Chapter 5: Midnight Talks
It was night… it was a very quiet night, everyone was in bed thanks to the fact that Sanji used a shadow clone meaning that all of them could now sleep while a shadow clone did watch. They also had a destination set, first they go to Drum Island until the Log Pose set, when it would it point to Alabasta, it was a good thing that Jiraiya gave that eternal pose. In men's cabin Ace slept on one of the couch while Akamaru slept on the floor… while in the girl's cabin, Kaya took the bed, Vivi took the other hammock and Tashigi took the couch while Carue (Vivi's pet duck)… despite the fact they were in bed everyone but Luffy was wide awake.
In the men's cabin everyone who was awake just stared at the ceiling.
"Hey is anyone else awake?" asked Ace.
"Yeah…" responded the others.
"I'm not surprised… it was a busy day…" said Ace.
"Busy day? First we find Luffy has a bounty, then the sound assassins come, then you tell about pour past lives, then we entered the clam belt, then we…" said Usopp.
"Okay, okay… we get it…" said Zoro.
"It was a shitty day…" said Sanji.
"More ramen please… miso this time…" mumbled Luffy in sleep.
"You know… I always pictured Luffy dreaming about meat…" said Usopp.
"How can he sleep?" asked Sanji.
"He's Luffy…" said Zoro.
"He doesn't care about the fact we're reincarnated ninja…" said Ace.
There was a silence.
"I was thinking about our past lives…" said Zoro, "Will we eventually become like them…"
"You're just worried that you'll lack the motivation to become the World's Great Swordsman…" said Sanji.
"It don't matter, our past lives won't effect us… except for some personality traits… and don't let your past lives dominate this one…" said Ace who then sighed.
The three Straw Hats who were awake looked at Luffy's older brother… they knew that Sasuke had a lot problems… even more than Naruto…
"Yeah I guess you're right…" said Usopp.
"If we did, then I'd probably be late for everything, Zoro would even lazier, Luffy would be louder, Usopp wouldn't lie so much, Ace would be… well… a prick…" said Sanji.
"Yeah… and I'd probably date Nami and Luffy would date Kaya…" said Ace.
Usopp fell out his hammock when Ace said that.
"What?" asked Usopp.
"Remember… Naruto and Hinata were married…" said Ace.
"Oh year…" said Usopp.
"Don't worry… I doubt they'll start dating…" said Ace.
"Yeah… Luffy I doubt will ever start dating…" joked Zoro.
Usopp breathed a sigh of relief as he got back to his hammock.
"Maybe we should try to get some sleep… after all we have a busy day tomorrow…" said Ace.
The men's cabin went silent as they tried to go sleep…
In the girl's cabin everyone in there couldn't sleep either.
"Is anyone else awake?" asked Nami with a sigh.
"Yeah…" said the other three.
"How can I sleep when I'm, on a pirate ship?" asked Tashigi.
"What has a pirate ever done to you?" asked Nami.
"What do you mean?" asked Tashigi.
"Has a pirate ever killed someone dear to you? Steal all your money? Rapped you?" asked Nami.
"No…" said Tashigi.
The room went deathly silent.
"Tashigi…" said Nami, "You shouldn't judge people the way you do…"
"She's right…" agreed Kaya.
"What are you saying?" asked Tashigi.
"I was an orphan… and the woman who raised me was a marine… she gave up being a Marine to me and my foster sister…" said Nami.
"Then why are you a pirate?" asked Tashigi.
"You see there island I lived on… was the island that Arlong took over… he charged a tax to all the people… and if you didn't pay it then he would kill the person… maybe even destroy a whole town… Bellemere… my foster mother… didn't have enough money for herself… and paid the tax for me and foster sister…" said Nami, "But because of my map making skills Arlong made a deal with me… if I make maps as a part and then I could buy back my town of Cocoyashi for 100 million berries… when I was working for Arlong I would steal from pirates"
"How did you wind up on this crew?" asked Tashigi.
"Funny story… I went to steal from Buggy… and he helped me out in so many ways… but… he practically made me join…" said Nami.
"He kidnapped you?" asked Tashigi.
"No… he bugged me until I agreed…" said Nami.
"What?" asked Tashigi with a sweat drop.
"But I eventually betrayed him… when I went back to Arlong… I took the ship and rejoined Arlong…" said Nami, "But… shortly after I did… all the money I've been saving to buy Cocoyashi village… was sized the by Marines…" said Nami.
"But wasn't it stolen?" asked Tashigi.
"Yes… it was… but the Marines that did it… were paid off by Arlong…" said Nami.
Tashigi's eyes were wide, "What?" she said.
"Fortunately… Luffy and the others did fallow… and you probably heard the rest… but with Arlong's defeat… my town was finally free…" said Nami.
Tashigi was speechless… this tone of Nami's voice… she was telling the truth… or was an extremely good actress…
"I was almost killed by a pirate… he was my butler for three years… he tricked me into thinking that he cared for me… when she was really after my inheritance… however Luffy managed to stop his plan… and Usopp saved my life…" said Kaya.
"IS that so?" asked Tashigi.
"That really happened?" asked Vivi.
"Yeah… Luffy goes out of his way to help people… even if annoys us… he basically drags us into other people's problems and beat up the cause of it… like right now with Crocodile… he dragged Zoro, Ace, Sanji and Tashigi into it… now they have twice as many assassins after them…" said Nami.
"I take you don't mind…" said Tashigi with a sweat drop.
"As long as their not after me… I'm fine…" said Nami.
The entire room sweatdroped.
"Luffy…" thought Tashigi looking at the ceiling, "I wonder if this is true…"
"We should try to get some sleep…" said Kaya.
"Yeah…" said Vivi.
And so the 4 girls tried their best to sleep.
Elsewhere in the Village Hidden in the Sound, in Orochimaru's office/thrown room Akumi entered the room.
"So what is this idea of yours Akumi?" asked Orochimaru.
"You see the reincarnations have made enemies of one of the 7 Warlords of the Sea…" said Akumi.
"Really?" asked Lord Orochimaru with a smirk.
"Yes… Crocodile, he has started her own Organization and I believe that due to the fact that we're both after the same people that we organize and become allies with them… after all your both powerful men…" said Akumi.
Orochimaru liked the plan indeed, "Very well…" said Orochimaru, "However until the alliance is fully up we will still send our assassins…"
"Yes… Lord Orochimaru…" said Akumi giving a bow.
Orochimaru smirked… he always wanted to "work with" one of the 7 War Lords of the Sea…
Next Time: Luffy is having a hard time using Justus... the problems involve a certain demon fox... however things become worse when Sound Assassins attack... and they poison Nami! What will happen?
A/N: I'm a fan of Hinata/Naruto paring... but I'm also fan of Usopp/Kaya too... so don't expect any Luffy/Kaya incase you were wondering...