Heart of strings
Ch 4 - Problem?
(Title is meant to witty or something, I don't know. Not trolling)
Cavery is a character I added, do not be alarmed, the reason why is at the end of the chapter.
Enjoy you lovely people who read this. No really I actually didn't think many people would even take a glance at this. Surprises hide around every corner eh?
Law could possibly say he was an emotional wreck at the moment, though that would be a bit of a lie. Sure he wasn't thinking straight, but an emotional wreck? No just a little unstable.
The reason why? Hell he wasn't even sure why. He knew that he was being an idiot though.
He had suffered much worse. Why was one little break up he had caused affecting him? He wasn't sure, all he knew was he had to do something about it.
Yes, he had fared worse in the past, it was a bad experience but who hasn't had one of those before? No one had a perfect life why bother being all moody about a trivial thing, not that it didn't mean something to him because it had, and he missed it even if he did not bother to tell a single soul of it. It was his little secret.
Rising to his feet he walked over to the large mirror on his dresser and looked at himself. Everything looked the same, but he did not feel the same, almost as if something was different about himself. He could not spot anything strange about his appearance and decided he was maybe being a little crazy. Shaking his head he turned away from the mirror and made his way out of his bedroom.
Making his way down the hall he noticed that the walls were a lot cleaner than they had been before. It struck him as a little odd until he remembered he had ordered for the ship to be cleaned for being idiots and thinking they could force the big red brute to come back. The thought of Kid alone hurt, but he shook the thought away.
Making his way to the common room he noticed that the paper for today had been strew on the table half hazardously. Picking up the paper he left the common room, not remembering why he had even gone there in the first place. Making his way outside he looked for a comfortable place to sit, wishing to call for his polar bear crew member, but deciding against it.
Sitting himself down on the railing to the ship he opened the newspaper. The hadn't been any interesting news as of yet, but he knew it would only be time before that happened, especially with that interesting child, Monkey D. Luffy climbing his way up. The rest seemed to be obituaries, and births of marine children.
About to throw away the paper he noticed that he had missed a page, Law frowned and flipped the page back to where he had missed. A small 'oh' left his lips as he read the story, then followed by a laugh.
"So the idiot caused an uproar in town did he?" Law laughed to himself.
"Looks as if I wasn't the only one upset though I can't think of any real reason for Kid to be upset as well, he was the one to break it off. Could he possibly be upset at something, yah that was probably it." Law muttered closing the paper, placing it under his arm and heading back into the ship before a blur of yellow and black caught his attention stopping him in his tracks.
"Please do not fret, I only came to speak to you not to cause trouble." Killer spoke softly not sure if there was anyone else in the vicinity that would take his presence as an instant threat.
"Why should I not? You are a crew member and not to mention first mate of Kid, so please prey tell why I should not cause any trouble?" Law replied unenthusiastic, not looking forward to anything Killer would have to say.
"I would appreciate less of an attitude, but I assume that it is not possible from you. What I came here for was to talk about Kid, he is more stressful then lately and I was hoping that you would fix whatever you have done to piss him off. I am used to him being grumpy but this time I do fear he will go overboard."
"Alright it seems as if you think I care about him, because I could be the farthest from it. He is a selfish and uncaring fool who thought he could just do as he pleased with me and not face any sort of repercussion. Obviously he was wrong." Law growled unhappy about what he was saying but it was the truth, and Kid had been quite the asshole.
"As I thought. " Killer sighed turning to leave but stopping before he left not bothering to turn back to Law as he spoke "I know that me coming here would make little difference, but I will just say that when Kid was meeting up with you he seemed happier almost. It was hard to tell but I noticed. He never had much going for him as a child, but I do ask you try. I don't wish to see him with common whores again."
Law didn't say anything as Killer leaped from the ship. Law wasn't too happy with what Killer had said but what exactly could he do? Kid had been the one to end the relationship, so why wasn't the bastard happy?
Finally able to get inside without a distraction he headed to the common room, dropping off the paper where he had found it. 'Maybe I should go to town.' Law mused as he almost bumped into Shachi, seeing how as neither of them had been paying attention to where they had been going.
"Ah, sorry captain I wasn't looking where I was going," Shachi apologized quickly not wanting to get into any more trouble than he had been in.
Law shook his head. "No, it isn't much of your fault as it was mine. I wasn't focusing on what I was doing."
Shachi scratched at the back of his neck and gave an awkward half smile. "Ah yah, you have been a little off lately."
"Hmm, so it seems. Oh while you are here tell the rest of the crew I shall be in town. "
"o .. oh ok I will tell them. May I ask why?" Shachi stuttered.
"No reason really, but I guess I feel like going for a walk. Though bringing my Nodachi might be a smart idea." Law said muttering the last part as he began walking off toward his room to fetch his sword.
(((o_o)))
As soon as Law had left the vicinity Shachi booked it toward the bedroom where penguin and he had been hiding out. "Hey idiot hand me the den den mushi I need it for a sec."
"Jeez you don't have to call me an idiot Shachi." Penguin mumbled handing him the snail. "By the way, why do you need it?"
Pulling a number out of his pocket Shachi quickly dialed it and waited for the other to pick up.
There was a small click and a gruff voice on the other side. "May I ask who is calling?"
"It's sunglasses."
Penguin snickered which earned him a glare from Shachi.
