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Chapter 11 – A thief and big nose

"When we catch that idiot, I'm going to kick his ass to moon and back!"

"And I'm going to help you!" said Zoro while rowing.

"We have to get faster otherwise we'll lose him," he said. I glanced at the sky and closed my eyes concentrating, "Don't worry; I can sense where he's headed. We'll find him!"

"Sense him?" he asked and just as I was about to answer him we heard splashes and shouting in the water: "Stop the boat!"

"Yeesh, we don't have time for that! Just grab on and pull yourselves in!" shouted Zoro. By some miracle they actually managed to achieve that.

"Your climbing skills aren't bad," said Zoro and I smirked still concentrating on Luffy's energy.

"Stop this boat right now! This is Buggy-sama's territory!" one of the men said, trying to be menacing. I opened my eyes and saw they all had their weapons drawn and pointed at us.

"Zoro, keep rowing. I'll deal with the scum," I said to him and he smirked.

I stood up cracked my knuckles and asked them, "Who wants to go first?"

Few minutes later the bunch were rowing instead of Zoro and I was behind the helm steering.

"Ohohohoho, we apologize, we didn't mean to do anything," they simpered. I rolled my eyes at their brownnosing attempt. Zoro asked them why were they in the middle of ocean without a boat. And they told us a story about a girl who robbed them and can predict weather. At that I added, "Her abilities could be useful at Grand Line, Zoro, remind me to tell Luffy about her!"

"Sure," he said, "Do you still see him?"

"Hmm, we're getting closer, I see land as well. I guess he managed to get rid of the bird. We'll be there in an hour, give or take few minutes."

"Good. Who's Buggy?" he asked the three misfits, who sped up rowing when I glared at them.

"You don't know who Buggy is? He is our captain, Buggy the Clown. He's a dangerous man who ate one of the Devil's Fruit!"

"The Devil's Fruit?"

I snorted and said, "I've heard of him. If he's dangerous then what am I? He's nothing but a coward that hides behind his men. True he has devil's fruit abilities but everyone has a weakness."

"Nothing can compare to you mistress," one of them simpered and shut up immediately when I glared. His mistress comment really creeped me out.

"Shut up and row!"

An hour later we arrived at a port. I took my bag and disembarked. From what I sensed the city was deserted, the only beings I could detect were the Buggy's crew and of course, how could I have possibly expected anything else, Luffy with them. I sighed and saw Zoro saying to the three pirates we saved to guard the boat.

"Should we go see Buggy? He might have some information about Luffy?"

"That's a given. He is with them and I'm not saying as a guest," I answered while we were walking to the center of the city. He looked at me and asked, "I was meaning to ask you about that. How do you know that? And how did you follow him? You couldn't have seen him from that distance."

I looked at him and sighed, "It is a gift in my family. If this gets to the marines, I'll be executed on sight. In the past everyone in my family was hunted down because of this, my grandmother was the only survivor and she survived only because she joined a pirate crew. My mother married a pirate and had me and left for hiding."

I did not tell him from where I grew up; I thought it was better if no one knew where I've been.

"I can see and feel energies, spirits to be more exact. And Luffy is my brother so I would find him anywhere."

"That is useful."

"It can be."

I was meaning to say that we were close to Luffy's location when we heard a big explosion.

"What was that?"

"Wait," I said and put my hand on the floor. I looked into the location of the explosion and what was the cause.

"Oh, crap. Guess what Luffy's in trouble again," I added in my most annoyed voice.

"Then we better hurry," he said and started to run. I rolled my eyes and grabbed him by his collar of his shirt.

"It's this way," and pointed in completely different direction then he was meaning to go.

It wasn't long and we arrived at bottom of the tall building where Buggy and his crew were stationed.

"Up there," I grinned and pointed for Zoro, "That's where Luffy is. And he isn't alone. Get ready for some fun!"

He just grinned back and we ran inside the neighboring building to get to Luffy. We arrived on the roof and jumped down next to some pirates. They didn't notice us; they were too busy observing the supposed execution of Luffy. We jumped in just when the girl was almost overwhelmed by the pirates.

"Just how many of you are charging on one girl," said Zoro while pushing back several of the attackers. Meanwhile I had fun knocking out several more.

"Truly pathetic," I said when I finished with them.

"Shana! Zoro!" shouted Luffy.

"Are you alright?" I asked the girl, she was in a bit of a shock and was sitting on the floor.

"I'm ok, thanks," she said with a shaky smile.

"Yah, thank goodness! You found me! Get me out of this thing, quick!" Luffy said, with the biggest grin on his face and still tied up. My first reaction was to smack him on his head and the cage he was in kind of prevented that action.

"You… You IDIOT! How is it possible that you always get into so much trouble? Got flown away by a bird and landed in a cage?"

"Well..." he started to answer and I felt my eye started to twitch again so I cut his answer short, "It was a rhetorical question, you numbnuts!"

By that time I was screaming, so I exhaled loudly and I heard the snipets of murmuring throughout the crowd about Zoro. He was just staring at us amusedly, but I noticed out of the corner of my eye that he was prepared to strike immediately if necessary. I sensed movement and I started to look for a way to get Luffy out of the cage, starting with untying him out. Meanwhile one creepy looking clown approached Zoro and arrogantly said, "You're definitely Zoro. Are you aiming for my head?"

"No, I've no interest in that. I'm no longer a pirate hunter."

"But I have some interest. If I kill you, my name will become much more famous."

With that I had to roll my eyes, does every creepy looking evildoer has to have ego issues?

"If you don't want to die, then just leave me alone," answered Zoro clearly tired of Buggy's boasting. Buggy continued twirling his blades and I finally managed to untie Luffy. It was kinda difficult, because Luffy is ticklish and tried to squirm away and being a rubber made him very bendable which made it a lot harder then it looked.

