Take You In
Summary: When Sanji's great uncle dies, Sanji is told to empty the house and take what he wants. That's when Sanji finds something not human living inside the mansion.
Pairing: Sanzo Usopp /Kaya Franky/Brooks Ace/Smoker
This is my first fanfic. Not sure where this story is heading but hope you enjoy
Disclaimer: All one piece characters belong to Oda
Italic: Character Personal thoughts
Bold: Flashbacks
Mihawk runs to where the cat is laying, blood soaking his body. The dog would have thought Zoro was dead, but as he gets closer he is able to see the steady rise and fall of his bloody chest.
"Come on Roronoa! Up!" Mihawk demands, going on his knees.
Mihawk lightly smacks the cats face, trying to wake him. At first Mihawk doesn't receive any response, but then Zoro furrows his eyebrows before his eyes slowly opens. Zoro slowly sits up with the help of Mihawk, the man supporting his back with one of his hands.
"You ok?" Mihawk asks.
Mihawk feels stupid asking such a question, but what more can he ask? It's his fault that this has happen to both his comrades. At least one of them has lived.
Zoro shakes his head, trying to get his vision to stop swirling, before he is able to answer. "Hurts, but I'll live. Where's Mone-"
Zoro doesn't get to finish what he is about to ask, because he sees the bird-girl right in front of him, dead. Blood on every inch of her body- her body split in half. Dead… Dead… She's Dead! The cat can't wrap his mind around it. His body starts shaking, this can't be true. Zoro brings both hands and grips his short green hair, pulling slightly, his breathing getting irregular. But a sharp pain on his leg brings him back to reality, making him scream in agony, and hold his leg. Zoro eyes look at his foot, where Mihawk has snapped it back into place while he was distracted.
"MIHWAK! You could have at least... said something before..." Zoro protests in pain, before Mihawk interrupts him.
"Can you walk?"
Zoro looks at his bloody leg. The cat tries to move his foot, which feels extremely heavy, and even the slightest movement will send a wave of pain. Zoro grits his teeth. "I don't think so… I can't move it..."
Mihawk grabs Zoro's leg again, the cat flinching because of the contact. "Looks like it's broken in more than one place. You'll probably never be able to use it again." Mihawk says.
The cat's eyes widen. "What! What do you mean I won't be able to walk again!?"
"Your foot looks like it got twisted enough to have broken multiple times." Mihawk explains, examining the cats shin, confirming his guess when the dog sees part of the cat's shin bone raising his flesh. "We need to also take care of that gash on your chest."
Zoro nods his head, agreeing with Mihawk. He is already starting to feel light headed because of all the blood loss.
"I can see if I find any-" What Mihawk was about to say is interrupted because of a beeping noise. Both the cat and dog look back over their shoulders, their eyes widen when they see Kuma mouth open, a yellow beam getting ready to fire right at them.
"Tche," We won't be able to get out of the way on time. Mihawk thinks, as he glares at Kuma, standing his ground.
Zoro on the other hand, is trying to get up and move out the way, but is failing miserably. Mihawk stares at Kuma, ready to meet death as it is. But something small catches his eyes. The building next to Kuma, Mihawk can't believe it, he sees Kuina with a pipe on her hand, ready to throw it at Kuma like a spear.
"Wait DON'T!" Mihawk finds himself screaming.
But Kuina doesn't stop, and it isn't because she doesn't hear him, because Mihawk is able to see when Kuina gives him a small smile- a reassuring smile that he will live, but she will not. She throws the pipe, hitting Kuma on his already injured eye. In a flash Kuma snaps his mouth shut, stopping the beam that would have ended the lives of both the dog and cat.
Mihawk's gaze goes to Kuma's feet; there at his feet, the dog is able to make out Arlong's dead body- blood dripping out of his mouth and next to him Lucci, apparently having suffered the same faith. Their death must have happened when Mihawk went to check Zoro... So many dead… not even including the town around them... because the smell alone is evidence enough that there are a lot of dead bodies. Mihawk sharp yellow eyes returns to Kuma, when the giant starts to move again.
Kuma slowly turns his head to face the girl. Kuina makes a run for it, but Kuma is faster. The bear grabs her by the waist and lifts her up.
