The Cursed Cruise! Muwahahahahahaha!
"So... who should we choose as our chaperone?" Rin asked hyperly. It was only two days until the cruise trip and she was very excited about it. This, in turn, had gotten her very hyper. It annoyed Sesshomaru to no end since they had to work together to decide which teacher they would pick as a chaperone and how the rooms were going to be sorted out. They had gotten an exclusive map that only they would read in order to plan out the cruise trip. Sesshomaru rolled his eyes as he forced himself to ask the dreaded question.
"I don't know, who do you want to be our chaperone?" he said in an even tone.
"Hmmmm..." she said, pretending to think hard, though both of them knew perfectly well who she was going to choose, "I dunno... I would have to say I would choose Artemis because of the help she has given us, you know, like, helping us develop our powers!" she said brightly, hoping that she had said the right thing to convince Sesshomaru. Apparently, he was not. He raised an eyebrow in amusement.
"Why do you want her to be our chaperone? I mean, what has she ever done to US? Sure, she helped all of us a bit, but we all switched souls in the process! Do you want that to happen again at the cruise...? Or, she could do even worse!" he said in a rather harsh tone, he shuddered mentally at the thought of them going on another one of Artemis' little 'plannings.' Rin was thinking the same thing. But she still thought that Artemis was the best choice.
"Okay fine, I am okay with the fact that you don't want Artemis to be our chaperone, so then, do you know any teacher better...?" Rin countered mockingly. Sesshomaru thought for a moment. Definitely not their principle, too boring; P.E. teacher, too strict; music, art, and dance teacher was too old; math teacher would not be there; and the science teacher easily got seasick. No one that was able to go was as fun or lenient as Artemis. Sesshomaru slightly shook his head in defeat. Rin cheered happily, taking about ten percent of her hyperness out, then she sat back down again.
"Okay, so now that we've got Artemis as our chaperone, (Rin flashed her eyes at Sesshomaru, daring him to disagree) how are we going to sort everyone in their rooms...?" Rin asked, wondering how on earth they would sort this out. He rolled his eyes; obviously, this girl was not exactly what one would call bright.
"Is it not obvious, human...? (he said with taunting eyes that she glared right back at) You get the girls, which includes our chaperone, and I will do the boys. Is that clear...? (He flashed his amber eyes at her midnight black ones, also daring for her to disagree)" he said in a calm tone while he handed her a copy of the deck map. The cruise ship was HUGE! It had two floors, a top one where the captain was, and a bottom one for the passengers. There were nine rooms for the seventeen people that were going to live on the ship. There was also one storage room. Rin gaped as she looked at the ship and saw that on the top, it had a cafeteria, a swimming pool, and a lifeboat area, this was like a dream cruise, except this time, she had friends to come along with her. Ah, yes, friends. She smiled in anticipation at the cruise at she began to plan out the rooms. Happily and hyperly.
'Well, Artemis can have the spare room all to herself... I think I should share with Ayame... Kikyo can go with Kagura... those two are like peas in a pod... Kagome should go with Sango... and that leaves Kaede with Kanna! I KNOW theywillget along just great! After all, their sisters are great friends!' Rin happily thought as she scribbled names here and there.
Sesshomaru, on the other hand, was feeling particularly evil today, probably because of Rin's hyperness, so he assinged the rooms like this. It was a very... strange way... putting it lightly. He had a room to himself, Miroku went with Naraku, Hakudoshi with Koga, Shippo with Kohaku. Since he felt oh so evil today... he decided to surprise his worthless halfbreed brother once again. InuYasha would be screaming, no raging when he saw the rooms. He smirked at the thought of it.
Two days later, they are telling everyone their rooms and their roommates. They are also announcing who will be the chaperone.
"WHAT!" InuYasha screamed in anger as Miroku restrained him from killing Sesshomaru. "WHY DO I HAVE TO SLEEP IN THE STORAGE ROOM!" he screamed loudly. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow in amusement, this was quite fun after all.
"Shut up, InuYasha, at least you aren't paired with Naraku!" Miroku retorted angrily.
"Just which idiot in this school paired me with Koga!" Hakudoshi demanded, almost ripping up the map in his fury.
"A-hem! That idiot would be... me."Sesshomaru calmly stated. Hakudoshi turned even whiter (if that is possible), and his eyes widened at the thought. He ran off in fear of Sesshomaru. That demon could be really angry if he wanted to. And very terrifying in the process.
"Yahhhhh! I'm with Kagome!" Sango happily said as she went to give her friend a high-five.
"Yahhhhh! I'm with Sango!" Kagome cheered, giving Sango a low-five.
"What! I'm with a monk! That cannot be! I need poisonous air to breathe!" Naraku complained as Sesshomaru resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He had 'accidentally' forgotten about that little detail.
"Yipppee! I'm with Kagura!" Kikyo squealed happily as she lept ontop of her friend.
"Yah! I'm with Kikyo! Ugh! You're heavy, Kikyo! Get offa me!" Kagura said as she toppled under Kikyo's weight.
"Oh! Whoops, sorry, too hyper..." Kikyo said as Artemis entered.
"Why is SHE here?" demanded InuYasha, he did not trust her after she made them switch bodies.
"Duh! I'm here, because I was chosen as chaperone!" Artemis said happily. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Whish moron chose HER as the chaperone!" demanded InuYasha once more. All fingers pointed to Rin. She smiled sheepishly. InuYasha rolled his eyes; this cruise was cursed from the start!
"Okay! So... do you have all your luggage?" Artemis asked cheerfully (everyone nodded). "Do you know your rooms and your roommates?" (everyone nodded) "Hmmm... anyone want to switch rooms?" (InuYasha raised his hand, waving it wildly) "InuYasha, what is the problem with your room...?"
