"Talking"
'Thinking/Thoughts'
Shinobi of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Medallion
By Yami a.k.a Rachel
Chapter Seven
Jack, Will, Elizabeth, Sasuke, and Yami were all in the row boat that Elizabeth had used to get to the cave. As they were making their way back to the Dauntless, Elizabeth said "I'm sorry Jack." Jack, who was covered in gold items, said "They done what's right by them, can't expect more than that." The next day, everyone was at the fort. Jack was going to be hung. Yami and the rest of team seven had been spared thanks to much begging from Elizabeth. Yami looked sad and said to Sasuke "This isn't fair." Sasuke looked down at her and said "There's nothing we can do." She leaned her head against his shoulder. He held her hand tightly and watched as the drums started and the officer started naming off all the crimes Jack had committed during his lifetime of piracy.
Yami buried her face in Sasuke's shoulder as the drums started to beat faster and the man that would be doing the hanging, placed the rope around Jack's neck. Elizabeth looked around and said "This is wrong." The Governor looked at her sadly, but said nothing. He felt that this was the right thing to do, as did Norrington. Will had been making his way through the audience and was forming a plan to save Jack from his dreadful death. He knew, though, what would happen if he did. He quickly made his way over to Norrington, the Governor, and Elizabeth. Will looked at Elizabeth and said "Elizabeth, I should have told you every day from the moment I met you." Elizabeth stared at him. He said simply "I love you."
Norrington and the Governor looked surprised and stared at Will, then to Elizabeth. Elizabeth stared at Will in shock and disbelief. The drums started to beat faster as did Yami's heart in anticipation. Will made his way quickly to the front where Jack was as the executioner placed the rope around Jack's neck. As Norrington caught on to what Will was going to do, he said faintly "Marines." Elizabeth, thinking quickly, said "I can't breathe." She then fell on the ground and the Governor and Norrington bent down beside her to see if she was alright. Elizabeth looked back up quickly when the drums stopped. The Governor looked confused then sighed.
Will started to run through the crowd and shouted "Move!" Just as Jack began to drop to his death, Will threw his sword and stopped Jack from falling any farther than he already had. It was a close call as Jack was having a hard time trying to stay on the sword. Will started fighting with the executioner as Norrington and his men ran up to them. Sasuke, Yami, Naruto, and Sakura looked at Kakashi for orders. Kakashi looked calm and said "What are you waiting for?" Sasuke and Naruto smirked as they got out some of their weapons. Sasuke took out his wire while Naruto got some of his smoke bombs ready. "You ready Sasuke-teme?" Sasuke smirked at Naruto and said "Ready when you are dobe."
Sasuke and Naruto headed for the marines that were trying to stop Will. Naruto threw some of his smoke bombs at the navy men and shouted "Sasuke!" "Got it!" Sasuke unraveled some of the wire and threw one end over to Naruto as the two ran toward the men and sent them flying to the ground. Yami and Sakura were about to go help the boys when Kakashi stopped them. "We don't want you two getting your dresses dirty now do we?" He said teasingly. It was true though, instead of Yami's perfered style of clothing, the Commodore and Governor saw fit that any girl should be seen in a dress. 'And to top it off, it's not even black.' Yami thought grumpily.
Will continued to fight off the executioner. Eventually, one of them ended cutting the rope that was keeping Jack hostage. Jack fell to the ground and used Will's sword to cut his binds. Will pushed the executioner into Norrington and his men. As the executioner fell Norrington and men fell with him. Jack took off the rope around his neck and ran for the edged of the fort. Will jumped off the stand and Jack tossed the rope to him. "Come on!" Jack and Will pulled off a similar that Sasuke and Naruto had. They knocked three of the navy men to the ground and ran to the edge of the fort where the alarm bell was.
When they got there however, they became surrounded by Norrington's men. All of them had their guns on them. Jack had his back up against Will's and blew one of the feathers from Will's hat out of his face. Kakashi and his team ran up to the group and stood beside Elizabeth. Norrington walked up to Will and said "I thought we might have to endure some manner of ill-conceived escape attempt." He paused, "But not from you." The Governor came up to them and said "On our return to Port Royal, I granted your clemency." He looked at him sadly and said "And this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with him? He's a pirate." Elizabeth joined her father and stared at Will.
"And a good man." Will said. "If all I've achieved here is that the hangman gets two pairs of boots instead of one, so be it." Elizabeth looked proudly at him. "At least my conscience will be clear." Norrington stared at Will. "You forget your place here Mr. Turner." Will smirked and said "My place is right here, between you and Jack." Elizabeth smiled and walked over beside Will "As is mine." "Elizabeth!" The Governor said surprised. Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other and nodded. They both walked over to the other side of Will and faced Norrington and his men confidently. Kakashi smiled with pried at his two students.
