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I frowned softly and realized that I would have to tell him sooner rather than later. Swallowing thickly, I opened my mouth and started to speak, "My-"

A knock sounded on the door and the vibrations I felt on my back reminded me that I was against the door. I moved away from it as Law called out, "Come in."

The door opened and in walked in one of the navigators, I think his names Kin or Kit. He glanced at me in surprise before shaking his head and looking at Law, "Captain we're coming up on a storm system."

"Dive under the water until it won't bother us too badly," Law ordered making the man nod, "Why didn't Bepo-ya contact me using the voice pipe, Kita-ya?"

Ah Kita's his name! Kita sighed softly, "One of the pipes is blocked. Grin and Crain are working on it."

Hearing that, Law frowned, "How long has is been blocked?"

"We just noticed that it was blocked when Bepo couldn't send the message through," Kita informed Law, "Grin, Crain, and the twins are going to do a check on all the voice pipes once they finish getting the current one unblocked,"

"Good. I want one of them to give me a report once they're done checking the pipes," Kita nodded, "Go,"

"Aye Captain," Kita glanced at me on his way out.

When the door closed behind Kita, Law pointed to his couch, "Sit down there."

I walked over to the couch and could smell the expensive leather it was made of underneath Law's scent. As I sat down, I marveled at how comfortable it felt and leaned back against the seat. I looked at Law as he walked over and asked, "Why did you want me to sit down?"

"I've found that you're more comfortable telling me things if you're sitting down," He informed me as he took a seat next to me, "Especially if the story is something that bothers you,"

Hearing him say that, I realized he could read me fairly well. I was surprised to find that it didn't bother me that much. Shaking my head to clear it, I ran my fingers through my hair, "Alright so you want to what I'm keeping from you," He nodded while eyeing me carefully, "My troubles with Diablo and the scientist came from the man that I'm ashamed to share a last name with."

"Your father?" I nodded softly, "You haven't mentioned him before,"

Ariun offered him a sardonic smile, "That man has never been a father to me in my entire existence and if it was his choice, I wouldn't be alive," Law felt a slight chill at seeing her eyes turn a mixture of despair and rage, "My mother was raped by that man. If my mom's family had it their way, I wouldn't exist," Ariun smiled a slightly bitter smile, "My mom told me that from the minute she knew that I existed, she loved me. She had been told repeatedly that she would never have kids and that devastated her because she wanted a big family. She didn't care how I was conceived because she was actually going to have a kid," Ariun shook her head, "Anyway, a few months after my caretakers left, he," She spat out that work with enough venom to remind him of when he said the pink bastards name, "Came back to the island and learned about me from one of my mom's sisters."

"Why do you hate him so much?" Law asked though he had a few ideas.

"He's the one that sold me to the scientist," She replied with a deep growl radiating from her chest surprising him and making him realize this is the first time he had seen her show any real emotion about her past, "He had the nerve to tell me that I should be happy that I'm actually doing something of worth, that I was a fucking mistake that shouldn't exist, and that I should be proud that I was actually doing something with my life," Law felt anger slowly rise up inside of him, "A few years after I escaped, he returned to the island and discovered what happened," She shook slightly and grit her teeth, "The bastard found out about my ability from some other member of my mom's family that hated my guts. He along with that pig Diablo looked for me, but I kept away from them. I watched him leaving and heard him saying that his boss would probably find me somewhat useful,"

Law absorbed the information slowly and realized something, "Ariun-ya who is your father and who is his boss?"

"I don't know the name of his boss, but I do know that both of them are pirates with his boss being his captain," Law had a sinking feeling in his gut about who her father was, "As for that man's name, he is Snow Liken,"

Law felt his entire body freeze at that name. Of all the people she could have as her father, it had to be that bastard.

I broke away from my anger at that man when I saw Law tense. I frowned and opened my mouth to speak when Law hissed, "That bastard..."

"Law?" The grey-eyed man looked at me, "What's wrong?"

"Your father is one of the pirate captain's that work under Donquixote Doflamingo," I froze immediatly and felt a shiver go down my spine.

"H-how do you know?" I couldn't stop myself from stuttering a little.

"Because I used to be a member of the Donquixote pirates at the age of 10," I stared at Law in shock, "For reasons that I will not share at the moment, I left at the age of thirteen," He scowled and I felt myself relax slightly, "Why are you scared of him coming after you?"

I shook my head, "I'm not scared of him coming after me. I want him to come after me if only so I could kill him," I gave Law a slight frown, "Why did you call him 'that bastard'?"

