A wish upon a star
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Chapter Fifteen
Ponderous Discoveries
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Kagome awoke next morning to hear three groans from three different people. The first thing she saw was a brown ceiling which was shaking slightly and then she saw a window as she moved her eyes around wherever she had awoken.
"Oh yeah, were still in the carriage..." She yawned out as she remembered the events of last night.
"Yeah damnit and because you kept kicking my stomach at night its hurting like hell" Inu-Yasha was the first one to speak to her as he rubbed his eyes to wash away all the sleeping sand.
She looked over to Kikyou who was rubbing her elbow. As Kikyou saw Kagome's stare she sighed disappointedly "I fell asleep on my elbow, and now the pains killing me"
"You think that's bad? I leaned my head on the window sill last night and now my necks hurting" Sesshomuru's voice piped in the conversation. Kagome looked up at him, she still had her head on his lap and currently he was rubbing his neck painfully.
"I guess I was the only one who slept comfortably" She smiled cheerfully at the three who just sighed, obviously annoyed with her luck. Not wanting to stay on Sesshomuru's lap any longer she made a hopeless attempt to get up which only resolved into her 'accidentally' kicking Inu-Yasha's thigh very hardly.
He winced in pain as she sat up straight in Sesshomuru's lap and looked at him apologetically.
"WILL YOU STOP KICKING ME? I HAD ENOUGH OF THAT IN NIGHT!" He yelled at her despite the short room in carriage. "Do you dream of karate ninja's or something?"
She glared at him who just glared back. Behind her, Sesshomuru sighed. "Why don't I make this easier for you two?" He got up and sat down beside Kikyou who had retained her previous seating in the carriage.
Kagome flopped down on Sesshomuru's seat and sent an angry glare at Sesshomuru. "I don't want to sit next to the arrogant, ego filled jerk!"
"And I don't want to sit next to the annoying, bossy and rude missy who just said 'I don't want to sit next to the arrogant, ego filled jerk!'" Inu- Yasha fought back, doing an annoying, piped up voice for the imitation of Kagome.
"Well, I don't want to sit next to –." Kagome started but was cut of when Kikyou squealed in frustration. They both shut up immediately and stared at Kikyou who was glaring at them both.
"Could you both just shut up and GET ALONG for once?" She narrowed her eyes at them while Sesshomuru nodded agreeing with Kikyou.
"Why don't you both just look out the windows and don't talk to each other, I'm still in favor of a good night sleep and because I cant get one right now, a little peace and quiet would do" Sesshomuru advised them both, and without further ado he closed his eyes and leaned his head back as if everything had been settled.
Kagome and Inu-Yasha both silently agreed and moved away from each other, as though if they touched each other they would get an electric shock.
Kagome sighed as she watched the scenery pass by slowly from her window. There wasn't anything much to see outside, they were traveling through farms now and all there was to see was horses, cows, chicken – and other farm animals.
As the sight started to change from the farm life to dirty streets Kagome sighed sorrowfully as she saw orphans sleeping on the corners of rundown houses, crying as they waited for their parents to return.
She bit her bottom lip as she saw a servant kicked out a house and land painfully on the dirty and muddy ground, as she diverted her gaze she only caught even a more painful sight.
There was a little boy, limping around the filthy town as he begged for some money. Kagome frowned sadly at the sight in front of her, she had never been to any town like this before and the sight of the hopeless orphans pained her.
Her mind was willing to go out there and help them but as she sighed mournfully, Inu-Yasha leaned over and pulled the curtains over her window.
Kagome looked at him and he just glanced at her before leaning back and sitting down on his own seat.
"It's better if you don't look outside right now" he casually explained his actions as he leaned back and decided to look at the ceiling instead.
Kagome nodded, understanding fully why he had pulled the curtains over her window and just placed her leg over her other leg as she sighed at the silence of the carriage. The silence of the carriage didn't help her take her mind off the orphans out there.
As if Inu-Yasha had read her mind, or if it were by sheer chance, he glanced at her and immediately started a conversation. "I had a weird dream last night"
"Huh?" Kagome snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Inu-Yasha, "Really? What was is about?"
Kikyou exchanged a surprised look with Sesshomuru, it was obvious Inu-Yasha was trying to cheer her up even though Kagome was too blind to realize and the sudden, almost friendly exchange they were giving each other right now was too weird to go unnoticed.
"Yeah, I was the king of squirrels and I ordered them to bring me the most exquisite forest they could find, and when they found one, they brought the whole forest to me, but then they all attacked me and I started running for my life and then all of a sudden I was a cowboy and was trying to escape a sand storm" He strained his forehead as he tried to remember what happened next "I think I woke up next"
Kagome smiled "I had one about I was an Egyptian princess and I was lying down on those chairs they have and someone was feeding me grapes"
Inu-Yasha smirked, "And were there ninja's in your dream?"
Kagome rolled her eyes at him "Well, the dream turned suddenly turned into me in a swimming contest and I was winning, but then someone grabbed my legs so I started to lose then I started to panic and I woke up the next morning"
Inu-Yasha grinned, she -did- start some serious kicking last night and he had to hold down her legs to keep her from injuring his face, which probably explained why she started to lose in her swimming contest. "Who were you against?" Kagome looked at him with a confused expression "Against in what?"
He rolled his eyes "Who were you against in the swimming contest?"
"Oh," She strained her mind as she tried to remember who it was "I don't know, really"
He shrugged as he finally felt the carriage speed up.
It only took a moment for the carriage to start to speed pass the town they were in.
"Wow, the carriage is finally speeding up, wonder why?" Kikyou mused out loud as she felt the carriage speed up an incredible pace.
Inu-Yasha leaned over and pulled Kagome's curtain up again, revealing scenery of valleys and hills. "Probably because were heading downwards on a hill"
Sesshomuru leaned forward and looked out of the window "I can see a dock, were almost there"
Kagome smiled happily, she was starving and if she didn't get anything to eat soon she would faint of starvation.
