Rai didn't know what was worse. Sitting in a ship filled to the brim with people who couldn't keep their hands to themselves or waiting on an island for a particular man that possibly wouldn't remember her. Unfortunately Rai couldn't decide one over the other so she chose both, with a screw my life. Experince one, she was groped more times then she could count, but it not like she had the strength to beat the shit out of the offenders because she was too busy puking her guts out over the railing of the ship. Correct. The girl has motion sickness, and no matter how much pills were swallowed or serums that were injected, it wouldn't seem to go away, much to her delight. Well Rai could withstand it but with all the vibrations she wouldn't be able to use her powers.
Although Rai could have easily flown the two over through the red line herself, Akagawa had wanted to go to the marine ship that was conveniently taking rescued citizens back to the East Blue or weak town. Akagawa for unknown reasons had wanted to risk their lives and go through in a marine ship. But of course being the nice and considering person Rai is...well at least to the people close to her, she decided to comply to her request and go into the marine ship. After that torture, as punishment Rai had decided that she had the free right to experiment on her partner earning her a new stitch on her stomach and arm in her human form.
However once they got into the East Blue on a lively island called Logue Town, Rai had to wait a shit load amount of time for the person she was looking to come to the stupid island after his first bounty was released. With the fact that there are marines crawling around, she had a bounty, and the island had shity blades. Rai was definitely not happy. She did however try to entertain herself with art recommended by her therapist in the early days. Of course when that doesn't work she kidnapped a few unsuspecting humans to dissect, with a small mental sorry to her early therapist.
Meanwhile her timid partner had found luxury in sleeping in the water jug instead of helping her with her predicament or as a matter of fact their predicament. On her 17th day or so of staying on the island, casually stealing some belis for food and art supplies, or whatever she found interesting.
"Akagawa!" A woman barked. She was a tall slender woman with a white trench coat with a red triangle pattern along the edges, her hood, which she currently had on came all the way down to her nose, revealing only red lips pulled in a tight line. The trench coat also had a brown leather belt with multiple pouches pulling the coat tighter against her curvaceous figure, and it also had a dropping v neck, this was covered with a white scarf with a red teardrop and green scales sewed on forming a small dragon logo, tucked in the trench coat. Finally she had a large water jug on her back (much like Gaara's) of course filled with water.
"Ah." A small girl who seemed to be in her early teens tore her eyes from the crowd of people that she was observing, to the hooded woman. She studied her impatient form and turned back to the crowd giving it one last look before forcing herself to walk to the woman much to the crowds dislike. The woman's eyebrows twitched at their glares and her frown deepened.
"What do you want." Akagawa asked with a slight disappointed look in her eye. The small was about 5 feet and had short blue hair with red eyes and a simple blue dress, with no shoes.
"Luffy's here." She said brushing some of her locks from her face. Yes. The man that the two have been waiting for was indeed the rookie pirate Monkey D Luffy, the connection between them is still unknown.
"Is he now…" Akagawa mused remembering the short little energetic kid Luffy was, wonder what kind of crew he decided to pick up, and how much he has improved in the year that the two departed.
" Of course we're going with them~ so I have to pick up Kui-chan.." The woman thought out loud smiling slightly at picking up her baby. Akagawa stared at the woman with slight interest.
"You want me to go with you?" She questioned raising one of her eyebrows at the woman. Her smile widened and she could tell that this girl had something planned. She took the girl by the hand with a determined look in her eye.
Rai however watched with slight amusement before heading on to the blade store with Akagawa in hand, where she new one of them were located.
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Rai entered the store "Arms Shop", she occasionally comes into this store to look at all the blades and also prank the poor owner. So it was somewhat reasonable when the owner made a loud shriek when the woman entered the store. Her lips curled up in satisfaction...oh how much she loved to scare the weak.
"How's it going, mister?" Rai asked with a velvety voice making the owner blush slightly and frown at the same time.
"What are you doing here!?" He spat out with dislike, already having enough of the girls pranks for the day. Remembering the time where she threw eggs at his window, poured salt in his morning coffee, and even managed to put rocks under his sheets. Giving hims a bad sleep, with no coffee, and having to clean the window early in the morning. Not only that but could she not have come in such a worst time, the man was trying to make a deal with this green haired amateur swordsman. And as if the universe were against him the woman turned slightly towards the swordsman and smirked.
"Ara~ it seems you finally have a customer Marry-chan~" She purred walking closer to the two
mentally noticing the beautiful blade sitting on the counter. The owner blushed bright red and pointed an accusing finger towards the woman.
"Get the hell out of here! You'll ruin my business!" The owner shouted before his eye blazed up again, "AND IT'S MATSU DAMMIT GET IT RIGHT!" Rai raised her head to face him, smiling slightly as she leaned over the counter, her two gloved hands cupping her face.
"That's what I said Natsu-chan~, I would appreciate if you wouldn't talk like that near my younger sister." Rai stated playfully covering Akagawa's ears her eyes widening to further the act.
