Disclaimer: Aw man! I still dont own One Piece
Authors Note: I know, I know dreams are suppose to be in the person whos dreaming POV but I thought it would be better to understand the dream without it.
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Chapter 4
Book of Names
"Are they gone yet?" The blond haired chef asked the cyborg. Currently the Straw Hats chef and shipwright were hiding in a alley. The blue haired cyborg sighed.
"Yep." Franky said casually. The chef stood up straight and walked out into the open street. He lit up a cigarette and placed it's tip in is mouth. Franky walked over to Sanji. Franky placed his hands on his hips and said "This is a weird road. The road was never straight while we ran through it. The road was always curving. Hmmmm…" The cook took a short drag from his cigarette and looked at the cyborg. "So what does that mean?" The chef questioned.
Franky then asked "We went down the middle path right?". Sanji gave a affirmative nod to the cyborg. Then Franky continued. "So we should soon come to a intersection of roads if we keep going down this path." The chef then caught on and spoke. "That means that we will probably meet up with Robin-chan!" The cyborg sweat dropped. 'Is women all this guy thinks of?' The cyborg wondered.
The chef then started sprinting down the curved alley. "Wait!" Called out the cyborg but to no avail. The cyborg sweat dropped once more. He sighed and began running after the Love Cook.
"Your going the wrong way!"
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Another Alley
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"Are they gone!?" Asked the terrified vioce of a 'brave' warrior of the seas. Ussop the Sogeking's alter ego was currently hiding behind some boxes shivering with fear. The half-man half-reindeer was also hiding behind some boxes shivering with fear.
"I don't know!" Replied the timid voice of Tony Tony Chopper. The alley that these two 'brave' men had ran into was actually a bunch of small industrial shops. The shops must have been very poor considering it was 2 o'clock in the afternoon and the alley looked like no one had ever stepped foot in there for years.
"Who are you looking for?" Asked a frail voice from behind the two boys. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!" Screamed Ussop and Chopper. The young pirates calmed down after seeing it was only a old man behind them and not some scary marines. "Geez don't scare as like that.." Ussop said while holding hand over his heart to keep it from jumping out of his chest. " We were hiding from the marines." The old man looked at them. Then the stranger asked "Why?" The sharpshooter replied. "We are.. ummm… We are the great fearless pirates! I am Captain Ussop the Great and this is my first mate! Tony the Chopper!" Ussop was confident he could scare this old man away.
The man merely stared. "Oh, okay." Chopper and Ussop were both shocked at this man's reaction. They were pirates! Maybe not blood thirsty pillaging pirates but pirates none the less!
"WHAT!?" Chopper and Ussop yelled in confusion. "What what?" The old man asked as he wiped his hands on what appeared to be a thick apron. Ussop pointed his finger at the man as if he was accusing him of something. "We are pirates! Shouldn't you be afraid?" Ussop asked. The man merely blinked looking even more clueless. " Am I suppose to be afraid?" Now Ussop and Chopper had gone into a state of depression.
The man realized that he had offended them. He began waving his hands frantically and explained, "No I don't mean to offend you its just I've never seen a pirate in my life." Ussop and Chopper came out of their depression with confused faces.
"Never? You've never seen pirate in your life!?" The tiny reindeer asked. The old man shrugged his shoulders and replied "Never. In fact I don't think anyone still alive in this town has seen a pirate before." "No one!?" The two pirates exclaimed. "Well maybe a few of the Marines but besides that…No one." The man said casually as he pushed his glasses further up his nose.
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Another Alley
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"Swordsman-san I think we can stop now." The young historian called out. Zoro turned around and saw Robin walking casually down the alley that marines were suppose to be chasing them down. Zoro panted and walked over to a nearby crate and sat on it. He had been sprinting the entire time at his top speed. For about 20 minutes. 1000 pushups a day or not, that was hard.
Zoro then spoke to Robin who was now leaning on the walk next to him. " I don't know why we had to run. I mean Luffy and Franky are the only ones that blow up
buildings-" Just as the swordsman finished his sentence the crate beneath him broke under his weight. Robin mean giggled at the sight of a flustered swordsman's butt in the ruins of a crate. Of course Robin's giggling didn't help the poor mans pride, especially when he felt heat uncharacteristically rising to his cheeks.
