Drifting Wind, Stretching Captain
Drifting Wind, Stretching Captain
A/N: One important thing I forgot to mention. Kimimaro is much older in this fict; in the anime/manga he was 15, but here he's in his early twenties and his brother is just short of that. Actual age doesn't really matter for those two since they are minor characters. One more thing I made a huge error in bounties with the Mugiwara kaizokus. I realize that that was way too high for the simply feats they accomplished. So now it's Luffy: 400 million, Taishin: 391 million Zoro: 220 million, Sanji: 170 million, Robin: 110 million, Chopper: 55 million, Franky: 80 million, Brook: 85 million, Nami: 40 million, Usopp: 50 million some of them didn't really change. Readers and reviewers thank you.
"Wise man once said men with large chesticles might have taken steroids."
Key: "Talking" 'thinking' 'Shuusui'
Chapter 12: Reunion
Sanji lit a cigarette. "So you're telling us that the next island is Sabaody." Taishin nodded in agreement.
Luffy had stars in his eyes. "Why is it called Lawless Land? Could we do whatever we wanted?"
"Well no. They call it Lawless Land because a bunch of pirates gather there. It has two pathways; one directly to the Marine main headquarters on Mariejois, and the rougher parts of New World. This place is so popular because pirates go off into adventure or stay here where it is safe."
Robin stopped reading and put her hand to her chin. "How is it safe if the Marine Headquarters is a direct route from here?"
"As long as the pirates don't cause too much trouble and keep a low profile they'll be fine."
Taishin was looking out at the sea and smiling like a maniac. Sanji looked at him with bewilderment. "What's so funny over there?"
Taishin was snapped out of his thoughts. "Oh nothing just thought of a funny memory."
"Care to share." said Robin from her book.
"It's one of those 'you had to be there' sort of things."
Luffy decided to have a little, so he grabbed the main mast and ran around it until his right arm wrapped around Zoro who was leaning against it asleep. "What the hell Luffy? Let me outta here."
"Chopper come here." Chopper ran up to Luffy ignoring Zoro. He whispered some stuff in Chopper's ear and he nodded. "Alright Zoro, the name of the game is guess the word."
"Luffy when I get out of here I will kill you."
"Nope not the right word."
"You have ten guesses."
Zoro had a tick mark on his forehead. "Baka."
"Nope."
"Meat."
Luffy snickered. "Noooooo."
The tick mark grew very large. "Five."
"Uhhh uuunnnn."
"Give me a damn hint!" Everyone around them laughed especially Luffy and Chopper.
"Well…….It's a thing that is long, hard yet squishy and bendy."
All the guys snickered while Chopper and Luffy just looked at them confused. "What's so funny about the word finger?" They said in unison.
All the guys sweatdropped. "I was way off." They said in unison. Everybody laughed except Zoro who was yelling finger angrily. Eventually Luffy unraveled his arm only to be hit by Zoro a couple of times. Everyone laughed even harder.
Taishin looked at the sea and an idea popped in his head. "Hey Luffy, come here."
Luffy rubbed his sore head. "What?"
Taishin leaned and put his mouth to Luffy's ear. "It's more of a bet than a game, but it'll still be fun."
Luffy jumped up and down in excitement. "What is it? What? What?"
"We are going to need Brook and Chopper."
Luffy stretched and grabbed them both. "Okay now what?"
Taishin sweatdropped. "Huddle up."
"What have you got me into this time Luffy?" said Chopper.
"Taishin will explain."
"Alright gentlemen, what we have on the table is a bet."
"What is it?" the three said in unison.
"Well it's a little complicated so try and keep up." The three nodded. "Alright, first all of us will voluntarily fall into the sea."
"NANI!"
Taishin put his finger in his ear. "Not so damn loud. As I was saying we will voluntarily-don't yell-fall into the sea, but make it look like an accident."
Chopper sat back and thought. "So the wager is who will be rescued first."
Taishin smiled. "Nope that's too simple. The wager is to see who saves who. We will place bets on who will jump in and save one of us."
Chopper jumped back in awe. "That's impossible there are over a thousand combinations and the likelihood of one of us to get it is very slim."
"That's where the fun lies. So you guys in?" Luffy of course shook his head yes wildly. Brook thought about it for a while and agreed and everybody looked at Chopper. "So doc you in or what?"
