A.N: I own nothing and am making no profit from this, I DO NOT OWN ONE PIECE

ROBIN'S P.O.V

It wasn't long after the death of Saul-a giant that got marooned on my island- and the destrotion of my home-Ohara- that I was issued my 79,000,000 Beli bounty. My first betrayal was from this old woman who I thought was kind but tried to turn me into the . Then there was this couple who took me in and I worked hard to repay their kindness, then late one night I over-heard them talking about my bounty so I ran away. They even went as far as to acuse me of "betraying their kindness". After that I joined a pirate crew, but when they got surrounded by the government they thought I turned them in. I made my getaway and found myself setting on a rock in the middle of the rain crying. A dog walked up to me asking for food but I didn't have any. When he( I assume) left shortly later I fell asleep on the rock, not even bothering to get some cover. "Hey, your going to get sick if stay like that."

"Huh?" was the only thing that came out. As I woke up there was a boy around my age looking down at me. He had dark long hair that was tied in a pony tail and reached down to his waist. He also had these dark brown eyes that at this angle made them shine. "Hello, did you hear me?" he asked. I blushed when I realised I was stairing. "What did you say?" I asked when I snapped out of it. "I said 'Did you sleep here last night?'". "Yes" was the only words that came out of mouth as I dropped his gaze and looked at the ground. "Why are sleeping outside in the rain?" I had to think of a lie and fast.

"I was expolring the forest and got lost. I live in the village near here."

"Your lying." He stated

"And how do you know that?" I asked with a glare in my eye

"Well for one, the nearest village is five miles to the west and the nearest sea port is under a mile to the east so I'm guessing you came by boat. Second I know ever person in the village and none of them even have granchildren your age. And lastly..." he then took a step towards me,"you smell like the sea." I didn't know what to say, I was thing of use my devil fruit power to knock him out but didn't want to hurt him. "O.K. I'll make a deal with you, come back to my house, eat a hot meal, and get into clothes that aren't wet and all you gotta do is tell me your name, deal?" He held out his hand to shake but I had to think about this. I can get some food, clothes and a place to think about my next move while all I had to do is give him my name(a fake one of course). "Deal" I grabed his hand and shook on the deal.

" I'm John."

"I'm Emma."

John suddenly tighten his grip where it started to hurt. I tried to pull away but couldnt and was about to use my devil fruit power but he pulled me in and whispered in my ear in a dangerous tone "oh one more thing, stop with the lies."

He let go and told me to follow him. I went but I was on edge. When he turned around I noticed he had a bow hanging on his shoulder with a quiever and several arrows. "John, can I ask you something?" "Yeah sure." he said not even turning back to face me. "What were doing in the forest when you found me?"

"I live in the forest with my dad and I was out here looking foor food. I also come out here to practice archery." When he finished, we walked in silence until we got to the house. It wasn't very big, but big enough to fit a few people comfurtly. We walked in the house and John went straght to closet that near a door at the other side of the room."Here, this is a dress that should fit and a towel. Bathroom is down this hall and on the right. The food will be ready by the time your done." I thanked him and went to take a bath. When I was done there was a big piece of beef on the table with some vegetables on the side. John was nowhere to be seen but there were two plates so I know he would be here soon, so I decided to wait. He walked through the door with a jug on his shoulder. He then set the jug on the kitchen counter and poured what looked like water into two glasses. He gave one to me and the kept the other for himself. We ate in a awkard silence. As I ate I was feeling gulity so I decided to at least tell him my name. "John" he looked at me with those brown eyes and I lost my train of thought. "Yes"

