Chapter 16: Hawk-eye Mihawk, the Father
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.
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Amazingly, I am already 23/53 of the way through the first season, and once it's over, on to the Grandline! :D
NOTE!!!: Ha ha ha. Very funny, I deleted the prologue because it was 500 people read it this month, but only 100 of those 500 people read any farther then it, and now that it's gone, I already had 20 people that read straight though the first five chapters... I take it that means it was a good idea to delete it? XD
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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Staring at the man before me, I couldn't help but imagine my next journal entry and how absolutely ridiculous it was going to be.
The diaries of Kaede Tsuda Burnett, day -25 part 2
Dear Diaries,
Hi, I'm in bum fucked Egypt and I just realized that my father is hawk-eye Mihawk. Isn't that great? I hadn't even realized that they looked so much alike, and now that I see Mihawk in person, I now realize that they are the same person, oh joy!
Loves and kisses from Mihawk's daughter.
Yep, that just about summed it up.
"Your father?!" Zoro demanded, having heard the word that I had whispered just moments ago.
"Talk about that later! We have to get the ship back!" Luffy said, standing up on the railing of the Baratie and seeing if he could see the Merry, shouting happily when he could. "I see it!" He said happily before turning his attention to Johnny and Yosaku. "Tell me where your boat is."
"We have it moored to the restaurant." Johnny said, knowing that he should probably help as much as he could, seeing as it was partially his fault that the Merry got stolen.
"Zoro, Usopp, Kaede, don't just stand there! Take their ship and go get Nami!" Luffy ordered, much to Zoro's annoyance.
Luffy's words seemed to snap me out of my trance. He hadn't said anything in particular, it was just that the thought of leaving when I had a father to deal with didn't exactly sit well with me.
The moment I was out of trance, my emotions instantly changed, going from surprised and happy, to angry and murderous.
"Sorry Luffy, but this is the one time I can't do as you say. I have something I have to take care of here first." I said angrily, diving into the water and swimming as fast as I could toward the son of a bitch that spawned me.
When I had first seen him, I was so happy to finally see a familiar face, but that feeling had quickly disappeared and was just as quickly replaced by sheer anger.
I was angry at the fact that he was in this world, angry at the fact that I had come to this place all alone when I apparently had family here, angry at the fact that he had left me here on my own when he probably knew I was here in the first place, and I was angry at the fact that he was part of the reason that I was probably never going to see my mother ever again.
I was so angry with him, angrier then I had ever been at anyone in my whole life. He was my father, and at that moment, I would gladly tare him apart myself if I could manage it.
"Kaede!" I heard everyone call after me, including Zeff's men, who didn't even know what was going on.
They probably thought I was crazy and that I was probably going to try and kill the son of a bitch myself.
And they were kind of right.
Mihawk, or my father I should say, didn't even take notice of me as I dived down into the water as deep as I could, and swam up about six times faster then should be humanly possible, like a great white about to go airborne in an attempt to catch a sea lion.
The moment I broke through the surface of the water, my hand flew out and connected with the side of his face, sending him staggering to the side of his ridiculously small boat.
Everyone froze in horror, shocked at what I had just done, unable to believe that anyone would be stupid enough to slap Mihawk.
"sh-she just- she just slapped him!" Patty shouted, horrified at the fact that I would do something so stupid.
"Is she crazy?!" Carne shouted, unable to believe anyone was that nuts.
"She must be suicidal!" a voice shouted, and I was a little surprised to find that it was Zeff that had shouted this time.
Everyone was clearly scared shitless of my father, everyone but Luffy, Zoro, Don Krieg, and...
Sanji?
"Hay! You better not hurt her, or I'm gonna kick your ass!" Sanji shouted, clearly being over taken by his 'protect all girls' rule and not thinking straight.
Ignoring everyone's shouts, I brought my hand back, preparing to slap him again.
