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I walked downstairs and found Bepo sitting on one of the hotel couches. I smiled at the bear and walked over to him, "Morning Bepo."

"Good Morning Ari-chan," He smiled at me, "How are you?"

"I'm feeling good," I looked around and noticed that only Buck was up, "Everyone else sleeping?"

Bepo didn't have a chance to answer my question as Buck walked over and asked, "Mind helpin' me wake everyone up?"

I felt like grinning and crackling at the question, but held it in, "I'll wake up Kuro and Maki."

"Sure," Buck agreed with a slight grin, "They don't seem the sort to wake up readily after getting drunk,"

"Nope," I was thinking of all the ways to wake those two up and get revenge on them for getting drunk last night.

Bepo looked between Buck and I before saying, "Captain is already awake and should be down soon."

Law was sitting with the rest of the crew downstairs when twin shouts echoed around them, "AH FUCK!"

They looked between each other just as loud laughter was heard getting closer. Ariun came speeding into the dining room and took a seat next to Law with a laugh. They looked at her as she continued to laugh until she calmed down and said, "Well Kuro and Maki are awake."

"Ari-chan," Shachi asked while everyone save for Law looked at her nervously, "What did you do to wake them up?"

She merely grinned at him causing shivers to go down their spines. She ignored the question as she turned to Law and said, "Good Morning Law."

He merely nodded to her before focusing on his breakfast.

I bit back a sigh as I watched him ignore me and turned to my food as my good mood died a little. Well it looks like he's most likely going to ignore me today.

Maki and Kuro proved to be a good way to distract me from the fact Law was ignoring me. The two had run down the stairs half naked and covered in ice cold water. I grinned at them and both glared at me. I thought I heard Buck muttering, "Never going to let her wake them up again."

I mentally crackled while my grin grew and I commented, "Look at what the cat dragged in!"

"Why the fuck did you dump ice water on us?!" Kuro roared at me.

"You needed to wake up," I said in an innocent voice, "If you would have gotten up when I asked you to, I wouldn't have dumped ice water on you,"

He bared his teeth at me to the surprise of those around us. Before anything could happen, Maki placed a hand on Kuro's shoulder, "Kuro enough."

"Maki what the-" Kuro was cut off by the look on Maki's face and the brown haired man paled, "Fuck," He turned towards me, "Shit sorry,"

I waved him off while the rest of the crew looked at us like we were insane or something, "It's fine."

"No it is-" Kuro began only for me to shake my head at him.

"It's fine Kuro. Eat," Kuro went to argue, "You can make it up to me later,"

He sighed and went to sit down. Maki looked at me and nodded his head, "Sorry."

I shrugged my shoulders and began to eat my breakfast.

By the time night fell and everyone was eating dinner, I was in a crappy mood. Law was cold in his interactions with me when forced to speak with me. I decided that tomorrow I was just going to ignore him. When everyone decided to go to the bar, I stayed behind with Maki and Kuro. I was curled up on the bed in my room and Maki was sitting in one of the seat's looking through a medical book. Kuro was stretched out on the ground and playing cards with himself. Maki spoke as I turned to a new page in my sketchbook, "What happened between you and Captain?"

I put my pencil down and shrugged, "I don't know. He just started to ignore me."

"I wonder why," Kuro looked up from his game, "I mean you too get along fairly well, but him acting like this is odd,"

"Did you say something to him in the last few days?" Maki asked looked at me curiously.

I frowned slightly as I reviewed every conversation between Law and I during the last few days. None of them screamed that I did something wrong. Coming up empty, I told them, "I haven't said anything offensive to him. I've just acted like I usually do."

All three of us frowned and Kuro muttered, "Well this sucks."

"What did you say in your last conversation with him?" Maki asked making my frown deepen.

"We were talking about one of my caretakers," I answered feeling very confused, "He suddenly stiffened up out of nowhere and left me alone after telling me to get some rest," I looked at my sketchbook, "I was drawing the island at the time too,"

Maki sighed deeply, "We haven't known the Captain long enough to understand why he would act this way."

"So what are we going to do?" Kuro asked.

Before Maki could speak, I said, "I'm planning on ignoring him. If he's going to ignore me, I'll ignore him back unless something happens."

"Is that wise?" Maki asked as his frown deepened.

I shrugged my shoulders and returned to my drawing, "Don't really care right now. Maybe if I ignore him long enough, he actually stop ignoring me to find out why."

"And using that logic," Kuro said drawing both Maki and I's attention, "He'll tell you why he ignored you,"

"That's the plan," I looked at Maki, "Any better ideas?"

"At this moment, no," He looked at me with a sigh, "Storm you need to be careful around him,"

I snorted and rolled my eyes before turning back to my drawing, "I already know that Maki. I can see the darkness in his eyes and his bounty poster said a shit load about it. I'll be as careful as I feel like."

