A/N Sorry this took longer than usual… there is lemon/bondage in this one just to warn everyone…
Kirara felt the wind in her hair. The cold wet sand in-between her toes. Her feet were wet with sea water, the bitter salty sent of seaweed filled her senses and she closed her eyes and raised her nose up to save this moment...
She hadn't felt so free in weeks...
She looked back at the upon ocean, the whitebeard pirates were having a small little party back on the ship, her new friend Peter was there. Having fun, drinking and laughing... she on the other hand, hadn't tasted booze in over two three weeks. But unlike her brother, who was a raging alcoholic, she could take it weary well. She wasn't really fond of the taste that rum and sake had much less the feeling that followed the day after... and the fact that her brother couldn't live three days without the taste of booze, and he called her naïve... she smiled and walked back to the sea, she stuck her finger in the sea water, she grinned happily and stuck her finger in her mouth and let the not so tasty sea water flow in her taste buds. She almost never did that, because, let's face it seawater is just horrible for her body. And for her, a performer, keeping good posture was weary important... but there was a little part of her that loved the taste… it was the taste of the ocean… a taste of home.
"Hey Kirara! Are you coming!?" Ace shouted from the start of the forest. There was no record of any charted area of this island and not even a name. But the locals of the city of Amber. (The last horrible island) had just nicknamed it "the black forest"
"Yes!" she shouted back and ran over to them; the team consisted of a few members that clearly didn't feel like partying… but Marco wasn't there. She felt really confident about the fact that he wasn't there would give her a sure fire way to get away.
"Alright every one this forest is really thick so be sure to keep close together and do NOT get lost. Now look for ways to get in" Kirara giggled at the statement that Thatch was making,
"Do I amuse you?" he asked and strolled over to her. She laughed and shook her head.
"No. not at all. It's just i don't think it would be that simple just walking right into this black wall of death." She groaned slightly and walked past him. She glanced around for a little while. There had to be ways into the forest; she chose a tiny little clearing that led into the forest. In fact just large enough that she could squeeze threw. She turned around excitedly and tugged on Thatch's shirt.
"I found a tiny little gap where we can squeeze in!" she said excitedly and pulled Thatch and Ace over to the little clearing. It was just a gap In between the trees, but they all pushed through. Ace pulled his knife and carved his way through. With thick green wines and small sticks to go in there way they carved their way through the incredibly dark forest. Kirara had decided to go in behind and just get left behind, a foolproof plan with such a dark forest. If not that Thatch lifted her up form of her bare feet and placed her in the middle of the bunch
"We wouldn't want you to get lost now do we?" he said and made damn sure that she was close to him.
"Yeah that would be horrible…" she growled looked the other way pouting.
"It would be horrible… who knows when you would find a way out of here…" Eve said and pulled close to Ace.
"Maybe you should've stayed back at the party…"
"No I want to come with you on one of these journeys… but I just didn't realize that it would be this dark…"
"Are you afraid of the dark?" Kirara asked absent mindedly, looking around for a way too trip and disappear into the woods… "I just say that you could've at least worn something ells than you nurses uniform…something to protect your skin from poisonous insects and stuff…"
"Oh I know but I just didn't think to bother." She said "but then when you put it like that" she added just in time for her to scream out at the top of her voice when a branch connected to a spider web the size of Ace's torso, just right slipped past her…
Some time passed… about an hour or so… while Kirara was struggling to find ways to get away from him. Although she was enjoying the wonderful sights that she was seeing… at some places then the forest looked like a swamp and on other then the forest was so thick that the trees were actually stuck together. Like a wall… she looked around and wished for some miracle from the gods… she never listened to the things that the pirates around her were saying, they were really deep in conversation. But she only heard half of it…
She wondered why Marco wasn't there. Had he been upset by the thing that she said to him… well that was good? She was mad with him. She didn't want to be friends with him. She didn't want him to pick her up and hug her, hold her close and feel how warm he was... like in her dreams… there was no way that she wanted to hold him close and stroke over that firm chest…or kiss it for that matter… she felt her insides twist when she thought about that, which was unacceptable!
"Oi Kirara are you dreaming?" she heard Ace whisper in the distance and someone touch her shoulder…
"Hmm? Oh no, I was just….admiring the lands-trees…" she blushed insanely much and tried to push the ideas out of her head. They kept walking for another hour or so, the group was quiet and just watching their step. In such a place you could never know if you would trip ad fall over a little plant and land in a never-ending-deep-pit of bugs or something like that… they even passed a pit like that a few minutes ago. Eve almost screamed her vocals out of her throat… and Kirara had jumped up in a tree to get away from that pit of disgusting bugs…
"Say I have question, oh leader Ace, where is this trip taking us?" Kirara asked snugly and walked up to the couple in the front. Perhaps this would be a good chance to fall somewhere or just disappear into a hollow tree. There were a million possibilities to get away here, but if these damn pirates wouldn't be so damn protective she would've just ran beyond the trees. It seemed that this particular group that was looking around the black forest was the more than just overprotective, they were really paranoid!
"Eeh, well were going to find something" he rubbed the back of his neck. "More like just exploring the island…"
"But we don't even know how large this island is… one of us could easily get lost" she said and rolled her eyes, still pouting. Her eyes quickly shifted from side to side. So many possibilities but Eve was suddenly holding her gloved hand and then she could find it in her heart to let go.
"Naah don't worry, we will make sure you don't wonder off somewhere…" Ace said and shot her a small grin.
"Oh good for me…"
Another thirty minutes passed. Kirara was starting to lose hope; they really did keep a close eye on her. The was no way for her to even trip… they were so overprotective! How could it be such a bad thing that she could even jump over and over sized tree root, but someone had to help her. She could do that no problem with no help at all, this could be a little over the top.
"So where do you come from Kirara?" a question from Eve came as such a surprise to the red that she didn't see where her feet were and she dropped right on her face.
"Hahaha…funny you should ask that…why are you asking?" she asked while Thatch went down to help her back on her feet. That help was not welcome; she shook his hand off her shoulders and told him to buzz off.
"Well I would love to know here you were born and where you grew up…"
"Yeah I would love to know too." Ace agreed to that quickly and Kirara started to get uneasy.
"All of us do" and now he started to panic… they all wanted to know!? That was terrible! She was a native form a place more secret then the Sky islands! No one knew about the island that she came from; it was all a mere legend. No not even a legend more believed to be a fairytale, a kids story. She knew that Liar Nolan said that he saw the city of gold that ether sunk into the ocean or flew up into the sky. But this was worse, were talking about El Dorado… she couldn't tell anyone about them. That time when she told Marco the legend of Midas was just a momentary lapse… she couldn't help it, but she didn't mean to.
