Last time…

The sound of a gun is heard, the bullet passes between Kaoru's face and Ortiz, making him flinch away both from the bullet and from the poor completely freak out girl.

A skinny, pale guy throws his cards on the table, he was sick of losing so much money and so he decided to quit. Really, really bad decision.

The sound of the a gun being fired surprised everyone, even more the pale guy, as soon as he raised himself from the gambling table the bullet passed right in front of his eyes, so close he could even fell the hotness of the bullet on his skin, after being fired, the poor guy couldn't handle the surprise and passed out. A friend of his got up from his place and tried to shake him awake.

"Oh was the bilge rat that did this!" The man got up from the ground, he was clearly drunk but then again this was a bar full of pirates so that wasn't shocking.

"You got a problem dog?" Alex pointed her gun at the man, without even looking, with a grin on her lips.

The man tightened his fists and started to advance in her direction, Alex saw this from the corner of her eye; she couldn't stop rolling her eyes at the man's actions and rose from the table, took another shot of grog and looked at her mates from the drinking contest.

"I'll be back in a minute…DON'T continue this without me." She glared at the pirates in the table, at least to those who had managed to stay awake.

The other man started to advance towards (stumbling due to his drunken state) Alex, he passed by a table were another pirate was about to drink from a big bottle of rum, the man grabbed the bottle, with the intent of using it against Alex. But he stopped and saw that the bottle still had a bit of rum, well you shouldn't waist right? So the guy drank what was left of the rum, whipped his mouth with his hand and broke the bottle on the head of its previous owner. (Mind you he was aiming at the table).

The guys from the gambling table rose at the same time as the guys from the drinking table, one of them only did so for about 2 seconds after that he passed out from the booze, they all started to move in for the kill, almost like a battlefield. Kenshin and the others watched the scene unfold from a little corner, alongside Ortiz who stood behind them not at all surprise by the actions of his crewmates.

When Alex and the other guy met at the centre of the bar more than half of the pirates were ready for a fight right in the middle of the bar, Alex had her gun pointing at the man's forehead and he had the broken bottle in his hand ready to attack, until a very loud whistle was heard, everyone in the bar stopped and looked at the farthest table, in one of the darkest corners of the bar was seated the Captain alongside his daughter Laura, and some of the oldest crewmembers. Everyone fell silent at the Captain's dark look, everyone but a very, very drunk pirate who raised his glass with loud incomprehensible words; one of his mates gave him a slap which cause him to shut up and look completely static at the Captain.

Alex looks sideways at the man and shrugs, putting away her gun, the man looked her, dropped the bottle and went back to his table.

"What did just happen?" Yahiko was looking at the various pirates that only a minute ago where ready to kill each other and now where drinking and celebrating like that never happened.

"That man always ruins the fun…" Ortiz was still behind the guys looking at the Captain; he looked down at the guys, sighed and went to the arm wrestling table for some bets.

Alex started to walk towards the drinking table, when she was going to sit down she noticed the guys where there in the middle of the bar looking a bit lost.

"Guess someone as to play the host part…." She muttered under her breathe while rolling her eyes and started to walk towards them.

"Oy we're not finished!" One of the competitors, actually the last one poor guy he couldn't even raise his head from the table of so drunk he was, screamed at Alex, she stopped her back still to the pirate.

"Oh I think we have…" Alex turned around and drank the shot in one gulp, the guy tried to raise his head and take his shot glass to his mouth, but it was no use, he dropped the glass and smashed his head against the table, hard.

"I win!" The girl had a victorious smirk on her lips.

"Oh by the way you will pay me later…" She said over her shoulder has she went to the group.

"So what brings you guys here?" She smiled openly at the group, they seemed quite nice, plus Alex really liked the little boy…. The past is always hard to forget.

"Well, Miss Alex we came here to get something to eat before we return home." Kenshin explains to the girl.

"Drop the miss…and about the food I think I can do something about that…." Alex started to look around for an empty table but every single one was full. Alex found a table on a corner with a couple of bottles and a passed out guy sleeping with his head on top of the table. Alex cleaned up the table of the empty bottles, and then she grabbed the guy by the back of his shirt and threw him to the ground, the man looked at her sideways then he shrugged and went back to sleep.

"Oh come on!" Alex sighs exasperate; Kaoru wasn't sitting down like the others, probably because the place wasn't exactly clean but it could be much worse. So Alex pushed the young girl down, rather harshly, on a chair.

"Don't worry stupidity isn't contagious…*hick* can't say the same thing for the binge" Alex started to laugh, while the group just sweat dropped all together, she was definably drunk.

"You know woman shouldn't drink like that…" Sanosuke couldn't help but crack a small grin, she was though, even after beating a drinking contest her aiming had been perfect, and she wasn't even looking.

"Tá mas é calado cabeça de galo…(Sano raises an eyebrow)…Anyway I'm not a normal woman, I'm a pirate matey (she raises her glass) the rum runs thru our veins right boys!" She turns around with a huge smile towards her mates.

"AYE!" Everyone in the bar raises their glasses as a toast; these guys could drink rum just as water.

"…..so what about the food?" Yahiko turned to Alex; she just stared at him almost like a zombie, she was close to being wasted that she was.

"Oh shoot forgot about the food, just a second!" Alex got up and went to the bar counter to get them some food.

"Oy chief four doses for that table over there…(she grabbed the man's sleeve before he ran off to the kitchen) And hm…you can put the bill on the account of the back table over there" Alex pointed at the Captain's table, that was punishment for spoiling the fun for her. She returned to the table with a small on her face.

So there you have it, like it? Yes? No? Maybe?

If you review me I will give you a shot of rum, on my part….oh right translations, almost forgot about that:

"Oh be quite rooster head…"

There you go!

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