Hey there guys! I'm back and I brought with me… Chapter Eight! Whoosh! Alrighty we left off with a whole bunch of fighting, Inuyasha getting kissed by Jakotsu (ducks from random flying objects), Inuyasha kissing Kagome, and Kagome being saved from Renkotsu by Jakotsu. I think I got everything in there. The Band of Seven is now the Band of Four. That's right, they are now down to four members.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, unfortunately…

On with the chapter!

Chapter Eight: Oh No! My Ship!

Sesshomaru walked through the verdigris forest, now following the unique scent that is Kagome. He had killed one of the Band of Seven, or he hoped it was one of the Band of Seven. He didn't really care as much as his job cared. Not like anyone would know about it anyway if he was just some random guy. He mused, continuing to follow the random trail through the woods. He was amused the human had tried to fight back with poisons and noticed it was the only weapon he had on him. Not a wise decision when traveling in the woods. It wasn't long he came across his brother fighting another one of the member, he supposed, and not getting anywhere from the looks of it.

"Inuyasha, which way did they take Kagome?" He asked.

Inuyasha chanced a glance behind him to see Sesshomaru and jerked his head towards the direction the bald man had dragged Kagome. Sesshomaru nodded and walked towards the direction just appointed to him. He knew full well which way Kagome had been taken; he just thought he would distract his brother a bit and give him false hope. He side glanced the fight between his half-breed brother and the human.

"You're not going to help me?"

"I do believe Kagome's life has higher priority to me than you needing help in a fight." Sesshomaru stated and continued walking.

He didn't have to turn around to see the glare on his brother's face as he heard the growl as he exited the clearing. The corner of his lips twitch upwards a bit, appearing to have a smirk but no one would be able to tell. He walked on further and heard voices coming from behind the trees in front of him. He quieted his steps, becoming the predator. He clung as close to the tree in front of him as possible and listened in on the males talking. They were whispering, so he assumed Kagome was in their presence.

"Bankotsu, we were given orders to kill the girl and instead of killing her, we just capture her? Are you sure your judgment isn't being fogged by the girl's presence?"

"I have already told you, there are new orders. We're supposed to tell the girl that Inuyasha just sat there and watched her get kidnapped and that Naraku is welcoming her home… though I know she won't believe that for an instant. She isn't dumb. I'm not sure what his plan is, but he wants the girl alive and my judgment is not fogged."

"What are we going to do about Inuyasha? I heard his brother is around here too."

"Forget about them. Inuyasha will be stuck here soon enough, and Kagome will be in Naraku's hands."

Sesshomaru sensed a bit of sadness within the voice. He doesn't want Kagome to die? He likes her. He thought. He didn't know what it was, but anger shot through him and that was when he attacked. He drew his sword and swiftly went through the trees and stabbed something. He knew it wasn't Kagome as she gasped from behind a different male. The bald man with purple marks looked down to find a sword through his gut. He looked back up into the face of his killer. Sesshomaru slowly withdrew his sword and watched as the body fell to the ground. He turned to face the black haired male.

"Hand her over, or you'll be like your friend over here." He growled, holding up his bloody Tōkijin.

He watched as azure eyes looked to the girl behind him and stepped aside, driving his Banryū into the ground. Sesshomaru sheathed his sword, but kept his guard up as he walked over to Kagome and pick her up, bridal style. She let out another gasp as she was picked up and taken away from Bankotsu.

Sesshomaru went back the way he came and passed by Inuyasha, quickly telling him he had Kagome and that she was unharmed. Inuyasha had given a small nod just before Sesshomaru had made it out of the clearing. He doubted Jakotsu saw anything, but a speck of silver flying across the clearing.

He ran all the way back to the herb garden she was originally in before getting kidnapped and set her down on the wooden fence. She had closed her eyes and had a death grip on his shirt as he raced through the woods.

"You can let go now. We're not moving anymore." He said, amused as she snapped her eyes open and removed her grip as fast as possible.

"Oh." She said, her breathing was harsh and she had placed her hand on her chest, where her heart would be, the other hand keeping her balanced on the fence. She shut her eyes a bit to concentrate on her breathing. He eyed her curiously.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just freaking out a bit at the moment. Just give me a minute." She stated her breathing calming down a bit.

"Inuyasha still fighting Rainbows?"

"Rainbows?"

"The very feminine homosexual with the sword."

"Oh. Yeah. Guess I should go help the baka."

