**Miyuu**
I've changed the story slightly so i've removed the previous chapters and started again, hopefully this one will be better.
Don't forget to review, it will help me improve my writing, so any and all criticism is welcome!
Hoshina
The crew followed the ticket inspector into a crudely decorated, compact train carriage. Near the entrance of the carriage was a young man with silvery hair, waiting on
a pair of noisy hyperactive twins, while on the far side of the carriage was a tanned, dark haired girl sleeping soundly on the seats. The crew occupied the middle seats
of the carriage away from the other passengers.
"So where should we go now, Nami-san?" Sanji asked in a hushed voice. The old lady at the port, Yukino, who had informed them about the bounty hunting group
called the Red Dragons, had warned the strawhats not to allow themselves to get noticed during their search for their ship, as it would make it easier for the Red
Dragons to find them.
"I think we should go to the last stop, which is the closest to Waterfront city. From there we can start asking for more directions to Rydan." Nami said as she folded a
piece of old parchment paper and shoved it down her top.
"Yosh! We need to find the sunny so we can go on adventures again!" Luffy said rather loudly, momentarily catching the attention of the silver haired man and his child
companions, until Usopp and Zoro forcefully kept him quiet.
The ticket inspector returned with a waiter in tow. The ticket inspector spoke in a posh formal way, one that the strawhats where unfamiliar with.
"Do you know where you are disembarking Miss Nami"
"I think we will just go to the last stop, Waterfront city." She said. The ticket inspector curtsied in a stiffly polite manner, before turning to address the silver haired
passenger who was slouched in the seat with his hand resting tiredly on his face.
"Ah Mr Visine, I spoke to your partner Miss Mirum. It seems that she has decided to disembark at Timber."
Visine gave a lazy half nod of acknowledgement before helping himself to the tray of food the waiter had brought in with him.
"Also, if you do not mind, could you awaken Miss Resha who was fallen asleep on the seats over there when the train reaches Timber, as I will be busy so I may not
have time to come back."
Visine grunted roughly through his mouthful of food, but while trying to catch the twins who were playing with the food, he quickly forgot the message.
"What's this?"
The strawhats turned their attention to the frustrated cream haired passenger who had just entered the room. The waiter handed her a bill with a hefty sum.
"The bill for the food, of course"
"What food?" She asked sharply. He pointed behind her at the mass of half empty trays laid on the floor in front of the two kids. Mirum rolled her eyes and sighed as
she reached into her pocket, pulled out a bulky purse and produced a large stack of folded notes. The waiter bowed graciously, took the notes and left the room swiftly.
"Oh, well that's unusually nice of you Mirum, since when did you start forking out cash?" Visine asked tactlessly. Mirum turned to face him with an understanding smile.
"The children have to eat don't they?" She said, then her smiled turn slightly sinister, "but that is to say, I brought it with the expectation that they will finish every last
piece" she emphasised. Visine bit back a laugh when the twins' faces dropped in horror. As he predicted Mirum had found a way to punish them for their careless
spending, and as always she did it in a very creative manner.
"Now now, don't be fussy." She chided them with a soft smile. However once her eyes feel a few meters ahead, her smile faded slightly. She paced a few steps until
she towered in front of Nami.
"If you are planning to go to the Rydans, surely you'll need a compass?" She said in an artificially sweet voice. Nami looked up at her in confusion, before staring down
at her empty wrist.
"What the-" she said in shock, but immediately realised what had happened. She met Mirum's cold gaze with her own.
"You'll find it rather difficult to follow my map without one." Mirum's eyes narrowed visibly as she spoke. Nami smirked in response. It wasn't often that she would
encounter someone with fingers as nimble as her own. Nami pulled the folded parchment from the space between her bra where she kept small items and flicked it to
Mirum, who in turn threw over Nami's compass.
"I am glad that, at least, you are a girl with some sense." She said coldly, tucking the map away safely.
"Of course, you don't get as good as me without it" Nami replied sharply.
Mirum studied her Nami with curiosity, a feisty pretty faced girl with a sharp tongue to match. She couldn't possibly be a local traveller, especially given her chosen
destination.
Mirum decided to test out her theory. "You are quite a catch nee-chan, it's not often that we get foreigners here."
Her comment caught briefly Nami off guard; she wondered how that girl deduced that they were outsiders from a simple glance. Nami bit her lip, rather than outright
deny the statement which would cause obvious suspicion she decided to play along.
"Why would you think that? You should know that outlanders are scarce here." She said, thankful to have remembered the term Yukino had previously used. "The last I
heard, foreigners were too scared to come because of the-"
"-because of the Red Dragons I know. Strange, with your behaviour I really would have pegged you as an outlander. But I guess since you know so much, you couldn't
possibly be. Maybe you just weren't taught proper manners" Mirum said snidely. Nami narrowed her eyes in feigned annoyance but secretly she was relieved to have
managed to trick the girl.
"Mirum, it's time to get off, Timber is the next stop" Visine said while packing up the food the twins had been eating. Mirum left without giving Nami a second glance.
"What was that about? Did you steal her map Nami?" Zoro asked after the four passengers disembarked. Nami stuck her tongue out cheekily at him in reply. "Why
didn't you just ask for directions like a normal person."
"I thought it would be less trouble this way, Yukino-baa-san from the Port did say that it was for the best if no-one knew that we are outsiders." Nami said. "But I didn't
think that girl would notice me borrowing her map, let alone steal my compass in retaliation. The nerve of that girl, stealing from a fellow thief!"
"You call that borrowing?"
"Well it's better than just sitting around doing nothing like you guys! I mean, are you even trying to get any information about this place we are going to. If we take too
long to get there who knows what will happen to the sunny!"
Zoro huffed in response but stayed quiet as did the rest of the crew.
