Dr. Heart Stealer
ch5: Memories
"I don't hear him shouting anymore..." Shachi was the first to speak since my talk with Traffy.
"yeah now that you mention it... where did he go any way, he'd die if his wounds reopen, right?" Penguin asked looking over his shoulder towards the fallen curtain keeping all the Heart Pirates from entering any further into the Island Of Woman. Shachi looked back to his fishing pole.
"hey, I got one!" he said merrily. A crisp gust blew for not even a full second, Penguin's face suddenly filled with worry. "what is it?" Shachi asked his best friend.
"I just saw the shadow of a fish... I-It's huge! Look it's a giant sea king!" the massive beast shot up from the water, but it was all bloodied...
"what's it doing fighting?!" Shachi asked in shock. The sea king rose lifelessly from the water "it's dead! something managed to kill it!"
"something that huge?"
"i couldn't see it's opponent!"
"this is such a terrifying sea..." a man shot up from the water.
"A HUMAN!?"
"who are you?"
"phew, I'm beat." the mystery man said.
"h-hey..."
"the D-" Bepo began
"there we go" the man... so familiar... right! It's Rayleigh... man I feel like an idiot I mean who could forget Rayleigh of all people? Obviously me.
"THE DARK KING, RAYLEIGH?!" Bepo shouted.
"what?" the crew yelled in perfect sync.
"oh... its you? We met back on Sabody Archipelago, didn't we?" he asked the pirates.
"well... not all of us" I stepped out from behind Bepo. "my name is Mondai. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mr. Silvers" I bowed mockingly.
"well it's nice to meet you to, but I don't think that formalities are needed Ms. Kazue." I froze, 'the hell?' I thought in panic. Even Law was wide-eyed. "False names are for keeping someone as yourself out of trouble, correct" he asked, and hit the bulls-eye to. "Oh... sorry did I scare you? I saw you walking to Shakky's bar. Your name was on the bag you were holding, I assumed it would have your name and not some random name on it. Am I mistaken?" he asked, I calmed considerably. I straightened my back from the mock bow.
"n-no you are correct. Wait... what do you mean by people like me?" I asked my voice laced with confusion.
"hm? Oh I was talking to Shakky. She catches on to just about anything! Although I must say I didn't believe her at first!" he laughed. Law gave me a strange look almost as if to say, 'so you'll tell a stranger what your hiding, but not me?' "the biggest give away was probably-"
"ya know what I'll be in Mr. Law's sub if ya need me." I cut him off, and turned on my heel.
"so I assume that Luffy-kun must be here on this island." Law's eyes widened at this. As his eyes widened I turned back around.
"yeah he's in the forest with Jimbe, Luffy's being all emotional... but he'll be back soon." this time I looked over to the Dark Doctor. "when will we be leaving Mr. Law?" I asked him with a little smile.
"Bepo when does the log pose set?" Traffy asked his first mate
"it's set, captain! I'm sorry..." Bepo said in a saddened state, like usual.
"Good. Rayleigh, tell Mugiwara-ya that he still needs two weeks of bed-rest." and with that Law set down the straw hat he had been carrying with him, and made his way for the sub. Law jumped onto the deck of The Death. "everybody got aboard let's set sail!" he shouted to his crew (and me). So the crew and myself did as told and got on board his sub, Bepo went down to the command center, Shachi and Penguin went towards the engine room, Law was most likely in the captain quarters. As for myself, I went to the galley. It wasn't in anime nor in the manga so might as well check out what I'll be working with from on, or at least till I get out of this alternate universe. Speaking of getting out, how do I get out? Well if I think back I not one hundred percent sure how I got here in the first place. I mean that wish two days ago was really and or honestly a joke, nothing was supposed to happen. Yet here I am, stuck in a alien world, full only unknown people, worse yet I'm stuck on Trafalgar Law's submarine! How bad is this going to get now? I can't even prepare myself for what comes next through out the next two years! What if I have to be stuck here for more than two fucking years?! I think a part of me just died inside, just from the thought of never seeing my friends again... I mean Vannie died, in just the day I hadn't seen her, she used to come to me with any thoughts of suicide. Those bitches really meant business this time. Who knows what my other friends are going through. My hands clenched into fists at the thought of any bitch or bastard hurting my friends. Still lost in thought I bumped into something firm and rather warm. My eyes widened, I had just walked into someone.
