Sorry! I know I said I was going to post this yesterday. And I did try! But my Uni internet decided that it wanted to go on vacation so on my day off I had to drag myself up to the campus and demand internet. Also recently found out my actual name is copyrighted... huh... Going to have to change it.
Do remember I don't own anything, (I don't even own my own name) except Mizu.
And please remember this is before they hit the Grand-Line as well as laugh/ignore my perverted-ness in this particular chapter.
"And why am I stuck with you guys? I thought I'd finally get some girl-time," Mizu sighed and stared at the typically group of guys flanking either side of her. "Seriously, all I wanted was to stare at the clothes I can't afford since Trafalgar pays me with nothing."
"You get room and board, that's what you get paid in." Penguin grinned patting her on the head.
Mizu huffed and blew her hair out of eyes, she need to get that cut as well. Shachi offered to do it for her, but she politely declined. "I still can't believe you let him get away with that kind of harassment." She was still fuming over the incident in the medical room.
"He doesn't harass us as we turn up to our appointments and go to him if there's something medically wrong with us." Penguin explained staring at a local as she walked past swinging her hips.
Shachi who also was staring some of the local wildlife added "It's kinda like your obsession with cleaning; he has an obsession over anything medical. Oh, if you get prescribed something, you better take it; if you don't you'll end up as his next guinea-pig."
"Doesn't mean I have to like it," Mizu huffed and pouted slightly at the situation she was currently in. Her stomach growled softly at the delicious smell of food nearby. She blushed and clutched her stomach looking around at them hoping they didn't hear the noise.
'So cute!' Penguin and Shachi thought, they wouldn't dear voice this out loud of fear of the woman hitting them again. "Come on, we'll get you something to eat." Penguin grinned pulling her along the road, following the smell.
"Can we get milkshakes?" she asked and Bepo nodded eagerly.
However, as Mizu was soon finding to be a common occurrence in her life lately, things didn't end well. As soon as they stepped into a bar that looked in their price range, a gleaming gun awaited them. An angry barkeeper with a twitchy finger glared at the four, his eyes darting between them waiting for them to make a move.
"Pirates aren't welcome here. Leave." The man said, the fellow patrons all gripped their respective chairs as if to jump into a bar fight any moment.
Penguin, Shachi and Bepo were all unfazed by common situation for them; Penguin, who actually had the gun pointed so far in his face, his breath dusted the metal weapon. On the other hand for Mizu, she was like a duckling: calm and serene on the outside, kicking and freaking out on the inside. "Let's stay calm and put the gun away before someone gets hurt."
"Or the Captain finds out" Bepo muttered quietly causing Mizu to squeak and latch onto Bepo for comfort. Only his soft fur could calm her down now.
Mizu tried to keep her expression clear as well as trying not to get shot, that fate being one of the ways she did not want to leave this world, 'I don't know what will be worse, getting shot or Trafalgar finding out that we, no I'll get the goddamn blame for this I know it, got a gun pointed at us and a bar fight might alert the marines. Oh god, either way this is not going to end well.'
Penguin merely brushed the gun out of his face and once again tried to reason with the trigger-happy looking barman. "Come on, I'm sure we can work this out."
"Get out pirate scum." He spat out, quite literally over Mizu and Bepo,
The duo wiped themselves off with their sleeves and Mizu groaned unfortunately out-loud "Great now I'm going to need another shower."
The barman rounded on her immediately not really taking much notice of the cleaning woman. "And take your bed-warmer with yea."
"Excuse me?" the brunette asked calmly her- now infamous- left eyebrow twitch
Shachi leant forward to whisper "That's not good" into Penguin's ear.
"You heard me, you look too scrawny to be a pirate, so you must be their w-"
Mizu stomped forward and flicked the gun out of her way before getting in the barman's face "Listen here mate, I'll take that sort of abuse from them idiots," she pointed to the trio behind her, Shachi waved awkwardly when their attention moved back to them, "but there's no way in hell that I'll take it from a guy who can't even be assed to wipe the crumbs of his breakfast off his shirt. What no loving wife to do that for you? Oh, I'm not surprised if that's the way you talk to women. And another thing, try threatening pirates when you're by yourself and not in a room full of your buddies, it's more impressive. For god's sake all we wanted was a nice meal off the ship but no, you had to go and do something that stupid like point a gun in our faces. You idiot, who do you think you are, huh? Threatening the Heart Pirates is the most idiotic thing you could do in the North Blue."
The aging man backed off upon hearing the name of the crew they were a part of, his eyes glazed over the marks they were wearing to confirm what she was saying. After all they had recently made a name for themselves before picking Mizu up. "I didn't know, I swear. Please don't kill me."
Bepo pulled Mizu back and Penguin said a hastily goodbye and dragged her back towards the ship. "You idiot, now he's going to call the marines and we're going to have to move it before they reach us."
"It was worth it to see his smug face drop like that though." Mizu grinned evilly,
Shachi sighed and started jogging to catch up with them, "Seriously, he told us not to get into trouble and what happens? We get into trouble."
"It wasn't fair, you hadn't done anything," her head drooped and the looks they had been getting all day. She could see why they were scared but after spending time with the crew she knew they wouldn't attack someone without cause (unless they were enemy pirate ships or marines) and it wasn't fair. "It's not like we were going to dine and dash though," she looked up at the guy who all looked a little sheepish, "right guys?"
"Well, Captain only gave us money for supplies. Not food." Shachi said scratching the side of his face.
