After a while, Kirara got more and more comfortable with being on the ship. But she didn't talk to many people, at the most she only talked to Ace... and every time he and Eve got out from the infirmary they were always smiling. It seemed that the little girl was the most charming creature. But when the couple asked then they said that she was the devil reborn… and she was. She was the most mischievous one; every time someone came into the room she had pulled some little skit… although she didn't do anything to the patients…
The smallest little prank from her was even cuter then when she told the sick and hurt ones amazing and unbelievable stories about her and her brother. Ace and Eve were the slightest scared when she claimed that all the stories were true. It was a tad hard to believe that she had been to the end of earth and back… or "walked the harsh and rugged shores of worlds end" she had explained so excitedly.
Plus that sometimes when the sailors came into the infirmary, just after she had managed to walk, she had traced there foot steppes just three centimeters behind them and copies every move they made… while she made the strangest faces. Wither she was able to foretell whether the man she was…'stalking' would turn the other way or make a sharp turn to the left and right. It just seemed like she was celebrating the fact that she was able to walk again. And it made Eve happy to see that she could smile. The smile looked large over those thin well shaped lips. Compared to Eve who had full, pouty and kissable lips, Kiraras lips didn't look like they were made to be kissed, they looked made to smile.
Although she didn't smile often, And when asked she said she didn't have anything to smile about.
"Are you kidding?" Ace had scoffed when he had gone to fetch Eve to dinner… "Why isn't there anything to be happy about?" he had nearly shouted out, himself in the best of moods. He reached out to drag her out of her bed, where she had been all day.
"Honey…" Eve said and quickly dragged him out of Kiraras hand reach. "She has a hand buzzer in her hand" Kirara smirked to one side and showed the inside of her hand. And indeed there was a hand buzzer waiting to be used.
"…" Kirara stuck out her tongue out and winked.
"Have you been out of this room like ever?" Ace asked and glanced at the violin she played day in and out. It was resting on the side of her bed, and if he wasn't mistaken, in much better shape than when she had gotten it first
"No… not really able to walk much over the ship…" she said and pouted… "And commander grumpy blond docent want me to do anything until I'm fully healed…" she suddenly stopped and looked out into the beyond there was a short silence when she looked like she was thinking something over… then she planted a little mischievous face on and then she turned over to them and smiled.
"Well now what's to say I can't look around…?" she said and opened her arms like expecting a hug. Then she quickly lowered her arms and stomped her way out of the infirmary. Ace grinned and took Eve's hand to lead her out. He was starting too really like this girl, basically saying that she didn't even gave a damn about what the commander who saved her told her to do… this was a bit lousy attempt to get back at him but whatever still was an attempt.
"Lead the way…" she said in the door way and opened It wide.
"Erm, are you sure you're feeling better Kirara?"
"I'm not sick… I just have a pair of really bad booboos…" she said with a childish pout and a laughable tearing her eye. Also an actress now… Eve thought about it and wondered what her true talent was…that little kid, now speaking of witch…
"Say I was wondering…" eve started but paused when she saw the little girl look around eyes wide and mouth wide open… "How old are you?" she finished when she turned her head and shit her mouth.
"Seventeen… I'll be eighteen next week." She said cheery,
"Really?" Ace asked, he found it hard to believe that she was actually that old…
"Well yes, it's hard to believe because if my baby-face, my brother is kind of like me, but he looks much older…"
"Isn't he older then you?" Ace and Eve followed the little girl as she turned random turns and opened random doors.
"Only about three minutes …"
"You're a twin?"
"Indeed I am."
"Then was the man with you at the time… your brother?" Ace dropped out of his mouth accidentally, just at the moment when she opened the door to the library. Where Marco was sitting and calmly and reading, when the room was loudly infiltrated by the guest, Marco looked up and saw the girl in the door way. She looked troubled, "Kirara? What's the matter?" he asked and stood up to walk to her, Ace quickly raised his head and told him to stop. Kirara didn't hear Marco at all.
What could she say now, she didn't say anything so they were bond to know its true now… they weren't stupid, and Ace had to have figured it out by now… could she lie to them... they had been so nice to her, did they deserve to be lied to…?
"Ace what did you do?" Marco asked and crossed his arms over his chest,
"I- I just asked her something…"
"What? What did you ask her?"
