Yaten: You all better be happy! 5 pages! Heh, kidding, I loved expanding this one. It may be a long time before the next chappy.

C A N N O N S F I R E

Excerpt from previous chap:

The three girls blinked twice, she looked spectacular. Kougara was about to have a fit; she looked nicer than her!

"Wow, Kagome! Come on, let's go, I'm starved!" Sango was not about to miss dinner over some make-up and perfume stuff. "The men are probably gonna kill us"

Everyone nodded and began walking the long way to the 'mess hall'.

Kagome, Sango, Kikyou, and Kougara came into a large dinning room. A massive feast was laid out upon the lavishly decorated table. Many men sat at the table. One particular man stood up and said:

"Ladies Kougara, Kikyou, and Sango; please sit" he waves his hand toward three empty seats to one side of him. "Lady Kagome, love of my life, come nourish yourself."

The women curtseyed, took their places, and talked among their selves.

"Kagome, my love, the apple of my eye, when we land in a few days we will be wed." The man mentioned before cooed.

"I am very aware of that, Hojo." Kagome was a little more than annoyed at his over use of 'my love'

Hojo leaned toward Kagome's ear to whisper...

"My love, will you not give me my present early?"

'Get real'

She slapped him none too gently on his back.

"Oww!" He yelped then cooed again, "Hun, I wasn't choking..."

"Ugh! You're so... so... Err! I'm going to MY room leave me be!"

Kikyou, Sango, and Kougara abruptly stopped eating and followed the raging Kagome to surprisingly the deck.

"What was all that about," Sango ventured.

"He's being perverted and... and... sigh his normal self"

"He asked AGAIN! You'd have to hold knife to his neck before he understood" Kikyou said.

"Hmm... why don't you? Get him off your back, and besides your getting married to him," Kougara reasoned

"WHAT!?!?!" poor wide eyed Kagome.

"You heard me"

"You're corrupted"

"I know" Kougara smiled and dropped the subject

The deck was deserted, they had anchored for dinner, a very foolish thing too do. The stern gently rocked up and down. Funny thing how Kagome noticed the features of the large ship just now. In the moon light the once mahogany wood shone a pale navy-silver color. In the sky far away was a rapidly moving rainstorm, and by the looks of it just a rainstorm. She guessed the men decided that they would not drift, for the place was still deserted. She looked at her friends sleeping on the deck floor; they should've gone to their rooms hours ago. She looked back at the sea, and for the first time noticed a light. It shone out brilliant against the dark then went out. That's when she noticed it. A would be beautiful ship, if it wasn't for the pirate flag it adorned.

"Oh, no! Pirates! Get up! Sango! Kikyou! Kougara! Pirates!"

"Hmm..." groggily Sango got up "what's it all about again"

"Pirates! Help me get the others up." Sango's eyes snapped open

"Wha... WHAT!?!?"

"Grr... FOR THE LAST TIME PIRATES!"

"We have to wake the others! Well, what are you waiting for?!"

Kagome rolled her eyes "YOU!"

They woke Kikyou with relative ease, but Kougara...

"Shut the fuck up! Go... back... to bed..." she yawned and nestled herself in a ball, before continuing sleepily, "I don't want... to play... games..."

Sango cried, "Damn it Kougara, if you don't get up pirates will kill us!"

No response. Kikyou smirked, "let me try..."

Kikyou smirked once more and leaned down close to Kougara's ear, "Ooh, look at that hot guy, I think he's coming toward us!"

Kougara jumped up wide awake, "What!"

Kikyou and Kagome laughed their heads off wile Kougara plotted their death.

"Um, guys I hate to brake up the fun, but theirs still pirates, and their still coming towards us!" Sango's sarcastic voice reminded them of their looming danger.

"Shit!"

Running down to the main hall, Kagome took charge, "Kikyou take the west wing, Kougara the east, Sango get ready to hand out weapons, I'll wake up Hojo."

The girls split up each taking their own rout. Kagome ran down the many corridors, stopping before a heavily painted door. She sighed and entered.

The scene most made her puke right then and there. Hojo stood with only a small bit of cloth covering him.

"So, you decided to take up my offer then, Kagome."

She adverted her eyes from the mind scaring image, "No, Hojo. Much, much more important matters, Pirates have been spotted on the sea, and are approaching the ship."

"Have you not awakened the other men? Send Kougara to the west wing, Kikyou to the east wing, and have Sango hand out weapons. You stay here after, I want you safe, away from harm!"

She growled in her head, 'close enough! But if he thinks I'm staying here..."

He intercepted her thoughts, "Hurry now!"

Kagome ran to help Sango, "Sango! Do you think Hojo needs his"

Kagome was once again cut off, only this time by Sango, "Kagome!"

"Ya, Ya, I know, I know!"

Kagome grabbed some swords and handed them out to random crewmembers. Kikyou and Kougara soon met them.

Kikyou wined panting, "Kagome, next time we do this, come up with a meeting spot!"

On the deck

The pirates ship got closer. The men had just reached the deck when "boom!"

Back with the girls

Kagome paled considerably, as well as her three surrounding friends, who were still in the boat's main hall.

"I was too late... it was all my fault." Kagome repeated the sentence a couple more times before "whap"

"Kagome, pirates have boarded our ship, their shot almost completely missed us. It was not your fault. Grab those weapons you brought and meet us at the stairs in 5 min." Sango finished saying this then ran to her room, which wasn't too far away.

Everyone nodded and dashed to their rooms. Kagome grabbed her weapons, a bow and arrow, and also a sword. She was not a good swordsman, she still kept it anyway. Kagome reflected on why she brought these and smiled.

'Sango told me to, just to be on the safe side.'

She ran out meeting the gang. Kikyou held the same two types of weapons Kagome did. Sango held a large boomerang-like-thing, and Kougara held two reddish fans with sharpened gold edges. They ran up the stairs greeted with a sight they never wanted to see. Few men were still alive; the rain beat down on the bodies of the dead. The pirates retreated to their ship after finding nothing of too great a value.

"Boom!"

She felt it, they felt it, and hell, even the dead could've felt it. The ship jerked with the power of the shot entering the ship, splitting the side open. The ship sunk, the girls were on a single piece of floating wood, and no survivors in sight. They were marooned to the cold water and a single piece of wood, or so it would seem.

"The pirate ship must have spotted us, they're heading our way." Kougara admonished, pointing out the obvious.

"Out of the pot 'n' into the fire" Kikyou stated grimly.

Yaten: Hmm... just can't think on what I want to happen next... by the way Kougara and Kikyou are definitely OOC and their just going to get stupider, beware! I have this wicked idea to make Inu a dog bursts out laughing With slobber and klutz-ness and all! But sadly I think that might mess wit the plot...

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