This is my first fan fiction; constructional criticism is welcomed thanks :)
I'm planning on going with the story of the manga and will update with each chapter that are equal to the chapters in the manga but it will slowly drag away from the main story and there will be extra islands and side stories.
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The last thing I saw before I blacked out was the book I was holding before it fell from my slowly disappearing hands as I said "Here we go again..."
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"You think she's alive?"
"Dunno, Better take her to Ririka anyways."
"Yeah."
Ririka?
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"She's been out for a whole week when is she going to wake up!?"
Where am I?
"It's okay dear, she'll wake up soon, we just need to let her sleep she hit her head pretty hard."
Are they talking about me?
"Mommy, look she opened her eyes!" A little girl with medium length brown hair in pigtails said excitably pointing at the girl in the bed.
"Oh so she is, Are you feeling ok you've been out for more than a week?" Asked an older woman who resembled the little girl.
"Um, yeah my head just stings a little, By the way who are you and where exactly am I?" I questioned rubbing my throbbing head.
"You're in shells town, my name is Ririka and this is my daughter Rika." She said patting her daughter on the head smiling.
What lack of creativity. Oh well...
" Shells town... that sounds familiar but could you be less specific what else is around here?" I asked moving my long silver hair away from my scalp to feel if there were any scratches on my head. Finding none I gave up putting my hand into my lap once more.
"Well, we're in east blue if that's what you mean." She answered obviously slightly puzzled.
East Blue
"Wait! I'm in East Blue!?" I screamed standing up only to fall over once again.
"Careful, yes this is east blue, if you would like you can stay here till you're ready to leave." She stated holding my arm tightly as to not let me topple over.
"No I must leave now, but thank you for your help, Do you know where my original clothes are?" Only now realizing I was in a long light pink nightgown that obviously didn't belong to me.
"Oh, right There being washed you can borrow some of mine until they've finished cleaning though." Ririka answered smiling.
Looks like I'm staying here for a little while longer.
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After changing into a light green sleeveless dress that went to my knees I changed into my knee high black boots and decided to look around town. Noticing a huge green military like building I decided that must be Morgan's base and started to walk towards it.
"Hello Marimo" I teased looking at the very menacing man tied to a post not even 10 meters away.
"Go away" He replied simply not even looking in my direction.
"No need to be shy, They can't kill me anyways, How long you been tied up for? I asked trying to find out exactly where in time I was.
"None of your business, now go away." He growled shooting a glare that could kill right at me.
"Fine, If two kids named Luffy and Coby come by be sure to treat them nice." I Returned deciding it was about time I ate something since I had been asleep for a week I began walking back to Ririka's house which just so happened to be a bar to see if my clothes were done and hopefully bum some food off her.
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"Ririka?" I said walking in the front door only to find it completely empty. Walking around I found a note on the counter addressed to me. " Dear stranger, since you never gave us your name I'll have to get it from you when I get back, Rika's upstairs making some rice balls. I'm going shopping and should be back in about half an hour, take care, Ririka."
Rika's making rice balls, guess I just found out when in time I was.
"Rika? You in here?" I asked as I walked into the kitchen. sitting at the table was a crying Rika. "Rika, What's wrong!?"
"Onee chan, I can't make the rice balls for Onii san, they keep breaking." Rika said grabbing my dress and sobbing into it.
"Here let me help you." peeling the crying girl off me, I grabbed an apron and prepared to wash my hands."Rika could you grab me some more rice?"
"Sure" She replied rubbing away her tears as she grabbed a container of rice.
"Watch this, Measure how much you want and then fill your rice cooker with the amount of water to go with that amount of rice, Do you want anything on the inside or outside Rika?" I Asked turning to said girl.
"No but can we put some sugar in instead of the salt?" She questioned still rubbing away tears from her eyes.
"Sure Rika" Eyeing the salt that happened to be on the counter I grabbed some sugar instead and began to measure it as the rice cooker beeped and turned to heating telling me the rice was done. After letting the rice cool a bit I mixed in the sugar and began to mold the rice into triangles.
"We only have enough for two would you like to mold the other one Rika?" I asked looking the girl dead in the eyes and smiled.
"O-okay" She stampered grabbing the last put of rice and began to mold it into a triangle too.
"now that we're down molding the rice let's let them cool, tidy up the kitchen and go give them to that marimo." I said setting down the rice ball and begun to tidy up.
