To whomever posted the update on my Avengers story, I'm flattered that you wanted me to update this story, BUT that was not appropriate to post on that story. Therefore I have deleted it, sorry.
I haven't updated this because no one has reviewed in a very long time so if there are fans of the story out here, PLEASE review! It really does inspire me and other writers when we see a post. Even if it's just a simple "good job" that's HUGE motivation.
So to whomever posted for me to update, thanks but from now on, comment on THIS story instead of my OTHER ones. ;)
-yesiamwerid
"Kimi! Kimi! Kimi! Is it done! Do you have the powder! Please! Please! Please!" Luffy jumped around the storage room awaiting his bag of exploding powder to show off to Chopper and Ussopp what it had been like while he was frozen from Aokiji.
The woman smiled shaking her head at the captain. "Of course, here you are Luffy." She handed him a small bag filled with exploding powder. "Just shake it a little bit and the CO2 will be trapped inside the bag and explode causing you to be filled with powder."
"Yay! Kimi is the best! Yay, Kimi is the best! Yay, Kimi is the best!" Luffy cheered running around in circles. "For been frozen half to death, you'd think you would be a bit more concerned with the issue." She giggled and watched him shake the bag and run out of the room without paying the least bit of attention to her statement.
Seeing Aokiji yesterday after the longest time brought back so many memories from the Marines visiting her and her father. Wanting…no, expecting and demanding the supplies and materials they requested from their brains.
If it hadn't been for her sister, Kimi and her father would have gone about their lives day by day without a care in the world. Yes, it was her sister fault but after the things that Kimi had done in the past she couldn't blame her for selling Kimi out…
"If only I wasn't smart…" She sighed crossing her arms. "Life would have been better…" She shook the depressing feelings away and then stood up to see what the others were up too. Robin had been awake since last night, but she refused to get up and join the others in this morning.
Brushing off the white powder from her skin tight black jeans, Kimi walked out from the storage room and into a sea of laugher from Chopper and Ussopp. She looked ahead to see Luffy covered in white powder just as expected from her creation. "Make sure you clean that mess up, Luffy!" Nami yelled from the second floor.
"Oh, Nami, what are you eating?" The captain brushed his shoulders of the white substance.
"Sanji-kun made potato paille! Would you like some?" She muttered as she slapped Luffy's hand from stealing hers. "Nami! Could you tell Sanji to make some for me as well?" Kimi took off her glasses cleaning them on the inside of her green tank-top. "Sure thing, Kimiko!" The girl winked and then walked over to the cook fighting with the swordsman as usual.
"Will they ever stop fighting?" Kimi pointed her gloved hand to the two men questioning Ussopp. "No…never…" he sweat-dropped.
Minutes later, the crew gathered around the various parts of the deck enjoying their potato meal quietly for a change until a door opened making the crew look towards the sound. "Robin!"
"Robin, are you still feeling cold?" Chopper questioned. "No. Your regiment has helped me fully recover. Thank you. You are a great doctor." She smiled.
The small reindeer danced around the deck, "Baka! Calling me a doctor won't make me happy you bitch!" he giggled. "Don't push yourself, Robin. Luffy is of course bouncing around the ship but you can take your time to recover if you want!" Nami carefully observed the raven-haired woman's sluggish demeanor.
"Robin-chan, would you like for me to make you something. Possibly something warm?" Sanji smiled. "Yes, could I have some coffee?" She smiled back. "Of course! Nami and Kimi would you ladies like coffee as well?" The cook ran towards the kitchen smiling. "Yes. Thank you." Kimi nodded following him and Nami into the room.
"Robin are you feeling better?" Kimi sat down already questioning the injured woman. "Yes, thank you…much better." She smiled. "And you are feeling better as well?" She rested her cheek on her hand while her elbow rested on the table. "The last I saw of you, you're body was being frozen…"
Kimi looked up nervously and nodded. "Yes. I'm fine…no problem…except…"
"Ah, here we are! Thank you for waiting mademoiselles!" Sanji held out a plate with three coffee cups on top when suddenly the ship began to rock un-easily. "What in the world are they doing!" Nami barked and then ran out the room.
"Strange…" Kimi took the plate from within one of Robin's hands that had held down Sanji and the plate of coffee in place. The scientist walked out back to the deck, "We found this huge frog with scars all over his body! We are going to chase him and then eat him!" Luffy cheered making Kimi and the navigator look out into the ocean.
"Nami? Is that a lighthouse in the distance?" Kimi pointed out making the woman frown. "What in the world would a lighthouse be doing out here?"
"But the frog! Tell us where the frog going!" Luffy yelled while paddling the ship. "NO!" The navigator screamed.
"It seems to be heading towards the lighthouse…" Kimi nodded sipping her coffee. "Kimi…." Nami pulsated.
