Warnings…I can't write! Writers block is torturing me from the inside out taking away all my inspiration and I can't even draw… anyway, please forgive me for the super late update… and leave revives, they help a lot with a block… and you know it!

"Hey birdie! Wake up!" Ace screamed from the outside of the door. Marco was torn from his dream palace to find no Kirara in his bed.

"Yeah birdie! Wake up!" her voice was mixed with Ace's and a loud banging on his door. It made a vain of frustration appear on his head and he stood up and burst the door open. Two faces welcomed him.

"What?!" He shouted.

"You overslept. We need to say good bye to the nurses" Ace said and there was just a hint of sadness in his voice.

"It's so sad that they have to leave…"Kirara said, a red braid flopped into Ace's face; her legs were wrapped around his waist and her arms around his neck whereas she was having a piggyback ride on the fire user. Marco felt confused.

"Heh… I know..." there was the sad tune in his voice… Marco closed his eyes… they are right, they were leaving…

"Hey why do they have to leave?"

"Pops has doctors here… and he feels that the girls should be safer on land… the new world would be dangerous for them." Ace said and put her down. Kirara shot over to Marco who looked a bit dazzled. She placed a small kiss on his chin—it was as high up as she could stretch— and smiled.

"Good morning" she said happily.

"g'morning… you're in a good mood today." He said and smiled back to her.

"Yes indeed. I feel like I could fly away…" she said and tipped-toed away, she took a cartwheel and then shouted "yahoo! Eve don't leave me!" she jumped and tackled a random nurse that was walking up to deck.

"What's up with her?" Marco said slowly. They had been sailing for three days now. And ever so smoothly then the next island had appeared on the horizon.

"I don't know, but its great right? She seemed so messed up… though the last few days then she seems to be a bit better. Did you do something? I know that you two talked to pops about something a few days ago, it might be something about that. "

"Hmm… yeah about that…"

Marco pulled him close and whispered up close to him what the captain had 'persuaded' her to agree on. Slowly so the fire user could take it all in…

"Aah and just to let you know you are supposed to help her." Marco finished. Ace's expression was a mixture between confusion and shock.

"…that is a bad idea…" he said and raised an eyebrow. Marco's brows knitted together, he knew it was a bad idea. But he had no place to change his captain's mind now that it was made up. He sighed and gave up.

"I know it is… but think about it… if the city exists then this would be a fortune beyond anything we could ever imagine."

"Don't try to persuade me about this. This is a bad idea… I think there is a reason why she left that island. We don't know if it's made of gold or not, and since we don't know then were just going to waltz in there and see... I have to admit that I like that plan but I don't think it's a good idea for HER to go back" he thought about it for a second "although she docent have to come, but its more than okay for me to go"

"Was there a reason for you to leave to become a pirate?" Marco said out of the blue. Though Ace knew what he meant… or at least had a feeling

"You know the story…" he said bluntly.

"Now It could be that she was running away from something but it could also be the fact that the ocean just called or her as it did to all of us… her and her brother."

Ace sighed and averted his eyes.

"You can't deny that you are a bit curious about this little adventure right?" Marco said and shot him a look. Ace didn't answer, and when Marco smirked in victory Ace pouted and shot away to find his girlfriend. Marco chuckled and walked after him. They didn't even seem to notice that they were walking to the door while they were talking.

"Since when are you so against going on adventures like this?" Marco asked suddenly "it's usually the other way around"

"Heh… I guess I'm just…bummed that Eve is leaving…" the younger male said and grinned, a bit of a force smile that didn't look good on him. Ace walked away from him and back down below. While Marco thought about what it was like to be in his footsteps.

Marco stepped into the daylight, where as the sun was shining as bright as it possibly could. The hot air was like walking through pudding. He looked around to see that Ace finally didn't stand out so much with his bare chest. Men were running around the deck with their chest bare and some even in short pants. He smiled and leaned his head back to let the sun toast his face. This time of heat was the way it should be in his opinion. He liked the heat.

