"Are you serious captain?"
"I have to see him..." Ace was furiously trying to hold onto his hat as the cold blizzard winds blew them backwards "...Red haired shanks" He grinned not minding that it was freezing cold or the dangerous conditions though his crew seemd to be thinking 'what the hell's wrong with the captain?'
"Spade pirates?" Ace now stood before the yonko crew's shadows of the sheltered cavern from outsides blizzard "the infamous rookie came to say hello to me?" the captain stood using his sword to help him up though it could of also been a sign of agression as the spade pirates back away slightly towards the cavern enterance though their captain stood his ground.
"It's not what your thinking" Ace noticed the mans cautiousness "my brother was always talking about you as his life saver" he explained "so I came to say thank you"
"Your luffys brother?" Shanks whole face light up at the mention of the younger boy "I didn't know he had a brother"
'Maybe if he could remeber anything mits ever told him' benn thought to himself as he was sure the youngest senior officer had done so before
"Great, I'm glad to meet you. Tell me all about yourself" Shanks grinned, he turned to his crew "Lets have a banquet!"
The shouts of both crews agreement echoed off the stone walls of the cavern.
Both crews sat round the crackling warm fire with the various foods (well mostly meat) places before them, a party in full swing already.
"So he's still talking about becoming king of the pirates?" shanks grinned with a bowl of sake in his hand
"I guess thats his favourite phrase" Ace grinned before taking a long drink himself "I feel sorry for him because...I'm the one who'll become the next king."
"Yeah? you think?" shanks replied politely
"First, I'll let the whole world know the power I have" you could see Ace's eyes light up with determination
"Oh? How'll you do that?" Shanks asked amused by the idea that both brothers had the same dream
"By beating the strongest man in this world" Ace replied with the fierce glow of the fire causing shadows to devlop across his face as he spoke; though this seemed to be a near impossible he still looked as if his determination alone would give him the victory he required
"You mean Whitebeard?" Shanks answered before taking a drink for himself
Ace looked round the room, he could still remember some figures like yassop, roo and deffinatly benn from his childhood as well as a few new members he noted of but one person seemed to be missing from this scene.
"So where's mits then?" Ace asked
Shanks looked a little surprised at the young man asking for his daughter "You know my daughter then too?" he chuckled "Mits isn't here right now, she off somewhere having her own little adventure" he looked at the young man before him and for some reason felt some kind of link between them when he noticed the looks in the mans eyes at the mention of his daughter not being there - disapointment most deffinatly. "Don't worry you'll cross paths at some point" he assured him
Ace just smirked at the thought of the two meeting. Maybe he would let her rule one of the blues when he was pirate king.
"You know what" He searched for something in his pocket that he had always kept with him "Why don't you take ths?" he handed the young rookie captain a small velveted box
Ace curiously opened the small box to show a beautiful ring, a gold ring with a 3 carat ruby and small diamond accents round the edge - it must of cost a small fortune that only a man of Shank's status could obtain. He whistled "Thats a pretty big ruby"
Shanks nodded "I would keep a hold of that if I were you"
"I will thank you" Ace smiled studying the ring - he didn't think he would use but he would't sell it or either
Once the spade pirates had said their goodbyes
Yassop just had to ask something "Wasn't that the ring that you wanted to propose to Charlotte with but never got the chance to"
"Yep" Shanks smiled at the memory "but I have a feeling that I'll see it again and that it'll be staying in the family still"
"You don't mean that you think that..." Roo talked as he ate understanding what the captain was getting at
"Hey I'll take any bet on it" Shanks offered to the crew
"Even your Sake?" Benn smirked
Shanks thought to himself before giving a howl of laughter and nodding; the whole crew gasping at the response and a handful even fainting - shanks would never so such a thing if he wasn't completely sure.
Ace looked down at the ring as the crew set off for its next journey; he didn't know why but it really reminded him of Mitsuki - proberly cause it was red and it was something for a girl and mitsuki was a girl though you wouldn't think the difference when they were younger. He looked over at the ocean wondering what she was doing right there and then as he prepared to face Whitebeard.