"I WAS BEGINING TO FEEL SORRY FOR YOU GUYS TOO, YOU EVIL GODDAMN PIRATES." Mizu screamed smacking Bepo on the arm as hard as she could. That was her final (of three) straws, broken into a million pieces, when they get back onto the ship Mizu was going to give them a piece of her mind. Or several.
She sighed and waited for the up-coming storm; the storm being either the angry mob chasing them down the street carrying numerous, traditional 'angry-mob' weaponry. It wasn't until they had used multiple distractions and Bepo managing to give them the slip; that they got away. They slowly made it back to the ship without anymore mobs and Mizu breathed a sigh of relief. She wasn't ready to end up in jail or worse, she'd only just managed to train the guys how to keep the corridors clean of junk. Shachi and Penguin decided that it would be better not to disturb or tell their Captain anything and if, when, he found out that they would remain silent. That was the plan until they saw Law waiting for them on board deck and motioned them to follow him. As soon as they made it into the office Shachi and Penguin ratted Mizu out before she could even take a breath. Even Bepo sold her out straight away. Which left her standing in the middle of his office space looking more irritated than scared.
"So you thought it would be a good idea to yell at a man with a gun?" Law asked sitting on his favourite swivelly chair with an amused glint in his charcoal eyes.
"Yes Captain."
"Even though he could have shot members of my crew?" he signalled his three members standing with their backs against the wall trying not to catch the cleaning women's eye.
"As well as myself, yes Captain."
"I suppose you getting shot would have been hassle to deal with." Law gave her a mocking sigh and picked up some of paper work on his desk.
Mizu stood straighter and watched the Captain for any signs of what was to come. "I'm charmed as always Captain." She said rolling her eyes.
"I am always charming, Cleaner-ya. As promised I let you off this vessel, I even asked my three best men to make sure you don't cause trouble and yet here you are. Explain." It sounded like a question but most definitely wasn't she could sense the demand a mile off.
Mizu shuffled on the spot remembering her promise not to cause problems. The thing with Law is that he remembers everything that people say in his presence that would in some way come back to bite him. "It's not like we," Law raised an eyebrow like she knew he would, "I was the one who started it, that barman pointed a gun in Penguin's face then made comments that I won't repeat." Law looked to the trio who nodded and as Shachi started to repeat the exact words the man had said Mizu cut him off with a hiss. "You don't need to repeat that. Anyway, Captain, it wasn't my fault."
"You had an angry mob chasing you. How was this not your fault? You where the one to start yelling and calling men twice your size names, weren't you?"
Utterly defeated Mizu said "Yes Captain"
"We can no longer collect supplies from this island. Are you happy with setting back my schedule?" Law asked rhetorically
"Most certainly Captain," Law gave her the 'are you kidding me' look to which she replied with, "oh you didn't want me to answer that."
"You stupidity is unbelievable," Mizu curtsied and Shachi had to hold in a laugh causing Penguin to elbow him in the ribs leading to a gasp from behind the arguing couple. "I'll inform you of your punishment later."
"Ran out of ideas already, Captain? That's unlike you." Law didn't answer; he just swivelled away from her on his chair and read up on the latest reports in the news. Mizu grinned at this, "I'm right aren't I Trafalgar?"
"Not in the slightest, I'm going to make you wait and beg to find out what I'll be doing to you."
"I'm pretty sure what you're suggesting is illegal in several countries not counting the ones under the marine flag."
"Mind out of the gutter please, have a little respect for yourself as no one else has any for you." Mizu stuck her tongue out at him, "Anyway, you'll probably be a good sea-king bait once we get onto the Grand-Line."
"The Grand-who's-it-now?" Mizu asked paling from her previous confidence in getting one over her Captain.
"We're pirates and you didn't expect us to go to the Grand-Line?" Penguin asked from behind them.
"No, please no," Mizu wanted nothing more than to cry, she stepped closer to Law hoping that he'd spin round with a sadistic smile showing that it was all a joke. "I'll die on the Grand-line. There's no way I'd survive."
"That is the most likely scenario, Cleaner-ya." Law said smirking at her form over his shoulder.
"I'm dead, I'm, oh so dead, I'm so freaking dead. Trafalgar Law, I hold you responsible for my imminent death!"
"Don't worry Cleaner-ya, I'll make sure no-one touches your belongings after you've died." Mizu looked thankful for moment thinking that her clothes would be safe from the all-male crew until. "I'll auction them off to get some extra money instead."
"You know, I'd respect you more if you weren't such an ass all the time." Mizu muttered wishing she had something to throw at him.
"But then, who would I be able to ridicule on hourly basis?"
"Oh yeah, for moment I forgot that I'm," she inhaled deeply before yelling loudly "ABOUT TO FREAKING ENTER THE GRAND-LINE. TRAFALGAR LAW GET ME OFF THIS SHIP OR ELSE!"
"Or what Cleaner-ya?"
"I'll de-alphabetise your medical books." Mizu threatened knowing the surgeon's obsession with having things alphabetised.
"Don't you recall doing that last week when you dusted?"
"Why must you continue to do this to me?"
"Its fun."
Is Law a little out of character? Maybe, but that's because... got nothing. Do excuse anything grammatically wrong with this chapter, tired and stressed.
Another big thank you to everyone new and old who have reviewed and everyone who is following this! So what do we want to see next marines/pirates/treasure arguments? Or something else? OOooooh, yep I am far too tired. G'night :D