Can you trust me?
Rating: PG
Pairing: ZoroxRobin, LuffyxNami
WARNING: May contain spoiler!
It was such a lovely day and a beautiful island. Who could have thought that an island that float on top of the ocean could create such a wonderful and artistic technology. Water were everywhere, even most of the island were filled with water. The only vehicles on the island were a weird looking big fish called Bull which became a water horse to everyone who rode on them.
While walking around, Robin and Chopper could see many unusual things, things they never seen in any island they had visited. People were so friendly, stores were everywhere and sell many souvenirs.
"How come there are so many Sanji?" Asked Chopper, who was looking at the boys and men who were trying to flirt to Robin.
Robin just chuckled, "This Island seems to be a place for tourist, so most of people here were use with strangers. And the stores around here sell many souvenirs for the tourist and the famous and very well known souvenirs they sell here is the mask."
"Wow," Said Chopper in amazement, "You know a lot."
"It's just a habit of mine," Smiled Robin, "I like to hear and analyze things around me, just in case I need to know about the place I am now. And I used to survive by watching and listening to people carefully."
"Woah, you're so amazing Robin," Said Chopper
Robin gave him a smile while pointing at a store a few feet in front them, "Ah, there's the bookstore."
"Yay!" Cried Chopper then zoom towards the store, "Let's go in!" He was so excited he forgot that people were staring at him in surprise since they never seen a deer talking before.
Robin sweat-dropped, "Uh, okay…"
She then took a step forward, suddenly a person with a robe and a mask went passed her and whisper with a very soft and demanding voice, "CP9!"
She was frozen in her track, and at the same time speechless. She quickly looked at the person with a masked in horror and shocked.
'It's them!' She screams in her head in horror
"Robin!" Cried Chopper which snapped Robin thought and looked at chopper, "I'm going first ok!"
Robin just mumbled out a word, "Yeah, sure…"
As Chopper entered the store, Robin turned around and follows the stranger with the mask, she knew that if she didn't, she'll regret it!
"How wonderful of you to follow, Nico Robin." Said the stranger amused.
"What do you want with me?" Whispered Robin and she could feel that her voice was trembling in fear.
The stranger chuckled, "Just follow my lead, and everything will be explained as we reach there."
"Reach where?" Asked Robin
"You'll see." The stranger chuckled even louder.
They started to walk silently around the island.
"ROBIN-CHAN!"
Robin eyes snapped to the source of the voice, it was Sanji.
'What is he doing here?' She thought in surprise, 'Isn't he supposed to be guarding the ship with Mr. Swordsman?'
"Ignore him," Hissed the stranger
Robin hesitated, "But…"
"Do what I say or ELSE!" Hissed the stranger even louder.
Robin nodded helplessly, all she wanted to do was to scream for help to Sanji so he would help her to get out of this mess. But the risk for doing that would make her to lose the thing she cares the most.
Sanji keep calling her in his lovey-dovey voice, she closed her eyes in order to hold herself so she would not reply and turned back from the stranger.
As she sighed in relieve, she realized that she had finally lost him. He could not possibly follow her anymore since she suddenly enters a building as soon as Sanji was able to see her entering to any door.
"So what do you want?" Asked Robin in fear, "Are you going to turn me in?"
"Yes, off course," The stranger said while opening her mask, "It is our job."
Robin was shocked to see that the person behind the mask was a beautiful woman. She had a blond hair and she wore a glasses.
"Greetings Nico Robin, my name is Kalifa. I'm from the CP9 which is the navy's secret agent. And I'm here to put you under a rest!" She said calmly.
Robin flinched in panic, she could feel her whole body trembling and her feet were shaking as if she was holding it for not running away.
She smiled nervously, "You know I will not be arrested that easily, especially when there's only one of you."
"For now yes," Kalifa replied while fixing her glasses, "But not for long, I'm able to attend here and have you here because of a free time I just had. While the other two of the CP9 agents were with your captain and 2 of his other crews."
Robin eyes were wide in shocked, "What? What have you done with them?"
"Relax," Said Kalifa, "We didn't do anything to them…yet."
"What do you people want with them?" Asked Robin in anger.
Kalifa smirked, "Not us with them, it's them with us."
"Huh?" Robin was startled, "What do you mean?"
"As you may know," Kalifa begun, "We're known as a secret agent, so people do not know that we're from the navy. So we are all undercover to become shipwrights in this island."
