One Piece: Monkey D Kasumi

by Doomedbex

Kasumi was an ordinary girl, and yet she learnt to become an Alchemist. Soon after going through a terrible nightmare in her life she is found and saved by Monkey D. Garp and soon he and Luffy adopt her into their family. Watch how she and Luffy go on a crazy adventure, meeting new friends and looking for the famous One Piece together as a group of Pirates.

5. Chapter 5

Hiya! Sorry for the long wait, been busy the past few months. Not to mention I've been getting writer's block too to add to the excuses.

Anyways, here is the next chapter, hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for Kasumi and any other OC's that may appear.

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Chapter 5 Finishing of a clown can be a blast

Kasumi's P.O.V.

I ran through town, just a little behind Luffy and Zoro but in front Nami who was grumbling a little, I heard some of the words being 'Crazy pirates.' And 'Are they even human?' I chuckled slightly but didn't say anything and by the time we arrived at the placed that we'd find Buggy, we saw the Chief having a bit of trouble. Or should I say he was in trouble? Anyways, he was floating above the ground, his hands holding Buggy's detached hand as it seemed to be holding the Chief's neck, choking him.

"YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO THE VILLAGE!? FIGHT ME!" The Chief yelled as he glared up at Buggy who was smirking, but it wasn't in an amused way.

"Luffy…" I spoke coolly but quietly, sending a quiet message over to him. Luffy nodded before he walked over to the Chief and gently ripped Buggy's hand away, while also holding the Chief steadily on his feet.

"Huh?! That Straw-hat….!" Buggy gritted out, surprise on his angered face.

"I've kept my promise… I've come to beat you!" Luffy spoke grinning up at the clown.

"So you've come without a single trace of fear by you own will…! Morons!" Buggy spoke cockily as his hand re-connected with his body. "YOU'RE ALL SO DEAD!"

"Cocky much?" I muttered looking up at him, my tone calm yet bored.

"Listen, I don't care whether you fight or not, you guys do as you wish. I'm just here for the map and the treasure." Nami spoke, explaining to us on her true goal.

"Yeah, I know." Zoro replied, sounding uninterested but only answered to acknowledge that he had heard her.

"Sure." I too answered, before looking at the Chief who looked to be getting up from his position on the floor, he had finished recovering.

"All of you…. What did you come back for? You four stay out of this. This is my war!" He spoke, before standing upright, he glared at us. Luffy nodded at me, and I looked at him for a minute, before nodding in understanding. "I'M THE ONE WHO MUST PROTECT THIS VILLAGE! DON'T INTEREFERE!"

"Sorry, but this needs to be done…." I spoke softly, making sure the Chief was the only one to hear me. He looked at me, a confused expression on his face and went to ask but before he could get a single word out, I punched his stomach, rather hard, and it was enough that he passed out.

"WHAT….!" Nami yelled in surprise, looking at me with wide eyes, Zoro and Buggy too were looking at me with the same amount of surprise as the red-head. Luffy was the only one who wasn't freaking out as he continued to look up at Buggy, though he did send me a quick smile.

"You… YOU IDIOT! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO THE CHIEF…?" Nami yelled, shark teeth appearing.

"Because he'd get in our way. Not only that, get himself hurt, or worse, get himself killed." I answered calmly, unfazed by Nami anger.

"That was smart thinking… If you had left him alone, without a doubt he would've charged recklessly. It's safer for him to be unconscious." Zoro agreed, finally understanding mine and Luffy's reason, I smirked.

"Hey, Misty. Would you mind going down there? We need to get rid of those pesky freaks." I heard Buggy say suddenly, and I saw him looking behind him and next thing I knew, a woman came forwards and was soon in view.

"Sure thing." She spoke, grinning at her captain.

"They're sending a woman down here to fight?" Zoro spoke, his voice sounding confused but he reached for his swords. I stepped in front of him, my arm out gesturing for him to stop.

"Stop. I will fight her." I said, not letting my eyes wander away from the woman. "Luffy. Would you let me take care of her?"

"Yeah sure. Go for it." Luffy spoke, giving me his huge grin. I stepped forwards, grinning confidently. "You better beat her!"

"Aye, aye captain." I spoke, before studying my opponent. She had short black hair that was tied up into a messy bun, narrow green eyes and had half a clown's make-up on her face, which only cover her left eye and cheek. As for her clothing however, was an acrobat's costume which was yellow and black zig-zag pattern but to make it look worse, she had a very bright green tutu like skirt at the bottom.

"Great, not only does my opponent work for a big-nosed clown, she has the worst fashion sense ever!" I spoke, taunting the woman who glared at me.

"Are you kidding me?! Do you have a death wish?!" Both she and Nami exclaimed, looking at me in surprise, though I could see it in Nami's eyes that she silently agreed with my statement.

"Sorry, I call 'em as I see 'em! And besides, we both know you're ugly as fuck!" I spoke, a grin on my face. I could see Zoro trying not to laugh, as a small amused smile appeared on Nami's face and the only one not bothering to hide his laughter was Luffy, who was clutching his stomach while he rolled on the floor.

"You bitch!" She screeched, as she lunged at me, by throwing a punch at me. I smirked as I dodge it by jumping a little back as her fist hit nothing but air.

"Oh I'm sorry. I'm not a mirror." I spoke, my smirk growing bigger when I heard her growl.

"You're the one dodging. You coward!" She back at me, clearly running out on insults to throw at me.

"Hmm? Nah, I'm just enjoying myself. The face you make when your angry is just too funny!" I spoke, letting out a small laugh, and it's true, as she showed her anger, her nose scrunched up, that made her look a bit like a pig. She growled and came at me again and this time I didn't dodge as I too ran at her.

"TAKE THIS!" She yelled, throwing a punch, aiming it for my face, but I threw a punch myself and our two fists met in the middle, hitting the other and the impact was so strong, that a large and strong blast of wind was made, going in all directions, even causing a huge dent like crack that circled around us.

"WHAT THE HELL?! WHAT KIND OF STRENGTH DO THESE TWO HAVE?!" I heard Nami yelled after it was over, and I looked over to see that we had already do a bit of damage. For one thing, the buildings that are next to us were partially destroyed, and rubble was sprayed across the roads. Then Zoro and Luffy were stood there, arms shielding their faces and Nami was hidden behind Zoro for protection. As for the Chief, he was lying just behind Luffy and I was glad the rubble had missed him and he was unharmed and without needing to worry, I turned back to the woman.

"You're stronger than I thought you'd be. Sorry." I spoke, amusement still in my voice.

"I will wipe that smirk off of your face, just watch me." She spoke, lunging at me again, throwing a punch at me, and unlike before, I grabbed the wrist of the hand she used and threw her over my shoulder and into the house that was a few metres behind me.

"ARGH!" She yelped, before letting out a groan.

"Just out of curiosity, what is your name?" I asked, genuinely curious, as I spotted a number tattooed or burnt on her arm, it said '467' and I felt like I saw those tattoos/burnt marks before.

"SHE DECIDES NOW TO ASK!?" I heard everyone minus Luffy yell in shock.

"I was only asking. So what is it?" I asked, unfazed by their yelling.

"Misty. But why would you want to know my name?" Misty replied, sounding very confused, then again I could tell everyone was as well.

"That tattoo on your arm, I feel like I've seen it before. Have we met somewhere before?" I answered her question calmly and her eyes widened for a split second before narrowing into a small care.

"I don't really care if we have or not. You are dead meat by the time I'm through with you." She spoke and that's when our proper fight began, and before I could do anything she dissolved in petals before disappearing completely and soon, petals flew around me like a mini tornado.

"Petals?" I asked, and the petals were a light pink, like the ones you'd get of a Sakura* tree, and soon I was getting hit from all directions, small cuts appeared and I was being thrown about a lot. "What the hell?!"

"What's going on?" I heard Nami ask, and I look over at my friends and brother to see they were confused but were watching intently.

"It's a devil fruit." I spoke calmly trying to dodge but failing as I kept getting hit.

"Another one?!" Nami exclaimed, wide eyes.

"And a logia too. Which makes this a bitch fight. Logia's are damn hard to beat." I spoke, gritting my teeth in annoyance. I tried punching the mini tornado of petals it didn't stop the assault but as I pulled my hand back slowly, I felt something brush against my hand, and it wasn't a petal. I smirked.

"So petals is a distraction while in reality, you're just running around me at a high speed, huh?" I muttered under my breath, before stepping a few paces forwards and back, testing to see something and I was right, the petals followed my every movement, keeping me in the centre, I smirked again.

"I know how to beat this." I spoke confidently and letting everyone hear me.

"Cocky much?" I heard Misty say, but her voice was sounding from all around me, which proved my theory. I stepped into the rubble, making sure that in all directions, I was surrounded in it, and yet I knew she could still run around me without a problem. I closed my eyes and waited.

"What is she doing?" I heard Nami say in a startled voice.

"Just wait. That look she has is saying she's concentrating. She must be right if she's figured it out." Zoro spoke; I could practically hear the smirk in his voice.

"BEAT HER UP GOOD SIS!" Luffy yelled, making me smile and soon I listened and did nothing else, except maybe fisting up hands, ready to send a punch.

"What you doing there? Going to fall asleep? Getting fed up already?" I heard Misty speak and again sounded like it came from all directions and once again I was being hit but unlike before, didn't let it bother me as I continued waiting.

