A/N: Hey Y'all! Did'ja miss me? Haha, jk, of course you didn't! xD Anyway, I'm SOOOO sorry this is so late! First it was finals, then I was enjoying summer, then I had church camp (which was freakin' amazing as always), and finally I had to finish summer school! (Work of the devil I tell you! It was algebra 1 too, so it was even worse! xP ) So either way, I'm really sorry! Thanks for continuing to stick with the story though! LOVE you people!
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Ah...And so; the next chapter is here! I Tried to get them out of Kira's town and back to the story as fast as possible! Begin the Logue Town Arc! Whoo! xD I'm probably going to combine the anime and manga adaptions together too, so watch out.
[P.S. If you guys have any ideas on bad guys I can add to the story arcs for Kira to fight I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know! I Don't want to mess up the plot line 'too' badly, so extra villains could be a way to go. Let me know! Peace!]
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Chapter Four
Welcome back, to the world of One Piece. We return to our story, just as the infamous crew is preparing to set off. There's just one problem; their newest member hasn't arrived yet. Oh dear...where could she be?
"Hey, Luffy!" yelled the orange haired navigator.
"Yeah?" yelled back the strange captain, busy putting the last of the supplies on the ship.
"Where's Kira? We have to go, she needs to be here. Is she not coming?" the navigator asked with a bit of disappointment.
The captain grinned widely, "Nah she'll be here. She's our new nakama, after all." He nodded with conviction.
The navigator sighed, hoping he was right, but then she had better hurry. They needed to leave soon.
Below them, sitting Indian style against the side of the ship with three swords resting beside him, a green haired swordsman looked back at the docks with an eyebrow quirked upwards. There looked to be a small mob heading towards their ship. He narrowed his eyes, what did they want with them...
"Oi..." he started to alert the crew, but then broke off, seeing a lone figure run down the hill behind the mob. He watched cautiously, what was going on?
You looked down, sighing heavily. God, this was harder than you thought it would be. Not that you ever considered it easy. You smirked sadly when you remembered the last time you did this same thing, though it was much, much worse that time. Sighing once more you decided to get it over with, having already stood there for the past two hours.
"Ahh...hey Gramps, hey Nana..." you started out slowly, not being as formal as before. Seeing as it wasn't the anniversary now, you just called them what you had when they'd been alive.
Continuing on, you said, "So, you probably didn't expect me back so soon, but I have some news. I'm leaving again. Yea, I know, kind of sudden, but this time I'm going as a pirate. Yep, be proud Gramps, I'm following in your footsteps! I'm going with a pretty cool bunch of people too. They act a lot like we did, so it's nice. They've got a crazy strong swordsman, long-nosed liar/sniper, scary navigator, and a perverted, but pretty alright, cook. The captain is the most interesting though, I don't really know why, but he is. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that, let you know I'm leaving, and I'm gonna try and get back from the Grand Line in one piece. I Love you both, so rest in peace while I'm gone. Later..." you trailed off, wiping away a small bit of moisture from your eye quickly. Sighing again, you turned and walked out of the clearing, grabbing your bags as you went.
You walked down the road slowly, accepting the fact that you wouldn't be back for a while, if at all. Who knows what could happen in the Grand Line. You looked over your shoulder once more, taking a last glimpse at your beloved library, before turning around again and sprinting down the hill. You didn't look up until you heard what sounded like a lot of people moving around.
When you looked up you gasped. Most, if not all, of the villagers were standing in group all looking towards the dock. They looked kind of angry. You followed their glares to see what was about to become your home as their target. Wondering why they were glaring angrily at the Straw Hats ship you walked up to the person at the back of the group and tapped on their shoulder. They spun around quickly, eyes widening, their look shifting from anger to relief in an instant.
"Hey!" the person started shouting to the rest of the group; "Guys, she's still here!" they yelled happily. The whole group turned around quickly, smiling.
You quirked an eyebrow, what were they doing? "Mr. Yuri?" you finally addressed the man you'd known for most of your life, "What's going on, what is everyone doing here?"
He glared at you lightly, "What do you mean, 'what are we doing'? The question is, what are YOU doing? You honestly thought you could leave and just go become a pirate-"
"Oi!" you interrupted him, angry. Who did he think he was...
He continued to talk as if you hadn't said anything, "-WITHOUT saying goodbye! Really, did we raise you that badly?"
