Edited on March 26th, 2013
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or anything else that I may reference, besides my own ideas.
Summary: What do you do when a portal of some type suddenly appears out of thin air? Do you shut your laptop? Do you throw your computer out the window? Or do you jump in the portal without absolutely any thought what so ever? What do I do, you may ask?... Well, you'll just have to read on and find out for yourself.
I'd like to, also, thank all of those that have Reviewed, Favorited, Viewed, and/or Alerted. Oh, yeah, I forgot the iPod. Literally, I forgot the iPod in the very end and decided to go without. xD
This is a bit longer than the first two chapters. Hope you enjoy. I got a bit bored and decided to update this story early. Don't expect this to happen again. The next chapter might be up within the next few days, though.
Flying High
by
Kine X
"...," I thought I heard something, something that sounded a great distance away.
"W..e .p." Again, that same voice. Though, it was closer this time. Maybe a few feet away, this time.
"Oi!, Wake up!" The voice sounded annoyed, this time. Suddenly, something slammed down and made a loud smacking sound. SMACK. It sounded like a hand slapping a desk or a table. I jerked, sitting up, and looked around, disoriented.
"Finally, your up." The voice said, clipped and stern. "You've been out for quite a while. The Nurse was getting a bit worried." I looked towards the voice, it was a man who looked to be around his mid 20's. He was wearing what looked like a white and blue sailor-like uniform, though he had a few different trinkets added here n' there. After looking over what he was wearing, I looked up and seen that he was wearing a hat.
That hat had the word "MARINE" printed on it. I just blinked and had kind of 'wha~~t?, Impossible' moment that I've been having lately. Well, that is, until I was flicked in the forehead by said 'Marine'.
"Oi, did you hear a word I just said?" He asked, aggravated.
I looked at him for a few seconds before answering.
"Sorry... did you say something?" … Yeah, might as well go with that. Though, a small orange book would have made it a bit more awesome.
The 'Marine' just slapped his forehead and brought his hand down to his chin, holding it.
"Fine," He started, gesturing with his hands spread out, palms up, like he was going in for a large hug. "I'll tell you one last time, Understand?" I only nodded my head, before stopping. Something was in my nose. I brought my fingers up, about to touch my nose, before I was interrupted.
"I wouldn't do that if I where you." The guy said. I stopped, looking towards him.
"Hmmm. Why?" I asked.
"Because. The gauze inside of your nose is the thing that's been keeping you from bleeding to death." He spoke sternly, yet, not unkindly, to me.
"What?" I asked, a bit dumbfounded. I mean, finding out a few pieces of gauze was keeping you from bleeding to death was a bit surprising to find out. "What do you mean, it's keeping me from bleeding to death?" He looked at me with a small frown.
"That's exactly what I mean. That stuff is keeping you from bleeding to death." He said to me, like he was repeating something to a child. "A few of my subordinates found you in a pool of your own blood right outside of the base, at the gate, it was just poring out of you. It only stopped recently. The Nurse came to get me when she noticed."
"What!?" I exclaimed, shocked. "You found me in a pool of my own blood?"
"Yes, we did" He said, simply. "Though, what I would like to know is, how did you end up like that?" He asked, then continued with a raised eyebrow. "How did you end up laying, asleep, in a pool of your own blood?"
"I-I... I don't remember." I told him. It was probably best to lie and say I forgot everything, or something like that, but, well, it wasn't really a lie, I don't remember anything since being knocked out. I, also, didn't want to be kept imprisoned and/or sent to be experimented on. After all, how many people just up and appear out of nowhere?
"You don't remember?" I was asked, skeptically.
"Yup!" I exclaimed cheerfully. "I don't remember. Many things, really. I only remember simple things, like... uh..." Hmmm. 'What could I say that won't bring some suspicion to my identity' I thought to myself.
"How to speak?" The Marine deadpanned.
"A-ah. Yeah. How to speak." I, oh-so-helpfully, replied.
The Marine just looked at me a bit funnily.
"So, What's your name? You can tell me that, can't you?" He asked with a small twitch in his eye. Like he was going to blow a gasket or somethin like that.
"U-uh... No?" I questioned. He closed his eyes, grabbing the bridge of his nose, and, I could swear, he was mentally counting down. (1)
"Fine!" He exclaimed. "You are going to stay right here, in the bed your sitting in right now." He told me, with a glare and a finger pointing at the me, then the ground, then the bed, all in the same order.
"WHAT?" I yelled. "WHY do I have to stay HERE?" I gestured, pointing down. I just wanted to point, too.