"Well I'm from an island… on the edge of the grand line somewhere near to a place that's near Enies lobby… I grew up there. Up to the point when I, my brother and two of my best friends ran away from the island. And we wanted to become pirates." she took a short moment to make sure at the lie that she said was a little more believable. "Well that's more or less the gist… you know the old story about the small town folks tired of the normal world!" she shouted t loudly and proudly. It was an old story that anyone would believe it had been used a million times and will be used million times again for as long as there are pirates….
"Hmm well that sounds nice…." They said and seemed to believe it. So Kirara started to breathe easier. It wasn't a total lie, but more like she bent it little so she wouldn't have to waste time, emotional connection and stress by telling them t real story. The hell would she even try to connect to those people, over protective bastards…
"Ough… well I suppose"
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"Mmmfh!" a long and hot sound was heard from the red haired girl… chained to the bed spread her legs spread wide apart. Her hair was sticking to her sweaty body and her neck and chest was covered in red almost purple spots. If you would look down to her hips there would be more red and pink spots on the inner parts of her thighs and dangerously low on her belly. While her face was red and a trail of saliva was running down from her lips even if it was covered completely with a small ball gag. Her golden eyes were covered with a bright blue sash…
"Mmh… shusssh…" Marco soothed in her ear and placed a hand to cup her perky breast. He massaged it soft and slowly before he moved and grabbed the little pink nibble, there was another muffled cry or moan out of her but it only succeeded on making Marco harder. He locked is mouth around her nibble and started to lick and suck on it hard. He was sure to move his tongue around the nibble and feel it rise in his mouth; he then bit it softly and tugged on it with his teeth, to scrape the soft flesh around the pink little sweet and hearing her muffled cries she was making…
He didn't hear the cries. It was easy to not hear them, they weren't all that loud. He kept of licking and sucking his way down her body, all the way down to her flat abdomen where he continues to make little marks on her pale skin. He scraped the skin on her hip with his teeth so hard that it bled, he looked up to her face a pink blush decorated her face. Marco couldn't help to think that it looked good on her. He shifted the paces he was sitting on. So he could work better, then he kissed her outer thigh and placed himself in between her legs. She struggled to move herself her legs shifted from side to side and her muffled moans and lovely sounds that she was making was enough to make him rock hard…
He wasn't wearing any shirt himself but the lower area was still in pants so that the painfully hard erection was almost too much. He had to get it loose…when the pants were loose he felt the hard-on rise up long…
"You should prepare yourself…" he soothed when he bent down to lick over the dark red curls that decorated the womanhood. She jerked her back and made a noise that clearly stated that she was not enjoying the current actions; he doubted though that he could stop at this moment… he spread her legs father apart and started to lick her entrance. Marco tasted the soft sweet fluids that started to come out…he moved up and down with his tongue, flicked her clit softly and rubbed it with the tip of his tongue. He listened to the sounds she was making, the harder he used his tongue the harder she tried to keep her moans quiet.
But as much as he enjoyed the moment there was a small part of him that hated the fact that she was not happy while the other half of him had the control so he had no intention to stop… she was barely crying, and his heart felt a blaze… he smirked and razed himself up.
"Please don't hate me for this" he soothed and positioned himself at her entrance…and with one quick motion he thrust himself inside…
She arched her back and screamed…
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Marco opened his eyes and felt his heart rate go up incredibly. It was all a dream… Marco suddenly felt a little disappointed. Of course it was a dream… he was stupid to think that he was doing all those things to her for real.
He was up in a tree in the middle of the forest. The tallest and largest tree there, he had flown up and chose a large thick branch to think…where no wind or anything would interrupt him, before he knew it he had fallen asleep. There had been no problems, until he started to dream about freaking raping Kirara! How could think something so disgusting, of all the things that he wanted to do to her then that was not one of them!
He sat up to look around, but as soon as he straightened up he felt that tight space from his pants was not as tight as he thought. He looked down and saw that he had unbuttoned his pants just like in the dream, he suddenly realized just how much he was turned on my this dream for the rock hard member down below was already leaking… perhaps there was a little tiny part of him that wanted it.
If he wouldn't do something about that there was a chance that it could hurt later. His hand firmly grasped around his member and began to slowly pump it up and down. Slowly he pleasured himself and made him shiver, he ran his finger over the sensitive tip and let out a little gasp.
"Ki- Kirara…" he shivered out just as he closed his eyes and pictured her face…her body flexing in the sun, her thin waist and sexy small hips…he thought about the dream and his image of her naked. The taste he had gotten into his mouth as he dreamed about licking her… his hand increased its speed and he sighed out her name again… so wonderfully helpful was it to imagine the noises that she made while he sucked on her nibble…the incredibly sexy noises that she made, only imagining them almost sent him over the top…
He pictured her red hair spread over white bed sheets her face would have the pearl white color and a soft pink glow over her cheeks. He pumped faster and stroked the entire shaft from the tip to the base. Her lips would be slightly parted and he would graze his finger over it. Marco let out the moan from the sensation and he gasped out her name again. He would tug on her chin to open her mouth and then he would kiss her… he felt his senses go on edge and felt the wave of pleasure washed over him, he tried as hard as he could to not scream out her name out. He let out everything and sighed out harshly when the white hot essence from him spurt out all over the tree branch…
Marco relaxed and let the high wear itself out, and only was he thinking about her. Her face, her smiling face. When the white high was over he decided to find the others, he stood up lightly and felt his shoulders to be so much lighter than usual. Like some sort of big heavy rock had been lifted of his shoulders, he cleaned his mess off his pants or the parts that had actually landed on his pants. Then he took a long breath of air and let himself fall, with the smooth motion he landed in the air his hands transformed into wings and he flew through the air, above the tree tops the forest didn't look at all that dark. It was only tight space and the trees were close together, then again not to wonder why the people called it the black forest. He could only imagine what was inside this forest.
He spotted a little clearing threw the tree tops and flew threw it. He landed smoothly on a rock in the corner of a pond, a large smooth puddle in the forest was really weary clear and he could see his reflection in the water. The only little opening in the tree tops let the soft sunlight rays into the little space and gave it a church like appearance…
But the motion of the pressure that came when he landed on the rock, the pressure that motioned way down into the bottom of the lake and disturbed the creature of the deep… of course marco was oblivious to that anything was down there…
Suddenly a noise from the side of the woods disturbed him, like a dry branch being stepped on. He slowly looked into the direction where it came from. The person who had stepped on the branch was no one ells then the red haired wonder herself. Only soaking wet…
"Kirara"
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They had been walking for three hours now, and no luck in finding anything exiting. But at least Eve was getting used to her surroundings. No screeching whenever a spider crawled up her leg… okay even Ace found that unpleasant. He who had fallen down almost three times now asleep…
Not that she was keeping count but this would make it the eight times that she tripped on purpose to make herself disappear. But every time she did then something got in her way, and one of those things were always ether Ace or Thatch. HOW THE HELL WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO GET AWAY FROM THEM IF THEY WOULD NOT LET GO OF THE LACE ALREADY!
