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"Calm or angry or whatever, I'm still gonna beat your ass!" Said Ado.

"Is that so?" Said Karuga. "We'll just see about that!"

For awhile, they just stared each other down, in somewhat a battle of will, as if they were studying the others fighting intent. However it was interrupted by one of the chefs.

"Hey, sunglasses guy!" He said. "Don't steal all the credit! We want a piece of this guy too!"

"Yeah!" Said Carne. "This guy's going to feel the wrath of all of us!"

Karuga looked at the rebellious chefs. "Oh, is that so?" He said.

"Yeah! You've seriously angered the chefs of Baratie now!" Said Carne. "We aren't going to let you off easy now!"

Karuga smirked. "Oh, is that so? If that's the case, It'd be rather troublesome to take one every one of you by myself, I suppose. I know, I'll just do this." With that he pulled out from his pocket a small Den Den Mushi.

"This is Karuga speaking." He said. "It looks like these guys aren't going quietly. I want all ship captains to report here now."

"Yes sir." Said a voice on the other end.

"Hey, who are you calling?" Asked a chef as Karuga put away his Den Den Mushi.

"Oh, sorry for not explaining first." Said Karuga. "You see, for each ship I select a certain captain for everyone on that ship, though they still only relay my orders, but they are my strongest crew members. For the record, I am the captain of ship 1." Suddenly, footsteps could be heard from outside the restaurant.

"Tee-hee! Can't wait to see what this new ship is like!" Said one voice.

"Be quiet, Batari!" Said another. "You aren't even a captain, why are you coming?"

"But don't you remember what Karuga-sama said? I'm going to be the captain of this new ship!"

"Be quiet, both of you!" Said a third voice. "We are here..."

Three men entered the room. The first man was very tall, even taller than Karuga, but still had the same muscular frame. He wore tan colored jeans and a brown shirt with two brown shoulder pads on each shoulder. He also wore a silver headband, and his black hair extended all the way down to his hips.

"I am captain of the second ship!" He said. "My name is Bruford!"

The second man looked much smaller when compared to Bruford, but was in reality the size of a normal person. He had black spiky hair and wore a green and white striped scarf over his neck and mouth. He wore a red shirt with black pants. A katana could be seen attached to his waist.

"And I am captain of the third ship!" He said. "My name is Chaka!"

The third and final man was an incredibly fat man, and he was dressed in a standard chefs uniform and had bright red hair and beard. He also had a mixing bowl in his hand and was constantly stirring some batter in it with a wooden spoon.

"And I am Batari!" He said. "I'm going to be the captain of this, ship! You better start getting used to me being the head chef around here!"

"Well, what do you think? Are my men impressive?" Asked Karuga, in somewhat of a sarcastic tone.

"I don't care!" Said Ado. "I'm still just going to beat you all the same!"

"Hold on!" Said Bruford. "If you want to battle the captain, first you shall battle me."

"Huh? Who're you?!" Asked Ado.

"Didn't I just say it?" Said Bruford. "I am captain of the second ship, Bruford!"

"Bruford, it's fine, I can take him myself." Said Karuga. "I don't need your assistance."

"No," Said Bruford. "I'm not doing this for your sake. I want to fight him myself for my own purposes!"

Karuga looked at him for awhile, before grinning. "Bruford, you have always had an eye for worthy challengers. Very well, fight him, do as you wish."

"Thank you, Karuga-sama." Said Bruford.

"Hey look guy, I don't care who you are, move outta my way and let my beat that Karuga guy!" Said Ado.

"I'm sorry, but it's not going to be that simple." Said Bruford. "I'm interested in you, so I'm the one going to fight you first."

"Who says?!" Said Ado. At this point, he began shrinking himself to the point where no one could see him.

"Hey, that Ado guy's shrinking!" Said Coco. "How did he do that?"

"I see...so you ate a devil fruit." Said Bruford calmly, but instead of doing anything he simply stood there.

"Hey Bruford! What're you doing?" Said Batari. "You should try to look for him, or he'll try to attack you from that size!"

"Idiot, didn't you hear his words?" Said Bruford. "He said his target is not me. That also tells me where he is going."

Suddenly, Ado grew back to regular size, appearing behind Bruford and in front of Karuga.

"Hah! You standing in front of this guy doesn't change anything, I can bypass you just like this!" Said Ado.

Karuga smirked. "Oh really?" He said.

"Yeah, really!" Said Ado. Suddenly, he felt something constricting around his neck. "Wha-what is this?!" He said as he was finding it harder to breathe. He turned behind him and was shocked to see Bruford's long hair, lifting up on his own, constricting around his neck.

"What's with that guy's hair!" Said a chef. "It's moving on it's own!"

"I was born with the ability to move and control my hair." Said Bruford. "Something like that only occurs every few centuries or so. I guess I'm pretty lucky huh?"

"Damn...stupid hair!" Said Ado, as he grabbed it with his hands and tried to pull it off.

"It's no use." Said Bruford. "People don't think of it a lot but hair is extremely hard to rip. It's like trying to rip iron in half!"

"Than what if I just do this!?" Said Ado. Again he began to shrink in an attempt to escape.

"That is useless as well!" Said Bruford as he curved his air around the shrinking ado, surrounding Ado in a ball of hair. "Now you are even further trapped! All I have to do know is close my hair in on you and you'll be dead.

"Oh really?" Said Ado from inside the hair. "Look, I didn't know that hair was hard to rip, but I do know this for a fact: hair is easy to cut!" With that he pulled out his Nodachi and slashed through the hair, falling to the ground, and then returned to his normal size.

"Hmm, not bad." Said Bruford. "Just as I thought, you are truly a worthy opponent!"

"Bruford's eye for worthy fighters didn't fail this time either." Thought Karuga. "I thought this kid was just a nuisance but he's shown me he's got some moves. But he still can't beat Bruford!"

"That was close!" Said Ado. "You're not bad! But can you take this? SPEED PUNCH!" With that he fired an extremely fast punch at Bruford, however Bruford's hair reached out and and wrapped around it, stopping.

"It's no use if you attack me! My hair will stop it!" Said Bruford.

"Then I'll just cut it again!" Said Ado, as he used his Nodachi to slash the hair and pulled his hand back.

"That Nodachi of yours is going to give me some trouble, it would seem." Said Bruford.

"Yeah! Eventually I'm just going to cut off all of your hair. Then I'll easily beat you!"

"This Ado person," Thought Coco. "He's still pretty stupid, but when it comes to battling he's actually pretty smart about it. Just who is he?"

"This person of D..." Thought Zeff. "He has certainly met all the qualifications so far..."

"You are going to cut off all of my hair, you said?" Asked Bruford.

"That's right!" Said Ado. "Soon my Nodachi will have cut through all of that stupid of hair of yours.

"That's certainly a bold statement there." Said Bruford. "Though, if this continues this way, that's certainly what will happen. But there is a simple way to counter this!"

"And just what's that?" Asked Ado.

"Before the time it takes for you to cut off all of my hair," Said Bruford. "I will just have to defeat you before then! It's that simple!"

"Oh really then?" Asked Ado. "Then just try to do that! I'll definitely beat you, and then I'll beat that armblade dude!"

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Thus ending yet another chapter! As always, look forward to next chapter and PLEASE review (I'm starting to feel lonely....)