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Walking up to the marine base I saw two people up againts the wall, one with pink hair that looked like he was shaking and another with black hair and a straw hat.
So they're here
Putting up a latter for Rika I jumped up beside the straw hat boy and began to say something before I was cut off by the pink haired boy.
"AH...! Don't it's dangerous!" Said boy yelled as that stupid marimo stared at rika.
Taking my attention off of the marimo, Rika and the pink haired brat I tapped Luffy on the shoulder to get his attention. But yet again I was cut off by that annoying brat.
"Luffy san go stop her! she could be killed!" the brat screeched
He still annoys me even in person.
"Do it yourself" Strawhat said looking back at the marimo not really caring.
"he wouldn't do that you know" I said finally gaining strawhat's attention.
"How would you know anyways?" The brat said giving me weird looks all the while slowly creeping closer and closer to Luffy.
"Because he saved that girls life once, he wouldn't kill her now." I said staring at the boy as he shifted uncomfortably under my gaze.
"RORONOA ZORO! Don't pick on little kids or else I'll have to report to my father about it." A weird man with a split chin and a blonde bowl cut said waling into the court yard with 3 marine officers behind him.
"oh look another annoying bastard showed up." I whispered as said bastard took one of Rika's rice balls and ate it, spitting it out and throwing it on the ground and stomping on it with his foot.
"Blegh! Horrible, you put too much sugar in it, you're supposed to put salt in it, SALT!" he yelled stomping the rice ball further into the ground as Rika started to cry.
"But… but I thought they'll taste better if they're sweet…! Rika said clutching onto the remaining rice ball.
"How could someone eat something like this? Damn it! The Bastard said ripping the other rice ball out of Rika's hand and proceeded to smoosh it into the ground along with the original.
"AHH! Stop it! He can't eat this anymore! Rika said as she fell on her knees tying to get the rice ball out of the path of the bastard's foot but the bastard kept on stomping on it making Rika look like she was going to start balling any second now.
"Th… That's so cruel! That girl worked so hard to make them…! The annoying brat stammpered peeking his head over the wall.
"Don't worry! The ants will eat them all up… hehehe" The bastard hellmeppo said squishing the rice ball into the ground one last time. "Aww… don't cry! It's no wonder why I hate little brat's so much. The bastard sighed rubbing his forehead as Rika tried to keep her tears in while staring at the squashed rice balls.
"That bastard" I said clenching my teeth as for him not to hear me. This isn't the time to fight Morgan yet, I need to get Rika out of here first.
"It's all your fault you know? Didn't you see what was written here?" Helmeppo questioned as he began to read from a sign sticking out of the ground. 'Anyone who helps a prisoner will be charged with the same crime marine lieutenant morgan' " You know how scary my dad can be right? You would've gotten the death penalty if you're a grown up!" He said staring at rika only scaring her more. "oi, throw this brat out" The bastard said to one of the marines behind him. Only to get a 'huh in reply. "I'm telling you to throw her outta here! Are you trying to disobey me?! I'm telling my dad!" The bastard screamed in the young marines face.
"Ay…Aye sir!" The young marine replied walking over to Rika and throwing her over the wall. Just before she hit the ground straw hat launched off the wall and caught her. Before strawhat could even dust himself off coby was there asking her if she was alright.
"Are you alright? Those bastards!" The brat said slowly creeping forward to confirm her safety as strawhat stood up brushed himself off and stared at the brick wall like he could see through it and knew exactly what was going on, on the other side.
"I didn't think you'd have this king of endurance! I'm going to keep you alive for one whole month!" the bastard said shrugging as Zoro returned a 'you'd better keep you promise before the bastard continued to laugh" oh I'll keep my promise, if you can live like this for one whole month, I'll keep my word and release you! Good luck!" He said walking out of the courtyard.
Finally taking his eyes off the ever shrinking form of the bastard Helmeppo he turned surprised to face strawhat standing in front of him and asked" You still haven't left yet? Leave now, or else he'll go tell his dad about it." Only to receive a 'oh yea?' in reply.
"I'm looking for someone to join my pirate fleet." The straw hat boy stated matter 'o' factly.
"Pirate? Heh…! So you gave up on life and became a crook huh…? Zoro said as strawhat replied" It's my dream! There's nothing wrong with being a pirate!"
…Hm? Don't tell me you're gonna set me free and force me to join you." Zoro questioned slightly smirking all the while.
" I havn't made up my mind yet, since everyone thinks you're a bad guy" strawhat replied.