"Yo sleepy head!" Thatch came to him and patted him on his shoulder. "You 'sleeping off a hangover?"

"No I didn't get as drunk as you" he answered and nudged his friend with his elbow.

"No! I wasn't drunk! I was just living the moment!" he said happily and laughed. Marco suddenly placed his face close to his neck and took a deep breath. The punchy smell of alcohol was still lingering in Thatch's clothes

"I can smell it on you." He said and smirked. Thatch let out a nervous laughter and shuffled a bit further away from him, trying to keep his heart rate down to a minimum normal. Slowly Thatch blew air on his thumbs and bit his lip… goddamn it all... he tried to calm himself down and walked back to Marco…

"Ehehehe…. Yeah well…" he stopped talking when Marco looked away; he seemed to be looking for something on deck.

"Looking for someone?" he said and smirked. "A certain red maybe?" he wiggled his eyebrows lecherously and grinned. "I saw you two going into your room a few nights ago. Did someone get lucky with the little red?"

"Well I'm surprised you remember that out of all the other things you did."

"Huh… what did I do?"

"A lot of things, I seem to remember you walking around with nothing but… well but nothing, you were naked" he said and smiled then he walked away. He could imagine the face that he had on. Though he didn't realy have the time to laugh at it now, He wanted to be with Kirara suddenly. He didn't like that she was somewhere that he didn't know.

Yeah he was bit of a possessive lover… he had been told so before, but he just didn't like the thought of someone ells having their hand on his girls. He knew that it was a bit of a long shot and he trusted them as much as they trusted him, and he had a feeling that Kirara didn't quite trust him completely yet, so he wanted to change that.

"Hey man." He said to Jozu who was leaning over the railing looking over to the island. "Aren't you warm in all that?" He patted his crewmate on his back. The larger man chuckled a bit. Marco didn't even bother to hear the answer, if there was one. "Have you seen Kirara anywhere?"

"I thought you would've kept an eye on her after last night. "He said bluntly and ruffled the blond patch of hair on top of his head.

"Oi stop it!" he said and laughed. "No she got away from me…"

"I believe I saw a familiar long red hair down at the docks here…" he paused a bit. "But I'm sure that it was on a person too tall to be her."

Marco was gone before Jozu could even finish the sentence. He had jumped of the ship and flew over to land. This was a port like many other but it looked more like a fishing town then anything ells. But millions of people were going by in a crowd that suffocated each other in a volume that resembled a beehive… to find one girl in a sea of girls was harder than it sounds. There were a lot of red haired folks there… and only about half of them were girls Marco sighed and flew up on a roof top. He looked over the crowd, and to be honest to himself then he quite dreaded to dive into the crowd, he hated too tight spaces…

Suddenly it hit him. This was too obvious; she was trying to escape. Trying to dive into the sea of people, never to return to the surface. Bitter anger hit him suddenly like a waive on the sand… she would just lave like that!? Why would she just leave? How could she, they were gonna help her. Help her find her brother. He sighed and raised himself up and turned into full phoenix form he flew over the town for a few moments looking for her, looking to see the correct shade of red.

In the mean time, then Kirara was staring into a book in the library on the ship.

"Okay now read it to me slowly" Eve's soft voice was slow and calm. Kirara's nervous eyes shot to her as she read the words on the page.

"The… r-red hood… blew in the w-wind, l-leaving…Adrian b-blushing the same red… as the hood. Hey what am I reading?" she asked after the first line.

Eve swooned "it's a love story that I found once. It's all about this tragic love tale between Adrian and Tomas. On an island far away, it's from the time before the pirate king was executed. He was a pirate and she was a widow from a marine general…waaaaa~ it's just so romantic" she swooned out.

"Eeh… sounds boring…."