Chopper looked worried. "But what if something goes wrong?"
"You have to have faith in your nakama and I'm a hundred AND TEN percent sure you will not drown."
"Fine I'll do it."
Taishin pulled out a pen and paper. "Yosh, now write down your bets on this piece of paper. Remember it's all four of us, so write down who you think will save who." They all nodded and scribbled furiously. "Okay now it's time for reward and consequence. Brook we'll start with you."
"Well if I win then……………….you three have to help me get Nami-chan's and Robin-chan's panties. At least five each."
Taishin laughed. "Agreed."
Luffy blushed while twiddling his fingers and whispered, "Agreed."
"Alright, but I don't see what's so interesting about them."
"Why Chopper there are-"
Taishin quickly put his hand over Brook's mouth. "We don't need to hear all the reasons why panties are so great. We'll just continue on, Chopper."
"Well if I win……..you three have to help me in my room with doctor stuff."
"Easy enough."
"But wait. You all can only speak like sheep and act like them. Walking on all fours and rubbing against people."
"That sounds so fun." said Luffy.
Taishin smirked. "I have to agree with Luffy on that one; it is interesting to say the least."
"Of course, Yohohohohohohohoho."
"Alright Luffy you're next."
Luffy thought for a long while. "You three will have to help me think up new games and participate in them all from here until we get to the island after Sabaody."
"Yes." said Brook and Chopper in unison then turned to Taishin.
"Fair enough I guess it's my go. Ok if I win then Chopper you will eat a rumble ball and become guard point and roll around for the full three minutes yelling I'm a super boob. You can mix it up by saying uniboob, omegabreast, sweater meat of ginormousness, and power tit."
Chopper looked at Taishin like he'd grown a second head. "How did you know about the rumble ball, guard point, and the three minute limit?"
"I did some research. Anyway I'm not done, Brook you are to smell Zoro's lips and say 'they smell like Cuddle Bum' then smell Sanji's lips and say 'they smell like moss.' You might want to try and pull this off as quickly as possible."
"Why is that?"
"Ohh no reason really."
"Now Luffy you are to pull down your pants, underwear included, blow up your butt using air and your rubber powers, and moon Nami and Robin to the fullest."
Luffy looked over at the two women in horror. "That's suicide, but what the hell." Luffy laughed. "I'm in."
"Me too."
"I don't really understand, but I'll do it, Yohohohohoho."
"There's one last condition if no one wins." Everybody put there hand to their chin in thought.
Luffy pointed towards the sky. "We all do act like chickens, but bark like dogs."
"Nah." They all said.
Chopper looked at the floor. "We all lick the floor."
"Nah." They all said again.
Brook looked at his cane. "Nah."
Taishin looked over at him. "What the hell were YOU thinking?"
"Trust me you don't wanna know."
"Okay, what about we dance like Bon Kurei in the middle of the ship?"
Luffy booed. "Booooorrrrrriiiiiiinnnngg. I'm sure you can think of something better than that."
"Alright, gemme a sec………got it! We all dress up in Nami and Robin's clothes and act how we think girls act or should act while nothing is off limits for the rest of the day."
"Agreed." They all said in unison.
"Remember tell no one of this deal."
"We'll break and take a ten minute intervention. It'll look suspicious if we all just jumped in the sea after we huddled together and yell random stuff out loud. After ten minutes, I'll give the signal by whistling loudly. Immediately after we all run to the figure head, trip, and fall off the edge. Make it look good, break." They broke up and went to their own business trying to be inconspicuous as possible, but all of them were failing except Taishin. Taishin rubbed the bridge of his nose. 'Those three can't be deceptive if their lives depended on it.' Chopper was rolling on the floor like happy pig in the mud laughing like a maniac while Luffy was licking the mast and snickering, and Brook was humping the air while playing the song Lying From You. Taishin was sitting on top of the crow's nest watching them and occasionally blowing up rock formations. He jumped, hovered over the ground, and landed softly. He whistled loudly much to Chopper displeasure. They all ran like it idiots toward the figurehead in race type formation and all of them were laughing or shouting. Taishin kicked the heel of his foot discretely, so he would trip and he pushed the rest along with himself overboard.