"Well, for starters, it's not a room! It's storage room! Secondly, Seshomaru has a room all to himself!"
"Well, we have to fix that! Oky-doky... lesse... I know! You can bunk with Sesshomaru!" she said, clapping her hands. She had reached a conclusion. She gave a wicked smile at the end for emphasis; a smile that meant: complain and I will throw you overboard. InuYasha's facial expression at that moment was a look that was priceless. It was a look of disbelief, fear, and shock. All mixed together. Hilairious. Artemis resisted the strong urge to break out in hysterics; he was too easily moved.
"Okay! So let's board the cruise ship!" she cheered happily as she went onboard, followed by everyone else. They looked at the deck in disbelief; there was no captain! That meant that they would have to steer the ship by themselves! Artemis frowned at their predicament. Then,she clapped her hands, seemingly reached a solution.
"Okay, I can be sure now that this is not a dream cruise or anything, this is called survival! Okay? (everyone nodded) So, we will have jobs assigned. This is very important, and everone will have to work together! Anyone caught not doing their job, will be thrown overboard, do you understand? I am dead serious! (Everyone gaped, so much for a vacation!) Okay, I'll be captain, so I'll steer this ship! Let's see... who can scream loudly? (everyone pointed to Shippo who smiled sheepishly) Okay, then! Shippo,you will be lookout! That means that you will look for land, big waves, storm clouds, sharks, you get the point, right? (Shippo nodded happily) Scream loudly if you hear anything! (he nodded again)" Artemis sighed, she had hoped for a break, oh well, she could always 'play' with everyone's emotions.
"Hmmm... who here is very smart...? (everyone pointed to Sesshomaru and Rin, they looked at each other and groaned mentally) Oky-doky! Then, you two will be the map and compass people! Basically, you will tell us where we are each day, you have to be accurate, though, okay? (Rin nodded and Sesshomaru just stood as still as a stone) Good! Let's see... who here can cook well? (Everyone pointed to Kanna and Hakudoshi, they were, like, great! surprising, eh?) Okay! You will be the cooks, you have to cook all of our meals, well, okay? Or else we will all starve, and I don't think you want that, do you...? (They stood still as stone in understanding) Okay, now that we have the cooks, we need defensive people! Who here has fighting skills? (Everone pointed to Miroku, InuYasha, and Naraku) Okay, you will be our defensive team, incase anything bad happens, you three will have to work together to fight what ever is threatening us, okay? (Miroku and InuYasha glared daggers at Naraku who was glaring evenly back at them) Hmmm... lessee... what else do we need?" Artemis said with a grin as she looked at the remaining people: Kagura, Kikyo, Kaede, Kohaku, Kagome, Koga, Sango, Ayame. They cringed slightly at her grin. It was a mischievious one.
"Hmmm... I think that we will need a person that will catch our food for us... who here can swim well and is strong? (Everyone pointed to Koga except for InuYasha, who just feh-ed) Okay! koga, you are in charge of catching our food and washing it! Don't worry, if Shippo spots a shark nearby, you can swim away and on board! (Koga rolled his eyes at this, as if he would be scared of a shark!) I need to think for a while... (thinks for about ten seconds and then reaches a conclusion) I think that Kohaku, Kaede, Kagome, and Kagura can be the cleaning people! You know, you have to clean up the deck, dust around, stuff like that, okay?"(They all nodded numbly; cleaning?)
"Okay, who do we have left? Oh! Okay, Sango, you can be co-captain! It basically means that you and I take turns to be captain! You sleep during the night, and I sleep during the day! You steer in the day, and I steer in the night, okay! Don't worry, i'll teach you how to steer this ship, it's fun!" Artemis said happily while Sango's jaw dropped; steer? She had never managed to steer anything, much less than a cruise ship! This cruise was doomed, she thought sadly as she imagined steering them into a boulder, or worse...
"Okay! So, now that we have our jobs all sorted out, I'm going to go to my room and set up everything, okay? You guys should do the same! Hey, Sango, after, come into my room, room eight, and I'll teach you how to steer the ship, okay? (Sango nodded numbly) Okay, let's go get all set up, tomorrow, we will be up and at 'em at around four 'o clock in the morning, okay? So, sleep well and unpack quickly!" Artemis said as she handed out plastic trays with noodles, vegatables, and fish inside of them; their dinner for the day. It was around late noon. They all headed to their bunks, except for Kikyo.
"Artemis, wait! How come I don't get a job like everyone else?" Kikyo asked, she did not want to be thrown overboard.
"I'm so glad that you reminded Kikyo! Come here! You have the most important job of all!" Artemis said with her most devious smile... yet. Kikyo stupidly went to her. Artemis snapped her fingers and ropes tied Kikyo; making her fall to the ground.
"Wh-what! What is my job? Why are you doing this?" she demanded angrily.
"I told you, youhave the most important job of all, you are going to be our protector!" Artemis said cheerfully as she leviatated a squirming, complaining Kikyo and made magick bind her to the mast of the ship.
"Ahhh! What do you mean by I'm going to be you guys' protector! Lemme down, I'm terrified of heights!" she screeched, making everyone come out to see what the commotion was.
"Well, you see, there are spirits here that get displeased easily. They say you have to tie an undead priestess to your mast to ensure survival!" Artemis said cheerfully, enjoying watching Kikyo flail here and there.
"WAHHHH! I'm SC-SCARED!" she wailed as everyone coveredtheir ears.
"Excuse me, but can't you let her down, we haven't sailed into the realm of unpleased spirits yet!" Kagome said, feeling sorry for Kikyo.
