"Island up ahead! Can you guys hear me?" Nami shouted from above the crew.

Kia could hear the guys- Luffy running and shouting, Zoro and Sanji fighting… same as every morning. Since Nami was on watch, she got to use the bed, which meant she had slept well. She sat up and looked around, but Robin was nowhere in sight.

As she looked though, she realized they hadn't cleaned up in a while. It was hard to say how long it had been, after all the rush and excitement of Alabasta, then Robin joining. And if she thought the girls' room needing cleaning, the boys room was probably disgusting, though Sanji usually kept it from being a total nightmare.

Once they reached the island, they all piled out and onto the shore. Though, it looked like Robin was still keeping to herself, Kia noticed. She shook it off, and strode forward to stand by Nami.

"Nothing seems out of the ordinary," she said.

"No, it looks pretty quiet," Nami replied.

"Hey, Nami!"

She looked up, just as a pineapple shaped fruit came dropping down in front of them. Nami picked it up, looking it over, as Sanji jumped down from the tree nearby.

"These fruits will help replenish our food supply, and there are lots of them! I'm sure there are other plants we can use as well."

"Great!" Nami replied. "Then it will be your job to find what we can use as food."

"If we're handing out jobs," Kia said, "I'd like to stay and clean today. This is the first chance we'd had to recuperate since Alabasta."

"Good idea Kia, you sure you don't mind?" At Kia's head shake, Nami continued. "Then I think we should leave someone on watch since you'll be below decks."

Kia shrugged, since that wouldn't bother her. Nami walked over and picked up a small stick, breaking it into four small pieces. "As for the rest of you," she said to the boys without jobs, "here." She held out her hand with what looked like four sticks of the same size.

Chopper took one, looking at it in confusion, while Nami kept talking. "The three shortest will spend the day collecting the food that Sanji finds, while the one with the longest stick will have the duty of staying on watch. We don't want anything happening to the ship while we're busy."

"And when exactly did you become the captain?" Zoro asked angrily.

"Someone has to do it," Nami retorted, as Luffy held up the three sticks he grabbed.

"I got the most, so I win!" he said.

"Do I really need to explain further?" Nami asked.

"Not at all…" the Zoro, Usopp and Chopper answered, while Luffy laughed and Kia snickered.

"Wait, but what's Kia doing?" Luffy asked as Kia handed them the baskets they used for collecting supplies.

"I'm cleaning the ship, and doing laundry," Kia answered, and she turned to walk back to the ship with Chopper, who had gotten the long stick. "Oh, and that means everyone takes a bath tonight."

Luffy's face pulled down, but then he was happy again. "Everyone is going to take a bath with me? That will be fun!"

"No, you idiot…" Kia could hear Nami answer, while Sanji said, "Oooh, that would be fun- without you guys, of course."

The day went by rather quickly, as there was plenty of work to do. Kia completed the laundry first, so that it could spend the afternoon drying in the sun. Then she tackled the boys room, which was not as horrible as she feared. As she finished the bedrooms and went into the kitchen, she could see Robin and Chopper leaving with one of the fresh water barrels, so she took the opportunity to clean the storage room/ doctor's office. Besides, the kitchen was spotless, so she didn't need to touch it.

Point in favor for Sanji, she thought. Considering how spotless the kitchen was, the other guys must be really messy for the boys room to look like it had. Either that, or Sanji only picked up after them enough to make it tolerable.

After putting the laundry away, Kia swabbed the deck, and took a shower, then made a bath for Luffy. He was more likely to get in if it was all ready for him. She walked to the deck, brushing out damp hair and called for Luffy, Zoro and Usopp.

Zoro and Usopp were practically dragging Luffy, but they made it into the bathroom. It wasn't that they didn't trust Luffy, but no one wanted him to accidentally drown. Kia had put clean clothes and towels inside, so she just waited outside of the door for their dirty ones. Luffy came to the door to hand them over, and after just a glance, she averted her eyes.

"Thanks Luffy," she said, turning quickly. She could hear Zoro hit him, and yell about being naked in front of girls. Kia chuckled, as she thought of Zoro giving Luffy the talk.

She washed the rest of the clothes she had been given and hung them up, finishing just as Sanji walked by, his arms full.

"Need help Sanji?" Kia asked.

"No thank you, Kia darling. But we are eating down on the beach tonight, so I can escort you there."

"Oh, okay. You go ahead, I need to grab some things." Kia went back to the bedroom, grabbing a notebook and a pencil. She was in the middle of her drawing of Crocodile-the-villain that she had the idea to do from before, and wanted to finish it.

Kia grabbed a chair and left the ship, moving over the sand and adjusting her destination when she saw Robin sitting at a small table, reading. Kia moved over, placing her chair down and sitting. Robin glanced up from her book and gave Kia a small smile.

