Alright, welcome to the fourth chapter of Death's Gift! So far I still only have thirteen total chapters ready, but that's cause I'm working on two other OP stories but given my tendency to wander between those two stories I'll probably end up writing more. That's To Save A Brother's Life and actually a story that's not the OP Time Travel one, but rather a OP/HP that takes place in HP Universe. It's a Luffy reincarnates into Harry, a reverse of this story, but it starts when he's a baby. Others will reincarnate too and it'll more than likely be AceLu. Anyhow, in this chapter it covers Syrup Village and Usopp, as a fair warning you'll find out exactly how many Devil Fruits Luffy has/had in that box. While it seems like a lot I am not making everyone Luffy recruits a Devil Fruit user, in fact by chapter 13 it's only really unbalanced by one person and that's Robin. I already have a pretty steady recruiting plan of who's joining and who's not but suggestions would be nice. Also, before anyone asks or wonders, Harry's memories start coming in, visibly, around the next chapter but don't really come in until Loguetown. Onwards with the story.
Disclaimer: Don't own HP nor OP
Death's Gift to His Master
The four days that it took them to reach Syrup Village was utter hell for Nami. Before joining the Straw Hats, she hadn't really trained that much, relying purely on her skills as a thief to get by. Now, she was forced to wear weights on her arms and legs, dodge rocks, AND tell the minute changes in the weather all at the same time! Granted even with such little time she was seeing the improvement. For one, she had a lot of energy now and it took a lot more to tire her out than it used to. Second, she was slowly being able to dodge the rocks being thrown at her. Sure, she still got hit like eighty percent of the time but the other twenty percent she could dodge using her Haki. Lastly, she was slowly getting a grasp of her powers because as Luffy said, if you know the weather then you know your powers.
Of course, other than that training there was one other training that Luffy was forcing her to go under. Although she guessed that on the plus side Alvida and Luffy were training with her in it as well. Luffy was having them and him train in water using what he called Aguamenti. Now one may wonder why water since as Devil Fruit users they couldn't even move in water. Well, Luffy had theorized that the reason they couldn't move in water was because their Devil Fruits put them under the weight of the ocean. Of course, Nami at first disbelieved that notion… until they were slowly able to move their arms, if barely. So Nami guessed that the training was working but boy was she thankful that she could take baths. By now she understood that she only lost her powers in bodies of moving water, like lakes, oceans, rivers, and the such and also only if it went above her knees. Losing the ability to take a nice hot bath would have devastated her. During one of the every other day meetings Zoro decided to ask a question.
"Hey Captain, what other Devil Fruits do you actually have?" Zoro asked.
"Sheesh, you don't have to keep calling me Captain, Luffy's fine." Luffy said with a groan.
"I call you Cap'n cause it's fun to say." Alvida commented.
Luffy then took out the box that held the fruits in them and opened it up. Inside were two more fruits, which shocked the others.
"… How the hell did you get that many fruits? You had like four!" Alvida asked, confused.
"Shishishi, well actually, two of them I found on my island, that'd be the Sube Sube No Mi and the Ten Ten no Mi." Luffy started out.
Next he pulled out a white fruit that had splotches of rainbow colors as well as a silver looking fruit that seemed as if it was really hard.
"These two I liberated from pirates who assaulted me and my brothers who didn't even know they were Devil Fruits. This rainbow colored one is the Nuru Nuru no Mi or the Paint Fruit. This fruit is a Logia-Class fruit that allows one to become a Paint Human. With it they can control paint and become paint at will. This silver one is the Tekkou Tekkou No Mi or the Steel Fruit. It is a Paramecia Class Fruit that allows one to become a Steel Human. With it one can turn one's body into any kind of steel, and no Zoro that doesn't mean they can turn they body into blades, that's the Supa Supa No Mi." Luffy said, saying the last part before Zoro could even say anything.
"I wasn't going to say anything!" Zoro protested.
"That's a lie and you know it." Alvida said with a chuckle, causing Zoro to glare at her.
"By the way Luffy, how do you even know what each Fruit is without using them?" Nami asked.