"Yeah, i know, she doesn't even need to be thereon the first place, I just like to torture her a bit!" Artemis said with a wink as she gently brought her hand up and sliced the air in front of her, magickally slicing the ropes that bound Kikyo and sending her plummeting to the ground in a heap. She landed in InuYasha's arms and pretented to faint so he could carry her to her room. Sadly, he 'accidentally' dropped her, and Artemis had to leviatate her to her room with Kagura: Room 7; directly facing Naraku and Miroku's room: Room 8. They were at the very end of the hallway with Room9 directly opposite of the stairs that led to the downstairs part. InuYasha and Sesshomaru's room; Room 1, faced Rin and Ayame's room, Room 2. All the boys were on the left, all the girls were on the right. Kagome and Sango's room: Room 3 faced Hakudoshi and Koga's room: Room 4. Room 6 held Shippo and Kohaku, they were facing Kanna and Kaede's room; Room 5. That was how the cursed cruise of Shikon Private School began...
Day One of the Cursed Cruise
Shippo's Day:
I had to get up extremely early today, it was the first day of the cruise and I was the lookout! What an important job! I woke up when the sky was still dark to the sound of our awful magick teacher, Artemis' screams. We obviously all got up, but were all very tired; none of us were actually used to waking up so early! I mean, I'm just a kitsune! Why do I have to be disturbed? So, we all got dressed and tidied ourselves up (I almost choked while brushing my teeth out of sleepiness), and got ready for breakfast. What was it? Well, I have to admit, it was good, homemade demon bread, almost as good as Ma's. Except it did not have those delicious rabbit meat inside. Those were delicious! After our breakfast, we saw that the sun was about to rise and we all rinsed with ice-cold water to wake ourselves up and Artemis ushered us to our posts. After all that she had said about my job, I thought it would be fun. Instead, it was just plain boring! I just sat ontop of some random little bin that was above everyone. It was not only boring, because nothing at all happened, it was dead-drop annoying too! Kikyo was tied there too, and she was complaining here and there, about everything!I swear that she can be used as a torture weapon! I suppose I did have a bit of fun today... at lunch, which was bread and cooked fish (cooked by Kanna and Hakudoshi), I saved a bit for a snack, or even to throw at Kikyo to make her shut up... I got something even better! You see, InuYasha was just walking by and SPLAT! Fish and bread hit him before he knew what happened. Almost everyone was in hysterics. He will probably get revenge on me later, but it was worth it. After an uneventful day from looking at sea, sea, and some more sea, and listening to Kikyo's complaining, we all ate clam stew and some rice (courtesy of Kanna and Hakudoshi). Then, I flopped on my bed; I was dead tired, after all, listening to Kikyo blatther away is hard work!
Sesshomaru's Day:
Today was one of the most boring days of my life in any vacation at all. In fact, it was not even a vacation! I mean, we had to work, work, work, and work some more! I, of course, was not tired at all, but listening to humans pant here and there was really really aggravating! They are all so loud, noisy, unskilled, and dumb, I mean they all try to take our lands! Do they not know that demons are and always will be better than them...? If they do not, then they are dumber than I thought. Today, we all rose before the sun rose and ate a very unsatisfactory breakfast of bread. Plain bread. Then, I had to do map duties with that annoying human girl, Rin. She was a real pain, always so loud and hyper, it was really nerve grinding. Good thing I can keep my temper... or else she would be ribbons by now. After a horrible lunch of bread and cooked fish,I was basically extremely annoyed. I needed deer meat... or something like that! I needed much much more protien than that fish had to offer. I was just about to dive into the water but something very amusing happened. It seems like the little kitsune, what was his name, Shippu...? Well, he dumped a lot of bread and fish ontop of my little half-brother's hair. Glad it was not mine. That was amusing. The other thing that happened was Rin and I argued about where we were located. I said we were nearer to the peninsula, and she said that we had already neared the first island. Fool. She does not have demon senses, how does she know excatly where we are? She certainly has not the intelligence to make up for the lack of strength. At night, we ate a course of clams and rice. Kanna and Hakudoshi are okay cooks. Rin is even more foolish than I thought, if that is even possible, she skipped dinner. She'll starve for sure. Spoiled brat. We slept before it was dark. Must... have... deer... need... deer...!
Rin's Day:
Arrgh! What a stupid, stupid, stupid, awful, hoorible, no good, very bad day! I am sooo mad! We got up before the sun even rose thanks to dumb Artemis, and I couln't get enough sleep! Now then, I was sooo tired that I just nibbled at my bread that was my breakfast! I feel like I want to scream. Long and loud and break everyone's eardrums. Especially Sesshomaru's eardrums. I mean, he is so stupid! And I mean stupid! Does he not know that I can talk to the elments! I mean, he might be smart and all that, but he said that we were only at the northern tip of the western penninsula! Fool. I know for sure that we are at the very least nearer to the Southern Islands than that. At least that is what Kara told me. Lunch was awful. That is the only word that can describe it. Downright awful! Why, even Shikon Private School's cafeteria mush tastes better than what we were forced to eat! I swear, I would have thrown up on Sesshomaru if I had not laughed first. Shippo is so funny! He dumped a ton of our disgusting lunch on top of InuYasha's silvery hair! He looked sooo funny! That got me feeling a bit better. That is, until dinner time. I swear, if Kanna and Hakudoshi were the best cooks, I don't even want to guess how bad everyone else cooks! Argh! For dinner, we ate putrid filth! I mean filth! I do not understand HOW everyone thought that it was good when it was downright awful! I didn't even eat it at all! I swear, I feel like I am about to hurl! Except that I don't have anything to hurl in the first place! I wish I had never left home for this awful school. Even if it wasn't much of a home anyways.