Your eyes widened, they were mad because you were going to leave without a goodbye? You felt a few tears well in your eyes; dammit this just wasn't your day. You hated to cry, especially in front of people.
"I...but...how...when...?" you tried to ask one of the many questions in your head. The whole village was here, for you?
"Why?" was all you managed to get out.
His eyes softened. Someone else in the group; Mrs. Mae, a lady you'd known since a few years before you'd left the first time, spoke up, "Because we're going to miss you. Plus, we have to thank you for all the protection you gave us this past year. You're a hero in this village." she smiled kindly at you.
You were gonna start the water works any second, you just knew it. You rubbed your eyes harshly with the back of your sleeve quickly. A hero? Hah, you weren't a hero, and you told them so.
Another villager, someone new actually, namely Ari's father, objected quickly, "What do you mean? You've done more than I can repay for me and my daughter since we moved here. We'd be dead, or out of business, if you weren't here. You're amazing."
You fought down a blush; you were only trying to help, not get hero recognition. "Yeah, but..."
"No Buts!" yelled Mr. Yuri. He looked at you warmly, "You m'dear, are an amazing person. I've known you since you stayed at our orphanage many years ago, and I'm so proud of how you've turned out. You're strong, as proven many times, beautiful, gifted, and you've got Maria's spitfire attitude. You've grown up here, and I and everyone else want to say one last goodbye, before you leave for your greatest adventure. So shut up and accept it!" he finished, chuckling.
You couldn't speak, you had grown up here, and you knew many of these people very well. You felt the tears spill over as you looked at everyone's smiling faces. They all started moving as a group towards you with their arms outstretched. Crap, this was the biggest group hug you'd ever had, but you loved it. You closed your eyes, taking in the people you knew and loved for the last time for a while.
Meanwhile, on the ship, Zolo had finally alerted to the rest of the crew to the mob and yourself. They'd been watching since the mob turned around to look at you. Most of the crew narrowed their eyes when they saw you start to tear up.
"Oi! Who's making my angel upset!" Sanji started yelling, "I'll kill 'em!"
Nami, Zolo, and Usopp looked on with mildly upset faces and narrowed eyes, you'd started crying for real now. They couldn't hear you talking with the group at all, but they knew it was making you upset and they didn't like that very much. Sanji had started rolling up his sleeves at this point, getting ready to go and kill whoever made you cry like that. None of them could see the extremely small smile on your face from that far away.
Luffy, looked the most troubled. He didn't like it when his crew was upset. Ever. Though it seemed to him that he was unusually upset when you were crying, but he dismissed it quickly. He continued to watch with narrowed eyes, getting ready to go and grab you if needed.
His, and the others, eyes all widened when they saw the villagers move towards you with their arms outstretched, looking as if they were going to grab you. That was the last straw.
"Gomu-Gomu no...ROCKET!" Luffy grabbed the side of the ship and launched himself towards you and the mob, the rest of the crew yelling at him from behind.
You sighed, about to release the group from your embrace, when your head shot up. You heard a faint yell. Hmmm...it came from the direction of the docks. Looking towards them you saw something hurtling towards you and the group. Your eyes widened in shock; was that Luffy? Aw shoooot! You had to protect the villagers, so you did the only thing you could think of. You ran in front if the people and braced yourself, arms spread wide.
"OOF!" you grunted, breath disappearing, as Luffy slammed into you. You landed hard on your back with Luffy on top of you, again. You quickly shoved him off and immediately rolled onto your hands and knees, trying to breathe. Luffy jumped up quickly and ran over to you, looking concerned, and watched the villagers cautiously at the same time.
"Kira! Are you ok? Why'd you run in front of them?" he asked quickly.
You panted and tried to stand up, Luffy having to steady you when you almost fell over. You glared at him, a bit harshly. "Why'd I do that? How about you, huh? Why, and how, did you launch yourself at the villagers! I Ran out in front to protect them, and then got an idiot to the gut!" you finished, out of breath again.
He looked taken aback, "Wait, protect? Why? Weren't they trying to catch you and hurt you? You were crying!" He looked extremely confused.
You huffed, "No, Luffy, they weren't trying to capture me at all! They were saying goodbye. I Was crying because I was sad about leaving. Now, how did you launch yourself at us?"
"Ohh..." he said quietly, and then snapped back into his happy attitude, "Ok, that makes sense! Haha, well that could've been bad! Sorry!" He began to laugh with his signature grin.
