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Chapter 4: Dead?

Zoro felt lucky.
He couldn't believe it was this easy. He had thought he needed to fight him, but here he was. Not a single scratch or damage at all. And Shadow hang over his shoulder and couldn't even talk anymore. Things were really good for Zoro this day. Except for one thing.
The one who waited on Going merry wasn't Nami.
It was Sanji.

Damn! Zoro thought when he begun to slow down. All he needed was that the silly cook would ask questions. Sanji smoked slowly, his back were showed. He didn't saw them. Yet.

What should I do know now? He had now time to think that over anymore, 'cause Sanji turned around and saw them.

"Oi. What do you have th..." he dropped his cigarette.

"What the..!"

"Don't stare! Come down and help me get him aboard!"
Sanji nodded and took a jump down from the ship. He helped Zoro get the unconscious thief aboard. They put him in a bed and Sanji run into the town to find Nami, she were the only one who know exactly what to do. Zoro didn't want to worsen his condition.

"Um..." Shadow slowly opened his eyes. They looked around in the room and then they stopped at Zoro.
"Where am I? At your ship?"

"Yeah"
Shadow closed his eyes again.

"If I survive this I'm gonna kill you."

At that moment the door flown open and Nami rushed in. When she spotted Shadow she put her hand over her mouth to not scream.

"Oh god..!"
She turned to Zoro. "Did you do this?"

Zoro shoked his head. "No. There were some pirates who shoot him. Four bullets."

"And he's still alive?"

"It seems so."

"Whatta devil.." Sanji whispered. He had followed Nami in. Nami only looked on Shadow once again and then she started to give out orders.

"Zoro! Go get some warm water and towels! Sanji! Get some tools in my room, in the big chest! And a lots of bandages! Hurry"The boys nodded and run as fast as they could. Nami fell to her knees in front of the bed. She put the thief's black hood down a bit and put her hand on Shadows palm. It was warm.

Damn! I'll lose him if they don't hurry! She begun to open the boy's black dress to look on the wounds.
She almost screamed again.

When Zoro and Sanji returned Nami took the stuffs without a word, and she didn't let them in. Her face looked completely serious. Strange..thought Sanji. Had something happened?
Later, when Nami had bent in the room in almost three hours, she walked out and gave them thumb up.

"He's gonna be alright!"
Zoro nodded.

"Well done, Nami."

"Thanks."
Nami had no time to say anything more, before two extremely curious boys showed up and tried to get in the room. She did her best to stop them.

"Who's in there?" shouted Luffy. "They didn't want to tell us!" Nami gave each of them her famous Nami-punches.

"Calm down! You'll wake him up!"
Luffy and Usopp fell to the ground.

"The reason I didn't tell you was because I don't know." Sanji said and walked over to them. "Zoro was the one who bring him here, you've to ask him.." The half-unconscious boys looked at Zoro and said with one mouth:
"Who's in there?" Zoro looked down and scratched his head.

"Well, to make a long story short...He is the one who killed my friend... I don't know what his real name is, but he call himself Shadow.."

"...and have a bounty on 56 million on his head..so it's not just a boy we have to deal with..." Nami continue.
"Zoro promised his dead friend's father to go looking for the murderer and bring him back so he'll get punishment for what he have done.."
She saw on Zoro.

"And..that's all.."

A silent fell over the crew. Usopp was the first one to say something. His face had slowly got a tone of blue.

"B-but...if he's an enemy, why s-should we help him?"

"I said that we have to bring him back, and if we do that, he have to be alive."
Nami looked at Usopp. "OK?"
He nodded slowly.

"uhm...Luffy...Maybe we shouldn't..."
Luffy jumped onto his feet.

"Whooo! Is it true? 56 million? I have to see him!"
Usopp nearly fainted.

"..Don't yell...he will wake up.." he grumble from the ground. Nami put her hand over Luffy's mouth.

"OK. I'll let you. But you've to be quit!"
Luffy nodded. Nami let him go and the rest followed him in, but Usopp were some steps behind them. Shadow laid in the bed and slept peacefully. The cover were over his chest, but they could see bandage over his neck and shoulders, so they guessed his whole over-body got bandage. A black garment with a hood laid on a chair next to him. And when the hood were gone, Zoro could for the first time see his enemy orderly.
The half-short fringe laid clinged against his fore-head, and the black hair were in a ponytail. In his left ear he had a gold-earring. Around his neck they could see a necklace who looked like a miniature dagger.
He snored rhythmic.

"So what will we do now?" Usopp asked.
They were back in the galley so that they could talk to each other.

"Isn't it obviously? We will help Zoro bring Shadow back." Nami said and looked at Luffy.

"But you're the captain, so you'll decide."

Luffy took no time to think.
"We will help Zoro! And I want to see him fight..!"

Zoro put a hand on Luffy's shoulder.
"I'm very thankful that you wants to help me, but believe me, you won't. That guy is a great fighter.."

"Wait a minute.." Sanji said. "If he is so good on fighting, then why did you returned with him all covered in blood? You said it was some shitty pirates who did it..."
Zoro shrugged.

"I don't know at all. It surprised me to. But he is really good, and if he wasn't, I could have got him almost in no time.."
Sanji pull up a new cigarette and put it in his mouth.

"I wonder..It's you anyway..." He started walking out.

"Oi, what's that supposed to mean!"

"Sanji-kun, where are you going?" Nami shouted.
Sanji stopped. "I'm going to look at the new one.."

Sanji lit his cigarette. Maybe it wasn't so good to smoke when you visited a sick one, but the chef didn't care. After all, that boy was a murderer.
It sure surves him right... Sanji thought and sat down on a chair in front of the thief, who still slept. Sanji took a deep breath and blowed the smoke away from his lungs. It the guy really was that powerful the crew should guard him. But now, when he almost was dead, Sanji didn't fear it.
He will never be capable to hurt us in that condition...

Or..?

Muhahahahaha! (grins evil)