"You son of a bitch!" I shouted, swinging my arm as hard as I could, only for his own hand to come out of nowhere and wrap around my wrist, twisting me around and holding it behind my back so that I wasn't facing him anymore. "Let me go so I can kick your ass!" I screamed, kicking and screaming as I struggled to get free.
"I'm warning you!" Sanji shouted, only being held back by Zeff who didn't want his apprentice to get killed to.
"And why would you want to kill me, miss?" My father asked, causing me to freeze and my anger to grow.
He didn't recognize me, his own daughter. The son of a bitch didn't recognize his own daughter.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN, WHY?!" I shrieked, struggling as hard as I could in an attempt to get free. "It's your fault! You son of a bitch! You're the one responsible for it all!" I shouted, still kicking and screaming in an attempt to get free, not caring that everyone was now staring at me.
"And what, might I ask, is my fault?" He asked, thoroughly confused as to why the strange little girl in his arms was trying to hard to rip him to shreds.
"It's your fault! Your's and Aunt Pinoka's!" I shouted, causing him to freeze instantly. "That's right, didn't even recognize your own daughter, did you?" I asked, just as angry, though my voice was a lot calmer this time and I wasn't screaming.
"DAUGHTER?!" Everyone shouted in surprise except for Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Johnny, and Yosaku.
"Hawk-eyes Mihawk's got a kid?" Zeff asked in astonishment, unable to believe what he just heard.
"Kida?" My father said, recognition now in his voice as he realized who I was.
"Duh!" I said angrily, stomping on his foot and causing him to let go of me in surprise.
The moment he let go of me, I quickly spun around and started slapping him again, trying as hard as I could to slap the shit out of him.
"Who the hell did you think it was?!" I shouted angrily, tears now rolling down my cheeks as I continued with my slapping.
Not wanting to get slapped anymore, he quickly grabbed both of my wrists and hold onto them, not letting go when I started kicking at his shins.
"Let go! This is all your fault! It's your fault I'm stuck here! It's your fault I'll probably never see my mom again! It's your fault I'll never be able to go home again!" I shouted, still kicking him as I continued trying to get my hands out of his, though it was getting harder and harder to fight as more and more tears started rolling down my cheeks.
He didn't say a single word, but instead chose to simply let me continue my ranting, probably knowing that once I was done, I would stop kicking at his shins.
"It's your fault!" I shouted as my knees finally gave way under me, causing me to sink to the floor of the ant sized ship. "I want to go home." I cried, no longer fighting the tears as the fell down my face, unable to fight it anymore.
Letting go of my hands, he knelt down beside me and pulled me into his chest as I continued sobbing.
He still hadn't said a word, knowing that he didn't really have any defense for my acusations, and I knew that I was mostly right. It wasn't as though he hadn't had anything to do with how a got here, the fact that he was here himself was enough to show that he had something to do with it. The best he could do was allow me to finish my crying, and let me cry as much as I wanted to.
Once the sobbing had reduced itself to nothing more then a few drops of mostier on my face without any real sound to go with it, he finally began to speak.
"You're right, it is my fault, but I don't want you to blame Pinoka." He said,moving me slightly so that I was forced to look up at him. "She hadn't done it willingly, I had to almost force her to give you that bag." He began, whipping away the few tears that were still on my face. "I wouldn't have even considered it myself, if it wasn't for the fact that you chose to live in the very apartment that hides the doorway into the crystal hall.
"Your decision to live there was a signal that it was time, and not even I or Pinoka could ignore that. It's one of the few things that even we couldn't ignore. When a Sekai Mojo chooses to live near a doorway, when they do not even know that it is there, then that means that it is time for them to head out into one of the worlds and live their lives there. This is the world that our family usually ends up at, almost all of us are here now.
"The other world that our family sometimes ends up at is the same one that you came from." He said, finishing his explanation on why I ended up here.
"Sekai Mojo?" I asked, trying to find anything so that I wouldn't have to look at him.
I wasn't ready to let go of my anger, not when I was still stuck in a world that wasn't the one I had grown up in.