"Marco its okay she whispered… Marco moved over to them with a suspicious glare in his eyes…
"Ace… yes he is my brother… Eve, please don't tell anybody…Marco, Ace will tell you" she said and walked past the first mate… she jumped to an arm chair and turned the back to the crowd. Then she sat into it and curled up, like she was in a shell. Or rather she wished that she was in a shell, wished that she would just disappear and never come back… she curled herself up and tried to think clear, how she could get out of here and back to the island where the marines arrested her brother and be there with him. At least then she could keep her promise and die with him… 'And if it comes to it… well die together…' he had said that and promised to too… how unfortunate that just about that she could keep the promise and die instead of being separated…
"Alright…"Marco said after a little while. "Please explain…" he turned to Ace and Eve. A long chill went down there spine when Marco glared at them…
"Darn…" Eve muttered and walked out of the door, she gestured for Marco to follow her, and as they stepped into the hallway and sent him a little glare.
"Well…?" Marco said, trying as much as he could to contain his curiosity. Ace and Eve found something out about her and she didn't want him to know about it. He couldn't know about it?
"It's nothing much, but the thing is…you said they were two at the place you and I met her first, and that other guy she was performing with at the time. Apparently is her brother… her twin brother..." Ace said and scratched the back of his head.
"She's a twin?" Marco said out to the blue... Eve wondered if there was something at the place where he was looking, since it certainly was not her. She had the feeling that something bitchy could snap him back into this world…
"Also she said not to treat her like a kid since she is an adult and can make her own decisions, you know that eighteen is the age that she becomes an adult" she said in the most obvious tone she could manage. Marco stopped gazing into the distance and just looked baffled…
"Ha? Sh-she's eighteen?" Eve had a feeling that there was more surprise then about her age in that sentence.
"you betcha'!" Eve snapped out smirking and turned around to go back to her office. Marco looked over to Ace who stood there smirking.
"Damn…" Marco muttered and shrugged for a moment. This was a bad idea after all… she couldn't leave the island, after all; she thought she could save her brother. He was starting to feel stupid as hell.
"Feeling embarrassed?" Ace asked smugly.
"Damn…it all" he muttered again and again. Why could he not see why… then again there was nothing good coming from that sentence? He didn't know what he was thinking at the time, how could he, all that red hair of hers confused him, those golden eyes were just as capturing as actual gold. And just all of her…
"I think you should talk to her… and at least say that you're sorry…" Ace came up to his friend and lightly placed a punch on his shoulder. Marco gave up…
"Yeah I guess you're right…"
"… huh…" Ace huffed out and looked like he was deep in thought.
"What?"
"So this is what it feels like to be right…?" Ace said and grinned…"it's awfully unsettling…"
Marco could not keep from laughing at that statement. That damn fire user always seemed ready to cheer him up.
"You idiot…" Marco mumbled and ruffled the fire-users hair.
"Oh yeah? Your one to talk" Ace answered over his shoulder and ran back to Eve that was waiting for him at the corner… after that the hallway went silent…
He didn't know what to do now… somehow… Marco never expected to see this happening, and he felt stupid to not have thought that there was something important about her… there was a little hole in her chest, she had been saved, not her brother… and Marco had a feeling that where he would be, his guess would be as good as Kiraras….anyway then he had to talk to her, and perhaps get her to tell more…
He reached out to take the knob in hand, but right before he managed to open the door then there came a loud thump and a crash, like something was falling through the roof… he quickly blew the door open to see what had happened…
To his own surprise, Kirara was sitting on the floor wither feet covered in books just as well as one of the book shelves was torn from the wall. She sat there sheepishly and rubbed her head…
"What happened?" Kirara turned her head almost like a south bird and her face turned into a strawberry…
"i-I… well there was a… a-a thing up there and I wanted to get it…" she dragged her legs up to ger body like to hide her face…
"And you climbed?"
"I wanted to see what it was…" she almost whispered, this was getting a little bit embarrassing…
"You know this is a reading room and there is a ladder to get to the top books…" he walked up to her and offered his hand to lift her up. She looked a little more sheepish when she looked around and, what do you know, there was a rather large ladder leaning casually up against the bookcase…
"Well…." Kirara was a little at a loss of words, she felt really stupid, When she spotted the ladder. And it didn't help that Marco seemed to find it amusing, that she fell on her ass climbing the bookcase and fell down in failure…
"Heh, that's something I haven't seen before…"
"Shuddup" she pouted and took his hand, with a harsh movement he pulled her up. But at the moment he forgot about the books that stayed in the way of her feet, she stumbled to stand on them but they just didn't want to hold her up and she fell… Marco felt when she slammed on his chest, she was light and her cheek did indeed feel so incredibly soft on his skin. He swallowed a little lump in his throat and hesitantly placed his hand on her waist. Kirara froze when she fell; her heart began to pump blood faster and faster. Then when he placed a hand on her waist her eyes shot open and she dropped out of the haze…
He grabbed his fore arms and ripped her out of his reach…
"S-sorry I tripped." She shuddered out and hurried to pick the books up.
