Disclaimer: Don't own anyone in Inuyasha.

AN: I finally saw Pirates of the Caribbean! It was fantastic, and I just loved it. Oh yea, thanks tons to the reviewer who reminded me that Kagome's shirt was still ripped. Leave it up to me to forget something like that. ^_^ I apologize to my readers for the long wait...just too much going on now.

Steve: Yes, I did do a research on pirates prior to writing this, just in case I wrote something terribly wrong. So when I saw the movie, it was weird how some things were the same.

Pirate Pash

Chapter 3 - Come wit' Me

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"What?" He snarled for the fifth time after hearing Shippou's announcement. "Where the hell are they right now, brat?"

"They're...we've just spotted the boat coming from five o'clock, and it's a mighty large one at that." Shippou shuddered and turned to look away from the menacing glare the captain sent him. "If my estimate is correct, they should be here in around five minu - "

Shippou didn't get to finish his sentence because Inuyasha had already zoomed past him to where he had specified. Meanwhile, the other pirates all ceased what they were doing to wait for their captain's announcement.

And boy, was it a loud one. "EVERYONE GET READY NOW! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!"

"What's going on?" Kagome asked from the far end of the plank, having just snapped out of, 'I'm going to have to swim' mode. It was weird, here she was about to have to jump, and the pirates had all scattered like ants the second Inuyasha shouted something barbarically loud.

"Shit shit shit. We didn't have time to prepare for this...oh shit." Inuyasha wandered back onto the main side of the deck, grabbing his head in fury before replacing his head for Shippou's. "How many onboard that ship?"

"Owww...it looks like around our number, captain." He slapped Inuyasha's hand off before turning to Kagome. "By the way...what'll we do with her?"

"Who?" He glanced over at the woman, who was now balancing her way back onto the boat carefully, oblivious to the catastrophe of the crew. "Oh, for the love of...hey bitch!"

He also noted just then that she had knotted the fabric he had torn earlier in her shirt.

She ignored him, or simply didn't hear him as she skipped back onto the sturdy ship, landing gleefully. She wiped her brow with her hand in relief. "Goodness...that was so close. What's going on?"

"BITCH!" Inuyasha yelled, pacing up to her and staring at her angrily. "I can't believe I'm wasting my time on you...just...go back down to the cell, and in front of the cell there's a trap door underneath that should have enough room to fit you."

What was going on around here? She had to go hide somewhere now? After he tried to kill her? Well, it looked like he was making somewhat of an effort out of his busy life to help her, so she just nodded dumbly. "Okay, but...what is going on here?"

Suddenly, a cannon shot blasted her eardrums so loudly Kagome had to cover her damaged ears with her hands. Shippou did the same with his ears, but Inuyasha took it like it was a mouse scampering across the floor.

"What was that?" She asked once again but hollering, and Inuyasha had to hold back a strong urge to just stuff some cloth into that noisy mouth of hers.

"Shut up and go." He instructed wearily, already walking away from her as he did so. "And whatever you do in that space in the floor, don't move, don't talk, and don't breathe. Let's see if you can live through this, bitch."

"Will you stop calling me 'bitch'? I have a name, you know. It's Kagome." It looked like it simply went in one ear and out the other, but she chose not to argue in the heat of the situation.

"Shippou, you go with her." Was Inuyasha's final demand before he ran away speedily whilst pulling out the sword at his hip.

"What?!" The boy protested, "But Inuyasha...I'm a man now! I can go help fight and - "

Another sound of a cannon firing tore through the air with a louder sound than the last, and Kagome noticed Shippou had disappeared.

She spotted his tiny self a second later hiding behind her leg shuddering and she giggled. "Alright big man. Let's go."

"What?! But I'm..." He mumbled something to himself discreetly and started walking away. "Fine! But Inuyasha's a jerk..."

"You're not alone, Shippou."

This so-called trapdoor in the floor was impossible to find, let alone see. Kagome hadn't even noticed anything even similar to a door the last time she was locked down here. Just remembering that horrific night brought goosebumps to her arms.

"Kagome, hurry!" His little voiced hissed warningly, "The enemy will be down here ransacking the place anytime now, so we have to hide!"

She knelt down on the floor quickly and began rubbing her hands over the surface of the wood, feeling for any sort of an irregular shape. "But...but I can't find it. Shippou, do you know where it is?"

"I always hide in there...but I can't lift the door myself. Some other guy always comes down with me and helps me open the door. Just keep looking, Kagome!"

