I was writing the whole event this afternoon on the Crow's nest cause it's my turn to night watch, alone, and I'm super bored. And it's also to prevent myself to fall asleep. Thanks to the bright moonlight, I'm able to write and see just fine, like seriously.
I was so busy writing so that I didn't realized that Luffy came and tackled me hard to the wooden floor. Thankfully, I already stopped writing, so yeah.
"Luffy, what the hell…" I groaned, as his body was right on me, as if I'm a mattress.
"Hey Eri! So you're still up? I thought you're already fell asleep like Zoro!" he said cheerfully, still haven't moving his whole body from mine.
"Sorry, but unlike that grass-head, I'll go to sleep when it's time, not whenever he didn't has anything to do, which almost every time." I answered and pushed off his face from my chest, as he always said that it's all fluffy like a pillow, which always earns a beating from me because of that.
We were quiet for a moment after I sat down on his lap and my back was resting on his abdomen until I decided to cut it.
"Say Luffy," I called, earning a hummed as he looks at me, "Do you think I should be alive?" I asked, slowly the miserable past was resurfacing in my memory.
He didn't say anything at first but I could imagine that he was frowning. "Why would you say that? Of course you should! You're my imouto and first friend! Of course you should live!" he exclaimed. I turned to look at him, showing me that he was giving me a frown on his face, making me chuckled a bit.
"I see, thank you Luffy, for making me want to live." I replied and grinned as I playfully pinched his cheeks. We grinned at each other and giggled.
Thank you… for making me wants to live…
XXX
I was completely unable to move as I curled myself in the corner with Flame and Takao, acting as walking heaters, and covering myself with dozens of jackets, mittens, ear-muffs, and blankets. My teeth were clattering loudly as I couldn't take the sudden freezing temperature. And I could hear the Two Idiots were laughing with each other, as they were playing with the snow.
I couldn't pay attention at my surrounding, even I use my Haki. The sudden dropped temperature is always my biggest threat, as my whole body feels like got frozen to the bones. I could feel the Flame was trying his best to warm me up with his body heat, which slightly doing a great job.
To my hands and feet? Yeah.
To my whole body? Not really.
I could hear that Nami was yelling around on the deck, not that I knew what, cause my brain got frozen because of the temperature.
Curse Grand Line and its damned climatic time.
Then the temperature suddenly rose up, making it a little bit warm. Guess now is spring time, eh?
I quickly rose up and taking off all of the things that covering me up, revealing my long sleeves shirt with red vest and black knee-length trousers with ruffles in the end and my usual combat boots before running to the deck, screaming 'Freedom' as loud as ever with grateful expressions.
But then my happy time didn't last long.
Why? Cause the damned weather in Grand Line, which always unpredictable as ever, was ruining it.
In the end, I helped everyone on the deck for god knows how long. After a few minutes of struggling in the sudden storm, the weather finally calms down and almost everyone were looking exhausted because of it.
Except Luffy, Flame, Takao and me; excluding Zoro, who was just woke up just then.
"Hey, come on now. I know the weather's nice and warm, but don't you think you're being a bit too lazy?" he asked, clueless to his surroundings, "Are you sure we're going the right away?" he asked again.
"By the way, why are these two on our ship?" he asked, again, as he turned to the weirdoes.
"YOU NOTICED NOW!?"
"We're heading towards—" Luffy started, "—their town right now." I finished.
"What, so we're giving them a ride? It's not like we're obligated to or anything." Zoro said.
"We know." We replied in sync.
Then he crouched down right in front of the two agents with a smirk. "Hmm… there's something sinister about your faces… what did you say your names were again?" he asked, making the agents flinched.
"M-Mr. 9…" the man with weird markings on his cheeks said, "And I'm Miss Wednesday…" the blue haired girl continued, both of them were sweating a lot.
Zoro, still grinning like a madman, continued. "Right… something about those names has been bugging me ever since I heard 'em… I feel like I've heard it before… or not…" he said, before I quickly jumped off the upper deck and kicked him onto the floor, fuming over him.
"THE HELL WAS THAT, WOMAN!?" he yelled, shark-teethed and tic-mark on his head.
"FOR BEING AN IDIOT, THAT'S WHY!" I yelled back, shark-teethed. "HOW COULD YOU FAST-ASLEEP IN A MIDDLE OF OUR CHAOS TIME!? ARE YOU AN IDIOT!?"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?"
We were yelling at each other for a few minutes until we went on a full brawl, my kairoseki bisento against his katanas. We were using our weapons' blunt sides, though.
We were stopped by Nami's punches on our heads. The damned witch…
"Did you have a NICE nap? You wouldn't wake up no matter how hard we tried…!" she growled at Zoro with shadows looms over her, which earning a not amused Demon-of-East-Blue. But still, he lost with our dear Sea-Witch before she turned to me.
"And you! Why didn't you tell me about these conditions?!" she demanded.
I raise a finger to her, "First, I got a brain-freeze," then I raised another finger, "Second, you didn't ask." I finished with 'are-you-an-idiot-look.
Unfortunately, I'm also got a 'Fist of Love Nami ver.' By Nami.
"Don't let your guards down, minna! You can never expect what might happen out here!" I exclaimed, with a tower of bruises on my head, courtesy of Nami.
"That's right, I finally understand just how terrifying this ocean truly is, as well as why they call it the 'Grand Line'! I understand because ALL of my navigation skills have failed to work!" Nami exclaimed, in an awesome way. Too bad almost everyone were exhausted so no noodle-dance from Sanji or whatever.
Usopp sweat-dropped, "Uhh… are we gonna be fine?" he asked, insecure.
"We'll be fine, things will work out one way or the other." I said, smiled a bit.
"And as a proof of that, look!" Nami pointed out and we turned to see there's a fog covering our destination for a moment before it clears up a bit, which revealing as an island with giant cactus.
Then the two agents flipped on the rear as they saying regards to us and jumped off the ship to the sea, only to swim toward the island as we sweat-dropped at the sight.
"They're gone…" Usopp said, sweat-dropped.
"Just what's up with those two…" Zoro added, sweat-dropped too.
"Forget about them, prepare to land!" Nami told them.
"There's a river right up ahead, looks like we can dock inland." I informed.
"T-there wouldn't be any monsters on this island now, right…!?" Usopp asked, sweating a lot.
"Considering this place is Grand Line and all, I'd say there is a good possibility." Sanji-san replied.
"Well, we can always run away if that's the case." Luffy said, positive aura around him.
"Wait just a second," Nami interrupted, taking most of our attentions, "Don't forget that we have to stay on this island for a certain amount of time." She continued.
"Why?" Luffy asked, making me sighed in frustration.
"This Log Pose has to record this island's magnetic field before we can move on to the next island," Nami started, "And the recording time varies for each island. There're some islands that take only a few hours to record, while some take even a few days," I continued and paused a moment to smirk, "And some of them could even take for years."
"T-then even if we come to a horrible monster island that we want to run away from, it's possible that we'll have to stay on it for several days!?" Usopp asked, surprised.
"Yep." I replied simply.
"That's right." Nami replied too.
"Well, we'll worry about it when it happens, so let's just go already!" Luffy said, grinning.
"Yeah, it would be weird not to go in when there's a river in front waiting for us!" I added, excited.
"For you two, maybe." Nami deadpanned.
"No, what they said is right, there's no use in worrying about it so let's just go." Zoro agreed.
"I'll protect you, Nami-swan and Eri-chwan~!" Sanji-san exclaimed.
