InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Skull and Crossbones ❯ Chapter 2 Slipping into Past Ways ( Chapter 2 )

Skull and Crossbones

By Lor

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' .... ' thoughts

" ..... " dialogue

~ ...... ~ flashback

Without further Adieu...

Chapter 2

Slipping into Past Ways

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(Re-cap)

"Come on Bobby time to wake up! You have work that needs to be done today!" she said walking over to him. Sango stood beside him and looked down at his slightly pale face. "Bobby?" she gently rested a hand on his cheek, brushing away a few strands of his pale brown hair from his face. 'Cold?' Her eyes went wide as she quickly checked his body for a pulse, feeling none she let out a scream, "HE'S DEAD!"

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June 30th, 1766 Antigua Island, Caribbean

"Itoko, I am heading out for the afternoon, perhaps I will walk along the beach or the wharf. I shall return in time for supper," Erin announced to her cousin, Dawn, over lunch as the noon day sun filtered in through the windows along the northern wall. Dawn nodded, "I am aware of how you dislike having an extended stay on land, but..." Erin let out a sigh as Dawn paused. "You're going to say that I should get used to being on land, that I'll never be married if I'm always at sea. That I should marry a nice gentleman from the Royal Navy, get pregnant and live as a house wife to raise seven or eight for the rest of my life," Erin said as she raised her left eyebrow, "Am I correct?" Dawn shook her head which caused a few soft tendrils of her light brown hair fell loose from its clip to frame her delicate face. "That's not what I was going to say but it works," she answered with a small smile, earning herself a glare from her itoko. "I was going to say that you need to get used to being on land for an extended period of time, for once you marry and have children; you won't have the freedom that you have now. It wouldn't be safe or healthy to keep small children on a ship for months at a time." Erin rolled her golden brown eyes, "Who said I was ever going to have children or even marry? Perhaps I'll decide to just wed the sea, going wherever the waves took me," she said gesturing her hands towards the window that had a view of the bay. Dawn took the cloth napkin off her lap and set it on the table beside her dishes, "If that's what you desire, I will not stop you," she pushed back her chair and stood. "If you forsake love that may come your way, then you will end up living a lonely life," she finished before she left the dining room.

"Humph," Erin grumbled to herself as she finished off a luncheon roll. `Why should I listen to her? She lives here with me basically alone herself. Promising herself to a Captain in the Royal Navy,' she pushed her chair back and left the room, heading for the back gardens. `She hasn't heard from him in three months, like that relationship will last. Dawn will just end up moping around all the time.' Erin walked to the back gardens, her boots dug into the dirt pathway with her long pink cotton skirts blew around her legs. When she reached the edge of the gardens she leaned on the fence that divided their property from the beach. Her arms were crossed resting on the inner support of the fence her white gloved hands dangled on the outer side of the fence as a gentle salty sea breeze blew at her hair, which she had left down to flow on her back. `How I miss the sea....' she thought with a sigh as she watched a few small children skip around in the surf rolling onto the beach. A small smile appeared on her face, `Perhaps the pirate Kagome Higurashi should make a return before returning to the sea, even if it is only for one night.' After a few more minutes she turned and headed back towards the house, her pace quick, `Yes for one night my true self will appear.'

If she had stayed at the fence for a few moments longer, she would have noticed a large ship enter the bay. One that would interest her greatly, as she had not seen it for four long years; last time she saw it was the day she had helped save the Captain of the vessel from a death at the gallows.

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Antigua Bay, Caribbean

The crew solemnly went about their duties aboard the Shikkon, getting the vessel ready to dock. Just the day before they had buried Bobby, their cabin boy, out at sea. "Work faster! Don't want to land after nightfall do ye?!" the Captain yelled from his stance on the quarter deck. "Couldn't you be a bit more kind to them? Bobby...." "It's a fact of life, Sango. They'll just have to get past it! We need to find ourselves a new cabin boy before we set sail again," Inuyasha said as he tapped his claws on the ship's wheel. "I hate waiting," he grumbled. "I'll go see if I can hurry them along at all. The prospect of having time on land to themselves will hurry them along a mite faster," Sango said with a shake of her head. "Do that." She rolled her eyes and headed down onto the main deck.

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Antigua Island, Caribbean

A few hours passed before the crew of the Shikkon was let off ship. Their orders were to do what ever they wanted as long is it didn't include killing, or a major theft of any kind. "Where's a good place to get a drink?" Inuyasha asked a member of his crew as the crew began to split up on the wharf. "Old Maiden is a mighty good pub inn Captain," the crew member, Juro, answered. Inuyasha nodded his head, "Head off, keep an eye out for a new cabin boy." Juro quickly nodded his head before he headed off with a few others to one of the local whore houses.

