Hey everyone! Third chappie! Yay! Hope you all are liking it so far. Made a few changes to the 2nd chap, mostly regarding spelling and a few things I didn't mention (like Zoro only using one sword to defeat all the mermen, its important for later)

Thanks to oni for the review

Enjoy :]

Zoro and Yuzuki had been wondering around Kokoyashi Village looking for Usopp. Zoro had suggested that they split up so they could cover more ground. Yuzuki put her hand on the back of her neck and rubbed 'What the hell? It hurts. Weird, I haven't been hurt there before' she shrugged it off as she kept walking down the street. There was a man sitting on a bench with a pinwheel his hat. He looked as if her knew what went on in the village and went over to him. "Excuse me, have you seen a guy with a long nose?" she asked using elaborate hand gestures to show the long nose she was looking for. The man stared at her "Well actually..." he was about to answer when a hand clamped around her wrist and roughly yanked her away. The man was left confused in the dust.

"Hey!" Yuzuki yelled as she was dragged along with Zoro "I was talking to that guy! You can just do that when someone's talking!"

"We just missed him. He was taken to Arlong Park" Zoro said as he dragged Yuzuki in the direction of said establishment. The trees whizzed by as they both ran as fast as they could to the mermen's base. "Hey. Do you. Hear. That?" Yuzuki puffed as she ran next to Zoro who had finally released her letting her run on her own.

"Huh? It sounded like an explosion. Never mind. We gotta get to Usopp or he will die!" He said easily, as though the running wasn't affecting him.

There was a rumbling sound and what sounded to Yuzuki like snapping trees. She turned to the direction of the sounds. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, a ship came flying out of the trees towards them. Yuzuki dove to the side out of the path of the ship just in time. "Hey! Zoro!" she heard Luffy's voice as the ship sped past. She stood up and watched it as it crashed through more trees leaving a trail of destruction. "Hey Zoro, I think that was the others." She said, there was no answer from him. "Hey you don't need to ignore me!" she said looking around to where he should have been standing. There was no one there. 'Oh. He must not have been quick enough to get out of the way. Some swordsman he is' she thought as she ran off through the path of destruction caused by the ship.

"Where's Usopp and Johnny?" she heard Luffy say as she slowed down to stop where the ship had ended its destructive path. There were angry vibes coming from everyone except Luffy at this point. "I have to hurry" Zoro said as he stood to keep running. "Eh? What happened?" Luffy asked a little confused.

"He was captured by Arlong. They will kill him if we don't hurry" Yuzuki answered him making everyone turn to look at her, Sanji waved at her smiling but she ignored him. A yell made them all turn to a newcomer "He was already killed! You're too late"

'You're kidding right? He can't have already been killed!' Yuzuki thought as her eyes widened at the shocking revelation. If they thought that was a shock then what Jonny said next was devastating "He was killed! By Nami-Sempai!" Yuzuki gasped silently, she assumed everyone was thinking along the same lines as her. In a flash Luffy was at Johnny's throat "Say that again! If you don't tell me the truth then I'll beat you up!" he yelled.

"Stop it Niichan! It's not his fault right?" Yuzuki said softly next to him while tugging at his arm gently to try and make him let go of Johnny. At the same time Zoro was trying to pull him off from behind, Yosaku was standing transfixed to the side and Sanji stood behind Johnny. "Nami would never kill Usopp! We are friends!" he bellowed

"Who is your friend Luffy?" came a new voice. Everyone froze and looked to where the voice was coming from.

"Why are you asking? You are my friend, so I came to take you with us." Luffy answered putting a hand on his straw hat. "Friend? Don't make me laugh. All you need is for someone to give you a hand, am I right?" She retorted. Yuzuki narrowed her eyes at her "Nami-san! Do you remember me? Lets travel together" Sanji exclaimed.

"Get lost! Why do you have to make it more complicated?" Zoro yelled at Sanji

"What?! Don't you realise love is stronger than a mountain" Sanji yelled back. Yuzuki could feel the tension from the two. "Guys stop it. This is no time to be arguing amongst ourselves" she told them.

