InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Till Death ❯ Ch.3 ( Chapter 3 )

Till Death

Chapter 3

Warning, this one has some gory graphic images at the end.

Inuyasha and Kagome starred at each other in disbelief. Neither could believe that their childhood crush was sitting right in front of them. Inuyasha was the first to snap out of it. "Captain! You don't want me to marry you daughter!" He cried.

"Yeah dad! I mean, I don't even know him, let alone love him!" She yelled in response. She was in disbelief, shock and most of all she was appalled! How could her father expect her to do this? She was close to tears, but years of training to conceal her emotions kept her in check. She was trembling slightly, so slightly that her father didn't notice, Inuyasha did though but chose to ignore her. Her father, ignorant of his daughter's shaking just smiled.

"I know," Her father answered, "I thought this would happen. That's why you two will have a while to get to know each other. I hope the least at least." He said with the same innocent smile on his face. The smile never left his face, even when the two in question jaws dropped.

"And what if we refuse?" Spat Kagome, Inuyasha nodded, agreeing in her statement. He wasn't usually this calm but in front of the captain he tried to be on his best behavior. When he was gone from the captain's sight a lot of things would be broken, that was for sure.

"Well, daughter of mine. You two will both have disrespected my last wishes." He had more to say but Kagome cut him off.

"What the hell do you mean by that, dad?" She demanded, giving an angry glare to the desk, wishing she could kill something right now and the desk looked wasn't that nice. She was sure it wouldn't be missed.

"Watch your language." He said in a warning tone. "That will come after I finish telling you the benefits of this discussion. As I was saying. Not only will you have disrespected my last wishes, you will both loose my ships which you will inherit after my death, but they will go to your brother Sesshomaru, Inuyasha." He growled at the name of his brother. Souta began to loose all traces of his higher class accent and went back to the pirate slang. "You two'll go out to dinner t'night. I'm expecting you t'get to know each other, but nothing s to happen, understood?" He asked arching his thick eye brows. Both nodded in turn. "Now, as I promised, more o'the terms of this arrangement. Ya two'll be wed in three years, `less I happen to get in an unfortunate accident before hand. If ya two catch my drift." He answered. "You two'll get around three months a'for you gotta get hitched. If ya fail wit' this arrangement, then as I said a'for, the ships'll go t'your older brother, Sesshomaru."

Kagome had never personally met this Sesshomaru, but everyone knew of his name and his name had crossed their lips at least once in a life time. From the rumors she heard he was a heartless killer, deathly and calm, like a storm at sea. It was said that he had killed more men than she, herself. She wondered why her father would not put him as a new captain. Inuyasha seemed to wonder the same thing. Souta laughed at their puzzled expressions, "I see ya two are confused, understandably. We all know that Sesshomaru has a heart o'ice. He's a ruthless bas'ard. Daughter, do ya think I hate ya that much?" He asked, humor leaking into his words.

She was speechless, at least her father cared somewhat for her well being. That was something, right? That table was starting to look really good to her. She was being a bitch and she knew it, but everyone deserved freedom. That was one of the main reasons she had become a pirate, to fight for the freedom of all women, to prove they were equals. She couldn't stand to be in the room with he father any more, nor could se stand to even look at him. It was to much, she wanted to grow old as a single woman, die lonely or even die surrounded by her crew and brutal enemies. Those were the wishes of pretty much any warrior, whether it was a samurai, a pirate, or a man in the navy.

"Well, father, if it's okay, I'd like to spend the remainder of my day with Sango and Miroku?" She asked, she had to get out of there.

"Yes, yes. You're free t'go, same t'ya Inuyasha. Enjoy your day." He answered.

"Yes, Cap'n." Inuyasha replied as any good member of the crew would.

"Now, now. You're gonna be the cap'n sooner or later. Ye can drop the formality. Ye can call me either Higurashi or Souta. Which ever ya prefer." He said kindly.

"Thank you, Higurashi." He said it quickly. It felt foreign on his lips, when ever he referred to the captain he usually called him, well, captain. He turned to leave since an uncomfortable silence had seemed to dawn on the room. It seemed Kagome had had the same impulse and was leaving also.

As an after thought the older man called out, "Don't forget you to are to have dinner." He had returned to his noble type sherade and now seemed to be an innocent trader with goods from the new lands. Inuyasha had heard with his sensitive ears, though Kagome seemed to not hear the warning. Inuyasha simply assumed that she had heard and continued the way out.

As they broke through the doors into the cool air of the outdoors. It was a little chilly, being late summer, going onto early fall. Inuyasha leant towards her and whispered into her ear with tight venom in his voice. He was still angry about this whole arrangement. He hadn't even known about it till when the two were informed together. He had just arrived a few moments before her. "Well, wench, haven't changed a bit. Still as ugly as ever. And as much of a suck up, too."

