Konnichi-wa! Raikku of the Darkness is taking One Piece by storm! The plot bunny has been jumping on my brain, screaming: "Write this, DAMN YOU!", ever since I started reading One Piece. -yells at head- I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!
-bedroom door explodes, a 4Kids TV executive jumps in-
4Kids Guy: Have you gotten the permission of 4Kids TV and Eiichiro Oda?
Me: -pulls out a slip- Just Eiichiro-sensei…
Bullets go into computer
Me: DAMN YOU, 4KIDS!
Disclaimer: Raikku of the Darkness doesn't own One Piece or any of the characters it homes. However, all unrecognizable characters and/or items are owned by her, so no steal-y!
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Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro
By: Raikku of the Darkness
Prologue: Into Hell…or Close
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"Minna ni hitsuyou to sareru kimi wo iyaseru tatta hitori ni naritakute sukoshi gaman shi sugita na…"
"I wanted to become the only one who can heal you, who is needed by everyone and I've endured it a little too much…"
-Lines from "Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro" by Hikaru Utada-
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The sun shined brilliantly as the Straw hat crew's vessel, the Going Merry, surfed over the crystal waters of the East Blue. Or so they hoped. Even though the day was perfect, there was still a strange coat of fog that covered the sea, so they couldn't see the water at all. This and Luffy's wanting to 'drive' the ship ticked Nami off very much…
"Damn it, Luffy!" the navigator yelled at the top of her lungs, to a silly looking seventeen year-old boy. "You can't drive the ship!"
"But, why?" Luffy whined. "I'm Captain!"
"So? You'll kill us all!"
"Will not!"
"Will so!"
"Will not!"
"Will so!"
"Will so!"
"Will not!"
"Ha, you said 'Will Not', so I win!" he exclaimed, looking very pleased with himself.
Nami sighed. "Why me?" she whispered.
"Nami-san!" a cheery voice called from the galley. A man with blond hair and weird eyebrows emerged followed by a guy with green hair and another with short black, curly hair. "Your Sanji is here with your mid-morning snack!"
"Please, Sanji! Just a bite!" the long-nose man known as Usopp, begged, practically trying lick the bowl filled with exotic fruits that Sanji balanced on his hand.
"No! This is for the lovely Nami-san!"
"You can't starve us like this, shit-cook." said Zoro, the swordsman and first mate.
The blond, after placing the bowl on the table in front Nami, turned sharply to him.
"I can and will, shit-swordsman."
"Oh, no you won't."
"What are you going to do? Fight me?"
"Maybe…"
Nami sighed again for the umpteenth time that hour. Her chestnut eyes glanced over the edge of the ship, into the fog. Something didn't feel right, and she knew it.
"Luffy, DON'T!" Usopp exclaimed. Luffy had taken to the ship's wheel, turning it to a sharp left. The pirates grabbed onto whatever they could: the sail, doors, the back of Zoro's shirt.
"Luffy, you idio--"
CRASH!
The Going Merry went as it collided with the side of a cliff that seemed to appear out of nowhere.
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"Now what are we going to do?" Sanji questioned as the crew looked at their surroundings…and the fallen ship.
"I don't know, ask the captain." Zoro glared at Luffy.
"I said I was sorry…"
"Well, sorry isn't going to cut it!" Nami yelled. "We, at least, need to know where we are."
"I'll go look around…" the first mate began, walking away from his friends, toward the great, looming forest behind them.
The trees were tall here and formed a canopy above his head. A wind blew through the leaves, making whispers of voices. His brown eyes looked about him. Something about this place seemed so familiar to him; As if he'd been there before…
"Zoro!" Usopp yelled to him.
"What?"
"We know where we are!"
"Suiren Isle." Nami read, the guys around her, listening deeply. "Or Luca Isle, named for the largest city, Luca-"
"I've heard of Luca!" said Sanji. "One of the cooking capitals of the world!"
"And entertainment." Usopp added. "I came here on one of my many adventures, chasing the infamous--"
"Anyway," she continued. "it says here the closest village to us is Suiren Village, which isn't far. About an hour's walk."
"We'll be able to get a carpenter to look at the ship."
"And get an estimate."
"And eat some meat!" The pirates glared at Straw Hat.
"I'll shut up…"
"Please do."