"What are you reading?" Kia asked, as she got herself comfortable.

"It is called the Rainbow Mist," Robin answered. "A series of books describing a phenomenon that I am uncertain is fact or fiction."

"What does the author state it is?" Kia asked, setting her notebook down.

"Fact. It is strange that I have never heard of it before, in all of my travels, but then again, anything is possible."

Kia looked over at the glowing fire. "Don't you want to be closer to the fire?" she asked. Robin looked up and then over at her single candle.

"I am fine here. I can't remember the last time I was able to simply relax and read. It's something I enjoy very much."

"I guess I can understand that," Kia said, patting her notebook.

"What is that?" Robin asked curiously. Kia gave an embarrassed shrug, not certain if she wanted to show it off. "Is that… Crocodile?" Robin asked with a smirk, as she leaned over to peer at the page.

"Well, yeah. This moment is stuck in my head, and I needed to draw it. While I don't like him, he does have a certain bad guy appeal."

"Bad guy appeal?" Robin repeated with a laugh.

"Yeah," Kia defended. "I'm sure you have met plenty of so-called bad guys that were just pathetic. Baroque Works had plenty of them. But Crocodile, he's got… I don't know… the arrogance, the looks, the brain… everything a true bad guy needs to be effective. Though he didn't know when to step back," Kia added with a smirk of her own.

"If he had known what you thought, he probably would have kept you around," Robin teased. "He enjoyed people that could look at the big picture, especially when they would agree with his own estimation of himself."

"Yeah, well. He was still a jerk. Most people who want power are."

Robin was silent after that, looking over at the fire as the rest of the crew gathered to eat. "You should join them."

"Huh?" Kia asked, following her gaze. "Yeah, WE should."

She gave that small, sad smile of hers again. "I appreciate the thought, but I prefer to be alone. You should join your friends." She said it with finality, and went back to reading her book.

Kia sighed, but decided not to push her. She knew Robin would get there eventually. Kia stood and walked over to the fire, where someone had cut down a tree and placed four large logs around the fire to sit on. Chopper was sitting alone, so Kia went to join him. Usopp and Luffy were on their left, and Sanji and Zoro on their right. The fourth was empty, as Nami was inspecting their day's labors.

"Please explain why you weren't able to gather even a single piece of fruit," she demanded of Luffy and Usopp.

"Um, that's a good question… " Luffy said as he ate. "What's your answer?"

"I told you, I was being attacked… by a huge condor that was trying to claw my face off!" Usopp's theatrics had him overbalancing and falling on his back over the log he was sitting on. "I tried my best, but… I guess it wasn't good enough… and now… I'm dead," he gave a death scene complete with ketchup star to look like blood.

Chopper and Kia stood and clapped, and she yelled, "Bravo!" to which Luffy laughed.

Nami walked over behind Zoro and saw his basket was overflowing with fruit. "I have to say, I'm impressed, Zoro," she complimented. "Since you're so competent, you should gather fruit for Luffy and Usopp too."

Zoro choked on his food, spitting his mouthful out on the sand. "What?!" he cried.

"Oh I just love how adorable Nami is…" Sanji said wistfully. "Especially when she's yelling at everyone!"

"Just shut up, you moron!" Zoro snapped at him.

"You want to go, moss head?!" Sanji retorted, and they glared at each other.

"Calm down you two!" Nami said, pushing them away from the other, and making them fall over. The rest of the crew started laughing as they sat back up, sullen. They all went back to eating, and Nami took a plate to Robin, then finally sat down with her own dinner.

Kia finished her food, and moved down to sit in the sand, using the log as a back rest, and pulled out her notebook. She continued sketching as the others talked.

"What is that, Kia?" Chopper asked after awhile, looking over her shoulder. "Aah! Crocodile!"

That got everyone's attention, and they all looked over in question, and Kia felt a little embarrassed. "Uh, yeah. There was just this moment, where he looked just like what I always pictured evil pirates to be, and I wanted to remember it."

"Can I see?" Nami asked, as she came and sat by her friend. Kia held out the picture so she could see, but she just snatched the book from her hands. Luffy and Usopp came to stand behind her, and even Sanji and Zoro were curious enough to scoot closer. "I didn't know you were such a good artist, Kia." Nami said as she looked at the picture.

"Yeah Kia," Luffy said while eating whatever he could snatch from the others' discarded plates. "That looks like a picture! But you know… not…"

Kia couldn't help but smile even as her cheeks heated, especially as Usopp said that she was almost as good an artist as he was.

Nami flipped back to the beginning of the book, looking at the drawings Kia had done of each of them, some normally, some in different outfits, or with different hairstyles.

"Is this me?" Nami asked, pointing to a page.