A vein pulsed on your forehead, and then you smacked him upside the head. Again. "You...anyway, you never answered my question. How'd you fly over here?"
He kept laughing, but answered, "Oh that's easy! I Stretched and launched myself over. I'm a rubber man, so it's easy!" He pulled his cheek far away from his grin to prove his point.
"Huh? Well, you didn't tell me you ate a devil fruit! That's pretty cool! This is gonna be fun!" you said with a grin, already forgetting that he'd slammed into you.
Meanwhile, the villagers were all looking at you two with confused expressions. Mr. Yuri chose to speak then, "Uh Kira? Does this mean he's one of the people you'll be traveling with?"
You looked over, having almost forgotten they were still there. "Yep, he's my captain now." You stated bluntly.
Everyone face-palmed simultaneously, only you would join a crew with him as the captain. Mr. Yuri sighed, "Well, ok then. Just promise you'll be safe and come back to tell us of your adventures. We'll miss you, but don't worry about us, we'll be fine. And you," he addressed Luffy with a mild glare, "you take care of her son. You hear me?"
Luffy, looking serious for a change, nodded solemnly. "I Will, mister. She's my nakama now, after all."
You shook your head, grin still present on your face, "Well, now that that's over with. Let's go Luffy."
You turned to the villagers, "Bye guys. Thanks for putting up with me for all these years. Take care of my grandparents for me. So long!" you grabbed your bags again, swinging them over your shoulder. Then you turned and, after grabbing Luffy's arm, started sprinting again while pulling him along. The villagers all yelling things at you from behind, mostly goodbyes, but also curses for not saying goodbye earlier. You laughed at them as you ran back through your town for the last time towards the docks, Luffy still dragging behind.
Finally you got to the ship and let go of Luffy's arm. The rest of the crew was leaning over the side, watching you both. You then heard Nami start yelling orders at people to get the ship ready and going. Luffy turned to you with a huge grin before he took your stuff and started climbing up the ladder onto the boat. You turned around and took one last look at your island, your home, and then spun back around and started climbing the ladder.
"No turning back now," you thought happily, "this is the start of an awesome adventure. I Can't wait!"
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"Ahhh..." you sighed contently. You straitened up, back popping as you did so, and stretched a bit. You had just spent the last two hours putting your stuff away and 'moving in' as Nami called it. Not that you had a lot of clothes and stuff, but you did bring a lot of books with you. Scratch that, tons of books. The shelf in your room was now completely full with navigation books, cookbooks, fiction, information, etc. You were now totally set up in the room you were gonna be living in from now on.
Finally finished, you decided to climb back up and see what the rest of the group was doing. When you got to the main deck you saw Nami sitting conformably in a lawn chair up on the front deck, reading a newspaper, with Luffy on the figure head beside her. Usopp was sitting down at a strange box beside them, with the words 'Usopp's Workshop' on the front of the box. Zolo looked to be sleeping on the side of the ship with his swords resting beside him, and you didn't see Sanji anywhere at the moment. You decided he was most likely in the kitchen.
When the door closed behind you the three on the front deck looked over to you. Luffy grinned and jumped off the figure head, running towards you. Nami and Usopp just smiled and went back to what they were doing.
"Kira! Your finally done!" yelled Luffy when he got to you.
You giggled, "Yep, just finished. What's going on?"
"Nami, Usopp, and Zolo are all being boring and won't do anything with me! And Sanji is making lunch. Will you do something with me, pleaseee!" he started begging comically.
You laughed, "Uh, sure I guess! I get bored easily anyway so I have to do stuff to keep busy. Whatcha want to do?"
"Yatta! Alright, let's...uhm...we could...uhhh..." he tried to think of something.
"How about this..." you walked up and poked him, then ran like crazy. Yelling, "Tag! You're it!" as you ran. It took him about two seconds to realize what you did and then he started running after you, laughing as he went. You ran around to the back of the main cabin and hid behind some of the tangerine trees there. Nami had told you they were her mothers, so you took care not to break any branches.
You fought back a scream when you felt something poke your shoulder. Looking up, you saw Luffy grinning from on top of the cabin, turning and running after you spotted him. You smirked and jumped up after him, running to the front and jumping down right behind him. You swiped at the back of his shirt as he started running again, barely touching the cloth before he was gone. You cursed as you went to chase after him again, but then the door to the cabin swung open and you had to move to avoid it.
