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Marco felt the light of day sting his eyes, he turned his head and opened his eyes. There was no one in her bed…
"Oi, Ace did you let her get away!" he shouted and sat up to give Ace a look of 'i-will-kill-you-in-your-sleep' look but Ace wasn't there…
"Good evening lazy bum…" Kirara stood in the kitchen aria and was making something bubble in a pan…
"Eeh...evening?" what had he slept for so long…
"yup… you slept till noon… me and Ace went out and had breakfast, then he when out to …do something alone, I don't know, and I've been making …well I supposed that its lunch at this time huh?" she said and laughed at her own joke…
"Erm…what? I don't understand…"
"I could break it up into syllables and spell them for you if that help's…"
"heh, no. no it does not…" he stood up and walked over to her… she froze when she saw him walk, she never thought that he would walk with just as much elegance and grace as she would worship. But he didn't seem that he noticed that… "How are you walking? Doesn't it hurt?"
She snapped out of her state of delusion. "Like hell, but I was hungry." She said smiling, and dumped something on a plate. And then she poured spices on it and then took toasted slices of bread dipped in syrup and butter
"It's not pancakes, but it comes pretty close and it's good." She said and slided the plate over to him. As it turns out that it was scrambled eggs with bits of bacon and mushrooms, and the toast was soaking in golden brown syrup and a little piece of butter was placed on top of the pile like the tip of the iceberg…
"It looks good…" he said and reached for a fork.
"It is good" she said and smiled, she then sat down on the counter and swinged her legs back and forth. She had a nice happy smile on that was fitting too everything, the sun was shining and the birds were chirping, things looked like they were looking up with her. Marco smiled to one side and ate what she had made;
"Tell me, how did you get up, if it hurts so badly?" Marco asked with a mouth full of food. She smiled and slid of the counter. She landed smoothly on her feet, despite the pain, and then turned down on her hand's and waddled over to her bed by walking on her hands.
"Hmm~ well I guess that answeres my question…" he said and choked on laughter when a pair of undeniably cute bloomers was shown. He couldn't hold it in when she started to mover her legs in a joking manner and then she took a dive and rolled down on the floor. With a low grunt she was sitting in the floor.
"Heh, did you enjoy the view?" she asked a wiggled her eyebrows.
"Stop it you're making a complete fool of yourself." Marco said and placed his plate to the side…
"Then I am doing my part well" she said with a pout and snapped her fingers playfully. Marco decided to give in to her playfulness and sat down in front of her…
"You know with the window being broken, it gets pretty cold in here." She said and stroked her forearms with her hand to make heat come to her hands. They were sitting on the floor and it had gotten pretty damn cold down there.
"Yeah well... sorry about that, I was pissed off"
"Wait…You did that?"
"…" a short silence with him looking at her and her looking at him
"Well enough said!" she said and sweat dropped, she started to crawl back to the kitchen aria. She made sure that her feet never touched the ground; with her feet in the air and her knees to navigate she waddled away from him.
"Now hold on…" Marco soothed and gently placed his fingertips on her ankle. She froze when he touched her; she swallowed a little and sat down again…
"What?" she said and blinked her golden eyes.
"You still have some explaining to do…" he said and shot her a glance to form the side, "…and to thank me for saving your life." He watched as she looked down, avoided his eye contact as hard as she could…
"Oh yeah that…"
"What, does the floor have something more interesting to say then I do?" he said and hooked a finger under her chin; he gently lifted her face up to look him in the eyes. Her face lit up bright red when he looked at her with those eyes, she felt as if they would burn into her skin. 'Damn you pirate!' she cursed in her mind.
"n-no…"she shuddered out. She took a deep breath and tried to calm her nerves… "well, thank you very much for saving me."
"And…?"
"And... thank you for helping me with my feet…" she looked away from him and pouted.
"That's not what I was talking about…" he said and tilted her head back to be looking at him. She did pout more and frown when he smiled at her mischievously.
"W-W-What were you talking about?" she asked and blinked innocent looking eyes at him. He opened his mouth to say something but was cut off
"MARCO!" a happy howl came right before the door was broken up from its frame, and the room was infiltrated by one Thatch and one Haruta. Kiraras eyes shot open and Marco's fingers clenched around her mouth, and clenched her lips together into a silly pout.
