Chapter 6: Buggy gone bye bye
Summery: I may never know how it truly began, but I do know that I never truly had a choice in the events that led me here. I am in one piece now, and have unwillingly left my own world behind. That is all that matters, and all I need to know.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with any legal rights to one piece in any form, I do not own one piece or any part of the merchandising, gaming, manga, anime, characters, or anything of the sort. Please do not sue me as I do not have any money. The only things that I own from this fic are my own original characters.
A/N1: I KNOW ZORO IS ALSO CALLED ZOLO,
A/N2: I HAVE DECIDE TO LEAVE THE PAIRING UP TO THE READERS.
Please note that this chapter was edited on a massive scale one 11/1/09.
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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"We're not thieves, we're pirates." Zoro said, falling to the ground as well, though he did it because of exhaustion. "Luffy, I'm going to sleep." He said, finally passing out after everything he had been through.
"Ok." Luffy told him before turning his attention back to Buggy.
"So, you guy's are pirates?" Buggy asked, anger evident in his voice.
I couldn't really blame him for being annoyed about us being pirates. If it ever got out that his best men had been beaten by brand new pirates, his reputation would be over. No more 'Buggy the immortal'.
If he wanted to insure that his reputation remained in-tacked, then he was going to have to do something about us as soon as possible.
"Yeah, and we're searching for the Grandline." Luffy replied to him, still smiling at him like an idiot.
'God damn, someone please give that boy some plaque for his teeth.' I thought as I was nearly blinded by Luffy's incredibly white teeth. 'Teeth are just not meant to be that reflective. It's almost as bad as when Gai smiles in Naruto.'
"The Grandline?" Buggy asked with a snort, clearly thinking that we were crazy for thinking that we could handle the Grandline. "Ha! That's not an easy voyage you know. It's a perilous one and I don't think three half wits likes yourselves can handle it." He said, laughing at us and pissing me off.
"Luffy! Kick his ass!" I shouted angrily, wanting to see Buggy get his Buggy balls handed to him.
No one calls me a half wit and lives to tell about it.
Buggy simply ignored me and continued talking, not really feeling that I was even worth his time.
"And what will you do, if by some miracle you managed to get there? Go sight seeing or something? Hahaha!" he laughed condescendingly, practically begging for someone to kick his ass.
God I hate him.
"Become king of the pirates." Luffy said simply, causing Buggy to fall over in surprise.
"You can't be serious you idiot! You? Be king of the pirates?! If you were king of the pirates, then that would make me god of pirates! There's only one that can be king of the pirates and obtain all the world's treasures, and that's going to be me! You got that?!" he shouted angrily, glaring down at Luffy with malice in his eyes.
"You're really annoying." Luffy reply simply, going into a battle pose. "Let's just finish this." He added, preparing to beat the crap out of the annoying clown.
"Seeing that straw hat of yours reminds me of that man, and that really gets my blood boiling! " Buggy said, going into his own fighting stance. "You remind me of him, that damn cheeky red haired bastard." He added, growling the words out in anger.
"What did you say? Red hair? Wait, are you saying you knew my old friend shanks?" Luffy asked in slight excitement, happy to find out something about shanks.
"That's right, I knew shanks. Once." the clown man replied, getting even angrier now that he knew that Luffy knew shanks somehow.
"Do you know where he is now?" Luffy asked, hoping that he could find out where his shanks was now. It had been a long time since he had seen him, and it was clear that he was very interested in finding out where he was.
"I don't know, maybe I do, and maybe I don't." Buggy said, smirking at Luffy cruelly.
"Huh? Did you forget?" Luffy asked dumbly, straightening up and staring at Buggy.
OK, I guess saying that Luffy's stupid would be wrong. He's not stupid, he's just a little to naive...
"No I didn't forget you moron! But I'm not about to tell you where he is!" Buggy growled out in frustration, annoyed at the fact that Luffy seemed to be toying with him, which he wasn't.
"Well then I'm just gonna have to make you tell me!" Luffy stated simply, going back into his battle stance.
"Hahaha! You can try, but I don't like your chances. I don't think rubber can bounce back from a blade." Buggy said cruely, pulling out eight knifes and tapping his shoes, causing another two blades to pop out of the front of them, making it ten knifes.
"You're right." Luffy said, confirming Buggy's assessment and causing me to slap a hand to my face in annoyance.
