"Think of it as a… new assigned position," said the man sitting behind the large desk.

"But sir we-"

"Jyabura! I have given my orders!" the man cut off, "It seems to me like it would be best for the three of you to spend some time out of government business…" The deep voiced man paused for a few moments. "For a long period of time."

The three men stood there side by side and had been patiently waiting for the man to get to them, and now that he had, they were now being… forcefully reassigned to a more "mellow" job as it were. Jyabura was completely offended by his superior's decision to send him along with these… these… two competitors of his, to put it politely. Lucci and Kaku though showed no signs of questioning the man's orders, although the both of them weren't exactly thrilled about the new occupation that they had been given.

"But is that island even worth sending us to?!" Jyabura pushed further, trying to make an excuse as to not needing to go and wanting some kind of reason as to why they needed to go in the first place.

The man's crystal blue eyes narrowed at the Inu Inu no Mi devil fruit user. He stood up slowly out of his large, leather seat and calmly set the palms of his hands on the surface of the desk. His breathing was deep, but not noticeable and his eyes never left the CP9 member.

"Jyabura," he began in a low tone, "Don't question me. That island is…" The man paused again and let his eyes roll around the room as he thought. They returned to the man quickly. "That island IS in fact, worth sending the three of you to. The island does not have many normal inhabitants as a population, but it does get a lot of… visitors."

Jyabura's jaw clenched in frustration and as did his fists. His mouth opened yet again to attempt to counter the broad shouldered man, but he was quickly stopped as Lucci's pale white fist collided with his right cheek.

"Shut your mouth while you're ahead, Jyabura," Lucci hissed in a low voice, "Unless you want to get yourself into more trouble."

Jyabura sat up slowly after skidding to a stop on the newly tiled floor and his teeth gritted against each other as he glared at the slim, black haired man standing up before him.

"You monster cat…" Jyabura growled as his form shifted slowly into a wolfish look.

Lucci's eyes snapped to the corners of his eyes and the pupils became slivers suddenly as he transformed as well, spots slowly surfacing on the yellow leopard fur that showed up. The two animalistic men, still trying to fully transform, started to approach each other with fire burning in their eyes and their arms raised with claws coming from the tips of their fingers.

"LUCCI! JYABURA!" screamed the man from behind the desk who slammed his fists down onto the wooden top, "Stop this bickering at once!"

The two of them halted in their assaults and turned to the man. Lucci nodded in acknowledgment of his command and he quickly reverted back to his original form. Jyabura growled in reply to his demand, but, reluctantly, did as well.

"You are going to that island! And that's final!"

They returned to their spots and stood there still as statues. Kaku smiled to himself, seeing that he was the only one who was not getting worked up at all, but his smile returned to nothing as the man spoke up yet again.

"You three are going, you understand?!" he spoke in a harsh tone, mostly to Jyabura which he knew that it was directed to him. The three nodded. "AND," he continued, "Your boat is out at the dock now." The man's arm extended and pointed to the door. "You are dismissed."

They all nodded. Well… except for Jyabura, who gave yet another growl as his reply and they all turned to the open door to leave.

"And boys…"

The three stopped and looked to him slowly. He smiled a pearly white, toothed smile.

"Have fun while you are there."

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ONE PIECE!!

THIS IS TO THE READERS!!! IT'S ALWAYS TO THE READERS! :D

Well... This is my something different. I have no idea who I want to go with yet... I'm kind of a fan-girl of two CP9 charaters, so I don't really know who yet... I guess it will just roll on, eh? Please review!!

-Love Maruri

P.S.

I feel that I need to warn readers about this, since a reviewer has brought my attention to it. I'm just wanting to warn you, readers. ( This note is also on my profile)

NOTE ABOUT HOW I WRITE: I do tend to write from both third and first points of view in my stories. It helps me keep myself from becoming too... I guess... connected and used to one of them. I was in that mode where I only wanted to use third person once and I didn't like it one bit. And I also think it gives my readers a bit of a feel for each characters view of something or something along those lines. And also, there's the fact that certain things that seem better and easier to do in one point of view than the other. That's just how I do things. So, I'm just giving you a fair warning if you don't like that sort of thing or if it irritates you or something like that.

Just thought I'd warn ya. ( I hope that I didn't sound mean or anything... )