Chapter 12: Small changes, slight problems.
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, I have also decided to leave the decision on the pairing up to the readers.
Please not that chapter 6 (or chapter 7 if you count the prologue) had three paragraphs added on to the end of it. I forgot all about something and had to add it in.
The massive edit that ran from 4/4/09 to 4/7/09 is finished. All the chapters from here on out are knew (unless I do another edit... but I doubt that will happen.)
Note: You can now look at artwork of the story by going to my profile and clicking on them.
Lol, I just realized that SeiraMizu also has a fic called 'My Life In One Piece'. XD
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
Note: rawrz, i agree, XD I'll have to fix the mistakes when i get the chance, and as for her own mental wellness. Well..
She DID flip out in the second chapter, when she was in the crystal hall. You have to remember, she was there for several hours and did have her nervouse breakdown while still in it.
And she excepted the cat abilities and the talking cat because they weren't exactly the weirdest things she had to deal with. she was stuck in a magical hallway after all. But i do kind of see your point... XD But let's just pretend that isn't a problem, shell we? :3
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If the damn bird survives this, I swear to whatever crazy deity is out there, I'll kill him. God damn it, I'll kill him! He just had to go and do something stupid. He always does everything I say, and the one time he doesn't he goes and nearly gets himself killed!
To say I was pissed when I landed in the mass of crazy black cat pirates would have been an understatement. I had originally been scared for my feathery companion, but that had only lasted about half way through my drop to the pirates just below the cliff.
The moment I was about half way down, the anger at him for not listening to me over took it and I immediately grabbed my wooden mallet and started bashing people over the head, fully intent on protecting the feathery mass so that I could kill him later.
"Bang!"
The sound of me hitting another mans head and sending him to the ground rang out as I quickly swung the mallet and aimed it at the next man.
I wasn't alone in my anger either as Nami seemed to be just as worried about the bird and just as pissed at him as I was. She had even jumped down into the mass and had started beating the shit out of people with her staff.
Zoro and Luffy were fighting as well, and Usopp was still shooting away at people from the safety of the top of the cliff. At this rate we were going to kill all of them just to save Choco, which would be sad because I fully intended to kill him afterwards for scaring me like that.
"Damn it! Where the hell is he?!" I growled, jumping out of the way as some idiot tried to lop my head off with an ax. "Nami! Do you see him?!" I asked, hoping she had found him. "Or Lil for that matter?" I added, though I had a feeling Lil could get out of anything.
Being small had it's perks to, just like being a cat girl. When your small, you can slip by just about anyone.
"No!" She shouted, taking out a guy behind me that had just been about to try to club me to death. "Sorry, I haven't seen either of them." She said, swinging around and jabbing another guy in the stomach. "Zoro! Luffy! Either of you see them?!" Sh shouted, trying to get both of their reports at the same time.
"Nope, sorry!" Luffy shouted, taking out as many guys as he could with one Gum Gum attack while trying not to hit any of us.
"Same here!" Zoro shouted, slicing up pirate after pirate, trying to take as many of them out as he could while still trying not to cut any of us.
"Usopp, what about you?" Nami asked before Zoro had even finished his comment.
"Sorry, I can't see anything from up here through the mass of people-' He said, stopping in mid sentence for some reason. "Wait! I do see them!"
At the same moment Usopp answered us, a shrilled shout rang through the air, though thankfully, it didn't sound like Choco. It was way to female sounding for it to be him, and it didn't sound like Lil either. Her voice was a lot deeper.
It did however draw my, and everyone else on our sides, attention while we were still fighting. Somehow managing to keep fighting, we each looked over to see who had made the blood curdling scream. When we finally saw it, we were each shocked.
It was Jango.
Jango was being chased around by a rather bulky looking Choco who had apparently just managed to slash one of his talons across the Micheal Jackson and Elton John love child's back.
Jango's little hypnotist ring was missing as well, and the man seemed completely defenseless.
"Great, we're in here trying to save his life, and he's taking out one of the two leaders!" I said angrily, though I was half marveling at the fact that if Jango hadn't beefed up Choco, then the bird probably would have been killed.
'haha, killed yourself.' I thought childishly, happy that he was about to getting killed thanks to his own technique.
That didn't stop me from wanting to stop Choco though, I really didn't want him to get hurt in his hypnotized state.
"Bamb bamb!"
