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Chapter 2: Kaori the Navigator

Tatshi stepped off the boat and onto land. He looked around and saw this city was quite busy at the middle of the night. He began walking carrying his chest as he walked.

On the other side of the city a woman at the age of twenty-two was in a fight with a mob of drunken men. "You dirty good for nothing men, you should know by now…NOT TO FUCK WITH ME!" The women yelled as she sent a large chunk of the mob through a wall. She then looked at the rest of the mob of men, who at the time just became very sober and emptied their liquor that had consumed an hour earlier into their pants. "NOW GO BEFORE I BREAK YOU THROUGH A BULDING!" She yelled making all of them running into the night. She then picked up her backpack, which she dropped at the beginning of the run in with the mob. She then walked back toward her home in the city.

About half way to her home she bumped into someone. "Hey, watch where you're going you dumbass." She yelled at the man who she bumped into.

"Ah, sorry about that but you were the one who bumped into me miss." Tatshi said as he brushed himself off.

The woman then grabbed Tatshi at the collar of his trench coat and brought his face to hers only a few inches away from her face. "Now, listen you one eyed dope…YOU WERE THE ONE TO BUMP INTO ME NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!" She yelled at Tatshi who looked at her with a smile and she quickly pulled her hand back to punch him in the face.

Tatshi saw this and prepared for a decent, but weak punch to the face. What he got was totally different, he went flying down the street and skidded to a stop by hitting a wall hard. The woman began to turn and walk away knowing that the guy she hit was not getting up any time soon, but what surprised her was the man not only got up but shrugged it off and spit out the blood in his mouth. "What. The. Fuck." That was all she said as the man walked toward her smiling.

"Yatta, you have a strong punch! What's your name? My name is Hudan D. Tatshi." Tatshi said with a smile as he cracked his neck. "Oh sorry about the loud introduction, that punch kind of knocked me out of my senses for a second."

She just looked at the man in-front of her with confusion, before snapping out of it and speaking. "Name is Kaori Riel, nice to meet you Tatshi." She said hesitantly looking over the man before her.

"Ah, well let's go get something to eat Kaori. Then we can talk about you're going to explain how you got that monstrous strength." Tatshi said smiling as he led her to a bar, which was unfortunately, had most of the men that were in the mob earlier. Tatshi then sat at the bar and ordered some food. After the food was set in-front of him, he began eating loads of food. After about five minutes in the bar and seeing Kaori was getting evil looks from most of the people in the bar he was about to ask what was the matter when a man came up to them.

"What is she doing here?" The man asked Tatshi, knowing he came in the bar with her.

"Who her? Oh see was just showing me a place to eat and I was going to pay her back by paying for her meal." Tatshi said as he looked at Kaori, who was resisting on getting up and punching the man in the face. He turned his face in time to see an incoming right fist to hit him in the face. With speed only Kaori could barely follow Tatshi grabbed the man's hand and twisted him around while drawing one of his swords and placed it to the man's neck. "I wouldn't want to attack a man you know nothing about, so this time I'll let you go and if anyone of your friends in here want to attack me or this woman here you will have to go through me and I'd be gladly to send you to your death." Tatshi said in an emotionless voice, which not only scared everyone in the bar but got the respect of Kaori. "I think I have lost my appetite bar keep." He then reached into his chest which he carried into the bar with Kaori and pulled out some money and paid the bar tender and left with Kaori.

As they walked down the street toward Kaori's home, she noticed that Tatshi was deep in thought. 'Wonder what eating him up?' She thought was they neared her home.

'I wonder if she'll join my nakama…other than her strength I don't know what other things she can do.' Tatshi was pulled from his thoughts when Kaori opened her door to her little home. What surprised Tatshi was not how small it was, but all the maps riddled around the home. "Did you draw all of these?" Tatshi asked Brandy as he picked up and checked some of the maps.

"Yeah, it's something I like to do in my free time…well all I have if free time so I travel and draw maps. A really old friend of mine wanted to travel the grand line and see the world. But he is no longer alive so I travel as much as I can for him in memory." She said as she remembered what happened some odd years ago.

Flashback

Kaori was about fifth-teen at the time and was sitting on a hill with a close friend. He had short black hair and was wearing a red shirt with a black design on the front and back of it. He wore black shorts with a red chain on the side of it. His name was Dan and he leaned against the tree sitting down with her next to him. She was wearing a dark blue shirt with a pair of dark jeans and a pair of sandals. They were looking at the sky watching the clouds go by and then Dan spoke. "Kaori, I want to become a pirate and travel the world. And after I travel the Grand Line, I will come back and tell you all about it." He said with a smile, which made Kaori look at him.

"Aren't you afraid that you'll be killed? Or worse never be seen again." She asked him only to have him smile at her.

"As long as I have this place to return to and to see you I'll be just fine." He then got up and reached his hand out to help her. They then walked back to the village. They then spent the day together not knowing what was going to happen that night…

That night Kaori was lying in her bed sleeping, when an explosion shook her house and everything else in the village. She jumped up and began to look at the window of her room in horror. The village was on fire and people lay dead in the middle of the street. She was able to break down and cry, when Dan stormed into her room. She looked at Dan and spoke weakly. "What's…happening?" Dan just threw her clothes and waited outside, but after saying to her 'We don't have time hurry and get dressed.'

As she came out of her room Dan was looking around and signaled to her to follow him.

