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Title:Heroes of the Ten-Tailed Demons
Chapter 1: The Meeting
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The crew was sailing on the sunniest day in the East Blue, but not the crew you're thinking of. This is the crew of Aiko Renee Kinamoto
Aiko is a 16 year old captain. She has hair down to her knees. She wears her hair up in a ponytail with her bangs down. She has crystal blue eyes with dark blue rings around them. Her hair is brown with blonde highlights. Her nickname given to her by Rin and Sasuke is Kuma
Rin Kolulu Kinamola is also 16, she's Aiko's half-sister. Her hair is down to her waist. She wears it up in a ponytail. Rin is replacement captain and first mate. She has crystal purple eyes with dark purple rings around them. Her hair is pink with blue highlights on the top. Her nickname given to her by Aiko and Sasuke is Hana.
Espi Misaki is a 15 year old marks girl. Her hair is down to her shoulders, and its silver with gold strips. Her eyes are gold also.
Kisa Sohma is a 13 year old girl. She's second navigator on the ship. She has golden hair that goes to her lower back. Her eyes are gold as well.
Hinata Minamoto is 18. She's the first navigator on the ship. Her hair is black and it's to the bottom of her chin. Hinata has brown eyes.
Sasuke Kinamola is another 16 year old. He's Rin's and Aiko's younger brother (by only two minutes) and is Aiko's half-brother. He has black hair with red highlights. He's the cook of the ship and he's really good at it.
Last but not least is Lee. He's the ship's shipwright. He has dark black hair with brown eyes. Lee's last name is Minamoto. He's Hinata's older brother by one year.
There are lots of animals on this ship too, nine to be exact. Aiko has four and Rin has five. Aiko has a wolf, a dog, and two horses, Rin has five cats.
Aiko's wolf's name is Manipi. He's a gray wolf and her helper in battles and is 3 years old. Her dog's name is Angel. She's black with a white angel on her chest and is very loyal to Aiko and a good friend to those she knows. Her horse Moonshine is very temperamental and doesn't like guys. She's white with a flaxen mane and tail. The only gut Moonshine gets along with is the other horse AmigoAmigo is a red and white paint and is very friendly to anyone except intruders.
Rin's first cat is Strawberrypelt. She's the oldest of the five cats. She has strawberry pink fur with lavender stripes and lavender paws. Her eyes are lavender with strawberry pink rings around them. Orangepelt is the second oldest cat she has orange fur with fire red stripes and fire red paws. She has orange eyes with fire red rings around them. She never leaves Rin or Strawberrypelt alone. Forestpelt is the only male cat. He is the middle cat. He has dark green fur with golden stripes and golden paws. His eyes are dark green with golden rings around them. He is the cat like version of SasukeRin and Aiko's triplet brother). If he likes someone he will go right up to them and let them pet him. Cherrypelt is the second youngest cat with cherry colored fur. She has cerulean stripes and cerulean paws. Her eyes are cherry colored with cerulean rings around them. Blueberrypelt is the youngest of the five cats. Her fur is blueberry colored with maroon stripes and maroon paws. Her eyes are blueberry colored with maroon rings around them. She and Cherrypelt are inseparable.
"Hinata, is there a port near by?!" Aiko called to Hinata
"The next port is almost within sight Aiko-sama!" replied HinataAiko gave her the signal to stop at the port. All of the sudden the boat jerked and a crash was heard.
"Is everyone okay?!" yelled Aiko as she stood up.
"Everyone's fine!" Espi yelled back.
"Aiko-sama, we hit a floating restaurant." said Kisa
"Drop anchor!" Aiko commanded. She grabbed Lee's arm and jumped off the side of the ship. She landed on the floor of the restaurant with Lee at her feet. Manipi followed her off of the boat and stood next to her. An old man met her.
"Watch where you're going." he told her.
"Pardon me, I'm sorry about this little incident, but my shipwright will fix it up hunky dory." Aiko said smiling.
"It wasn't entirely your fault. If you eat our food we'll use your shipwright."
"Are you sure? I mean, I wasn't paying attention to where my ship was going and…"
"Please my sweet, let me cook for ya" said a young man.
Aiko looked at the man walking towards her. He had short blond hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a black suit with a blue dress shirt. She started to blush. Then she walked towards Manipi
"Hey, wait up beautiful." the young man said.