"Oh too bad I was gonna give it to you, as a sort of a goodbye thing. . ." She smiled and patted her on the head. Kirara blushed…

"Good god… I don't know what to say… I'm touched…" the red heard girl threw herself in Eve's arms. The clear laugh from the women echoed to the outside of the library. Outside then Thatch was passing back and forth with embarrassment glowing from his eyes. Just as he walked past the library then he pressed his ear up to the door to listen to the girls laughing.

"No one has ever given me a book before!" he heard Kirara say and the she counted up numerous ways to shout thank you

"Ehehe, you're so happy… I honestly didn't expect that…" Eve said and pushed her away from her.

"It's so sad that you have to leave… I'm gonna miss you." She tangled their fingers together and gave a friendly smile. "You took such good care of me."

"I'm gonna miss you too... and I kind of had to, I wouldn't run away from someone that's hurt like that."

"But hey," she started after a few seconds "I'm curious. How is Ace doing?"

"About me leaving?" Eve pulled the books together and snapped her fingers. "Not good clearly, but he's taking this so maturely I actually was surprised on how well he took it."

"Oh… maybe he just wants you to be safe."

"I thought it would be safe to be here…" she looked down a bit and smiled softly… "I'll miss him… we had such fun…"

"Yeah I know… I have to walk past your room sometimes and if I have to be honest I wish I didn't…"

"Hahaha! I'm sorry, he just brings it out in me…"Eve laughed out with a hand on her lips "although I hope he will have his fun without me, and someone ells."

"Hah?! Are you saying you want him to cheat on you?" Kirara laughed at that absurd thought of course she wouldn't want him to cheat on her! No way. "Well it wouldn't be a problem for ether of you finding lovers but isn't this pushing it a little?"

"Don't say that. He is much more likely to find a lover here one this ship then me on this island."

"Why is that?"

"Well simply because he's bisexual… I know never admitted that, but sometimes it gets kind of hard to hide it… no matter how much he tries." Eve said calmly and tugged a curly stand of hair behind her ear. "He can't hide squat form me" She then casually put the books away. Kirara's face showed pure bafflement, mixed expression of what the hell? And oh that's nice?

Thatch practically fell over himself on the floor when he lisened to the conversation. 'Ace? Really? So I have a chance with him!? Yes! Finally!'

A large cheeky grin appeared on his face and he shot up and strolled away. With the cheeky grin decorating his face then he practically waltzed up to the deck.

"Hey when will you be back?"

"Oh I don't know… some time in future. I'm planning of having some time to myself and travel to my home in the south-blue"

"Really, huh… well good luck with that"

"Hey how old are you again Kirara?"

"Seven teen, eighteen soon enough" she answered proudly…

"Hmm… well I was just thinking it could be considered lolikon you being with Marco." She said and raised an eye brow at her.

"Oooh the pain of having this baby face!" she said and dramatically arched her body with a theatrical finish. Eve laughed at her and flicked her forehead.

"When is your birthday?"

Kirara took a short while to think. She lifted a finger to tell her to wait, and then she lifted more of her fingers to count. She mumbled some numbers and then names of days.

"Tomorrow…" she said with not a touch of happiness in her voice. "Tomorrow I will be eighteen…"

"Lolikon!" Eve shouted jokingly and pulled Kirara up out of the chair and out of the library. Out of the ship and up to deck. The heat welcomed them just as it did for everyone ells. And both of the ladies were happy to be lightly dressed. Kirara was just wearing the shirt that Marco brought her to wear for the night and Eve was wearing her nurse's outfit but she was barefoot.

"Hey Eve. I would like to give you a goodbye gift as well." She pulled on the older woman's hand. "Come on lets go shopping!"

She pulled Eve off the ship

"Oi little girl!?" Jozu shouted after Kirara.

"Huh, me?" she turned around and pointed to herself.

"Have you been on the ship the entire time?" he spoke back.

"Yeah…"

"Marco is looking for you."

"Lolikon~~" Eve cooed and nudged Kirara's shoulder.

"Shut up. Okay thanks!" she shouted back to Jozu.