"Oh I see, what is it you need to tell me?" The voice responded.
"Captain has stepped out for a walk. I believe that it would be a perfect opportunity to get them to at least speak."
There was a brief pause before the voice responded back. "Alright I shall try my best to get mine out of the ship, but you better not be lying or nothing good will come out of it."
"No lies I promise." Shachi said with a small bit of fear clinging to his words.
The line went dead and Shachi placed the snail on a table beside one of the beds. "Do you think it will work?"
Penguin shrugged his shoulders. "Not sure bro, but I hope so captain is going a little off the edge."
A sigh could be heard across the room. "You know it isn't healthy to push him back into a relationship with the same person so fast, especially if captain is acting this unstable."
Looking toward the source of the voice Shachi and Penguin noticed it had been one of their crew mates, Cavery with his nose stuck into a book.
"I do find it strange how he is going off the edge over it. It could be his past. I don't really know that much but it is odd." Cavery added still reading the book, not bothering to fully address his crew mates.
"I know, but we just want captain to be happy again, well at least less on edge." Penguin said with a small frown on his face. "We don't need him thinking back to his past, especially from what Bepo has told us. If it was that bad then he needs someone to help him."
Placed the book down Cavery turned toward them "I know, it is just hasn't he been looking after himself for a long time. Wouldn't he be stronger than this, and by that I mean not be so distraught by one simple break up with someone who seems unstable himself."
Penguin and Shachi turned toward each other confusion evident in their features.
"Umm I'm not actually sure about that, I mean I guess he would be hardened by all that has happened to him." Penguin replied trying to figure out the subject at hand.
"Maybe he has never been with anyone officially and Eustass was his first sort of relationship … and when Eustass left he became distraught because he knows his past has made him cold and unable to trust, so it was the reason why Eustass didn't want him anymore." Shachi piped in tilting his head slightly trying to figure out the reason why.
Cavery shrugged. "That is a possibility. I've heard of that happening to others where they become distant in relationships because they have had a bad experience in the past. It could also be that Eustass is the one with the terrible back story and such, did you not think of that?"
Penguins face scrunched up. "Uh stop this, way too much to think of at the moment. So it's Eustass with a problem making captain's problem worse, which wouldn't have happened if captain hadn't let his problem get so out of hand, which caused Eustass to create a bigger problem out of captain's problem which also created more problems for the captain?"
Shachi and Cavery tilted their heads at Penguin "Um I guess so?" They both answered not sure of how to process what Penguin had actually said.
"Way too many problems created out of something captain had no control of technically it's not his fault that this happened. It's that stupid Doflamingo started this all, now captain isn't happy, Eustass is possibly pissed and on rampage, because I am sure you two have seen the paper." Both nodded and Cavery continued on speaking. "As it stands right now, I think we might have just caused a larger problem with that mystery man you were talking to."
"Ah, actually that was Killer, you know Eustass's first mate. He stopped me as I was about to call out and handed me a piece of paper telling me to call if there was anything that could help get captain and Eustass back together." Shachi said scratching at the back of his neck looking sheepish.
"We definitely have a problem on our hands, I just hope captain doesn't try to murder Eustass or Killer might be coming back here to find you and possibly the rest of us." Penguin said shaking his head.
"Do think there is anything we can do to fix this?" Shachi questioned.
"Afraid not, unless you want to go out and find captain before Eustass does, then tell him to return to the ship. Eventually having to deal with Killer on why they couldn't find our captain and tell him that we were afraid of our captain taking Eustass on in a fight. Then he might go on to say that both could have taken care of each other in a fight, where we respond that was not what we worried about because we know he can we just don't want him to tip off the crazy scale." Cavery responded
"He isn't actually crazy but we should keep an eye on him just encase right?" Penguin asked looking back and forth between the other two in the room.
"… I guess that would be a good idea, Jean Bart and Bepo can watch the ship just fine." Shachi said heading toward the door.
"Alright then let's go find captain." Penguin and Cavery both said at about the same time.
(((o_o)))
They had found the captain easily enough and it seemed like Eustass had not found him as of yet. Law was sitting on a rock overlooking a field of just grass which was blowing in the wind. His nodachi resting safely between his legs and on his shoulder as well as it could since he was slightly hunched over.
The three had hidden in some dense underbrush that just allowed for them to see Law, but not for him to see them. "Do you think he knows we are here?" Penguin asked slightly peeking over the bush.
"Not sure, but he might as well with how loud you are being." Shachi whispered hitting Penguin on his head.
"He seems so small over there." Cavery mumbled.
"Ya, but Captain is a strong person, he is just having a difficult time." Penguin replied rubbing at his sore head.
"True …. Wait don't look know but it's Eustass." Shachi pointed out toward the large red blob approaching from the east.
"Well let's hope for the best men." Cavery said making himself comfortable for what might happen next.
Sorry I haven't updated in a while I was just feeling pretty crappy and couldn't come up with anything really.
I added Cavery because I needed a character to interact with Shachi and Penguin and there has been no mention of names for the other crew mates that I know of beside Bepo and Jean Bart, but I didn't want to have them in that seen. If you want to try imagining what he looks like think of a burgundy red hair barely visible except around the neck and around the ears, dark green eyes and peach colored tuque. And a beauty mark just below his right eye. Of course he is going to have the standard white uniform with the heart pirate logo.