"No, don't worry about it…" he said and bent down to help her. After about five minutes in silence she placed the books on a table and paused. Marco had stopped as well and had started to look into a book. She bit her lip, wondering why he did come in here again. Ace had told him what he found out hadn't he? Could it be that he had lied about it?
"Hey…" she started while she strolled over to him. Marco hummed like to ask 'what'
"What are you reading?" she finally asked cheerfully. Marco looked up at her and smiled; he closed it and handed it to her.
"Find out." Kirara looked at the book and hesitantly took it out of his hand. She swallowed a little lump in her throat and pouted.
"Can't you tell me?" she asked and lightly took his hand.
"Why, can't you read?" he asked in a joking manner. Kirara put a guilty pout on and looked away for a moment. Marco then juts realized that she was meaning that she couldn't, in fact, read.
"You mean you can't read?"
"Well I never had anyone to teach me… my brother can't read ether…" she pouted and walked back to the large arm chair. She pulled her feet to her body and rested her chin on her knees "and on our…island, they talked another language then we do here and… to tell the truth, we never thought there would be any point to it and-…"
"Hey calm down…" he interrupted her by lightly touching the surface of her hand… "…you don't need to explain you're self…" he smiled when she blushed and looked away.
"Look, Kirara…" Marco started; he bent down on one knee to be in eye lever with her. Well at least he was a little bit; she still had to look down on him...
"What?" she whispered.
"Since I know about your brother, I never expected that you were a twin…"
"That's really not something I place stamped on my forehead…" she smiled and laughed at her joke, wasn't really funny though.
"Where is he now?"
"…I like to hope he's safe…"
"You don't know?" Marco asked softly.
"I think that… he was captured… by Raymond…" she whispered that so low that he barely heard the last part.
"By the marines…" he stated and his eyes turned grim. Kirara got a little chill up and down her spine. "Is that why you didn't want to leave?"
"Yes…commander, that is the reason I didn't want to leave the island…I fear that Ray has taken him and wants me too… I don't know why, but the fact that he actually came for me on this ship kind of gives me the willies…" she looked dead serious when she said that. Her expression was not like he had ever seen before, why would that dickhead of a marine want Kirara, then again didn't she dump him? So she could hold a grudge against her…
"Why would that marine want you both?"
"…" she didn't was not bothering to answer. While she thought it over, again and again. Now that they had brought it up, she had to tell him the truth now.
"Kirara?" Marco asked, like to see if she was awake.
"Do you enjoy stories, Marco?"
"What?"
"I asked you that before, you didn't answer, now do you enjoy stories."
Marco sighed, there was just no figuring this woman out, and was there?
"Sure, anyone would enjoy stories. Just is it fiction or reality?"
"I'm gonna let you choose that…" she said and put on a story tellers face.
"Alright… go ahead…" Marco was a little knocked off guard. She had all of the sudden started this conversation… this was just a clever way of getting out of talking about her own past… oh well. There had to be some way of getting her to give it up…
"Long ago… there was an island in the middle of the sea it was only known by those who already knows where it is. On that island there was a city, and the city was ruled by a king… the king was known as the grate and powerful Midas. The people on this island worshipped gods that they said created the world in three main gods. They were the most powerful and most respected of all gods in the world…
As the king ruled his country he was known threw out the kingdom as a selfish and weary greedy. He tortured his people with money in which he had a lot of, and the people had not. He could have everything he wanted. He had a daughter which he showered with riches befitting a princess. Still he wanted more…
He knew that the gods sometimes granted wishes, if the wishes were for good deeds and for the better. So he went to the sacrificial alter and summoned the gods. He asked for the gods to grant him a wish. The gods asked him why they should grant him that wish, and for what reasons they should.
He said "if you grant me the endless amount of gold I want then I could make my kingdom the richest one in the world!"
The gods replied "if you wish are truly pure hearted, than we shall see what you want with It." they sent an awesome power over him and granted him hands that could turn everything the flesh touched into pure gold.
The gods disappeared from the sight and he wanted to see what the power he was given showed. He walked up to one of his wife's that he favored the least. And let the bare flesh of his hands touch the flesh on her right foot."
Kirara took a pause and to breath.
"You know this story doesn't make a lot of sense…" Marco said and smiled. Kirara laughed, but the awkward way she was laughing was kind of strange…
"I know… not a lot of people believe this tale…"
"Believe? This is just a story right?" Marco asked laughing. Kirara half closed her eyes and smiled a small smile and nodded her head.
