Beneath the Rough Chapter 2: The Ropes, an inuyasha fanfic

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Chapter Two: The Ropes.

Kagome had been here for about two days, just sitting in Sango's room in silence, starring out the window, thinking. About her brother, mother, and father. She didn't eat, just left the room to go to the bathroom. She was miserable.

And this morning, Sango had decided it was time for her to get to learn about the ship.

Kagome glanced around the deck. Men everywhere. She recognized one or two as the people who had pillaged where she used to live. Others worked hard and stopped to look at her when she walked by. She could see the lust in their eyes. She knew they probably haven't had a woman in a long time.

"... and that up there is the crows nest," Sango said, glancing to the occupied Kagome,"Are you listening to me?" Sango questioned.

Looking to her 'friend' giving her the tour of the ship. She nodded an approval at her 'friend'. She wasn't too sure about this Sango. Yeah, she was nice and all, but Kagome didn't know her. And after all she was apart of a fleet of dangerous pirates. Pirates that killed her brother.

Kagome looked around and saw the tower at the end of the ship. She knew it was the wheel house, but it looked more... elegant, sophisticated, if you will. She tapped Sango on the shoulder and pointed to the wheel house, asking in her silent way if the Captain was up there.

"Yeah, if he's not down here, or at the galley, he's up there," Sango said, confirming her thoughts.

She knocked her head that way, asking to go up there.

Sango shrugged,"Your funeral. Good luck, I gotta go," Sango said and walked off to a man in a small ponytail, working the ropes of the sails.

Turning on her heel after watching Sango walk away, Kagome headed off to the wheel house. She was gonna give Inuyasha a piece of her silent mind.

Stepping up the stairs to the wheel house where Inuyasha was, Kagome thought, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind. He should know how much i've left behind... Even though it wasn't much. But the memories, so strong. All of Mom and Dad, and Souta.

Kagome reached the top of the twisting stairs, not being able to see the deck in the windowless staircase. Only beautifully portraits of the ocean and ships. She looked at the door that ended the staircase.

Captain Inuyasha Takeda

Was the engraving in dark gold over the lighter gold in the door. This is it... Kagome thought and gently tapped on the door.

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Inuyasha watched out the giant window of the wheelhouse. He watched his men work furiously from dawn to the middle of the day. The sun beat down from overhead and he could see most of his men with their shirts wrapped around their sun burnt bodies.

Around ten o'clock during the morning, he saw her. She waslked onto the deck with his third mate Sango. She looked very detached from the world. She was kidnapped by pirates, of course she's a little detached, Inuyasha thought to himself.

He watched her for a while, she walked around the ship behind Sango. From the looks of things Sango was giving her a tour of the ship, witch the girl had no intention of paying attention to.

After about two hours, Sango turned to the woman to talk to her, he saw the girl point to the wheelhouse, and Sango nodded her head in a 'no' format, then shrugged and walked to Miroku. She pecked him on the cheek and the girl began to walk wearily towards the wheelhouse, dodging men as they ran from deckside to deckside to work the sails to the wind.

What is she doing? Inuyasha thought curiously. She disappeared below him, and he could hear her walking up the steps. She was light and delicate with her steps.

Next thing Inuyasha new, there was a light tapping at the door. He growled. "What?" He snarled, his voice vicious.

His only response from the other side of the door was heavy breathing.

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When he had snarled, Kagome's breathing picked up. What am I doing? She questioned herself. This was crazy, he could kill her, no problem.

She breathed harder, hypoventilating now, Kagome wanted to cry, she was terrified, but there was no going back. She needed to confront the man at the head of her agony, her silence.

"What?" She heard again through the door, muffling it. She could tell he was not as pissed as he sounded before.

Taking a deep breath, she opened the door enough for her to fit through and shut the door once inside the room.

Inuyasha was still taken aback by her beauty. Long onix hair, deep chocolate eyes, and her body, oh, the gods, her body was perfect. Nice curves in all the right places. Her chest was full and lucious, and her skin a just right tan.

Beautiful, Inuyasha's demon agreed. She was beautiful.

Kagome lifted her gaze to her captor. He was very handsome. Snowy white hair, golden pools for eyes, and a stong, muscular physiche.

Perfect, Kagome thought luciously. She quickly shook her head. This was her kidnapper, not her lover, friend, or anything of the sort.

Kagome looked Inuyasha in the eye, and stepped toward him until she was standing right infront of him, fear coming off of her in waves.

He leaned forward, his face inches from hers,"What ya' want, Bitch?" Inuyasha snarled, his voice holding authority and the means to scare.

Kagome shook, his hot breath fanned her face. She swallowed once, and taking a deep breath, lifted her hand and slapped him. Her body rotating as she did, and his head snapped to the side from the force.

Breathing hard, Kagome realized what she had done. It had felt great, her anger taken out on him, without words.

