Chapter 8: Shinkoku Island.

AN: Hey guys! Here's a new chapter of Disturbing Someone's Nap. Today Usopp shows his skills in story-telling and two insanely powerful characters will meet.

So, I've had a couple of reviews arguing about Kuro and Usopp's treatement and I would like to reply to you all: I understand you.

I mean, really, Usopp has been fighting against stronger and more powerful enemies in the past, so why was he scared? Well, simply because it isn't Kuro's strength that is frightening: his speed, his evasiveness and his ruthlessness makes him a terrible oponent for a sniper like Usopp. Kuro may not be as fast as the CP9 agents but, trust me, the human eye doesn't really sense the difference.

So, yeah, I apologize for being a little bit down-to-earth, and to overestimate Kuro to make everything a little bit more interesting, but, hey, it's true that Usopp didn't show us any skills in close combat... which is why in this story I'll make him overcome his weakness!

To Swordsofthegods: Alas, I've decided that there won't be any romance in this story. Firstly because I suck at romance, and secondly because ... no, really, there's no secondly. I just suck at romance.

To chimera629: It's something I added. I've taken it from someone else, though. It comes from a French made-up scan I found a couple of years ago, explaining humorously how Zoro lost his eye. Here's the link (sorry it's in French, google translation is ur friend) Hostingpics 115183ScargagF . jpg (cannot copy it entirely) .

Usopp observed his opponent, The Ex-Captain Kuro, getting knocked out and being thrown into the ocean by the sniper's attack.

"I've gotten a lot stronger in three years." He said in awe. 'But still, compared to what I fought in the past, Kuro was a weakling.' Usopp thought, frowning. 'Why was I afraid then? I suppose I knew he'd discover my weaknesses and use them to defeat me.'

"I've got so many weaknesses." He said aloud, looking down the ground. "I should train more…"

His monologue was interrupted by a loud noise.

Usopp widened his eyes and turned around. Then he realized that his fight had spectators.

Kaya, Merry, the three members of the Usopp Pirates, were there, cheering Usopp.

But that wasn't all. Three other people were among the group.

"Yahoo!" A boy with a straw-hat exclaimed. "You really sent him flying!"

Usopp widened his eyes. "Luffy?"

A green-haired young man with a scar on his eye observed Usopp with a small smirk. "Oi, you took your time."

"Well, it seems the Pirates won't land on this island." The orange haired young girl that wore jeans and a bra said with a sigh. "There goes my treasure…"

Usopp approached the group, a cheering smile on his face. "I'm happy to see you three. When did you arrive?"

"An hour ago." Zoro replied, just when Usopp and Luffy made a 'getting together again' dance. We met Kaya and the three kids who explained us everything."

Merry, however, wasn't as cheerful as the others.

"You watched your friend getting sliced by this monster and you didn't move an inch!" He protested.

"Hey, it was a men's fight!" Piiman retorted to the butler.

"I know!" Merry retorted back, accepting the fact that he was arguing with a kid. "But it isn't a reason!"

Meanwhile, Kaya was amused to see that Usopp was getting along with these silly pirates, and was also relieved that her friend was safe.

"What about your wound?" She asked to Usopp.

He clutched his chest. "This one? It's nothing, really." He lied with a reassuring smile. In fact, it hurt like hell, but he wouldn't tell her that.

Luffy scratched his chin. "In any cases… I'm hungry!" He yelled.

Kaya smiled. "Okay, you're all invited to the mansion!"

Two hours later, the four straw hats and the three members of the Usopp Pirates were at the cozy living room of Kaya's mansion.

Luffy was eating a piece of meat, under the horrified looks of Merry, the butler.

Zoro was sitting on a sofa, drinking quality sake to the bottle.

Usopp was telling of his fight to his three loyal underlings, exaggerating a bit and making the story much more epic.

Nami was sitting at the table, speaking with Kaya. "Thanks for giving me some of your clothes." Nami said. "I lost all of them."

Kaya smiled. "It's the least I can do." She said.

