Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece. I own Kage(Shizu) though.
"Speaking"
'thinking'
-Chapter 3-
The smoke cleared and the girl put her hands back at her sides. She heard Zoro grunt in pain and looked beside her to see he wasn't there, but by Luffy. Picking up the cage trying to get him away from the rooftop.
'Must have gotten over there when the explosion went off.' She thought.
"You ok Zoro? How bad are you injured?" Luffy asked through the bars of the cage.
"Just shut up and don't worry about how i'm doing. I need to concentrate if i'm gonna get us out of this." Zoro said as he struggled a little with the cage. Orange ran over to them and the purple haired girl stood a foot away from the swordsman.
"Who is.. this guy?" Orange said to herself quietly.
"Hey Luffy. Who are they?" Zoro panted.
"Oh right. The one with the hood is Shizu our other crew member and the other on is our new navigator." Luffy replied. Zoro's wound splurts out blood.
"I'm not so sure about that. Who are you guys anyway?" She asked.
"Move.. your in the way." Zoro's wound splurts out more blood and finally he lifts the cage in a comfortable position. He starts walking away slowly step by step. Orange stared in disbeleif.
"I guess even a lowly pirate.. can rescue hi friend." She said and walked in the opposite direction.
Shizu walked after Zoro and Luffy. 'Something tells me this crew is gonna give me lot's of headaches in the future.' She sighed out loud.
Zoro got down from the roof tops and was dragging the cage till they were in front of a pet food store. Zoro stopped and put his hand on the cage panting more than before. He fell to the ground and Shizu walked over to him to ask if he was ok, but was stopped when he started talking.
"What's with the dog?" He asked out loud.
"Doggy." Luffy scutched the cage up towards the dog who kept looking forward. Luffy streched his cheek and eyelid, but the dog remained motionless. Zoro got up and walked to one of the wooden stands holding the shop up. He sat down and used it to rest up against.
"Zoro, Shizu this dog looks like it's frozen."
"I don't give a damn. He can sit there forever for all I care." Shizu sat down legs crossed and rested her head on her arm.
"I wonder if it's dead."
"Why don't you poke it and find out." Right after she said that Luffy poked the dog right in the middle of it's forhead. The dog didn't react at first, but Luffy's finger pushed to hard and the dog snapped.
Shizu wasn't paying attention till she heard Luffy screaming. She looked and was the dog had taken a bite at Luffy's face not letting go. She thought the site was hilarious and started to laugh.
"Haha. Well what do you know the dog was alive after all. Hahaha." She said laughing. She looked over and laughed even harder seeing Zoro's shocked expression.
"Get off! Get off! Get off!." Luffy chanted trying to pull the dog off.
"Luffy. PLEASE STOP GOOFING AROUND AND GET SERIOUS! Uhhh." Then Zoro fell back to the ground from the loss of blood and Shizu's laughter finally stopped. All were laying on their backs except for the dog who resumed to sit like before.
"Damn dog."
"I don't feel good."
"That was a good laugh." Shizu said earning a glare from Zoro, but went unnoticed. Shizu heard foot steps getting closer to them and sat up. She looked over and saw Orange coming over.
"Oh hi Navigator." Luffy said seeing her.
"I guess you can have this then."
"Great the key to the cage. Did you steal it for me? Thanks Nami!"
'So Nami is her name. I better remember that for later.' Shizu thought.
"I only did it so we'd be even and now I don't owe you anything we're square, okay!"
"Heh." Zoro smirked.
"Yeah sure." Luffy made a grab for the key, but the dog beat him to it and swallowed it. No one said anything for a few seconds.
"Stupid, Stupid, Stupid." Luffy said angerly choking the dog. "Give me back the key. Give me the key. Give it, give it, give it!"
"HEY STOP THAT! STOP PICKING ON POOR SHUSHU! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Shouted a man coming towards them.
"Who might you be old man?" Zoro asked.
"Old man. Why im the mayor of this town. Who are you and why are you hurting ShuShu." He asked, but put it aside when he caught sight of Zoro's wound. "My my. Thats quite an injury you hve there. I take it that you had a run in with Captain Buggy. We need to get you to a doctor." He took Zoro inside a house and came back a few minutes later.
'Hmm. Maybe I should have at least dressed his wound so it doesn't get infected.' Shizu thought. The image of his injury popping into her head.
"How's Zoro?" Luffy asked the mayor.
"I told him he should really see a doctor, but he insisted that he didn't need to and just wanted to sleep it off."
'Nevermind then. I guess i'll bandage it later.' Shizu thought with a sweat drop.
"So this dog's name is ShuShu." Nami said petting the dog on top of his head.
"Hahaha. Why's he just sitting there like that? He sure is a lazy dog." Luffy said.