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Roronoa Zoro sighed as he and the rest of his crew trudged down the dirt road, carrying his legendary swords and whatever things he could carry on his back, unlike Nami, who carried a small bag and had Sanji, her lovesick puppy, carry everything but the kitchen sink. Since leaving the Going Merry, he had the sinking feeling he'd been here before. Everything was familiar to him. But he shook the feelings away, looking forward to Suiren Village and hoping it had a bar.
Soon the unlikely troop came across an open field that was being tended to by an old man and his two sons.
"A farm!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Finally! Civilization!" sighed Nami, wiping her brow as though she was tired from carrying something. Sanji had fallen to the ground in a heat stroked heap and Usopp was currently trying to continue his "riveting" story. Luffy and Zoro walked over to the men in the field.
"Excuse me, sir." the captain began. "Can you tell me where Soupy-"
"Suiren." his first mate corrected.
"What he said- Village is?"
"Oh, you mean the valley? Just down the road, you can't miss it." the old man said, not looking up from his work.
"Thanks, come on, Luffy." Zoro said. As the duo walk toward their comrades, one of the man's sons yelled out to them:
"Stop, pirates!"
"Crap." Zoro whispered. The man who yelled to them, hoped over the fence to block their path. "There's no way you're going to get to pillage Suiren!"
"We have no need to do that." Nami said.
"Yeah, we're just going to go to get someone to fix our ship." Sanji added.
The man scoffed. "Lies! You!" he pointed at Luffy. "You're that Straw Hat kid on the wanted poster!"
Luffy smiled. "You saw that? Cool! I'm famous!" he exclaimed.
"And I was on there, too!" Usopp added proudly.
"You're that girl with the curls?"
"Grrr…"
"Anyway," he continued. "I sent my brother to the village to get our resident pirate hunters, so don't move," he raised his shovel. "Or else."
"Sorry, guy." a rod connected with his head. " we can't have that!"
"Wow, Nami!" Luffy and Usopp exclaimed.
"Oh, beautiful and deadly!" Sanji was blinded by love…again.
"Come on!" Zoro yelled over his shoulder. "We got to get out of here!"
The crew took off, running back toward the Going Merry. Then Nami stopped.
"Wait. Where are we going to go?"
The swordsman turned to her, clearly looking annoying.
"We're going back to th---oh yeah."
"Duh, shit-swordsman!"
"You know, shit-cook, I've very irritable right now and don't have time for your stuff."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yes."
"Oh ye-" the argument was interrupted by the high-pitched scream of a woman, scratch that, Usopp.
"Somebody shot at me!" he screamed, flailing his arms around him.
"That was a mistake, pirate!" a female voice called out.
"It won't miss this time!" another added.
The Straw-Hat crew turned to see two teenage girls and a young boy behind them. The one with the guns pointed at them had mid-length lavender hair pulled back into a low ponytail and blue eyes; she wore a red full bodysuit with a white collar and large black boots. At her side, was wrap that was red and seemed to be a part of a skirt. The girl to her left was obviously younger and had blond hair pulled into a high ponytail, surrounded by a purple headband and occasionally a braid. She had green eyes and wore a yellow bikini top with a brown skirt and white boots and a red and yellow scarf around her neck. And the boy, who looked to be around 10 or 11, had brown eyes and hair held out of his face with a leather bandana. He wore baggy, brown shorts covered by long tan vest, which covered a brown t-shirt.
"Yeah, pirates! Get out or face the wrath of the Kyoretsu Pirate Hunters!" the kid yelled.
"We told you not to come!" the two girls yelled at him.
"Miss Rhyne!" he whined. "You're embarrassing me! How are they supposed to take me seriously when you're treating me like a kid!"
"You are a kid, Tai!" the blond girl exclaimed.
"No one asked you, Ayame!"
"Shut up!"
"You shut up!"
"You shut up!"
"You shut up!"
"Ugh…" the woman, Rhyne, groaned.
As the two argued, the Straw-Hat pirates looked at each other.
"These are the resident pirate hunters?" Nami asked.
"That's what the guy said."
Zoro stepped forward. "You!" he yelled in the direction of the hunters.
Rhyne looked at him and fire appeared in her eyes. "YOU!"
"Oh no. It's Zoro."
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Suiren- Water Lily