"Because," He started. "I can't have a completely unknown person walking around this base and, besides, your still healing a bit. I bet that after whatever happened to you, you're at least feeling a little light headed, right?"
And he was right. I did feel light headed. I, most likely, needed to recuperate from the lost blood. And, besides, I did need to find out a few things about where and what I'm going to do from now on. There is a whole new world out there just waiting to be explored, cause, if I'm right, then I just may be in the One Piece dimension or, at least, an off-shoot of it. I believe that appearing here most likely caused a split in the time-line, splitting the Original One Piece dimension and the one I'm in right now into who knows how many separate dimensions. So, I decided, I would heal and rest up here, but not before getting some info out of the Marine that was still waiting.
"So, ah, do you know where my things are?" I asked. "And, what there is to eat around here?"
Marine Base, Shells Town, East Blue
It had been a day since I woke up, well, the first time I woke up. After talking to the Marine, Lieutenant Percival, I believe his name was, He pointed at the chair that was at the side of my bed, where my bag was. "Nothing was taken, only looked through, though, there were a few things of interest in there." He said. "Had to make sure there was nothing that you could use to harm anyone here, anyways." I had nodded and thanked him at the time. He nodded, pointed towards the window that was above my bed, and told me not to have anything to do with the person that was tied out front, in the courtyard. It would probably get me killed.
So, here I was, laying down, staring up at the ceiling, with nothing to do. But, well, I could ponder and think of something to do, like, ask for a book or... something. I was very bored. That is, until a knock came at the door.
*Knock Knock* "Hello? Patient-sama, are you decent?" A Female voice came through the door, and all I could do is think 'sama?, why did she use the -sama honorific? SHE'S SPEAKING ENGLISH AND USED THE -SAMA HONORIFIC. WHY~?' It freaked me out a bit. The rules of this dimension were probably going to be a bit weird.
"Hello?" The same voice came through, snapping me out of my funk.
"H-huh, yes, please, come in" I said, keeping the manners that I had, of course.
"Hai, I shall do so." She responded, opening up the door.
Once the door was open all the way, she came in holding a pile of clothes, which I noticed where mine, and a blush on her cheeks. She was about 5 foot 4 inches, had Dark Blue hair, coal colored eyes, and she didn't have large boobs like Nami, Robin, or many other woman out there in this world. It was amazing. She, also, wore the same type of nurse outfit, it looked like a 1950s nurse outfit from America, that the last nurse wore, the one that was there when I woke up.
I looked at her with a blank expression for a moment before looking down at what I was wearing. The only thing that I had on was a shirt and a pair of pants, provided by the base, of course. I scooted my but around... I had no underwear on. I blushed before looking back up to the Nurse. She looked off to the side when I looked up, blush still on her cheeks.
"I-I... took the... pleasure of having your clothes washed, sir." She said, with a small smile... and a small line of red running down from her nose. I went brighter red at that, no one's seen me naked in a long time, ever since I was a child in elementary school. Specifically in second grade.
"T-t-thanks." I said, looking away. She looked up, correctly guessing that I was embarrassed, though, not the reason why.
"Oh!" She exclaimed. "You don't need to worry. Matter of fact, that's the largest one I've ever seen." She said, whispering the last part, barely loud enough for me to hear. My jaw just dropped and hung down for a few seconds before I closed my mouth.
"So," She said quickly, trying, and, kinda, succeeding, to break the embarrassing atmosphere that came up, and gestured to my clothes. "Where shall I set these, sir?"
"U-uh, anywhere you wish, Nurse...-san." I doubt I'd be able to get used to honorifics like those any time soon, maybe. Especially because I had limited knowledge of the Japanese language, and much of it was learned through anime.
She walked over to the side of my bed, opposite of my bag, and set the clothes down. She, then, turned, gave a small bow in my direction, and walked away before I could get a word out.
I stared at the door, she had closed it, and sighed. I didn't even get to learn her name. Such misfortune. 'Oh well' I thought. 'At least she left before it could get even more awkward'
I got up, leaned against the window, and stared out at the person who was tied up. I frowned. It was Roronoa Zoro, of course. I had a suspicion that it was him. That, also, meant that there was only, at least, a month until Luffy and Coby showed up. I had to find out what to do before then.
On one hand, I could probably but into their fight, help them, and become their Nakama, which was really doubtful, I mean, why would they immediately accept me as their Nakama for something like that, especially without them knowing me at all.
Then, on the other hand, I could, after they fight, when they're preparing to leave, which I had to be involved in somehow, even if they wouldn't accept me immediately, I could ask for a ride to Loguetown, getting to know everyone and, possibly, become their Nakama.
