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Sabo's POV

"Sanji~ Niku!" Luffy shouted impatiently. His stomach roared again and he put his head on the table. He continued to shout the word "niku" over and over again, hoping Sanji would somehow cook faster.

"Urusai! You already ate half the food in the pantry!" Sanji snapped. "And I just gave you a snack fifteen minutes ago."

"But that was fifteen minutes ago!" the boy whined.

I couldn't help but smile and roll my eyes at my little brother. He hasn't changed a bit since I… left and I was glad. I could never make up for the lost time but seeing him now felt as if I was never gone.

"Still the bottomless pit huh?" I chuckled softly. I then turned to the cook who was still yelling at Luffy for engulfing the pantry. "Sumimasen. I'm quite surprised that you guys are doing so well even though my little brother's stomach, we call a black hole, sucks anything edible on site."

"Nandemo nai," Sanji responded with a smile. "Rat traps and locks usually protect most of the food from Luffy."

Luffy tried reaching for the refrigerator but only to be kicked and sent flying to the wall.

I looked around the dining room and smiled. The reindeer doctor, Chopper, was sitting on the floor with Usopp, playing with the cyborg's, Franky, hair that continuously changed shapes, Brook, the abnormally tall skeleton, was sitting next to Nami at the dining table, occasionally asking if he can see her panties and then getting punched by her, Zoro was snoring away at the corner of the room while hugging his swords lightly until Brook crashed into him from Nami's punch, and Robin seemed to be the only one truly relaxing with a book in her hands.

He sure has found a weird bunch of people to join his crew, I thought. But it would be weirder if he actually found sane, normal looking people to join him.

"Sabo-san," Robin said. I turned around and she gave me a smile. "Who was the girl from before?"

I took a second before I responded, "I don't know."

I knew my mission was to infiltrate the "secret" naval base and retrieve some documents but I never expected to find a girl there. The task was simple and it sounded simple, but after seeing that girl in the tank, something bigger was definitely going on. It couldn't have been a coincidence that the documents Monkey D. Dragon wanted personally was in the same room with the girl, right? And it wouldn't be right to leave her there in a collapsing-in-progress building. Plus, she looked helpless and she was being experimenting on, so was it wrong to save her?

"Did you get the documents you needed?" she asked.

"Persistent with the questions aren't we?" I teased.

She giggled lightly. "Well?"

I sat across from her and took out the documents from my coat pocket. The tightly stacked and folded papers were now sprawled on the table. Robin picked one up and skimmed over it. Her eyes narrowed as her eyes reached the middle of the page.

Just before I picked up one of the papers, Robin grabbed my wrist and she smiled. It wasn't her regular smile, it was more forced. Something on the papers spooked her and was making her worry.

"Sabo-san. Why don't we go to the library and look at these documents?" she said.

"O-okay."

I quickly grabbed all the papers before Sanji set down the new freshly cooked platter of food that made Luffy literally dive in. I was just in time before the food started flying all over the table and the other crew members joined in.

"Captain-san, Sabo-san and I will be in the library if you need us," Robin informed with her trademark smile.

"Bwokay, Bi'll bwheet vour fwill," Luffy responded while shoving the food in his mouth like there was no tomorrow. (Okay, I'll eat your fill)

We both smiled at him as Sanji placed more plates on the table and Usopp was fighting to get a handful of food while Chopper was trying to protect his portion of food.

Once we were at the library, we were stunned by the sight in front of us. The girl was sitting on the benches with a book on her lap. Her long silver hair gracefully sat on her shoulders and chest and she was glowing from the sun shining behind her. Instead of being naked, she was wearing a white, thick strapped dress which probably belonged to Nami. She had rosy cheeks and a slight smile on her face. She looked like an angel aside from the slight drool escaping the side of her mouth.

Suddenly she leaned forward and almost fell. Luckily, Robin caught her with her devil fruit ability.

Her body jolted and she quickly opened her eyes. "T-thanks."

Robin smiled and her extra hands pushed the girl back up and wiped the drool off the girl's chin. "Why are you up here? You should be resting in your room."

"G-gomen…" she murmured. She stood up and bowed slightly. She was only able to take two to three steps before she fell down, face first.

I sighed and then picked her up. I placed her back on the bench and she smile sheepishly.