Robin smiled at him and said " I wouldn't worry just about captain-san and Franky-san." Once more Robin giggled. Zoro got up and dusted his pants off while muttering curses under his breath. "So should we go find Luffy and the others." Zoro told Robin. Robin gave another smile. "Well I think we should go to the book store over there." Zoro was now confused. "What about Luffy?" Robin continued smiling. "Don't worry he's in the capable hands of his navigator." 'What is this woman going on about?' Zoro thought in his head. "So shouldn't we still look for them?" 'Dammit stop with the smiling woman!' Zoro yelled inside his head. "Oh we don't need to disturb them this early." 'WTF? Disturb them? This woman is crazy!' The swordsman once again exaggerated in his head.
Zoro realized he had been standing in the same spot looking like a moron when Robin called. "Come along swordsman-san!" Robin said sweetly to Zoro as she walked off to the bookstore.
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Tori's bedroom
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Infiltrate. Steal everything worth a decent amount. Escape with out anyone noticing.
This was the basic plan for all thieves. For Tori.
When Tori had heard about her sisters illness, she immediately asked how she cold save her. They gave her option. Work for them and save up her pay checks to buy her sisters operation. Of course Tori did the math, she would never get enough money within two years just by saving up paychecks. So Tori did the only other thing she could think of. Steal. So once every few weeks Tori would sneak off into a nearby town.
Even though Tori was a thief that didn't mean she didn't have morals. She had two rules. Number One: Never steal from poor people. Number Two: Never harm anyone. For one year Tori had never broken any of these rules, till one late Saturday night.
A fourteen year old Tori was in a mad dash across the roof top, behind was a body guard from the house she had just robbed. She ran as hard and as fast as she could with a bag of treasure on her back. Too bad for the thief this meant she could pay much attention to where her feet were stepping. So as you can guess by now she fell, hard. Her body skidded across to the ledge. She looked down below. She saw a bunch of Marines running around, probably looking for her. But she would not let herself get caught, not while her sisters life was in her hands. The body had now reached Tori. They both spotted the bag of stolen goods right next to the ledge.
They both lunged for it. The guard grabbed the left side while Tori had the right. For now it was a game of Tug-O-War. "Up there!" Tori heard someone call. Tori cursed, she had been spotted. The only thing Tori thought as she let her right fist slam into the guard's face, was 'I don't I have time for this.' Tori grabbed the bag and sprinted away, only taking one glance back to find the guard's body was missing from the rooftop.
The next day Tori read a headline in the newspaper.
Body Guard of Rich Heiress Fell Off A Roof Late Last Night
Tori only gave the guilty feeling knowing at her insides the cold shoulder as she quietly told herself it was necessary.
She had a broken a rule.
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One Year Later (Still in Tori's Dream)
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"Admiral! I have the money!" Tori panted as she ran through the Marine Headquarters' halls. She was waving her latest paycheck in her hand. " I can finally get Koishii's surgery!" Tori said with a huge smile. "Admiral? What's wrong?" Tori had know the admiral for 2 years now, after it was him the decided that she and Koishii would live in the headquarters. Tori had never seen the admiral with such a sad expression before. He wasn't a bundle joy usually but still, he wasn't this bad.
"It's Koishii. She's in the medical bay right now."
That's all it took to send Tori sprinting.
"Doctor! Doctor! Where is she!?" Tori yelled when she burst through the doors. No one needed ask who 'she' was. A man with pale skin in dark hair walked up to Tori with sullen face. He was trying to speak but he couldn't find the right words to say to Tori. Tori noticed this. Her hands grabbed his collar. "Where is she!?" She asked again. The doctor merely pointed and raised his hand to a bed with a body's outline under the white sheets.
Tori ran over to the bed and ripped the sheets off. "No, no……I was so close." Tori cried as she stared at her sisters pale face. Tori went down to her knees and cried. The doctor went over to Tori's shaking body and layed his hand on her shoulder. "There was nothing you could do. Leukemia has no cure." The doctor said in a very poor attempt to comfort her. Suddenly Tori's body stopped shaking. "No cure..? They lied!" Tori screamed. Everyone in the room gave her puzzling looks. Tori stood up and ran.
She didn't know where she was going but it was better than being with those liars. She ran faster than she had ever ran before. She didn't stop no matter what, she ignored the hunger that gnawed at her insides and the fire that seared through her legs with each step she took. Eventually she did collapse, she didn't fall asleep but it was almost like she was in trance. Her eyes half open just stared at the grass swaying in the calm breeze. Then something strange started to happen. It started to rain. At first it was light but then it became bullets of water searing through the sky and all Tori could do was lie there.