"Why, hello there" Thatch said and raised an eyebrow. He leaned over the kitchen counter casually. Kirara was going to move her head to see who was addressing her but Marco held her head in place. He knew that she didn't trust him, and he knew that she would not be happy that more pirates were sitting in front of her.
"Marco we're all ready to go, where is Ace?" Haruta came walking to meet with Marco.
"I thought you guys weren't coming till tomorrow…" he asked looked at the confused and slightly scared look on Kiraras face.
"Let go of me!" she slapped his hand away and turned to see who was there. While that wasn't really the best thing to do; when she saw the two other pirates standing there smiling friendly and happy. She let out a little shout and backed started to back away from them only to hit Marcos chest.
"Hey calm down…" he whispered and held her close.
"Where did you find her?" Thatch asked and strolled over to him.
"The forest…found her in a pool of her own blood… and she won't tell me how that happened" he lifted her up and held her bride stile. Witch apparently she didn't approve of. She started to fight him and climb over his shoulder and hiding behind him…
"She's cute…" Haruta stated and strolled over behind him to take a little look of that girl… in which she didn't approve of ether, she jumped when she saw his face and backed away to try to get away.
"She's a little jumpy… so don't get too close…" he said and wrapped his hands around her waist, she cradled herself in his arms. Marco raised his eye brow and smiled to one side.
"Alright, so are you coming?" Haruta walked back to the door and lifted it up to hang it loosely back to his usual frame. "And where the hell is Ace?"
"Somewhere out, come on little darling" he shooed on Kirara and lifted her up.
"What?" her voice was shaking and not to mention dripping in fear.
"Your coming with us" he said cheerfully and pulled her out the door.
"What!" she pretended to be shocked and tried to fight lightly his grip, to find out how strong his grip was. But when she found that it was hopeless; she started to ger a little worked up. For real this time, his grip was so hard that she feared she would soon get bruises with his fingerprints on them.
"You're taking her with you?" Thatch came from behind Marco with a small bag of clothes.
"Yes we are." He said and pushed Kirara out the door. With her trying to get out of Marco's grip, and Thatch and Haruta at his sides trying to talk to her. But apparently she was in her shy mode right now. Marco rolled his eyes and pushed her on. Not noticing that the bandages on her feet were slowly getting red-brown from newly opened wounds, he had forgotten that she couldn't walk.
"Wait, wait, wait! You can't be serious about taking me with you!" she snapped at Marco just about when Ace got in sight and Thatch and Haruta walked to meet with him, the sun was shining brightly and created a shade over his eyes caused by his hat. He was looking a bit gloomy though.
"I sure am, dead serious about taking you…"
"But—"Suddenly Marco roughly lifted her up to meet with his eyelevel and stared into the eyes of the girl.
"I am serious … I don't want to alarm you, and I really don't want you to be scared of me. But don't worry; I don't think anybody said that the old man will agree to it, so you don't really need to worry much…"
"But! I can't leave I- I have to!"
"Kirara, why are your feet bleeding?" Ace had come up behind her and saw there'd been color changes on the bandages on her feet.
"Huh?" both Marco and Kirara looked down see "I did not notice that…" she said and looked at Marco with a blaming look in her golden eyes. She slammed her hands on Marco's chest and pushed herself away from him. She landed roughly on the ground; she winced and groaned out when her feet carried her weight and she crumbled down.
When suddenly there was a shot heard from the side and she felt a familiar whistling sound rush from her face, and inch away from the tip of her nose a small bullet rushed by. She gasped and fell down to her side, Marco and Ace both bolted the way where the bullet came from and Haruta ran over and in front of the stranger girl
"How many times do I have to kill you girl!" Raymond stood over at the side of the alleyway where Kirara had run during the night. The brown trail was still there and apparently Raymond had been checking it out, the trail of her blood…
"Ray…"she the fear in her voice could be cut with a knife
"What? Who is that?" Thatch bent down and started to support Kiraras shoulders.
"That's…Raymond. He's the one that…did that to me…"
"He's that man…" Marco said, there was a little venom in his voice.