Then she looked at the straw hats pirates, mostly Zoro and Luffy. "Can I ask you a question?"

Nami nodded. "Yes?"

Kaya rubbed her eyes. "I believe you when you say that you're all Usopp's friends, that you've sailed with him and all that, but there's something that bothers me for a while now."

Nami cocked her head. She knew what questions Kaya had in mind. "He hasn't left the village?" She asked.

Kaya nodded again. "He hasn't left the village. How could he have become a Pirate if he never set sail? And how did he knew about Clahador in the first place?"

Nami frowned. "Well…" She remembered telling Zoro and Luffy to not reveal that they were from the future to anyone, at least until they knew what happened to them.

"Oh, that's because we're from the future." Luffy said casually, loud enough so anyone could hear.

Suddenly, everyone stopped talking. Nami glared at her captain.

"I shouldn't have said it?" Luffy asked, feeling his navigator's intense glare. "Okay, forget about what I've said."

Then he continued eating his piece of meat.

"Is he right?" Both Kaya and Tamanegi asked simultaneously.

Usopp didn't know if he should tell the truth or not. "Well…"

Nami sighed. "It's okay I guess…" She turned to Kaya. "Apparently yes. We come from a little bit less than three years in the future."

Kaya blinked. "How?" Then she blinked again.

Nami shrugged. "I don't know. Grand Line, and especially its second part, is full of mysteries."

Piiman widened his eyes. "You were in Grand Line?" He asked in excitement.

Usopp smirked. "Of course. Up there we called me 'God Usopp' and I had more than five thousands men under my command! The Government offered 200 Million beri for my capture!"

"Whoaaa!" The three kids exclaimed in awe.

Zoro smirked at Usopp's declaration and finished his bottle.

"We were heading to an island called 'Shinkoku'." Nami explained. Then in deep sea we entered a strange zone which was covered by mist, and then we've been sent to the past, with our current appearances and at the exact same place we were."

Kaya digested the female navigator's words. "So… I guess that's why Usopp's appearance changed so suddenly…"

"Tell us everything!" The three kids shouted to Usopp simultaneously. "Tell us your adventures, o great Captain Usopp!"

Usopp took the posture of an adventurer. "Okay everyone! I'll tell you the adventures of the great Captain Usopp, and his right-hand, the young Luffy…"

"Hey!" Luffy protested angrily.

Kaya chuckled silently, observing Usopp with interest.

"…and his captain, the pirate Monkey D. Luffy."

Then Usopp told them the adventures of the straw hat Pirates.

"A Restaurant floating in the seas, really?"

"Whoa, you met the World's greatest swordsman there? Awesome!"

"…But Zoro lost, how sad…"

Zoro twitched. "Oi. I won't lose again if he ever shows up…"

"Then you fought against a fishman and won? How brave of you, captain!"

"A current that goes to the top of Red Line? I won't believe that one."

"Oh, and then we met a giant whale."

"What? The doctor lived within the whale?!"

"The story of Laboon is soo sad!"

"What?!" Merry shouted at Zoro, giving him a nasty glare. "You sliced 100 bounty hunters by yourself? You're some sort of monster!"

"Don't look at me like that, you!" Zoro retorted angrily.

"And in Whiskey Peak, we discovered Miss Wednesday was a princess and decided to help her to free her country."

Kaya raised an eyebrow. "And you were sleeping the whole time?"

Usopp looked elsewhere. "I … didn't know it was a trap. I thought they were really welcoming pirates."

Merry gave him a serious glare. "That makes you pretty naïve."

"Oh, I was fooled too!" Luffy said with a grin. "I fought against Zoro because I didn't know they were bounty hunters."

"Then we went to a place named Little Garden…"

"What?! There were Dinosaurs?!"

"Giants!?"

"A Wax Man?!"

"You were friends with legendary Giants? You're soo cooool!"

"Then Nami was sick, so we headed to a Winter Island in order to find a doctor…"

"A talking reindeer? Really?"

"He became your nakama? That's great!"