I hit two guys out of my way and headed over to Choco, fully intent on stopping him from doing anything stupid, though I kind of wanted to let him kill Jango.
"That's it! I'll just use my spare ring!" Jango shouted, pulling out another ring and using into to hypnotize Choco as he continued running. "On a count of Jango, you'll fall asleep! One two JANGO!" He shouted, saying the last part as fast as he could as Choco was starting to catch up to him.
Choco immediately hit the ground, sleeping like a baby.
Jango instantly turned around and started swinging his ring around as fast as he could, fully intent on slicing Choco up for hurting him.
"I don't think so!" I shouted, bashing the mother fucker in the face for trying to hurt my chocobo like that.
The attack didn't knock the man out like it had so many of his lackeys, but it had sent him flying back a few feet and away from Choco.
"Oh thank god! You saved me!" Lil said, falling to her side in relief at no longer having to ride the crazed Choco anymore.
"Choco, are you alright?" I asked picking the over sized chicken up and cradling him, causing Lil to glare at me.
"... Hello, you do know that I almost died riding that crazy thing, right?" She asked, trying to get me to pay attention to her instead of Choco.
"Yeah, yeah. You seem fine." I said, rubbing her head without looking at her.
"Great, the big bird's the one that caused all this and he's the one that gets all the attention." She said, crossing her front paws over her fuzzy chest and turning her head away from me, showing that she was annoyed with me.
Once I had checked Choco over, I slowly lowered him into my froggy bag, careful not to hurt him as I did so.
"You little brat! I'll kill you for that!" Jango said angrily, getting my attention by grabbing my hair and giving it a hard jerk, nearly dragging me off me feet.
"Ah!" I yelled out in pain as he gave it a rather hard tug, this time manging to cause me to fall.
"RAWR!"
"AH! AH! GET IT OFF ME! AH! AH! MOMMY!" Jango screamed, letting go of my hair as Lil attached herself to his face, clawing at it for hurting 'her pet.'
"Don't you dare touch my pet you son of a bitch!" She hissed angrily, continually clawing up his face as he continued to try and get her off of him. "Take that! And that! And this one's for throwing that damn ring at me before!"
Grabbing my impact mallets hand (having landed right next to it when he pulled my hair) I tried as hard as I could to lift it, only to find that it was now impossibly light.
"Huh?" I asked, looking at it for a few seconds, before an annoying thought popped into my head. "Don't tell me-" I said, taking the 'plus side' and tapping the ground with it, only for it to do absolutely nothing.
When it had exploded, it had released all the energy inside it.
"Great." I said, slightly annoyed that it had released all the energy in it when I needed it most.
I quickly started tapping the 'minus side' with my foot, careful to stop when it was just starting to get really heavy.
"Ok, that's about thirty pounds, I can still lift it." I said, swinging it back and over my shoulder. "Lil, move!" I shouted, causing Lil to jump out of the way without even looking at me.
The moment she was out of the way, I brought the 'plus side' down on Jango's face, cringing slightly when their was a loud 'slat' sound.
That was definitely a sound I could have done without.
Lifting the mallet up lowly while praying that I wasn't going to see his brains, I gave a sigh of relief when I saw that it was only his nose that had gone spat, and not his whole head.
He was alive, unmoving, but alive.
"Huh?" I asked, shocked to find that the mallet was light again. "Hey, what gives? It didn't become light when I used it on the cage before." I said, confused and wishing I knew what was going on.
That was when someone speaking from somewhere on the ship caused me to decided to deal with the whole 'mallet weight' later.
"Buchi, somethings going on and everyone's knocked out."
Turning around, I saw that it was Sham of the Nyaban Brothers. He was looking at something over my shoulder, and turning around I found that he was right. Only our people were still standing, and everyone else was knocked out. Including Jango, who I was currently standing over.
"Ah, Zoro?" I called, bending over and picking Lil up as I slowly backed away from the ship and sham.
"Yeah?" He called back as a really large man came out of the ship and stood beside Sham.
"Remember those guy's I said tricked you into taking your swords?" I asked, now backing away from the Nyaban Brothers as fast as I could.
"Yeah." Zoro said as he and Luffy came and stood before me as I continued to back up, with Nami following my example and backing up as well.
"That would be them and their a lot stranger and faster then they look. Then again, when I saw you fight them before, you only had one sword." I said, stopping when I stepped on something slippery, which turned out to be the oil we had pointlessly put onto the path.