"Oh my god are you okay?" I asked the man now sitting on the floor. He had bright green eyes and a strange mob of purple hair, along with his freckles and glasses he looked really clever. He stood, and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
"yes, I am fine. Now please excuse me for asking possibly personal questions, but who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing on my captain's ship?" he asked. His voice was intelligent, and never sounded mad, even with the swearing.
"me? I'm Kazue! Nice to meet ya!" I responded gleefully.
"is the other question too personal, or do you not know your self?" he asked pushing up his glasses a second time. To be honest I didn't know myself, but I'll never admit it!
"Your idiot of a captain bought me at a auction..." I looked at him, he was still calm but there was a hint of curiosity in his eyes. I heard footsteps from behind.
"Hey! Kazue-chan!" it was Penguin. "is Itsuki bothering you? He does that to all new members so don't worry to much about it, okay?" he informed me with a cheerful smile.
"Penguin, I am not a part of this crew. Ask Traffy if you don't believe me. Anyway can you show me the way to the galley? Law's having me be little chore girl..." I told him, with a scowl. He gave me a disbelieving look.
"what do you mean you're not apart of this crew?" he asked. I looked him in the eye and sighed.
"I never agreed to be a part of the crew. Anyways can you please sh-" I was cut of by a dagger being held to my neck, I gulped.
"sure I only caught part of the conversation, but what is a stowaway doing on board Mr. Trafalgar's ship?"asked a man with green hair and purple tinted glasses, his eyes were a ruby red like mine. He looked right down evil!
"I'm not a stowaway! I just need to go to the gall-" I was once again interrupted, only this time I knew I would live to see another day... hopefully...
"Mikio-ya, may I ask why you are holding a knife to my property's neck?" it was Law.
"I'M NOT ANYONE'S FUCKING PROPERTY, YOU BASTARD!" I screamed. The guy holding a knife to my neck, Mikio if I heard properly, looked dumbfounded. Sadly he never took the knife away from my neck. I shifted my eyes to glare at Mikio.
"Mr. Trafalgar, when you said you need to get something from the slave auction, I assumed you would pick up something more...useful..." Mikio said.
"are you implying that I am not useful? I assure you, never underestimate a female. For the record I don't care if I seem like the common dumb blond, but" I stopped and turned slightly so I was in positioning for a side kick. "I am quite useful" I kicked him where the sun doesn't shine. Everyone winced, well Law and Mikio didn't, Law smirked and Mikio was hunched over on the floor his knife lay forgotten next to him. I picked up the dagger.
"Stiletto, made in Italy, looks like it was made in 1442. Extreme use as a weapon of assassination, with all the blood on this one I assume it has fulfilled it's purpose many a time. The extremely sharpened point does not feature any blade whatsoever, but rather a piercing point designed to penetrate and kill. It's good to know you weren't planing to slit my neck." I laughed and put the knife down next to him once again. "anyways can someone please point me in the direction of the galley?"
"of course, I will have Itsuki-ya show you the way." he then walked towards... well, I don't know the sub well enough to tell you...
"come on, the less time I spend with you the better." he mumbled. Even though I was pissed off by this comment I followed. After a three minute walk and not a hour one instead, we arrived at the galley. I turned to Itsuki.
"thanks for helping me get here!" I said gleefully.
"yes, well I do not exactly care, and do not wish for your thanks. It was an order from the captain, if it were anyone else whom told me to help you, I would not have. Please do remember this. I do not like anyone of the female race." he said in that obnoxiously intelligent tone.
"right then... well bye..." I turned from him and walked towards the galley doors. To my surprise there was only a boy my age running around stirring, frying, and cutting. The boy had brown hair that would fall into his eyes if it were not pinned back, he also had light brown eyes that reminded me of chocolate.
"hey, who are you? Do you need something? If not I'm in a hurry..." he never stopped his preparations nor did he ever look to me.
"I'm Kazue, Law said I was going to be starting to work in the galley starting tomorrow, I just wanted to see what there was to work with." I said, at this he stopped and turned to me. He then ran over with sparkles in his eyes.
