Hey all of y'all! I now (on April 9, 2006) have 34 reviews. All of them good! Wow! Totally rocking! I want to give a shout out to my best friend Rubia Lucia! She's been reading EVERYTHING of mine since I started fanfictions. Thanks a billion!

With this whole writing thing, I just wanted to let everyone know that I do have very exciting future plans for Aboard the Ship, but they're pretty vague and I'm mainly winging it here. When I write I just type down what comes into my head at the moment. Everything I have written has been a "spur of the moment" thing. That's just my style, but so far it's been working for me.

Also, I'm writing another story on called Scarred Past under Jewel Tanka as well if any of y'all wanna check it out. It's pretty angsty, but it still has humor and it's focused on romance so YAY! LOVE romance!

Disclaimer: Curse it all. Rumiko Takahashi STILL won't sell InuYasha to me. So I suppose he belongs to her. May she burn in eternal flames!

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Kagome gaped at Sango. Then she burst into tears.

Sango was floored.

Why is she crying?

"Kagome," Sango's bewildered voice broke through the sobs and she placed her arm over Kagome's shoulder in an attempt to comfort her overwhelmed friend. "What's going on? Are you okay? I hope you're not mad at me."

Kagome's head shot up instantly and she shook her head violently, "Of course not! How could I be mad at you when I caused so much pain and trouble for you. I'm so sorry." She buried her face in her palms, obviously ashamed.

"It's not your fault what you've been through. I love you so much. I just hope you can forget about...everything." Sango wrung her hands nervously, unsure what to do.

Kagome wiped her eyes, sniffled, and whispered, "He took real good care of me."

Sango was surprised. "You mean InuYasha? But I thought he was a jerk."

"Me too. But...he gave me what I needed at the moment. I guess I judged him too quickly."

Sango said nothing. She knew what Kagome was saying. Exactly.

Last night Miroku gave me what I needed at the moment, but I thought he was a perverted jerk before. Men can sure yank us around.

She let go of a light chuckle.

"What?" Kagome looked up, confused.

Sango just smiled and shook her head. The two friends went back down to the kitchen and braved the staff. After their discussion, they felt a bit more brave and a heck of a lot closer.

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InuYasha was being led outdoors by Miroku.

"You still don't know how to enjoy yourself," Miroku complained. "So I guess I have to force it on you."

"Nobody's asking you to. Why don't you leave me alone?" InuYasha grumbled, angry he had no say in his own activities.

"Because, as a friend, it is my duty to ensure your happiness."

"Whatever."

Two minutes of angry silence later, Miroku pushed open a swinging door. Before them was the front of the ship that led them toward Italy. The floor was an African mahogany, covering a huge space including a bar to the side, twenty iron tables accompanied by eighty iron chairs. And then there was the pool. It was big. Real big. The shallow end was four feet deep which led to five feet, six feet, seven feet, eight feet; each section was thirty-five feet wide.

Miroku pointed to five tents on the opposite side of the bar. "We change in one of those." InuYasha chose one and changed into his bathing suit, red with a white stripe on each side; it stopped right above his knee. He got into the pool beside Miroku who was decked out in the same styled suit as InuYasha, but in black with a purple stripe.

Waitresses offered drinks and an assortment of snacks. Miroku flirted shamelessly with each one.

He sipped at his drink and smiled over at InuYasha. "Well. Isn't this nice?"

"No. It sucks."

"That's the spirit."

Miroku winked at a woman a few feet away in the pool. She smiled voluptuously and got out. Her walk was seductive as was the look she sent Miroku when she entered a tent.

"If you'll excuse me," Miroku set down his glass and jumped out of the pool.

How disgusting. He goes and knocks up complete strangers. Why did he even bring me here? Do I have to watch his vulgar behavior?

"Hi there."

InuYasha looked up to the speaker. She was a young woman-21 probably good looking with short, curvy brown hair and a long, curvy body. Her bikini was small and taut, her smile confident. He immediately disliked her. She came over for one thing, and one thing only. That's fine for Miroku, but not InuYasha.

"I'm Mikari." She slipped into Miroku's place beside InuYasha.

"So?" Why did this woman have to bother him? It made him sick how people would throw themselves at strangers just to satisfy their never-ending sexual hunger.

Mikari didn't even blink which angered InuYasha more.

"I know all about you InuYasha." She ran her finger along his muscled chest. "You're a famous actor. You've made three hit movies, but you're a loner. You don't like many people, including your family. You've had sex with only one woman, and that's just a guess. No one really knows how far you and Kikyo went."

What a disgusting wench!

He roughly thrust her away and got into her face, "You know nothing about me so don't pretend you do. And don't come over here expecting to get laid. You're so full of yourself it's sick. Get it together.

That made her blink. And blush. She seemed angry, but surprised.

Before she could say another word, InuYasha climbed out of the pool. Before he went through the door back to his room, he yanked the curtain back, revealing Miroku and the sex-crazed woman in their birthday suits.

He grabbed Miroku by the hair and pulled him from the tent up the stairs, through the hall, and threw him into his room.

"What was that for?" Miroku asked. "Do you realize how many people saw me naked?" But before InuYasha could scream back a reply Miroku smiled and said, "You know what? Never mind. You did me a favor."

InuYasha wanted to gag. "Put some freaking clothes on." He slammed the door and stormed back to his room resisting the urge to throttle his friend.

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I know it's SERIOUSLY short, but I haven't given ya'll ANYTHING for the longest time! And I am in a bit of a dry rut with my writing. So hope you enjoyed the short chapter. I'll try to hurry up on the next one. L8tr!