Hey guys, look at me putting up two chapters in about a week and a half. Well I'm hoping to be more like this for the next little while at least.
Also a note to all the people who have characters in my story, I am going to be updating the crew bio chapter with each character's past instead of making two or three flashback chapters. So for any of you who havent sent me a character history, please try and do that if you have the time, either through a PM or e-mail would be great, try not to do it through a review but if you have to thats fine.
One more thing, I told my friend (who also created the character Kurisu) that I would do this. so any of you who are Air Gear fans listen (or read) up, my friend has created a new Air Gear fanfiction that features him, one of my other friends, and me in it eventually. He is a new writer and is having a slightly difficult time getting reviews from people who are not his friends. So if any of you guys want to read it, his Pen Name is CHRIS P. CHICKEN (he has submitted a review to this story so just look for him in there and click the link to find his story) or you can look up the story, it is called: The Rise of a Once Fallen King. His writing style is getting alot better and he updtes chapters alot faster than I do, so please check it out if you can.
Well here you go, after reading that huge rant, this is the new chapter.
A New Pirate Crew Emerges - Chapter 12: Flashbacks, Flashbacks, and more Flashbacks.
Everyone stood staring at Akira.
"What do you mean the real reason?" Tairaa asked, with a hint of fear in his voice. "I thought you just liked adventure."
"Well that's part of it, but to understand the other part, you guys need to hear about my past, and I think you deserve at least that." Akira said as the crew at around him.
"It all started back when I was a child." Akira said before the story commenced.
We now go back several years, to the hometown of Akira, on a small island in South Blue. It was a small town, consisting of around only 75 people. Akira did not mind the small town, only because of the only other child on the island.
"Hey Akira!" Came a girl's voice as the door to Akira's home opened. It was a small house, consisting only of a small sitting room, a kitchen and two bedrooms. Akira sat at the table, eating some of the food his mother had left him. He turned around to greet the girl.
The girl had dark purple hair that went just past her shoulders. She was only about 5 feet tall and wore a black shirt that was purple at the end of the sleeves as well as the bottom of the shirt along with a black skirt. She had lightly tanned skin and dark blue eyes.
Akira looked much the same as he does in the present story, with his shoulder length blue hair and sunglasses covering his eyes, one of which is red and the other blue.
"How's it going Megumi?" Akira said as he waved towards the girl as she walked into the house, taking off her shoes.
"Pretty good. Where's your mother today?" Megumi asked as she took a seat next to Akira, who was still taking occasional bites of his food.
"She's out at the shop right now, apparently they are expecting a large convoy to come by today, so she's getting out as many supplies as she can. But I guess that's life when you live on a place that's a main stop for people going on any kind of journey." Akira said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Well I don't like this, we get way to many pirates travelling through this area, and I feel so unsafe.." Megumi said as she slightly trembled at the thought of pirates.
"But don't you think it is amazing, hearing all of these stories of grand adventures? Someday that is what I am going to do, travel the world in search of adventures." Akira said with a big smile on his face.
"But than I'd be all alone, how could you just leave me like that?" Megumi said with a voice of concern.
"Don't worry, you could come with me." Akira said, still with a big smile.
"I don't think I could do that Akira, I can't just leave my family." Megumi said as Akira finished his meal and motioned her to follow him outside.
When both of them arrived outside, they looked at the village, only a couple dozen buildings were visible throughout the entire village.
"Look at this." Akira said, pausing slightly before continuing. "Is this the kind of life you want to live? Just selling goods and being pushed around by pirates."
"Akira, what are you really thinking? I know this has a deeper meaning than just adventure." Megumi said, getting closer to Akira while questioning him.
"Okay fine, just look at my situation. Only my mother and I, no father, and no one will tell me anything about him. If I ask my mother about him, she just shrugs off the question and changes topic. Of course because of that everyone thinks I am the son of some terrible pirate and the whole island looks down on me because of it, you know how they hate pirates." Akira was clenching his fist as he continued talking. "I mean, wouldn't you hate pirates too if they shook down your store to get free stuff and were always breaking things that you worked so hard to get. One day I will find my father, and when I come back I will be one of the most powerful people in the whole world and I will be able to protect you and my mother and everyone else."