"Well my friend Shanks gave me an encyclopedia on Devil Fruits and since they've existed for as long as anyone can tell almost all of them are in here." Luffy said.
"That's.. an interesting book can I see it sometime later?" Nami asked.
"Sure, why not. I've already read through it a dozen times." Luffy said.
Soon enough though they managed to reach Syrup Village which was in the Gecko Islands. Syrup Village was a quiet little place that only had two ways to even get into the place as it was completely and utterly bordered by cliffs. So, you could only enter the Village via the North or South ends of the village. So they decided to get off on a skiff and make their way to the South End. The rest of the crew would hide the ship in one of the tiny caves under the cliffs and wait for Luffy or one of the others to call them to pick them up via Den Den Mushi. Boy was Luffy thankful that Orange Town had a few of em.
When they landed on the beach shore they were halted by a male voice. They turned towards the direction of the voice and saw a man with sharpshooter goggles and had a very long nose.
"Stop! I am the great pirate fleet leader Usopp! I am the leader of this village's security for they call me Captain Usopp! It's best if you don't attack this village because my eighty million men won't forgive you." Usopp said.
"…. You really need to work on your lies. Your father lies much better." Luffy said in a deadpan.
"AH! How did you know!? Wait you know my father, Yasopp?" Usopp asked, panicking before becoming very interested.
"Yup! He visited my village often with the crew he's part of often before heading North." Luffy said.
"You have to tell me about him!" Usopp said before practically dragging him by the shirt to somewhere, Alvida, Zoro, and Nami promptly following.
The place that Usopp dragged them to was a tavern in the town called Meshi. It was a quaint little place that had nice cheap food. Of course the cheap food was what lured Nami in as she loved to save money. It was the food in general that lured everyone else in. Immediately though after they entered something happened that Luffy… expected to happen. Men and some women started to fawn over Alvida, making her facepalm. Sure she loved the attention and people calling her beautiful but really! It was getting hard to do things without people fawning over her. Thank the Blue that the crew members calmed down about it or someone was going to get special one on one training her and not the nice kind.
"Who are you my beautiful princess!" begged one of the women.
"Your beautiful princess? She's mine!" one of the men yelled.
Very quickly Alvida was getting ticked off and it didn't help that Luffy, Zoro and even Nami (Who should have been on her side) were laughing at her. Soon she couldn't take it and she swung her mace and planted it in the ground.
"If you're going to grovel and praise me then do something worthy of my attention instead of throwing words around!" Alvida shouted.
Alvida was thanking the Blue that the people stopped shouting over her but she wasn't entirely sure what they did instead was better. Instead, they bought her and her siblings a lot of food and drinks. Alvida was glaring at her siblings who were still chuckling at her.
"I'm sorry sis but that reaction's always hilarious." Luffy said, wiping a tear away.
"Yeah it's hilarious seeing them throw themselves over you." Zoro said, finally easing his laughter.
Alvida turned to Nami and raised an eyebrow, as if asking her what her excuse was.
"Hey sis, you're the one who wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world. This is what it gets you." Nami said with a smile.
Usopp looked at them questioningly.
"Oh, are you all siblings? I don't see a resemblance." Usopp said.
"Nah! The Straw Hat Armada is a family!" Luffy said, wrapping an arm over Zoro's shoulder.
"Yeah! Brothers and sisters in arms." Zoro said, wrapping his free arm over Alvida's shoulder.
"Always helping each other!" was Alvida's reply, wrapping hers over Nami's shoulder.
"And never alone for we are always there for each other!" Nami finished, all four of them smiling.
When they finished Usopp was staring at them with stars in his eyes.
"That was so cool! Did you plan it?!" He asked.
"Nope not really, it's how we really feel." Zoro said lazily.
That was true though, in their opinions you couldn't go through weeks of Luffy's training hell and not form a bond. Plus, the way that all the crew members were familial with each other helped.
"Ah, that sounds wonderful. So, you said that you knew my father?" Usopp said before turning his attention to Luffy.
