Rain: Hey man it's raining cats and dogs!

Snow & Sesshoumaru: Kitsune That was not funny!

Rain: I thought it was…

Cegali: I think your funny looking but I don't laugh.

Rain: That wasn't nice.

Cegali: I'm not paid to be nice.

Sesshoumaru: When have you been paid?

Cegali: See my point? Less reason to be nice.

Snow: Hey you have two not one but two very attractive men at your beck and call. That is payment in itself!

Duo: She is right …

Orphen: Yeah she does have a point I guess.

Cegali: Who's side are you two on!

Krad: As much as I'd love to sit and watch this little lovers spat I would like to get started more…

Rain: Yeah yeah man you angels complain a lot for cripes sake! Snow go on.

Snow: I don't wanna!

Rain: Then make Dark do it…

Zel: Dark! Where?

Dark: Rain doesn't own anything and if she did God help you Kurama!

Chapter VIII Nobodies Fault but mine

Rain stared out into the massive deep blue , finding a simple pleasure in the smell of salt on the wind and the gentle breeze that never failed to embrace her. The sea was a slow and steady lover. Rain just couldn't say no.

"Cap there's a ship!" Gosan called out from the crows nest.

"From where does it hale?"

"Looks like a British vessel."

A wicked grin crept to Rain's lips as she yelled the order to raise the flag. This would be fun… a demon who hangs around with humans? How interesting.

Oh, nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine, yeah
Trying to save my soul in line
Oh, it's nobody's fault but mine

"I can already smell the human's fear…" Mattra smirked

" Yes this is gonna be fun!" Shin replied unsheathing his sword.

The pirates boarded the ship quietly surrounding the gathered mass of humans with deadly speed.

"Alright you dogs listen up!" Rain yelled "I am the pirate Captain Rain Gunji and this… Well this is what most would call a robbery. Open your purses and kindly hand over any of your valuables. If you do not corporate I swear you'll end up at the bottom of Davie Jones locker!"

"M'lady you have no right to do this to us! We have done nothing to you!" a bearded man dared to raise his voice to her.

'This guy has got to be the biggest idiot ever!' Rain thought with a smirk.

"I'm a pirate! You dumb-ass!" She smirked and flung a fireball to the foolish mortal.

"Anyone else want to be a hero?" Rain asked as the man burned to death. There was a general hush that washed over the ship once they realized. This woman means business! Rain could smell the fear when the humans looked her in the eyes, Rain had become a living legend in the past two centuries a sort of Boogie-man-er-woman and found she loved it.

Devil he told me to roll
The devil he told me to roll
How to roll the line tonight
Nobody's fault but mine

"Alright boys lets get to work!" she barked walking down stairs to the last door on the right. She jiggled the doorknob. It was locked ha ha now that's a good one! Like any lock could stand agents a kitsune. She melted it and silently snuck in.

" Well smack my face and call me Genta! I do believe it's Snow." Rain smarted off.

"Who are you!" some random voice called out

"Whoa?" Rain meeped kind of freaked out and definitely confused, there was no where for the voice to come from seeing as the only other occupant in the room was the neko and well she was asleep.

"Down here demon!" came the voice

Rain looked around still looking for it kind of lost.

"The sake bottle!" whent the voice again this time aggravated.

"Whoa! You're a talking' sake bottle!" Rain marveled and poked at it.

"I've noticed." it snapped.

"Well if you'll excuse me." she said starting to carefully rummage through the cat's belongings. She was a pack rat.

"What are you doing?" Mr. Sake bottle nearly yelled.

"I'm a pirate! What do you think I'm doing?"

"What if I decide to wake her up?"

"Oh no you don't!" Rain grabbed the old bottle.

"What are ya gonna do? Kill me? Too late for that bub."

"Why you disrespectful little!" Rain clanged it in her fist making fire heat it up.

"Ouch ok ok I wont tell!" It piped in pain.

"Good now that we understand each other, If I hear you threw a rat on me I'll come find you and I promise it will hurt!" she threatened pocketing a comb and walking out .

"Man that one is scary!" Mr. Sake whined.

When Rain was done pillaging the other rooms she returned to the surface her men lugging large chest, sakes of jewels, statues, paintings, expensive jackets, and lots of barrels of rum, even the rings out of lady's ears. They took everything worth anything not taking any lip from protesters , smacking them around when they opened there yaps. The captain of the vessel ran at Rain with a small dagger, Rain laughed, evaded it and smacked it out of his hand.

"Now Now we wouldn't want to paint this little boat red would we?" Rain laughed at the man, stealing the huge black hat with red and white feathers he wore.

"I'll be taking this." She told him putting it on and leaping to the Ocean Rose which was what she named her ship.

Later when her crew finished loading the booty (Ha Ha pirates!) They set off and set sail for a missed shore of Japan.

Somebody show me the gun
Somebody show me the ding dong ding dong
I will get down rolling tonight
Oh, it's nobody's fault but mine

"Mattra assemble the men. I… have an announcement." She ordered sadly.

"Uh ok Cap … I'll go get em'." He replied wandering what the hell was wrong.

Rain now stood in front of all of them, all sixteen cut throat pirates in her crew. All of them were demons , all of them her close friends, the bound she built with them was now two hundred years old and strong like family… She would miss them all.

"My friends I have grown tired of this life. I have no desire to live out the rest of my days and die being a pirate, and wish to retire. So I'm going back to the west lands back home, perhaps I'll start a bar or continue being a solder I don't know. But what I do know is I'm too damn bored to hang out here!" Rain told them in angst. With that she got her duffle bag and all the treasure that was hers and put them on a mound of earth she had ready. Before she left she stopped by her first mate and the other more important crew members.

"You guys take care of this old girl for me. I'll want 'er back one day, and take care of each other. See ya around one day!" with that she was gone…

That monkey on my back
The m-m-m-m-monkey on my back, back, back
Gonna change my ways tonight
Nobody's fault but mine

"Hello Rain… your rooms all there for ya." Jakken mumbled angrily.

"Thank you toad." hot damn she missed this place, everything about this place. She even missed him. (It's sad I know) Wait! Rewind! Her room… that meant her bed! A comfortable mattress and cleanness oh this was so great! She took off running right past Cegali, Sosuke and his new mate in a blur without so much as a hello to her room and pounced on the large queen sized bed. It felt so good to have it back! Her back would love her again!

To bad Yoko wasn't here to share it…

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Rain: I'm riding the storm out!

Snow: So am I …

Zel: Yep living near Houston sucks sometimes.

Krad: I will keep you safe!

Zel: Remember folks have your pets spade and neutered!

Snow and Sesshoumaru: Shut up!

Rain: Clam down and eat a brownie! You know the routine

Cegali: Why do I hang around these people?

Rain: You love us!

Cegali: Yeah keep telling yourself that shortie!