Most Lost Than Ever Before: Chapter 4
Unconsciously, Roronoa curled his lip back in a hiss in discontent, the emotion flooding all of his arteries and veins and he groaned. I know I don't believe in you, but I'm asking this on my knees, Roronoa thought while standing on his feet. God, please kill this guy.
"What the hell did you say!?"
"Sh~t, I said that aloud."
Both of their gazes were locked in a glare fight, their eyes not leaving one another's. The guy's grey pupils enlargened, and his curly-brow was slanted fortunately in controllable irritation. His lips were pursed and his voice was flowing with angry emotions. "Zoro, answer me. Where the hell have you friggin' been? Everyone's been looking for you!"
Roronoa growled, "I don't need a baby sitter."
The man criticized in a high-toned voice, mocking, "Yeah, like that time in Alabasta where you went up a building when the Marines said to go North. Yeah, you definitely don't need a baby sitter to aid your helpless sense of direction."
"Huh!?" Roronoa said, leaning his ear toward the man. "Did you say you need a baby sitter to aid your helpless need for women?" Roronoa gasped, acting fakely. "I think you did!"
The man bit hard down, breaking his cigarette in two pieces. Ashes splattered across the wooden deck as one of the pieces of the cigarette fell onto the ground. "I think you meant to say 'Did you say I need a baby sitter to aid my helpless navigation skills? I think you're right!'? I think you did!" He mocked. Both of the men pushed their foreheads together like two wrestling bulls, killing intent flaring in their eyes.
"You little..." Roronoa hissed.
"Roronoa!" called an angry irritated voice from the kitchen.
Both of the men looked up to see Nami peering over from the railing outside the kitchen door. "How loud could you be, Roronoa? And who the heck are you talking-" Her voice was cut off as she laid eyes on the man and her eyes widened, pupils shrinking in disbelief. "-to," she continued as her voice died down, trailing off into nothing. "Holy crap, SANJI? ANOTHER ONE?"
"Took you long enough, witch," Roronoa muttered.
Nami glared at Roronoa with an piercing gaze. "Shut your mouth."
"Witch," Roronoa cursed.
Nami gave Roronoa the death stare before returning her gaze back to the man.
"Nami-sswaannn!" The man swooned in compassionate at the sight of a women. His eyes turned to hearts in a mere split second and were bulging in love at the rate of his heart beat that seemed to beat rapidly. He felt a nosebleed washing down his nostrils as his eyes made contact with Nami's breasts until the nosebleed randomly disappeared out of nowhere because he seemed to have noticed her appearance. He turned serious and held his chin. "Nami-san's breasts have reduced size and her hair is shoulder-length." Roronoa and Nami sweat-dropped until... "But I don't care! Nami-san is always beautiful!"
Simultaneously, Roronoa and Nami face-palmed theirselves and groaned in unbelief. "That's all you care about?" They muttered in unison, a scary vibe mixed with disbelief flowing into the atmosphere.
"Shut up!" roared the man, focused on Roronoa.
Roronoa crossed his arms in frustration and he spat, "You might want to look around you."
"Huh?" The man responded in a tone of confusion. "Why would I need to-" He was cut off at the sight of his surroundings. An nostalgic wave swept over him, consuming his entire body that he could no longer function. His expression was shocked and his gaze was blinded by sadness. No words escaped his lungs and only a gasp took over his breath. "Merry?" He murmured in almost a whisper. The man whipped his head to Roronoa, seeking some answers.
Roronoa simply sighed and shrugged simultaneously. He allowed his body to get even more tense and agitated as he muttered under his breath in a low tone, "Well..." He clapped his hands together and frowned. "...Time for another explanation."
"So," The man began, tapping his foot against the wood floor. A cigarette was closed together between his lips, the smoke subtlety ascended into the air. The crew looked to the man in anticipation. "That's the story, huh?"
They nodded. "Yep."
The man sighed in distress and puffed up a cloud of smoke. "Well..." He glanced at Roronoa. "This situation is barely made it into the 1st place for the Straw hat Pirates' Strangest Moments."
Roronoa nodded. "Definitely," he muttered.
Chopper inclined his head. "Huh?"
Roronoa looked over to Chopper who seemed surprised. "What, Chopper?"
Instead of Chopper answering, Usopp intruded, asking, "How is this 'time-travel' situation, barely 1st place? I know you guys are like 2 years in the future, but there seriously can't be a situation almost stranger than this!"
The past Straw Hat Pirates nodded in agreement. "Seriously," they said in unison.
The two Future Straw Hat Pirates exchanged a brief glance at each other and flashbacks of the past of the strangest moments rushed through their heads at the speed of a river breaking through a dam. So many friggin' goats from Goat Island, the complete utter fail of Luffy trying to ride a waver and the enormous dog that listens to enemy commands on Sky Island because it's 'loyal', the extremely tall and long animals of Long Ring Long Land (What kind of name is that though?), the afro fight between Luffy and Foxy, a walking and talking skeleton... Those ones weren't extremely strange.
But they missed one.
3...
2...
1...
Franky's balls being 'clutched'.
The Future Sanji and Roronoa shuddered and sweat-dropped, which the past Straw Hats' caught up on, and they too shivered, just watching them. "You guys have no idea..." They hissed in fear.
Usopp managed to stutter out, "W-what's sec-second pl-place...?"
Roronoa whispered, "You don't need to know..."
