Alright, here we go. If you haven't seen OP Movie 4, then these characters, you will not know who these people are. I bet you thought it'd be about ZORO, huh? HAH, like I'd ever make a fanfic only about him! Oh yeah, on with the story.

If you want to know who Shuraiya, Adelle and their Jii-Chan are, then check out Movie 4. Just search for it on You Tube or something, you can pick it up. Or, if you're lazy and want to know who they are NOW, then here is a handy guide:

Shuraiya Bascud: A famous bounty hunter known as the "Pirate Executioner". He trained his whole life from a young boy and dipped his hands in the blood of thousands of pirates, all for revenge against Gasparde for killing his little sister, Adelle. Unfortunately, Luffy got to Gasparde first…

Adelle Bascud: At the age of three she was thrust into a river while her brother helplessly watched. She was picked up by Jii-Chan before she drowned, and she had amnesia; the only thing she remembered was her name. Jii-Chan gave her the name Anaguma, a male's name, to hide her identity as a girl. A little girl should not help an old man run a boiler, after all. The two were captured just after meeting by Gasparde, and forced to work on his ship for eight years. She tried to become a member of Gasparde's crew so she could gain recognition as a pirate and get money to protect Jii-Chan, and as luck would have it, she attempted to kill Luffy to get the recognition. Together, Luffy and "Anaguma" worked together to save Jii-Chan and defeat Gasparde.

"Jii-Chan": Has no other name. It means "Grandpa" or "Old Man", on familiar terms. Other people tend to call him "Jii-San". This old man runs the boiler of the Salamander, the ship that Gasparde stole eight years ago when he ransacked Shuraiya and Adelle's hometown. He took care of Adelle, keeping the pirates' eyes away from her, and they tolerated her existence as a worker on the ship. During the battle with Luffy, Jii-Chan explodes the boiler on the Salamander, and is able to escape from the ship with Luffy and Shuriaya.

The three then are reunited all because of Luffy and crew. They say goodbye and Shuraiya promises that the next time he meets Luffy, he'll kill the pirate. Luffy accepts the treatment (Pirates are supposed to be prepared for people wanting to kill them), and the three begin a new life on Partia Island.

And now, without further ado, a bring you, "Much Ado About Nothing!"

Or not…

READ ON!

Memoirs of a Bounty Hunter

Part 1

"Oi oi oi!" A bounty hunter named Shuraiya roared as a young girl rushed under his arm. He was carrying a hot pan filled with eggs in that hand, and was afraid of spilling anything hot on her, "Do you WANT to get burnt, Adelle?"

Adelle stuck her tongue out at her brother as she applied her cap, tucking her long hair under said cap. She then rushed to the door, "Stop being noisy! I'm going out!"

"OUT?" Shuraiya shouted as the girl slammed the door behind her, "I'm making BREAKFAST!"

An old man in the corner, known only as "Jii-Chan" by his "Granddaughter", Adelle, flipped a page of his newspaper, "She's a handful, isn't she?"

"Couldn't she be like other girls?" Shuraiya muttered, "She was always so dainty before…" He cut himself off from reopening old wounds, and turned back to the eggs before they burned.

Another page was flipped, "People change… much like you…"

"Now you're sounding noisy," The bounty hunter growled as he flipped the eggs, avoiding a splash of hot oil, "I didn't HAVE to take you into my house, you know."

"Hah, Adelle wouldn't let you shove me out into the cold. You're stuck with me until I'm dead."

"THAT… can be arranged…" Shuraiya hissed. "Jii-Chan" simply laughed.

"HEY!" Adelle shouted, opening the door and poking her head in. She was already covered in the scratches of the brambles that were outside of their house on Partia Island. Ever since their scuffle with Gasparde and their recent friendship with the Straw Hat Pirates, the three had been living together in a rather small house outside of town. Although it could barely fit the three at the beginning, with Jii-Chan's expertise at building, Adelle's enthusiasm with building what her grandpa couldn't, and Shuraiya's bounty hunting bringing in lots of Beli, the three were living in a relatively large house; happily living as if they were a real family… a real family… "Aren't you done with breakfast yet? JII-CHAN! My knees hurt, where's the antiseptic?"

