Kiza: Hey everyone! here is chapter 6, i hope you enjoy and i am going to start a Ace X Sanji story, so i hope you'll read that and please review for this one. please enjoy.
"You sick bastard! How dare you!? Who the fuck do you think you are!?" Sanji asks with anger as Kaiser's first mate drags him back to the mast and chains him there, much like when he was first brought onto the ship. Growling he begins to pull at the chains, but he screams out in pain feeling a whip cut across his still healing back. He was sure that just reopened the older wounds, he growls and looks up at the pirate. "If I am your son as you claim…why are you doing this?" he asks, then he feels his ship doctor take two vials of blood. "What are you doing?"
"Proving to you that you are my son." Sanji growls as he then spits at his shoe, which he thought was a mistake once he feels the older man's foot hit his jaw, growling he keeps his head low, not risking another kick, he could feel the man grab his hair and pull his head back so he was now looking up at him. "And, I'm doing this, because I lost my wife because of you. I want you to feel the pain she was feeling while brining you into the world." Growling the chef watches as the man lets go of his hair and turns his back on him. "Your mother was a bright, radiant woman, despite being a marine captain." Sanji then looks up and he could see the ship getting further and further away from the now destroyed Marine ship.
He couldn't no believe what had just happened, several people who had tried to help him died because of him today. He hangs his head low, no longer even listing to the man talk anymore. He had caused the deaths of his crew, and now Smoker, Tashigi and the G-5. The people who were looking out for him, who just wanted to help him out were now dead and slowly descending to the depths of the ocean which he was now beginning to hate. He was really starting to believe that maybe he should just give up fighting against this man. He had beaten just about some of the strongest people he knew and without breaking a sweat, this man was strong, now he could see why he was the king the blues feared.
"Tell me…how did you know Sanji was the name given to you by your mother if you had never met us before?" Kaiser asks turning to look at Sanji, his son then looks up at him.
"The women at the orphanage that I lived at told me that a marine dropped me off there and told them my name was Sanji…"The blond explains dully, Kaiser smirks noticing that the blond was slowly slipping into willingness. Maybe, instead of killing his son, he could use him to his advantage. Smirking he kneels down in front of him, using his index finger he lifts the younger pirate's face so that he was looking at him, and sure enough the blond's eyes where dull and seemed unfocused.
"You really are a weak thing aren't you?" he asks, the blond doesn't answer. Kaiser laughs. "But, I have to say, you look exactly like your mother. You get all of your looks from her." Hearing that, the blond looks up at him. "Oh, now I get a reaction out of you. So have you learned that no matter who it is, anyone and everyone who comes to try and save you will be killed?" Sanji then frowns, removing his hand from the younger blond's face, Sanji nods slowly. "So, I'll tell you something. If you do as I say and join my crew, I'll let you live." Sanji then hangs his head low. "If you're my crew member, you are to be raised and act as my son, the prince. I'm known for doing favors for my members. Give me your answer by morning." With that Kaiser walks away.
000
"LAW!" Usopp calls, causing the said doctor to nearly drop a book. Chopper who was with him taking down notes looks up along with the other pirate. Growling, Law looks up and removes his reading glasses he watches as the younger pirate runs into the study where he and Chopper where taking medical notes.
"What?" Law asks, Usopp then grabs his arm and drags him out of the office and up to the deck, once there he drags him to the railing and looking down at the water, he sees derby from a marine ship, causing the doctor to get a shocked look. "What in the hell happened?"
"We don't know! We came up here and this is-"
"GUYS GET OVER HERE NOW!" Nami commands suddenly, rushing to the girls side, they see her climbing over the railing of the ship, reaching down they see another hand reach up and take her own. "Law help me!" Nodding the male rushes over and becomes more shocked look seeing Nami helping Tashigi up, she had a large laceration on her stomach and her sword strapped to her back. Reaching down, he helps the navigator pull her up onto the deck. "Law how is she!?"
"Give me a moment." With that, he carefully lays her down on the grassy deck, he then looks down at her, how was she still alive? With a wound like this, the blood loss would have killed her. He then sees her trying to sit up, but he puts his hands on her shoulders, stopping her. "Do not move. Your wound is great and I might have to operate on you."
"S-Smoker…"
"What? Come again?" Law asks.
"S-Smoker…h-he's… trapped…cuffed t-to the mast…it…it was floating a few…feet away from where I was…s-save him please…" she explains weakly, Law then looks over at Zoro.
"Mr. Roronoa, do you see Smoker anywhere?" Law asks, Zoro then scans the water's surface. "Anything?" the green haired man shakes his head, frowning Law looks down at Tashigi, who was desperately holding on to stay awake to know whether or not Smoker was alive and alright.
