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Now please enjoy A New Pirate Crew Emerges, Chapter 7: Jiiku's Past
"WHAT!?" The whole crew yelled as they processed the information they had just been told.
"Jiiku, is this guy telling the truth, I mean there is no way you could be a marine, much less a Commodore, right?" Tairaa said with a look of disbelief in his face.
"Go ahead Jiiku, tell 'your friends' how you joined their crew to destroy them from the inside." Jiiku's father said. Laughing at the Wild Cat Crew.
"Guys, guys, I…I…can, I can explain." Jiiku said, stumbling as he tried to avoid the angry stares the crew was giving him.
"This is pathetic Jiiku, what happened to all your courage, speak up!" Yelled Jiiku's father. There was a short pause before he spoke up again. "Fine, if you will not tell them, I will!"
"Many years ago, there was a child declared a genius in combat by his peers. He was so strong that by the age of 8, he had already captured his first pirate with a bounty of 5 million Beri. At the age of 9 he was granted a Captain position on a marine ship and by the age of 10 was already a Commodore. That boy was the son of me, and the man you know as Jiiku. Although, for the past couple months, he has gone off the radar, I am guessing to secretly infiltrate your group. But I will commend you, for you to have survived as long as you have, you must be quite strong." The man said as he laughed at the crew.
Jiiku looked at the crew and sighed. "It is as he says, I am a marine Commodore. But I did not plan to destroy you guys."
Tairaa stared at Jiiku, "Than care to explain?" Tairaa asked not caring a powerful enemy was standing right behind them.
Jiiku took a breath before starting, "Look, I told you guys I wanted to go save someone right? Well, the truth is, many months ago, I happened to get to take a trip to Shabondy Park on the Archipelago Island with my wife, well my soon to be wife. Well, while we were there a member of the Tenryuubito saw my wife and immediately demanded me to hand her over so he could marry her. He said he was getting bored with his other six wives. When I refused he grabbed my wife by force, I went into a blind rage and without thinking I punched him in the gut, knocking him unconscious. Well some guards came and they were about to arrest me when my wife said that she was the one who punched him, the guards instantly took her away and locked her up in Impel Down. I swore on that day, that I would not work for an organization that allowed these Tenryuubito monsters to do as they see fit. Than I went around trying to find people strong enough that I know we could make it that far, to save my wife and I found you Tairaa."
Tairaa finally had a chance to speak and took it "So, if I do believe you, that just leaves one problem, what do we do with him?" He said pointing at Jiiku's father.
"Well, let's try this first." Jiiku said as he turned to his father, there was a pause before Jiiku said, "Dad, can you just leave?"
The crew looked at Jiiku in shock, except Tairaa, who had expected something like this from Jiiku.
"I am afraid that if you will not come back with me, than I will not." The man responded.
"Damn, than that means we have to go with Plan B, "Jiiku said as he got into his battle stance. "WE FIGHT!"
"WHAT!!!!" Cora yelled, "I am not sure if you weren't paying attention, but he is a Rear Admiral, there is no way we can beat him."
"Of course you guys can't, but I think me and Tairaa can do our fair bit of damage." Jiiku said as he turned towards Tairaa, "If we use that strategy."
"Great, you guys have a plan." Said Razor, there was a slight pause before he spoke up again, "WAIT, ARE YOU INSULTING OUR FIGHTING ABILITY?!?!"
"No way!" Tairaa yelled, "We can't use that, it is way too dangerous, and I can't maintain it that long!"
"We have no other choice; besides, we only need to use it for a short time anyway." Jiiku responded with a look of confidence on his face.
"Fine, but don't blame me if something bad happens." Tairaa said as he got into his battle stance. Roje and Jeimuzu slowly walked forward, but stopped when Tairaa put out his hand. "Sorry, but I can't use you for this."
Suddenly Tairaa's hands began to glow in his normal fashion. But instead of placing them of Roje and Jeimuzu, he put them on Jiiku. A huge flash of light blinded the crew and Jiiku's father, followed by a large burst of air. When the light had dimmed, Tairaa and Jiiku were nowhere to be seen, instead a new warrior stood in their place.
The man wore no shirt, but had the same black jacket as Tairaa with the zipper undone, and the long black pants of Jiiku. The man slowly looked down at himself before he spoke up. "Man, this feels so weird, but I feel so much more powerful. I got to finish this quickly; I can only hold this for about a minute without serious damage."
The crew looked at the man in shock. Finally Bearpaw spoke up, "Wait, did Tairaa just use his powers to fuse himself with Jiiku? I did not think he could do that."
"Neither did we." Said Razor and Cora still half in shock from the sight of this.
"No time to talk." The fusion of Tairaa and Jiiku said. "We can't hold this for long, and please call me Jiiraa (I know it is a weird name, just leave me alone)."
Suddenly Jiiraa disappeared in a flash and appeared behind Jiiku's father.
"That's quite the speed you've got there, and quite the Devil's Fruit." Said the man as he pulled one of his battle axes off his back and swung it towards Jiiraa.