"DAMN YOU!" He screamed shaking his fist in the air and his large nostrils flaring. Rai chuckled slightly and glanced at the swordsman next to her giving her a curious look.
"You're kind of angering me, Matthew-chan. I would really appreciate it if you simply gave me Kui-chan back~" She stated fisting her hand to show him she met business. He paled slightly while sweating, and nodding furiously.
"S-s-sure t-t-thing, sure thing." He said nervously running to the back to give the girl back her sword.
"You come here often?" Rai asked already knowing the answer, and already knowing his name. Heck she probably already knew him more than he knew himself. Of course Rai was not just going to travel with Luffy's crew without doing research on them. This way she always had the upper hand in mind. Zoro just rose his eyebrow and crossed his arms.
"Not really.." He stated trying to close the conversation in one go.
"Not really talkative are you." Rai observed with a smirk, positioning her whole body so it faced the man.
"I don't really talk to hooded strangers…" Zoro said without looking at the girl, only staring at the door where the man disappeared off to.
"Good call." Rai agreed yet made no move to take off her hood, much to Zoro's annoyance, she studied him a bit more with an analytical gaze, almost if she were ready to dissect the man.
"Your hair's green, are you an alien?" Akagawa asked staring at the green haired swordsman. His eyes swept to the girl and didn't even acknowledge her, making her puff out her cheeks in annoyance.
"Here take your damn Kui!" The owner shouted throwing the heavy large black sword at the girl, to which she caught with ease. She calmly placed the sword in her hip and the sword was extremely long, so Zoro couldn't understand how in the world she was able to carry that.
"Thank you very much Maple-chan." Rai stated in a condescending tone while bowing, then left to continue to browse around, much to the owner dislike.
"Anyway my final offer is 650,000 belis for your sword." Matsu offered smirking slightly as he thought he won over the amateur swordsman. Hook, Line, and Si-
"Listen here pa, this sword is not something for sale." The man declared staring at the store owner with slight dislike. Rai's lips curled up as she observed the two, mentally noting the woman that had entered the store was with the marines. The marine woman whose name Rai didn't even bother to try to remember looked over at the counter to see what the two men were haggling about, once she had a peek she made a mad dash towards the sword on the counter.
"Ahhhh! This sword! Could it be!?" The woman exclaimed, eyeing the sword with complete glee. Even going as far as to move her glasses up so she could observe the sword with her naked eye. The owner of the store...Katsu, stared at the girl with extreme distaste praying to god that she wouldn't blab about the sword he wanted.
" This is the Wadou Ichimonji, right!?" The girl breathed staring at the sword with admiration. Meanwhile the owner deflated behind the counter. Zoro as to what Rai knows and observed realized that this man did not know the name of his very children, making her dislike the swordsmen just a little more than she already did.
"Such a beautiful edge~" The girl blabbed on not noticing how the owner was trying to get her to shut up. Rai stared at the girl disinterred, sure she was a fellow swordsman, a decent one she guess, but she was still very weak in her book. If only she had the skill to back up her knowledge then she would respect her just a bit more. It also didn't help that this woman was a marine.
"Y-y-y-yes i-i-it d-does happen t-to g-g-go b-by such a n-n-name….but it still just a decent sword at best." The owner emphasized the last sentence in hopes the girl would understand that this man was trying to swindle the amateur swordsman. However the marine girl was just as dense and innocent as a first grader.
"DECENT!? THIS IS ONE OF THE 21 GREAT GRADE SWORDS, IT'S WAY MORE THAN JUST DECENT!" The woman exclaimed pulling out a small booklet from her pocket, not noticing the man's angry glare. She quickly flipped through her booklet to find the sword, her eyes light up like a christmas tree as she pointed at the diagram.
"LOOK LOOK!" She exclaimed childishly alternating from looking at the swordsman to the owner of the store. " IT SAYS HERE THAT THIS IS A SWORD THAT CAN'T BE SOLD FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN A MILLION BELI !" The owner having enough of the girl slammed his fist on the counter.
"DAMN IT WOMAN! YOU'VE GONE AND TOLD HIM EVERYTHING! I SHOULD SUE YOU FOR OBSTRUCTION OF BUSINESS!" The owner boomed, his veins pulsing at the loss.
"Whhhaaa….Obstruction of business, i'm sorry did I say something wrong?!" The woman exclaimed apologetically, looking down at the wonderful blade. The owner threw the woman sword at her spitting out a 'don't come again'. Only for her to clumsily trip over a rack of sword further angering the owner.
"JUST PICK THEM UP YOU CLUMSY GIRL!" He ordered as she apologized multiple times.
"Ah~ Mario-chan..that wasn't very nice of you. Do you perhaps find joy in torturing young girls?" Rai asked with amusement staring at the man, although her could see her eyes piercing them, he felt a huge amount of pressure with her just facing him.