"Great, they're coming to kill us and we can't run away!" I said exasperatedly, only for my jaw to drop when I saw what was happening.
Since Luffy was awake this time he was able to fight to as well and was currently pummeling the shit out of Buchi while Zoro was sending an Oni Giri after Oni Giri at Sham. If Zoro hadn't had all of his swords out, it would have been a really hard fight for him.
To say the battle hadn't lasted long would have been a joke. Almost as soon as they dove into action, the two brothers had gotten their asses kicked.
"Well... I guess that was the second let down..." I said, only to notice that Nami wasn't anywhere to be seen. "Damn it! She's gonna get there before me!" I shouted, knowing that she had already headed into the ship in search of it's treasure. Growling slightly, I took off running for the ship, hoping that I would be able to get there in time.
I didn't.
I had barely taken one step toward the ship when a voice from behind near the top of the path stopped me.
"What the hell is going on here?!" a cold and calm voice said, sending chills down my back.
"Klahadore!" Usopp shouted before I even turned around, though I hadn't needed him to tell me who it was. It was the same exact voice as the one in the Funimation episodes. (A/n: I hate 4kids) Turning around, I saw the same man that I had been wishing I would never see.
I hated him so much for everything he had done to Kaya and knew that I wasn't going to be able to keep my mouth shut about it. I can't stand people that take advantage of others the way he was taking advantage of Kaya.
"Never would I have believed that the black cat pirates would be decimated by a group of brats." He said cruelly, causing what few black cat pirate members that were still conscious to back away in fear and horror. "It seems that the black cat pirates have gotten weaker over the past few years."
"Yah, and never would I have believed that a butler's shoes would be screaming 'I fucked a prison cell'. It seems that even idiots have been getting jobs over the past few years" I said mockingly, glaring at him vindictively, though I was silently telling myself to shut the hell up.
'Dear god, why can't I stop saying shit like that? Am I trying to get myself killed? Why? Why?!' I cried mentally, wishing I was able to stop my self from doing stupid things like that.
Ever since I was a child I had had this problem. Whenever I was pissed at someone, I was never able to just walk away or keep my mouth shut. I always had to tell them off for some reason, and I could never understand why.
My mother was the same way, she always went off on people whenever they pissed her off, even when whatever happened had nothing to do with her. I was a lot like my mother, which was kind of a scary thought.
And, just like my mother had been before me, I was always the kid that was getting the shit beat out of her for not being able to shut the fuck up. It's a hazard that seemed to run in my mothers side of the family.
The look in Klahadore's, aka Kuro's, eyes nearly caused me to shit my pants. I didn't need a translator to tell me that his eyes were saying he was going to kill me for what I had said.
"What did you just say to me?!" He demanded angrily.
"What the hell kind of a greasy bastard takes the kindness of someone like Kaya and uses it against her?" I asked angrily, my anger building steadily, something that Luffy seemed to thing was hilarious as he was now doubled over with laughter.
"How dare you talk to me like that?!" He said angrily, looking more and more like he was going to kill me.
"How dare I talk to you like that? Easily, I talk to every greasy slime ball like this!" I said, still just as angry as ever.
"Uh-oh, Captain Kuro looks angry-" Several of the black cat pirates said, crawling away from me as quickly as they could, most of them still unable to walk.
In a blink of an eye, Kuro was standing behind me with his metal claws on, poised to strike me in the back with them.
"I guess that means you want to die. You should really learn to keep your mouth shut when talking to your superiors." He said, cutting off a few strands of my hair in a menacing fashion.
'Shit!' I thought, already trying to dodge his attack by dropping to my knees, though everything was moving in slow motion.
Lucky for me, Luffy was already starting his attack.
"Gum Gum!" He shouted, pulling back his fists as he ran toward us at the same time that Kuro raised one of his sword clawed hands back, preparing to kill me with it. "Pistol!" He shouted, just as I managed to get my head out of the way.
Luffy fist shot through the air and slammed into Kuro, sending him flying through the air.
"I can't believe it, he actually hit captain Kuro!" One of Kuro's men said, backing away from Luffy and staring at him in horror.
"I don't think he's ever been hit before." Said another one, backing away as well, not wanting to get hit by Kuro's attack when he retaliated
"I've never seen him get hit either." a third guy said as the rest of the black cat pirates started whispering, all of them agreeing with his statement.
