AN: Chapter eleven already? I'm surprised! I have absolutely no idea how long this fic is going to be, but I'll let you guys know when I figure it out. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter, because for once there is a little bit more fluff than usual…
Pirate Pash
Chapter 11 – Love-Hate Relationships
"What do you want?" He snarled as a familiar presence sauntered into the open door left behind by that annoying crew member. He really didn't want to deal with her right now, mainly because he didn't want her to look at him with those eyes…
Pitying eyes. That was what Inuyasha liked to call them, and he despised it to no end. Whenever anyone gave him that sad and miserable 'I feel sorry for you' kind of look, he had a sudden urge to knock them to the ground and punch their face in.
He'd show them who should be feeling sorry for who…
He quickly ate his words when his gaze landed on her naive face. She was peering shyly from around the door, and was obviously reluctant to come in. Even without talking to her he could tell she was a little frightened.
He smirked as he relaxed into his bedstead. "Well?"
"I…I - " The young woman stumbled into his room, letting the door slam shut behind her. Kagome did not move an inch closer when inside.
"Spit it out." He said sarcastically, but felt that it came out a little harsh. "What did you come here for?"
Suddenly, images of that night of them in the bushes flew back into his head like a sickness and he suddenly felt very uncomfortable around the girl. It wasn't that the embrace they had had was out-of-this-world or mind-numbing, in fact, it wasn't even close.
It was the way she had slowly reached over and wrapped her shaking arms around him, and the way her face paled when she did so, making it blatantly noticeable she had not done this type of thing before. As odd as it was, in that moment he would have done anything to protect her.
She looked at him with wide eyes. "I just wanted to check if you were okay…" Kagome scanned around the room to stare at every interesting speck on the wooden floor. "Not that I care."
"Keh!" He turned his head away, making an effort to turn further to avoid letting her see how affected he was by her words. "I'm fine. How weak do you take me for?"
After hearing his words, she seemed a little more at ease around him, now walking closer with each small step she took. He peered out of the corner of his eyes at her legs. They seemed longer and darker-toned than before, not to mention they seemed to actually have some meat on them now. He didn't like his women too skinny. Kikyou was too skinny.
"I don't know. But it looked like you were really hurt when we found you back there." Kagome's sudden words snapped his stare back onto her face. Her expression was filled with curiosity. "Were you just looking at my legs?"
He smirked arrogantly, enjoying her perplexed look. "There's nothing to look at."
Even as the words slid out of his mouth, he set to stare at her legs again, this time when his gaze reached even lower, he paused. One foot was bandaged up and he could see a few red splotches staining the white fabric causing her to limp. "Kagome? What happened to your foot?"
"Foot?" She glanced down and remembered. "Oh that. I was bathing in the ocean and this fish took a horrible chunk out of my foot. It's alright though. Hojo cleaned it for me already."
Stupid bastard. Everyone on board knew Hojo had a thing for Kagome, even him. Inuyasha imagined the dumb-looking boy touching her and mumbled something. "Does it hurt?"
"What? This?" She came to stand near to his bed, not realizing just how much of an impact she made. "Yes, but not close to as badly as before. I was screaming like a baby on the beach."
Something inside of him wrenched as she began smiling at her own story. He didn't like the thought of her crying out in pain while she was all alone. He waited until she stopped giggling to reach for her foot. "Kagome, let me see it."
She jumped back a foot in surprise. "What? You want to see it? It's disgusting."
He sighed impatiently and sat up in his bed. "I want to make sure it's not infected. Hojo doesn't know the first thing about first aid. He couldn't get a sliver out of a finger."
"You know, before you worry about my little problem you should be looking at yourself." She pointed to his partially bandaged upper body and frowned. Some pieces were untied and it was a complete disaster, blood was wiping onto his chest and his arms looked beaten up. "Did you clean that yourself?"
He grinned. "Did you see that wuss running out of my room just now?"
Kagome nodded silently.