Sanji walked out of the cabin with a pissed off look on his face. "Who the hell was running on the top of my kitchen!" he yelled loudly.
You and Luffy paled a little as you turned to him meekly and raised your hand, "That would be me...I'm so sorry Sanji! Luffy and I were playing tag..."
Sanji's harsh expression changed immediately when he saw it was you apologizing. He got those weird hearts in his eyes again and swooned over to you.
"That's perfectly alright, my angel. I Just hope you didn't get hurt while playing with the buffoon! Oh and may I say how lovely you look again today!"
You cocked an eyebrow, looking down at your outfit. You'd changed in your room and were now wearing your ripped jeans, converse, a fishnet undershirt that went down your right arm, and your red 3/4 sleeve t-shirt. All together, not exactly a 'lovely' outfit in your opinion. "Um, thank you?" you said disbelievingly.
"Of course, angel!" Said Sanji, "Oh, I forgot, lunch is ready!" he told the rest of the crew.
"FOOD!" screamed Luffy, running past you and Sanji to the kitchen. Sanji ran after him to stop him from eating everything, while Nami and Usopp put away what they were doing and walked to the kitchen calmly. Zolo stayed sleeping however. You shook you head and followed the others into the cabin/kitchen.
"OUCH!"
"That's what you get! Keep your hands to yourself and eat your own freakin' food!" you fumed. You had all been eating lunch peacefully, when Luffy started trying to steal your food. After about five minutes of moving your plate and having food disappear, you'd stabbed his hand with your fork. Hard. Hence the screaming.
Luffy was blowing on his hand and giving you the evil eye. He was just about to say something that would most likely start another argument, when everyone heard Zolo call from outside; "Hey! I See an island!"
Luffy instantly forgot about you stabbing his hand and rushed outside, cheering. Everyone else following soon after.
When you were all standing at the front of the boat, with the exception of Luffy who was on top of the figure head, Nami started speaking.
"That must be Logue Town; The last island in East Blue before the Grand Line. We're almost there." she said with confidence.
"Hey I've heard of that island." you started speaking, everyone looking at you, "it's also known as the town 'of the beginning and the end'. Gol D. Roger, king of the pirates, was born and executed there. It's a really important town. Pirates stop there to supply before going to the Grand Line." you finished helpfully, hoping you guys could stop there. You wanted to see Roger's hometown really badly.
Nami was nodding her head in agreement with your statement. Whereas, Luffy, looked like he had the same idea you did.
"The place the pirate king was executed, I've gotta see it! Nami, full speed to that island!" he yelled in excitement.
She shook her head in defeat, "We were going to go there anyway idiot. We have to get supplies and anything else we need. We are headed to the Grand Line after all." she said informatively. "Sanji, please go steer us towards the island." she asked sweetly.
"HAI! Nami-san!" Sanji jumped, with those crazy hearts in his eyes, and ran off to do her bidding. You all felt the ship shift a few seconds after he got to the rudder.
After that everyone, minus Luffy, but including Zolo, went back inside to finish eating. You were too excited to eat now though so instead you thanked Sanji and then went back outside to where Luffy was sitting on the figure head, staring at the island.
"What are you going to do when we get there Kira?" he asked with tons of pent-up excitement.
You laughed, "Well first, I was going to ask if I could come with you to see the execution platform, and then if I had time, I was going to look for one of my old friends who used to live here. I don't know if he still does though."
"Well you can definitely come with me, and then we can look for your friend together!" Luffy told you happily.
"Awesome, alright!" you cheered, smiling.
You both turned when the hull gently thumped something. You looked up and realized you'd already arrived. You smiled and yelled for Nami and the others. They came outside quickly and you all got the ship pulled into the port safely.
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As soon as you were done everyone could see Luffy was anxious to get going.
"Can I go now? Please!" he begged Nami.
She looked exasperated but then you he told her you were coming with and she brightened up immediately. "Great, thanks Kira! You I can trust to keep him out of trouble! You're free to go Luffy." she told him.
He cheered loudly, then grabbed your arm and jumped off the ship, pulling you with him. You could just barely hear Nami saying something to Zolo and Usopp about lending them money, with a 300% interest rate, when he dragged you away from the ship.
You quickly righted yourself and started running after him. You laughed as you caught up and started to run ahead, him grinning and racing next to you. This was going to be fun!