She began to giggle, to anyone around them, it seemed that they were lovers and he was whispering loving words into her ears. She turned to him and said with quiet rage, "I see. Well that's too bad, now ain't in? Cause you're stuck with this ugly suck up." She smirked and continued on. "Glad I get the pleasure of annoying you to death, ass hole."

His oh so clever response was a simple, "Feh." He turned his head up to face the sky. She wasn't as easy to anger as before, that was not good for him. "Well, bitch, it was a pleasure talking with you. Wait," He said, placing a finger on his chin, acting as though he was deep in though, trying to solve a difficult problem, "that's a lie. It was a living hell. Bye bye." He smirked, thinking he had the upper hand with the last word and turned to leave but she grabbed his shoulder and spun him around so she was facing him.

She looked him in the eyes and said in a dangerously low tone, "Listen you jerk, you can talk shit `bout me all you want, but you're stuck with me, that is unless you want the ships to go to your brother, which I know you don't because it's a well known fact that you hate each other's guts, dumb ass. So you know, I will treat you as an equal until you step over that line in which case I swear you'll wish you were dead. So here's you warning: Do not disrespect me with foolish names."

He thought she was done and began to turn but she tightened her grip on his shoulder, she was surprisingly strong for a girl. He looked at her and sighed, "What now, wench?" He had places to be, and he didn't feel like humoring and stupid wench.

"It's Kagome. Ka-go-me. Get it right next time we see each other. You will respect me as you do my father." She quickly went in and pecked him on the cheek. Her lips were cool on his warm cheek. He found it odd how they were only decorated by a thin layer of clear gloss. "Love ya. Bye bye, baby." She said, returning to the roll of his lover. She smirked and walked off. Leaving him gaping like a fish out of water.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~

She decided not to let him get under her skin to much and go find her two best friends, Miroku and Sango. She decided she would ask them if they'd like to spar, to help her blow off some steam. Just because she didn't let Inuyasha anger her to much didn't mean she wasn't thoroughly pissed off. As she walked through the streets, you could swear people saw steam blowing out her ears and her glare, which was currently centered at the ground before her feet, could kill. She was not happy, that was obvious to anyone who crossed her path.

She walked through the town, completely forgetting that it was her birthday and she still had money to spend on her presents. She walked straight through the market area trying to remember where she saw her two friends last. She was walking fast, attempting to correctly end up where she wanted to be.

She must of, however, turned down the wrong street for she came out in an abandoned alleyway. On the left side there was a bar type place with waitresses dressed in small kimonos, serving sake. She could see for there was a large window, opening up the outside world to the small bar. While on the right side there was a brothel. She could hear the fake cries of ecstasy, when women hit their orgasms, or pretended to do so any. It made her gag, what she heard. She had never personally been to a brothel, but she heard horrible stories of what happened in that four walled building.

She stood there a moment, contemplating where she went wrong in her directions when she heard a creek. She spun to face where she had just entered. There, were three men. One was very tall and scrawny, no muscles were on his bones. His hair was cut at the shoulders, it looked as though it had not been brushed yet that day. It was black or dark brown, she couldn't tell from the lighting in the alley. Another was short and pudgy, with hands that reminded her of pigs. His hair was pulled into a small tail at the nape of his neck, with a balding spot on the top of his head. His hair was black or brown with small gray streaks. The last one, who seemed to be the leader was a mix of both, he was tall and large, but this one seemed to not be all fat, a little muscle adorned his arms and legs, though he was no comparison to her. His hair was longer, to the center of his back, braided loosely. Their faces where dark, shaded from the shadows of the alley. The only feature you could see was their white eyes, shining like silver platters reflected from the moon.

They all had disgusting smirks on their faces. `Perverts.' She thought to herself. They were staring at her with lustful eyes, shining with desire. It was silent, the villagers were ignorant to what was happening in the alleyway, three meters away from them. For this Kagome was grateful, easier to do her business this way. The wind blew gently, then all of a sudden, breaking the silence, one started to laugh. The other two soon followed suit. They were all drunk, she could smell it from four meters away, though they seemed to be coming closer, invading her personal space.

"Hey go'geous." One of them slurred, eyes half lidded.

"Wow, that's a pretty big word for one of you idiots." She said with faking stunned.

"Girrrrls got lip." Another said disapprovingly, trying to scare her she supposed.

"Nah, tha's jus' he way o'flirtin' with ya." The last said, continuing the conversation as though she wasn't there.

"I don' wanna force myself onta a lady, bu' if she askin' fo' it." Said the first with a bragging tone.