"He tried to come in and bandage me up, saying it was Miroku's order. And I wouldn't let him." He smirked and remembered the guy's shocked expression when he told him to back off. "I hate smart alecks who act like they give a shit about you, when all they want to do is kick you when you're down."
She stared at him blankly. "That's terrible. Is that what you take your crew for? Mean people who just want to hurt you when you're frail?"
Inuyasha scratched his head as if he'd heard this line a million time before and laid down, regardless of the bandages flinging everywhere. "Of course. Some of those bastards look as if they want to gauge my eyes out with knives whenever they see me. If not, they pretend to play nice with me to get me to raise their ranking."
Kagome was lost for words as she continued to stare at him blankly. This time he noticed her lips when she started to lick them with her tongue. They were a pretty pouty pink and he had an urge to touch them. If only she could hear what he was thinking…
"I…" He awaited her 'you're horrible' speech patiently, finding it fun to mess with her head. "Inuyasha, I think we're the same. We don't trust anyone."
"…idiot!" He said sharply, taken aback by her comment. What did this little girl know about trust? "I trust Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Hiten and them! Just the others I don't know about!"
"You say it, Inuyasha, but you still doubt it sometimes, right? I know I do." She scrambled forwards and flopped down by his feet on the bed, loving the soft cushioning compared to her own run-down bed at home. "Sometimes I think I was hurt so much when I was younger that people aren't trustworthy anymore."
"So you don't trust anybody at all?"
She shook her head slowly and stared at her hands. "That's not completely true. I would trust my brother Souta with my life, for sure. And I trusted my parents when they were still alive. But I think that's about it."
This woman's parents were dead? He had never heard any of this before. "How'd your parents die?" Inuyasha asked casually, the curiosity cutting at him inside.
Kagome looked as if she knew the question was coming, but she didn't want to answer it. It didn't take a genius, let alone a pirate, to figure her out. He glanced down to her hands to spot her pale knuckles.
"Pirates got to them, didn't they?" He said quietly to the stiff girl sitting by his feet. He smiled. "So that explains why you hate us so much." After a while, he couldn't contain himself and started to chuckle under his breath as quietly as he could.
"…it's not a laughing matter at all." She sniffed silently, only to have him sit up straight. Argh, he shouldn't have said anything…
Kagome's small shoulders shook as she tried to get out the words. "I…I had to watch these monsters slaughter my parents into tiny bits, do you understand what that could possibly feel like? " She grounded out angrily.
"The same parents that loved me, and protected me? After they died I lived like a bug trying to survive in water… and I – I hated pirates more than anything on earth."
Maybe he shouldn't have brought this up. Her face was turning a pasty red and he could see her eyes turn glossy. She wasn't finished her story, apparently. "…it didn't only happen to me. They set houses on fire, murdered people I knew, and raped the village ladies. After they left the island it was nothing more than another run-through place for these barbarians." She slowed down a bit to inhale. "Another stop on their trip…"
He could smell some salt in the air and stirred in his seat. What could he possibly conjure up to make her stop her shaking and possibly weeping? He muttered awkwardly, "Kagome, please don't cry on me. I hate seeing women cry."
"I'm not crying." She sniffed, wiping her eyes quickly with her dirty sleeves and glancing up at the confused captain. "Why am I even telling you all this? A lot of people don't even know about my past."
"And here you are telling it to a pirate, huh?" He joked, trying to get her to smile again but it backfired.
Her face froze in a second as she crawled out of bed, her eyes unfocused and blurry. Before he let her jump out of his reach, he snatched her arm and pulled her back up. "Don't go, I was just joking."
He gulped when he spotted a droplet slide down her cheeks, and her fingers were tugging away from him as forcefully as she could. Soon her tears were washing her face and neck like water. "Let me go, Inuyasha! I don't want you to see me like this!" She choked with as much volume as she could as she tugged with more power than before, "I hate it when people see me cry! Let go of me, Inuyasha!"
"No."
