Chapter 25: Wanted!
It was a farley quiet day on the Thousand Sunny. The Sea Gulls were cawing, the waves were rocking gently… Luffy, Usopp, Rukia and Chopper were drawing together childishly.
"Hey Rukia…" said Usopp.
"What?" asked Rukia.
"There's something I've been meaning to ask you… where did you learn to draw?" asked Usopp.
"Oh… my brother taught me… it was one of the few things he ever did for me." Said Rukia.
This made everyone stare at Rukia…
"Your brother taught you?" asked Usopp trying not to laugh.
"That really serious guy." Said Luffy.
Rukia nodded, "He draw a little differently… but its' similar…"
That made them sweat drop even more.
"Hey! There's an island in the distance!" called out Zoro using the intercom.
After docking the ship in a hidden cove, the crew had a meeting.
"Okay… we need to get supplies…" said Nami, "Not much… our human garbage deposal hasn't eaten everything from the last time we went to an island."
Luffy began to laugh nervously.
"Well anyway…" said Nami taking out straws, "Because there's such a light load, we're going to be doing this today. The two that get the short straws will have to go."
Everyone nodded… and picked the straws…
Sometime the tow that were chosen to buy the food, were looking for shops… they were Rukia and Zoro…
"Why did he have to come?" asked Zoro pointing Kon who was riding on Rukia's shoulder.
"Hey… incase of emergencies he has to come with us." Said Rukia, "This isn't the ship."
"What do you mean by that?" asked Zoro.
Rukia began to clear her throat, "Oh no… this man he isn't breathing… call a doctor… wait he's dead… someone go call an undertaker!" said Rukia, "If Kon isn't in your body everyone would think your dead."
Zoro merely stared at Rukia blinking, "Okay… who would call an undertaker." Said Zoro.
"And besides, with the money on Zoro head, any person who saw his body would turn his body right to the Marines." Said Kon.
"True, true…" said Rukia.
Zoro began to grit his teeth, "Let's just go get those supplies…"
"Fine." Said Rukia.
As they looked for a shop… Zoro finally said something that was on his mind, "What's with the hat?"
Okay… just to bring this up now… the entire time Rukia was there… she was wearing a Chappy the rabbit hat… it isn't like a base cap or anything… it was one of those character face hats… the one that people wear in anime conventions…
"Oh you think it's cute. Urahara ordered it for me… I've had my eye on it for a while…" said Rukia, "They're very hard to get."
Zoro blinked, "Sorry I had to ask." Said Zoro with a really big sweat drop.
The three of them turned the corner and saw a rather large building, with the word Marine written on it.
"Oh crap…" muttered Zoro.
"You said it…" said Kon.
Zoro grabbed Rukia… since Kon was ridding on her… and the three of them ran.
"Okay… why am I running?" asked Rukia.
"The best thing to do right now is to head back to the ship and have someone else go shopping with you." Said Zoro.
"Okay that makes sense." Said Rukia.
"Um… guys… don't turn around." Said Kon.
"Why?" asked Rukia as she and Zoro turned around and sweat dropped… there were a ton of Marines.
"Roronoa Zoro! Your under arrest." Said one of the Marines.
That's when they began to run faster than before…that's when more Marines blocked their path…
"Oh great what are going to do?" asked Rukia.
"What do you expect, fight our way though!" said Zoro drawing his two useable swords.
Rukia sighed and she drew hers, "Okay…"
"All right! It's time to me to fight!" yelled Kon who jumped into the air and kicked a few of the Marines in the face… what more… it actually hurt them… one of them was even unconscious.
"What is that thing!" yelled a Marine.
"Isn't obvious." Said another, "It's a stuffed toy that was brought to life by some sort of Devil Fruit."
"Yeah… that's what I am." Said Kon who began to shift his eyes.
"Remember try not to kill them…" said Rukia.
"Yeah, yeah…" muttered Zoro… he really didn't want to have to send them to Soul Society.
The three of them began to knock out the Marines left and right… when most of them were knocked out, they ran as fast as they could.
"I have a feeling that those two are in cahoots with the Straw Hats." Said one of the higher ranked Marines, "Does any one have a camera on them?"