Kanna's Day:
Throughout my life, I have met many, many, many bad situations. It is all part of the rigorous 'training' that Naraku makes his 'followers' go through. Rigorous is an understatement; we were jumping off cliffs and running from countless bear demons. But I was one of the few that survived and made it to be his faithful servant. But no matter how bad the situation, I was always complimented when I did a good job. Now, when I am on this disgusting, cursed cruise, as Naraku calls it, no one even thanks me! Naraku was far too grumpy to care. No one cared. And stupid, ungrateful Rin, Kagome, and Kikyo. They disliked, no, I should say, hated my dinner. I would love to see them slaving in a stupid kitchen and making meals out of scratch. How long would they last. Not very long, i would guess. They would last even shorter because of Hakudoshi's constant chatterings about how good he is or how bad they are. He does not work at all. If I could show emotions, I would have seethed and smited him at least a millenia ago. Thankfully, I do not. Nothing interesting happened today, as Artemis confined Hakudoshi and me to the kitchen for the entire day, only letting us out to go to the cafeteria to eat and serve breakfast, dinner, and lunch. Even servants are not treated as bad. If I ever 'accidentally' forget to control my emotions... she will be the first one to suffer... horribly. Painfully. Why did we not bring servants? This was said to be a vacation, not a student slave drive. Pathetic, really.
Hakudoshi's Day:
Today was an interesting day. We woke up before the sun rose, I had never done that before at Shikon Private School. Then, Kanna and I had to go prepare breakfast for everyone. Kanna is such a bad worker, I had to reprimand her at least four whole times in order to make some good, edible bread! She is also a work-hogger! In my time of reprimanding, I did not get to help one little bit! As we all ate breakfast, no one, and I mean not one living soul onboard, gave anyword of thanks for me making such a great breakfast for them! No one! Can you believe that? They make it seem like Kanna did all the work, even though I did ALL of the repimanding that made such nice bread. So, I decided to get my sweet, sweet, delicious revenge on everyone. When dummy Kanna was preparing lunch for everyone, BY HERSELF BECAUSE I WAS BUSY REPRIMANDING HER, I snuck in moss tablets that were sure to make any good food go bad. Sadly though, I was four moss tablets short. Obviously, I ate a good one, but it seems that Kanna also ate a good one! Darn, I was sooo sure that I had given her a mossy dish! So, most did not enjoy my 'special' lunch for them. But did they say 'I'm sorry,' or anything CLOSE to that? NO! They just arrogantly went to do their duties while complaining that lunch was awful! I was enraged. they needed another lesson, I decided. So I put some of my 'leftover' lunch in the dinner. I made sure not to eat it; I was a full demon, I go for long without food! Even if I am young. But, it seems they did not learn their lesson, none of them apologized, once again, and blamed it on ME! ME! What did I do? Perhaps they should blame themselves for not appreciating MY hard-made breakfast bread!
Miroku's Day:
Today was one of the worst days of my entire life! Oh, and did I mention that today was one of the worst days of my entire life? Well, I did now. InuYasha, Naraku, and I were assigned as the 'bodyguards' of our pathetic excuse for a cruise ship! Bodyguards! Me and InuYasha! I mean, why can they not just assign Naraku the idiot to do that? Or even InuYasha? Why, they need brute strenth, not intellect, like ME! My roommate is Naraku, too! This is the worst excuse for a vacation that I have ever been on! It's even worse than last year's class trip to the forest, where Sango knocked me unconscious! Five whole times! Sue, I deserved it, but can't she be a bit more gentle? I mean, with me liking her and all! None the less, it was totally worth it! I mean, I would prefer to be a captain too! That way, i can be with my darling Sango! I mean, we would have a blast up there! Oh my gosh, I envy Artemis oh so, even though she is a girl! Anyways... one of the things that I imagined that I would get while vacation was relaxation. Apparently, that word does not exist in Artemis' vocabulary. We woke before the sun, all sleepy and dead tired, except she did not seem to notice our sour moods. EWither that, or she didn't care. But then again, she could sleep more since she was driving the ship at night. Lucky duck, able to get more sleep. So, we woke up and ate a great breakfast of freashly baked bread. Courtesy of Kanna and Hakudoshi. I woud have thanked them for such a great breakfast, but they were followers of my sworn enemy, Naraku. So, I did not. Seems that was a good thing, as lunch was downright awful and I had to excuse myself from lovely Sango's presense to go hurl over the railing. That was sooo sad! I missed my chance to see Sango! Oh, and did I mention that being the ship's protectors is and always will be downright doring? WQell, it is! I mean, I swear, I was about to fall asleep if Naraku was not there. He kept on eying me and InuYasha like he was plotting something. And dinner was also downright awful. Today, I learned what a pain Naraku is! He needs poison in the air to live! So, how did he live? Well, to put it bluntly, he filled the room with toxic air and handed me an air mask and told me not to take it off. idiot! I am a monk! A monk, I repeat! I haev breathed in air far worse than his pitiful excuse for toxic air! Obviously, he has underestimated me. A thing he will dearly regret. Dearly.