"INUYASHA! STOP IT!" Kagome tried to kick him away with her capable foot, but ended up pushing against his chest wounds and landing with a 'BANG' onto the hard floor.
"Shit. Kagome, are you okay?" He fumbled over immediately and peered over the side of the bed, hoping the girl did not fall head first. "Talk to me."
She was sprawled out on her back; her long dark hair flew around like mad and her face was wheezy from screaming. Her skirt fell barely below her hips because it had gathered upwards from her fall, and her mouth was parted and formed in an 'O'.
It was quite the sight for Inuyasha.
"Eoohhhh…my back…" Kagome wheezed, pushing herself off of the floor while trying to maintain at least some of her dignity. That had to be one of the most humiliating acts ever pulled by her, and it just had to be seen by him of all people. "Inuyasha, can you help me up?" She reached up a hand but nothing touched it. "Inuyasha?"
She glanced up. He had on the most intrigued look while still looking at her. Yet, when she spoke to him, he appeared to be thinking about space. Kagome repeated slowly, "Inuyasha?"
"Huh? Oh!" He shook his head immediately and grabbed her hand, pulling her up and back onto the bed. However, this time, he had pulled with so much strength she was flipped to lie on her side next to him in bed.
She squeaked silently when she was flung in the air, but recovered when she felt the soft sheets against her back. "That was very embarrassing…" She muttered, covering her face from his intense gaze. "Please pretend you did not just see me burst out crying and fall off your bed."
"And lose that image in my head?" He grinned proudly as another bandage around his arm slithered off. She gulped when he inspected her face a little bit too carefully.
"What?"
"Your face is still wet."
She quickly reached up and tried to wipe her cheeks of any liquid. When she could not find any, she felt a finger come forward and swipe next to her eye, below her lashes. The instant his hand came into contact with her skin, her whole body shook internally and she scarcely lost her breath.
"There."
That action made her uncomfortable beyond words. All thoughts of her earlier plan made her chuckle because of the silliness of it all. A simple touch by this man and her legs turned into mushy jelly, and she had planned on seducing him? That was a laugh and a half!
"Don't do that." She whispered softly when his warm finger left her face. Kagome scooted back against the wall a bit. "I don't feel comfortable."
"Why? Do I make you uncomfortable because of what I am? I'm not the one that trashed your village, Kagome." He asked, moving closer to her with her every movement. "I may brag about things like that but I rarely go through with them."
"That makes it much more appropriate." She answered snidely, her back now pressed tightly again the cold wall, and Inuyasha's face was just inches away from her.
He sighed as if what he was about to say was something he'd never say in his life. "I won't hurt you, Kagome. Don't be scared of me."
"I know, but please stop coming closer." She squeezed her eyes together tightly. The captain looked as if he had a plan in his head and she didn't like it.
She noticed he ignored her useless pleas, and holding back the embarrassed sobs in her throat from being so close to a man, she held still. Inuyasha…she could partially trust him not to do anything inappropriate with her…but this was something she did not want. Her purity was all she had left in this world…to have it taken away by a pirate was a sin. "...Please don't…Inuyasha…I beg of you…"
To fight him would be useless, she noted, because his strength exceeded any normal human man's, and his temper could be times worse. Kagome whispered pitifully and detested herself for being so tiny around him, "don't do this…"
His masculine face closed in on her, and before she could protest, he had wrapped his strong arms around the back of her head and pulled her tightly into his wounded chest. She breathed in the overwhelming smell of blood, but she didn't mind. She was more focused on the words slipping out of his mouth…
"I won't let anyone hurt you anymore, Kagome."
She stopped before reaching over and grabbing a lock of his black hair, slowly pulling his head to rest on her shoulder. He willingly relaxed and grasped her more tightly than before.
If she had known coming into this room would have her in Inuyasha's bed holding onto him this closely, she may have had second or third thoughts about coming in. But she was starting to feel a little woozy from the sensations stirring in her lower abdomen, and the way his muscles felt against her smaller body did not help matters.
