Hazuto had walked all the way to the nearest docks he could find and he would not go back home for a long time. As he strolled to the dockmaster he was informed that they only had one boat left. It was a wooden boat with a motor on it.

"And this is the only boat left?"

"Yes, and you can either rent it for the day or buy it forever. But remember it has a tracking device on it and if you go over the days limit the police will be after you."

"Oh damn it!" Hazuto thought.

"Where exactly is this tracking device?"

"Why, it's on the motor. You see that bluey sort of cube thing. That's the tracking device and it will probably fool anyone as it looks like a solar panel."

"Yeah, fool anyone." Hazuto smirked as he started paying for the boat's rent. As he was taking out some yen he realised that he didn't have enough. He started struggling and looked in all his pockets and came out with reciepts. He had an idea but didn't know if it worked. He started to pretend to look for money while edging his way close to the boat. As he was doing this he was interrupted by a small girl about 5ft and a man about the same age and size as him. He had blue hair cropped downwards while the little girl had long hair and an angry face.

"Don't worry, we'll help pay for it." The blue haired man said.

"What are they doing? Heh, they must be stupider than the dockmaster." Hazuto thought.

"Hey you sausage dog!" The little girl growled. "You better let us on this boat since we helped pay for it or else.." When the midget had said this she pulled out a wooden katana.

"Hey Taiga, can you hold the keys for a sec- TAIGA WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING" The blue-haired man shouted.

"Ah, so her name must be Taiga." Hazuto thought.

"Uhm, sir. Can you keep your daughter under control?" Hazuto asked.

"D-d-daughter? So you think i'm his daughter just cos i'm small? You asked for it!" Taiga screamed as loudly as she could. Hazuto was dumbfounded by this sudden rage but he had been in this situation before. He expertly dodged to the side as Taiga's katana went flying past his face.

"Hey, you know little girls shouldn't be playing with manly swords." Hazuto teased.

" Call me little again and i'll slice your head right off!" Taiga spat out in disgust.

"If you can reach it." Hazuto smirked. When Hazuto had said this comment Taiga had completely lost it. She started swinging everywhere and knocked down almost everything she hit. Although not a single attack had come near Hazuto. Being lanky and had given him a good advantage over his bite-sized opponent, he could easily take a stride out of the way. After about 30 seconds of slashing, Taiga had become very tired. She finally picked up her katana, reared up for a ferocious attack and swung as hard she could. Hazuto didn't even try to move out the way. Instead of simply caught the katana mid-way to his head.

"Hey, what are you doing! Let go!" Taiga panted.

"Not unless you calm down, little girl." Hazuto reponded.

"You bastard! Call me little again and i'll show you what I can do to you, you stupid sausage dog!" Taiga always had a way with dog insults. She never really swore that often unless she was extremely angry, which right now she was. Instead she just called people a type of dog, her most popular insult was to Ryuuji as she called him a mongrel almost every day.

"All right, stop it Taiga. You need to calm down." The blue-haired man intervened with Hazuto and Taiga and snatched the katana from both of their hands.

"Your lucky Ryuuji stopped me. If he didn't then you would never see the light of day!" Taiga screamed, but all 3 of them knew she was wrong.

"I'm sorry about my wife's insolent behaviour. I do hope we can forget about this incident."

"Hm, well i'm not one to hold a grudge. Apology accepted. Now i'm guessing your names are Taiga and Ryuuji?

"Stalker! How did you know that!" said Taiga as she accused Hazuto.

"Well for one, i'm not a stalker. Secondly you two both said each others' names while you were attacking me with your stick."

"S-stick? I'll show you what this 'stick' can do."

"That's enough Taiga. Just take a break and sit down." Taiga looked at Ryuuji in disgust and gave Hazuto a death stare. She then turned to Ryuuji and said "Fine then you mongrel." She sat on one of the chairs she had clumsily hit while swinging her katana.

"Well sir, since you know our names why don't you tell me yours."

"Hazuto's the name. Now what do you guys want with my boat?" Hazuto inquired.

"Well, we were hoping since we helped pay for this boat, maybe you might let us on it."

"I like how your brain works. Fine by me. But may I ask, what's your business on the seas?"

"Uhh...err..Well it's a long story but i'll tell you the short of it. You know how to government made that new law? Well we need to pay our rent in the next month and it isn't exactly cheap. So we turned to the last available option which gives this amount of pay in the course of a month. We...uhh, turned to honest piracy."

"Honest piracy? Eh? Well you could say i'm doing the same thing as you, my sister is in hospital and she's in a coma. The hospital have the equipment to wake her up but they can only keep her in the hospital for a month. But I have to find a lotta cash in that time. Although i would never really steal or kill someone, it looked like the only job left was piracy."

"Well," Ryuuji said "This month isn't exactly getting any longer. So let's stop hindering and be on our way."

"Ok! Next stop, the sea!" Hazuto exclaimed cheerfully.