"He stabbed you?" Ace turned his head and saw how frightened she was. There was a cute twinkle in her eyes that showed the tears forming in the crooks of her eyes
"He did what?" Thatch and Haruta said at the same time.
"He doesn't look like much…" Marco mumbled under his breath, he glared at the broad shouldered marine officer. His eyes were like knives on Kiraras body, eyes burning with something that no one could mistake it for ether pure hatred or lust… but at this time Marco preferred to have it hatred
"What's this now Kirara? Are you hanging around with pirates now…" he slided to the side and tried to take a better look at her, tried to look her in the eyes. She avoided his eye contact as much as she could possibly. Thatch reached down and lifted her shoulders off the cold ground, she shook at his touch and tried to get away from him but suddenly when she saw Raymond over her shoulder she thought that it would be better to be closer to men who would not kill her in a heartbeat …
After about three seconds Raymond put the gun down, but looking a bit disapproved that his plan to kill the female twin failed he had to figure something ells out…
"Well, I don't have time for this anymore…" Raymond said and turned around.
"Oi! You think you can just walk away from us like that!" Marco yelled after him
"No! Please leave him alone! Don't hurt him!" Kirara shouted at his feet, he looked down at her and felt her pulling at the brim of his pants.
"You don't want him to get hurt?" Ace asked from Marcos side,
"Awww how sweet~" Raymond mocked her as he walked away. "she doesn't want me to get hurt" soon Raymond was out of there sight, Kirara was still holding on to Marcos pants, like to make sure that he would not charge after him.
"W-why…what made you…why didn't you want us to—?" Marco didn't understand why she didn't want him to feel the same as she did. He reached his hand out for her to lift herself up.
"Raymond is way too smart to get into a fight with the likes of you!" she spat out and pulled herself up on his hand. "He knows that he can't take you alone!" After a slight struggle she was on her feet. It felt a bit different standing on the concrete then the softer wooden floor of the inn.
"You sound like you know him…" Haruta asked from behind her. He peered his eyes at her, suspicious about the new girl.
"I…I don't know him… he just sounds like the smarter kind of a guy…!" she lied, and looked away… that wasn't weary convincing, not Thatch, Haruta or Marco bought that lie… but it only sparked Marcos curiosity eve more.
"… Fine, then know that; I still don't know why he did that to you."
"Why do you need to know so badly!" she spat at him, Marco smiled to one end and lifted her up on his fore arm. She shouted a little when she was pressed up against him. Face to face, chest to chest. Naturally her face lit up with redness and her heart took a dive, she tried to protest a little but she only managed to lift her upper body so she was now staring in his bright blue eyes from and upper angle.
"I just do" he said and started to walk towards the docks.
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Deep down in a cold prison cell, the Aarons heart was hurting…
'I just don't get it…'he kept thinking this over and over again 'how could he do this… he always wanted to come with us' his mind wondered about the time five years ago when they had begun their journey. It all seemed so easy at the time and there plan had been simple… they would leave the damn city and not come back and what ever happened after that would just happen…
His thought were swirling all over his head and just didn't seem to be able to stop… his mind came to the horrible pain it was to part with his sister. The terrified look on her face just before he pushed her on to run away… it haunted him whenever he closed his eyes. the sharp pain his shoulder had been nothing compared to the incredible pain it was to not know where she was right now… as he thought harder about his sister the same thought always came down to her… always a image of her smiling and waving, of her thinking about some crazy scheme for having a little 'innocent fun' with the random stranger with the funny hat, that somehow ended up in the nearest pool house with only half a beli left in his pocket… half a beli to say that they left something but it so nothing his spend… yeah they ribbed a beli an half it was a waist but it was funny to see him freak out.
He sat up as he interrupted in his memories by foot stepped coming down to him… no doubt there was a guard to give him some of that pathetic excuse for food in this dump. As the guard came up to his cell Aaron examined the man with still eyes
"What are you staring at?" the guard spit out and dropped a tray on the floor and kicked it inside the cell. As the hot contents in a bowl spilled all over the floor the guard let out a nasty laughter…
"you know he service here sucks" Aaron said and smiled to one end as h gracefully stood up and collected an apple rolling his way.