"Does she even know how to fight!? She should be trying to dodge instead of just standing there!" I heard Nami say, and I swear I could sense she was a little worried but I shook it off and concentrated again. It was then I heard a piece of rubble being hit to my right, and a second later, it was hit again, and finally moved, I threw a punch forwards, keeping my eyes closed and hit her square in the face, probably breaking her nose and soon after that I heard a loud explosion making me open my eyes.

"She…. Won…?" Nami spoke quietly in shock, stared with disbelief at the damage I had caused. I had punch Misty so hard, I had knocked her out but I had also punched her into the concrete wall of the building the buggy pirates were stood on, a huge dent surrounding Misty on where she landed, holding her there.

"Heh… And here I thought logia's were unbeatable or at least very difficult. And here I didn't even have to use my full power." I spoke, a huge grin appearing on my face. Though I should laugh, logia's a normally hard to fight so I needed to more careful. I just won out of luck.

"Damn you…" I heard Buggy speak from above us and I knew I had ticked him off.

"Luffy. Want to take the spotlight?" I spoke, looking at the younger boy. He grinned, which could not be a good thing when in these situations but I didn't dare stop him.

"HEY YOU, HUGE, RED, UGLY, BIG NOSE!" Luffy screamed, and all I could do was laugh.

"EHHHH!?" Nami yelled in shock and slight amount of fear, while Zoro just looked startled.

"FIRE THE BUGGY SPECIAL CANNON-BALL! FIRE!" Buggy screaming, he had completely lost it out of rage, and it wasn't long did a cannon ball with Buggy's flag symbol on it came fly at us. "BE GONE!"

"ARE YOU TRYING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED? YOU IDIOT!" Nami yelled, getting ready to book it out of here.

"OI, LUFFY! DODGE IT!" Zoro yelled, just as panicked as Nami, but he was looking frantically at our captain, but the only ones that weren't panicking were me and Luffy.

"Do you think just because of a cannon ball…. I'll move a single inch?" Luffy spoke calmly, a grin on his face.

"Luffy just do what you need to do already." I spoke, just as calmly before backing away from him slowly as to not get hit by him.

"Gomu Gomu…. BALLOON!"Luffy yelled expanding himself to look like a huge giant rubber ball and just seconds later, the Buggy ball hit his stomach, and of course Luffy was unaffected by it.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT KID!?" Buggy screamed, though I wasn't sure if it was shock or fear, it may have been both, but either way, he didn't look happy, plus everyone else looked rather shocked by this turn of events.

"COULD THE BUGGY SPECIAL CANNON BALL….!?" Buggy's crew yelled, letting the sentence trail off as the cannon ball bounce back at to them. "HE BOUNCED IT BACK!"

"Could've said something sooner." Zoro spoke, a hand on his forehead in irritation.

"Now where would the fun be at if he did? Hm? If he said something, it would be practically be warning Buggy and his crew." I said calmly as I watched the building Buggy and is crew were standing on blow up completely.

"YAY! Their number has decreased! Shall we start?" Luffy spoke, proud of what he did, just after he returned to being his normal size.

"Sure thing Luff." I answered, grinning myself.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?" Nami yelled, obviously at Luffy, it made me wonder how many people were gonna ask that question.

"So much for blowing us up…." Zoro commented.

"Yeah… But that's what you get when you talk big… Karma can be such a bitch." I agreed, a smirk on my face.

"Explain yourself! I don't understand this at all! From the moment you fought with the lion and came back alive! This isn't humanly possible!" Nami spoke up at last, coming to stand face to face with Luffy. "How the hell did you just swell up into a balloon?!"

"Gomu Gomu Balloon!" Luffy said blankly answering her question.

"I'M NOT ASKING FOR THE NAME!" Nami yelled, annoyed by what she got. I laughed, making her turn towards me. "AND YOU'RE NO BETTER! STOP LAUGHING!"

"Calm down. Luffy's a devil fruit user himself, like Buggy and Misty." I explained, and Nami looked surprised yet seemed to have calmed down. I turned back to the damage we did but then saw something, or someone emerge from the wreckage.

"Ah…" Nami muttered, clearly seeing the same thing I did. Soon two burnt bodies appeared, or two burnt unconscious men appeared, they seemed to be held up by a pair of hands. Buggy's floating hands to be exact. While there was an unconscious Lion being held up as a shield too, and I was glad it was too far away for my allergies to react, I just hope he doesn't get closer.

"You're chatting around making a lot of noise, like you're not scared…" Buggy spoke, still in the smoke that surrounded the old building and behind his men that he used as a shield.

"Using their crew as shields…!" Nami exclaimed.

"Tch. I hate men like him, they aren't afraid to talk big then hide behind his men. If anything, he's just one lousy, cowardly scumbag. Luffy, can we kill him?" I asked, glaring at the clown as he came into view.

"No. But we'll beat the crap outta him!" he replied, sounding serious.

"This is the biggest humiliation we've ever received under our pirate flag, captain!" A man said, who was somewhat weird looking, or at least his hairdo anyways, one side had long dark green hair that covered the entire left side of his face, while he had shaved light green hair on the other side. He looked tall and slender and wore on open top that stopped just above the feet, white trousers, bandages on his stomach and a large scarf that covered part of his face. Weird yet creepy looking, and I just realized it was he that was holding up that big cat.

"I'm so mad, words fail me…." Buggy reply, looking down so his eyes were shadowed over.

"Dammit…. I was unconscious…! What is this, this mess….!" A guy spoke up, as he slowly stood up from under the wreckage. Now HE was even weirder looking, I take back what I said about the other guy. I couldn't tell if he was wearing a costume or that was his hair, but was white and not only did it cover his head but his body too, and because of that, he didn't need a top, just his blue pants and yellow sash that he wore around his waist.

"Mohji… So you're still alive…" The guy holding the lion said, looking back at Mohji in surprise, and I was then did he notice his comrade holding up the feline as a shield.

"Cabaji! You, what the heck did you do to Richie?!" Mohji yelled angrily, glaring at Cabaji.

"… Ah. This kitten? I was afraid my clothes might get a little dirty, so I used him as a shield." Cabaji spoke as he threw the lion towards Mohji and even though I was allergic to cats and these guys were our enemies, a small part of me felt sorry for the feline.

"Hey! Richie! You okay?!" Mohji spoke desperately, trying to wake his pet up, or is that cat his partner? But it wasn't long did the cat start coughing and I could instantly tell that Mohji felt relieved by the look in his eyes. He then turned to Cabaji, sending the man a glare. "You bastard!"

"Is it just me, or do I feel like we're being ignored?" I spoke, but not out of annoyance, just mere amusement. It seemed my comment didn't get a reply but Luffy gave a nod.

"EHCK! THE KID IN THE STRAW-HAT! CAPTAIN BUGGY, BE CAREFUL OF THAT KID! THE KID'S ALSO ONE WHO HAS GAINED POWERS FROM THE 'DEVIL'S FRUIT'! HE'S A RUBBER MAN!" Mohji screamed, having finally noticing our presence and I sweat-dropped at that, could that guy be even stranger than ever?

"A Rubber man? That's your devil fruit power?!" Nami exclaimed, looking at my brother.

"Yeah, wanna see…" Luffy spoke as if he was asking a question, but before getting an answer, he was already stretching his face to show her.

"Devil's fruit…! That's why he can bounce back the buggy special cannon ball…" Buggy spoke, a certain dangerous edge to his voice and a pregnant pause, I wondered what was gonna happen.

"But Mohji… If you knew that already…. WHY THE HECK DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER!" Buggy yelled as he threw Mohji in our direction.

"BUT, I DID!" Mohji yelled as he flew towards us at such a speed, before he started screaming and I backed away from Luffy as it seems he was in his flight path.

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Mohji yelled at us, and I wondered why he'd warn us when to him, it be a perfect way to get a good hit on us? But despite this, I kept quiet about this, no need to add more trouble for us to deal with.

"You get out of the way!" Luffy spoke up confidently, getting himself ready to attack him, and it looks like he was going to kick the guy. And kick the guy he did, as Mohji was just about to fly into Luffy, my brother kicked the side of Mohji's head rather hard, sending the guy flying even further, towards Nami, who had to jump over him to dodge. "The fight has begun!"

"Buggy's pirate fleet sanbouchou* 'Cabaji The Acrobat'! I'll avenge the pain you caused to my crew!" I heard Cabaji yell and I turned to see him cycling towards us on a unicycle. I raised an eyebrow at that, as it's not every day you see this, but then again their pirate crew has a somewhat circus theme going on.

"Luffy!" I called out, a little worried when I saw Cabaji was aiming a sword at my brother and went to help but then at the corner of my eye I see Zoro move and I knew to let the swordsman handle this.

"If it's swords, I'm all for it." Zoro spoke as he blocked Cabaji's attack on Luffy, and I smirked knowing that Zoro was strong and would take care of him.

"It's an honour, Roronoa Zoro… As a swordsman, I get to slay you…" Cabaji spoke, his voice sounding eager and determined.

"Zoro! Let me fight him! He was aiming for me!" Luffy spoke, looking slightly disappointed.

"No Luff, let Zoro take care of this. You need to take care of Buggy." I spoke up, looking at Luffy with a disapproving look, like a mother scolding a child. Luffy looked over to me and then back to Zoro, unsure if he should listen to me, I sighed, hoping he'd listen.

"Acrobat technique 'fire trick'!" Cabaji yelled suddenly, shooting fire out of his mouth and into Zoro's face and then before Zoro could even think, recover or react, Cabaji kicked Zoro in the stomach, sending the man to the floor in pain while clutching when he had been hit. Zoro screamed in pain and shock at the second unexpected attack.