'Why does he have to be so god damn honest all the time?' I thought exasperatedly, annoyed at Luffy for practically giving away one of his weaknesses, even though I knew it wouldn't really help Buggy all that much.
Seeing that buggy was ab out to attack and not wanting to get cut up on accident, I quickly ran over to the same alley that Nami had disappeared down before, only to find that she, Lil, and Choco were all standing just inside it with a huge bag of gold and treasure.
"Chop-Chop Rice Cracker!" Buggy shouted just as I made it into the alley.
Turning around to see what buggy was doing as I couldn't really remember it from the anime, I was just in time to see Buggy starting to spin rapidly, turning himself into a large, knife covered wheel that was spinning straight towards Luffy. He was clearly going to slice the little rubber man up, if he could catch him that is.
While the fight got underway, Nami, Lil, Choco, and I simply stood in the alley way, watching them go at it.
"They're still going at it?" Nami finally asked after a few minutes of just staring at the fight, shocked at seeing that Buggy and Luffy were still fighting.
"Actually, they just started fighting." I corrected, explaining what had been going on while she was stealing Buggy's gold. "Zoro's fight just ended a few minutes ago and he went to sleep."
not really knowing what to say to that, Nami simply turned her attention back to the fight, prompting me to do the same. When I looked over to see what was going on, I found that Luffy's hat was on the ground, having just been damaged by one of Buggy's attacks. The clown pirate was stomping on it over and over again, starting up on his long story about how he knew the man that used to own that same straw hat.
The clown pirate hadn't even been talking for a full two minutes before I started drifting off into my own little day-dreamland, envisioning what Buggy was like as a baby.
-------------- Start Kaede's dream land ------
Buggy's mother was in the middle of one of her acrobatic moves on the trapeze when she heard her one month old baby boy screaming at someone from behind the curtains.
"Take me to my mommy so that i can flashily dispose of my diaper!"
That's right, little baby Buggy was already able to talk, something that everyone was incredibly surprised about. He was definitely freaky enough to be in the circus already, not to mention the large. bulbous red nose he had inherited from his father's side of the family, something that the infant didn't seem to be happy about.
When Buggy's mother heard her son's shouting, she lost her concentration and fell to the ground, or at least she would have hit the ground if it wasn't for her husbands rather large red nose saving her from falling. It was considerably larger then her son's nose, something that she was grateful for because she really didn't want to know how it would feel to give birth to a child with a nose that was larger then it's own body. While her son's nose was about the size of a small apple, her husbands nose was large enough that at one point in time she had actually fallen asleep on it, making it kind of like her second bed.
Upon falling onto the large red ball like thing attached to her husbands face, Mel Flashyness bounced six feet into the air, before landing perfectly on the ground while striking a pose with her husband. The crowd loved it, the ring leader on the other hand, didn't.
Mel and her husband, Bozo Flashyness, walked off the stage and headed over to where the sounds of their tantrum throwing child, along with the screams of several people, were coming from. When they finally arrived there, they found out why people were screaming.
Buggy had disposed of his very full and very smelly diaper by the use of a cannon, aimed at a small group of people who were now covered in that-which-should-not-be-mentioned.
"Now that I have flashily disposed of my diaper, I shell seek out a new one!" shouted the little toddler who was now standing on top of a crate behind the cannon.
"And then I shell flashily give you a timeout!" Said Bozo Flashyness in the same overly dramatic way that his son would one day become famous for as he walked over to his son.
The words 'flashy' and 'flashily were both one of Mr. Flashyness and Little Buggy's favorite things to say. It always drove Mel nuts when they said it, mostly because they said it all the time. Add in the fact that they were both incredibly over dramatic in everything they did, and you have one major headache.
"Then I think it's time that I flashily make my-"
"Enough!" Mel Flashyness said sternly, interrupting what her child had been about to say and squashing any chance he had to escape by walking over to him and picking him up, purposefully hitting her husbands nose with her him, causing it to roll away, dragging him along with it.
She wasn't in a very good mood at the moment, and if she had to hear the word flashily one more time, she was going to lose it.
"You, young man, are going to take a time out!" she said sternly, turning around and heading to her trailer with Buggy in her arms. "and You!" She said, pausing to turn to her husband and giving him the look of death, a look that every married man was scared of. "Stop teaching him to say that word! You know perfectly well that it drives me nuts!" She growled at him as he stood back up, having just gotten his nose to stop rolling.