"There's no need, I got Takao, Flame and Luffy with me." I deadpanned.
"H-h-hey guys… listen… I uh… I think I've suddenly developed a 'can't-enter-this-island' disease…" Usopp said, his face was paling and sweating a lot.
But of course we ignored him and went to the river toward the island. As we got closer, I could feel that there are people nearby and we could hear cheering as we got closer and closer to the dock and the fog was starting to clear up. And sure enough, many people were cheering on our arriving.
The Strawhats were surprised about this, but I kept my straight face as I watch the scene while the others were quite flattered about the warm welcoming. As we docked and jumped down, we were welcomed by Chikuwa-Wig ossan (Igaram-san) and saying things that made Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji-san to dance around like idiots.
"Idiots…" I muttered as I stared at them blankly before watched the people around us intently, crossing my arms across my chest while almost all of us were preoccupied with their own business and we were invited to a banquet by the Chikuwa-Wig ossan. I still gazing at the townspeople's with caution as Zoro, Takao, Flame, and me were following the rest of us.
I mean, just what kind of town that welcomes a group of Pirates in the first place this lively? There's definitely something is wrong, right?
XXX
Everyone was enjoying themselves while I just ate my 27th-plate cake quietly as I watched the scene with bored look, Takao and Flame on either of my sides. Thankfully, I wore my earplugs so the sounds around me won't really hurt my eardrums.
"AMAZING! THIS MAN OUTDRANK TEN PEOPLE!" "AND THIS LADY HERE OUTDRANK TWELVE PEOPLE!" "WHAT A COUPLE OF HEAVY DRINKERS!"
"HOLY MOLY! HERE WE HAVE THEIR CAPTAIN WHO'S EATEN ENOUGH FOOD FOR TWENTY PEOPLE!" "THE COOK JUST COLLAPSED!"
"AND WE HAVE ANOTHER BIG-EATER IN A FORM OF A LITTLE GIRL! SHE JUST ATE HER 27TH'S PLATE OF CAKE!" "AH! ANOTHER COOK JUST COLLAPSED JUST FOR MAKING DOZEN OF CAKES FOR HER!"
"Shut up…" I muttered and ate another plate of cake.
"AND WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS LADY-KILLER! HE'S FLIRTING WITH TWENTY WOMEN ALL BY HIMSELF! WHAT A PIRATE CREW!"
I just rolled my eyes and decided to get some fresh air quietly, cause it's so stuffy and hot. And I'm outside now, with Takao on my side (I told Flame to watch over the others). I walked around the town and decided to raid the treasures in the houses. Surprisingly, there're bunches of treasures in this place, while in the main plot, there're none. After the treasures were gathered in a big sack, I told Takao to put it on the ship while I'm walking around. He obeyed and left, leaving me alone.
I smiled and taking out a small rectangular thing from my right pocket, it shone brightly with a help of the moonlight.
A harmonica.
I dunno who gave it to me but I got this right in my birthday four years ago, in a fancy small box. And there're a white tiger cub and black with red eyes snake along with the gift, as if they were delivering the gift. After I got it, they ran away toward the jungle and I never saw them ever again after that. Cause I never played harmonica before, so I got no clue how I play it.
Thankfully, one of the villagers back in Fuusha able to play it and taught me to play it. And I'm surprisingly a fast-learner, as I'm able to master it in just six months. Both of my brothers and partners are like my harmonica play, and of course, their favorite song I ever played is 'Bink's Sake' (A/N: search it in Youtube, you'll find it).
As I walked toward somewhere that's not familiar to me, I played 'Bink's Sake' in slow tone as I closed my eyes and soft breeze was blowing my hair a bit, making an eerie and mysterious aura in the surroundings. Then I jumped on one of the buildings' roofs and sat down on the rear of the roof as I kept playing on the tune until I felt someone was coming and put it back to my trousers' pocket.
I looked down and saw that the agents from this day, the Chikuwa-Wig ossan, and a manly woman were having a conversation. Then I felt a familiar presence beside of the building where I am and I took out my bo staff. I turned and saw Zoro was walking toward the rear of the roof of the building with a katana in his hand and sat down before I turned back to the agents down us.
"Sorry but…" he started. "Would you mind letting those guys sleep for a bit longer?" Zoro continued. "They're all tired from the journey over here." he finished and smirked at their shocked faces.
"M-Mr. 8! Ms. Monday! Two of their crew has escaped!" I heard some grunts exclaimed.
"Why you…! Weren't you passed out cold after all that drinking just a moment ago!?" Mr. 8 asked him, thankfully he didn't realize me.
"A true swordsman… never allows alcohol to take control of himself." He exclaimed in awesome way.
"So that's how it was… this place is a den of bounty hunters, and you take advantage of the overconfident newbie pirates who've just entered Grand Line…!" Zoro smirked. The bounty hunters were taking out their weapons as he kept talking. "Looks like there's about a hundred of you, you'll be a fine opponent for me, Baroque Works."
"Wha!? How do you know the name of our organization!?"
"Back when I was in the same line of business as you, a certain organization tried to scout me but I refused, of course. And organization whose members don't know a think about each other's real identities, and must refer each other by their codenames." Zoro said, shadows looming over him, making him looked cooler.
But meh, he's still a grass-head.
"And of course, the boss' location and identity are a mystery as well. A criminal organization that asks for complete obedience from its members: Baroque Works. Heh, was that supposed to be a secret?" he smirked.
"This is quite a shock… but if he knows our secret, then we have no choice but to eliminate him…" Chikuwa-Wig ossan said as shadows crept his face. "Another tombstone, must be added to cactus rock tonight…!" he finished.
I just rolled my eyes, "You can't touch him. He's in a different level to shrimps like you." I muttered and turned to look at Zoro. He jumped down and able to blend in with the bounty hunters' crowd, while the bounty hunters were searching for him frantically while I just watching the scene in amused expression.
"HE'S GONE!" "WHERE DID HE GO!?"
He was calmly standing in the center of the crowd until they realized that he was in the center of the crowd, their eyes bulged out. Zoro crossed his arms across his chest while I leaning on my right palm as I watched the scene.
"Now then," Zoro started, "Shall we get things started?" he finished, grinning.
"You bastard!" "Shoot!"
Zoro suddenly disappeared, which unintentionally shoots their allies, while. I snickered at their stupidity but still trying my best to make myself invisible.
"You fools! He disappeared again! He's too fast!" ossan exclaimed as the frantically searching for us, "Hurry up and kill him already! He's only one—" his words were cut down as Zoro's katana slipped through his hair, about an inch to his face.
I was watching the scene in bored look as Zoro decided to take all the fun by himself until the ossan shot his allies with trumpet of his and saw Zoro was running away from them and was hiding in the other side of the building. I grinned and jumped down right next to him, which unconsciously startled him and almost cutting me up if I don't warded his katanas with my bo staff.
"What, it's just you." He said as he pulled up his katanas and he look around again.
"How dare you hog all the fun by yourself! I wanna play too!" I whined quietly as I puffed my cheeks and pouted at him.
He sweat-dropped and hit my head lightly, "What do you mean by play, you baka? This is not a game!" he told me.
"I know, but this is a right time to train and play!" I whined childishly, which earns a frustrated sigh from the grass-head.
"Fine, do whatever you want." He replied and took a peek to the side as I felt crowds were coming.
"It seems that they're coming, eh?" I grinned as I took out the bisento blade from the case that always strapped on my belt and connected it to the staff.