"Gomen-," she murmured.

"What's your name?" I interrupted. I bent down to her level and Robin sat next to her.

"My name?" she repeated. There was an awkward silence in the room as she stared at me, trying to think. "I… I don't know."

"Where are you from?" Robin asked.

Silence again. She looked at Robin and shook her head. "I don't know."

I looked at Robin and then back at the girl. I sighed once more and then smiled. "I think the drugs haven't worn off yet. You need some more rest."

I stood up and moved closer to her but she quickly regressed and snuggled into Robin's arms. Instead of glaring at me like before, she looked terrified. She was holding onto Robin like a koala and practically sitting on her.

Robin smiled softly and patted the girl's head. "Daijobu. Sabo-san won't hurt you."

She looked up at Robin and then glanced at me. "Sabo... san?"

"Hai," I responded.

It was like speaking to a child at the moment but I guess you couldn't really blame her. But, it kind of ticked me off how she wasn't glaring at Robin like how we first met.

"I'm just bringing you back down to your room so you can rest," I said softly, almost whispering.

"Yada," she said bluntly.

"But you need rest... This room isn't exactly... right for healing patients, so how about I take you-."

"Yada."

I felt my left eye starting to twitch

"But-."

"Yada."

Robin giggled lightly and then stood up. "We'll take you downstairs."

"Ya-."

"Not that you have much of a choice," I grunted. I wrapped my arms around her back and the back of her thighs and picked her up.

Surprisingly she didn't say "yada" again or glared at me. She just pouted and crossed her arms. I couldn't help but smile to myself. She somewhat reminded me of Luffy when he didn't get food... without the constant complaining... and yelling... and stomach roaring.

"I'll wait for you to come back and then we'll discuss the documents," Robin stated. She sat back down on the benches and picked up the book that the girl left behind.

I closed the door behind us and then walked to the deck. We were silent and the only thing I could hear was the waves knocking the ship and the ship creaking. I looked down and she was glowing in the sunlight again.

"Why?" she mumbled.

"Hm?"

"Why did you save me?" she asked while looked up at me.

"Does there need to be a reason?" I responded with a smile.

She stayed silent and leaned her head against my chest. "You should've left me there to die."

Before I could respond and scold her for saying such things, there was a loud explosion next to us and it caused me to fall on the floor. There was a high-pitchced sound before a loud splash. Cannonballs were in mid-air and were coming.

Another two came flying, but this time it was aimed at me. I was about to drop the girl and counter but Zoro and Sanji jumped from behind. Sanji managed to kick one away before it exploded while Zoro sliced the other cannonball into three pieces.

"Thanks," I said.

"Nandemo nai," Sanji said. He lit up his cigarette and looked at me with a smile. But then his mouth turned into an o-shape and the cigarette just fell. He was staring right at the girl in my arms and he just froze. "T-t-tenshi*?"

All of a sudden, blood trickled down his nose and then it turned into a bloody cannon.

"Sanji!" a high-pitched voice cried. The little reindeer doctor came running to us and was shaking Sanji, telling him to get it together but Sanji was in a trance. He kept stuttering and you could see his soul slightly leaving his body.

"Aho," Zoro mumbled.

Sanji quickly shot up and furrowed his brows. "HUH? What did you say marimo?!"

Just as Zoro was about to retaliate, another canon-ball came flying at us.

"Gomu gomu no!" shouted a voice. "Fusen!"

A giant ball appeared in front of all of us and it reflected the incoming cannonballs. The ball then deflated and then turned towards us.

"Eh? I thought she was sleeping," Luffy said while picking his nose with one hand and pointing with the other.

"No time to talk. We have to put her somewhere safe," I said.

"Just go to the-," Luffy said with a wide grin.

"Oi, Oi!" Franky interrupted. "What's going on out here?!"

Another cannonball flew towards us but this time, hands sprouted from the rails of the ship and caught it before it landed. It bounced back into the air and then exploded. Robin walked over to us with her arms crossed and a smile. "Trouble loves to find us."

"Mina!" Nami shouted while running towards us. "The Marines are closing in!"

I looked around and Marine battleships were coming from the horizon. It has only been three hours since I stormed the naval base and they already found us. There were maybe five ships each side but one was speeding towards us.