"He's guarding the store."
"He's guarding it?" Nami repeated confused.
"Yes."
'I wonder if he guards it because it's a Pet Food Store.' Shizu thought.
"Hmm. Oh I see, it's a pet food shop."
"That's right, and the man that used to run that storewas a very close friend of mine. There you go." He put down a bowl of food for the dog who ate it happily. "When he passed I resumed the responsibility of taking care of ShuShu."
"He died?"
"Yes. Three months ago after fighting his illness for a very long time." He goes into the shop to put the food away.
"Don't tell me he's been waiting for him all this time."
"That seems to be the consences." He came out of the shop and took a seat on the platform of the shop. A pipe in hand.
"But I find that very hard to beleive. ShuShu is a smart dog he's probably know for a while that his master isn't coming back." He said and ShuShu licked his bowl clean.
"Then why does he stay here at the store?" Nami asked.
"I guess because he has a connection to it. It's his treasure. He's guarding it. His master left him with the shop so that's why he protects it. I've tried to bring him back to my place so he won't be out in the elements, but he wont take so much as a step away from here."
Luffy and Shizu sat with their backs leaning against the rock part of the cage. They knew all to well what it was like to protect a treasure. ShuShu took the bowl in his mouth and put it at the mayors feet. The ground shook and a growl was heard and a roar.
"What's that!" Shizu asked slowly getting up to her feet.
"IT'S THE BEAST TAMER MOHJI. WE GOTTA GO, RUN!" The mayor screamed running away.
"What are you talking about, beast tamer? Wait!" Nami ran after him.
"Huhhgh. Com on puppy something's here. Why don't you just give me that key back." A shadow loomed over them. Luffy and Shizu looked and saw a huge lion behind them.
'A lion. Seriously. That things huge!' Shizu thought.
"I see your friends have deserted you, and after you just escaped." A man replied from on top of the lion.
"Who the heck are you?" Luffy asked him.
"I'm known as the beast tamer Mohji a member of The Buggy Pirates."
"Wow. That's a weird animal suite you got on."
"That was rude. This is manly hair." He said pointing to the top of his hair in anger.
"Manly hair!" Shizu said.
"OK now that's just even weirder." Shizu nodded as Luffy said this.
"You shouldn't assume that your sage just because you in your cage. You must not know of my terrifying skills. There is no animal in the world that Beast Tamer Mohji can't bend to do his bidding." He said jumpping off the lion and put his hand out in front of ShuShu.
"Bite him ShuShu." Kage muttered to herself only going unheard to the strange haired man.
"Shake" ShuShu bit him and latched on to his hand.
"Good boy." Shizu said.
"I've no interest in killing you nameless thieves. Now tell me where Roronoa Zoro is before I change my mind."
"No way!" Luffy and Shizu said at the same time.
"RICHIE ATTACK!" The lion jumped up and hit the cage with his paw breaking the cage setting Luffy free.
"Yes i'm finally out!"
"Finally."
As Luffy jumpped after being released the lion hit him. Luffy went flying past Shizu and crashed into a house making it crash to the ground.
"Nice work now let's go Richie and find Roronoa Zoro and beat him so I can strengthen my reputation."
"Hey you!" Manly hair looked down to see Shizu still there. "I'm still here!" Shizu jumped up to attack, but the lion was quicker. Shizu was pinned to the ground by it's giant paw.
"Now Richie get rid of her to." The lion smacked Shizu away in the opposite direction as Luffy flying into a house as well.
Shizu lifted a piece of wood off of her and layed there on her back feeling a stinging pain on her lower back. 'Damn. I think the lion got me.' She put a hand to her back and it was covered in blood. Her white shirt now becoming a crimson red. She got up and walked to where Luffy would be. After a few minutes she made it to the Pet Food Shop burning and a howling Shu Shu.
"Obviously thes store is a treasure to Shu Shu." The old mans words ringing in her head. Shizu took off to look for the Beast Tamer and make him pay for what he did, but saw that Luffy had already beat her to it.
"There's no reason for you to apologise to me, because of you that dog will never get his treasure back. Now because of that i'm going to kick you ass!" Luffy streached his arm and grabbed him by the neck. He pulled him closer then punched him to the walked towards him and picked up his hat along the way and put it on his head.
"Hmm. When did you get here Shizu?" He asked her.
"A few minutes ago. I wanted to kick this guys ass, but I see you've already done so."
"Shizu your hurt!" Luffy cried catching sight of her back. It had three long slashes going across her back and a ripped up now red shirt.
"I'm fine. Nothing I can't handle. Besides the injury isn't as bad as it looks..the cut's are shallow. Now don't you think we should head back to ShuShu and give him that food."