As they came near the edge of the village near a port they were ambushed by a group of bandits. Kaori had never fought against anyone and Dan knew that as well so he told her to stay back. A few minutes later after the fight, you could see Dan bloody and bruised. When Kaori asked if she could help, Dan just told her he'd be alright and continued to lead her to the port outside the village. When they were almost to the little two or three person boat, Dan noticed they were getting followed.

"Kaori you go ahead, we're being followed by some bandits. I'll hold them off while you get out of here." Kaori just looked at him and she was about to object, but he beat her to it. "Kaori, just make it out of here. I wouldn't want you to lose you're life here, please go and don't wait for me or look back." Kaori nodded and ran to the boat.

When she looked back as she drifted on the boat made her cry at the sight. As the tears fell from her eyes at the sight of Dan lay dead with a knife in his back and a bullet wound in his shoulder. He gave his life to save her and she knew it, she promised that she would live his dream for him and would travel the world. As she made it to the next island, she walked around and some how ended up in-front of a dojo. When she walked inside she was welcomed with a flying kick that was so fast she barely had any time to duck to avoid.

The man landed behind her, and was impressed that someone was able to avoid a kick that fast. He turned around and saw the girl scared, and that's when he spoke to her. "Sorry for the attack, when anyone enters this dojo they usually want to become a student under me. So I attack them to see if they have potential to learn what I have to teach. And judging from that look on your face you do not know who I am. My name is Akiro, but for now on you'll be calling me sensei." Akiro said with a smile.

"Huh? What do you mean I'll be calling you sensei?" Kaori asked as she stood up and looked at Akiro. He wore a black and red Gi with a black bandanna on his head.

"That's because I'm going to teach you and I can tell you can't even defend yourself, which I'm going to fix so you can at least go what you want to do." After that moment, she trained under Akiro for the next three years and then started to travel around the Blue Seas in memory of Dan.

End Flash Back

Tatshi just stared at her for a minute, before snapping his fingers in-front of her face. "Kaori, you there? Hello to Kaori!" He said as he continued to snap his fingers in-front of her face, until she lifted her foot and stomped on his foot. He bit his lower lip to numb the pain until she hit him on the top of the head…hard. "AI YAI!" He yelled as he kneeled down held his head. "What the hell was that for?!" He yelled and asked.

"For not being patient and for annoying me at the same time. Oh yeah, you can spend the night but you sleep on the sofa there." She pointed to her right and went to the kitchen.

"Okay, I'll be leaving in the morning then since the ferry to the next island doesn't leave until then." He said as he put his feet on the arms of the sofa and laid back.

She came out of the kitchen with a glass of water and was about to go her room, but a question was bugging her. "Why are you traveling anyways?" She asked Tatshi, who had his eye closed then opened it and sat up.

"Well, I'm looking for nakama of my own to join me to look for one piece. So, I can surpass people I know and become known for my abilities and to be king of the pirates." He said with a smile.

"One piece…and how much nakama do you have waiting for you while you search?" She asked again.

"None, I'm a captain of a crew of no one." He said with a smile, while she just shook her head. "Why don't you come with me and be my navigator? This is the era of dreams, so you must have a dream you want to accomplish?" He asked as he laid back.

"Hmm, let me think about it and I'll tell you tomorrow." She said as she walked down the hall and to her bedroom where she went to sleep.

The next day, Kaori woke up and changed her clothes to a red short sleeve shirt and a pair of long black jeans. As she walked into her living room, she saw Tatshi writing in a book. He looked at her and then closed the book as he finished writing something. "So what is the answer?" He asked as he put the book in the chest he had with him.

"Okay, I'll come with you. Just let me pack up some things before we go." She said as she grabbed a couple of backpacks and filled them with clothes and maps and put on black sneakers and followed Tatshi to the port.

As they stepped on the boat, Kaori was still wondering how much she knew about her captain and decided to ask more questions. "How did you lose your eye?" She asked as they sat down.

Tatshi just looked at her, after he set his chest down and laid his blades down near him. "I didn't look my eye." He said with a smirk that grew bigger from her confusion.

"Then why do you wear an eye patch?" She asked as she reached for the eye patch, but he stopped her hand.

"I can't take this eye patch off for a reason…a reason none of my nakama see first hand." He then stared off in the distance.

"Okay I'll take that answer for now. Okay since we are nakama now and I'm your navigator, when the hell are we going to get a boat of our own?!" She yelled at him.

"Ah, we will see a man about a boat when I get us a first mate." He said with amusement as she just crossed her arms and stared at the horizon.

"What is your reason for joining me? I mean you my reason, but I don't know yours." He looked at her in sight confusion over his thoughts.

"As I said before, I travel in memory of my old friend…so now I will travel the world with nakama that he was going to do and experience things that he would have traveling the grand line." She said with a vigor that could inspire anyone.

"Okay then, time to travel as real nakama." Tatshi said with a smile.

A/N: Ah, sorry for not updating earlier just been researching for a pet project and been doing something with people for a dub on youtube. Well, the next couple chapters should be up soon and please review and to kill can't wait for the update on your fic.

Next Time on the Curse Eye Pirates!

Tatshi: You ate the neko neko fruit?

Kaori: I can't believe a cat man can make such good food!

Kiyoshi: ……Yeah I ate the fruit and that's just simple for me.

Next chapter: Kiyoshi: The Neko Cook!