"Yo! I see him!" Franky calls, hearing that Law watches Zoro run over to the older man and helps the shipwright cut off the seastone cuffs, Zoro then winces seeing the third degree burns all over the marine's arms, hands, and even his face. "Hey man, we have to get Chopper to take a look at him. He looks pretty banged up." Nodding both males help him onto the ship and take him below deck to the infirmary.
Hours later, Luffy looks up from his spot on the floor next to Zoro and sees both Law and Chopper walk onto the deck, both helping Smoker walk out then help him sit down. Rushing over Luffy stops in front of him. The older man was hunched over and was breathing hard.
"Smoky! What happened?" Luffy asks with worry, Smoker then looks up at them.
"H-How are you alive?" he asks weakly, Luffy and the others then get a shocked look. "Y-Your chef…he told me that…Kaiser killed you…" Law then growls, so he was right, that's why they took their stuff and cut their hands. To prove to the blond haired male that they were dead to ruin his will to keep fighting. "Shit…T-Tashigi…h-h-how is she…?" Law sighs.
"The wound was deep, if we hadn't found you two when he had…she wouldn't have made it." Smoker then nods slowly. "Now, back to straw hat's question, what happened?" he asks, Smoker then growls.
"Kaiser…he attacked my ship out of nowhere…he strapped bombs to our ship and blew it up…I couldn't stop him from taking Sanji. I apologize." Luffy then smiles and pats him on the back. Causing the said marine to look at the young pirate.
"Hey! You did what you could! Don't worry you did what you could. Just let us handle it from here! You and Tashigi need the rest." Luffy explains, he then looks at Law. "Any ideas for a plan?" Law then sighs.
What would be the plan? He wasn't sure, but he could think of something. He had to take into consideration how fast and strong Kaiser's crew was, and that the blond's mental state more than likely wasn't in good condition, if he was still even alive. Who knew how long Smoker and Tashigi had encountered that man. In all honesty, Law had no idea what to do. For once he was stumped. This man was strong and his crew was fast to take action. Then it hits him, as a group, of course they can't beat them, but alone, they could take them out.
"Traffy?" Luffy calls, Law then turns to look at Smoker.
"Smoker, how man where on Kaiser's ship?" Smoker then takes a moment to think about it. From what he could remember, there was that pink haired woman, Kaiser's first mate Cairo and of course Kaiser himself.
"Three. I saw three. But I'm not sure how truly large his crew really is." Smoker explains, Law then nods and turns to look at Luffy. "Don't tell me you already have a plan." Law nods. "Dare I ask what it might be?" Law then smirks and points at Luffy.
"He's my plan." Smoker then rolls his eyes. "As a side note, they can't fight one on one. It's not their style. They are like a pack of wolves, they have to work together to complete a goal. But alone, they can't. And Straw hat here is quite….good at separating the enemy from they're main group." Law explains, Smoker then leans back on the chair he was sitting in and nods. "As far as I know, we out number his crew."
"As far as you know. But we can't be sure of that. That man is in a whole different league than us. There is no way to get close to the guy, and worst of all, we can't even get close to him! How the hell do you expect to get to him Law? That plan isn't good enough, Straw hat isn't strong enough."
"HEY! NOT COOL SMOKY!" Luffy suddenly yells, causing the said marine to cringe, the boy was loud when he wanted to be. "I can beat them no problem! He has my friend and I'm not going to let him get away with Sanji!"
"You can say that all you want straw hat, but we all saw what that bastard can do! God damn it boy he took me and the G-5 out in less than a few seconds!" Smoker snaps, causing him to start coughing. Law sighs and rubs the back of his neck, Smoker had a plan, and the last time they had seen the man he did in fact take them down in a matter of seconds. "I'm not saying we CANT stop him…but it's not going to be easy." Smoker explains, looking up he sees a glass of water being held in front of him, by Nami. Reaching up he takes it and nods in a silent thank you.
"You need to rest Smoker." Chopper says, the man shakes his head. "B-But smoker! Your injuries are-" Chopper then is cut off feeling the said marine gently place his hand on top of his head. The Marine was no longer looking at any of them, he was now staring ahead of him at the sea.
"I'm fine. A few bombs won't kill him, neither will these burns." Smoker states, Law then sighs, walking up to him he comes to a stop in front of him. "I'm surprised you don't know much about him." Law smirks.