"Frog is first marinated in white wine to dissolve the mucus and then coated with flour and deep fried." Sanji huffed from his cigarette. "Hey, Sanji-kun!" Nami proceeded to growl growing teeth in annoyance.
" If the Captain says we're going, we don't really have a choice." Robin muttered. "Robinnnnnn" Nami turned to the woman crying.
"Yosh! Full speed ahead to the lighthouse!"
"Miss Scientist, would you like to accompany Mr. Doctor and me into the city?" Robin asked from the threshold of the kitchen. Kimi shook her head turning her body in the chair of the table, "No, I'm trying to get this face scrub for Nami just right. But if you could, Robin, I'd like an interesting book." She turned back to the table and her chemicals in front of her.
"Sure thing." Robin nodded and then closed the door behind her leaving Kimi and her thoughts written in her journal alone. Since she didn't want the ocean breeze to flip the pages of her book or have her glass jars tip over, Kimi thought to work inside the kitchen would be the better option.
Robin and Chopper had left about thirty minutes after Luffy, Nami and Ussopp left leaving Kimi, Sanji and Zoro the only ones left on the Merry. She hoped with the gold they had retrieved from Skypiea they could find a decent shipwright to fix their poor ship. Kimi and Ussopp's repairs could only go so far and just as they had anchored outside of Water 7, Zoro had accidentally broken the mast once again.
"Okay, time to focus!" Kimi smiled to herself trying to carefully read her instructions and create this refreshing facial scrub. She had come up with this idea when her sister was a teenager and one with growing acne all over her face. To please her defiant sister, Kimi created the scrub in order to exfoliate her sister's dirty and oily face.
When Kimi had suggested the outdated product to Nami bickering over a small blemish on her forehead, Nami insisted the scientist to create a supply for the future which Kimi had reluctantly agreed.
"Oi, Kimi-swan…" Sanji opened the door prancing in while she was carefully working.
"Yes Sanji?" She sighed freezing in the moment.
"I was going to venture out into the city and wondering if you would accompany me?" She sighed already aggravated that he had one, interrupted her, and two, asked something that had already been proposed to her before. "Um, no Sanji-san, I'm fine…thanks." She shook her head and then continued on with her work.
Minutes seemed to pass like seconds and quickly an hour fell under the female scientists work alone in the kitchen of the pirate ship. She had created at least two medium sized bottles of the face scrub and now she was working on her third and final bottle for the day.
"In here. I hear something!" An unknown whisper came from the other side of the wooden door.
Kimi perked her head up and turned around just as the men pushed aside the door. "Yes?" Kimi frowned creating a shadow from her forehead blacking out her eyes behind her black framed glasses.
"Heh, pretty woman."
"All alone too."
The two men wore oddly shaped sun-glasses and then weird black pants with a red star in the middle of them. "Please…just try." She said emotionlessly and stood from her chair crossing her gloved hands in front of her chest.
"Who the hell are you?" Kimi heard a serious and stern voice from the swordsman on the deck. "Give your names!" He demanded. Listening to Zoro's warning made Kimi lose her guard for the moment giving the two men the opportunity to strike with their swords but luckily for the woman she was quick on her toes avoiding the swing of their blades.
"You are good woman!" One of the men smirked and then jumped in front of Kimi making contact with the back of the sword to the side of her head causing her to fall to the floor.
"We are a group of bounty hunters, whose name scares children into silence…The Franky Brothers!" Kimi heard another unknown voice from the deck where Zoro's voice sounded. She could feel her arms being pulled behind her back and then her torso being lifted from the floor with one of the bounty-hunter men capturing her from behind.
"Your head is worth 60,000,000 Berri and we'll be taking it, thank you. Now that we've ambushed you on your own ship, we can round up the rest of your crew as well!"
"Oi, Aniki!" The man holding Kimi captive from behind spoke, "I captured this one but I don't think she has a bounty!"
"Ah! It won't matter! She is still a pirate so it's still easy money! How lucky!"
Looking up at Zoro surrounded by other similar dressed bounty-hunters on the deck, she caught his glace looking down at her. She wasn't sure what the look on his face read but if she had to guess it was a cross between pissed-off and concerned.
"Oi, Kimiko…you are bleeding…" He spoke emotionlessly and then blocked the rushing attacks from the opposing men. "Lucky, you say?" Zoro looked down smirking evilly, "Ha, I'd say unlucky." He sliced the one that had been talking the most and then attacked the rest on the dock with him causing them to fall lifelessly into the water surrounding the ship.
Giving the two men holding his female crewmate down, Zoro gave them a frightening death glare that made the hair on the back of Kimi's neck to stand up. "Oi, not worth it Aniki!" The man not holding Kimi cried and then ran off the side of the ship.