Naraku's Day:
Okay, I must admit, rarely do I ever consider any day at all a good ay. So, today was no good day. In fact, to put it precisely, it was downright awful and I swear on... InuYasha's to-be grave that I will someday create a time portal and go back, back, back in time and smite all who opposed me on this day! And that, I must say, is a lot of people. To start off, I was awakened by off-tuned shouts by our idiot of a magick teacher, Artemis. I bet that a snail can do better magick than her. So, we were up and at 'em before the sun was up and at 'em. That got me an extremely sour mood, as I, like most, need my beauty sleep! So that was scratch number one. I would have congragulated Kanna and Hakudoshi on their delicious bread, but I was dead tired! Lucky Artemis, gets to sleep 'till night! It turns out those two were not that great of cooks anyways, lunch was downright awful! I mean, it tasted like those moss pills I gave Hakudoshi once! Except even worse than that! That was scratch number two. Then, since I felt weak after such a bad lunch, I had to keep my guard on InuYasha and Miroku, since I knew that both of them were plotting my downfall. That is if they had half of a braincellin their empty skulls. But all the same, I was wary and kept looking over at them during our defending hour, just in case they were plotting something. You can never be too careful. Then, they kept on glaring at me. That was scratch number three. For dinner that I was hoping was GOOD fish, it turned out to be nasty clam chowder and rice! I literally threw up then. Too bad that it was accidentally on InuYasha. It was not my fault! But he still vowed for revenge. Scratch number four! One more and I would explode. It happened when I was filling my room with toxic air. I was even nice enough to but Miroku an air mask but nooooo... he scoffed and breathed fine. that was a waste of ten whole gold coins! My money! Mine! That was the last sratch. I smacked him unconscious before he knew what was happening and happily beat him up, releasing my anger. I then, peacefully slept with Miroku still unconscious on the floor.
InuYasha's Day:
Awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, and did I mention really awful...? Well, it was one of the worst days in my entire life. Wait, scratch that, it was the worst day of my life yet. So many horrible things happened today! I would name them off with my fingers... if I had enough! One, I woke up to screams of Artemis. Two, She was our chaperone. Three, I woke to many insults from my full demon half-brother, Sesshomaru. Four, I was dead tired at breakfast. Five, defense duty was downright, dead-drop boring! Six, Naraku seemed to be plotting against me and Miroku. Seven, Lunch was a a disaster! Eight, I was humiliated by Shippo. Nine, my hair was dirtied by the idiot fox kid! Ten, I was the laughingstock of the ship! Eleven, Dinner sucked! Twelve, I barfed overboard at midnight or so. Thirteen, Artemis laughed at me for barfing. Fourteen, this was a bad day! I suppose... that was it. I mean, I SWEAR by... Sesshomaru's soon to be grave that I will take him and Shippo down someday soon. Oh, and I have to take Naraku down fist! He threw up on me! Me! His disgusting vomit! ME! I wanna throw up now! AHHHHH! I'll get revenge soon. Very soon.
Koga's Day:
Today was a great day for me! I had the funnest time of all! When I was getting ready to holler for everyone to get up, Artemis beat me to it. But I still had a great holler. Everyone seemed dead tired for some reason even though it was already waaaaay past midnight! I mean, how long can they possibly sleep...? Wait, I don't want to know the answer to that question. Anyways, breakfast was great! Home-cooked bread... I don't think I've had that for an entire ten years! And it was just like my mom's too! Amazing! Kanna and Hakudoshi are good cooks! I ate soooo much bread that I had no room for lunch and dinner. I was amazed at how relaxing it was to swim in a REAL ocean with those water creatures that my dear Kagome calls 'fishes.' They are very beautiful and elegant. I caught about seventeen of the dull, no brightly colored ones. It was oh so fun to chase after them and then gently bite down on them so that they would stop squirming. Then, I would drag them onboard and Kanna would give it to Hakudoshi. Those two really are great when they work together! I also swam away from this extremely stupid big fish with sharp teeth that wanted to eat me! ME! That was a real good laugh for me. I was a prince of wolves! I cannot be eaten by a fich! Never! InuYasha was in an extremely sour mood today, for some weird reason. We growled at every word that I said. Weirdo. It's not like his day was dead-drop boring! I mean, I had such a fun day, he probably had even more fun defeating soem idiot set on attacking our ship!
Kohaku's Day:
Today was average. Nothing big happened. Nothing good happed, nothing bad happened. It was just normal and boring for me. I mean, lucky Sango! She gets to steer the ship or something cool like that! But not me! Noooo, i'm always stuck with boring chores like cleaning! I was basically slepping most of the day because the ship was pretty clean anyways. It fact I only found three things wrong with our cruise! One, Kikyo is waaaaay too annoying, screaming and demanding to be let down, I would say she deserves to be up there! Besides, she can be our top secret torture weapon! Two, lunch was just downright dreadful! I mean, the food in our exterminator's village was ten times, no a thousand times better than this stupid juck that they serve us. Breakfast was okay, I love to eat bread. But Lunch and dinner were two totally different ballparks. I had to throw up right after I finished each meal over board. Whenever I came back, almost everyone looked disgusted, but they didn't say anything at all, because Sango, my big sister, was giving them dagger glares. She always was my hero!
Kaede's Day:
Today was one of those boring days that Kagome calls 'rainy' days, even though there is absolutely no rain at all in the sky. She said that it just means that you do not feel like doing anything at all. I feel like that today. I'm sooo tired and sleepy that I had to beg Kagura to make up for my chores. Sometimes, I think it is great that I have Kikyo as a big sister. She is sooo nice and kind to me! And she is strong, smart, pretty, and popular too! She is my hero! Food was awful! Kikyo cooks much, much, much better than Kanna and Hakudoshi combined! My big sister can do anything and everything!