"Hai! Yuzuki-chan you're so right!" Sanji replied to her making her cringe at his words.

"I'm telling you, this is a evil-hearted woman! In order to get all the treasure from under her home town she joined Arlong and is willing to kill anyone! She's a cold blooded witch! She has tricked all of you! I saw her kill Usopp-sempai with my own eyes!" Johnny accused bringing everyone back to the situation at hand. Yuzuki saw a flash of hurt in Nami's eyes as Johnny talked, but is was gone as soon as it came and she doubted any of the boys noticed. 'She must have a reason, an ulterior motive. Why else would she have let Zoro and I go before? There's gotta be something else and I'm gonna find out' she thought to herself as Nami said "So what?You wanna seek revenge and kill me? Let me tell you something, Arlong really wants to kill Zoro and his friends because Zoro upset him. Even though you are as strong as a devil, you can't compare to the real devils!"

"Never mind about that" Zoro brushed her warning off "Where is Usopp?"

"Why don't you look at the bottom of the ocean?" she suggested

"Watch your mouth" Zoro said lowly while reaching for his katana.

"You too Idiot!" Sanji roared as he sent a kick towards him. It was stopped, however, by a katana still sheathed and he landed, standing, on two feet. Yuzuki had been standing in between the two and had to stop Sanji's kick or else have a foot in front of her face too close for comfort. Both of their eyes widened in shock, but it was cut short by the two starting to argue again. "What kind of swordsman would hit a lady?" Sanji said as though Yuzuki hadn't stopped his kick. "What? You better get out of my way. This isn't your business" Zoro yelled angrily back.

"Heh, ever since you lost in that shameful battle you've become a high tempered person" Sanji taunted. They were now standing directly in front of each other. "Huh?!" Zoro paused "Hey! Watch what you say! Or you can lose your head"

"Oh? You can do that in your current condition?" Sanji mocked

"Why you..."

"Hey, hey! You shouldn't fight each other in a situation like this" Johnny yelled at them. Yuzuki just rolled her eyes "Oi, knock it off for now alright" she told them "He's right, not now"

"I don't want outsiders to waste their lives here, if you want to fight get off the island. Don't you understand? The reason I became your friend was for the money. Now that you don't have anything I don't care about you anymore. I will give you back your ship. Just get out of here and find a new navigator and do whatever you want to do" said Nami. "Just get out of here! your starting to piss me off!" she yelled at them. Luffy and the others stood still her words still ringing in their ears. "Nami" Luffy started.

"Good bye" Nami said darkly. Luffy collapsed sending fear around the group "I am going to sleep here" he said lying on the ground and closing his eyes. Yuzuki slapped her hand to her head. "Sleep? At a time like this? And in the middle of the road too!?" Yosaku yelled at the sleeping Luffy

"I never thought of getting off this island and I don't care what happens here. Besides I feel a little sleepy now" he said with his eyes closed. "Wha...!?" there were simultaneous mouths dropping and hands slapping foreheads from his nakama. "Stop playing around! You will get killed!" no one moved "Fine! If you want to die then by all means stay" Nami screamed at his relaxed form and she stormed off.

Yuzuki let out a sigh and sat down on the ground near Luffy. 'This is going to be tough. If I know Luffy he's not going to give up that easy'

"You are all very strange. What that witch said is right, Usopp-sempai has already died and Arlong is looking for you!"she heard someone say. The four boys were discussing things and it sounded as though the two bounty hunters wanted nothing to do with this island anymore. "There is no reason to stay on this island. And I believe in Johnny's word" said Yosaku.

"It's been very nice knowing you, even though it was only for a short time. We're gonna get going now because we don't want to get killed by Arlong" Johnny stated looking at Zoro as if asking for permission from their partner.

"I hope to see you again then" was all he said to them as they ran off.

