Tashigi's Adventures with Kimaru

Tashigi glanced again at the man wearing a white trench coat with a hood shadowing his face. She watched as three bulky looking men walking toward the man with a bat each.

One of the men walked up right behind the guy. "Oi! You with the white coat." When he didn't answer the bulky man smacked the beer in the man's hand spraying beer and glass all over him. "Don't you ignore me!? Do you know who I am!?"

Suddenly the man seamed to fly up and his head broke through the ceiling up to his shoulders making him stuck.

The other to men stepped forward. "Boss! Hey you how dare you do that. We'll teach you a lesson about us Glompers." They raised their bats to strike the man half their size under a hood but then their bats was cut in half while the man in the white trench coat was walking out the door.

Tashigi sat back surprised at the lightning fast man. Then she looked back at the two other men just gaping at their halves of what were metal bats completely oblivious to their boss struggling to get his head out above him.

"Haha! Those weaklings actually thought that they could take him on!" Smoker chuckled to himself.

"Sir do you know that man?" Tashigi asked with wonder.

"Of course I do! He was only about 8 and I was about 20. He was a little squirt that always hung out with a girl and whenever there was trouble near her, he was the first one to get in it. He always tried to protect her but he always got beaten but that didn't stop him. He somehow always got back up again ready to fight. Back then he was noisy too. He would yell in to the night from the highest point on his roof about how one day he would become the greatest swordsman."

"But sir. He looked too quiet for him to be the little boy." Tashigi said.

Smoker looked over to her. "Well then, something probably bad happened to him then. Next time I meet him ill talk to him. We should get going. Don't want the marines to start worrying."

With that they walked out of the bar and started going to the port where their ship was docked.

On the Ship

Tashigi looked out into the sea around her thinking about her past life.

"Lieutenant!" a marine soldier saluted her.

"Yes?"

"The captain…um…"

Tashigi quickly turned around to the soldier. "What happened to him?"

"Um…he came back from the town and…when he came, he was wounded very badly."

"Are you trying to tell a joke soldier? What do you mean the captain was wounded? How bad is it?" Tashigi yelled venomously.

The soldier cowered in fear as he blurted out the rest of the report.

She dropped the soldier in shock. She quickly walked to the captain's room to find her captain Smoker laying there with bandages wrapped all over him. She could see the outlines of the wounds from the blood that stained the wraps. The cuts formed some kind of flower that had 6 straight cuts going outwards from the center as pedals.

"Hey Tashigi. Can you get me two cigars from that box over there?" Smoker asked.

Tashigi went to the box to do what her captain requested. "Captain. What happened to you? It looks as if you were torn up like a piece of paper."

Smoker took the smokes from her while he answered, "Ah. He got much stronger than I thought. To think that he was still a little kid."

Tashigi glanced up. "The kid that you talked about on the other day did this to you?"

"Its not his fault. Im the one that attacked him anyway. All I wanted to see was how strong he got." Smoker said through his cigars.

"Captain. Please tell me what really happened." She said a little annoyed.

Smoker looked up at the lights above him. "That what really happened. Im quite tired now so please leave lieutenant."

"Yes sir."

Later

She pushed the marine away as she walked down the ladder on to the port. She headed toward the town. The town that had the person that dared to lay even a finger on her captain. Suddenly the ground shook as if a bomb had exploded somewhere. Tashigi quickly ran to the place where the ground shaking seemed to have come from.

Another explosion went off right in front of her. When she arrived at the scene she saw the man. The man with the white trench coat except his hood this time was off. He had blonde somewhat long hair but his lower face was hidden behind a white scarf that went down all the way to his feet. A few yards across from him was a group of people with things that looked like rocket launchers.

"Hey boy! I bet your hands cant stop rockets!" one of the man yelled. "This will teach you to mess with the Glompers!" Then all of the people holding launchers shot.

It was a direct hit. The moment it hit the man, it blew up.

Tashigi rushed into the scene. Even if the man who was the one that torn up her captain was in this place, that didn't mean that a marine shouldn't stop a group of people from blowing up a town.

"Hey you!" Tashigi yelled. The Glompers turned toward the marine. "I am sorry but you all are under arrest for destruction of public property!"

"Well, well, well. A lady telling us that she was going to arrest us! That's a laugh." The boss from the other day at the bar snorted.

"If you don't just come, ill have to take you by force." Tashigi warned.

"Try us!"