"Eve!" Ace shouted from the ship and jumped down to the ladies. He snatched Eve's waist and captured her lips in a long kiss…

After the first minuet passed then Kirara started to feel a bit uncomfortable. "Okay, okay…don't eat each other." She said and crossed her arms. "Or at least remember to breathe…"

The two of them laughed without taking the eyes off each other. Kirara looked away from them and tried to spot something interesting in the sea of people. Little did she know that Marco was doing the same thing from above.

"Do you see something you like?" Eve asked from her back… Kirara didn't hear them. Not at all… she finally found something that captured her attention…

Red… red hair… her precise same color and the thought burned into her mind that it could be her brother. Her heart started racing and suddenly she felt herself walking to them, into the crowd.

"Kirara?"

Soon she was running, maneuvering through the crowd. She didn't think about the fact that it could be someone other than her brother. She didn't think that it was anyone ells then her brother. It couldn't be anyone ells. Her chest was over flowing with happiness, she was closing in to him and she felt the tears of happiness appear in her eyes. The relief was unbelievable in her chest…

Her legs moved on their own as she was so close to him… though it was strange, she didn't remember her brother so tall…

"Aaron!" she said and snatched at his arm…but there was no arm… instead then she held on to a black cape.

The man turned around. A scar—no thee scars— over left eye and unshaved chin came from under the red locks… she didn't remember from where she saw him at the moment… but it most defiantly was not her brother…

"Can I help you?" he asked and smiled. She looked at the 'arm' where she should've grabbed at and saw that there was no arm, no hand to hold… she clenched her lips together to hold on the sobs.

"No I'm sorry I thought you were someone ells…" she let go and looked down, she covered her mouth with her hands and tried at she could to keep the tears in; sadly they were already out and dripped down on her hand.

"Hey what's wrong, I can't be that disappointing can I?" he asked and bent down to her level.

"Oi captain did you never learn not to make little girls cry?" another man came from behind him in the crowd.

"I didn't do it, she just started crying." He said and smiled an awkward smile.

"No I'm sorry it was a mistake." She didn't look at them, she didn't want to. The damn disappointment was too much. "I-I thought you were someone ells…"

"Who did you think I was?" He said softly and bent over to her. He was about the same height as Marco so she still felt like dwarf around him. She glanced up to meet his eyes; he didn't seem so bad at first glance.

"I *hick* thought you were my brother…"

"Brother?" he laughed slightly. "Does he look like me?"

"Yeah… your hair does. From the back I mean." She wiped her eye with her finger and smiled a bit. "Silly isn't it…" she said a chuckled a bit. "Sorry…"

The larger man let out a laugh. "I suppose" he smiled a genuine smile and reached out his right hand. "'Call me Shanks."

"My name is Kirara…" she said and reached back to take his hand. She smiled to him as one of the men behind him handed her a napkin.

"That's an unusual name. I've never heard it before."

"Yeah I guess…"

"Aah these are some of my crew: Benn, Yasopp and lucky roo." They greeted her and she greeted back

"Nice to meet you." She said and bowed her head.

"Your brother, how does he look like? Perhaps we can help you find him, is he lost?"

"In a manner of speaking…" she said and gave them a blank look. "He was captured by the marines…"

"You're a pirate?"

"Yes, a type of pirate." She pouted a bit, "All I realy did was say no to someone,"

They laughed, bit nervously but all the same, "Say, it getting pretty crowded here how about we go somewhere where there is less people."

"They seem to be avoiding you…" she said and looked around. The people took a little circle around the pirate captain. She knew why that was, she known that was the infamous pirate captain red-haired shanks…

"Well I don't know what their problem is…"

"Aah…" she said; sounding uninterested. She then stiffly walked to the funny looking crowd. She walked to the captain who offered her the other whole arm; she took it and smiled at him back. He seemed friendly for the most…

They reached an edge of the town which led to a bit of a field. Green grass as far as the island stretched…

"Wow… this is beautiful here!" She said and started to run; she jumped and took a cart-wheel a few times down a hill. When she hit the bottom then the slippery grass made her fall on her ass… a powdery cloud of fluffy looking flower petals exploded into the air and covered her in white.

