Hey! Did you know that Japan's name written in kanji (characters) means, literally, 'sun' and 'root'? That's probably why it's called 'the land of the rising sun'. At least, I think that that's what it is.

Note- this takes place before the timeskip, right before the Thriller Bark Arc. If you can't remember, Robin joined, showed her feelings to the crew, and Brooke hasn't made an appearance yet. Also, I try to stay civil, so there will be as little cursing as possible. HOWEVER: I don't know what is a curse word in Britain, so if I write something that counts as a swear word, sorry. But I'm keeping 'bloody hell', since it's a starting point for an accent.

Disclaimer- I don't own Hetalia or One piece. If I did, it would be much worse. I don't know history!

Arthur Kirkland, Pirate

Robin POV (Sorry if she is OOC!)

Today was another good day on the Thousand Sunny. Sanji was cooking sea beast meat, the sea was reasonable calm, and Nami said that we would arrive in half an hour. And Luffy's favorite spot was warm and cozy.

"Ah… Hey Sanji, how's it going?" Luffy called from his perch.

"Can't you just wait for one more minute? You can't rush cooking!" Sanji waved around a frying pan to emphasize his point.

I smiled. This was just like the old days, with Cap'n. Every day, he went to cook something that he called scones, and every day, the crew threw them overboard when he wasn't looking. I was just about the only person who could eat what he called 'food'. Luckily, Sanji could actually cook, not just throw flour and rat poison into a bowl and bake.

"You're actually smiling," Nami sat down next to me. "That's a good sign. I mean, after what happened, you still have a reason to live, right?"

Since when was she so perceptive? I decided to answer. "Yes. Erm, Nami?"

"Yes?"

"I… I'm remembering one of my old captains. I still call him Cap'n… Nami, is it alright to keep calling him that? Luffy is our captain, after all,"

"Was he..." she searched for a word, "A good captain?"

I nodded.

"Then you definitely should! Both Luffy and your old captain are your captains, right?"

I shifted uneasily. "He… he had to leave the ship. He never told any of us the reason why, but we disbanded in the end."

"Oh… By the way, what was his name? One of us might have seen him sometime. You should ask!"

"His name… was Arthur Kirkland,"

Everyone except Luffy turned to me.

"Kirkland! The Legendary Arthur Kirkland?" Ussop shot me a shocked look.

"The guy with huge eyebrows?" The one detail that would interest Zolo. Not his fame, not his plunder, but his eyebrows.

"They were pretty big," I admitted.

"Don't talk like that! He was one of the Yonko [1]!" Chopper was exited by now, but his body language told me that he was mainly interested in his eyebrows too.

"Wow, was he like Shanks?" Luffy stared at the sky.

"He couldn't hold his liquor, though," I laughed. All those memories of him passing out came back to me, "I had to carry him back to his room,"

"Really? I would have thought that all the other pirate captains would be the best at drinking," Nami said with a hint of self-satisfaction.

Sanji looked abashed by that comment. "A lady had to carry him back to his room? When I get to him-"

"I was only ten, nothing to worry about,"

"But still…"

"Look! Land!" Luffy pointed straight ahead. Wasn't that…

"That's the island where Cap'n left!" I exclaimed.

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"So you think that he might still be here?" Nami asked. Sanji had gone to buy supplies with Chopper and Frankie, Ussop needed some stuff for his inventions, Zolo had stayed on the ship since he would have gotten lost, and Luffy went searching for the nearest restaurant, so that left me and Nami to shop for whatever we could find.

"No," I said firmly. "Cap'n didn't settle down. He wouldn't have abandoned us for that. I saw him go into a circle… and he vanished," I know I was being selfish, saying those words, but the crew was his family. He must have had a reason.

"Okay, so can we go buy something then? There's no point in stressing about it," I saw her point, and walked into the next store with her. Inside, the shelves were lined with books, on any subject imaginable. A map of the East blue covered to wall on the right.

"Wow," said Nami, clearly impressed. Who wouldn't be, with all those Geography books, and that huge map? She walked over to the Geography section, and began to read. I found a good mystery novel, and sat down on the bench.

"Robin?" Nami said after what seemed like hours.

"Yes?" I kept my eyes on the book.

"Shouldn't we be going now?" I shot up. I forgot the time!

"These books, and quick!" Nami thrust her books toward the seller. I set mine down next to hers.

"That'll be 6958 berry," the cashier said.

"I'll give you 5000," said Nami.

"Well, you won't be getting your books then, you bloody-!" I stared at the guy for a long second. Did he just say bloody? He noticed his slip-up, and then looked me in the eye, too.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Nami broke the silence.

"C-Cap'n?"

"Robin?"

DONE!

I originally had Arthur lying on the ground, passed out and drunk, but then this is what came out. I figured that this would work, since I don't think that he'd pass out drunk in the middle of the day.

[1] Yonko- four kings, the group of four that Shanks and Whitebeard are a part of?