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Oh I called Shachi ginger, as he has brown hair in the anime and red in the manga, went in-between.
"If that man ever puts his dirty feet on my nice clean table again, I'll throttle him." Mizu threatened as the hall settled back into its usual idle, relaxing atmosphere. It was like the incident never happened.
After the teen's outburst of cleanliness and hygiene in the mess hall, (to which Law had kept his feet on the table throughout), he had grabbed the apple he had brought to the steel table, took a single bite out of it before getting up to leave, leaving the girl in a disgruntled mess. He even allowed juice from the apple to drip onto the table. While watching her arrogant Captain leave she had thought of several to kill and maim the smirking man.
"Somehow I doubt you'd be able to lay a finger on him," Shachi said carefully knowing Mizu's outbursts of anger. However this time he only received a glare from the brunette. "Don't hate me for the truth. I'm just warning you to stay out of the Captain's way, okay? Leave him alone, and he leaves you alone."
"Or what? He'll dump me over board? How could this get worse?" she asked and received a few glares of her own in return, "What? Come on you guys? Have you seen the mess you guys make round here? Don't look at me like that Shachi, or I'll tell everyone what you have hidden under your pillow. I have half a mind to tell..."
A sweaty hand clamped tightly over her mouth, stopping her from uttering another word. Shachi looked around him and saw all of his crewmates grinning at him evilly. "Don't tell anyone! You swore you wouldn't!" he hissed fearfully in her ear.
"Oh? What's Shachi got under his pillow little Mizu?" one of the mechanics at the opposite table asked, leaning towards the blushing Shachi.
"I HAVEN'T GOT ANYTHING UNDER MY PILOW!" the ginger yelled, slamming both hands on the table, causing the hall to erupt into snickering and in some cases full on laughing. Shachi started shaking the poor cleaner and asking her why she would do that to him, which started some more laughing at his expense.
Penguin, who had recovered first, turned his attention to said cleaning lady and asked "Aren't you cleaning the showers today?" when she nodded looking both determined and scared, he continued "you better start, there are a few bathrooms and shower blocks."
"Damn, I get distracted so easily. I better start then; bottom-up would be a good way to go," she sighed and rolled up her sleeves, "they better not be that bad. Why me anyway?"
It was Penguin who answered again. Even with her short time with the Heart Pirates; she found that between the two, Penguin was the most sensible one. When he actually wanted to be of course, "Because the Captain didn't want just a pretty face, he said he wanted someone who could do the job and that the sub was becoming a 'breeding ground for bacteria' and you had the best cleaning skills on the island, apparently."
She sighed and cursed her demand for cleanness around food and drinks "I'm thrilled he thought so, but did he have to kill my last boss?"
"That was overkill, I'll admit. But you did need a new job because of it," He replied taking a sip of his drink, like the whole thing wasn't something to worry too much about. "Besides, did you like him that much?"
"He was better boss than a certain someone I know, at least I got paid. I also got a little something extra once in a while." They all looked at her knowingly; she continued going bright red at their insinuation. "Also he was a kind man, granted he didn't have family, but that didn't mean Trafalgar could just kill him. Anyway; just because you guys nearly killed yourselves with bacteria, doesn't mean you can kidnap someone."
"Maybe the Captain is frustrated." Another mechanic chuckled.
Mizu stood up suddenly, knocking the table somewhat and headed out. But before she left she smacked the offending mechanic upside the head and muttered 'damn pervert' darkly under her breathe and slammed the door shut behind her. She sulkily stalked towards the lower bathrooms realising that she couldn't remember where the hell they were. Once again muttering darkly to herself about confusing mazes, she came across the one person she didn't want to cross in dark empty corridor.
"You haven't got to work yet." He simply stated. When she looked up at him, he was leaning against the wall staring at her with the expression she detested on him. Smugness.
"Nope, not yet, I was just on my way to the lowest ones."
Law chuckled and said "You're lost aren't you?"
Her eyebrow started to twitch which made him chuckle again. "It's not my fault that your dumbass submarine is a freaking maze and every freaking corridor looks the god damn same. At any rate, who looks at a ship and goes, 'We should enclose that and put it under water. That's safer. Nothing bad can happen while we're underwater.'" She continued the rant for a few more moments until she realised the smug expression on Law's face had gone and a blank had appeared. She continued as she couldn't quite get her mouth to stop working at the moment. "Seriously, what idiot thought this would be a great idea?"
"Me."
"Oh god, I am so sorry." He just left her standing completely still waiting to be murdered on the spot. When she was completely sure he wasn't in ear shot she exhaled the breath she was holding. Mizu placed a hand over her heart and tried to calm it down. "Mouth, why do you do this to me?"
Mizu took one look at the showers and a piece of her died inside. Penguin had lied to her. Grime and other disgusting things she didn't care to think about, covered every nook and cranny of place. She didn't even want to breathe the air in, for fear of catching something awful. All she could think about was that she, herself, had washed in something like this. It made her skin crawl. Granted when Mizu used the showers she had no clue on the conditions she was entering as she showered in the minimal light of the crack of dawn, in case one of the guys tried to peep at her. Mizu couldn't wait to clean all the showers so that she could have a shower and know she was clean.