"Those idiots!" Zoro, Sanji, Franky, and Nami screamed in unison. Franky, Zoro, and Sanji all jumped in to save them. Franky grabbed Brook and Chopper, Zoro got Taishin, and Sanji rescued Luffy. The three of them pumped the water out of the hammers in unison. They all cough up the rest of the water.
Taishin and looked up. 'Damn I was so close.'
Luffy huffed up and pouted. "I lost."
Brook looked all around him and the three guys. "Ya win some ya lose some."
Chopper danced around with glee. "I won!" Chopper had indeed won he voted Franky to himself and Brook, Sanji to Luffy, and Zoro to Taishin. Luffy had voted Sanji to Brook, Zoro to Chopper, and Franky to himself and Taishin. Brook was way off he voted himself to Zoro, Franky to Luffy, Usopp to Chopper, and Sanji to Taishin. Taishin had voted Franky to Brook, Zoro to himself, Sanji to Luffy, and Usopp to Chopper. The three of them sighed in defeat and got on all fours and baaahhhed like a sheep.
Chopper snickered and began herding them like a Shepard. "C'mon little sheepy." The three of them baahhed and followed Chopper into his room snickering the whole way. They may have lost, but it was still fun being a sheep. Chopper closed the door and laughed.
Taishin cleared his throat. "Baaahh ahem. Can we talk or are we forced to just baaaahhh?"
"Just baaahh."
"What if someone asks us a question or something of that nature?"
Chopper thought for while. "It's ok to talk, but it must be straight to the point." Taishin nodded. After a quite eventful start, the day had gotten even more interesting at around lunch and dinner time. Especially when they were hit many times by Sanji for eating like pigs or sheep to be exact. They got into a three on one fight sheep style, they won; Luffy could really bite when he wanted to. After fixing up Chopper's room, testing some potions, helping mix medicine, and the occasional lounging on deck. They all the declared it was over since the sun had fallen out of the sky and the moon was jumping into position. Everyone went into their rooms and went to bed. It was a tiring day for most of them, ya know dealing with Luffy and his shenanigans. Taishin got out of his bed and walked out to the deck because he could never really enjoy sleep like most because of a natural insomnia and some years of torment. He sat down on the side of the ship and looked out at the sea. Memories of his past flooded his head; he began to seethe with anger and clenched his fist. He settled down when he noticed someone coming.
Without turning from the sea he said, "I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's Robin."
"Well you would be right."
"What do you want now?"
"Well that's no way to say hello to anybody."
"Well howdy doo with shits and rainbows. Top of the morning to ya out of the front of me ass."
"What does that even mean?"
"I don't know, don't try and make sense of it."
"If you want me to leave you could just say so."
"Ok, I want you to leave."
She laughed a little bit. "Too bad. I have the same right to be here like you."
"You're bothersome you know that. I've hardly ever even seen you sleep."
"You don't sleep much yourself."
"I'm always asleep on top of the crow's nest."
"You must think I'm stupid. I see you don't sleep well. Always with an eye open, senses raise never really at peace."
"Is this getting somewhere?"
"Tell me what's on your mind all the time. These nightmares or whatever it is."
"Quite frankly that is none of your business."
"It seems you always want to bring Frank into your affairs."
Taishin was shocked, but he laughed. "Was that an attempt at juvenile provocation? It was good, I have to admit, but you could have also said 'You're right what you and Frank do is none of my business.'" They both laughed a little.
"So are you going to tell me or what?"
"No I'm not." He warped and stood right in front of her. He pushed forward quickly but slowed down in the last few seconds and finally pressed his lips against Robin's. He pulled back slowly and reluctantly. 'Damn woman has my heart a poundin'.' She also got over her shock and slapped him. 'That only made it pound faster. That's not a good sign.'
"You just kissed me."
"Well yeah that is what the kids are callin' it these days." He laughed a little.
"Why?"
"Why else?"
"That didn't answer my question."
"I'm not on trial."
"I don't know exactly how you feel but the feeling is not mutual."
"Really."
"Yes really."
"Okay then if I were to kiss you again then you would be able to look me in the eye and say, 'I felt nothing and I hated that,' right."
"Yes."
"Alright then let's make a bet. I will kiss you again and it will last about ten seconds and if you can indeed say that while looking me in the eye I will never make any more advances toward you, but if you can't you have to apologize and kiss me. Agreed?"