Megumi looked saddened as she heard Akira tell his story. "I'm sorry Akira; I didn't mean to hurt you."
Akira steadied himself before responding. "Its alright, it's not your fault." Akira said as he put his arm on Megumi's shoulder. "But I think I'm going to go on a little journey."
Megumi was quick to respond. "Wait! Why do you have to leave us? I want you here." Megumi said, but the last sentence was said very quietly, unheard by Akira.
"Don't worry, I'll be back. I think I just need a vacation and than I'll be as good as new." Akira said trying to sound reassuring.
"Just promise me you will come back and we will meet again." Megumi said as she held out her hand.
"It's a promise! Just don't expect me back in a couple of weeks, I might be gone for several years, but I will definitely come back." Akira said as they shook hands.
Several days later Akira had gotten enough money together to barter his way onto a passing ship so he could go to another island. Akira spent many of the next months travelling across many islands in South Blue, stopping on several so he could take a job to earn the money to continue on his journey.
It had been almost two years since Akira had left his hometown and he was now working at a small exotic food store to be able to get the money to travel back home. One unlucky day, a group of pirates were spotted heading towards the shop that Akira worked at, they seemed to be ignoring everyone and everything else.
Akira's manager ran up to Akira at the time of the news. "Quickly, take this and get out of here, I can guarantee this is what they want." Akira's manager said as he handed him a strange looking fruit, it had weird swirly designs and markings all over it.
"Wait, is this a…?" Akira started before he was interrupted by the manager.
"Yes, it's a Devil's Fruit, now you need to protect that at all costs, the last thing we need is more corrupt pirates with unnatural powers." Akira's manager said as he pushed Akira out the back door.
Akira ran down the streets at full speed as he saw a group of pirates walk into the store he was just in. The pirate at the front had no shirt on, but a large fur coat over his back. The man behind him had a helmet covering his whole face and extremely long blonde hair that went to his waist.
Akira continued to run despite the yelling coming from the store. Akira turned around long enough to see the store manager's body come bursting out of a wall as the pirate crew walked through the hole it created.
"Now where is the stupid idiot who thought they could run away with a Devil's Fruit?" The man with the fur coat said as he scanned the town.
Everyone in town quickly shut their windows and barricaded themselves in their homes. The man continued to scan and eventually saw Akira running towards the outskirts of the town. "I think that's our target boys." The man said as the whole crew began to run forward.
Akira was running through the woods when he tripped over a branch. "Damn my clumsiness" Akira thought as he began to get up, but than he realized something, while falling his teeth had sunken into the fruit. He had eaten the Devil's Fruit.
Two things happened to Akira. One is that he realized that it tasted terrible and almost began to puke, but than suddenly, a rush of energy went through him and without thinking he ate the rest of the fruit, still despising its bitter taste.
As the pirate crew caught up to him, they saw him shaking on the ground. "Well look at that. We got ourselves a little baby." Came the man's voice again. "Now little baby, just hand over the fruit and we will leave you alone."
Suddenly the earth around Akira began to tremble and large rocks began bursting forth from the ground, flying at the man and his crew. Several people were hit and fell down, but the two main pirates seemed to be uninjured.
"Well damn, I guess he ate it in an act of desperation. Guess we better kill him before he becomes to much of a threat." Said the man as he picked up Akira and made him stand on his feet.
Akira who was still slightly disoriented from the shock of gaining Devil's Fruit powers, staggered when he stood up, but was able to faintly make out the man with the mask raising some kind of bent sword and preparing to swing it. Akira stepped back just enough to dodge a killing blow, but not enough to dodge the blow entirely.
The sword cut across his left eye, breaking his sunglasses and causing blood to spill down onto his eye and the ground. Akira quickly covered his eye with his hand and screamed in pain.
"Looks like we got a squirmy little guy here." Said the pirate with the fur coat as he kicked Akira in the chest and sent him flying back into a tree, causing Akira to move his hand, upon which the pirate saw something that caught his attention. He stepped forward and used his hand to open Akira's left eye, and saw that his eye was red.
"Damn, Killer take a look at this." The man motioned for the man with the mask to step forward. "Do you know what this means, this must be his son. I grew up hearing stories about that man, and now we meet his son. 'The Devil of the Sea', boy you are one lucky person to have him as a father." The man continued to talk despite the fact Akira remained barely conscious.
