Heya!

Sorry my updating is so slow lately, but I've had a lack of inspiration, and I've been feeling lazy too :I I'm such a lazy bitch... Pardon the language there.

I was listening to Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse, Holiday by Green Day, It's Time by Imagine Dragons, and Magic by b.o.b.

So here it is! Hope ya enjoy~ (:

Italics Are when Akira talks to Laila while he's still in his kitty form :3


"KKYYYYYYAAAAAAAAA!" Oura screamed as she saw the little fluffy cat standing on deck. The cat jumped and turned around, looking alarmed as its eyes settled on her. Oura just screamed again when she realized it was actually looking at her. "GAAAAH! INUKA HELLPP!" Oura screeched. Inuka was there in an instant, searching for the cause of his owner's distress.

As soon as Inuka saw the cat, he began barking a storm and chasing it all over the ship, it wasn't long before Laila came out on deck and whipped her head around in search of the source of the noise. Oura was still yelping and screeching when Akira ran too close to her, and Inuka was chasing him. Laila paused as her brain attempted (key word, attempted) to figure out what was going on.

"LAILA, THINK LATER; HELP NOW!" Akira exclaimed, hiding from Inuka behind some barrels. Laila snapped out of her thoughts and ran down to save Akira from being mauled by Inuka. She carried Akira away, ignoring his grumblings. Inuka trotted back over to Oura, licking her hand in a comforting manner.

"Oura, why were you screaming?" Laila asked as she set down Akria.

"C-cat!" She squeaked, hiding behind Inuka as much as she could.

"What about cats?" Akira asked as he turned back into his human form.

"Oh, hi Akira!" Oura chirped, either ignoring or not noticing the fact that Akira was the cat that she had just been screaming about.

"Oura, are you afraid of cats?" Laila asked suddenly.

"Yeah, they're scary." Oura explained with an 'it's completely obvious' expression.

"Akira, you can't turn into a cat whenever you want to anymore." Laila told Akira in a low tone as Oura was busy playing with Inuka.

"Aww…" Akira pouted, not liking the idea but agreeing, since he had been the one to ask Oura be their cook. Besides, he was sure he could get used to it.


Later on in the day…


"Oi, Akira, you see that ship?" Yukio asked, pausing their game of cards on the deck to point at the marine ship, approaching quickly.

"Yeah, I think it's marines." Akira stated, as if commenting on the weather.

"Well, shouldn't we do something?" Yukio asked patiently.

"Yeah, can we keep playing cards now?" Akira asked, ignoring the ship completely. Yukio sighed and stood up, ignoring Akira's protests as he walked away to inform Artemis and Laila of their current situation.

"Why didn't you guys tell us earlier?" Artemis asked, sounding a bit irked.

"Hey, now, I only just noticed it." Yukio explained.
"Well, let's just go change course." Laila suggested.

"But… we're so close to the next island!" Yukio exclaimed, frowning.

"But the way we're going, we'll meet up with that marine ship in no time." Artemis observed. Suddenly, her face lit up. "Well just fight them!" She chirped, grinning. She left no room to argue as she ran off to go find Oura.

Laila sighed. "I suppose we have no choice. We'll be fighting some marines this afternoon." She concluded.

"We're fighting marines today?" Akira asked, slamming the door open and poking his head inside the kitchen.

Yukio just smiled. Akira cheered and ran off to go find his swords.

"Wow. Who knew he would be that enthusiastic about fighting some marines?" Laila said, though she was also smiling. She wasn't sure why, since they technically could get captured, though she doubted that; they were strong, and she was sure they could all handle themselves.

"Ooh, it's almost here!" Oura said, staring at the marine ship as it loomed closer and closer.

"Yep. You good at fighting, Oura?" Akira asked.

"I guess so, I can definitely take down a few marines, if that's what you're worried about." Oura replied confidently.

"So, we're all ready?" Yukio piped in.

"Yep!"

"Of course."

"Hell yeah!"

"Let's get this over with…"

After a moment, the marine ship was right next to theirs, with a fairly important looking man standing on the deck, leaning on the railing closest to their own ship.

"Pirates. Filthy scum…" He grumbled, standing up straighter. It was hard to describe the man. He had hair that wasn't quite brown, wasn't quite red, and wasn't quite blonde. It was the same with his eyes; not quite brown, not quite green, not quite blue. It would definitely be hard to find him in a crowd, as he would be practically invisible.

"You have two choices: Come quietly with me, or fight, and be brought against your will." He stated smirking. Well, at least he didn't waste time declaring how much of a great marine he is, Laila thought. Though, he does seem pretty confident in himself.

"Pretty confident, eh?" Akira said. "That's good; you'll need that kind of self esteem after we beat you guys."

"You little brat…" The man growled. He made a small motion with his hand that Akira barely caught out of the corner of his eyes, and a loud siren screeched, once, twice, three times. His subordinates came rushing out, boarding their little ship and pointing their weapons at the group of five.

They were all still for a moment, and Laila had to say she was a bit surprised at how calm Oura looked, almost serious. She shook that from her mind as she slid into a fighting stance, along with the other four around her. She watched from the corner of her eye as the man from the marine ship hopped in their deck and stood in front of Akria.

"Green hair? What a delinquent…" He commented, looking faintly disgusted. "Kids these days… aren't even satisfied with having the hair color their mother and father gave them at birth."

"Excuse me, sir." Akira stated, looking mildly annoyed. "This is my natural hair color. Don't make assumptions, baka!" He said, reaching out and bitch-slapping him. [1]

The man stood there, looking stunned for a moment, his men looking just as confused as he did. Laila tried to control her giggling, but failed. She felt mildly better when she noticed that Yukio, Artemis and Oura were all doing the same thing. The man suddenly started spouting nonsense about respecting your superiors, and other such nonsense. Laila smiled. She could get used to this kind of thing.


[1] Yes. Make Akira mad/annoyed, you get bitch-slapped. Unless you're nakama~! Hope ya don't mind the language, I usually don't use a lot of it. :P But, it was necessary!

Hope my story is still getting read, because it has been a while since I last updated. I got distracted. I get distracted easily... like by shiny things. Oh, and things that are sparkly or rainbow colored.

GETTING OFF TOPIC.

I am also sorry if you don't like my kind of short chapters, but I'm pretty bad at long chapters.

Also, I think that writing the next few chapters might be easier for me :P

That's good right?

It is.

Aw.

Review, please!