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You know what's funny? I thought i was supposed to go back to school today but I don't have to be back until tomarrow!!! And I got up early and got dressed for no reason!!

Chapter 16: Reached Only By Living Ship

"Here." Miroku thrust a glass of water into Kikyo's shaking hands.

"I'm sorry." she said again. Inuyasha was glaring at her from his seat waiting impatiently for his leg to finish healing.

"What did you do, Kikyo?" he asked again his voice still dark and cold.

"I didn't mean it." she started crying again. "I just...just...wanted to impress him." she finished quietly.

"I'm pretty sure you managed that." Inuyasha growled. "Now tell me what happened."

"His name is Naraku. He came over to my house a little while after you left, maybe a year or so." she wiped a tear off her face. "He...was....he was so charming. I thought he really loved me. So, after a while, I told him what I was. He seemed to love me just that much more. He was really understanding of what I was going through."

"I was understanding of what you were going through, Kikyo." Inuyasha said. "And I wasn't planning on kidnapping you."

"Inuyasha you don't understand!" Kikyo shook her head. "I never wanted to give up my powers. That was my great great grandfathers idea. I wanted to know how to sing! And if my parents had their way, I wouldn't even know I was a Singer at all. You see, I'm a special type of Singer, and my parents had to tell me, they had no choice. I'm a...what's called a Guardian."

"Your a what?" Inyasha growled and slammed his fist on the chair in frustration.

"You know what that is?" Kikyo asked.

"Kagome is a Guardian. But unlike you, she can use her powers."

Kikyo gasped. "That's what he wanted. A fully trained Guardian. How could you give him..."

"Kikyo your in no position to be threatening me. Get on with your story!"

Kikyo nodded getting quiet again. The entire crew had gathered around her and were looking at her with unfriendly eyes. No one took away one of their own, and as far as they were concerned, Kikyo had helped in Kagome's kidnapping.

"Well, I...I told him what I was and he took me abord his ship one day. He said he just wanted to show it to me. But when I got on board he had his men capture me and then we sailed out to the Dead Plains. But when we got there, there was grass growing, and the earth was healed. Naraku was so mad. He ran into the village and destroyed it looking for answers and found out that a silver haired captain had sailed out not long after returning from the forest where the Dead Plain was. So we went looking for you."

Kikyo sniffed and curled tighter into her ball of misery. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen Inuyasha."

"Don't you dare call me that." Inuyasha said evily. "That's Captain Silver to you."

Kikyo gasped at the formality. "There was a time when you loved me. What happened to those feelings?"

"I did exactly what you asked me to do with them." He leaned forward and sneered, "I forgot about them."

He leaned back and looked at her as if she was scum. "Take her down to teh cargo hold."

"What!?" Kikyo looked around frightened as two men of the crew came forward and lifted her easily. "Your throwing me into the brig?"

"Never said that." Inuyasha smirked. "I'm a pirate captain, you'll only be in the way up here. And what gets in my way, I throw off my ship."

Kikyo bowed her head and started crying as they bore her away and she whispered. "He's going to kill her."

"What!?" Inuyasha said angerily.

"I wanted to impress him, so I lied in my telling of the riddle. I said that a Singer had to be sacrificed to get the jewel. A fully trained Singer."

Kagome screamed as another lash hit her already bleeding back.

"Do you feel like telling me where now?" Naraku asked calmly as she kneeled bleeding and crying before him.

"I don't know where." she said again her voice broken up and cracked.

He nodded to the whipper and her brought the whip down on her back again, and again, and again.

"How about now, did we jog your memory?"

"I....I don..."

He nodded and the whip was brought down again.

They had been there for so long and Kagome just couldn't take anymore. She had been beaten and whipped into an inch of her life and she just couldn't hold the information in any longer.

"It's on an island, off of Mona Ca...Callaya."

"Are you sure?" Naraku asked and the whip came down on her back again.

"Yes!! Yes! It's there I swear!"

Naraku kneeled down and grabbed her chin and forced her to look at him. He smiled as if they were best friends. "Good. If I find your lying to me, a whip sting will seem like heaven to what I'll do to you."

The men dropped her and they all left her there, bleeding into the darkened pitch stained wood of the brig of his ship.

Kagome cried to herself before she was able to start to mumble the spell of healing in a broken tear filled voice.

She was in such pain and she had told him where the jewel was. And that was exactly what he wanted.

Flashback

"Hello." Naraku smiled at her as he walked into the brig followed by three men. Two of which grabbed her arms and pulled her up to her knees.

"My name is Naraku, was is yours?" Kagome had spit on his shoe. He had sighed and nodded to the man beside her who immediatly pulled back his fist and punched her in the face.

"Let's try that again, what is your name?"

"Kagome." she looked at him with hate filled eyes.

"Well, hello Kagome. See don't you feel better now that we know each other?" She had not responded. "I need you here Kagome because you have information Kikyo, alas, did not. You have been to the Dead Plains, so you know where Utopia is. Now since we're friends, maybe you'd like to tell me where it is."

"Go to hell!" Kagome snarled back. That's the only thing I'll tell you!"

Naraku nodded to the man behind her who brought down the whip for the first time making Kagome cry out.

"Let's try this again..."

Normal

She couldn't get his evil sneering face out of her head. The way he had looked at her as if she were nothing, brought her pain beyond her imagining, treated her like less than a person.

It was the first time she had ever experianced what a lot of Singers went through these days.

"Oi, wench." a big man came down and grabbed her. "Captain wants you up top. Says your supposed to Sing him to the island."

He dragged her up to the deck and threw her at Naraku's feet at the bow of the ship.

"Hello Kagome." he said happily. "Do you mind Singing a song for me?"

Kagome glared at him and sang up a wind to push his sails along.

"That's a good girl. Your finally learning where your place is."

And that's the rutine her life picked up. She would sing up a wind for him until she passed out. Then she would wake up back in her cell until some one came to check if she had woken up. Then they would take her back up top where she would Sing some more until she passed out again starting the circle over. She had been only given the water that was left in a dirty bucket but it was all she had. At one point some one had given her a crust of stale bread but she ate it greedily and that was the only food she got in the 2 week long journey.

"Land ahead!" the man in the crows nest yelled one day as Kagome Sang to the wind.

Naraku walked to the rail and waited to see what the man had already spotted from his higher vantage point. When he did he smiled and looked down at Kagome who had been proped against the railing. "It looks as if you didn't lie to me after all my dear."

Kagome wasted no energy on glaring at him, not when she was so close.

Naraku's eyes narrowed in hunger as he stared at the approaching land.

Suddenly something hit the ship causing it to jerk to the side making every one aboard fall.

"What the..." Naraku said but he didn't get to finish because something hit on the other side tossing every one around some more.

"What's going on here!" Naraku demanded.

"Captain! They're waves, Captain!" the man in the crows nest yelled before another hit flinging him out and into the sea.

"Heto no kydo che loringana." Kagome said calmly. "Reached only by living ship." she looked at Naraku whose eyes filled with hate. "Living ships, whose hull is 3 times as strong as yours, are the only ones who can sail these waters." A huge crash followed the next wave. "Yours will only sink to the bottom."

Naraku growled as some one yelled out. "We're taking on water Captain!"

"More waves are coming, Captain!"

"What do we do, Captain?"

Naraku back handed Kagome sending her sprawling. "Abandon ship!" he yelled out as his men started jumping out.

"You bitch." He picked her up by her throat. then he threw her, just tossed her with all his strength into the sea.

By the time Kagome hit the water she ahd already passed out again.

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