"Fine." Taishin moved her hair out of the way and caressed her cheek with his fingers. He leaned forward slowly and kissed her passionately. After ten seconds he pulled back and awaited Robin's response. She took a step back and looked everywhere, but at Taishin. She took a deep breathe and looked him straight in the eye. "I felt nothing and…." After a fair sized pause she finished, "I hated that."
Taishin nodded his head once. "I understand and shall never try anything like that again. From here on out we are strictly nakama." He warped so he was beside her and leaned in toward her. He whispered in her ear, "But thanks for givin' a shit anyway. It really means a lot to me." Then he warped away.
She slowly sank to the ground and sat there. A lone tear rolled down her face.
Taishin warped into his room and flopped on his bed. He pulled out a tattered old worn out book from his coat pocket and looked at it intensely. "Everything worked out for the best." 'I think.' "We should get to Sabaody tomorrow morning and we'll get that man once and for all."
Next morning everyone was waiting to reach the next island. Everyone was doing something to pass the time. Luffy was playing tag with Chopper and Usopp. Zoro was weight training. Robin was bossing Sanji around making him do this or that. Nami was also reaping from Robin's deal since Robin occasionally "lent" him to her. Brook was a playing a song, one of his favorites Bink's Sake. Taishin was fiddling around with his pendant sitting on top of the crow's nest. Franky reading over the notes he took at the park Dayondaho and began working on a new project.
"I see the island." said Taishin from above.
Luffy ran around with Chopper forgetting all about the game. "Yes, yes yes."
Taishin hovered down. "Calm down Luffy you sound like you're having sex."
"I do not." Taishin patted him on the shoulder and laughed. Luffy pulled back his fist and aimed at Taishin.
It went right them, but he used the wind to twist it. He put on an expression like Luffy and said, "Gomu Gomu no Rifle." in Luffy's voice. It hit Sanji in the face as he was coming out of the kitchen. Taishin laughed harder. "Bwajejejejejejejejejeee."
"Oi, kuso-gomu. Oi I see you." said Sanji as he chased after Luffy.
"Sanji-kun where's our drinks."
Sanji stopped in his tracks and his eyes were hearts. "Coming right up Nami-swaan." He ran into the kitchen and made the girls some more drinks. After a few minutes they were in the docking area of Sabaody Island.
Luffy was about to jump off the boat, but Taishin stopped him. "Everyone, there's one more thing I may have forgot to mention. I have unfinished business to attend to on this island, so someone else will have to stay here on ship duty."
"I'll stay. Besides I think going through town might be a little easier without me scaring the shit out of everyone. Yohohohohohohoho."
Luffy jumped off the ship. "Good point. Well we'll leave you to it, Brook."
"Now that that's settled I'm off as well. Oh yeah, try and stay away from people with bubbles on their head." said Taishin as he rocketed off rocking the ship slightly.
"Well I'm off to map the island. Robin can I borrow Sanji for a while?" Nami pointed Sanji as she said this.
Robin thought for awhile. "I guess I'll allow it. Just don't be too rough with him." This made Sanji dance around with joy. "And Cuddle-Bum, make sure you behave." He nodded reluctantly still hating that nickname. Both of them set off with Sanji carrying all of Nami's gear.
Going back to the majority of the crew who found themselves in a tree-filled area surrounded by bubbles. Luffy ran over, pulled down one of the bubbles, and held it in his hand. "Look everyone it's squishy." Usopp and Chopper immediately ran over and grabbed a couple. They played around with them and blew them up bigger and jumped in them.
Robin inspected it closely and looked at the surroundings. "It seems this resin comes off the trees and becomes a bubble when the tree goes through photosynthesis, 'breathing' as it seems."
Luffy picked up another one and ate it. "It tastes funny."
Usopp hit him on the back of the head. "Luffy spit that out, it could be poison."
"That's funny, it doesn't taste like poison."
Usopp sweatdropped. "How would you know what poison tastes like?"
"Beats me." Usopp facefaulted. The continued until they reached a huge town filled with people. They all walked into a nearby bar that read, "Shakky's Rip Off Bar."
"That's an interesting name for a bar." Everyone else nodded at Robin's statement. They walked in and look around at all of the colorful characters. Luffy sat down and asked for a drink.
