Dr Heart Stealer

by aly2hime

Classic OC falls into OP. Kazue is a girl from our reality. Now, what would happen if she had made a wish to throw her into the One Piece world on a childish whim? When on her way to a sleepover, she might just find that wishes really do come true. (Full summary inside [full summary slightly outdated])

8. The Search and the Fruit

Dr. Heart Stealer

Ch8: The Search and the Fruit

"SADAO!" Jake yelled, running to the white haired man. Said man looked over to him as he ran. Jake stopped in front of him holding out the signed note. "Got Law's permission," Jake stopped to gain his breath, once it was back he smirked. "To look for my klutz of a sister."

Sadao raised a single eyebrow then spoke, "Hm? Well that's good to know. I was going to look either way, this island is far to uneventful." His voice was once again deadly calm. Jake shivered at his creepy voice.

"Well then lets get looking for her." Jake said as he turned around to head for the door.

"Not so fast Mr. Zepheron," Sadao stood up and grabbed his arm, Jake turned his head to look at the white haired man "I think that we should start here for information. Then we should go to the sub to look for what she took with her, that might help us in finding where she had gone off to before leaving. Only after that should we search the town for her," Sadao's voice held authority when he spoke about this. He sat back down and motioned for Jake to do the same. With a sigh of defeat he sat down on a stool next to Sadao, whom seemed to be taking control of the search. More so than Jake would have liked. After about half an hour two women in noble garb walked in noses pointed up slightly, an act to make them seem more important than everyone else in the inn. One of them was wearing a pink dress with elaborate golden embroidery and had a purple layer of tulle peeking out from under the dress, while the other was wearing the same dress with the colors switched out for blue, silver, and black. They both laughed when the one in pink said something.

"...Yes, yes! My slave too! I need to get a new one soon, she's getting boring and has tried to poison me on more than one occasion." Miss blue said.

"We're both in luck the auction is in five hours! I wonder if there will be any devils fruit users..." Miss pink said deep in thought. Jake looked over to Sadao with a look of dread and hope. Dread for the reason that Kazue had a chance of being kidnapped and hope for the reason of a lead and that she didn't run away from the crew on purpose. Sadao looked back over and nodded. The signal for them to go to the sub. Or so Jake thought.

"Excuse me ladies, I couldn't help but over hear that there was to be an auction going on, on this island. You see me and my companion are wondering where it is to be held." Sadao lied smoothly, in such a manner that you wanted to just sit and listen to every thing that he had to say. Both of the women looked to each other.

"Well which one? The one for slaves is under town hall, but the one for antiques is on the second floor." Miss pink told him. Sadao smirked and hummed.

"That is a secret, maybe I'll see you two fine women there. Have a good day ladies." He said and walked to the door signaling for Jake to follow. Jake jumped a little at the gesture but followed him regardless. Jake had to maintain a fast walk to catch up with him, and had to continue at that speed due to the fact that Sadao had much longer legs. Leaving Jake to stumble behind in an effort to keep up with Sadao's graceful strides.

About ten minutes later they arrived at the sub, floating in all of it's yellow glory. The two young men walked up onto the deck so they could get to Kazue's room.

"Find anything productive yet?" both of the addressed men froze in shock. Law was peacefully leaning against Bepo, whom was fast a sleep with a snot bubble coming from his nose. Law pushed his hat up slightly to get a good look at the other two humans on deck. His smirk never left his face. "Let me guess you couldn't find anything so you came here to look for any clues." Law guessed, and he was almost spot on.

"Well Mr. Trafalgar, you're almost right... you see, we found out that there is going to be a slave auction at 3:45 today. We did come here for more clues though, we want to make sure that we don't go somewhere she isn't." Sadao told him, Law had an expression of surprise on his face, even if only for a instant. "Well please excuse us Mr. Trafalgar, but we need to get looking." Sadao said with a straight face. Law laughed at his comment, but as quickly as it came it died down.

"Fine by me, if my slave shows up, please do tell me. I want to make sure that she understands that she can't leave and just come back like this is a game. Being a pirate means that you will constantly have your life on the line, you can't just back down when you want to." Law said seriously.

"Let's say that she was kidnapped, would you still torture her?" Jake asked, all Law did was smirk.

"Who said that I would torture her?" Law's smirk softened slightly, not a lot, but a little bit. "I won't do anything to her if she was kidnapped, maybe some extra chores but that's all."