"I was wondering how you knew about me lying back then." "You have very pretty eyes." he stated as if nothing, I started blushing. "What does that have to do with it?" "When you look at me you have deep brown eyes but when you lie the glaze over and turn shallow." I stared at him with a questioning look. "You've known me for two hours and you can tell that much about me?". He just shrugged his sholders and didn't even respond to my question. After we ate John cleaned up and announced he was going hunting. "Hey, I'm going to go out for a while so at sun-set I need you to go to my room and hide until I come back." "Why?" "'Cause an hour after sun set my father comes home and we can not let him know your here." "John if its to much trouble to let me stay then I think I should leave." "It's no trouble, my father is just a bastard. I'll tell you more later. Oh and if you get bored, there are books in my room you can read." He was about to leave when my resovled hardened, he gave me a place to eat and sleep with the risk of getting in trouble all for my sake, the least I can do is give my name. "John" "Yeah" "My name is Nico Robin." When he heard that his face grew into a giant smile. "Its a pleasure to meet you Robin." And with that he left. After that day we would do the same things over and over again. We woke up, use the bathroom, eat, he would hunt and I would retrive the water, he would cut fire wood and I would work on my devil fruit powers when he wasn't looking. He would work on his archery and I would stay with him just to offer company and was fantastic with his bow, he could hit a target well over two hundred meters and hit a moving target any where he wanted. We did this for about two months but things changed one night. I've never met or even seen John's father but I would over hear him every night. He had a deep voice and often would talk with a slur so I knew he was drunk most of the time. Today there weren't any animals to hunt so John gave his share of dinner to me. Of course I objected but he cut me off and said he was used to slow days so it was nothing. When his father came home he imeddetly called for his meal. John said there was no food since there was no animals. Next thing I heard was a loud thump like some one got punched, then some crashing on the floor. Then John's father started yelling, "YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT! You have one job and thats to make sure I have something to eat; you can't even do that right. I work all day and expect something when I get home is that too much to fucking ask for?" "Work all day? You spend one hour on the god-damn pier fishing then go drinking with those bums you call friends. Oh and your using money I got by selling animal fur and your calling me a piece a shit?" I heard John reply back. His father didn't reply. I then heard more thumping sounds and used my powers to set eyes in the kitchen. I saw John on the ground while his father stomped on him and kick him. I immediately ran out and jumped on John's father's back. "What the fuck? Get off me you little bitch." He tossed me on the ground and was about to hit me but John quickly got in front of me and took the hit for me. His father's fist made contact with John's jaw and I heard a sickeningly crunch. John was on the floor unconscious when his father kept hitting him. "When. I. put. you. on. the. ground. you. down. stay. down." He said between hits. I used my power to make my arms to cover John from the hits. He was distracted for a moment but then turned to me. "What the hell, your one of those devil fruit users." Before I could think of something He smacked me across my face and continued to hit me. He finished and went to back to John. "Hey wake up, I have a bit of news that you might like to hear." John groaned but woke up. He grabed John by the coller of his shirt and lefted him up. John's father then pulled out a sheet of paper that I instently recognized, it was my bounty. I wanted to run out and just leave but couldn't leave John by himself. "This little bitch you've been hiding has a bounty of 79,000,00 beli, did you know that?" John didn't say any thing, I didn't even know if he was awake. "Answer me!" "Y-yes" I gasped and was on the verge of tears and was going to run out but John said something else. "And I don't care, Robin is to important to me and all the money in the world won't change that. So you can take that bounty and SHOVE IT UP YOUR FAT DRUNK ASS!" I was didn't know either to be scared that John's father will do some thing to him, happy that someone accepted me for who I am or think he was a lying basterd.

"Well you better hope I don't because I'll call the marines right now unless you do something for me." "What do you want?" I asked, scared of the answer. "At the moment, nothing but I will want something in the near future so be ready. As for now you better stay here or else the boy will be the one punished, got it?" I just nodded my head. He let go of John and I rushed to his side. "John,can you hear me?" I asked worried about my friend. "Yeah, it's nothing I'm not use to. All I need is a hot bath and in a month or two I'll be good as new. You on the other hand have some explaining to do, but that can wait until later so help me to the bathroom. After that night me and John were subject to freqent beatings."So... your a devil fruit user?" "Yes" I said ashamed of myself. "Let me guess, you were scared that I was going to be freaked out and hid it from me?"

"You know so well it's scary, you know that?" I said. "Yeah, but I'm awesome like that." That caused me to laugh and we settled into a comfortable silence. "Robin, I just wanted to let you know I don't care if you have these powers or not and that I would never do anything to hurt you." "John, you have no idea how much that means to me. I never had friends my age because of these powers and when my island got destroyed and I got my bounty, everyone was either scared of me or lied to me to turn me into the marines. So thank you." I started to cry a little, then he pulled me into a hug and I cried harder into his shoulder."Its ok Robin, all those people are just cowards and bastards, and you won't be alone any more." I told John my story and he wanted me to run away so I can be safe. I told him no because I couldn't leave him. "Robin I'll be fine, but he could turn you in at any moment. "No John I'm not leaving you all alone." He sighed. "Fine, how about I leave with you?" "What, John thats crazy you would be in constent danger and you would be associated with a criminal." "Robin I don't care about that. I care about you and your safety." He then grabed my hand in a gentle grasp. I started to blush and after a while of thinking I asked: "Your not going to change your mind are you?". "Nope" was all he said along with a toothy grin."O.K. but where are we going to go, how are we going to get there and how are we going to pay for it?" John was silent for a while but eventuly said something that shocked me. "We could head to east blue." "What? John thats crazy we would have to cross not only the red line but also the grand line." "I know but hear me out, where else do you think we could get a new start and all we have to do is join a pirate crew who are heading that way." "I don't John, it seems risky and I don't have very good experience with pirates." "Remeber Robin I'll be there with you the entire way and we'll only go if you want to I won't force you into anything you don't wanna do." I looked at at John and knew that as long as I was with him that I would be O.K. "Alright lets go to east blue." "Great, when do want to leave?" "How about in two weeks so that we can get supplies ready and some extra cash." "Great idea Robin."