Not wanting to get killed by the psycho butler (or get in Luffy's way), I took off like a bat out of hell, grabbing Lil as I ran.
I jumped over the large oil ramp when I came to it, not bothering to even stop first as I didn't want to get hit by one of their attacks.
"Are you crazy?!" Usopp asked as I started breathing deeply, having just landed next to him. Slapping the back of my head slightly for my stupidity, he continued,. "Were you trying to get us all killed? Why the hell did you have to go and say all that stuff?"
"I don't know, call it the curse of my family or something! Anytime we're pissed, everything just kind of spills out!" I said defensively while still trying to catch my breath, though I was silently agreeing with him. Whatever it was that had made me say stuff like that all the time, it was going to get me killed.
Usopp, Zoro, Lil, and I sat back and took a short break while Luffy and Kuro had their long conversation about why Kuro was such an ass and why he was doing what he was doing. By the time he finished up his long explanation, someone I wish would just die started to stand back up.
"Ah man, aren't you dead yet?" I asked, growling in annoyance as Jango stood back up, wishing he would just drop dead already.
It seemed that my attack hadn't done as much damage as I had hoped. He didn't seem to be hurting much at all, though his nose did look like it had been through a meat grinder. I guess getting it bashed into his face with my impact mallet wasn't exactly the best thing for it.
"You little brat, I'll make you pay for that!" He said nazely, standing up and glaring at me, only to freeze in horror when he Kuro and Luffy arguing. "Captain Kuro, sir-" He started, freezing when Kuro turned his attention to him.
"Jango, what have you been doing? I told you to be in the village at daybreak, and it's already almost ten. I hope you have a good reason for keeping me waiting." Kuro said in a voice that was so calm that it was scary.
"Well, i-, you see-" Jango stuttered, unable to form a complete sentence under the furious gaze of captain Kuro.
Then again, even if he had we still wouldn't have been able to understand it thanks to his new nose.
"Yes Jango? I'm waiting." Kuro said, causing Jango to take a nervous step back in fear.
"Well, -" He said nervously, taking a deep breath before continuing. "You said that these pesky kids wouldn't be a problem-" He started, only for Kuro to cut him off, who angry that Jango was questioning his ability to assess the situation.
"Yes, I did say that." He said calmly, though he seemed to be slightly more pissed now that Jango had questioned his assessment. "And what of it?"
He waited a few seconds, but continued when he didn't get an answer. Then again, I don't think he was really expecting an answer.
"I knew they would come and try to stop us," He continued, acting as though he had never paused in the first place. "But what I did not expect," He said, pausing for a second in an attempt to calm himself. "Was your incompetents!"
"Incompetents?!" Jango said under his breath angrily, though it had been so low that it was probably only my cat abilities that had aloud me to hear it.
"Who's incompetent?!" Sham demanded, causing Jango to look up in horror as the stick figure Nyaban brother started to stand up again.
"How dare you say that, Captain Kuro!" Buchi said just as angrily as his brother as he started standing up again as well.
Both of them were wearing ugly ass 'cat gloves' with claws, something that I had just noticed as they had started to file them against each other.
"It's true that you were once stronger then us before," Buchi said angrily, flexing and unflexing his claws in his anger. "But that's a three year old tale!"
"Yeah, while you were fulling around in that village, we weren't standing around doing nothing!" Sham continued for him, doing the same thing as his brother with his own claws.
"That's right! We pillaged countless villages and defeated many pirate crews!" Buchi said, holding his claws out, poised to use them one someone.
Kuro simply blinked at them, clearly not really caring much about what they had to say about him.
"What are you implying?" He finally asked, though he used a tone that implied that he didn't really care.
Sham laughed slightly, and the sound hurt my ears. People with high pitched voices shouldn't be aloud to laugh like that.
"After the last three years, do you-" He started, stopping so that his brother could finish for him.
"Have enough skills left to be able to win against us?!" Buchi asked angrily as he and his brother started running straight at Kuro and Luffy, fully intent on slashing Kuro to pieces.
Leave it to those two idiots to get themselves killed by their own captain.
"Buchi! Sham! Stop!" Jango shouted, trying to keep the two idiots from killing themselves, especially since he was close enough to Kuro and Luffy that if Kuro was careful, he might kill him when he stops the two idiots.
Once the Nyaban brothers were close enough, Kuro did his little fancy footwork routine and moved out of the way of their attack at the last minute, and appeared behind them.