"Quit your hollering!" Shuraiya roared. The two siblings had recently been reunited with Jii-Chan's help. They were afraid of speaking to each other for a while, but after a month of living together, the two of them had just gotten down to shouting at each other just like siblings should. The two stared at each other, lightning practically flying from their eyes as they stared each other down. Finally, the older brother decided it was stupid to keep up the staring contest, and slid the eggs onto a plate. He dropped it onto the counter and walked off, "Fine, eat up. I'm… going to go take a shower."

Adelle stared after her brother, and looked to her Jii-Chan. He shrugged, and she reached out to grab the eggs. She walked out the door as she ate her breakfast with her fingers. It was hard, as they were slippery, but somehow she managed. Jii-Chan watched as Adelle left, and smiled a bit to himself, "So THAT'S why our plates have been disappearing," he murmured.

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Shuraiya tossed his favorite (Sick) jacket off and tested the water of the shower as he took off his under shirt. Not ready yet… After he kicked off his shoes and discarded the rest of his attire, he tested the water again. Dammit, now it was too hot! "Piece of crap…" He muttered, "Why aren't there any plumbers in Partia?" It needed to be fixed soon, or he'd get scalded the second he wasn't careful! Finally, the damned thing was alright, and he slid into the shower, taking a deep breath and letting the warm water fall around him. Whenever Shuraiya got mad at life, and simply wanted to walk away from the world, he would just let the water wash away all of his troubles. However, now… something lingered.

"I can't keep living like this…" He whispered to the showerhead as it splattered water on his face. He ignored the annoying sting the drops left on his still open eyes, because he was still in thought, "What… example am I leaving Adelle?" He grabbed at his forehead, deep in thought, "If I stay a bounty hunter, I'm just telling her that I haven't thrown off my vengeful past. I'm telling her that all I live for is for a vengeance that doesn't exist any longer." Shuraiya pulled his bangs back to keep them out of his face, and thought, long and hard. What was he supposed to do with life now?

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Adelle wandered down the streets of the town, eating her breakfast with her fingers. She finished quickly enough, and dropped her plate into the brush without a second thought and walked off to challenge all her male peers to a fight. Unfortunately, it was much harder to find a good fight nowadays, mostly because she had already beaten all of the boys up and God knew THEY weren't going to get into another fight with her. Anyone with a famous pirate hunter for a brother wasn't someone to take lightly!

She put her hands on her hips after realizing that she wasn't going be able to entertain herself by beating the snot out of someone else, and looked out at the sea from the hill the town was nestled upon. She stared out at the sea, and something popped into her mind on a whim. She wanted to answer a question that was entering her head: "What would Jii-Chan be buying from the bazaar that came from a merchant ship today?" With a hop, a skip, and a jump, she was rushing through the down sloping streets to the port at the bottom of the island.

The girl screeched to a halt once she arrived at the port. She could see that there were no ships coming in, and she could not really understand why. As Adelle stood at the port, a middle aged fisherman nearly ran into her, "Hahaha! Adelle-Chan, be careful where you space out, could you?" Shuraiya's sister turned around at the man, and she smiled a bit at him, turning back to the ocean.

"Ossan?" She asked, pointing across the ocean, her eyebrow quirked in question, "Why… Why haven't there been any ships coming today?"

The fisherman blinked and looked at the horizon which Adelle pointed towards. He never gave it much thought, but now that she mentioned it… "You're right, nothing has come in other than that ship that swept in rather quickly this morning. Something must be going…" He cut himself off as he looked at the previously mentioned ship. Adelle blinked at the fisherman's wide eyes. Turning, the girl peered to see the one large ship docked in the port, and she gasped. There, upon the flag, was an unmistakable Jolly Roger.