Kagura's Day:
Today was one of THE MOST BORING days of my entire life! Oh, did I say boring...? I meant dead-drop, ready to flip, and/or scream out in fury beacause you are so bored, kind of day. I felt like it was more or less like a year rather than a day! I think I feel a bit seasick. I mean, I had to scrub soooo hard! How on earth was I persuaded to do Kaede's chores for her...? Oh yeah, I remember, she threatened to have Kikyo turn against me! Spoiled brat. One day, I swear on... Rin's soon to be grave, that I will smite her! I mean it! I am soooo glad that Kanna is not like that! I am sooo fed up of Kaede's 'If you don't do this for me- I'll tell by big sister Kikyo and she'll kick your butt!' That little ...brat! She should not be able to order me around greatly just because she was Kikyo's younger sister! I thanked the fact that Naraku had blessed me with a younger, much more obeidient, sister. Kanna was always the quiet, obeidient, not-outgoing type. I respect her for that. Besides, it's not like it's her choice, Naraku is our master, and thus, we must obey him. But, as I said, i am the wind... and the wind will someday be free... Otherwise, the cruise was pretty good. the food was like a delicacy compared to what Naraku feed me!
Kagome's Day:
I would say that today was a good day. except thyat it isn't. I would say that I had a lot of fun. Except I didn't. I would say this is a great vacation. Except it isn't. In fact, just to be truthful, it's not even a vacation at all! I mean, waking up before sunrise... eating cooked bread, you don't want to know what's in there lunch and dinner, not my idae of a vacation? Want some more of my day...? Well, let me think... I had to clean, clean, clean, clean, and did I mention... clean? Well, Kaede refused to do her chores, complaining that she was too tired, and Kagura was raging and roaring so she did more damage than help. Basically, Kohaku and I were the only people that were actually doing their chores. pathetic, really. Something funny happened, though, you see, Shippo dumped fish and bread on InuYasha's silvery, silky hair today. He was furious. But I have to admit, it was sooooo funny! I will remember his face for all eternity; it was just priceless. That's all I can describe it as. Priceless. That lightened up my mood. But my mood was almost instantly soured by Kikyo's demands to let her down. Since Kagura was busy raging and ranting, she didn't hear Kikyo's complaints. I thanked God for that; if she was let down... I SWEAR I would have bulldozed her flat before her toes touched the ground.
Sango and Kikyo could not be heard/ mind- read. Why? They were either too high or too tired. Ayame just slept in because she was smarter than kikyo and had not complained when she had been blessed with no job. unlike Kikyo!
Thus, day one on the Cursed Cruise ended. With Sesshomaru and Rin fuming at each other. Sango dead tired. Koga ready for more. Kikyo ready with even more complaints, Kagome ready to bulldoze Kikyo, and InuYasha plotting against Naraku, Sesshomaru, and Naraku. Kaede was threatening Kagura, Kagura was just raging and ranting, Kohaku getting a serious case of dust-allergies, Ayame well-rested, Kanna and Hakudoshi seething, and Shippo bored to death. Naraku was on guard and Miroku was dreaming of beating up Naraku.
Day Two of the Cursed Cruise!
Rin woke up bright and early as the cruise sailed on. This time, she could actually see the sun seeping through behind the clouds. Amazingly, she had slept well, even though they had worked so much and she had skipped dinner. When she woke up, she heard a different, more shrill scream. It was Sango's. Obviously, as part of her job as captain, Artemis had told Sango to get up early, steer the ship, anshe would ask her maid to go to the market and buy some of that 'chocolate.' It was delicious! Perhaps Kanna and Hakudoshi were not as bad of cooks as she had first thought. She nodded her approval and voiced her thanks to them. Their reactions were hilarious, to say the least. Hakudoshi looked smug while Kanna for once, showed some emotion. She threw a killer glare at Hakudoshi, which made him stumble into InuYasha. InuYasha seemed to be having a hard time eating the food, threw up all over the person who was sitting face to him. That sadly, happened to be Sesshomaru. His beautiful, silky white hair became drenched in a semi-liquid brown and you could not even see his face. InuYasha hiccupped slowly. Respectfully. As he inched slowly away from his steaming brother. Rin held back a fit of giggles as she watched the predicament.
Sesshomaru was furious. Scratch that, it was a huge understatement. His perfect hair had been ruined. By his half-breed half-brother, no less. His anger and fury boiled inside as he 'calmly' drew his not soaked in chocolate throwup hand up. It glowed a sickly green as he made a whip protrude from his index and middle finger. He was boiling. And it just soo happened that all his anger came with the whip. Whip. Slash. Whip. Slash. Whip. Whip. Whip. In less than five seconds flat, everyone and everything withing a five-foot radius of Sesshomaru was cover, head to toe in a choclatey acid. He walked calmly away as everyone just stared. At him and each other. As Sesshomaru went to go dive into the ocean to wash off, everyone broke out in hysterics. The one who was luaghing the hardest was Ayame, though, she was very lucky, she was the only one not to get choclatized.
Ayame had almost chocked from laughing so hard and long. Koga had just looked too funny. It was a look of disbelief that covered most of his face mixed in with hints of laughter from seeing everyone else covered in the acidric chocolate that Sesshomaru had whipped on them. The one who had suffered the worst was InuYasha who even seemed to have accidentally eaten some! She smiled as he seethed and raged and denied that he had done it on purpose. Ayame was laughing soooo hard, that she carreened into Koga. She got some of the icky chocolate on her favorite silk blouse. She turned red. From anger. Koga noticed this and backed away slowly, hoping she would not hurt him. Last she had been this angry, he could not feel his arms for half of a week!
"Koga... dear..." Ayame sweetly began as she smiled a smile like poisonous honey.
"Y-yes...? Wh-what do you want?" he answered, literally terrified.
"YOU RUINED MY FAVORITE BLOUSE!" she screamed as she began to reppeatedly hit Koga. Hard.
"How (hit) could (hit you (hit) ruin (hit) my (hit) favorite (hit) blouse (hit)?" You are soooo mean!" Ayame said as she pummeled Koga some more.
