[On the clearest of nights, when the winds of the nebula's were calm. Peaceful. The great merchant ships carrying their cargo's of precious jewellery and solar substances from one galaxy to the next felt safe and secure, little did they expect that they where pursued by pirates; and the most feared of all these pirates was the notorious captain Kakuzu. Like a hawk from galaxy 3 captain Kakuzu and his band of rebels swooped in out of no where and then gathering up their spoils vanished without a trace, Kakuzu's treasure is still hidden even from his own men but stories have persisted that it remains hidden some where at the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Stowed with riches beyond imagination, the loot of a thousand worlds]
A young girl stands by the edge of a boat with long flowing crimson hair staring out into the bleak mist while calmly singing to her self, a hand grabs her shoulder as she jumps and gasps with wide eyes.
"don't be singin' that song, cursed pirates be sailing this nebula" he whispers looking out at the greying atmosphere, the young girl blinks curiously until the ships captain strides closer with a firm scowl.
"that's enough, leave the child alone" he glares watching the man curse under his breath about singing pirates songs, the young girl turns to look out at the universe again when everything is quiet once more.
"mark my words, its unlucky to have a woman aboard!" he adds with a scowl glaring at the young girl, her perpetual icy eyes glance back questioningly.
"I think it would be cool to meet a real pirate" their eyes widen in shock as the captain becomes stern.
"pirates are violent, blood thirsty cut throats, beasts; the lot of them. We may be nice to you, but they wont be" he stares out at sea in place of the young girl while she blinks again.
"I find it all quite interesting" the little girl smiles brightly, she was only about 5 or 6 years of age.
"yes, that's what concerns me" the captain murmurs patting her shoulder and then leaving to watch his crew once more leaving the girl entirely alone, she stares at the open space before squinting her eyes curiously to look at something large and black coming their way ominously.
"SHIP!" the scout yells in distress while everyone scurries about getting into battle formation, the little girl staring in awe at the vessel.
"where's the lass?!" another yells as the little girl is suddenly pulled from the awe by the crew men, quickly she is thrown into the captains room and locked inside. Silence is all that can be heard before the sound of gun powder raids the air, screaming and shouting makes the young girl run towards the window to see parts of the pirates ship close to the side. Figures of many shapes jump and swing onto the ship and land with heavy bangs, the loudest makes her gasp and run to hide behind the captains desk. Silence takes its cold hand and cups the boats while only the ring of heavy foot steps are left, nearing the door and without much effort it was kicked right off its hinges. They walk across the wooden planks towards the desk as regular as a heart beat, dangerously she crawls away from the foot steps to lean against the side of the table.
Looking up she can hear them throwing the desk apart in search of something, the little girl takes her chance to move slowly across the floor as the foot steps begin again. Fatally she crawls right into the legs of the person who had not noticed her until now, she looks up at the blue skinned man who stares back down; scars line his face and his hair spikes with a blue tinted wave from the long lost planet of -earth-.
Squeaking when he tries to grab her she bolts up right and scrambles towards the ruined door and out into the mist and gun powered air, figures that where moving stop and turn to watch the little figure clumsily trip over on the old door and land at the feet of someone else. Bigger than the last, her crystal like eyes look at the boots that are black and leathered until they trail up past the black trousers then uncomfortably to stare into the eyes of green and red, the words from her mouth escape by accident.
"pirates…" she whispers to her self staring in complete awe at the man before her, he raises his brow at the girl on the deck. A pair of large hands snatch her up so she stands before him, he was apparently the captain and had many battle scar's to prove it. His voice is creepy and deep keeping her from looking away, unknown to her that every other pirate had also came to stare at the little girl but she ignores them. The first pirate she came across was too interesting to even blink for, his voice booms a little louder waking her up from the day dream.
"I said, why is a girl on a ship!" the little girl blinks then gives a confused look before parting her lips into the form of an 'o' at remembering she was suppose to actually answer the question.
"they called me their 'treasure'…" her lips would have formed a bunny smile if it where possible, cheeks turning a gentle pink in a shy manner after answering him; he frowns and glares down at her. She was no bigger than his knee which showed just how tall this man was, walking to circle her he contemplates something.
"do you know who I am?" he enquires with a raised brow but she smiles and points at him.
"pirate" her lips curl up into another smile as he rubs his temple and then places the hand back down to rest right next to his cutlass, the other men stare at her with evil and cruel smirks.
"what 'ill we do wit 'er?" the first enquires "'he be too young fer work on deck and too 'oung fer personal matter. Capin'" the girl just gives a questioning head tilt to what he says not understanding the meaning but the captain only begins to walk away.
