SailorStar9: With Chapter 145 uploaded, I present Chapter 146 this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, Background Protector!Law/Sasha

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 146: Arc 11: During The Two Years, Sasha's Training


Back on the 'D' Memoirs Island, Sasha had knuckled down and had spread the various taijutsu scrolls Selena had collected onto the study table. The largest taijutsu scroll that laid right in front of Sasha was the Gentle Wave Fist style, which from what she had garnered from Selena's memories, was the style her former incarnation specialized in.

"You know what is wrong with that style, Lady Sasha." Jinbe started, entering the large study room; the Warlord had been sent by King Neptune to act as messenger and trainer to the reborn Dragon Queen. "The solution is simple: strip the Gentle Wave Fist of all its flaws and weaknesses. At that point, it will be unstoppable."


A few hours later in the training dojo...

Smack. A blow to Sasha's shin, causing her to yelp. Smack. A smack to the head soon followed.

"Dead." Jinbe deathpanned, his sheathed tanto in hand.

Smack.The next blow from the fishman's sword hit Sasha to the side.

"Dead."

Smack. Jinbe double tapped Sasha on the head and upper chest.

"Very dead." Jinbe finished.

"I almost had you, Jinbe-sensei." Sasha complained. "One more time."

"Very well." Jinbe conceded and the pair renewed their fighting stances.


After another three hours of training with Jinbe using Fishman Jujutsu to further Sasha's water manipulation abilities, the two water users sat down with several empty scrolls between them as Sasha put down all the basic, mid-level and advanced techniques of the Gentle Wave Fist. There, Sasha, with Jinbe's occasional input, stripped the techniques all down and worked their way up from the bottom, using Selena's memories as reference.


A training dummy animated by movement runes was Sasha's guinea pig for the reinvented Gentle Wave Fist, which she started with the most basic of the Dragon Wave Palm. The Dragon Wave Palm was above all things; a style that is used to deceive an opponent and then exploit their weaknesses.

Jinbe looked on with pride as he watched Sasha take down the training dummy in under five minutes. Their theories on the Dragon Wave Palm were proven correct; no fixed positions, no set movements, just straight-forward with no wasted movement whatsoever. And if the basics could completely destroy a training dummy in less than five minutes, it made him wonder what the advanced styles will be capable of.


In addition to improving her close-quarter combat techniques, Sasha also resolved to unlock her armors' freezing abilities; one of her fights against Jinbe's Fishman Jujutsu had resulted in her turning the whale shark fishman's water sphere into ice.

"Ex-quip: Hydromancer Robe." Sasha summoned her armor. "Slide Evolution: Cryomancer Robe!" armed with the 'Paragon Ice Blade', she charged at Jinbe who had his tanto drawn. As both trainer and trainee clashed, Jinbe was impressed that his student was able to hold her own against him in a straight clash.


It was almost a year later when both teacher and student received news of Whitebeard's death from the newspaper.


SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.