Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or Kenshin.
Answering the reviews:
Winged Knight: You're welcome. You don't have to call him Fluffy-sama, but I like to call him that. And no, there will be no Sano-Inuyasha fight, gomen nasai. There will be lots of verbal fighting later, though. Muahahaha.
Spikester13579: Why thank you. ^_^
A/N: I love pirate accents, they're so much fun. Spellchecker hates 'em though, and I hate the jagged red and green lines the spellchecker likes to put all over my stuff. So that's when I turn off the spellchecker. And that's when I start having problems with knowing when I've spelled something wrong on things that matter. That's when I start remembering that they talked about something like this in the Matrix: Reloaded. And that's when I start thinking of my computer as an Agent. And that's when I really love my computer. This was completely pointless, but I don't care, because I love my Agent computer. Until it starts being annoying, that is.
Chapter 5: Real Trouble
At last the scroll, which had been improperly applied in the first place, faded and the old wooden door shattered. Inuyasha was out in a flash, sniffing the air wildly for the scent of the humans. He caught it, they were inside the main cabin. He slowly moved over, stalking his prey, and then knocked down the door, running inside. But there were no humans to be seen. Suddenly, a chain sliced through the air behind him, wrapping itself like a snake around his neck. Taken by surprise, he was yanked onto his back and more chains snaked through the air and caught his wrists and ankles. Snarling and struggling like a trapped animal, he fought against the cold metal links that held him. But the ends were held by five pirates each, and they were pulling as hard as the could in opposite directions. He was choking, but the demon blood coursing through his veins was unstoppable, and even the metal chains began to feel the strain. But the pirates had it all planned out. Two of them ran cautiously over and attached two manacles to his wrists, then ran off. They began turning a handle that slowly wound up the chains attached to the manacles, lifting Inuyasha into the air by his wrists. When he was high enough off the ground, they locked the handle, leaving poor Inuyasha suspended 15 feet in the air by his wrists. The other pirates tied the ends of the chains around his neck and ankles to anything they could, so that he couldn't pull himself upwards. He strained and pulled at the bonds, but the way he was tied made it impossible to escape, even for him.
"Now wha'?" asked one of the pirates below.
"Why, 'e killed the cap'n an' five o' our mateys!"
"I say we send th' scum down to th' bottom o' th' sea like we did th' wench!"
"Aye, but won' 'e jus' swim on back up?"
"Not if'n 'e's chained up, 'e won'!"
"Ye dimwit!" the pirate speaking shoved the pirate who asked the question.
"Wot was that fer? I'll get ye fer tha'!"
Soon, they had all broken down into a fistfight, but Inuyasha had heard it all. He was still demon, but he was beginning to regain some consciousness of himself. He looked around, trying to see any way down, when his still-maddened eyes saw Tetsusaiga on the deck. The sight of the weapon, calmed him down quite a bit, and when the pirates mentioned Kagome, even though indirectly, he came back completely. He was going to avenge her, but that was impossible if he drowned. And drown him they would when they stopped fighting. He could only trust to hope that they would keep at it. Of course, he might just help them along a bit. Altering his voice and adding an accent, he called down.
"Ye couldn't fight a jellyfish in a bucket, ye bilge rat!"
"Yew take tha' back, scum!" one of the pirates launched himself onto another, beating away. This was too easy.
"Yew call yerself a pirate? Yer sister wos a better 'un!"
"I thought ya was me matey, yew backstabbin' blaggard!"
It wasn't long before the pirates had their weapons out, and Inuyasha was actually feeling rather insanely happy as he viewed the utter chaos he had caused. With luck, they'd all kill themselves. Then he made his mistake. In the excitement of the moment, he forgot to alter his voice and said something rather stupid.
"You're such a bad fighter that you couldn't even beat Myouga!"
"Wot?" The fighting stopped and they all looked up at Inuyasha, who realized his horrible mistake.
"Th' youkai's been trickin' us!"
"Tryin' ta keep us from killin' 'im!"
"An' causin' bad feelin's 'mong mateys!"
"Kill 'im!"
"Cut th' chain an' send 'im over!"
"Do it now! We ain't waitin' no more!"
"Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit…" Inuyasha muttered to himself. He was really in trouble now.
***
They were on their way. Sesshomaru, after a good deal of convincing, had agreed to pull Shura's small boat, although his terms were that they were not going to tell anyone on pain of death and that if anyone ever found out then he would hunt them down and kill them slowly and painfully one by one. So now the boat containing Kenshin, Shura, Shippo, Kaoru, Yahiko, and Kagome was moving over the water so fast that it was nearly flying; a rope tied to the prow extended high into the air, where the flying Sesshomaru was pulling it. Sano had stayed behind to watch Ayame and Suzume…and of course stay far away from the youkai. Kagome followed her 'shard-sense' for the Shikon shard (remember that?) that resided aboard the ship.
"It's moving west," she said, then shouted up to Sesshomaru, "WEST!!!"
"Why did Kono Sesshomaru ever agree to this?" Sesshomaru muttered to himself as he changed course again, "This is so humiliating. If anyone saw Kono Sesshomaru pulling a bunch of humans like some sort of horse…Kono Sesshomaru's image as Lord of the Western Lands would be tarnished forever…" it was then that he saw the ship on the horizon, with something unrecognizable dangling over the edge. As they grew closer, Sesshomaru saw that it was his brother, who was obviously about to be dropped into the water. Poor Sesshomaru couldn't have known that Inuyasha didn't have Tetsusaiga, so he increased his speed tenfold.
"TETSUSAIGAAAAAAAAA!!!"
