Disclaimers: I don't own Inuyasha.

A/N go easy on me…

Chapter 1. How does she do it?

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A young maiden ran through the dirty, dusty streets. This girl was running away from her past and her future. She did not want anything to do with what the lord of the land had in stores for her. She was a slave. 'Please, please get me away from here!' she pleaded in her mind. THERE! A ship was preparing to set sail! Perfect! If she went aboard, she could leave behind her awful past and have a brighter future! She just has to make sure that she is not seen aboard.. a stowaway.. Yes, that's it! No problem!

She ran towards the ship, as they were boarding passengers. Passengers? That's easy! She can blend in! She walked on the large plank with a big crowed of people slowly walking up, keeping her head straight to not look down in the ice, cold, blue water. 'Keep going, don't look down..' She thought. Her ripped green dress fiddled in the wind as she moved up. She immediately blended in with a family that was walking on. Good! She's on!

Normally, after the ship sets sail, the people come to check for your tickets. It was a strange thing to do, but she did not complain. As soon as she got on, she ran for the lower deck to hide. She didn't want to get thrown off the ship in the middle of the sea! No way! She scurried into a room where there was a lot of crates and hid behind a large one.

"Thank god.. They can't get me now.." She grinned proudly. Around her neck dangled a bright jewel. This jewel belonged to the lord and she stole it. Before it went to him, her family possessed it for many generations until the lord claimed it was his. That was a load of crap! So she stole it. She managed to loose the guards that were chasing after her and now, she's here, hiding.

"Well, it was worth it. My family is dead and I have nothing else here. The only thing that's left is this jewel. And they won't take it from me! I will protect it Mama!" She said quietly to herself.

"Tickets please." A man up on the main deck said, "Tickets please." He repeated. The ship began to set sail. Yes! She could feel the waves of water rocking the boat back and forth. This was going to be great! Well, the girl thought it was going to be great, until it did a sudden stop.

Why the stop? The raven-haired girl stood up form her spot and glared out the tiny crack in the ship. "No! No no no!" she repeated! The lord's men! They were coming to check the ship! Slowly, the girl could feel the ship getting closer to the docks once again. She watched sadly as they placed the wooden plank once again in between the ship and the wooden dock. One by one, they walked onto the ship asking questions about a young girl.

"She has dark hair and eyes and she is wearing a ripped green dress. Have you seen her? Did she come on this ship?" one asked.

The girl gasped. She needed to hide! Where?! Where?!

"I think I might have seen one just like that come on. Go right ahead and search the ship." An old man chuckled, "I don't want any trouble makers upon my ship!" he must have been the captain. He sounded nice enough..

"You men check up on this deck, I'll check the lower deck with you two." One ordered.

The girl swallowed hard. Her heart was in her throat! What was she going to do? "I wish they were gone.. I wish I could hide.. I need a place to hide." She kept whimpering to herself in the blackness of the corner. She fiddled with the jewel nervously around her neck trying to find a spot to hide. She accidentally bumped into a crate knocking it open with ease. "Huh?" she mumbled blinking.

"Hurry up! We have to check this deck then go tell the lord of our news! If she isn't aboard then she must still be in town! Shut down the exits! No one leaves and no one comes in." one man said. She could hear them coming down the stairs with big thumps.

She quickly scrambled into the crate pulling the cover on it closing it tightly. There was a pink glow in the dark space, coming from her jewel. She swallowed hard once again closing her eyes tightly praying to Kami they would not find her.

She could hear their foot steps come closer and closer until they stopped.

"I don't see her." One huffed.

"Keep looking! Look between each crate! We have to make sure she isn't on this ship!" The leader boomed.

"Yes sir!" the men saluted.

The men searched around the room many times. She could hear them go around her over and over again. Thank god! She could hear them leave the lower deck saying things about how the lord was going to be angry and such. Eh, what did she care? She was free! FREE! She giggle at the thought then quickly covered her mouth

One of the men turned back, hearing a slight giggle.

The other man raised a brow up questionably, "What's the matter?"

The solder shrugged his shoulders, "Nothing. I'm just hearing things."

"Alright, then lets be going." He replied shortly walking up towards the deck, behind the leader.

"Coming." The solder followed.

Kagome let out a sigh of relief, 'Yes! I'm leaving! I'm going to go to a new village and start fresh! The only memory I have left of my family is within this jewel. I'm going to protect it as much as I can just like my ancestor Kikyo did.' She thought.

There it was, once again, that feeling of the boat rocking against the waves. Kagome dared not peek out of her crate. She was too much afraid that the solders would come back. Once she knew for sure that she was out in the middle of the sea, then she would be safe. Or so she thought.