As the carriage stopped, the servant who had been driving the carriage opened the door.
Kagome raised an eyebrow as she stared at the servant, slowly processing the image in front of her. Surely it couldn't be...
"Kouga?" Four surprised voices echoed in the carriage. Kagome gave a quick glance at Inu-Yasha, he seemed like the most surprised of them four, mostly because he thought he could get away from his pesky, can't keep a secret cousin for a while.
"How come you're here?" Kikyou asked him, just as surprised as everyone else was.
Both Inu-Yasha, Sesshomuru and Kagome gave him a questioning eye.
"Well, on the way, I kicked off the real driver and got on, that night when Inu-Yasha came to ask when you're going to reach the island, he didn't notice it was actually me, and all the maids that were sent to the island to take care of you, Sango and Miroku pulled two out and took their places, so I guess none of us are going to miss out on this trip"
All four nodded; at least she could see Sango.
"I'll see you later" And with that Kikyou got up and jumped out of the carriage which such grace Kagome raised her eyebrows at the talent she didn't know Kikyou could possess.
After Kikyou's departure Kagome yawned and rubbed her eyes, as she looked up she noticed both of the brothers were staring at her intently.
"What?"
They both shook their heads, "Nothing" they both said in synchronized voices.
Kagome peered at their faces closely, and after giving a quick glance at Kouga everything snapped together.
"Oh, sorry, I'll leave you three together" She shrugged nonchalantly, not even caring a mini, tiny, single bit that her fiancé and his brother wanted some private time with the Kouga.
As she got out of the carriage, she blinked at the sunlight and at once noticed a big boat settled beside the dock.
Smiling broadly at the boat she heard low voices inside the carriage. Remembering at once that Kouga was inside with them now; she decided that a little eavesdropping wouldn't hurt.
Excited jitters ran through her stomach as she pretended to frolic and dance backwards to get a little closer to the carriage.
She had eavesdropped on people more than a thousand times and she was sure she was an expert at it now. She couldn't blame herself, she had gotten so bored at her own castle that she would go near her parent's room and eaves drop on them every night, and now she couldn't call herself more than an expert at sneaking now.
As she got near the carriage she pretended to twist her ankle and fall down in pain. She smirked as she heard Inu-Yasha say 'That girls got some serious balance problems'
She pressed her ear against the bottom of the carriage to hear what they were saying.
"Don't worry, she wont listen to us, she probably doesn't even know how to eavesdrop" Inu-Yasha's voice came to her ears faintly.
She rolled her eyes; gosh...he didn't even stop insulting her when she wasn't even around.
"First of all, Kouga – you tell Kagome one more embarrassing thing about me, this fist is going to be where you face is!" Inu-Yasha's angry voice reached her ears loud and clear.
Kagome raised an eyebrow, this could get interesting.
"I figured you were going to say that, you can trust me- I wont tell her the time you wet the bed – or when you -." Kouga started but was cut off when Inu-Yasha slapped his left cheek making him wince in pain.
"Stop it you two" Sesshomuru's demanding voice came to her ears.
Kagome couldn't figure out what Inu-Yasha had said but it sounded very much like a cuss.
"Kouga, if our parents figure out that you snuck out..." Sesshomuru rattled on. "Damn, do you have some back up plan?"
"Duh I do" came Kouga's voice which Kagome jumped up a little in. His voice had turned from immensely sweet and innocent to rough and very manly. "We told the servants that Sango's got typhoid, Miroku's taking care of her and I've gone to check up on my parents"
"Couldn't you have thought up of something better?" The half demon forced against his plan.
It seemed as if Kouga and Sesshomuru had sighed at this.
"Now back to what I was telling you, don't you dare say one thing Inu-Yasha started but was cut off.
"So anyways, what do you want with me?" Kouga asked, ignoring the growls from a certain half-demon in front of him.
"So you're telling us that Sango's here too?" Sesshomuru questioned him.
"Yep, that means we have three girls with us on the island" Kouga affirmed him.
Kagome raised an eyebrow, why the heck did the care how many girls there were going to be on the island? Hearing Inu-Yasha start to speak again she forced her concentration back to the conversation.
"We could play a prank on them" Inu-Yasha opinioned, waiting for their answer and even though Kagome couldn't see him she knew he was smirking.
"What kind of prank?" Kouga asked back smartly.
"I don't know, mix something in their food and stuff" Sesshomuru chuckled. Kagome raised her eyebrows as she heard Sesshomuru say this, in all of people – she had never thought he could say such a thing.
There was silence for a while before Inu-Yasha talked again. "Something better than that...much better"
"Like what?" Kouga asked confusedly.
"We shouldn't talk about that here" Sesshomuru's firm voice confirmed her and as soon as he said that the carriage door opened again.
Kagome scrambled to her feet and dashed behind the carriage.
After five minutes of reassurance that they had all gone or either couldn't suspect her if she walked in on them right now, she stepped out of her hiding place and started to walk to the boat.
"How long have you been there?" someone growled that piece of question out which sounded too much like Inu-Yasha.
Kagome snapped around and looked at Kouga, Sesshomuru and Inu-Yasha.
"I was looking for Kikyou back there, but then I realized she was already on the boat, so unless you guys have a problem with that, I'm going" She sighed and turned around again.
Kouga just shrugged casually before racing back to the boat with Sesshomuru.
"I don't believe you" Inu-Yasha called out to her from behind. She turned around again and rose an eyebrow "You were eavesdropping weren't you?"
Kagome gaped at him "No, I wasn't eavesdropping!"
"Yeah you were"
"No I wasn't"
"Say sorry before I get mad"
Narrowing her eyes she remembered all the times she had asked for apologies and said sorry while he just sat there like a prince and had accepted her every apology and made her feel like trash.
She gave him an ear rub for god's sake!
Who did he think she was? Some servant who was going to start weeping if he got mad at her?
