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Chapter 10: Loringana

Kagome was placed in Inuyasha's bed until he could wake her up so he could get some answers. Everyone had tried unsuccessfully to wake her but she was just too tired.

So the crew manned their new ship and marveled at Kagome's power to restore their ship to new.

Inuyasha was stunned by how much had changed, but it was still obviously his ship. But what had she done to it?

She's a singer.

That one thing kept running through his mind as he worked throughout the day. The one thing that had seperated her and Kikyo was no longer , the difference was that Kagome could obviously use her powers.

But why had she hidden it?

Then he thought of that family and he knew why. She had tried to escape that same fate. She couldn't know how he felt about Singers because he had never told her. Now her statement that she trusted him made sense.

But what the hell had she done to his ship?!

The steering was easier no matter how hard the waves became during the day, it seemed it ran by his thought rather than by his hands. What had she done?

He found out around midnight when he walked into his room to check up on her.

She was still sleeping but when he stopped by her bed she stirred.

"Captain?" He voice was slurred and slow and he realised she was still tired.

But he didn't much care. "What the hell did you do?" He asked angerily. No one messed with his ship without his permission.

"Nothing." She answered.

"What did you do to my ship?" He demanded again. Suddenly he felt as if some one was trying to talk to him but he didn't hear anyone.

"I did nothing." Her eyes opened most of the way and she tried to focus on him through fuzzy tired eyes.

"Then what happened?"

"It was him."

"Him?"

"The father from the family." She smiled weakly at him. "Congratulations captain you now own the only loringana in the world.

Inuyasha looked at her blankly. "Lori-whaty?"

"Loringana. It means living ship."

"Explain." Inuyasha said more calmly.

"He offered himself to place his soul inside your ship."

"What?!"

Kagome nodded. "Even in the days long ago when Singers weren't tortured and abused, there weren't many loringana. They were very rare and one has not been seen in over 300 years."

She looked at the ceiling. "When a Singer felt that a ship and their Captain were worthy, and once they died, another Singer could sing the song for them to place their soul in the wood of the ship. Your ship is alive right now, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha looked at the walls of his farmiliar room as if he had never seen them before and he once again got the feeling like some one he couldn't hear was trying to talk to him.

"I was merely the conduit for the magic he weaved. No matter, it was still...tiring." she blinked a few times as if to move the fuzz out of her vision. "Your ship is now his body and is as much alive as his other one was. It eats like any other living thing. Those barnacles that attach to the bottom of your ship are its meal."

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. For that alone that lori...loren...thing was useful. Those barnacles could eat through the wood of a ship if left alone and were hell to get rid of.

"They were most prized for their ability to heal though."

"What?" was there to be no end to the shocks tonight?

"The wood is their body and if the ship sinks they die, but it's very hard to get a ship to do so. The second the wood it broken, it will start healing again. At the bottom the wound, for it is a wound, will heal more quickly but takes longer for it to be as strong as normal."

Damn if that was true Inuyasha was damned lucky to have one of these.

"It cannot control things like the cannon, or things that arn't apart of the ship, but the sails will never need replacing, the rope and wood will never wear down, and the ship will in fact grow stronger as it lives on." She looked back at him and smiled knowingly as Inuyasha was silenced with shock.

"What...What's his name?" He was finally able to studer out.

"Hanyou no Siucay." she answered promptly.

"No, I mean the ships name."

"Hanyou no Siucay." she repeated. "The ship still has the same name, just now has a new soul." Her eyes started to flutter close. "You are still it's captain and if you listen, he will speak to you."

"Listen?"

"Not with your ears, but your mind." she clarified her speak slurring again as she slipped back into sleep.

Inuyasha was reaching to wake her up when a small, very faint voice at the back of his mind spoke up.

"Captain?"

He froze at the unrecognizable voice. He knew that he had not heard that, he had felt that in his mind.

"What..."

"Allow her to rest, Captain." the voice was getting stronger and Inuyasha had a flash of the man from the other ship.

"Aye, it is I. Call me Han, as my full name is so long."

"Han?" Inuyasha looked at the floors and wall but they looked the same to him.

"She needs rest." he repeated bringing Inuyasha's attention back to Kagome. "The service she performed for my family was enough to knock out a fully trained and well practiced Singer. But she also helped me into my new body. Allow her rest and she will explain all when she wakes up."

Inuayasha nodded in agreement then turned his attention to Han. "Can everyone hear you?"

"Just you and her."

"Kagome?"

"Aye."

"Why did you do this for me?" Inuyasha asked confused. Kagome had said Singer's only did this for captains they found worthy, and Han had never known him.

"Not for you. For her. Her soul is good and if she is with you, than you must be as well."

"She isn't exactly with me by choice, and I didn't know she was a Singer until yesterday." Inuyasha clarified.

He had a feeling that the ship was laughing. "It is too late to change now. Besides, your soul is good as well. I can feel it as surely as I feel my own."

Inuyasha kept looking around feeling it was rude to speak to someone without looking at their face.

"I have no face you would recognize anymore." The ship answered his thoughts. "Just speak and I will listen. Now if you will excuse me, I am still living and the magic took its toll on me as well. I am not as yet fully rested."

Then the presence was gone and Inuyasha knew he was alone.

He looked at Kagome again and thought of the gift she had given him, not only of the lori-thingy, but of showing him her true nature. He was now one of the few captains to have a Singer, and the only pirate captain to have one.

"Damned lucky." He said before walking out to leave her to her sleep.

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