The axe cut through Jiiraa and his body flew into two halves. The whole crew yelled, "HOW! THERE IS NO WAY THEY WOULD GET HIT BY THAT ATTACK!!!"
"I didn't think it would be this easy." Said Jiiku's father in a sarcastic tone, "Now show yourself!"
The crew took this chance to look where Jiiraa had been cut, they saw the sliced in half body slowly begin to turn fuzzy, until it disappeared.
"You can't hit me with that slow axe swing of yours, old man" Came Jiiraa's voice from nowhere. Suddenly Jiiraa appeared in front of Jiiku's father, surprising him as a fist connected with his chin as Jiiraa uppercut him into the air.
Suddenly Jiiraa disappeared again and appeared over Jiiku's father. He brought back his fist for a punch yelling "Tiger Improve Fighting Style: Human Ping Pong!" The fist connected with the man's stomach and sent him flying sideways. Jiiraa than disappeared and appeared behind the man and kicked him in the back sending him back the other way. He disappeared and again appeared behind the man and punched him again. This continued for several hits until Jiiku's father managed to spin around to try and block one of the attacks. Surprisingly no one was behind, and than he heard a voice from above.
"And now the final blow!" Jiiraa yelled as punched Jiiku's father with all his strength, sending him flying back towards the Marine ship.
Jiiraa landed on Poseidon's Fury and quickly separated back into just Tairaa and Jiiku, both of whom looked extremely worn out. Tairaa turned to Razor and yelled, "Get us out of her! NOW!"
Razor quickly obeyed and the sails were soon open and the ship was sailing away.
"Man Jiiku, for a Rear Admiral, your dad was surprisingly easy to beat, even if we did fuse together." Tairaa said as he laid down to rest.
"Of course he was, he wasn't using his full power." Jiiku responded.
"WHAT!?" Yelled the crew, not believing Jiiku.
"Ya, I have fought him numerous times and never has he been that weak, he just wouldn't let us hit him like that. I would say he was using maybe 10% of his power. Otherwise we would have been destroyed." Jiiku said as he also collapsed to rest.
To confirm this Tairaa looked back towards the Marine ship, where Jiiku's father was standing straight up dusting himself off. He yelled back to the crew, "You are pretty good, next time we meet lets hope that I can fight you with my full power!"
The crew took Tairaa and Jiiku down to the infirmary where Bearpaw started examining them. The crew was asked to stand outside to give Bearpaw some room. Minutes later Bearpaw emerged to see the concerned faces of the crew. "Don't worry," he said, "They will both recover, but I have never seen damage like this before, their internal organs are slightly damaged and they did not even get hit. This technique must really take a toll on both people involved, if held too long I believe it would have killed them both."
"You think we didn't know that?" Came a voice from inside the infirmary, it was Tairaa. The crew ran in to see him. When they got inside they saw both Tairaa and Jiiku sitting up in their beds. Roje and Jeimuzu ran in and laid down beside Tairaa's bed.
"There is something that is still bugging me though," said Akira. "You are able to fuse with those tigers of yours for so long without major damage, so why does doing this hurt you so much?"
"Well, it has to do with my Devil Fruit. It is not really the ability to fuse objects and creatures, it is the ability to manipulate DNA so I can take certain characteristics of both things I am fusing and putting them together. Because human DNA is so complicated it is very hard for me to fuse two of it together and make another human, where as even though it is still complicated, tiger DNA is a bit easier to alter into mine." Tairaa said as he pet the two tigers lying beside him.
"Anyway captain," said Razor. "We are almost at the closest island, maybe we should stop there to restock our supplies and get you some good food, I and I'm pretty sure everyone else here is sick of Jiiku's cooking."
"I second that!" Said Akira, "No offense Jiiku, but your meals are just getting old."
"Fine, fine, let's just go already." Said Jiiku upset that his cooking skills had been insulted.
The crew docked the ship and began walking off the ship. Jiiku quickly jumped up and ran back. "Almost forgot." he said as he pulled out what looked like a large chunk of meat and opened a hatch in the floor. He threw the meat in the air and suddenly Birdie came jumping out and grabbed it out of mid-air and quickly swallowed it.
"You must be so bored," Jiiku said, petting the shark, which had his head stuck out of the hatch leading to his aquarium. "You never get to fight anymore, don't worry, soon we will get to." Jiiku turned back to the crew, "Alright, let's go!"
The crew walked down the streets in the town to try and find a small restaurant that would hopefully not have people who recognized the wanted men in the crew. They finally spotted a run down building with a restaurant sign that looked like it was about to fall down. "This place looks fine." Said Tairaa as he walked towards the building.
"I don't know what your standards for 'fine' are, but this certainly looks like a place where we could get mugged." Cora said getting closer to Razor.
"Us, get mugged? Don't make me laugh!" Akira exclaimed as he begin to chuckle. "We are travelling with three wanted men, an eight foot tall merman, and deadly swordswoman, and a child genius when it comes to combat."
"Right, can't believe I was worried." Cora quietly said as he laughed at herself.