"Manipi, guard." Aiko said sternly. Manipi walked up next to the old man and started to growl. Aiko continued walking towards the ship.
"Moonshine!" she heard Sasuke yell, "Get back in your…Ahhhhhh!!!"
A large white horse jumped off the ship. She started trotting towards the old man. Manipi turned around and started barking at Moonshine. She slowed down then came to a complete stop.
"Sasuke, lead rope!" yelled Aiko to the ship. A light blue rope with a latch on it flew off the ship. Aiko caught it and ran towards Moonshine. She snagged the latch onto the halter. Moonshine reared up and tried to get free. She flung her head back. Aiko whispered words in a different language and Moonshine calmed down. She flung her head one last time. She looked at Aiko and walked over to her. She laid her head on Aiko's shoulder. Aiko unlatched the lead rope and jumped onto her back. She kicked the horse and made clicking noises with her mouth. Moonshine started to gallop towards the ship. Then she jumped onto the ship and disappeared. Manipi was still growling until his ears perked up. He wagged his tail and started to bark at the ship. Aiko jumped off the boat and started walking towards the old man and Manipi
"Aiko, wait up!" called Rin. She jumped off the ship and ran to her sister. The blond haired boy started to walk towards Aiko. She stopped and stepped back. She wanted him to back away, but he kept walking towards her. She wanted to move, but she was frozen. He was standing right in front of her now.
"I didn't introduce myself. The name's Sanji." he held out his hand.
"Sanji? That's a nice name. I'm Aiko." she said shaking his hand and smiling. She quickly refracted her hand and backed up from him with her head down.
"Sanji, get back to work!" hollered the old man.
Sanji walked over to Aiko and grabbed her hand. He knelt down and kissed her hand. She blushed again and Manipi started to growl. He began stalking SanjiSanji just stood up and started walking towards the kitchen. When he got to the door and winked at Aiko
"Later, Beautiful." Sanji said.
"Bye." she said under her breath.
Sanji disappeared behind the door and Manipi stopped growling.
"Will you?" asked the old man.
"What?" Aiko said snapping out of it.
"Will you eat our food if we use your shipwright?"
"Sure we will." replied Rin
Lee got right to work fixing both ships. Aiko was standing next to him watching. He was talking to her and pointing out certain parts of the ship and tools. She nodded her head to each thing he said. Manipi was lying at her feet. Five minutes passed and Manipi stood up. He started growling at the sky. Aiko looked up and saw something falling. She ignored it and told Manipi to lie back down. A few minutes later a huge boom was heard and a lot of dishes breaking. Manipi took off towards the kitchen door.
"Manipi, wait!" yelled Aiko taking off after him. The kitchen door shot open and a young man with a straw hat flew out. He flew right in to Aiko and both of them fell to the floor. Manipi ran over and pulled Aiko out from underneath the young man with the straw hat. Manipi then stood in front of her growling.
"Beautiful, you okay?" asked Sanji. He bent down to her, "Your arm's bleeding."
She looked at her arm then looked back at Sanji. She looked straight into his baby blue eyes. Lee came over and saw her arm. She tried getting up, but she fell into Sanji
When the young man with the straw hat got up there was a broken board under him. Aiko sat back down on the floor. Sanji ran into the kitchen and got a dishcloth. He came back and tied it around her arm. She tried getting up again and fell into Sanji again. Aiko looked over at the young man. Rin was beating him up.
"How dare you hurt my sister, you bastard! I'll kill you!" she yelled punching him.
"Rin, stop it! It's not his fault!" Aiko yelled.
She still didn't stop punching him. Aiko walked over to her and smacked her upside the head. Rin turned around and almost punched Aiko square in the face. Rin snapped out of it and calmed down. Then she looked down at Aiko's arm.
"Um Aiko, maybe you should get a bandana and tie it around your arm cause that dishcloth ain't helpin much."
She looked down at her arm again. She was going to walk over to Manipi to see how he was doing, but then her knees gave in. Sanji caught her and lowered her slowly to the floor. Manipi ran over and bit Sanji on the arm. He squinted and then told his fellow employees to go get more dishcloths and a blanket.
"Manipi, release." she told her wolf. Manipi let go of Sanji's arm but was still very cautious. He stayed very close to Aiko and watched Sanji with a death glare. Aiko saw another ship pull up next to the restaurant. Three people jumped out, a red headed lady, a green haired man, and a long nosed man.