"uc-" Zoro said, staring in shock at Kuro's speed. "When did he get behind them?"
While the rest off us stared in shock at Kuro's speed (even I was staring at him in shock and I had seen it before in the anime), Luffy wasn't even fazed by it. He didn't seem to care about the speed at all and seemed to be simply glaring at Kuro.
He was definitely still pissed at Kuro and was planning on making Kuro regret everything that had happened.
"Who-" Kuro asked lazily, straightening up and holding his four foot long claws over his shoulder. "Who was it that you were going to kill?"
The Nyaban brothers had barely managed to turn around again when he suddenly appeared behind them once more, only this time he had the tips of his claws in their mouths and was holding them their threateningly.
"The pussy foot maneuver." Jango said in a horrified tone, though I only barely hear him because he was whispering.
"I guess you guys were right." Kuro said, continuing on as though he hadn't heard Jango's voice, and I had a feeling that I was the only one that had even though I was the farthest away from him. "I've seemed to have gotten a bit sluggish over the past three years." He said, a cruel smiling making its way onto his face.
While he was speaking, the remaining black cat pirates that were laying on the ground, at least the ones that weren't dead, started standing up, causing me to growl in annoyance.
'Man, can't they all just stay down and give us a break? I thought for sure my impact and cushion mallet would have done more damage then that!' I thought in despair as I realized that very few of them were actually staying down.
The explosion might have been big, but it seemed that only the people closest to it were actually killed by it. The rest of the people that had been laying down because of it seemed to have just been knocked out.
"God, I am gonna turn out to be the useless member, aren't I?" I asked, saddened by the fact that my attacks hadn't really done much help at all.
"Hm, it seems I've become more humble after staying on this island for three years." Kuro said, continuing on as though I had never spoken. "Since you all seem to be able to stand, I think I'll give you five minutes."
The jerk didn't even seem to really think that his old crew would be able to last that long, it was almost as if he was simply toying with them. Then again, he was such a bastard that I kind of think he was toying with them. It would be right up his alley to do something like that, he was certainly cruel enough for it.
"If you don't finish them off in five minutes," He said, releasing the Nyaban brothers as he did so. "Then I will be forced to kill every single one of you.
OK, he was definitely toying with them, and Jango looked like he understood that fact. He didn't seem to think that he and the rest of the black cat pirates would be able to deal with the problem in that amount of time as Luffy and Zoro, and even me, Usopp, Lil, and Choco to some extent, were way to strong for to get defeated in such a short amount of time.
"Five minutes?! But we'll never be able to kill them all in five minutes!" one of the pirates that had just stood up shouted, knowing that it was just a matter of time before Kuro killed him.
"Yeah! Did you see that explosion?!" another one demanded, reminding everyone of my little attack.
Ah, found memories.
"And that guy! His arms are all stretchy!"anther one shouted, backing away slightly as he pointed over to Luffy, who wasn't standing that far away from Kuro and the Nyaban brothers.
"You, didn't you fall of a cliff and die?" Kuro asked, turning his attention to Luffy when he realized that he was the same guy as before. "Nice trick." he added, clearly thinking that Luffy had used some kind of fancy trick to survive, and in a strange sort of way, he had.
"Yeah, and your that bastard butler from that nice girls place." Luffy said, lowering his head slightly so that they were half covering his eyes.
"Yeah, what of it?" Kuro asked, not really caring what Luffy had to say.
"Gum Gum Bazooka!"
Luffy hadn't even waited for Kuro to get all of his really short sentence out before he had attacked, deciding instead that he was just going to beat the shit out of the idiot right now.
Kuro went flying back from the attack and hit the cliff wall hard from the force of it, causing part of the cliff to crumble and collapse around him.
"He hit him again!" One of the black cat pirates shouted, almost running as he backed away, trying to get as far away from Kuro and Luffy as possible.
"Is this guy for real?" a second guy asked, not moving as he had already gotten as far away from the battle as possible.
"No ones ever hit Kuro once and lived to tell about it, and he's hit him two times!" A third guy shouted, this one not even bothering to hid his fear as he quickly turned around and took off into the forest.
Seemingly unaffected by the hit, even though he had a growing bruise his face, Kuro instantly stood up and dusted himself off, glaring at Luffy and moving towards him menacingly.
"Gr-!" Kuro growled, glaring at Luffy. "You're going to regret that, there's nothing in this world I hate more then getting hit!"