"It would be awfully nice of you." Sesshomaru cringed. Sesshomaru was not nice, but he'd go help out his teme brother because Inuyasha had asked for his help. He turned towards the forest and started walking until he just stopped in his place. Kagome raised an eyebrow as he turned back around and walked up to her. The next thing she knew his lips were on hers. Her breathing had hitched as he gently pressed his lips to hers. When he pulled away he darted off towards the direction of his idiot brother.

Kagome sat there for a moment and blinked a few times before coming back to reality.

"Kissed by both brothers… WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE TO YOUSE GUYS!? A TWO BIT WHORE!?" she shouted and could've sworn she heard laughter coming from the woods. She scowled, but smiled moments later. She looked down and noticed she had been returned to the garden.

"New clothes here I come." She said as she gracefully slide off the fence and sat on the ground, collecting up the herbs that had actually fallen out of the basket and gathered some more. She, eventually, got up and headed back to town to the small shop she had seen with everything she needed in it.

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Back at the ship, things weren't looking too good. A big man, with chucks of metal all over, had come onto the ship and started reeking havoc on the ship. Shippou had tried to get the crew members to fight back, but they were too busy getting the rum off the ship before it sank. Kohaku had tried the same thing, but it was a failure as well.Some demons these guys turned out to be. They're chicken shit. He thought amusingly and snapped his head to hear the snap of the mast being broken like a twig at the base.

"Shit!" Shippou and Kohaku shouted in unison and dove out of the way.

Shippou looked at the damage and realized the ship was already beginning to sink. He sighed heavily knowing the reaction from their captain wasn't going to be a good one. They could always steal another ship, but it was always a hassle to overthrow a ship.

"Take what you can and get off the ship!" He ordered and made his way to his and Kagome's room. When he got to the stairs he already saw it filling up with water. He scowled a curse and ran over to the ramp and made his way off the ship. He watched as the man who just completely sunk the ship, on his own, jump from the ship and take off towards town. Shippou sweat dropped and smacked his forehead with his palm.

"Who does that!? Just destroy a ship and take off!?" he screamed and got looked at by most the crew.

"Cowards." He mumbled and sat down on the dock. He could only hope Inuyasha got back soon, with Kagome.

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Inuyasha was in the middle of battling when Jakotsu randomly fell to the ground unconscious. Inuyasha was mid-swing and stopped in his tracks, blinking a few times.

"Don't look so surprised, dear brother. You knew I was here, didn't you?" Sesshomaru mused as he stepped out into the clearing.

"Keh. I could've handled him."

"Oh. I'm sure you could." Sesshomaru's cold voice holding a comical tone to it. Inuyasha snarled.

"You've been talking to Kagome haven't you?"

"Why wouldn't I have? I did save her and all." Sesshomaru rubbed in.

The glare he received was priceless. He watched as Inuyasha sheathed the sword and began his trudge toward the docks. Sesshy followed silently and watched his brother fume. He couldn't help the fact that he loved to get a rise out of the pirate captain. It entertained him so much and even let Kagome in on the fun. Sesshomaru knew Inuyasha was starting to like Kagome, but hadn't told her that as she showed signs of attraction towards his brother. He knew in the end they would end up together, but he decided in the mean time he would annoy Inuyasha to no end.

It wasn't long before the two brothers made it back to the dock and saw the entire crew sitting out on the dock. Inuyasha looked around and saw his ship was gone. He looked over the heads of his crew to spot a small one, red hair unmistakable. He made his way over to the boy, stepping on limbs and appendages and not even caring. When he got over to the boy, he held him up by his collar.

"Where is my ship, Shippou?"

"Some guy came and sunk it. Your crew was chicken shits and didn't do anything to stop it." Shippou replied flailing around to be put down. As if on cue, his mother figure came to his rescue.

"Inuyasha, put him down this instant." Kagome screamed from the end of the dock. She knew he could hear her and she had been loud enough. Inuyasha cringed and dropped the little kitsune. Kagome growled, which was pretty dog-like for a human, and Inuyasha's ears flattened under his hat. Sesshomaru looked on with interest.

Inuyasha couldn't see her from all the way down at the end of the dock, but as she came closer, he realized she wasn't wearing her torn, dirty under-dress anymore. She had on fitting black pants that were tucked into black rubber-sole boots. She had a "pirate button-up shirt" a few buttons at the top unbuttoned, a black belt tightly strapped at her hips, a hunting knife could be seen at her side. Inuyasha had never been more memorized in his life. She had looked good in the dress, but this outfit suited her personality even better. Inuyasha could see a sack she had slung over one shoulder as she came even closer.

"See something you like, Yasha?" Kagome smirked.

"K-keh." He stuttered and looked away, but a moment later he caught a scent, coming off of her.

"Kagome, why do you smell like Sesshomaru?"