'This is boring!' Yuzuki thought as she shuffled around and rubbing the back of her neck. It had only been about five minutes since Nami had come to them. Sanji was sitting on her left against a tree trunk on the grass his arms resting on his bent legs, while Zoro sat cross legged on her right side near Luffy's head leaning on his katana. Yuzuki sat cross legged between them on the grass, her katana lying in front of her. She let out another deep breath subtlety letting the two men know that she was bored. "Yuzuki-hime!" Sanji wailed making her stare at him

"What's with the hime?" Yuzuki asked confused. He came closer to her and grabbed her hand "You're so cute when you're bored!" he said with hearts in his eyes again. Yuzuki blushed. "Aaah, you're so cute when you blush!" he yelled and she turned a deeper shade of red. "I... um..." she spluttered

"Oi, oi." Zoro said "Leave her alone Cook"

"Who asked you?" the hearts and smile promptly left his face leaving it serious as he addressed Zoro. Yuzuki took the opportunity to move away from him. She wasn't ready to be too close to men in that way yet, not with the life she just came from.

~~**~~

They were still waiting, Luffy hadn't woken up yet and they weren't sure what the plan was now. "Hey" Sanji broke the silence. Yuzuki, now sitting with Sanji on her right and closer to Zoro who was on her left, was looking at the sky and day dreaming . "Huh?" Zoro answered.

"Nami-san has already killed that long nosed man?" he asked sombrely

"Maybe. Even though she is small, I was once beaten up by her. Maybe she has already killed Usopp." He said grinning. Yuzuki snorted having heard what Zoro said about him being beaten up and he stared at her.

"Samll?" Sanji muttered.

"Oh! Isn't that Zoro and Yuzuki?" Yuzuki heard and she looked around to find where it was coming from. "This is so lucky, you guys didn't go to Arlong's" the voice said. Then her eyes went wide as she spotted Usopp running towards them. She smiled 'Thank goodness he isn't dead!' she thought. "Nami's breasts are not small!" came a yell and a foot from her right. "Are you only thinking of dirty things!?" came another yell from her left with a katana. She had squeezed her eyes shut and heard a groan from in front of her. Slowly opening her eyes she saw Sanji's foot and Zoro's katana and in between was the bruised and disfigured face of Usopp. "I'm alive. But I think I might die this time" he croaked from between the two.

Yuzuki shook her head smiling and nudged Luffy to get him to wake up "Hey Luffy, Usopp is back" she said quietly. At this Luffy jumped up and saw Usopp's newly injured face. "Usopp! Nami did this to you!?" he yelled grabbing Usopp while he was still in a daze.

"No, it's our fault" said Sanji pointing at Zoro

"Onl your fault" Zoro said with crossed arms. It didn't look like Luffy had heard.

"Luffy! You're here too?" Usopp said after finally snapping out of his daze.

"Yep" came the simple reply

"I'm here too" Sanji said waving

Usopp snapped his head around to face Sanji "I'll kill you someday." After everyone settled down Usopp told them what happened to him and how Nami had saved him "There must be a reason why she joined those mermen"

"I agree" Yuzuki said "I mean she must have an ulterior motive or something. Remember what Johnny said about her wanting to dig up treasure on the island? I mean you don't need to join a crew to do that do you? And you can't forget Zoro" she said looking at him "she untied us and let us out of that cell. Why would she do that if he was completely loyal to Arlong? There has to be something else"

"It's hopeless. You can't do anything to change Arlong's system" came a new voice.

"Nojiko" said Usopp

"Who's that?"Luffy asked pointing at her

"It's Nami's sister"

"Nami's sister? No wonder she'd so beautiful" Sanji exclaimed love hearts forming in his eyes again

"What's that supposed to mean?" Zoro asked

"Please, don't get involved in our business. I will tell you everything if you leave this island" Nojiko said to the group.

"I don't want to listen. I don't care about her past" Luffy said as he walked off down the road. Zoro took up Sanji's seat against the tree and Sanji sat on the grass both sitting the same way as before. "Don't you want to know about her past?" Usopp asked frantically

"Nope" came the short reply as Luffy kept walking

"He..." Nojiko started confused as Yuzuki sat on the grass out of arms length from Sanji rubbing her neck again.