The man named Killer finally spoke, "I would say we should take him with us, but after what I just did to him, I doubt he would take very kindly to us."
"I guess your right Killer," the man spoke. "Hey boy, we are going to leave you here; maybe someday you will come and meet us again. Until than, remember the name Eustass Kidd. Oh and give our condolences to the family of the man we killed, it really was out last resort." Eustass said as he and the rest of the crew began to walk away, laughing.
"Kidd?" Was the only thing Akira could say before he passed out against the tree.
Several hours passed before Akira awoke in a bed that was unfamiliar to him. His vision was blurry but he looked around to see a woman standing over him. "Doctor! Doctor! I think he's waking up!" The woman yelled as an older man in a white coat walked over and stood above Akira.
"Now try not to move son, your body is pretty beaten up." The doctor said as he began to use different devices to check Akira's condition. Akira lost consciousness yet again as the doctor continued running tests.
It was another several hours before Akira awoke, feeling much better and believed he had the ability to move. He got out of the bed with the help of the nurse and walked into a room with a mirror. He saw the large scar going over his left eye and felt it with his hand, remembering the events that took place and the fact that he had eaten a Devil's Fruit.
After several checks by the doctor, Akira was cleared to leave the small doctor's office set up in the middle of the town.
"Anything you need before you leave?" The doctor said as Akira began heading towards the door.
"Sunglasses and I need to know when the next boat is leaving." Akira said, still sounding very weak.
"Well you can have these." The doctor said as he handed Akira a pair of sunglasses that he randomly had in one of his drawers. "But are you really sure your in any shape to travel?"
"I've got a promise to fulfill, and no amount of injuries or a stupid scar is going to stop me." Akira said with determination.
"Well there is a boat leaving this afternoon, but I guess I won't be able to talk you out of going." The doctor said with somewhat of a smile.
"Not a chance." Akira said as he put the sunglasses on, covering his red eye again., with a smile on his face again.
Akira spent the next couple hours practicing levitating small pebbles with his Devil's Fruit, because he remembered that the earth moved when he initially got the power.
"Guess I got the Tsu Tsu no Mi." Akira said, still slightly upset that he had received this power. "Well, better make the best of it I guess."
Akira managed to get on the boat and pay the captain to take him back to his hometown, which luckily wasn't far from where he was currently staying. After two days of travelling he arrived at his home island and stepped onto the beach, the ship he came on already sailing away. Akira walked off the beach towards the town to witness a scene of unspeakable horror.
All of the buildings were broken, with signs of fire damage and there were many buildings that were simply reduced to rubble. Akira stood in shock, staring at the scene that lay before him. Eventually he regained his senses and ran into the town to where his house use to be. Finding only a pile of broken wood and shattered glass.
Akira ran farther out into the town and saw what looked like a makeshift graveyard set up on the outskirts of the town, with one man kneeling in front of all of them. Akira approached the man and recognized him as the mayor of the town.
Akira ran towards the mayor yelling at him at the same time. "Mayor! What happened here?!"
The mayor stared at Akira blankly for several seconds before remembering. "Akira, is that you?"
"Yes it's me. But you have to tell me what happened. What happened to my mother?" Akira said, almost violently shaking the mayor.
"Your mother is dead." The mayor said as Akira dropped to his knees and began to cry. "Pirates came about two weeks ago; they raided the whole town and killed almost everyone, those that escaped the initial wave later died from their injuries because all of our doctors were killed. And those that survived that, left. I am the only one left on the island."
"But wait." Akira said, trying to wipe the tears from his eyes. "What about Megumi?"
"She was taken by the pirates; I can only imagine what fate has befallen her now. That poor girl." The mayor said, tears coming to his eyes as well.
"Mayor, you have to tell me more! I need to know!" Akira yelled, now standing straight up.
"I don't know much about the actual pirates, the leader wore no shirt and had a large cross shaped scar on his back that is all I know. But he was incredibly strong; he took down entire buildings with a single attack." The mayor said, still kneeling on the ground.
"Well I guess I can't stay here than, Megumi is waiting for me." Akira said, trying to sound positive. "But mayor, which one is my mother?" Akira said pointing towards the graves.
"That one." The mayor said as he indicated a grave in the back corner.
