Famliy Origins Arc part 4

The festival was in full swing and everyone was having fun celebrating the Pirate King's birthday.

"How old is Luffy turning this year any way?" Asked Nami

"Um…I dunno…" Says Sanji after thinking about it a moment "We kinda lost track the second time we went to the Grand Line. It's hard to keep track of time there, since you can't tell by the seasons…"

"So how old was he when you guys first entered the Grand Line the second time?" Asked Erik

"Twenty…something…ish?" Said Nami tilting her head to one side

They all laughed

The King of Chefs was crowned and the Rubber Stomach winner was contently passed out. It was now late after noon and people had gathered around the band stand and Sanji and the Fighting Chefs started telling the tale of how the Man who would be King of Pirates had come crashing into their lives.

As Sanji started telling his story a pirate ship sailed up to the docks of Cristo Island. One of the fighting chefs went up to the ship. He had been waiting for the pirate group that was going to "crash" the festival.

"It's about damn time!" the Chef yelled "We expected you here over an hour ago!"

"Hey!" Delia yelled from up the boardwalk "Are those the pirates for the staged fight?"

The fighting chef turned towards Delia and started to call back. But then suddenly, something long and black lashed out from on the deck, wrapped around the chef's neck and he was suddenly yanked up onto the ship.

"What the…? Hey! What's the big idea?" Delia exclaimed and started running towards the pirate ship.

Before she got far, she saw the ships Jolly Rodger, making her stop in her tracks.

"And then Luffy says "Oi, old man. If I take care of this guy for ya, are we even?"

The crowed all laughed.

Sanji opened his mouth to continue his story but was suddenly interrupted by a loud scream

"What's that?" asks Nami

"Sounds like Delia." Says Sanji

Sanji saw Delia running towards the crowd. The people parted as she made her way to the stage. She stopped just short of were Sanji was standing and sank to her knees out of breath.

"Damn it" says Patty in a low voice to Delia "You're too early. You were supposed to wait for the signal."

"Not…who we…hired." said Delia between gasps.

"What? What do you mean?" asked Sanji

"He took…Jacque." She gasped "How did he…find me?"

"What are you babbling about?" Asked Nami "Who took Jacque?"

But before Delia could speak malevolent laughter filled the air. It seemed to come from everywhere at once echoing through the square. It made Delia tremble like a leaf.

Everyone turned to see where the laughter was coming from.

The laughter died down and a voice spoke. "Well, well, what have we here? A party, how delightful." The voice came from above. The people looked up and saw someone crouching on a rooftop. The person stood up slowly, keeping their head lowered. Though the face was hidden by a long thick curtain of bone straight blood red hair that went to the waist, you could tell from the body structure the person was male. He was tall, just shy of seven feet. He wore a long black trench coat that had the sleeves torn off. He wore no shirt under the coat and his pants were tight tattered black jeans. It showed off the lean athletically sculpted body. A tattoo of a fierce black dragon clung to his chest and a red snake tattoo coiled around his right arm. The left arm had a Pirate Jolly Roger of some kind that couldn't be made out from where he was standing. The nipples were pierced as well as what was visible of his ears.

The man tilted his head to one side and slowly looked up, causing some hair to fall to one side so he could peek through it with one eye. The eye searched and found Delia. Spotting her the eye widened and a crazed twisted grin spread across the man face.

The low dark voice that rumbled from the cavernous depths of the man's throat, made Delia's blood run cold. "Hello sweetness."

Delia cringed in terror.

The man gave another malevolent laugh and leaped into the air. The crowd of people scattered as he landed hard on the ground. He stood up casually as if had done nothing but hoped down off a table or something and not from the roof of a two-story building he had been on.

Frantic, Delia scurried up and hid herself behind Sanji, clinging to his shirt trembling.

"Psycho Sadist Guy I presume?" Nami asked Delia as she came up to stand by Sanji.

Delia only nodded too terrified to speak.

"Now is that anyway to greet a dear old friend?" The man said as he started walking towards them. "We haven't seen each other in so long." The crowd parted and has he walked.

Gasps started to arise from the crowd as people could finally see the Pirate Jolly Roger on his. Murmurs of 'Akuma' and 'Shinigami' rippled through the crowd.

Sanji raised an eyebrow "Akuma? Akuma Naraku?"

The man, newly identified, smirked, spread his arms out wide and gave a head-tilting bow. "The one and only." He turned to show the Jolly Roger that was tattooed on his arm. It was a Skull with Demonic horns and Crossed Sickles behind it, the Mark of the Shinigami Pirates. One of the most feared Pirate groups for being absolutely ruthless and full of nothing psychopaths. They liked killing, got pleasure from killing. They killed in cold blood, without remorse and got off on messing with peoples heads as they did it.