"Yea!" Kimi heard the man yelp and then felt her body being released and then pushed forwards. Before she could pull her strained arms from behind her back to catch her fall, stronger arms held her up in mid-air. "You okay?" Zoro's voice sounded above the blue-haired woman's head.
She griped onto the man's well defined and muscular arms pushing herself up non-chalantly. "Yes." She nodded and then released her arms as she caught onto her balance. "What was that about?" She rubbed the side of her aching head watching the men swim away.
"I'm not sure." Zoro walked back to the deck sighing, "Pathetic." He muttered.
"Oh…sorry…" Kimi sweat-dropped thinking he had been talking about her helpless reaction causing him to fall down, "Not you, them."
Kimi removed her glasses and smiled, "Oh. Sorry, again." She giggled and walked behind him to see the astounding beauty of Water 7. She leaned on the side of the railing while Zoro positioned his usual sleeping stance, "Guess we have to watch out for bounty-hunters everywhere we go." She muttered to herself.
The wind blew the strands of Kimi's hair not held back by her bun hairdo. The force of the breeze caused her to tense for a second and then release as it stopped. "Zoro, I'm going to change…" She walked back down the stair care for her room. "Yell if anyone else shows up on the ship." She smiled sweetly and then disappeared.
Not long after Kimi had changed her clothes and re-did her hair did she hear Zoro's voice yelling at a stranger. "Just who the hell are you?" She ran out of the room ready to attack the stranger on the ship.
"Oh sorry! Did I wake you?"
Kimi walked out to the mast seeing a tall man with a long square shaped nose, similar to Ussopp's, examining the deck. After seeing the first bunch of intruders, this man seemed quite harmless making the tension release from Kimi's shoulders.
"Excuse me, who are you?" She walked over to the man smiling her usual sweet innocent smile, "Sorry, your crewmates told me to examine the ship for repairs!" He smiled.
"Oh yes. Thank you…Merry has been in some bad shape and Ussopp and I can only do so much." She smiled placing a soft had on the base of the wooden mast. Zoro yawned and withdrew his swords. "Kimi, watch him…" He closed his eyes and resumed his spot.
She giggled and then nodded to the long nosed man, "Continue please!"
He carefully examined the deck and then jumped below where the men's quarters resigned making Kimi hesitantly follow him into the sleeping room for the men of the ship. "Well everything seems to be in order…" the man traced the floor of the room and then stopped when he reached a squeaky board. "Oh, I want to take the floor apart, don't worry…I'll put it back together." He smiled reassuring the woman.
"Uh, sure." She smiled and then looked around the room the men slept in. It was quite small compared to the room she, Nami and Robin slept in, but then again knowing how head strong Nami was, she could imagine why they had a bigger quarter.
"Oi, what are you-?" Zoro peaked his head in at the sound of so much noise, "Kimi, you're supposed to be-"
"Sh!" Kimi smiled and then bent down to examine the hole the shipwright man had just made a mess of the floor into. "What do you see?" She titled her head and then blinked in surprise.
"Do you see the problem?" He nodded and then rebuilt the floor to its original state. Kimi sighed and stood to her feet nodding at his statement. She looked back up at a concerned and confused Zoro and sighed not sure what to say at the damage.
"What's wrong?" Zoro asked helping the woman back onto the deck. She sighed crossing her arms and looking out at the city once again.
"This ship is un-repairable. It will no longer sail anymore." The shipwright spoke Kimi's depressive actions.
"What do you mean?" Zoro spat back not wanting to believe. "You lie!"
"I do not lie, I am a professional. That ship is beyond being repaired. Ask your female friend. She seems to understand." And with that, the man jumped away.
"Oi, is it really that bad?" Zoro questioned.
Kimi looked back at the green-haired swordsman and nodded. "Yes…its true…" She watched him cross his arms and sit on the white rail of the deck. "Merry…" He whispered while the wind picked up speed causing Kimi to become on edge once again. "Is that true? You really can't sail anymore?" He looked to the goat figure at the front of the ship waiting for an answer.
"Zoro." Kimi spoke softly continuing to look at the impressive city of Water 7, "I know I haven't been aboard the Going Merry as long as you and the others have…" She turned around and looked up at the strawhat pirate flag waving above, "but Merry is hurt…and it would be a shame to have him drown while we selfishly continue on with our journey."
Instead of answering her, the emotionless swordsman simply blinked and then sat in his spot as he had been before without a word being spoken. Kimi looked back at the outside of Water 7 and nodded, She was going to venture off into it by herself the uneasy feeling the shipwright had just given her made her feel sad for her new home.
"Zoro, I'll be back…"A clone brought her book bag and journal from the kitchen. "Be careful." Was the only response she received from the infamous swordsman.