THE CHILDREN Set Sail!
Disclaimer: I have been 'ask' by Shiho here to remind you all to try read Zettai Karen Children Manga and contribute to them by buying their Manga as well if possible. The Straw Hats as well wish you readers to do the same. Also, I must remind you all that I am not allow to claim One Piece and Zettai Karen Children as my own.
"SHIHO! AOI! KAORU!" Minamoto yelled out as he, along with nearly ten dozen soldiers, search the entire area near the lake. "Where are you three?"
Minamoto? Minamoto! Hey, I'm right here!
"MINAMOTO-KUN~!" a very angry shout cause shivers to run down Minamoto's spine.
He turned around to find a B.A.B.E.L. helicopter hastily made landing as an angry, husky, and mid-sixty man jumped out. He is none other than the Chief of B.A.B.E.L., a.k.a. Taizo Kiritsubo.
C-Chief?
Kiritsubo angrily ran up to Minamoto and began to shake him furiously by the collar. "WHERE ARE THEY~? WHERE HAVE OUR NATION TEASURE RAN OFF TO~? WHAT IN HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO THEM~?"
"C-C-CALM DOWN, CHIEF!" Minamoto begged to his superior.
C-Chief! Stop! I'm right here! Can't you see me?
Fortunately for Minamoto, a young-looking woman quickly came out of the same copter and began to calm the maniac B.A.B.E.L. Chief. It was Kiritsubo's secretary/personal assistant, Oboro Kashiwagi.
"Sir, Minamoto needs to be alive! I don't think the Children will like it if he's dead," she reasoned.
Damn right! Nice going, Kashiwagi-san!
"HUH?" the Chief questioned dumbly. After a few moments of consideration, Kiritsubo released Minamoto, who quickly straighten himself. "You got lucky this time Minamoto-kun! But rest assure, IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THE CHILDREN, IT WILL BE ON YOUR HEAD!"
"Sir, if you really want to help," Minamoto sighed, "could you at least use our Prediction System to find them?"
"Huh?" the Chief questioned dumbly again, "Oh right! Brilliant, Minamoto-kun!"
Good thinking, Minamoto! HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! I'm right here!
"No, it's just common sense," Minamoto sighed again, "We've been looking for nearly two hours in this area alone. Considering the marks left on the metal bridge, the Children must have rammed their heads pretty hard. Hopeful, the impact hadn't cause any damages to their ESP power, so they manage to levitate or teleport to safety. If that was the case they should be around here unless someone picked them up…"
"Kashiwagi-san," Kiritsubo suddenly commanded, "call every one of our units immediately! Call the police, the national guards, and the army and tell them our national treasure had been kidnapped! We must have the full corporation of the entire nation to find the Children!"
Uh, we weren't actually kidnapped…I don't you have to go that far! Uh, hello? Can't you hear me? Hello? I'm right here!
"Yes sir," Kashiwagi calmly replied as she began to make some phone calls.
Wait…WHAT?
"HOLD IT!" Minamoto yelled from the action, "DON'T ACTUALLY DO IT! WE DON'T EVEN KNOW FOR SURE IF THEY HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED YET!"
Exactly! EXACTLY! Don't do it!
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THESE ARE OUR NATION'S TREASURE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT!" Kiritsubo lectured his idiotic logic as he brought out his own cell-phone to begin making some calls, "WE MUST TAKE DRASTIC MEASURE TO FIND THEM!"
"H-H-Hey, wait…"
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a min-
BAM!
"Ouch!" Kaoru whined as she recollects herself, "Oh, it was just a dream…"
Kaoru looked around from where she was and found that they were still in the lounge room. Aoi and Shiho are still sleeping in bed and she was on the floor after she had apparently rolled off during her sleep.
"That dream sure seem real though," Kaoru muttered to herself as went over to the sink to wash her face.
As she did this, Aoi and Shiho finally woke up as well, with a look of confusion on each of their face as they stare around.