" I thought I told you already, marimo here isn't a bad guy, he's only here bec-"
"Who you calling marimo you weird girl! Since I don't know your name I'm going to call you Gin from now until you stop calling me marimo! He yelled in my direction but his eyes were getting hazy and I knew he won't last much longer out here anyways.
"Ok just get on with you conversation before you pass out miss delicate marimo chan!" I teased as I received another death glare before he continued talking.
"A bad guy huh…?" he said turning back to strawhat but never quite taking his attention off me " I'll never join you, because I have something that I need to take care of! I could survive even if you don't help me! Just need to stay alive for one month, that bastard kid promised to let me go afterwards." He practically yelled while smirking " I'm going to do everything I can to stay alive and fulfill my dreams!"
"…Really?" Strawhat replied"If I were you I think I'd starve to death in a week."
"No way you'd starve to death in two days" I said through laughing fits over the idea.
"I though you said you'd let us finish talking?" zoro questioned giving me more death glare " Ignoring Gin that;s what makes us different." Marimo said turning back to strawhat again" Go find someone else to join you." But just as strawhat started to walk away marimo quickly added" hey! Hold on! That… can you pick it up for me?"
"you want to eat this?" strawhart asked puzzled as he picked up the squashed rice ball." But it's more like a mud ball now."
"Shut it!" I shouted hitting him hard on the head so his face went straight into the ground.
"Sorry, well I guess you can't be picky about food when you're hungry…" He said standing back up and walking over to Zoro.
"Shut up, just give it to me" He said eating the squashed rice balls in one bite, and almost dying in the process.
"Do you want to kill yourself?" Strawhat asked as I punched him again this time with some haki so he didn't stand up this time.
"Cough… tell that little girl…!" Zoro tried to say but it looked like he was passing out. Either from lack of food or the rice balls he just ate, I don't know which.
"Tell her what?" I asked smirking because I knew exactly what he was going to say.
" the rice balls taste very good, thank you very much." He replied quietly so I almost didn't hear him.
"You're welcome" I said as I bent down and kissed him on the nose." I'll make sure to tell her aswell marimo chan." I replied as he blushed a bit then fell dead to the world for a little while.
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"Really!" Rika exclaimed Jumping off the stair in front of her shop and looking right at me.
"Yep! He ate all of it!" I replied not mentioning that I kissed his nose afterwards.
"I'm so happy" Rika replied looking back at Coby who was sitting on a barrel as he asked."Hmm… is he really that horrible person his reputation says he is…? Just quick enough before rika replied " No he isn't! Brother wouldn't do anything wrong."
"It's just that the people in this town seem to be afraid of him" I interrupted " Acording to Rika he got arrested because of her."
"It's true!" Rika interjected " he killed Helmeppo's pet wolf because Helmeppo let his wolf run around and everyone got scared."
"so you're saying" Luffy shot in" that Zoro's only arrested because he killed that Helmeppo's wolf?"
"exactly" I replied" He may have a bad temper but chasing down fugitives isn't that big of a crime either. The only bad guys are the morgans, you'll get executed if you disobey them, so everyone here is afraid of them."
Then all of the sudden we heard Helmeppo's voice from not so far away yelling" Heh heh heh heh! Who dares raise their head? I'll tell my dad!" the sight was awful there was the citizens with their heads on the ground bowing to that bastard but the worse part was what he said next " do you really want to be like Roronoa Zoro? I'm going to publicly execute him in three days, I'll use him as an example for all of you! It's going to be pretty interesting…"
"three days…" Strawhat said "didn't you say you'd give him a month?" strawhat said as the townsfolk around him sat up in shock.
Helmeppo didn't seem to care and kept talking" Who are you How rude, I was only joking with him! Only an idiot would believe that." He said blowing up his cheeks which somehow made HIM look even more stupid, if that was even possible.
It happened fast but not so fast that I couldn't see it coming, just before strawhat was about to punch Helmeppo I grabbed the back of his vest pushing him backwards all the while propelling my self forwards as I punched that bastard right in the kisser.
"Luffy san! Please calm down! You want to mess with the marines or something?" Coby asked practicly screaming at luffy I don't know why since I was the one who punched the bastard.
"Coby, I've decided! I'm gonna ask Zoro to join me." strawhat stated "and you too of coarse Gin" straw hat said looking at me smiling.
"sorry Luffy I'm already with another crew but I can travel with you for a little while, and my names not Gin." I said smiling back like an idiot.
