Hi there.

Sorry, that I didn't upload in September. But there were lots of stuff going on and the last two One Piece Chapter. Holy Shit... Especially the last one. The last one was some kind of inspiration for this chapter. So there might be spoilers if you haven't read the last chapter. I hope it is nothing too big for you.

Also, I'll try to upload the next chapter in two or three weeks as I had intended it to be the next chapter before I started to write this chapter. So I already have some bits to work with.^^

But now enjoy.

~Chapter 15 – The hidden Darkness~

Everything had gone fine. Until the damn day this man had been taken in the crew and had also raised to the position of commander. It was just his luck that it had been his division. He was very careful since the day nearly twenty years ago. Damn this stupid bird to not be capable of dying, instead he had to be reborn from ashes.

At least the brat didn't remember anything. Otherwise, he would have the entire crew on his heels. But.. the reason why the brat was here was this man. He would have never imagined that this man would leave his former crew and join them.

It had made his plan even riskier. Well, he hadn't really needed a serious plan up until now.

Just this afternoon the fourth division commander Thatch had come back from a mission and he had brought a devil fruit along.

No, not just any devil fruit. It was the devil fruit that he had been looking for. The one which would help him to follow into the footsteps of a certain man. He had to get it without a certain man getting in his way.

Well, the best way would probably be to attack Thatch at night and then steal it.

"Something wrong with the devil fruit, which Thatch has found?", a voice interrupted his thought. Damn, just when he thought it couldn't get worse because of the stupid second division commander, another one seemed to notice something was up.

"No, nothing is wrong with it. I just try to remember if it was in the book", he lied. The black-haired commander looked at him sceptically. Damn, why couldn't be this one in heat so he wouldn't have to worry about him, too?

From all division commanders, the second and the 16th commander were the ones who picked up the quickest if something was wrong. Well, he should call himself lucky that there were only two and not three like he would have been if the stupid bird hadn't been reborn.

"Haruta is already looking into it. By the evening, we should know what kind of devil fruit, Thatch had brought on board if it is in the book or not. So you don't have to worry, Teach. Just return to your work", the commander said, well more ordered. "Will do, Izo-taichou", he told with his best fake smile.

Stupid omega giving around orders. There was just one place where omegas would be useful. In bed and bearing children. Oh, it would be fun to put Izo down in the place he belongs under him and screaming in pain.

But that idea could wait. He had to get his devil fruit before they found out what it was. He was sure the old man would be very careful about this devil fruit if Thatch didn't decide to it. Something he was sure the man wouldn't do. The man didn't have any use for it. The head chef was quite capable of a fighting without a devil fruit as most of the commanders. He did have to gave them credits for that. Fighting directly against Thatch would be stupid.

The man wouldn't go down easily and it would make lots of noise which would alarm the others making his escape more difficult. He needed to make sure that they wouldn't find out about the devil fruit, yet.

He also couldn't steal the book. Haruta would probably have the book by now. The 12th division commander was quite quick to search for information in books or reports. He should have ripped out the page containing the picture of the Yami Yami no Mi when he had the chance.

Now his only chance would probably be when Thatch stayed in the kitchen after dinner. It would be possible to attack the chef then while the others were all busy with preparing to go to sleep because tomorrow around midday they should reach Hand Island to check on it. There were rumours about an annoying rookie pirate group being around the island, so everyone was getting ready in case they needed to fight.

Something was going to happen. He didn't know when. Something that bothered him. It was hard to surprise him. Very hard. If he remembered correctly the situation he had been surprised by something could be counted on one hand.

Otherwise, he knew before what would happen. He sat himself up. All these thinking and staying focus to catch a glimpse of the future was making him hungry.

Thatch should still be awake and in the kitchen. So maybe he could ask the chef for some beautiful, delicious doughnuts. That would take his mind off for a bit.

It was a blessing that he could as he liked without being judged. Well, at least from the other commanders and Oyaji. With the crew, he still was quite sceptic, despite being on the crew for nearly twenty years. But after his little sister had been hurt because of him. He had become very careful about people knowing his real face. Mostly to protect them.

Something he might have failed to do with his younger siblings. But there wasn't really someone expect a few people who could stand a fight against his mother and one of these persons was Oyaji.

He would want to have his siblings out of his mother's tyrannic hands, but as Whitebeard had told him they had to plan this very carefully and also had to looked for the perfect timing without turning the world upside down. Also, Whitebeard was very careful with putting lives on the line. The man wasn't someone who would sent his sons on a death mission if they weren't ready for it. Something most of them weren't even if he had heard some of his division members joking about how fun it would be to turn Whole Cake Island upside down and meet his siblings.

Yeah, it would be fun. Especially with his older brother who would most likely to be kinda proud of him that he finally found friends that he could trust.

He stopped in his tracks. He felt a presence near the kitchen. One which he hadn't expected. What could Teach possible want from Thatch? He had already heard from Izo that his division member seemed quite interested in the devil fruit which was brought on board by the cook.

He fastened his steps because he felt the bad feeling rise again inside of him. It did seem to have something to do with the devil fruit. The devil fruit which was still unclassified because some accident happened within Harutas division and the commander had to take care of this, preventing him from looking through the book carefully.

What if that hadn't been an accident?

A vision appeared in his mind.