He snarled at her, and raised his head to loom over her dangerously, and Kagome shrank back. He backed her in to the wall, cornering her. He left barly enough room between them.

He rose his hand and smacked her, right across the face, and she fell to the ground from the force. He kicked her up to the wall and grabbed her arms and pinned her inches above the ground against the wall, the force of his hands on her arms were sure to bruise.

Kagome let the tears fall. He pushed her up against the wall, his body against hers, and whispered in her ear,"Don't you ever do that again, Bitch. Do you hear me? Never." Inuyasha growled in her ear.

She nodded her head and he dropped her, the clatter was loud as she was not expecting the sudden drop and fell on her side. She pushed herself up on her hands to look at him. He was shaking with rage.

She rose to her feet, the tears coming faster now. She was in pain. Her torso burned and her face stung. She went to the door and ran out, slamming the door behind her.

Now maybe she will respect me, his demon thought, wanting her submissive and his human side screamed he was in the wrong. He wasn't suppose to disrespect a lady. He was taught better, his human argued.

That changed when Mother died. Inuyasha thought sourly. He was a pirate now. He needed to respect no woman. Well, Sango was an exception. She was a pirate.

Well, was he right?

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Kagome cried as she ran past the men on the deck, they stopped to watch her as she disappeared down the short hallway of rooms above deck, straight to Sango's room.

Sango watched and came to realization. She glared to the wheelhouse to see Inuyasha steering the giant wheel of the boat, she flipped him off and kissed her Miroku again, and, without a word, ran after Kagome.

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Kagome flung herself of her bed. She cried as Sango walked into the room, and sat next to her. She curled into a ball, her hands over her face, and cried hard.

Sango place her hand on Kagome and the poor girl flinched away from the gesture. She was tramatized.

Crying into her hands, Kagome's body hurt more, she could feel the bruises forming on her sides and arms. Her face hurt and she was sure that was swollen and bruising, too.

Placing her arms around the girls' shoulders, Sango leaned from her sitting poise to leaning gently on Kagome and closed her eyes. She cried with Kagome. '

Inuyasha could be so cruel, she didn't forget the night he had brought Kagome to the ship. He called her a whore. It was true. She was a whore. Before she was on the ship, Sango had to sell her body to provide for her brother, Kohaku.

She remembered those days. Her and Kohaku lived in a small house next to the ocean on the north side. She sold herself to many men for money. She wasn't proud of it. She cried constantly and her brother wanted her to stop, but she couldn't. That was their only income for money.

She couldn't get a normal job, she was too young. She was only sixteen, taking care of her brother and herself. She was seventeen now. Her fiance was the one who had found her one night. She was on the side of the street for the last time. Her brother had died the night before and she just needed this money to pay for a proper burial, and she would be gone.

But Miroku had luckily found her first and led her to the ship, convinsing her he would pay her for sex. They didn't have sex. Instead he talked to her, finding out why she was out on the streets. Once he had found out, he paid for the burial of her brother and began to court her.

And once she was comfortable with him, it was about a week later, he asked her to travel with him as a pirate. At first she was shocked that such a nice man could be a ruthless pirate. But non the less, she agreed. She met Inuyasha and had been on the ship ever since.

Miroku asked her to marry him about a month ago, and she agreed. They were to be married in another two months.

Kagome racked with more sobs, her body hurting more and more. She had acknowledged Sango holding her, and took the gentle act of kindness for her comfort and the girls cried together.

Slowing down with her sobs Kagome sat up with Sango and hugged her, giving her body language for a 'thank you'. She shyed her head to the side, only showing the side of her face not bruised by the brutal slap by the Captain.

"Did he hurt you, Kagome?" Sango questioned looking her friend in the eye.

Saying nothing, Kagome bit her lip. She should know, he is her captain. Kagome debated for a second and then flipped her arms over, showing the blacked bruises. She turned her face to look at Sango and showed her the yellow and purple bruise on her cheeck.

Sango gasped in shock, Inuyasha had never hit a woman and left marks. She gingerly took Kagome's injured arms into her hands, running her fingers over the bruises.

These weren't the normal black and blue bruises, they were in all literal senses, black. She stopped running her hands over the bruises when Kagome flinched when she applied to much pressure to the tender bruises.

Sango released Kagome's arms and went to her face, touching the yellow-purple bruise on her cheeck. Again, Kagome flinched. Even the slightest touches seemed to hurt.

Kagome pulled Sango's hand away. She untied the middle of her corsette. She pulled it apart, revealing her bra and her ribs. They probably where the worst. She was swollen all around and the bruises were blacker than the ones on her arms. Sango couldn't see any of Kagome's creamy tan skin on her chest.

Sango touched her ribs, and she quietly cried out with pain. It was a sound of pain and then hissing. Her right ribs were broken from the looks of things. Tears welled in Sango's eyes'.