And as much as she wanted to scream at him, let go and stalk out of the room, she needed to feel him hold her. She took in a deep breath and inhaled a musky and calm scent, one she was not used to. Yet it made her feel wanted…and nice…
She was snapped out of her thoughts by a bandaged woman pushing open the captain's doors. "Captain! Shippou said – said…said that, I mean… my god, he sai - I'm so sorry!"
It was clear Sango had already recovered and in seconds she had sped out the door in a full-on sprint.
"NO SANGO IT'S NOT… oh no…" Inuyasha groaned and let the young woman in his arms go, before rolling onto his back and resting his arm on his face. "Now she'll tell Miroku and he'll never shut his face…"
Kagome sighed with disappointment when she felt the comforting warmth pull away from her, and she scrambled out of the bed and managed to somehow leap over Inuyasha with one foot. "I'm going to go explain it to her."
"She won't listen to you." He sighed before turning around to rest again. "But do what you want. We're having a feast tonight on deck. I want you to come."
The last line made her feel a little comforted after he rudely released after all he had said, but she nodded dumbly anyway and ran down to look for the woman who was most likely not going to keep her mouth shut.
"They… WHWHAT?" Miroku choked on his loaf of bread he was gnawing on and started coughing like he had an oar shoved down his throat. When he finally spat out the chewed lump onto the floor, he repeated, "You saw the captain and Miss Kagome doing THAT on his bed?"
Sango nodded and rested a hand on her chest. "I…I walked in and I saw them rolling around on the bed…and he said something about not hurting her, and now they're probably going to think I'm …" She noticed Miroku raising an eyebrow suggestively. "Nothing. Kagome's probably going to kill me…and…"
"SANGO!" They both spun around to a wobbly Kagome in the doorway leaning against the doorway breathlessly. "Nothing happened like that, Miroku. Don't listen to – to what she's saying!"
"Very well done, Miss Kagome." Miroku noted as he started to clean up his earlier mess on the floor. "I didn't believe you were that type of girl, so how did you come across it?"
Kagome's face turned redder than a tomato and she glared at the two smirking pirates. "Nothing happened. We just hugged." She could not believe this was happening to her.
"I don't believe I need to explain myself to you two."
"I know what I saw." Sango still insisted, backing away from Kagome slowly. "Kagome… what in the world were you thinking? Did we not agree together in the beginning that Inuyasha was a pig-headed, stubborn captain who treated you like dirt?"
The woman sighed and gave in to the weight, crumpling onto the floor in a mess, tucking her knees under her chin. "I know, I know we said that about him… but I feel like he's changed, you know Sango?"
"It's still the same guy, Kagome." The other woman pointed out with a sigh. "He's just showing you the nice side we've all seen before."
Miroku rudely interrupted with a wave gesture of his hand. He smiled at Kagome. "So now that you are on better terms with Inuyasha, has he agreed to send you home? Even if it's only for a short while?"
She fiddled with her fingers, remembering that earlier he had touched these fingers with so much gentleness. Kagome never knew that the captain, whom had only shown her some friendly sides occasionally, could be so heart-stopping and protective all with one look into his dark eyes.
'I won't let anyone hurt you anymore, Kagome…'
She had practically swooned and melted into a puddle in his bed when she heard those words come out of his mouth.
How she wished he seriously meant what he said, because if no one could hurt her anymore, maybe for once in her life she could feel really happy, and be the young woman she was.
Perhaps she was just too caught up in the heat of the moment. After all, it was a completely new experience for her: hugging men, pouring out her soul in front of them.
She had also heard a lot about a man's desires and how they would do anything to satiate them.
Not only that, but she'd noticed on several occasions when strange men would get this forceful, glazed look, as if they wanted to eat her for dinner. Maybe this was all something Inuyasha planned…?
"Hello? Miss Kagome, did you hear me?"
"Huh?" She was snapped out of her thoughts by Miroku's voice.
Miroku heaved a sigh as if he were talking to a doorknob. "I asked if Inuyasha was going to consider letting you go home."
