Author Notes: First of all, I just want to inform everyone that I created a new story so check it out and sorry to everyone who like the eyeshield one, but I just wanted to change the one piece sport story so sorry again. Next off, I'm glad to say that the next round of the tournament starts in this chapter. Also the next few chapters after this one might be longer than the usual because there will be two battle scenes in each chapter after this one. Also sorry for the short chapter, but I did just promise you that the next chapters will be a lot longer, so deal with it for now, thanks. Let's get to it!
The Next Round Begins, Team Kenshin vs. Straw Hats
The D. Gray-man crew all turned around to see Tatsuo standing in the middle of the lobby with his arms crossed across his chest. He then walked over to Luffy, who began to slowly get up. Luffy rubbed the back of his and complained that the fragment that hit him hurt. Luffy turned around and saw Tatsuo standing next to him looking down right at him. "Who are you?"
Tatsuo sighed and knelt down to meet Luffy face to face and then grabbed Luffy by his vest and picked him up off the ground. "I know you might not remember us, but I apologize for this."
Luffy looked at him confused and the next thing Luffy felt was a powerful punch to his stomach causing Luffy to lose consciences. The exorcists behind Tatsuo gasped in surprise and Lenalee walked up to him. "Hey, what are you doing to him?"
"I'm going to take him up to the room where he is supposed to be knocked out. That way his nakama don't have to know what happened here." Tatsuo explained as he began to carry Luffy toward the stairs. "Oh and one more thing, don't tell his nakama anything that happened here or that he woke up. If you do then I'll have to use force and make you leave this island, understand?" They looked at him shocked, but quickly turned to each other before looking back at him and gave him a nod.
"Good, well I'll see you guys later." He told them as he waved back at them before disappearing up the stairs.
As soon as they saw Tatsuo disappear, Lenalee turned toward the others and sighed. "I'm not sure what's going on, but we promised him we wouldn't tell so make sure you guys don't say anything." The exorcists all nodded and continued chatting amongst themselves, while we check on the mugiwaras.
Robin and Franky waited for the others to arrive in front of the hotel and one by one the crew began to show up. Chopper and Usopp ran toward Robin and Franky and stopped in front of them to catch their breath before they were about to say anything else. "R-Robin…..F-Franky, we n-need to t-tell you s-something." Usopp said between breaths.
"Is it about this Luffy look alike?" Robin asked getting a surprise reaction from Chopper and Usopp.
"How do you know about him?" Chopper asked.
"We met him before Robin had to fight that Admiral guy." Franky told them, but that only made them shocked even more.
"Nani, Robin you faced an Admiral?" Usopp asked the archeologist.
"It wasn't really a fight, all I had to do was last five minutes with him, but I was almost done for. I got lucky that the time ran out." Robin explained. "What about you two, you said that you met this Luffy look alike?"
"Aa, I had to face a man that tried to take over my village and kill Kaya to get her fortune." Usopp told while Chopper nodded.
"I see, it seems every time we get closer to one of Luffy's memory fragments, Daimon makes us fight against one of the enemies from Luffy's memories that we had problems with." Robin told him. "Not only that but whatever Daimon is trying to do, it seems that he is using Luffy's memories as bait."
"So, what you're saying is that we are falling for his trap?" Franky asked.
"Maybe, but I still don't know much myself." Robin answered him. Then the four heard the annoying voice of Sanji dancing toward them in his love state before shouting a big,
"ROBIN-CHWAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!" Robin turned her head toward Sanji and smiled softly while the guys' just sweat dropped at the idiot cook. "Oi shit cyborg, you better have protected her." Sanji said turning his attention toward Franky.
"Who the hell are you calling a shit cyborg, you shit cook!" Franky responded back at Sanji.
"What did you j-"
"It seems Nami-chan and Swordsman-kun are back." Robin pointed out as Sanji immediately forgot his anger toward Franky and looked at the approaching Nami.
"NAMI-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!" Nami and Zoro watched as the love state Sanji began to quickly approach getting a sweat drop from both of them. "I hope you had a good adventure!"
Nami sighed as she walked past Sanji, who immediately followed her not caring that she didn't answer him. Zoro walked over to the others and sat down exhausted from the walk and Nami along with Sanji approached the others. "Mina, we need to talk." Nami began.
"Let me guess, it's about this Luffy look alike named Daimon?" Usopp spoke. Sanji immediately came out of his love state and put on a serious face as he faced the crew.