After her then shanks slid down the hill after her. He landed right besides her. Calling forward another poof-cloud of flowers, also covering him with white petals.

"Damn I hope this stuff comes out…" she said and dusted her head.

"I think it does… so tell me where are you staying?"

Kirara glanced at him with a bit of suspicion in her eyes, pouting. Shanks could read that expression and said "Haha! Not like that, I'm just asking, I can't believe that you are staying here by yourself."

"I'm not staying; I'm heading out sometime later. I'm on a… ship… with some people…"

"And are you happy?"

"Dinner and flowers first."

"If you insist…" he said and picked a pink shaded flower to give to her. She shrugged a bit, then she took the flower and put it behind shanks ear.

"Sadly I can't. If anyone sees me with you, I'm afraid they won't let me back on board…" she said in a low voice "and that's a real shame, you seem like a stand up guy." She said softly.

Shank's smile turned into a, well less of a smile. But though he didn't feel like being rude to her, then he felt as if this would be a little rude of him. She was just a wee little girl, though he could sense a little trouble with her.

"Why woulint they let you back on board?"

"…hey why isn't your crew down here?"

"They didn't want to come here, so I told them not to. So, with who are you sailing girl."

Kirara felt a knot in her stomach. Could she tell him? Could she say that she was travelling with the pirates that were severe enemies with the man right besides her? She thought about it for a good few seconds. Her heart was beating so loud, afraid that is she would tell him then something horrible would happen… she knew it was stupid, but she had learned that when it came to pirates then you should not take the unnecessary chances…

"w-well…-"

"There you are!" Marco fell from the sky and landed in the pool of flowers. Calling forth yet another cloud of flower petals and pink dust… "Where have you been?" he said and glared needles at the pair of red hair's that here sitting on the ground.

"Erm… here?" she said and smiled sheepishly. She stood up and dusted the flowers of her. Then she stretched up to meet with Marco. The anger in his eyes was practically glowing, though Shanks smiled when he met up with his eyes. He laid back and grinned.

"I never would've guessed." He said smirking.

Marco was not the least bit amused over this. He had been looking for her for quite some time, only to find out that she had been with Eve and Ace all along… he snatched her off her feet and made her sit on his arm.

"What were you doing?" he asked Shanks, ice dripping from his voice.

"Is that really any of your business what she does on her free time?" Shanks said smiling softly.

"It is something I would like to know if I can keep her away from the likes of you."

"It's okay Marco. It was just a mistake I made and he was really nice to me." Kirara tried to save herself out of this awkward situation. It was clear that they didn't like each other very much. Compared to the glares that they were giving each other. She was sure that if either of them would glare at the same spot on a wall right now, it would burn right threw.

She felt the tension and somehow anger in the air. It was rather uncomfortable because it was all her fault, just the slightest bit of guilt settled in her stomach and she sighed. She attempted to kiss him on the cheek. The results were not as much as she wanted but something. He turned his head to her and raised an eyebrow.

"Don't be mad Marco…" she said and wrapped her arms around his neck. Shanks watched intently and smirked, 'so this is the reason why she woulint tell me' he thought and cleared his throat. The pink flower was still primped behind his ear and was not going anywhere. It was clear what was happening. It could be seen from quite far away actually. Marco sighed and lifted her up to be pressed up against him.

"Whatever Kirara. Let's just go back." He said and frowned.

"Now now. Hold up, let me say goodbye will yah" the red haired man stood up from the flower pool and placed a flower into her hair. The braid was already filled with pink flower petals so the one whole flower behind her ear was just perfect. Only just after then he put one also on Marco.

"Treat her nicely." He said and smiled. Then turned to Kirara and said "I hope you find your brother soon."