"Please don't judge me because of this." Akira said as he walked over to the grave, and placed his hand upon the ground. Suddenly a stone in the form of a gravestone came out of the ground in front of the grave for his mother.
The mayor stood in shock at what he just saw, unable to speak.
"Well mayor, I think I can get you off of this island, but what you do from there is up to you." Akira said as he began to walk towards the shore. The mayor instinctively followed.
After two weeks of practice, Akira used his powers to create a stone large enough for the mayor, himself and several crates of food and water and levitated it into the air. He than flew all of them to a nearby island where he dropped off the mayor and got another boat to another part of the sea.
Just before Akira left, the mayor came running up to him, "I think you are going to want this, you mother told me it was your father's and she wanted you to have it when you got back." The mayor said as he handed Akira the antique pistol that he now carries on his waist.
Back in the present, the crew stood in shock as they listened to Akira's story.
"I managed to get a ride to the island in East Blue where you guys found me. And you know the story from there. But trust me that if we ever meet 'The Man with the Scar', not even you guys will be able to stop me from killing him. Than hopefully I will find Megumi along with him." Akira said as he sat back down.
Tairaa stood up, the rest of the crew still in to much shock to talk. "I wouldn't even dare think of stopping you; we may have a goal in common in fact." Tairaa said as he walked over to Akira.
"What do you mean?" Akira said, seeming very confused.
"Well if you guys remember the story of my hometown, almost the exact same thing happened to me. Maybe it was the same guy, so we may get to take him down together, deal?" Tairaa said as he extended his hand.
"Man this guy is so dead if we team up." Akira said as he shook Tairaa's hand with a big smile on his face.
"But what was that name you mentioned before? Kidd was it?" Razar asked as he stood to his feet. "Why do I feel like I have heard that somewhere before?"
Tairaa was quick to respond, "I think I have too, hang on a second." And Tairaa quickly ran into the ship and came back out several minutes later holding a newspaper. "Here look at this." Tairaa said as he set the newspaper down on the floor, showing the front page.
The crew all gathered in a circle to look at it and on the front page they saw a picture of a man with spiky red hair and aviator goggles.
"The article about this Eustass Kidd guy is frightening." Tairaa said, soundly slightly concerned. "Basically every island he has visited, he has killed many of the residents, causing him to receive a huge bounty. And it says here he is a South Blue native. Maybe this is the guy you ran into Akira."
"Well chances are we will probably meet him at the entrance to the New World, that will be where all the rookie pirates will try and make a larger name for themselves." Cora said, looking at a map she had out. She looked at the names of the islands that Kidd had been to and was tracing the path with her finger. "See just look at this." Cora said as she called the crew over. "This is the path that he has followed so far." Cora traced the outline yet again. "And this is the path we have taken." Cora traced a separate path of islands very far over from where Kidd had been.
"But I thought all the Log Poses pointed in the same direction?" Sakie said, "Don't they all lead us to the New World?"
"Well you are partially correct," Cora said, pausing before continuing. "They all point towards the same destination eventually, but until then each Log Pose points down a different path of islands, otherwise we might have encountered many pirates that are much stronger or larger than us."
"We could take any enemy that the sea could throw at us!" Razar said with great confidence.
'I don't know, have you read some of the stories about these guys. They are all making huge names for themselves. Monkey D. Luffy, Trafalgar Law, X Drake, and so many more. Compared to them Tairaa's bounty barely comes close. No offence Tairaa." Yura said before backing away slightly.
"Don't worry, I know my bounty isn't that great yet, but that can always change." Tairaa said with a big smile on his face.
"Well if we are telling stories anyway, why don't you tell us the story of how this crazy crew got started?" Kurisu asked, still sitting in the same position as before.
"Alright, I guess I can do that." Tairaa said as everyone gathered around him, except Jiiku who was muttering something about hating this story.
Once again we go back to a time before the Wild Cat Crew. Tairaa had spent many of the last years working for a construction company on an island that had seen a population boom in the past several years. On his off time he spent many hours practicing at a local dojo, learning the ways of hand-to-hand combat.