"He and along with another made my life a living hell," Law grimaced softly, "He will do anything to be seen as favorable by the pink bastard,"

Seeing that Law had a grudge against Doflamingo, I realized that his past must not have been all that good. My mind went to what Atsushi said when we first met...

"You've had a rough life," He murmured softly as he withdrew his hand, "A very rough life filled with struggles," His voice dipped down and even with my enhanced hearing I could barely hear him, "Like Captain..."

"You've had a rough life filled with struggles," I murmured softly causing Law to freeze.

"How did you-" He cut himself off, "Atsushi..."

I nodded lightly, "He said that to me after shaking my hand and said under his breath 'Like Captain'. It's only now that I remember it," I offered Law a slightly sheepish smile, "Sorry about that."

"It's fine," Law waved it off, "I need you to tell me why you didn't inform me about Joker's people taking that old man's daughter,"

I frowned slightly, "It didn't seem that important at the time," I look at Law in slight confusion, "Why do you care about this 'Joker' guy anyway?"

"He's Donquixote Doflamingo," Law replied prompting me to realize something.

"He's the guy that kept sending Diablo all that stuff," I sat up slightly, "Joker's his alias for the underground right?"

"Correct," Law looked at me curiously, "Why do you ask?"

"You wanna find him and kill him right?" I ignored his question for now as my mind raced.

"Correct," Law's eyes narrowed slightly, "Ariun-ya..."

"Then getting information on him won't be that hard," I ignored the expression on Law's face, "It'll take a bit of work of course, but that's the price of getting information on the underground-"

"Ariun-ya what the hell are you talking about?" Law cut me off and snapped me out of my slight trance.

I smiled sheepishly at him, "Sorry about that. I get like that sometimes."

"Ariun-ya can you please explain to me what was going through your mind?" Law asked with a raised eyebrow and a look of slight amusement on his face.

"Okay," I took a deep breath, "The underground is a network of black market dealers, information sellers, and a whole lot of illegal shit. Right?" He nodded, "So, everyone in the know will know a little bit about each black market dealer. Joker is one of the higher end dealers,"

"How do you know?" He asked making me smile sheepishly.

"Some of the clients I took on were part of the black market," I explained remembering some of them, "They often went into meetings with Diablo and a bunch of other people on the island," Law gestured for me to continue, "Anyway, Joker being one of the high end dealers will have a lot of information leaked about him whether he realizes it or not. If you play your cards right, you can find out whatever you need to take him on though it'll take time depending on how good he is at hiding shit,"

Law went over the information she gave him as he commented, "You know a lot about this kind of thing."

"My client's would often send me as a messenger," She explained with a slight grin, "They never told me to not look at the messages they were sending," He chuckled softly, "I also listened into their conversations and paid as much attention as I could to what they were doing. I know a lot about how the underground works," She ran a hand through her hair, "Never really thought I'd put this knowledge to use,"

"Do your former client's still keep in contact with you?" He asked while his respect for the woman next to him went up.

She hummed softly, "Sometimes though it's rare for any of them to really contact me. I think the last time was a year ago and that client needed me to act as her guard for a week."

"Do any of them owe you any favors?" He felt glad that he had managed to get Ariun on his crew.

She nodded with a calculative look in her eyes, "Yup. Quite a few of them actually," She looked at him, "I do know that a few of them actually cursed Joker's name though never found out why."

"Are they in the Grandline?" He felt slightly excited at the fact he had a good chance to actually start fine tuning his plan against Doflamingo.

"Last I heard, yes," Ariun frowned slightly, "You do realize that some of these people won't honor their favors right?"

"Yes, but at least it's a start," Law noticed her eyes drooping, "Ariun-ya are you tired?"

"Yeah," She yawned softly, "I'm going to take a nap after lunch since I don't have to help make dinner tonight," She shook her head lightly, "Did you need anything else?"

"No," She stood up, "Where are you going?"

"To my room," She looked at him curiously, "I'm going to sketch some stuff or read one of my books to stay awake,"

He recalled what Maki and Kuro had said about Ariun craving warmth until her body fully recovered from using her power. Storm will likely go for either Bepo, you, or me. He wondered why she wasn't attempting to stay with him prompting him to ask, "Where will you go afterwards?"

"To see Maki or Bepo," She answered making him want to scowl.

For some reason, he didn't like the idea of her doing that. He almost growled at the confusion he felt, but he held back the urge as he offered, "You could spend time in here if you wish for quiet. Maki-ya will most likely be downstairs with Yamire-ya working on some of the medical kits I have stashed all over the sub. Bepo-ya and the other navigator's are most likely preparing for the coming storm."

He almost immediatly froze as the words left his mouth. Why the hell had he offered her that?

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