"Okay, okay!" She continued to feel around in front of the cell door, until one of her hands ran over the tiniest glitch in the wood. "I think I feel something."

"Great, now hook your finger under the bump and pull with all your might."

Lifting a heavy trapdoor with a finger wasn't as easy as it looked. Kagome thought her poor index finger would snap like a stick, but luckily she pulled through and the wooden door popped open with a bang.

Kagome picked herself off the floor and peered in, finding out it looked more like a box in the ground with just enough room for Shippou. She couldn't fit in there, for heaven's sake! Was Inuyasha bloody insane?

"Kagome, you go in first." Shippou said bravely, "I can always jump in after you."

She stepped in and noticed it was roomier than it gave the impression of. 'Good thing I haven't eaten in two days...' She thought with a sigh of relief, pretty certain she was capable of fitting into this because of her starvation and depression. 'If I didn't fit I'd probably have to hide under some hay.'

Kagome managed to barely fit into the compartment, her knees mere centimetres from her chin. Uncomfortable was an understatement right then.

Shippou followed in after her, landing on her stomach lightly and informing her to shut the door behind them.

She did as she was told, but the second the door slammed above them; even the teensiest bit of the candlelight in the hallways was diminished into a pitch-black enclosure. Kagome whispered, "Shippou, are we going to run out of air?"

"Shhhh!" He hushed, clamping his small hand over her mouth. "We won't be able to breathe if you keep talking, so be quiet."

Now she finally understood what Inuyasha meant by no breathing.

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The two cannons fires shot earlier had fortunately both missed Inuyasha's ship, but unfortunately for him, the enemy ship had already pulled up next to their own, and the wooden plank used to connect the two boats was being lowered at that very moment.

Sure, pirate attacks weren't out of the ordinary, but it wasn't like it was seen every other day. Sometimes there were even month gaps between attacks.

Either way, Inuyasha himself happened to hate the bloody battles, partly because many of his crewmembers would die an ugly death. To top it off, if they managed to lose to the other side, they would conquer their ship. And Inuyasha was going to damn well make sure his ship was never taken from anyone. "Miroku! Sango!"

His two acquaintances were as usual by his side, their weapons geared and ready for attack. "Yes, captain?"

He glared at Miroku first. "Go help prepare the cannons. Don't let the other boat get one past you guys. If I see one hole in this ship you're dead." He smirked to show he wasn't fully serious.

"Will do, captain. Be careful."

"That's my line, monk." He made sure Miroku was gone first before turning to face Sango. "You go guard the entrance to the cell. Make sure nobody, and I mean NOBODY gets one foot in there."

"Okay captain..." She thought it over first briefly, "But I don't see why you would care if they did manage to get in there. There's nothing of worth down there really...just a cell and some old boxes."

The shouts of the other pirates meant they were already on this ship. He sighed impatiently, "Listen Sango, there's no time to explain. Just promise me you'll guard that entrance with your life."

Surprised by the random kindness in her captain's tone of voice, she just nodded and ran off with her boomerang in hand, "I won't let you down, captain!"

In truth, he had more than enough time to say the short three words, "Kagome's in there." But, he still had a reputation to keep and decided against it.

He glanced around and saw those of his crew who weren't busy loading and firing cannons already engaging in swordfights. As was he, but his target was much different. He was going for the captain on the other ship.

When a captain was murdered, normally their whole boat would choose to surrender and retreat. That was always what Inuyasha preferred to do to make everyone's life a little easier.

He skipped and hopped between the battle occuring between his men and the others, swords clashing and people falling in puddles of their own blood. He grimaced when he spotted one of his men crash to the floor with a sword wedged in his chest. Good thing he never got to know him too well.

Inuyasha stepped onto the edge of his boat, and with one easy lift- off he leaped an unbelievable distance onto the other ship.

"It's their captain! Kill him!" Shouted a man pointing at him the second his feet touched the foreign wood. "Everyone, over here!"

Without hesitating Inuyasha swung his large sword, and within seconds the loudmouth was long dead on the floor. His bloody body dropped with his index finger still pointing, only this time it was at a barrel. "Weakling, thought you could take me on? Not in a hundred years. "

Just then Inuyasha noticed something terrifyingly wrong about this situation. Besides that idiot who attacked him just now, not one other person was in plain view, and that was not settling.

It meant they had a plan.