"Oi Kirara! Snap out of it already. Well be turning back soon." Thatch sounded into her ear.
"Oh no." Kirara breathed out and felt the desperation wash over her.
"What?"
"What?" she tried to save "I didn't say anything." She smiled wide and tried to act as if there was nothing to it. She was losing it, they were leaving now. It had to be now or never! Thatch walked over to the rest and they made a sort of huddle.
She glanced out over to the dark trees and saw a little clearing, she casually strolled over to the fine attire trees and stroked over the mold that spread all over the thick three stern then she made claw marks so it would look like she tried to help herself… she glanced over to the pirates that were talking in the huddle, she couldn't feel like any on was looking at her at the moment. She took a breath and gave out a sudden shout. Like something sudden happened to her. Then she threw herself into the trees, she hadn't expected the long fall that was down there. She did all she could to ignore the cuts and bruises that she was receiving from the bloody sharp rose trees and thorns even the size of her own body. She landed roughly on a flat hard surface…she couldn't move. The air had been knocked out of her lungs all together and she just laid there and tried to breath.
Only hallow sounds came when even she tried to breath, it didn't sound too good. Still she was determined to get up, and get away.
"Damn…that was a huge fail…" she said and picked herself up. She sniffed the air and smelled some heavy sent in the air… like the scent of when someone was boiling water with thousands of rocks in it. She looked up and saw smoke coming out of holes in the ground.
"Geysers…?" she asked herself… she walked passed them and watched out to not step on the yellow ground or the gray-white stones that came over everywhere. In her experience the worst thing that would happen if you stepped in the yellow mud was that you could have a have a boiled foot for dinner… and it was certainly not pretty… she walked and felt the wonderful heat from the geysers and felt the heat her up slightly with that being said and hopped over a couple of warm flat stones which made shivers go up and down her spine. This place was so nice and warm she sat down on a stone plate to lay down. Her head felt woozy, it was like a sauna in there… the trees would not let the steam go out except threw the smallest spaces so the heat was making her sweat.
"Don't move Kirara!" she suddenly heard Ace shouted. She was so startled that before she knew it she had fallen down behind herself and landed in the warm geyser water. She shot out of it as fast she could but the water was deep so she couldn't really get out of there except by swimming…. She struggled and thrashed around like a mad woman. They geyser would kill her, she was sure of it! But the funny thing it the geyser was not boiling hot, like most of them were supposed to be. It was more comfortably warm. So she doggy-paddled her way back to the brim of the geyser. She reached her hand up and grabbed something… she lifted her head out of the water and turns out it was Ace's boot… 'Nonono! Damn it!' she shot at herself in her mind and shot him a guilty look.
"Are you okay?" he asked and snared her under her arms and fished her out of the warm water. "Isn't it hot?"
"I'm fine. And it's actually quite comfortable…" she said and pushed him away from her. Her dress, the only item of clothing she had to wear, except for her underwear, was soaked threw and sticking to every part of her body… everything sucked!
"Why did you come after me…" she snapped out quickly.
"What?"
"Why didn't you just leave anyway? It would've been easier one everybody if you would just go and leave me here, Ace!" she said slowly and made a guilty look away from him, she couldn't stand that he was looking at her like hat. Those dark eyes made everything so much harder… she didn't want to hurt him so she thought it would be better to stop talking...
"What are you talking about? We wouldn't leave you here… for one: it would not be easier for all of us, because the captain still wants to talk to you. Second Marco would go crazy if we lost you, and third: we would never just leave you here in this wall of death with your head bleeding"
"What?" she whispered out.
"Yeah it's not big. You would just need a little band aid, but you're still bleeding." He stroked over her forehead to get the wet hair out of her face, he paused when he saw the scar that split her eyebrow at the end. Somehow when a thin like of blood was prickling over it, it seemed to look worse somehow.
"oh yeah that…why would Marco go crazy if I got lost?" she asked with a unpleasant feeling in her stomach, part butterfly feeling and the other part was the feeling when you are expecting really, really, really bad news.
"Well he asked us to look after you. To make sure something like that wouldn't happen to you."
Kirara didn't know if she should feel relived and happy or desperate and devastated. It was somewhere in between, this was bad news, really bad news they slimmed her chances on going to see her brother even more, and then why did it make her so glad…
"Well… i-I erm… I'm sorry?"
"Yeah well you better be, cuse Marco is such a pain in the neck when he gets worried about something he cares about." He dropped that last part out accidentally. He regretted having said that the second the word dropped of his tongue.
"What?!"
"…what?..." the word came out a little high and squeaky.
"You said something he cares about…"
"Did i?"
"Yes you did!"
"no, I'm pretty sure I said…erm…" he looked at her pink sweaty face, the heat in the air made her look so much sweet although she was starting to look a little bit like a strawberry. She was waiting for an answer. "No I don't think there is any way to save…"
"Oh…my god…"
"Yeah I know the thing is that he tries to not admit it but he cares about you, and you just have grown on the rest of us… we just hate to see you hurt."Ace grinned softly when her face turned the tomato red color. "And now there is a cut on your forehead witch I hope will not scar because I'm not gonna be the one to tell him this…"
"Well can you go get Eve then…"
"No you're gonna come to her."
"No! No wait i… wait i-I can't breathe!" she shot out and fell to the ground, making like she fainted.
"Oh shit!" he said and ran over to her. He lifted her head and felt her head. It wouldn't make any difference whether she had a fever in this heat. But Ace thought that this was better for Eve to handle. He hurried over to where ever it was he came down here from. Right before he glanced back and rolled his eyes. 'Not really your best act' he thought and smiled. "I'll get Eve then" He ran over to a tree and disappeared into it. She opened one of her eyes and looked around. Good thing that he was nice. It was almost like he understood… that or that he was just really gullible… ether way then he was one of the nicer guys… he was such a big brother type to her.
She stood up and wiped the yellow stone off her dress. Then she started to walk. She pulled the dress up to she could walk better over to the bushes was a little clearing and a smell that was almost like fresh water… she hurried over to the opening and was amazed by what she saw… in the further end of a pond then on top of a large bolder that stood out of the clear water was Marco. Half way into the phoenix form and looked like he was admiring his own reflection. Kirara felt a lump in her throat. He was gorgeous…
It took all of her moral strength to not drop on the ground and worship the image in front of her… there was a opening in the trees and the clear sky and sunlight shined into the lake, it was like a temple. He had the godly image just like in her dream, only more she squeezed her right hand into a fist, the golden glove that kept her powers at bay was the signal of who she was and what she was supposed to do at a time like this… she felt her heart start to race and her god fearing nature took over. She hadn't felt this in over four years... In this situation then she was supposed to drop to her knees and give him her prairies…a part of her wanted to… wanted to drop at his feet and kiss every part of his body, it was what she was supposed to do to the gods (if for some magical miracle reason that they would come to her in the flesh) but she did her best to hold all her natural instincts and keep her back straight and her head in the air… but it was hard.