"Yep, though obviously a little different," Kia answered. It was Nami's look after the timeskip that she had drawn.

"Hmm, the long hair looks pretty good though," she mused, "though it would take forever to get that long. Plus, with the jeans and shoes, it looks like I'm just walking around all exposed," she said with a laugh to Kia.

"Ooh! Let me see Nami!" Sanji cried as he pushed Luffy and Usopp out of the way. "Kia my sweet, that's fantastic! Can I keep it?"

"No way," Nami said as she turned the page. "These are Kia's." Nami looked at the next picture of Sanji, of just his face, a huge grin, his hair pulled back, but his left hand with cigarette in front of the left side of his face, so that his eye was still blocked. Granted, they had all seen his face, and really, it was just a quirk that had his hair seeming to cover one side all the time, but Kia enjoyed it.

"Kia, these are amazing!" Luffy shouted, as Sanji was swooning over having his picture done by her. "Is there one of me? Is there, is there?"

"Uh…" Nami flipped another page, and there was Zoro, with long hair, samurai style robe, and that fierce look he gets when he's excited for a fight.

"Whoa!" Luffy and Usopp shouted, and Sanji sneered. "Zoro looks badass!"

"I think that's all…" Kia stammered, as Nami flipped the page again, then glanced over at the girl with a smug smile.

"THIS one is very good…" she said, and Kia could feel her face turn beet red. It was two sketches of Ace, one of his face with a smile and surrounded by flames; and another with him decked out in a black suit, barefoot and wearing a rogue-ish smirk.

"Yeah, well… that's all there is!" Kia said loudly and grabbed the notebook back.

"Why do you have Ace in there, Kia?" Chopper asked innocently, and she searched for an answer as Nami struggled not to laugh.

"Um, because! Ace is Luffy's brother, and we're all like a family, so it's kinda like Ace is my brother too!" It was the worst possible explanation, and the looks from everyone but Luffy and Chopper let her know that.

"Oh! That's true!" Chopper said.

"If Ace is your brother, does that mean, I'm your brother too?" Luffy asked, picking his nose.

"Luffy, I wouldn't want anyone else for a brother," Kia said in complete honesty, and Luffy cheered.

"That's awesome! I always wanted one, and Ace will be so happy to have a sister!" he shouted.

"I don't think happy is the word…" Nami said quietly and Kia shushed her.

"Can I see more pictures?" Luffy asked, and Kia relented, but refused to give up her hold on the notebook. She'd have to be more careful, since she hadn't thought, and sketched accurate pictures that hadn't happened yet.

Nami's looks were easy to write off as imagination, but the sketch of Usopp had his new weapon, and the one of Luffy had his scar, and Kia couldn't show those. She flipped through the pages, getting past the ones she couldn't show, and landed on one of her and her three sisters.

"Who's that?" Sanji asked, suddenly interested again.

"That's Kia!" Chopper said as he pointed to the sketch of her.

"That's Reese," Luffy said with a grin, pointing.

"Oh, I see…" Sanji replied. "And there is Miss Ashley. You're all so beautiful Kia!"

"So the tallest one must be Dru," Nami said, ignoring Sanji and studying the drawing. "I guess I expected you all to look more alike," she said.

"Seeing my parents kind of ties us all together," Kia answered. "We each have pieces of them."

"But your smiles are all the same," Usopp noted. "Even the shape, as well as the dimples in your cheeks. I bet if we only saw their smile, we'd have no idea which one of you it was."

"That's true," Kia said, turning the page.

"Hey, there's one ripped out here," Nami noted, and Kia nodded. "It couldn't have been that bad."

"No, it wasn't, I left it for Vivi," she said softly, and the others were quiet as they remembered their friend. "It was a drawing of all of us together, so she could remember us."

On the next page was the picture of Crocodile, and the following was one of Robin, though Kia drew her with several arms all around her body in a circle.

"What… is that?"

Kia turned to Nami after she turned to the next picture and shrugged. "It's a house,"

"I can see that, Kia, but can you explain? Why is it sitting on top of giant chicken feet?"

"Huh?" the boys said, trying to get a closer look.

"It's from stories my Mom used to tell us. I had a bad dream the other night, and so I drew this, to get it out of my head."

"A story?!" Luffy's eyes widened in excitement. "Tell us, tell us!"

Kia chucked, "It's not that kind of story, it was more something to get us to behave, like the boogeyman."

"Boogeyman?!" Luffy was practically bouncing up and down. "Tell it!"

"You don't have a boogeyman?" Kia asked Nami, and she looked puzzled as she shook her head. "You know, stories that parents tell their children… like don't do that, or the boogeyman will get you?"

"No, but some people tell stories like that about pirates."