Both Zoro and Mihawk stare with wide eyes, not being able to do anything, as Kuma starts squeezing Kuina's life out of her. Kuina is still fighting back, punching Kuma with all her might, until he squeezes her, and blood spills from her parted lips. Even from their distance, Mihawk can hear the bones in Kuina's body snap, her back bone, her ribs, and her flightless wings. Blood is pouring down her mouth, and she falls limp on Kuma's large hands. Kuma raises her limp body back, over his head and flings her into a nearby building, blood staining the broken window Kuina's body goes through.
The cat at this point can't hear anything. Kuina just died in front of him-he was not strong enough to help her. If only he was strong enough, none of this would have happened. The only thing that runs through Zoro's mind is the promise they both made to each other:
Why do you ask me this? You believe you won't make?" Zoro has to hear her answer. Kuina trembles, still shielding her eyes with her bangs. Zoro sighs, and stretches out his hand in a hand shake gesture, "I will keep my promise to kill Kuma and help your sister, because I have to kill him to keep someone else alive... but that doesn't mean you can die..." Kuina looks at Zoro, as tears pour over her eyes. She tries to control her sobs by biting her bottom lip. "I promise..." Kuina responds, as she takes his offered hand. Zoro grins at her, as Kuina's body shakes with sobs. "Let's go then" Zoro says.
Zoro shakes, but not from fear, but from all the anger, all the hatred he is feeling. Kuma has taken too much from him as it is… if Kuma dares to take more from him… Zoro's nails dig into the hard concrete floor... Kuma is going to DIE. He is going to kill Kuma. He doesn't care how he does it, but he will.
Mihawk looks back at the cat after hearing a frightening deep growl. His eyes widen.
"Roronoa?!""
/
Sanji and the rest of the small group, with other civilians, make their route away from Kuma. There is rubble covering the ground, bodies on the floor, and blood everywhere. The cries of injured and scared people, and police sirens deafening any other sound. The police and army are starting to reach around this time, as they file out their vehicles, guns in hand and in uniforms.
While running, the blonde chef spots Doflamingo. Gritting his teeth, Sanji makes a charge towards the blonde scientist, Nami slowing down when she sees Sanji depart from their small group, and he aims a kick to his head, which connects painfully hard.
Doflamingo rolls on the ground before coming to a stop on his back. Looking up, the scientist sees a really angry chef, teeth biting his cigarette.
"This is no time to be fighting! We have to leave, right now!"Doflamingo yells at Sanji, one hand raises defensively.
Sanji feels disgusted by the way Doflamingo acts. Sanji lowers into a crouching position, glaring onto Doflamingo's eyes.
"How do you stop it?"Sanji asks seriously.
"It doesn't matter! We're going to die anyways!"
Sanji punches Doflamingo, effectively breaking the man's nose. He doesn't use his hands, but right now that's not important. Families are dying, friends he knows are injured, and Zoro is still missing. "Now tell me, how do we stop this?"
By this point, Law, Luffy, Nami and Usopp are next to Sanji, waiting for the blonde as their eyes dart from Kuma to Sanji repeatedly.
"Sea stone!" Doflamingo yells. "But the amount we have will never stop him! It's too big and dangerous. We won't even be able to get near it! PLEASE let me go!"Doflamingo begs.
Sanji grits his teeth. "You're trying to tell me... this thing can't be taken down?! People are going to continue to die!"
Doflamingo shakes his head, before he speaks again. "I really didn't know this was going to happen..."
Sanji is about to punch the scientist again, but feels a hand on his shoulder; the blonde looks and sees Nami, the girl with a serious expression, as she looks at Doflamingo.
"Do you have any sea stone on you now?" Nami asks, in a voice that tells him not to lie to her. Doflamingo nods, digs into his coat and hands a small green stone that was in his white lab coat. Nami inspects the sea stone like she would any jewelry. "Would the ocean stop Kuma?" Nami asks with a questioning eye.
Doflamingo stares in silent shock.
"Answer the lady!" Sanji growls out.
"Guys hurry up!" Usopp says in the background, pulling on Sanji's sleeve. Luffy is also looking at the seastone, which Nami still has on her hands.
"Yes, I mean, I think so." Sanji can see Doflamingo is not sure, but he can see the determination that it might just work. "It's worth a shot. But how will we be able to get Kuma into the ocean?" Doflamingo asks.
Before any of them can even think of a response, a yellow light catches their attention. Kuma is facing directly at them, mouth open, with a beam ready to be fired right at them.