As Rukia and Kon ran back to the ship, a hidden Marine took their pictures.
Sometime later they returned to the ship and Usopp and Sanji were forced to go shopping due to their lack of decent pictures/ hidden identities. Since coming back… Rukia's been nervous about something.
"What's wrong?" asked Luffy.
"I don't know…" Rukia, "I just feel like something really bad is going to happen soon."
"What kind of bad?" asked Luffy.
"I don't know." Said Rukia with a shrug.
Meanwhile in the Marine Base.
"Okay… we've been doing some studying… from we gathered, the girl's full name is Kuchiki Rukia and the stuffed toy is named Kon." Said the highest-ranking Marine at the base.
"How did you find that out?" asked another lower ranked Marine.
"I don't know…" said the higher ranked Marine.
Everyone of the Marines shrugged while they sent the information to Marine HQ.
A few days later on the Thousand Sunny…
Rukia was relaxing in the sun while Robin sat next to her reading. That's when Nami joined them with the News Paper.
"So it's nice today." Said Rukia.
"I know." Said Nami, she opened the paper and two pieces of paper fell out, she bent down to pick them up and she was shocked when she saw them, "Now way!" yelled Nami.
A few minutes later Nami showed them what she was whacked about… two more wanted posters… one for Kon… and one for Rukia…
"You just had to wear that hat of all days." Said Zoro looking at her wanted poster which did feature Rukia wearing that hat.
"According to this your nickname is "Bunny Lover"" said Robin with a smirk.
"In the Soul Society, it's not uncommon for Soul Repapers on long term mission to gain bounties from the World Government. In fact it's often a game to see who gets the best bounty and best nickname…" said Yoruichi.
"That's really cool." Said Luffy.
"It's true… in fact, if the World Government ever discovered any thing about the Soul Society… there would be a bit of a war." Said Yoruichi, "The Soul Society despises the World Government and it's ways… especially it's Absolute Justice… a lot of innocent people died that way."
"I had no idea." Said Usopp.
"Hey can we get back to the point!" yelled Nami.
"15 Million… that's an average starting for a Pirate." Said Robin.
Rukia sighed, at least hers was one of the lowest on the ship, she wasn't in too much danger.
"Huh! What's mine… I bet it's one of the highest!" said Kon.
"Kon… the Living Stuffed Toy… 25 Berries." Said Nami.
"Do you mean 25 Million?" asked Kon.
"No… just 25… That's lower than Chopper's" Said Nami.
Kon gapped, "You have to be kidding me!" he yelled.
Else on the sea, those at the Urahara shop... Kisuke was looking at the wanted posters.
"I thought that would happen sooner or later." He said.
"So what do you thin will happen now?" asked Tessai.
"I don't know… if they get wind of this… well… they won't do anything… It's just another case of a Soul Reaper getting a bounty in the living world." Said Kisuke.
Tessai nodded…
"However… we still need to figure out what's going on." Said Kisuke, "Things have been quiet… too quiet."
Meanwhile, with Kenpachi…
Kenpachi were standing in the middle of a restaurant…
"I don't think this is the right place." Said Yachiru hanging on Kenpachi's coat.
"Your right." Said Kenpachi, they were about to leave when Kenpachi stopped… he knew something was about happen… when hen a couple pirates busted in and within a few minutes a huge fight broke out between the chefs of the restaurant and the pirates…
"You know… that chef with the peg leg might make a good opponent one day." Said Kenpachi as he watched the rather interesting fight.
"I think too Kenny." Said Yachiru.
Yep… they were indeed on the Baratie… and Zeff better hope that he never becomes a Soul Reaper for obvious reasons.
Next Time: Achika the Soul Reaper who fought Nami has come back for Revenge against Nami and her 7 Weather Sprits. However a surprising alley joins the Straw Hats in the nick of time... Who is it... let's just say, it's an old friend... or perhaps a Family Member...
A/N: By the way… Rukia's hat does exist in real life… it's a really cute, I got one earlier this year at Wonder Con… I bet at least one of you out there has that hat too… or seen it.