Kyoko: Hello! SO here is a new story! Don't worry I'm still writing Time Lap and A New Beginning. But this story has been begging new to write it. This obviously takes place before my other two stories take place.

I think I finally found a story for my two original characters that I created about 5 years ago, I've been kinda story hopping them. I've changed a few things about them, but they're mostly the same when I first created them.

I'm going to be trying something different by not telling what PoV the story is in. You'll have to figure it out when you read it. But the page breaks (or lines) are all starts of different PoVs and that is how you can tell if it is a different PoV

Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece. I only own the plot, and any other character that doesn't belong to Oda

*NOV 18, 2013*

Revised

A strong wind blew across the Thousand Sunny as it rocked back and forth on the calm waters of the New World. The crew was making their way to their third island in the New World.

I leaned up against the mast. With my swords propped against my right side. I glanced around the deck; it was quite, for the ship. Everyone wasn't up to full pace since the huge party we threw the night before. Most of the crew was suffering from a slight hangover from the amount of alcohol we ended up consuming. Of course this happens every time we got a new nakama. Except for the damn cook he was in the kitchen already making breakfast for everyone.

I heard a light tapping sound; it was soon followed by the sound of a door opening. I didn't recognized the footsteps, they were new to my ears…. mostly. I turn my head to the left and look at the person who just walked out on deck.

It was our new nakama, Kairri. Kairri's single emerald green eye lands on me and smiles softly. She walks towards me and stops short. I turn my head back to look straight ahead and not at her with my only good eye.

"Seems like we're the only ones with enough strength to get out of bed today?" Kairri's soft, but knowing voice stats as she stands near me.

I grunt in response and I pull out my sword polish and cleaning supplies. I grab Shuusui and unsheathe the tamer of the two curse swords I own.

"It happens almost every time when we get a new nakama. The others will drag themselves out of bed shortly, it still pretty early in the morning." I say as I clean my sword. I hear Karri sit down on my left side near me. I never took my eyes off my sword as she did what she wanted.

"Sorry about Kitetsu." Kairri say softly.

I pause for a moment and move my head to the left to glance at her. Kairri wasn't looking at me, but at the sword in question. Kairri's face was unreadable.

Bandages were wrapped around her right eye, curtsey of Chopper. During our last fight, Kairri ended up losing her protective eye patch.

"Not your fault, I've always been rough on my swords and Kitetsu broke because of it. I just need to find a blacksmith that can fix it." I say turning back to my task at hand.

"Isn't that were the problem lies? Kitetsu will kill anyone who tries?" Kairri asks.

She's right…

"Tsk, that may be true but I don't want to go through the process of finding a new sword." I say.

I swear I could hear her smile.

"Don't worry, even though my island didn't have any blacksmiths the next island does. But I recommend going to 'Yuma Weapons' the blacksmith that owns the store is said to be the best." Kairri says as she starts to stand up again.

I glance at her.

"How would you know if they're the best?" I ask, raising an eyebrow. She smiles at me and stretches a bit.

"Many people who buy a weapon from Yuma-san say they can't use any other weapon. Yuma-san specialized in making many different weapons but prefers to make swords, but also repairs weapons, and it doesn't matter if they're cursed or not. Plus I need to see Yuma-san anyway since I need a new eye patch for my cursed eye." Kairri explains.

I sheathe Shuusui and place it back at my side. I sigh and stand up and stretch.

"I'll go and see this Yuma person, but I may or may not allow the blacksmith to touch Kitetsu" I say as I place my swords in my sash.

I walk away from the swordsman and make my way back to the girl's quarters. I had yet to unpack my belongings. I walk into the room and notice that Robin was up.

"Morning Robin," I say as I walk over to my things. I open up my bag and started to sort through my belongings. I heard the shifting of covers and I look over my shoulder. I watch as Nami sits up. I smile at her and turn back to my task. I open the dresser that Nami told me was mine now, and started to place my cloths inside of it.

"Morning…Robin…Kairri." Nami said in a slight groggy voice. I pause in my work for a second to look at the carrot top. "Morning, Nami, sleep well?" I ask, and then I went back to what I was doing.

"Yeah," I heard Nami stretch and the sound of the bed decompressing from the weight being lifted off of it followed. Nami walked over to where I was and opened up the dresser that belonged to her. I closed my dresser and pulled out a roll of bandages and a small sheet of steel from the bottom of the bag that I brought.

"Robin, can I use the vanity, for a minute? I need to replace the bandages covering my eye." I ask the cool beauty, who was currently sitting in front of the vanity. Robin stands up, so I had a clear access to the vanity mirror.

"Would you like some help, Kairri-san?" Robin asks smoothly.

I smile at her, "Yes, thanks you." I say as I move to the vanity seat. I sit down and Robin comes over and helps me untie the bandages around my head. I move my head over my right eye and cover it. Robin pulls the already tattered and beyond use bandages away from my eye along with the mostly disintegrated steel plate.

"That eye must be a pain in the ass?" Nami asks as she comes up and grabs her hairbrush from the vanity.

"I've gotten use to it over the years. It only sucks when I don't have my eye patch to cover it." I say as I move my hand from my eye to let Robin wrap some of the fresh bandages around my head. Once she wrapped the bandages around my eye three more times I grabbed the steel plate and positioned it and held it in place until Robin got the bandages to hold it in place.

