Characters read Rewind One Piece
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)
"Let's be fair here. Before we go to take out Arlong Brulee should probably get into the habit of wearing something to hide her face." Nami was the one to mention as they were eating at the Baratie waiting on Kreig to show up."
"Why do you say that?" Katakuri demanded glaring darkly at Nami who sighed and motioned to the book while most of the older Charlottes were glaring at her.
"Why? Because of…" Brulee trailed off self-conscious as her hand shot up to her scar, causing Luffy to lean over and kiss it which made her blush.
"No Brulee. You look fine with the scar, that's not what I meant. What I meant is that you're still a part of…your mom's crew technically right?"
"Oh…yes that is a good idea." Katakuri said relaxing now that he knew it wasn't for some vain reason. The rest of the formerly glaring siblings nodded at that in understanding, relaxing that their sister wasn't being insulted.
"Sis-con." Usopp coughed into his hand making Brulee blush and scowl at them as the other Straw Hats snickered.
"Nami asked looking at Brulee sympathetically and earning a small nod from the tallest of the crew.
"We, or rather Zoro and Luffy, got our first bounties after they beat up Arlong. If you joined us there and got a bounty, then they'll likely have your picture on the bounty." Nami began to explain making Brulee's eyes widen slightly."
"Which would definitely be brought to my attention and then if I saw you again after that…" Big Mom trailed off and she knew how she would have reacted if she had found out before Luffy had beat her.
"Exactly." Nami said pointing at Big Mom.
"And then mama and my siblings would see it and realize that I'm a traitor or at least know that somethings going on that shouldn't be." Brulee finished making the orange haired girl nod while the boys looked surprised by this as well, they never even thought of it."
"And that is why us girls are the brains." Brulee said grinning slightly at Robin, Amande and Nami who all grinned or smiled back.
"Because you're just as smart as you are beautiful and I'm more than happy to admit that I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer."Lufy said grinning at her and kissing her quickly when she blushed and opened her mouth as if to say something.
"Exactly. By wearing a mask of some sort then you'll be able to hide your face from view so as long as they don't get anything that implies you being well…you in the shot then it should be okay." Nami said making Brulee nod slowly as well in return before Luffy said something else."
"My Height could have been passed off easily as a long leg. I wear a different outfit when with the Straw hats and my hair and face are my only distinguishing features but are easily covered." Brulee said nodding her head in agreement to this even thought it already happened once.
"And since most people confuse your three dimensional mirrors for crystals of some kind your Devil Fruit is able to also be hidden." Robin said nodding her head at that.
"Besides if the whole world saw how beautiful she was, then I'd have to kill half of the people in the world to keep them away from my wife." Luffy said bringing up another good point, in his mind, as he kissed Brulee's cheek which had her blushing and staring down at the cup of tea in her hands."
"Well at least he's caring and protective." Custard said with a small sweat drop.
"Not like you'd even have to bother with any of the weaklings captain. No need to waste your time with the fodder when I can use em to keep my blades sharp." Zoro said smirking a bit as he flicked one sword out of it's sheath just a little bit."
"And Zoro is very much ready to do whatever Luffy says or does. Those two share the same brain cell." Nami said sighing but looking fondly at the two who grinned and exchanged fist bumps.
"Heh. Not like you'd even be able to find them mutt. Leave protecting Brulee-chan from the creeps up to me Captain. None of them will get close enough to see her." Sanji said smirking as he lit another cigarette and used Zoro's 'nickname' amongst the allies."
"His nickname is Mutt?" Angel asked raising an eyebrow at Zoro.
"What's his excuse?" Citron asked Nami curiously.
"He and Zoro are always trying to one up each other so whenever Zoro is doing some dumb shi-crap then Sanji is right there with him." Nami said flatly and censoring herself with a glance at the peacefully sleeping Sabo.
"The Demon Mutt, the rabid dog that was only tame for his master and occasionally his masters beloved."
"Ruff ruff." Zoro said smirking a bit while Luffy laughed.
"We're aren't married yet dear. We're waiting until we have everyone gathered again." Brulee reminded her husband who just smiled fondly and kissed her nose. Most of the rest of the customers at the restaurant could only try and not stare at the odd couple. Seriously that lady was twice the boys size!"
"At the least but that's fine with me." Luffy said shrugging and unbothered by the size difference.
"You're made of rubber. There is no size difference if you don't want there to be." Amande said dryly to Luffy who grinned at that and Brulee blushed.
"I know, but I can still call you my wife." Luffy said nuzzling her cheek fondly and making her blush and look down at her drink so she didn't have to see the smirks on her crewmates faces. She knew they were smirking or snickering."
"Of course we were. She's a Tsundere." Usopp said earning a small protesting squeak from Brulee while Luffy stretched enough to kiss her cheek and then began to slowly pepper her neck in kisses.
"Kreig's here." Sanji said noticing the arrival of the man with his Haki.
"So how are we going to do this? Just all of us kick some serious ass or what?" Usopp asked looking to Luffy who tilted his hat back as he leaned against Brulee.
"Well you and Nami need to start heading for her home town so that we can set the scene for Arlong. Brulee do you want to stay here or-" Luffy was cut off by a look from his fiancé."
