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She-Pirate
Prince of Tennis/Tenipuri story
A ship is sailing on the sea. A storm is coming by and the crew is getting ready while some panics, trying to save themselves and others.
"Lower the sail! The storm is going to hit us!"
"Captain! Our ship is sinking!"
"Abandon ship!"
"Yukimura! Where are you?!" Sanada yelled desperately, looking for his sick wife.
"Yukimura!"
"G-Genichirou…?" Sanada whipped his head and saw a woman on her knees, leaning to the walls. Sanada quickly ran towards his wife and embraced her.
"Thank goodness you're alright…" Sanada whispers, gently kissing Yukimura's forehead.
"Mother! Father!" Sanada turned and saw Akaya, sweat and water dripping down from his son's face.
"Akaya! Got a hold on something!" Sanada yelled as the waves hits the ship. Akaya moved closer towards his parents and Sanada grabbed a hold of his son.
"Where's Renji?"
"Renji-san is s-still outside."
"How about Niou and Yagyuu? Marui and Jackal?"
"They're with Renji-san…" Another wave hit before water started gushing into the ship. Sanada held Yukimura tighter as Akaya wobbled towards outside.
"Akaya!" Yukimura yelled.
"I'm going to see if there's something for us to escape!" Akaya yelled before he was hit by a big wave.
"Akaya!" scramed Yukimura.
"He'll be fine… he'll be fine. Our son will be fine…" Sanada whispered, trying to sooth his terrified wife before everything sank.
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"Mister, you should wake up now." Sanada grunted and opened his eyes, only to see a young girl staring at him with dark eyes that even made the great Sanada shivers.
"Who are you?" Sanada said when he gained his full conciousness. He tried to grab the pocket-knife he had in his belt and was shocked to see the young girl smirking, hands gripping on the familiar pocket knife.
"Sorry, mister. But I'll be taking this, you're in my ship after all." The young girl said. Sanada's eyes widened, this young girl in front of her… is a captain?!
"No knives are allowed except for the crews here, mister. Oh, I think you should worry about your family more than yourselves." Sanada was shocked when he saw Yukimura on the bed next to his and jumped towards her.
"Be careful, mister. Your wife is sleeping and you don't want to hurt her." The girl might be smiling cheekily, but Sanada could see the dark eyes and lack of emotion from her.
"Who are you, exactly?"
"Me? I'm a pirate, Miko's the name." the young girl said as Sanada's eyes widened once more. He remembered Yanagi had mentioned a female pirate that sails on the sea, the only female pirate that reigns on the sea. Everything was controlled by her hands. Yanagi had never mentioned anything more since there was limited information, but he never knew that she could be this young.
"Your crew is also waiting for you to awake, mister. You should hold that son of yours, if I see him trying to order people around once more, he'll be thrown out to the sea… or worst." Sanada shivered at her words. Sanada watched the young girl walked towards the door, he could see pride and power from her footsteps, but he could also see something hidden in those eyes of hers. Young girls like her supposed to be happy and smiling happily, what could've happened to make this young girl here on the vast sea? Miko opened the door and few people fell on the floor. Miko just walked through them, stepping on some and closed the door shut.
"Who does that girl think she is?!" Niou grumbled, his girlfriend, Hiroko nudged his ribs.
"Be quiet, she'll throw you out if she hears you." She said.
"Who is she, exactly?" Marui, the look-out girl said.
"She's the captain of this ship. Miko, unknown past, an orphan who was found floating on the water. The strongest pirate on the sea who rules everything that happens on the sea." Yanagi said.
"But she's so young!" Jackal said.
"Everything could happen… if you're abandoned on the sea…" Yanagi said.
"Father! Is mother alright?!" Akaya said, rushing to his mother who's still resting on the bed.
"She will be, if you kept your mouth shut." Every head turned to the door and saw Kumiko, holding a pack. Kumiko then threw the pack to Sanada who caught it and opened the pack, only to see some medicine, ones that he had never seen before.
"Give that to your wife, let her rest, and she'll be fine. You trust me or not, I don't care. But remember, you're in my ship, Rikkai royal family." Everyone gasped as Miko let out a small smirk and left the room.
"H-How did she knew?"
"Perhaps she saw the flag on our ship…" Yanagi then took the pack from Sanada's hands and looked at it.
"This medicine… is very rare. We could trust her, this is going to make Seiko better." Yanagi said as Sanada nodded.
"I didn't see anyone in the ship…"
"Didn't you see them? Those kids, men and women?" Marui gasped.
"You mean they are…"
"Yes, they are her crew… it seemed that she picked up people who floats on the sea and took them in. And in return for her hospitality, they will risk their lives for hers. I'm sure we can trust her." Yanagi said. Everything sunk in Sanada's head and he utters out a question.
"How did a young girl like her be void of emotions like I did?" Yanagi looked at Sanada and shook his head.
"I… do not know, Genichirou…" Sanada then nodded and proceed to feed Yukimura the medicine he got.