"Don't worry about him, that's the way he is" said Zoro smirking "Tell us, we'll listen. But nothing's going to change" he then closed his eyes. "Then why are you sleeping?" she asked confused.

"You told her you would listen but you fall asleep before she even begins!?" Usopp snapped at Zoro

"That's why these people give Nami such a headache" Nojiko muttered to herself.

Nojiko started the story by telling them about their life eight years ago. She described Bellemere, their foster mother, and her and Nami's life with her. She told them about Nami's talent for map drawing even at a young age and how she was very talented. She explained how even though they were not blood related they were still a family. She recalled how Nami and Bellemere fought once and about Nami running away. Then how Nami was told of how Bellemere came to find the two of them and how she came to be their mother. Then about that fateful day when the pirates came and how they took control of the village. "They wanted 100,000 beli per adult and 50,000 Beli per child. Genzo told us to hide as the pirates came through the village taking the fees. We thought we were saved but then they spotted smoke form out house which wasn't in the village. Nami and I went back to the house to warn Bellemere, Arlong and the mermen got there first. Bellemere being an ex marine fought back but there were too many of them. We were stopped by the doctor saying that we needed to stay hidden. There was a scream from Bellemere Arlong broke her arm but Gen-san saved her. We only really had 100,000 Beli, enough for her, so if we had stayed hidden she could get off to hook. The pirates bought the fact that Bellemere had never been married nor had any children so she could have just paid 100,000 beli for herself. We were told we had to leave the island so that we would be safe but neither of us wanted to go, we wanted to stay with Bellemere. Then she reviled that the 100,000 beli was for Nami and I and that she had none for herself. We ran from our hiding place and into her arms. We never wanted to leave her, we wanted to stay a family. She asked if they would hurt us and they said that they wouldn't if she gave up her own life. The last thing she said was that she loved us before Arlong pulled the trigger. Then if that wasn't enough they found Nami's maps that she had drawn and took her with them. Gen-san tried to stop them but couldn't. Nami told everyone to stop because she didn't want anyone else to die. The villagers all fought to save her but the pirates just beat them down and took her with them." She described how the villagers wanted to fight the pirates and how when Nami came back they were all happy to see her safe but shocked to hear that she had joined their crew as map maker. Then she told them how Nami had said that she had joined Arlong on the promise that she could buy back the village from him and that she would do it alone.

"That was eight years ago. She hasn't cried since and she has never asked for help. She doesn't want to die like our mother" Nojiko finished

"She was ten years old and she decided to fight alone in that situation." Usopp stated

"Have you realised how much pain and suffering she has been through?" Nojiko said sadly

"The only way to save the village was to join with those that had killed her mother" Yuzuki said quietly

"I won't let any person who hurts Nami-san's feelings live peacefully" Sanji proclaimed jumping up only to be hit back down by Nojiko "Why did you do that for miss?" Sanji cried

"I came to tell you not to do anything stupid. If you get involved with Nami it will make the mermen suspicious of her and all the work she has done for the past eight years will be for nothing. I don't want you creating anymore trouble for her by hurting her feelings"

~~**~~

They had decided to find Luffy and walked in the direction he had gone. Not long after they came to the village Yuzuki and Zoro first came to and waited. The villagers had all gone off in a mob to Arlong Park and the only one left was a crying Nami on the ground. She started to stab her Arlong tattoo with a small dagger making Yuzuki cringe until she was stopped by Luffy. "Luffy, please help me" she whimpered as the tears streamed down her face.

"I will help you!" Luffy yelled at the top of his lungs. He put his hat on Nami's head and walked towards his nakama. He looked towards Yuzuki, she understood and ran towards Nami. "Let's go" he said darkly and the four men went.

Yuzuki was kneeling next to Nami. "Hey, it's alright now Nami-san." She said gently "Let's get you fixed up and then we can go make sure they don't too big of a mess right" she said smiling.