Growling, he glanced around and tried to identify their strategy before he was trapped in their scheme. 'I knew I should have been more careful and not just barged on here...' He cursed himself for not thinking of it earlier, but there was no point in crying over spilt milk.

Only he would never cry over something as dumb as that, or anything else, rather.

So he did the only thing that came to his head. "HEY ASSHOLES! Stop being such hussies and show yourselves! You call yourself men?"

"Of course I don't."

Where had that girly voice come from? It sounded like it came from above...Inuyasha immediately tilted his head backwards and spotted a dark- haired woman towering him, standing on the pillar above with her hands on her hips. "What the hell? You're a...bitch?"

Then she did the unimaginable. She jumped from the extremely high beam she was on and neatly flipped three times in the air before landing on her tiptoes in front of him. "Hi, I'm Yura, captain of this ship. I believe you're Inuyasha?

"Keh. It seems you know me. But I believe I haven't heard of you." He scoffed childishly. A female captain? That was still too much for Inuyasha to take in.

She ignored him and continued to stare at him before she licked her lips. "You've got such gorgeous long hair...it would be great to brush after I remove your head." Yura ignored the disgusted look Inuyasha shot at her as she revealed a long sword from behind her.

"About damn time." Inuyasha smirked and held his own large weapon in a fighting position. "I thought we would never start."

"Who said I was fighting?" She smiled evilly at him, stroking her tongue lengthily over the blade. "I don't like to waste my time on scum like you. Your hair, however..."

"Shut up." He commanded, "You make me sick."

Yura scoffed and raised a small hand in the air. "Don't flatter yourself, Inuyasha. I know for one I'm not going to allow a shit like you to get the Shikon no Tama first. Men!"

There must have been thirty men who appeared of out the dark, having already surrounded him in a circle formation. "When did you guys...?"

Even someone as strong as Inuyasha couldn't easily take care of thirty tough guys, and where in the world was his own goddamn crew? Sighing, he said the only thing that came to his ignorant mind. "Keh. Bunch of hussies ruled by some weak woman."

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Sango remained guard in front of the door leading towards the basement, right where Inuyasha asked her to stay. She was still trying hard to decipher why Inuyasha would want her to guard a rotten-down cell.

Thinking about that cell made her fingers curl into her palm until her nails dug into her skin painfully. Remembering how that woman...what was her name again? The fear and emptiness in her eyes...the coldness of her skin...it was like they were dragging the soul out of that woman with each step they took. She'd never felt worse about being a pirate.

And that image was what was engraved into her mind up until even now. She'd sat on her bed after locking the prisoner away, staring off into the darkness, planning ways to release her without possibly letting Inuyasha know. But if she did escape then how could he ever not know?

So she stayed in there, refusing to eat and drink, refusing to go watch the 'exciting' plank-diving of the girl the next morning.

Miroku had sat next to her most of the time, convincing her that Inuyasha would most likely not make her jump, although they both knew they were kidding themselves. Inuyasha? Not making someone jump off the plank because of a change of heart? That was about as realistic as Miroku not groping her while she was mourning.

So when he started rubbing her rear innocently, she slapped him routinely and sighed.

That woman was as good as gone.

"Hey, woman." A loud, harsh voice snapped her out of her daydream. She opened her eyes to see a pirate whom she didn't recognise, staring at her with interest. "You wanna go back to my ship with me?"

Sango stared left and right before pointing to herself stupidly. "Are you talking to me?"

"Yea, you. You a prisoner or somethin'? Come with me, come on." She stilled when she felt a harsh grip on her arm, tugging her away towards the enemy's ship, almost coughing when a horrible whiff of old alcohol reached her nose.

She sighed and easily lifted her large boomerang until it landed on his head, knocking the living daylights out of him. Sango wiped her arm on her shirt before staring at the unconscious figure. "Unfortunately I'm not. I'm a pirate."

"You're a pirate?" Another unfamiliar man turned the corner, this time with a friend. Sango had to mentally slap herself for saying something so moronic out loud. They were about to make a comment but they saw the man on the floor first. "Hey! What'd you do to him?"

"Who suggested I did something to him?" She retorted quickly, "Do I look like I'm strong enough to knock out this big guy out anyway?" Being female could come in handy at times, especially with the biggest idiots you could possibly encounter in a lifetime.

"Well...no..." They stared at her unbelievingly. "But you just said you were a pirate!"

"Of course I was being sarcastic!"