Kouga came up to her and started sniffing her. She cocked an eyebrow.

"It's a sickening sweet smell… it's disgusting." Sesshomaru let out a deep and menacing growl. His eyes flashed red as his transformation started to shred his uniform. Kagome saw this and riffled though her sack and pulled out a towel, walking over to Sesshomaru.

"Uniform, Sesshy, Uniform." She reminded him while wrapping the towel around a certain area to avoid exposure, a blush appearing on her face. Sesshomaru calmed down and looked to the raven haired woman.

"And to answer your question, we had wild monkey sex after he rescued me." Kagome stated her face completely serious.

Sesshomaru caught on and came up behind her wrapping his arms around her waist, and licked her cheek. Kagome flushed a bright red. Inuyasha and Kouga's eye twitch at the scene before them. Kagome couldn't take it any longer and bust out laughing, falling to the ground. She held her sides as they began to hurt from laughing so hard. Sesshomaru had an amused smirk on his face.

"You guys should have seen the look on your face!" Shippou chuckled out. He knew Kagome didn't like Sesshomaru in that way. He understood they were friends and good friends who could joke around like that just to annoy the hell out of Inuyasha. Inuyasha just glared at the two and growled.

"Do I sense jealousy?" Kagome teased, getting up and nudging his ribs.

Inuyasha grabbed her elbow and pulled her to face him, his face in a glare.

"My ship is gone and you're sitting here joking around." He growled through his teeth at her.

Her heart skipped a beat and fear in her eyes. Not fake acted fear, but truthful, actual fear. Inuyasha, realizing what he had done, let go of her elbow and turned away. When he did, he smelt fresh salt water. Please be the ocean, please be the ocean, please be the ocean. He chanted in his head. When he turned around, he saw her eyes well up, a few traitor tears falling. She shut her eyes and ran behind Sesshomaru. A pang of hurt tugged at his heart, but he knew he deserved it. Sesshomaru had a murderous glare directed towards him. He sighed and started walking down the dock, looking for another ship. When he found one he whistled and his crew set to work overthrowing it.

"Where is that goddamned monkey, I need to shoot something!" Inuyasha barked, only to find his crew mates staring at him weird.

"Captain, we don't have a monkey…" Kohaku informed him.

"Well then, find me a goddamned monkey so I can fucking shoot it." He ordered, but none of the crew moved. He turned around to find Kagome smiling at him, but he didn't like the smile she was giving him. There was something eerie about it.

"Yasha, close your eyes. I have something for you." She said sweetly as her hands were behind her back. He looked at her questioningly and slowly shut his eyes. He heard her movement and adjusting, but didn't open his eyes.

"Okay, now you can open them." She said and he did, but did find anything different except a weight around his neck. He looked down to find dark purple beads and fangs. He tried to pull it off to get a better look, but found he couldn't. He tried again only harder and still couldn't get it off.

"What the hell, Kagome!?"

"Inuyasha…." She said in a sing song tone. He didn't like it.

"Sit." She said pleasantly and he plummeted to the ground, face first. Kagome snickered, picked up her sack, and climbed aboard their new ship to claim her room.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha ground out through his teeth, as he pain-stakingly rose to his feet. Sesshomaru had remained quite letting the scene unfold in front of him.

"I shall take my leave now, half-breed." He said, going back to his cold-hearted self and turning from him and walked back to his ship.

"Damn you, Sesshomaru." He mumbled, a string of curses left his mouth as he got onto the ship known as The Black Rose. He ordered his crew to set sail and make a destination to the next port. He took a bottle of rum and locked himself in the captain's quarters.

In Kagome's room, she took the last swig of her bottle and let it fall to the floor. Today was an interesting day… She thought through the cloudiness of being drunk. She laughed a bit before rolling over and totally blacked out. She fell into a sleep, a dream of a certain hanyō captain in her head.

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Naraku slammed his fists down onto his desk, a crack appeared in the middle of it.

"WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES THIS GIRL SO FUCKING LUCKY SHE DOESN'T EVEN GET A SCRATCH FROM MY PLANS!?" he bellowed and kicked his chair from under him as he stood up, crossing the room to the window.

"I have a bit of interesting news, my liege, concerning Bankotsu." The bald man with purple marks bowed low towards the Lord.

"And what is it you have to tell me, Renkotsu."

"Bankotsu has fallen in love with Kagome."

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There you have it, my loverlies! I know it's kind of a cliffy but hey, you know you don't want to kill me because then you will never know what happens!

So anyways, this is the end of chapter eight and please review!

Next time: Chapter Nine, Help and Fluff

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