"World witch." He said, looking down at me as he said it, still holding me to his chest as only a father could.
It was weird, I had never really been 'daddy's little girl' as he had never really been there for me in the first place.
"Wait, did you say witch?" I asked, finally realizing that he had essentially just said that I was really a witch.
Huh, small world.
"Yes, a world witch. It's a witch that travels between the worlds." He explained, happy that something had distracted me from my anger.
He really didn't want me to start kicking him again, his shins had been abused enough as it was.
"Huh?" I said, wandering how that could possibly be described as being a witch. It sounded more like 'Dimensional traveling' to me.
Seeming as though he was reading my mind, he continued on with another explanation.
"Witches can do many things, which means you can eventually use magic, though I don't truly have this ability. I've only ever been able to do two spells." He explained, smiling down at me now as he continued with the explanation. "A spell that is currently irrelevant, and the silence spell, which is what I am using to keep everyone from hearing our conversation."
"Huh?" I asked stupidly, looking around in an attempt to see what he was talking about.
He was right. Everyone in the area seemed to be trying to listen as closely as possible, but had looks of frustration on their faces that said, quite plainly, that they weren't able to figure out what we were saying.
There was a downside, however, as it seemed that we were not able to hear them as well.
"We can't hear them, and they can't hear us." I said stupidly, only just understanding that little fact.
"Precisely." he said, pleased that I understood. "It's a nice way to keep people from listening in on your conversations, though the downside is that we cannot hear them either."
"uhuh..." I said, trying to think of something else that seemed to be sitting somewhere in the back of my head, just out of reach. "Home... Oh!" I said, finally figuring out what it was.
"Wait a sec! If you knew that I had moved into the apartment, and you've spoken to Aunt Pinoka, then you must be able to go home, or at least communicate with people back there! Right?" I asked, hoping against hope that I was right.
This question seemed to please him more then when I understood the silence spell.
"Again, correct. I am able to travel between the worlds as I wish, though this is only because my magic has gotten strong enough that I can now create a temporary doorway for myself to allow me to travel into, and through the crystal hall." He said, and the tone in his voice said that opening a doorway was extremely difficult.
"Then you can open one for me and let me go home!" I said happily, though a small voice in the back of my head was asking me if I really wanted to go home, but I simply ignored it.
"Sadly, I cannot." he said, and the look on his face told me that he truly was sorry that he couldn't help. "No one can open a portal for someone else, the portal would crush them in an instant if someone walked through that hadn't created it in the first place.
"The only way for you to get home, is to learn as many spells as you can, and get as strong as you can. Then, and only then will you be able to travel into the crystal hall again." His words seemed sad, showing that he would help me if he could
But, if a doorway made by someone else would crush me if I tried to go through it, then there was no use arguing, not unless I wanted to get killed by a collapsing doorway.
"So then the only way to get home, is to learn some magic." I said, speaking more to my self then to him.
"Yes, and I'm sure your aunt put some form of a spell book into the little bag I had her give you." He said, causing me to glare at him.
"You had her give me this ugly thing?!" I said angrily, holding the stupid froggy bag up in front of me, demanding to know why he would ever think, in any world for that matter, that I would like a froggy purse.
"Well... I thought you would think it was cute-" He said, not realizing the hole he was slowly digging himself into.
"I. Don't. Do. Cute." I sad in an annoyed tone, before putting the froggy bag back onto my hip.
"Yes, well..." He said, looking for something else to talk about.
If it wasn't for the fact that I was the daughter in the situation, I would have found it extremely funny that the great 'Hawk-eye Mihawk', one of the seven deadly warlords of the sea, was now trying desperately not to get killed by his very irate daughter.
I guess every man fears his wife and his daughter more then anything else in the world.
Hell hath no furry and all that.
"Anyway," He said, changing the subject onto something else so that I wouldn't get anger with him. "Don't expect spells to be super powerful, they will only get stronger the more you use them. So a fire spell will only be as strong as a small spark when you first use it, but it will get a lot stronger as you learn to control it better."