Jack smiled a goofy smile of his own as he looked at the four that were risking their lives for his own. 'This makes me feel so loved and wanted.' He thought. Norrington stared at Elizabeth and said "So this is where your heart, truly lies then?" Elizabeth looked at the commodore and said "It tis." Norrington continued to stare as the Governor said "Lower your weapons." When none of them did so, he said once again "For goodness sake, put them down!" Jack looked up and saw a certain familiar parrot fly away out toward the sea. He then got out from behind Will and said to everyone "Well! I'm actually feeling rather good about this." Everyone stared at him.
Jack walked up to the Governor and said "I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh?" "Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically." He then walked over to Norrington. "I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate." "Know that." As he made his way over to the edge of the fort, he looked back over at Will and Elizabeth. "Elizabeth, it would have never worked between us darling. I'm sorry." "Will." He continued. "Nice hat." Will smiled and nodded. Jack ran up to the edge of the fort and looked over at Kakashi and his four students. "You five, come along, I've got something for you." Kakashi looked surprised, as did his students. His students stared at him, waiting for an answer.
Kakashi started to move forward and his students followed. Yami looked over at Sasuke and said "You mean we're just going to go and jump off the fort?!" Sasuke smiled at her and said, "Something tells me that we aren't going to hit water." Yami looked lost but continued to walk with him up to Jack and their team. Jack looked at Yami and Sakura and said "Darlings, try not to flash anything will you." Yami was about to slap Jack when Sasuke held her back. "Ladies first." Yami walked up to the edge and sure enough, there was the Black Pearl waiting for them. "I don't know Ja-" but didn't get to finish as Jack pushed her over the edge of the fort. She screamed the entire way down until the fishing net the crew had prepared caught her.
Yami got out of the net as Sakura came falling down after her. Once the rest of the team was on the ship, Jack jumped off as well and shouted "Get ready to make sail!" "Aye!" The crew said as one. Jack then looked over at Yami and Sasuke. "I have something for you two, come come, follow me." Yami and Sasuke looked at each other lost, but followed Jack as they were told. Jack took them all the way down to the cellar and grabbed the same bottle of rum he had them try before. He handed it to Sasuke as Jack got two more bottles out, one for Yami and one for himself. Yami and Sasuke looked from their own bottles to Jack. Jack smiled and said "It's times like this that call for rum mates."
Within twenty-five minutes Yami and Sasuke had half their bottles gone and were dancing around in circles laughing and singing. "Drink up me hearties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!" Sasuke spun Yami around one last time before kissing her lightly. She giggled as she hugged him. Jack, who obviously over heard their singing, said "Oh, I love this song! Let's sing it again!" The three formed a circle and began singing and dancing once more. Naruto couldn't help but laugh a little. He had never seen Sasuke this happy before. Kakashi said "You know this is only because of the rum?" Naruto looked up at him and said "Yeah I know, but he just looks so happy."
After Yami and Sasuke had their share of singing and dancing, Jack looked over at the five shinobi-turned-pirates, and said "Well mates, it's time for you all to go head off back to Port Royal and to old what's-his-face Norrington." Kakashi and his students looked surprised. "I'm sorry mates, but I can't keep ye on here. You belong with much better people than old Jack." With that said, he walked over to Yami and picked her up bridle style and tossed her over the ship. Sasuke, who was now shocked out of his hangover, ran over to the edge of the ship "Yami!" He looked at Jack and said "You're insane! Bloody pirates!" He then jumped in after Yami.
Jack looked to Kakashi and his last two students and said "You all would be much better off staying in Port Royal with dear William and his bonny lass, don't you think?" Kakashi smiled behind his mask and said "Will we be seeing you in the future Jack?" Jack smiled and said "You might." Kakashi then walked over to the edge of the ship and jumped off. Naruto and Sakura quickly followed. Yami, who was being anchored down to the bottom of the sea by her dress was trying to swim back up to the surface. Sasuke swam over to her and helped her back to the surface. She spat a mouthful of water out and stared at her team "What the freakin' crap!?" She then stared after the sailing Black Pearl and shouted "Bloody pirates!!!"
The team was about to swim back to Port Royal, when suddenly out of no where, a girl came flying out of the sky and into the water. When the team had wiped their eye's free of water, they looked to see a rather familiar face. "Haruko!" Yami shouted with happiness. The girl looked at her in shock and shouted just as happily "Yami! Sasu-chan!" Haruko then noticed Sasuke had his arms warped around Yami rather protectively. She got a grin on her face and said teasingly "Aww, Sasu-chan." Sasuke looked at her confused and said "What?" Haruko looked from Sasuke to Yami, who looked confused as well. After a few minutes, Yami started to laugh and said "I get it." "What?"
The two girls started to giggle and Sasuke finally realized what they were talking about and blushed lightly and turned his head. "Took you long enough Sasu-chan." He turned back to her and said "Haruko, how many times must I tell you to not call me that." Haruko just stuck her tunge out, knowing that it would annoy the boy that she considered a brother. Kakashi looked around and said "Well it doesn't look like we will be going back home anytime soon does it?" Naruto folded his arms and said grumpily "I hate to break up the reunion," he paused, then shouted "but can we PLEASE get back to land!?" The others laughed as they swam their way back to Port Royal.