O.k. sixth chapter! Again, I was feeling lazy and didn't feel like writing, but it is summer. I just can't help it. Not to mention my gel pens were having a rebellion against me. None of them would work. And of course you would say, "Just get a regular pen!" But I can't. Every thing has to be colorfully assorted. I get lost without them. Oh and you probably won't here from me for a looooooooooong time. We are going on vacation (to about everywhere) and I'll probably be too lazy (not to mention lack of computers). I'll miss Japan (for those who live there know that Japanese One Piece makes American One Piece look like the worst show on the planet- not to offend you poor Americans who call Zoro "Zolo", it isn't your fault, I'm one too). They're so far behind in the US too. I'm going to die (I know, there's no place like EBay).

I know you guys are bored with me talking so… ON WITH THE STORY!

It was getting dark out.

"Ussop, what are you looking at!" asked Zoro impatiently.

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A few hours ago the three groups (U&Z, L & Tash, Carm, San, &Kaya) had headed up to the forest where they found 3 trails. Ussop and Zoro had chosen to go north while Luffy and Tashigi went west, and Carmen, Sanji, and Kaya went east (they started at south). Now Ussop had stopped and found something…or so he said.

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Zoro, look, I found something!"

"Huh? What is it?" he asked annoyed.

"Prints, in the dirt... this is where they went!"

Zoro walked over to where Ussop was crouched down to find two large, unusually shaped prints in the ground.

"It can't be. They're so big."

"They guy was big!" exclaimed Ussop excitedly.

"I guess he was…" Zoro shrugged, "…but that doesn't mean those are his?"

"It is him! It is! Yes I'm sure they're his."

Fine, then we'll follow them," said Zoro.

They walked on, not noticing the real footprints they passed with marks following as if someone was being dragged (hint hint).

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Luffy swung from branch to branch like a wild monkey (his cousins, basically) with a look on his face as if he was saying, "Ooh ooh ah ah! DIE BUTCH! Ooh Ooh ah ah!" Tashigi giggled at the sight.

"Luffy, do you know where you are even going?" she asked him.

"Nope," he said plainly

She slumped and sighed, "Well maybe you could climb up in the trees and see if you see anything suspicious."

Luffy stopped leaping. "Okay" he said as plainly as before.

He had been unusually quiet for the past few days. Tashigi figured he was stressed because his daughter had been kidnapped and Nami wouldn't talk to him.

"Do you see anything?" she yelled up to him.

"A little hut-like thing, he yelled back, yeah, over there. North! No….ur... west….south...ay…which way is it? He mumbled to himself.

"What way am I facing?" he asked Tashigi.

She spotted him and yelled up "South!" not knowing that he had twisted his rubbery neck the opposite way."

"Then south it is," said Luffy.

"Okay." Tashigi said sternly "Let's go!"

Luffy jumped down from the tree and they, unaware of there mistake, continued on south.

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Natsuki was still cuffed to the sewer pipe when Butch yelled, "Kyo, get down here!"

She heard creaking as a medium height, skinny red headed boy came from down a worn stairway. She had never noticed the steps until now. She figured the boy, who looked about fourteen, was the criminals companions (/apprentice) or maybe his son. "But he looks nothing like Butch!" she thought to herself.

"Get the girl and take her to your room."

"What!" the boy argued back "Why mine?"

Suddenly the criminal threw the boy across the room and started yelling.

"Look you damn arrogant son of a b, (It's just too vulgar to write) you're going to listen to me!" Got it!"

Natsuki stared in horror.

The boy just got up, blood dripping from his already dirty face which had been jammed into a screw sticking out of the wall, uncuffed Natsuki, took her hand, and led her up the stairs to his room.

"And stay there!" yelled Butch from downstairs.

The little room was dark and musty. Natsuki coughed from the bad stench. The living condition was pretty bad and the boy looked as if he had been abused many times. She was starting to feel sorry for him.

"You can have the bed." He said as he pointed to a small but more clean the most (of the things in the room) bed. "I'll sleep on the floor."

"He's so polite to be a criminal." Natsuki thought to herself as she lay down (on the bed) and drifted off to sleep.

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Now that I was nice enough to actually write that, those who get this far, REVIEW OR DIE. It's really hard to write if you don't know if people like or hate your story. So if you don't review...um... you'll feel my wrath...! um... and I'll give your computer a virus...many viruses! SO REVIEW!

You're in for some BIG surprises in the next chapters. So watch for it. (if you don't feel like put this story on your story alert-it would make me happy!) gets down on knees and begins to beg with big brown puppyeyes