First they stared at each other, then they stared at her in confusion. "Sar-cas-what?"

WHACK.

She rolled her eyes and swung her boomerang incredibly hard, knocking the both of them out at the same time. Hopefully they'd never have to wake up.

"I saw that." Another voice popped out of nowhere, scaring the hell out of her. "You ARE a pirate, aren't you?"

"So what if I am?" She replied to the newcomer enemy, but this one appeared a little brighter than the others. Then suddenly, he reached for the boomerang in her hands and snatched it away in a terrifyingly strong pull.

"This is your weapon, is it?" He flung it behind him so hard it disappeared into the clouds. "Now you're weak without it. You'll pay for knocking out my friends."

Sango gasped with fright. "I...I...I..."

"Any last words before you die?" He said proudly, holding a sword right against the nip of her skin at the neck.

Her eyes widened as she continued to stare past him. "Behind you." She squeaked, pointing in the direction behind her.

He smirked, revealing a set of disgustingly crooked yellow teeth. "I'm not falling for that one. How dumb do you think I-?"

"Pretty dumb." Sango caught her retrieved weapon in one hand after it struck the back of the guy's head, sending him to the floor to join the rest of his crew. In five minutes Sango had managed to take care of four guys and have them lying at her feet. And to think Inuyasha thought she was too weak at first...

She laughed to herself and accidentally bit her lip when a loud noise startled her suddenly. It came from around the corner apparently, and sounded much like a...conversation? But nobody could have been talking if they were all too busy fighting.

Letting curiosity get to the worst of her, Sango kept her back to the wall as she shuffled over towards the corner. She wanted to hear this conversation, and wanted to know who it was. And not being able to see or hear it was bothering her.

So when a metal rod all of a sudden swung around the corner and made hard contact with her stomach, she wheezed painfully and was out before she even reached the floor.

If she had been conscious at the time, she would have heard, "Now let's go see what she's hiding in there."

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Kagome finally figured out by now that holding your breath didn't work in confined spaces, because in the end you'd still have to take in just as much air as you originally would have, if not more.

Squirming, she wanted desperately to ask Shippou, who was sitting by her feet, how long it normally took for one of these fights, but her head was starting to feel a little light-headed and confused. For a second a short while back she couldn't remember who she was. And that was never a good sign.

Instead of speaking, she poked him in the back because she was terribly bored, but when he didn't make any sound or gesture in return she started to panic. What if he was dead? He just had to get some air, and fast!

She immediately wrapped her arm around his tiny body and shifted her own to use her feet to kick open the door. The first thing that registered in her head was the open space, and all the wonderful air that entered her nose.

"Shippou? Are you alright?" She lifted him in her arms lightly and tapped his head. "Wake up."

"Well lookie here'!" An unfamiliar voice rang from the doorway and Kagome froze in her tracks. "It's a mother and her lil' kid. Ain't that cute?" It was a bulky man with a grey moustache, a long sword in his hand. Kagome made note that it was already covered with blood.

"Stay where you are!" She threatened uselessly, turning away to keep Shippou safer. "Don't come any closer!"

He snickered and took two long steps before stopping. "And why not? Do I scare ya'?"

'Very much so....' Kagome shuddered and gripped Shippou even tighter, trying to sense if this guy was cruel enough to kill a 'mother and son'. "I'm not scared of you..." She stated bravely, knowing she was probably shivering as she said this. "Just please don't hurt my baby."

"Nah." He scoffed and took another two steps closer, and Kagome challenged it by taking two backwards. "I won't hurt your bebe. But YOU have to come wit' me."

"What?" Kagome shouted in astonishment. That was absolutely revolting just thinking about it! She didn't want to go there! She'd stay here any day rather than go there...

He cleared his throat annoyingly and repeated, "YOU woman, come wit' me. Leave the bebe, and I won't kill 'im. Do we got ourselves a deal?"

"No way!" She barked almost immediately, practically passing out at the thought of leaving with him. When he showed a somewhat hurt look, she softened her tone a little as not to anger him too much. "I can't...I-I must stay with my child here...I cannot leave."

"And why not?" He took another few steps closer, and Kagome found herself backing up each step he advanced. She was out of luck though, as she eventually found herself backed up against a wall.

"Because I just can't!" She gulped audibly, "I-I've committed myself to this sea vessel. I cannot just leave everyone."

"Well, you either come wit' me and leave the bebe," She drew in a deep breath and waited for the alternative, "OR I can kill you both right now. Your choice."