"Yes of corse it's just a story… do you want me to finish?"
"Yeah go ahead"
"the horrible deed that Midas did, he didn't care how much his wife screamed when she saw what was happening to her, he saw the tortured look in her eyes and they way she struggled. Until she was completely turned into gold. The gold statue was placed in his garden; it was only a first…
Midas slowly became obsessed with gold, more than he was before. The craziness didn't stop at anytime; he turned his bed, his chairs, table's, walls, floors, and his entire palace into pure gold. Gold flooded from every window and every corner of every house in the city… so it slowly started to lose its value, as it often does… the city didn't know what to do. But as time passed then Midas started to tire of gold, and he slowly started to be sick of it. He had executed many of the criminals with his touch.
But he soon found that that fact that everything he touched would turn into gold. He couldn't eat like a normal being. He couldn't touch his wife's, nor love them like a husband does. For they would die as soon as they touched him, soon he had no one left. He slowly started to lose his mind, he turned thin and sad.
So one night he called for his daughter, he had been drinking quite a lot and for a split second forgot who he was. And placed his hands on the princess's shoulder… after the statue of the princess was placed in the graveyard the king ran back to the sacrificial alter and as his madness drove him so far away from the edge. He ran over and sliced both his hands clean off.
With this the gods appeared before him again
"You dare to abuse our gift like this!"They screamed and inflicted to the city with a terrible curse. The king didn't have any power anymore and with all truth be told he didn't care of anything happened to him. He was that week of mind that he couldn't think that this was happening.
This you will pay for you insolent mortal they shouted and inflicted on the city a curse. Once in every generation then one child would be born with a hand of gold. And as the fact that the gods were all real, they bestowed curse upon Midas's city and turned it into the one thing that he despised the most of all. They turned the entire city, from the streets veins to the high priests temple into pure and glowing gold… they renamed the city in their way and named it… El Dorado...
Kirara finished the story with a sigh and a look out into the far nothingness. Marco smiled at her; he didn't even know what to say. That story did make any sense…then again, none of her stories' ever made any sense.
"Heh, that was really interesting…" he said and grinned.
"Yeah I know. This story is always a hit. Folks like a good story about gold." She asked and yawned. Then she arched her back and stretched out her arms. As she leaned over to the side of the arm chair she looked at him sleepily. "Although my brother plays it so much better than me." She was closing her eyes and tilting her head to the side. It was like she was snoozing off… he grinned a bit and leaned over to her, he came over all the way to her ear.
"Were you trying to get out of talking to me?" he whispered. She stirred and he saw her lips part and she frowned as she slightly moved…
"No answer is an answer too…" he whispered into her ear she stirred and frowned more, half asleep and half awake.
"shuddup..." she mumbled and lifter her hand to try and push him out of the way, but Marco had seen this coming and moved out of the way. She landed in an uncomfortable pose with her arms crossed painfully to each side, and she didn't seem to give a damn.
Marco sighed and raised her up in the chair. "Come on you troublesome girl …" he lifted her up and tried to lift her up but she was indeed gaining a little weight. That was good, over the light-as-a-feather weight that she had before then he had thought that she had anorexia or something… but she felt healthier, or she seemed to be healthier. She stirred in his arms and let her arms fall over his shoulders.
"Mhmm talk to me more…" she mumbled against his skin, her face was buried in the crook of his neck. When she talked her voice kind of tickled him, he tried to contain the little laughter.
"Well you are truly a pain in the neck." He murmured and tried to pick her up bride-stile.
"Shuddup…" she mumbled into his neck.
"But it seems that I really forced you into something you never wanted, and I kidnapped you." He said slowly, almost whispering. Kirara felt that she blushed a little bit, there was a little bit of her that oh so loved the sound of his voice. But she didn't like him… no, no she didn't. Not at all!
"Yeah you are a jerk…" she mumbled, sounding more asleep then awake. She was doing that on purpose to get out of telling him anymore. She didn't really trust him that much, but perhaps in the future. Then she would be able to…
"now don't say that, I'm trying to apologize here…" she rested her chin on his shoulder so that there was no way that she could see her face and they flew wide open. There were a lot of things she wanted to say at the moment, but then she would have to be awake and talk to him more. So she bit her tongue to help her not to talk.
"You awake my interest… and I need to contain my curiosity over you for a while… but I really am sorry if I caused you any unnecessary pain…" Marco whispered into her ear, just to make sure that she heard it well. Her heart took a long dive into her stomach and back up into her neck when the vibrations from the man's voice flowed over her ear and skin. He could make her blush insanely much right now if she wasn't focusing on staying asleep.
