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Lilanimegirl2007: Nope, not a good idea at all. A worse idea than insulting Kaoru's cooking to her face.  And that's a pretty bad idea.

Winged Knight: You have? I think that you might just qualify for an honorary membership in the Sci-Fi Club.  I don't watch Yu Yu Hakusho enough to know any of the characters.  No blood in this chapter, wait for chapter 11 for that.  Muahahaha…

Chapter 9: In Which There is Much Fighting

            Inuyasha was very happy.  Not only was Kagome not dead, but his hated half-brother was looking rather silly at the moment.  At first he had been really scary with the flames and the eyes and the twitch marks, but then he had started trying to reach the bars of the cell door and melt them so he could go and kill the pirates in a very evil and cruel way.  But the pirates, despite their horrible grammar, were smart enough to have made the chain attached to Sesshomaru's arm too short for him to reach the door.  So he was stretched out as far as he could, trying vainly to reach.  To Inuyasha, it was absolute hilarity.  To everyone else, it was not quite so funny, but still a nice change from Uber Scary Sesshomaru Of Death, Destruction, And Doom In General.  After a while, Shura spoke.

            "You're going to rip a hole in the ship if you pull any harder.  What have we said before about what happens when we put a big hole in the ship?"

            "I'm…going…to…destroy…that…pirate…"

            "And yourself as well if you sink the ship while you're chained to it."

            "Shura's right, de gozaru."

            "He could reach these bars," Kaoru said suddenly.

            "And that will accomplish absolutely nothing," Inuyasha said sarcastically, "Save the fact that you three will be able to get into his cell.  He'll still be chained to the wall." 

            "Shut up, hanyou.  If you hadn't been such an idiot and gotten yourself stuck here in the first place, Kono Sesshomaru would not be here!"

            "If you hadn't decided to come in the first place you wouldn't be here!"

            "If you had just handed over Tetsusaiga in the first place I wouldn't have come!"

            "You've already got two bloody swords!  How many do you need?!"

            "As many as Kono Sesshomaru wants.  You can barely handle one sword!"

            "BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP ALREADY!!!" Yahiko clutched his head.

            "You should talk; you're this way with me all the time!" Kaoru countered.

            "But this is different!  They're louder and I'm not in on it!"

            "You're loud enough already!"

            "And you aren't?"

            "Not as loud as you!"

            "If you could cook as well as you yell, you'd be running a six-star restaurant!  But you can't cook!"

            "I can too!"

            "Every time you try something bursts into flames!"

            "Can everyone just calm down, de gozaru?"

            "NO!"

            "Orororororo…"

            "Don't make that stupid noise!" Sesshomaru moved out of his argument with Inuyasha.

            "But it's my trademark, de gozaru…"

            "And you're being redundant with that 'de gozaru' thing and it's driving Kono Sesshomaru crazy!"

            "Well, your constant referral to yourself in the third person is driving me crazy, Mister Constantly-Trying-To-Sink-The-Ship!" Shura joined in.

            Inuyasha had begun fighting with Kagome in Sesshomaru's absence, "Why can't I have some ramen?"

            "Because I don't have any!"

            "But I'm hungry…"

            "Just because you're hungry doesn't mean ramen will magically appear!"

            "You have Miko powers, don't you?"

"Miko powers can't make ramen!"

"You're worthless."

            "OSUWARI!!!" *wham*

            And so it went.  The fighting groups would rearrange once in a while, and once they were actually all having the same argument, but it was loud as heck regardless.  The only one who wasn't fighting was Shippo; the poor little kitsune was sitting on the floor clutching his ears.

            "Aiaiaiaiii…why me?  Why didn't I just stay on the island and torture that Sano person?"

            "Hey, I resent that."

            Everyone looked up to see Sano leaning against the wall near the staircase, inconspicuously leaning away from the three youkai and chewing on his trademark random fish skeleton.  They had been so busy screaming at each other that they hadn't noticed him come in.

            "What…"

"How did you…"

"Huh?"

Everyone babbled like this for a bit, while Sano looked on amusedly.  Eventually they fell silent, waiting for an explanation.

"Why, the answer is simple," Sano smirked, "I was able to summon the Three Spirits of the Insane Fanfics.  Dramatic Convention, Plot Device, and the All Powerful Muse of This-Makes-Absolutely-No-Sense-And-Defies-The-Laws-Of-Everything-But-I'm-Going-To-Do-It-Anyway.  Strange names, huh?  Oh, and here they come now."

Everyone's head turned towards the stairway as two big shadows and one little shadow came walking down.  The Three Spirits of the Insane Fanfic Writers came strolling into the brig nonchalantly.

"Hey guys.  What'd we miss?"