"Wow…" she sighed out and stepped back. But as she did that then she stepped on a little dry branch… she froze up and tried to think clearly… but nothing came to her mind, she was frozen…
He slowly looked over into her direction. The heat from the geysers behind her was coming to her and warming her back, but her front was just as hot… it was just one of the feelings that were adding together…
"Kirara"
"Aaah!" she gasped out and stepped a bit back. But apparently the branch she stepped on had a bigger friend that stood in the way of her feet so she nearly tripped over it. She didn't lose he balance but just looked like a fool falling down and to make sure that she didn't fall onto the yellow and gray mud she bent down into a clumsy bridge
She heard him shouting out her name when she fell down; Marco spread his wings and leaped over to her. He grinned a bit when he saw in what position she was in and then burst out into laughter…
"n-no It's not funny! My hands! Hurting!" Marco saw that they were dangerously close to the yellow stones…
"Oh god." He jumped to and with one quick motion then he lifted her of the ground bridal stile…he held her close… this was sensation he didn't feel in his dream, holding her close like this… the dress was wet and cold. But she didn't seem to notice…
"Why are you all wet…?"
"Uuuuuh i-I fell down…" she said and smiled sheepishly…
"Oh really…" he said slowly and placed her down on a warm boulder in the corner of the geyser area. He stroked her cheeks with his hands and felt the smooth skin under his fingertips. He felt a little feverish, and not just from the hot steam coming from the hot springs…
"Over there." She pointed over to the little pool of perfectly fine warm water which he had fallen in "I fell into that spring. And I just slipped…" she let out a little nervous laughter and rubbed the back of her head.
"And this?" he said and softly stroked over the hardened blood they had leaked down her eye.
"Hit my head?" he said as an attempt of a lame pun.
Marco sighed "Just relax…" he griped the sides of her head firmly. He heard her take a breath and slowly close her eyes; he leaned her backwards and tilted her head back. Suddenly Marco felt sweat form on the back of his neck. Her lips were separated and glazed wet; the water gave them such a beautiful glow… he tried to swallow. Suddenly his mouth felt a bit dry, he found himself slowly leaning into her.
"Is it bad?" she asked and she seemed to get a bit anxious. Her voice snapped him out of his current state of dreaming…
"No not really. But there will be a bit of a bruise I think…"
"Where are the others?"
"They went ahead back to the ship… so it's just us…" he mumbled, so close she could feel his breath on her temple.
In the back ground Ace dropped smoothly down from the trees, after a bout for seconds then Eve dropped from the trees as well and landed in Ace's arms. She laughed and kissed him on the cheek. They both looked to around for Kirara. Ace soon found that she wasn't at the place he had left her, he looked at Eve with a worried face but his girlfriend had her eyes somewhere ells.
"Would you look at them…" she whispered and Ace looked over to the two of them. He suddenly realized just what the hell was going on there… oh how stupid they were…
"Hey lover boy. Would you step aside for a second?" Eve came walking over to the two of them and grinned when both of them glanced at her, with the same sheepish expression… "Step away from my patient commander…"
"I'll be right with you" he said and pulled Kirara close to him. His lips lightly flew over the surface of her ear and he whispered something… Eve was not close enough to hear whatever he said to her but by the reaction he got it was something special he let go of her head and stepped away, her face was burning red.
"All yours" he strolled over to the second commander. And stopped there…
"Well well well…seems like you need to explain something to the rest of us…" Ace soothed smugly and grinned.
"I do what I want—"
"Yeah but I think she is off limits…" Ace cut off Marco before he could continue talking.
"I-I didn't mean like that!" he snapped at him while his usually cool atmosphere melted of… suddenly she got all these images from his dream…the sounds the smell the taste. Come to think of it, the dream was incredibly precise. So naturally he felt his face light up… within three seconds then Ace was crouching on the ground with a huge bump on his head.
"Kay…I get it…" he mumbled grumpily and glared a mischievous glance at the older man… "I understand it now..." he said smugly and smiled.
"What are you implying?" Marco glared at him, but the slight smile was not leaving the younger man's face…
"Hey, if you guys would put your fighting on hold, I have something to say." Eve came and slammed her hands together…
"Hmm?"
"Kirara said that maybe some of these geysers are not as boiling hot they seem to be, and I was wondering if we could maybe stay here for a while?" Eve leaned back and gave then a puppy look and let out a little begging noise…
When the two of them didn't answer her just yet then she knew that she had to convince them a little more. "Well Kirara said that water in that one:" she pointed over to the one that Kirara had pointed her to "is really good. Oh come-on the two of us really want to stay… and steam baths are really good for your skin" she smiled… but they didn't answer again…
"Well Kiraras dress is all wet and if she is forced to go back to the ship In that condition that she will get sick…please I really want to stay…"
"W-well if we're going to stay… then what are you going to be wearing? You don't have a swimsuit?"Ace asked and hoped with all his might that she might possibly say naked...
"Oh how baldy you know me…" Eve said and blinked a seductive look towards the fire user.
"Oh I vote stay" Ace said and slid over to his girlfriend. The two of them grinned a huge grin and waited for the first commander's answer… then they put on their best puppy look…
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Kirara sat up in a tree and let the hot stem from the geysers coat her body. Well not all geysers, some of them were merely hot springs… Ace and Eve were soaking in one, all cuddly and naked. They had promised on not do anything until they were alone, and Marco was in the cold water of the little pond next to them. She found it a little funny that an area that had such a hot ground would have a cold lake next to it. But the sight around it was beautiful.
It did look like a church… the part where the pond was. And Marco had been sitting on the rock on the corner of the pond for a long time now. With light that shined out if the treetops and the reflected in the clear water, like a mirror…
Before Kirara could even realize that she was staring, the Marco had tilted his head into her direction and caught her staring.
That grin pissed her off! He thought he knew everything didn't he!? And before she could even blush then he had jumped up and flew over to her, she felt he heart speed up so fast it was almost painful.
"Hey." He sat down in front of her in the tree branch. It was large and thick so they both fit on it. "How are you feeling in this heat?"
"Yeahimfine." She said without a breath, but soon she found how stupid that sounded and gritted her teeth of embarrassment. She didn't want to look like a child in his eyes, in all her life she never wanted to feel like this.
She had been called so many horrible names in her life. But never had she been called a kid. She knew that she wasn't weary mature, and she knew weary well that her body was still weary underdeveloped. But she certainly was not a kid anymore…
"Really? You look a bit flushed." Referring to the heavy pink color of her face, the hair sticking to her face and the fact that that sweat pearls were running down her body.