"Even though I am a Warlord, that doesn't mean I have all the information on a person like him. He has a high status and only war lords such as Mihawk and Miss Hancock know more about him. But that is only because they have been war lords for a long time." Law explains, turning to look at the direction the marine was staring off at. He couldn't see anything, but he sure as hell could sense something, whatever it was, he didn't like it. He could now sense the unease of the logia type and was now questioning what was over at that direction. "We should keep sailing. Even once night has fallen."
"What!? Are you insane!? That's too dangerous to do!" Nami scolds, the said doctor then turns to glare at her. "What!? Look I want to save Sanji-kun as much as everyone on this crew, but we can't go and put ourselves in-"
"We are ALREADY IN DANGER just by knowing him, and seeing that damn man has already made us his enemies, his next targets. I'm sorry miss navigator but I DON'T CARE ANYMORE. Right now all I care about is getting him back, and if i have to take a small GOD DAMN BOAT then Kami I will FUCKING DO IT." Law explains, he then turns heel and walks away into the galley. The others remained quiet and in shock out on the deck. Smoker sighs as he attempts to stand up, but is slowly pushed back down onto the seat by Robin.
"I Believe we leave him be for now. But, it's up to our captain if we continue to sail even at night." Robin explains, looking up she watches as Luffy walks away with Zoro into the galley. She smirks knowing that they were going to talk to the doctor. She then looks down at the marine. "You seemed tense…are you worried about Tashigi?"
"How can I not be? She is my second in command and an old time friend. I've known her for years, since she joined the marines." Smoker explains, Robin nods and looks down at Chopper.
"S-She's fine. But she needs a lot of rest. And light foods like soup." Chopper explains Smoker sighs and runs his hand through his hair. At least she was going to live and be alright.
000
"Come on Traffy!" Luffy begs as he clings to the older pirate. But he gets no reaction other than a growl from the doctor. "Traffy, I understand your angry, hell I'm just as pissed off as you are! But she doesn't get the last say in choices like that, I do." Luffy explains in a serious tone, the older captain then looks at the teen, he is then smiles at him. "We'll continue to sail at night. I know you want to save Sanji more than anything right now."
"But, it's still strange to me that you care about OUR chef as much as you do." Zoro adds, Law then looks away from the swordsman but says nothing. Zoro's remaining eye narrows at him. "What are-"
"I told your navigator that I would look out for this crew just as much as I would look out for my own. That means, I will go out of my way to help Sanji." Zoro then smirks, Law then blushes realizing that he had said the blond's name, not his usual 'Mr. Blackleg.'
"Uh-huh…so when did you start calling the shit-cook by his name?" Zoro asks, the said doctor's eyes then narrow at the younger male, but it didn't seem to bother the swordsman much, if at all. "I don't care what relationship you have with the chef, but if you even think about hurting him…I may not like him, but he's still my Nakama, my friend. So don't think I won't hurt you or send you to hell if you do hurt him." Zoro warns, Law merely rolls his eyes. He wouldn't ever hurt the blond, so his threat meant nothing to him, but it still un-nerved him, after all he knew Zoro would go through with his threat.
So for now, it was best he try to keep some distance between himself and the blond.
000
"How is he?" Kaiser asks once he sees Cairo walk in with his pink haired crew mate not too far behind. "Anything different from an hour ago?"
"Ugh, he's defiantly your kid captain. He won't eat anything our chef makes. So he's letting him cook. The kid won't even utter a word to anyone. He's stubborn like you." She explains the man then barks out a laugh.
"Captain, I think its best we still keep him in a holding cell for a little while." Cairo explains the blond sighs as he motions for both of them to sit. Once they do he leans back in his chair. "Captain?" the first mate asks with worry.
"I'm not going to do that to him. He's already agreed to the deal to be part of my crew if he doesn't want me going after that old one legged pirate Zeff. I'm not worried about anything." He explains. "Zahra, try to befriend him. We need him to trust at least one of the members of this crew." She groans, causing the said blond to laugh, he knew that Zahra didn't like making friends with people. "Come now, he's not a bad kid."
"He's an annoying brat. Why do I have to do it?" she wines while walking out of the captain's room. Kaiser laughs, she could whine and complain all she wanted but, she would still listen to his own orders. Sighing, he leans back in his chair, reaches over and grabs a small picture that was on his desk. It was the last and only photo he had of his wife. Kaiser then gets a sad look, the picture was of her four months into her pregnancy and she had the biggest smile on her face while he had his arms wrapped around her tightly.
He could remember the day she had told him she was with child. She was happy, but even then he could tell she was scared. The Marines didn't know that she was with him at the time, hell, they didn't even know that the two were going to get married. If they found out she was with child, and one from a pirate, they would have had her executed. They wouldn't have cared if she was child, it was the fact that the child belonged to a pirate. A noble one at that.
