WEEEEEEEEE! Okay, that was a random squeal. I have molars coming in, so my nerves in my lip are acting up and I keep biting it which DOESN'T EXACTLY HELP…and I've been holding some pee for a really long time now and it's almost eleven o'clock Friday night and I should get to bed because I have church tomorrow, but HERE I AM!

You guessed it. I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender, okay? So just bug off and stop nagging at me. I'd appreciate it.

Or am I just saying that because I desperately need to pee…?

Yeah, I go with the second option, too.

Here you go! A simple math problem to make you love to hate to love to hate me…no, I didn't get it either…Tired, Avatar-obsessed-fangirl + desperate need to pee and write this fanfic. WEE!


-.-A Pirate's Life For Me…?-.-
Yoshi lay sprawled out on the wooden deck, clutching her bottle of sake, giggling and hiccupping at high pitches. The beady-eyed, tall, stick of a look-out slid down the mast and nudged her with his bare toe.

"She really old enough to drink sake? Can you make you sick, it can…"

"She wants to, she drinks it."

"Ah."

The giant, muscular captain took a gulp of his own bottle of sake, swallowing it with a loud smack and a sigh. The look-out shifted from foot to foot.

"Cap'an, we're coming to some land."

"What kind of land?"

"Some good trading land," bellowed a large man from the side of the ship, pointing to the rim of earth that came closer with every wave that lapped against the beauty of a ship. A young boy with spiky hair and a dirty face grabbed the bottle of sake from Yoshi as he passed her.

"Rike, you really are an idiot."

The captain straightened up, his face twisting into a scowl. "What's that you say, boy?"

He shrugged. "She's only a girl, Cap'an. We can't have her fainting out on us. 'Sides. It's time for a fight. Wake 'er or not?"

The big man considered this before nodded and stalking to the door that led to his quarters. "Wake her up and have a round…we'll be at dock soon."

Yoshi's head was pounding as she slapped at whatever was kicking her in the stomach. Rolling over, she groaned, "Leave me alone! I'm sleeping!"

"It's fightin' time," a short, bony man said, crouched beside the mast. She lifted her head and stood slowly, wavering when she had regained her feet.

"Really…? Who do I get to go 'round with?"

Loki nodded to the boy who had snatched Yoshi's sake bottle. "You get Naoki this time."

Yoshi turned and glowered at the boy who was barely older than her, taking in his appearance: dirty face and hands, tattered jeans, a long, red shirt, bare feet, wispy, brown spikes of hair that refused to stay down no matter what the crew did. They had shared many laughs about this hair of Naoki's.

Naoki threw the bottle across the deck. "Fine, I'll fight her. But if she gets hurt…"

"Aw, shut the hell up, butter boy!"

Naoki started at the insult. Butter boy was something you did not, and I repeat DID NOT call a pirate. A butter boy was a pity pirate, someone who ate scraps and was pushed to the most hideous tasks, the least favorite of the crew, ridiculed and beaten. Coming back to his senses, he lunged at the girl, growling curses.

She ducked and grabbed his legs, tripping him and scampering up to face him as he scrambled up to his feet. The others, who were still gathering, cheered.

"Show 'im what'cher made of!"

"C'mon, girly!"

"We got sake for everyone after the rounds!"

Laughter and growls and shouts and bets rang through the air as Yoshi leaped onto Naoki, hanging on his back like the monkey that clung to Ashni's shoulder. He peeled her off easily, throwing her away. She landed with a thud and quickly leaped up, tugging her skirt lower, so her underwear didn't show...

"Oh, so you wanna go that way, meh?" She rolled up both of her sleeves, trying her best to ignore the steely pounding in her temple. She stood and waited for his next move, then spat on his feet. He growled again and lunged at her, surprising her, tackling her. She lay writhing like a snake under him, screaming and scratching.

Naoki rolled off and away from the seething girl. She grabbed his arm and twisted it, running around behind him. Letting out a yelp, he seized Yoshi by the hair and pulled her to the ground, taking in her screams of pain like a little child would with chocolate.

Twisting under his grip, Yoshi sputtered out curses this way and that as the boy laughed manically above her. Her head pounded…her stomach lurched…two members of the crew pushed in and tugged the raging children apart.

Naoki glowered at her with clenched fists as she glared back with her death eye. The pirate that held her dragged her to one side of the deck and the other dragged Naoki to the opposite. Men were rattling off curses and bets and handing copper coins here and there. The man—Yoshi realized it was Stealthy Jok—holding her shouted across to the others, "That round wasn't fair! The girl was groggy with sake…the boy was…"

Interrupted by Zink proclaiming, "The girl's own fault!", Jok glowered at him and continued. "The boy was fighting too hard on a drunken member."

Yoshi stood up, wavering. Naoki writhed in the hands of Hyo.

"Coward!" he called. "You all pity her because she's a girl!" Yoshi started forward to slap him, but was caught by the wrist by someone's rough and calloused hand.

"Gal…" Everyone held their breath as the captain spoke harshly to the only girl member. "My cabin awaits you. You've had a hard round. Jok'll clean you up and getcha some food, and you can stay in my cabin for the night. Alls you need now is sleep."

Yoshi scowled at him as he nodded to Jok, who hence slung the girl over his shoulder and carried off into the captain's cabin.

And thus was the life of Yoshi, the only girl member in the crew of Pirate Captain Rike.


-.-Onpu kara Touhou-.-
Dude, I use too much Japanese…LOL Well, I gotta go to bed. It's 11:05. Yeah, this took me fifteen minutes to write…So what? Anywho, hope you liked it. Review if you want more.

Oh. I'll try to explain more about her past…and actually get Aang and co. in there. Night. I'm practically falling asleep on the desk…LOL

BWAH. I'm evil to my characters…BWAHAHAHAH— -coughs- AACK!I shall leave you and go pee. CHIKUSHO!