John's P.O.V

The next day at sunrise I was awake getting ready for my hunt when I noticed my father was also awake. "You're up early?" I said more as a question more then a statement. "Yeah, the funniest thing happened yesterday. I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and I walked past your room. I thought you would be sleeping but to my surprise you AND Robin were both awake and making plans to run away. Well I didn't like that so I called the marines and they were ecstatic to find out Nico Robin was here. So they'll be here in five minutes." To say I was scared was an understatement I ran towards my room to warn Robin. "Robin, wake up, you have to wake up." "Hmm, what is it?" She said rubbing her eyes. "My dad knows about the escape plans and called the marines, they'll be here any second. Here take this book-bag and fill with as much clothes as you can. I'll get the money and my stuff and we'll leave in five minutes." She was still a little hazy but sprang into action a moment later. I ran and put all my money into a bag I found. I walked into the hall to get my bow and arrows when I saw my dad talking with the marines outside."Shit were going to have to fight our way out." I said to my self. I rushed towards my room. "Robin their here and they have us surrounded. Are you ready?" "Yeah. Are you sure you want to do this John? you could just leave me, I'm sure I'll be fine." "Robin I said I'm going to stay with you and I meant it. Now, do you know how to use your power againist people in a situation like this?" "Yeah but I'm not that good." "Thats fine I just need a distraction so I can finish them off." "John, what do you mean by 'finish them off'." "I mean, if I had to choose your life or theirs, I choose your everytime. Now lets go." We were heading to the window when we heard the anouncement. "Nico Robin, let go of the hostage and we will make this as easy as possible on you." " Hostage? Those mother-fuckers think I'm a hostage, I'll show them a hostage! Robin make it so that everyone is looking towards the left when I finish." I opened the window and screamed out: "HEY, DUMB-ASSES, I'LL SHOW YOU A HOSTAGE! Robin, now." Just then arms sprouted from the chests of serveral marines and started to strangle them. While every one else was looking at them I notched a arrow and aimed for the first person I saw, my father. I let go of the arrow and it flew through the air at a pace so fast nobody saw a thing. The arrow pierced his chest and went through his heart making it a quiet but not a fast death. I wish I could say it made me sad to kill my on father. I notched three arrows at the same time and took aim. All three made their mark but not exactly where I wanted but close enough. Two of them went through the heart but one went through a marine's throat making him do a gurgling noise that alerted the others. They pointed their guns at us and fired at us. The bullets flew past us and most of them missed when we ducked but one nicked my pony tail releasing my hair. I turned to tell Robin a lame joke , but I found her face down in a puddle of blood.

Robin's POV

I felt the bullet hit my shoulder and I went down to the floor. It was too painful to move so I just stayed there. I heard John call out my name and rush towards me. He gently left me up and I felt his tears fall on me. "Robin, you can't do this. We had a deal to start a new life, to go to east blue and try new things. You can't die, you can't." "Don't worry I won't, it just hit my shoulder; as long as I take out the bullet and stop the bleeding I'll be up good as new." I then gave him a heartful smile. He then wiped his eyes and nodded his head. "O.K. let me take the rest of them out and I'll fix you up." He stood up and went towards the door. With out his pony tail he looked scary, wonder what the marines will think when they see an 8 yr old child coming at them with waist long hair and a intent to murder them? I laughed at this and my arm hurt a little when I did this.

John's POV

When I walked towards the door I changed the smile I had on to a look of pure hatred. I'll show those damn marines what its like to mess with me and Robin. I hugged the wall next to the door as I got ready to make my move. I opened the door and moved immediately as the gun fire came at me. I notched an arrow and ran out towards the first person I saw. It was some marine who was reloading and I fired my arrow. I was in ruch so I didn't focus on my aim. The arrow hit the man to the right of his torso and he went down crying in pain. I ran past him and notched another arrow when I noticed a marine aim their gun at me. I jumped up as high as I can to dodge the bullet. I was 3 and 1/2 meters off the ground when I shot the arrow at the marine. It hit him dead center, betwwen his lungs. As I fell I saw my shadow and I thought I looked like a bird. My hair was loose and spread out so it looked like wings and another arrow was notched and front of me so it kinda looked like a beak. Lastly I think my eyes were dilated since they do that when I'm in extreme situations(or mad). There were two more marines(I guess they were in a hurry or underestimated Robin) so I had to work fast. I hit the floor and rolled into a crouched postion. I dashed towards the marine closest to me and launched my arrow before he can fire a shot. It punctured his left leg but he was still standing. I ran up to him and stomped it in futher with my left and when bent over with pain I kneed him in the face. I was trying to notch another arrow to finish the last marine but discovered I was out. In a hasty decision I picked up the rifle of the fallen marine and took aim. I would of aimed for the chest or heart if I had my bow but I didn't know if I can control the recoil of the gun so I aimed a little further down. When I fired I discovered that the gun didn't have much of a kick so the bullet hit the marine in the groin. "Sorry" I muttered and ran back to the house. I found Robin, removed the bullet(it wasn't deep), stopped the bleeding and went towards the village to find a doctor.