Thatch was standing in the kitchen. The devil fruit right next to him on the kitchen counter. And Teach… Teach was getting closer to Thatch with a knife in his hand. The cook seemed totally oblivious to the fact.

He started running. If that was the truth, then Thatch was in great danger. He couldn't let that happen. He had blamed himself a bit for what happened to Marco causing him to be reborn as defenseless baby again, even if many people told him it wasn't his fault. He wasn't going to blame himself just because he wasn't fast enough.

With quick, big steps he reached the kitchen and was fast enough to shot a jelly bean to prevent Teach from stabbing Thatch in the back.

"What are you doing, Teach?", he narrowed his eyes at the man, the possible traitor. "Zehahaha, why don't you look in the future and answer that yourself, Katakuri-taichou." It was annoying that the man was laughing. It wasn't even funny.

"Is something wrong?"

Oh, how he loved Thatch's obvious nature sometimes. Depending on the situation. But he knew that the other could also be quite sharp. In this situation, he kinda wished that Thatch had one of his clever moments being able to piece everything together.

"Nothing, commander. I'll just take this!"

"Thatch, dodge!"

His warning came a bit too late because Teach was able to stab the cook, grab the devil fruit and ran out of the kitchen.

Damn, he should follow the traitor. But he couldn't leave Thatch injured without someone. He was going to deal with the traitor later on Oyaji's order.

Now he should bring the cook to the nurses.

"Don't move too much. I'll bring you to the nurses", he tried to calm Thatch down who was a bit screaming in pain. Katakuri was trying to lift the cook carefully up when he noticed a black substance lingering about the wound. What was this?

It disappeared and it looked like Thatch hadn't been injured. How had that happened? He looked at the cook who seemed to be sweating but had a little smirk on his face. The same when he found something very funny but only he knew about it.

Then the realisation dawned him. "You have eaten a piece of the devil fruit", Katakuri stated the obvious now and helped Thatch sitting up. "Yeah… thought about giving it try. Maybe something cool about being able to manipulate fire which would be nice as a cook. Even if the colour didn't look like fire", the brunette said with a weak laugh.

"Well, whatever it is. It did save your life. But it was kinda worrying about how much pain you seemed to have been." "It did hurt like hell. It felt like I was cut open completely."

"If it was just the feeling than it is fine." "Oi, that doesn't sound nice…"

He chuckled when Thatch started to pout. If the smaller one was able to pout than everything was alright.

"So he stabbed Thatch and took off with the devil fruit?", Whitebeard asked, looking slightly worried at his fourth division commander who was still looking a bit pale. "Yeah, if it hadn't been for Katakuri, he might have one-shotted me", Thatch said.

"Yeah, because we can't say for sure that your devil fruit would have been able to save you. But we should also call say that it is good for us that you have eaten it. Because this devil fruit isn't a normal logia as you already notice. It is also very dangerous as you are able to cancel devil fruit powers just by touching them", Haruta explained.

"It doesn't sound like a power that should be in the hands of a traitor", Izo said with his arms crossed.

"We should go after him soon. Afterall, he broke the rule on the ship", Rakuyo brought up.

"No. We won't go after him now. I have a bad feeling about it… Even if he didn't succeed in getting the devil fruit he want, he still isn't as weak as it seems. Also, he must have been intending to this for a long time. Therefore we won't take any risks by chasing straight after him. We will keep an eye open for news about him and also contact our allies. But without more information we won't do anything", Whitebeard said and stopped hopefully every thought about chasing after the traitor.

"But Oyaji…", Marco started to protest, but he just looked at his youngest commander to make him stop.

"I know it is hard for you at the moment to understand. But just know that I have a bad feeling about the situation. I don't want to put any of you in danger so we wait."

He looked at his commanders with a serious look. Even if some of them still looked like they wanted to disagree, but they would follow his order.

"So why are you telling me this? It isn't something to be concerned of. Many pirates are greedy with some exception", Sengoku said with narrowed eyes.

"Yeah, but these ones don't have a D in their name."

The fleet admiral felt worry rise inside of him. There hadn't been a dangerous D for a very longe time. He wasn't considering Roger a dangerous D. The late pirate king was in comparison with other pirates quite harmless. He didn't attack just for the kicks, mostly if he was provoked like capturing one of his cabin boys and locked him up in jail. A bit like Whitebeard now.

"So… does he remember you about your old captain?", he asked carefully. If that was the case, then this situation could be very dangerous.

"No. Not at the moment. But I have a bad feeling about him. So I don't let any of my sons chase after him at the moment."

Sengoku nodded. He wasn't on friendly terms with Whitebeard. But he and the Yonko had some sort of agreement since the other one had put Fishman Island under his protection. Whitebeard was a good assistant against slavery going on. Something he and Garp weren't able to do as it meant going against the World Nobles.

"I understood. So we won't risk a war with you when we put him into jail? Just in case he does make a move to put himself on the wanted list."

"No, we might just ask you to have the honour to kill him ourselves. But otherwise, if you get him, give him hell."

"I think that Magellan will be quite found to that", Sengoku promised. He wasn't going to let a possible dangerous D running wild. They don't need another one similar to Rocks D Xebec.

Well, let me know of your opinion ^^

But before that. There will be more to the past later on. I'm not giving out all the details, yet. So for a few things you have to wait ;)

See you next time