Feeling the madness boil inside of her, she thought up of one final decision she made that she knew she wasn't going to take the guilt trip for.
She wasn't going to let him boss her around this time.
Gathering up her courage, she remembered all the times he had insulted her and all needs to be punished due to her eaves dropping vanished instantly.
She stood up and walked up to the half- demon.
"Listen Inu-Yasha, I don't care if you're mad at me for eaves dropping because guess what?" She paused for a minute to hear any objections but as she heard none she went on "Because I've been way to freakin nice with you this whole week, asking for apologies, forgiving you way to easily for everything you've done to me, so guess what? I could kill you and make you go to hell for all I care"
He widened his eyes as he heard her use the swear words he often used which he hadn't ever heard or thought she had the nerves to say them.
"I've apologized for every thing I've done! I've tried to resist the urge of taking a knife and slitting your throat every day! You have annoyed me in every single way possible, insulted me in the worst case and YOU HAVENT SAID SORRY ONCE!"
Inu-Yasha stepped back a little; he had expected more of a sorry from her than death wishes, and the sudden change of priority blew him off a little.
She poked him in the shoulder "You have made my life miserable from the FIRST DAY I MET YOU! THE FIRST DAY!" she poked him again "You've gotten me naked, you've exposed my bed to a spider, you made me injure my leg the second night I was here, you've annoyed me every single day at dinner, you've made me injure my head because I'm sure that the demon wasn't after me but after you, you told Sango I slept with that bastard you call a brother, and you spilt rotten soup over my dress and told the whole dumb ass castle that it was horse manure!"
Inu-Yasha's eyes had become literally wide now, most by shock and surprise and a little more by amusement. He opened his mouth once but nothing came out and then when he opened his mouth twice the worst thing that he could have possibly said flushed out of his mouth. "Uh... It's okay?"
Kagome gaped at him and then instantly flushed red with anger "ITS OKAY? I DIDN'T DO ONE FREAKIN ASS SHIT THAT WAS BLOODY HELLWRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE, FILTHY BASTARD!" She screamed right in his face "DON'T YOU EVER TALK TO ME MISTER. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO SEE YOUR HIDEOUS FACE IN MY ENTIRE ONE OF A HELL LIFE AGAIN!"
Kagome exhaled deeply before turning around and storming off into the direction Kikyou was waiting for her, who was evidently giggling at her presentation she had demonstrated.
As she reached Kikyou, Kikyou gave her a pat in the back before laughing loudly and heading into the boat.
All in all, Inu-Yasha was dumbstruck. He had never thought Kagome could possess such a vocabulary and now he had lost all sense of talk.
Had he really been THAT cruel to her? She made it sound as if he had ruined her life. He touched the shoulder she had poked and winced at his own touch. That girl had sharp nails and she had dug them into his flesh hard.
Damnit, all he had said was to apologize. Geez, if she was going to be rude to her, he could play the same game.
He wasn't going to back down, and he was definitely not going to say sorry to her.
Nothing could make him go say sorry to her.
Absolutely nothing.
He was just going to be just as annoying as she was willing to be and was going to act like that until she said sorry.
He was definitely not going to apologize for something that he couldn't be blamed for.
Right?
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Sango, Miroku, Kikyou, Kouga and Sesshomuru watched in frustration at the fighting couple.
They were on the boat and it they were going to reach their destined island in an hour. Currently, they were sitting around a table, -trying- to eat their lunch and somehow Kagome and Inu-Yasha had gotten into a big fight and wouldn't talk to each other.
"Sango, tell Inu-Yasha that he eats like a pig" Kagome told Sango who groaned at her misfortune and turned to Inu-Yasha who had obviously heard Kagome but was pretending to ignore her.
"Sango, tell Kagome that she's a little miss goody two shoes" Inu-Yasha shot back. Sango winced, how come SHE had to be in the middle?
"Sango, tell Inu-Yasha that he should shut up or the time when he wet his bed isn't going to be a secret" Kagome avoided Inu-Yasha's glare as it shot full speed towards her.
"Sango, tell Kagome that she better shut up or her parents are going to find out that she cussed at me" Inu-Yasha returned glaring at his plate.
"Sango, tell Inu-Yasha that Kagome doesn't care" Kagome flipped her hair prissily over her shoulders and started poking her food angrily.
"Sango, tell Kagome that neither does Inu-Yasha" Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes at her – if this was the way she was going to act, what went around came around.
"I'm fine with that" Kagome snapped at him.
"So am I" Inu-Yasha snapped back, matching her evil tone just as well.
"Good"
"Cool"
"Hmph"
"Whatever"
And with that they both started to eat their lunch again, Sango sighed a sigh of relief. If only they could ignore each other for the rest of the lunch and she could enjoy.
"I'm finished lunch, I hope I see *some* of you later" Kagome smiled flakily, and got up. Sending a glare at Inu-Yasha's head, she flicked her hair over her shoulder and walked out of the room, almost feeling the evil glare Inu-Yasha sent her to her back.
Deciding to check out some of the ancient sculptures the captain had told her the boat held; she went down to the bottom deck and knocked on the door gently. There was no reply so Kagome opened the door. She felt jitters in her stomach as she noticed that she could feel the boat sway side to side on the lowest deck and the feeling was definitely unpleasant.
She walked in the room and instantly noticed a shelf filled with objects which looked positively old. Looking around the room she noticed everything was made out of wood, just like the whole boat was.
There was a lamp hanging from the ceiling, giving the room an eerie ancient look and the lamp was slowly swaying from side to side not helping Kagome control the food that she had just eaten.
Remembering why she had come here, she walked up to the shelf and examined the objects.
There was a large treasure chest on the bottom of the shelf and it seemed to be unlocked. Kneeling down she blew some dust off the treasure box and reached down to open the treasure box.
As the lid fell back she coughed as she smelt dust rise up.