"Why is it trying to attack us!?" Usopp shrieks, tough out his mouth moving in a snake like way, and hands in the air.
"Because it sensed the sea stone." Doflamingo says, wide eyes.
Sanji turns back to glare at the scientist. "What do you mean!?"
"I mean… he is programmed to take out any sea stone. It's his weakness! When I took it out my coat, he must have sensed it! Shit!"
Acting on impulse, Luffy grabs the sea stone from Nami's hand and flings it has hard has he can. But that doesn't change Kuma's target. The beam keeps getting bigger until it is finally releases towards them.
It is almost in slow motion. Sanji turns around to shield himself from the incoming ray of light, which will not make much a difference, with his eyes close tight. Luffy covers Nami, turning her over, and shielding her. Law shields his eyes, and looks away. Usopp tries to make a run for it, and Doflamingo curls up in a tight ball.
Sanji expects pain and more pain. Maybe a burning kind of feeling, like being set on fire. Or maybe something like skin burning. But nothing. Sanji slowly opens his eyes. The first thing he notices is a shadow over them, and a growl that is deep and primal, like of that of a wild beast- close to the noise a crocodile does, but much louder and deeper. Sanji can feel his heart beating against his rib cage, as he tries to breath normally.
Slowly, Sanji looks up, where the noise is coming from. The blonde can't believe what he is seeing.
"Marimo...?"
The cat is over the small group, on all four. Sanji can see and feel the cat's blood drip on him from the open wound across its chest. But that isn't what is freaking the blonde chef; the cat... is almost as big as Kuma- if not, slightly smaller. From his position, Sanji cannot see the cats face, but he can see Kuma's face at a distance from where he is standing, and he does not look happy. Zoro used his body to cover the group from getting hit by the beam.
Nami looks just as horrified. "This… this can't be Zoro… can it?"
Luffy slowly releases Nami, also taking in the beast over them. Law stares wide eyed. Usopp looks like he is ready to faint in any given second. Doflamingo is visibly trembling, his eyes wide. But no one says anything, too shock to say anything.
The question going through everyone's minds: Is Zoro on their side..?
Zoro shifts a little, making the small group flinch. Now Zoro is looking under himself, his eyes searching for someone.
Sanji is so scared, he can't move an inch, especially when the cat's green eyes stop on him and a small grin forms on his lips. But the moment Sanji sees the cat's grin, realization hits him like a ton of bricks.
Zoro is on their side. He is here to fight for them. He shouldn't be scared, at least not scared of the Marimo…
The small groups gaze go to the blonde chef, everyone noticing that Zoro's eyes are only on him.
If Sanji wasn't with them, then will they all be dead? Usopp thinks. Usopp comes to the conclusion that he might be right, seeing as the cat doesn't acknowledge anyone else but Sanji.
Another beam from Kuma, and Zoro taking the hit makes the group realize they need to get out of here. Zoro slowly turns his head to look back at Kuma while a deep growl emits from his throat, making the ground under Sanji rumble like there is a train underground. Zoro lets out an animalistic scream, that sounds like a mix of a hiss and a growl, which is loud enough to break the nearby windows and make the nearby citizens cover their ears, including the small group under the cat. Nami screams, her voice being drowned by Zoro's, as she cover her ears as best she can.
Zoro crouches lower, still on all four, like an animal will do before pouncing and with amazing speed and power, dashes towards Kuma, breaking the ground underneath him.
Nami screams as she feels her body almost get dragged by the sheer force of the cats speed and strength. Luffy has to wrap his arms around her to keep her upright, as the force and wind pulls them. Sanji can't stop staring, his blonde hair on his face. He watches as the marimo reaches Kuma in seconds and uppercut the bear- Kuma reels back because of the impact, landing heavily on his back- Zoro straddling Kuma, aiming repeated punches at the bear's face. Sanji watches as Kuma tries to get up from his fallen position, but is failing. Kuma's face is becoming unrecognizable with each strong punch that connects.
It is hard to actually wrap his mind around all that is happening. Just a few months ago he was living a normal life, but now he is in this small city with this chaos, because of giants. A sound brings Sanji out of his thoughts, and he steps back and looks to the skies. Sanji sees at least a dozen armed helicopters flying into the small city, ready to fight.