"You think this is a hotel? You're in prison man so you don't get service!" the guard turned around and started to walk out of the dark place
"Oh yeah, well I bet I can buy the service from you…" Aaron said calmly and leaned against the bars the guard chucked at first and then let out a mocking laughter.
"Excuse me? So you think so" he shouted and kicked the bars on the cell
"I do believe I can see a tough soul when I see one. And I can also see that you're not really happy with jus being a prison guard…"
"My aren't you the cocky one…" he said frowned at the smug grin Aaron had on, in spite of everything. He clearly wasn't miserable enough.
"Haha, no not at all. Clearly there just not paying you enough…"
"They don't pay me at all…" the guard gritted between his teeth, Aaron put a face of compassion on and touched his bottom lip with the fingertips of his gloved hand. He suddenly placed an innocent face on h face and was friendly…
"My, my… now that's no good…" he said and walked around in the tight space of his cell. "I mean I would think that a well mannered, hard working marine like you would have better authorities than this… taking care of a bunch of filthy pirates day in and day out must not be weary fulfilling for you… huh?" he kept on talking and looking like when was going to have a bight of the apple. But then sticking up something ells to say and got the guard thinking. This was a horrible job for him…
"Oh did I strike a chord?" Aaron said and gave a slight laugh at the sheepish look that the man had on. "I'm sure you want a better life than this, don't you?" he continued smoothly, since the guard was doing nothing to stop him "a nice looking woman, perhaps. A house… I kid or two…" he focused on making it sound like a dream.
Suddenly the guard seemed to snap out of it, he grabbed his hand inside the bars and got a tight hold of Aaron's neck…
"You shut up! But my personal life has nothing to do with you! Now I expect you to be nice and quiet like a good prisoner!" he yanked Aaron of his feet and panged his head against the cold metal bars so hard. Aaron felt the hard blow pierce the skin on his fore head and little prickle of blood dripping down the side of his face
This was bad; his plan was already failing...
"Heh. You know to have those things you need something to pay with, huh?"
"Oh and you can provide the money?" The guard spat out as he glanced at the grinning man sitting on the floor. He picked up the apple again and brought it to his lips. He let it stick in his mouth while he peeled off the glove on his hand. Then he munched on a large juice bite and let to drop into his hand…
The suspense silence was broken with a slight hissing noise as the apple turned to gold. But the guard would not believe his eyes...
"t-that's a devil fruit?" he stumbled out and was brought close to the cell by his own "t-that can't be real gold!"
"Go check it yourself…" Aaron said and stood up. He gracefully handed him the apple threw the bars. The glow coming from the apple was reflected on Aaron's eyes and gave him a godly appearance…
"b-but how—"
"a gift… from the heavens, sent from the gods to bless the humans with, nothing given by the devil… but also…" he paused as he moved a bit closer to the guard and slightly touched the surface of the top button on his uniform… with a slight hissing sound it turned into gold "deadly…" Aaron whispered and pressed his cheek against the cold steel; still smiling he dropped the apple in the guards hand and pulled his hand back to his body.
"w-what…"
"No matter what I touch, dead or alive will turn into solid gold…" he placed the glove back on his hand and watched as the guard examined the piece of metal…
"So you mean I can keep this…?"
"I'll require your name in turn…" h glanced with shiny eyes to the man "and in exchange for more gold…" Aaron kicked the tray back out of the cell instead of shoving it down his throat… "You give me better food"
The guard looked a little sheepish… torn between greed and duty… he turned around and left Aaron in the cell. But he was weary so confident that this worked… guard like that were so easy to corrupt… moment like this made him glad that he had curse like this. He looked down to his gloved hand and made a fist, still this was not one of his better plans but this was promising to work…
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"Oh would you just let me go already!" her screams were getting on Marcos nerves. This time she had been thrown over his shoulder, Ace was behind him and laughing at her angry face.
"You're taking this way to badly." He said and smiled at her.
"Little too badly!" she scoffed "your one to talk!" she screamed.
"Come on, this isn't that bad"
"I'm being kidnapped by damn pirates!"
"Hey now… I saved your life which means that your life belongs to me anyway" Marco soothed and gently shook his shoulder; she screamed in frustration and pounded her fists on his back. Marco didn't seem to feel a thing; her punches were too light and even turning cute, much to her annoyance.
"Since when is that the rule!"