"…Onii-Chan!" She shouted, turning to tell her brother, the bounty hunter, of the swift and silent arrival of a pirate crew, but she was soon stopped by two of the port's workers. It was then that the two realized they had never seen their faces before…

"Which 'Onii-Chan' are you talking about, little one?" The man in the worker's uniform asked, reaching his hand out to take her wrist. He was blocked by the fisherman's pole, which was up in a flash to protect the young girl.

"Don't touch her. She didn't give you permission…" The fisherman said. The obvious pirate growled and drew a stiletto that was tucked away in his jacket's inside pocket. He gave a roar and brandished it before him in an attempt to intimidate the two. Adelle refused to be scared. She was Shuraiya's sister! She needed to be brave! After the pirate thrust his dagger at the fisherman, she ducked under the strike and drew back her fist. She slammed it in the best location she could find: the groin.

Partia Island's fisherman laughed and the second pirate screamed aloud, his eyes bulging from his face as Adelle dropped the man twice her size. He clutched his crotch and his opponent raised her fists high into the air, "Take that! A Curse upon your ancestors, you piece of…"

"Adelle-Chan!" The fisherman shouted, slamming his willow pole into the second pirate's gut so hard it snapped in two. The enemy dropped to the ground, winded, "Watch your opponents! What would your brother think if he found out you were fighting like a novice?"

The girl looked up at the man, and she suddenly gasped, "That's right, Onii-Chan!" She turned and rushed off, "I need to tell Onii-Chan about the pirates! Take care, Ossan! I'll go get him right now!"

"Adelle-Chan!" The fisherman shouted as she rushed up the hill towards her home, "Be careful!" The young woman needn't be told twice, as she could already tell that the pirates were spreading out through the town. If the first two they encountered were hiding so well within the society, then how would the next pirates she encountered look? She didn't need to wonder too long, because as her mind became clouded with the one desire to get home, her instincts were dulled, and she barely noticed that a rather large man cloths lined her and dragged her into the air with one burly arm,

"Oi oi oi, Nii-Chan, where are you headed off to this find day?" He asked, mistaking the little girl for a rambunctious boy, with her cap and trousers on. Adelle stared up at the man. He was dressed like the beer brewer, although she knew that the brewer did not possess such a scary scar across his face.

"Let me go! Let me go!" She screamed, kicking and screeching, "I need to get home! Let me GO!"

"Nii-Chan, you know it's not polite to run through the streets, someone…" The pirate dragged her closer so he could whisper into her ear, "Could snatch you off the street with the intent to eat you up, Little One…"

"Nooooo! Let me GO!" Adelle bit ferociously on the man's hand, and he gave a roar, tossing her roughly away. She slammed heavily into a wall, and promptly slumped to the floor, unconscious. With a shrug, the pirate turned and wandered off, absolutely sure that the blood staining the cap proved the child was dead. Adelle was left unconscious upon the cobblestones, her prone body attracting no attention from the rest of the pirates as the men slipped into the society, unbeknownst to any of the townspeople…

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Jii-Chan blinked as he heard a knock on the door. Placing his newspaper on the end table, he dragged himself out of his chair in the corner of the front room and walked to the door. He opened it, and smiled at the man on the other side, "May I help you?"

"I have heard you were calling for a plumber?" The man asked, "I have come upon a ship from Bria Island because of the lack of plumbers here. May I interest you in a free walk-in check of the place?" Jii-Chan stared at the man, and a smile spread across his face. He knew immediately, this was a pirate. He didn't live upon Gasparde's pirate ship for all those years and get away with nothing. However, this pirate seemed to just be a scout, sent to see what level of resistance Partia island possessed. This gave Jii-Chan a great plan. Stepping out of the pirate's way, he bowed with some level of respect.

"I thank you for your consideration. Please, check on our shower. It has been rather unruly lately." The pirate, trying to keep up his plumber act, nodded with a tilt of his hat, and walked into the house, "Down the hall, to your left, please."