The helicopters fires a round of shots and missiles, hitting both the giants, but more Zoro because Zoro is on top of Kuma, blocking the bear from the helicopter's firing range. Sanji watches in horror as Zoro turns around slowly, to now face the one attacking him, changing his target completely. The cat is trying to stop the helicopter from harming him.
Zoro turns around completely and in one fluent motion, he catches a helicopter in his hands, crushing it like it was made out of paper. Another helicopter attacks, hovering above, just out of reach of the two giants, trying to make the cat release his comrade. Zoro does release the helicopter, but right after he stretches his body in an upright arc, making him reach the helicopter and catch it between his teeth, and with his strong jaw break it on two.
Zoro trying to reach the helicopter that is now in his mouth has let Kuma free. The bear waste no time and starts firing laser beams at the farther out offending attackers.
Sanji feels his rage boil. "STOP ATTACKING HIM! CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S ONLY DEFENDING HIMSELF!"
But the blonde's protest falls on deaf ears. Sanji spots a few policemen who are armed, heading towards the two giants. Sanji run and is able to stop one of them.
"You need to stop attacking him!" Sanji pleads.
The policeman looks at Sanji like he has lost his marbles because this blonde is telling them to not defend the city from the two giants. Is he crazy?
Seeing the policeman's expression, the blonde understands what the policeman might be thinking. Taking a few deep breaths, Sanji tries to calm himself to be able to explain clearer and hopefully stop the attacks.
"The one with green hair and tail, the cat! He's not bad. He's on our side!" Sanji explains.
The man looks at Sanji even more confused. "I'm sorry kid, but you must have hit your head or something, please go to the evacuation section of the town. It's not safe here." He says, pointing at where the evacuation is being held.
Sanji grits his teeth in annoyance. "What?! Listen you! That giant your men are attacking is on our side!"
"Then why is he attacking us?!" The policeman snarls.
"Because they attacked first. What? You expect him to take your attacks and smile about it?!"
"Kid, just go, let the police handle this."
Sanji is going to protest more, but a strong hand pulls him back. Sanji looks behind him to see Smoker and Ace dressed in their police uniforms.
"Smoker! You have to listen-" Sanji begins to say, hopeful, before he is cut off.
"Sanji" Smoker interrupts. "This is beyond any of our control. Even if the green monster is on our side, orders were already given to take down both giants."
"But-"
Ace interrupts this time. "In less than fifteen minutes, there will be some destructive missiles heading our way. Just take shelter and leave this to us, we know what we are doing. Plus, we can't leave more people die because of some giant... "
Sanji grits his teeth, but knows he's right. Deciding that he can't get through with these police people, Sanji runs off, leaving Ace and Smoker to do policemen work.
Sanji runs until he sees the little group at the back of a multitude of people trying to exit the city. The blonde reaches their side.
"Where were you?!" Nami screams, hitting Sanji on the head, clearly worried.
"Talking with some stupid, idiotic, annoying, deaf policeman… they're planning to missile the two giants down." Sanji answers his gaze to the floor, his hands clenched and trembling from anger.
Doflamingo whirls to face Sanji and shakes his head. "That won't work. The only weakness Kuma has is sea stone, and probably the sea. The missiles might slow him down, but once Kuma gets his baring again, he'll attack with double the force. This..." Doflamingo gestures to the destroyed buildings "...is nothing compared to what he can do. But he is only programmed to attack fully if injured severely and those missiles might just do the trick… If Kuma does attack fully… it will be like a small nuclear explosion."
The small group gap at Doflamingo, shocked. They can't believe what they are hearing.
"We have to stop them!" Law voices, for the first time his voice has a form of panic. "We are going to have to split up and try to convince any authority to listen to us and contact the main headquarters and stop them..."
All nod in agreement, even Doflamingo, and with that they split.
Sanji runs around frantically, trying to find someone who can help him, when his ears catches the sound a women talking. Looking at her direction, Sanji sees a news crew. Rushing over, Sanji for the first time pushes a lady (not hard enough to make her fall) and snatches the microphone (of course, not before apologizing profoundly to her).
The cameraman is about to say something, but Sanji holds out his hand a stop motion.
"Please, this can be life and death." Sanji pleads.
The cameraman looks shock, but the blonde's pleading eyes and desperate face makes the man nod. The news lady slowly steps to the side. Sanji just hopes someone important is watching so they can hear him, to believe him and to stop this madness...
A/N: Double Chapter! XD