"That's just because of the heat."
Through no fault of her own then this precise sentence made Marcos imagination go wild. Why did she have to be so dainty? Suddenly he thought that if he would touch her then she would break. Even though that he had such a dream about her then he had never thought about doing something like this in real life. No if he would be rough with her then she would break. But somehow he liked it…
"Well the water in the pond I nice and cool. If you're interested?" 'Care to join me?' he thought the last part up and imagined what her response would be.
"No…" she said simply.
"…"
For some time then she just let herself sweat out. With Marco sitting beside her and ether look at her or look around. This was driving her crazy! Did he have something to say? Wha would he do, what would he say, what should she say her heart was beating so damn fast and she couldn't do anything about it. It was just the damn fact that he was there in front of her that pissed her off.
"Why do you treat me like this?" her voice broke the more then uncomfortable silence.
"What?"
"Why don't you just leave me… why can't I just go and you will live on with your life and ill live on with mine… with our family like we used too before we met."
"…where is your family…"
"My brother was captured by the marines th day you and I met… Raymond tracked me down into the forest and tried to kill me. Then you came in and I helped me, and then I wanted to help Aaron… find him and know that he is safe… because, it's horrible to not know that he is safe…" she wasn't sure if he had been captured. But it just seemed that way now… it had to be the only explanation…
Marco felt suddenly like a block of ice in the middle of the hot spring area… he sheepishly looked away and tried to figure this out…
"What? You're brother is in prison?"
"You heard me… it's ironic isn't it… one twin was kidnapped by pirates and the other was captured by the marines… somehow everything got so much worse way too fast…"
"I'm sorry…"
"Nah you shouldn't be… you didn't know, how you could know…" she paused and let herself build up the courage to say the next bit. "But I am not a child, and you have to right to treat me like one!" there was short moment of silence. At the while they just spent time staring at each other with harsh expression.
"… not a child huh…" Marco said slowly. A little lump in his throat formed and he took a deep breath. She was more messed up then he thought… he glanced quickly over to the lovers in the hot springs… they were nowhere to be seen. Which meant they were somewhere doing some loving… irritated Marco turned back to Kirara, who didn't really seem like she noticed anything. 'What do they think they are? Animals?' Kirara seemed a little distant minded, looking into the distance… away from him…
He moved over to her slowly, until she was sort of under him in a way. He leaned into her and brushed hair away from her ear. She tensed up but didn't move, he heard her heart beat so loudly.
"I know you're not a child…" he soothed "I know that… and I'm sorry I said it. I had hoped that we would be closer than this, and I also had hoped that you would have told me your story…" he paused and hovered further away from her; she tilted her head and looked at him. His blue eyes burned her skin and scorched her soul. Little did she know that he felt the same thing; only her golden eyes were just plain wonderful to look at. They seemed a little moist and warm…a warm tone of metallic gold…
"I don't want to be your prisoner…I want to fly away, I want to go home…" the steam blew up around them and she tilted her head so their foreheads connected. Marco tried to swallow the lump in his throat when she touched him… he glanced back over to the love birds, who were nowhere to be seen. He breathed a little lighter, he grinned in his mind for some reason.
"I can make that happen…" he tilted his head and their noses nudged together slightly…
"Really…"
"yes, but it comes with a price…" he moved closer and closer together… so close to make the dream come true… her lips were wet an shined so deliciously he just had to eat them up…
"Oh, Marco~ i-I feel dizzy…"
"Yeah… me too…" inches away from having her lips then Kirara started to rock away… she wasn't lying, it was really too hot with him so close to her. So really close… her lips tingled with the thought of his touching them but right now then the sad fact remained that her vision was blocked with black, the blood was rushing to her head and she couldn't see, the heat had made her so dizzy. She couldn't take it anymore; she fell out of the tree…
And landed on Eve…
"Kirara!... - Ace?"
Kirara had fallen directly down and hit Eve's back. The two lovers weren't doing anything special, except listening to everything that the two of them were saying…
"You were listening?" Marco growled.
"Yeah!" Eve and Ace said at the same time loudly and excitedly. They were dressed, but only by half. Marco jumped down from the tree and stomped on Ace's face in the mean time. There is a time when a certain person gets really angry about something; then one look from their eyes and you will be found dead tied to a nearby harbor. Marco had that look in his eyes right now.
"You are gonna regret this…" he growled with a demonic voice. Eve didn't even budge but Ace on the other hand had seen this look in his eyes before and his blood ran cold for a second. He had a little experience he had with that look then I had never been pleasant, more often than not then he always regretted opening his mouth. But before the first commander could blow up into a big volcano then he felt a little tuck on his pants. He looked and saw Kirara close to fainting and holding on to the corner of his pants. Her face showed pain, while she walked the narrow bridge that was between consciousnesses and fainting
"Hold that thought." Ace said and jumped to. He snatched the red haired girl of the hot ground and ran with her to the pond; before Marco could even realize.
Kirara breathed lightly when Ace put her into the cold water. She even smiled; a large relived sigh was dropped from her mouth. As soon as the water was disturbed with the girl being dropped into the water then the creature in the deep felt that something was there again.
"Aaahh thank you so much…" she sighed out and lifted her upper body from the cold water.
"No problem." He smiled and stood up. He then a little thought came to mind. There was a question that he wanted to know about. There was so much mysterious about that girl, and he needed to find out.
"Say there is a little question that I'm going to ask you." He say and sat back down, the girl was splashing about in the clear water. She was cute, she reminded him of Luffy somehow when they were playing in the water on a hot summer day. Back when they were young and innocent…
"Sure, if only I can ask about your dummy tattoo on your shoulder."
"Huh? Dummy tattoo?"
"Yeah why is he S crossed out?" she pointed to the shoulder.
"Oh… well I had a friend a long time ago. We were really close, but then I lost him… and the S is the first letter in his name, so this is for him. To remember him." he said with a grin.
"Oh that's so sweet." She cooed. Then she turned he head and looked around for a few seconds…
"Alright… then I want to ask you something…" h sat down into the water besides her.
"Shoot"
"Okay then… the time when we first met, I remember you were really hurt… and I was just wondering what happened…"
"I don't know what you're talking about." She said and cocked her head a bit to him.
"You don't? Then what happened"
"I don't know man; all i felt was that i was saved. I thought that the gods had given me another chance… silly isn't It." she said and laughed at her self
"Gods?" slowly the memories came back at the thing that happened with her dying on the bed. The feeling, the power that came to him for a split second and ten just went away like it never happened. But what was left was the memory of the power and the girl alive and healthy…
"d-do you mean by any chance… that the persons I saw at the time, were the gods…I mean your gods or whatever" he said that as carefully as he could… there was a light chance that she would think that he was insane. He waited for the time when she would laugh at him and says that she had no idea what the hell he was babbling about… but when he looked at her she seemed terrified, her eyes were wide open and trembling…
"What?"