She really didn't like the word "Flashily" or any other version of it. Her husband said it every five seconds that he was awake and every ten when he was asleep. She just couldn't stand it, and she wasn't about to just stand there and listen to it any longer then she absolutely had to.
"No! Unhand me! I will flashily poop on you!" Buggy cried out frantically, not wanting to be forced to take a time out.
Timeouts were his worst enemy.
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"OW!" I shouted as my leg was rudely clawed, causing me to come back to reality.
Looking down at my leg, I found that Lil had taken one of her index claws and had shoved it into my leg in order to get my attention. Apparently, she thought that that was a much better way of getting me to listen to her then simply crawling up my leg and getting onto my shoulder.
"What the hell was that for?!" I demanded angrily, using all the restraint I could mustard to not strangle her.
Her claws really hurt.
"Oh, it's nothing." Lil said in a falsely bored tone. "I just thought that you might want to get a few hits in on Buggy before the battles over, he's about to try and take his treasure back from Nami."
Hoping that she was wrong, I looked out at the battle, only to find that she was right. I had been so deep in thought that I had missed most of the fight. Luffy and buggy were don with their long conversation and had already gotten past most of the battle.
Basically, it was almost over.
"Damn it!" I shouted frustratedly, running out of the alley and straight for where Buggy was, seeing that Buggy was headed straight for Nami. 'I refuse to be be useless' I thought as I grabbed my mallet and hit Buggy over the head with it when he was only a foot or so away from Nami.
I refused the be useless, even if I had to jump in when it wasn't necessary. I didn't want to be left behind, even if it wasn't my world. I now fully understood how Nami and Usopp always felt in the early part of the anime.
Both of them had always had that look of doubt, though Usopp's doubt was the only one that was from his abilities while Nami's had been from her thought's on weather or not she could really save her people. Either way, they had both felt like they didn't belong on the crew, or that they weren't worthy, and I really didn't want to ever feel like that. I was stuck in this world, and I was starting to believe that I had been put into this world at the beginning of Luffy's journey for a reason.
If I'm going to be stuck here forever, then I am going to start pulling my weight, even if it is just by smashing the bad guy when it was pointless.
Hey, everyone has to start somewhere.
'Great, I'm starting to sound like Usopp.' I thought dejectedly as I sent Buggy crashing to the ground.
"Thanks." Nami said as she stood back up, having fallen when I bumped into the treasure bag while hitting Buggy in the face.
"No problem." I said, only growl angrily when Buggy suddenly grabbed onto my leg.
"You bastard! I can't believe you just did that to me! I'll kill any man that gets in my way!" He shouted angrily, trying to pull me down to the ground so that he could kill me.
Now, as I said before, I'm the weakest member of the crew, but NO ONE calls me a man, EVER.
"Bamb! Bamb! Bamb!"
I hit Buggy over and over again on the head in anger, forcing him to let go of my leg. The moment he was off of my leg, he took off using one of his chop-chop moves in an attempt to get away.
"Get back here you mother fucker!" I shouted angrily, chasing after him as fast as I could while waving my mallet around madly. "I'll teach to call me a man! I'm a girl you blind son of a bitch!" I continued, taking a swing at him every few feet in an attempt to beat the shit out of him, missing only by a hair.
"Chop chop quick escape!" Buggy shouted, splitting into several large pieces and moving away from me so fast that I didn't even get a chance to hit him again.
Damn it.
Once he was far enough away from me that I couldn't hit him again, Buggy pulled himself back together again, glaring at me the whole time.
"I hope you enjoyed that you bastard, because now you have to deal with the consequence!" he shouted at me, causing me to glare angrily back at him.
After a few seconds of glaring at each other, buggy finally saw Nami running off with his treasure again. Seeing this, he took off after as fast as he could, using one of his chop-chop moves to get over to her faster.
"Chop-Chop Festival" He shouted, breaking up into as many pieces as he could before chasing after her.
"I'd like to see you two try and save your friend now, Gum Gum and she-man." He called out as he went flying toward him.
'That's it! No more miss nice guy! … I'm mean- DAMN IT!' I thought angrily, taking off after him, though I wasn't even close to being fast enough to catch up to him.
"Damn it, he broke up into smaller pieces!" Luffy said in an annoyed tone as I passed him.