"Yeah, seems so." He agreed and unsheathed his black sheath katana as he grinned, not taking off his gaze from the crowd that waiting for him. "Now then, this will be an excellent chance to test out my new boys. No need to hold anything back, boys." He said.
I felt someone was coming on the roof of the building we use for hiding and I quickly leaped out to the roof. Sure enough, I found one of the bounty hunters was about to shoot Zoro, but I quickly slashed him off and felt many people down me. I looked down and I saw many bounty hunters were shooting Zoro inside of the building/house.
I saw that Zoro was cutting the bounty hunters and ran away again; I jumped off the roof and landed on the ground right in front of the bounty hunters that after him, surprising them. My eyes glinted and swung my bisento in circle, slashing them up. They screeched in agony as I slashed them and they fell to the ground with loud groan. I stuck out my tongue as they groaned in hurt and ran after Zoro.
Some of them were yelling at me and shooting me, but I could sense them with my Haki and dodged easily. I turned around and swung my bisento at them, which projecting some kind of cutting air and slashed them up.
Let me tell you something; that one is not Rokushiki, mind you.
Then I heard loud explosion and saw that Zoro is in pinch, as the manly woman was throwing a barrel at him and he cutting it up, and landed on the bounty hunters in front of him, but another one was about to attack Zoro. I leaped up and closed my eyes as I prepared my attack, gripping my bisento's staff.
I swung the blade and landed behind the guy, smiling mischievously as the guy screeched and letting go the stone axe, that somehow leaped up and almost hitting me, if Zoro didn't act fast by cutting the axe up, maybe I'll just leaving a name to remember, haha!
"Nice, grass-head!" I grinned at him, which earning a hit in the head by the said grass-head.
"Stop doing things as reckless as that!" he scolded me. I just looked away from him and I felt someone was coming with a knife in their hands. I ran and kicked them off from Zoro, who was about to stab him to death. The person was revealed as a kid.
The fuck a kid doing here? And as a bounty hunter of all things? Whatever, I'll just knock him out and everything will be over.
But then a sister was coming and doing like whatever a normal sister would do, but I just stared blankly at her and quickly jumped up as she showed us the cross, which releasing some sort of smokes that covering our sights. I landed on the sister's head hard, which knocking her out and Zoro was climbing up again using the ladders.
The bounty hunters that were chasing Zoro were yelling things and now they're chasing the two of us. As Zoro using the ladders, I was using the windows and ledges as stairs antil both of us right at the top. I was watching in amusement as Zoro flipped off the ladders, which full of bounty hunters that chasing us.
As the ladders was in the air, we jumped and using the ladders as a foothold to leaped up to the other building across us.
We smirked as the bounty hunters on who were on the building across us were about to shoot us, while we prepared our attack styles at them.
"Nitoryu…"
"Ryuu no…"
"TAKA NAMI" "SETSUDAN O (cutting tail)!" we slashed the bounty hunters with our respective blades, making them flew away from us with wounds caused by us.
Then we heard voices from above us and Zoro was cutting through the foothold under us with his katana, Kitetsu I guess, until it almost perfectly a circle. We walked away from there as the bounty hunters landed on the pavement and sure enough it got destroyed as they broke down into the building.
I was laughing as Zoro able to warn the bounty hunters (which revealed as the bitches that surrounding Sanji-san back in the party) in the same time as they went through the hole. Then I sensed the manly woman right behind us with a ladder, about to attack us with it. I was able to jump up while Zoro crouched down. I flipped away from that manly woman and saw that the manly woman was about to attack Zoro.
I quickly ran and able to ward her arm with Haki infused legs that was about to attack Zoro's handsome face. My legs were in a perfect straight line as I stopped the attack, the floor under us was got big cracked, and glaring the manly woman in the process and slowly my eyes changed into blood-red eyes with slits, which slightly makes her flinch.
Then I infused my fist with Busoshoku Haki and punched her ugly face hard, which making her flew away a few meters. I kept glaring at where the manly woman is before turning to Zoro, my eyes turned back to normal.
"You okay Zoro? Sorry for crushing your pride, if that's what you're thinking of." I said as I helped him up.
"Well, it is kinda hurt, as you're saving me." he replied as he got up and grinned before patting my head, "But thanks, I see you got some weird power there, as your legs and fist were blackened just then." He grinned.
I just chuckled in defeat, "Sorry for hurting your pride." I said sheepishly.
"AGHH! SHE STOPPED MISS MONDAY PUNCH AND BEAT HER WITH JUST A PUNCH!" "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
Then we turned and smirked as my eyes changed color.
"Shall we continue, Baroque Works?" I asked, licking my lips with deadly looks and smirk.
"A fight's no mere game, ya' know." Zoro continued, still smirking.
XXX
"How disgraceful…" the Chikuwa-Wig ossan said, "To be beaten to this extent by a single pirate swordsman and a little pirate girl… as proud members of Baroque Works entrusted specially by the boss to watch over this town, we have a matter of responsibility to worry about." He finished and taking out the trumpet.
We watched him intently as he breathed in and blew his trumpet, which repelling some kind of bullets toward us. We quickly jumped backwards and I sensed that the other two agents were doing something. We were at the top of the building and saw a certain spot-billed over-sized duck was appeared quite literally after the said Miss Wednesday called him, and he sat down when his owner told him to run, making me sweat-dropped at the sight.
"Hahahaha! Are you sure you should be looking somewhere else right now?"
We turned and saw Mr. 9 was back-flipping (or was it front-flip?) as he approaching us and swung his bats toward us, only got warded by Zoro and his katanas. I just rolled my eyes and walked away as Zoro was attacking the agent… Fencing style, I guess?
But then the agent was stupid enough to leap out from the building and landed ungracefully to the stacks of barrels. I just sweat-dropped and shook my head before turning to the opponent right in front of me.
Miss Wednesday… or should I call her, Nefertari Vivi? Nah that would be a bad idea.
"Isn't there anyone more competent?" Zoro muttered as he turned around and saw the other agent.
"If you want someone competent, then look no further! Prepare yourself, Mr. Bushido!" she exclaimed as she stood up on her duck.
Then I turned to Zoro and said, "Yeah, Mr. Bushido! Prepare yourself!" in mocking tone and laughed, which subconsciously annoyed Zoro.
Then the blue-haired teen girl was making weird move and suddenly strong fragrances were piercing my nostril. I quickly coughed up and pinched my nose, taking off my cap and waved it around to fan out the stinky fragrances. I quickly got away from that area and saw Zoro was not lucky enough as he lose his balance, but as the agent about to attack him, the duck she rode was ran passed him, much to the teen girl's anger and both of us confusion (though it's more like my amusement).
"…I feel embarrassed at myself for having to fight these losers…" Zoro exclaimed, his face was showing much embarrassment.
"Oh come on, Mr. Bushido, it's not that bad!" I tried to cheer him up and slapped his back, before I sensed someone and leaped out from the way, same as Zoro, as another agent with trumpet-gun was appeared and shooting at us. Zoro quickly cut through the foothold under us in circle and carried me like potato-sack as we went down and ran out from the house. I'm not really complaining about the free ride but it's too bumpy, but whatever.
As the ride was over, Zoro put me down and he was leaning on the wall. "That shotgun's a real problem… how can I close the gap to go in for the close attack…?" he wondered.
I just shrugged, "I dunno."