He was lucky I was such a freakin pyro, or that attempt to change the subject wouldn't have worked very well. Then again, the prospect of having magic was extremely nice as well.
It was one thing to claim to be a witch, and a completely different thing to actually be one.
"Fine, I guess, but what about-" I started, only to have him throw me aside slightly as he grabbed a sword and sliced clean through a giant bullet that someone had just shot at my back.
And I didn't need to look to see who had done it either.
In the instant the bullet made contact with his swords, which I hadn't actually seen as it had happened way to fast, the silence that had filled the air around us thanks to his spell was dispersed, and instead replaced be shouts and the sounds of waves.
Looking up from my position on the floor of the peanut sized boat, (seriously, can this thing be any smaller?) I saw that my father was glaring at Don Krieg in a non to friendly sort of way.
Screw that, he was pissed.
If looks could kill, then Don Krieg would have already been sleeping at the bottom of the ocean. My father didn't seem to thrilled about having someone attack his daughter, especially when that someone had done it right in front of him.
"Hay you bastard! You could have hurt her!" A voice shouted, and I knew it was coming from a very angry Sanji.
Looking over at him and expecting to see him yelling angrily at Krieg, I was a little surprised to find that it wasn't Krieg he was shouting at, but was instead my father.
"Shoving her down like that! Are you trying to hurt her?!" He demanded, dancing around angrily as he continued to yell at my father. "I'm gonna kick your ass!"
Yep, that was Sanji for ya. To worried about a girl getting hurt when hitting the ground to even worry about why she was shoved out of the way.
Deciding it was best not to pay him any attention while he was ranting and raving at my father, I turned my attention back to the only family member I had seen since I had gotten into the one piece world.
Looking up at my father, I couldn't but think about how scary he looked when he was angry. It was as if he really was a demon like everyone thought he was, and the yellow-gold eyes that ran in the family didn't exactly help either.
I had always been told that my eyes looked scarier then hell when I was angry, and that the yellow made them look demonic, but I had never been able to see what everyone was talking about when I tried to look in the mirror, so I never understood what the meant.
Until now.
Demonic was a good word for it. They seemed almost evil, as though they were able to cute your sole in half simply by looking at you.
Looking up at him now, I couldn't help but be amazed by the fact that this was my father. The man that scared the shit out of so many pirates was my father.
And he was pissed that someone had been stupid enough to attack his daughter in front of him.
In the anime he had attacked them out of sheer boredom and had decimated them almost completely. If he did that to them just because he was bored, what was he going to do to them now that they had given him a reason to kill them.
"Huh, only a fool would attack Hawk-eyed Mihawk's daughter, that man is a without a doubt the greatest swordsman in the world, and I doubt he'll let some one live after attacking his daughter." Zeff said, though he still seemed surprised at having just found out that Mihawk had a little girl, and that she had been working for him for the past few days.
"Don Krieg's attack missed!" One of Krieg's men shouted once the shock had finally worn off.
And just like in the anime, Zoro appeared out of nowhere from behind the man, and spoke.
"He diverted the bullet with just the tip of his sword." Zoro said, stepping forward and walking right past the rest of Krieg's men.
"Hold on, who do you think you are?!" The same man demanded, angry at being spoken to as though he was an idiot.
"Hey, he's got three swords-" Another one of Krieg's men said, unable to believe his eyes. "It couldn't be-"
"I've never seen a sword handled so gently, or with such grace." Zoro said, completely ignoring everyone's comments as he walked right past them.
"There's no strength in swordplay based on force." My father said, though he never took his cold and furious eyes off of Krieg.
"Did you also use your sword to slice up this ship?" Zoro asked, indicating the remains of Krieg's ship, which he was now standing on.
"I did." He answered, still not taking his eyes off the bastard that had dared to aim a gun at his daughter.
Scary.
