Can you trust me?
Rating: PG
Pairing: ZoroxRobin, LuffyxNami
WARNING: May contain spoiler!
Zoro was looking at Sanji, trying his best to hide his feeling of surprise. So he replaced it with a do-I-look-like-I-care kind of look.
"Robin is gone?" He asked, "What the hell are you talking about?"
Sanji was annoyed, "Is that all you can say?"
"What do you mean?" Asked Zoro confused, "Are you expecting me to say something else?"
"Uh, like DUH!" cried Sanji, "This is your girlfriend we're talking about, give me your best emotion to show that you care!"
"What?" cried Zoro surprise, "Since when is she my girlfriend?"
"Robin is Zoro's girlfriend?" Cried Chopper in confusion
Both Zoro and Sanji looked at Chopper in silence, they just forgotten that he was with them all along.
Zoro was the first to snap out of his thought, "SHE'S NOT! This guy is just…"
Sanji smiled at Chopper, "It's nothing really."
Chopper was a bit uncertain, "Are you sure?"
Sanji nodded, Chopper knew that it was useless to say anything else, "Well…okay then…maybe I'll go to my room to gather up more medicine."
"Good idea." Said Sanji, as Chopper begun to walk towards his room, Sanji looked at him silently in order to make sure he would not be able to hear any of their conversation.
When he was finally sure that the reindeer was no where in sight, he then quickly glared at Zoro, "Stop with that stupid fake expression of yours!"
Zoro looked away, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Sanji grabbed Zoro' shirt and growled, "Stop faking! I know you care about Robin disappearance and it wouldn't hurt if you just show and admit it!"
Zoro slapped Sanji's hand away, "Well, what do you want me to do? This day is too annoying for me to handle!"
This time it was Zoro who was glaring deadly glares, "First, a group of stupid looking dress-up people who claim themselves as bounty-hunters and came to attack me! Then you came up with Chopper to wake me on my afternoon nap! After that, you two suddenly told me that Robin is gone! What worse is the fact that none of these shipwrights on this island are able to fix this ship, which only leaves us one choice! To buy a new ship and get rid of our current ship!"
Sanji's eyes were wide in shocked on the last remark, "What? Going no Merry is…"
"Argh!" growled Zoro, "How can this day got any worse?"
Sanji closed his eyes in frustration, "Damn it! Damn it to hell!"
Zoro too begun to sigh in frustration, "I wonder how in the world we are going to tell this to Ussop."
"I think we better find the others first." Said Chopper
Both Sanji and Zoro snapped towards the little reindeer direction.
Sanji was so surprised since he hadn't sense any of his presence, "Chopper…did you…"
"Its okay Sanji," Said Chopper, "I'm big enough to take this message, I was also shocked to hear of Going no Merry condition. But I know that Luffy will do something to make this alright!" His face started to brighten up, "He always do, that's why we better find Robin, Luffy and the others first!"
Sanji and Zoro smiled at Chopper's remark. Yet the reindeer did forget that things never always work the way they wanted it to be. Especially with the sudden disappearance of Robin, this gave the two men a great feeling that something bad is going to happen.
"Nico Robin," Said Kalifa while opening the door of her room, "Please join us in the guest room, we will start discussing on our plan."
Robin looked at her in silence, yet nod in agreement as she begun to walked slowly towards the guest room.
"What took you so long?" Asked a huge guy with a hair shape like a bull.
"Forgive me," said Robin respectfully, "I was lost in my thought."
"Whatever," Said Lucci calmly, "Just sit down, so we'll be able to tell you what to do."
Robin sat down on the sofa next to Kalifa.
"So let us open our meeting," Said Kaku while looking at Robin, "Nico Robin, you will act as we told and we do not except any complain from you. Do I make myself clear?"
Robin nodded with her expressionless face.
"So," started Lucci, "As a start, we will create a great misunderstanding in this island so we'll be able to finish our work faster."
"So what's the plan?" Asked the big guy with a bull hair.
"Wait Bulleno, I'm getting to there." Said Lucci
Bulleno then began to speak, "Isn't it easier to threaten Iceberg and kill him ourselves."
Lucci glared at him, "Then what's the point of our undercover? Stop saying things which have no sense and for once listen fully to my explanation."
Robin face started to gave an expression of surprise, "Hold the minute…the person…that Iceburg guy you were talking about…is he…"
"He's our boss," Said Kalifa, "And I'm her assistant, or you may say undercover as his assistant."
"And when Kalifa is not present in Iceberg room," started Kaku towards Robin, "You will enter to Iceburg room and shoot him with this gun." He then places a gun on the table.
Robin was shocked and stunned in both confusion and anger, "Shoot him? He's your boss!"
"This is for our mission," glared Lucci which made her to flinched, "And our relationship between boss and underling are just a pretend act."
"And you have no right to say that our action is wrong," Said Kalifa coldly, "Since you too betray many of your comrades."
Robin gave a small gasped while looking away in shame.
"Just go back to the topic," Said Kaku, "So after Robin shoot Iceberg, the blame will automatically given to the straw-hat pirates, since she's one of their comrade."
Robin eyes were wide in anger, "SO THIS IS YOUR PLAN!" shouted Robin furiously.
Suddenly something stopped in front of her face in a threatening manner. It was Kalifa's leg, Robin figured that it was about to kick her face since it was a few inches from her face.