"Oh my god…" she managed to tremble out. Then she suddenly stood up from the water and tried as good she could to walk away from him. She couldn't move well in a dress that was so soaked stuck to her feet and made her unable to move her legs weary well. So naturally she tripped over the slippery rocks on the bottom, fell face first into the water.
"Kirara are you okay?" He rushed over to her and pulled her up.
"No! Don't touch me!" she screamed so loud that most likely White beard himself could hear her
"Wh-."
"I don't deserve it…don't look at me" she curled u into a little ball ad turned her back to him. "I haven't been true… I didn't believe!" She moved away farther from him.
"What are out talking about? What are you doing?!" she looked like she was having a total mental disorder. With a pale face she fell to the ground, crawled up to the lad and stopped there.
"they touched you Ace… you are proof that they exist, the touch of their hand has been on your back and chest…" she turned her head away from him and crouched down so low at her forehead touched the earth and held herself, wrapped he self n her own embrace.
"What are you talking about?" Ace was having a hard time believing what the hell she was doing. "Come on Kirara, stop joking. Come now… look at me…"
"I can't! I don't deserve it!" she cried out. Her hair was covering her face and he only saw the trails of water running don't her body. Other than that she just trembled and shook like an earthquake.
"What are you doing? Stop this stupid joke, it not funny I'll tell you that." Ace went down to her and pulled her up. She avoided his eyes as much as she could.
"Ace what did you do!?" Marco and Eve came running to the two of them, Marco felt his hand form a fist and it was ready to pound on the younger man's face. But just as he raised his hand then he felt some one grab a hold of it and stop him. He looked down and saw Kirara hanging on to her dear life on his fist. She want strong enough to stop him so she just hung on, it was enough o get his attention to her instead on Ace.
"Don't hurt him!" she screamed and buried her face in his shirt.
"What t hell is happening?!" Ace nearly shouted out. Eve came and slowly pulled Kirara away from Marco. But as soon as she managed to get her on her feet, then she just turned away and dived into the hot spring
"Alright what happened?"
"I swear I don't know!"
"Well something must have spooked her. Perhaps she is still a little shook up from the change of environment" Eve glanced over to the first commander smugly. "That or she is just plainly scared and docent knows what to do…" se glared at him flamingly.
"What? Is this my fault?"
"It's not" they heard her say from the little pool. "It's my fault…"
"What?" the three of them asked all at once.
"You would think I'm crazy…"
"You're pretty much running tat risk ether way…" Marco said and made his way over to her.
"It's no one's fault… I'm just not supposed to be alive…" she said and glanced over to Marco. "Ace saved me…"
"Yeah yeah, I know the story…"
"He did it by working as a power generator for a higher power… that worked as sort of a healing spell of to put it gently…"
"Higher power?" Ace was trying to figure this out…
"Please don't tell me you belong to some sort of cult…" Marco sighed out and did hop that was not true…
"It's not a cult!" she snapped at him. "It's a religion…" she then said calmly and turned away... "D-do you remember the story I told you… by any chance?"
"Yeah…?"
"Well… it's not just a story… its more kind of my islands history lesson…" she said and sunk her head half way down into the water.
"Oh really? Well if that true then I'm the pirate king…" he said with a bit of sarcastic tone in his voice.
"But you're not—"
"See my point"
"Shut up!" Kirara snapped at him and pouted.
"I don't believe this…"
"Of course you don't! You only believe what you see with your eyes! And then when something said otherwise then it's wrong." She said pouting. She swam to the side of the spring she sat up to the side right behind her was a geyser bubbling hot and could boil the body in a matter of seconds…
"You are just so simple minded…" she finished
"Okay so assuming that what you told me is true then there is a person in the world that can actually turn things into gold…?" Marco chuckled a bit when he said that. At the same moment then Kirara clenched her fist closed. She felt it tremble. He seemed exited buy the thought of the gold thing.
"Yeah well don't forget that, the same person is a member of the royal family…" she said and straightened out her back. It was the first time ever she had used that as argument...
"Whatever" he said, it didn't really bring him much interest, that argument… "And not only that but a city of gold none the less…"
"Is that all you can think about?" she raised an eye brow.
Somewhere in the back ground then Eve and Ace were taking notes of this conversation.
"Are we supposed to say something?" Ace whispered to Eve.
"Shhhush! I'm listening!" she shushed her boyfriend.
"You are just a typical pirate aren't you?!" Kirara shouted. And stomped her way down to Marco.
"I am a pirate yes. But I can ensure you I am one of a kind."
"Yeah in the means of being thick headed!"
In the background then the couple snorted loudly trying to keep in their laugh
"Is that the only argument that you have?" They were glaring at each other, snarling at each other. Without even noticing they moved closer and closer to each other.
"You are such a jerk! You never stopped t think that there are people living there!"
"…no… I didn't…" he said and looked like he was pondering the thought for a while. "In the story then it was a city. Well not just a city, a civilization…" he looked at her, into her eyes… her golden eyes. "And you're form there"
"Don't say that!"
"But you are" they were almost chest to chest now.
"…yes… bu that's not the point the point is that told you my story and you don't believe" she nudged slightly on his shoulder. He smirked when she did that and grabbed her hand, she had such a furious face on and it didn't help that the heat made her face so preciously pink and beautiful.
That smirk made her so angry. She didn't ever think that she had ever been so mad at anyone in the world! Ever since she met him then he had been pressing her buttons so hard, she had never felt like this ever.
"What is there not to believe?" he said and smirked. He didn't look like he believed. Not at all… of course he didn't believe, when you lie so much to begin with then somehow it always comes to bite you in the ass… that she had learned from experience. But she had never lied to him… not once.
"Whatever... Just go fall into one of those geysers and stay there!" she yelled and ran away from him. She ran the way to the pond and jumped in… she then swam all the way to the other side of the pond and dived deep into the water.
"Hmm would you like an advice?" Eve came in and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.
"What?"
"… I think you could've…Handled that better…" she said and glanced over to Kirara that sat in a ball on the stone that stuck out ad just plainly looked sad…
"I just don't get why she can't tell the truth!"
"Well we don't know if he was lying… but it seems unlikely that this is true…" Eve mumbled. In the meantime Ace swam over to her and was going to try to help her.
"Thing is Marco…she is just frightened… you can be quite intimidating when it comes too it…" Eve pressed on and smiled. "You just have to be a little more careful… gentle, she is a precious girl... you wouldn't want to break her…?" she said and dipped her toes into the hot spring. Then he just soaked there and watched Marco ponder on this new found information…
Back at the place Ace had placed himself comfortably resting on his hands, while his lower body was soaking in the water.