"Uh, where are we?" Shiho pondered as Aoi confusingly shrugged.
"Oh, so you two are finally awake, huh?" Kaoru smirked as she went over to them, drying her face as she did.
"Kaoru," Aoi began, "what's going here?"
"We're on the Straw Hats' ship, of course!"
"Whose ship?"
"Oh, come on," Kaoru huffed, a tad annoyed, "are you two still half asleep? Don't you remember what happen yesterday?"
Aoi and Shiho tilt their head in response.
"About Luffy and his crew? About finding out that we are not in our own world anymore? About joining them as pirates?"
Finally, as if their brains had been reactivated, all of their memories of what had happen to them yesterday flashes before them.
"Oh right," Shiho exclaimed, "we're pirates now!"
"And we are going to finally be treated as adults on this ship!" Aoi added.
"Now you two are making sense," Kaoru bellowed, "well, now that that's over with, get yourself wash up you two so all three of use can find Sanji and get something to eat…"
"Uh, don't we need to brush our teethes too," Aoi reminded.
"Come on, we're pirates now! We don't need to do that anymore…"
After Aoi and Shiho had washed themselves awake, the Children made their way to the deck, hoping to ask Sanji for some breakfast.
As they exit to the deck, however…
"No, nope, no way. I didn't do anything about it." Luffy nervously replied, waving his hand in front of his face as he did, "Not at all. Not me."
Luffy was sitting on the deck, all sweaty and trying to avoid eye contact with Sanji who was towering above him.
Nami and Vivi were nearby, watching the scene takes place before them and Zoro was sleeping not too far off.
Usopp, Chopper, and Carue sat on the side of the ship, seemingly trying to fish for food.
"Hey why do keep looking away? Look straight into my eyes," Sanji calmly lectured, "Now let me ask you something…"
"Uh, Nami," Aoi spoke up, catching the Navigator's attention, "What's going on?"
"Oh, you three are awake," Nami stated the obvious, "Well, somehow all the food that was kept in the fridge are now gone. All of it! So now Sanji is 'investigating' it…"
"Let me guess, he found the 'prime suspect'?"
Nami simply nodded as Sanji continue to grill Luffy for a confession.
"Hey," Sanji suddenly blurted, "There's something around your mouth."
"Crap! Leftovers?" Luffy panicked, as he covered his mouth to hide the 'leftover'.
"IT WAS YOU!" Sanji angrily and rightfully accused as he kick Luffy hard.
The Children sweat dropped at the display of power.
"It doesn't look like Luffy is one to reveal secrets to," Shiho commented on Luffy's lack in lying skills.
"You know, I just thought of something," Kaoru voiced, catching her two best friends' attention, "We want to be treated like adults, right?"
Aoi and Shiho nodded as a mean to confirm it.
"And Luffy act childish well beyond us, right?"
Again, Aoi and Shiho nodded.
"Well, wouldn't that mean we'll end up like Luffy if we do something stupid?"
The two jerked at the sudden realization.
"Note to all," Aoi mumbled to her friends, "if you want to survive from digging your own grave, don't do something stupid…"
"Oh, Nami-san!" Sanji suddenly cried is his usual pervert tone, "Can you believe that asshole? You got to by me a refrigerator with a lock!"
"Yeah~," Nami hummed with a sweat drop, "I'll think about it. Our lives will probably depend on it…"
Usopp suddenly gulped for some strange reason. "Okay, better catch some fish for Sanji…"
Chopper and Carue voice in agreement, but like Usopp kept their face facing away from the rest.
"Uh, are you three ok?" Kaoru asked in confusion.
"Oh," Usopp rushed to say, still not turning around, "We fine! Really!"
Out of curiosity, Shiho gentle slide her hand across each of their backs.
"Oh, Sanji-kun," Shiho voiced, catching the pirate chef's attention, "it looks like our three kind fishers here weren't just mere witness to Luffy's crime…"
Sanji ponder for a moment on Shiho's words before he angrily understood.