A tall woman with short black hair and a great figure was holding some guy by the collar. "Gimme a minute kid." She threw the man half way cross the bar. She was wearing skin tight pants in giraffe pattern with the main color being purple and the stripes were white. She also had a large cloth wrapped around her waist and a shirt with a spider on the front. She had a cigarette in her mouth gave Luffy a whole bottle of sake. "That'll be seven hundred and fifty beris kid."
"Alright seven hund-HOLY SHIT! That much for a lousy drink!"
"If you don't like then you can get the hell and find somewhere else to drink."
"I see why you call it the 'Rip Off Bar'. I'll just sit and watch all of the others." Then she picked the bottle back up and put it away.
Robin tapped her on the shoulder. "I assume you are the owner Shakky."
She turned around. "Yeah, my real name is Shakuyaku to be precise, but everyone just calls me Shakky."
"Do happen to know anything about the next island?"
"I might, I might not."
Robin was about to say something but some drunk pirate got in her face. "Oi, bootiful, lookin' fer a gewd tim-" He didn't get out another word as his face met Luffy's fist. He was sent flying across the bar in the same spot the newly named Shakky threw that other guy.
"Arigatou, Luffy, but I think I could've handled that myself."
"I know, but that guy was about to step on that bug." He ran over and picked up a butterfly type insect with a jolly roger on each wing inside a bubble. "And it's so cool. It's a pirate butterfly." He looked at it for another moment and then let it fly away.
"You know you just knocked out a subordinate of one of the Supernovas right." said Shakky with a laugh.
"So and what's a supernova?"
Shakky laughed even harder. "You're alright kid what's your name?"
"Monkey D. Luffy." Then a bird with newspapers flew in. "Hey we beat the bird here."
"I don't think so; Mariejois isn't that far away from here. They take one last look at it there and then send it off. So we basically get the paper before everyone else does. It could take weeks for it to reach farther parts of the New World let alone the Grand Line. They send out papers almost every two weeks." Luffy just responded with an "Oh" embarrassed. Shakky paid the bird and pulled out a couple of newspapers. A few other pirates paid for a newspaper and the bird left. She opened the paper and three wanted posters fell out and she looked at them all. "What did you say your name was again?"
"Monkey D. Luffy. Why?" She looked under her counter and sifted through wanted posters that she kept.
"Well congratulations kid, you're a one of the twelve Supernovas." Shakky noticed the confused look on his face. "I'll explain over this." She slid down a bottle of sake. "That one's on the house."
Zoro looked at it thirstily. "Hey I'll take one."
"Okay, thirty beris."
"I thought you said it was on the house."
"No what I said was that ONE was on the house, besides that price is more than fair." Zoro grudgingly pulled out thirty beris and handed it to her. He got a bottle of sake in return. "As I was saying, Supernovas are pirates with a bounty over two hundred million. One Supernova can inspire a new generation of pirates." She pointed to various characters around the room as she spoke. She started with hefty guy with a huge smile on his face in fancy robes similar to that of Eneru's enforcers. He also had angel wings that faced downwards. "That guy over there is Urouge with a bounty of 208 million beris." Next she pointed to Zoro. "Then there's your own crewmate Roronoa Zoro with a bounty of 220 million beris. He's the third person to reach Supernova status while not being a captain."
She was interrupted by a woman sitting on the table gobbling down food in way that made Luffy look respectful while eating. She was wearing very short shorts with suspenders and a white tank top. She also wore cowboy (erm girl) boots and hat. Despite how much food she shoveled in her mouth, she kept her skinny (very hot might I add) body. "Oi, send in some more food already." Then she burped very loudly.
Another man who was wearing a fancy pinstripe suit with his hair slicked back like crocodile's. He was just wiping his mouth with the napkin he had draped over his shirt. "That's disgusting. You should have better manners at the table especially since you're a lady or I least I thought so at first."
"You got something to say pig dick because I can easily kick your ass."
He stood up and threw down the napkin that was tucked over his collar. "Let's go fatass."
She looked around for bit. Her face turned to one of anger to one of seriousness. "We'll settle this on Kandor."
"Fine with me." The cowgirl wannabe went back to sitting on the table not a chair but the table and practically inhaling her food along with farting and burping.