"Marco?" a loud voice sounded in front of Marco. Kirara froze up into a ball of nerves, when she heard that voice booming and powerful; she clenched her fists on Marcos shirt and suddenly felt too scared to even move.
"Pop's, this is Kirara." Marco announced and pulled her off his shoulder and placed her gently in front of his captain, she felt herself freeze up when she felt the shadow of the large man fall upon her. She got the chills up her spine as she looked up, she had heard about him… Edward Newgate; the strongest man on the planet, known threw out the world as captain Whitebeard. She knew that he was terrifying to those who had the grim fate to end upon his bad side. She had no idea that he would be so terrifying to her eyes…
"Eeh!" she let out a small frightened squeal and backed away into Marcos arms. He took a hold of her forearms and did what he could to keep her feet of the ground, they were already bleeding and they didn't need any more dirt in them.
"Hmm… where you did come across such a lady… se doesn't look like she can even stand on her own two feet?" he stated and bent down to them. She blinked nervously and looked to her sides, Ace and Marco breathed out and chugged a bit at her fear
"I found her, in the forest. I saved her life, and now she's eager to come with me…"
"And how did that happen? Was she dyeing?"
"Ask her yourself…" he said and smirked… he knew that he old men wouldn't care about what happened to the stranger girl, she didn't really look like much…
"Never mind that, if she wants to join our voyage then she is welcome to come!" he said with a celebration tone in his voice, and the look that stamped Kiraras face was priceless… with surprise and fear mixed together, she was still so shocked from fear of seeing one of the most terrifying man in the world she didn't even notice when Marco lifted her um bride stile and carried her up on the ship.
"Are you tired?" Marco whispered as he carried her to the nurses, where Ace was giving a warm happy welcome to his Eve…
"No…" she said in a high pitched voice…
"well we better have you feet taken care of better than I did…" he chuckled.
Kirara felt eyes staring at her from every angle… she was carried on board m the first commander and no doubt that some delicious gossip was forming at this weary moment. Not that she was not used to every one's eyes on her, but this was different… she felt like a kid in his arms, he was so tall compared to her…
"Hey Eve." He greeted the fair haired woman, who still refused to let go of her man…
"Hello Marco." She greeted him back kindly,"…who's your friend?" she asked and put a slight pout on her nose at the sight of the girl in white dress… like she was an angel here to steal Ace away from her… Ace smiled when Eve held his hand harder, she was kind of jealous sometime when it came to other girls…
"She needs you to help her with a wound she got; she's a bit shy at the moment…"
"Eeh yes of corse!" she said and led him to the infirmary
"I don't need it…" she said and cuddled close to Marco…'did she just change personality's…again?' he thought and rolled his eyes "you're just warm…" she mumbled and hugged her arms, she shivered the slightest… Marco put her down on a bed and just then noticed how sour Kirara looked. He sat down on the other side of the bed and let her back lean up against his own…
"Hmm…" Eve hummed as she took off the bandages of her feet, Kirara sighed when the warm hands of the nurse touched the sensitive surface of her feet. Eve stared for a while at the floor, she lifted it up and looked at it from straight forward, and then she placed that one down and lifted the other one up. "My my, Marco… not much the doctor are we, huh?" Kirara noticed, absentminded just then, that one of her 'captors' was staring at the nurse. Ace seemed to not be able to keep his eyes of her. Kirara smiled devilishly to one side and looked at Ace with a mischievous glint on her eyes.
"Miss Eve right…?"
"Yes, but just call me Eve."
"Alright, your man sure stares allot…" Kirara said and leaned down and he knees the supported her elbows so she placed head on her hands, and pouted like she was uncomfortable. She noticed the glint in her eyes and glanced over at Ace who like a little child looked away and pretended that he wasn't looking. Eve smiled slightly and, looked back at Kirara she blinked her in hope she could get her to play along
"Naaw. I think he's just affectionate…" Eve thought that it wasn't right to tease someone you cared about too much she already did it so often already. But at the end she just couldn't resist. "But wait was he staring at other women in town!" she shouted
"haha, oh yeah lots of women, you have on one hell of a perv' for a boyfriend: 3" she said and slid her sly face closer to Eve's and she pouted for the sake of the game. They both glanced over to the red hot man with the orange hat, they could see the redness an over his face, even his ears were bright red.