"Yeah when I was little Shanks and his crew, the Red Hair Pirates, visited my village often. One of the members of his crew, his Sniper to be exact, was your father Yasopp. Yasopp would tell me all sorts of stories about you, clearly proud of you." Luffy said, causing Usopp to smile.
"A sniper? I'm a pretty good sharpshooter with my slingshot." Usopp said.
"Eh.. no offense but you'd be better off with a gun; like a sniper rifle or a musket." Luffy said.
"Why? And what's a sniper rifle?" Usopp asked.
"Ah, well for one you usually can't get the projectile speed required to actually hurt someone so you'd have to compensate with special projectiles. If you were to use a gun you could actually hurt someone easily and keep going because guns usually have magazines, which hold more than one bullet. With your slingshot, you can only really load one to three before having to get more and even then, you'd have to probably shoot them all at once. And to your second question, a sniper rifle is a newer gun that was designed about five years back. It has a scope that allows you to see further away and the gun itself has a very large range, much larger than what your slingshot would have." Luffy said.
"Ooh, that actually sounds neat and I guess I understand what you mean by my slingshot not necessarily being the best thing to use." Usopp said.
"Yeah, listen to Luffy, usually he knows these kinds of things although some of said things we don't understand how he knows." Alvida said.
Luffy totally wasn't going to tell them that he knew about guns because when he was Harry he had used them extensively when he was older. For what reasons, well let's just say a war that never should have happened and leave it at that.
"So, what are you guys doing here in Syrup Village, it's a pretty quiet town for pirates to visit." Usopp asked.
"Ah, actually we're here to recruit you and possibly somebody else if there's anyone interesting here." Luffy said, shocking Usopp.
"Wait. You're here to recruit me? The Great Usopp?" Usopp asked.
"Mhm, your father actually had talked about how you seemed to be a shooting prodigy when he was with you. So I figured why not, let's recruit the guy." Luffy said.
"Ah…. I actually don't know what to say though… if you're here to also recruit someone else, I have someone in mind. Recruiting her would probably cement my agreement." Usopp said.
"Oh? Who is it?" Alvida piped in.
"Well, here in town there's a mansion up the hill that belongs to a wealthy family. Though, while I say wealthy family it is owned by a young girl our age. That young girl is the one I want you to recruit. Though it may be hard considering she is really sick and people don't actually know why as she seems healthy otherwise." Usopp said.
"Why would we want to recruit a sick girl, not meaning to be harsh or anything but it doesn't seem beneficial." Ah the ever pragmatic Nami.
"Well she's considered a prodigy doctor. While she's still learning she's almost nearing being better than our town's doctor." Usopp said.
A few minutes passed before Luffy stood up and turned towards the door.
"W-where are you going?" Usopp asked.
"I've decided, we're recruiting the girl, shishishi!" Luffy said laughing, making Usopp smile big.
On their way there Usopp told them the girl's name was Kaya and that she was a really nice girl that he told various stories to, the stories were lies of course, in order to cheer her up. However, when they got to the mansion it was being guarded by two bodyguards.
"Ugh, Klahadore must have put them there." Usopp said with a groan.
"Klahadore?" Luffy asked.
"He's Kaya's caretake and he hates me and hate the idea of pirates. Although, he gives me some bad vibes." Usopp said before directing them around part of the wall and over it. What was on the other side was a large tree and a bunch of windows. One such window Usopp walked over to and knocked on it. It was opened by a girl their age with blonde hair wearing a white dress.
"Oh, Usopp. I'm really sorry I can't greet you like a proper guest but Klahadore won't let me." Kaya said.
"It's alright Kaya. I've brought these people with me and they have a request that you'd like." Usopp said with a smile.
"Oh, a request?" She asked, looking over Luffy and his siblings, not that she knew that.
"Yeah! We wish you to join our crew, our family!" Luffy said.
"Wait… what crew?" Kaya asked, confused.
"Our Pirate crew, the Straw Hat Armada. We heard you're a good doctor in training here from Usopp here." Alvida said.
"B-but I'm not that good." Kaya said.
"Yes you are! You've helped many people even while you're sick." Usopp protested.
"That's it! I'm sick, I can't go with you if I'm sick." Kaya said.