"Well if you hate being hit so much, then you better get ready, because there's a lot more where that came from!" Luffy said, smirking at him and flexing his arms as he did so.
It was just as the two of them were preparing to attack each other that another person appeared on the cliff, running up from behind me to stand at the top of the path, looking down into the area bellow in horror.
"Kaya!" Usopp shouted, surprised that she had come to the battle and wandering why the hell she was here in the first place.
Kaya turn sad eye to Usopp, tears slowly filling up in them, though the tears seemed to be only half from sadness. There was something else in her eyes, something that I hadn't been expecting to see.
Anger.
Being that I knew what had happened, I didn't need to ask why she was sad and angry. She was clearly devastated by everything she had found out a little over an hour ago, and furious that Kuro, or Klahadore as she knew him, had caused all of this and had hurt the people she loved.
"I'm sorry." She said, her voice barely above a whisper as she spoke, her devastation getting the better of her. "I'm sorry Usopp for everything I said, how could you ever forgive me for everything I've done?" She asked, a few tears slowly rolling down her cheeks as she looked up at him.
"Kaya, that doesn't matter now!" Usopp said, though the tone in his voice said that he had already forgiven her. "What I want to know is why you came here?" He asked, wishing she had stayed as far away as possible.
Her being here was very dangerous.
"I wanted to apologize to you," She started weekly, more tears rolling down her face as she continued speaking. "I'm sorry, I just couldn't believe it." She said, covering her face with her hands as more tears fell. "That Klahadore- is a pirate."
"That's not what I meant, " He said, grabbing her both of her arms in his hands and looking worriedly into her eyes. "I meant, why did you come here? I told you to run, he's going to kill you!"
"But aren't you here fighting?!" She asked, cutting through his words with her own. "I did such a horrible thing to you, and yet your still hear fighting to protect me! That's why I came here, I can't let you fight alone!" she said, causing Usopp to stagger slightly.
"Kaya..." Usopp whispered, wishing he could wipe away all his tears. (A/N: If I get even one person trying to get me to drag Kaya along with the rest of the gang, I swear I'll hunt that person down and beat the crap out of them with a purple monkey and a silver banana)
While Usopp was staring at her, Kaya managed to somehow wiggle out of his grip and turn her attention to the group further down the path, near the bottom of the cliff.
They hadn't even noticed her when she showed up at the top of the cliff, or when she and Usopp had been talking. Luffy and Kuro were still having their verbal fight, though it seemed that they had only continued their arguing because Kuro didn't like the way Luffy saw pirates.
"Klahadore!" She shouted angrily, a fire burning in her eyes that I had never even thought was possible for her.
She had been so quiet in the anime, even when she had pointed the gun at him. It was just another thing that was different, though I wasn't sure how I had caused. I knew I had to have caused it somehow, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I could have done that would change the way she was acting at this point.
Kuro and the others all looked up at her, shocked to see that she was their.
"Kaya-" Kuro said, surprised that she was there. If you had told him that she was going to be at the fight, she would have told you that you were crazy.
"Kaya? Isn't that the girl we're supposed to kill?" one of the other pirates asked, recognizing the name from when they had been told the plan.
"Yeah, if we kill her here, then we wont have to go to the village, right?" Another one of them said, not really understanding the situation.
"Kaya," Kuro said again, successfully silencing the chattering black cat pirates. "What are you doing here? You should really be at ho-"
"Kaya, whatever Klahadore says, he's not the same man you thought he was!" I said, cutting him of and trying desperately to make it impossible for him to screw with her head anymore. "And your father didn't die however you think he did, Klahadore murdered him!" I added, vaguely remembering Kuro's comment about how the mothers death hadn't been planed, which implied that he had actually killed the father some how.
Kuro seemed to be surprised that I knew this, surprised enough that he let himself slip up a little.
"I don't know how you found out about that-" He started calmly, causing Kaya to gasp at his statement as it was practically a confirmation of my accusation.
"Oh, go screw yourself on a rusty nail." I said angrily, cutting the ass hole off as I didn't really want to listen to any of his bull shit. "I don't give a shit what you think." I added, causing the two giant veins on his forehead to pulsate slightly.
"How vulgar, a lady really shouldn't-" He started, only for me to cut him off again.
"Oh shut up! You have long sharp claws on your hands, and for someone who hates violence and thinks it's barbaric, that's a little strange, don't you think?" I asked, smirking down at him from my position beside Usopp.