Suddenly Tashigi rushed toward them while unsheathing her sword. Rockets flew at her but she dodged them easily and was on them in less than a second. She first slashed the rocket launcher in half and than he disposed the men of their swords, knifes, and guns.

"I warned you guys." Tashigi said as she threw them down on the ground all tied up.

"You should look around you before you boast." The leader said. Tashigi looked around. There were tons of people all holding shotguns, pistols, rocket launchers; some had daggers and swords at hand. She regretted herself for going into the commotion without some marines at hand. Also that she so easily fell into this weak group's trap. Then she him looking at her. The person that she came into this town to probably kill.

"How are you still alive after getting directly hit by those rockets?" Tashigi shouted to him. When he didn't answer she got real pissed but she needed help if she was going to get out of this place alive. "Hey can you at least help me get out of this mess?" at this he drew his sword and nodded. Seeing that he understood she got into her stance to fight and ran to the weak part of the circle with the blonde hair right next to her. She slashed her sword left and right while he made a path forward. Bullets whizzed by dangerously close to them but they hit some of the people in the group. When they got out they ran as fast as they could with the Glompers hot on their heels. Tashigi was relieved when she saw the marines already lined up but the guy next to her steered clear of them into another road. "Hey where are you going?" Tashigi yelled but he probably didn't hear.

"Sir go inside the ship while we fend off these outlaws." One of the marines said.

"Before that I want to send a small group of soldiers to go after the man." Tashigi replied. Even if he did help her, he wasn't getting away from hurting her captain.

"Yes sir."

Few hours later

Tashigi rose from her chair when two soldiers came with their guns pointed at the blonde man. "What is your name?" Tashigi asked while looking him over.

"…"

One of the soldiers prodded his back with the gun barrel. "She asked what your name was!"

"That's enough!" Tashigi yelled. Both soldiers jumped back in fear. "Dismissed but leave him here." She ordered. When both of them left she turned back the man. She stepped back to find him staring right into her eyes with his gray eyes. "Okay now tell me your name."

"…my name is Kimaru Petals." He muttered.

Tashigi remembered that name but she couldn't quiet get a hold of where she had heard it from. She looked at Kimaru's sword. That moment she felt a strange power leaking out of it. "A cursed sword huh?" He didn't seem all that surprised. She looked at it again. It had a hilt with a grip made out of leather and also the blade seemed to be very long and thin by the looks of the sheath. "Hand me your sword." Tashigi ordered. At this he looked up.

"I am afraid that I cant do that." Kimaru answered while his hand rested on the sword.

"Why not?" Tashigi asked. Kimaru didn't answer. "You know I could arrest you for attack a marine captain.

"He attacked me. I was only defending." Kimaru said back.

"Right. Guards! Take him away." Tashigi yelled and suddenly the two marines came in and carried off Kimaru.

Nighttime

That night she looked through all the files about Kimaru. He was about 22 years old. She knew that he was a swordsman but she didn't know if he was a pirate hunter, pirate, or a bounty hunter. His parents died when he was only 6. Then she researched about cursed swords. She stayed up all night having no success in the search so she gave up.

Morning

Tashigi awoke at an alarm cry outside. Everyone was moving across the deck.

One of the men came up to her. "Sir the prisoner has escaped and one of the boats are missing."

At this time Smoker came out. "What's all this commotion?" Tashigi came up right to him.

"A prisoner that we had caught yesterday has escaped on a boat." She said.

Smoker's face fumed. "A prisoner? What was his name and why wasn't I informed of this yesterday!"

"Well we didn't want to bother you from your sleep sir." She answered not one bit afraid. "His name was Kimaru Petal…"

"What!" Smoker was really angry now. "You took him as prisoner? Why? I never told you to go after him!"

"Even though I had to because it is still a crime to wound a marine captain." Tashigi said.

"Ah I said the wounds were nothing!" Smoker said a little softer this time. "Let him go. As I said I was the one that attacked him."

Tashigi didn't listen. If her captain wouldn't help her, she was going to catch him herself. She cut the rope that held a small boat making it tumble in the sea and jumped in it. She quickly rowed the boat away from her captain's ship. Smoker was bellowing out to her to come back but she just kept rowing. "Don't worry captain! I could protect myself!" she yelled making her captain shaking his head and getting him madder. He started yelling back but Tashigi was already out of hearing range. She went north knowing that it was the only way out of the Sea Mountains that surrounded the islands. She didn't know why she wanted to catch Kimaru but she already started out so there was no turning back.

I didnt really have any good parts in this chapter but that is because its the beginning so plz stick around and review