Then Mr. 9 leaped up as he yelled, taking our attentions. I just stared at him blankly as he talked things and attacked Zoro. Then Mr. 8 noticed us as Mr. 9 got Zoro by using iron wire, and then I saw that another one is coming with a knife in her hand, with a very familiar and precious person to me.
Luffy.
And still with that big stomach.
As quick as ever, flaming aura burst out from me as my eyes glinted with dangerous gaze, not letting my eyes off from the sight in front of me. I swear, most people there were able to sense my dangerous aura, as they paled a bit.
"You touch or even hurt him, even only a scratch, I'll kill you." I threatened her, dark aura surrounding me.
"Oh great, her 'ultra over-protective' self is finally taking control." I heard Zoro said that with a sound of his palm slapped his face loud in the same time.
I took a step and suddenly, the ossan pulled the ribbon tie, revealing many guns from his hair, and pulled it again, firing many bullets from it. I was still walking toward my brother and the young teen girl, ignoring the bullets that went passed me, and sometimes dodged it as I increase my speed to the teen girl.
"Don't you think…" I kept running until I'm right in front of the girl, surprising her. I death-glared her before crouched down, in the same time as Zoro threw the girl's partner toward her and the duck, making them flew away a few meters back.
"You could easily hurt my baby big brother." I finished as I stood up next to my dear brother, while Zoro ran and apologized to both of us as he use Luffy's stomach as a trampoline to reach the ossan and attacked him, making the ossan fell unconscious.
"Finally… finished…" Zoro huffed.
XXX
"Where are you going?" Zoro asked as he spotted me walking away.
"I dunno, searching for foods, sweets, and-slash-or maybe books? I got all of their treasures so the only ones left are just those three types." I replied as I kept walking away from him, "Just take care of Luffy for me." I added as I waved my hand.
I kept walking and entered one of the houses, looking around as I kept searching for valuable items. I found some books and put them in my bag and walked out from the house. I kept doing that several times until I heard some screaming. I peeked and saw a vulture bird and an otter were about to attack some of the bounty hunters, until two familiar people were appeared.
And they got weird appearances too, seriously.
I kept watching them as those two were beating the crap outta the bounty hunters until they finished. I just rolled my eyes and decided to go back to where Zoro is, but unfortunately I got lost. Seriously, this place is like a maze! That's why I hate maze except mazes in books, not real life! I could easily found the way out if it's in books by making a line from where the main destination is to the supposedly way in!
After who knows how long, I heard loud explosions and shouting, so I decided to follow the sounds. Sure enough, I found the agents, and one of them is definitely Vivi. I saw that Chikuwa-Wig ossan was begging to Zoro to protect Vivi and other stuff, and then Vivi and Carue were run away from the weird agents. Of course, those two agents ran after them and yeah, they're like playing tags.
"Greatly rewarded, you say?"
I turned and saw Nami sitting on the rear of the roof, who was grinning mischievously.
"Alright then! How about a billion beli then?" she said.
"Nami!"
Seriously Nami? Just, seriously?
XXX
"You know Nami, you're such a cruel person I ever know in my life." I exclaimed out-loud to her after she finished her words about a billion beli just for protecting the said princess. "Or maybe you didn't remember what I just said that the country is in a pinch right now?" I continued.
"Eh? What do you mean? I'm being kind-hearted here." she replied, totally not answering my questions at all.
I just face-palmed and sighed loudly, a tic mark appeared on my forehead. I decided to ignore her ramblings about it and now she's having a nice conversation with Zoro, or should I say, arguments?
It kept going for a full minute until Nami brought up the time back at Loguetown when she lent Zoro some money with 300% interest, so he still owe her two hundred thousand beli.
"Your money back right away so isn't it fine?" Zoro asked.
"No." she replied.
"Wha!"
"Are you saying that you can't even keep a single promise?" she asked, with those… I dunno, disappointed expression? Or was it pity? "Now is you do as I say, we'll call it even, okay?" she exclaimed, cutting off the arguments. And I swear, if I was Zoro, I'll be really mad and maybe kick her ass off.
But his expression was saying that though, only he decided to hold it up.
"You know Nami, you're such a nasty bastard." I deadpanned.
"DAMN YOU! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A PEACEFUL DEATH, Y'HEAR!" Zoro yelled as he ran off, fuming.
"Nah, she's probably goes to hell when she dies anyway." I nodded in agreement with blank face as I watched Zoro leave.
"Curse my uselessness!" I turned and stared at the Chikuwa-Wig ossan with blank face as he talks.
"If I were only stronger… I could protect the princess…!" he cursed.
Nami smiled and replied, "Don't worry. That guy just now is monstrously strong," then she point her thumb at me, "And this one too." She finished.
"If anything were to happen to the princess… then it would be the end of our kingdom…! She must survive no matter what!" he exclaimed, making Nami confused at the sudden outburst.
I crouched down and pat his shoulder lightly, "Don't worry, Chikuwa-Wig ossan! The princess would be safe in our hands! But you guys owns me tons of sweets, K?" I reassured and stood up, pulling my cap until it covering my eyes before ran from there fast, chasing the princess using my haki to sense Vivi's location.
But then I skidded to a stop and thinking that searching from the ground wouldn't be a great idea, so I decided to call Takao using a whistle I usually use to call him.
FFIIIIIIIIIIIIII~!
In just mere seconds, I saw him on the sky and I brought up my arms as he came closer and he grabbed my arms with his talons.
"Takao! Let's go search for a girl with cyan hair color and an over-sized duck!" I told him as we were high in the air.
"Roger!" he replied and he increased his speed. After a few seconds, I saw explosion a few meters from where we are.
"Right there! Hurry Takao!" I exclaimed as I pointed at the place. He increased his speed and as we almost above the place, Takao let go of my grip of my hands as I fell down. I saw Vivi was in a pinch until Zoro stepped in and cut the… yuck, the booger with his katana, making the road behind them exploded. I infused my feet with haki as I was getting closer to the ground and landed on the ground hard, which resulting the ground under me cracked in big crack.
"I can't believe I had to cut a freakin' booger!" Zoro exclaimed in frustration, not caring about me landed on the sky hard.
"Oh come on, Marimo, it's not that bad! You could just cleaned them up later with a wet towel and disinfectant I have." I told him as I put my hands on my hip before turning to look at the teen girl.
"Hey there, Princess! We're here to save your freaking life! You better give me tons of sweets for the payment!" I told her as I grinned at her, which slightly surprised her.
"S-save me?" she asked in shock.
I nodded, "Yeah, that Chikuwa-Wig ossan of yours was begging us to save you, so I do it." I replied simply, shrugging at her before turned to the bad guys.
"Oh, you're the swordsman and the little girl whose defeated all of the low-ranking agents in this town, aren't you? Why would someone like you two are trying to protect Alabasta's Princess?" the one with greasy hair asked.
"That's none of your concern." I snapped.
"I have my own circumstances." Zoro replied.
"Well, whatever. You're in our way in any case." He said.
Then his partner with weird dress pattern stepped in, "Kyahaha! That's right. Since you're in our way… allow me to bury your face under the ground with my ability." She finished with a sinister grin.
I just stared at her with bored-look and rolled my eyes, "Shut up, you bitch. Just because you're a DF user, doesn't mean you're invincible." I snapped at her and smirked, "Let's just finished this unimportant conversations and let's just go all out, shall we?" I provoked them as half of my face was shadowed.
But then our happy time got interrupted by a certain rubber-head.
"ZOROOOOO!"