"DAMN IT!" Zoro yelled, mostly out of pain, but there was frustration and anger there too, I gritted my teeth as I too felt anger.

"Zoro! Are you okay?!" I yell to my crewmate, genuinely worried about the swordsman.

"Yeah…" Zoro muttered very quietly, barely a whisper but I read his lips and knew what he said, and because of that answer I knew not to interrupt, he wouldn't like that. After all, it would hurt his pride, being a man and all.

"Eh, what's this? I didn't even kick you that hard, did I?" Cabaji taunted, clearly enjoying himself, I glared at him.

"You dirty bastard! Kicking him while he's defenceless!" Nami exclaimed angrily, she seemed to agree with us on this too, which made me glad to see she had come around.

"Acrobat technique… 'Murder Mist Trick'!" Cabaji called out and soon we couldn't see what was going on, in fact I didn't know what was happening, as we were soon in a cloud of dust. I could barely keep my eyes open without the risk of getting some in my eye, it was rather annoying.

"Some trick….! It's just a cloud of dust!" I heard Zoro say, clearly unimpressed, but soon after that, I heard a loud 'clang' noise and I knew that both Zoro and Cabaji were hitting swords against swords or Zoro had just defended himself yet again.

"Ah!" I then heard Zoro yell out, and it was then did the smoke of dust clear that I saw Cabaji had yet again kicked Zoro in the same place, and unlike before, I saw a small knife in Cabaji's shoe, I saw blood gush out of Zoro's stomach.

"Zoro!" I called, going to help only to get punched in the face and I went flying several metres away.

"Kasumi-Nee!" Luffy called out, mainly out of surprise, and then turned to glare at Misty. "You just don't give up, do you?"

"Hn." Misty grunted, barely sparing a glance at Luffy as she walked to me, a smirk on my face as I slowly stood up.

"My captain's right. You just don't want to give up." I spoke, having recovered from that surprise attack.

"Yeah, well I finally got a proper hit on you." She spoke, grinning. I ran at her, and threw a punch, which in turn went right through her, as her body turned into petals, I then went to swipe a kick at her, but that too went through her. "You'll never get a hit on me again, not after that last hit of yours."

"Dammit!" I gritted out through my teeth as a jumped back, narrowly missing a hit from her. If I can't hit her, then that leaves me with a huge disadvantage. I just had to find some way around this, but as I keep trying to think, I had to keep dodging attacks from her.

"Not so cocky now, huh?! Bitch!" She yelled, a cocky smirk on her face.

"Kasumi-Nee! Do you need help?!" Luffy called out to me, to see both him and Nami looking at me in concern, I smiled over to them.

"Nah. I got this, just worry about yourselves. I should be back to help deal with Buggy." I called back, dodging another attack from Misty.

"Got it!" Luffy called, before turning to watch Zoro.

"So you want to fight me now? Even more than before?" I asked then, looking at Misty. Her eyebrows knitted together, as her eyes narrowed in confusion.

"Yes. I need to pay you back for humiliating me earlier." She spoke, her voice low as irritation settled in.

"Well that's what you get when you use your devil fruit powers more and more. You rely on them more and when someone gets past that, you are useless. So maybe you should getting some lessons on how to fight properly." I spoke, making myself sound taunting but that was also correct as I needed to teach Luffy the same thing, how to fight without thier powers.

"You bitch!" Misty growled as she sent a blast of petals towards me, in a tunnel or tornado like effect and I had to jumped to dodge it and it wasn't long did I land on a roof of a building that had yet to be destroyed. Misty yet again sent the same attack on me a second time, making me jump again and then I saw it, the sea and an idea popped into my head, I grinned.

"If you want to fight me, you're just gonna have to catch me. That is, if you're not scared." I spoke tauntingly, and when I heard her growl, I started running towards the dock. While running though, I did have to dodge each of Misty's attacks.

"Stop running you coward!" I heard Misty yell from several feet behind me and it was long did I feel something on one of my ankles, looking down, I saw a lot of petals mashed into making a whip, which she had managed to wrap around my leg. I groaned as realization hit me at what she was going to do. Next thing I knew, I was flying through the air and my back hit the floor hard, then I flew again hitting my face against the floor and this went on, going back and forth as she treated me like a yo-yo.

"Take this!" Misty yelled as I flew, with her finally letting me go but before I hit the ground, I flipped so that I'd land on my feet and it worked but I ended up falling to my knees.

"Ugh!" I groaned out, feeling pain shoot up my body, but I shook it off and looked around and finally I see we went too far from the docks.

"Hurts doesn't it?" I heard from above me, and I look up to see Misty standing on the roof still, smirking down at me.

"What you talking about?" I groaned out standing up, putting a hand to my waist as pain shot up again. Come on! I've had worse, I can get through this. I thought to myself, glaring at Misty.

"Humiliation. You and that captain of yours, you guys love to mess around with us. But sadly for you, it ends here." Misty spoke as she jumped down to standing a few metres in front of me. I looked at the number on her arm again before meeting her gaze.

"Tell me something. That number, on your arm. Where'd you get it?" I asked her, sounding genuinely curious and ever so slightly concerned. I must have hit a sensitive subject as I saw her flinch as she moved to cover it with a hand.

"What are you saying?! It is none of your business! Why do care?!" She spoke out desperately, sounding angry. My eyes widened then, even though there weren't tears, I saw it, the pain she held in her eyes, the desperation to run from her past and it made me realize where I had seen her before.

"You…. You're from the Tower of Heaven aren't you? A survivor!" I gasped out, my eyes still wide, and then it was her turn to looked surprised.

"How'd you know about the Tower of Heaven? How'd you know about my past?!" She asked, her voice cautious but also curious.

"Because we are the same." I answered her, calming down, hiding my eyes behind my hair.

"What? What do you mean, we're the same?" She asked, and I could see the anger she felt a moment ago disappear. I took my left arm out of my jacket, though kept the rest on to cover my right arm. By showing Misty my left arm, she could see a number embedded onto my skin, just like hers, the only difference was mine said '673' on it. "You…. You were there too? You're a survivor as well?!"

"Yes… I am, and to be honest I won't be going back there anytime soon. I just felt like I had seen you somewhere before and now I know for certain." I said, putting my jacket back on properly and I stood there looking at Misty as she returned the look with shock and surprise.

"So…. We gonna continue fighting? Or are we just going to stand here like idiots?" I spoke up, trying to break the awkward silence that I felt growing between us.

"Eh…!" Misty gasped, must have realized what had happened. "WHAT THE HELL!? ARE YOU TRYING TO BRING UP HORRID MEMORIES OR WERE YOU JUST STALLING!?"

"Err, neither of those things to be honest. Idiot." I said but then I jumped back as she threw a punch towards me.

"Grr, at least I know where you got your insane strength from." Misty spoke, irritated, sending another attack of petals my way, which I dodged.

"Now come on! That completely unfair!" I whined, trying to get her to think I was as weak as she thought I was before I bolted away, running to the dock. I wasn't prepare to show her my true skills or at least until I reached the dock.

"Where are you going?! You were so forward earlier, you say you want to fight, but you're running away?! What kind of pirate are you…?" I could genuinely hear to confusion in her voice but she was also taunting me.

"Well why not come and follow me, eh? You'll find out if you do." I called back, but kept running, but I knew she was following as I heard he feet running in my direction. I soon grinned as I stood a mere metre away from the water and now I knew I had a fighting chance against her. I turned to her, ran at her and threw a punch at her and of course, it went right through her.

"Did you forget? I'm a logia and there is no chance you can fight against me." Misty spoke, before throwing a punch at me, but unlike the previous times, I let her punch me which in turn, sent me flying and soon I found myself above the water. I flipped and landed on the water, not in, ON.

"What the…?! HOW ARE YOU WALKING ON THE WATER!?" Misty yelled, looking very shocked.

"Are you forgetting what I said when I introduced myself to you and your crew? I'm an alchemist. I have transmutation circles on my boots, which allow me to do several things. One being able to help me run fast, another to help with my teleportation technique and finally, it also allows me to walk on water. Clever, huh?" I explained, smirking. "And now I have you where I wanted."

"What do you mean?" Misty spoke, looking confused again. I laughed a little bit.

"Look around you, dumbass. You're a devil fruit user! And I've just led you to your biggest weakness!" I yelled, grinning like a madman, and now laughing as I saw her pale as she realized that I was right.

"YOU TRICKED ME INTO FOLLOWING YOU!" She screamed at me, making me laugh harder.

"How can I trick you, when you so blindly wanted to fight me? All I wanted was to make our fight a little fair is all." I spoke before clapping my hands together.

"W-What are you doing?" Misty asked nervously, and I started to wonder why she wasn't running, not that I was complaining or anything, it just made my job easier.

"You'll see!" I spoke, slamming them to the water and soon just in front of me a huge amount of water raised as a tidal wave and let's just say it was 30 metres high, bigger than any of the houses and before it came down to hit Misty, it took the form of a dragon, minus the wings and had no arms or legs.

"AHHH!" Misty screamed, turning to run but before she could even take the first step, she was engulfed by the water. I watched as she struggled to stay afloat but was failing miserably since she obviously became like a hammer when it comes to water. I ran at her, just as the water was clearing up and since she was wet, I'd be able to hit her.

"Here we go!" I said eagerly as I raised my fist and then threw it towards her. And thankfully enough, my plan had worked, I hit her so hard in the face she flew back, but I was far from finished, so using my speed, I was hovering over her as she was still in the air and hit her stomach, making her crash into the floor, creating a huge dent.