"How do you guys know about him?" Nami asked surprised, while Zoro listened carefully to what the others were about to say.
"It looks like he met everyone one of us." Robin spoke. "Not only that, but it looks like he made us all fight some strong opponents from our past, am I correct?" Robin asked looking at Nami and Sanji.
"Ee, Zoro had to fight that Hawk Shichibukai." Nami told the others, who looked surprised at Zoro.
"What, I kicked his ass." Zoro told them.
"It looks like one of us from each team really did have to fight against an opponent from Luffy's memories." Robin said as she put her hand on her chin.
"Does that mean you guys had to fight someone?" Nami asked, getting nods from most of the crew.
"Aa, I had to face two idiots thought, that Don Krieg bastard and the okama guy from Baroque works." Sanji told them of his fight.
"I had to face that Kuro bastard." Usopp added and then they turned toward Robin and Franky.
"What about you two?" Zoro asked.
"Ee, I had to fight Aokiji." Robin told the crew and Sanji began to glare at Franky.
"You bastard, why didn't you protect Robin-chwan!" Franky turned toward him and was about to speak, but Robin cut him off.
"It wasn't really a fight, I just had to last five minutes with my opponent and Franky couldn't do anything since he was knocked out by Daimon." Robin told Sanji, who calmed down at Robins smile.
"Yeah and I got the worst wake up call ever!" Franky turned his head away from Robin and scoffed with his arms across his chest. Robin ignored his scoff and began talking again.
"If you guys fought someone, then I guess that means that some of Luffy's memory is restored." Hearing this the crew remembered that they had to check on Luffy since they all had a bad feeling. They quickly ran toward the hotel, but stopped when Tatsuo came out of the hotel and grinned at them.
"What the hell do you want Tatsuo?" Zoro asked.
"Sorry, but you guys need to head over to the arena, the next round of this tournament starts now." They all gasped in shock.
"But wait a minute; you said we had three days until the next round!" Usopp reminded him.
"I know I said that, but the higher ups cannot wait much longer. So they told me that as soon as you guys came back, we will start the next round. Also don't worry about your captain. He was sleeping in the hotel room the whole time you guys were out." Tatsuo told them.
"In that case, then I guess we have no choice. We might as well, head over to the arena." Sanji told the crew as they nodded.
"Oh yeah, there is something you guys need to know." They all looked at him as he cleared his throat. "It seems only four of you can participate in this round." The crew gasped and all looked at each other.
"What the hell, why only four?" Zoro asked.
"That's just what the higher ups told me. Also, since your captain is still unconscious you Zoro have to take his place as the team captain." Tatsuo said pointing toward Zoro, who closed his eyes and nodded in agreement.
"I guess now we have to choose the other three." Usopp said thinking about who to choose.
"If may suggest, I think it would be better if the other three is me, Cook-san, and Long Nose-kun." They all looked at Robin and thought about her three selections.
"But why us three Robin-chwan?" Sanji asked.
"Well, for one thing we three have already fought someone it will be a good idea to let the others search for Luffy's memory fragments, while we take care of business in the tournament." Robin explained and she had a point.
"I guess we have no choice then." Usopp sighed in defeat.
"That was a great idea, Robin-chwaan!!" Sanji yelled in his love state.
"Well if that's settled, we wish you guys' good luck." Franky said to them giving them a thumb up.
Robin, Sanji, Usopp and Zoro all nodded before walking toward Tatsuo. "If these are your four then, let us head over to the arena." Tatsuo told them as he led the way toward the arena.
'Good luck you guys we will make sure we get Luffy's memories back before the next round.' Nami thought as she watched the four and Tatsuo disappear from view.
"Yohohohohohoho, why didn't get any lines in this chapter?"
"Urusai, Brooke!!!!!"
Zoro: I can't wait to face that Battousai
Sanji: Whatever moss head, I just can't wait for my first match in this tournament.
Zoro: Why bother you know your going to lose, shit cook.
Sanji: WHAT WAS THAT, MARIMO!!!!!!!
Usopp: Can't you guys just stop fighting for once!
Robin: Mina, it looks like I'm up.
Sanji: Goooooooooooooo Robin-chwan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Usopp and Zoro: Baka.
Next Chapter: Match 1 and Fragment Five, Robin's and Brooke's Separate Fights