Then, on my Left Foot, I could just ignore Luffy and the Straw Hats, become a civilian, probably find someone, then die at a ripe old age, or, on the right foot, I could become a Marine... sigh 'I'll, at least, have to try and befriend them.
I think I'm going to have a hard time with this. Especially with how I've been feeling lately. Besides feeling presences around me, throughout the whole facility I was in, I felt these... appendage? like... things or was it just a feeling that I could move things. Whatever it was, it was weird. Though, I haven't tried to use this weird... thing. I was... not scared, but anxious of what it did. I remember watching a movie about something like this, though, they didn't have the strange invisible appendages, it was called Chronicle. Maybe that freak lightning bolt did something to me. I sighed, 'Whatever, I'll figure it out later' I thought.
Marine Base, Shells Town, East Blue
It had been a few days since I woke up. Throughout that time I had been there, the Marines had been really accommodating, it's a bit odd, really. I hadn't expected them to be acting that way. I was even given back my pocket knife by Lieutenant Percival, I didn't even know he had it in the first place. He gave it back because he didn't deem me much of a threat, is what he said. I wouldn't have really harmed anyone in the first place, that is, unless they harmed me first.
I had experimented with the appendage thingies or the power, whatever it was, the past few days when I had nothing to do and I wasn't being watched. I was able to lift my knife up and twirl it around, now, though it did give me a nosebleed. It kinda freaked me out, I don't usually have nosebleeds. I had to wipe off all of the blood from my nose and mouth before the nurse came back, she went to get me a lunch from the canteen. There was also something going on, besides with the gravity of this world being a bit wonky, my extra appendage, and the thing with me feeling the presences of people. I think I was being hidden from Captain Morgan... Though, I wouldn't blame them. He probably would have thrown me off of the Island. I couldn't pay taxes or anything in the first place. He'd probably want taxes or a tribute from me.
As I threw the tissue in the trash, the one that I had used to wipe up the blood, the nurse knocked on the door.
Knock Knock, she knocked...
"Ah, Come in, please." I called out, knowing it was her. The same 5 foot 4 inch beauty from the day before. She had apologized about her manners from when she brought my clothes and even given me her name, it was Maehara Shinobu, she was 19 years old, like me. It was a nice name, if I do say so for my self. I had to give her a fake name, though, which sucked. I chose to go with a name from one of my favorite anime, Detective Conan. So, I gave her the name Shinichi. Which I was going to go by from now on. Though, one of the meanings of that name was kinda ironic. Seriously, Truth, One. Or, One Truth...
"Shinichi-san, here is your lunch, I hope you like it." She said, handing the tray over to me.
"Thank you very much." I replied, then continued before starting to eat. "Itadakimasu." She got on to me during breakfast, saying: "You should say 'Itadakimasu before your meals. It shows respect, not just to the cook, but to the people who procured the food that's on your plate and the god that you may worship." I just sat there dumbly for a moment before conceding.
Once I was finished eating she took the tray and handed it to someone outside the door. "Lieutenant Percival gave permission for you to go on a walk for the afternoon." She told me.
"Hmmm. Okay," I replied. "May I ask where my shoes are?" After asking that she looked a bit sheepish.
'They' and 'thrown' where the only things I could make out of her response. So, I, so eloquently, asked her: "What?"
She sighed at the question, looking resigned. "They where thrown out." She said.
"Hmmm~. Why didn't you just say so?" I asked with a tilted head and knitted eyebrows.
"Well... I thought you'd be mad." She said, looking down at the ground. "They were covered in blood and ruined. Though," She looked up, with her eye's alight, and a smile on her face. "One of the Chore boys were sent out to get you a pair of Geta and Jika-tabi. We got the size's down from your shoes, though, we had to guess which number it was."
I looked at her glowing smile and I couldn't be mad at her, or anyone else for that matter, no matter what, my old shoes were just about done with, anyways. "Ah, of course that's fine, though I haven't worn anything like these before." I said to her, and it seemed like her smile only got brighter.
She went to the door and got a package from who I assumed to be the guard, or one of the guards, that was going to escort me around. She came back with the small box a few seconds later and handed it to me. I opened the box and, there, sitting in it, was a pair of Jika-tabi and Geta underneath that. The Jika-tabi where Black and the Geta were stained red. They looked Awesome.
I put the Geta on, I'd wear the Jika-tabi another time. I walked around until I felt fine walking in the Geta and I went to the door, expecting to leave right away. But, before I touched the door, I turned around towards Shinobu.