"Now I don't know if you heard that, but I hope you do. I'm gonna put you to bed and you better sleep. We'll be arriving on an island pretty soon." He said again slowly and almost whispering into her ear. She cursed in her mind and let her body turn numb, like she was completely asleep. But she bit her lip silently and softly. All she had in mind right now was did he mean that… was he honest about wanting to get to know her. All her life she had been fighting liars and horrible people. The only person she could completely trust was ether sitting in a marine prison cell or…she dared not to think the rest…
XxxxX
Aaron was not sure what to believe anymore… if not to the gods that ruled hiss mind, but were there even gods? And if they did exist then why in the world did they let this happen…? He lifted his gloved hand and made a fist… the golden material had not been washed properly for weeks…
But the guard came again with better food and material to make the prisoner turn into gold. Well this was a good plan and he could tell that the guard was happy with the work and gave him better and better food, but also more and more material to turn into pure and solid gold. Why did this bother him so much? He had been in worse situations. Then his mind started to wonder about and thought about the legend of El Dorado… his home… And if, maybe, if Kirara was safe she would be able to go home again and live like she was supposed to live… but he could never go home again…
"What have we done…" he mumbled and let the long contained tears come…this was his entire fault. If he had not suggested to leave El Dorado in the first place then they would be safe and sound and most likely live a peaceful life worshiped like gods… in the last four thousand years then time had changed all too much. The one's who were cursed with the golden hand were once just royalty but somehow threw the ages then they started to think of them as more like gifts from the gods and the people worshipped them like reincarnation of the gods them self's… what idiots… but still not so bad. If Kirara would come home once again then she would be queen. Without him, Raymond or anyone there to protect her…
"I have only myself to blame…" he whispered and closed his eyes. 'Wait what!' he rose up and looked around 'this isn't some sort of cell that make you regret things is it? 'Cuse if it is, I'm on to you Raymond!' he mumbled in his mind and frowned. 'Oh god… I'm going Craizy...'he thought and leaned his head on the wall behind him… he looked out the window. Somehow Raymond thought it would be a nice gesture to leave a barred window in his cell to small for Aaron to fit threw but just big enough for him to get his head out. And he would if they weren't barred; the sweet smell of the ocean was just outside the cell. And he felt the feeling of freedom come over him every time he felt the fresh air come into his cell… but then, the feeling went away as soon as he opened his eyes… and saw that he was locked away…and couldn't fly anymore…
He looked over at the bar's, they were such a small thing to keep prisoners inside… but just what to expect in a low class prison, there is not really much maximum security prison. The guard came by every few minutes to check up to the prisoners…
He thought about Kirara and his secret and thought, the siblings had agreed on that they would keep their ability to turn everything into gold a large secret. They were weary carful on not telling anyone about it. No one at all knew about the two of them. Well until now, but this time was special… but the hell this was a bit of a desperate situation.
He wondered about Kirara, had she kept her secret… if she had a chance to. Perhaps she was not here anymore, then again could it be better to die then be hunted down forever… or that's what he felt like at the moment, all there life the siblings had been fighting every one. But they enjoyed it as much as performing there arts… Kirara was always good with the violin, and she could play the guitar a little bit too, while both of them sang like nightingale…
But then all good things must come to an end sometime…
XxxxX
It was finally dark outside…Kirara laid in her infirmary bed… frowning…
'What the hell is the matter with him… just thinking that 'sorry' and shit can make it all better…who does he think he is…' she thought and sat up…'why does he think that he can do anything he wanted to ME and get away with it!' she rested her head in her hands and trembled…
"What wrong little girl…" a sickly voice sounded from the bead besides hers, she was startled quite a bit and looked up to that direction quickly.
"Oh nothing… I just can't sleep…" she said to him… the man had recently broken his leg, in all the huff there was in deck he had not watched where he was going and fell and twisted his foot… he hadn't realized how bad it was until he tried to walk again and it had broken with the pressure…
"What are you thinking about" he then thought about it for a second and felt it would be better to be on at least the first name basis… "Sorry my name is Peter."
Kirara smiled "my name is Kirara…"
"Oh yeah I heard of you… you're that girl the first commander brought here…" he said and reached his hand for them to shake hand, she reached back and smiled.
"Yeah… he's a jerk…" Peter laughed at the statement.
"I wouldn't know that…" he said and tried to make himself more comfortable.
"Well he is…"
"So why can't you sleep?" he asked in a friendly manner…
"I just keep thinking." She started and pulled her legs up to her body and rested her chin on her knees. "I just keep thinking about how everything when wrong… so soon…"
"Why is it worse?"