"…" No… he had not mentioned anything like that. He had promised he was going to protect her, but if he really wanted to protect her from getting hurt he should let her go home! Inuyasha was the one hurting her! He was the one not letting her see Souta! She crawled up and screamed, "He's the one!"
Miroku and Sango both stared on with confused looks washed onto their faces. She walked up to her friend and placed a hand lightly on her shoulder. "Kagome, 'He's the one!'? What are you talking about? You didn't answer Miroku's question."
"I'll see you later." Kagome spun around immediately to head towards the door. There were a few more things she needed to discuss with him. "I have to go talk with Inuyasha."
Miroku muttered. "Miss Kagome is completely out of it."
"Kagome, wait!" Sango's call managed to reach her ears. "Inuyasha's not going to be in his room now. He's helping to prepare our celebration feast tonight on deck and he's busy. You should talk to him when we go up for dinner."
Miroku quickly nudged her in the waist.
"Ow! Miroku, what was that for?" Sango shot her a second look. "Oh, right. Kagome, on second thought, don't. What about you talk to him AFTER the banquet? I'm sure he'll be too drunk to know what he's doing and all during…"
"Alright. So I'll talk to him at dinnertime. Bye Miroku! Bye Sango!"
"Wait, Kagome - !" Before Sango had time to prevent Kagome from escaping, she was only a puff of smoke left behind in the hallway.
"Brat, tell me again what you just said!"
Shippou twitched and set back to pointing at the detailed map he had sketched over the past few days. "Listen, Inuyasha. Don't be so impatient. I said that I have mapped out some possible locations of the Shikon no Tama, and that after visiting a majority of them…"
"We can't find them. Anywhere." Inuyasha filled in with a scowl.
The child reached for another book. "And with your odd sense of smell, you're positive you can find it?"
The captain scoffed and pushed some books out of the way. "Of course! I haven't smelt it on any island. No trace whatsoever. Maybe you're just being a brat and you've done something wrong."
Shippou glared at Inuyasha sharply. "I don't make mistakes. These are only indications, not pinpoints. We have to follow a lead but up until now there are none. Either your nose is screwing up, or somebody else has gotten to the Shikon no tama first."
"Someone else?" The captain glared at the small kid with disgust. "Look, either you find the tama soon, or we can just drop you off where we found you." He knew he was lying now, but if they didn't find the loot soon everyone was bound to get rowdy and upset.
For the first time ever Inuyasha regretted lecturing Shippou because as soon as the words escaped his mouth, the small boy turned his head away and began to shake. 'Shit…why's everyone crying on me today?"
"Shippou, you know I'm just messing…"
"SHUT UP!!!" Inuyasha jumped back a foot at the loud scream that emitted from the boy's mouth. This was also a first. Shippou's face was scrunched up, and although there were no tears he looked like someone had just slapped him.
Shippou pushed his pile of books onto the floor with a crash. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH! I'm just a kid, Inuyasha! You work me like I'm a slave and I can't take this anymore!"
Inuyasha sighed bitterly. "I don't treat you like a slave. I treat you like one of my crew – with respect."
"No. No you don't. You yell at me to do stuff in deadlines I can't make, and even after I spend hours working on these stupid maps there's not even a 'thank you'. I'm still a kid; I deserve to have time to play." He stood tall, or as tall as he possibly could on the wooden chair.
Inuyasha could feel a vein popping in his forehead. "None of us have time to play! You know why you're here! Now you want to play games?"
"I…" Shippou opened his mouth to speak but held his tongue. "You're even more immature than me, Inuyasha. Just forget it."
With that he hopped off the chair and stuttered towards the door and in seconds was gone out of his sight. The captain felt a bubbling anger inside and made a tight fist with his right hand. How dare the brat speak to him like that! Who did he think he was?