"Anyways, we need to get out of here," Franky stated.

"I can take them out," I said. I put the girl gently on the floor, next to me, and then stood up . "I wanna practice using this new ability anyways." I smirked and then lit my fingers up and then put out the flame.

"No way!" Luffy whined. "It's not fair if you have all the fun!"

"Luffy-," I sighed.

"He's right. I should do it since I can take down all those ships faster," Zoro smirked.

"Huh?!" Sanji scoffed. "As if! I can take down all the ships faster than you shitty swordsman!"

"I could defeat all of them with my eyes closed and still be faster than you!"

"I can do it with my eyes closed and one hand behind my-."

"Urusai!"

BONK! BONK! BONK!

Nami stood over the two quarreling men, who were now on the floor holding onto the new lump on their heads. She was glaring at them and her teeth somehow turned into fangs. "Urusai! Right now we have to get out of here!"

"Why did you hit me?" Luffy said weakly while laying on the ground.

It still surprises me how she's able to take out the monster trio with just a punch. It was terrifying but somewhat entertaining to watch.

I heard a tiny giggle and I looked next to me. The girl stood beside me and when my eyes caught hers, she quickly looked away with her hand was over her mouth, trying to suppress her laughter.

"MUGIWARA!" echoed a voice.

All of our heads snapped to the direction of the voice. The rest of the Marine ships stopped moving forward except for one. At the bow of the ship stood the lavender haired man with a smirk wiped across his face.

"RETURN THE STOLEN ITEM!" he yelled into the Den Den Mushi.

The whole crew tensed up, especially Robin, however Luffy was oblivious. He sat on the rails of the ship and picked his nose.

"HUH?" Franky exclaimed. "Spanda?"

"It's Spandam!" he snapped.

"Who?" Luffy asked.

"He's the man who took Robin away from us," Chopper said as he tightly held onto Robin's leg.

Luffy jumped up from his seat and stood up. He glared at Spandam.

"Hand the girl over!" Spandam yelled. "Unless you want something like Buster Call to occur again."

"If you want Robin, then you'll have to go through me!" Luffy shouted.

Spandam smirked and then laughed. There was an awkward silence aside from Spandam's annoying evil laugh. When his laughter finally died, he smiled. "I don't want Nico Robin... I want the girl you took from the lab. Although Nico Robin would make a nice addition."

The girl slid behind me. Her hands clenched around my arm and her head peeked out slightly.

"Eh?" Luffy asked. He went back to picking his nose. "Nande?"

"Just give her to us and we'll let you all escape!" Spandam snapped. He was losing his patience.

Luffy looked at the girl and then me. He pouted and continued to stare.

"Luffy... I know it's a lot for me to ask but do you think she can stay on the ship for a while?" I asked. "Just until I figure out what's going on!"

He gave me his trademark smile and simply answered, "sure!"

"Eh?!" shouted the whole crew except for Robin, Zoro, and Sanji.

"You can't just decide without consulting us!" Nami snapped. Her hands wrapped around Luffy's throat and she started shaking him. "For all we know she can be a psychotic killer! After all, she has a whole fleet of Marines trying to retrieve her!"

Luffy laughed buoyantly. "Daijobu! She won't hurt us!"

"How can you be sure about that?!" Usopp and Nami snapped while smacking their captain on the head.

"Shihihihi! We saved her and I trust her!" Luffy said and looked at the girl with that smile off his.

Nami and Usopp ended up crouching in a gloomy corner. The atmosphere around them became depressing and both of them seemed like they were on the verge of crying.

"There's no point fighting with someone as stubborn as our captain," Zoro said with a smirk.

"But-," Usopp squeaked.

"Ugh! There's no point now!" Nami shouted frustratedly. She stood up and let out a sigh. "Franky, get ready to use Coup de Burst. We're getting out of here."

"But I want to fig-," Luffy whined.

Nami punched Luffy on the head again and another large bump formed on his head. She slowly turned her head towards the rest of the crew and slightly tilted her head while giving a sickly sweet smile. Her smile was directed to the remainder of the monster trio and at me. "Anyone else have something to say?"

"Yosh!" the whole crew exclaimed. Everyone started running around and preparing for take off, not wanting to provoke the angry Nami any further.

"Don't ignore me!" Spandam shouted over the loud speaker Den Den Mushi.