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That night, Yanagi was walking around the cabin when he felt someone approaches him.
"I advise you to stop looking on information about me, Mister Yanagi Renji." Yanagi turned his head and saw Miko behind him, eyes glaring.
"Then may I know how you knew about us in the first place?"
"Who wouldn't know one of the biggest kingdoms of mainland? Even the news come to my ears."
"Then I am very honoured, it seemed that you yourself also had been quiet known on the mainland."
"That's only because I have grudges on the mainland… they killed those who're precious to me… the killed my family on the sea… the dare to catch them and kill them…" Miko gritted her teeth.
"May I know your family then…?"
"The whales… the dolphins… I know you knew…" Miko said, voice getting more dangerous by the second. Yanagi had remembered few unknown declared kingdoms illegally caught whales and dolphins from the sea and killed them, almost making them extinct.
"They're…"
"They saved me, they're my family… that's why I happen to hate people from the mainland…"
"Then who are those people on your ship?"
"They… they were abandoned by people on mainland, and more reason for me for hating the mainland…" Miko hissed. Yanagi was shocked at how a young girl's mind seemed to already develop so far.
"Now if you excuse me… I have people to see and to take care of…" Miko said, walking through Yanagi. Yanagi watched the young girl walking and was surrounded by children before they disappears in the dark. Yanagi looked at the sea and thought.
'What have they done to this girl…? What have we done…?'
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"Men! Raise the sails! Change course! We're heading towards the mainland!" When Kumiko had yelled that, the crew had stopped and looked at her before rushing to do what she told.
"Why are we going to the mainland, captain?" A woman said.
"I need to get those people off… I don't want to see them again. They're making my boiling with anger for no reason." Miko said as she sighed. The woman smilled and hugged her briefly before walking inside the cabin.
"Why are you turning the ship to the mainland?" Miko turned her head and saw Akaya.
"Ah, the son of the king. You're asking questions now?" Akaya held himself back, remembering what Yanagi had said to him about her having grudges against the mainland.
"Answer my question."
"I don't want to see you people on my ship and I'm returning you to where you once came from. Be grateful for that." Kumiko said, walked away from Akaya. The wind made her robe flutter. Akaya blinked his eyes, suddenly his face feeling warmer. He caught Miko's tender gaze towards the children and he had to walk away before he manage to gape and humiliate himself.
"Getting caught, Akaya?" Akaya jerked and saw Yagyuu leaning against the wood.
"What is it, Hiroko-san?"
"I mean, I notice you've been staring at her." Akaya felt his face grew warmer.
"H-Hiroko-san!"
"It's not a shame to like someone, but I have to say this… that girl, she seemed to have gone a lot more than we thought, her eyes is dark, as dark as the most deepest cave. She had gone through so much that we couldn't even understand how she feels. You should think about that." Yagyuu said as she turned around and walked away from Akaya.
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"Genichirou…?" Sanada eyes flew open when he heard his wife calling for him.
"I-I'm here, Yukimura… I'm here." Sanada said, sighing in relief for Yukimura's consiousness.
"I see that you're awake." Miko said from the door.
"What do you want?" Sanada said.
"Just checking, and here." Miko said, throwing few more familiar packs towards Sanada.
"You need them more than I do, take them." Sanada looked at Miko for a while before nodding.
"Thank you… you saved us…" Yukimura said. Miko felt her heart drop for no reason.
"It's nothing… families should never lose one another anyway…" Miko said, her voice almost breaking. Sanada caught the change of emotion in her eyes and was about to call before Miko had shut the door.
"She…"
"She seemed so sad… I wonder what happened to her…" Yukimura said.
"I don't know… I just… don't know…"
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Hiroko walked around under the starry night until she heard a small voice, speaking. Hiroko walked around and saw the ship's captain, Miko, leaning against the side with a small bird by her side.
"Hey… do you know who my family is…?" Hiroko heart broke, this is the first time she had heard that sweet voice coming out from the young girl.
"You know… I don't remember anything, the only thing I remember is when I wake up, I was saved by whales and dolphins. Then I pushed myself, fight every pirates and put myself to the top and changed every rules on the sea. I tried to make everyone who's the same as me happy, is that the right thing to do, birdie?" Miko asked as the bird chirped.
"But somehow whenever I got near the mainland I kept feeling this anger and urge to kill everything, that's why I decided to hate the mainland and keep away from there. I stayed on the sea, on the ship, now with my new family. And I'm happy now. But ever since I saw the Rikkai Queen, I don't know, she felt familiar, is that how mothers feels like? Those warm eyes? I don't know anymore, one thing I should do is that I should return them back, they have people waiting for them and I will go back to my usual life, here on the sea." Yagyuu see the serene smile Miko had on her face and she felt she could cry.
"What have the poor girl gone through to make her built up such façade?" She said to herself before returning to her room.
Finally made stories again after such a long time...
Just for those who didn't know Miko=Kumiko is the same, just she forgot her name and only remember Miko
R&R!