"And finally, we arrived at Alabasta, the sand country…"

Usopp continued his story, telling the audience his adventures in Grand Line, making himself look more badass and everything. It was punctuated by some of the kids' comments.

"You fought the mole woman!"

"And the baseball guy!"

"He had a dog rifle!"

"That's so cool!"

And, times to times, Luffy or another straw hat would add something to the story.

"And then I kicked Crocodile's ass and he flew through the wall!" Luffy exclaimed. "And then I slept for three days."

Kaya smiled. "Well, everything went fine in the end. I'm glad."

"And where did you go after Alabasta?" Piiman asked.

"It's not like we'll be surprised." Tamanegi added.

"You told us about talking reindeer, giants, and rifles that ate a dog devil fruit." Ninjin said. "Whatever you say, we won't be surprised."

Usopp cleared his throat. "Alright then… After Alabasta we went to a sky island."

Piiman, Ninjin and Tamanegi didn't know their jaws could drop that low.

Merry widened his eyes. "You mean… the Going Merry, my Going Merry, went in the sky?!" He exclaimed.

Usopp, Zoro, Nami and Luffy nodded their heads at the same time. "Yeah."

Merry stared at Kaya. "How come you weren't surprised?!" He asked.

The blond lady had an amused smile on her face. "Oh, but Usopp already told me the whole story."

And so, the Usopp Pirates learned more about their captain's adventures in the sky island Skypiea, in city of gold, and on his fight against the mighty Eneru.

"Whoa, the city of gold!" Piiman exclaimed.

Nami sighed. "Unfortunately, Eneru took all the gold from the city in order to build his ship. What a jerk." She mumbled. "Hopefully there were still treasures in the snake's stomach."

"So, so, so, captain Usopp!" Tamanegi exclaimed. "The next adventure should be ten times more epic, right?"

Luffy nodded. "Yeah it was!" He shouted with excitation.

Usopp cleared his throat. "After the sky island, we descended to the blue sea with an octopus." He declared. "And then, on the next island, we met with pirates and we played a game called the Davy Back Fight…"

"And you met an ice guy, really?" Tamanegi asked.

Merry gulped. "Aokiji? I thought his powers were made-up by the Marines, but they were real… Grand Line is truly a frightening place."

Usopp nodded. "Luffy challenged him into a duel, but Aokiji defeated him easily. It took days for him to be freed from the ice."

The three kids, Merry and Kaya were shocked.

Luffy simply laughed. "Shishishi! Next time I'll beat him for sure."

Zoro smirked.

"And after Long Ring Long Land, we went to Water 7…" Usopp declared, then his words died on his throat.

Kaya frowned, remembering the stories her friend had told her two days ago. Two friends, a Captain and his crewmate, fighting for their ship. One had realized their trip companion was impossible to repair and took the harsh decision to replace it, and the other couldn't accept that. Since the Pirates had claimed that they were from the future, Kaya understood that most of the stories Usopp had told her were true, so indubitably…

"It's where the Going Merry made his last crossing, am I right?" She said with a serious tone.

Usopp nodded silently.

Merry looked horrified. "What… you mean that my ship … died?"

A tear was appearing on Usopp's eye, and Luffy was sniffing, trying not to cry. Both weren't able to answer to their beloved ship's creator.

"Yeah." Zoro replied at their stead. "The carpenters had declared that the Going Merry was beyond repair, but he didn't meet his end on Water 7, and saved us all from a harsh battle."

Usopp wiped the tear off his eye. "Yes." He said proudly. "The Merry had been doing its best to help us, till the very end."

The ship's creator stared at Zoro, then at Usopp, and sighed out of relief. "I'm proud." He said simply.

Piiman, Ninjin and Tamanegi were, above all, curious.

"Please, captain Usopp!" Piiman pleaded. "Tell us the story of the bravest ship of the Seas!"

Usopp took a deep breath, then spoke. "Alright." He announced. "It all began back in Skypiea. Do you remember when I told you that, one night, I saw a little man in the mist repairing the Merry?"

They nodded. "We still don't know what it was." Piiman said.