The second and third ribs were broken. Sango could see that. That part of her ribcage was more swollen than the rest.

"Gods, I'm so sorry, Kagome," Sango cried an gently hugged her friend around the neck, not touching her body to her chest.

That bastard, Sango thought, rage building more and more in her. She released Kagome and stood.

"Kagome, my fiance, Miroku, he's an ex-Monk. He was a good healer. Do you mind if he patches you up?" Sango questioned.

Kagome nodded. She gritted her teeth, she could feel the burning pain in her ribs. She gently laid herself down, being carful of her sides, and laid on her back.

"M'kay," Sango said, and walked to the door. She left the room and walked to the deck.

"Miroku," Sango called,"Miroku!"

Miroku looked up from his current job of tieing the sails. He wiped his forehead and looked to the searching Sango. "Over here!" He yelled and she made her way to him, her face tear streaked, and eye's red.

"Sango, my love, what wrong?" He questioned, hoping she wasn't hurt.

"Inuyasha," She cried,"He hurt her, Miroku. She's all bruised, she has two broken ribs... How could he?" She whispered and nestled herself into his bare chest.

"Who? Who did Inuyasha hurt, love?" Miroku inquired.

"Kagome, the villager we got from the last town. Her name is Kagome." Sango clearafied. Miroku had only seen her once when they first put her on the ship.

"He broke her ribs..." Miroku was seething with rage. It was not right to hit a woman. He broke her ribs! "I'm going to have a word with him, right now," Miroku said, menacingly. He was pissed.

"No!" Sango argued,"Kagome needs you right now, she's in pain. Please Miroku, help her now, deal with Inuyasha later." Sango said, pleading in her voice and screaming to him with her eyes.

"Of course," Miroku said, calmly. He needed to cal down to see Kagome. If he was too riled up when he saw her in her state, he just might go mad enough to kill Inuyasha.

"Thank you," Sango whispered, pecking him on the lips.

"Where is she?" Miroku asked.

"My room," Sango responded.

He nodded his head once, and then left his station, telling Kenji to finish up for him. They walked down the small hallway and came to Sango's door.

He opened the door and heard soft crying. He went to Kagome's bedside and heard the door shut behind him and Sango was standing beside him.

"Are you ok?" Miroku questioned, warily.

"She's mute, Miroku." Sango said.

"Oh, was that Inuyasha's doings too?" Miroku said sourly.

"No, now help her, she's in pain," Sango said desperately.

Miroku sat onthe bed next to Kagome and looked at her. Her corsette was opened and he could see the damage. No skin was there, just the black bruising wrapping around her. He looked at her face and saw a yellow-purple bruise on her cheeck. He looked at her arms and wanted to cry. Her arms were imprinted with Inuyasha's fingers. You could see a perfect outline of his hand.

Cursing to himself, Miroku touched her right visibly broken rib and she cried out loudly in agony. He and Sango winced.

"Sango, go grab my meds bag and two little green plants on my windowsill. They'll help the pain," Miroku instructed and Sango was out the door.

"Kagome, can you hear me?" Miroku asked, she looked like she was sleeping.

Kagome opened her eye's to his voice and nodded.

"You broke two ribs, Kagome. It'll be ok," Miroku whispered.

Sango jogged back into the room with the med bag in hand and the green plants Miroku had asked for. Miroku nodded his thanks and took them from her.

He began to bring out a white bandage, needles, bottles of liquid and pill medications, and a bowl and thick stick for mashing. He took the plants and ripped off a couple of leaves and handed Sango the rest of the plant.

"Kagome, open your mouth, I need you to swallow these for me, they taste bad," Miroku said and he placed the leaves in Kagome's mouth and she ate them.

They tasted like throw up. She gagged and swallowed the vile tasting plant, and cringed. She felt an immediate numbness and calm take over her body. She went limp.

"Is she ok, Miroku?" Sango questioned worriedly.

Miroku grimmaced,"Besides the beating she sustained, and the broken ribs, she's fine. She can't feel anything now." Miroku informed.

"Mmm..." Sango said, she accepted that.

Miroku spent two hours bandaging Kagome. He would turn her over, and wrap it around her. He was very careful of the bruises and the broken bones.

Sango had fallen asleep on her bed. Miroku had to wake her up. Before he did he looked at her face. She looked relaxed, peaceful, and he dreaded to wake her from the slumber.

"Sango, my love, wake," Miroku called, shaking her slightly.

"Huh- what?" Sango said as she awoke and yawned, sitting up on the bed.

"You need to tie Kagome's corsette," Miroku said, casually.

Blushing furiously, Sango whispered,"I don't know how."

Miroku went ram-rod straight. "Are you serious," Miroku asked, increduisly.