"Oh fuck, he's mad." I face-palmed as I spotted my brother was fuming as he saw us, or Zoro to be exact.
"Luffy? What is it? If it's about help, then I don't need it. Or do you owe that woman something as well?" Zoro asked.
"I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU! FIGHT ME!" Luffy yelled.
"WHAT!?"
XXX
"WHAT KIND OF IDIOTIC THINGS ARE YOU SPOUTING AGAIN!?"
"SHUT UP! AN UNGRATEFUL BASTARD LIKE YOU NEED TO GET HIS ASS KICKED!"
"Ungrateful?" Zoro asked in confusion.
"That's right!" Luffy replied, "I can't ever forgive you… HOW DARE YOU CUT UP EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE TOWNSPEOPLE AFTER THEY GAVE US SUCH A FRIENDLY WELCOME AND FED US SO MUCH YUMMY FOOD!"
…
…actually, is it bad that if I felt relieved if the bounty hunter who said that didn't recognized me?
"Ah… well I did cut them up but…" Zoro looked extremely ticked off because he couldn't object the fact that he did cut them up, but actually it's because they're bounty hunters.
"H-how dense could he be…" Vivi muttered, sweat-dropped at my brother's behavior.
"Oh trust me, you wouldn't want to know." I massaged my forehead because of the headache I got just now.
"Looks like he's a friend of that swordsman and the little girl, what an annoying bunch…" greasy hair said.
"Kyahaha. Let's just kill them off already. After all, anyone who interferes with our missions must be eliminated…!" the lemon-pattern dress woman said.
Zoro huffed, "Luffy, listen to me. Those townspeople were actually—" unfortunately, he got cut off by Luffy by charging at him. And then they were fighting at each other for, I dunno, minutes I guess.
"Just don't kill him, Zoro! I want him to be alive before I beat the crap outta him!" I exclaimed as I watched the scene intently.
"WHY WON'T YOU HELP ME BY STOPPING HIM AND TELL HIM THE TRUTH!?" the Marimo yelled at me as he kept trying to dodge Luffy's attacks.
"Nah, I'm busy to protect the princess." I waved at him before turned my attention back to the main enemies now, who was about to charge at Vivi and me, only got interrupted by Zoro and Luffy cause Zoro kicked my brother toward the agents.
"Nice Zoro! But it's not over yet ya' know!" I grinned as I brought up a thumbs-up at him.
Then the building where Luffy and the two agents are got blew up, taking our attentions and surprising Carue and Vivi. Then I saw the woman was in the air, talking things about her DF and other stuffs. But we could be careless cause we saw thin Luffy with the greasy hair in his hand, knocked out cold.
"Mr. 5!? It can't be! An officer agent of baroque works was…!" Vivi exclaimed, shocked about the fact that the greasy hair was defeated by Luffy.
Then Zoro, once again, tried to tell Luffy about the truth, but of course his words went through Luffy's right ear to his left ear. Same as the woman right above us, who was yelling at us to not ignore her and still talking about her DF power. Because she was pissed off, she was about to crush Zoro using her DF power, but Zoro dodged by turned himself to the other side as Zoro kept talking to Luffy and decided to get serious by fighting him and put on his bandana.
"FINE BY ME!" Luffy replied.
"Wait a second… what's going on!? Aren't you two Nakamas!?" Vivi asked in confusion.
"Don't worry about them. Sooner or later, another one will show up and stop those two, along with me." I assured her as I disconnected and put back the bisento blade to the case, putting the staff to the ground and leaning on it as I kept watching the scene.
"GOMU GOMU NO…"
"ONI…"
"BAZOOKA!" "GIRI!"
"Maybe I should stop them now?" I asked as I turned Vivi while those two were still fighting to death for a few minutes now, asking for suggestion.
"You should hurry and stop them before they kill each other!" she replied.
"Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong." I said and saw that the agents were about to attack Luffy and Zoro, only getting their asses kicked by them, just because they're interfering their fight.
"Wow, they must be really weak as those two monsters could easily kicked them off." I commented, "I wonder if they're dead now?" I wondered.
"It… can't be…! How could there be guys as strong as them so close to Grand Line's entrance!?" Vivi exclaimed.
"Well, we have our own ways to trains…" I told her and pierced my bo staff to the ground. Then I walked approaching those two as they want to attack to each other again. I prepared my left fist with haki, which resulting it got blackened. And at the same time, Nami ran in and we punched the idiots in the heads hard in the same time.
"STOP IT!" we exclaimed in the same time as we punched our respective targets. I punched Luffy, while Nami punched Zoro.
"Just what the heck do you think you're doing!? Well, in any case, I guess I should at least be glad that the girl is safe." Nami said and she grabbed the boys in the collars, "But you were about to cost me my one billion beli! Do you understand!?" she yelled again.
"What are you talking about? And why did you save me?" Vivi asked.
"Ah, that's right. you don't know anything yet… how would you like to make a contract with me?" Nami asked, while the boys in her grips were still fighting like two elementary school children.
"A contract?"
But then Nami's patience was already at its limit and punched them in the head, knocking them out.
I just sighed in defeat and walked toward the destroyed house and found Luffy's straw hat. I picked it up and walked back to the others.
XXX
"NAHAHAHA!"
"Jeez, you should have said so earlier! I thought you went and cut all those people up because they didn't cook your favorite food or something!" Luffy exclaimed as I treated his wounds after I finished with Zoro.
"WHO DO YOU THINK I AM, YOU!?" Zoro yelled, shark-teethed.
"Ahahaha! Well, whatever. What's done is done!" Luffy laughed it off before winced as I sprayed the disinfectant to his wounds, "That hurt!"
I just rolled my eyes at his childish behavior, "If you just listen to Zoro, then you wouldn't get hurt." I replied and patched it up with band-aids. I slapped his now patched wounds hard as I grinned mischievously, which resulting him to yelp it hurts.
"I refuse!" I heard Vivi said, "But you have my gratitude for saving me just now." She continued.
"What, why? You're a princess, right? A billion beli should be like nothing for a princess…" Nami replied.
"Just because she's a princess, doesn't mean she could give it to you that easily, you Greedy Sea-Witch." I said out-loud as I treated Vivi's wound now. "Her country is in a big pinch, it's in the edge of war because of revolutionaries and that Baroque Works, you greedy woman." I added, tic mark popped up on my cheek as I put a band-aid to Vivi's wound, finally finished.
"H-how do you know about that?"
"Sharp institution." I replied simply and sat down next to Zoro on the ground, Takao on my left side.
Vivi looked puzzled but continued, "Have you heard of a kingdom called Alabasta?"
"No, can't say that I have." Nami replied.
"I think it's a highly civilized country within Grand Line?" I said, unsure about it.
She nodded, "Yes, and it used to be a peaceful one at that too… long ago…" she trailed off.
"Long ago?"
"The past few years have been mired by revolutionary activities. Due to radical Alabastan revolutionaries, my country is currently in a state of chaos." Vivi continued, "One day, I happened to hear of a certain organization. That organization was 'Baroque Works'."
"Apparently, it was Baroque Works who had been instigating the revolutionaries. But other than that fact, I didn't know anything else nor could I do anything about Baroque Works. And so, I made a request to Igaram, who's been watching over me ever since I was a kid… even though what I had heard may or may not be just a rumor, I asked Igaram if there were any way I could infiltrate Baroque Works…"
"Because that would be the only way to clear away the dark shadow that looms over Alabasta and determine just what exactly is Baroque Works' objective once and for all…" she finished.