"You wouldn't understand…" she said and gave him a soft smile… he smiled and looked down.
"No I doubt that I will." He sat up and tried to lean in closer to her "but it sounds to me like you haven't been looking at the bright side…"
"I don't have a bright side to this little situation…"
"Well every cloud has a shiny silver lining, you just need to find yours" he said and smiled a friendly smile.
"Is something wrong?" a voice from the door they both looked there and Angelique stood in the door with a harsh look in her eyes. "You know some people sleep at night, but I guess you don't…"
"Sorry Angelique…" Peter said and laid back down.
"And you, red, you go to sleep. I have other things to worry about then watching some ride-along passenger on the mightiest ship in the grand line…" she said and glared stinging green eyes at her back. Her black short pigtail flexed in the movement. Kirara pouted…
"Well that was rude…" she said and frowned.
"Well that's Angelique for you…" Peter said and punched his pillow…
"Hey you two this is your last warning!" a pissed of Angelique shouted from the outside of the door and Kirara giggled and shot down under the sheets. Peter laughed a little at her and whispered a good night to her… Kirara asked him good night as well and soon she was a little but more calm…
"Peter…?" she asked into the darkness…
"…yeah?" Peter asked
"C-can we be friends? I don't have any one to talk to…" she asked meekly. Peter stared into the dark space for a moment, he hadn't thought that anyone asked that question anymore… friendship always happened, and was not planned… but now that little girl came and asked her like a puppy to be friends with him… he slowly felt his heart melt, in sort of the same feeling he felt when he saw a kitten or a baby-anything actually.
"Yes… of course we could get to know each other."
The rest of the night Peter slept like a baby. While Kirara still felt the urge to stay awake, she feared that if she would sleep then she would dream about him…that jerk, although the dreams that she had about him weren't that bad… at least they were tasteful and even kind of fun. Eventfully Kirara closed her eyes and soon after she fell asleep. She did hope, even thought she would never admit it to herself of anyone ells, she hoped that she would have another dream where he would at least come once…
She opened her eyes with a bright light shining… and she was sitting on a large leaf floating in a large pong. With dragon flies the size of real dragons flew above her. In the sky birds flew they were giant. She saw a cat walk by in the enormous grass. And when she looked around she discovered that she was little…she was like the size of a man's finger; she decided that she wanted to know if the water was cold. She sat up and moved over to the sides of the leaf, and then she dipped her feet into the crystal clear water. The cold tickling sensation around her feet was amazing…she sighed and leaned her head back This was wonderful, then when she looked down she saw that she was naked… well that made sense, no clothes were small enough to fit someone so tiny…
She looked around in her oversized little dream world; ever thing was so bright and colorful. Clearly Mother Nature had her fun with this natural oasis...
Kirara smiled and laid on her stomach to paddle with her hands. It was easy, because a stream pushed along… she felt like a tiny little fairy. She paddled on over the little lake. Like sailing on a little cloud… and she breathed in the smell of roses and lovely flowers… but then suddenly someone pushed her off the leaf.
She felt her face slam on the floor. Ripped out of her dream and made her fall on the damn hard wooden floor.
"Hey what gives?"She screamed over to whoever sent her back to the real world.
"We've landed on an island red, and Marco wanted someone to get you" Angelique said grumpily and glared at her. "Although he didn't say for what, maybe he's decided to leave you here and spend time actually paying attention to the real crew members." She growled at poor confused Kirara. Still anger fired up inside her when Angelique said that. This wasn't her fault it's not like Kirara wanted Marcos attention. She wanted to go back to the island she was on before and see of her brother was still alive.
"Hey now wait a minute!" Kirara snapped back and raised herself off the floor. "I didn't force Marco too pay attention to me. And if you ask me, then I don't even want his attention"
Angelique glared at her from the other side of the bed. "Well then I think you should just leave…" she said bitterly and turned around, she walked to the door clearly showing her that she had the body. To get anyone she wanted. She made sure that ger wide hips and waist flaunted in front of her…
"Oh and if you don't come on up, then they're going to leave without you."
"Leave?" she whispered and started to run, she slipped past Angelique and ran as fast as she could. She eventually came up to the deck and faced the sun… the bright sunlight in the clear sky suddenly filled her with some kind of similar light as the sun. She walked over to the side where Ace and Eve were holding each other like the love-dove-lovers they were.
"Good morning." She said and walked over to the two of them.
"Good morning Kirara," Eve said and gave Ace a soft elbow in the stomach then he asked her a good morning too.
