Reversal of Fate
Uchihas1010Hyuuga
Update: This is a rewritten version…
Chapter 7: Hair & Filler
A few more days passed and Honey couldn't wait any longer so she decided to approach to Whitebeard.
"Oyaji," she started when she reached to where he sat in his usual spot on the Moby Dick.
"Honey, you've always wanted to find out more about your past and your family," he started.
She nodded.
"You may not like the results but start with your hair."
Honey blinked at him in astonishment. "Oyaji! If there's something you know just tell me already."
"It's not the results that counts, it's the process. You might change your views after you know the whole story."
She bit her lips as he makes a point. "I don't know…" she whispered to her toes.
"The journey may be long and hard but it will be worth it."
She looked up at him admirably. He's taught her everything she knows now. "Have I ever told you how proud I am to be part of your family?"
"Yes," he chuckled to his little daughter. "Now go find Ace and bring him home. Teach has become a very dangerous man."
After she finished her conversation with Whitebeard, Honey rushed into the room she shared with Kori and Rhoda. It was a tiny room but cozy and homey enough for the three of them.
She packed in a small pouch an eternal pose to Saboady Archipelago just in case, a piece of Ace's vivre card, and Law's large vivre card that will point to him. She also stuck some money under all of that.
"I'm good to go," she said as Kori entered the room too.
"We're both coming with you," Rhoda told her.
Honey stared at them confusedly. "What?"
"Rhoda's going to stay behind at Saboady. Rayleigh accepted her as an apprentice to be a coating engineer. And me, I'm going with you," Kori said in a confident tone.
After a few days passed, the trio reached to Saboady Archipelago and Rhoda introduced Rayleigh to Honey, as Kori already knew him.
"You," Rayleigh looked at her. "There's something familiar about you."
Honey's eyes widened in delight. Could he possibly know something about her past?
"Is it my hair?" She urged, remembering what Whitebeard told her.
Rayleigh remembered what he found familiar about her. "Yes, your hair. You have the same hair as a man I used to know and a spitting image of a woman I've met before."
"Are you drunk?" Rhoda interrupted rudely.
Shakki chuckled. "He's not."
"Who are they?"
"I don't think they'd concern you with anything as I haven't seen them over decades now. Last I heard one of them died."
"Can you give me a name?"
"I think it's better if you met them and see for yourself. If you could be related to them in anyway."
"Why is it my hair? Oyaji also said to start with my hair."
Rayleigh chuckled as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Because your hair color is one of the rarest here. There's not many purple haired people and certainly do not come in the same shade as yours."
Honey remembers that when she fought some of the old-old pirates, they have commented on her hair before too. That purple hair and that brimming face of pride just like that man, they would curse.
"I get it now," she said with a smile. "If the time is right, I'll find out eventually."
"Please take care of our Rhoda for us," Kori came in and said in a sisterly voice. "She is a rude and disrespectful girl. Sometimes she may not clean up after her own mess and won't shower for days and days but-"
"KORI!" Rhoda came and covered her friend's mouth.
Rayleigh laughed out. Then he told them he was going to head out to get a breather and left the girls alone with Shakki.
While Shakki tends to her customers the three sat by the corner.
"So have you guys heard of a pirate named Trafalgar Law before?" started Honey nonchalantly as she drank her milk tea.
"He's a small pirate in the first half of the grand line. The marines named him 'Dark Doctor' or 'Surgeon of Death' or something like that," Rhoda said and drank her own herbal tea.
"Why the interest?" Kori asked as she crossed her legs in her seat.
Honey shrugged. "Nothing, just wanted to know."
"I haven't heard any good things about him," Rhoda added. "He sounds like a cruel, creepy, merciless guy."
"He can't be that bad," Honey defended.
"Oh-KAY! Now tell us, why are you taking an interest in him? Is there something going on?" Kori stomped her two feet on the ground.
Honey shrieked. "Ah! Okay, fine. I kissed him!" She went on and told them both the whole story. Rhoda looked at her in astonishment while Kori smirked proudly.
"Do you LIKE him?"
Honey looked at Kori in disbelief. "I'm not sure," she admitted honestly. "Finding Ace is more important right now."
"You're right, and we probably should get going now," Kori agreed and looked at Rhoda.
"Go on ahead. I'll be fine here with Shakki. Lessons will start as soon as Rayleigh returns," Rhoda continued as she urged her friends to go.
So they did. The two left Saboady Island and followed an eternal log pose that Kori brought that led them to the train station on the ocean.
Following Ace's vivre card, the two are already halfway across the first half of the Grand Line. They only spent a few hours stocking up supplies in islands, walk around, stretch, and eat in restaurants. Sometimes they spend the whole day on an island because they want to sleep comfortably. Journeying on a small motorboat isn't that luxurious.
"Burlurburlurburlurburlurburlurburlurburlurburlurburlurburlur…" Kori's Den Den Mushi woke up. "Hello?" She answered, waking Honey up.
"Hey Ko, I got news of Ace, heard that there's someone called Scorpion that has defeated Teach." Marco updated them on the information he just received.
"What? Where? I've never heard of any Scorpion."
"What did he say?" Honey murmured, half asleep.
"We don't know if that rumour is true or not, but I bet that's where Ace would be now." He paused. "The previous news was that Teach was ransacking Drums Island."
"Which island is the next one?"
"Arabasta, don't tell me you're already in one of the Blues!" exclaimed Marco a little.
"Haha, relax, it's a really amazing coincidence, we just left Jaya and Arabasta is close by!"
"That's a relief then," Marco smiled. "And." He paused. "It's nice to hear you're doing well after Thatch's death."
"How could I not? Honey's here and nagging me all the time that she won't allow me time to sulk."
"Then you made the right thing following her this time."
"Yeah," the blonde sighed before ending her conversation with her commander.
Then something caught Honey's sight as she watched the waters. An island appeared on the horizon. "Ko-chan! It's Arabasta!" She announced victoriously.
End of Chapter 7