"You people don't understand…" she said, voice was almost cracking. Close to tears… 'She is a little bit of a crybaby…' Ace thought and rolled his eyes, he could stand tears but there were times now and then when they just got annoying.
"No we probably don't… so why won't you explain…?"
"I just cat believe that I didn't notice it before hand…" she said but didn't turn around... "If I had seen I sooner then I would've paid you more respect… what happened to you is the up most of honors, so few are honored with this blessing"
"Why don't you look at me while you talk to me?"
"Eye contact towards the touched one is disrespectful…" she sad and cured herself up little tighter. "I always knew that there was something different about you, which made you different form the others… but I could never put my finger on it… I felt as if you were something special… turns out you are"
"Alright then…" he didn't want to know about the stupid thing that she believed in… but this was not going to stand. With one fluid motion he grasped her shoulder and pulled her down into the water with him. But before she could even yell in surprise then he covered he mouth and stared right into her eyes. He eyes met with his ad they stared at each other for a good few minutes…
"There you looked at me… now was that so bad?" he sad and grinned… she frowned and closed her eyes; Ace sighed and shook his head.
"Bah… fine then…" he said and smiled, "but you are stubborn as hell…"
Underneath the water they didn't feel the motion that went on. Slightly under the surface was a cave that led down into the water, a serpent like monster slid up from its cavern. The dragon whisker that came out of its front jaw searched for something to grab and drag down into the deep with it.
And it found it… Kirara felt something slide around her ankle ad tighten up. But when she was about to yell for Ace but his hand was still covering her mouth… her eyes shot open when the slimy thing around her ankle and start to pull softly…
"Ace…" she managed to mumble from the hand "let me go"
"What, no way. If I let you go ten you might start to be all-"
With a splash and a muffled scream ten the girl disappeared from the surface of the water. The splash was heard all the way to Marco and Eve, but they didn't pay it ay mind, they were too busy in conversation. Deep down into the water then Kirara thrashed around to try and escape. But it was hard, he was dragged down at such speed that not even her hair would cooperate. The dress flew up and covered her face, the dress had no straps but there was a little ribbon on the hip of the dress that started to flow up to the surface.
Ace was baffled and thought for a moment that she was kidding. She tended to do that a lot to him… joke around innocently. He shook his head and turned around. If she wanted to play after all this then so be it… awfully strange time to me playing though. He glanced down to see if he could see her. There was some shade of red and white. Way down low in the water. He was standing close to the edge of the pond so there were rocs to stand on, but he never knew that the pond was so deep. Quickly he dived into the water to see if there was actually trouble.
He saw Kirara, hand stretched up into to find something to grab a hold on, like to reach up for him to help her. He saw a bit of her face before she disappeared into the dark abyss, the red haired girl's terrified face… He didn't have to think twice before dived down into the water to save her.
Back on the solid ground then Marco as watching he two of them play. Or at least he thought they were playing. That's what it looked like…
He saw when she plunged down into the water ad it took Ace a few minutes to go and follow her. He thought it was weird though when he saw Ace's face. Right before he dived after her. There were several minuets passing by and they didn't come up. What were they doing down there? That hot head better not be doing something he would regret… soon Marco stood up and flew over to the place they went down. A white ribbon was floating on the surface… all of the sudden he felt a cold shiver go down his spine... could it be that she was-
He didn't get to finish the thought when Ace shot out of the water and slammed on a nearby tree.
"Ace!" Eve screamed ad ran over to the pond.
"Eve! Don't come any closer! Marco Kirara is down there, there's some sort of sea king dow-!" he didn't get to finish the word when a huge head shot out of the deep abyss. Eve screamed when it came, and Marco didn't say anything. He could barely imagine that Kirara was down there with that. The serpent like thing let out a screech so loud that would brake glass, its long body slithered out of the water and a pair of large hands come to see the daylight. Its scaly claws and slimy body made Eve almost faint. The look of hunger in its eyes gave both male pirates the shivers.
"Eve, Ace. Get out of here!"
"Erm there is one more problem…" Ace said and slid down from the tree. He pointed to the thing that was stuck in between the sea kings claws… the familiar shade of copper red and creamy white color.
"Marco!" she screamed with all her might, her head slightly bobbed up from the tight grip that the monster had on her. She felt all the left over air she had from being down in the water so long being crushed out of her lungs and she coughed and gasped in the means of getting air.
"There is a tunnel down there that leads to the ocean. The serpent was blocking the way but now the seawater is coming back!" Ace shouted, he looked up at Marco his face was frozen while surprise and strange amazement in his eyes was slowly replaced by hatred and anger.
"you bitch…" he mumbled to himself and shot it lightning speed at the sea king. Ace wasn't sure if he meant the sea king or the girl in its hands. Blue fire burned right in front of the serpent's eyes and it screeched again louder this time. Kirara and Eve screamed with it. Marco launched back at him and slashed his claws on the hard flesh over his eyes. He thrashed his hands and Kirara screamed when the fists squeezed around her and claws buried into her skin.
Ace launched himself at the beast. He screamed and grasped it around the arm he was holding Kirara and burned… just burned. The sea king screamed and thrashed, the empty hand clawed at his arm with panic. Ace let go and had the arm burned with a charcoal crust. The creature screamed and screamed and squeezed her tighter
"You idiot!" Marco yelled and flew his way to Kirara. He started to claw the rough fingers and try to get the beast to let go. There was no way he was letting her go like this. No way in hell. The sea king swung his hand and smashed on the fire user, he with a little shout he was shot into the water.
"Ace!" Eve screamed and jumped into the water. She heard him say that the sea water was coming into the water. Ace wouldn't survive if he landed in the water. She jumped into the depths to see if she could see him. She could hear her heart beat in fear of losing him. The water was sea water now. That damn sea king she hoped that Marco would kill him.
"Ace!" Marco shouted and looked around in the water, he charged again at the hand holding his girl. He glanced back at the water where Eve popped out of the water. Holding Ace in her arms and had his hat on her head. She swam over to land and placed him on his back and kissed him. Marco turned back to Kirara
"Kirara, don't worry I will get you out of here!" he yelled to her, he saw tears form in the crooks of her eyes and felt his anger grow more. This thing would not get away with this.
"Try to get you hand free!" he said as he launched again but this time at the coal crusted area and clawed at the burn mark. The poor creature didn't seem to have any feeling left in his arm anymore.
"Damn…" she groaned out while she watched the two of them fight to get her free, even Eve was down at the ground having a worried face on. She was afraid for Ace wasn't she?
She trashed around in the firm grip of the sea king, she moved and wiggled and pulled on to get her right hand free. She wasn't thinking…
Her hand was free… but the glove wasn't… she reached up to the air and felt the cool air around the free hand …
"Oh no…" she breather out, she began to move and thrash again to get the other hand free but she was too late, Marco came to her and turned human.