"But...but I thought you said you couldn't bring yourself to kill him."

He chuckled and stroked his moustache in slow strokes before staring at her in confusion. "Did I say that? Cause I don't remember."

He continued to press forward towards her now, leaving Kagome cornered and scared for her life. "Get away from me! I don't want to go with you! I don't EVER want to go with you!!!"

"That's not a choice, babe." He smiled mischievously. "You wanna come wit' me or you wanna die with your bebe?"

"Neither!" She glanced around in a panic now, he was so far, yet so close. A few more steps and he would reach her with that sharp sword...

Just then, she spotted in one of the old boxes something glittery, and metallic. Looking over, she figured it must have been something with metal. She either went for it now to risk it, or stay here to wait for this freak to gain on her. She vigilantly laid Shippou down and dove for it.

And there it was, an arrow with such a sharp tip it could have been competition for the sword. And next to it laid the wooden bow.

She breathed a sigh of relief and turned around with it in hand, pulling it up to eye level, she pointed it at him fiercly and warned, "Don't come any closer! Or I'll...I'll fire! And I'm not joking!" She would never actually shoot him, it was simply a threat to get him to back away.

"What'cha got there? A bow and arrow? You can try shooting, lady, but I'll tell you now. You wouldn't be able hit me if you tried."

"And why not?" She growled, pulling the arrow back a little further to intimidate him. "Didn't I say to back off?"

He didn't. Rather, he started heading towards her again. "Only experts with years of training can shoot those things properly. Give up while ya' can. Now, you wanna die or you wanna come wit' me?"

He was getting so terribly close...why wasn't he backing away? "I SAID BACK OFF!" She screamed again, warm droplets starting to leak out of her eyes as she accidentally let her hand go slack. The arrow flew so incredibly fast she didn't even see it as it pierced itself right into the centre of the man's neck.

"How...?" Was what he grumbled last as his body crashed to the floorboards in what seemed like slow motion to her.

Hers followed shortly after, and Kagome fell to her knees in shock. She...SHE had just shot someone in the neck with an arrow. She had killed someone. Sure, it was a form of self-defence, but she had taken a life away. If that guy had children, she'd just killed their daddy. If that guy had a wife (not likely), she'd just killed her husband. She'd killed someone's son, someone's friend...and it was all her fault.

Gasping for air, Kagome finally gave in to her body's demand and fell over in exhaust.

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Punching the last idiot in the face, Inuyasha chuckled arrogantly and kicked his limp form out of the way. "Any more, Yura? Or are you all done with your slaves?"

She glanced down from her pillar up above at Inuyasha surrounded by beaten men lying around him. He looked fairly unharmed, too, with only a few bruises here and there. And as for his stamina, he looked as if he hadn't even begun to sweat yet.

"You're a monster. That was sixty men." She said under her breath before leaping down before him. "I must say you do live up to your reputation."

He smirked with pride. "Of course. So you ready to surrender yet? That would probably be the best idea. I see you only have so many conscious people left."

Yura smiled pleasantly. "That may be true, Inuyasha. But take a look at this." She waved her arm in the air, and in seconds a man showed up carrying a woman in his arms. "Look familiar?"

That long dark hair, that outfit..."Sango!" He cursed under his breath. "Damn you, Yura! You're fighting dirty!"

"It's not dirty if I win." She grinned again, and then snapped her fingers loudly. "Do it."

The man wrapped his hefty hands around Sango's small neck before squeezing with only a fraction of his strength. She started gagging almost immediately, tugging at his hands the best she could but getting no results.

"Stop it!" Inuyasha hollered with smoke steaming out of his ears, cracking his knuckles at the sounds of Sango's gags. "Fucking stop it right now or I'll kill you first!!!"

Yura snapped her fingers again, and the man stopped applying pressure to her neck, allowing Sango to cough madly for air. When she managed to get enough, she screamed, "I'm okay!!! Just kill her, Inuyasha!"

"Shut up, girl." Yura barked annoyingly before snapping her fingers once again for the torment to begin. "It was much nicer when you weren't spea-"

She didn't get the chance to finish as Inuyasha lunged at her all of a sudden and tried to slash her, but missed as she smartly rolled to the side. "Feisty, aren't we?"

"Don't fucking speak!" He cursed with frustration, his ears not able to take much more of Sango's wheezes.