She swiftly blew the dust away and peered into contents of the box. She gasped as she saw dolls, which were made and covered by the finest cloths imaginable. Remembering that the captain had told her these objects were priceless she quickly shut the lid and continued looking at the shelf.
Her curiosity took over her again as she saw a diamond tiara. Picking it up gently she placed it on her head and did a gently twirl. Turning around she looked into the mirror and smiled. The tiara made her look so much more princess like, but it didn't belong to her so she gently took it off and placed it back on the shelf.
Looking around at the objects once again, this time she spotted a bottle. And in that bottle was a ship. Kagome bit her lip as she saw those tricky tricks again; smiling to herself she picked up the bottle and peered inside at the ship.
She gasped as she saw rolled up parchment inside the bottom deck of the small toy ship. Feeling curious and also excited by the thought of discovering something someone hadn't in ages she pulled off the cork of the bottle and tried to reach in.
Of coarse her fingers only touched the boat and as she tried to grasp the parchment the bottle slipped out of her hands.
Kagome gasped in horror as she saw the broken pieces of glass on the floor.
"Oh damnit" She squeaked out as she reached down to scoop up the broken pieces of glass.
"Missy, you shouldn't 'ave been playing with the antiques there" A rough voice reached her ears and she immediately turned around to see the captain staring at her, not looking a least bit angry.
"I'm really sorry; it's just that I saw-." She started off but was cut off as the captain laughed.
"The parchment eh? I thought so, don' you worry about it though, I've been waiting for someone to break that bottle so I could take a peer at the parchment too, now why not clear up the mess first eh?" The captain asked her, as she listened intently to his fast and pirate-like language.
As the thought came to mind she asked him a question "Were you a pirate?"
He looked at her and smirked "Sure I was, that's where I got these antiques m'lady"
She widened her eyes and she kneeled down to help him pick up the glass "You stole them?"
"M'lady, you aint call it stealing if the owners already dead" He grinned and threw all the pieces of glass on the desk as he took the pieces Kagome had picked up with the other hand.
"Wow, how come you're here now? I mean, a pirate's life would be so much more adventurous" She asked him, secretly envying him for being a pirate.
"This mans was getting old, I needed to take a break from the pirates life, but I would sure love to see the real sea again, and I might just return to my crew after I'm done with all this captains job" He confirmed in her as he picked up the small toy boat and handed it to her. She looked up at him and gave him a questioning look. "You broke the bottle, you see what the parchment says "
She smiled at him, he was definitely nice, unlike *some* people as thoughts came to mind "Thank you, even though YOU stole it"
"I aint steal that one, it was passed to me from a fine young lady, she told me, when the right time comes, to pass it on to someone like you"
She raised an eyebrow "Like me?"
He nodded and looked slightly dazed "Pure of heart, but heat of a devil she must have was her exact words, m'lady" He sighed "And after seeing you fight with that half breed, and see you mourn for the poor I knew you were the one"
"You've been watching me?" She asked, feeling slightly embarrassed.
"I was in that town you were passing by, I saw you looking out of your window, and then I saw you and your mischief with the half breed, and not only that, you mark a remarkable appearance of the fine lady who gave me this" he pointed to the boat.
Kagome felt slightly dazed, she didn't know if it was the fact of the swaying of the boat or because of the information he was loading onto her.
"How long ago?" She asked him as she looked down at the boat, it seemed remarkably like the boat they were sailing in right now...
"The fine woman gave it to me four year's ago, I were on a pirates journey then, she was gibbering about death, knowing it was coming, and something about hiding this parchment before it came" He looked at her and gave her a quivering smile.
"That was when I was thirteen; the exact same year Kikyou turned fourteen..."
The pirate smiled broadly "Enough of the wondering M'Lady, its time you open the parchment"
"What if I'm not supposed to be the 'one'?" She asked, slightly starting to feel nervous.
"You aint gonna know if you aint gonna open it" He replied casually.
Kagome nodded and placed her fingers over the parchment, as her fingers grasped the parchment she pulled it out gently and placed the boat on the desk. Looking at the roll of parchment she started to unravel it slowly.
She stared at the contents, the parchment seemed equivalent to a map.
She read the words written boldly on the top.
'Tensaiga and Tetsusaiga' She gasped and turned a gaping face towards the pirate.
"I know about these swords... I -." She was cut off as the pirate raised a hand to hush her.
"I knew you were the one" He smiled warmly but Kagome's urgent face made him raise an eyebrow "Tis wrong?"
"Who gave you this?!?" She asked urgently, he was talking about a fine young woman, who looked remarkably like HER.
"I aint know her name but she was talkin' about her sons so she was married" He replied back with a shrug.
She shook her head "But this is impossible, her sons – I'm being engaged to one of them, their mom, she's STILL alive, and she doesn't look a BIT like me"
"Ever heard of step mother's m'lady?" He placed a hand on her shoulder as she gasped.
"No way..."
He coughed to clear his throat "Not a word about this to anyone understand do you M'lady?"
She nodded, her mind bulk with questions. Remembering the parchment in her hands she looked back down to it. "What should I do with this?"
"Keep it, tis yours, now hide it and examine it later, we must be going on top deck now, were reaching the island now"
She nodded feebly, and then remembering how nice the captain had been she pushed aside all heavy questions and smiled warmly at the captain. "I'll miss you, even though I haven't seen you for long, only for fifteen minutes in the least, you've been really nice to me"
He smiled fatherly which made Kagome feel a sudden stroke of home sickness "I'll miss you too m'lady, but why not meet me again and I'll take you and you're future husband on a pirates trip?"
She nodded enthusiastically "I'd love to captain!" She giggled as he laughed.
As he led her up to the first dock she hid the parchment in the folds of her dress and waved a goodbye to the captain, promising him that they'd meet again.
As she saw Inu-Yasha the sudden bulk weighed on her head again.
Could it really be true that his real mother had died four years ago?