"GAH!" She screamed in pain, before calming down. I started to back away a little, give her a chance to breathe but as she shakily and slowly got up, a ran at her and gave her one last punch using my insane strength, which in the end caused her to go hitting and flying through each house until she conveniently stopped and landed on the very street we started from and I could swear I saw Luffy all the way from where I stood at the dock.

"What the hell happened to her?" I heard Luffy question as I reached them, and I could swear Luffy was poking Misty's unconscious body.

"Would you like it if I poked you when you're badly hurt?" I spoke up, gaining his attention.

"Kasumi-Nee! You're alright!" Luffy spoke excitedly, turning to grin at me. I smiled back before taking a look around, only to see Cabaji very injured and unconscious himself, while Zoro asleep on the floor himself a few feet away from the acrobat.

"What happened here? Who won?" I asked curiously, hoping to get the answer I was hoping for.

"Zoro won and I take it you did?" Luffy spoke happily, a large grin on his face.

"Well obviously! If Misty's passed out body isn't enough answer to that, then what is!? Dumb-ass idiot!" I spoke, still looking around, and then I noticed we were one person short. "Where's Nami?"

"Gone to look for treasure. Or was it food? But that's where she's gone." Luffy answered, rubbing his head while trying to find the answer. Idiot had probably forgotten Nami's exact words but he did answer, so I'd give him that.

"Uh huh…. It's probably treasure. Only you would be interested if it was food." I spoke up, picking up his hat from his head, ruffling his hair before putting his hat back on his head. "Now…. Shall we go deal with Buggy?"

"Yeah! Let's go!" He replied eagerly, a confident smile on his face, and fortunately for us, when we turned we saw Buggy there looking at us, waiting and he did not look pleased.

"You mean you guys….. ARE PIRATES!?" Buggy yelled, looking surprised and possibly more unhappy by this piece of news. Huh. He must have just realized what type of people we were.

"Yeah. Hand over the 'Grand Line' Map!" Luffy spoke or more like demanded.

"Way to be polite…." I spoke nervously, and I suddenly felt like this was what was going to kill us someday.

"So that was your goal… That place isn't exactly somewhere nameless pirates like yourself can go as they pleased. So what are you planning to do there! You wanna have a sightseeing tour!?" Buggy spoke incredulously but seemed to also be mocking us.

"I'm gonna be the Pirate King." Luffy said making it sound simple and as if it should be obvious. I chuckled.

"And I wish to become the strongest Alchemist in the word." I said, sounding just as confident as Luffy.

"DON'T KID AROUND! YOU IDIOTIC FOOLS!YOU BECOME PIRATE KING!? AND YOU, GREATEST ALCHEMIST IN THE WORLD!? THEN I'M A GOD! THE PERSON WHO'LL GET HIS HANDS ON ALL THE TREASURE IN THE WORLD WILL BE ME! DON'T EVEN DREAM ABOUT IT!" Buggy screamed as he glared at us. He wants to be Pirate King himself, and he's also yelling at me? He's an idiot.

"Skip the lecture big nose! We're gonna go deaf over here!" I called back at him, while Luffy laughed and Buggy glared harder. I swear I could see steam or smoke coming out of his head at how angry he looked. It was amusing to see.

"Come on, let's started. Oh and you're being too loud, you idiot." Luffy spoke smirking as he was getting into his fighting stance.

"Yayayayaya! Watch your mouth Girl, Gomu Gomu!" Buggy spoke, and anyone could see he was trying to hold his anger back a little but it was also hard to see since he had four knives in each of his hands. And with his devil fruit, things got a little harder but also more interesting. Buggy then looked more closely at Luffy. "Seeing your hat reminds me of a guy I knew long time ago. The impudent Red-haired guy…!"

"Red-haired!?" Luffy spoke, I could tell he was surprised, Buggy couldn't mean Red-Haired Shanks, could he? I remember Luffy talking about the guy and how it was him that gave Luffy his dream. I had also wanted to meet to guy myself, to thank him and to introduce myself.

"Does he mean Red-Haired Shanks?" I questioned, looking at Luffy in surprise, who looked back at me with the same amount as surprise as me.

"Red-Haired? Do you know Shanks?!" Luffy asked, more loudly and aimed at Buggy.

"Mmm? What's this…? Looks like you are considerably interested. I know him, but why do you want to know?" Buggy asked a thoughtful look on his face as his eyes narrowed ever so slightly.

"Where is he now?" Luffy asked, sounding rather determined to find out.

"Where…? Well… If I know then I know, and if I don't know then I could not know anything at all…!" Buggy spoke, rubbing his chin with a hand while grinning.

"Oi, stop being cryptic Rudolph." I called over to him, my voice sounding rather bored, but I felt amusement and it seemed I spoke at the same time as Luffy did.

"What are you saying? Are you an idiot?" Luffy said dumbly, and to be fair I was going to laugh.

"WHADDYA MEAN 'IDIOT', YOU UNCIVILIZED BUFFOON! AND DON'T CALL ME RUDOLPH!" Buggy yelled rather loudly as he was really now glaring at us both. Then suddenly the clown was holding eight knives, four in each hand. "I'm saying that I'm not a nice enough guy to tell you both information that you want to know. Even if it's your last wish before you die…"

"Now that's just mean, old fat-nosed guy." I commented, though I gave him a one sided smirk. He growled before he started chuckling, making me unsure whether to be worried or just shake it off as him being cocky.

"Then let me make you say it by force." Luffy spoke, grinning his Cheshire cat grin and getting ready to send him a punch.

"Kuahahaha! Before you hear it… You're going to be dead." Buggy spoke before knives appeared out the front of his shoes. "Even though you are rubber, there are still some things that won't bounce off you."

"Mm, that's right. But that's why I have Kasumi-Nee." Luffy spoke simply.

"You two are siblings? Even better. Kuahaha!" Buggy laughed slightly.

"Get on with it Red Nose, we are all getting older here!" I spoke, making him glare at me.

"Ba-Ra Ba-Ra…WINDMILL!" Buggy yelled, his legs flying off away from his torso and flying towards us in a tornado like effect, to be honest, it reminded me of a large shuriken.

"Luffy! Jump! I'll take care of it!" I yelled, summoning a metallic baseball bat. Luffy nodded just before he jumped over it, while I hit Buggy's legs just before they hit me and made them fly into the nearest building.

"Moving here and there in the air…! IS MOST LIKELY IMPOSSIBLE!" Buggy yelled before throwing the knives that he had in his hands at Luffy.

"Shit!" I cursed, just realizing I had forgotten about though other weapons of his.

"Why not?" Luffy questioned, stretching his arm out to a post and making him go flying towards it, narrowly missing the knives, and of course then they were flying to me now. I dodged two, caught two, and threw them so they hit the last four, making them fly into the wall of a different building. I sighed out of relief.

"Oho! So you both are quite skilful! You can do things like that! How interesting!" Buggy commented, grinning but it wasn't a happy grin, more like an angry one. Both me and Luffy looked at him, listening as Buggy's legs returned to his body.

"You're an interesting person too. Gomu Gomu…." Luffy started and I backed away slightly, trying not to get in his way, if anything, I'm mostly gonna let Luffy fight but I will join in if I have to and then I smirked as Luffy threw his punch. "PISTOL!"

Only for Buggy to dodge it, and he didn't even have to use his devil fruit power. "It's an interesting ability, but …! AN ARM STRETCHED TO IT'S LIMIT…! IS FULL OF WEAKNESSES!"

"LUFFY! Watch out!" I called, worried as I saw Buggy know holding yet another knife and was aimed to cut Luffy's arm off. Though I soon saw that Luffy's hand had grabbed onto a window of one of the many surrounding buildings, and I knew he had a plan, which in turn stopped me from worrying.

"I'LL TEAR IT TO SHREDS!" Buggy yelled, fully ready to cut Luffy's arm up and when he went to move, Luffy started to speak and hold his other arm out, away from his body but to the side.

"Gomu Gomu…" Luffy started, making Buggy look at him in surprise, obviously realizing that Luffy wasn't fazed or scared at the fact that the clown had about to chop off his arm.

"Huh!?" Buggy exclaimed, taking in Luffy's form, before realizing what he was about to do. "BARA BARA EMERGENCY ESCAPE!"

"SCYTHE!" Luffy yelled, launching at himself Buggy, using his non-stretched arm as the blade of a 'Scythe'. I would have been a good attack, if Buggy's head hadn't detached from his body with a loud POP.

"What the hell!? That cheating bastard!" I growled out.

"How is it cheating? I'm just using my ability to my advantage." Buggy answered, giving me a sadistic smirk.

"Really? And that's not called running away from a fair fight? Tch, pathetic." I spoke, unimpressed. Buggy ignored that comment of mine, and turned back to Luffy who looked to be just about recovering.

"You're not much of a threat, Gomu Gomu…" Buggy stated, that smirk still on his face.

"Hey." Luffy exclaimed as he bust out of the rubble and i could see he was completely uninjured. "Damn! Separating into sections…"

"Annoying, right?" I muttered, glaring at the clown but then I perked up as I noticed Nami peeking out from where she was hiding. Without anyone noticing, I teleported myself over to her, being careful to being quiet.

"H… How is it possible for such a fight…! I feel as though I'm dreaming… Huh? Wait a second, where's Kasumi? Where'd that girl go?" Nami spoke, her voice was quiet, but I could hear the surprise, and the confusion in it and it was clear that she didn't notice me yet.