The crate Kagome was currently in was not empty. She was sitting in a box full of bottles of… rice whine? How could she fail to notice? She must have been too much deep in thought to notice the bottles or even smell the alcohol. Boy, she wasn't very bright.

.:.:.:. A few hours later .:.:.:.

Kagome huffed bringing her knees up tightly against her chest. "How long has it been?" she asked herself. "So much for freedom.. I'm hungry. And thirsty." She complained. "Well," she glared around herself, "I'm surrounded by sake and I'm complaining of being thirsty?" She sighed. " But if I drink that stuff I'm probably going to be sick."

Her head shot up hearing a door slam open hitting the wall.

"I be coming back with sake! Not to worry, how are they going to notice one bottle missing?" she could hear a man chuckle. It sounded like a crewmember.

Heavy foot steps made their way towards the crates, "Lets see.. ramen, potatoes, bows, arrows, fish, flour, carrots? Ah! Here's a crate! Sake!" The man laughed. He stood in front of a rather large wooden box that had the word "SAKE" plastered on the top of it.

Kagome's heart was in her throat. Was he in front of her? Oh no.. Please no! Not this one! Anyone but this one! Why couldn't she be in a crate full of potatoes?! She cursed mentally to herself about her luck. Her stomach let out a loud growl indicating how hungry she really was. Kagome narrowed her eyes sighing even more.

A cracking and churning noise caught her attention. Light flowed within the crate in a matter of seconds! The cover was tossed aside landing with a thump on against the wooden deck. Uh oh, she was spotted. A man wearing blue and white sailor clothing gawked down at Kagome, "Who are you?!" He roared.

"I'm Kagome Hig—"

"You're the woman the men were looking for!" He shot.

"U-uh! No I'm not! See I got lost while coming aboard and uh.. I ended up here in the end!" Lies. She was lying through her teeth! Her heart was pounding so incredibly hard, she hoped that the man had not noticed the sound.

He growled shooting dark glares at her, "Show me your ticket." He said roughly.

"Ticket?" Kagome echoed. "See, about that. On the way down here I dropped my tic—"

"STOWAWAY!" The man yelled.

"What?! NO! YOU'VE GOT IT ALL WRONG!" Kagome yelled nervously. Before she could 'explain' herself, the man had gripped her left arm tightly, dragging her out of the crate, towards the stairs leading up on the deck.

"You know what we do with stowaway's girly?" He grinned.

Kagome beamed one of her finest smiles; trying to convince him that she wasn't a bad person at all! "No, I don't sir."

He chuckled, "We throw them overboard! We don't like paying any fees for stowaways to go into another village freely. We're going to toss you off the ship and watch you drown!"

"W-what?! I'm sure you must be mistaken! Oh! I think I see my ticket!" the girl cried pointing to the floor.

"Oh do ya?" He laughed.

He continued to drag Kagome away to the stairs. Kagome struggled against his grasp, "Lemme go! Lemme go!" She whimpered.

"I think not wench."

They had finally made it on the top deck. There were many decent people on board with children and such. Kagome's heart was in her throat realizing what was going to happen next. 'They're going to throw me over board' she thought, frightened.

"Lets go girl." The man snapped yanking her towards the side of the ship.

Kagome slammed into the railing getting the wind knocked out of her.

"Now wench," the man lifted Kagome up, "Time for you to—"

A loud noise that sounded like a canon being shot, erupted through the air. The man had dropped Kagome on the deck in shock. The boat began to shake as they felt the impact of the canon ball.

"SOUND THE ALARMS! PIRATES BE AHEAD!" The captain roared.

All the passengers screamed and cried running around the main deck. Kagome began to tremble, "P-pirates.." She stuttered running to the bow of ship to see.

The pirate ship grew closer and closer to the boat. This was not good! She'd rather be dead than tortured by pirates! "Oh god, why didn't you kill me when you had a chance?" Kagome groaned. She was snapped out of her thoughts when another canon was shot, blowing a big hole on the starboard side of the ship.

"ARM THE CANONS! FIRE!" The captain yelled. At least they tried to defend themselves.

The pirates ship was much larger then this puny little boat. It had, surprisingly, beautiful sails, large canons, a big crew.. Wait, a big crew? That crew had just shot flaming arrows at their sails! Kagome screeched, "FIRE!!" She dashed towards the stairs leading to the lower deck. The pirates began to board the ship sneering and shooting passengers.

"Arrows. I need a bow and arrows.." Kagome mumbled running down the stairs.

"HURRY UP MEN!" The pirate captain yelled, "Take all their goods and as many women as you want." He chuckled.

"YEAH!" All the filthy demons shouted diving towards the ship.