Robin gasped in horror, the fact that her friends were with one of this dangerous people had gave her the chill of fear.
"No need to worry Nico Robin," Said Kalifa, "You know very well that if you follow whatever the CP9 will said, nothing will happen to your friends."
"Wha…" Choked Robin in both fear and worried, "What do you want me to do?"
Kalifa smiled in delight, "I'm happy you see my way, why don't you rest in my room, and when Lucci had arrived, he'll tell you our plan."
Robin eyes snapped in horror, "Lu…Lucci? Lucci is here?"
"Why of coarse my dear," Chuckled Kalifa, "He even said that he is unable to wait to be able to meet you again. I think he get a liking towards you."
Robin trembled while holding her body from falling. She knows Lucci for a long time, in fact, he was the first CP9 agent she had met.
Kalifa pulled Robin's hand, "And with him and buster call in our side, there's no way you'll be able to do anything to save your friends, unless you willingly turn yourself in and do the things we had planned for you."
"Buster call?" Asked Robin trembling even more.
"So you do know about it," Smiled Kalifa, "You know very well that we the CP9 agents are allowed to use the buster call for hot-line. So we'll be able to call the Navy officers with the highest rank."
Robin lips trembled while saying, "Admiral Aokiji?"
"Yes," Kalifa smiled evilly, "And when he and the other two of his partners are called, your friend will be nothing but headless fish food and dust. Plus, I do believe you still have a great trauma about this buster call which destroys…"
"Shut up!" glared Robin in both fear and anger.
Kalifa then pushed Robin roughly towards a room and locked it. Leaving Robin in a dark gloomy room by herself.
Robin slowly covered her face with her trembling hands, tears started to form on her eyes as she sobbed loudly over and over again.
She then remembers Aokiji's word, "That woman will bring nothing but misfortune to you all."
She sobbed even louder. She then placed her hands to grab her chest which was beating in fear, sadness, confused and guilt, so much that it hurt.
"I'm sorry guys…" She muffled between her sobbed and hiccupped, "I'm SO sorry…for being born, for my existence, and for being your friend. I should have not been born, I should have never existed, and they should've ended my live by that time I was captured, the only thing I got for having friends is giving them nothing but countless misfortunes."
She then bangs both of her hand to the floor which was wet with her tears, "WHY?" She cried desperately, "WHY DOES MY FATE HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS? WHY CAN'T I JUST FIND RIO PONELGPHY PEACEFULLY? WHY CAN'T I HAVE FRIENDS WITHOUT BETRAYING THEM? WHY? WHY? WHY?"
She stopped her banging he hands and slowly buried her face to the ground in desperate tears. As she started to calm down, her voice was almost gone because of her continuous sobs. Yet she was able to give herself a small whisper of regret, "Why can't I just tell him that I love him? Before I will be executed, I wanted to say that I love him…I really, really love him…Zoro…"
After a few minutes of calming herself, she started to use her emotionless mask once again, like the time she had spent for the past 20 years. And by that time, her feeling she had threw away ever since she had joined Luffy and his crew had come back to her life. The feeling of loneliness.
Until suddenly the door of her room was unlocked and as it was opened to revealed a face she hate the most, Lucci.
"You turned out to be a very beautiful lady, Robin." He said with his mischief tone.
Robin looked at him with her motionless face, "Hello, long time no see."
Lucci smirked mockingly, "Hah! Please Robin, you never change. Do you know how delighted am I to have you inside my control? Once again? And to know that for the last past years you had turned into a very beautiful lady. You have no idea how delightful this day is for me."
"Is that so?" Asked Robin, "So you finally fixed the straw-hat pirate ship?"
Lucci chuckled in amusement, "That junk? Oh please! That thing will not last any longer than a day or two. It's just nothing but a piece of garbage which will later on tear apart."
Robin expressionless face turned in shocked, "What are you talking about?"
"Well here's the thing," He sighed happily, "Your precious boat will no longer will be able to travel across the sea, especially Grandline. Anyone with a right mind will just throw away that dumb and useless boat. I mean, come on! It's a tiny caravel boat for a famous pirate groups like you people does give me an eyesore. Especially when you guys have 3 billion berri, I'm very well sure that the damn boat will be replaced with a better boat with your idiotic captain."
"GOING NO MERRY WILL NOT BE REPLACED!" cried Robin, she swear she could lose herself even more if he keep talking like that.