"leave her on the ship, she is of no use to us…get back with any cargo you can salvage" he coldly retorts going under the ship to look for any kind of treasure, a man with slick back hair stares at her as he grins.
"I ked' always sacrifice 'er to Lord Jashin…what are you doing?!" the white haired man snaps looking down at the little girl pulling at his gun then playing with the scythe on his back.
"I've never seen a pirate before…you're cool!" she brightly replies going back to pulling at the black and red sash, he glares for a moment before smirking at the comment.
"dam right I'm cool" the others give dopy stares at their fellow crew member before watching her run off towards where their captain had gone, a man with long blonde hair tied into a gravity defying pony tail grabs her.
"I wouldn't go after 'im…if you want the live a little longer. Un" pouting for a moment she stops struggling and stares at him, both ice and azure eyes locking for a moment before she stares at the others when she is put down. It interested them that the little girl found no fear in in them where as everyone else just ran or started screaming, they had already put the women they found down in the brig on their ship before finding her.
"if yer wonderin' the cap'in is the ruthless Kakuzu…" her eyes widen in awe at this because she had heard stories of the pirate, he showed no mercy to those he pillaged and was known greatly for killing anyone aboard his own ship that could not meet his 'standards'. No one has ever lived to tell the tale after truly meeting the man, the little girl may perhaps become the soul survivor if she was to stay alive when they left. She hadn't realised the complications of a 6 year old girl being left on a ship alone, watching the pirates leave only the captain was left who was still down the stairs.
The little girl began to wander down the broken steps in search of the man, she didn't know why but out of all the pirate's, he interested her the most. Finding him in the treasury she cautiously stands by an empty barrel watching the long haired male casually count the doubloons, he glances moodily at the little girl watching him shyly then back to his money. When he looks again he flinch's secretly to notice she was now closer than before, her small crystallised eyes peering up at him in astonishment.
"take a photo it will last longer…" he mutters as his eyes watch her run away and come back with a strange contraption, his green and red eyes start to slit when she holds it up and lets the flash blind him momentarily. Her eyes glistening over as she quickly moves it away so he can't grab it, her lips parted as he glares down at her. Hand gripping the cutlass and just begging for him to pull it out and slice her in half, he reframed however; it would be a waste of energy. Her pale hands pull at the dirty white dress patiently while her eyes move quickly to keep up with him counting, she had silently began counting with him but stopped and pouted absently.
"what's after twelve?" the miser stops for a minor moment and glares at her, the sort of death glare that any sane person would be terrified of. She just giggles and copies his glare in amusement, after so long of this her eyes glazed over to look about ready to fall asleep as he stops at 6567.
"wow…you're really smart! I don't know anyone who can count that big" she smiles delightedly while watching him push the coins into the last bag, before she can follow him any further than the old and narrow hallway he stops allowing her to walk straight into his thigh.
"stop following me" he warns about ready to walk only to see she is about to take a step with him, with one annoyed growl he grabs her and throws her in a barrel. Thumping over the lid he strides to the opposite side of the ship and throws it off in blind rage, grinning to the squeak that it gives off. Peering over at the barrel he smirks with fire in his eyes, growling hatred and venom with every motion. An amused cough behind him makes the legendary pirate lord turn to see the white haired man grinning at the sight.
"cap'an, we 'ave to go…" the miser glances at the barrel floating away one last time before grabbing another and heading towards his own ship swiftly leaving her trapped inside with no escape but to hopefully survive the mouth of death and the icy cold canines of the nebula.
[Years later]
Rain drilled against the boards as she walks to her bedroom and unlocks the room, striding in she takes a deep breath and shuts the door of her private quarter's and grins as she throws the coat down upon the bed which was once two single's that she had pulled together to lay against the wall of the ship underneath the large window that over looks her small horizons. Tables plot the other side of the room making it basically her very own captains quarters that no one shared with her, the young woman kept a key in hand that she would use to keep the others out and keep her things inside.
Setting about she places anything strewed across the room in a messy assortment onto the desk and piled up the books, extra charters and important maps went onto the shelves neatly in colour order for when she needed them.
Settling up on the bed and leaning against the small sill a strange screech makes her turn to look at a black and orange reptile hanging onto the end of her mattress, she smiles and pats her shoulder for it to come over. It didn't hesitate to quickly claw up the quilts and over to nuzzle her lightly and chirp out [Tobi is a good boy] making her laugh and stroke his sheik scales delightfully.