Suddenly a male voice rang out.
"Who are you, you can't barge into the mansion like this!" The voice shouted.
They turned and saw a black haired male wearing glasses and wearing a black suit.
"T-The butler." Usopp muttered, although Luffy said something else.
"… Do I know you?" Luffy asked, shocking the man.
"What?" Klahadore said in surprise.
"Yeah, you look awfully familiar." Luffy said.
"No I've never seen you before so therefore you can't know me. Now get out of here! The mistress needs her rest." The man yelled, pushing up his glasses with the palm of his hand.
That action further cemented Luffy's belief that he's seen the man before. This whole process was giving Luffy an ominous feeling. Quickly Luffy grabbed Usopp and gestured for the rest to follow. When they got outside of the mansion and a bit further he let Usopp go. When he turned to the man Usopp had a mad look on his face.
"Why did you listen to him?!" Usopp yelled.
Luffy ignored him and pulled a backpack off his back that Usopp hadn't realized was there until now. Luffy started to dig through the bag before he pulled out what seemed to be a book of papers.
"…what is that?" Usopp asked.
"Shh." Luffy said, leafing through the papers before pulling one out and putting the rest back in the bag.
"Does this look familiar to you?" Luffy asked, presenting the paper to Usopp's face.
The paper had a picture on it, above the picture was the word 'Wanted' and below it was a price for sixteen million Belly as well as the name 'Kuro of a Hundred Plans'. However, what shocked Usopp was the picture. The picture was of a black haired man with glasses and really sharp claw like weapons. At first it didn't look like it but when Usopp took a second look it confirmed it.
"T-t-that's Klahadore!" Usopp shouted, face paling.
"Wait, what?!" the other yelled, grabbing the wanted poster before gasping.
"How did you notice that Luffy?!" Nami asked.
"Well, I had seen the wanted poster before, that book of papers is a book of wanted posters. I keep a collection of them but Kuro was supposed to be dead, lemme see that there's information on the back." Luffy said before grabbing the paper and flipping it over.
"Captain Kuro of the Black Cat Pirates. Captured and killed by Lieutenant Morgan of the Marines who was then promoted to Captain Morgan.. Morgan?! That idiot? Well, that explains why he's here. I bet Morgan didn't check the body." Luffy said.
"Wait, the guy from Shells Town was the one who 'captured and killed' Kuro?" Zorro asked, not really believing it.
"Apparently, but I still think he didn't the alikeness is too coincidental." Luffy said.
"We should tell Kaya!" Usopp yelled.
"Shishishi! Well it's a good thing I have something to help sneak us in there. Huddle up everyone." Luffy said, taking off his cloak and putting his backpack back on.
Luffy then grabbed a hold of the bottom part of the cloak before throwing it above them. Everyone else watched in awe as the cloak unraveled into a large cloth that enlarged and covered them.
"What is this supposed to do?" Usopp asked.
"You'll see, now follow me." Luffy said, taking them back to the mansion.
When they got there they saw the two bodyguards in the front again. When Luffy started leading them in their direction Usopp started whispering furiously that they're gonna get caught. However those protests died quickly when they slipped past the guards who didn't see them at all.
"W-why didn't they see us?!" Usopp asked.
"This is an invisibility cloak. It turned us invisible." Luffy said.
Usopp turned to the others who didn't seem to be shocked at all unlike him who was gaping at the idea of it.
"Y-you guys aren't shocked?!" Usopp whispered.
"Nope, brother showed us it when we each joined the crew." Nami said with a smirk, as if getting vindictive pleasure out of it.
"Why didn't you tell me about it?!" Usopp asked furiously in a whisper.
"… Because we like to see the shocked look." Zoro said, proving why Nami was getting vindictive pleasure out of Usopp's shock.
"You freaked out didn't you." Usopp said flatly staring at Nami, causing her to glare at him, proving he was correct.
Fortunately for Usopp Nami didn't have time to reply as they soon reached Kaya's window to which they had Nami unlock and open from the outside. They then snuck inside and saw Kaya sitting on her bed. She was shocked when Luffy pulled off the cloak and revealed themselves.