"Well aren't you a brave princess." Zoro said.
"So what exactly is the deal with this 'creation of an ideal nation' that Baroque Works is apparently scheming towards?" Nami asked before she realized something, "Wait, don't tell me…"
"Yes, it's as you might suspect. Although the boss has hinted at a goal of creating an ideal nation," Vivi agreed, "Baroque Works' true objective is to take over kingdom of Alabasta! And if I don't hurry back to my home country to stop the revolutionaries and tell the people about Baroque Works, things will go exactly as they planned!"
"I see… I guess that explains why you refused. A country in the middle of civil strife wouldn't have any money to spare." Nami said, finally understood.
"Told ya', stupid witch." I replied.
"So who is this boss dude anyways?" both Luffy and me asked in sync.
"You mean the boss' true identity!? Please don't ask me! In fact, you're better off not knowing! If you knew, Baroque Works would come and hunt you down…" Vivi replied.
"Hahaha. Yeah, just leave us out of it. I mean, a guy who's lanning to take over an entire country must be incredibly dangerous person!" Nami laughed out.
"Yes exactly. No matter how strong you pirates may be, you'd no match for Crocodile, a member of the Ouka Shichibukai!" Vivi exclaimed.
…
The girls were shocked about it as they paled as white as a sheet of paper, while Luffy and me were interested by the information.
"Didn't you just say his name…?" Zoro pointed out, sweat-dropped.
"Geshishishi! You really are a funny princess!" I exclaimed as I laughed at her and stopped as I sensed someone watching us. We turned and saw a vulture and an otter with sunglasses were watching us from the roof near us. Then they looked at each other before flew away, shocking the girls.
"A Shichibukai she said! Whoa!" Luffy and me exclaimed in sync, excited.
"Heh, not bad." Zoro smirked.
"YOU THINK SAYING IT ACCIDENTALLY MAKES THIS ANY BETTER!? WHY DO WE HAVE TO BECOME HUNTED DOWN BECAUSE OF A SIGLE SLIP-UP FROM YOU!?" I heard Nami yelled before letting go the poor princess and suddenly cried, "We just barely entered Grand Line and already we have a Shichibukai chasing after us…!" she exclaimed.
"Yeah, we're real lucky to be able to meet him so early, right boys?" I asked with a grin.
"Yeah, this will be really interesting." Zoro agreed with a smirk.
"Yeah! I wonder what kind of guy he is?" Luffy wondered.
"SHUT UP, YOU THREE!" Nami yelled at us before turned around and walked away, "It's been a real short time travelling with you but bye!" she said, fuming.
"Where're ya going, Nami?" Luffy asked.
"They don't know my face yet so I'm running away!" she replied.
I just rolled my eyes and saw that the otter was doing something on a sketchbook and showed his masterpiece to Nami, which revealing as all four of our portraits, and flew off again.
"NOW I CAN'T EVEN RUN AWAY!"Nami yelled again.
"S-sorry…" Vivi apologized.
"Where were you even planning to run away to?" Zoro asked, sweat-dropped.
"What interesting bunch of animals… I wonder if Flame, Takao, or maybe Ro could draw as well?" Luffy asked me.
I shrugged, "I dunno. Guess not, as they don't have any fingers to hold the pencil up." I replied.
"In any case, with this, all four of us are now on Baroque Works' hit list…" Zoro smirked.
"This is so cooool!" both Luffy and me exclaimed in sync as we grinned with excitement.
"FEAR NOT!"
We turned and saw—oh my god, it's the Chikuwa-Wig ossan with nasty make ups! NOOO!
I stared at the sight with 'OMG' look as the man was saying things and stuffs, not that I knew what he's saying cause I'm too shocked because of the sight before me..
Then we goes toward the dock as the Chikuwa-Wig ossan was about to sail off to Alabasta. The others were talking things until I just realized that the Chikuwa-Wig ossan was already sailed off quite far away. But then suddenly, the ship he uses to go to Alabasta suddenly blew up. We widened our eyes as we saw the burning horizon.
"It can't be…" Nami whispered in disbelief, "Pursuers!? Already!?"
I gritted my teeth as I kept looking at the burning horizon while the others were talking to each other. I quickly reached Vivi's arm and pulled it. "Come on, we better hurry and set sail before the pursuers found us! Don't let his sacrifice be in vain!" I exclaimed and saw that she's biting her lower lips until it bleed. Apparently Nami saw it and hugged her, tried to calm her down. I smiled and ran after the boys.
"It's alright! I promise we'll safely get you back to Alabasta!"
"Luffy! Eri! Go wake those three up and bring them back to the ship! I'll be going ahead to the ship first!" Zoro said as we kept running.
"Those five managed to save all of East Blue all by themselves…!"
"Alright, just leave it to us!" we replied in sync and we ran into the said house where the other three are.
"Even a Shichibukai won't stand a chance against them!"
XXX
We finally found the boys and Flame, still sleeping soundly. Apparently, Takao followed us so he helped us with carrying Flame. As Luffy grabbed Sanji-san's leg, I grabbed Usopp's nose and we ran outside, toward the dock where Merry is.
"Let's go!" we exclaimed in sync as we ran.
"AAAAGGHHHHHHH!" "W-what!? What's going on? The hell are you doing, Luffy!? Hey!"
"No time for telling you guys now!" I told them as we kept running.
"Let go of me! What's the big idea!?" "YOU'RE BREAKING MY NOSE!"
We kept running and we finally arrived at the dock. "WE BROUGHT THE GUYS!" we yelled in sync as we saw Zoro on the deck of the ship.
"Good, now get on. We're ready to leave at any moment now." Zoro told us as Takao let go of his grip on Flame to the deck with loud 'BRAK' and we looked at the guys, who were apparently fainted.
"Huh? Are you guys still sleeping?" we asked in sync to no one in particular.
"We don't have the time to go look for him!" I heard Nami exclaimed as I dragged Usopp and threw him to the deck coarsely.
"But I can't just leave him here…!" Vivi replied.
"What's wrong?" Zoro asked.
"She says her duck is missing and won't come even after whistling!" Nami said.
"You mean him?" Zoro pointed at the said duck, which right next to him and quacked at them, "He got on the boat even before me."
"THAT'S WHERE YOU WERE!?" the girls yelled.
I jumped on the ship and thankfully, I found my treasure sack on the lower deck, unharmed. I ran to it and hugged it tight, grateful that it didn't get any harm, even from Nami.
"Huh? What's that?" I heard Nami asked.
I turned and hissed at her, making her back away a step with weird look. I huffed and carried it toward Girl's Room. I put it in my treasure chest and locked it with code-lock. I grinned and walked back to the deck and saw the aura was so intents. I saw everyone's expressions were so tense and I sensed that there's someone unfamiliar to me on the deck. I turned and sure enough, I saw the mysterious Archeologist sitting on the rail of the upper deck, smiling mischievously.
Nico Robin.
I was staring at her with blank looks until her soft laugh breaks my thoughts.
"I must tell you Miss Wednesday, I met up with Mr. 8 just a little while ago…" she said, her eyes not taking off from Vivi.
"Are you saying… it was you who did that to Igaram…!?" Vivi said.
"Hey! Why are you on our ship anyways!?" Luffy yelled.
"What are you doing all the way out here… Miss All-Sunday!?" Vivi exclaimed.
"Who is it this time!? Whose partner is she!?" Nami asked, frantically.