For some reason, the rubber man didn't chase after, though I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. Buggy was getting closer and closer to Nami, and when she saw him, she took off running as fast as she could, determined to keep her treasure as far away from him as she could. Unfortunately, he was a lot faster.
"Give me back my treasure!" He shouted as he got closer and closer to her.
Just as he was about to grab her, for no apparent reason, he started laughing, scaring the shit out of Nami and causing me to stop in my tracks.
"Laughing?" I said in a confused voice, wandering what was going on.
It took me a few seconds to finally get it, which made me feel incredibly stupid. I had seen this in the anime and I should have remembered that it was going to happen to begin with.
It was Luffy.
Several yards to the side of us, Luffy was just standing there, holding one of Buggy's feet and tickling it. After another minute of tickling the foot, he suddenly stopped, turned it over, and bent the toes in the wrong direction, causing the crazy clown pirate to cry out in pain. Once the rubber man finished bending Buggy's toes, he then took the foot, and smashed it into the ground as hard as he could, causing a similar reaction as before.
"Cut it out!" Buggy finally shouted, waving his arms around angrily in the air, trying to get Luffy to stop screwing around with his foot.
"No! You cut it out!" Nami shouted at him, taking the opportunity to try to knock him out by swinging the treasure bag at him, only for him to grab onto it.
"Thanks for giving me my treasure back Nami." he said sarcastically, trying to jerk the bag right out of her hand.
"KWEH!" Choco called, suddenly appearing out of nowhere with Buggy's other foot, pecking at it over and over again, causing buggy to cry out in pain once more.
"AHH!" Buggy cried out as Choco continued packing the crap out of the foot.
"Cat scratch!" Lil shouted, joining in the fun and scratching at the foot as well, though as scratches are just small cuts, her attack didn't really do anything.
Somehow Buggy managed to keep his grip on the treasure bag through the pain that was inflicted upon him by Luffy's and Choco's attacks, forcing Nami to try to jerk the bag out of his hands.
"Let go! It's mine!" She shouted, pulling on it as hard as she could, fully intent on ripping the bag out of his hands.
"No, it's mine, you let go!" Buggy shouted back, only to loose his grip a second later when Lil and Choco started up their pecking and scratching again.
It was as Buggy started to turn around to yell at Choco and Lil again that Luffy's leg connected with the side of his head, sending the clown man crashing into a wall.
"You haven't finished dealing with me yet." Luffy shouted angrily, tired of being left out of the fight.
As Buggy slid down the wall and hit the ground, Nami and Luffy straightened up, both thinking that Buggy was out of the fight.
"Thanks for saving me." Nami said, grateful to Luffy for stopping Buggy's attempt to steal her treasure.
"Don't men-"
"You guys do know that Buggy is OK, right?" I asked in an off handed way, cutting Luffy off and getting both of their attentions.
In answer to their confused looks, I simply pointed over at Buggy's now floating head and arms, pointing out that they were no longer laying on the ground.
"Huh?" They both said, looking over in Buggy's direction.
Buggy was already up and ready for battle, glaring daggers at Luffy.
"He's still alive?!" Nami exclaimed in surprised before suddenly looking around for something.
Realizing what she was looking for I started looking around as well. It took us both less then five seconds to spot them, and the moment we did, we both took off running for them, leaving Luffy to deal with Buggy head on.
"Thinking what I'm thinking?" I asked her as we neared some of Buggy's parts, already knowing the answer.
"You read my mind!" Nami said happily, smiling as we both took hold of all the parts we could find.
The moment we had the parts in our hands Nami pulled out a rope and started tying them up, making sure they couldn't go anywhere. The moment they were tied up, they all started shacking violently, indicating that Buggy was trying to call his parts back together.
"Assemble chop-chop parts!" He shouted, calling back what few parts weren't tied up.
The moment I saw his partially built body snap back together, I fell over laughing, only to be joined by Lil and Choco a second later when they saw it as well.
Little Buggy was hilarious. it was so funny, I nearly died.
"What?! What happened to my parts?!" Buggy demanded, wandering what had happened to his missing pieces.
"Ha! Looking for these, Buggy?" Nami said, stomping on the parts and smirking at him.
"Yeah, there a little tied up at the moment, but I'm sure they'll get right back to you when they can." I said mockingly, making what was probably the worlds worst joke.
"My parts!" Buggy yelled in horror when he finally saw that we had them.