"Curiosity killed the cat," He commented prompting a snort from me.

"It may have killed the cat, yet satisfaction always brings it back," I retort with a smirk.

When Law was heading up to his room, he paused at seeing Ariun's door halfway open. Thunder was booming once again, yet no whimpering could be heard. He decided to look inside and close the door behind him once he satisfied his curiosity. He found Ariun curled up between Maki and Kuro with Kuro snoring loud enough to drown out any sign of thunder. The sight caused a twisting feeling in his gut. Sighing, he closed the door and headed up to his room. He was too tired to deal with this shit.

He ended up tossing and turning all night. It was around 6 in the morning when he decided to get up. He got ready for the day and walked downstairs. He was surprised to find Ariun already up and staring out of a window with a coffee cup in her hand. She glanced at him as he came down before turning away from him. He frowned before deciding that she was probably feeling like being quiet this morning. He was surprised two hours later when Bepo and Buck walked down. Ariun grinned at them and said, "Good morning boys. Ya sleep well?"

"Yeah didn know you were a mornin' person, Darlin'," Buck commented with a slight grin, "How are ya?"

"I'm feeling good," She looked at Bepo, "How about you Sweetie?"

Bepo smiled brightly at her, "I'm good. Do you know what's for breakfast?"

"It's bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, and something with fish in it," She answered making Law wonder why she hadn't told him, "It smells fairly good,"

"We should wake up everyone else," Buck commented and Ariun nodded.

Buck and Ariun went upstairs to wake everyone while Bepo looked at him, "Good Morning Captain."

"Bepo did something happen yesterday?" Law asked him.

"Not that I know of," The bear looked slightly confused, "Why?"

"Nothing," Law sighed and decided that it was probably nothing.

Law was surprised when Ariun agreed to go drinking with the rest of the crew. Kuro and Maki came as well, but neither male drank much. Rather than sit next to him like she had before, Ariun was all over the bar chatting with locals as well as other members of the crew. It was an odd change, but he put it down to her finding out the information he wanted. Because of this thought, he was surprised when Ariun didn't try to speak with him at any point on the way back to the hotel or even when they were heading up to their rooms. He decided that she was probably waiting until the morning to speak with him.

"Good morning guys," I greeted everyone when I sat down between Maki and Kuro.

"Morning," Everyone seemed tired and worn out most likely from the last few nights being spent drunk.

I mentally snickered, but stayed quiet to help them ease their hangovers. Once breakfast was over, I headed up to my room and grabbed one of the notebooks I grabbed during my shopping trip with Law the first day on the island. I spent the day writing down the information I had gathered last night and planned on going out again tonight to get some more. When I finished writing down the information, I decided to read a book until evening when it would be a good time to go to a bar.

"Hey Ari-chan," Shachi called as I walked downstairs, "Where ya going?"

"To a bar," I heard a few groans, "Anyone want to come?"

"Nah," I was waved off.

"I'll see ya guys later," I headed outside into the light rain.

I made it to the bar from last night and slipped inside. I settled myself into one of the secluded corners after ordering myself some food and some alcohol. I spent the evening listening to people talk. Without being able to see me easily, the locals had much looser lips. I was easily able to glean important information once everyone had a few rounds in their system.

Law decided to find Ariun and ask her what she found only for her room to be empty. Frowning, he walked down the stairs and asked, "Where is Ariun-ya?"

"She went to a bar," Shachi answered with a slight shrug.

"Did anyone go with her?" He asked as his frown deepened.

"No since all of us are still a little bit hungover from the last few days," Penguin answered and looked at him with a frown, "Did you want us to Captain?"

He decided it wasn't worth it at the moment, "It would be better if you had, but Ariun-ya can take care of herself," He turned to Bepo, "I'll be in my room if anyone needs me."

He walked up to his room and took out one of the medical books he had recently bought.

Once it got fairly late and most of the people that worked at the docks had went home, I began getting ready to leave until I heard, "Yeah the boss is happy that we're charging those pirates through the nose."

"Damn didn't think old man Wink would do that," I turned my head and found a pair of guys sitting at a table, "He's always been welcoming to pirates,"

"Not since his daughter was taken by that group under Joker," One of them grumbled, "Damn old man hasn't been right since,"

"I doubt he would be," The other shivered, "I pity the old man,"

The first one nodded, "Yeah. Hey did you see that girl with them?"

"The one with the spotted hair?" I felt my lips twitch.

"Yeah. She was pretty hot," I looked both over and mentally snorted as the guy commented, "I wonder if she's looking for someone to sleep with,"

"She was in here yesterday," I felt a shiver go down my spine, "I hope she comes back in here,"

"Yeah," The two moved onto another discussion and this time it was about the place they store the money.

I left the bar once they got too drunk to understand and headed back to the hotel. Once there, I wrote down all the information I gathered before getting ready for bed and falling asleep.

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