"Hey guys!" yelled the straw hat man.
"Luffy, what did you do now?" asked the green haired man.
Aiko was covered in a blanket with dishcloths padding her arm. Rin knelt down to Aiko. She made her laugh and smile. Rin then looked over at the straw hat man.
"Oh my God, Aiko, that's Roranoa Zoro." whispered Rin. She began to blush. Then Zoro looked at her and her face turned fire engine red. She looked away quickly and started to pet Manipi. Her cats Strawberrypelt and Orangepelt were at her side staring at Zoro
"If you want I can talk to him for you?" Aiko asked.
"Would you? Are you sure?"
"Yea I'm sure, it'll be fine. I'll go talk to him for you." Aiko said standing up. Sanji walked behind her.
"Thanks Ai." Rin said.
"Is there something you want?" Aiko asked Sanji
"No, just in case you fall again I'll catch ya."
Aiko turned around quickly, "I don't need your help, and I'm perfectly fine. Just leave me alone." Aiko turned back around and started towards Zoro
"She's not a mean person and she doesn't hate you. She's just been through a hard childhood. You're just the first person who didn't think she was blind, who's a guy and is nice to her and you're not on our crew, and called her beautiful. She's a little temperamental. " Rin told him. He looked at Aiko who was about to talk to Zoro. Then he turned and went back to the kitchen. Aiko tapped Zoro on his shoulder. Zoro turned around and expected someone just a little shorter. He looked at Aiko with a confused look on his face.
"Hi, I'm Aiko Kinamoto. My sister Rin is a little shy when it comes to guys. I was wonderin if you ain't doin anything if you wanted to have a little chat with my sis?"
"Yea, sure, whatever. What's your sister look like?"
"She's the one with the pink hair with blue highlights on the top of her head. She knows a lot about you and she's very obsessed. She knows all your moves with your three swords."
"Okay then."
"How bout I set you guys up at one of the tables in there?" she asked pointing at the restaurant.
"Okay, whatever, just make sure she doesn't wear anything that's not herself."
"Thank you. See in there in about an hour." Aiko took off towards Rin
"So what did he say?" Rin asked.
"He'll meet you in there in about an hour. He also told me to tell you to dress like you."
"Umm, what do I do when I'm in there with him?"
"I told him you're not very good at talking to guys. Just try not to be shy and start a conversation for you two to get to know each other."
"Thanks."
"I'll be on the ship if you need me."
"Later sis."
Aiko went onto the ship and told Sasuke about Rin's little date with ZoroSasuke got off the ship with Forestpelt following him and walked up to Rin
"If this guy does anything to you I'll beat him to a pulp."
"Sasuke stop it. He's not going to do anything. We're just gonna talk. Please don't do anything to mess this up."
Sanji appeared out of the kitchen. He walked up to Rin
"Hey, what ship's your sis on?"
"Why do you want to know?" Sasuke snapped.
"Sasuke calm down. He's fine. Ai knows him alright?"
"Whatever."
Forestpelt started to hiss at SanjiSasuke walked off with Forestpelt traipsing at his feet. He went back to the ship and sat on the deck.
"The ship that Sasuke just went to is the one that Aiko is on."
"Thanks." Sanji said walking towards the ship. He walked to the ship and climbed up the side. Manipi greeted him with a growl. He saw Sasuke then walked towards him, "Where's Aiko-chan?"
"First, it's Aiko-sama, Second, go down the alley way under the stairs and hers is the room all the way down on the left side."
"Thank you." Sanji began walking towards the stairway.
"If you make her cry or do anything to make her upset you'll answer to my fists."
Sanji just kept on walking towards the staircase. He went under them and down the alley all the way to the end. He looked to the left and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Aiko said.
Sanji opened the door to find Aiko reading on her bed.
"I can come back if you want?"
She looked away from her book, "What are you doin here?!"
"I came to see if your arm was alright."
She sat up and put her book on her nightstand, "That's not why you came here." she said with her head down.
"Why did ya say that you wanted me to leave ya alone when ya didn't mean it?"
"I did mean it!"
"Your sis told me that you didn't mean what you said."
"Look, I didn't mean it you're just the only guy…"
"Who said you're beautiful and is nice to ya."
"How did you?"