Using that as their cue Sadao and Jake left Law and Bepo on deck. They walked down the long labyrinth like halls of their floating home. After arriving in the hallway that led to the crew's rooms they had to walk for three minutes just to get to room 128, Kazue's room. Jake took the lead from here and slowly opened the door, as if expecting to have Kazue be there and get mad at them for coming in without permission first. He wandered into the steely room and found some fabric littering the bed and a sewing machine set on the desk. He moved towards her closet, he knew this was where her duffel bag was stored after his first visit to that room. Sadao had moved the fine textiles to the end of the bed so Jake could set down the bag. Jake set down the bag and removed the contents. What was in there was: sleeping bag, energy bars (two of them), phone charger, laptop, laptop charger, pillow, two different shirts, one pair of short-shorts, one pair of jeans, cow girl boots, tooth brush, tooth paste, towel, swimsuit, pads, undergarments, pens and pencils, drawing book, pajamas... and a hard copy of One Piece manga chapter 731... only Jake knew what it was, this being the case Sadao took it and flipped through a few pages. The color in Jake's face left and stranded him with only a sheet like expression.

"What is this?" Sadao asked with pure curiosity written across his face.

"I-I'll have Harmony explain it later!" with those words he picked it up and chucked it safely into the near by bag. "W-well from what I know of Harmony, she wouldn't go anywhere without her pistol or pho- den den mushi those are gone... but she left behind her drawing book and pencils, clothes, and... toiletries... so she wasn't planning on leaving for long." Jake said, he had very little to work with seeing as he hadn't seen her in three years. "So if she too her pistol, she could have gone anywhere no clues from that... same goes for her den den mushi." Sadao closed his eyes and nodded in agreement. Jake put everything back into the Duffel bag, then closed it up so he could put it away. Jake walked back from the small closet that Kazue was supplied with, and sat down on her bed. "Sadao what will we do if we can't find her?"

"Well I wouldn't be all that effected, but you on the other hand... you would have to carry on, it's part of the job description." Sadao said in a calm manner, but unlike his usual coldness his voice was more wise and he sounded like he was actually giving advice, not just trying to be a smart-ass. "Shall we go search the town, for your sister? I think we've found everything that we can here." Sadao said, once again his voice returned to smooth ice. Jake nodded in agreement, and stood up from the bed he had been previously sitting on. They both walked out of the room and out onto the submarine's deck, Law was still peacefully napping there. Or at least he looked like he was sleeping, of course he wasn't, Jake and Sadao knew that.

"What time is it, we need to find Kazue fast!" Jake said, determination clear in his tone. Law smirked a little, and raised his head up so he could look to them.

"Well if I remember correctly you said that the auction that she might or might not be at is at 3:45, seeing as it's 12:30 I would say you have three hours before the worst happens to my slave. You lose it you buy it." Law said, leaving both of the men on deck in a slight panic. Law stood from his lying position, and nudged Bepo awake "Come on Bepo, we should go back to the inn." Bepo stood up clumsily and followed Law off of the ship.

"He payed 100 million on that girl, no way am I paying that back! We have to find her, now!" Sadao said in panic of not having enough money to get him a new slave. With his worry came a punch to the head.

"Idiot! Don't say that!" Jake said, enraged by the 'He payed 100 million on that girl, no way am I paying that back!' comment. "If she will only come back to us by having 100 million spent on her, I would gladly buy her back!" Jake said proudly. Jake only shook his head. They left the sub to search the town.

~X~X~X~

Kazue woke up only to be, once again, greeted by iron bars. She looked around slowly recalling her situation. She looked up at the ceiling of her prison in wonder. 'Will I ever get out of here?' was the only thing running through her only slightly dense head.

"Did my main attraction sleep well? Kah~" Mr. Kah asked, she still hadn't asked the usual 'what's your name' thing and really didn't want to. So she settled for Mr. Kah instead

"If you must know, not all that well. Dirt and rocks are quite uncomfortable." She responded smoothly. Mr. Kah laughed at her comment, Kazue really didn't find anything about it funny. The strange man in front of her looked like he had just remembered something really important. He ran off. Kazue lied back in pure boredom. She became lost in thought for a while, mostly about how she got into this mess in the first place. Her thought started at her being sold again, then to the first time she was sold. In the end she was stuck on the concept of how she got to the One Piece world, and how she had survived being there for more than a hour. Ten minutes later, which felt like an eternity to Kazue, Mr. Kah returned with a small chest, and a massive grin showing all his teeth. Well all but the front left tooth. He handed her the chest happily.

"I found you a devils fruit! Kah~ I don't know which one it is, but it looks pretty cool! And it is in no way lame... well by the look of it at least. Open it up, take a look! Kah~" he was now jumping up and down in excitement. So Kazue did as told, but very cautiously. Inside of the box was a purple fruit that was glowing a faint black-ish blue. It had bubbles floating around it and what looked to be tentacles coming off of it, sparkles surround the strange fruit, numerous ribbon like objects danced around the fruit.