Kagome was beginning to bore from their drunken conversation, so she decided to put an end to it. She put on a scary smirk, not like it mattered though because they couldn't walk straight, let alone make out her features. "Listen, you guys don't seem so bad, just really drunk. Unfortunately for you guys, I've killed for less." She begin to laugh maniacally. "I would let ya go with a simple hit to the head, but you see I've had a horrible day and a lot of pent up anger so you guys looked like you wouldn't be missed, so…" She trailed off with the same deadly smirk still upon her face.

"Oh, big talk fo' jus' a lil' wen…ch." The man on the right said, smiling like the idiot he was.

"Oh me, oh my, what ever shall I do? I hoped you wouldn't call my horrible bluff. Please take it easy on me." She asked sarcastically. She crouched into a small ball on the ground and pretended to weep. It was honestly the worst acting she had ever done, but she didn't feel like trying at anything right now, and since they were drunk, well she did have to use to the best of her abilities.

The three men were too drunk to be able to tell she was faking, just as she had suspected. One of them decided to make a joke of the girl's terror and answered, "S'all righ'. We won' hur' chya t'much." He began to laugh at his bad joke and the others seemed to just receive comprehension, began to laugh also.

(A/N: In my story pirates don't carry guns, though I am aware that they did, to bad, it's called a fanfic for a reason right?)

Since she was currently being a lady and not a ruthless pirate, she only carried a dagger, but no sword. That was fine with her though, that's all she really needed in this village full of innocents. Her dagger was neatly tucked into her left boot, making easily accessible to grab with her right hand. She grabbed it and continued her fake crying while the men stumbled towards her. Her head was buried in her arms as she let out sobs while giving a bright toothy smile. She looked like the wolf, right before it ate Little Red Ridding Hood's grandmother, she thought to herself, recalling a bed time story her father told her before she went to bed ten years ago.

When they were about ten feet away from her she stopped her cries to look up at them. She faced them with the famous devilish smirk, looking them straight in the eyes. "Fellas, feel honored. You get to die by the hands of Higurashi Kagome." She laughed before tossed her dagger with speed and strength at the leaders gut. Her accuracy was to perfection as it embedded itself into his upper chest.

He went white as he began to gag as blood went up through his throat, making it impossible for him to breath. Red blood dripped from his pudgy lips, coating them with a layer of life. Blood poured from his deep wound as he tumbled backwards to the ground, dead. When he feel the ground jerked slightly from the weight of the remaining men's fallen comrade, fell.

She had to hold back a laugh as a look of horror itched a place upon their faces. They began to stumble towards the exit as fast as their legs would take them, which wasn't that quick. Kagome was too fast for the drunken fools. She ran towards the fools, launched herself at their shoulders. She landed on their shoulders with her hands and did an aerial off of them, landing in a crouch beside their dead companion. Her skirts flew from the motion and wind made a slight whooshing sound as they flapped down. Her hair was still tightly knotted except for a random few strings that fell and landed at her brow.

She pulled the coated dagger from the fallen drunk. Red wine blood dripping from the tip. She laughed with a look of death on her lips. She was on a high right now, and she feared for her mental sanity.

She stood so fast the human could barely catch it, and these two were definitely not demons, they had no demon characteristics nor did they have a youkai aura which she would have been able to pick up with her little miko abilities.

She stabbed the other skinny man in the gut in one fluid motion. A new layer of blood dressed her dagger. She didn't bother to make sure he fell and spun to the chubby man. She aimed for the jugular vein, hitting her target with accurate aim. She had done this so fast that the skinny man had just fallen to the ground with a small thump. The chubby one looked at her with bloodshot eyes. Blood poured from his wound as he choked up four last words. With his last breath he spoke, "Curse you," He said before taking a second to pant for enough air to finish his sentence. "Higurashi Kagome." As me left his lips he died instantly, dropping to the ground making a slight tremor around him.

Her dagger was now completely covered in blood, shone like the sun. She knelt down to the second man who had died in that alley and wiped her bloody dagger on the part his shirt that was uncovered with blood. The mans body was limp, pulse stopped and mouth slightly ajar. For most people this site was enough to make them gag, but not Higurashi Kagome, she'd seem it to many times before to let it affect her. Her dagger had the healthy silver shine of metal, free of rust. Her father had given her that dagger as a birthday present three years ago. That was when her father had started putting her in intense training that worked both the body and mind. Her father was sometimes harsh but she loved him to pieces.

She quickly checked herself for any blood stains. Finding none she placed her dagger in it's sheath at her ankle. She quickly left the alley, she didn't want to be seen and recognized and have three men dead near, that would not help her case. She could try and fight her way out, but even she knew she was not invincible. She decided that she would try and find Sango and Miroku yet again. She began the maze of a city, trying to find the two. She was feeling impatient, the raid that night was making her anxious.