Shakky pointed at the cowgirl. "That one there who's eating like she going into hibernation soon is Jewelry Bonney with a bounty of 240 million beris." Then she moved to the mafia boss looking guy. "And the other guy is Capone Bege with 238 million beris. As for Kandor, that's the name of the next island." The big guy with the huge smile and angel wings got into a fight with a man in polka dot shirt and a mask over his face. He tried to smash the huge hexagonal pillar he carries around into the face of the masked weirdo, but he jumped and flipped with spinning the scythe blades he has in his hands. The masked guy then flipped around Urouge and went for the killing slash as Urouge was swinging around that huge pillar again, but both combatants were stopped by guy with a four bladed axe and sword that looked like one of the three musketeers. He had an X on his chest and chin. Then he spoke, "What the hell do you two think you're doing? You should both know full well what will happen if you cause too much turmoil here. Save it for when you reach Kandor."
They both broke apart but the man in mask spoke, "If you interrupt me again then you'll find yourself unable to do it again ever."
Then Urouge spoke with that huge grin still adorned on his face, "For now, but stay out my way." Then Shakky as if on cue explained and pointed to the masked man. "That guy with the mask and polka dot shirt is Killer of the Kid pirates. Most likely the first mate and with a bounty of 262 million beris, he's the second non captain Supernova." Then she went to the musketeer guy. "The guy over there with the X on his chest and chin is known as X. Drake with a bounty of 322 million beris. He use to be a marine, but went rouge and became a pirate. I can only assume that he knows most of the marines and can predict the marines' next move. He is also known for his excellent swordsmanship." This made Zoro smirk because he could be the competition for greatest swordsman in the world.
Then a guy with cozy cap on and tattoos on his forearms, hands, and fingers was sitting on a crate with a Nodachi leaning on his side. He was wearing a hoody with a jolly roger that's similar to Doflamingo's without the cancel symbol. He was smiling casually and said, "Hey you, Misuta-X." His voice was calm and low. To which X. Drake looked over standing with his crew. "How many people have you slain?" Drake simply walked away without saying anything. "He he he asshole."
Shakky looked over at him making the others follow suit. "That's Trafalgar Law also known as the surgeon of death other than that I don't have any hard facts on him except his bounty of 300 million beris." Then everyone turned their attention to two pirates having an argument. One had incredibly long arms with two jointed elbows. He was dressed in Chinese garb and had headphones on. The other had no eyebrows and dark colored lips. He also had a flame-like hairstyle and a pair of goggles. He wore a furred captain's coat that is adorned with spikes on its sides, which he wore with his right arm in its sleeve and his left arm under the coat itself. The one with the fur coat punched the long armed one dead in the face sending him flying.
The one with the two elbows got up and spit on the ground. "What the hell is you're problem?"
The one with the flaming hairstyle walked over about to pull out some sort of weapon. "I didn't like the way you were staring at me."
"If you want a fight then we should wait until Kandor."
"Fine you disgusting piece of shit. Until Kandor it is."
Shakky cleared her throat. "Well that guy with the freakishly long arms is known as Scratchmen Apoo who carries a bounty of 298 million beris. As for the other guy that's Eustass Kid; he has a bounty of 415 million. Even though his bounty is higher than yours Luffy I wouldn't worry about it too much since pirates with at least a 50 thousand beri difference between them should be able to fight each other evenly. A lot of his bounty was accumulated through civilian casualties."
"It seems you will need to change clothes soon." said a tall man, with triangle symbols on his brows, wearing an elegant and noble-looking suit with flowing hair. He also has a sword on his hip. He was talking to what appears to be one of his crewmates.
One of the waiters looked over at the elegant looking man. "What? Wha-" He tripped and spilled food and drink all over the guy the long haired one was previously talking to.
"What the hell? MY FOOD! That cost me an arm and a leg." He knocked his right hand with his left leg. "See wooden." "I'll kill you, you bastard."
The man was stopped by the long haired guy. "For one, you play that trick all the time and it's really getting old. Two there is no need because there seems to be an unlucky future ahead for this guy."
The waiter began to shake a little while the guy with food all over just smiled and said, "I tread carefully because the captains predictions have always come true. As a matter of fact you just witnessed it."
The waiter began to shake even more. "Wh-wha-what do y-y-y-y-you ma-ma-mean?"
"The captain here said that I'd need a change of clothes and bam you spill food all over me."