"She's Mr. 0's partner…! She's the only one who knows the boss' true identity, which is why Igaram and I tailed after her to find out who the boss was as well!" Vivi replied.
"Well technically, it was more like I let you tail after me." the dark haired woman replied.
"Oh, so she's a good guy." Luffy pointed out.
"Not really, Luffy." I piped in.
"I already knew that! And I bet you're the one who told the boss that his identity was leaked!" Vivi yelled at her.
"Oh, so she's a bad guy!" Luffy pointed out again.
"Be quiet Luffy." I warned him.
"JUST WHAT EXACTLY IS YOUR OBJECTIVE!?" Vivi yelled.
"Now, now… no need to get so worked up. I only let you follow me because you looked so desperate…" she said and grinned, "And it was just too amusing to observe… a single princess who foolishly thinks she can take on the entire Baroque Works organization and save her kingdom…" she continued.
"DON'T YOU UNDERESTIMATE ME!"
As fast as the wind, almost all of the Strawhats brought up their weapons, except for Vivi, Luffy, Flame, Takao and me, whose were just staring at her intently.
But then just like a sorcery, the boys who were on either side on her, pointing a weapon at her, were flipped out to the lower deck and landed hard on the deck.
"Would you please mind… not pointing such dangerous weapons at me?" she exclaimed as the boys were flown to the lower deck and slapping off the other two's weapons.
"What!?"
"It's a Devil Fruit!"
It is kind of hard to realized or even see it, but I could saw some flower petals appears after those two fell toward the lower deck.
"Is it a Devil Fruit!?" Zoro asked.
"What ability does she have!?" Nami asked.
"WHOA! SHE'S A REAL BEAUTY!" wait, that's Sanji-san. Better ignore him.
"Fufufu… no need to get so riled up. I haven't come here on any orders nor do I have any reasons for fighting you people." She said and suddenly Luffy's hat was in her hand, shocking Luffy. "So you're the Captain of the Strawhat Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy." she said.
"Gimme back my hat! So you are trying to pick a fight with us, are ya now!?" Luffy yelled at her, shark-teethed and a tic mark on his forehead.
"I've now decided to see you as my enemy so come at me!" I heard Usopp said that, but he was hding behind the main mast, making Nami and me sweat-dropped.
"How unfortunate… small-time pirates having to look after a princess targeted by the entire Baroque Works organization… and a lone princess having to entrust herself to a few small-time pirates…" the dark haired woman said as she put the straw hat on her hat.
"But above all, how unfortunate your route pointed out by your Log Pose is…!" she said, "The name of the next place on your journey is… 'Little Garden'. Even if I weren't to lay a single finger on you, it's more than likely that you'd still never reach Alabasta. Without even meeting Crocodile, the curtains will close on your mission and lives."
"As if we'd just roll over and die! Now gimme back my hat!" Luffy yelled.
"Yeah, how dare you! Y-you big meanie!"
"Shut up Usopp." I deadpanned, not taking off my eyes from the dark haired woman, as she was now staring at me with observing looks.
Then she smiled and flicked off the straw hat to Luffy's head as she talked, "Enough howling, anyone could put up a brave front. Yet to know of the difficulty that lies ahead and still rush in is an act fit for only fools." And she threw something to Vivi, who caught it and showed as an Eternal Pose.
"You'll be able to skip right over your future troubles with that. The needle of that Log pose points to an obscure uninhabited island located right before Alabasta. Moreover, the route you'll be navigating on is unknown to Baroque Works so you won't be followed by anyone either." She finished.
"What? Is she not a bad person then?" Nami realized.
"W-why would you give such a thing to me!?" Vivi asked.
"It's probably a trap." Zoro said.
"Oh, I wonder about that…" the woman trailed off.
I saw that Vivi was thinking hard about this decision, Luffy grabbed the Eternal Pose and crushed it to pieces, which making Nami mad and kicked him and lecturing him. I decided to step in and tell her about something.
"Don't be a naïve, Nami. She's our enemy right now, you think that she could just choose the path of our journey!?" I yelled at her, which making her flinched a bit.
"Don't you dare think that you can choose the path of our journey!" Luffy yelled at the woman.
The woman smiled and replied, "I see. How unfortunate…"
"Luffy! Eri!"
"She blew up that Chikuwa mister so I hate her!" Luffy stated.
"Well, I don't dislike bold children… let us meet again soon if you survive." She said and walked toward the rear of the ship.
"I don't wanna!" Luffy snapped.
"Children? How old are you? Fifty?" I muttered, slightly offended by the word as she jumped off the ship and we saw there's a giant turtle as her transportation.
"Whoa! A giant turtle!" both Luffy and me exclaimed as we saw it swam away and I took a picture of it, "What a huge turtle." We finished.
"That woman…! I don't have the faintest idea what she's really planning!" Vivi cried out as she fell on her butt, looking down.
"Then it's a waste of time and effort to think about it." Nami said.
"We've got an incomprehensible person like her onboard too, ya' know." Zoro stated.
"Hey! Explain the situation to us!" Usopp whined.
I was so lost in thought as I kept remembering about Robin-san. Her pasts, fears, and other things. I could saw that she's almost similar to me. We always wearing masks back in past, we almost have the same fears, and we loves histories. The other Strawhats were talking to each other as I kept busy with my thought until a break of dawn cut down my bubbles of thoughts.
"It's morning! SANJI/SANJI-SAN! TIME FOR BREAKFAST!" both Luffy and me yelled in the same time and jumped down to the lower deck.
"Now then… since the sun is up, let's set sail!"
XXX
Sshhhhh…
I sighed as I took off all my clothes, leaving me with just my undergarments, and saw at myself in the mirror in the bathroom. I was staring at my reflection and sighed heavily. I walked toward the bathtub and plunked in my hand, checking the temperature. It's tepid, I nodded and was about to took off my undergarments until a certain brother of mine walked in without permission.
…
"What do you want, Luffy?" I asked as I untied my hair, leaving it to fall to my scarred back.
"Let's take a bath together! Like old days!" he exclaimed, big grin stretched on his face.
…
"Sure, why not." I replied. He cheered and started taking off all of his clothes and jumped into the bathtub, using a towel to cover his privates. I just shook my head and chuckled at his childish behavior and started taking of my undergarments before took a towel to cover my body and walked in, leaning on the rail of the bathtub across him.
I closed my eyes and sighed in content as the warm water washed all of my fatigues. I splashed my face with the water and washed it off. I saw Luffy was staring at me and grinned, even though I know he was weakened by the water. I turned myself and leaning on him, slowly sleepiness almost taking me over but I tried my best to fight it cause I need to clean myself off.
"Say Luffy," I called him, "Do you really think I should be alive?" I asked him, the same question as yesterday.
I could see that he frowned at my question, "I told you that I said yes, right? You're my sister! I'll protect you from anything!" he replied firmly. I turned my head to look at him in the eyes. I could see purity in his eyes, meaning that he's so sure about what he's saying. I could feel my eyes were watering and I brushed it off with the back of my hands, but I just couldn't stop the happy tears that kept falling down.
Thank you Luffy… for saying that… I felt so… precious…
Thank you... very much…
A/N: HEYA! Finally, Whiskey Peak Arc is finish! I was trying my best in this one, so yeah. Not much to say, but thanks for reading this one! And maybe I'll continue the Boss Luffy Special too if you guys want it! Thanks for the positive reviews!