"Good morning"
Ace groaned as he woke "I fell asleep again didn't I?" his eyes adjusted to the light as he saw mitsuki lying ontop of the bed next to him
"Yeah but it's pretty cute so long as we're not running from marines" she smiled
At that second Ace remembered his little run in with Garp; he slammed his head into the pillow under his head "please tell me that they're not here anymore"
"here? no." she got up off the bed "In the village proberly"
Looking round the room Ace realised that he didn't recognise this room at all
"Everything ok?" a Tall fairly dark skinned man walked into the room and leaned against the door frame "Sleeping beauty awake?"
"We're fine" Mitsuki answered as if nothing was wrong
"Where are we?" Ace asked rubbing his head as he sat up from the bed
"I got Law to give us a ride to the next island" mitsuki explained "You fell asleep so we just lugged you onto the ship"
"Well Bepo wasn't exactly happy with you suddenly falling asleep on him but hey made it easier for us" Law chuckled
"No wonder the landing was so soft" Ace smirked to himself thinking about the dream he had from the comfortable sleep
Mitsuki sat on the bed next to him "So what were you dreaming about that made you smile like that?"
Ace looked at mitsuki then to her hand were the ruby engagement ring sat in its pride; as if it was always meant to be there "You"
She blushed lightly before kissing him lightly "my corny corny fire fist" she giggled
Law just rolled his eyes at the scene, pretending to not be there unless he wanted to either get roasted or brutally mulilated and tortured (if lucky). He just watched the two; he had to admit the red hair crew doctor had done a superb job at healing all the supposidly dead mans injuries though to how much of these injuries were real since his death was now shown to be staged. People always thought that the doctor of death and the reaper were quite close - him sending people to be collected by her for the realm of the dead and so on - though this was the first time they had actually met face to face; of course he had heard of her (if you were a serious contender for pirate king then you had to) and she had proberly heard of him (few people she hadn't got information on). She wasn't like he had imagined though; marines displayed her as a cruel killer with the intellect and skill to scare grown men though she was actually quite different to that description - intelligent yeah but she wasn't cold or cruel she was the opposite to that. And he had to admit she was cute (you had to blind,deaf and dumb not to) but he knew that she was engaged and was already in love with her fiance, fire fist ace - he knew when to back off. But that didn't mean they couldn't be friends.
Law coughed against his hand - just a reminder he was still in the room, the two looked over at him "Mitsuki, Ace, shall we continue our conversation upstairs?" he offered
"Alright" mitsuki sighed
"Fine with me" Ace got up from the bed
'I wonder if that poker game is still on?' mitstuki thought to herself, no matter what Roo said, she did not have a gambling problem...she just liked seeing the look of desperation and embarrassement on grown men.
Both men let Mitsuki through the door first, knowing that it was the polite thing to do but the two were soon left in a awkward silence with tension rising in the air between them.
"you first" Law intsructed indicating to through
"no you" Ace leaned against the door frame with one hand and mirrored the same gesture as Law had done
"Your my guest"
"Your the captain on the ship"
Both men just wouldn't give into the childish game of 'who should go through the door'.
Mitsuki looked back after noticing that no one was following "would the both of you just move already?" she groaned before disapearing out of sight in the corridor
Both men looked at each other again "you go first" they growled in unison
When they did find mitsuki again she had already stripped most of the Heart crew of their money and clothing. She gave a sly smile from behind her cards while her eyes were daring for someone to call her or to challenge her in anyway which left the majority of the crew unable to meet that look without a sudden fear washing over them.
"So you made it through the door then" Mitsuki sighed though she didn't look up from her cards to look at the two
"Captain" Shachi begged "please make her stop"
"Why don't you just stop playing?" Law sighed pointing out the obvious "And put some clothes on"
"She took clothes when we ran out of money" Penguin looked up at the captain as well "She just left us our underwear and hats"
"So what are you playing for then?" Law raised a eyebrow - if she had taken their clothes then what else could be offered instead?
"Your stuff" Mitsuki grinned to herself
"Your gonna lose the ship at this rate" Bepo piped in, he had been smart enough to stay away from the money draining game
Law just shot a glare at the gambling crew knowing that they could loose everything they owned from the shirts on their backs to their submarine; the men just lowered themselves to the table caught in a crossfire of looks that just plainly scared them.