"Face it, you can't exactly act all noble and innocent now! You practically just confessed to murdering her father and you've been caught claw handed." I said angrily, unconsciously making one of the worst jokes in the history of one piece.
I was right and Kaya knew it. That little fact drove home everything she already knew, everything that her other butler had already told her, and everything she had already figured out. He had practically just admitted to killing her father and he was where claws on his hands that resembled swords.
Reaching into her pocket, Kaya pulled out the old musket she had gotten out of her fathers old gun case and aimed it at Kuro, and if it wasn't for the fact that Luffy was made of rubber, the fact that I was sure she had never even held a gun before would have made me worry for Luffy's safety.
"Klahadore! She's right, isn't she?" She asked, more tears running down her face as she aimed the gun at him with shaky hands. "Meri told me everything, so did the kids when I passed them on my way here." she add, which kind of explained why she was acting a lot braver then she was supposed to be.
'Ah, it must have been something one of the kids said, that's the only thing I can think of that would get her to act like this.' I thought wandering what they could have said to her. 'Wait... if she passed the kids on the way here... they better not be just beyond the trees!' I thought, silently promising them each a very painful bonk on the head if they were here.
"They told me some strange things, but I kind of believe them. They said that you were going to kill them if they came here." She said, spelling it out in English for me, much to my relief. "They're just kids! And you were going to kill them if they came here? And Meri- he was your friend! And you just attacked him like that!"
Her hands were still shaking as she took a calming breath, trying desperately to calm her self so that she wouldn't shoot him if she didn't have to. "If you want my fortune, then take it! Just leave us in piece!" She said angrily, wishing that all the things that she had found out were all lies, but knowing that they weren't.
Klahadore slowly started walking up the hill and toward her, not even noticing the large area of oil as he steadily got closer and closer to it.
"Stop! Don't come any closer!" She said as he steadily made his way up the path, backing up as he got closer and closer. "Klahadore, I don't want to shoot you-" She said weakly, wishing he would just stay where he was.
"Kaya, it's me, I've been there with you ever since that day three years-uh!"
"BANG!"
Now, I wish I could say that she shot him during his stupid attempt to get her to listen to him, but sadly, that's not what happened.
Luffy's anger had reached its boiling point as Kuro had continually made his way toward Kaya. The fact that Kuro had been acting as though he was Kaya's best friend and wasn't going to try to hurt her had pissed him off so much that he had punched him in the back of the head.
This, of course, had surprised Kaya, who in turn had shot the gun off in her surprise. Sadly, the bullet hadn't hit Kuro.
Actually, there wasn't a bullet at all.
"You know, if it was loaded, that might have worked." I said jokingly, though I was kind of wishing that it was loaded and he had gotten shot.
It would have saved us a lot of time and trouble.
The look on Kuro's face when he realized that Kaya had actually shot at him, even if a bullet hadn't actually left the gum, was priceless.
It had gone from startled at the sound of the gun going off, to shocked that she had shot at him (which was the look I had loved), to anger at having been shot at.
Knowing that he still needed Jango to get her to sign the will, he turned his attention to the weirdo hypnotist.
"Jango, you take care of Kaya and make sure she signs the will, but first I want you to hypnotize Buchi and Sham and have them take care of that green haired swordsman." Kuro said before turning his attention back to Luffy. "As for you, I do believe I have owe you for punching me twice now."
Jango quickly did what he was told, causing Buchi and Sham to jump up and grow slightly, their muscles bulging as though they were on steroids.
The moment Jango took one step toward the hill, Zoro appeared out of nowhere to stop him, only to get stopped himself by Buchi and Sham, who were extremely over muscled.
"Gr! Not you guys again!" Zoro said, though we all knew that this battle would be slightly different from last time.
"Kaede, Usopp! Get Kaya out of here!" he shouted as Buchi and Sham started forcing him backwards by using their claws to fight him.
Knowing that staying around would probably get us killed, I decided that it was best to do as I was told.
"Don't worry! I'll keep Kaya safe!" I shouted, grabbing Usopp by the back of his collar and Kaya by her hand and dragging them into the forest.
Part of me really wanted to stay and see the fight, but I knew that I would get just as hurt as Luffy if I did, if not worse.
That and someone had to protect Kaya since Zoro was busy with the supper powered Nyaban brothers and Luffy was busy fighting Kuro. I guess messing with some events was a bad thing. Messing with this set of events was already about to get me killed.