"Again, your sis told me."
"My mom died when me, Rin, and Sasuke were seven. Rin and Sasuke's dad killed her. I haven't trusted any guys except the ones in my crew since. I'm sorry I said what I did," she began to cry, "I didn't mean it. Thanks for helping me and everything and thanks for coming to see me. I'm really sorry."
Sanji walked over to her and sat down next to her. He put his arm around her.
"It's alright. You really don't have to hide what you feel."
"You're kidding right. I don't hide my feelings. I just don't express them very well."
"If you don't trust guys then how did you talk to that dude?"
"Because Ha-chan is scared to talk to guys so I do it for her. It's not a big deal."
"When I was ten, I worked on a cruise ship to be a chef. I would never eat the leftovers from customers but everyone else would. I have a dream to go to the All Blue where every fish is. Chef Zeff attacked the cruise ship and I almost drowned, Zeff rescued me. He gave me all the food and he ate his own leg. I got all my training from him. One day I'll travel to the All Blue and live my dream."
Aiko couldn't believe it. She told him about her mother and he told her something in return. She knew she could tell him their secret. She started to cry again. No person that she had just met has ever been this nice to her. She trusted him now. He knew one of her many secrets and she knew his dream. They were connected somehow. Sanji put his hand on her knee. She stopped crying for a second then started again.
"I'm sorry I was so mean to you. I really am. I'm sorry Manipi bit you and I just pushed you away."
"You think I care about that?"
"What? Hey, I'm crying my eyes out telling you I'm sorry and all you can say is you don't care. Why are all guys like this?"
"Wait, what I meant was…"
"Get out! Get out! I don't want to ever see you again! Get out, get out, get out!" Aiko started to hit him. Sasuke ran into Aiko's room. Sasuke saw that it wasn't Sanji's fault and that Aiko was having a breakdown. Sasuke stepped in between them and grabbed Aiko's arms. She pulled away and then snapped out of it. She lowered her arms and her head went down too.
"Can I let you go without you flipping out again?" Sasuke asked.
She just stood there. Then she pulled away again and lay down on her bed. She stuffed her face in a pillow.
"I'll leave now." Sanji said exiting the room.
Rin was about to go into the restaurant when Sanji walked passed her.
"Hey wait a minute, how'd it go with Ai?"
"Aiko-sama never wants to see me again."
"What?"
Sanji just kept on walking until he vanished in the kitchen.
"Are you Rin?"
Rin turned around, "Yea, I'm Rin…"
There standing in front of her was Zoro. She turned fire engine red again.
"Your sister told me you're a little shy when it comes to guys."
"A little doesn't even begin to describe it."
He walked ahead into the restaurant then looked back, "You comin?"
"Ah, yea." she said walking behind him.
He picked out a table and she sat down at it.
"So what's your last name?"
"My last name's Kinamola."
"You want something to eat?"
"No I'm fine. Thank you though."
"Okay."
"Wh… What's your favorite color?"
"Uh…its green" he said, "I thought you knew a lot about me."
"I do, but hearing you say it in person is a lot better then trusting the people around me."
Zoro just sat there lazily. Rin kept looking down at her feet and when she did look at Zoro her face turned fire engine red.
"You good at sword fighting?"
"What?"
"Are you good at sword fighting?"
"Yea, but probably not as good as you are."
"You wanna test that?"
"You mean fight you?!"
"What, you scared or something?"
"I'm not scared! I'm pretty sure I won't win."
"How do you know if you don't try?"
"Alright, fine. Don't go easy on me."
"Fine."
He stood up and started walking outside the restaurant. He looked back to find Rin right behind him.
She walked in front of him and pointed to her ship, "I have to go get my swords and we can fight there too, if you want."
"Okay, whatever."
They began walking towards the ship. Strawberrypelt and Orangepelt were traipsing at her feet and Zoro was following her. Right before they got on the ship the ship next to them split in two. Rin quickly ran up and got her swords. When she came back down Zoro was gone and a man in gold armor was standing on the restaurant's floor. Luffy's ship was gone and so was the red haired lady. Aiko came off of the ship with her Hiraikotsu. They didn't know what to do, but they did know that there was going to be a huge battle. They could sense it.
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Hope you enjoyed it. I'll have the next chap up in a few days. Bye Bye ;)
Luv, Ai-chan