"So, Inuyasha, do you think this ship will have what we need?" A man asked. He had dark hair pulled back into a low ponytail and he held a monk staff in his left hand.

"Yep. I can smell it. This ship has ramen and a whole lot of other shit too." He laughed, "Once we get all their things, we'll head towards the main village. It's only a few hours away. Its been said that the shikon jewel is there. The 'lord' should supposedly have it."

"Oh? How fortunate for us." The monk smirked.

Kagome had bursted into the room where she had hid for many hours from everyone. "Bow and quiver!" She squealed. She ran up to one of the crates taking off the wooden covers, "AHA!" She pulled out a bow and quiver in triumph. "I have them now."

"Ehehehehe, looky what we 'ave 'ere Smith" A buccaneer chuckled behind Kagome.

Smith smirked, "A young maiden. And she is beautiful too. She's mine! Ya hear Merick!"

"What! That's not fair!" Merick snapped.

Kagome barked, "None of you are going to get me!" She was stringing an arrow back tightly, "So leave me alone!" She snapped letting it go towards the two men.

Smith and Merick turned their attention back to Kagome; a bright pink arrow had flown towards Merick at lightning speed. He was not so fortunate and was struck. It went right through his chest! One simple arrow was all it took to kill him. Merick yelped begging Smith to help him, until he turned to ashes.

Smith howled, "YOU KILLED MERICK! YOU'VE TEMPTED YOUR FATE! —" Smith yelped as well, he stared down at his chest, a whole, there was a large whole. Kagome's arrow purified the demon man.

"I hate pirates." Kagome seethed. She clutched her bow tightly; "Now to defend this ship!" She jogged by the two demons, or, at least what was left of them, which happened to be ashes, and up the stairs towards the main deck.

A gasp escaped her lips. Blood was everywhere, children and parents slaughtered.. Women were screaming at the touch of the demons. "LET THAT GIRL GO!" Kagome yelled at one of them.

The fire on the sails had grown and spread. A pack of men had run by her to go to the lower deck to retrieve the crates of food. "Oh my god.." Kagome muttered. She pulled an arrow out and began to purify every demon in sight.

Women all gathered in a group and more demons seemed to come out of nowhere. "Is there no end?" Kagome frowned. She reached for another arrow but realized that she was out. "No.."

The flames had dropped from the sails to the deck. Kagome squeaked, the flames grew closer to her!

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!"

"SOMEONE HELP US!"

"PLEASE HELP!"

"AHHHHHH!"

Kagome could hear the screaming women in the background. "This can't be happening!"

All the women were cornered by the fire and demons. One by one, the demons plucked a girl from the mob dragging her to the ship. The men below deck had taken all the food and weapons and now, Kagome was left there to burn.

"Well well well. Looks like a vixon.." A pirate sneered.

Kagome gasped. "Stay away!"

"Hm, no, I think not. You look much like the woman I had many years ago and I liked her. No, you are not she but what will it matter? I will take you and bring back old memories, girl with the spiritual powers."

Kagome backed up, but only succeeded in getting burned. She winced at the burning sensation.

"Hiten! LETS GO!" The monk yelled.

"Huh? I'm coming!" Hiten snickered grabbing Kagome by the waist. "Lets go sweet cheeks." He said leaping towards the ship.

Kagome screamed and kicked, "LET ME GO YOU FILTH!"

Hiten chose to ignore her doing one final leap off the burning wreck and landing softly on his own. "Now bitch, you will obey my every command."

"How about NO!" Kagome snapped she put her hands on his face letting her powers blow him away.

Hiten was struck with a bright and powerful spiritual light. It had pushed him back and made him receive quite a few burns. "BITCH!"

Kagome had landed on the deck roughly groaning, "Ow.. My bum…"

Loud footsteps walked towards her. Kagome could feel a cold chill go up and down her spine. Her fears were realized when she was picked up by her arm by the captain.

"Wench! So it was you!" He snarled as Kagome trembled in fear. "You were the one who killed half of my men and just injured one of my best fighters!"

Kagome got out of his grasp frowning, "Well they got what they deserved! You despicable demon! You were killing children and families! You could have just taken the food and left! You didn't have to burn down the ship!" She shot back angrily. "You are a big jerk you know that!" She placed her hands on her hips.

Inuyasha was taken back by her attitude. No one had ever yelled at him like that. No one! He snarled at her like a dog about to give her a piece of his mind until he began to sniff the air. He turned his attention back to some of his men. They were chucking sake at the burning ship! What the hell did they have for a brain?! "YOU IDIOTS! DON'T DO THAT!" He roared, "MIROKU! SET SAILS! WE NEED TO GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HERE! THE THING IS GOING TO BLOW!"