"Wow." Said Erick "You weren't kidding when you said you were in deep shit. That freak is the last guy I'd want pissed at me."

"Why the hell didn't you tell us Psycho Sadist Guy was Akuma Naraku of the Shinigami Pirate group?!" Nami yelled "In your description of the guy you couldda mentioned the tattoo on his arm! The pirate mark would have been a dead give away."

"That little detail slipped my mind… But what the hell does it matter now! You guys are the Legendary Pirates of the Pirate Kings Inner Circle aren't you?! Kick his ass!!!"

"Ho? Legendary Pirates?" Akuma looked over at Sanji and Nami and laughed "These two? I could snap this scrawny little girly man over my knee."

"Ha!" laughed Nami "I'd like to see you try freak!"

"Oooh, bitchy" Smiled Akuma. "You'd be fun to break."

"What's this freak babbling about?" asked Nami

"His greatest pleasure is breaking strong women and making them submit to him." Said Delia

"Well I hate to spoil your fun." Said Sanji darkly as he lit up a cigarette, "But that's not gonna happen."

"Ooh. Is that so?" asked Akuma.

"Ya. That's so." he said

Sanji had made his trade mark change in attitude Nami had seen countless times over the years. Dark antagonistic and aggressively hostel. Nami grinned slightly knowing this demeanor, and knew psycho sadist was gonna hurt bad…though… maybe he was into all that?

"Wow, he's all badass now." Said Delia seeing Sanji "It's so...hot."

"Having second thoughts about dumping him?" Nami asked putting on a boasting eat-your-heart-out grin

"Kinda..." Delia sulked

"You are in a territory under the protection of the Pirate King Monkey D. Luffy." Said Sanji "If you have come here to do harm I have to ask you to leave."

"Huh!" said Delia "WTF! Your not gonna kick his ass!"

"He's just following protocol." Says Nami

"Hoou..." Smiles Akuma "And what if I don't wanna leave?"

"Then I will have to make you leave by force." Said Sanji

"Ha! You and what army?" laughed Akuma

Alex stepped up to stand next to his son. Jessica came up too followed by all of the Fighting Cooks.

"Oooh, aren't you a tough looking bunch." Akuma turned around and gave a loud whistle and the other members of the Shinigami Pirate group started to emerge. They popped up from the rooftops and from between buildings and filed the outer edges of the town square. Even with all of the Fighting Chefs, they were greatly out numbered.

Though the numbers didn't make Sanji or the others blink. He had dealt with these odds a hundred times over.

Sanji took one long drag off his cigarette and then put it out. "Delia!" He called

"Y-ya?" the trembling girl answered

"Time to prove your self worthy of the Mugiwara Pirates. If you wanna earn major brownie points with us you must do what I tell you without hesitation."

"What? What do you want me to do?"

"Protect Nami at all costs. Once the dust settles, I don't need to tell you what will happen to you if she's dead and you're still alive." Sanji turns his head and looks down at Delia with eyes filed with darkness pulled from the deepest depths of his very being. "There's no where you can hide and no one who will protect you."

The dark look sent a chill down Delia's spine and knew the worst thing that could happen to her was not being tortured to death by Akuma Naraku, but having to bear the wrath of a man who lost the most precious thing he had in this world.

Delia looked at the others and saw Alex had the same dark look.

"OMG! OMG! OMG!" Delia shaking huddled in the corner of the house her and Nami took refuge in.

"Oi." Said Nami. "What kind of bodyguard are you? What the hell was Sanji thinking having you protect me?"

"What have I done? I destroyed such a good pure person. Maybe I do deserver what ever Akuma will do to me."

"Delia!" Nami grabbed the sobbing girl's shoulders. "Get a hold of yourself."

But Delia wasn't listing. She was only mumbling erratically.

"Oi! Snap out of it!" Nami slapped Delia across the face bringing her back to her senses. "Listen to me. It's not your fault…not entirely."

"What do you mean?" Delia asks "Sanji wasn't like that when we were together. That darkness wasn't there before."

"Yes it was." Nami said seriously "It was there long before he even met you. It was there, sleeping. All you did was wake it up. It would have happened eventually, if not by you, then someone else."

"What do you mean?" Delia, wide eyed

Nami sighed "You saw Alex just now didn't you? Didn't you notice that he had the same dark aura Sanji did?"

"Now that you mention it…" Delia remembering the dark bone chilling look in the older man's eyes. Thinking about it sent a chill down her spin. "But how can that be? Alex is such a nice gentle guy. I've never seen him like that."

"Has anyone told you anything about Sanji's mother?" Nami asked

"One of the chefs told me that the restaurant was named after her…"

"Sanji never told you what happened to her?" questioned Nami

"Just that she died when he was a little kid…but he never told me how. I assumed it was an illness."

