So for all of you who are reading, I've re-done the first three chapters with significant differences in the first and third chapter. I really do reccommned you read them, because Luffy's death is way more dramatic and the fight between Spade and Zoro is way-way-wayyyyy better. Thank you so much for reading, and a BIG THANKS to ISSHI URAHARA for putting up with me. :D


I don't own One Piece

Chapter 9: Nakayama Siblings

"Yes, captain!" Daiki replied heartily, who crouched in ready to attack again.

Spade balled his hands into fists and raised them, then was colored that metallic silver grey-white color. "LET'S GOOOOOO!" he yelled as he ran toward the remaining Silver Cutlass Pirates, Daiki following right beside him.

Spade made to punch the nearest pirate in the face, but the pirate ducked and rammed into Spade's torso, toppling him. The pirate then stood above him and put both fists together, then brought his combined fists down onto Spade's gut.

"OUCH!" the pirate yelled. He had hit Spade squarely in the stomach, but at the last second, Spade's stomach had turned the same grey metallic color as before and had shattered his hands.

Spade, his abs now back to their normal coloring, jumped to his feet and punched the pirate in the face, sending him spinning to the ground.

Daiki had left Spade's side and had cut down the last of his opponents when he looked back at his captain to see a pirate had moved behind Spade and raised his katana.

"Seishou-Seishou..." said Daiki as he started running. "DASH!" he yelled, and sprinted at inhuman speed to save his captain.

A pirate jumped in front of Daiki's path and made a downward slash at him, but Daiki easily flowed out of the blade's attack and sliced the pirate's mid-section.

Daiki then sprinted at a slower rate toward Spade, but as he looked up he saw that Spade's attacker hit, for he could see the blade as it sliced through Spade's straw hat.

"RRAAAAAHH!" Daiki yelled as he quickly approached his captain's attacker. Daiki stepped on a crate with one foot that was to the side of his path and pushed off of it into the air, raising both his katanas to attack. As he fell upon his prey, he cross-slashed the pirate's torso, making him shout in pain and crumple to the deck.

Daiki swiftly turned to the rest of the pirates, and growled vehemently.

The Silver Cutlass Pirates, seeing as they had only a handful left surviving, turned tail and scrambled to the edge of the ship, and jumped back into the ocean.

Daiki, being satisfied that they would no longer be bothering them any time soon, looked back upon his captain, who had fallen to the ground face down, with his straw hat on the deck beside him. Daiki sheathed his katanas and flipped Spade over onto his back, and asked, "Captain?"

He saw that Spade's head and neck were covered in the silvery grey-white metallic color that seemed to harden his skin. His face was frozen in an almost surprised, yet destasteful look, as if he had just seen something unsavory.

Daiki was very puzzled. He bent down and turned his ear to Spade's mouth to see if he was breathing, and found he was not. He then moved his ear to Spade's chest, and found his heart was still beating, but it was fading rapidly.

'Let's see,' Daiki thought. 'If I remember correctly, he ate the Chitan-Chitan No Mi, so that means...' Daiki went very still with realization.

"Shit!" Daiki exclaimed as he hurriedly picked up and flug Spade over his shoulder and held onto his legs, leaving the straw hat behind.

He ran to the edge of the ship just above their boat and began climbing down the rope ladder. Daiki was climbing with only one hand, so when he neared the boat, he let go of the ladder and fell to the boat, which rocked heavily under the weight and momentum of the two men combined.

Daiki had landed on his feet, but his captain's body imbalanced him, and he immediately fell on his back, letting go of Spade's feet. Spade was then launched into the sea as Daiki fell.

"NO!" Daiki screamed as he heard his captain plunge into the sea. 'I can't swim either!' he screamed in his head. He sat up and turned his body to look at the sea below him, only within an arm's reach, and searched for any sign of his captain.