When Robin was finished she tied it off for me. "Thanks Robin." I say again to her and stand up. We hear Sanji's voice over the loudspeaker saying breakfast is ready.

"Your welcome Kairri." Robin says and we make our way to the kitchen on the other side of the ship. We walk into the kitchen/dinning hall. "Morning." I say to everyone who I haven't said morning to already.

Everyone was already there, waiting for Sanji to serve them food. But from what I've learned in the short time that I've been with the crew was: Sanji never served food unless the girls were there.

I found an open seat and sat down.

"Morning Kairri, Robin, Nami." Were the replies from the crew before Sanji served the food. There wasn't much conversation while we were eating; we were fighting to keep our food from a certain someone.

"So how long until we reach the next island Kairri?" Nami asks as she looked at her log post. I put my cup down and looked at her.

"It will take another three to four days to reach the next island." I say, smiling at her.

"What do you know about the island Kairri?" Ussop asks, looking at me. I put a finger on my chin and thought.

What should I tell them about the island?

"Hmm…well for starters the island is called Shadow Isle, there is only one town on the entire island and that the island is sort of dangerous." I say not really concerned.

"Sort of dangerous? There is no such thing as sort of dangerous. Its either dangerous or its not so which is it?" Ussop asks freaking out. I've notice that he does that a lot.

Sigh

"I say sort of dangerous because as long as you keep your guard up while walking around the island at night you might still be alive in the morning." I say looking at him dead in the eyes.

"Do we really have to go to that island?" Ussop asks looking at Luffy.

"There's nothing we can do to change Luffy's mind." Nami says to Ussop already accepting defeat with Luffy.

~Two days later~

We were about a day and a half from Shadow Isle, the waters around us were starting to get slightly calmer and the weather was starting to become more of a summer-Autumn climate. I was sitting in a lawn chair eyes closed soaking up the sun with Nami and Robin.

Then I heard my little wrist watch make a noise.

I crack open one eye and looked at my 'watch' ok so it isn't a watch, it's a little black transponder snail. I use for wire-tapping mainly on marines.

I started to reach over and grab, but Robin beat me to it by using one of her hands to toss it over to me.

I open the watch up and allowed the little snail to poke its little head out. From the corner of my eye I notice that both Nami and Robin were watching the little snail with interest. Any information is better than none.

The little snail opened its mouth and started to intercept the transmission.

"Sir, I have some good news."Came a male voice. The man could be talking to his captain but it was hard to tell if it was a pirate captain or a Marine captain.

"What's the good news, Captain?"Another male voice came through the snail. Just from this sentience I was able to determine that this was a Marine transmission.

"We were able to make contact with the Demon Assassin on Shadow Isle." The Captain said and I was able to pick up an edge in his tone of voice. This transmission also got my full attention as well. Since our next destination was Shadow Isle. And I know of the Demon Assassin.

"I hear a edge in her you're voice Captain. What's the matter now?" The higher-ranking officer asked his Captain. So I wasn't the only one know notice the edge to the man's voice. The Captain must be new to the second half of the Grandline.

"There is a problem, Sir. You see the Demon Assassin, said that she'll 'think' about it." There was a slight shudder in the Captains voice. I had a feeling I knew what caused the shudder. The Demon Assassin had a pretty intimidating figure.

"What do you mean she'll think about it? It's a simple assignment to assassinate the Strawhats!" The unnamed Marine yelled at him. It was clear that the higher ranked officer had no patience for his Captain. But now I knew who the target was.

"Well you see she wanted to know who the client was and why we were playing the messenger for the client. When I told her that is was classified…she…" The Captain gulped as he remembered the encounter "…she glared at me with those scary cat-like eyes and said she'll think about it. And proceeded to mention about doing research." There was a pause.

"I told her that the Strawhats were on there way here. She said that was fine, it takes a month for the log post to reset itself. That was more than enough time for her to complete the assignment…if she decided to accept the job that is. And told me that she would have her answer in a week. Then she vanished…Sir…into thin air." You could still hear the shudder in the Captain's voice.

You could hear a sigh before the other Marine spoke. "It can't be helped. We've got to go with it. We've lost more than a few good solders to her before. As long as she doesn't find out the clients are the Celestial Dragons we're in the clear. The Demon Assassin never accepts an assignment from a Celestial Dragon, so she MUST never know who the client is." The Marine said before the transmission was cut off. The little snail stopped talking and went back inside the little watch.

The conversation that the snail picked up sunk into the three of us. Both Nami and Robin looked at each other and looked at me. Since I was a spy and an information broker that knew I would know something about this.

"Demon Assassin?" Nami questions.

"Seems like the Celestial Dragons are still mad about what happened on Sabaody Archipelago two years ago. And now they are getting their revenge against us." Robin says in her morbid fashion.

I personally didn't acknowledge the two women. This transmission was surprising very informative and I was already deciphering all the information. This information will be key to a lot of things.

One I know the Demon Assassin. I've worked with the women for years. She has often times come to me for information on her jobs. Hiring me to look into clients and targets alike when she couldn't dig up any benifial to her. But I also know the women on a personal level. I can call the women a friend.

Knowing this I still couldn't help the hollow pit in my stomach.

"This isn't good…" Was all I could say to the others for now.

Nikki…please…don't decide anything yet…let me tell you what I know….