Tairaa sat on the floor of his dojo, watching a sparring match between two of the other students. But the fight was the last thing on his mind, he kept remembering the time when he was sent on an errand for his company to another island. He had quickly gotten the supplies and orders he needed and was going to leave but decided to stay an extra day to practice his abilities with his new Devil's Fruit. He brought Roje and Jeimuzu with him and had attempted a fusion with them, but instead went on a rampage damaging many of the buildings and injuring many citizens. Luckily he managed to escape with Roje and Jeimuzu before the local Marines captured him.
When he got back to his apartment, he had to try and convince people that he was not the one that was in all the local newspapers. Because he had kept Roje and Jeimuzu a secret from the villagers on this island, they eventually believed him and left him alone.
Tairaa was so lost in thought that he didn't notice that his sensei was talking to him. "Tairaa! Tairaa!" His sensei yelled before Tairaa snapped back into reality. "Good to have you back with us, now will you please stay a bit after everyone leaves so I can talk to you." This was followed by many laughs from his fellow students.
After everyone had left and the dojo was cleaned, Tairaa's sensei came out to talk to him. "Look Tairaa, even I, in my old age, can tell you are distracted. What's on your mind?"
Tairaa was slow to respond. "I think I'm just feeling a little boxed in." Tairaa paused again before continuing. "I appreciate all you have taught me sensei, but I feel like I want more of a challenge. What should I do?"
Tairaa's sensei looked him right in the eyes when he talked. "Maybe you should leave." This caused Tairaa to look at his sensei in a weird way. "I don't mean it in a bad way, its just that people like you don't do well cooped up in towns like this, you need a way to explore the world, see what you want to see when you want to see it."
Tairaa thought about it for several seconds before responding. "I think you're right sensei, than I guess this may be one of my last lessons." Tairaa had a big smile on his face for the first time in a while.
"Don't worry." Tairaa's sensei responded, "There is not much more I can teach you anyway. You are stronger than almost any disciple I have taught in a while, maybe not master class yet, but you are certainly close."
"Are you sure about that sensei, how about we find out?" Tairaa said as he got into a battle position in front of his sensei. "Just a friendly match between student and teacher."
"Well I guess that would be an adequate parting gift." Tairaa's sensei said as he also got into a fighting position. Just than one of the students came back in, realizing he had forgotten something.
The student saw Tairaa and his sensei about to fight and quickly opened the door to the outside and began yelling. "Guys come quickly! Tairaa and sensei are having a match!" The room was almost instantly filled with many children hoping to see and amazing fight.
"Well an audience always makes things interesting." Tairaa said as he got ready to fight.
"How about you have the first move than?" Tairaa's sensei said as he stood in anticipation.
"You asked for it!" Tairaa yelled as he charged forward and threw a punch at his sensei, who quickly grabbed Tairaa's fist and stopped the attack. But Tairaa suddenly dropped down and did a sweeping kick at his sensei's legs. Tairaa's sensei quickly jumped back and dodged the attack entirely.
"Well I guess I can't take it easy on you." Tairaa's sensei said with a smile on his face. He charged forward and started to punch at Tairaa, who was able to dodge and block all of the attacks.
The two of them exchanged attacks for several seconds, with no one getting hit. Tairaa's sensei quickly jumped back several feet before talking quietly. "I'm never going to be able to beat this kid in terms of attack, guess I have to use a hand-to-hand fighter's greatest weapon. The counter-attack." Tairaa's sensei quickly taunted Tairaa to charge at him yet again, which Tairaa did in a heartbeat.
Tairaa threw another punch aimed at his sensei's head, but at the last possible second, his sensei dodged to the side and quickly ran forward, closing the distance between the two fighters incredibly quickly.
Tairaa was surprised to see that his sensei was now almost right next to him, and he could do nothing to dodge or attack at this distance. Tairaa's sensei quickly shot out his arm and grabbed Tairaa's shirt, spun him and slammed him into the ground. "Good match." He said as he helped Tairaa to his feet.
"Same to you sensei." Tairaa said as the two of them shook hands.
All of the kids made noises of disappointment. "I thought that would be cooler." One of the kids blurted out.
"Oh really?" Tairaa quickly responded turning towards the kid. "And how long do you think you could last against sensei?" Tairaa said while laughing.
