My Saviour, the Pirate

Chapter 7:

The Second Raid

Sesshoumaru's Captives

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, because everything in that category respectively belongs to Rumiko Takahashi-san, as seeing how she made him and the others up herself.

"Why is Sesshoumaru ordering an attack on the village?" Miroku wondered aloud.

"I don't know, but he better not, or he will regret it!" InuYasha growled.

'I hope Kagome is alright and safe at home...' Sango thought and her stomach sank. "At home" didn't sound right to her. It would never be "at home" anymore. Sango shook the thoughts from her head and stole a glance at Miroku. He was staring back at her. Sango blushed and looked away, as if she was flustered. "What are we going to do? We can't just sit here while the ship is bombing us!"

Miroku looked grim. "He'll keep ordering attacks on your village until we return to him."

"Yeah, the bastard's come back for us..." InuYasha agreed.

Sango screamed as a cannon ball landed right past them. Miroku, startled, swept Sango up off her feet and into his arms. He grinned embarrassedly as she stared at him hard. She pointed her finger down and he let her back on her feet, laughing softly.

"Screw this! The idiot's trying to get us back and he's gonna end up killing us!" InuYasha yelled and he kept fingering the sheathed sword at his waist.

Miroku's stomach suddenly sank and he hurriedly gazed up at the sky. He sighed in relief. It was not a full moon. Very lucky for the hanyou. He then remembered that the full moon won't be for another few days or so...again, very lucky for him.

InuYasha, being a half-demon, would change into a mortal human whenever there would be a full moon in the sky. He would be vulnerable to anything until the break of dawn, when he regained his hanyou form again.

InuYasha looked back and saw that Jiro was gone. He fled at the scene, terrified to realize that Sesshoumaru discovered he was alive. InuYasha scowled. 'Why did humans have to be so friggin' scared? he thought angrily.

BOOM!

Another cannon ball shot out and impaled through a large building. A woman shrieked and ran out from the building, holding a child close to her chest. A man soon followed after her and the family disappeared down an alley.

"Sango, stay close to me." Miroku muttered and reached for her hand and found she was gone. InuYasha prodded him and showed him that their ship had landed and the crew was making their way up the cliff. The two boys took off running to find Sango.

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Sango ducked as another cannon ball shot passed her, and she continued to run down the cobblestone street. She pulled Miroku's coat closer to her chest and made her way through the village. A house she passed by lay in ruins and was burnt to the ground. Sango stopped and so did her heart. It was her house... Sango knelt by what was left of it and picked up a remnant of the house. Sango cried. Then something that gleamed caught her eye and she glanced at it. The girl gasped. Her family portrait! It survived! She grasped it close to her and stared back at her mother and father smiling at her. Sango smiled back at them.

She stood up and sprinted down to the Higurashi mansion.

Gasping for air, Sango came to the entrance of her friends' home. She threw the door open and yelled for somebody. No one answered. She tried again. Still she received no response. The house felt dead. Sango scowled and dashed up the stairs, coming into the all-too familiar hallway and burst open Kagome's door.

Sango stopped in her tracks, horrified.

The room was in rubble; the legs of Kagome's bed broke and the bed lay on its side; a large hole was in her wall. Worst of all...

"KAGOME!" Sango shrieked.

Kagome lay in a heap in the corner of her room. Pieces of her ceiling lay on top of her and she was covered in ashes. She wasn't showing any signs of breathing. Sango feared for the worst.

"KIKYOU! KIKYOU, WHERE ARE YOU?" she called and looked for Kikyou. Her door was open and no one was in there. Sango re-entered Kagome's bedroom and bent over Kagome's still body. She stared hard at her arm—it was sprained and her leg was broken. Sango felt tears spilling over her eyes and they rained on Kagome's skin.

Kagome slowly opened her eyes and moaned.

Sango sighed in relief and kissed her friend on the forehead.

"Oh, thank God you're alive, Kagome-chan! Do you know where Kikyou is?" Kagome nodded and pointed out the hole in her wall. Sango glanced out and saw the girl was pointing at the pirate ship. "Oh no... God, please let her be alive!" Sango left the room with Kagome in her arms. She was racing out the mansion and bumped into InuYasha. "InuYasha!"

InuYasha took Kagome from Sango and draped her over his back. Checking she was secure, InuYasha, Miroku, and Sango sprinted away. As they rounded the corner, two pirates came and set many of the houses on fire.

Sango was coughing as she struggled to keep up with the boys. Miroku came to her aid and lifted her up on his back. She smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck loosely and he continued on after InuYasha.

"Kikyou's gone! Kagome told me that pirates took her back to your ship!" Sango said breathlessly and InuYasha nodded. The group rested in an alleyway and hid behind crates as they watched several more pirates come by.

"Are you okay to walk now, Sango?" Miroku asked as InuYasha made sure it was safe for them to leave. She nodded. "Okay."

"I'm going to go look for Kagome's mom, so I'll meet you guys soon!" Sango mumbled as she went opposite from them. InuYasha nodded and so did Miroku, although he had a sinking feeling in his heart. He didn't think it was a good idea, and that something would happen to her. Miroku shook it off and faltered a smile and she departed.

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Sango shivered in the night and searched for Mrs. Higurashi, although to no use.

'Where are you, Mrs. Higurashi?' she thought anxiously and sighed. 'Maybe I should sit down...I'm feeling pretty tired...' She sat down behind a bench, out of view from most passerby. The young girl, tired and frustrated, held her head in her hands and closed her eyes. She had a bad migraine and it made her head pound. She was about to drift off when a deep voice sounded in her ears.

"Hello, lassie..."

Sango stared up and screamed.

She dove out of the way as the pirate lunged at her.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" she growled and kicked him in his shin, knocking him to the ground. Another jumped at her and she ducked low as he flew through the air and landed face-first on the concrete. It took about three men to hold Sango still and they carried her away, down the cliff, and into a tiny boat, with which they rowed her over to the ship, where she met her fate.

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Miroku was getting worried. It had been too long since Sango left. He happened to look down below the cliff when he heard Sango cry out his name. He saw three pirates hauling her away and stuffing her into a boat. He stumbled onto his feet and, grabbing InuYasha by the collar of his shirt—Kagome still clinging to his back—looked for a quick way down the cliff.

Miroku felt his feet touch the sand of the beach. He watched helplessly as Sango was rowed away, trying her best to get free of their grip and she cursed at them, punching one of the men in the nose. The boy growled.

"DAMN!" he cursed and punched the nearest thing, which happened to be InuYasha's nose, but he luckily missed it by a millimeter. InuYasha glared at Miroku, who didn't care. All he could think about was his Sango. Yes, it was his Sango. When it came to times like this, he self-consciously claimed her as his. (She wouldn't mind, though; of course she wouldn't admit that.) "We've got to go after her! I can't just sit around; having the knowledge she's being taken to Sesshoumaru! There must be some way..."

His eyes drifted to a discarded canoe laying a few yards off. The boy grinned and ran over to it, dragging InuYasha with him.

Miroku stood at the bow—well; the front of the canoe as InuYasha rowed them forward, grumbling as they went. Kagome smiled and ooh-ed and ah-ed at the black sea. Sure, she had seen it from up high, but never right on it! Miroku embraced her and continued to stare at the black vessel in front of him. He would have his revenge on Sesshoumaru for taking Sango from him.

Blood. I need blood. I am so thirsty...

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Now you're all probably wondering why it keeps saying – Blood. I need blood. I am so thirsty... – Well, it all has to do with the plot. Trust me. It will be very surprising when you all find out. I have the next chapter already planned out. Hope this chapter was suspenseful enough for you!