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A/N: If you don't understand the title, then I will explain it, because this certain title is a joke in and of itself. There's this really old game (I don't know what it's called), and the people who wrote the dialogue needed some serious grammar lessons. The most famous grammatically incorrect line from this game is 'All your base are belong to us'. I think that this line is hilarious, so of course I had to allude to it somewhere in this fic. That will be all.
Chapter 12: All Your Ship Are Belong To Us
While Sesshomaru took his revenge upon the pirate who had been stupid enough to insult him, Kagome began to have some fighting trouble. She was fighting by herself, and she couldn't use her arrows at such close range and she didn't really have any other weapons aside from herself. So she had been punching and kicking pirates left and right. None of them had managed to inflict more than a bruise or a shallow cut so far, but she was beginning to tire. She misaimed a kick and was knocked against the wooden rail on the side of the ship, twisting her ankle painfully in the process. She tried to stand up by leaning on the rail and not putting weight on the injury, but the tossing of the deck as the ship sailed on the rolling waves didn't help much. A rumble of thunder was heard, during the fight the sky above had been taken over by roiling black clouds. The sea had turned a cold, steely grey and the rain was starting to come down, obscuring Kagome's vision. She could see that the pirates that had been attacking her had stepped back, forming a semicircle around Kagome. One tall one stepped forward, and she heard the grating of a metal sword being drawn, and saw the bright steel surface glint as the pirate raised the weapon above him, ready to kill her with the wickedly sharp blade. Time seemed to slow down for Kagome as the sword sliced the air in a downward arc that would end deep within her body; no one would be able to reach her in time to save her, not even Inuyasha could move that fast. She was going to die.
"Kagome-dono!" a voice called; it seemed that it was coming from a million miles away to Kagome's ears. She closed her eyes tightly and waited for her life to end. No doubt Kikyo would be pleased, she thought morbidly. Seconds passed, and the pain never came. She opened her eyes a bit, and saw that she was being carried along at an impossible speed. She couldn't see the face of her rescuer in the dark and the rain, until a flash of lightning illuminated his form. It was Kenshin, but his eyes weren't happy like they normally were; they were narrowed fiercely and were somehow changing color from purple to gold. She was set down on the deck of the ship, and there were no pirates around. Her eyes slowly regained the use of sight, and she saw that his eyes had reverted back to purple, although they were still narrowed.
"Kagome-dono, are you injured?" he asked.
"N-no, I'm fine…just a twisted ankle. But you are!" Kagome exclaimed as she saw that one of his sleeves was torn and bloody.
"It is only a flesh wound, de gozaru."
Then Kagome's curiosity kicked in, "How did you do that?"
"What do you mean, de gozaru?"
"That…that…" Kagome struggled to put it into words, "that running…thing. How could any human possibly move that quickly?"
"That is something that will be explained later, as it is a rather long tale. Stay here, I will defend you now."
Kagome nodded and watched in awe as Kenshin fought off several pirates with amazing speed and skill. She unconsciously placed her hand on her neck where the pirate's sword had almost dealt a killing blow. She was one lucky girl.
***
Kenshin had been fighting alongside Sano, the pair of them accounting for quite a few of the pirates. Then Kenshin's head had snapped up, some inner instinct telling him to look to the starboard side of the ship. He soon saw why; the pirate who was about to sever Kagome's head just might have been the reason. He called out her name and ran using his godspeed. Using all available surfaces, he ran, jumped, and dodged pirates, but even he stumbled once or twice on the rain-soaked, wildly pitching deck As it was, he just barely managed to snatch her out of the sword's path, but he had cut his 'window' so fine that he received a superficial cut on the shoulder. It was barely anything, so he shrugged it off and carried Kagome to a safer spot on the deck, fighting back the Battosai that had been threatening to emerge. He quelled his 'dark side' completely as he placed Kagome down and was assured of her all right-ish condition. She couldn't fight if she couldn't stand, so he took it upon himself to protect her, knocking out several attacking pirates with the dulled edge of his Sakabatou. This was, after all, what he did best.
***
Sesshomaru flew down from the crow's nest, ready to join in the fray in sort of a morbidly happy way. He landed near Inuyasha, who couldn't wield Tetsusaiga in such close quarters and so was using his claws instead. The group of pirates that had been attacking Inuyasha saw Sesshomaru and rushed him, their logic being that since they had beat him once, they could do it again and that he would be easier than the other one. Huge mistake that was chock full of flawed logic. As they ran forward, Sesshomaru cracked his sharp claws threateningly and a low growl rumbled in his throat. This should have warned the pirates, but they ignored it. They broke on the inu youkai like water, his claws dispatching several almost instantly. Then Inuyasha got it into his head that he had to kill more of them than his half-brother did, and came at the pirates from behind. They never stood a chance, and the entire group was dead shortly.
"I got eight of them! Beat that!" Inuyasha called braggingly over the noise of the storm to his half-brother.
"Oh, Kono Sesshomaru already has, my hanyou brother. He has killed ten," Sesshomaru replied almost boredly as he calmly licked his perfect claws free of their coating of human blood.
"What?! How…"
"You forget; I am Kono Sesshomaru, Lord of the Western Lands, and a full youkai. Your human blood must dull your senses, or you would realize that there is a cowardly dagger-wielding human behind you."
Inuyasha turned around to face the pirate and glared daggers at him before punching him across the ship. Someday, he would beat his arrogant brother at something. He just had to keep challenging him and the day would come.
***
At the rate that the pirates were being beaten, it wasn't long before all 36 of them were lying about the ship either dead or comatose. All except for the new captain, who had run into his private cabin and shut the door. They all walked over and Kenshin tried to open the heavy wooden door, but it was locked.
"You have one chance to come out peacefully before we come in after you, de gozaru," Kenshin called out commandingly.
"Yew can' git in 'ere! Th' walls 'n door 'r too thick fer yew ta break through!" came the reply, slightly garbled after traveling through the wooden walls.
"Very well, you have made your choice, de gozaru," Kenshin sighed, "Get it open, Sano."
Sesshomaru scoffed quietly, "A weak, pathetic human could not possibly do any such thing."
Sano stepped forward and smashed a giant hole through the door with his Futai no Kiwami attack, and Sesshomaru just barely managed to keep his icy, bored-ish expression except for the sudden raising of his eyebrows which nobody noticed. Inuyasha, not having much practice with keeping his facial features under control, openly gaped with wide eyes and pointed at Sano while muttering to himself.
"He…and the door…and the punching…and the giant hole in the wall…and the…" the surprised inu youkai trailed off.
Sano stepped through the new door, and the pirate made a strangled noise that sounded suspiciously like 'eep' as everyone else came in as well and stood in a line, blocking off any escape the captain might have hoped for, and stared at him with very, very, scary expressions. Kagome felt the sudden urge to say something, but as she didn't want to seem like a complete loony in front of everyone, only whispered it softly.
"All your ship are belong to us."