"Well, I've never really worn a dress, Miroku," Sango murmurred.

Then that only meant one other person on this ship knew how to tie a crsette. And it wasn't a woman.

Sango slowly came to that realization that that one other person was the very man that had put Kagome in this position: Inuyasha.

"Please, Miroku, we can't do that to her! If she wakes up and he's tieing her corsette, that doesn't paint a very pretty picture to Kagome." Sango griped, sourly.

"We have to, he was a gebtleman before he was a pirate," Miroku said.

He remembered when his friend was in love with the fair maiden, Kikyou. He remebered the days at the parties when Inuyasha would take Kikyou in the back room for a quick love session. He fixed her hair, and tied her corsette for her.

"He's our only option," Miroku urged, this was the only way. Miroku wanted Kagome to keep something from her old life. And he didn't want her in pirate clothing.

"Fine," Sango agreed grudgingly.

They walked to the door and to the captains room. It was around four o'clock.

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Inuyasha sprawled onto the bed, taking a break from steering the ship. He allowed Quin to take over for a while. He looked at the roman numbered clock. It read 3:45.

Inuyasha looked up to the ceiling. He wanted to think, he needed to let loose. He was going to talk to his demon and human side. They were like two different sides of him. Friends, if you will, that he could talk to. They were two different people. And they made up the two of the three sides of him, Demon, Human, and Hanyou. He could talk to them and not worry about eavesdropping.

He let his mind loose.

'What were you thinking?!,' His human screamed at him,'She's never going to trust you know,' It grumbled.

'Why would I need to have her trust?' His Hanyou grouched back.

'You don't need her trust. You want it, crave it.' His demon pointed out.

'No, I do not,' His Hanyou argued.

'Yes, you do. It's all you want. Her trust, her love, and most of all, her,' His human agreed with his demon.

'I do not. I don't even know her name,' Hanyou tried, wanting it to be all a lie.

"Learn it. You might be screaming it later.' His demon smirked.

'I don't, and I won't.' His Hanyou hollered.

'Get over Kikyou, Hanyou,' His human urged,'It's been to long. And Demon and I didn't love her like we love that girl.'

'What's this 'we' shit, do you have a mouse in your pocket?' His Hanyou snarled.

'No,' His demon declared,''We' as in Human, me, and you, Hanyou.'

'No, I don't love her, like her, or want her trust, drop it!' His hanyou growled lowly in warning.

'Don't you feel bad you hurt her, Hanyou? Did you see the fear, smell it, even? What about the blackening marks on her arms, and face?' His human whispered, hurt.

Inuyasha was awake in a second by the pounding at his door.

"What?" He snarled rudely.

The door opened an revealed Miroku fallowed by Sango.

He sat up on his bed, his legs over the edges and his elbows resting on his knees, apart, and rested his head in his hands. By the way Sango smelled pissed, and Miroku was on the verge of a killing spree.

"We need you help," Miroku ground out.

"With," Inuyasha drawled, wanting him to continue.

"We need you to tie Kagome's corsette," Sango finished for her fiance.

Inuyasha shot up from the bed, comming face to his friends. "Who's 'Kagome'?" Inuyasha questioned.

Groaning, Sango explained,"The girl you brought on the ship. Her name is Kagome."

"What happened to her corsette to become untied," Inuyasha growled, glaring at the perverted monk.

"I had to bandage her up, Inuyasha. You broke two of her ribs, bruised her arms and left a nice blackened hand print on her face." Miroku ground out again. "Are you proud of yourself?" He snarled.

Inuyasha went on the defense immediately. "In fact I am," He lied,"Maybe she learned not to fuck with me and get in my face. The ropes." Inuyasha snarled, louder than any human could.

"Just tie her fucking corsette, Inuyasha, and we will tell her not to mess with the 'Great Inuyasha' when she wakes up. She'll be in enough pain, let her deal with fearing you too," Sango stated.

Inuyasha growled and left the room to walk to Sango's. Maybe if he did this nice dead for her, she would get off of his back.

Inuyasha cracked open the door and walked in, locking the door behind him. He walked over to the bed and saw Kagome lying on her back in a deep sleep, her corsette was opened wide and he saw the bandaging. At the edge of the bandaging on her chest he saw dark black bruises. He looked at her face and saw the blackening bruise there, too. Her kneeled next to her bed and lifted her arm gently and looked at the bruises. He sighed.

Inuyasha tied her corsette quickly, tieing the corsette a little tight on purpose. He saw her gasp and her eyes flutter open to look at him. She couldn't move from the pain killer, but he could see and smell the fear. He grinned sadistically,"Maybe you didn't learn the ropes yet, but dont't fuck with me, bitch. You could get yourself killed." He spoke to her dryly,"Do you understand?"

Kagome closed her eye's and nodded a little. This was going to be a long life.

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