For my reviewers (in ch 33 and the SBS)… thank you for the compliment on the cover! I was thinking of drawing Ace from the front, but I don't think that would be a great idea, since Ace is so handsome and all bulked up, I'm afraid I'll destroy his handsomeness because of my art style. *sobs* And the person in Roger's crew? *smirks* there're some huge hints from the omake! No, she's not Eri and she's not from our world. Oh, she did miss them. But she doesn't really care cause she knows that it won't affect the whole situation even if she did miss them, as she couldn't go back to Earth. Yet. She a person with 'Move Forward' type, even sometimes she could go sulking all the way she is when she really miss them, or because of her past. SBS of her in Earth? Nah, I don't think so. I think it will be the same as the one in OP world, only a few things like her Specific Smell, Inner Brain, and Bathing. And I have done this Arc in one chapter, again! And yes, the cover symbolizes Alabasta Arc. And I think Eri-chan is slowly becoming more and more like TenYO!Ace, wonder why?
For my reviewers (Boss Luffy Universe chapter 1)… yes, she will meet them eventually. I'll update it later when it's time. Yes, school is such a jerk sometimes, even the teachers too. Today, my cell phone was confiscated by my math teacher. I was already cool about it and decided to let it go, but then when the school was over and I was cleaning the class with my friends, she came to me and gave it back to me, asking me if I don't want it back and why didn't I take it back. So I just replied that she confiscated it, so yeah. Then I think she was sweat-dropping when I said that and said that I'm too submissive… but she said anything that confiscated by her will be held by her at least a week, but she gave it back only half-a-day! Teachers are weird like that, huh? And you're welcome OP-kun! I like starring them in my fic, but I was worried if I portrait El-kun OOC but then I was just, 'fuck it' and post it. Did I portrait him as OOC? Just tell me if it is! And yes, it needed a fight between Hiro-kun and Eri-chan. Maybe I'll add it in next time. I was thinking hard on the kimono, as it's kinda hard to portrait El-kun. But then I remembered that he got Dream-Dream DF so I make sphere patterns, like bubbles! And don't worry, I'll make it more later in the future. Yes, a big secret! The next one will be showing more Marco, I think. Don't worry, new friend! They'll meet up sooner or later! THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS YOU GUYS! LET ME GIVE YOU A BIG HUG AND KISSES! *hugs and kisses you*
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OMAKE!
Right when the Strawhats were on way to Reverse Mountain/the canals, it was ten o'clock in the morning in the other side of Paradise, New World.
Right now, Ace was getting ready to set sail again, until he saw a certain bird that always bringing papers, News Coo.
"OI! NEWSSIE!" he called, which taking the bird's attention and it flew down, perched on the railing in front of him. He decided to buy it and asked the bird about paper's price (as the Whitebeards were still haven't got their papers this morning), which unfortunately got raised up, again.
"What? The last time I bought it it's fifty beli! But now its one hundred beli!? Come on, you've got to be kidding me!" he protested, as he's always short on money, that's why he kept doing his usual 'Dine-and-Dash' to eat.
"C-coo…" the bird cooed, a little scared by the fireman's sudden burst.
Ace groaned and took out a coin of one hundred beli, putting it on the coin case that on the bird's neck, "Fine, but tell the journalists to lower the price, understand?" he commanded and opened the papers as the bird flew off again. He was searching for 'that man's' information, but unfortunately there isn't any.
But then he saw something was slipped off from the papers, which revealing as two bounty papers. He crouched down and took it to take a good look on it, only get blinked several times as he read back the words and watched closely to the pictures before grinning madly.
"OYAJII!" he shouted as he ran back to the deck where Whitebeard sat on his throne, watching his children's activities on the deck, especially watching the First Commander, Four Commander, and Twelve Commander in amusement as those three were having a-cat-and-dog cause the pompadour man and the small swordsman were deliberately throwing some of the pineapple-headed man's finished paperwork over-board to the sea, which earning the said blonde fuming. The giant man looked down and saw Ace was standing right beside his throne with bright face.
"Look Oyaji!" Ace brought up the bounty papers to his 'father', "These are my younger siblings' bounty papers!" he continued, really excited about it. Fortunately, the fireman's loud voice was able to take the other members' attention, especially the commanders.
"Bounty papers? So they're wanted right now?" Thatch piped in as he takes a good look at the papers until he laid an eye to Eri's bounty paper.
"Yeah! They're awesome right!?" the freckled young man grinned brightly.
Whitebeard laughed, "Gurarara! I see those brother and sister of yours are truly interesting, especially your sister." He said as he took the girl's bounty paper and staring at the paper with a grin. The phoenix man flew up and stood up on the giant man's shoulder to take a peek on the paper, only slightly widened his blue eyes.
"R-Rein…?" Marco whispered with sorrow in his eyes before flew down and walked away from the crowd, much to almost of the crewmembers and the young commander's confusions.
"What's wrong with him?" Ace asked in confusion at the First Commander's behavior.
"Well, as you can see, he's pretty much upset." The Sixteenth Commander sighed as he watched to the phoenix man way.
The pompadour man nodded in agreement, "Yeah, as that sister of yours is pretty much similar to someone special to him, too bad that person was disappeared without trace years ago." He finished and stretched out a bit.
The freckled young man raised his eyebrow, "Someone special? Like his lover?" he asked.
Haruta and Thatch were looking at each other before nodding, "Actually, she's his fiancée." Haruta added.
Ace choked by his own spit, "F-fiancée? Seriously? Then where did she go? A-and why?" he asked frantically, slightly surprised by the announcement.
They shrugged, "Who knows. But she sent us a letter by saying that she'll be back and marry with Marco after she finished with her business, who knows when." Izo said.
"Well, she is pretty. That pineapple-head sure is a lucky bastard!" Thatch said in frustration.
"If you're not an idiot and a pervert, I'm sure girls would love to service you." Izo said in sarcasm as he rolled his eyes and walked away from the deck.
"Hey!"
Ace was still puzzled by the sudden information, and slightly worried to the 'big brother' of their 'big family'. The booming laugh of the father of the family snapped him out from his thoughts.
"Don't worry about Marco, son. He's a strong man, and I'm sure Rein will come to marry him later." He said calmly.
"Rein?"
"His fiancée's name. She was actually one of Roger's Nakamas," Ace flinched when Roger's name was said, "But, she was gone a week before his execution." The giant man paused a moment before continued, "Then months later, she sent us a letter that said that she'll be back in the future after she finished her business, and go marry with Marco." He finished.
"B-but it's been… I dunno, twenty years? Are you sure she's still alive and, I dunno, didn't aged?" Ace asked carefully, only answered by the giant man with booming laugh.
"No, she's actually almost the same as Marco, which she could regenerated her cells—that's what she told me by the way—and, well, you'll know the rest, son." he answered.
Ace was able to absorb all the sudden information with clear head and nodded, looking back at the bounty papers in his hands and grinned widely.
"Hey! Does anybody have other ones of these papers?!" he asked loudly, taking the crewmembers' attentions.
"What for?" Haruta asked.
"Ya' know, to show them off all over the ship!" the freckled man replied with so much proud and excitement. "Oh I know! Maybe I should copy them using den den mushi!" he exclaimed and ran toward where the said den den mushi remains.
"EVERYONE, STOP ACE BEFORE HE COVERS THE MOBY DICK WITH THOSE PAPERS!"
And loud shouting, yelling, and booming laugh were surrounding all over Moby Dick. And the aura was really lively until Ace decided to leave, continuing his mission.
Well, except for one person…
But still a lively day, really.