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Chapter X

They arrived at the northern part of the island where Syrup Village was on and when they beached the boat they saw a couple of flags rise atop the cliffs and a long nosed teen standing atop the largest cliff. "I'm the great Captain Ussop and this Island is under my protection! I have 80 million man under my command, so you better turn around and leave!" He declared striking a pose. "You're clearly lying, there's no way 80 million people fit on this little island" Nami deadpanned. "Oh shit, she saw right through my lie" Ussop panicked.

The three boys that where holding up the flags quickly ran for their lives and Ussop yelled after them "stay and fight you cowards!" but they kept running.

"That doesn't matter, I will still defend this island with my life!" Ussop said and took his slingshot out of his bag and aimed at Luffy's head. Luffy's strawhat shadowed his eyes and he said in a low tone "now that you have drawn your weapon and pointed it at me, are you ready to bet your life on it? Because weapons are no toys!" Zoro had his right hand at the hilt of one of his swords and had it slightly drawn, just enough to flash the blade. When Ussop saw this he was shaking, and took his slingshot down and sank to the ground in defeat. "Real pirates really are something else" he said.

As Luffy saw Ussop lower his weapon he began to smile and said "You're Ussop, Yassop's son, am I right?" Ussop was speechless and stared at Luffy but then asked "you know my dad?" And Luffy smiled even wider when he replied "of course I know him, he's Shanks sniper, and when Shanks stayed with his crew for a year at my home village, Yassop was also there and he wouldn't shut up talking about his son! Shishishishishi."

Ussop stumbled forward and down the cliff he was shocked at what Luffy said and when he came to a halt right before Luffy he looked up and said "is that really true? You really met my dad?" Luffy nodded and replied "of course, he is the best shot there is, he could shoot off the wings of a fly from across the village." Ussop was in awe and said "please come with me, I know a great place where we can eat and you got to tell me more about my dad!"

They reached the place to where Ussop took them to eat. They all ordered something when they sat down and began to talk, mainly Luffy talking to Ussop about his dad. "Hey do you know where we could get a ship on this island?" Nami asked Ussop and he said "no clue." "What about the people in the mansion on top of the hill, could they help us?" Kuina asked but Ussop suddenly stood up and yelled "no they can't!" Everyone stared now at him and he said "oh right, I forgot I have to go somewhere, we will meet again later" and with that he vanished.

A few minutes later the three boys from earlier cam inside the restaurant and stared at the strawhats and one of them asked with a shaking voice "what did you do with our Captain?" Luffy was rubbing his belly, burped and said "that was really great meat!" The boys lost some color in their faces as they heard that and looked at Zoro who said with a devilish grin "your Captain, was really tasty!" Kuina and Nami were chuckling at that but the boys were screaming in horror and when they looked at Nami the yelled "the which killed him and they ate our Captain!" Luffy, Zoro and Kuina were laughing at that, only Nami was fuming and yelled at the boys with shark teeth "don't be stupid you brats!"

When everything cooled down Nami asked the boys about the mansion on the hill and they told them about Kaya and where Ussop would be.

They went to the mansion and when they reached it they could hear Ussop talking to Kaya, telling her one of his story's. "So that's where you went to" Luffy said. "Who are they?" Kaya asked Ussop and he was again telling a story about them being his fans and that they want to join his crew only to be deadpan refused by the strawhats. A few moments a butler in a black suit approached them and said "just as I thought, it's you again. I thought I told you to stay away from Miss Kaya." Kaya wasn't happy about what her butler said and refuted him by saying "Klahadore, apologize to Ussop, he is my friend!" But he was ignoring that and wanted to keep insulting Ussop, but he was stopped in his tracks as Luffy came forward and said "I know you, I saw your face before!" Klahadore was internally sweating but on the outside he was keeping a cool demeanor and said "impossible, we never met before!"

Luffy grinned while his hat shadowed his eyes and he said "oh I know who you are, I saw your bounty poster, Kuro of a thousand plans!" Kuro tensed up when he heard what Luffy said but said "that's impossible, Kuro was executed three years ago!" He thought that would be enough to prove that he wasn't Kuro. "If I remember correctly, the arrest of Kuro was at best dubious, and there was only one surviving Marine, who also was the one who later executed 'Kuro', only that no one ever witnessed the arrest and so it would be more than likely that 'Kuro of a thousand plans' would have a plan for that to escape his execution" Zoro chimed in with a dark grin.