"What are you guys doing here?" She asked.
"We have something to show you Kaya." Usopp said, handing her the wanted poster.
"I-i-is this a joke?" She asked, not understanding it.
"It's not, it has the Marine Seal at the bottom that is made with a tiny bit of Seastone which makes it impossible to replicate as only the Marine Admirals know the process of turning Seastone into that seal." Luffy said.
"Seriously! How do you know these things?!" Nami asked, frustrated.
"Shishishi, my grandpa, Vice Admiral Garp, told me." Luffy said, shocking the people who didn't know.
"You're related to a Vice Admiral?!" Usopp shouted.
"No time for that, what are we going to do?" Alvida asked, stopping any explanations before they could even start.
"Ah, well-" Luffy started before the door was opened, revealing Kuro in his Klahadore disguise.
"I thought I told you pirates to leave!" Kuro yelled.
"Stop it! We know you're Captain Kuro, Klahadore!" Kaya yelled, showing him the wanted poster.
"Tch. I knew that poster was going to get me in a bind if anyone here ever saw it. And the plan was going so well!" Kuro said with a sigh before there was a click and blades slid out of his gloves.
"You know, it wasn't even your looks that truly gave it away Kuro." Luffy said, readying himself.
"Really brat? What was it then?" Kuro asked, curious.
"The way you push up your glasses. At first I thought it was a weird quirk and all because people have them but then I thought about it. Nobody would have that kind of quirk without a reason behind it as people usually push their glasses up with their fingers and not their palms. Then I remembered your wanted poster. You wear your claw weapons all the time and they're activated by bending your hand downward. If you were to push your glasses up with your fingers you'd stab yourself by accident." Luffy explained, shocking everyone.
'He deduced all that just by a simple quirk?' Alvida thought in shock.
'What kind of thinking does he have? Not even I would have picked up on that!' Nami thought.
'Hmph, knew he was smarter than most people but seriously this?!' Zoro thought.
'Wow! He's truly worth the title of Captain!' was Usopp's thoughts.
Kuro however started clapping with his claws still activated with a smile on his face.
"Congratulations! That was a deduction worthy of genius! If I had you on my crew you wouldn't have been treated like I treat my old crew members, like the trash they are." Kuro said in an arrogant voice, disgusting the Straw Hat group.
"You're not worth the title of captain if you treat your crew like that. They're supposed to be your nakama and your family!" Luffy shouted, getting mad at the man.
"HA! Nakama? Family? The crew is meant to be the pawns of the captain like one big chess game where the captain is the King!" Kuro sneered.
"Well then, I think it's checkmate for you Kuro." Luffy bit back, causing Kuro to laugh out loud.
"No my friend, it's checkmate for you! You're too late, my old crew is advancing on the northern entrance of the village to attack. Of course, I still need to get that will from Kaya." Kuro said, shocking Kaya.
"That's why you've been pressuring me to write my will!" She said, coughing occasionally.
"Yes, I've been aiming to get your wealth the entire time! With your death I will be rich!" Kuro said.
"D-d-did you kill my parents?!" Kaya yelled.
"Actually.. no. Their deaths were truly an accident and never supposed to die." Kuro said.
Kuro charged forward, intending on capturing Kaya but Luffy tackled him to the ground.
"GO! Stop the pirates at the beach! I'll handle Kuro!" Luffy yelled.
They all nodded, Usopp helping Kaya out the window, as they ran to the North Slope. Meanwhile Kuro charged at Luffy intending to slice at him. Luffy using Haki could just barely dodge.
'Damn is this guy fast.' Luffy thought as he kept dodging.
Luffy though soon had enough of the man's incessant attacking and discreetly materialized the Elder Wand and used Glacius to freeze the floor below the man's feet, causing him to go flying into the wall.
"Gomu Gomu Pistol!" Luffy yelled, stretching his punch at Kuro in the opening that the ice spell gave him.