"Nami." I spoke softly yet loud enough for her to see me. She jumped, before turning to me, her eyes wide as they were filled with shock, surprise and a little bit of fear.

"H.. How the hell…?" Nami spoke, letting her voice trail off as shock hit her upon seeing me.

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare ya." I spoke, chuckling slightly.

"But, how you get over here? I mean you were over there a moment ago and then a second later, you're here. How?" Nami asked me, still surprise.

"Let's just say I have quite a few tricks up my sleeve. Not to worry though, you'll understand eventually, that is if you do decide to stay with us." I said, looking at her, making sure to partially joke and to partially be serious too.

"Fine." Nami spoke be we both turned to watch the fight between the two captains. I saw that Buggy was holding three daggers in his hand and was aiming them towards Luffy.

"BARA BARA CANNON!" Buggy yelled firing part of his arm, breaking it off from just below his elbow, and his arm flew at Luffy. I let my breath that I had unknowingly held as Luffy caught the hand and wrist in his hands just before the daggers hit his face.

"SEPARATE!" Buggy yelled again as Wrist and hand separated, making Luffy having to dodge to hand, the daggers narrowly missed his head.

"Tch. Such a coward to use a dirty trick like that." I muttered under my breath, as I watched Luffy tumble back as the force of him dodging that attack had taken him by surprise. Then I took a closer look and then I smirked. "Heh, Buggy's gonna regret doing that."

"Huh? Why?" Nami asked, looking at me in confused, then looking back at Luffy, then again at me.

"His hat. Luffy is so protective over it, it's his most prized possession. Anyone who touches it without his permission or harms it in any way, is either really brave or incredibly stupid." I smirked, chuckling silently. "If anything now, Buggy is dead."

"I see." Nami said, looking back to Luffy, a look of understanding on her face.

"You bastard!" Luffy growled, looking very angry if not, pissed off as blood dripped down his face and was glaring at Buggy.

"What? So, you're pissed that your face is scared?" Buggy asked, seeming to be clueless on what he's just done, yet he sounded cocky and confident and had a smirk on his face.

"How dare you mess up this hat!" Luffy growled, his face darkening as each word escaped his mouth.

"What?" Buggy questioned, sounding confused now instead.

"THIS IS MY TREASURE! I WILL NEVER FORGIVE ANYONE WHO MESSES UP THIS HAT!" Luffy screamed angrily at him, very pissed off and looked ready to kill. I saw Nami looking surprise while Buggy gained a smirk on his face, but it wasn't a cocky one.

"Is the hat precious to you?" Buggy questioned, sounding curious.

"Yeah, you bastard!" Luffy answered, still sounding pissed, but wasn't yelling. And then I saw Buggy's still detached hand raise and then throw a dagger towards Luffy, who was completely unaware of it.

"LUFFY!" I screamed, teleporting over to him, before pushing him away slightly and taking the hit for him, the dagger going completely through my left shoulder. I swear I could see the tip of the blade going through the left side of my collarbone.

"KASUMI-NEE!" Luffy yelled in pure terror as he watched me fall to the ground and yet I saw him trying to gain his balance. And as I hit the ground, I saw was Buggy's hand flying with the other two daggers in hand and going through Luffy's hat.

'Now that will leave a mark. Buggy is definitely dead now….' And that was the last thought I had before everything went black.

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Kasumi's Dream

I was hitting the cave wall with a pickaxe, trying to get through the stone, trying to find what the tower needs, I was working with Kaito to my right as we worked together with a bunch of other kids. I was tired, no, I was very exhausted and was losing my strength quickly.

"Hey Kasumi, why don't you take a break. There isn't a guard around this section." Kaito spoke, looking over at me in concern.

"Nah, I'm fine. And besides, a guard always does laps, one will be around any minute." I said to him, a fake smile on my face, trying to deceive him, trying to pretend that I was okay. Kaito's eye's narrowed as he looked at me.

"And why don't I believe that? You and your fake smile." Kaito said, and I looked at him in surprise before glaring at him slightly.

"Well what do you suggest? Tell me, do you have a plan that would get us out of this mess? Out of this life? Oh do share with us as we aren't getting out of here or at least anytime soon." I said to him, sounding a little harsh, only to soon regret it as a sad look crossed his face.

"No I don't, but I am worried. You are my best friend and you are far more tired than any of us. Especially since you get less sleep than us." Kaito spoke, sounding very worried and his tone made me feel guilty.

"I'm sorry. But really? What can we do? We are only six, almost seven. And we are being held captive buy a lot of fully grown men who are strong and very skilled in fighting." I said to him, sounding sad I completely stopped working to try to wipe away my tears that were entering my eyes.

"HEY! Shut up you two and get back to work!" A guard growled as he past hitting us both twice with a whip making both me and Kaito flinch. We started working again immediately.

"Kasumi. I understand but the way you're talking, it sounds as if you're giving up." Kaito spoke, as he hit the stone, breaking a good large piece off of the wall.

"No I am not. I'm just thinking rationally." I spoke, hitting the rock myself, not bothering to look over to him.

"Well you know what. I don't care what it takes, I'm going to make sure you get a damn break." Kaito spoke, making me look at him in surprise, my eyes wide as I watched him pick up that large piece of stone and threw it at the guard as he had his back to us, instantly knocking him unconscious.

"There! That wasn't difficult, now was it?!" Kaito spoke, grinning at his accomplishment.

"I think you spoke too soon." I spoke worriedly as I watched another guard check up on his fellow companion before turning to us group of kids as everyone had stopped to watch. This new guard hadn't seen who did it.

"WHO DID THIS?! TELL ME NOW OTHERWISE I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT!" He yelled, looking between all of us. Kaito looked like he was worrying and went to step forwards, but I beat him to it.

"I did sir. I was clearing up my work space and didn't realise he was standing there. I'm sorry." I said, stepping in front of Kaito to stop him, and when I looked at him, his face was filled with pure terror.

"Oh really now. Well you really will be sorry, young lady. Now I suggest you come with me now otherwise we'd have to do this the hard way." The guard said, grabbing my wrist and yanking me away.

"STOP! DON'T TAKE HER! IT WAS ME! I DID IT!" I heard Kaito scream desperately.

"Shut it kid! We know you two are friends and you're trying to lie on her behalf as well as trying to save her. But this is her own fault and she needs to be punished for it. The guard called back before he pulled me away and into a large room where they torture those that disobeyed the rules or needed to be 'punished'.

"Jiro, you found another to punish already?" The guard who was in charge of torturing said, smirking in amusement.

"Yep. This one managed to knock out one of our comrades with a large rock. We need to deal with her suitably." Jiro spoke wickedly, looking down at me with a sadistic look on his face to the point it made me feel scared.

"I see. Now that is a problem. Go tie her up over there, against that wall. And have her back facing towards us with her shirt pulled up." The torturer instructed, and with that Jiro followed his orders and tied me up to the wall, my back facing them and I felt my shirt tug upwards so they could see the bare skin of my back. I waited and wondered what they would do but I soon got an answer when a sharp pain hit my back, a leather whip hit my back, making me scream in pain. And this 'punishment' went on for 5 hours straight and by the end of it, I was struggling to breathe, no strength to talk or walk or even stand. My back felt wet and I knew that it was bleeding badly.

I felt myself being half lifted half dragged out the room, and saw that it was dark out, which meant it was the end of the day, which also meant every slave would have been returned to their own cell. After what seemed forever, we stopped before I felt I was being thrown.

"KASUMI!" I heard someone yell, and I opened my eyes to see Kaito above me, looking down at me with a look with a mixture of different emotions. Sadness, anger, worry, but the strongest emotion was the guilt that plagued his eyes.

"K… K… Ka… Kaito.." I spoke, barely a whisper.

"Kasumi! Don't speak, you're badly injured! Here, I saved you mine and your share of our dinner. But I think you should have both, it'll give you a bit of strength." He said, lifting me up gently so that my back was resting against his chest. I groaned.

"Come on child. Try to eat." I heard a new voice speak and my eyes turned to see that Arata had joined in on the conversation, or at least trying to help Kaito. Arata lifted up the piece of bread, as that was all we ever got, and hovered it over my mouth. Painfully and slowly, I opened my mouth ever so slightly letting him slip the piece into my mouth and I bit of a small part of it before chewing, before repeating the process over and over again until the bread was gone.

"T..Th.. Thank you…" I spoke steadily, still feeling the pain.

"Kasumi… Why did you do that? Why?! It was meant to be me! I'm sorry, I am so very sorry. It's my fault!" Kaito said desperately and very shakily and I felt his body starting to shake as he cried.

"H…. Hey. I…. It's okay. I'm your f… Friend, and friends stick by each o….. Other and help each other out no matter the cost. And besides, it was my c….. Choice to do that." I spoke, starting to get some of my strength back, but I could still feel the pain and still couldn't stop myself from stuttering.

"But, Kasumi. It is my fault, I should have still have been the one to take to punishment. Even if we're friends, I should have done that. I fail at being a friend." Kaito spoke, starting to gain more confident, more calmer.

"And I'm saying that friend makes sacrifices for each other, and that they will do anything for them. I wanted to help you, protect you and save you. If our roles were switched, wouldn't you do the same thing?" I asked, gaining a bit of my strength back, of course the pain was still there, but I had a better handle on it.

"I suppose I would. Okay Kasumi, you win on this one. So, you feeling any better?" Kaito asked, showing his concern for me.