Several hours later, after all of the kids asked him a bunch of questions about how he got so strong and the long walk home, Tairaa laid down on his bed in his apartment, repeating the words that his sensei had said to him. "You need a way to explore the world. But how am I going to do that? I don't just want to go on a really long vacation." As Tairaa contemplated, a breeze from his open window blew the newspaper onto his face.
The article on the main page was about nothing else than pirates. Tairaa quickly remembered that his father was also supposed to be a pirate somewhere out in the Grand Line. "Maybe I should carry on the family business." Tairaa said with a smirk on his face.
Fast-forward several weeks later and Tairaa had decided that he wanted to make a pirate crew to get One Piece and explore the whole world. He had managed to use the money he had saved from his job to pay his way onto a passing ship and snuck Roje and Jeimuzu on. He had fused them both into sheets of paper so they just looked like really good pictures. During feeding time he would un-fuse them and feed them whatever leftovers he could manage to get from the food stores.
Several days later, Tairaa arrived at an island in East Blue and paid for two days at a local inn. He walked around the town, trying to figure out how to recruit people for a pirate crew without getting arrested. He than got an idea, he would challenge the local dojo students to matches and if any of them could beat him or do very well he would take that person to the side and talk to them, and hopefully not have that person call the Marines on him.
The first dojo he walked in to would end up being the one that would change his life forever. Tairaa walked in to see many students sitting on the floor as the master lectured them. He waited for the master to finish speaking before he went up and talked. "Hey guys, sorry to barge in on your training session, but I would like to challenge any of your pupils who believe they are strong. Don't worry; I'm not a dojo sign hunter or anything like that."
The master was quick to respond. "Than what is your business fighting my students? Are you a Marine recruiter or something?"
Tairaa paused before responding. "Well I am a recruiter of sorts, I guess you could say that."
Four men in the front of dojo stood up and all yelled at the same time. "I will be your opponent!"
Tairaa scanned the men quickly before responding. "Don't even try it guys, I can tell you right now none of you are strong enough."
"But those are four of my best students." The master responded to Tairaa's insult.
"Yes four OF your best. I want your ABSOLUTE best." Tairaa said emphasizing the bolded words.
"We'll teach you to mock us!" The four students yelled as two of them charged straight at Tairaa and the other two ran to the two sides of Tairaa.
Tairaa sighed before assuming a semi-battle position. "Guess I have no choice." When the men at his sides got close enough, he shot both of his elbows out and hit the men in the stomach and than extended his arms upwards and hit them in the face with the back of his hand, causing them to fall down. The two in front of him slightly paused at this and gave Tairaa enough time to do a sweeping leg kick and cause both of them to trip and as the were falling Tairaa uppercut both of them in the stomach, causing them to pass out.
"See I told you it wouldn't work." Tairaa said as many of the younger students looked at him in awe. Tairaa continued to scan around the dojo and noticed a person standing at the back looking at the different bamboo swords hung on the wall. Tairaa could tell even from a distance that this man was powerful and he yelled out to him. "What about you? You in the back there."
But no response came from the man, he just continued looking at the swords. Tairaa tried to yell again. "Hey! I'm talking to you short man!"
All of the students simultaneously did a facepalm motion and than proceeded to stand up as if they were going to run. Suddenly the master yelled out "Everyone out of here now!" And with that all of the students quickly exited the dojo.
"Wait, what did I do?" Tairaa asked as the students ran, but his question was soon answered as he turned towards the man he had been yelling at and realized that the man had thrown all of the bamboo swords straight at Tairaa. Tairaa quickly started dodging the swords and managed to dodge all of them, but just as he moved out of the way of the last one, the man was right in front of him.
The man began yelling, "I AM NOT SHORT!" As he uppercut Tairaa in the chin and sent him flying upwards and slamming into the roof.
Tairaa managed to grunt in pain before falling off the roof and hitting the floor. He got up and dusted himself off before he got into a fighting position. "It has been a while since someone has hit me that hard, may I know the name of fighter who just did it?" Tairaa said with a smile on his face despite the pain he was in.
"My name is Jiiku. Not that you're going to remember it long after the concussion I give you anyways." Jiiku said laughing.
"We'll just have to see about that." Tairaa said as he charged forward. Jiiku quickly threw a punch a Tairaa's head, but Tairaa ducked while running forward and managed to get behind Jiiku and shot out his leg to kick him in the back, but Jiiku turned around just in time to catch Tairaa's foot and spin it, causing Tairaa to have to jump and spin in mid-air or else his foot would have broken.