"yes, you are" she had found 'Tobi' when she was on a small island but at the time he was nothing more than a strange black orb with a red mist swirling inside, the man who gave it to her told of its bad luck but she took it anyway shaking her head, she always did love mysterious objects and old antiques. Three years after buying it she was asleep with it underneath a pillow as always, it was cracking when she woke up in shock to hold it against her in despair. The young woman hadn't been sure what to do with the small lizard when it had poked its head out and stared right at her followed by a chirp of [mummy], there were two of them in the same egg but the pure black brother was not as playful as Tobi and held great spikes on his head and shoulders. She named his brother Madara and the lizard did not disagree to the name, he usually hid under her bed to avoid attention unlike Tobi unless he was hungry or in a foul mood and wanted to nip at her ankles a few dozen times.
Today was a very odd time because the orange swirl faced lizards brother actually came out and settled on her lap to stare idly with his bright red eyes, her pale hand pets him awkwardly before picking him up into her arms to cradle him.
"Madara, are you feeling ill?" she lightly enquires watching the lizards little brother cuddle into him, Madara hisses making him claw back up to hide in his owners hair in fear.
"guess not" she smiles with a chuckle watching down on him and stroking his scales lovingly before something scrapping against the walls of the house make her turn to look out at the docks but there is nothing, not even a ship which was odd because last time she looked there were at least 3 or 4 of them.
Running up onto the board walk wrapped in her coat she leans over the wooden barrier to watch the sight of large black tentacles slithering round below then disappear out of sight, her expression of curiosity drops when she see's the tentacle dragging a ship underneath with it. Running screeching towards the motel, a large man comes out and gasps before ringing the alarms when the black tentacles slams down onto the port; the suction-cups tell them it's the most feared of sea beasts. Kakuzu Jones demonic beast that resembled a black octopus with a natural white mask built like battle armour, they called it the kraken and its attack on them only mean's it was looking for a meal and that he was coming their way.
In a panic the men that could fire the cannons off gone about their buisness while others prepaired the life boats, they could only distract the great beast because killing it was mere impossible. They were a supply dock - not a battle ship - desperately she runs down into the hull to grab her babies; throwing them into the orb and closing it in on them to stow away until they were safe along with all of her most prized possessions, trying desperately to grab what she can before she freeze's after glancing up then down at the window. Head shooting up and pupils becoming small to the sight of a giant red and green eye at her window; watching her.
Running out the door with everything she needed the fiery red head grabs her Fedora hat and puts it on while bounding down onto the deck, everyone ready to go but the kraken had other plans and slams down on her exit breaking the dock in two.
The men gasp as the black beast's arms starts to coil round, jumping up she dodges it and lands down but instead she mouths sorry through the krakens screeches and cuts the ropes to the life boats casting it out. Looking around she runs while sliding in an attempt to dodge its grabs and slithering body parts, grabbing at the post to try prevent herself falling off the failing decks, climbing desperately up to hide on the top with a gulp. Its massive eyes looks right at her and suddenly it booms its anger, tentacles wrapping around the house in an attempt to pull it down just enough to pluck her off like fruit.
The young woman's eyes turn to stare at where she had tied up her space-board then to the boats carrying the others to safety making her sigh relief that they will be okay, grabbing to steady herself when the small space deck starts to turn. Her perpetual eyes grow large as she stares at the rows of teeth below, glaring she grabs a rope that would usually secure the larger ships and starts to climb up to where she would usually perch. Standing on the tip she stares at the mashing black worms attached to the beast whom was too busy with the old inn to notice her fling off from where she stands onto her board with a thump.
Grabbing onto the rope that had now been severed from the board she kicks her legs desperately to gain distance from the gigantic monster before finally kicking a small gear upon the back to start it off with a crack of a sonic sensation, a rainbow of colour emitting from the back as she speeds off and away from danger.
It had been days since the attack and she had not found any kind of inn or town since her grand escape from the Kraken, floating unconsciously against the waves on her back, exhaustion and hunger had taken its toile from being set adrift. Squinting her eyes she opens them and pulls her limp arm up to make sure she was still upon the board, stinging all over she turns her head weakly to look at the absence of life all around her; not even a planet in sight. Sitting up she stretches then grabs her scope hoping to find anything in the distance but nothing can be seen but the odd flock of space insect, compacting it again and putting it into the belt she pulls the coat round her again.
Hours had past and still nothing could be seen but what worried her was the sound of a strange emitting sound coming from far away, in front and behind as if talking to each other, turning around she stares right at the Kraken, crap. It had found her and was gaining in speed at the sight, not wanting to sit round she kicks the engine into gear and starts to skim the sky with great haste.