"Then it's true, you are the best." Zoro said, excited at the prospect of finally fighting against the man he had set out so long ago to find. "I set sail for only one reason, to meat you." He said, grabbing the green bandanna that was tied to his arm and slowly putting it onto his head.
"And what is your goal?" My father asked, once again not taking his eyes off of Krieg as he continued staring him down.
"To beat you" Zoro said as he finished tying the bandanna onto his head and took out his swords.
"Heh, how foolish." My father laughed, his glare getting stronger as Krieg narrowed his own eyes at my father.
"You've got spare time, so let's do this." Zoro said, getting into a fighting stance and preparing for battle, only to find that he was now being ignored by my father.
"Wow! It's him! It's Roronoa Zoro!" One of Krieg's men said as the rest of them started backing away, not wanting to get in the middle of Zoro's and Mihawk's fight.
"Really, a pirate hunter." Krieg said, turning his own narrowed gaze to Zoro, though my father still hadn't taking his eyes off of him.
"He's a what?" I heard Sanji say in surprise, unable to believe his ears.
"A fight? You're a weak, pitiful creature." My father said, giving Zoro only one glance before turning his piercing gaze back to Krieg. "Normally I might take you up on your offer for battle, but at the moment, I have more important things to take care of."
Well, I can't say that this one was completely my fault. Everything had changed during this event because of things that just couldn't be helped.
Unfortunately, there was a small downside. I still needed things to play out the same way they had in the anime, or else we might not get Sanji.
"Hehehe, um? Dad? Isn't it better for my captain to defend me?" I said, trying desperately to get him to understand that I didn't want to screw this up, though I wasn't really sure if he knew that one piece was an anime in my world.
Turning his attention towards me, he simply looked at me for a few seconds before sighing deeply. While he really wanted to kill Don Krieg, he couldn't exactly argue with me wanting to let my captain fight for me, but then again, there was a small problem in that statement.
"Captain?" He asked, raising and eyebrow and not liking the fact that his daughter had a 'captain' because that meant that she was probably a pirate. If that was the case, then he was going to be between a rock and a hard place sometime in the future with the marines.
"Yeah, she's on the same crew as me." Zoro said, causing my fathers eyes to snap to him in the blink of an eye.
"And who, might I ask, is her captain?" He asked, the look in his eyes saying that he wasn't happy at all.
'Great, my father hasn't even met any of them yet, and he already hates my friends.' I thought, hanging my head in despair.
"Luffy's over there." Zoro said around the sword in his mouth, nodding his head in Luffy's direction.
"hahaha, dad, I think you should just fight with Zoro." I said as he turned his gaze to Luffy, his eyes widening slightly when he saw the grinning man.
"That's your captain?" He asked, completely ignoring my statement.
"Dad, Please just drop it and fight Zoro." I begged, finally getting him to look at him.
He simply looked down at me for a few seconds, trying to decided if he should drop it or not. On the one hand, he wasn't to happy about his daughter being a pirate, but on the other hand, almost everyone in the family that was in the one piece world was a pirate.
That, and didn't want me to get pissed off again now that I had finally calmed down and was talking to him without screaming and shouting.
Sighing deeply, he took a deep breath and spoke.
"Are you sure you want me to fight him? You do know that I will probably kill him." He said, wanting to make sure that I understood what was going to happen so that I didn't hate him for it later.
"Yeah, yeah, sure." I said, waving him off as I jumped off of his boat and into the water, swimming as fast as I could so that I wouldn't end up getting shot by Krieg now that I was away from my father.
And here I thought he wanted to use me as his weapon, darn.
"Well, as long as my daughter understands, then I guess I have no reason to not fight you." I heard my father say as I continued swimming as fast as I could.
When I finally reached the side of the Baratie, I turned around and looked over at the two of them, only to see that my father had skipped the little knife and had gone straight for his main sword.
Uh-oh. That wasn't good.
In the blink of an eye, dad had disappeared from his little ship, and had reappeared only a few feet away from Zoro.