"I must thank you," The pirate replied. Jii-Chan noticed he was scanning the place for valuables. He walked through the house, into the hallway, and the old man smirked to himself, rubbing his bulbous red nose, "Three… two… one…"

"What the F…!" The next few minutes were filled with expletives and swears only a bounty hunting sailor would know. Jii-Chan laughed aloud. There was only a slight scuffle, and the next moment, Shuraiya walked into the main room, dripping wet, wearing a towel, and dragging an unconscious pirate plumber along with him, "Why… the hell… didn't you SAY anything?"

"You did a much better job at taking care of the pirate than I could, young man," Jii-Chan replied, making Shuraiya take his frustration with the senior out of the already unconscious pirate by slamming the man's head into the wall. The pirate hunter growled at the smile that was plastered on his "roommate's" face and walked back down the hall to the shower room. Jii-Chan blinked at the man on the floor, eyes swirling, "It appears there's more around the town."

"Wow, I never could have guessed," Shuraiya hissed, hopping on one foot as he stuck his other foot down his trouser leg, his jacket and undershirt hanging off one of his arms, "You think I'm stupid? I knew the bastard was a pirate the moment he saw me."

"I wonder what he was looki…" Jii-Chan was struck on the head before he could finish that train of thought.

Shuraiya continued as he dragged his undershirt over his head, "So either way, I need to get rid of the rest of those pirates before they do anything to the townspeople. Jii-Chan, the Marines probably haven't caught on, so if you could try and get to their base inconspicuously, it would help me to have some back up." He looked at the old man, and suddenly, his eyes widened, "Wait… a minute…" The two stared at each other, and the pirate hunter dressed as quickly as he could, "Dammit, Adelle!"

"Careful! Don't act rashly, young man!" Jii-Chan shouted in return as the door slammed behind the bounty hunter; a picture of the three on the wall fell to the ground with a clatter, "Don't get yourself caught up in something you can't handle…"

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"Adelle! ADELLE!" Shuraiya screamed, reaching out his hand to the young girl. The tiny three year old fell backwards, her eyes filled with tears that resulted from shock; the shock of being shot in the shoulder. Shuraiya tried his hardest to take Adelle's hand as she dropped, but he missed by a mere centimeter, "ADELLE!"

"ONII-CHAN!" Adelle's already high pitched voice resounded through the entire battlefield; she was falling… falling… falling… She missed the floor, slipping on a soggy patch of dirt on the riverbank, and she plunged into the darkened depths.

The young boy, Shuraiya, dropped to his knees, reaching out in a vain attempt to grab the hand that submerged itself in the waters. Tears streamed down his eyes. First his mother and father… and now… He heard the pirates who had assaulted them laughing behind him. The… the monsters were… laughing… "Adelle! Don't leave me! Come back, ADELLE!"

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It was a nightmare every night for Shuraiya back in those days. Every night, the same scene, the same nightmare would repeat, robbing him of precious sleep needed to destroy the very people who stole everything from him. On many nights, back when he was younger, the only way to sleep was to cry himself into slumber. As he matured, however, he learned that showing emotions only showed weakness. He stopped crying after his tenth year.

After being reunited with his sister, his nightmares stopped. Only on rare occasions the past month would he be plagued with dreams of that dark, pulsing river. It came to swallow his sister once again. For some reason, every time, no matter how big or strong he was, he was not strong enough to hold onto his sister. He cried out for Adelle, loud enough to awaken the others in his home. He wondered why now, of all times, that nightmare was being relived in his mind when he was wide awake.

"Dammit… Adelle, where the hell are you?" He whispered under his breath as he briskly walked through the town. He could tell, there were many pirates intermingling with the already small crowds, and the last thing he wanted to do was attract attention. However, his "brisk" walk was so fast his hair was already drying when he passed by a suspicious location. He stopped, and blinked at the red that was plastered on the wall of one of the houses. The bounty hunter's heart skipped a beat at the unconscious empathy for whoever was dealt that much damage, and he cursed to himself. His emotions were already returning, living with Adelle and Jii-Chan .