"really!? I'm Hiro! I could really use some help, it's just me and Masanori here, and he just does the cleaning..." he continued to ramble on about how this Masanori guy never helped with any of the cooking.
"i can help you now if you would like..." I said quietly, not really wanting to interrupt his rant. He stopped and stepped back a ringer on his chin looking me over.
"you're... you're a girl, aren't you?" this time he looked right into my eyes. "you look just like Jake..." my eyes widened at this. I had a brother once upon a time, his name was also Jake. Of course I was only 15 at the time he was 12 then, this year he would be 15... he was hit by a car when he ran across the street trying to catch up to me and Katsune. He never made it... "i don't allow anyone I don't share a gender with into my kitchen get out." he said bluntly.
"wow, won't even let me prove myself..." I shook my head. I looked at him and got an idea, just hope this works. "i was hoping to make something to annoy Law, you know to get back at him for buying me." I turned around.
"wait!" he called out. I rotated my head slightly so I could look at him. "i like being an assistance when I comes to revenge..." he began, "but you're a girl... i-i don't even know what he doesn't like!" he looked torn.
"although I do." a smirk graced my lips. "so what if I am a girl? Aren't girls supposed to be good at cooking?" I asked.
"hm... well yes... fine..." he gave in with a sigh.
"okay, his dislikes: bread and umeboshi. His likes: onigiri and grilled fish. We have to make sure to include one of his likes, but make umeboshi or bread the main meal. If we don't include on of his likes he will definitely be pissed, and no one likes a pissed off Law." I shivered at the thought. Hiro was nodding all while I was talking.
"you sure know about Law-sama don't you?" he asked and I nodded proudly.
"don't tell him though. I need some kind of leverage when he's being unfair., right?" he simply nodded. Soon the both of us got to work on the meal. We decided on umeboshi and rice as well as onigiri for a side dish, last we had bread pudding for desert.(A/N: a loaf of bread covered in a super sweet cream, not a creamed bread that would be just beyond weird.). Law was going to love this!
"you have proved your self worthy of a place within my kitchen. Be proud of your self! Only two others have." he praised, and I mockingly curtsied. After I had risen from the mock curtsey an old man with the coolest mustache ever burst in. he had vivid blue eyes and spectacles, his hair was a rainy day gray. He seemed to be the oldest out of Law's crew.
"sorry I'm late Hiro! I'll just go prepare the ingredients now." he mumbled.
"no need. We already finished the cooking, we were just waiting for the bread to rise." I told him a small smile on my face. He looked surprised to say the least.
"Hiro, there's someone in your kitchen... that's a girl... and you didn't kick her out..." he looked between me a Hiro a few times before hugging the poor boy. "I'm so proud of you!" he cooed
"Hey! Let me go old geezer!" he shouted. "just go prepare the mess hall!" he yelled, I laughed a genuine laugh. The man who I assumed to be Masanori waddled away into the mess hall pushing a cart full of plates, silver ware and serving utensils. Only moments later the men from Traffy's crew filtered in through the mess hall doors. Me and Hiro waited until everyone was there. Or so we thought, Law was missing. We served everyone who was in the mess hall, totaling a grand number of 58 people, rather small for a submarine crew, but a decent size for a pirate crew. I felt a pair of eyes on my back.
"why the hell are you here, Dumb blond?" a familiar teenaged voice asked, only it was more mature than I remember.
"well, to be honest I don't know. Also do you have any right to call me a dumb blond, when you are also blond and are even more of an idiot?" I asked without turning around. If I did tears I have willed away this whole time, would slip free from their holding cells. The crew looked between me and the boy behind me.
"do you know Jake?" Hiro asked, that was all I needed to know, now I had prof that my little brother was here, alive, breathing, not in a hospital bed, and definitely not in a coffin buried six feet under ground.
"once upon a time, I did." I responded. The moment was ruined by the opening of a door.
"what happened in here?" he asked the silent crew. A random crew member roes his hand.
"i think that Jake knows that girl, and that girl knows Jake. But captain on a more serious note, who the heck is that girl?" he asked his captain. Law smirked, even without looking I knew he was.
"that girl is my property, Kazue-ya" he responded with a smirk.