"Wahhhhhhhh! (hit) (hit) (hit) (hit) (hit)My (hit) favorite (hit) silk (hit) blouse! (hit) Brown! Wahhhhhhh!(hit) (hit) (hit) (hit) (hit) (hit)" she wailed as Koga was turning red from lack of air. She was strangling him subconsciously! He struggled in her iron grasp as her turned red... blue... purple!
"What? Oh... my, I'm SO SORRY! Koga! Are you okay! Hello! Please be okay!" Ayame said as she finally noticed Koga's facial expressions. She let go and he collapsed in a heap in front of her as she sobbed almost theatrically. Everyone else in the room sweatdropped. Those two were very funny. It was almost like an act! Ayame blushed as everyone was looking at her and Koga.
"O-Oh! Ummm... why don't you guys go wash off or do your job?" she asked while blushing badly. No one moved. So, she did the next best thing that she could think of. She batted everyone out of the room, including Koga. She sighed; at least she wasn't slaving away likew everyone else! She then turned, and went to take a shower, hogging the girls bathroom so none of the other girls could wash off. Most of them were forced to wash off in the ocean.
Kagome dived into the aqua-colored water as she washed away all that disgusting, icky chocolate slime. She hoped that the acid wouldn't do permanant damage on her hair, otherwise, Sesshomaru would pay. Somehow. She rolled her eyes mentally as she took out her shampoo and conditioner, and began to lather it all in her midnight-black hair as she inhaled the somewhat refreshing scent of lavendar that it was scented in. She sighed. When she had recieved the school invite, her parents had been ecstatic. She had been too. But the means ofgetting there were so... weird! She had to literally jump into a well that was in the back of her creepy family shrine. She shuddered at the thought of when she first lept through; it was like a sensation had never felt and would never feel again! It was... just undescribably good. Now, the school allowed her to return to her time once every month to stock up on the items that she needed. She smiled at the thought. Sesshomaru's face had been priceless. Priceless. Her good mood was put to an end when she saw that Kikyo and Kagura were also swimming near the ship to wash off. Ever since she first arrived, they had not been the best of friends. More or less, enemies and rivals. Especially Kikyo and herself.
She was so wrapped up in her own thoughts that she didn't notie someone sneeking up behind her. WHAM! She was pushed underwater by some random boy. Kagome turned her head to see who it was; it was none other than InuYasha! He was laughing So hard... that he had chocked! He was in hysterics.
"Kagome (wheeze) you looked so (gasp) funny! (wheeze) I mean, that was even for funny than (BIG breath) Sesshomaru! (laughing hysterically)" InuYasha said, as Kagome got an extremely evil look in her eye. Sadly, InuYasha seemed to have failed to notice it.
"So... I was... funny... wasn't I...?" Kagome said dangerously. InuYasha didn't notice this and continued laughing at her.
"Yup! That (gasp) face of yours! (gasp) was just too (wheeze) priceless! (laughing once more)" he managed to say before almost drowning in laughter. Kagome was getting really worked up now, as anyone would have and she glared at InuYasha.
"So, I'm funny aren't I? Well, you're funny too! Watch! Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, and did I mention? SIT!" she said as she grumpily dove into the water; a smile tugging at her lips as she watched InuYasha being pulled by the necklace all the way to the sea floor. That would be a worthwhile memory to remember. She climbed onboard the ship and went to her room to dry off and change. There, she ran into a rather furious Sango.
Sango had just finished changing when Kagome walked into their room. She could tell the raven-haired priestess was a bit taken back by her current mood. It was fury. pure and strong. All directed at Miroku, who had dared to do that... that... disgusting and stupid thing! If you were standing next to her, you would have sworn that it suddenly became very hot in that room of theirs. Sango calmed down a bit before explaining what had happened to her. Kagome nodded and said she would have done the same, except much worse. Sango nodded in agreement as she went to the captain's room and began her steering duties as Artemis left for some shut eye and dinner.
Steering the ship was actually quite easier than she had thought, at the very beginning, she had thought that she would somehow steer the ship into an iceberg, or some rocky cliff. Actually, it was pretty boring. All she had to do was be on lookout for rocks and other hazardous objects and always go straight. That was all Artemis had said. She sighed as she settled back into her chair, hoping that lunch would come sometime soon. She was bored to death sitting here and steering. She had to admit though, it did take a lot of strenth as the wheel was hard to budge. thankfully, Sango had been trained for over seven years to use brute strength to her advantage.
InuYasha had thought that today morning was okay. He had gotten his revenge on Sesshomaru, even if it was not on purpose. He knew how long each morning his half-brother took to comb his silky long hair. Pay back. Sweet, sweet, sweet revenge. Now, all that was left was Shippo and Naraku. He rubbed his hands evilly as he plotted silently while Miroku was standing guard over him and watching Naraku who was watching them with rather suspicious eyes. Why should he be suspicious? They had all the right to be suspicious of him, not the other way around! He was the bad guy! InuYasha was so completely wrapped up in his own thoughts that he didn't even notice that there was a dark shadow beneath the ship. Miroku and Naraku did not notice either.
Shippo had had a great breakfast. He loved the chocolate substance that Kagome had brought from her lands. Maybe she was he princess of a world that was much better than this lands? He shook his small head to clear up that thought; no land anywhere could be better than the Western Lands. No land at all. Unless it was a land of chocolate. His brain whirled at the thought of that and he actually tuned out of Kikyo's constant chattering. Chocolate... he gaped as he imagined Kikyo being made out of chocolate. Yummy... his mind thought as it ordered her to chomp down on the chocolate girl. He really did not want to. He truly didn't. He was actually putting up a good fight in his brain until his mind said that if he ateher up, there would be no more annoying noises. Then, he had to relent. he was so totally in his imaginary world, that he did not notice the shadow underwater either.