"Hahaha! Alright! Way to go thieves!" Luffy laughed, swinging both his fists back and preparing them for one of his favorite attacks.
"No! Don't! I beg you!" Buggy shouted when he saw what Luffy was doing, knowing what was about to happen to him.
"See ya Buggy!" Luffy shouted cheerfully as he slung his fists as far back behind him as he could before slamming them forward and into beg in one final attack. "Gum Gum bazooka!"
Buggy was launched high into the sky, flying out of sight while screaming like a mad man.
"I win!" Luffy shouted victoriously, throwing his fist up in the air in a victory pose and causing Nami, Lil, Choco, and me to sweat drop.
When Luffy was done doing his victory... thing, he walked over to his now sliced up hat, grumbling something about bastards and hats.
"Is he always like that?" Nami asked, wandering if he was nuts, or if Buggy had just knocked a few of his screws loose.
"Do you mean the goofy thing, or the always saving people thing?" I asked jokingly, turning to smile at her while trying to pick up the tied up Buggy parts, only to glare down at them a second later when I found that I could barely lift them at all. "Doesn't matter, both are a yes."
Nami simply looked at me for a second before turning her attention back to Luffy, still wandering if he was really as bad as most pirates were. After a few minutes, she seemed to decided that it was best not to think about it.
While Luffy was still looking at his hat, Nami re-bagged the treasure she stole from Buggy, this time putting it into two bags.
"Sorry that your hat got torn up." she said to Luffy when she was finished bagging up the treasure.
"It's OK, I can still wear it, and I got Buggy out of here, so I'm satisfied for now." he replied, putting the straw hat that gave him his nickname on and smiling at her.
A strange look passed over Nami's face for a split second as she remembered seeing Luffy's reaction to having his hat cut up. She felt bad for him, having something he cared so much about nearly destroyed.
"When I have time, I can fix it for you." she whispered, looking away from him as she said it. "If you want." She added, still not looking at him.
"Huh? What's that?" Luffy asked, turning to look at her.
He hadn't heard her at all.
"Oh forget it." She said in an annoyed tone, though the reason for the annoyance was completely lost on me. "Here, I split the treasure up into two bags so that it would be easier to carry. So give me a hand and carry one of them." She said, handing one of the bags to him so that he could carry it.
"Wow, that's a lot of catnip." Lil said as she, Choco, and I walked over and joined them.
"Yeah, Buggy sure knew his treasure when he saw it, and now it's all mine! I bet I can sell all this for at least ten million belis." Nami said happily, rubbing her cheek against the bag she was carrying, making it clear that she liked it a little bit to much.
'Can't blame her though, she is saving it up for her village.' I thought, shaking my head at her actions while trying not to think of everything she had gone through.
Seeing the clueless look on Luffy's face, Nami couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He and his crew had saved her three times already and she hadn't even really thanked us yet.
"Here you go." she said, handing a rolled up map of the Grandline to him. "It's the chart of the Grandline. You do want it, don't you?" she asked when he didn't take it, not realizing that the only reason why he hadn't taken it yet was because he didn't know what it was.
"Huh? You're giving it to me?!" He asked excitedly, incredibly happy that he finally had a map of the Grandline.
"Yeah, because you saved me." she said as he finally took the map out of her hands.
"Thanks Nami!" He shouted happily, cradling the map against his face, much like when Nami had nuzzled the gold. "Now I finally have it! A map of the Grandline! Hurray! Oh, does this mean you'll also be joining up with me and join my pirate crew?"
"I already told you, I'll never join a pirate crew!" She said angrily, only for her expression to change to a pleasant one less then a second later. "But OK, hanging around with you guys seems profitable enough." She said, causing Luffy to start smiling like an idiot again. "Just remember this, I'm only joining you because it's in my interest."
"Sure." He said, still smiling like an idiot as he walked over to Zoro's sleeping form.
"How in the world can that man sleep through all that?" I asked out loud, getting a shrug from Nami and Lil in response.
"Zoro, wake up!" Luffy called, trying to get the lazy swordsman to wake up."Zoro, we're leaving!" He tried again, this time smacking the swordsman on the head.
"Kweh!"
Choco had decided to try to help out to by doing a peck attack on Zoro's face, causing the man to jump up in surprise.