"I know you must hate me..." Nami started. Yuzuki cocked her head to the side. "For pushing you off the boat. I didn't know you couldn't swim. When I didn't see you come up I was a bit worried..." Yuzuki cut her off "I don't forgive you" she replied pouting "but don't worry about that for now" she said smiling as she helped Nami up. Nami directed her to the doctor's place and she bandaged her up. "There, that should be good. You shouldn't get and infection and it should be healed in no time" Yuzuki said as she finished treating her. "Is there any water around here?" she asked and Nami pointed to a pitcher of water on a nearby bench. Nami was puzzled as to why she wanted water but it was nothing to when she unsheathed her katana. Yuzuki held the hilt in her hand but there was no blade attached. Then she was confused even more as Yuzuki continued to pour water into the sheath of the katana. Resheathing the hilt Yuzuki turned to face a bewildered Nami "Oh, don't worry. You'll find out soon enough" she said with a wink "Let's go catch up with the others" she said grabbing Nami's hand, pulling her out of the building and towards Arlong Park.

~~**~~

Nami had told her to go on ahead. Yuzuki was practicality dragging her along and Nami wanted to walk on her own two feet so she had told her to go on ahead. Yuzuki dashed off apologising to Nami for leaving her alone. As she ran she tied her dark brown hair in a tight plat leaving the bangs free. Yuzuki arrived at Arlong park to see Usopp running away and one of the mermen chasing him. 'typical' she thought as she turned her attention to the battle raging in the compound. Luffy had his feet stuck in the ground and Zoro and Sanji were standing next to him 'What have I missed?' she thought dumbfounded. Luffy sent a punch at Arlong but he caught it. Arlong then proceeded to lift up the concrete in which Luffy's feet were embedded and held him up high. "Don't say he's going to..." she said aloud making those near her acknowledge her arrival the next second Luffy, concrete and all, was being tossed into the ocean. "Luffy!"she screamed as he hit the water sinking like a rock. Now she was pissed, 'No one tries to kill my brother and gets away with it' she thought angrily as she took a run up and catapulted herself over Johnny and Yosaku, who were 'guarding' the entrance to Arlong Park. "Three against two? That's hardly fair" she said landing next to Sanji who gave her a confuse look. "You do realise there are only two right? And what the hell are you doing here anyway!?" Zoro yelled at her "Na-uh" she said pointing at the entrance to the building "there is another one in there waiting to get you both when you're busy with these two" she said.

"Well, we have a smart one here" said the hidden merman as he came out form his hiding place "But we're still gonna defeat you" he said cockily. She faced a merman who was two heads taller than her. He had green skin and his hair was a darker green slicked back like a tail all the way down to his waist where it was wrapped around once like a belt. He had large muscles and his hands were webbed. He had a flat face with slits for his nose and razor sharp fangs protruding from his mouth. The green merman wore black pants and a purple, sleeveless, open vest shirt. "Heh. Nice Yuzuki, now there's one each" Zoro smirked. She smirked too as she unsheathed her katana and held it, fist down, in front of her. The handle was black and red while the guard was plain black. "What the hell is that?" he yelled at her after seeing the hilt with no blade attached.

"I told you before, this is no ordinary katana" she smirked. The Mermen laughed, "She's gonna fight with just that? You might as well give up now, that way you'll live!" he howled in laughter

"We'll see who's living after this" she replied as she stroked the hilt with her thumb and put pressure on the right points. Suddenly the hilt grew until it was almost the same length of a katana the guard in the middle. Blades grew out of both ends in a sickle shape and then the weapon split at the guard giving two scythe like weapons tethered with a black chain. She held one in each hand spinning the one in the right around like a windmill before smirking and throwing it at one of the mermen. He easily dodged and laughed "Is that all you got?" she smirked and gave the chain a jerk. The scythe flew straight towards the back of the merman and clipped his shoulder before she caught it. She chanced a glance around, Zoro and Sanji were engrossed in their own battles. She turned to face her own opponent who looked furious. He came charging at her "Now, now. Anger will only hinder you" she mocked as she easily dodged him. He spun around and charged again and again. She kept dodging 'crap, he isn't giving me time to throw my kama*' she thought while trying to dodge him. Suddenly she felt the wall behind her and looked at her opponent eyes wide 'he has me cornered now' she thought as he smirked at her. She held her two kama up in a defence position as she saw, what she had mistaken for his hair, unwrap itself and move on its own. "What the hell is that?" she asked eyes wide. "Its... my tail" he said as it came shooting towards her. There was a large force as it pushed against her two blades. Then the pressure was removed, she panted as she saw the tail retreat to be by the large merman. "What's your name? I like to know my prey's name before I devour them" he asked flashing his teeth.