Daiki waited, waited for Spade to break the surface, if he could swim even a little. 'If I could just spot him...' he thought. After a few slow seconds of anticipation, Daiki spotted something underneath the surface of the ocean. 'There!'

Daiki reached into the water, grabbed a handful of hair, and pulled his captain above the surface.

"PAAAAAAHHHHH!" Spade took in a deep breath after he felt himself being pulled above the water. He coughed and hacked up sea water as Daiki pulled him onto the boat by his arms.

"Thanks," Spade said between heavy gasps for air. He was now laying on the bottom of the boat and was propped up by one of the seats.

"Now we're even," Daiki commented, accepting the thanks. He moved to the edge of the ship and began untying the rope on their boat, readying to shove off.

"Heh, I guess we are," Spade smiled weakly and lifted a hand to readjust his hat, and found he wasn't wearing it. "Where's my hat?" Spade asked urgently.

"It's probably back at the ship," Daiki said nonchalontly as he pushed against the hull of the galleon. Their boat began to move away from the pirate ship.

"NO! We have to go back and get it!" Spade shouted and jumped to his feet, then started coughing again and was getting dizzy, so he layed back down.

"You are in no condition to go back, I am in no condition to go back, and why do you want that ratty old thing anyway?" Daiki asked, genuinely puzzled.

By this time Daiki had already moved to the sail and unfurled it. It immediately caught a gust of wind and was sailing merrily on the sea. Spade now noticed that Daiki's movements were slow and fatigued.

He stayed silent with a frown plastered on his face, not liking the fact that we was worn out, didn't have his hat, and had probably lost a few brain cells. However, he found he couldn't really argue with that reasoning. Daiki sat down next to him and sighed.

"You know captain, I don't even know your name," Daiki pointed out, thinking of nothing better to say.

"Spade. Illem D. Spade," he said, reaching out a hand.

Daiki took it. "As I said before, Nakayama Daiki," he said as he shook Spade's hand.

"Where are we going?" Spade asked, having no sense of direction on the sea.

"To where my sister is being held, Brier Island," Daiki said with obvious distaste. "It was originally a small neutral island with very few inhabitants, but it was made into a marine base these past couple years, and the marines kicked out the original islanders."

"Why would they do that?" Spade asked, puzzled and somewhat surprised.

"The Marines claimed they were trading with pirates. But for such a small island, the only way they were going to keep the economy going was to trade, and pirates are all over the place, so why not trade with them?" Daiki said, going on a rant.

"I mean, the island is called "Brier Island" for a reason. Those brier bushes were an organic defense for the island, so pirates really couldn't raid it. And the marines destroyed them when they built their base!" Daiki shouted, waving his arms around in wonder. "They only sold essentials like fruits and food stuffs to pirates too."

As Daiki continued to rant about the ruined economy of Brier Island and the merciless marines, Spade had gotten his breath and some of his strength back by the end of Daiki's rant.

"Is that so harmful?" Daiki rehetorically asked Spade. "Just because you've sold something to a wanted man or woman, must you punish them?"

"That is a very complicated question," Spade said, thinking it over. "I think that has to do with the theory of "Absolute Justice" and "Moral Justice"."

"Yes, your right," Daiki said, calming himself and slowing his breathing.

"So we're headed to Brier Island to rescue your sister, Nakayama- " said Spade.

"-Hikari," Daiki finished. "She used to be a Leutenant Commander in the Marines, but left a year ago. She couldn't continue to dish out "Absolute Justice" as you call it."

"Ooooo, a Leiutenant Commander you say? Is she strong?" Spade asked as he got up and sat on a seat, leaning forward in excitement, temporarily forgetting about his hat.

"I would say so, but she didn't always used to be," Daiki said with a small grimace as he thought back to the day when he and his sister were orphaned.


"Burn it all! Smoke out the traitors!" yelled a marine. He had a head full of flaming red hair that defied gravity, as is his head was a candle itself, and he wore the standerd Marine Uniform with a marine-issued coat, complete with epaulettes and shoulder straps showing his rank as a captain.