As did Usopp, Chopper, and Carue who turned fearfully, revealing their cheeks was stuff (Carue still has uneaten steak in its bill).
"Oh crap," Usopp manages…
"Thanks Shiho," Sanji thanked after he 'took care' of the rest of the food thieves, "with you around these idiots won't be able to get away so easily anymore…"
"No problem," Shiho smiled, "after all, thanks to them, the rest of us won't be able to eat…"
"I see your point…"
"Hero?" Nami suddenly volume, "Crocodile is the hero of Arabasta?"
"Now how did that happen?" Kaoru joined, "I mean, isn't he a bad guy?"
"Well," Vivi explained, "basically Warlords are, as you already know, pirates working for the government. And whether it is the Marines crushing pirates in the name of justice or Warlords crushing pirates for treasure, the people end up being grateful anyhow. After all, their town's attacker are driven away…"
"I get it now," voiced Aoi, "because of this, no one will ever think that their hero will try to destroy their country, right?"
Vivi nodded. "It is a very low trick…"
"So all we have to do is stop him and his organization," Kaoru wondered, "right?"
"No problem!" Luffy cheered with a determined voice, "I'll just kick his ass! Right?"
Vivi smiled. "Yes…but first we'll stop the rebellion that he help created. If we do that, and drive Baroque Works out of the Arabasta…my country will be saved."
"Wait hold on," Usopp, who had finally manage to recover from his beating, intervene, "How does this Baroque Works operate that actually made all of this chaos possible? I mean their whole system still mystify me, with all that 'Mr.' & 'Miss' crap going on…"
"I curious about these Baroque works too," Shiho added, "I know we're suppose to fight them but…"
"Well for starter," Vivi began as Zoro yawn awake, "the system behind the 'Mr.' & 'Miss' is really simple. At the top is Crocodile…Mr. 0. There are thirteen agents who takes orders directly from him, twelve men and one animal…"
"Animal?" Kaoru wonder out loud.
"Mr. 13 and Miss Friday," Sanji quickly explained, "an otter and a vulture, respectively…"
"Yes," Vivi continued, "All of the male agents' codename are 'Mr.', follow by a number. They are paired with female agents that compliment their particular powers. Mr. 13 and Miss Friday are special in that they punish the other agents for failure."
"All the agents from Mr. 5 and up are called Officer Agents. They don't act unless the business is extremely important. And most of them have Devil Fruit Powers…"
"You mean like Luffy and Chopper?" Aoi asked.
"Right, only with different types of power. Below them are the Frontier Agents. They command the basic unit. Their job is raise funds for the company around the entrance to the Grand Line. That's the criminal organization known as 'Baroque Works' in the most simplest of terms…"
"I GET IT NOW! LOOK OUT CROCODLE!" Luffy proclaimed, "I JUST NEED TO KICK HIS ASS, RIGHT?"
"YAHOO! I'M WITH YOU Luffy," Kaoru joined, "LET'S KICK HIS BUTT ALL THE WAY TO THE MOON!"
"You two didn't understand a word she said, didn't you?" Sanji and Shiho monotone in unison at their idiotic companion.
"So let me get this straight," Aoi noted, "The whole point of Baroque Works is to destroy the Kingdom of Arabasta, right."
Vivi nodded as Nami decide to speak up. "Then that means," she began, "if that was their ultimate and final plan…then, when it happens, the 'Officer Agents' should all…"
"Yes," Vivi finalized, "…be gather together!"
"And…we must ALL be prepare by then…"
Everyone gave a determine nodded…well, almost everyone. Shiho and Aoi had only given a halfhearted nod.
What could they be thinking?
Normama: "Chapter 7 done with..."
Aoi (winking): But don't leave yet! To make up for missing last month, Normama has posted another chapter up!" XD
Kaoru: "Why did he miss last month anyway?"
Shiho: "He just got into College and didn't have time to update. Simple as that..."
Normama: "Yeah~, about that...I'll try to update them whenever I can from now. Until then, please review!"