She snapped twice this time, and Inuyasha could see that man's hands squeeze even harder. Yura giggled, "Don't tell me what to do, kid. Remember, your little friend's life is in my hands. If you try that one again I'll have him crush her neck."

He sighed and hesitantly made fists at his sides. What he would give to kill her right then..."What do you want, bitch?"

"Let me see here, okay. First, you'll have to surrender. Then, you'll have to give up your ship. And then you and your crew can go frolic into the ocean. But at least this girl here lives."

"Not bloody likely if we're in the ocean!" He stared at the man again with hate filling his gaze. "Let fucking go of her, asshole."

Yura shook her head. "Not yet. Just hold her there, but don't squeeze. Inuyasha, so do we have a deal?"

He couldn't just leave Sango here to die, but if he gave up everything more people would die, maybe including Sango too. And so would that bitch...was she still alive? And that runt?

Sango continued screaming from behind the man's hand, and he couldn't tell if she was yelling, "Don't!" or "Help me!" But based on what she said earlier, it was probably the first one. Yet, he couldn't do it. He just couldn't give either up.

"Well, hurry up! I have a busy calendar, you know."

He muttered quietly. "I...I choose to..."

"Can't hear you!"

"DON'T DO IT! Inuyasha!" He heard someone scream suddenly out of nowhere. "If you surrender I'll never, ever forgive you!"

Yura snapped her head around to identify the VERY annoying intruder. "Who the hell are you?"

"Me? Let's just say I'm Sango's wonderful guardian angel." The man replied heartily, a huge smile on his face as he sped towards Sango. "The name's Miroku."

"Miroku..." Inuyasha watched as he knocked the other man out with his staff so quickly even Yura didn't have a chance to respond. Sango was safely in his arms within seconds. "You..."

"What are you stalling for, Inuyasha? Sango's safe! Get her!"

Yura was standing off on the side now, her face no longer filled with joy. She turned to face Miroku with a humongous scowl on her face, "YOU! How dare you interrupt me and Inuyasha?!"

"Didn't I say to shut the hell up?" Inuyasha screamed, racing up to her at lightning speed and embedding his trusted sword right through her chest.

"You..." Yura tumbled to the floor, her mouth dripping with blood as she started coughing insanely. Inuyasha spitefully slipped out his sword as her eyes went glassy.

"Even that was a little crude, Inuyasha. You shouldn't kill women." Miroku said half-heartedly, already skipping back onto the other boat with Sango in his arms, one hand innocently placed on her rear.

"Keh. Whatever. She tried to kill me and Sango, so why the hell can't I kill her?" Inuyasha stopped as he leaped back onto his own ship, making careful note to step over the dead bodies. "Wait...didn't I tell you to go load cannons? What were you doing over there?"

Miroku smirked. "I just figured you might need a little help, since most of our men were over here. And you did."

Damn the monk and his knowledge. "Listen, Miroku. Don't expect a thanks from me or anything, I'm still angry you interrupted MY fight."

"Never expected one, captain."

"Good." Just then, Sango started stirring as her eyes opened wincingly. "Sango, you awake?"

She blinked once. Then twice. Then she sat up with her eyes bulged open. "Shit! Inuyasha...I'm-I'm sorry I failed! I was knocked out...and I didn't protect the room like you asked me to, and...Inuyasha?"

He was gone just like that.

"Kagome? Shippou?" Inuyasha turned the corner in a rage, hoping they were still in the underground compartment. If he saw them dead...running in the room, for a second he believed that was the problem.

They were both lying down on the floor huddled in the corner, and a man was lying near them with an arrow in his throat. Just what had happened in here?

Pacing up to Kagome, he breathed a sigh of relief when he realised both her and the runt were alive, but just passed out. "Kagome! Shippou! Wake up!"

She batted her eyelashes, and finally managed to get her eyes open with a squint. "In...Inuyasha?"

Oh no. She was looking at him and smiling. Why was his heart beating so damn fast? And why in the world was he so fucking worried about her? "Keh. Yea, bitch. What happened in here? Why didn't you stay in the box?!" He yelled loudly, trying to scare her into not smiling at him anymore.

But it didn't work. She continued smiling, even until her eyes snapped shut. She whispered as she started to doze off. "This...this is the first time you used my name..."

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AN: My, that was a long chapter. Hope it made up for the long wait. Hopefully the next chapter should be up soon. ^_^ Thanks tons to my reviewers!

*~Sorena~*