"It's customary to introduce yourself before asking others" she said sharply

"Bwahaha, your right. I'm Kenshou" he replied

"My name is Yuzuki" she said as she jumped away from the wall slashing at the merman. He used his tail as a weapon and kept his arms folded across his chest. She saw his tail coming in to her left side and moved her kama to block it and jumped back. 'I can't to close combat, his tail can get me and he hasn't used his hands yet. I have a better chance if I do ranged and throw my kama at him like before.' She spun her right kama holding onto the chain and threw it at the merman. He dodged it easily and she tugged the chain to make the blade loop around and return to her. He dodged again and she caught the handle. She quickly threw the kama hoping to surprise him with a quick attack. His eyes widened as she slashed through his side leaving a large gash and she jerked the chain so the blde came flying back and hit him in his shoulder again. "Hm, didn't expect that. So you don't need to spin it before letting it go?" he mused aloud.

"That's right" she answered

"Well I won't be surprised again" he yelled as he walked forward sending his tail towards her. She blocked the sharp tail as it attacked her. Gradually his tail became faster and she was struggling to keep up with the attacks, then she missed one. The tail went whizzing past her blade and struck her right shoulder. She let out a gasp, the pain was unbearable; it felt like the single tip expanded into hundreds of tiny spikes under her skin. She heard someone yell her name but didn't know who it was. He ripped his tail out and she screamed in pain as she staggered backwards. She was right. The end of the tail had hundreds of spiked protruding out of it. She lashed out swinging her kama at the merman trying to slice him but he dodged them all. Her right arm stung and blood was slowly oozing out of the wound. "Sempai!" she heard the two bounty hunters yell. She turned to where Zoro was fighting and was shocked to see him in pain 'Must be his wounds from Mihawk, he hasn't fully recovered...' she thought as she ran in his direction as he collapsed to the ground. She got to him just in time to see Sanji flying past her and landing on the other side of the wall. "Shit" she breathed out.

"Che, you have no time to look out for your friends girly" the green merman's came from behind her. She stood up quickly and threw her left kama at him this time but the chain was caught by him. Her eyes went wide as he jerked on the chain making her come towards him. He snickered as his tail wrapped itself around her neck the tip free to move around. "Hm, where is the best place to end it? In the head? The throat? Or maybe the heart?" he asked himself aloud pointing to each of the places with the tip of his tail. One of the kamas clattered to the ground as she used the now free hand to claw at the tail around her neck. She struggled as the tail slowly cut off her air supply. He simply laughed at her feeble attempts to get out of his grip. With her last ounce of energy she brought her arm up and swung it down on the tail between herself and the twisted merman as the tip of the tail came shooting towards her heart.

How did you like it? I'm not so good at fight scenes, so hope this is okay

Please r&r! I beg you!

Yuzuki: Yea, please review!!!!

Sanji: Ahhh, Yuzuki! You're so cute when you plead for reviews

*Nami hits him upside the head*

Luffy: Haha! This is so fun! Review please! Oi Zoro, you too

Yuzuki: Yea Zoro, people will review more if you say it too, everyone loves you!

Zoro: Fine! If it will shut you all up. Oi you reading! Review damnit!

Azuresilver: no need to be so rude about it...

Niichan = older brother

Hime=princess

Yuzuki's weapon is a kusarigama think like Shuhei Hisagi release from Bleach (look up Shuhei Hisagi in google images) the *kama is the sickle part