"How are you feeling?" Eve walked out of Ace's arms and came over to her. She walked in two circles around Kirara and frowned. "You need some new clothes…" she mumbled and lifter her dress so her ankles were showing.
While it was true, the white dress was turning a bit gray ad just a little bit torn where the seams were… and threads were coming out everywhere. "Hmm… you're right." Kirara said and held the dress up.
"Good morning little store teller." Marcos voice sounded from the sides and made Kirara bolt up and blush. All the feelings from past night all came back to her. All the anger came back…
"Hello…" she said with a toneless voice. She looked away from him with a snooty pout.
"Kirara, can I take a look at you for just a few minutes" Eve asked right after she bent down and lifted her left foot up.
"Sure…" she said and avoided looking at Marco; she was not in the mood to argue with him. She kind of felt as if she started talking with him then she would be so angry that she could snap and that would be embarrassing… when Eve lifted her foot up to see under, Kirara giggled and tried to keep balance she had a hard time to stand up right when Eve was lifting her feet up so high to get the bandages off. She almost fell over on her back, but when her back instead hit the warm firm chest.
"You just can't keep away from me, can you?" Marco asked laughing and lifted her up by holding under her elbows and arms, Kiraras face lit up and her heart sped up. She felt (what she thought) anger over him being so forward with her all the time. Why did he do that, it was just like bullying. Well sort of…maybe…
"y-yes I can, it's you who can't keep away from me!" she shouted as a poorly constructed comeback.
"Maybe I can't…" he said and held her up higher, he chugged a little and wrapped his hands around her waist and roughly pulled her up.
"Hey would you two stop roughhousing! I'm trying to see under here!" Eve said and grabbed a hold on her one of her feet. Her face went pale and she stroked over her foot.
"Erm… Kirara? Does this hurt?" she asked and poked on the thick skin that coated the heel.
"No… not at all." Kirara said… and took a few seconds to process the new information… "It docent hurt… I did not notice that…" she said and smiled, still processing this.
Eve couldn't believe it. Nothing, there was nothing there. Not even a paper cut, her feet were crystal clear and perfectly clean. This was not natural, only yesterday she checked on the wounds and there was still a large cut that was still leaking puss. This was not normal…
"It…docent hurt… its docent hurt?" she lit up and she kicked herself out of Marcos reach. Then she lifted her feet up she saw the clear skin on it and switched over to her other foot. It was clear too. She lit up and smiled, clearly overjoyed. "It's gone!" she shouted, stomped down her feet and ran off rolling in a ball shouting "weeeee!"
"It's gone? How is it gone?" Marco asked and pulled Eve up to her feet. She let out a little oomph "what do you mean?"
"i-I don't know…" she said, she felt a bit In daze… she had never got anything like this in the entire time she had been a nurse… there was only one person she knew of that could heal himself and that was Marco… and that was due to his devil fruit Ace on the other hand, in the background, heard the whole thing and when he heard that she had healed herself again… just like he had witnessed once… he tripped of his own two feet and ran over to the two of them.
"what did you just say?" he shouted as he smacked Marcos hand of Eve's shoulder, Marco rolled his eyes and looked over to the red haired girl who was celebrating life by cart-wheeling in circles around a weary confused Haruta and Thatch.
"She said that she wounds magically disappeared again! If you ask me this joke is getting old!" he growled and went over to the girl…
"Again? Is there something that you aren't telling me?" Eve turned to Ace; he scratched the back of his neck.
"w-well… it's a funny story actually…" he started but Eve crossed her arms over her chest and looked at him beamingly…
"Alright alright… when we met Kirara she was really hurt, and she was about to die… but something happened, I don't know If I did something but suddenly she was healed. Not even a scratch left of the hole in her chest… just gone… I know it's hard to believe, really hard but it happened" Ace said with a bit of nervous face on.
"Yes it is hard to believe that her feudal wound would just magically disappear. It goes against everything I believe in…" she said and stroked down her chin…"but if you say so… I suppose I should believe it… I guess..." she said in a bit of a mumble. Ace knew that she was having a really hard time believing this. She might not even believe it at all… but it was alright, he supposed that everything will come together eventually.
He looked over to Marco and Kirara. She was standing on her hands to show under her feet to Marco. Who was inspecting them carefully, and he looked like he didn't understand it one little bit.
"This just can't be explained."
"Yes it can." Kirara said and twirled around back on her perfect little feet. "It's a miracle!" she then shouted and jumped into Marcos arms. She bent her body so that he twirled her around in a few circles. Before the first commander stopped and lifted her up to look her in the eyes.
