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Yay for reviews!
Winged Knight: You're welcome. Actually, I don't think Fluffy-sama would actually respect Shishio at all, seeing as how he was an insane, homicidal, I-will-repeat-the-same-annoying-phrase-over-and-over-so-that-my-enemies-heads-will-explode, egotistical, cannibalistic mummy who can't even fight for more than 15 minutes before spontaneously combusting (I don't like Shishio, can you tell?). Plus he basically tried to take over Japan, including the Western Lands, making an instant bitter enemy out of Fluffy-sama. None of them have heard of Kenshin or Sano before meeting them, although they do in fact know of the Battosai, but, like everyone else in Japan, think he's dead. But the whole thing was a human war (that took place in a completely different time period I might add), so neither Inuyasha or Fluffy-sama would really care all that much.
Sugarmaster15: Heh, if you think that's wrong in 23 ways, you should see the rest of the game. English teacher hell.
Ermanil Luinedhel Elfobbit: Nice name. ^_~ I'm glad you like my fic so much! Yeah, either freaked or just staring at her real funny and edging away.
Chapter 13: Comic Relief For All
The ex-pirate ship was headed back to Shura's island. The storm had died down, and all eight of the ex-pirates that had formerly been the crew of the ex-pirate ship were locked in the brig and were being guarded by Yahiko and Shippo; they had been told that it was an important duty that no one else could be trusted with, but actually it was just to keep them both out of the way. Kagome was currently saying mental thank-you's to her Psychology teacher as she walked into the ship's kitchen accompanied by Kaoru. The two of them had decided to surprise everyone else by cooking lunch. It certainly was a surprise; after the fire had been extinguished, it was discovered that there was actually something that neither Inuyasha or Sano would eat. In fact, neither of them would even get near it. They decided to get even more revenge on the pirates by feeding it to them. It was an amusing spectacle, to say the least.
"Tis poison they're feedin' us!"
"We never did nothin' ta deserve this sor' o' torture!"
"Th' thing moved, I'm certain o' it!"
"'Ave mercy on us!"
Kaoru, who had brought the food down, was not amused, "ARE YOU SAYING YOU DON'T LIKE MY COOKING?!?"
"Nay, nay, 'tis fine cookin'!"
"Nothin' wrong wi' it at all!"
"Don' 'urt us miss, we're eatin' it!"
"GOOD!!!"
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Meanwhile, Sano was steering, and Shura was giving him directions. As Sano had never steered before, he was having a bit of difficulty.
"NO!!! Not that way, left! No, your other left!"
"Would you stop yelling, woman?!?"
"Don't take your eyes off the wheel! Have you no common sense?!"
"I've never done this before, okay!"
"That's obvious! Do you even know right from left?!"
"Of course I do!"
"Only because you need to remember which hand you can do that punching thing with! Fighting is, like, the only thing you are capable of doing!"
"At least I can fight!"
That tore it. Shura had her numchucks out in the blink of an eye, and she spun them around some before thonking Sano's head with them. She shoved him away and took over the wheel herself, fuming quietly. Kenshin, who had been walking by and seen the whole thing, leaned over and whispered to Sano, "That was probably not the smartest thing to say to her, de gozaru."
"Now you tell me," he grumbled back.
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Meanwhile meanwhile, Kagome and Inuyasha were talking for lack of anything else to do. Kagome saw Kenshin walking away from the wheel and waved him over.
"Kenshin, you still need to answer my question. How did you do that running thing?" she looked at him curiously.
"Ah, yes, well," Kenshin put his hand behind his head, "You see, I used to be the Hitokiri Battosai, de gozaru."
Inuyasha seemed mildly impressed, but pretty much shrugged it off with, "Oh, him. Thought he was dead."
Kagome, however, having just studied about the Battosai in school the last month (do you have any idea how weird that would be?), was highly excited. She shook his hand, which was accompanied by an 'oro?' on Kenshin's part, and considered asking him to sign something as soon as she had something available, but kept herself under control with her usual mental mantra of, "I will not freak out. I will not freak out. I will not freak out," which had in the past been useful whenever she had run into some person mentioned in her history book. It almost didn't work. As it was, she decided to only ask for his autograph once they had gotten back to the island. She smiled; her day was just getting better and better.
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Meanwhile, meanwhile, meanwhile, but not really; in fact, it's a little bit later than the last 'meanwhile', because of course the characters can't be two places at once- *sees angry mob waving torches and sporks* GAH!!! OKAY, MOVING ON!!! Miroku was doing whatever job he was doing, which coincidentally was located right around the stairs down to the brig where Kaoru had just finished making the pirates eat the horrible food she and Kagome had somehow created. Now, this is pointing out the fact that this little episode is not really happening at the same time as the other three, meaning that the word 'meanwhile' is not really appropriate for- *is set upon by mob* FINE!!! Right, so Kaoru came up out of the brig and ran directly into Miroku, who remembered that he hadn't asked her The Miroku Question yet. Taking her hands in his and partially closing his eyes for effect, he began to ask It.
"Would you bear my-" was as far as he got. With his eyes closed, he had failed to see either Sango walking by or the Hiraikotsu swiftly approaching his head. It connected with a very loud 'THONK' accompanied by Sango's yell of 'Hentai!'. By then, of course, Kaoru had figured out what was going on and soon both women were chasing him around the ship shouting dire threats to his life. Comic relief for all.