Trying to calm himself down, Inuyasha grabbed his forehead tightly and cursed. Nothing had gone right since their departure from that screwed up island with messed up mornings and vicious youkai. "Shippou hates me…my crew are all wimps…"
That reminded him. Those five men were the ones that fled the instant the hideous youkai's shadow towered over them. He himself had panicked, obviously, but he remembered perfectly well how his crew had just screamed like pansies before scampering off somewhere into the woods.
With sissies like that, they'd never win another battle. And what if they ran into him…?
Inuyasha shook his head free of those thoughts and followed out the way Shippou had come, another thought on his scrambled mind. 'I'm going to take care of those guys right now…'
Kagome smiled to herself and clapped her hands together. After starving herself for days she was now staring at tables filled with different assortments of food. While the amount was limited for each person, it was still more than they usually got.
She stared on as the other pirates began shoving food in their faces like it was nothing, and using only their hands to scoop the food, or occasionally stabbing a piece with their knife and then chewing on it with their mouths open.
She didn't like it, but there was really no other choice.
Kagome scurried over to a section and noticed most of the crew members were ignoring her, so she went on by herself and scooped some tuna with her hand, and forgetting the slushy feeling as she placed some on her tongue.
"So…good…" The woman mumbled to herself and began to shadow the others, grabbing handfuls and shoving it forcefully into her mouth. Her stomach was still growling, and she would have done anything to fill that hole.
"Way to go!"
She glanced up and saw two pirates from the other night, the ones that had escaped in battle and talked with her. They were grinning at her and one went forwards to slap her on the back. "That's it! You're catching on!"
"Really?" She replied weakly, surprised anyone was talking to her in front of the others. "That's because I'm so hungry."
One chubby brute laughed heartedly and added, "I've never seen a woman eat like such an animal!"
"Excuse me?" Kagome gasped and dropped the food in her hands. "You're calling me an animal?"
The other skinny moustached man grinned. "He's just kidding with you, Madame. It's a fine thing. You have to admit it being around all these men all the time can cause these bad manners to wash onto you."
A few other guys joined in on the taunting. She was suddenly embarrassed, but somewhat pleased. Finally people were talking to her without insulting her. "But this tuna is really good…I can't seem to help myself."
This time more people joined in on the laughter and the chubby man grinned. "Tuna? Are you mad? That's dolphin meat you're eating right there!"
"Erk - " Kagome choked on her food and started hacking up bits and pieces out of her mouth. She flew into a coughing fit. "Why didn't anyone tell me?"
Everyone was too busy cackling and pointing at the lump she had spat out, and she choked again when someone else slapped her on the back. Kagome soon started grinning and laughing at herself.
"You're great." One man mentioned as he wiped a tear from too much laughter.
The others just agreed and again began digging into their food, which Kagome was now keeping away from. Dolphin meat wasn't exactly to her taste…
"Attention!"
Everyone's head spun out of their grub to stare at the newly arrived figure: Hiten. He was standing above the stairs with his long braid flying in the wind. "I'm glad everyone is enjoying our feast tonight. But our captain has a message and I urge you all to get your face out of the food and listen to him."
Kagome watched as Inuyasha came out from his room, a serious expression on his face. He did not look her way, but it was strange thinking that only hours ago she was in his warm embrace and running her fingers through his perfect hair… she was probably turning red from all these thoughts…
He grabbed the railing and cleared his throat. "Tonight I would like to announce to you all that I am very pleased that all of us made it aboard safely and without hassle. The island we encountered seemed to be an unexplainable one and it was most likely a death trap. Congratulations."
Cheers rang throughout the crowd.
She wondered why the captain's face all of a sudden turned stiffer. "Also, I would also like to inform you all that there are traitors aboard the ship. In fact, I would like to call them cowards and wusses, scum!"
His face seemed very upset now, and she felt an uncomfortable gut feeling stirring. Was he going to…?
"Can I get those men to step forward and admit their pathetic selves to the rest of the crew?" He screamed, waving his hand into the crowd. Everyone remained silent now despite their eagerness to talk to one another. Kagome included. "I know who you are! Step forward now or your punishments will be worsened!"