"This isn't a miracle. This has to be explained…"
"Why are you being such a grumpy commander all the time around me, why can't you accept the fact that this happened because it happened."
"No, no we cannot" Marco growled, a vain was pumping on his fore head. This little girl sure was pushing his buttons…
"Why, it happens to you. I saw it when you cut yourself then the cut goes away." she argued, her happiness slowly going away.
"That's because I'm a devil fruit user. It heals me. Do you have something like that?"
"No…"
"Then what do you have to say for yourself?"
"Nothing…" she said and pouted. There was a little part of her that wanted to tell him, but she was weary angry with him at the moment so she only wanted to go back to bed. "…why did you want me up here anyways?" she asked and kicked herself out of Marcos arms…
"Ask the love birds over there…" he said and pointed over to Ace and Eve who, at the moment, were exchanging kisses…
"Awww…" she said and ran over to the two of them.
"She is so cute…" Haruta came over to Marco and Thatch punched him in the shoulder, "you could put her right in your little pocket…" he cooed over at his side and laughed…
"Where do you find girls like that man?" Thatch asked and looked over at her talking to the couple. She was a head shorter than Ace, with long legs and perky breasts she really was really weary cute…
"Oh leave it alone you pervert…" he answered and shook Thatch off his shoulder.
"Are you going to go for it?" Haruta asked and gave a nudge on Marcos arm. He felt his muscles tense up and his cheeks heat up for some reason when Haruta said that.
"What? No" he said a bit flustered, trying as hard as he could to conceal his blush and keep cool. Behind his back then Thatch and Haruta exchanged a bro five for getting him all worked up.
"Well I'll tell you something. If you don't I will…" Thatch muttered besides his ear and elbowed him in the side.
"You will not touch her!" he growled and snatched the fourth commanders neck cloth. He grinned big and let out a nervous laughter.
Behind them they didn't know that Kirara was coming their way.
"Is there something going on between you two?" Eve asked Kirara when she had come up to them and gestured to Marco talking to the other commanders. Kirara had snapped into quick defense and shouted
"No! I don't like him I hate him!" she had roared at them while they quickly looked smuggle at each other.
"Ah, at your age honey, it's the same thing" Eve had said and winked the younger girl then she turned around to not see the unbelievable furious face she had on at the moment. "Will you go get Marco honey everything is ready to leave" she said quickly before Kirara had a chance to argue with her. So the red haired girl just stuck her tongue out at her and stomped back to the other commanders.
But half way to them she heard them talking, and decided to hide behind a large barrel that was besides them. And as she did than she could hear everything that was said between the men.
"You will not lay a finger on her do you understand?"
"Yes of course but why you're not gonna go for it, why can't other guys enjoy the company of a cute little red haired girl. 'Red haired girl? There talking about me aren't they!' she thought and started to listen more intensely.
"I don't want you to touch her, that's it!"
"Fine, fine we won't, because clearly you are saving her for yourself!" Haruta said snotty and pointed on the two of them.
"Why would I want to save a kid like her for myself?" Marco said. Kirara didn't hear the last bit…she didn't want to…'kid? He thinks I'm a kid?' Suddenly unable to control the hard lump in her throat that was forming. It turned into tears in no time… she stood up and went over to the three off them still talking… and poked Marcos shoulder.
"Hmm…? Kirara?" he saw the trouble in her eyes, the suddenly hurt eyes that just a minute ago were overjoyed with happiness. "Kirara what's wrong?" he took a step closer to her
"Nothing, Ace and Eve want you to come…"
"Are you sure you r feeling well… if you look like you need more sleep." He reached forth and was going to wipe the newly fallen tear off her cheek
"Don't patronize me!" she spat out at him and slapped the older man's hand away. She then looked up at him and gave him a death glare… it would not intimate anyone. But suddenly Marco got chills down his body when the girl looked at him like that… she walked back to Ace and Eve…
"Oh honey what's wrong?" Eve asked and pulled out a handkerchief out o her… someplace…
"Nothing…" she spat out, wiping her face and looked over to the island… it was a simple place and they were pretty close to it. Which meant there was deep water here… she explored it with her eyes and looked for a good way to get away. Because now was the only chance she would ever get… I t was covered with back forest, everywhere, every single corner of it… it would be easy to get away here…
Phew sorry this took so long… you the feeling of when you don't hit the save button and have too rewrite the whole thing, you know the feeling that you just want to shot yourself at the moment… but oh well here you go…
Oh and I did say that I there would be sexual scenes in this story... Well I'm just gonna warn you that there will be both boyxboy and girlxboy in the late chapters… I hope you like this way long chapter that I worked hard on… ^-^