Not very amused by her attitude, he roughly slapped Robin. He smirked with satisfaction looking at her shocked and bruised face, "Watch your mouth girl."
She trembled as tears started to come again from her eyes.
"Oh, is the little villain crying? How sad." Lucci teased mockingly, he then took her chin, "It's not like if your captain has any choice. And anyway, that boat is nothing but junk, I can't believe you even live in that boat in the first place."
Robin eyes were flaming in absolute anger, tears forgotten. That boat is no junk! That boat has a soul, she knew it had one because she could feel it. That boat holds memories, sweat and happy memories she had ever spend her life with. And there's no way a fake shipwright will make her captain to do such thing such as throwing that boat away just LIKE THAT. Going no Merry is her friend and will always be. Her anger had reached to her highest limit of anger. Suddenly she had done something…dangerous.
She slapped him hard and yelled at his face, "Go to hell, you BIG LIAR! GOING NO MERRY IS JUST FINE, HOW COULD YOU LIE TO LUF…"
Her word was cut down by Lucci's fist which suddenly strikes her bruised face even harder than his slapped. Robin was thrown to the other side of the wall. She could swear she could hear his evil laugh when she was spitting blood from her mouth while sobbing for the on he cheek, she was amazed that the skull around her cheek had not cracked yet.
"For your information, you should be grateful that I suggest to your pathetic friends that they should throw that junk away. Cause if I didn't, they use that junk to another island and at the end of their journey, that junk will drawn. Yes, I heard that you guys are taking one more crew which is a shipwright to join your crew. But let me tell you something, no matter how great that shipwright is, there is NO way he'll be able to fix that junk!" Smirked Lucci
Robin glared at him with her teary eyes, "Going no Merry is NOT a junk! You're nothing but a fake shipwright and a liar."
Lucci growled, "Women! You had gone to far! Maybe another pain from my fist will…"
"Stop it Lucci," Said a person who suddenly hold on Lucci's fist. He had a long nose which made Robin to almost mistaken him with Ussop, but she realized that his long nose was a triangle shape, unlike Ussop which was round.
Lucci glared at the person, "We need to teach her proper respect! KAKU!"
"Killing her will not do any good, I thought you could be more mature than this Lucci." Explain Kaku, "Remember that our orders are not to kill her. And we need her to be alive for the time being for our next mission. Alright?"
Lucci growled in disappointment, he glared at Robin, "You're lucky this time." He then looked at Kalifa who was on the other corner of the house, "KALIFA!"
Kalifa then enter the room, "Yes Lucci?"
"Put some powder or something on that terrible face of her. I don't want her to go to the public with that face. Make her as pretty as before." He growled angrily while walking out of the room with Kaku.
Kalifa rolled her eyes like in saying 'then why the hell did you slap and hit her in the first place?'
Robin closed her eyes in pain, pain in both physical and mental, all she wants was to be in someone's arm and comfort. She was sick being in pain, and especially she was sick being alone.
"Zoro…help me…" She whispered as she started to break down for the second time that day.
Zoro eyes snapped open in surprised, he could swear he heard a soft and pleading voice calling for his help somewhere. And he could swear he was not imagining things. It may be true that he was all stressed up with a stupid gang of pirate hunters that had disturbed his sleep few hours ago and the Ussop-look-alike had gave him bad news about Going no Merry about a moment ago.
But somehow, the voice he just heard was no imagination and he could feel that something really bad is going to happen. And none of his crewmate, especially himself will like it, not at all!
He then realized that he had recognized the owner of the voice, his eyes were wide in shocked. "Robin…"
For once he had hoped that it was just an imagination, he too hope that Robin was very well safe with Chopper in the bookstore. And he also hoped that his sudden paranoid feeling towards Robin was because of the sudden change of their relationship.
Once again, he was proven wrong. Sanji and Chopper had come back to the ship, without Robin. And his paranoid self was proven right when they had finally told him that Robin was missing and Sanji had saw her with a stranger who use a mask.
Worried had once again took over Zoro, but he quickly put up an expressionless mask to cover it. Yet, Sanji could still notice.
TBC
Note: Surprise! Seems like the chapter come out really early and the content are a little longer huh? Y'know why? Because, I got for a lot of reviews for my 7th chapter. THANK YOU EVERYBODY! I'm so happy, and I hope you enjoy this chapter. And I'm so sorry for the cliffhanger and a possible spoiler. Yet, don't forget to review! Who knows I'll update the next chapter earlier then the scheduled time.