"Captain,"
"He looks like her doesn't he?" Kaiser asks handing the picture to his first mate. Cairo knew her well enough to even be called her younger brother. She wasn't like most marines. Of course at first she had recklessly jumped onto their ship and challenged Kaiser. She had guts, but she was beaten easily, after wards, she just sat on their deck pouting and complaining on how her captain was going to be angry with her.
"Indeed. It seems you son gets all of his looks from big sister." Cairo explains smiling a little. In reality, he didn't believe in killing Sanji, he was the last reminder of Zahra. He felt close to the blond even though this was the first time they had met and even if the blond only saw them as murders. "I'm sure she would be happy to know he is a pirate just like you my king." The younger male tells him as he hands the picture back, suddenly they hear a loud crash come from the deck, both rush out and are met with the sight of Sanji pinning their doctor by his thought with his foot against the mast.
"What did he do Sanji?" Kaiser asks, the said younger blond then glares at the captain before stepping away from the older man he had pinned. "Sanji?" he calls, the blond doesn't answer as he then suddenly kicks the older male in the stomach sending the doctor flying across the deck causing the rest of the crew to stare at him with shock. None of them had known nor seen how strong his kicks where that strong.
"W-what the hell are you kid!?" one of the other crew members, hearing that causes the blond to turn slowly and glare at him, causing the pirate to yelp and start shaking. Next thing he knew Sanji then begins to walk towards him, causing the older male to pull out a gun. "Stay away from me!" he warns, but the blond ignores him, much to the older man's shock, the chef walks past him.
"Sanji!" Kaiser calls, this time the blond turns to look at him. He had a blank look in his eyes, and his hands stuffed in his pockets. The blond still had that damn straw hat on his head, the bandana wrapped around his arm, the white gold necklace, and the other items on him. He refused to take it off during the day when he was wondering around the ship. And at night, he would always lock his room door, the blond trusted no one, and liked no one on the ship. He would act like a trapped animal if one of the crew members tried to talk to him; scared and violent. He was starting to think maybe lying to him by saying they killed his crew was a bad idea, he would often find his son talking to the air, believing that his crew was there standing in front of him. He would also catch him staring out east bounded. He didn't know what was in the east of the sea other than East blue, but apparently it must have been important to his boy if he kept staring out that way. But he could tell all of this was starting to take a toll on the blond's mind, he was eating less and less every day, and he would fight and nearly kill any of the other crew members if they even LOOKED at him funny. He would even hear him start screaming in the middle of the night.
The blond was losing his sanity and fast. And honestly, that couldn't be better for him. Kaiser smirks as he merely stairs at his son who stairs back, he could tell the blond wanted to attack him so badly just by the shifting from foot to foot, and the pure hatred in his eyes. Suddenly the blond was in front of him and kicks him upwardly. Landing roughly on his back he groans, god damn his boy was fast just like his mother. His kicks where bone, cement, and iron braking, his flexibility only helped put power into those kicks. He then stands up slowly with the help of Cairo, he looks up and sees that Zahra had him pinned to the deck, it looked like one of the other members had shot him and the bullet had grazed him and cut his cheek bone open slightly.
"Calm down. I'm fine. I have to say Sanji…you really are like your mother." Sanji growls as he lifts up his leg, brings it forward and hits Zahra in the head, causing her to yelp and giving him the chance to push her off, jump a few feet back from her and growls. Kaiser sighs, as he walks over to his female crewmate and takes a look at her head, she was bleeding that's for sure. But he was surprised that Sanji didn't break her skull while he had the chance and when he has the power to do so.
"What…what was she like…?" Sanji finally asks, Kaiser looks up at him with shock. The young man hadn't spoken a word since getting back onto the ship. Kaiser smiles as he sighs, closing his eyes he could see his wife's smiling face appear in his head, looking up he then truly notices that his son looked exactly like his mother. Hell, he wasn't any taller than his own mother! And he knew for a fact that he was done growing.
"She was…a stubborn woman. Can you believe that she attacked my ship alone?" Sanji then smiles slightly, but it quickly disappears. "She was a kind woman, despite being a marine. When I met her she was just a grunt, and well it was love at first sight. Since then I kept in contact with her. She had her own sense of honor, right and wrong." He explains then he turns heel and walks away, causing Sanji to growl knowing that the older man wasn't going to tell him anything more. "There is an island here that was ruled over by me. We will land there and there you will be treated like the actual prince that you are. And you will act as such."
Sanji merely growls. To hell if this man though he was going to listen to that load of bull.