"If you are in fact a competent swordsmen, then you should see the disparity in our abilities even before we cross swords." He said, causing me to hang my head in annoyance. "I must ask you, why you're challenging me? Could it be your courage? Or is it simply your ignorance?"
I really wish he would just skip the whole mocking thing and move right on to the battle.
"My ambition drives me." Zoro said, moving back into his fighting stance. "Also, I made a promise I intend to keep."
"The greatest swordsman in the world going up against Roronoa Zoro, two masters of swords play. What kind of fight is this going to turn out to be?"
"There isn't a person alive that could beat big bro!" Johnny cheered, not realizing that Zoro didn't even half a chance.
"Yeah! He's already the greatest swordsmen!" Yosaku cheered, not understanding the battle at all, just like his brother.
"You may have quite the reputation on the east blue, but that doesn't mean much to me. This sea is by far the weakest of the four." Dad said, completely ignoring everyone's comments and moving onto the battle. "Normally I would use a simple hand knife to take care of someone of your caliber, but as you are my daughter's crew mate, I'll use my actual blade as a courtesy.
"Huh, you may be Kaede's father, but don't expect me to go easy on you. Now it's time for you to die!" Zoro shouted, rushing toward my father and preparing to use an Oni Giri on him. "Oni Giri!"
"You have no idea how big the world really is." My father said, stopping Zoro's attack by simply sticking his sword out in front of him, not even budging a little when Zoro tried pushing on it as hard as he could.
"What?! Big bro's Oni Giri was stopped?!" Johnny shouted in horror, unable to believe that Zoro's attack was deflected so easily.
"That's crazy! That attack never fails to stop an enemy!" Yosaku shouted, just as horrified as Johnny was.
The look on Zoro's face was one of shock and horror. While he hadn't understood how much stronger my father was then him before the attack, it was clear that he understood now. The look on his face said it all.
"I am not that far behind the world's greatest!" He shouted in defiance, still unable to believe that his attacks were being stopped that easily.
"Such ferocious swords play." My dad said, still stopping all of Zoro's attacks with short, simple movements.
One attack.
That's all it took. Just one attack and Zoro was no longer able to move more then one inch a second.
"What is it then? What weight is it that you carry upon your shoulders?" Dad asked him, wanting to know why he was still trying to fight even though he could barely move as it was. "Speak up weakling."
Now, why I didn't like all the taunting either, I wasn't about to go flying at my father like Yosaku and Johnny was trying to do.
"Stop you idiots!" I shouted angrily, grabbing onto the backs of their shirts and yanking them back onto the Baratie before they had even gone two steps.
"Stay put!" Luffy said angrily, causing the two bounty hunters to glare at him.
They really didn't like being forced to stay out of the fight.
"I refuse to be defeated." Zoro said, straightening up as much as he could so that he was now standing straight. "Tiger! Trap!"
My father simply twitched his wrist, stopping the attack completely and causing a small shock wave to move through Zoro.
When Zoro didn't step back and instead just stood there, my father couldn't help by raise an eyebrow at him.
"You've been defeated and yet you wont step back, why?" He asked, wanting to know why he was so determined to fight.
"I don't know," Zoro said, breathing hard from the pain that was making it's way through his body. "But, I will not run. Even if I retreat a single step, I would be shattering the promises I made. I can't run, I would loose my honor. You see, without that there would be nothing left for me here."
"That's what defeat is." dad said, still holding his vibrating sword against Zoro's.
"Hah, then I wont except defeat." Zoro said defiantly.
"Then you'll die."
"Zoro simply smiled at my fathers comment, not really caring if he died or not, so long as he never gave up on his promise.
"Then I die with honor!" Zoro said, and the look on his face said that he was serious.
He would rather die then step down, and that was just the way it was going to have to be.
"Sir, state your name." Dad said, lowering his sword and taking a step back so that there was room between them.
"I am Roronoa Zoro." Zoro stated, holding his swords so that they made a triangle near the handles.