Kikyo was having a terrible day, thanks to Artemis, once again, she had been tied up there in the mast as the ship's 'shield.' She would have sworn that Artemis just loved to torture her if she didn't know better. Oh well, there had to be a possible explanation. She was thinking of possible solutions and voicing them out to Shippo, who seemed like a great listener. He was. He would just nod at every single thing she said and stare out into space. His eyes didn't tell her mush, though, it was as if they were in another world entirely... she could have sworn on her bow and arrows that he said the word 'chocolate,' but soon relinguished the thought; that was one of the words she never wanted to hear ever again. That 'chocolate' stuff had totally killed her perfect ebony hair. She was out to get Kagome for ruining her perfect hair! Her perfect hair. She voiced this out to Shippo who numbly nodded as he stared out into space once more. Suddenly, she felt some pain on her right arm. That little fox had BIT her!
"AHHHHH! HELP! RABIES! HELLLP! AHHHH! GET HIM OFF OF ME!" Kikyo screamed as everyone rushed to her and stared at the... unusual sight, to say the very least. There was Shippo, chompingdown on Kikyo's right arm and Kikyo waving her arm aroung, trying to get him off. But it was no good, he clung tightly, almost like a leech! She screamed even more, which made him snap back into his senses and let go of her now-bleeding arm.
Kaede rushed out when she heard her big sister's terrified screams. Then, she stopped dead in her tracks; Shippo was clinging to her sister's arm. She stood there in shock as everything seemed to fly by. Then, she was subconsciously helping bandaging up her sister's right arm as she thought about what Shippo had done. She finally got up what little courage she had to go ask him why he had done that. He smiled sheepishly and she saw a slight blush creep up her cheeks. He explained that he was thinking about chocolate too much and had thought that Kikyo was a chocolate! She laughed along with him at the misunderstanding as they both went back to their duties. THUUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
Koga had just got back from fishing when the boat shook violently. He set the fish down onboard as he went to take a peek. Below the boat, was a huge shadow of a weird fish-like thing! He screamed, alerting everyone's attention. Why? He never screams. Never ever ever ever. It was like a law for him. Everyone rushed over to see what was the trouble. But they were too late... the creature that was bonking the ship had turned the entire shipupside down...
Kanna just realized something suddenly as the ship tipped over. She could not swim! She had never swum more then ten feet in her entire life! She was going to die, onboard a ship! No! She thought sadly as she began to black out from hitting the ceiling when the boat flipped over. Water began to pour in as she sunk to the bottom... which was the ceiling now. No... she thought as she sunk, losing all her conscious.
Hakudoshi felt something was wrong. the boat was being thunped! Why had no one called. Why had no one noticed...? Where was everyone? He thought desperately as he clung to railing as the ship tipped upside down. He saw that Kanna was sinking slowly and wondered why. Then, it hit him, she did not know how to swim! That was the obvious answer. Not wanting her to die, or else he would face Naraku's wrath, Hakudoshi swam to the limp, white girl and propelled both of them to the surface. He noticed that the water was still fairly warm but all the same, he grabbed some wood from the ship and heaved Kanna and himself onto it. he gave an exhausted sigh as he too, began to slip into unconsciousness.
Naraku could feel the boat turn as he shielded himself in his protective barrier. Good thing: he was safe and had enough air in the barrier to swim to the surface. Bad: he did not have much of a choice on how large the barrier was and sadly, it included Kikyo, Shippo, InuYasha, Miroku, and Koga. He really wanted to leave them behind, but he realized that that would have been considered suicide so he half-heartedly moved the barrier, and his unwanted passengers, to the surface. Then, he 'popped' the barrier and clung to some driftwood for dear life. Everyone did the same.
Kagome was cleaning when she noticed the sudden change on board the ship and almost freaked out when she felt the lurch when the ship flipped upside down. She held her breathe as she grabbed onto the nearest stable object, which happened to be a railing, and waited until water was almost filled in, then, she propelled herself out of the ship, swimming alongside with Sango, who was dragging along an unconscious Kohaku. The three made it to the surface and plopped down on some random boards that were floating across the sea and fell sound asleep from exhaustion.
Rin seemed to be having the time of her life. She giggled happily as the boat tipped, then realized that she was in trouble, then, she called for the water elemental, Aqua, and she was whisked to the surface. She (sadly) saw that Sesshomaru was also swimming calmly to the surface. She rolled her eyes as she surfaced. Her air bubble made by Aqua popped and she swam to a floating plank, crawled onto it, and fainted from using too much of her magick.
Sesshomaru had also elegantly climbed aboard a nearby plank and, though he was tired, he tried his hardest to not submit to his sleep. But in the end, he failed and was conquered by sleep. As he drifted off to sleep (unwillingly) he thought about one thing, 'What am I going to do next...?'
Artemis was swimming around, looking around for any people who could not help themselves. Then, she realized that Ayame, Kagura, and Kaede could not! She resisted the urge to roll her eyes as she snapped her fingers and used quite a bit of magick to whick them to the surface, all floating on planks. She took one last glance, then, dozed off as well.
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Okay! So, what are they going to do next? Will they survive? How? And how on earth are they going to get back? Well, most of it will be answered in the next chapter! How will they live! I feel oh soooo evil! evil! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay, coughs, hope you enjoyed this chapter, it took me a while to write it! Oh yeah... giggles wickedly, I do believe that Rin's secret will be revealed soon... very soon... as in like, in a few chapters... or so... Arigato Gozaimashita for reading so far! I'm soooo happy that I have over 100 reviews! PS Sorry for asking for ten reviews... that was just plainn mean of me!
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