"I'm much better. The food helped, I feel like myself again." I smiled at him as I spoke. Both me and Kaito smiled happy towards one another before I yawned and let myself fall asleep.

End of Dream

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I felt myself gaining my strength back, my energy coming back and the first thing I heard was Nami screaming. I opened my eyes to see Buggy's upper half flying at Nami, who held the huge bag of treasure over her shoulder looking like she was about to escape. I looked in the other direction to see Buggy's legs just standing there, un guarded and Luffy watching Buggy and Nami, looking like his stupid self but I could also see blood dripping down his forehead, so it shows that I probably missed half the fight.

'I need to saved Nami and quickly. And I don't think Luffy will do anything.' But I growled as pain shot up my body as I tried to move but I managed to get up and I started to full really fast. Fast enough for no-one to see me.

"Crap! He noticed me!" I heard Nami exclaim, fear and surprise in her voice.

"SINCE WHEN DID YOU THINK YOU COULD FOOL ME, NAMI! LET ME SEND YOU PAINFULLY TO THE NETHERWORLD!" Buggy yelled, seeming to be close to Nami, I gritted my teeth, just as I reached his legs and focused on stopping.

"I'M NOT GIVING YOU A SINGLE THING! GYHAAAH! KUHCK!" Buggy yelled, though at the very end he sounded like he was in pain, but then again I just kicked him rather hard in his nuts, or kicked in between his legs as one could say. I smirked at my achievement as I turned only to see I made in time, as Buggy was a mere metre away from Nami, sweating Bullet, while Nami and Luffy looked at me in surprise.

"KASUMI!" They yelled in surprise, not expecting me to be awake, and then I collapsed on my knees, already puffed out.

"I really need to be careful with my alchemy." I muttered to myself, glaring at the floor. If I use more and more of my alchemy, I get tired. Using it, wastes up my energy as that's what fuels it and I've used it more than I usually do today. I saw Luffy approach me, and stopped just in front of me. "Luffy…?"

"Kasumi. Don't do anymore, let me finish this." Luffy said, looking serious and I could only nod, making him give me his signature grin.

"D…Damn you girl! Dare to kick my bottom half…!" Buggy spoke, his voice still held the pain in it. I smirked.

"Then maybe you shouldn't have left it unguarded. Idiotic clown." I spoke crawling over to an untouched build and sat against it. I was out of Luffy's way and I had a front row seat. "Kick his ass , Luff!"

"Got it, Sis. Just sit tight. And Buggy… Your opponent is still me." Luffy said, turning from me to Buggy, that grin not leaving his face.

"I'm alive…" Nami said, looking relieved but surprised, and reminding both me and Luffy of her presence.

"Oi! Put that treasure down and go somewhere safer! You're going to get chased again otherwise!"" Luffy yelled over the orange haired girl.

"Put the treasure down and go!? I don't want to! Why should I leave my treasure behind?!" Nami yelled incredulously as she looked back at Luffy, a small glare on her face.

"Y.. Your treasure…!?" Buggy gritted out, sounding angry, as he glaring up at Nami from his place on the floor.

"OF COURSE! SINCE I'MA PIRATE –TREASURE THEIF AND I JUST STOLE FROM A PIRATE , I'M TELLING YOU THIS TREASURE IS MINE!" Nami yelled, looking and determined.

"Ah… I see.." Luffy said simply, his fist gently hitting the palm of his hand, a thing he did when he 'understood' something.

"And you both are idiots…" I said, eye twitching in slight annoyance. Have these two forgotten what we were doing and the situation we are in?!

"WHAT NONSENSE! THAT REASURE'S MINE! DO YOU THINK THAT IF YOU STEAL IT IS YOURS!? HOW THE HELL WERE YOU BROUGHT UP?!" Buggy yelled, still on the floor. I looked at Nami, and for a split second, I saw pain in her eyes but it vanished and was replaced by amusement.

"A lecture from a bad guy? Stop that nonsense…" Nami laughed as she stood confidently while she hugged the bag of treasure to her body.

"What?!" Buggy spoke, still angry and was glaring up at the girl.

"I don't think I've done anything bad enough to be lectured by a pirate!" Nami spoke, before sticking her tongue out at Buggy.

"Heeh.. She sure has guts to say that calmly to a psychopathic clown…" I spoke with a smirk, but inwardly I was worrying a little bit.

"You're prepared for this, aren't you Nami…!" Buggy spoke, looking pissed before I heard him muttering the words 'Bara, bara' repeatedly.

"What is he doing?" I asked, looking concerned yet I couldn't help but be curious too.

"Dunno. But let's wait and see." Luffy answered, not moving too much.

"FESTIVAL!" Buggy screamed out as every piece of his body, top half and bottom half, exploded so they were all in pieces, flying around.

"What a strange technique." I comment as I watched in surprise, but a part of me was expecting it too.

"What?" Luffy exclaimed, looking amazed and surprised by the sudden attack.

"KUAHAHAHA! SEE IF YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR FRIEND NOW!" Buggy yelled and I started looking for the weakness.

"Damn it! There should be a limit to this bara bara!If it's like this, there's no way I can fight him!" Luffy spoke, sounding frustrated, looking around and then that when I saw it, the only part of Buggy's body that wasn't flying. His feet.

"Luffy!" I called over to my brother, gaining his attention. I pointed at Buggy's feet. "His feet, Luffy! That's his weakness!"

"Oh! Thanks Kasumi-Nee!" Luffy said, grinning. And I looked over to Buggy to see that he hadn't noticed mine and Luffy's exchanged of words, which I was happy about, in fact he was too occupied in chasing Nami around who was running away from him, not letting go of the treasure.

"GIVE ME BACK MY TREASURE!" Buggy yelled, not seeming to notice that Luffy had just caught his feet.

"I WON'T!" Nami yelled, continuing to dodge Buggy's attacks.

"HUH?!" I heard Buggy yell and I looked to Luffy to see him remove Buggy's feet from the shoes, I grinned, knowing where this was going. I stood up shakily before walking over to him.

"Give me one, Luff." I said, a wicked idea coming to my mind.

"Okay!" Luffy spoke eagerly, realising what I was thinking, a grin on his face as he passed me one of the feet.

"Heh, let's see how tough you are, Clown." I spoke before tickling the sole of the foot, making Buggy laugh ridiculously hard, which in turn made me and Luffy grin even more.

"How's this!?" Luffy said as he hit the ground rather hard with the other foot, the toes being the on to take the brunt of it, and it wasn't long did we heard in scream out in pain.

"AHCK! What?" Nami yelled, seeming surprised by the sudden noises Buggy was making. I grinned at Luffy before we both started pinching the feet we were holding.

"You're pretty tough.." Luffy commented, pinching harder in his.

"WOULD YOU TWO STOP DOING THAT!" Buggy yelled turning towards us.

"Hm, and why should we? You're trying to kill us, so why should we stop trying to fight back?" I asked, noticing as Nami realised what was happening and had stopped, and looked read to swing the treasure bag to hit Buggy in the head. But then I saw him starting to turn back, so to help the girl, a squeezed Buggy's foot, using my super strength, which made Buggy scream and then I heard a cracking noise. "Ah! Whoops, I may have just broken your foot a little."

"A LITTLE! A LITTLE!? YOU ARE SO DEAD GIRL!" Buggy screamed, getting ready to fly my way.

"The one that's got to stop…!" Nami started, making the clown look at her, just before she swung at him, hitting his face. "IS YOU!"

"Err… Nami…" I went to warn her, seeing Buggy smirk, and soon enough, Buggy had grabbed the bag with his hands.

"The treasure… Has been returned!" Buggy spoke, that anger being replaced with amusement and smugness. Though a small part of me knew he was still annoyed as his eyes were slightly shadowed over.

"Huh…! Let go!" Nami exclaimed desperately, as she tried pulling the bag out of Buggy's grip.

"Let go…? The one who should let it go is you!" Buggy spoke, sounding scarily calm.

"Luffy… I think you need to intervene! Things are starting to look bad." I stated, looking at my brother in a serious manner. Luffy nodded, passing me Buggy's other foot before running at the two that were fighting over the bloody bag.

"IT'S MY TREASURE!" Nami yelled, giving another big tug. Seeing what Luffy was probably going to do, I too ran, dropping Buggy's feet and got there before Luffy but I only stopped and was behind Nami while I let Luffy go towards Buggy.

"I just told you that your opponent…." Luffy started as he was close to us, making Buggy look over to the rubber man, only to be kicked in the face by Luffy. "IS ME!"

"I got you!" I spoke as I caught Nami though we both fell to the floor as Buggy flew over us, me taking the brunt of the fall.

"Thanks…" Nami spoke, sounding genuinely grateful, but then looked at me in concern as I grunted in pain, suddenly remembering my injury. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I've had worse done to me." I spoke, looking at Nami who didn't seem to believe my words. "Honest. I've had worse."

"Can't you heal yourself like you did earlier?" Nami asked me, seeming to go back to being concerned.

"I could, but unlike last time, I don't have the strength or energy to do it this time." I said, falling back so that I was facing the sky.

"I see. Well thank you anyway and I will patch that up for you later." Nami said, looking down at me, a blank expression, as she probably didn't know what to feel.

"So you're staying?" I asked her, grinning.

"Probably. Or at least for a short while." Nami answered me, and I could only grin back at her.

"That last kick… Was for the village chief!" Luffy spoke, gaining back our attention and I just realised that even I, for a split second, had forgotten about our current situation. Nami looked up at him in surprise and I wondered why she was surprised by everything he did that was not anything to do with his stupidity.