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Chapter Fifteen
Ponderous Discoveries
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Kagome awoke next morning to hear three groans from three different people. The first thing she saw was a brown ceiling which was shaking slightly and then she saw a window as she moved her eyes around wherever she had awoken.
"Oh yeah, were still in the carriage..." She yawned out as she remembered the events of last night.
"Yeah damnit and because you kept kicking my stomach at night its hurting like hell" Inu-Yasha was the first one to speak to her as he rubbed his eyes to wash away all the sleeping sand.
She looked over to Kikyou who was rubbing her elbow. As Kikyou saw Kagome's stare she sighed disappointedly "I fell asleep on my elbow, and now the pains killing me"
"You think that's bad? I leaned my head on the window sill last night and now my necks hurting" Sesshomuru's voice piped in the conversation. Kagome looked up at him, she still had her head on his lap and currently he was rubbing his neck painfully.
"I guess I was the only one who slept comfortably" She smiled cheerfully at the three who just sighed, obviously annoyed with her luck. Not wanting to stay on Sesshomuru's lap any longer she made a hopeless attempt to get up which only resolved into her 'accidentally' kicking Inu-Yasha's thigh very hardly.
He winced in pain as she sat up straight in Sesshomuru's lap and looked at him apologetically.
"WILL YOU STOP KICKING ME? I HAD ENOUGH OF THAT IN NIGHT!" He yelled at her despite the short room in carriage. "Do you dream of karate ninja's or something?"
She glared at him who just glared back. Behind her, Sesshomuru sighed. "Why don't I make this easier for you two?" He got up and sat down beside Kikyou who had retained her previous seating in the carriage.
Kagome flopped down on Sesshomuru's seat and sent an angry glare at Sesshomuru. "I don't want to sit next to the arrogant, ego filled jerk!"
"And I don't want to sit next to the annoying, bossy and rude missy who just said 'I don't want to sit next to the arrogant, ego filled jerk!'" Inu- Yasha fought back, doing an annoying, piped up voice for the imitation of Kagome.
"Well, I don't want to sit next to –." Kagome started but was cut of when Kikyou squealed in frustration. They both shut up immediately and stared at Kikyou who was glaring at them both.
"Could you both just shut up and GET ALONG for once?" She narrowed her eyes at them while Sesshomuru nodded agreeing with Kikyou.
"Why don't you both just look out the windows and don't talk to each other, I'm still in favor of a good night sleep and because I cant get one right now, a little peace and quiet would do" Sesshomuru advised them both, and without further ado he closed his eyes and leaned his head back as if everything had been settled.
Kagome and Inu-Yasha both silently agreed and moved away from each other, as though if they touched each other they would get an electric shock.
Kagome sighed as she watched the scenery pass by slowly from her window. There wasn't anything much to see outside, they were traveling through farms now and all there was to see was horses, cows, chicken – and other farm animals.
As the sight started to change from the farm life to dirty streets Kagome sighed sorrowfully as she saw orphans sleeping on the corners of rundown houses, crying as they waited for their parents to return.
She bit her bottom lip as she saw a servant kicked out a house and land painfully on the dirty and muddy ground, as she diverted her gaze she only caught even a more painful sight.
There was a little boy, limping around the filthy town as he begged for some money. Kagome frowned sadly at the sight in front of her, she had never been to any town like this before and the sight of the hopeless orphans pained her.
Her mind was willing to go out there and help them but as she sighed mournfully, Inu-Yasha leaned over and pulled the curtains over her window.
Kagome looked at him and he just glanced at her before leaning back and sitting down on his own seat.
"It's better if you don't look outside right now" he casually explained his actions as he leaned back and decided to look at the ceiling instead.
Kagome nodded, understanding fully why he had pulled the curtains over her window and just placed her leg over her other leg as she sighed at the silence of the carriage. The silence of the carriage didn't help her take her mind off the orphans out there.
As if Inu-Yasha had read her mind, or if it were by sheer chance, he glanced at her and immediately started a conversation. "I had a weird dream last night"
"Huh?" Kagome snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Inu-Yasha, "Really? What was is about?"
Kikyou exchanged a surprised look with Sesshomuru, it was obvious Inu-Yasha was trying to cheer her up even though Kagome was too blind to realize and the sudden, almost friendly exchange they were giving each other right now was too weird to go unnoticed.
"Yeah, I was the king of squirrels and I ordered them to bring me the most exquisite forest they could find, and when they found one, they brought the whole forest to me, but then they all attacked me and I started running for my life and then all of a sudden I was a cowboy and was trying to escape a sand storm" He strained his forehead as he tried to remember what happened next "I think I woke up next"
Kagome smiled "I had one about I was an Egyptian princess and I was lying down on those chairs they have and someone was feeding me grapes"
Inu-Yasha smirked, "And were there ninja's in your dream?"
Kagome rolled her eyes at him "Well, the dream turned suddenly turned into me in a swimming contest and I was winning, but then someone grabbed my legs so I started to lose then I started to panic and I woke up the next morning"
Inu-Yasha grinned, she -did- start some serious kicking last night and he had to hold down her legs to keep her from injuring his face, which probably explained why she started to lose in her swimming contest. "Who were you against?" Kagome looked at him with a confused expression "Against in what?"
He rolled his eyes "Who were you against in the swimming contest?"
"Oh," She strained her mind as she tried to remember who it was "I don't know, really"
He shrugged as he finally felt the carriage speed up.
It only took a moment for the carriage to start to speed pass the town they were in.
"Wow, the carriage is finally speeding up, wonder why?" Kikyou mused out loud as she felt the carriage speed up an incredible pace.
Inu-Yasha leaned over and pulled Kagome's curtain up again, revealing scenery of valleys and hills. "Probably because were heading downwards on a hill"
Sesshomuru leaned forward and looked out of the window "I can see a dock, were almost there"
Kagome smiled happily, she was starving and if she didn't get anything to eat soon she would faint of starvation.
