"Aren't you going to see us off?"
"Shut up. The Mayor and Makino knows us, but we would scare the other villagers if we came down from the mountain."
"But…"
"Just get going already!"
She let go of Nii-chan's hand, walking over to Pretty-Lady.
She hugged her.
"Goodbye, Pretty-Lady. Me gonna miss you. All of you."
Pretty-Lady looked down at her, before bursting into tears and squeezing her tightly.
"J-Just go you brats~!"
She giggled, patting Pretty-Lady's arm before poofing out of her embrace and onto Nii-chan's back.
"ShiShiShiShi! I hate mountain bandits, but I like you guys! Take care!"
As Pretty-Lady started crying even more at Nii-chan's words, along with the rest of the bandits, Nii-chan started running of, trusting her to keep her hold on his back.
They arrived at the dock, almost the entire village waiting for them to set sail.
She jumped off Nii-chan's back, into the small boat he had gotten to sail on.
"Are you sure you don't want a different boat, Luffy? I have one you can take."
"Nah, we're good!"
Nii-chan jumped into the boat with her, untying the rope tying it to the dock and throwing it into the boat.
She waved at the people of the island.
"Bye, bye Maki-Nee, Mayor-jii! Take care!"
"We will B-chan, we will! Take care of Luffy for us!"
She giggled, sitting back down in the boat as a Seaking came up beside the boat.
Nii-chan stood up.
"You want a piece of me, huh?! Well, I'll give it to you."
He swung his hand at the seaking.
"Gomu Gomu no Pistol!"
"I SLEPT SO GREAT!"
Coby jumped away from the barrel as a boy broke out of it, knocking one of the three men that had been standing over it out in the process.
The boy looked at the man he had knocked out, then looked at the two others.
"Who are you?"
"WE COULD ASK YOU THE SAME THING!"
"Your friend will catch a cold if he sleeps there you know."
"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT KNOCKED HIM OUT!"
The boy had black hair, dark brown eyes and a small scar under his left eye. He was wearing a worn straw hat with a red ribbon on his head, a red vest with yellow buttons, blue shorts and a pair of straw sandals. On his right hand, he wore a black, fingerless glove that went to the middle of his forearm, with a metal plate on the back of the hand.
The boy reached back into the barrel.
"Come on, B. Time to wake up."
The boy's arms returned from the barrel, holding a little girl under her armpits.
She was adorable.
She couldn't be more than two years old. She had pink and blue hair held in two pigtails by black ribbons, located right under two black cat-like ears present on top of her head. She was wearing a yellow sundress and a pair of white sandals. A black tail was swaying lightly behind her, sticking out of a hole in the dress.
The girl yawned, blinked open her bright blue, slitted eyes, looking up at the boy in question.
Coby had to resist the urge to coo at the adorable cat-girl.
"Nii-chan, why you wake me?"
The boy grinned.
"ShiShiShiShi! We're on a ship, B."
The girl, B apparently, blinked again, looking around her as the boy set her down.
She looked straight at the two men.
"Who they?"
"Don't know."
"Are you toying with us?! We're fearsome pirates!"
The boy ignored them, looking over at Coby, who squeaked, drawing a giggled from the little girl holding onto the boy's shorts.
"I'm hungry, is there any food around here?"
"Don't ignore us!"
The two pirates behind them swung their swords at the two kids, fully intent on killing them.
*CLANK*
The pirates stared at their swords, the tips of which were currently stuck in the ceiling.
"What the big deal?"
"WHO ARE YOU?!"
The boy crossed his arms, the little girl climbing onto his back.
"My name is Monkey D. Luffy and this is my sister, B."
The boy, Luffy, grinned at the two pirates while the girl, B, waved at them from over her brother's shoulder.
The men ran out, dragging along their unconscious crewmate as they fled.
Coby gaped, voicing his thoughts out loud.
"What just happened?"
Luffy looked at the boy, Coby, from the corner of his eye, eating the apples of the barrel at a fast pace.
B had taken to him almost immediately, cheerfully dubbing him 'Coby-Nii' and then using her cuteness to get him to allow her to braid his pink hair.
"Is this a pirate ship?"
Coby seemed to deflate at his question.
"No, it's a passenger ship that's being raided by Alvida-sama."
"Well it doesn't matter, do you know if there's any boats onboard? Our's got sucked into a whirlpool."
Coby's eyes widened at his casual reply.
"You mean the whirlpool outside?! How did you survive?!"
"Don't know."
Coby looked at him with disbelief.
"So anyway, are you one of those pirates, to?"
"Well you see..."
Then Coby told them of the day he accidentally got into the wrong boat when he went out fishing two years ago, and had been Alvida's cabin boy ever since.
"Man, you're dumb and stupid!"
Coby deflated even more, B patting his head comfortingly.
"Yeah, you're right. Completely right... if only I had the courage to drift the ocean in a barrel. There's something I want to do."
Coby looked as him again.
"But, Luffy-san, why were you two sailing to begin with?"
Luffy looked at him, and grinned.
"I'm going to be the King of the Pirates!"
She looked at Coby-Nii, who was currently sporting a pair of braided cat ears, telling Nii-chan about his dream of being a marine.
Her ears twitched and she quickly jumped onto Nii-chan's back just as the ceiling was destroyed.
"Who is it you're going to catch, Coby?"
Coby-Nii immediately lost the courage he had scraped together to tell Nii-chan his dream, shrinking into himself.
The large woman looked at them.
"You don't look like pirate hunter Zoro."
Nii-chan tilted his head.
"Zoro?"
"Coby!"
Coby-Nii jumped at the sound of his name.
"Who's the most beautiful woman on the seas?"
"T-That's..."
"Hey Coby, who's the fat lady?"
She looked at Nii-chan with disapproval. You don't say that kind of thing to a lady, Archer-Nee told her so!
"YOU BRAT~!"
The woman swung her club at them, Nii-chan simply jumping out of the way, grabbing ahold of Coby-Nii as he jumped out of the hole in the ceiling.
She poofed off his back, reappearing on the railing so Nii-chan could fight without having to worry about her.
"B! If they come after you, attack them!"
She nodded at her Master's command, getting into a comfortable position on the railing.
"Are you crazy?! She's a little girl, she can't fight!"
She shot Coby-Nii a dirty look, how would he know if she could fight or not?!
"Got you now, you little brat!"
She turned her head to look at the pirate in the process of attacking her.
She poofed off the railing, a cloud of smoke signaling her teleporting away, appearing above the pirate, landing on his back and using her claws to slit his throat.
She hated wasting food like this, but they didn't have any way of washing off the blood, so she didn't have a lot of options.
As the man fell, clutching at his throat, she teleported back to the railing, looking to all the world as if she had not moved an inch.
"Gomu Gomu no..."
She looked at Nii-chan, who had his hand stretched out behind him, grinning at the large woman as she looked at him in horror.
"PISTOL!"
Nii-chan let his arm snap back in place, ramming them into the woman's stomach and sending her flying.
She cheered, paying no mind to the blood pooling on the deck, and poofed onto Nii-chan's back, giggling all the way.