"If you don't show your true skills now, you'll be soon covered in blood!" Buggy shouted and attacked.

"Fine," Zoro exclaimed and cut Buggy into several pieces. I did not sense any discomfort or pain from him, but I did detect glee and anticipation.

"Huh? That guy is so weak?" said Luffy bewildered, while the girl have gone pale as chalk.

"Zoro! He's got devil's fruit powers. Don't let your guard down!" I shouted to him and ran towards him and pushed him away. It was just in the nick of time too; as a floating Buggy's hand scraped both of us. I got a nick on my arm while Zoro got it in his side.

"Shana! Zoro!" Luffy screamed and tried to pull the bars apart.

"We're fine!" I said and looked at Buggy, "Oh, this was a mistake, Buggy!"

His crew laughed while he assembled himself, "Bara bara no mi was the devil's fruit I ate. No matter how hard you try to slice me up, you can't because, because I'm a sectioned man!"

Zoro was bleeding quite badly, while I forced ki into my arm to stop the bleeding for now. The girl we saved, which I still did not know the name of has gotten even paler then before and exclaimed, "He assembled his body back together! I thought the devil's fruit was just a myth!"

"A sectioned man! He's a monster!" Luffy added and I had to stifle a chuckle and a comment.

I wished I could have helped Zoro to stop the flow of blood, but to manipulate ki outside my body like that was beyond me. I could slow it and with a simple concentration I did. The crew of Buggy's pirates was laughing uproariously and I could see it on Zoro's face that he was mentally berating himself for dropping his guard but for me it was moot point. We needed to get out as soon as possible and get my idiot of a brother out of the cage.

I should have expected or better said, I should have known that Luffy being Luffy couldn't stay quiet for very long and beside that he was locked inside a cage, so when he took his breath and shouted at Buggy, "Stabbing from the back was dirty, you big fat nose!"

I couldn't help myself I laughed out loud while everyone paled and Buggy even with his face paint got red in his face, screaming, "Who're you calling big fat nose!"

He also attacked with a dagger in his hand at Luffy but he merely caught the blade and hand and tossed the blade away.

"I swear, I'm gonna take you down!" he added with a grin and oh, so familiar glint in his eyes. I grinned knowing that Buggy doesn't stand a chance.

"Oho, take me down, you said! You four are gonna take me down! You're hilarious and you're gonna die on that spot right now. Boys, laugh at them!"

"Zoro, take the girl and Luffy and run away. I'll deal with them," I said quietly to Zoro but loud enough for Luffy and girl to hear. I winked to Luffy and he realized I had a plan. The girl wanted to protest but I put my finger on my mouth and she nodded confusedly.

"Three, two, one, GO!" I said and Zoro ran to the cage and I towards the cannon. Buggy was spouting something and attacked me, but I avoided and channeled ki into my legs and kicked the cannon that was pointing at us. Now it was pointing in their direction. I smiled, lit up a matchstick and said, "Bye-bye!"

The cannon fired and I didn't stick around for the aftermath so I went to search the rest of the crew Luffy gathered. For that girl to stick around and knowing Luffy he picked her out to join us. I snickered, willingly or not, Luffy will wear her down to join us.

It was easy to find them; they were in front of a store with a dog sitting guard. Zoro was lying on the floor next to the cage and Luffy was also lying down panting in the cage.

"Hey guys, what's going on?"

"Shana! You found us!" said Luffy and I raised my eyebrow saying, "Was there any doubt?"

"Nope! Shishishishi!"

"You're also a pirate?" asked the girl, scowling.

"Yes, I'm first mate and this idiot's sister," I answered pointing to Luffy who was poking the dog.

"Names Shana and you are?"

"She's Nami, our new navigator!" Luffy said, grinning from ear to ear.

"I'm not joining you!" she said, frustration clearly visible in her voice, "I'm just here to repay the debt I owe you for saving my life!"

With that said she threw the key to the floor, "That's the key to the cage and with that my debt is repaid!"

She continued to talk about some treasure but it was obvious that Luffy wasn't listening to her.

"Oooh, so I'm not going to be stuck in this cage forever! Thank you!" Luffy said and tried to pick up the key when the dog picked it up and swallowed it.

"Ahh!" we all shouted and Luffy started to wrestle with the dog to get the key back.

I pinched my nose and loudly sighed, "It figures," I muttered and knelt down near Zoro to check his wound. Just as I was about to ask him to show me how deep the cut was I sensed a presence approaching and looked down the street where I sensed it.

Few moments later a man approached, wearing the strangest armor and white puffy hair, which reminded me of a poodle. I bit my lip so that I didn't laugh and the man shouted, "Oi, you people! Don't do anything to Shushu!"

"Shushu?" Luffy asked, "Who're you, mister?"

"I'm the village leader or in other words, the chief!"

When he introduced himself, saying that his name was Boodle, I had to stifle another laugh; it wouldn't look good if I laughed to the man offered up his home so that Zoro could rest. I checked up his wound, it wasn't anything life-threatening but he lost quite some blood so I ordered him rest, which he complied without protest. I wrapped up his cut and it wasn't a minute later when he was asleep.

I volunteered to keep an eye one him and Nami left with Boodle outside. I made myself comfortable on a squishy chair and dozed off.

I heard some shouting and banging outside and if Luffy needed help he would have called. I was shaken out of dreamland, when I sensed Luffy's anger but it was soon replaced by a sense of accomplishment, so I went back to sleep.

I had a really nice dream when I heard the whispers screaming at me danger. Then I heard the whistling of a cannon and everything went black.

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