"Take my hand!" he reached out for her hand he almost got a hold of it.
"No wait!" she said and moved the hand down, away from his. But as she did that then the surface of her hand touched the hard scaly flesh of the sea king.
"What do you mean no!?" Marco screamed. But she didn't hear, it was too late.
"No…" she whispered and watched with horror at the deed that she had done. The grip in her loosened as the sea king felt the feeling go out of his hand and felt the otherwise warm flesh turn cold and steely. Kirara closed her eyes and grinded her teeth as she slipped out of the sea king's hand and fell down into the water, nether Marco nor Ace did notice that she was free, they just saw the sea king thrash and fight the power that came over him.
Slowly but surely his entire body turned into gold…
She swam over to the place where he glove was slowly sinking to the dark water she tried not to watch the poor creature fight for its life and doing poorly at it. There was no way to stop it now. She had touched it. And now it would die…
She almost got to the glove and almost got it before it sunk to the deep. But she was suddenly pulled out of the water and brought to the dry land.
"No no, NO!" she said and pushed him away with her left hand. She dropped to her knees and hugged her hand.
"What's wrong with you? Are you hurt? Did he hurt you?!" Marco screamed and Eve came running.
"Don't!" when she looked back Marco felt his chest get tighter when he saw that her face was red and her eyes were swimming with tears. "I did that… I killed it…" she whimpered out and trembled. She just waited for the screaming to stop…
The time passed but the screaming stopped a long time ago. Kirara curled herself into a ball and held herself. 'This want supposed to happen. They would never believe me now. I lied too much and they will never believe me if I would tell the truth…' she thought and let the tears pour down he cheeks. So much hurt. She had revealed her secret. She wasn't supposed to do that…it was their secret. Her and her brother they had this and only this together… and now she ruined it… she ruined everything…
"Kirara? Are you alright?" Eve came to her and placed a hand on her back…
"No…" she sobbed out…
"It's okay. You're safe now." She said softly and brushed her hands on her back, like a mother would do to her frightened child "it's okay… it's okay."
"No it's not okay!" she said and pushed Eve away. Kirara's face was red and her eyes were swimming with tears. "Every thing ruined."
"Don't say that. Your okay… it didn't hurt you"
"What the hell…" Marco said as he looked at the statue in the water. The thing had only moments ago, been a screaming monster that was about to eat them all… and now it was a still statue. A gold statue none the less…
"Congratulations your rich…" Kirara said and wiped her nose, it didn't help all that much though.
"What happened?" Ace said and looked confused at Kirara, he watched as she ripped a long piece of the bottom of her dress and wrapped it around her hand. She closed her eyes and looked away. The piece of cloth turned into gold. Their eyes when wide.
"Wow… is that a devil fruit?" Eve asked and tried to get a feel of the golden fabric… "Is it real?" she them mumbled.
"No… if it was then I would've jumped into the ocean a long time ago…" she moved away from Eve, trying to stay away from the burning hot geysers… and its real… you could check… its 100% real…"
"Wow…" was all Eve managed to say…
"But if it's not a devil fruit then what is it?" Ace asked and rolled over onto his stomach. Kirara looked up at Marco that stood behind her high and mighty. He still made her tremble with those eyes, those deep blue eyes…
"Do you understand…?"
"No" the couple sat down behind the two of them, even though they knew that the question was not addressed to them. She was talking to Marco and asking him. She had such a pathetic look in her eyes she looked like a scared little bunny… Marco swallowed nothing and tried to think clearly…
Everything she told him had been true… he remembered her words clearly from the other night and every word from earlier… there was a truth… it had all been true, he knew that there was still a chance that it had all been made up but what reason would she have for lying? Maybe to protect that power that she had… her story… about El Dorado he breathed slower and closed his eyes.
"What the hell, girl… what? Do you expect me to understand just like that?!"
She looked back down on her hands. It was like she was ashamed or some thing
"Whatever…" she whispered.
"Do you think we should be saying something?" Eve whispered into her mans ear. He shook his head and stuck his tongue out playfully
"Naah. I'm just sad that we don't have snacks." He said and kissed her cheek as an answer.
"I'm cold…" she said and hugged her self. Marco sighed, and walked to her.
"Let's go back to the ship we've been longer then we said we were gonna be…"
"Okay"
Ace and Eve went back to the tree of which they dropped out of but Kirara and Marco hesitated for a minute.
"What was that?" he asked calmly.
"Well… you know that there are devil fruits… mine isn't a devil fruit, it's a gift… you heard the story…"
"Yeah but that would mean that you are a part of the royal family like you said…" he paused and saw her nod her head slightly. "And everything you said was true"
She nodded again.
"Well… there you go…"
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you…"she whispered, she didn't dare look at him. "And I'm sorry I lied…"
"it's alright… suppose you have some reason to keep it a secret… but I only wish that I would've found out in a little quieter way…" he said and chuckled. She looked back and smiled a little. But just a little.
"Come here…" he mumbled and pulled her close. She buried he self in his arms. And for the first time, she felt safe in his arms. Like nothing bad could come close to her…
"I really am sorry!" she sobbed out into his chest. Under her nose then his tattoo colored his chest. She didn't think about what she was doing…
Marco felt a light kiss on his chest… he swallowed and did his best to hold back when the desire came back over him. She didn't stop; she kissed the spot again and again…
"I'm sorry…" she whispered, worshipping came natural to her. She prayed to her gods every time she got the chance. This man was a god in her eyes now, now she had to treat him like one. At least for a short time.
"What are you doing?" he asked in some fear as she kept on, though in a short time then she stopped.
She separated from his body and looked away. She blushed insanely as she realized what she did. She turned her back at him. She covered her face with her hands and looked down. 'What the hell what the hell what the hell!' she screamed to herself in her head and smacked herself mentally. This was not happening…she had lost control. She didn't think about what she was doing…
"Well then… are you done…?" she heard right behind her… her back was almost pressed up against his chest. She didn't dare to do anything… sooner then she thought then his hands were on her shoulders and hovering over her skin.
Suddenly then marc softly pressed on her shoulder and so she turned to him, and with one fluent motion then he slipped his hand behind her head and bent down to make their lips meet.
Only once in her life had she been kissed… and that kiss was horrible. This was soft and somehow sweet…she felt her heart almost blow up in her chest. It was beating so hard that she never thought it would beat so hard…
He didn't do much of the things that made him grate, he was afraid to hurt her. So mush as she did now was just a simple tender peck, but on the lips…the wave of happiness washed over him and he broke from her, to not get carried away.
"I'm sorry…" he just whispered. He lifted her hand and softly kissed the back of it, then he led her into the forest and back to the ship… for the rest of the way over to them then she blushed the entire way back… she just wasn't sure what to do now…