Inuyasha turned to look at Sango, she was almost unrecognizable. Instead of her usual outfit she wore a deep green corseted shirt dress that had long tight sleeves which end at a point over her hand, with a deep green ribbon laced through the front of the corset. The bottom of the dress belled out slightly just past the waist then went straight ending at her ankles. Along with the dress, she wore a simple gold chain around her neck, a gift from her younger brother years earlier, and small emerald studs in each of her pierced ears. "What are you looking at?" she snapped at him as she used a hand to tuck tendrils of her hair behind her ear, she had left her hair down for once, letting it flow down on her back. "Nothing, head off do what you like. Meet at the Old Maiden Inn around ten, so we can search for a new cabin boy."

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As twilight fell, Kagome slipped out the back door of the house, a smile on her face. She was free to be her true self, and left her fake identity of Erin Tuwari behind. She slipped over the side fence with ease, landing with a soft thud on the other side as her dark brown almost black calf length boots hit the compacted dirt. The two and a half inch heels of her boots softly dug into the ground as she stepped off as she headed towards the rougher part of the port city. As Kagome walked along she kept a hand on a pistol in a holster attached to her dark brown leather belt. `Finally a chance for release.....won't have to be all polite and shit, no annoying dresses....' she thought to herself with a cocky half smile.

She looked ahead to see a small group of people heading down the opposite side of the road, heading towards her. `Damn I don't want to get caught by some law abiding citizen!' Kagome quickly looked around and moved into the shadows so she could get into an alley along the side of the road. `This totally sucks,' she thought, she stood with her back pressed against the side of a building along the alley. She pulled her dusty black knee length coat tight around her body to hide her off white shirt, as she didn't want it to stand out against the darkness. A sigh of relief escaped her lips as she heard the last of the group pass by the alley. Kagome stepped out into the center of the alley and with a quick glance she headed farther down it, her hair, kept back with a dark green bandana, swayed as she moved. When she reached the end of the alley, a familiar sign came into view, The Old Maiden Inn.

"Oi, Shippo!" Kagome yelled to one of the waiters in the pub section of the inn. A young teenage boy, with red brown hair, turned his head to see her. His green eyes blinked rapidly in the smoky air as he recognized her. With a jaunty wave he moved through the crowd with fluid agility, his bushy reddish tan tail following behind him. "What ya do'n here? Thought you were sticking under cover for awhile," he asked once he reached her. "Needed a break," Kagome replied with a shrug. "Acting the part of a proper young woman can get to ya after awhile. Three months is way too long." Shippo laughed and shook his head slightly, "Figures you'd be land sick by now. I'm on shift right now so can I get ya a drink before my boss comes out yelling for me talking?" "I'll have my usual on the rocks, maybe some beef stew if there's any left. I'll be over there," she said with a nod of her head in the direction of an empty table at the end of the bar. "Sure, be back in a few," Shippo replied before he headed back into the kitchens to get her a bowl of stew.

Kagome walked through the bar ignoring the looks that the men around her were throwing at her. She was used to that kind of treatment for her outfit. An off white shirt that is too large for her with a slit all the way down to the waist so it showed her white bodice underneath, which conformed to her body showing a hefty amount of cleavage. The sleeves were long and covered all but her finger tips, with a slit up to her wrist, so she could have fluid movement of her wrist. Along with the shirt and bodice, she wore a pair of dark brown almost black breeches that conformed to her figure went down to slightly cover past the heel of her boots. Around her waist, a dark brown leather belt holding up a leather pistol holster and her sword in its scabbard. `You would think these morons never saw a sexy female pirate before,' she thought with a small smile on her lips. Kagome sat down at the bar, slipping her feet up so the heels of her boots could hook onto the bottom rung of the stool. As she waited for her food and drink, she turned in her seat to look around the room, spinning the silver band thumb rings she wore. On the rings were engraved inscriptions in Greek, and if anyone asked her what the meanings were she would simply glare at them.

"Thanks Shippo," Kagome said when he returned with her order. "Not a problem, it's my job isn't it?" he said with a laughing smile as he slid behind the bar. "Anything good happen around here since I came in last?" she asked taking a sip of her drink. "Just the usual drunken brawls, been kinda slow if ya know what I mean," he answered as he slid a whiskey down to a guy a few stools down. "This port needs more excitement, anyone stuck here for a period of time could easily loose it." Just then a bang could be heard outside, it went unnoticed by many of the pubs occupants, but Kagome was one of the few that noticed. Not even a minute later the doors parted to allow a tall silver haired man to enter. Kagome let out a gasp when she recognized him and muttered quietly to herself, "What is that baka doing!? Is Inuyasha trying to get himself captured again!?"

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-Lor

Itoko- cousin

Baka- stupid

Oi- hey