The Future Sanji murmured in horror, "You will get nightmares from it."
Chopper bit on his hooves, holding in a screech. "Y-you guys a-are scaring us."
"Oh," Roronoa said with a glint in his eye. "You'll be even more scared when you see it." His gaze lifted up to Robin and he pointed at her. The rest of the crew followed his point and they just stared at her. "My god, Robin. Why the crap did you have to do that?!"
Panic erupted through Robin as her eyes widened. But she kept her gaze steady and chuckled. "I don't know. I'm not aware what the situation was, so I wouldn't have the answer." Do they know about CP9? If it's two years in the future, they should already know about it. But they act around me just fine. Maybe if I-
"Robin..." The Future Sanji's growl made her flinch since his tone was so low.
"Yes...?" Robin asked, nervously.
Roronoa cringed. "Why did you have to grab it?"
"..."
"...What?"
The night was peaceful.
There wasn't much wind, and the only gales of wind that passed by were faint by icy, causing shivers to tingle along the crew's back like little quick spiders. The skyline was barely patched with any clouds. The only color that stood out was the bitter violet that was illuminated by the round white milky moon. And the ocean was silent. No, they weren't on the calm belt. Yes, they're in the Grand Line. Peaceful nights rarely came, but when they did, they were cherished at full throttle.
After the explanation the crew had given to the future Straw Hat chef, they split up to do whatever they needed to do. They left up the research to Robin who was pretty much fine staying up, reading about books to find out a solution.
The future Straw Hat chef was given the name 'Black Leg'. The past crew asked why Black Leg of all names and were kind of confused but he just said to go with it. Little did they know, that was his alias in the Pirate World.
At midnight, Black Leg and Roronoa were sitting at the base of the Figure head since they couldn't actually sit on it, since Luffy claimed it as his territory which he called 'his special seat'. Though the two future people didn't complain. They spent 1 year and more with that rule, so they were fine with it. The two weren't sleepy and was just chatting. When they weren't arguing, they actually didn't really dislike each other's company.
"Um, Calm Belt," Roronoa said.
"Tidal Wave."
"East Blue."
"Enel."
"Eh, doing people to?"
"Well, the topic's about our adventure," Black Leg explained. "But anyway, I hate that guy."
Roronoa scoffed, "Yeah, I mean he electrified you."
They laughed.
Roronoa continued, "So Enel ends with L so... Luffy."
"Yeah?"
Chuckling, Roronoa said, "Luffy does end with y but yeah is not a part of our adventure."
Black Leg pointed in front of them. He was pointing at the boy with the Straw Hat, his hands on his waist. Black Leg replied, "He said 'yeah,' not me."
Roronoa nodded, "Oh. So what's up Luffy? Your watch isn't until two hours or so."
Luffy's eyes hardened which made Roronoa and Black Leg sweat-drop, but not dare exchange looks. "I need to ask you guys something," Luffy began with a low toned voice.
Roronoa replied, "Well, what is it?"
"Why do you two keep looking at me like that?"
Black Leg and Roronoa flinched back and swallowed a lump in their throats simultaneously. "Huh?" They said in unison.
Luffy repeated, "Why do you keep looking at me in that way?"
Roronoa asked, "What.. way?"
"The guilty way!" Luffy exclaimed. "You look at me like you regret something. It's bothering me. For the whole time you guys have been here, you've had that look in your eyes, only when you look at me. Only."
Roronoa and Black Leg exchanged a look before Roronoa said something. "The whole time?" He echoed.
Luffy nodded in confirmation. "The whole time."
Black Leg simply replied. "Luffy, we can't-"
Luffy's gaze hardened more. "Captain's orders."
My god, they flinched back so hard. Rarely ever did Luffy use his position as captain to force something. But this time it's a weakness.
Roronoa sighed. "Luffy," he began. "I know you are technically still my captain, no matter what time we are in, but... things have changed drastically in the future. I know if our Luffy were here, he'd tell me back in captain's orders, 'don't tell them'. So I can't tell you."
"Ah, they're so funny. They have no idea what's coming."
"I wonder if I should just summon a admiral here. I wonder what would happen? Though I think this stupid ship would sink, although I like the name. Oh wait, should I maybe get Straw Hat's brother? The Revolutionary? Gah, the past Straw Hat would be so surprised! The look on his face would be absolutely priceless! But that might hurt my plan. Hmm, maybe I should just bring him, then bring him back when everything's done. Or just rewind everything if something goes wrong."
"But it's so tiring, y'know. Going between time. I feel like a grandpa. But I don't feel human."
"Maybe I was just born a human, but at the end, I'll be inhumane. Yeah, that works."
"I like being inhumane."
"Why?"
"Well because..."
"It's fun."
A/N: Sorry about the short chapter. Got lazy and I wanted to upload this. This is the last chapter of the rewrite. Chapters from ahead are not rewritten! Plz review your thoughts or not. Doesn't really matter. But nice reviews keep me motivated. XD I'm like a advertisement. XDDDDD
P.S. Sorry if you thought the characters went OOC. I didn't really know how to act them.
Replies!
Black' Victor Cachat: I wonder what Zoro's sister would look like...
Santoryuu: Don't worry, I shall!
Ashlielle: Thanks for the cookie! And I also enjoy time travel stories! Somehow, they're always so entertaining.
OfMoonAndStarts: Thanks for the review~!