"so that's the new stupid name you've decided to go by, Harmony." Jake 'tsk'ed at me with the shake of his head. I turned 180 to look him in the eye rage flowing throughout my veins.
"what the hell ya call me?!" I asked in rage. This was not going to turn out well.
"i called ya, Har-mo-ny" he said emphasizing each salable of my real name.
"i legally changed my name thank you!" I yelled back. My younger brother always has away of getting on my nerves.
"oh really? Then why'd ya change it to something so stupid?" he asked me.
"I changed it in honor of you after I saw you fucking die, ya little bastard!" I screamed. This seemed to get him.
"firstly, language. Second, aw, ya really do care about me." he mocked. I turned around with my arms crossed.
"May doesn't like people who mock me. And she swears all the time, you can't 'cause you're still to young, she would never approve." I smirked.
"s-she wouldn't?" his voice was shaky. "well to bad cause I got over her years ago!" I knew he turned from me and puffed out his cheeks, he did when ever he was in denial. Law walked in between us.
"what the hell is going on?!" he asked rage evident in his voice.
"seems you found my idiot of a sibling." we said at the same time. "who the hell you callin' idiot, idiot?!" we yelled in sync.
"wait Harmony-ya, who is May?" he asked me, I ignored him, proof that I will never respond to that name. I felt his glare. "Harmony-ya?" he asked again. Shachi who had been already standing next to me nudged me as if to say 'respond or he'll kill you'. I looked over to Shachi and glared. No way in hell I ever going to respond if he called me by that name. I changed it in honor of my little brother, he always like Japanese stuff so I changed my name to match the love for it. Katsune did as well. "Kazue-ya answer me right now." his voice was a deadly calm tone. I sighed as I tuned to face him. A new smile arrived on my face.
"do you remember the call I received when you were talking to me?" I asked him, he stiffly nodded, "well she was nice enough to change her name with me in honor of my little brother, she changed it to Katsune. But my brother is a bastard, so I had to convince her, ya know?" I smiled. I knew my brother was blushing.
"s-she did?" Jake asked, as I nodded. "wait you said call... YOU HAVE A NORMAL OBJECT?! GIVE IT TO ME!" he yelled. Ah yes three years with out any source of video gaming. I'm surprised he didn't need medical care or something. Then again that could be the reason as to why he's on Law's ship.
"can't I just eat? I made food-" I began.
"you cooked something? You know what Law-kun, this isn't my sister. She can't make a decent meal for her life." he laughed. Walked over to the table with the onigiri on it, then picked some up, and walked back to my bastard of a brother. I felt all eyes on me. I grabbed Jake by the hair and turned him towards me, well that shut him up.
"now, now little bastard, IS THERE NEED FOR SUCH CRUEL WORDS!?" I asked in rage, sure I used to be a horrible cook, I fixed that. After me outcry I proceeded to shove it down his throat. "good. Well seeing your stupid face made me lose my appetite, I'll be in my room. Is that okay, Traffy-san?" I asked my 'master'.
"I don't see why not. Go ahead, although I will be stopping by, I have a few questions." Law told me.
"ha, having to share a room with men, don't even understand how you can do that. You're to sexist to do that." Jake said laughing. I smirked at his remark.
"one, that was one time, what six years ago? And two, who said I was sharing a room?" my smirk widened at his look. It was a look of jealousy, I will never get tired of one upping him. I walked out of the mess hall and towards my room. As I walked away from the mess hall I could hear silent words of 'what? No fair' and things of the like. I soon arrived at the door to my room. I went in and sat on the bed.
I just sat there and cried, all the tears I promised to keep locked away fell over the dam of will.
A/N: I went on a submarine recently... I got some pretty good ideas of what to do with the sub now. It was so cramped! Law has to have a freakn' massive sub, you know the hallways were proof right from the anime. Any way just so you know I have about three island ideas (one is on paper) and the punk hazard arc in my head. But it sucks because all of which can't come in sooner than about two maybe three islands! It's like: "okay time to write...*brain fart*..." so ya know. And I promise to use more descriptive parts and less dialog. I have tenancy to use almost only dialog and nothing involving anything descriptive. oh and if you were wondering why i called this chapter memories, well i did because i couldn't think of anything else... well... BYE!