"Like I was going to leave without being forced to." Brulee scoffed even as she tilted her neck enough to give Luffy access to more room to kiss.
"If I leave the three 'monsters' alone against some idiot with an ego then there will be too much property damage. I'll stay here and keep you three on a leash."
"And that was the wrong choice of words." Brulee said sighing heavily while her siblings began to snicker or choke on nothing as they stared at her.
"Brulee said flatly and making Luffy grin up at her while Nami face-palmed and Usopp began choking on his tea. Oh this was going to be funny.
"Ruff ruff." Luffy barked as Zoro let out a small howl to go along with his captain."
"Same brain cell sounds right, peroin."
"Here you are. One leash." Sanji said actually holding a leash out to Brulee who blushed as her palm met her forehead."
"I knew someone would make a joke about a leash and collar eventually so I had that ready." Sanji said with a grin.
"Usopp and Nami both were laughing by now and ignoring the pirates that were threatening them, or trying to at least."
"They were threatening us?" Nami asked raising an eyebrow.
"You morons." Brulee said her face a dark red color now as she ignored the leash that Sanji was offering her, the other end was already hooked onto a collar on Luffy's neck."
"Shishishishi! We still have it!" Luffy said and Brulee blushed and slapped him upside the head.
"Don't tell them that!"
"To keep from looking at them until her blush died down, Brulee began creating a small hand mirror and then making and attaching more mirrors to it until it resembled a mask. Sliding it on over her head, it completely hid her face and stayed on without bothering her eyesight in the least. After all…Mirrors were in her domain."
"Well it took me a few minutes to get used to looking through them all at the same time without going cross eyed or anything but it honestly was set up simple enough that I could look through the mirrors on my eyes and they were arranged in the Mirror-world to be reflecting what was in the other mirrors." Brulee said shaking her head slightly.
"Nami. Usopp it's about time for you two to leave yeah? After all…Mihawks on the way." Luffy said something tickling his Observation Haki as he looked up and smiled dangerously at the Krieg Pirates that were trying to threaten the Chefs."
"Oh so this is getting into where you defeated Mihawk then?" Amande asked leaning forward in interest as she glanced at Zoro who nodded his head.
"We're the most dangerous pirates in the East Blue." Krieg was boasting loudly as he glared at the Chefs and remaining pirates.
"Only because you outnumber the other Pirates in the East Blue."
"Burn!" Oven said with a laugh.
"Luffy said calmly and making there be a long silence for a moment before all of the Krieg pirates glared at him and growled darkly.
"Besides the East Blue is the weakest of the seas. Fools like you wouldn't even last in Paradise much less the New World."
"They didn't. Hell I'm not sure if they even made it into Paradise proper or just tried to go through the Calm Belt without being prepared." Nami said with a snort.
"Brulee said adding that in with a small shrug as she stood up beside her beloved with the other two of the monster trio flanking them.
"And how would you know that?" Gin asked looking at the tall woman whose face was covered but she could still tell where they were."
"Which honestly probably freaked them out since Devil Fruits are very rare in the East Blue."
"I'm from the New World. Trust me I have dozens of brothers and sisters that are able to take out your entire crew without breaking a sweat."
"They were so weak that even the little ones could take them out, although they'd probably get a few scratches or bruises from it." Brulee said with a snort as she shook her head.
"Brulee said smirking and making some of the opposing pirates look horrified at that information.
"Don't bother yourself with them love. After all…the Hawk came searching for it's pray." Luffy said making everyone look confused aside from his crew before suddenly…Krieg's derelict ship was sliced in half.
"Well then. Looks like it's time to earn my title." Zoro said smirking as he watched Mihawk block all of the bullets with just his blade tip."
"Have to admit that was kind of awe inspiring when we saw it the first time and I knew nothing of Haki." Zoro said with a dry chuckle.
"Mihawk I'm here to challenge you for the title of Worlds Greatest Swordsman." Zoro said stepping forward and making Mihawk look over and narrow his eyes at the green haired sword wielder.
"Very well. Perhaps this will ease my boredom." Mihawk said observing the boys power and reaching for his Black Blade without hesitation."
"Heh. He usually uses his tiny necklace knife for any opponents in the Blues. He must have sensed a lot of power from you." Smoothie said staring at Zoro who smirked slightly.
"Zoro." Luffy said sharply as he looked at his swordsman who was grinning dangerously.
"Yes Captain?" Zoro asked wondering if his captain would try and talk him out of fighting Mihawk again."
"Not that you listened to me the first time around." Luffy said and Zoro winced.
"Yeah I was pretty arrogant back then." Zoro admitted with a small shrug.
"…Don't hold back. Make me proud to be your captain." Luffy said making Zoro's grin widen to almost devilish levels.
"Aye." Zoro said unsheathing his swords and narrowing his one good eye at Mihawk."
"Again. My left eye's not gone. I just see no reason to use it most of the time." Zoro said smirking slightly and knowing he'd probably open it against Mihawk.
"…Was that pun intentional?" Franky asked staring at Zoro who tilted his head.
"What pun?"
"The battle for Worlds Greatest Swordsman had begun."
"And you'll get to hear more about it in the next chapter hopefully. Yohohoho!" Brook said making quite a few curious people groan at that while the book vanished from his hand and reappeared in Perospero's.