The punch landed and smashed Kuro through the wall, leaving a giant hole open into the Hallway. However, that victory didn't last long as Luffy was soon set upon once again. This time however he reacted reflexively putting up a wandless Protego that stopped the attack temporarily. However that short time that it gave him Luffy used his other hand to use the Elder Wand to cast a Diffindo that sliced the entirety of the blades off the weapons, leaving Kuro without a sharp weapon to use.
"Agh! How did you do that! You know what it doesn't matter I still have my fists." Kuro said as he lunged at Luffy with his fists.
They started to trade blows for a while before they heard something outside. It was the sound of a thunderstorm approaching. That seemed to confuse Kuro big time.
"What? It was supposed to be clear weather all day!" Kuro said, but stared at Luffy when he started to laugh.
"Oh, well your plan's done with." Luffy said.
"What did you do!?" Kuro yelled.
"Oh not me, Nami, the orange haired girl. She ate a Devil Fruit… the Ten Ten no Mi, also known as the Weather Fruit." Luffy said.
"What?! She's the one doing this?!" Kuro shouted.
"Yes… and this is her Åskväder Dans (Thunderstorm Dance)." Luffy said before the entire room was illuminated by ungodly lightning.
Kuro was staring in shock at the giant plume of water that had bits of a broke ship in it, proof of the destructive power of the lighting.
"Killer Illusion!" Kuro yelled.
"Oh no you don't! I'm not getting sliced to bits thank you very much!" Luffy said, knocking out Kuro before he could even start.
About thirty minutes later they were in the center of the village with Kuro and apparently his ex-first mate Jango tied up. The group was laughing because the villagers were yelling and throwing rotten food at the men. Saying things like 'How dare you take advantage of a sick girl?!' or 'We were wrong, Usopp's way better than you!'. It was safe to say that Usopp was very happy right now. However, Kaya soon turned to them.
"I'm sorry but I can't leave still, I'm still sick." Kaya said.
Luffy sighed before he started digging through his backpack.
"Hey Kaya, did you get sick after your parents died?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah… how did you know?" Kaya asked.
Luffy then tossed her a book that read Love Sickness by Empress Gloriosa.
"Love sickness? But I'm not in love with anyone so why would that be what I have?" She asked.
"Turn to page fifty." Luffy said.
She did so and read it.
"Broken Heart Syndrome?" She read.
"Yeah, normally BHS gives you a heart attack but I think you have that mixed with Love Sickness. Thankfully Love Sickness' symptoms are mostly if not all psychosomatic so if you face the problem then you'll get better." Luffy said.
"What problem?" She asked confused.
"That one, you haven't gotten over your parents' deaths and two, although I may be oblivious to feelings in general I can see this, you like Usopp." Causing Kaya to go bright red as well as Usopp.
"W-w-well, I- Uh." She started before Usopp spoke up.
"You like me!? I uh, like you too." He said, blushing.
"Really?! Oh… well I guess I do like you." She said, stuttering.
Suddenly Kaya's skin gain a better pallor as if she had quickly gotten better.
"Something like that shouldn't have that sudden of a recovery!" Nami yelled.
"Well, the reason why it's fast is because like I said, the symptoms are psychosomatic meaning they're not exactly real in the sense that the body itself is causing it. Rather, the mind itself is causing the problems. When the mind is relieved of the burden then the symptoms should ease." Luffy said.
"Eh, if you say so. I still believe it shouldn't be that fast." Nami muttered.
"So, Kaya are you ready to come with us and be our Commander of the Medical Division?" Luffy asked.
She nodded furiously.
"Of course!" She said.
"Waaaaaaaaait!" A voice yelled.
They turned and saw Kaya's other caretaker, Merry, was coming to them.
"I have something to give to you before you leave! A ship! You're an Armada after all, so you'll need more ships." Merry said.
Merry then led them to a private dock at the South end and showed them the ship. It was a caravel class ship that had a sheep figurehead and it had a quaint feeling to it.
"I like it!" Luffy said.
"Great! It's called the Going Merry." Merry said.
"Well, hello Going Merry welcome to the Armada." Luffy said with a giant smile.
Alright, hope you liked the chapter! Please review if you can! I know adding Kaya is generally a cliché but I couldn't help myself.