"Thank you it was nice to meet yo-" Marco flew up into the air without letting her finish talking. "Damn it Marco!" she shouted and clutched onto him. She was not particularly afraid of heights but more afraid of flying…

Marco flew for a few moments and then landed on a roof top. Kirara let go and praised the heavens that she was down. She looked back to Marco, Only to feel the freezing glare on her now.

"Eeh… hello" she said nervously and smiled.

"You look like you have been crying."

"And you look cute with a flower in your hair." She answered smugly and smirked. Marco took the flower out and threw it to the side.

"Did he do something to you?"

"No"

"Then what happened?" he asked softly… he sat down to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Are you hurt?"

"No Marco… I thought that he was Aaron that's all... for some miracle reason then I thought that he was Aaron from behind." She said softly, looking just a bit sad. Marco sighed and pulled her hand up to his lips and kissed it. Kirara's face blushed up a bright red again. Marco didn't stop and kissed up her hand and arm.

"Damn it stops kissing me Marco! Were out in public!" she said giggling and pushed him away.

"I can't help it, you're just too much to resist…" he said and captured her lips for a short kiss… too short for Kirara's liking…

"Ooh... what the hell…" she said and threw herself on Marco to kiss him more. He grinned a victory grin and let his tongue slip in… the feeling was really, very funny… she had never had another person's tongue inside her mouth before and for the first time then she really liked it.

Back at the marine ship that was going on a fast pace, carrying Aaron on it thinking about just who the hell decided on this. What the hell had he done to annoy the government… except for sleeping with some of the Shichibukai? That was hardly a crime.

He felt a shiver go down his spine… this was a cold cell. Somewhere on the bottom of the ship most likely. The shiver of dread was running up and down his back like a race horse, and not because of the cold. It was his big-brother-senses... clearly something bad had happened with Kirara! It could be that she was with some one that was being mean to her or that she was all alone in some place where no one could protect her, the weakling that she was then it woulint be too long until she would be kidnapped by someone, to be used for something disgusting!

"Aah! Marco what are you doing?!" she grasped on the blonds shoulders and arched her neck to let him suck on her more.

"Sshh… someone might hear you." He whispered into her ear and smirked. Her body was pressed up against him and a hand a sneaked in between their body's and stroked the lower half of her body. He bit his lip to stop from smiling too much.

"I know! Why do you think I'm talking loudly!" she said in a higher voice then before and clutched onto his shoulders. The heat from the sun was burning all over her body, which was at least what she could blame it on.

"I love it when I touch you like this then your face gets all red…"Marco whispered into her ear. Kirara gasped out, suddenly unable to keep in her own voice. Marco chuckled on her skin and lifted up the shirt, exposing her… strawberry printed underwear. He couldn't help but laugh…

"Aah! Quit laughing! What the hell is so funny!?" she almost shouted and dug her nails into Marcos shoulders.

"Hey calm down." he whispered and pushed on her shoulders to put her down on her back. He put a soft smile on his face and kissed her lips. Kirara's heart felt as if it might be boiled in her own blood. It was beating so incredibly fast that she couldn't stand it. They kissed for several minutes, tongues battling each other, exploring the hot wet cavern of each other's mouths. Kirara's hands moved to his back and scratched over the fabric on his back. Marco smiled; sometime he would make her claw his back so hard it would bleed…

"M-Marco! Aah. L-lets go back. Their probably wondering where I am, i kind of ditched them."

"Heh, I know that. They told me that you just ran off into the crowd. I was gonna take you to get new clothes."

"Shopping… yay…" she said without sounding interested.

Marco got up from the roof and pulled her up with him.

"You need new clothes, unless you intend to walk around naked."

"I'm sure that won't be a problem with you."Kirara said and stuck her tongue out at him. With one fluent motion then Marco snatched her waist and lifted her up to meet his eyes

"You're wrong." He said harshly and let his hands grope around her ass. "I'm the only one who gets to see you like that."

"Possessive aren't we?"

