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reki-sama: Bankotsu is with Jakotsu...but not that big of a relationship yaoi wise, sorry. Kagome will come later in the story, but I dont want to spoil anything.

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Jakotsu took a long swig of the rum, finishing off the bottle. Sango just shook her head and laughed. "Yer a nut." She said, taking a drink.

"No...I'm not a nut...I'm a animal."

"An animal." Sango corrected him, making Jakotsu smirk at her...maybe she wasn't so bad after all...and she sort of reminded him of someone...himself.

"Y'know...out of all the wenches I've ever encountered...you're the one who I've like the most."

"Is that a good thing, or bad?" Sango said, pushing the cork back in the rum bottle. Jakotsu shrugged and then smiled at her.

"For you, it's good."

Sango chuckled, shaking her head. Then, Jakotsu spoke up again. "Sango...tell me about you."

She looked at him, who looked ready like he was in for a long story. "Well, I have a younger brother who just turned twelve...I, me-self am seventeen...wait a minute...how old are you...? You couldn't be older than thirty..."

Jakotsu smiled and begun to laugh gently. "M' nineteen."

Sango's eyes grew wide and she looked very ashamed as her cheeks flushed red. "Oh...sorry." Jakotsu laughed again and then tossed the empty bottle of rum off the ship into the water. He shrugged as if saying 'I forgive you.' Sango began her story again. "Well, I have a father too, but no mother...she died giving birth to my brother...but I never really did know her so it didn't hurt me too bad...an' then our father taught us to fight...but then he passed away only a year ago."

Jakotsu only stayed quiet for a minute until he realized something... "Hey, where is yer brother?"

"I don't know...you have any siblings?"

"I did."

"What do you mean you 'did'?" Sango asked, scooting closer to him. The other pirate took a minute until he finally spoke.

"I had a little brother and a mother before...my father was never there...I don't think I even saw him. Well, one day...pirates with a black ship ran into our town and raided all over. I tied to protect my mother and brother, but they were both killed in the fire. I managed to get out of our house...It was only four years ago too...when I was fifteen. That's when I got these three scars." He said, pointing to where he was shot.

"An' ever since I became a pirate, ignoring my father's wishes for me to become a sea man as me mother told me...an' then I met Bankotsu. An' we've been searchin' for that black ship too."

"Do you know what the pirates which raided your town were named?"

"They called themselves Naraku and Sesshomaru...I know for a fact that Sesshomaru is the Commodore's older brother."

"Some history, eh?"

"Yeah."

Bankotsu walked over to the two and sat in between them. "I take it ye two are now friends?" He asked, looking back and forth from them. Sango and Jakotsu stared at each other very strangely and then back to Bankotsu at the same time.

"I guess." Sango said, looking to Jakotsu who just looked surprised. He shrugged as if he agreed.

"Well, that's good." Bankotsu said, itching his stubbled cheek. Sango nodded in agreement and smiled. "I truly wonder where our crew is..."


"Renkotsu?"

"What?"

"How long are we goin' ta wait?"

"For Captain and Jakotsu? If they don't get here in the next day, we're leaving them, Ginkotsu." The first mate turned to face his favorite pirate friend. Renkotsu wore a gruff feathered large hat and long pants, boots, a wrinkled shirt and a trench coat over that. He was the educated pirate of the Ring of Fire. Ginkotsu, on the other hand had a horrible accident when he was younger and parts of his body like an arm and legs had to be replaced with metal and wood.

"Yes, Renkotsu."


"Captain! Where are we goin'?" a little green man about the size of a midget ran up the steps of the ship to his comrade. A younger man stood at the wheel of the ship, letting his long black wavy hair blow in the wind and sea spray. It was tangled at the ends and some beads of red and purple were woven into his hair. He wore half of his hair tied in a dirty rotting bandana and another sash that looked the same was tied around his waist.

The Captain looked back to the little man. "Jaken, you asked me that an hour ago...our course isn't changing."

Jaken sighed deeply and gave up. "But, what about the children and women in the port?" The captain set his crimson eyes on the small man and glared. Jaken scooted back a bit, until he came in impact with a leg. He suddenly looked up and saw the first mate, Sesshomaru.

"Kill the women...except one...take that bitch who gave me this!" He opened up his shirt to reveal a huge scar right on his heart. Jaken, hissed in sympathy and felt his own chest. Sesshomaru just stared at the deep scar.

"Naraku, are you speaking of Kikyo?" The silver haired pirate's face was pale and his golden eyes stood out against his skin. His blue crescent moon and red streaks on his face were tattooed along with some more red streaks on his arms. He wore a vest over his shirt and a large belt with a sash tied around his neck. He also had two swords sticking out of his belt loops.

Naraku turned around to face the bow again and sighed deeply. "That woman deserves to burn in hell."

Sesshomaru smirked and shook his head. "Whatever you say."


Bankotsu was nearing the end of telling a story to his two friends who sat on the deck, which were now considered his crew. "An' that's how I got this." He pointed to his tattoo on his arm in the black shape of two swords crossed and a pistol shooting through the gap. "I was so proud of it."

"Cause yer name means barbarian?" Jakotsu asked, leaning forward to show off his tattoo in the shape of the serpent. "Mine's so much cooler."

Bankotsu smirked at his mate and then looked to Sango. "Let's see yours."

"Mine?"

"No, your cousin."

Sango smirked at the captain and rolled up her right sleeve. Above her pirate brand, a new greenish tattoo was shaped skull and rose laid by each other. "My name means 'coral' but I don't think that would have worked...how long have you two been pirates?"

"Fifteen." Jakotsu answered, and then looked to Bankotsu who raised his hand as he spoke.

"Nine. Me father was a pirate...but he and my crew were killed. I was the only survivor."


Inuyasha stood at the bow of his ship, looking to the horizon where the sun began to set against the water. "Miroku, we need to go faster." He announced to his crew.

Miroku, the first mate, or commander nodded to his leader and then shouted to the rest of the crew the order. Inuyasha was becoming impatient and Miroku was very worried about his wife, Sango.

"Where are you, Sango?" He asked, scanning the water for any ships.


It was dark and the Sea Eagle was barely visible against the star filled sky. Sango leaned against the side of the ship, looking into the water. "Miroku..." She whispered his name, letting her words be taken away into the slight breeze. Sango shivered and shook her head, letting her hair fall out of a loose ponytail.

The first mate now stood behind her quickly taking off a large trench coat which he also pilfered. "Why am I even thinking this...?" He muttered to himself, and then draped the coat over Sango's shoulders. She flinched and then turned to face Jakotsu, also leaning against the rail and looking into the ocean.

"Oh, um...thanks." She said, looking back to the sea. Jakotsu glared at her as he slightly shivered. Only under the coat he wore a simple light dirty and bloody shirt with a few holes in it. Sango saw no reaction from him except he looking back to the water.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" He asked her, seeing a few silverfish swim by in the glow of the moon. Sango turned to him and then adjusted the coat on her shoulders, nodding.

"It is...makes me think of swimming jewelry for rich women."

"You mean treasure? Not all treasure is silver and gold, Sango...many things can be treasure..." He stopped to look back at the silverfish, "My treasure is Bankotsu."

"An' mine is Miroku."


how'd it go? I thought this chapter was the best of all of them...i know it's confusing, but I will have an idea for everything...

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