"Why the hell are you still here! Nevermind! And you just go bring some 50,000 swords from those barrels!" He shouted in frustration at the two woman ruining his business.
"What's he so angry about…" The swordsman muttered, annoyed that the owner was yelling and ordering him around.
"Ah! Didn't we meet earlier on the streets!?" The marine exclaimed finally processing the man's features. He glared at the glare somehow blaring her for the misfortune, yet at the same time sweat dropping at her surprising personality. She stared at Zoro as he looked through the barrels of swords, and Rai thought this was the best time to come closer to the two humans.
"You two really love swords don't you?" Tashigi asked the two characters that were browsing. Rai withdrew her hand from a sword she was about to grab and fixed her attention on the young marine. She sweat dropped slightly at the sudden pressure on her shoulders.
"Yeah, i'm actually quite a fan of blades that are capable of drawing blood….Takeshi-chan~" The girl drawled staring the woman with a small smile, putting on of her gloved hands on her hips.
"It's Tashigi…" The marine said laughing nervously with a slight blush at the woman's habit that still refuses say her name. The marine though forgave her as she does it to everyone and focused on the two appearance of the customers.
"You know both of you remeber me of certain individuals.." Tashigi though aloud staring at the two, finally catching Zoro's attention.
"Oh, who would that be…?" Zoro asked with slight interest, even going as far as to tilt his head back to look at the girl.
"Ah the bounty hunter Roronoa Zoro, and wanted pirate White Shadow Rai, have you guys heard of them?" Tashigi said with a sheepish smile adding as an afterthought that these two couldn't be them. Babbling that the swordsman was a good guy and couldn't possibly be Zoro, and how White Shadow was in the Grand line.
"AH~ I know them~" Akagawa cheered throwing her hands up. Rai smiled slightly putting her hand on the girl shoulder for a 'shut up' sign.
"Their both swordsmen..or should I say a swordsman and a swordswoman." She went on to say that the swords were crying and that all the famous swordsmen were either bounty hunters or pirates.
"I would be happy to welcome any damn criminal. My shop used to filled to the brim with people going to the Grand Line, but ever since that damn monster came to town he's been scarin' them all off!" Rai let the two talk about that while she focuses on the green haired swordsman.
"So...your name is Rowboat Zoco-chan?" Rai asked leaning in slightly so the other two would hear them. His eyes shot to the girl and she wouldn't be lying if she said she felt a tad bit uncomfortable, but she wouldn't let this guy know that. He raised an eyebrow at her attempt at his name.
"What's it to ya?" Zoro spat out annoyed at this woman, noting slightly with an eyebrow twitch that this girl completely butchered his name.
"What a scary man~" Akagawa whinned hiding behind Rai's legs, peeking at the alien in front of them.
"It has come to my attention that you have joined the crew of a man that goes by the name, Monkey D Luffy-chan." Rai stated with an amused smirk.
"Ah what do you have to do with my captain?" Zoro stated in a dangerously low voice.
"AS A SWORDSMAN MYSELF I VOW TO GET STRONGER SO I MAY TAKE ALL SWORDS FROM THE HANDS OF EVIL." Tashigi declared holding up her sword with pride dancing in her eyes. Zoro smirked slightly tilting his head away from the woman with the white coat.
"Does that mean you'll take my sword...the Wadou Ichimonji.." He said clutching the white sword. Rai is not a liar, as a matter of fact she has trouble lying, if this man wasn't part of the Luffy's crew she would have already kidnapped this man to dissect him and take his beautiful white sword.
"Man this guy does not know how to start a conversation~, are all humans like this?" Akagawa asked tilting her head back slightly so she can make eye contact with Rai. In which she smiled slightly, petting the girl's head.
"Ah. No, no, no, I didn't mean it like that. I'm not going to keep all the swords to myself! I just don't all the swords in the hands of evil!" Tashigi exclaimed throwing her hands up for emphasis
"It's not like i hate you Rowboat-chan, but if you didn't have certain connections you would be as a matter of fact dead. I'm no longer interested in you right now so bye bye Rowboat-chan, Tsubaki-chan~" Rai smirked waving slightly, calmly walking out the window making the two sweatdrop. Before she stopped abruptly one leg out the window tilting her head back.
"Of course I didn't forget to say goodbye to you Mable-chan~"
"IT'S MATSU DAMNIT!"
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FUN FACTS
Enel is the name of an Italian manufacturer of electricity, which is reminiscent of Enel being a Thunder God.
Robin's first encounter with the little people of the Tontatta Tribe in Dressrosa resembles Lemuel Gulliver's first encounter with the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels.
Universal Studio Japan has actually built a replica of the tombs of Ace and Whitebeard as a tribute to the series.
Thomas Hancock is the manufacturing engineer who founded the British rubber industry. Does that surname ring a bell? Yes, as we all know, Boa Hancock is madly in love with the rubber man Luffy. Who knew these two had a connection this close to home?!
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