The nameless waiter began to get a little angry despite fear. "Well if he didn't say anything then I wouldn't have tripped."
The triangle brow just threw back his long hair. "It was bound to happen from the beginning. I read what the signs tell me. It is destiny my friend."
"That man is known as Basil Hawkins, captain of the Hawkins Pirates with a bounty of 349 million beris. That's everybody oh except this guy." said Shakky as she rummaged through the bounty posters until she found Taishin's. She pointed at his picture. "I'm assuming he's a part of your crew since it says in the paper that you fended off Vice-Admiral Kuijuno Mofujin."
Luffy grinned. "Yeah he's our…umm…..Robin what does Taishin do? I mean I'm the captain, Nami's the navigator, Zoro is the swordsman and first mate, Sanji is the chef, Brook's the musician, you gather information, Chopper is the doctor, Franky's the shipwright, Usopp's the sniper, so what's Taishin?"
Robin put her finger to her chin. "Well I'm guessing since he was a great strategist, he could be the strategist or training specialist. I'm not really sure."
Luffy turned back around to Shakky. "Well he's still apart of the crew."
"I'm a slightly curious, this Taishin character and Vice Admiral Kuijuno share the same surname, so are they related." said Shakky while still looking at Taishin's picture.
"Yeah they're brothers. Do you know how long until the Log Pose sets?" said Luffy.
"Yeah it should be three weeks."
"Three weeks?!"
"Yeah, that's why there are a lot of pirates here." She looked at the paper again and gasped loudly making everyone with a newspaper look at it immediately. Urouge just kept that big smile of his. Basil Hawkins simply remained calm. Everyone else just remained indifferent except X. Drake who was the most dramatic yelled, "What the hell are they thinking, they're asking for war!"
Luffy turned to Shakky. "Can I see that?"
"Yeah." She handed him the paper. Everyone huddled together to see except Robin who snatched a different one when everyone wasn't looking. No one could say anything except Luffy who just muttered silently, "They're going to execute Ace."
Elsewhere
Taishin was rocketing through the air creating gaping holes in the clouds as he passed by. I don't even want to talk about what he did to those poor birds that crossed his path. Taishin wiped off the some slushy red stuff off his wind shield. "Damn it another bird. This is why I fucking hate birds." He felt a presence behind him and suddenly stopped prepared for a fight. The intense speed at which he was traveling caused an invisible force to be created from the stop, knocking out a flock of birds. He let down his fighting stance and smirked. "Jin long time no see bro."
Mofujin was breathing heavily. "Damn…it…..Tai…….don't…..you..know."
"Take a break there fatty I got ya."
Mofujin stopped using Genpou and fell on a solid floor of wind. He took a few deep breaths and said, "I am not fat and you know it."
"But you're so winded it's embarrassed."
"Maybe I wouldn't be so bad if you didn't fly so fast along with squishing poor birds on your wind shield."
"So."
"So! Soooooo! I have to become airborne the hard way and by using Kamisori over a long distance."
"Alright, alright I give."
"Not only did I have to TRY and catch up with your inhuman speed which is nearly impossible, and then I have to dodge bird guts. I remember your vendetta with birds."
"Hey they all have it coming to them." "Oh and by the way, how did you get away from Isis? I mean I've seen how she gets. Did you promise her something or something?"
"Uhh?"
Flashback
Mongoria 27
Mofujin was standing at the head of the ship with Isis holding him tightly while the rest of the crew was minding their own business for once. "Please Jin, can't it wait."
Mofujin's gaze softened, although Isis couldn't see it, and he stroked her hands. "Isis you should know better than anyone here that this is something I have to do."
"Why?"
He turned himself around and embraced her. "The day we first met I told you this day would come and he's within our grasp."
"Can I come with you? I can get you there faster than Tai could."
Mofujin chuckled softly and kissed her deeply. Now it turned from a one sided surprise attack into an all out wrestling match of the tongues.
"And here's a good ole fashion body slam from Isis."
"That's right Cole; I have seen one of those in a good long while."
"I bet you've been on the receiving end of one those eh Tazz."
"Damn straight and I can tell you it hurts. Oh Jin comes in with a power bomb."
"There's a reason they call it a finisher."
"This could be the three count."
"1…..2…… OH she broke out." said the announcers known as Tazz and Cole in unison.