"Thank you. Thanks to you and your sister, I'm alive." Nami said to Luffy just as the boy turned to look at us, a huge grin on his face.

"Hmmm…. Don't worry about it." Luffy spoke happily, before a look of realization crossed his face before looking at Buggy. "Oh yeah! The map…."

"Did you seriously just remember what we were after…?" I asked dubiously while my eye twitched in slight irritation. If he had completely forgotten about it and left without us having it then we would probably be dead just five minutes stepping into the god damn place.

"Aah! My treasure got scattered everywhere!" Nami exclaimed, and soon the three of us were picking treasure after treasure and putting it back in the bag and then we found the map, which Luffy of course picked up.

"Alright!I've finally got it. The 'Grand line' map!" Luffy shouted happily, not caring who heard him.

"Wait…! Wait, Gomu, Gomu kid!" Buggy said, making us turn to him.

"Hey, look! The clown isn't dead!" I spoke before noticing that his body pieces were still scattered all over the floor by me and Nami, who noticed this too. We shared a look before we both smirked, and soon Nami was collecting as much piece as she could while I used the little bit of energy that I still had to summon a piece of rope big enough to tie it all up together.

"Eh? You are still alive!?" Luffy spoke as if in agreement with me, while I handed the rope to Nami who tied the pieces quickly and rather tightly too.

"I'll kill you both once and for all, starting with you Gomu, Gomu. GATHER UP! BARA, BARA PARTS!" Buggy yelled only to end up 2 foot in height, making me laugh. He is now smaller than a child. "EH!?"

"Oi! Buggy! I love the new look on you! Looks amazing!" I laughed, and of course Luffy joined in on the fun too.

"You wouldn't happen to be looking…. For these, would you?" Nami spoke, gaining Buggy's attention.

"YIKES! MY BODY PARTS!" Buggy yelled angrily and in surprise, making me laugh harder.

"Aww come on Nami! Don't hog all the glory, I helped too!" I joked, still laughing.

"Can't help it though!" Nami laughed, joining in on my joke.

"HAHAHAHA! A thief definitely has some cool skills! Leave the rest to me!" Luffy said as he stretched his arm back, getting ready to do his 'Bazooka'.

"Get lost, Buggy… Gomu, Gomu…." Luffy paused, concentrating on his attack.

"STOOOOPPP!" Buggy screamed, and for once there was no anger, just plain old fear.

"Goodbye Big nose the clown! Hope you find the circus that you were looking for!" I spoke, grinning while Nami snickered at my comment, obviously not as scared about what will come out of mine and Luffy's mouths. Then as if it was a very long pause, Luffy's hand came back to do the attack.

"BAZOOKA!" Luffy screamed as his hands hit Buggy and sent to guy flying into the distance and I was all too soon did we lose sight of him as he had completely disappeared.

"I take it that it's over now?" Nami asked, a smile on her face.

"Yep! The clown is gone! Whooo!" I answered enthusiastically a huge smile on my face, and my arms going up just to express my happiness. Though I then groaned in pain, having forgotten my shoulder injury. "Ow."

"VICTORY!" Luffy all but screamed, not caring for the volume of his voice, though it wasn't long until he turn to both me and Nami. "Now you're gonna become my crew member, right?"

"I'm just cooperating with you while it serves my purpose, remember that! I'll say okay for now, since it seems that if I go along with you guys I'll be able to earn a lot. Though I also had already told Kasumi-San this already." Nami said, bringing my attention to her as soon as she said my name.

"You know there's no need for formalities with me. Just call me Kasumi or any random nickname that you feel like." I said to her, a smile on my face.

"Huh? You sure?" Nami asked curiously.

"Go ahead." I encouraged, grinning a 'Luffy' grin. "And I interrupted you just now. Sorry."

"Okay, Kassie. As I was saying…" Nami said turning from me to Luffy. I raised my eyebrow at the name she gave me, but shrugged it off knowing what I said. "Buggy said that he only takes the best treasures for himself, so this bag's contents are of the highest quality! This treasure should be worth at least 10 million Beli!"

"Why do I feel like I'm gonna regret having her as a crewmate…." I mumble as I listened to her words but made sure to be quiet enough for her not to hear me.

"I've divided it into two bags so you hold half of it. This treasure is so heavy that carrying it alone is difficult." Nami spoke, looking at Luffy in hopes that he'd take one of the bags but unfortunately, Luffy was far more interested in his hat. I sighed.

"Pass me the bags." I spoke in a bored and tired tone, which in turn made Nami look to me.

"But why? It's very heavy and he's strong." Nami said, but I think she forgot about my display of strength earlier in the day. "And besides, you're hurt."

"So? I've had worse." I said simply before lifting up both the bags and started walking to where Luffy was heading. "Man, these are dead light. I can barely feel these!"

"What? Are you serious?" Nami asked, looking at me in shock.

"Yeah, these bags feel as light as a feather to me. How are they even heavy!?" I asked incredulously, as I looked at her in surprise.

"Wow, you must be really strong to not feel how heavy they are." Nami stated, surprise still in her tone.

"That's Kasumi-Nee for you. She can lift up to 500tons and still walk like a normal person." Luffy excitedly proclaimed with a smug smile on his face.

"WHAT!?" Nami yelled in shock, before looking at me with wide eyes. I sweat-dropped at the behaviour.

"Err, Luff, aren't you exaggerating a bit? It more like 100tons not 500tons." I said simply, empathizing the word 'not' so that he'd understand what I said.

"100tons would still seem like an exaggeration and unbelievable… But then again, like earlier, I can't argue against it." Nami muttered, seeming to go pale and this made me chuckle. All too son, I accidentally walked into Luffy and I ended up falling back.

"What the hell!? Why'd you stop walking Luffy!?" I growled up at my brother then I calmed down as soon as I saw him looking at his destroyed hat. "Oh, Luffy.."

"That hat… Is it precious to you?" Nami asked curiously but there was a soft tone to her voice.

"Yeah. That hat means a lot to him. Damn protective of the thing…." I answered, standing up before picking up the bags of treasure. I inwardly sighed in relief that it didn't spill all over the place.

"Yeah, but it's alright. I feel better now that I got rid of Buggy! Plus Kasumi can fix it for me later!" Luffy spoke before he continued walking. I narrowed my eyes, seeing the hidden order in those words.

"Oh, what a loving sister you are!" Nami teased, smirking at me. I sighed.

"I know. I just can't really say no to him when he seriously needs me. He always comes to me when he wants food, for me to bandage him up or when something happens to his hat." I said, a small smile on my face.

"He's lucky to have a sister like you." Nami commented, watching the idiotic captain poke Zoro awake several times. "Though I wonder, what's it like being the sibling to, well, THAT?"

I chuckled. "Hard to explain. Some days it feels like I enjoy his company, feels like we are normal siblings but then there are days it's the complete opposite. He's a challenge to look after and protect but then what part of being the older sibling wouldn't be challenging?"

"Haha, I think I'd end up ripping my hair out if I was his sister." Nami laughed, making me laugh alongside her.

"I feel like that too sometimes. But you'd learn to live with it." I said, before walking over to the captain and swordsman just to the point I could hear their conversation.

"Ahh, I don't think I can walk yet." Zoro spoke in a pained voice as he rubbed his face as he tried to wake up from his nap.

"Obviously! If you guys can still walk, then you aren't human…" Nami said, making the three of us look at her. I had my eyebrow raised.

"Why did you include me and Kasumi-Nee?" Luffy asked, seeming confused.

"You're the weirdest while your sister seems to be a monster with that strength of hers!" Nami all but yelled at Luffy before turning to me. "I didn't mean that in a bad way."

"I think she just said that last bit because I've got her treasure in my hands…." I mumbled under my breath, my eye twitching in annoyance. I then noticed that the chief was still knocked out cold on the ground. "Err, Luffy. What about the Chief?"

"Huh? What Chief…? Oh yeah… I'll go wake him up!" Luffy said turning to look at the older man, who was still lying where we had left him.

"You guys…" I heard a new voice speak up, and I turned to see a bunch of people appear before us. "We're the people of this village. Did the pirates stir up a fight amongst themselves…? If you know anything please tell us…"

"10… 9… 8…" I started slowly, waiting for it.

"Oh… So you're the villagers. I think some of the pirate crew are still here. And why're you counting Kasumi?" Nami spoke, but I didn't say anything.

"7… 6… 5.. 4.." I continued, ignoring her question. Nami shook her head before turning back to the villagers.

"If you want us to tell you then there isn't anything much left to tell you." Nami spoke before the man that was speaking for the villagers, notice the chief.

"AH! CHIEF!" The man yelled, running to the elderly man. "GOODNESS GRACIOUS! PLEASE WAKE UP!"

"DAMMIT! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE!?" Another guy yelled.

"IT'S DEFINITELY THE WORK OF THOSE PIRATES!" Yet another person yelled.

"3… 2…. 1…." I finished, slowly but made it seem that I was doing it a little louder.

"Kassie, why are you..?" Nami didn't get to finish when Luffy spoke up.

"Ah, sorry… I did that to the chief…" Luffy spoke simply.

"That's why I'm counting." I answered finally, knowing that Luffy was about to do something stupid, as he would sometimes get a look in his eyes that gave me a warning beforehand.

"WHAT!?" Every villager yelled, turning to glare at us.