Hundreds of Marine soldiers stormed up the beach and onto the path to the town. All of them weilding weapons of destruction. Guns were being shot into the full moon, torches were being held and pumped into the air above the onrush of Marines, and most were weilding several and various types of swords, axes, and firearms.

"Come on! We've got to get mom and dad out of there!" a young girl with black hair whispered to the older boy that crouched besider her.

The boy was a much younger Daiki, around the age of 12, and the girl was his sister, who was three years younger.

"All right, let's go," Daiki said after a pause. He picked up his two black katanas and tied them to his hip, then grabbed his sister's wrist and began running through the moon-lit forest, taking a much shorter route to his home.

Along the way they slowed to a jog as they passed homes that were in the forest to tell them of the danger, for the marines were still far away from this point.

"Daiki," Hikari panted. She was slowing down from fatigue. "Will we be able to get there in time?" She asked fearfully.

"You bet we will, as long as you don't slow down," he said through his breathing.

They chugged through the forest, Daiki hurdling over bushes and ducking under tree branches, Hikari swerving through blocking terrain and easily slipping through tight spaces, both without slowing.

As they neared their home town, they could hear the shots of guns and people screaming. "Hurry!" Daiki yelled to his sister, and sprinted into the town.

He saw a crowd of fleeing citizens, mainly women and children, heading towards the forest, not where he had come from, but toward the other side of the island to the shore, where the whaling boats were. He looked back to see Hikari leaving the forest and running toward him when he was swept up into the crowd and dragged along with it.

'NO! My house is the other way!' he thought, paniking.

Hikari weaved her way through the crowd and grabbed onto he brother's outstretched hand, and said, "do what I do." She began swerving through the crowd to the egde of the road, pulling Daiki with her, and stepped into a small path between two houses.

They stopped and caught their breath.

"Okay," Daiki said, recovered enough to think if a plan. "I know the rest of the way to our home, but we've got to move fast. You up to it?"

"Yes, brother," Hikari said, determind to rescue their family.

They moved out of the path into a backyard and jumped the fence, in the opposite direction the fleeing citizens were going. They moved at a constant pace and pattern, with Daiki jumping on the fence, then reaching down to pull his sister up. They moved fast for children their age, but both were hardy and strong, and finally were able to reach their neighborhood.

Daiki hopped off of the fence into their backyard, and suddenly the back door burst open and a woman fell to the ground. She was blond and had a simple, dirty dress and apron covered in brown liquid, dirt and burn holes.

The woman looked up and saw Daiki in the garden and Hikari on the fence. She yelled, "Children! Run! Run for your- " BAM! and was cut off by a marine holding a smoking gun in his hand.

Their nurse had been shot in the head, right in front of their eyes. The marine turned to him. He was just a low-ranking marine soldier with a trigger finger.

"Oh my," he said in sarcastic surprise. "An' who might you be?" He was drunk.

"Where's my mom and dad?" Hikari yelled, scared to death of the man. Daiki turned and gave her a look, a silent message saying 'Now's not the time!'

"Ohhhh~," the marine said, wobbling a bit. "Well, we'll 'ave ta see, won' we?" and he walked toward Daiki and cocked his pistol.

Daiki, red afced and angry, drew one of his katanas and held it with both hands, and charged the marine with renewed strength. The marine shot at him, and missed him by a long shot. Daiki closed thre distance and slashed at the man's gut, making him crumple to the ground.

Hikari now hopped off the fence and approached the puffing Daiki. "We've got to find them," she said.

"Right," he said, and sheathed his katana.

They moved into the house, and found their mother and father on the ground int he front room, with the captain holding them at gun point.

BAM! BAM! The captain shot both of their parents, and both collapse onto the floor.

"NOOOOO!" Daiki yelled and ran to his parents.

"Stop," the captain said. "It was all in the name of Justice."