Ace laughed pulling up a chair behind mitsuki "No mercy with you and cards"
"I picked it up here and there, I won the shirts off the backs of rookie crew memebers when I was 7 at 21" she shrugged as if it was no big deal "I had to give them back though cause benn said it wasn't what namaka do" she inserted air quotes with a free hand at what benn had said "of course it didn't matter if he did it later that night"
She looked up at the heart crew members again - challenging them to do something
"I'm out" Shachi threw out quickly followed by penguin and most people round the table
"I got a full boat" Jean Bart put his cards down: 3 3 3 6 6
Mitsuki sighed as she proudly put her own cards down with a slight flicker "Just like what you guy's have done thrice since the game started, Flush" she smirked: A K Q J 10
"Great, now quit before we loose the sub" Law ordered, watching his crew soon disperse from the table.
Mitsuki grinned flipping through the money she had made "this looks to be enough to last a while"
"Seriously, your doing my poker matches from now on" Ace looked from over her shoulder at the amount "I always lost at this type of thing"
"You wanna play then?" she picked up the deck of cards and started shuffling them in her hands
"Like what?" Ace smirked "Strip poker?"
She had to smile at that "Even though your at a disadvantage?" her shuffling increasing speed as she went from a simple shuffle to a few more fancier tricks
"Where did you learn that?" Ace asked trying not to sound as impressed as he really was
"Hey, Card games, Bar games, even chess. All ways of getting info" she dished out the cards between them "All times I get want I want"
Ace was about to pick up his cards when... "Mitsuki may I discuss something with you?" Ace groaned - it was Law again
"Sure" Mitsuki answered politiely
"Whats this about Den mushi's aparently being carriers of necrotoxins?" he sat down at one of the chairs at the table, uninvitedly though it looked like he didn't care.
"Its not true" mitsuki repositioned herself on the chair seeing that she was getting into business "It was a mix up from the media, first of all they got den mushi snails and cone snails mixed up then there was a miss print as it should of said nuerotoxic not necrotoxic"
"Necrotoxin? Nuerotoxin?" Ace was confused once more
"Necrotoxin is flesh eating bacteria" Mitsuki answered "and nuerotoxins primarily affect the nervous system of animals"
"yey" ace muttered sarcastically but it made her happy to talk about such things
"And what about this new species of spiders I heard about?"
"L. tredecimguttatus? It's Nuerotoxic as well aparently" she shrugged, putting her cards down
"With all the new islands in the New world, its amzing that we are still finding new species."
Ace zoomed out at this point at the mention of so many long scientificy words that made his head hurt. Sure he wasn't intelligent like Mits but he was street smart which had gotten him through life. It was hard to believe that she had come from one of the most laid back men alive though her mother sounded like a scholar type.
"You wanna see it?" Ace snapped out of it when he heard Law offering his fiance to go see something
"Sounds cool" she nodded looking at Ace "Thats ok isnt it?"
He wasn't sure what was going on but nodded anyway; she smiled kissing his cheek before leaving with Law.
'What did I agree to?' Ace shook his head
CNK corner!
GreenDrkness: wait is she a den master cuz that seems the most appropriate for her?
Yes Mitsuki is a Den Master but she's teasing Ace by not telling him, Roo confirmed that she is in Chapter 34.
As for the debate over the rating I'm gonna keep it as it is for now but I don't know about later on though.
PeaceMonk: enjoyed your story and was wondering if I could get a character submission from you. I'm not planning on using it in story, but it will encourage me to write (by PM)
All info about Mitsuki so far is on the second page that you asked for except for Talents that you asked for which I will put down here. Mitsuki's talents include: Assassionation, Toxicology, Gambling Games, Teasing, Speed, How to piss Benn Beckman off, Tongue for Alcohol, Hand to Hand combat.
If you have any questions about Mitsuki or any Oc characters (like wasp) then just ask and I'll answer as best I can :)
Rawr! is dinosaur for see ya later!