A/N: I finished my last exam for the semester so to celebrate a new chapter only a week after the last one. I now have a little more time onmy hands so might be a bit quicker all around for updating. So, this one isn't from anyone on the crew but she is one of my favorite non-Straw Hats and I figured if I didn't do something from around this point there would be a massive timeline gap before the next one (which will be set after little garden, give me some guesses as to who you might think it bases around). This is my longest chapter to date in this fic, 699 words of story, please let me know what you think in a review.
As always thank you for the favorites and follows.
Arxhaelologist: Yeah, I guess that's kind of what makes it fun for us fans as we can kind of pick who has what ranks, I don't remember if it is ever addressed in the manga as I'm still somewhere in the Punk Hazard Arc (I wanted to reread the entire thing before going further but kept having other things pop up so haven't quite done it yet). Thanks, Nami is an interesting character perspective to write. I actually think that was an interesting analogy.


Tashigi was feeling a mess of emotions, the most prominent being angry and confused. She was going over the day's events continually in her mind and still could not understand how it had happen while trying to work out what she could have done to get a better outcome.

She guessed the day started off normally enough until she met the odd green haired man, but the day started to go sideways when she didn't ask him his name. (She really should have asked for his name.)

She remembered seeing the Wado Ichimonji on the counter at the sword shop and being shocked to see such a legendary sword in such a small shop. She also remembered that the man who owned it was looking for two new swords too and that she had made some comment about he must break a lot of sword if he needed three of them and the only other person who she had heard of that carried three swords was the bounty hunter, Pirate Hunter Zoro. (She should have seen the signs then, she had talked about him. She should have put it together.)

She remembered the fuss when the man found Sandai Kitetsu in the cheap sword bucket, and the frankly amazing display that came after. How he ended up without a scratch from such an act involving a cursed sword, she had no idea. (How can some pirate scum have such luck or skill?) And then the reaction of the storekeep at seeing it, giving him that the Kitetsu and the meito Yubashiri, his most prized sword. (How can such a man hold so many legendary swords?)

Tashigi particularly remembered the incident in the execution square. How could she forget a moment of what occurred. Everything had been over in minutes but had felt like it had truly occurred over the course of hours, like it was happening in slow motion. The pirate Straw Hat Luffy on the execution platform, the Pirate Clown holding a sword above his head. The commotion as two men fought through the army of men in the square. Recognising the man from the store, hearing someone nearby mutter "Pirate Hunter" as she saw him using all three swords. Straw Hat yelling that he was sorry, (the name Zoro), smiling as the sword came down. The lightning. The despair of the man (Pirate Hunter) and his companion, yelling the boy's name. Realising that he had been fighting for the Straw Hat while running to help in the fight (to get the meitos), and the Straw Hat boy walking out of the destruction of the platform calmly. Them beginning to fight their way out. (She gotten his name. Should have seen the signs. How could he have such luck and skill? How can one man have ownership of so many of the meitos? He was the Pirate Hunter. Why was the Pirate Hunter fighting for a Pirate?)

She remembered what happen when she caught up to them. She fought the Pirate Hunter who was now a pirate himself. He told the man and Straw Hat boy he was with to go on without him and he would be along soon, and they believed him, trusted him. Even if the man complained about something while it happened (she was focused on the swordsman with the legendary swords, not really listening). She remembered fighting, each stroke burned into her memory, and she remembered losing her sword. She knows what that should have meant in any true fight, she couldn't defend herself so she should've died. That was what she had been taught would happen. But he didn't kill her. (He was a Pirate, she a Marine. He won, she lost. He should have killed her. Why didn't he kill her?) The only thing that could have stayed his hand was the fact that she was female, but when she confronted him he started yelling nonsense and started running. (What did he mean? Why didn't he kill her?)

She heard the rest of what happened as they left from Captain Smoker and now they had decided that those pirates will be their targets. She will get her answers and those swords back.