Chapter Twenty-One: To Plan With Mutts

Miroku still held onto Inuyasha's shoulder as Inuyasha spoke harshly, "I'm ready to kill the bastard! He kidnapped Kagome and Sango. Don't you want him to not see another day?"

Miroku took his hand off Inuyasha and looked down. "Yes, I wish to." Miroku sighed.

"Well, then, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Inuyasha started to walk forward but was stopped by a voice.

"Shouldn't we get help, mate?" Jack said.

"Why?" Inuyasha yelled as he turned around briskly.

"Because, by the looks of it, he is way stronger than any of us can imagine. You've met him before; no doubt that you weren't strong enough to beat him and he would be dead."

"Are you calling me weak?" Inuyasha walked right up to Jack, their noses inches apart.

"No! I'm saying that without help, we are never going to defeat him. We need a plan, and that plan should include other people instead of just the three of us on a suicide mission, savvy?"

"I don't need help!"

"Is it that you don't need help or that you don't want help, mate? You can't just depend on yourself your whole life. Or are you just not man enough to admit you can't do all things? With that, Jack turned and set the little girl on the ground then sat next to her with his knees curled up.

"You know, he is right, Inuyasha," Miroku uttered.

"I know, monk!" Inuyasha walked over to Jack and sat with his arms folded. Jack smirked and looked at the sour-faced Inuyasha. "So, know anybody that can help us, mate?" Jack asked.

"Maybe," Inuyasha rebutted.

"Well, there is Ko…" Miroku tried to suggest, but was cut off.

"Don't go there, Miroku."

"Why not? It is a logical idea."

"Hold on, who is it that you were trying to name, Miroku," Jack interrupted.

"Koga."

"Well, look who's comin' now," Koga screamed from his standing position on a boulder. "It's the mutt."

"Why, you little…" Inuyasha said as he lunged at Koga. Koga dodged and stood there laughing. "Still not fast enough, dog breath!" Inuyasha tried to lunge again, but Jack held him back.

"he's not worth it, mate. A guy who calls others names when he himself looks like the name to which he is calling the other is not worth your time, savvy?" Jack smirked at Koga.

Koga sauntered over to Jack and asked, "You think you're pretty smart, huh?"

Jack took the little girl's hand and gave her to Inuyasha then cracked his knuckles. "Well, define smart. I might think smartness is classified by pure wit while you may think smartness means educated. They are both different ways to look at the same word, which could demonstrate how I look at you and Inuyasha and see dog type appearances, but on two entirely different people." The smirk on Jack's face grew bigger. Inuyasha and Miroku were consumed with this argument. This side of Jack Sparrow had not come out before in full blast. It was entertainment.

Koga crossed his arms and countered, "Well, I may look like a dog, but I am not. I am a wolf, so I am not the mutt; he is!" Inuyasha started to walk briskly at Koga when Jack held his arm out. Inuyasha stopped, turned, and walked back to Miroku. "A wolf that calls a dog a mutt. Let us see… A mutt is defined as a mongrel, correct, Koga?"

"Yes."

"And a mongrel can be defined as something of mixed breed, right?"

"Yes."

"So," Jack said as he twisted his braided beard, "technically, the only people here that are not 'mutts' are myself and Miroku, for we are fully human and not deamon or a dog species. However, you are deamon and wolf, which makes you a mongrel, which makes you a mutt, like Inuyasha"

Koga seemed almost as stunned as Miroku and Inuyasha. Was this the same Captain Sparrow they had known before? They couldn't tell. Jack noticed the stunned looks, so he figured that it wouldn't hurt to keepp talking.

"Now that wolf-boy has been put in his place, we can continue on to why we sought out Koga. Mate, Naraku has taken hostage my friends Jacklyn, William, Sango, and Kagome. Wou.."

"You let my woman be taken by Naraku?" Koga interrupted as he waltzed up to Inuyasha.

"She is not your woman," Inuyasha growled. "She is independent."

"Yes, and she doesn't like you, savvy? If she was 'your woman', the she would have stayed with you, mate. But you can still help us saver her and the others," Jack said bluntly.

"If I help, what do I get?"

"Well, mate, the satisfaction of becoming a hero."

Koga rubbed his chin in thought and finally agreed. Koga ran off to gather his pack and send messengers to the other wolf packs calling for aid. Jack felt a huge sense of accomplishment as he followed Inuyasha and Miroku to Naraku's castle.