"Well…" Usopp said in a low tone. "I'll tell you later, but first, let me tell you about Water 7. The city is reputed for their skilled carpenters and for its sea train…"

And Usopp continued his telling of the adventures in Water 7, without lying or exaggerating this time. He told them the fight he had with Luffy for the ship –the three kids shed manly tears, of course-, about the carpenters of Galley-La, the Franky Family, the disappearance of Robin, the CP9, and the trip to Enies Lobby. Then he told them about a certain Sogeking, that participated in the battle of Enies Lobby and told Usopp everything. The three kids listened at the king of the sniper's story in awe –they seemed to have found a new hero- while Kaya just laughed silently, knowing that Sogeking surely was Usopp himself. Then he told them about the battle against the CP9 and Luffy's fight against Rob Lucci, the battle on the Bridge of Hesitation and the Going Merry's appearance, saving all the crew in the process. After that, everyone –except Zoro, who was stone-hearted- shed tears upon listening the last moments of the Going Merry.

Then Usopp continued his story in a lighter mood, telling them about their new ship, the Thousand Sunny, and their new nakamas, Franky. He told them the scary adventures of Thriller Bark, with ghosts, zombies and talking skeletons. Piiman, Ninjin and Tamanegi were shaking in fear, which made Luffy and Usopp laugh a lot.

Usopp and the rest spent the entire afternoon speaking of their adventures to Kaya, Merry and the kids, about the Sabaody archipelago, then about Kizaru, Kuma, Rayleigh and how the crew was separated. Usopp told them about how he received an intense training and learned how to use the pop greens in Boin Archipelago, Nami told them how she learned the science of weather and the New World's currents in the sky island of Weatheria, Zoro told them how he was trained by a great swordsman – he refused to tell them his name, surely out of pride- and Luffy talked about his encounter with Boa Hancock. Zoro snorted, telling that 'if the pervy cook was there he would faint out of frustration and jealousy.

And then, Luffy spoke about his failed attempt to save his brother Ace. It wasn't like he felt obliged to do it, but he told them every little details he could remember, at least until Ace was freed in Marineford. It was a good way for him to come to terms with it, and even if it was traumatizing and if he still wanted himself for not being able to save his brother Luffy would gain a second chance, and intended not to waste it. Everyone listened to Luffy without saying a word.

After that, Luffy told them how he trained during two years with Rayleigh, then at their meeting in the Sabaody archipelago. Usopp then continued his story, telling them about Fishman Island, Punk Hazard, Dressrosa, Zou and Wa no Kuni.

"And then we were heading to Shinkoku island." Usopp concluded. "It's a shame we didn't reach it because in this island there is…"

Somewhere on the seas of the New World, in the present time, five Navy HQ warships were moving swiftly on the water. In the middle ship, a man was standing on its deck, staring at the horizon. He wore the mantle of a Marine officer.

Or rather, it would be what one concluded if one didn't know his man and saw him from behind, because this man definitely didn't stare at the horizon. In fact, this man didn't see at all.

"Admiral Fujitora?" Vice-Admiral Maynard approached his superior with a hint of hesitation. "Are you sure the straw-hats were heading to this direction?"

"Certain." Fujitora stated. "Even if the Vivre Card stopped moving, I am sure Monkey D. Luffy is heading to Shinkoku Island. Don't change the fleet's direction!"

Maynard frowned. "Even though we're entering a zone of fog?"

Issho raised an eyebrow. "I wasn't aware of it." He said sincerely. "Then we will bypass it, it isn't safe for…" The Admiral stopped talking.

"Is there something wrong, Admiral?" The Vice-Admiral asked.

Fujitora frowned. "Don't you sense it, Maynard? With your observation Haki, I mean."

Maynard looked puzzled. "I don't sense anything; the color of observation is hardly my forte…"

Then, without preventing, Fujitora took his sword in his hands, ready to unsheathe it.

"I sense someone in front of us." Admiral Issho declared. "And this someone is emitting a surprisingly strong aura…"