As the carriage stopped, the servant who had been driving the carriage opened the door.
Kagome raised an eyebrow as she stared at the servant, slowly processing the image in front of her. Surely it couldn't be...
"Kouga?" Four surprised voices echoed in the carriage. Kagome gave a quick glance at Inu-Yasha, he seemed like the most surprised of them four, mostly because he thought he could get away from his pesky, can't keep a secret cousin for a while.
"How come you're here?" Kikyou asked him, just as surprised as everyone else was.
Both Inu-Yasha, Sesshomuru and Kagome gave him a questioning eye.
"Well, on the way, I kicked off the real driver and got on, that night when Inu-Yasha came to ask when you're going to reach the island, he didn't notice it was actually me, and all the maids that were sent to the island to take care of you, Sango and Miroku pulled two out and took their places, so I guess none of us are going to miss out on this trip"
All four nodded; at least she could see Sango.
"I'll see you later" And with that Kikyou got up and jumped out of the carriage which such grace Kagome raised her eyebrows at the talent she didn't know Kikyou could possess.
After Kikyou's departure Kagome yawned and rubbed her eyes, as she looked up she noticed both of the brothers were staring at her intently.
"What?"
They both shook their heads, "Nothing" they both said in synchronized voices.
Kagome peered at their faces closely, and after giving a quick glance at Kouga everything snapped together.
"Oh, sorry, I'll leave you three together" She shrugged nonchalantly, not even caring a mini, tiny, single bit that her fiancé and his brother wanted some private time with the Kouga.
As she got out of the carriage, she blinked at the sunlight and at once noticed a big boat settled beside the dock.
Smiling broadly at the boat she heard low voices inside the carriage. Remembering at once that Kouga was inside with them now; she decided that a little eavesdropping wouldn't hurt.
Excited jitters ran through her stomach as she pretended to frolic and dance backwards to get a little closer to the carriage.
She had eavesdropped on people more than a thousand times and she was sure she was an expert at it now. She couldn't blame herself, she had gotten so bored at her own castle that she would go near her parent's room and eaves drop on them every night, and now she couldn't call herself more than an expert at sneaking now.
As she got near the carriage she pretended to twist her ankle and fall down in pain. She smirked as she heard Inu-Yasha say 'That girls got some serious balance problems'
She pressed her ear against the bottom of the carriage to hear what they were saying.
"Don't worry, she wont listen to us, she probably doesn't even know how to eavesdrop" Inu-Yasha's voice came to her ears faintly.
She rolled her eyes; gosh...he didn't even stop insulting her when she wasn't even around.
"First of all, Kouga – you tell Kagome one more embarrassing thing about me, this fist is going to be where you face is!" Inu-Yasha's angry voice reached her ears loud and clear.
Kagome raised an eyebrow, this could get interesting.
"I figured you were going to say that, you can trust me- I wont tell her the time you wet the bed – or when you -." Kouga started but was cut off when Inu-Yasha slapped his left cheek making him wince in pain.
"Stop it you two" Sesshomuru's demanding voice came to her ears.
Kagome couldn't figure out what Inu-Yasha had said but it sounded very much like a cuss.
"Kouga, if our parents figure out that you snuck out..." Sesshomuru rattled on. "Damn, do you have some back up plan?"
"Duh I do" came Kouga's voice which Kagome jumped up a little in. His voice had turned from immensely sweet and innocent to rough and very manly. "We told the servants that Sango's got typhoid, Miroku's taking care of her and I've gone to check up on my parents"
"Couldn't you have thought up of something better?" The half demon forced against his plan.
It seemed as if Kouga and Sesshomuru had sighed at this.
"Now back to what I was telling you, don't you dare say one thing Inu-Yasha started but was cut off.
"So anyways, what do you want with me?" Kouga asked, ignoring the growls from a certain half-demon in front of him.
"So you're telling us that Sango's here too?" Sesshomuru questioned him.
"Yep, that means we have three girls with us on the island" Kouga affirmed him.
Kagome raised an eyebrow, why the heck did the care how many girls there were going to be on the island? Hearing Inu-Yasha start to speak again she forced her concentration back to the conversation.
"We could play a prank on them" Inu-Yasha opinioned, waiting for their answer and even though Kagome couldn't see him she knew he was smirking.
"What kind of prank?" Kouga asked back smartly.
"I don't know, mix something in their food and stuff" Sesshomuru chuckled. Kagome raised her eyebrows as she heard Sesshomuru say this, in all of people – she had never thought he could say such a thing.
There was silence for a while before Inu-Yasha talked again. "Something better than that...much better"
"Like what?" Kouga asked confusedly.
"We shouldn't talk about that here" Sesshomuru's firm voice confirmed her and as soon as he said that the carriage door opened again.
Kagome scrambled to her feet and dashed behind the carriage.
After five minutes of reassurance that they had all gone or either couldn't suspect her if she walked in on them right now, she stepped out of her hiding place and started to walk to the boat.
"How long have you been there?" someone growled that piece of question out which sounded too much like Inu-Yasha.
Kagome snapped around and looked at Kouga, Sesshomuru and Inu-Yasha.
"I was looking for Kikyou back there, but then I realized she was already on the boat, so unless you guys have a problem with that, I'm going" She sighed and turned around again.
Kouga just shrugged casually before racing back to the boat with Sesshomuru.
"I don't believe you" Inu-Yasha called out to her from behind. She turned around again and rose an eyebrow "You were eavesdropping weren't you?"
Kagome gaped at him "No, I wasn't eavesdropping!"
"Yeah you were"
"No I wasn't"
"Say sorry before I get mad"
Narrowing her eyes she remembered all the times she had asked for apologies and said sorry while he just sat there like a prince and had accepted her every apology and made her feel like trash.
She gave him an ear rub for god's sake!
Who did he think she was? Some servant who was going to start weeping if he got mad at her?