"Oh, I see. Well, back home, there weren't any bad pirates, so we had other stories. Most people believed that they were just stories… but the tales were passed down, from parent to child, for hundreds of years. No one could say for certain that they were untrue, because any time a child went missing, the elders were quick to say that it was the boogeyman."

"Scary…" Chopper said cuddling next to Kia.

"Cool…" Luffy breathed out, watching her intently.

"In every place, the boogeyman had a different name, but it all came back to the same person. My mom used to say that it was actually an old witch, who was called Boney Legs."

"Boney Legs?" Usopp said skeptically. "Not very scary."

"In other lands, she was also called Baba Yaga, but I always knew her as Boney Legs. She lives in a hut in the forest, a hut that stood on giant chicken feet. She was old, but very strong, and she lived in an enchanted area of the forest, where the animals could talk, and everything looked so beautiful, that children who found it, couldn't help but go inside."

"But… they shouldn't, right?" Chopper asked.

"No, they shouldn't," Kia agreed. "Because Boney Legs would grab them with her huge hands that had claws instead of fingers. And they would see she had sharp teeth made out of iron, just before she ate them." Kia reached over and dug her nails into Nami's arm, causing her to scream.

"AAAHH!" Chopper and Usopp screamed, and Luffy was hit with Usopp's flailing arm and knocked back.

"So yeah," Kia continued normally. "Mom told me never to go into a stranger's house, because I might find myself eaten by Boney Legs."

"Awesome!" Luffy cheered, still on his back in the sand.

Nami gave Kia a punch on the shoulder, and she yelled "Ow!"

"Serves you right," Nami said. "If I wake up with a nightmare, you're going to get it!" Kia smiled at her, and rubbed Chopper's back, since he had launched himself into her lap.

"Don't worry, it's just a story," Kia whispered to him.

"It… it is?" he asked tentatively.

"Absolutely. That's why it's fun to be scared with a story, because after, you know that it's just a story."

"Oh…" he said, then looked up at her with a grin. "Yeah, that was kind of fun!"

"Fun my butt…" Usopp muttered.

The next few days were fairly calm, mostly spent fishing, though there was a misadventure with a traveling delivery/salesman who was travelling inside a huge sea snail. It turned out well, after the man pulled out several things for them to try, Nami asked about paper, and he offered the crew several blank books that were large like sketch pads, as well as a ream of 1000 year paper.

"Oh!" Kia said, "these are amazing!"

"Yes, this paper is perfect!" Nami added as she looked at it. They then glanced at each others' focus and nodded.

"You should definitely get that!" they said in unison, then started laughing.

The salesman gave a smug look, and then tearfully told us how rare and expensive the items were.

"Okay, but how much to sell us these, right here, right now?" Kia said in response.

"Yes, there's no price I wouldn't be willing to pay," Nami added with a smile,

"WHAT?!" Luffy, Zoro and Usopp shouted.

"This is the same Nami, that would rather count money than eat?!" Usopp said in disbelief.

"The same Nami that loves money more than life itself?" Zoro added.

"And she'll pay anything?" Luffy finished.

"You guys may be overreacting," Sanji said with a roll of his eyes.

"Very well, then… all together these would normally cost… 30 million berries. But for you today, you can have it all for only, 28 million!" He smiled at them, as if it was the best favor he had ever done for anyone, ever.

"Hmm, can't you go any lower?" Kia asked with a bat of her lashes.

"All right, 27.5 million then."

"How about 1 million?" Kia countered.

"27.4 million- just for you," he suggested with a wink.

"Can't you go any lower?" Nami asked, grabbing his hands.

"Sold!" Sanji said, stepping between them, and giving the girls his dashing pose.

"You have that kind of money?" Zoro asked in disbelief.

"Nope!" Sanji moved quickly, throwing rope all around Luffy and tying him up tight. "But if we turn Luffy into the marines, we'll have enough, plus some left over," he said.

"What?!" Luffy yelled, struggling to get out.

"Sorry Luffy, but Nami and Kia deserve this sacrifice."

"No they do not!"

"Wait…" the salesman said. "Did you say Luffy? As in Monkey D. Luffy?"

"Yep, that's me, weird guy… C'mon Sanji, just untie me!"

Sanji shook his head, "Sorry, can't do it."

"Aah! There's a real pirate flag up there! I just remembered that I have a really important… uh, appointment! Have a nice day!" With that, the salesman jumped into his sea snail, and was gone off the side of the ship.

"Was it something we said?" Luffy asked, as Sanji freed him.

"Perhaps he was afraid of you and your friends," Robin said from her chair. "You are a wanted man after all."

"He left all his stuff here!" Zoro said, scratching his head.

"Yay!" Nami and Kia shouted, grabbing their respective prizes.

"Thanks Luffy! You scared him into giving it to us for free!" Kia said with a grin.

"Shi-shi-shi… no problem!