The Marine battleships began to attack again. The cannonballs started flying once more but Zoro and Sanji continued to protect the ship.

"If you take the girl, the Marines will hunt you down!" Spandam threatened. "She will bring nothing but misfortune and all your nakama will be dead!"

"BAKA~ We're always going to be hunted anyways so it doesn't matter. Plus, you said that about Robin and you were wrong!" Luffy shouted back. Instead of his usual goofy grin, he was speaking with a determined smile. "She became one of my precious nakama and I will protect my nakama no matter what! I won't let anyone else die!"

Spandam's face turned a deep shade of red and he squeezed the Den Den Mushi's dial until it crumbled. He let out an angry cry and then slammed his fist down on the battleship's rail. "FIRE EVERYTHING WE GOT! I DON'T CARE IF YOU INJURE THE GIRL! JUST GET HER BACK!"

"Hang on!" Franky shouted. He gripped onto the ship's steering wheel with a large smile. "COUP!"

The Marine ships started to charge towards Sunny and aimed their cannons at us.

"DE!"

The amount of cannonballs flying at us increased and we're getting more accurate. Standing up on the ship seemed almost impossible as Sunny violently rocked side to side

"She will end up killing all of you!" Spandam threatened.

"BURST!"

Before several cannonballs landed and exploded exactly where we stood, blowing this ship into smithereens, Sunny was flying in the air leaving a red, angry Spandam behind.


Her POV

Who am I?

I don't know.

Where was I from?

I don't know.

The woman and Sabo-san asked me these questions and as much as I wanted to answer them I couldn't. Those two questions racked my mind.

Not knowing anything but the basics scared me. It made feel... weak. Sabo-san assumes that I couldn't remember because of the sedatives or other drugs those scientists put me on but I'm almost certain that I knew absolutely nothing other than where I woke up, what was around me, and that "dream."

I sighed and stared up at the sky.

"Thinking gives you fevers!"

I snapped out of my rambling thoughts and the captain of this ship's head was in front of me, smiling. His neck was stretched out, just a little past the wooden rails, and then it snapped back to his body.

"Sabo and Robin told me you don't remember anything," he said.

"I guess," I simply responded.

I leaned on the railings and let out a sigh. I glanced at the captain and he was still staring at me with his goofy smile and large, black eyes.

"I'm Luffy!" he exclaimed.

"I'm-," I instinctively responded. And then I realized that I didn't know my name, again. "Someone."

He pouted. "I guess we should give you a name…"

"We?" I asked.

Before Luffy answered me, he grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the dining room. He barged in while yelling, "Mina!"

The whole crew looked tense and everyone was glaring at each other. Papers were spread out on the table and an orange-haired lady was hovering over the greenette from before.

"Ne! Mina!" Luffy shouted again, oblivious of the current situation. He pushed me in front of him and then pointed. "We need to give her a name!"

"Luffy!" the orange-haired girl shouted. She then glanced at me and then at Sabo, who started to put the papers away.

Luffy pulled out a chair and made me sit down. The whole crew just stared at me with blank faces with the exception of Luffy.

"Fushigi!*" he exclaimed after a moment of thinking.

The blond with the curly eyebrows, the orange-haired girl, and the guy with the long nose simultaneously slapped him on the head while yelling, "Hell no!"

"Sake," the greenette said next.

"Urusai!" the blond spat. "What kind of name is that?!"

"Eh? I'm not naming her! I'm stating I want more sake!" the greenette snapped back. "And what's wrong with the name sake?!"

"Some barbarian like you wouldn't understand! A beautiful lady like her should have a name just as beautiful!" the blond scolded. He lit up a cigarette and then puffed out a cloud of smoke. "Right Nami-swan~, Robin-chwan~!" he exclaimed while twirling to the two girls.

Robin smiled while Nami let out a frustrated sigh.

How in the world do the sane people in this crew function with the rest? It's quite surprising how they haven't died or get into serious, serious, trouble yet. It was funny but I did feel pity for Nami since she seemed to be one of the smartest in the crew.

The sound of D minor being strummed echoed around the room and then the skeleton with the electric guitar said, "Yurei*."

And then in less than a second, the skeleton joined Luffy with a bump on his head.