"What? No I wasn't!" Ace shouted in panic and turned his head over to the girls, and Marco who was trying as hard as he could not to burst out in laughter over the face Ace had on right now.
Kirara placed her hand over her mouth and smiled a playful smile and started to twirl a lock of Eve's hair around her finger, "you know you really should keep an eye on this perv of a man."
"You bet I will,"
"I think you'll have to punish him later on." Kirara sounded like a perv while she said that…
"You know…I think so too..." Eve said and smiled a sly smile. She finished with Kiraras feet and patched them up nicely, she stood up and wiped her hands on a cleansing towel she smiled with her work and let her know that she shouldn't walk much until they were completely healed, but that seemed to go into one ear and out the other. She lifted her feet up so high that she could see under them.
"My, you're flexible…"
"Oh thank you" she said and smiled softly…
"Only… I can kind of see you pant…bloomers." Eve said. Kirara snapped her leg back down and blushed slightly,
"ahahaha….yeah well, s-sorry…" she stammered out and leaned up against Marco's back, but to her annoyance then she felt laughter on his back. Her face lit up more and she bounced back up, cleared her throat and assumed on saying something that was supposed to be words but un-understandable to human beings…
"Huh... try not to stand up at all for another two days or so…" she said and lightly pressed on her shoulders. She was reluctant to sit down with her back up against the older pirate.
"I can't walk at all?" she said and grabbed the nurses hands.
"I would recommend that you won't do that" she answered smiling.
Suddenly Thatch barged into the infirmary holding unconscious man over his shoulder. "Hey, this one fell over and bumped his head on the floor." And laid the unfortunate men on the bed besides Kiraras "some people just never get used to take off" he said and laughed.
"Wait what?" Kirara snapped up and then realized the familiar feeling of the ship rocking on the sea under her feet, she sprung on her feet and darted to the door
"Wait, don't run get beck here!" Eve words barely got to her ears. The only thing that mattered was getting to the bottom of this, though deep down she knew that it was true, they were already sailing on the deep blue sea. There was nothing mistaking it, but she held on to the false hope that it was just her imagination. She ran as fast she could and ignored the pain coming from her feet, she didn't even notice it now… it didn't matter.
Sh ran out to the upper deck and to her own horror se saw the island drifting away from her.
"Shit, No!" she screamed under her breath and started to run for the side where the island was drifting away. she d trip over a line of ropes and the unusual land-legs were still there, from over two months of solid land(more or less) under her feet she was used to being out on the ocean at the moment. She deverted her hands under her body and let them carry her sh rolled over on the floor and kept running. She stopped as her own body slamed against the side of the ship… with a desperate look in her eyes and tears forming in the crooks of her eyes she just couldn't help but feel helpless as she watched she island slowly disappear…
"You don't ever do what you're tolled to do…" Marcos vise behind her sounded lightly pissed off. "…do you?"
"No…" she whispered and in a soundless voice. Marco stood behind her and lightly placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Why don't you want to go?" h asked and slowly pulled her closer to him. "They tried to kill you, but failed and then one actually tries to shoot you in the middle of town…" she cupped her cheek and felt how cold her cheeks were. "…how could you want to stay there, you know that if your life is in with the marines ten id you can't protect yourself then you're dead…"
"You don't think I know that…" she said and tilted her head to meet with his hand, feeling how warm it was. She shivered.
"Then why do you want to go back?"
"Why do you want to know…?" she lifted her hand to take his, her hand was cold too.
"Soon we will be too far away for you to swim back… if you tell me I might take you back."
"What, so now you blackmailing me?"
Marco did answer; he only shot her a smile. Witch pissed her off! He didn't even deny it; he was still holding her hand and was still taunting her on how warm he felt as the cold winds of the sea was moving up to her special place. That thin piece of fabric dress covering her was not doing anything, and she was pretty sure it was sea threw! Judging is how everybody on the ship as staring at them…
"I'm sure you can figure it out…" he said and walked away from her. She just watched as her put his hands in his pockets and walked away for her, with that smug face on and oh, that irritating face! Suddenly she let out a loud groan and reached her hands up to her head. She felt like tearing out her hair. Who did he think he was, acting like she would just roll over to him just like that! Not a chance!