"Are you coming along?" I asked her, wondering, either way, if she was going to come or not.
"E-eh?" Surprise shown on her face which, soon, morphed into a small smile. "Of course!, I would love to come. I was just given the day off by Lieutenant Percival not that long ago. I just have to go get ready, I'll meet you here soon." Her answer was rushed in the beginning, but she calmed soon after, and then went to change. I just went and sat back on my bed.
'Hopefully I'll be able to get a pebble or something to practice my ability' I thought. I couldn't wait until I was able to fly, if it were possible, of course. That would be totally awesome.
"Shinichi-kun?" Shinobu's voice brought me out of my daydream. I was flying hundreds of feet up in the air, doing flips and cannonballs into clouds. "Are you okay? You have a little droll coming out of your mouth."
I quickly wiped it away, flustered, and denying anything she may have seen. The reply I got was an unexpected giggle, which made her sound like an Angel... 'OH MY GOD' I thought in horror. 'THIS IS LIKE A SHOUJO MANGA!'
I had to stop thinking like that. 'MAYBE SHE'S TRYING TO CONVERT ME INTO A SUPER GOOD LAW ABIDING PERSON... or even worse... A MARINE!' It looked like my paranoia followed me to this world.
"Shinichi-kun!" She said a bit forcefully, this time. 'Oh my God. SHE'S USING THE -kun HONORIFIC! I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE USE TO SUFFIXES SO FAST!' I hadn't noticed that. "Hmmm. Maybe we shouldn't go out today."
"W-w-what?!" I gasped out in horror. "No, nonono. I'm perfectly fine, Shinobu...-chan?" She tilted her head and a smile came to her face.
"So, how about we get going?" I asked, already at the door. "I'd like to walk around town for a little while, to see what the place's like." She nodded, looking a bit excited. She skipped towards me, grabbed my arm, and started to, practically, drag me out of the base. A Marine, the one that guarded my door, started following us as we left, but I ignored him and, in the span of 10 seconds, completely forgot about him.
On the way towards the front gate, we had to walk buy the prisoner, Zoro, not that I was supposed to know his name. So, I asked for it. From Shinobu, of course. I mean, who else was I going to ask.
"Hey, Shinobu-chan, what's that guys name?" I asked her
"E-eh," She stumbled, making me step forward to catch her around her waste. She blushed, not that I noticed. I was to busy looking at Zoro. "His name's... Roronoa Zoro." She said in a whisper, while looking down at the ground. "...Captain Morgan's son, Helmeppo, had him tied there for killing his pet wolf."
"Hmmmm~. Why'd he do that?" I questioned.
"I don't know." Is all she replied, stepping to go forward, and she started to drag me towards the town.
"Can I ask him?" I asked her. The immediate reply that I got was a loud "NO!" and... Zoro looked over towards us. Shinobu looked like she wanted to crawl into a whole and die, I waved my left hand, and arm, to Zoro, and Zoro... looked away and fell asleep... or that's what it looked like.
"C-c-can w-we j-j-just g-go?" Shinobu asked timidly. It nearly broke my heart with how adorable she was. And then we left.
Street, Shells Town, East Blue, Same Day
"So," I started. "What's there to do for fun around here?" I asked her. We were walking along one of the many streets of Shells Town, one of the larger off-street's of the main street that headed along from the Port to the Marine's Base.
"Uhhhh. Well, there are many things to do. I guess it depends on your interests." She answered my question. "Though, usually, if I'm not working at my job, I'm just studying to be the best Nurse that I can be. I love my job"
"It doesn't have anything to do with looking at guy's things, does it?" I asked in mirth.
"NO!" She shouted, before correcting herself. "I-I-I mean, no" She turned her nose up, like she was looking down on something. "Of course I wouldn't do something like that."
"You looked at mine." I teased her. "Even said it was...-"
"NO~~!" She whined/yelled at the same time. "I didn't mean to say that. It was an accident, anyways. I didn't mean to look."
"HAAAAHAHAHA." I practically roared in laughter. "I'm only teasing you, jeez." I continued on. "You're so easy to rile up."
"Buuu~~. You're so mean." Ah, so adorable. She puffed out her cheeks when she did the buuu~ thing. I thought chicks only did that in an-... Oh, yeah... I forgot. 'Duh' I thought, smacking myself in the forehead.
"Eh, Shinichi-kun, is something the matter?" Shinobu, unexpectedly, asked. "Are you not feeling well? We could always go back to the Base."