The drunken men chucking the sake turned around to meet gazes with some very angry crewmembers.

"Good for nothing—"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" They both yelled as they were thrown overboard.

The captain spat, "I hated those two anyways. Always the cause of trouble.."

"Captain!" Miroku shouted, " Our numbers of men are low, we'll need to go regroup more!" He wanted to add: 'And could you stop throwing them over board?' But didn't.

"Oh? Is that so? I wonder why." He gazed over at Kagome evilly. He shrugged, "Miroku, go and get the crew in order! We have to leave now before we all die of a freak accident because our drunken men were throwing SAKE at a ship in FLAMES does that show you anything Miroku?!" He cracked his knuckles, "Will I have to repeat myself?"

"NO CAP'N!" Miroku saluted, "You wimpy troops heard the Cap'n! LETS GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Miroku boomed ordering the crew to set the sails, hoist the anchor etc. The bowsprit pointed away from the burning ship, slowly beginning to drift off with the help of the wind.

Inuyasha smirked proudly, "Now that's how it's done." He quickly turned his attention back to Kagome. She was currently tip toeing away but failed miserably. "Where do you think your going?" Inuyasha mocked, grabbing her by her long raven locks. "Why don't you watch as the ship you once sailed on, blows up!" He tugged her towards the railing on the main deck, throwing her into it.

That's the second time it happens in not even an hour, but that's all right, more devastating things were happening! Kagome gasped in horror, the vessel was up in flames. She could make out some forms on the craft, most likely pirates, children and some men. Kagome screeched when the ship had finally blown up. She covered her eyes crying silently and cursing every pirate on this deck.

Especially the captain.

Inuyasha just chuckled amusingly, not affected at all. "You humans are truly a piece of work! Weak, full of emotions, easy to break—"

"YOU JERK!" Kagome shrieked blasting the captain with a bright pink beam.

Inuyasha yelped getting shocked by the immense spiritual powers. "You B—"

"—Jerk!" Kagome yelled shocking him again.

The whole crew stopped their current actions, watching in amazement as their captain was currently getting his butt kicked by a very angry Kagome. "JERK! SELFISH CRUEL JERK!" She kept yelling over and over again.

'Damn it! I can't be seen like this, getting beaten up by some human wench! I need to get off my ass!' The captain thought. He opened one eye slowly standing to his feet, gaining his balance back. "Miroku! Get her! Hold her back!" Inuyasha commanded.

Miroku had nodded rushing over to Kagome's side. She was out of control. Good thing he was a human, because if he weren't, the shocks he would be receiving would be indeed stronger. He had managed to hold her back and knock her out cold in one swift move. She was a strong priestess, indeed.

Once the bright shocking ceased, the dog demon stood, shaking off the chills he was receiving. "Damn that chick. She's priestess!" He glared angrily at his crew, "What the hell are you pieces of shit ogling at?! GET BACK TO WORK!" He snarled. "MIROKU!"

Miroku groaned in annoyance, he placed Kagome down gently, rushing up to his captain, "Yes Cap'n?"

"Take that wench down to the prison cells. She is off limits to everyone! Ya hear! I want someone guarding her!"

"Yes sir!" Miroku saluted,

"What?!" A demon complained. Hiten approached the two, "That's not fair! I claimed that wench first!"

"You dare question my orders Hiten? After what happened to your brother? I do believe he's still recovering from my little outburst, hmm?" He laughed tauntingly, "You heard me! She's off limits. So get back to work before you end up joining your brother in the infirmary." He whistled.

Hiten froze in place, nodding, "Y-yes captain!" He turned on his heals and went back to his job, which happened to be to tighten the sails with a few other demons while others mopped up the deck. Hiten was not injured enough to go to the infirmary. He just had some minor burns. Nothing serious… Sadly.

Miroku gripped Kagome around her waist and around her thighs. He carried her bridal style towards the stairs leading to the lower deck. "My my, you are a feisty one, maybe…..Nah!" Miroku shook his head. He reached the bottom deck and the prison cell. "Have a nice rest miss." He mumbled placing her down in a cell. He walked out locking the door. 'Ok now to find a guard' He thought.

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Inuyasha: Gods Miroku, where do you recruit the men from?! Throwing SAKE at a ship like that…

Miroku: -blinks- I get them from a certain bar down south.. They are pretty strong and—

Inuyasha: and pretty stupid!!! Are you insane?! A BAR?! You're hopeless…

Miroku: what?? I thought it was a great place at the time.. but then again, I think I was drunk at the time -laughs sheepishly-

Inuyasha: oh great…. Just great… next time, I'm getting the crew…