"How the hell have they survived this long?" she remembered Law's occupation and face-palmed. "Oh yeah, sadistic doctor as the Captain, that's how. Better get started then."
After the first shower block and bathrooms Mizu hoped to god that they were the worst. Optimism, however, died after seeing the state of the next floor and the floor after that. 'I'm definitely spying on the kitchen after this. I don't trust them damn cooks anymore.' She thought as she ground the scrubber deep into the titles removing as much grime as possible with every push. She even had to clean the shower heads after discovering a fine layer of limescale blocking the jets of water and turning whatever water came out a milky, cloudy colour.
After hours of scrubbing every title till it sparkled; scrapped every bit of mould creeping into the corner; mopped every bathroom floor; killed every living thing (bacteria and otherwise) that dared cross her path and wiped every single tap, shower head and toilet clean until she could she her own face in it; Mizu finally put her cleaning things away and went for dinner. And boy, was she looking forward to food. All thoughts of cleaning could go to hell as of that minute. The brunette could just about remember her way back to the comforting thought or food but the dim lighting in the corridors made it hard to figure out where she was at the time. She hated the submarine itself. She never felt the need to dive underwater for long periods of time. Granted the view was beautiful, at first, then she realised how far under water she was and that thought made her nauseas. And as much as she complained about her life on board ship, it wasn't as though everything was bad. The corridors allowed her time to think and she was given her own room, it was a pathetic box room in a corner but it was hers. Given matching uniforms as the guys, which she mostly tied the arms around her waist and wore a strappy shirt underneath. The guys themselves were funny and welcomed her, mostly because the majority of them hadn't seen a female body in a long time but after the initial stares, they treated just like one of the guys. Shachi, Penguin and Bepo made sure she didn't annoy Trafalgar too much in one day so that she could keep her life and looked after her in general. It was just the annoying things, ticked her off so much. Like Trafalgar Law. Just him and the crews lack of hygiene. As well as Law's constant need to put his mark on everything. Including her boiler suit.
'The ego of that man.' she thought bitterly as she walked into the mess hall and grabbed a tray of food.
"Finished cleaning?" Bepo asked looking at her with his black eyes gleaming.
Mizu nodded and took a big bite out of her bread roll. Gulping it down with some water she glared at them, "How are you guys not ill?" she continued inhaling food like she hadn't eaten for a week. Bits of rice flew everywhere as she continued to shovel food down her throat.
Shachi shook his head at her "Because that's lady like Mizu."
Mizu stopped and glared at Shachi. She was crouching over her plate like a wild animal. The guys thought she would growl at them if they tried to take her food away from her. "Screw you. I've been cleaning your crap up for the past 5 hours, so I think I'm allowed to be un-lady like for a few moments."
"Cleaning woman!" Law yelled striding over to her, his eyes covered by a shadow cast from his hat.
This tone definitely meant 'say one thing wrong and you're dead', "Hey Captain, I cleaned the bathrooms like you asked. Is it okay if I take a look at the kitchen tomorrow?"
"Don't lie to me, woman." His head inched up slightly so that you could see the steely grey eyes which unnerved her even more.
She gulped; it was like a cloud of death hung in the air. Mizu knew to be honest, any wise ass comments and she would end up swimming her way to the next island. "I'm pretty sure I did Captain. Now if you guys don't mind I'm going to bed early. Goodnight Captain" with every word of that last sentence she tried to edge her way around the angry pirate and out the door, however life had other plans for her.
A strong hand latched onto her arm holding her in place "I thought, I made myself clear when I asked you to clean all the bathrooms." She nodded "then why did you miss out my personal bathroom?"
"I wasn't aware you had one, Captain. I'm still getting used to the submarine, I get lost going to my own room. You can't yell at me for not knowing." Mizu said calmly standing her ground.
"Very well." He let go of her arm and pushed past her, literally, Mizu actually fell back into the table due to the force. "You shall learn."
As he was leaving Mizu recovered from the shock that she is in fact still among the living and yelled out in frustration, "What the hell does that even mean?"
It wasn't until he was a step outside the hall that he gave her an answer, without even looking back Law said threateningly "I'm going to run you ragged."
"What the hell are you even talking about?" Mizu screamed after him. Seething with anger at being ignored she turned and faced the others who promptly backed away from her. "What does that mean?"
Bepo apologised and Shachi shook his head while everyone else kept completely still. It was only Penguin who was brave enough to speak. "You better go clean his bathroom, before he comes back."
"You tell me right now what he meant or I swear I will start screwing with your laundry." Mizu gazed over the scared men and didn't want to look at her at this moment. Her anger rising until somewhere in her mind something clicked. "What do you mean before he comes back?" she sighed and grabbed her bread roll and marched out the room.
"DON'T TAKE THE BREAD! HE'LL KILL EVERYONE!"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOT TALKING ABOUT NOW!"
Hey! I'm back with the second chapter! Hope you guys liked it! A(another) big thank you to everyone who Favourited, Alerted and Reviewed! It seriously means a lot! See I'd told you I'd write a longer chapter this time! Excuse the lack of Law in this chapter, he shall be in it more in the next. This chapter was basically set up and allow you guys to get to know my OC Mizu. Tell me any queries you have anything that you may want putting right, but please be polite when doing so. I'm more likely to response to that.
See you next time!