"N-no. I'm fine. Can we continue?" I asked, then hurriedly continued. "Oh, look, there's a clothes shop. Can we check it out?" Luckily there was a clothing shop. Girls loved clothes, right?
"Oh!" Shinobu exclaimed. "That's Haru's shop. She just recently got a shipping of Chichi-ue's newest fashion design."(2) Shinobu was jumping up and down on the balls of her feet, doing something very, very interesting to her chest area. Not that I was looking, of course... Heh, heh. I'm not a pervert. I'm an upstanding gentleman...
"Chichi-ue?" I questioned. She immediately stopped, then looked at me in horror.
"Y-...you, don't know who Chichi-ue is?" She asked me with wide eyes full of terror.
"Uhh... No. Am I supposed to?" I asked her back. 'Matter of fact, this Chichi-ue person wasn't in the Manga or Anime, either. Is he one of the results of me being here? A... what do you call it? A bug?, an Abnormality?, a glitch?... something like that, Ano-something. 'It's something that doesn't belong'. I was broken out of my thoughts when Shinobu suddenly gave me a hug.
"You poor, poor thing. Not knowing who Chichi-ue is." She said with tears in her eyes and then held on to me for around a moment or two, and, at one point, I swear she groped my butt. "I can't have you not knowing who Chichi-ue is." She said, and then continued in a lecturing tone, letting go of me and making gestures with her hands. "Chichi-ue is one of the, if not the only, leading fashion designers of the world. He has been for the past Ten or so years, maybe even longer."
"Hmmm. That's amazing. To be a leading fashion designer, of the world, in the Great Pirate Age." I said to her.
"Of course he is," She said, with her nose held up to the world. "Everyone our age should know about Chichi-ue. He is simply that much of a genius."
"So... How come I don't know about him?" I deadpanned. 'Though, I shouldn't be teasing her like this, I mean, I hadn't been in this world for more than a week'.
"Cause, you lost a lot of your memory. That, most likely, explains why you don't know." She said, before continuing. "Anyways, we best visit Haru's shop. I need to check out the latest dresses."
Haruki's Shop, Shells Town, East Blue
Once we were inside Haru's shop Shinobu went to talk with the owner of the store. She left me looking around at all of the stuff that was on display. A few awesome pairs of shirts here, a few awesome pairs of shorts there, and I was done looking after ten minuets.
I looked up, not seeing Shinobu anywhere, so I went to ask the owner of the shop where she was.
"Excuse me," I said to the person manning the counter. "Are you Haru-san?"
"Hmmm." The person looked up from the newspaper they where reading. "Yes, I am, How may I help you?" She asked, in a bored fashion.
"Ahh. Ummm. I was wandering if you know where Shinobu-chan went?" I asked her. She looked at me for a few seconds before pointing to a hallway.
"She's down that hallway, first stall on the left." She, helpfully, supplied with a glint in her eye's.
"Thank you." I said, walking as fast as I could away from the dangerous looking owner and down the hallway.
I reached the first stall on the left in just about no time at all. I reached forward- and tripped on absolutely nothing. I fell forward, almost ripping the cloth curtain that was covering the stall down.
So, I was holding the cloth curtain entirely open on one side, I had my other hand holding myself up on the other side of the stall, and the only thing I could see where two small balloon-like things. Strangely enough, they would be around the size of Shinobu's...
I looked up, seeing a red-faced Shinobu. Shinobu's face turned red, then white, and then turned red again. Though, this time in anger. You know the things that I saw? They where being held in a bra type thing. On Shinobu's chest.
I could only get one thought through my head before a well placed punch to the temple knocked me out.
It was this.
'Oh, My, God! Shinobu's a dude!'
(1) Right here, the Lieutenant got a bit confused. He thought that Shinichi said that he couldn't tell him his name. That is, if you didn't already know.
(2)I just randomly came up with that Chichi-ue thing. It wasn't planned.
Thanks for reading. All of this was practically off the top of my head. I hadn't planned entering the Awesome Shinobu into this fic, at all, even though he is a minor character. Hell, I hadn't even planned on Shinobu being a dude. It just came to me, randomly, out of nowhere. Shinobu was supposed to be a beautiful young lady. Luffy should be showing up in the next chapter, hopefully. I don't really know where I'm going with this. I only have a few things planned out in the future. Really awesome things, if I do say so myself. I would tell you what those things are, but, I don't like Spoilers.
I hope I didn't contradict myself at all. If you find any horrible errors, please leave a review. Oh, and, Who is Lieutenant Percival? You ask. I got inspiration from Commodore Perry. Look him up.
Please review if you wish, I wouldn't terribly mind if you did. XD