"I thought we told you that we will NOT except any complaint." Hissed Kalifa threateningly.
Robin eyes were wide in fear, she could even feel herself frozen on her spot.
"Nico Robin," started Lucci, "We will give you two simple choices. First, you do what we say, you do all the things we had planned and you will be a good obedience girl and follow us to the head quarter so you'll be punish for your crime, and as a reward, we will leave your so-called-friends alone. Or second, you may refuse on joining our plan and go back to where you belong with your pathetic group of friends, but we will burn this island along with all the island residence and your friends. And I know very well that your friends will not be able to go anywhere else since your pirate ship now is just a piece of trash which will easily destroyed by the ocean wave."
Robin gasped in shocked, the image of her fearful past begun to appear once again to her mind.
"So what will be your answer? Nico Robin," smirked Lucci evilly
Robin closed her eyes and gritted her teeth in frustration, 'These people are nothing but bastards!'
"I choose the first option," whispered Robin loudly while biting her lower lip in the process.
Kalifa lower her leg and begun to sit down to her current place, "Good choice."
"Only that…I wanted to know…" started Robin which made all of the CP9 to looked at her, "Why are you guys doing this? You know that killing other innocent people are crime."
The answer she gets was in fact the most sickening reason she had ever heard.
Bulleno was the one to answer, "This is all for justice."
She was once again correct, these CP9 people were nothing but a bunch of bastards.
Zoro never knew that things will turn out this bad. The fact that they had finally found Ussop was a good thing, but finding him in a situation all beaten up was nowhere near a good thing. The reasons of all his wound and beatings were because of the money the Franky Family, who had claim themselves as bounty hunters, had stolen from him. And Ussop wants it back in order to pay the shipwright for fixing the Going no Merry.
It hurt us to tell him that all his struggle and pain were for nothing, since Going no Merry has no more strength or shape to be fixed and travel with them anymore.
It stressed the entire group even more when the captain and the snap-shooter began to have nasty fights, which did end up making Ussop to quit the straw-hat pirate.
Not only that, Ussop had challenge Luffy to a duel in order to have the ship as the prize, since Ussop had decided to create his own pirate group and Luffy was the captain of the ship. All these things had stressed the whole group and leave them in great grieve.
Everyone was desperate, this day was going no better, and in fact it went even worse.
Zoro was looking towards the ocean in order to calm himself. It was true that he too was all calm and cool towards all of the situation that had happen that day, but that was all because he was the vice-captain of the group. Luffy, the captain was all gloomy and quite which very well show that he was not well. Nami started to lecture Luffy about apologizing to Ussop and to start things like they normally do. Sanji was smoking three times the amount of cigarette he usually had in one day. Chopper was following Ussop in order to try to heal him since he was not fully healed from Franky's beating.
So, the best thing to do was to act calm. Since being worried would only give more depression to the whole crew, and Zoro will prevent that from happening.
Yet, he too was worried, in fact he was extremely worried. Robin's pleading voice that he had heard a few moment before was not a mere hallucination or paranoid thoughts. It was possible that it could mean something, and it could be that she was in trouble and was expecting for his help.
Zoro closed his eyes and sighed, "Robin…" He begun to whispered, "Where the hell are you?"
Robin was standing in front of a large building, she looked at Bulleno who dress up with a big bear mask, "Is this the place?"
Bulleno nodded, "You better remember every inches and place of this building, we will come here once again."
"But…" started Robin, "How are we be able to enter?"
"That'll be no problem," He then held his hand and when he pushed the wall, the wall turned into a door and they enter.
She looked at him, "I see…you are a devil fruit eater."
"Doa Doa Nomi," said Bulleno, "I can create doors from anything, including air." (Doa means door)
Robin nodded, "So, shall we?"
Then they went through all the wall and towards Iceburg's office.
As they enter his office, they were greeted by Iceburg's surprised face, "What? How…how did you enter? And who the hell are you?"
"I'm an assassin and I'm here to kill you," Reply Robin
Iceburg face darkened, "Nico Robin! I knew you're here for no good. Are you ordered by your captain to do this because I'm unable to fix your ship?"
Robin closed her eyes calmly, "I'm honored to know that you recognize me."
Iceburg glared at her, "Of coarse I know who you are, you're that infamous assassin with a head bounty of 78 million berri ever since you were a little kid."
Robin gave him her evil smile of amusement, "That is correct."
"So what is your reason to kill me?" asked Iceburg angrily which was mixed with fear and curiosity.
She chuckled, "My reason is none of your concern."
She then took her gun and point it towards Iceberg, "It was a pleasure to meet you, yet I hate to say this but…Goodbye…"
As she begun to pull the trigger, she could hear her mind screaming, 'Guys…Zoro…PLEASE FORGIVE ME!'
BANG! BANG!
And the next thing she knew was the fact that the floor was covered in blood.
TBC
Note: You guys must forgive me for my laziness, I just had a lot of things in mind lately and I clumsily forgot that I had to update this fic. I'm sorry
And also forgive me for my HORIBBLE grammar, my parents and English teacher said the same things too, but I'm so happy that you people still enjoy this fic (Even thou I kinda doubt that this chapter will be as good as the last one). Well keep on reading and don't ever forget to review.
