hard and diligently as any other man or woman aboard this ship, he just doesn't see it, and I have no idea why."

"I'm sorry for aggravating you, that wasn't my intentions at all. I was just curious, and if I had any idea that your position aboard this ship was the cause of the argument then I would have never asked." Koga's face instantly transformed from his happy expression that just made we want to grin like a crazy person to a sullen one. I didn't like his change in emotion and I instantly wanted to make it right. I hadn't meant to snap at him, he had only asked me a question.

"I know, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you. You did nothing wrong, especially since you helped me earlier. It's just a very sensitive subject for me at the moment, but we can just leave it at that." This time I grabbed his hand and smiled up at him, hoping that he would smile again, and to my surprise he did.

Koga and I kept up our conversation for several more hours, we told each other about our pasts, how we decided to become pirates, and what caused us to be on this ship. I made sure to leave out the more private details of my life on the Demon, but aside from that Koga learned about a large chunk of my life. After everything that had happened today I was the happiest I had been all day, and to make things better I now had a new friend.

Inuyasha POV

"What is her problem?" I seethed to myself. "Why won't she talk to me? She was the one ignoring me. I didn't do anything wrong this time, yet she's even more angry at me. And that douchebag of a guy had to come up and get in the way. He had no right, and as his captain he should be happy nothing worse happened to him."

The confrontation between Kagome, myself, and that Koga guy had caused me to be so angry that I was in my room pacing the floor. I couldn't be seen while I was this angry, knowing my luck I would snap at the smallest thing. I couldn't be the new angry Captain, not this early in the voyage. I just couldn't get over the fact that when I looked at her at the table, those eyes that are usually full of happiness were instead filled with anger, and it was all directed towards me.

After several very long minutes of pacing my room, I started to feel better; I was calmer and personally beginning to think more realistically again. With my anger subsided, I decided that I would find Kagome and apologize to her for whatever I might have done to cause her such anger towards me.

Leaving my room, I instantly walked to the bird's nest, thinking that she might have returned to her spot, but instead of Kagome being in the nest I spotted Sango. This left me with the wondrous task of finding her aboard this large ship. I didn't have to go far, but when I found her I instantly changed my mind about apologizing to her, because when I found her I also saw Koga sitting right where I had been. And Kagome wasn't angry anymore; she was happy and laughing with him just like they were the best of friends.

End of Chapter

A/N: Yayyyy my first chapter in about 6 years. ^_^ *party* I'm so excited to finally have this written. Hopefully you all enjoy it. If I'm lucky I should have the next chapter up next week. I'm not entirely sure what's going to happen between Kagome, Koga, and Inuyasha yet. But I'm thinking about introducing Kikyo into the story soon. But as of right now everything is being played by ear. Feel free to tell me what you think. :3