I was barely into the forest when I past three small dark figures that I was going to have to kill later.
"What do you think your doing here?!" I demanded, wishing that they had listened to me and stayed in the village.
"Well- we- I mean-" The three Usopp pirates stuttered, causing me to growl in annoyance at them.
"Never mind that! We got to go! Run!" I shouted as I took off deeper into the forest, causing them to run as fast as they could after me.
The moment we started running again, the sound of trees falling to the ground rang out through the forest, causing us all to run just a little bit faster.
When I finally stopped running, I turned around to yell at the kids for not staying in the village, only to find that they weren't there.
"Damn it!" I said angrily, cursing the cat abilities for making me able to run so fast. "You stay here," I said, setting Usopp and Kaya down on the ground and turning back to the trail we had just come from. "I'm going back for them."
with that said, I took off as fast as I could, heading back the way I had just come, slightly unnerved by the fact that I could no longer hear the sound of falling trees.
That definitely wasn't a good sign. I might be fast, but I was nowhere near fast enough to get far enough away from him that I wouldn't be able to hear the trees he was cutting down hit the ground.
"This is bad." I whispered, looking around as I continued running through the forest, wishing I could find them.
"Hey girl!" a voice called out to me from a short distance to my left, causing me to stop in my tracks.
Turning to my left, I saw that Jango was standing there with Carrot, Onion, and Pepper tied up in front of him. He was swinging his little ring around as fast as he could, clearly threatening to do something to them if I didn't do exactly what he told me to.
"Well, well." He said in a condescending voice, smirking at me as he tilted his hat slightly so that it was now covering his sunglass covered eyes. "Look what we have here... I wander what would happen if I moved my ring forward slightly, think it would chop off their heads?"
I couldn't help but let out a growl of anger. The son of a bitch was using kids as hostages, and I really didn't like that.
"Gr, asshole!" I growled, only to instantly apologize when he started moving his hand forward, threatening to kill the kids with that damn spinning ring. "Sorry! I'm sorry!"
"Good, now that we understand each other, I think you should bring Kaya here." He said, smirking at me now that he knew that I wasn't about to do anything stupid. "There's something I want to talk to her about."
I had just been about to answer him, though I wasn't really sure what I was going to say as I wasn't sure what I should do, when a whizzing sound filled the air.
"CHINK!"
The little ring in Jango's hand was sent flying through the air and away from the kids' heads.
Looking to my right, I found that Usopp and Kaya were standing there, with Usopp holding out his slingshot triumphantly.
"Why you little-" Jango started, glaring at Usopp angrily as he grabbed one of the kids by his hair. "If any of you move a single muscle, I swear I'll-"
"SQUISH!"
Another whizzing sound had filled the air for a split second before something was shot down Jango's thought, and the moment his face turn bright red, I knew what it was.
Letting go of Pepper's hair, Jango grabbed at his own through, trying to get as much air to it as possible, clearly feeling a burning sensation that came from swallowing one of Usopp's 'Hot Salsa Stars'
Not waiting to see if he was going to breath fire, I took of running toward him, pulling out my wooden mallet as I went. When I was finally less then a few feet from him, I swung it at his head, and hit him as hard as I could, sending him flying into a tree.
"Ussop! Kaya! Take care of the kids, I'll deal with Jango." I commanded, raising my mallet again and hitting Jango in the face again as hard as I could.
I wasn't about to let up, not this time. I had stupidly thought that one hit would do it last time, and I wasn't going to make that same mistake again.
"Don't you ever stand up again!" I shouted angrily, punctuating each word with a hit against his face. "and don't you ever try to harm a kid either!"
taking a deep breath, I turned away from him, fully intent on heading off to make sure Usopp and the others were OK, only to find that they were still standing right behind me.
"What part of 'go' didn't you understand?" I asked them, rolling my eyes as Onion, Carrot, and Pepper started making their proclamations that I was cool, even though I was silently loving it.
Ordering Usopp to tie Jango up, I put my mallet back into my froggy bag, not wanting to look to menacing in front of the kids.
Hey, I couldn't exactly start hitting them for showing up at the fight when they had just gotten finished complementing me.
Once we had Jango tied up, we dragged him back to the cliff, smiling when we found that the fight was already over.
Yep, everything was as it should be.
Well, almost.
"Hey, I won our bet, so pay up."
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