She swallowed loudly at the captain's shout and watched desperately as the men she was conversing happily with before looked at each other and stepped in front of the crowd. All five of them.
What was Inuyasha intending to do to them? He wouldn't! They were kind men! A punishment just because they ran away from a youkai? She suddenly remembered her conversation with the men earlier.
'It's not right for a lady to hear, but believe me; you'll see it when it happens. And it's probably going to happen to us soon.'
She cringed and looked up at the captain's face. It was cold, and harsh, and she suddenly felt like he was the man she had feared the first day she arrived. She could feel no closer to him now.
She spun around to look for anyone to stop what was about to occur, but when her gaze landed on Sango and Miroku, she gasped when they weren't doing a thing. When the woman peered over, Kagome sent her a worried look.
Sango seemed to understand what was going on in her mind because she shook her head silently. In other words, they were all going to stay out of this.
Inuyasha spoke unkindly as he stared down at the five men with their heads lowered below him, the others looking on with sympathy. "I hope you understand what you have shown on the battlefield both to me and your comrades. It was nothing but an act of cowardice, and as pirates, we will not tolerate such behaviour."
Kagome noticed the petrified look on the chubby man's face. His colourful cheeks were now a pale white and his smile was nowhere to be seen. "No…"
"Do you have anything to say in your defence?"
Suddenly, the skinny man with the moustache raised his head. "No, captain. We were cowards. We deserve punishment for our lack of loyalty to you." It may have been only Kagome, but she could clearly hear the disgust in his voice.
The captain remained quiet. "Do any of you have anything else to say?"
No one replied. Inuyasha took that as a sign of acceptance, and he scanned the stunned crowd before calling out, "Sango! Get the woman out of here! She will not witness this."
Who was this man talking? Immediately, every head turned to acknowledge her. Kagome breathed calmly and stared as Sango began making her way over. "Wait! I don't want to go! Inuyasha!"
"Be quiet, Kagome." He stated loudly enough for everyone to hear, "just go."
This flared her temper. How dare he treat her one way one second and then treat her like she was just a little girl? "No." She pushed Sango away, who just stared with shock on her face. "I'm not going anywhere."
Just then, Inuyasha gave her a frustrated look and gripped the rail tighter. "You'll do what I tell you, Kagome, now go."
She pushed forwards through the crowd and pointed at the man she had been hugging earlier, "No! I don't have to listen to you!"
The crowd shushed again to watch the insane woman tussle with the captain.
Inuyasha sighed with frustration and made his way down the stairs, stalling as he stepped down each step. "Don't do this now, Kagome." He warned, venom obvious in his voice.
She continued to walk forwards until she was blocking the men who were awaiting a punishment, the men who were so pleasant with her just minutes ago. Kagome held out her arms in front of them and challenged him. She tried to not be intimidated by his glare. "Inu – Inuyasha… I'm not going to let you hurt them."
"Oh?" He looked more amused than intimidated. "And why would you do something like that, Kagome? I thought you hated pirates. Don't stand up for these useless beings."
She snapped. "They're not worthless. At first I hated them but I realised after the island that they're funny and hard-working people. If you want to hit them, you can hit me first."
"Get out of the way, missus!" One hissed at her from behind. "Don't get in the way of him!"
She ignored them, not realising what she was setting herself up for. Kagome didn't even bother to turn her head because she kept her look fiercely on the captain. She was disgusted with his change in emotions, one instant he was protective and the next a psycho.
Inuyasha stared at her as if she was crazy. "I won't repeat myself, Kagome. Step aside."
"No…" She gulped and tried to beg him with her frightened eyes. He must have understood what she was trying to ask from him, but he remained his stranger self.
He paced forwards until his mouth was inches away from her face before pausing. Inuyasha was going to get this woman out of the way if it killed him.
AN: Next chapter: "Pirates, Pubs, and Prostitutes!" Hmm…I wonder what that could mean. Stay tuned!
Thanks again to my lovely reviewers! Your comments always cheer me up.