"EH?!" the little tanuki exclaimed. "She's a ghost?!"

"No, Chopper," Nami sighed.

"Namae no nai shoujo*," Robin said.

"That's too literal and too long!" the long nosed yelled. "We shouldn't be the ones who name her since we barely know her! She's not a pet, Luffy!"

"I agree with Usopp," Nami said. "It's not right."

"Demo~," Luffy pouted. "We don't know what to call her."

"We're probably not going to reach a deci-," Nami responded.

"Sora."

Everybody looked at Sabo, who was sitting there with his head leaning on his hand and looking at me. He was smiling like Luffy while the rest of the crew thought about it. "How about Sora?"

"I guess it's not that bad," Nami said.

"At least it's not stupid or literal," Usopp said.

"But it's so simple!" the blond complained.

"What's the significance?" the skeleton asked.

They all started arguing about the names and my thoughts just drowned the bickering.

Sora... True, it was simple and I couldn't figure out the significance, but it just seemed right. It was nice and it had a somewhat nostalgic feeling to it. Hearing it being said through the crew's mouths sounded nice and I unconsciously smiled.

My thoughts slowly disappeared and my eyes met with Sabo's. He was staring at me and then he smiled.

"I think it's a nice name," I mumbled.

All the bickering stopped and their attention focused on me.

"Sora," I said. "It's a pretty name."

Nami sighed again and then sat down in the wooden chair. "I guess if she likes it then the name is fine."

"Simplicity is beautiful in it's own way," Robin added with her usual smile.

The whole crew just looked at each other and shrugged.

"Yosh!" Luffy exclaimed. "Nice to meet you Sora!"

"Sora-chwan~," the blond sang gleefully to himself.

I smiled shyly when I heard my new name. It was nice to know something even though it's not as much as I'd like to know.

"How rude of us… we never introduced ourselves yet!" Nami exclaimed. She stood up and put her hands on her waist while giving me a grin. "I'm Nami, this ship's navigator!"

"I'm Captain Usopp!" the long nosed guy said. His arms were crossed and he had a smirk. "I have a million followers and I'm the greatest sniper of the world…"

He continued to brag with lies and Nami fanned her hand, cueing me to ignore his rants. Behind her was the tanuki, failing to hide himself behind Nami's leg.

"Thank you for treating me doctor tanuki-san," I said with a small bow.

"Calling me a doctor won't make me happy, you idiot!" he exclaimed while swaying back and forth. "I'm Tony Tony Chopper and I'm a reindeer! Not a tanuki!"

"I'm Sanji," the blond said. He blew out a cloud of smoke and smiled. "I'm the cook and you can call for me anytime, any day!"

"Aho," the greenette said while lying back and beginning to fall asleep.

"Huh?" Sanji sneered. "What'd you say, shitty swordsman?"

Those two began to argue again and were on the verge of taking each others heads off until Nami stepped in and silenced them with force.

"The green-haired guy is Zoro. If you see them two fighting, it's not unusual so just ignore them," Nami sighed.

"Don't introduce me through your mouth, woman!" Zoro snapped.

"Don't snap at an angel like Nami-swan!" Sanji snapped back.

And then the bickering continued.

"Yohohoho!" the skeleton laughed. "I'm Dead Bones Brook, the ship's musicians... Can I see your panties?"

I laughed and just responded, "Nice to meet you."

"SUPER!" yelled the cyborg. "IT'S SUPER NICE TO MEET YOU! I'm Franky, the shipwright!"

This was a strange crew. Three somewhat sane people, three human-ish, and three funny idiots.

After their brief introduction, they all joined Luffy and complained or joined him, shouting happily and drinking the rum in their jugs messily. I watched them from where I sat, never budging a bit. Watching all of them smile or be angry at each other was truly something fascinating. It felt like… home. Like I had a family right in front of me and I could join in whenever I want, because I would be accepted.

"Welcome Sora!" Luffy shouted as he pushed a wooden jug full of rum into my chest.

I smiled and held onto the mug. When he turned his back to me, I looked down at my reflection on the orange liquid. My smile faded away and I gripped onto the handle.

But why was it that I couldn't take that step forward and join them?


Tenshi: angel

Fushigi: mystery

Yurei: ghost

Namae no nai shoujo: Girl with no name

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