While Tairaa was in the air, Jiiku did a swinging kick and hit Tairaa in the stomach and sent him flying towards a wall. Tairaa managed to readjust himself in mid-air and his feet hit the wall and he pushed off of it and flew towards Jiiku and punched him in the stomach. Jiiku slid back several feet before steadying himself and getting back into battle position.
"Not bad." Jiiku said as he had begun to smile along with Tairaa.
"Thanks, but its not over yet!" Tairaa said as he charged forward and did a flying knee at Jiiku's head, but Jiiku managed to bring his arms up and blocked the attack. Tairaa dropped down and kicked Jiiku in the leg, causing Jiiku to stumble slightly before regaining his balance.
Jiiku and Tairaa both punched at each other at the same time and their fists collided, causing both men to jump back from the impact.
"Damn this is going nowhere fast." Tairaa thought as he waited for Jiiku to attack again. "Sorry sensei, but I'm going to have to borrow copy your move."
Jiiku ran forward and threw a punch at Tairaa, who looked happy before he ducked under the punch and closed the distance between him and Jiiku incredibly quickly and went to grab his shirt to throw him to the floor. But to his amazement Jiiku caught his hand at a very close range and spun around, hurling Tairaa against a nearby wall.
Tairaa slammed into the wall with a great force before falling to the ground, he got up and dusted himself off before charging yet again at Jiiku. Tairaa did a flying kick, which Jiiku brought his arms up to block. Once Tairaa's foot connected with Jiiku's arms, he readjusted himself in mid-air and made his other leg swing over his head while spinning. Jiiku only had time to look up to see a foot coming straight for his face. Tairaa's leg connected with Jiiku's face and sent him slamming into the floor, where Jiiku remained motionless.
Eventually Jiiku regained consciousness and opened his eyes to see Tairaa holding out his hand. "Need some help there?" Tairaa said with another smile on his face.
"Sure. Nice match." Jiiku responded as Tairaa helped him to his feet. "No one has managed to beat me as long as I can remember."
"And no one has given me that much of a challenge for as long as I can remember." Tairaa said as he walked with Jiiku out of the dojo, to the semi-relieved faces of the master and the students. Tairaa apologized to the master and gave him some money to help rebuild the damaged parts of the ceiling and walls.
Several minutes later, Tairaa was walking with Jiiku towards Tairaa's hotel room. Tairaa was the first to talk. "Look, please don't overreact to this but I am making a pirate crew and I think you would be a fantastic first mate." Tairaa said, waiting to be yelled at and eventually having to run from the Marines.
"Sure, I'd be glad to join you." Jiiku said without a moment of hesitation.
"What!?" Tairaa said as even he was surprised at the quickness of Jiiku's answer. "Are you sure, not that I'm complaining or anything."
"Of course I'm sure, you are strong and I have always wanted to travel to the end of the Grand Line." Jiiku said as he walked straight into a restaurant. "Now you just have to settle the deal by treating me to lunch." Jiiku said as he laughed.
The crew stood there taking occasional glances at Jiiku.
"Wait you beat Jiiku without your tigers?" Bearpaw said as he compared Jiiku and Tairaa in his head.
"I didn't think you had it in you." Yura said as she recalled earlier battles.
"Well now you guys know why I am the captain and not him." Tairaa said as he pointed at Jiiku. "Plus I doubt he could lead anyway." Tairaa whispered so Jiiku couldn't hear it.
"Well we're in luck." Cora said as everyone turned to listen to her. "Looks like we are getting close to the next island, everyone better get ready."
Everyone ran to their chambers to gather the materials and weapons they needed, ready to set off on another crazy adventure.
Well there you guys go, I hope you enjoyed it and the next chapter will hopefully have alot more fighting in it, if thats what you like reading. I am also done taking character suggestions, I have one more character I am putting in the story and than thats it, if you still have a character in mind and don't care if he/she shows up as a villian, than send me a PM or an e-mail (because it would be a terrible spoiler if you put it in a review)
Well please Review if you want to say anything at all, as long as its not extreme flames I don't care. Any improvements I could make or if you like it just the way it is, let me know. PLEASE!!!!!