"HEY! WHY DID YOU TELL THEM THAT KINDA THING ON PURPOSE..." Nami all but screamed at Luffy before turning on me. "AND YOU! YOU KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, DIDN'T YOU! WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP HIM OR AT LEAST WARN ME!"

"What would have been the point? He still would've said something." I said defending myself.

"You saw me give Kasumi permission for her to do it…. So that means that I did it…" Luffy spoke simply. Oh yeah, I was the one to give the blow to the man.

"I KNOW, BUT STILL! THAT WAS FOR A GOOD REASON…." Nami yelled again, turning back on Luffy.

"ALL OF YOU, HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO OUR CHIEF…" One of the villagers yelled.

"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SORT OF EXCUSE YOU GIVE US!" Another villager yelled, just as loud as the first and then I noticed they were starting to draw their weapons.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?COULD YOU BE PIRATES!?" Another yelled, and now I was waiting yet again. I could see the contemplating look which I knew would be out the door in seconds. I looked at Luffy then grinned, he had that look again.

"We ARE pirates." Luffy spoke, just as simply as before. I laughed this time and rather loudly and I could Zoro joining in to.

"BAKA!" Nami yelled in Luffy's face, making me augh harder to the point my shoulder was hurting but I didn't care, it was just too funny.

"But it's the truth." Luffy answered, looking as innocent as he could, but it wasn't long did he pick Zoro up, and grab one of the bags from me. "LET'S RUN AWAY!"

"AAH! THEY'RE RUNNING AWAY!" I heard one of the villagers yell after we ran past them. "CHASE THEM!"

"YIPES!" Nami yells in fear, while I just laughed.

"WE WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY! WE'LL PAY YOU BACK FOR WHAT YOU DID TO THE CHIEF!" The villagers yelled as they ran after us.

"WHY THE HELL DID YOU MAKE THE SITUATION MORE COMPLICATED?" Nami yelled, having to do so over the villagers voices.

"This is a good village!" Luffy spoke loudly, a grin on his face.

"Wha…?" Nami questioned, confused.

"For their Chief, for just one person… They're all getting mad!" I spoke, explaining what Luffy was getting at. I too can admire them for it and that's why I'm not attacking the villagers for being hostile to us. "No matter what excuse we give, they'll still be mad at us!"

"Yep!" Luffy agreed, grinning before running around a corner and into an alley, Nami after him and with me at the back.

"THEY'RE RUNNING AWAY THROUGH AN ALLEY!" I heard on of the Villagers warn the others and then I noticed something or someone. Shu-Shu, the dog from the pet store. He let us past, me petting him as I past him, before running ahead. I saw Shu-Shu start growling at the villagers, then started barking.

"Shu-Shu!"Nami spoke surprised, but sounded grateful.

"Ahh, that dog!" Luffy exclaimed, seeming to just notice the dog.

"Thanks Shu-Shu!" I yelled over my shoulder before I continued to follow Luffy and Nami and I stopped paying much attention to what the villagers were yelling after that. And soon we found ourselves at the dock, panting and recovering from our run.

"Hua.. Was getting pretty worried. Thanks to Shu-Shu we barely got away. Why does it always end up this way?" Nami spoke up after we gained our bearings.

"Well get used to it. We're pirates and you're a thief. It will always be like this. And I have a feeling this won't be the last time we will get chased out a village like that." I spoke, looking at the orange-haired girl with a raised eyebrow.

"Who cares what they think… We did what we came to do!" Luffy said, still carrying Zoro.

"Well it's not quite like that." I said to him, reminding that we came here to save him from being eaten from a bird, get the map and gain our new crewmate. Not beat up a clown or get the villagers pissed at us, those where just what came as a price.

"Is this your boat?" I heard Luffy ask Nami, making me look to see that a slightly bigger boat floating next to our original one, and it seemed to have an indoor compartment too with a door and windows. I would take it that it used to belong to Buggy as I could just make out a small part of his flag on the sail of the boat. "Wah! It's cool. I envy you."

"You think most things are cools, Luff." I spoke quietly but he threw me a grin to say he heard me. I shook my head. "Kid…"

"I don't think so, I stole it from a bunch of stupid pirates." Nami said before I saw three familiar heads appear from the boat Nami stole.

"WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU, THEIF!" They yelled angrily.

"You… You guys are…" Nami spoke as if in realisation.

"We knew you'd come back if we stayed here." The guy on the right said, and I have a strange feeling they didn't notice me, or at least not yet.

"Hehehehe! I never dreamed that we'd see this boat again in this very harbour after you stole it." The guy in the middle said, and that's when I remembered that little stupid story they told me and Zoro earlier. So it was Nami that stole it. Something to laugh about later.

"You won't be able to say you've forgotten us….!" The guy on the left said.

"You know them?" Luffy asked, looking confused.

"Hmm..! Sort of…" Nami spoke unsurely, as she looked back at Luffy.

"'Sort of'!? We have a long history!" The guy in the middle exclaimed angrily. How could it be a long history if she steals a boat of three guys she literally just meets and does it within 2 minutes? How is that a long history?

"So you have a gang now? I guess we get to teach you all a lesson." The guy in the middle said before walking up to us, before he started patting Zoro's head.

"I wouldn't…!" I went to warn the guy, I didn't think he realized who he was doing that too, nor did he recognized me.

"Stealing from others is such a terrible thing to do, Hahaha, man, don't faint like a coward! Stupid!" The guy said, still patting Zoro's head. "Hey! Hold your face up properly."

"Huh?" Zoro groaned, lifting his head, making the three men scream in realization.

"Oh come on boys! Don't tell me you didn't recognize us too! Now whose the stupid ones!" I spoke loudly with a sadistic grin on my face. The three looked at me and scream again only this time, they jumped into the sea and swam away, making me laugh. And soon we were climbing onto the boats, though I noticed Luffy leaving one of Nami's bags of treasure behind. Nami is gonna kill him.

"Mind if I come onto your Nami? It gets crowded on that one, especially with those two." I asked her nicely, placing my attention elsewhere.

"Sure. Plus, I need to patch you up don't I?" Nami answered before I got onto hers, making sure to place the treasure in the indoor compartment of the boat.

"Okay, let's go!" Luffy spoke excitedly at the prospect of moving on and soon we lowered the sails. Then Luffy noticed something. "Hey, that flag has Buggy's mark on it."

"It was those pirate's boat so of course it does. I'll erase it later." Nami answered and soon we were moving.

"I STILL HAVE TONS TO SAY TO YOU….!" A new voice yelled, making us look back to see the Chief, who was awake and panting. He had ran to catch us in time to speak to us. "STOP RIGHT THERE!"

"Mister Chief!" Luffy greeted in surprise.

"I'M SORRY! I OWE YOU!" The chief yelled to us, and soon the four of us were smiling in his direction.

"DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT! JUST LIVE HAPPY LIVES!" Luffy yelled back, and then I saw the look on Nami's face as she noticed the bag of treasure lying next to the Chief's feet.

"WHY IS MY TREASURE STILL THERE!?" Nami yelled.

"Oh! I thought to leave some for the villagers!" Luffy answered, only for Nami to yell again.

"WHAT!? YOU LEFT THE TREASURE BEHIND!? I GAVE KASUMI THE TREASURE, THEN YOU TAKE HALF OF IT AND I LET YOU, DIDN'T I!? THAT'S FIVE MILLION BELI!" Nami all but screamed.

"Yeah, but half of the village was destroyed it will take some money to repair it." Luffy answered, and I couldn't help but smile.

"THAT'S MY TREASURE!" Nami screamed yet again, grabbing the back of his neck and tried to push him in the water. Of course, Luffy grabbed the side of the boat to try to stop himself from going in.

"STOP IT! I CAN'T SWIM! IF YOU WANTIT SO BADLY, GO AND TAKE IT BACK FROM THEM!" Luffy screamed back at Nami, who only seemed to get angrier.

"HOW COULD IDO THAT?! IF YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, YOU'RE DEAD!" Nami screamed at him before letting go. During their little spat, both me and Zoro had just been sitting to one sie, watching and listening and we were currently laughing and soon Nami was joining us. "Baaaaaka!"

"What? You're laughing..?" Luffy asked us, making us laugh harder.

"SHUT UP!" Nami yelled heading on the head with a loud 'bonk'. I started to calm down, but my smile never left my face.

"It doesn't hurt.." Luffy spoke on defence in hope he wouldn't get hit again.

"That's because you're a rubber brained idiot." I said, taking his hat off of his head.

"Hey!" Luffy exclaimed, going to reach for his hat.

"Don't you want this fixed?" I asked condescendingly as I looked at him.

"Oh, right." Luffy said, taking his hand away before I started fixing it, but I paused and looked up at the sky.

Was it going to be like this throughout our journey? Fight through a situation then laugh amongst each other? I hoped so but I got this nagging feeling that there are several challenges ahead that we won't be laughing about. I shrugged it off before continuing my work….

… While hoping that things went smoothly for the rest of the day…

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Author's Note: Thank you for reading the story and I do hope that you are enjoying the chapters that I am trying to write out for you all. After this fanfic, I with now put my concentration on to my other story 'A Dragon's Love' as that one too hasn't had much of my attention either.

Anyways, please, please, PLEASE review, I would really appreciate it you could leave your oppinions about the story as I don't know if I'm doing anything with the story that is good or bad. I want to know what you like for me to put into the story, any ideas, opinions, ANYTHING.

So thank you guys for reading and hopefully I can write the next one quicker (If writer's block doesn't get to me... Grr)

Thanks again,

Doomedbex :)