"What the?" he said in surprise, seeing that it was just Choco. "Ug, did we take care of everything?" He asked groggily, though his voice said that he was still in pain from the stab wound.
"Yep, and we got a navigator, and we got a chart of the Grandline." Luffy said happily as Zoro stood up, only to nearly fall over, his face turning blue.
"I'm not sure about this, I feel light headed" He said in an ill voice, trying not to vomit.
The pain in his side was making him feel sick. If he didn't get some more z's soon, he was going to hurl.
"Course you do, it's always something with you guys." Nami said, shaking her head at us.
"Hey wait a minute, what did I do?" Luffy asked, wandering why she was putting him in the problem group already.
"Are you kidding me, you're the worst of all." she told him in an annoyed voice.
"Hay, I'm not always a problem." I said defensively, only to be betrayed by the damn cat.
"Said the girl that passed out from holding a mallet." Lil said, making me want to ring her scrawny little neck.
"Traitor." I said as a crowd turn a corner and started heading our way.
"You there! You're not residents of this village." one of the villagers said, pointing at us as Lil got Choco into my backpack and jumped onto my shoulder, holding on tightly because she knew what was about to happen.
"Nope." Luffy said simply, answering for all of us. "Who are you?"
"What was all that canon fire we heard?" One of the men asked, completely ignoring Luffy's question. "It sounded like there may have been a battle here earlier. If you know anything, please tell us."
Nami sighed in relief, glad that they weren't more pirates. She wasn't sure she could fight anymore because her arms were killing her from carrying all the treasure.
"Oh, good. Their just citizens, for a moment there I thought they might be more pirates." she sighed, relieved that they weren't going to kill us.
"Huh? Mayor!" one of the citizens exclaimed when he spotted the mayor laying on the ground in an unconscious heap.
"He's out could!" another one exclaimed as me and Nami started backing up.
"The pirates must have done this." Another one said, rushing over and helping the first two guys sit the mayor upright.
That was when Luffy did what I knew he was going to do.
"No, I'm the one that kicked that old man's ass." Luffy said, getting their attention instantly.
"Hold on, you didn't have to tell them that, did you?" Nami demanded in a horrified tone, wishing that the rubber man actually had a brain in his stretchy head.
"It's true." Luffy said simply, looking over his shoulder at her.
"Well maybe you should explain things to them so they don't get angry." she urged him, only to freeze when she saw that the villagers were all holding rakes and shovels now and were advancing on us slowly in a menacing fashion.
"Tell me, why exactly did you knock our mayor out and leave him in the street to die?" One of them asked, this one holding a large wooden pole with to large metal prongs on the end of it.
"Yeah, explain yourselves!" another shouted, raising a sword angrily. "Who are you? Are you with the pirates?" He demanded, glaring at us angrily.
"We're pirates." Luffy said plainly, answering the mans question.
"I knew!"
"It was them!"
"they're the once that wrecked our town!"
"After them!"
The moment one of the townsmen made the order, all of them started running straight for us, waving their chosen weapons around angrily, fully intent on killing us.
"Holly shit! Run for your lives!" Lil yelled as we all turned around and started running, heading for the port on the other side of town where our ships were moored. .
"How do you always make things worse?!" Nami demanded angrily, throwing Luffy a dirty look while we all continued to run for our lives.
Well, they were running for their lives, I was jumping for mine.
"That's easy, he's an idiot!" Lil shouted from my shoulder, trying to hold on for dear life as I continued to jump.
"This is a really good town." Luffy said, momentarily confusing Nami, which caused him to explained what he meant. "All the people are getting angry just because the mayor got hurt." He said before deciding something, seemingly out of nowhere. "We're turning hear." He said, turning down an alley way for no apparent reason..
"Hey! You got to tell me that stuff sooner!" Nami said angrily, almost missing the turn.
While Nami had barely made the turn, I missed it almost completely thanks to the fact that I still wasn't used to jumping all over the place and wasn't that sure how to make sudden turns like that without getting myself killed. Luckily, however, I can jump really high.
Jumping onto one of the roof tops of a nearby store, I turned in the direction that the others were headed, managing to catch up with them almost instantly.
"Shu Shu?" I heard Nami say, sounding incredibly surprised.
"Doggy?" Luffy said, sounding happy for some strange reason, though I was pretty sure I knew why.