"I shell remember that name, a man as strong as you hasn't appeared before me in a long time." Dad said, bowing his head to him in respect before holding his sword out, clearly planing on ending the battle now.
"Three swords style secret technique!" Zoro shouted as he started spinning the swords that were in his arms.
"Fall!" dad shouted as he rushed Zoro.
"The thousand worlds!" Zoro shouted as his and dad's attacks both hit at the same time, though the damage wasn't immediately visible.
Or rather the damage wasn't visible until the two swords in Zoro's hands shattered into a bunch of little pieces, at which point blood shot out from small wounds all up and down his arms.
Dad, however, appeared to be unharmed.
Zoro fell to his knees and dropped the two broken swords, knowing that there was no point in holding them now that they had been destroyed.
He then took the white sword out of his mouth and put it into it's sheath before standing up and turning around with his arms spread wide, clearly indicating that my father should end it.
My father simply stared at him for a few seconds, unable to believe that he had actually come across a man that was truly a swordsman, because only a swordsman would want to have his life ended when defeated.
He was even more shocked to find that this man was on the same crew as his daughter, which showed that she was definitely in good hands.
"Why?" He asked simply, wanting to know if Zoro was really asking to be killed now that he had lost in battle.
Zoro simply smiled at him, thinking that his question was kind of funny.
"Strikes to the back are a swordsman's shame." He said simply, giving the answer my father had been hoping for.
"Very well then."
And with that, dad took his sword and slashed Zoro across the chest, causing me to close my eyes and flinch away from the seen.
Like I said before, knowing it was going to happen, and actually seeing it happen in person were two very different things.
While I knew that Zoro was going to get a horrible, I hadn't actually been prepared tor the sound of cutting flesh, or the site of a ton of blood flying through the air.
"Zoro!" Luffy shouted in horror, though he still somehow managed not to go over to him and stop my father.
"You shouldn't rush these things, young man." My father said, standing up and turning away from Zoro as he fell to the ground.
"Big bro!" Yosaku and Johnny shouted in unison, unable to watch as Zoro lay motionless on the ground.
"Don't be stupid!" Sanji shouted, causing me to look over at him angrily. "Give up your ambition and live!"
"Damn you!" Luffy yelled angrily as he threw his arm as hard as he could at my father, grabbing onto a railing behind dad when it missed to pull himself across the water.
"What?! He's some kind of a freak!" Several of Don Krieg's men shouted when they saw Luffy's arm stretching out across the water.
"So, that kid's got the power of the devil fruit." Krieg said, understanding making its way into his eyes.
When Luffy was almost to him, dad simply moved out of the way and let him slam into a huge wall of wood behind him, causing the boards to shatter into a million little pieces.
"I take it you're my daughter's and that young warrior's captain, are you?" dad said as Luffy tried to get his head unstuck from the wooden wall, not really making it a question as he already knew the answer. "I'm impressed with you for not interfering." he added as Luffy finally managed to get his head unstuck.
Not bothering to wait for their conversation to end, I dove into the water and swam over to Zoro, wanting to see if I could help him in some way.
By the time I got over to him, my father had already reassured Luffy that Zoro was alive and would live, and Zoro had already made his speech about becoming the world's greatest swordsman and never loosing again.
Unfortunately, but the time I got over to him, I also found that I had dove into the water for no reason as Usopp, Johnny, and Yosaku had already gotten the boat over to him and had gotten him into it before I could even get there.
'Damn I'm slow! Wasn't I a lot faster at swimming then this when I was trying to kill dad?' I thought, wandering why I hadn't zoomed through the water like before.
"It seems you've chosen a good crew to join, daughter." Dad said to me as I looked over at the boat in annoyance.
While I had loved to swim when I was younger and normal, now that I was a cat girl, I wasn't to happy about getting wet.
"I think so too." I answered him, smiling up at him before once again diving into the water, and this time swimming over to Johnny's and Yosaku's ship.