Tori wasn't thinking at all, she was just doing nothing and then out of no where a mans face flashed before her eyes. It was the face of the body guard. The face of the man she had killed. Then it hit her, she had killed an innocent man. For nothing. She didn't try and change her mind she just let the memories of the poor mans death fill her head.
She heard something, it was like splashing yet hard. She could feel the vibrations pass through the ground. She figured it must have been a person. She did not look up to see who it was until they said something.
"We'll help you get revenge if you help us." Tori eyes trailed up the palm that was offering her help to stand up, on their wrist Tori saw a tattoo of a crown encircling it.
"Yes" She croaked as she gave the mysterious hand her hand.
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Tori's Room
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Tori woke up with a start. Her hair was drenched with sweat. From inside her bedroom she could hear yelling from the kitchen. Something about eating raw eggs? Tori sighed, these two really knew how start their day. She got out of bed and decided to go have shower. She took a change of clothes as she walked out her bedroom door to go find the bathroom.
"Luffy! Why did you have to eat the last eggs!?" The red head screamed at her captain while waving her arms. Tori noticed that the navigator's left arm was bandaged up. 'Should she really be waving her arm like that?' Tori wondered. Then she looked across to the boy in a red vest. He had his tongue sticking out in disgust as his hands rested on his stomach. "Yuck, Nami why did you let me eat those eggs?" The captain whined. "It's not my fault that you decided to eat a whole carton of eggs!" Nami yelled.
They were so busying arguing they didn't even know Tori was there, so she just went into the bathroom to have a shower. Eventually Nami noticed the sound of water coming from the shower. "Look Luffy how about you get some eggs from the store down the street while I'll try to make some breakfast for us." Luffy nodded happily as Nami handed him some money that she kept, who knows where it came from. "Remember don't eat the eggs this time!" Nami told her captain as he ran out the door. Luffy turned his head and yelled back "Don't worry I won't! Besides they taste gross when they not cooked!".
Nami smiled, her captain could be so funny sometimes. Nami walked over to the kitchen counter and sat on a stool as she waited for Tori to come out of the shower. Nami hoped that Luffy would be gone for a while so she could ask Tori some questions. But at the same time she wanted Luffy to be back soon. She couldn't figure out why though, it felt as though she was forgetting something but it felt stronger than just that. It was weird.
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Zoro and Robin
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The bored swordsman let out a big yawn. How long had they been in this bookstore? Ten minutes? Robin however was having a great time skimming through the books. She did actually come here to find out more information but she couldn't help but browse when she saw the shelves full of books. Robin's index finger lightly travel the bindings of the books as she searched for an interesting title. Her finger paused at one book. It was called 'Names and Their Meanings' by someone whose name she could not pronounce. Usually Robin would pass by a book like this without a second glance but something about it told Robin it would be important in the future, so she grabbed the book and headed to the historical side of the shop.
"Finally we are leaving." Zoro groaned as he walked with Robin to the pay counter. "Swordsman-san you didn't have to wait for me you know." Robin said sweetly to him. "What you mean I-" Zoro was cut off by an old women practically shouting at the two. "Good Afternoon!" The old women was very short and was standing on a stool just to reach the counter. She also wore a white apron with a pink dress and had big glasses on her face.
Robin returned the greeting while Zoro grumbled. The two ladies shared small talk while purchasing the books. Eventually Robin asked where they could find a hotel. The women told them to stay with her. Robin of course accepted and thanked the old women. "Oh will he been staying to?" The women asked as she pointed to Zoro. Robin replied "Yes as long as it's not to much trouble." The women hopped off her stool and walked over to Zoro. Zoro stared down into the old women's glasses. Then out of no where she grabbed Zoro's cheek (how she jumped so high, who knows?).
"He's no trouble at all! I'd love to have such a handsome boy staying at my house!"
And that was that.
End of Chapter 4
Authors Note: THANK YOU ALL FOR THE REVIEWS! As for updating, this month I might not have a chapter every week. I will try but May for me is a really busy month for school. And of course my birthdays on the 24
A hint for upcoming chapters: the book Robin bought will be really important!
Sorry for not putting much LuNa fluff in and if your against a little bit of ZoRo
I will get to the other crew members story soon cause they are going to find out some important information.
AS ALWAYS PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!