Kuro was now panicking on the inside, he quickly had to find a way to get out of this situation, so he tried to insult Ussop to create a distraction, only that Luffy already knew what Kuro was trying to do and stoped him before he could even begin by saying "So what does a ex-pirate do here, as a butler, especially Kuro oof a thousand plans, could it be that you sneaked your way into Kaya's household so you could one day gain enough trust to get near enough to get a hold of her fortune?" Luffy stared up to Kaya who was deeply frowning, she wanted to say that this wasn't true but Luffy asked her "how long is 'Klahadore' here and working for your family, three years? A rather big coincident if you ask me, just think about it, three years ago Kuro dies and soon after Klahadore shows up at your doorstep."

Kaya was even more frowning, she was thinking about it, and as much as she doesn't want to believe it, it sounds way to plausible. Kuro saw that and knew he lost, there was no way out of this other than to attack, but he didn't have his cat claws with him, so he had to flee. He began to turn around and was about to sprint away with full speed but he didn't get far, Zoro was suddenly in front of him with one sword drawn. "Where do want to go Kuro, maybe meet up with some of your old crew?" Kuro was fuming "you damn brats if you wouldn't have appeared, my plan would have worked without a hitch." That was all it took to convince Kaya that Luffy and Zoro spoke the truth.

"Surrender now Kuro or we will beat you up and send your sorry ass to the Marines" Zoro said but Kuro wasn't listening and wanted to flee, what a bad decision was. "Beating you up it is then" Zoro said with a diabolical grin and swung his sword 'One Sword Style: 36 Pound Cannon'. That was all it took and Kuro was lying unconscious in the dirt.

Ussop, Kaya and the three boys were shocked at how strong Zoro is, it took him only one attack to defeat Kuro. "Holy crap, I've never seen anything like that" Ussop exclaimed. Even tough Kuro was betraying her, Kaya was still sad about it, but she knew it was the right thing.

Some time later, a strange guy who was walking backwards approached the mansion. When he saw his Captain unconscious, bound, lying in the dirt in the yard of the mansion he shrieked in panic. "Captain Kuro, what happened here?" he asked no one in particular but still got an answer from Luffy. "Well, your Captains plan didn't pan out like he wanted to, and I would suggest you to leave now, and to never come back, because this island is under my protection." Jango gulped, he knew that he had no chance of winning and that fleeing was his only chance of survival so he took off and ran for his life.

Kaya invited the strawhats and Ussop to stay at her mansion and the gladly accepted, they talked, ate and laughed together until they went to bed. And the next morning, Kaya and her other butler Merry asked the strawhats to come to the northern slope norther. "As a thanks for saving me and probably the entire village, I want to gift you this ship" Kaya said while showing them a little Caravelle. "I designed her myselfe and her name is Going Merry" Merry proudly stated. "She's beautiful!" Luffy said with a huge grin and everyone else agreed. "I will now explain the steering of the ship to you" Merry said but Luffy waved off and said he should explain it to Nami since she's the navigator.

A few moments later, they heard someone screaming and they saw something rolling down the slope. "Please stop me!" Ussop yelled while rolling down until he was stopped by Luffy and Zoro's feet to his face. "Thank you" he mumbled while still being pressed with his face against their shoe soles.

The strawhats were on board the Going Merry while Ussop said his goodbyes to Kaya. "Thank you guys for everything, hopefully we will see us again out on the sea" Ussop said to them. "What are you talking about?" Luffy asked him "get your ass up here and come with us, we're friends, aren't we?" He said with his trademark D shaped grin. Ussop jumped in the air and yelled "alright, I will be Captain!" But everyone else deadpanned "no chance in hell" and Luffy said "but you can be our sniper." Ussop thought about it and said "alright I'm our sniper!"

They set sail and the island behind them was getting gradually smaller until it was only a small speck at the horizon. "Next stop Baratie, our cook is waiting for us there!" Luffy declared with a huge smile and so they set course for the floating restaurant.

AN: This chapter got longer than I expected, it's the longest chapter right now I think. I hope you enjoyed reading and keep on reading, don't forget to leave a review and thanks for reading.