Feeling the madness boil inside of her, she thought up of one final decision she made that she knew she wasn't going to take the guilt trip for.
She wasn't going to let him boss her around this time.
Gathering up her courage, she remembered all the times he had insulted her and all needs to be punished due to her eaves dropping vanished instantly.
She stood up and walked up to the half- demon.
"Listen Inu-Yasha, I don't care if you're mad at me for eaves dropping because guess what?" She paused for a minute to hear any objections but as she heard none she went on "Because I've been way to freakin nice with you this whole week, asking for apologies, forgiving you way to easily for everything you've done to me, so guess what? I could kill you and make you go to hell for all I care"
He widened his eyes as he heard her use the swear words he often used which he hadn't ever heard or thought she had the nerves to say them.
"I've apologized for every thing I've done! I've tried to resist the urge of taking a knife and slitting your throat every day! You have annoyed me in every single way possible, insulted me in the worst case and YOU HAVENT SAID SORRY ONCE!"
Inu-Yasha stepped back a little; he had expected more of a sorry from her than death wishes, and the sudden change of priority blew him off a little.
She poked him in the shoulder "You have made my life miserable from the FIRST DAY I MET YOU! THE FIRST DAY!" she poked him again "You've gotten me naked, you've exposed my bed to a spider, you made me injure my leg the second night I was here, you've annoyed me every single day at dinner, you've made me injure my head because I'm sure that the demon wasn't after me but after you, you told Sango I slept with that bastard you call a brother, and you spilt rotten soup over my dress and told the whole dumb ass castle that it was horse manure!"
Inu-Yasha's eyes had become literally wide now, most by shock and surprise and a little more by amusement. He opened his mouth once but nothing came out and then when he opened his mouth twice the worst thing that he could have possibly said flushed out of his mouth. "Uh... It's okay?"
Kagome gaped at him and then instantly flushed red with anger "ITS OKAY? I DIDN'T DO ONE FREAKIN ASS SHIT THAT WAS BLOODY HELLWRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE, FILTHY BASTARD!" She screamed right in his face "DON'T YOU EVER TALK TO ME MISTER. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO SEE YOUR HIDEOUS FACE IN MY ENTIRE ONE OF A HELL LIFE AGAIN!"
Kagome exhaled deeply before turning around and storming off into the direction Kikyou was waiting for her, who was evidently giggling at her presentation she had demonstrated.
As she reached Kikyou, Kikyou gave her a pat in the back before laughing loudly and heading into the boat.
All in all, Inu-Yasha was dumbstruck. He had never thought Kagome could possess such a vocabulary and now he had lost all sense of talk.
Had he really been THAT cruel to her? She made it sound as if he had ruined her life. He touched the shoulder she had poked and winced at his own touch. That girl had sharp nails and she had dug them into his flesh hard.
Damnit, all he had said was to apologize. Geez, if she was going to be rude to her, he could play the same game.
He wasn't going to back down, and he was definitely not going to say sorry to her.
Nothing could make him go say sorry to her.
Absolutely nothing.
He was just going to be just as annoying as she was willing to be and was going to act like that until she said sorry.
He was definitely not going to apologize for something that he couldn't be blamed for.
Right?
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Sango, Miroku, Kikyou, Kouga and Sesshomuru watched in frustration at the fighting couple.
They were on the boat and it they were going to reach their destined island in an hour. Currently, they were sitting around a table, -trying- to eat their lunch and somehow Kagome and Inu-Yasha had gotten into a big fight and wouldn't talk to each other.
"Sango, tell Inu-Yasha that he eats like a pig" Kagome told Sango who groaned at her misfortune and turned to Inu-Yasha who had obviously heard Kagome but was pretending to ignore her.
"Sango, tell Kagome that she's a little miss goody two shoes" Inu-Yasha shot back. Sango winced, how come SHE had to be in the middle?
"Sango, tell Inu-Yasha that he should shut up or the time when he wet his bed isn't going to be a secret" Kagome avoided Inu-Yasha's glare as it shot full speed towards her.
"Sango, tell Kagome that she better shut up or her parents are going to find out that she cussed at me" Inu-Yasha returned glaring at his plate.
"Sango, tell Inu-Yasha that Kagome doesn't care" Kagome flipped her hair prissily over her shoulders and started poking her food angrily.
"Sango, tell Kagome that neither does Inu-Yasha" Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes at her – if this was the way she was going to act, what went around came around.
"I'm fine with that" Kagome snapped at him.
"So am I" Inu-Yasha snapped back, matching her evil tone just as well.
"Good"
"Cool"
"Hmph"
"Whatever"
And with that they both started to eat their lunch again, Sango sighed a sigh of relief. If only they could ignore each other for the rest of the lunch and she could enjoy.
"I'm finished lunch, I hope I see *some* of you later" Kagome smiled flakily, and got up. Sending a glare at Inu-Yasha's head, she flicked her hair over her shoulder and walked out of the room, almost feeling the evil glare Inu-Yasha sent her to her back.
Deciding to check out some of the ancient sculptures the captain had told her the boat held; she went down to the bottom deck and knocked on the door gently. There was no reply so Kagome opened the door. She felt jitters in her stomach as she noticed that she could feel the boat sway side to side on the lowest deck and the feeling was definitely unpleasant.
She walked in the room and instantly noticed a shelf filled with objects which looked positively old. Looking around the room she noticed everything was made out of wood, just like the whole boat was.
There was a lamp hanging from the ceiling, giving the room an eerie ancient look and the lamp was slowly swaying from side to side not helping Kagome control the food that she had just eaten.
Remembering why she had come here, she walked up to the shelf and examined the objects.
There was a large treasure chest on the bottom of the shelf and it seemed to be unlocked. Kneeling down she blew some dust off the treasure box and reached down to open the treasure box.
As the lid fell back she coughed as she smelt dust rise up.