The crew walked into the restaurant and saw that it was completely deserted. Tairaa was approaching the bench while thinking, I wonder if they serve ramen here, that would make me happy.
Suddenly a women's voice came from behind the kitchen which was behind the main counter and a door. "One ramen coming right up!" This left Tairaa thinking it must have been a coincidence.
Seeing as there was no one else in the restaurant Jiiku spoke up, "But we haven't said anything yet."
The kitchen door soon opened and a woman appeared. She was around five feet tall and had white hair. She had icy blue eyes that were covered by a pair of glasses. She was quite thin and had a black t-shirt with a black skirt. The skirt had a belt suspended around it which held a variety of cooking knives. She scanned the restaurant and realized the crew was the only one there.
She quietly scolded herself, "Damn, I did it again; really need to get that under control."
Tairaa having sharp hearing from being fused to tigers so many times heard this and said, "You really need to get what under control?"
"Nothing, its nothing." The woman said as the crew took their seats at the counter.
Jiiku began to get curious at this and started thinking of a plan. There was a moment of brilliance and Jiiku suddenly spoke up at the woman, "Hey you!" he said, when the woman turned around and looked at Jiiku and a weird look went across her face.
Suddenly the woman got a nosebleed and passed out. Jiiku looked at the rest of the crew, "She's got a Devil's Fruit, seems to be some kind of mind reading one."
The crew began to yell at Jiiku, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HER!?!?"
The woman began to regain consciousness as Cora was fanning her face with a paper plate from the kitchen. The first thing she said when she was awake was, "I didn't know that kind of position was possible."
This lead the crew to turn towards Jiiku with an even weirder look on their faces as they yelled again, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?!?"
Jiiku just smirked and said, "An old memory."
"I don't even want to begin to think about what that could mean," Tairaa said as he turned back towards the woman. "Are you okay? What's your name?"
The woman looked up, still seeming a bit dazed and confused. "I'm okay, just a bit dizzy, and my name is Yura." Yura quickly scanned the crew. "Wait, I know you guys."
"Damn it, no you don't, you must still be dizzy." Akira said hoping she wouldn't call the Marines.
"No, I do know you; you are the Wild Cat Pirate Crew." She yelled and jumped back, "I should call the Marines right now."
The crew quickly jumped at this remark and was ready to escape when she spoke up again. "But I won't, I can't let potential customers get arrested now can I."
The crew looked on in a confused look. "So you're not going to sell us out to the Marines because you want some money?" Jiiku said, even his brain a bit confused.
"Basically, and besides, you guys seem to know about my Devil's Fruit." Yura said while preparing food in the kitchen. She came out many minutes later with many different meals ranging from steak to ramen and more. "Dig in!" she said issuing the crew towards the food.
The crew devoured the food, except Cora who was only one to eat with proper manners, disgusted to see all the men stuffing their faces.
"Oh man! This food is fantastic." Tairaa said, slowing down eating so he could talk. "So how does an amazing cook like yourself end up working in a dump like this?"
"Well, it just sort of happened when I moved here. I bought a used old building hoping people would come and I could get the money to renovate, but sadly that never happened." Yura said.
"So, explain to us exactly what this Devil's Fruit you have is?" Akira asked, seeing as most of the crew wanted to know.
"Well," Yura said, "It is called the Omoi Omoi Fruit, or Mind Mind Fruit. And it basically allows me to do what the name implies, I have the ability to read minds, put my thoughts in others minds, control certain people, and move things with my mind."
"Wow, that's incredible!" Said Tairaa, who suddenly got a look across his face. He turned to the crew members on his left who nodded, and turned to the ones on his right who nodded as well. With that he turned towards Yura and said, "Yura, how would you like to come with me and my crew on our journey through the Grand Line to find One Piece?"
Yura paused for a second to take in the information; she suddenly spoke up again in a happy tone, "Sure! I have always wanted to leave this dump of a town and learn what the world has to offer."
And with that it was decided, Yura passed out some sake and the crew lifted their glasses up in the air. "TO OUR NEW CREW MEMBER AND COOK, YURA!!! BANZAI!!!"
The crew drank their drinks and Tairaa spoke up again. "Well, if you are gonna be part of the crew, you have to meet everyone. I of course, am the Captain, Tairaa. You already know our second in command, Jiiku. Over there is our shipwright Razor." Who gave a small wave. "Over there is our sniper, Akira Kido. That man there is our Doctor, Bearpaw Jones. And last but not least, our swordswoman and lover of Razor," Who blushed at the comment, "Cora!"
"It is very nice to meet you all, I hope we all don't die on the Grand Line!......... I mean get along! Sorry about that, bad habit." Yura said, as the rest of the crew laughed.
The crew finally started walking out. Tairaa grabbed Jiiku and pulled him back so they could walk behind the group. He leaned over and whispered to Jiiku, "One day, you are going to have to tell me what you showed her." He said snickering.
Jiiku laughed and patted Tairaa on the back, "The amount of things I could teach you."
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