His eyes widened when he saw the underbrush below the red painting twitch, and his heart caught in his throat. This brush was small enough that an adult could be easily seen in it, but a child could hide well in there… or, more specifically, "Adelle!" Shuraiya's entire body felt a spasm of unfamiliar emotions sweep through as he rushed to the brush. He reached in, and could feel the soft cloth of a cap, coated in sticky blood. It was hard, but he was able to drag her prone body from the brambles. The girl was covered in scratches and blood from a blunt head wound. He felt joy, for finding his sister, and sorrow, for seeing her limp body in such a state. Then, there was anger. How dare these bastards touch his sister? How dare they shoot her, harm her, but worst of all, wrench the two of them apart?

"Adelle…" Shuraiya murmured, grabbing his sister and hugging her to his chest, "Please… forgive me… If only I got here in time…" The bounty hunter stared at the girl. She was still warm, and, upon checking, there was a pulse. She was… still alive, "Thank you, for living…"

"Moron…" Came the soft squeak. Shuraiya's tomboy sister opened her eyes, a smile on her face, "I can't leave you alone. You don't know what to do without me…

"Adelle…" Shuraiya had never cried after his tenth birthday, which came and went without a celebration. Emotions were useless, they only showed weakness. He thanked his lucky stars they were hidden from the normal populace's eyes in the alleyway, and clutched her close to him. He didn't want her to see his tears, "Thank you… thank you."

"Onii-Chan…" Adelle sighed under his grip, "That hurts, moron…" The brother then felt the small tomboy reach up and grab his jacket, dragging him closer, "Don't let go…" It only lasted a moment, but Adelle suddenly forgot about her mission, lost in the first true embrace her brother gave to her since her amnesia. Then, it all came back, "O… Onii-Chan!" She cried, tearing herself away from the hold Shuraiya had on her, "The pirates, the pirates who did this to me are…"

"It's okay, I know. You don't have to worry anymore. I'll take care of them," Adelle blinked at Shuraiya, who had already slid his hand across his eyes, in the attempt to keep his sister from realizing what he had done. She could still see his red, slightly swollen eyes, "Just stay here. I'm going to…"

"The captain's probably on the new ship in port now. Onii-Chan, you can't fight them alone," The bounty hunter blinked at his sister, and she smirked devilishly, "So that means you have to take me along too, alright?"

"No!" Adelle flinched a bit from the firm retort. Shuraiya stood up, his hands slipping from around her body. He glared at the ship in the distance; it looked so small from where he stood, "You have to stay here. If you were to get hurt…"

"Can you afford to leave me?" Adelle asked. Her brother looked at her, a question in his eyes. She took off her cap, letting her blood soaked hair fall around her. It was already dry, and needed a good washing after this ordeal, "You can't leave me here alone, the pirates are in the town, and who knows what'll happen if I tried to go home from here?" Shuraiya was at a loss, and he looked like he was pleading with his sister as she continued, her devilish tomboy smile was widening with each second, "You HAVE to take me with you so you can take care of me…"

"Someday," Shuraiya muttered, shoving his hand over his face in defeat. He continued speaking with a muffled voice, "You're going to be old enough to let me force you to go home." Removing his hand from his face, he leaned down and pointed at his sister, his face inches from her nose, "Until then, fine, just stay close to me and whatever you do, don't you DARE try and fight them."

"Promise!" Adelle replied, saluting her brother with her right hand. With her left, she hid her hand behind her back, crossing her index and middle finger in a secret acknowledgement to herself that she had no intention on keeping her oath. Words, after all, were cheap. Shuraiya's emotions got the better of him, and he took the promise with a sigh.

He looked up at the ship and grinned at his sister, looking at her out of the corner of his eyes, "So, you ready to watch your Onii-Chan kick some pirate ass?"

"ALWAYS!" Adelle shouted, pumping her arms into the air. Finally, an actual chance to see her brother in action!

TO BE CONTINUED…

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