In the distance something else was floating along with a slow pace, a mast? It was a ship but her thoughts are broken at the sight of the flag, pirates. This wasn't the time to be cornered off by a Kraken and space pirates, taking an off direction from the ship the string like beast had already caught up making its booming screech known to both the ship and her. Bursting from a barrier in the vacuum of space it creates ripples but they only seem to pass by the beast's tentacles rather than push it away, spinning and ducking every time it tries to grab her in its slimy grasp. Her eyes drift from the Kraken to see the ship gaining in its pursuit after her as well, peering to her front she gasps and leans backwards while spinning to skid.
Stopping her only escape route was a large, black, and thundering disturbance cloud that lights up every so often from the storm consumed inside it. Glancing to the Kraken then the ship she shifts her head to look at her feet in thought, there was a pocket hole inside of the cloud but the question was, could she make it to the middle without being zapped then get out again in one piece?
The sound of the Krakens dire screams make her stop thinking and smack the peddle on the back with great force sending the board flying with her on it right into the cloud, she knew the beast wasn't as stupid as people would make it out to be as it stops in its pursuit. The ship also stops because it would be too big to go through without being hit for damage, to her luck the pocket hole wasn't hard to find and her head twists round to watch on both sides of her that two massive blocks of each enemie was now skulking outside. The ship probably had a radar that picked her up and kept an eye on her at all times; they knew she was alive.
[Ships OVA]
The crew had been lazing around in a bored fashion while cleaning the deck and mast, one of the crew came running up from the control area splattering about something being picked up on the radar. Captain Kakuzu raises his brow and comes with the man to see, some of the crew following but when they see the size of the 'threat' he raises his eyebrow.
"it's probably just the Kraken we called back" he murmurs but the man shakes his head and points to the small dot.
"no, captain. This is too small to be the Kraken, and its coming at some speed" they watch a larger dot burst onto the screen just as fast, it glowed a red meaning it was the pet of their ship.
"that's the Kraken, but what its chasing I'm not sure"
"when will it be in range?"
"I can't tell its picked up speed and increasing! What ever it is I have picked up a life, but it is nothing I've ever encountered…its stopped…" the man speaks quickly as if he cannot make up his mind.
"it's spotted us…it's turned, the Kraken is following it towards a disturbance field to the west" the man speaks like that of a news reporter for the sports.
"turn and block it off, onto the deck with the rest of you" the cold man snaps making them jump and scatter, all of them running to one side and looking around for the dot, Hidan yells in awe.
"THERE!!" he snaps pointing at the strangest looking thing going so fast it is almost like a comet, leaving a trail of light behind it. Swiftly followed by their prized pet who whips around in anger trying to catch the little snack.
"I….I think it's a…wench" Kisame raises his eyebrow and grabs his scope to stare closely at the figure dressed in a long brown coat and fedora hat, the red hair wafting like crazy at the neck break speed.
"don't be stupid, give me that" the Captain glares taking the spying glass then actually taking it down to rub his eyes then put it back up.
"…what is a woman doing out here?" they all wince then 'oo' when the woman in question spins and spirals around the black tentacles while the beast screeches in annoyance again.
"donno…but she has some skill, un" Deidara blinks using his eye scope to watch with a gaped mouth, all leaning further to see her slam the breaks to stop in front of the cloud with distress. Head turning to look at the Kraken then at the ship then to the cloud once again, tilting down in some kind of defeat.
"she wouldn't.." Pein enquires with wide eyes while they all gasp but the captain in unison.
"she fucking would!" Hidan yelps watching her hit the gears and fly right into the death trap, most of them running off back to the information deck to check if she is still alive. The Kraken stops and gives a pissed off but confused look to where on earth the woman had gone, the boat now gained in its proximity to slide at a safe distance beside the cloud; Kraken on the other side by command of the captain.
"the radar can't pick her up, the field is blocking her from being seen…" the man shouts out while the captain contemplates a plan to him self.
"lower the ship, we'll fish her out" he commands to nods while a siren pulls the beast from its attack, it gives an annoyed chatter at the command.
Meanwhile the woman stays on standby until hearing the creepy pirate call for the beast to come back, both leave meaning they think she was dead. After making sure they were gone she starts it up and bursts from the cloud out into the area to take a good peak round, relieved to have been saved by one of the most dangerous natural disasters of the nebula's. Floating cautiously she peers round; the ship couldn't have left That fast.