She swiftly blew the dust away and peered into contents of the box. She gasped as she saw dolls, which were made and covered by the finest cloths imaginable. Remembering that the captain had told her these objects were priceless she quickly shut the lid and continued looking at the shelf.
Her curiosity took over her again as she saw a diamond tiara. Picking it up gently she placed it on her head and did a gently twirl. Turning around she looked into the mirror and smiled. The tiara made her look so much more princess like, but it didn't belong to her so she gently took it off and placed it back on the shelf.
Looking around at the objects once again, this time she spotted a bottle. And in that bottle was a ship. Kagome bit her lip as she saw those tricky tricks again; smiling to herself she picked up the bottle and peered inside at the ship.
She gasped as she saw rolled up parchment inside the bottom deck of the small toy ship. Feeling curious and also excited by the thought of discovering something someone hadn't in ages she pulled off the cork of the bottle and tried to reach in.
Of coarse her fingers only touched the boat and as she tried to grasp the parchment the bottle slipped out of her hands.
Kagome gasped in horror as she saw the broken pieces of glass on the floor.
"Oh damnit" She squeaked out as she reached down to scoop up the broken pieces of glass.
"Missy, you shouldn't 'ave been playing with the antiques there" A rough voice reached her ears and she immediately turned around to see the captain staring at her, not looking a least bit angry.
"I'm really sorry; it's just that I saw-." She started off but was cut off as the captain laughed.
"The parchment eh? I thought so, don' you worry about it though, I've been waiting for someone to break that bottle so I could take a peer at the parchment too, now why not clear up the mess first eh?" The captain asked her, as she listened intently to his fast and pirate-like language.
As the thought came to mind she asked him a question "Were you a pirate?"
He looked at her and smirked "Sure I was, that's where I got these antiques m'lady"
She widened her eyes and she kneeled down to help him pick up the glass "You stole them?"
"M'lady, you aint call it stealing if the owners already dead" He grinned and threw all the pieces of glass on the desk as he took the pieces Kagome had picked up with the other hand.
"Wow, how come you're here now? I mean, a pirate's life would be so much more adventurous" She asked him, secretly envying him for being a pirate.
"This mans was getting old, I needed to take a break from the pirates life, but I would sure love to see the real sea again, and I might just return to my crew after I'm done with all this captains job" He confirmed in her as he picked up the small toy boat and handed it to her. She looked up at him and gave him a questioning look. "You broke the bottle, you see what the parchment says "
She smiled at him, he was definitely nice, unlike *some* people as thoughts came to mind "Thank you, even though YOU stole it"
"I aint steal that one, it was passed to me from a fine young lady, she told me, when the right time comes, to pass it on to someone like you"
She raised an eyebrow "Like me?"
He nodded and looked slightly dazed "Pure of heart, but heat of a devil she must have was her exact words, m'lady" He sighed "And after seeing you fight with that half breed, and see you mourn for the poor I knew you were the one"
"You've been watching me?" She asked, feeling slightly embarrassed.
"I was in that town you were passing by, I saw you looking out of your window, and then I saw you and your mischief with the half breed, and not only that, you mark a remarkable appearance of the fine lady who gave me this" he pointed to the boat.
Kagome felt slightly dazed, she didn't know if it was the fact of the swaying of the boat or because of the information he was loading onto her.
"How long ago?" She asked him as she looked down at the boat, it seemed remarkably like the boat they were sailing in right now...
"The fine woman gave it to me four year's ago, I were on a pirates journey then, she was gibbering about death, knowing it was coming, and something about hiding this parchment before it came" He looked at her and gave her a quivering smile.
"That was when I was thirteen; the exact same year Kikyou turned fourteen..."
The pirate smiled broadly "Enough of the wondering M'Lady, its time you open the parchment"
"What if I'm not supposed to be the 'one'?" She asked, slightly starting to feel nervous.
"You aint gonna know if you aint gonna open it" He replied casually.
Kagome nodded and placed her fingers over the parchment, as her fingers grasped the parchment she pulled it out gently and placed the boat on the desk. Looking at the roll of parchment she started to unravel it slowly.
She stared at the contents, the parchment seemed equivalent to a map.
She read the words written boldly on the top.
'Tensaiga and Tetsusaiga' She gasped and turned a gaping face towards the pirate.
"I know about these swords... I -." She was cut off as the pirate raised a hand to hush her.
"I knew you were the one" He smiled warmly but Kagome's urgent face made him raise an eyebrow "Tis wrong?"
"Who gave you this?!?" She asked urgently, he was talking about a fine young woman, who looked remarkably like HER.
"I aint know her name but she was talkin' about her sons so she was married" He replied back with a shrug.
She shook her head "But this is impossible, her sons – I'm being engaged to one of them, their mom, she's STILL alive, and she doesn't look a BIT like me"
"Ever heard of step mother's m'lady?" He placed a hand on her shoulder as she gasped.
"No way..."
He coughed to clear his throat "Not a word about this to anyone understand do you M'lady?"
She nodded, her mind bulk with questions. Remembering the parchment in her hands she looked back down to it. "What should I do with this?"
"Keep it, tis yours, now hide it and examine it later, we must be going on top deck now, were reaching the island now"
She nodded feebly, and then remembering how nice the captain had been she pushed aside all heavy questions and smiled warmly at the captain. "I'll miss you, even though I haven't seen you for long, only for fifteen minutes in the least, you've been really nice to me"
He smiled fatherly which made Kagome feel a sudden stroke of home sickness "I'll miss you too m'lady, but why not meet me again and I'll take you and you're future husband on a pirates trip?"
She nodded enthusiastically "I'd love to captain!" She giggled as he laughed.
As he led her up to the first dock she hid the parchment in the folds of her dress and waved a goodbye to the captain, promising him that they'd meet again.
As she saw Inu-Yasha the sudden bulk weighed on her head again.
Could it really be true that his real mother had died four years ago?
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Oh – and I forgot to wish a happy belated birthday to Moongoddess2 ... so – HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!
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