"Wait what the hell are we doing here Tazz? This isn't Smackdown."
"How the hell should I know? I was just about to ask you that."
Both of them broke the kiss to breathe. "That was amazing Jin."
"I could say the same thing Ice-chan."
She nuzzled his neck while still standing. "Well I know you have to go, but can it wait until we reach land."
"But what if Tai finds him and doesn't leave any for me."
"You know he wouldn't do that. He'd tell you the moment he found him on those weird pendants."
"I guess." Then all of a sudden a figure was seen rocketing around the island. "That's Tai. That's him I know it."
"Anyone who knows Tai knows that's him. Especially since he's smashing into those birds like that."
"I keep telling him to get over." He sighed. "I better go before he wipes out an entire species………again."
"But-" Mofujin put his finger on her lips and then leaned over and whispered something in her ear. She turned red enough to brighten the sky two shades and waved him of just before faint with a hint of a nosebleed.
End Flashback
Mofujin turned red himself. "She just agreed."
Taishin dug in his pockets and pulled out something shiny and square. "Keep yourself protected bro."
"Will you put that away I don't need it."
Taishin put the condom away and smirked. "So you have plenty already."
"Yes an-SHADDAP!"
Taishin just laughed. "She's gonna tear you inside out."
"What do you mean by that?"
"She's a freak in the sac."
"How do YOU know that?"
"You know the rule; it's always the quiet ones."
Mofujin sweatdropped. "You always say that."
"How many times have I been wrong on it?"
"Zero."
"Damn straight and it will remain that way especially when you get back to 'Ice-chan.'"
"How did you know I call her that?"
"I deduced it and you confirmed it."
"Smartass."
"Why thank you, it's so nice you think my ass is smart."
"You know damn well that's not what I meant."
"Of course but I wouldn't be a smartass if I said otherwise, dumbass."
"Smartass!"
"Dumbass!"
"Pigass!"
"Dickass!"
"Fuckass!"
"Gasass!"
"Assass!"
"You can't be an assass, Sinkass."
"Of I can't but you can, fagass."
"Madass."
"Jackass."
"Oh real original soundass." They were glaring at each and anime style sparks were between there eyes. Then all of a sudden they just broke out laughing. "It's been too long Jin my boy."
"So true." Then they felt a pulse of energy. Both of them went serious and emotionally detached "Cocky bastard."
"He's leading us right to him."
"Well we can't leave him waiting."
"Yeah that would be rude." Taishin flew off grabbing Mofujin along with him. They finally landed in a forest area where the trees were covered by bubbles. "He should be around here."
Mofujin held his hands straight out in front of him. "I say we destroy this whole damn forest and he'll come crawling."
"No. It would cause too much of a scene."
"And the three of us fighting wouldn't."
"I know, but we should at least try to find him."
"Pureha Moso and Jurama Vincent you two haven't changed a bit." said a voice from behind the two.
Without turning around Mofujin and Taishin just uttered one word with hate and malice in their voice in unison, "Marco."
Chapter End! You guys must really think I'm a dick don'tcha. It's understandable with a cliffhanger like that. Just to infuriate you guys further the two on one battle of the ages isn't next chapter. It might be (strong emphasis on might) but nothing is guaranteed. Not only that Portgas D. Ace might die, what will Luffy and his crew do? What will Whitebeard do? You must be ready to kill me or at least torture me until I write the next chapter. Oh and just in case you were wondering those supernovas are canon characters except Taishin of course with the same bounty minus one hundred million beris. As for descriptions for the supernovas and world nobles that came from the site onepiece. /wiki /MainPage (minus spaces). Very informational.
Translations: Kuso-gomu –Shitty rubber, misuta-mister. (Any missed same site.)
One thing before I close, (Author gets down on his hands and knees with his head to the floor) I want to humbly and sincerely apologize. I have left you guys hanging for over a month without a damn word, but I have a plausible excuse. I'm trying to juggle work, writing, and sleep. My job takes away 80 of my life energy and time (seriously man, my boss is a slave driver) and sleep takes fifteen percent. So I could take the five percent and give you crap or give you seventy-five percent and give you the best I have to offer. Thank-you my loyal fans for sticking with me cuz this story ain't over yet and I'm not going to abandon it either. (Gets back up.) Read, review and stuff.
See ya next chap!