Eyes widening to stare right down at the deck to meet heads looking back up at, before she can attempt a move fierce grinding course black thread wrap their way around her and plunge her downwards past the ship and under. Staring into the eyes of the kraken her eyebrow twitches as it slowly curves the tentacles to bring her feet first and up side down towards the pirates sight, the crew had stride to the closer part of the deck in either astonishment or to glare. Giving a small and unsure smile and blinks, she could feel her self ready to tremble.
"err…hello" she gives another nervous smile peering from them to the black slime around her body constricting her movements, one leaves towards a door that most likely kept the captain. More heads appear making her twist in the grip of the octopus before she strains her neck to peer at them all, the captain's hand motions for the beast to drop her in which it does without much care for damage. Perpetual eyes peer up at all the strange men who resemble assortments of creatures from cyborg to fish, heavy foot steps make them part like the red sea to let a tall man glare down at her. He looked human enough apart from all of the scars and black thread seeping out of his sleeves, someone kicks her while someone else pulls at the red locks but not in a threat; rather out of curiosity as if they had never seen a woman before, pirates.
"looks like we've got 'er selves a wench" one smirks watching her eyes blink then narrow to threatening slits.
"what'll we do wit' her cap'ain?" the man with gills who resembled a shark enquires while she glances at the rest of them then directly at the captain, brow raising in surprise at the sight of him.
"I say we feed 'er to the Kraken" this alarms her into opening her mouth to say something but closes right after in forced silence.
"that's a waste" another retorts as she blinks then glances around the ships deck which was surprisingly clean, she expected pirate ships to be rotting from neglect, if they looked the way they did this was most likely the ship of captain Kakuzu. Swiftly out of a short nip at her skin she pulls at her sleeves to hide the black tentacles slithering around under the cloth, the captain seems to see right through it and points to her arm.
"pull the sleeve up, now" his eyes are cold and burrow into her as if he would just about shout out all of her secrets, hesitantly she pulls up the sleeve and gives sighs of relief that the marks had faded back to ghost white pale skin. She could see herself in the planks she was sitting on making her widen her eyes and touch her cheeks, her skin was like paper from lack of food and black rings threatened to turn her into a panda from the absent sleep. Managing to stand up she surprised even the man right in front of her for meeting him right at shoulder point which as usual made her taller than most of his own crew.
"throw her into the brig until I think of a punishment" he points to two men who nod and start to lead her away only to find she struggles and kicks profusely in refusal, after 15 minutes of struggling the man finally get just enough restraint to throw her inside the locked cell.
Grabbing the bars she barks for them to let her out but only laugh at a pun between them about her -uses- and leave the room, dropping onto a chair and thumping her fedora hat further down over her forehead she scuffs the floor with her foot in annoyance then curls into her knee's with a pout. After an hour she had resorted to staring blankly into space or pull the brown threads coming away from her straw like coat, even in the eyes of unknown death she was actually bored of waiting.
The small room smelt like rotting corpses and that wasn't as bad as how she smelled after being touched by those thugs, standing against the bars she had closed her eyes out of fatigue. Hand gripping the bars and prodding the air randomly until prodding a little harder when it becomes soft and warm, warm? Lifting her head drearily to look at her finger nail which rests against a chest as the multicoloured eyes above scowl at her making her squeak and tumbles backwards onto the old, cold, steel and wooden blanks of the cell floor while the captain melts out of the darkness and into the chamber completely.
"only a few seconds in my presence, and already you annoy me" he coldly states stepping closer to her still, giving a nervous smile she presses up against the chair that stabs at the back of her throat in an attempt to keep the distance.
"I have decided that you may come in handy for something" he mumbles raising a cold, luke warm hand to push the hair from her eye away.
"I doubt you will be of much use in battle but as long as you can clean and follow my commands without question…then I suppose you might actually survive to the end of the week" his lips curve into a smug and cruel expression as her eyes squint ever so slightly at the comment and assumptions.
"captain…?" she enquires in an innocent voice as he looks back down at her from something.
"you will always answer to me by sir captain" something flickers in the back of her eyes but fades away back to a smile, she tilts her head when he glares in a questioning style.
"what were you doing floating in the middle of space?" he enquires watching her eyes flick around several times, unsure of how to answer the question apparently.
"my old home was attacked…I've been drifting for days trying to find some kind of -life-" she mumbles hearing a clink making her peer down at a small key to the cell then round with a raised brow, the captain had left but she only picks it up and stares quietly at it. Question was; does she dare to leave without permission.