Just as I finally spotted them below, which only took about ten seconds, Shu Shu backed once, jumped over them, and went to stand guard at the entrance to the alley, making sure that no one could follow us... or rather them. I seriously doubt that anyone would be able to fallow me even if they wanted to. It was incredibly hard for normal people to get onto a roof very fast, so I wasn't exactly in any danger.
"Hey, where's Kaede?" Zoro suddenly asked when he glanced back and saw that I wasn't there.
"What?! Don't tell me she got left behind-!" Nami exclaimed slightly, glancing behind her as well, obviously worried about me.
"Don't worry, she can handle herself." Luffy said simply, looking as though he wasn't worried at all, something I was REALLY going to have to hurt him for.
'Bastard, you should be worried about me.' I thought in annoyance, though a small part of me was happy that he didn't think I was weak.
"Really? I'm not to sure about that." Zoro said, causing a vain in my forehead to throb.
It was one thing for Luffy to not be that worried about me because he thought I was strong, it's a completely different thing for Zoro, or anyone for that matter, to think that I can't handle my self.
"Gee," I said angrily, jumping down right next to them and continuing to run, scaring the shit out of him and Nami. "Nice to know you think so highly of me, moss head."
Zoro simply glared at me as we continued running, clearly not liking what I just called him, or the fact that I had managed to sneak up on him like that.
Hey, what can I say, I'm as stealthy as a cat.
It took us a few minutes to get to the port, which was situated on a sandy beach. Once we got there, Zoro got onto our little dinghy and collapsed, apparently exhausted from running as well as the fight he had had a while ago. That and he seemed to still be hurting from the wound that Buggy had inflicted on him.
"Fw, that was a close one. We only made it thanks to Shu Shu." Nami said, setting the bag of gold she was carrying down in her dinghy, which just happened to be right next to ours. "Why do we got to put up with this?" she added in an annoyed tone.
"Does it matter, we're done here anyway." Luffy pointed out, looking at her dinghy, which was slightly bigger then ours and had a small box shaped room on top of it, big enough for two people to lay in if they didn't mind being cramped.
"Wow, is this your boat?" Luffy asked as Choco crawled out of my backpack and jumped onto our dinghy. "It's great."
"It's nothing special, I stole it from a couple of dumb pirates a few days back." She said, only for said dumb pirates to pop out of no where on the dinghy.
"That's a big mouth you've got." One of them said, glaring at her and Luffy, not realizing that I was standing in the other dinghy behind them.
"Yeah, we've been waiting for you, you little thief." Another one said, this one in the middle of the other two.
"Never thought you'd run into us here, did ya?" The last one said, standing on the other side of the middle one.
"hahaha." Nami laughed nervously. He was right, she hadn't expected them.
"Hey, you know these guys?" Luffy asked, turning to Nami, only for me to answer him instead.
"Yeah, we know them." I said, getting everybody's attention. The three Buggy pirates froze when the heard my voice, remembering it very well since it had been just this morning that I had beaten the crap out of them.
"Huh? How do you know?" Nami asked in a confused tone, only to stop when she saw the horrified looks on the guys' faces.
"Oh, we go way back. Well, way back to this morning when they tried to steal our dinghy when we saved him." I said, indicating Zoro when I said the 'we saved them' part.
The three men turned around and looked at me in horror, wishing I wasn't really there behind them, only to be disappointed when I was.
"Boo." Lil said from my shoulder, scaring the crap out of them and causing them to take off running, screaming like five year old girls.
"Good kitty." I said, scratching her behind the ear and getting a purr out of her. "OK, time to get this show on the road." I said, making yet another bad joke and ignoring the looks on the others faces at seeing me scare the pirates off so easily.
I didn't think they would get the joke anyway, though it seemed that Lil did because she rolled her eyes at me and jumped into the dinghy. Apparently, she didn't think it was very funny.
Deciding it was best not to ask, everyone started getting into the dinghies, preparing to shove off and head back out to sea.
"Hey Nami, mind if I ride with you? Zoro sends to kick when he's napping." I said, not wanting to get another bruise like I had the first day we set sail.
"Huh? Oh sure, but it will cost you." She said with a smirk, only for me to glare at her."Fine, I guess I'll ride with the guys, but don't plan on getting your free fortune told, it just went out the window." I said, remembering the look in her eyes back in front of the pet store when she heard that I was psychic.
She had seemed so interested in my ability to see the future. She had clearly wanted to ask me something, and I was pretty sure I knew what it was that she wanted to know.