"I will be seeing you again." Dad said once I had finally made it onto the ship as he turned and headed for his own. "Take care."
"Hey!" Krieg demanded, stomping his foot in anger as my father continued walking away. "Hawk-eye! I was under the impression that you had come here to take my life, weren't you here to kill Don Krieg, ruler of the east blue?" He demanded angrily, extremely pissed that he was being brushed off like that.
"While the thought is extremely tempting, all things considered, I have already promised my daughter that I would allow her captain to deal with you, so I think I'll simply head home for some rest for now." Dad said, though the tone in his voice said that he was half tempted to ignore his promise and just kill the bastard right there, still angry that Krieg had shot at his daughter.
"Huh, I don't care what you've promised the bitch, I haven't even gotten started." Krieg said, causing my father to spin around so fast that I hadn't even seen him move.
"Dad no!" I shouted, still determined to get Luffy to beat Krieg so that we could get Sanji.
Lucky for me, and for Don Krieg, my father seemed to have really good reflexes, because the moment I called out for him he stopped whatever it was that he had been about to do.
"You promised, remember?" I pleaded, begging for him to leave and let Luffy handle it.
Dad simply looked at me for a few seconds before nodding his head and turning around, once more heading for his little boat.
"Don't turn your back on me!" Krieg shouted, opening all his guns up and firing them at my father.
"Some people just wont learn." Dad said as he simply waved his sword and deflected the attack, which then exploded and covered the place in a thick cloud of smoke.
Luffy used his Gum Gum ability to get out of the way of the attack and back over onto the Baratie, though it wasn't really necessary as bullets didn't hurt him to begin with.
When I realized that dad and his boat were now disappearing into the distance, I called out to him, finally realizing something I should have realized before.
"Hay! Wait! What about flying?" I shouted after him as the thought finally occurred to me.
"Haha! Just like your cousin Brenda! Hahaha! All you need to do is simply find a good broom and use it, but it is always better for a witch to make their own!" He shouted as his tiny boat quickly vanished into the distance.
Maybe being a witch wasn't so bad.
"Hay!" Luffy called over to us, snapping me out of my lala land at the thought of flying. "Go on ahead, I'll leave Nami to you guys!"
"Roger that! Don't you worry about a thing! We'll get her back, don't worry!" Usopp shouted back.
"Yeah, and make sure you get Sanji to become our cook! Then when we get Nami, the six- er.. the eight of us will set sail for the Grandline!" I shouted as well, almost forgetting to could Lil and Choco. "OH! And Sanji?" I called out, causing him to look up at me.
"Yes, Kaede my sweet?" He asked happily, doing that weird wiggly wiggly thing with his legs again.
"Watch Choco, and make sure Luffy doesn't forget to get me Don Krieg's armored gloves! OK?" I asked, taking a leaf out of Nami's book and batting my eyes at him.
It might make me feel stupid, but it was necessary. I couldn't exactly leave the gloves to Luffy, now could I?
"Alright my love!" Sanji said happily, still doing that weird wiggly wiggly thing with his legs as his eyes turned into giant hearts.
"Hay! What about me?!" Lil shouted, thinking that I had forgotten all about her.
The moment I smiled at her, she froze in horror, knowing that I was about to do something that she really wasn't going to like.
"No! You wouldn't!" She said in horror, already backing away from Luffy, knowing what I was about to do.
"Luffy, can you toss Lil here for me?" I asked plainly, knowing that Luffy wouldn't even stop to think about what he was doing.
And I was right.
"Sure!" He said happily, picking Lil up and preparing to toss her though the air.
"No! Someone call my lawyer! This has got to be against my contraaaaaaact!" She shouted as she was catapulted into the air.
The moment she was over Johnny's and Yosaku's ship, I jumped into the air and caught her, smiling when she clutched at me angrily.
The words that left her little kitty lips once she was finally able to talk again, caused me to chuckle happily.
"Oh, I am so going to sue you."
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