"Oh you can't be serious! You can't possibly be thinking about keeping me her against my will!" she screamed after him, but he ether didn't seem to care or just didn't hear her. In witch the first option seemed more likely.
"Hey, what was that? You just ran off…" Ace was running to her, a slightly worried face on, but the fact that he did actually care about this gave her weary little comfort. "Her are you ok? You're crying."
"No I'm not" she let out and turned back to the island and peered her eyes, she was crying. She felt the sting of traitorous tears form and fall down her cheeks, and it was all Marcos fault!
Ace chugged a bit and smiled at her childishness… "Alright then… but in case you're cold, then here's blanket from the infirmary. Eve said it would be cold outside for you, and she has prepared a bed for you, when you want to sleep." He placed the blanket over her shoulders and stepped back. He smiled when she rubbed her arms miserably.
"Tell me, are you the only decent guy on this ship?" she asked bitterly.
"Now that's not nice little lady! I like to believe that I'm the greatest of them all" Thatch said proudly and walked up to Ace, he smiled at the forth commander who so loudly made an appearance in her life…
"Naaw, how can that be, she was clearly talking about me." Ace said and softly punched Thatch's side. This ended up in a fun-sided argument on who she was talking about, Kirara still just said it out of pure spite and sarcasm… and yet this no-shirt pirate and the other one with the funny hair cut ,whom she could not remember the name of, were really funny. They ticked her sense of humor, if she had one still…
"Are you seriously arguing about this?" she asked in a mocking tone and sat down on a nearby barrel, hoping she wasn't disturbing any one. This ship was so large and had so many men on board. She was surprised and suddenly felt a little awkward, they were so many, and so big and scary… looked scarier without Aaron…
"Sure sounds like it" thatch said and winked her, she gave no respond…
"okay…" she said bluntly and walked passed those two, only half a step away from she found that she didn't remember the way back, she said a word under her breath, that should not be translated from its original languish. So she reached her hand back and snatched ether one of the hands that she found, turned out it was Ace. With a sigh of relief she said that she didn't know her way back and had to bear with Ace's fun laughter. This guy was okay she thought to herself and smiled…
Still the thought of Aaron found its way onto her mind once again, and she felt the knot of sorrow and misery form in her belly. If only she knew where he was, and what he was doing… then she would feel better. Or maybe not, maybe finding out would just make her feel worse. "hey are you okay? You seem a bit gloomy." Ace asked her with a reassuring smile, a smile that actually managed to cheer her up a little… a little
"Yeah I'm fine" she said and planted a fake smile over her face, she seemed better and better, but she was determined on getting out of here and figure the rest out later. Ace brought her in the infirmary again and she plumped her butt back in the bed she had sat in first and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
Only, again in her dreams the damn pirates haunted her dreams…
This was not over, this guy might have taken over her dreams, but he would not take over her life! She would get away, she had to. She had to see what had happened to Aaron, still the more she thought about her brother, all the more it hurt to know that she was drifting farther and farther away from the only place she could dare look for the damn man. And it was not like he wasn't unrecognizable… Kirara could know him for miles and miles away. Particularly over the same red hair color, the only other one with hair color similar with theirs, or they had hair similar to his, would be red haired Shanks. The only way that she could meet him was one in a million… although, the chances that she would lay her eyes on even one of the crew members of the White beard fleet was all the less likely, so there you go… she wondered if any more stinking surprises would come cross her way, maybe more betrayal, more hunky men that would save her life and take over her dreams…wait! No he was not hunky! Not at all! She shook her head in her sleep and turned to her other side.
"geeze, where did Marco find this one…" another a nurse that came by to pick up medicine for her captain said as she stared with bitter eyes at the hair spared over the pillow…since that was the only thing that she could see of her…
"I don't know… but he seems to be pretty hung up on her…" Eve said to her friend as she helped carried the supplies over to the desk stand.
"But what's so special about her?"
"You sound like your jealous…" Eve said and laughed a little when her friend glared at her.
Eve smiled and led her friend out of the infirmary and with a less then pleasant slam of the door they were gone, and left Kirara alone with her dreams…her damning dreams…