"T-thank you Mr. Kah, but do I have to eat it?" She asked extreme caution nipped her voice. Mr. Kah's eyes darkened.

"Yes. And my name is not 'Mr. Kah', it is Daron Armijo. Never call me by such a stupid name. Kah~" Daron warned. "Hmm... I guess I never got your name either. What is it? Kah~" He questioned. With a sigh Kazue responded.

"Kazue, Zephron Kazue." She said simply, completely forgetting about her cover name, she was to focused on the strange fruit and the way she had to say her name so it would be correct in Japanese form. Daron pointed to the very weird fruit in the box.

"Eat it." he said in a stern manner. Kazue complied and picked up the fruit preparing her self for the horrendous taste yet to come. She took a bite and with just about all of her will, she kept it down. The flavor was unexpected, like bile in the back of your throat when you eat something to sweet too fast, or being attacked by an old man whom hadn't showered in years and never liked the rain. The taste itself was completely horrible, the flavor of chocolate sprinkled mold, milk forgotten on the counter, and a hint of cat vomit. The texture was like biting through softened butter, with the occasional air bubble or piece of steel. It was far from enjoyable. Kazue's face contracted to one of distaste and nausea. She could only handle two bites of the fruit before she had to put it down. She closed her eyes for a long while. When she opened them the apart of the world was in riddles, the other was as normal as the color beige. Rubbing her eyes didn't help. She noted that her left eye, the red one, was the side that showed everything how it was supposed to look. As for her right eye, the pink one, the world was coxed into living with brain-teasers and things one would not usually see. For example when she looked Daron over with her left eye he was wearing a simple black shirt with jeans, his skin was sun kissed and his black hair fell into his sky-like eyes, although with the right side his skin was a bright yellow color and his hair was light blue, his casual attire was replaced with a pink shirt and red jeans, his previous sky-like eyes were a sharp neon green, promising a cruel death if you were to step out of line. She shivered at the thought.

"What ability did you get?" He asked excitedly. Kazue only shook her head, a way for her to show that she had no clue.

"I have no clue but you look weird with yellow skin, and pink is so not your color." She said.

~X~X~X~

It had been three hours and all Jake and Sadao found out about in town was the auction, and that was the talk of the town. They decided to report back to Law. And they did, Law was kind enough to offer a sadistic smirk. He was most likely thinking of the ways he could get them to pay for Kazue, he knew they didn't have the money. But even though Law was looking forward to getting his money back he agreed to go with them to the auction to search for the slave girl. So off they went. They ran in to Hiro, Shachi, and Penguin on the way, so the three decided to tag along. The town hall was in the back of the town near a dark forest, due to it being so far away it took about 40 minutes to get there not the ten they were hoping for. The auction would be over very soon, about 15 to 20 minutes if they were lucky.

The moment they had gotten there a guard called out to them.

"You're just in time, the main attraction is coming out next!" he said, the pirates looked at each other.

"I guess we're to late..." Jake mumbled sadly.

"Let's go look at least, don't give up hope Jake!" Penguin shouted cheerfully, a little to cheerful for Jake's tastes. The group of six walked into the auction hall and heard a booming voice.

"NOW! All of you are in for a stunning treat! Kah~ I, the great Daron Armijo, has found you," Daron pointed out towards the crowed, "A real life devils fruit user! Kah~" the crowd went insane, well the crowd minus a few pirates sitting in the back row.

"Well Harmony isn't here... she doesn't have a devils fruit. Let's go guys." Jake slowly stood up looking as depressed as Bepo was when he was called a beast. Soon the rest of them stood up and walked to the door, some calm, some depressed, and a happy Law, he was going to use them for their 100 million bellis worth.

"User of the illusion-illusion fruit, the main attraction, the one, the only..." Daron paused, the lights that were originally running around the stage came together and lifted towards the closed curtain, "Kazue Zepheron!" All of the pirates heads turned around so fast whiplash would not be surprising at all. With shock written all over their faces the all yelled.

"WHAT!?"

~X~X~X~

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A/N: Seen how I have already told off resting for saying my name on Fanfiction, you guys now know my name. Oh well whatever, as long as you don't know my full name, I'm totally fine with all of you guys knowing... just know I've been glaring at resting quite a bit now. Anyways now that's over, I drew this really crappy picture of the illusion-illusion fruit and describing it was really hard. Also if you wanted to know why I said 'fruit' and not 'no mi', it's because I want to keep it in English seen how I didn't translate the word illusion to Japanese. I originally was planning to save having Kazue coming into the auction and the heart pirates for the next chapter, but I thought that you guys would like a cliffhanger... Also before I do anything else SPOILER ALERT: Fire Fist freakn' Sabo! GO READ THE MANGA! IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL! Until next time, keep being awesome!