"Yeah. Let's go." Luffy led the way and Shizu followed after walking to the store. When they got there they saw the building was now just a pile of rumble and the mayor and Nami were standing in the area. Nami turned and saw them walking.
"Oh so you alive pirates. You know I thought that lion was gonna tear you head off and end it all. I wish he dad cause then there would be one less pirate in the world! Maybe I should just kill you right now before you can gather a crew and destroy everything else." Nami said running at Luffy, but the mayor held her back. Shizu snorted.
'Like you could.'
"Now now. There's no need for violence."
"As if you could ever kill me."
"Well maybe i'll try it and see." The mayor continues to hold her back.
"Why don't you shut it and pay attention." Shizu snarled getting annoyed by the girl and walked to the away towards the house Zoro was in.
"I said stop. What's with you people?" The mayor said. Nami stopped struggling when she saw Luffy put down a box of the food he got back from the lion. He started to talk to the dog about how he protected the store.
'I should dress his wound now. Don't want to have an annoyed swordsman around because his injury got infected.' Shizu thought as she looked for the room he was in. Hearing a loud snore behind a door next to her she opened it up to see that the swordsman was still asleep. 'Guess I shouldn't be surprised.' She thought with a smile. She looked around the room and saw that there were bandages on the desk and reached for them. She started to bandage his wound and tied it when she was finished. She got up and put the badages back on the desk and left the room. When she got to the front door she heard an explosion and the house fell on top of her.
'Damn it all! First I crash then flip till I land on my face, then i'm smacked into a house, and now one lands on me. My luck today is really starting to piss me off.'
"Zoro! Shizu! Are you still alive?" Luffy yelled.
"That's one hell of a way to wake a guy up." Zoro said pushing pieces of wood off of him. Shizu does the same and stands up.
"I could have used a few more Z's!"
"How did you survive that blast!" Nami asked in astounishment.
"Alright you alive!" Luffy said with a smile.
"I refuse to let him get away with this. I won't stand for it I can't let this scumbag destroy what we towns people have worked for all these years. I am the mayor of this town. I WILL PROTECT IT AND IT INHABITANTS. I SWEAR TILL MY DYING BREATH!" Nami holds the old man back.
"Stop you can't defeat Buggy."
"Prehaps but there are some fights a man can't run from." He turns to Luffy. "Isn't that right?"
"That's right old man."
"Shut up! Don't encourage him Luffy. It's dangerous for him to fight Buggy!" Nami said not beleiving Luffy would let the old man do this.
"I know it's dangerous." The old man turns and looks at Nami. The look he gave her made her let go and he took off running. "I'M COMING FOR YOU BUGGY THE CLOWN!"
"The mayor..was crying." Nami finally said after a few secons passed.
"He was? I didn't notice." Luffy said looking confused.
"Look like the parties getting more exciting." Zoro said with a smirk finally up from the ruble.
"Hahaha. Sure does. Hahaha." Luffy laughed. Shizu nodded agreeing with the two laughing a little as well.
"This is no time for laughter!" Nami cried.
"Don't worry. I started to grow fond of that old man. Theres no way i'd let him die." Luffy reassured Nami.
"Well in that case." Zoro said walking towards Luffy.
"Your two are gonna go? Your wounded." Nami asked refurring to Zoro and Shizu.
"Yeah, so what? The injury to my reputation is a lot worse then the injury to my gut." He tied his bandana around his head.
"There just shallow scratches. I'm not letting wounds like this get in the way when they don't even hurt." Shizu said in a monotone voice not really caring.
"Well if we wanna get to the Grand Line.. We better go steal that cahrt back." Luffy turns around to face Nami. "Are you gonna join our crew or not? Huh? Com on." Luffy puts his hand out to her.
"I'll never sink so low as to become a pirate." Nami slaps his hand. "But I suppose we can team up in order to acheive out common goals." Luffy just smiles.
Soon after the mayor had gotten to the bar so did the pirates. They saw the mayor being choked in mid air. Luffy acted immediatly seeing this and pulls them a part. One hand holding the mayor by his armour and the other hand holding Buggy's hand.
"i'm here to kick you ass. Just like I promised I would Buggy." Luffy said to a shocked looking Buggy.
AN: I hope you all liked this chapter even though it's a lot of dialouge. Just a heads up i'm not good at writing fight scenes. I'll try to get better at that. I really don't know what Shizu fighting style should be just yet. I had my friend read the story and she asked me if I was going to give her a devil fruit. The truth i'm not sure what i would give her because all the ones I thought of are already used more than once. So if any of you readers would love to give suggestions as to her fighting style and to wethere of not she should have a devil fruit I would love to hear it. R&R is you want. Please no flames.