Nami shook her head. "Murdered. Some psycho stalker kidnapped her, raped her then killed her. Sanji was the one who found her body. To make matters worse, she has been pregnant. Not enough to show yet but still. Alex lost his wife and his second child all at once."

Delia gasped and her eyes went wide. "Oh my god…oh my…that's…"

"Alex lost it." Nami continued "He hunted the guy down and slaughtered him like he would a beef cow. He went to prison. You wouldn't know it though. He hides it well. Just like Sanji hides it. They wear their happy personas like a mask, hiding the darkness that was born the day some creep shattered their world by taking the thing they held most dear in this world. You didn't cause Sanji's darkness Delia. You were just one drop in the bucket; it's just that yours happened to be the drop that made the whole thing over flow. You're not the first person to break Sanji's heart, nor were you the last."

Nami looked down letting her hair fall over her eyes "You didn't get tired of Sanji…did you Delia."

"Eh?" asked the confused girl

"The reason why you dumped him." Said Nami "You didn't really get sick of him. He wasn't too submissive for you. It was that he was too nice wasn't it? He loved you too much. He cared for you too much."

"Nami?"

"Sanji was a mama's boy. He loved his mother with all his little heart. He adored his mother. But just before he could out grow that phase his mother was taken from him. He still had so much love to give but no one to give it too. In that short time of his life he was showered with love and attention and witnessed a fairy tale love between is mother and father. But that world was shattered. After that he craved the love and attention he once had. But where else could he get that kind of love? Who else could give him that kind of love? And who else could possibly deserve the love he would give in return."

"The reason why he acted like such a flaming dork…" said Delia "He was acting out. He just wanted attention didn't he? He always wanted approval from Zeff. He always pushed himself so hard. I always felt there was something a bit off with him…that something might be wrong…but I just ignored it…"

"I'm guilty of the same crimes you are Delia. I ignored it too. And I also tried pushing him away. There was no way I deserved to be loved by him. I still don't believe I deserve his love."

"But you guys are still together though…" said Delia

Nami nodded "True. Because I stopped thinking of myself. The whole time I was thinking 'I don't deserve him.' 'He's too good for me'… but then I thought, 'what about Sanji?' 'what about his feelings?' All he wanted was to be loved. Surely after all he's been through he of all people deserves to be loved, doesn't he? And if I don't love him, who will? I did love him and if he's happy with the love I gave him then who am I to deny him that. And so, I gave in. I let him love me. And I promised myself I'd do whatever I could to make him happy and feel loved. I'd give him children he could love and would love him back… Ah --"

"What? What is it?"

Sanji dusted his hands off as the notorious Akuma Naraku collapsed. Though, you couldn't really tell it was him since he was so jacked up. "How boring. All that hype and drama and you end up being a weakling. Fucker."

"That's easy for you to say Sanji!" cried one of the fighting chefs nursing a few dozen broken bones "Not all of us are legendary pirates like you. Some of us didn't fair so well."

"Eeh?" Said Sanji "Don't cry to me 'cause you're a bunch of weaklings too."

"Aw, how can you be so cruel" Cried the chefs with streaming tears

"Dad isn't even a fighter plus he's an old man and he still held his own. You call your selves fighter?" said Sanji lighting up "Fucking embarrassment."

"SAAANJIII!"

"Eh?" Sanji spun around dropping his cigarette. He saw Delia running towards him.

"What? What's wrong? Nami – "

"Nami's… ok… don't worry." Delia panted trying to catch her breath. "It's the baby…It's coming."

"WHAT!!!" Sanji exclaimed

"I took her to Dr. Kaya's then ran strait here. I—" But Delia couldn't finish what she was saying 'cause Sanji was off like a bat outta Hell."


Gah! An update. This took forever I know -- I was distracted by my other fics plus I was stuck at the fighting scene… I don't even know how to begin to write and action fighting scene, I was stuck with trying to write it for so long, I finally gave up and opted not to. I didn't wanna try and BS my way thorough it and give you some half assed thing. Plus after watching the CP9 Arc I figured it would be cake for Sanji to take out a bunch of measly pirates. I also didn't wanna gross any one out with the graphic details of the kind of carnage Sanji and his father would wreak on a group that threatens their loved ones… especially Alex, having lost his true love and not wanting his son to experience the same thing and also not wanting to lose the daughter he never got a chance to have and his first ever grandchild.

Alex would have made a good pirate and could have captained his own crew…but he opted to follow his true calling as a chef to the fullest.

Akuma Naraku- I wanted psycho sadist to have a really evil type name… Akuma means devil and all you Inuyasha otakus know that Naraku means Hell. I never did think up a name for creepy stalker guy tho...but I didn't know what a good creepy stalker type name would be…

Dude... I just noticed it's been nearly a whole year since I first posted this fic