"Free fortune told?!" Nami exclaimed in surprise, her eyes suddenly changing from her smirking ones to ones of interest.
Yep, she definitely wanted to know the future.
"Yep, I usually charge people for that sort of thing, but when it comes to my friends, I always make the first one free." I said, stepping into the Luffy's dinghy with Zoro and Choco. "But, I guess you don't want a free one." I added, glad that I wasn't facing her so that she couldn't see the smirk on my face.
I REALLY didn't want Zoro kicking me in his sleep again. Those boots of his hurt, a lot.
"Wait! I take it back, you can ride, with me, it will just cost you one free fortune." She said, already picking Choco up to set him into her dinghy, though she smartly chose to let Lil get in on her own.
"Great, glad you see it my way." I said, hopping out of Luffy's dinghy and into her's. "Ok, do you want your free fortune now, or later?"
"Now would be great." She said excitedly, though there was a look in here eyes that was barely even notice able, a look that told me exactly what she wanted to know.
"The woman that raised you is still watching over you, even though she isn't around anymore." I said, causing her eyes to suddenly become the size of saucers. "And I also see freedom in your future, and the end of a madman's reign." I finished, not wanting to say any more for fear of changing to much.
I didn't want her to run off until she did in the anime, otherwise more people might die then the ones that were in the series.
Nami seemed to force her self to pretend like what I said was no big deal, only managing to fool Luffy, who was a sucker as it was, and Zoro, who didn't believe that I could really see the future anyway. Trying to act like everything was alright, Nami helped Luffy shove off, pushing our dinghy's into the water and raising the sails so that they could catch the wind and drag us out to sea. We were only about a hundred yards out to sea when the mayor ran out onto the docks where our boats had been just minutes before.
"Hey, young ones!" he shouted, waking Zoro up and getting everyone's attention.
"Hey, it's the mayor." Nami said, looking over at him as he started waving his arms at us.
"Huh, I wander what he wants?" Luffy asked, looking back at him curiously.
"Thanks! Thank you!" the mayor shouted, causing all of us to smile back at him.
It felt good to be thanked for saving someone or someplace, and he was thanking us for both.
"Don't worry about it! And Take it easy!" Luffy shouted back as our dinghies took us farther and farther away from the island, causing the elderly man to slowly shrink out of sight.
While it should have been a happy moment, sadly, it was at this time that Nami realized that she was one bag of treasure short.
"What'd you do Luffy?!" She demanded, reaching over to his dinghy and taking a hold of his red vest. "Don't tell me you left that bag of treasure back there?!"
"Well, yeah." He said simply, not realizing that he was slowly digging himself into a vary watery grave.
"That treasure was worth over five million belis you idiot!" She shouted angrily, tightening her hold on the vest.
"Yeah, and they're going to need that money to rebuild their town." He said, still not realizing that Davy Jones was already preparing a casket for him.
"But that was my treasure, you jerk! Do you know how hard I worked to steal it?!" She demanded, finally trying to drown him by grabbing his head and pushing it down into the water between the boats. "Why did you do that?!"
"Stop! Stop! I can't swim!" He shouted, trying hard not to get forced into the water, though Nami seemed to be putting up an equally strong fight.
"That's the point, you idiot!" She shouted angrily, still trying to drown him.
I had never understood why Zoro laughed at her statement, but seeing it in person made it clear. The scene was hilarious. Luffy's butt and legs were waving in the air, and a girl who wasn't very strong was now holding a man that was was impossibly strong half underwater.
Think about it for a sec, it's very funny.
Once Nami finally let Luffy go, with a stern warning that if he ever did something like that again she would actually drown him, everyone sat back and relaxed, though Zoro decided to mar the silence by asking a stupid question.
"Huh?! Hay, why did you bring that along?" Zoro asked in surprise, pointing one of his swords at the large stack of tide up Buggy-parts I had brought with me.
Everyone turned to look at them, their eyes bulging when they saw them.
"Well, I am psychic, remember?" I said, rolling my eyes at their reactions as I started stuffing Buggy's parts into my froggy bag. "I saw that Buggy was going to become a problem again when he gets his parts back, so I decided to take them with us so that he doesn't get them back any time soon."
It was better safe then sorry. At the rate everything was changing, Luffy could actually die if he got caught by Buggy in the future. That, at least, I really could see.
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