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Winged Knight: Ooooh, no, he gets scary when I call him that, and because of one of my other friends getting to him first, he lives in her closet and not mine. As for the third-person thing, that's how he talks in the actual anime. He is Kono (this) Sesshomaru. And he wants Tetsusaiga…because it's a powerful sword and he just does.
A/N: This chapter isn't all that funny, but I did throw in some humor. Heh, the plot is really going a whole heck of a lot farther than I expected it to when I started writing this. Oh, and in this chapter, Sesshomaru is weaker than he actually is in the series, but just for the sake of the plot. So all you Fluffy-sama fans, don't yell at me, 'cause I'm a Fluffy-sama fan too and I didn't like doing this to him. But for the sake of the plot, I had to be mean.
Chapter 6: Fish in a Net
Inuyasha was being dangled over the ocean, the pirates taunting him.
"Got any las' requests?"
"None that I would share with you bakas."
"Well, down ye go, laddie!" a pirate unlocked the lever that was holding the chain that was holding Inuyasha up, and he began to plummet towards the water. Then he heard someone yelling very loudly, and the icy seawater enveloped him. He couldn't swim with his arms and legs tied, and the chains were heavy. Basically, he was sinking like a stone. Saltwater filled his mouth, his ears, his nose, his eyes. He gasped in panic, then began to choke on the inhaled water. Suddenly, he jerked to a halt, and something began pulling him back up. He broke the surface and began breathing deeply, but the water already in his throat made the problem worse. Then he found himself face-to-face with Sesshomaru.
"WHERE'S TETSUSAIGA?!?"
Inuyasha gestured weakly at the ship; he normally wouldn't tell Sesshomaru this, but now was not the time for a Brother Death-Match. Sesshomaru swore loudly, threw him back into the water, and landed on the ship. He was going to rescue Tetsusaiga, and woe unto any human that got in his way.
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Kagome had needed to hold on for her life as Sesshomaru suddenly picked up speed. She looked forward, and then saw Inuyasha falling from the pirate ship. Time seemed to slow down as he fell and hit the water, disappearing beneath the surface. She tried to jump in, but Kenshin held her back; he was talking, but she couldn't hear anything but the splash as Inuyasha hit the water and sank. Then Sesshomaru grabbed onto the still-falling chain and yanked him back up. Time resumed it's normal pace as Sesshomaru yelled something at Inuyasha, then threw him over in their direction. He landed right next to the boat, and they all hauled him up. He was unconscious, and Kagome hurriedly unwrapped the chains from around his neck and legs, and undid the manacles around his chafed wrists. She looked up to see Sesshomaru fighting 50 pirates at once. She also saw the pirates carrying the fishing net, but she couldn't yell out a warning; her voice came out as no more than a choked whisper. In that instant, the net was thrown and Sesshomaru was entangled in the thick rope. Two more nets were thrown on, and he fell to the deck, where he was set upon by the remaining pirates; 36 to be exact.
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Sesshomaru was frustrated. Here he actually saves his worthless brother from drowning, and he doesn't even have Tetsusaiga! He threw him back to the boat; that wench would have thrown herself over the side if he just dropped him. Now to teach those disgusting pirates a lesson about why you shouldn't get in Sesshomaru's way of getting Tetsusaiga. He started killing them right off, but there was a problem that he hadn't foreseen. He couldn't use his whip or his poison claw or transform into his true form, lest he sink the ship and lose Tetsusaiga. And of course, there were 50 of them with weapons, and he was only 1 with just claws. Not that he was 'only 1', but the numbers he was up against were starting to tell. Then the pirates cleared away, and he knew that they were afraid of his prowess, having seen him kill 24 of them; he then made the fatal mistake of relaxing his guard for a second. Then the net covered him. Thick rope strands tangling his claws and limiting his movements. He wouldn't have been trapped for long, but then another net was thrown over him, and another. The weight caused him to overbalance, and he fell to the deck. The pirates were all over him, kicking and clubbing with their weapons. He tried to escape the net, but only succeeded in getting himself so tangled that he was unable to move at all. And then a well-aimed boot connected with his skull, and all went black.
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The pirates had seen the boat. Laughing, they sailed close and then threw ropes, on the ends of which were wickedly pointed metal hooks, at the boat; the hooks caught on the wood and splintered it, rendering the small boat into mere driftwood in a short time. They all held onto the remaining pieces, Kagome and Shura holding Inuyasha up together. Then the pirates threw a fishing net over them and brought it up, deftly entrapping all of them. They were pulled over the side, the net so tight about them that they were unable to move their arms or legs. The pirates leered at them; they were at their mercy now.
"Look'ee 'ere; we caught us two youkai an' a whole lot o' pris'ners in one net!"
"Plus th' other 'un o'er thar makes three youkai!"
"Say, ain't those two th' same 'uns we threw overboard?"
"Aye, so they are."
"They be ghosts!"
"They ain't ghosts yew idiot! If'n they was ghosts, they'd've ghostied out o' th' net! Them's just real lucky."
"Per'aps they liked bein' on our ship s'much they wanted ta come back?" at this all the pirates laughed cruelly.
"Let us out of this net, de gozaru! I will fight you all, and if I win, then we go free," Kagome was impressed with Kenshin, able to keep his head in a situation like this.
"Nay, we've 'eard o' the one with th' scarred cheek an' th' red hair. We ain't fightin' no Battosai. Not even all o' us together. We're smarter 'n that."
"Aye, an' look. We even caught us a Shura fish!"
"By the powers yore right! 'Ey, look everyone! It be Shura, th' pirate who isn't!"
"Hey!" Shura started struggling against the net furiously.
"Calm down, Shura, they're trying to make you mad," Kaoru said.
"And…it's…working…too!" Shura didn't stop struggling.
"The net's too thick, you won't get anywhere!"
"An' who be this liddle girl? Should'n yew be back 'ome cookin' 'r somethin'?"
"She can't cook," Yahiko mumbled, then grew louder, "But she's the master of the Kamiya Kasshin Dojo, and I'm her best student!" then he mumbled almost silently, "Even if she is ugly."
"Sure, an' I bet yer her on'y studen'. Gotta be, no way such a liddle kid could be no 'best studen'."
"DON'T CALL ME LITTLE!!!"
"Oh, pard'n me, liddle mast'r studen'."
"Arharr, ye mean we've got us three youkai, two un-ghosts, th' Battosai, Shura th' disgrace, a girl who's mast'r o' a dojo, an' some liddle kid who's 'er best studen'?"
"Aye, tha's abou' right."
"What'r we gonna do with 'em?"
"We ain't throwin' such vallabul cargo intae th' ocean, are we?"
"Nay, nay. We're keepin' 'em all!" shouted one of the pirates, this one had apparently taken charge, and then continued, "Throw 'em in th' brig!"