"Indeed. I'm the only one who gets to touch you and the only one who will get to kiss you."

"Are you quite finished?" Kirara said and smiled softly, she wrapped her legs around his chest.

"Not really…" Marco seized her lips in a rough kiss, letting his tongue dart in without asking; Kirara moaned into the kiss and wrapped her arms around his neck. She knew now that Marco liked to be the dominant one in every thing, it was alright with her, and she was still only a newbie in this kind of thing.

"Okay ill get new clothes…" she sighed out and jumped down from his arms

oOo

Marco sat in the changing room. In front of the closed curtain, and staring at the silhouette frame of Kirara. Just torturing himself looking at her shadow undress…

"Hey, can you zip me up?" she asked. And Marco just thought, 'thank god she docent know what I'm thinking about…'

Marco glanced around the room; there were a lot of people in this shop, all of them conveniently avoiding him. As he glanced back, smirking a bit he entered the curtain.

The zipping didn't take a long time, usually… Marco took his sweet time running his fingers down her sides over the fabric of the new shirt, then pulling the zipper up.

"I don't think I like it…" she said with a disapproving pout.

She had chosen three items. One white dress that reached down to her knees, cute little fillies and lacy sleeves.

"Why not?"

"I don't think that I want to wear white ever again until I'm married…" she said and pushed on his chest so he was thrown out of the dressing room.

"was that a hint?" he said in a joking manner and laughed.

"Why yes" she said in a very sarcastic tone. "And I have already decided where we will go on our honeymoon."

Marco allowed himself to laugh a bit, thought the topic was a bit too soon when it came to kirara.

"No not really…" she said and sighed. "Besides I hate dresses."

Marco frowned, 'well thanks for telling me' he thought to himself and shook his head.

"we have to go soon, love. If you want to say goodbye" Marco knocked on the wall besides her dressing room.

"Kay, ill just wear this then." She said and pulled the curtains away.

"…wow…"

XXX

"Where is she?" eve said and leaned her head onto Ace's shoulder.

"Are really worried?"

"Yeah… she was gonna give me a present…" Eve answered with a pout. Ace exploded out of laughter and stroked his lover on the back.

"Yaaaahooooo! EEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVEEEEEE!" A sudden thud behind the two of them and Kirara and Marco stood there, although Kirara was kind of more sitting on his back.

"Hey little one." Eve welcomed her and skipped over to her. She saw her holding something in her hand. "Wow, you look great!" she complimented on the clothes she had gotten in town.

"Why thank you" she took a little spin showing her the handy work. A brown poofy shirt that sort of made up for the fact that she didn't have breasts. Then a belt that hugged her waist and lead down to her pants. Light brown, wide and made from something comfortable.

"Aah and I have something for you." She reached up and put her hands around her neck, bodies pressed up against each other in an awkward hug. When Kirara pulled away then she had successfully placed a gold necklace around her neck.

"Here! I hope you think it's pretty!"

"Oh it's wonderful. Thank you" she said and slipped her a little kiss on the cheek. She thought that Kirara would never stop her giggles…

Kirara dragged Marco into the corner of a hall; nearly everyone was on the deck so this was the perfect place to talk.

"L-listen marco, I feel a bit uneasy about something…"

"What?" he asked kindly, placing a hand on her shoulder?

"well there just is so much you don't know about me, how the hell can you trust me just like that?" at that sentence then marco laughed out,

"I just do…" he said smiling, her face seemed like it was burning up…she did her best to avoid eye contact with him and pouted a bit.

"y-you might regret that…" she mumbled and frowned, he could tell it was an empty threat but it was just cute.

"Is that a threat?" he moved in a bit closer to her.

"Oh commander" a voice came from behind Marco. And Angelique slipped from the back. Kirara felt that little flutter of dread in her chest when she watched the older woman slip her hands around Marcos neck and pressing up close to him. "Are you gonna say goodbye to me?" she purred into Marcos ear. She shot Kirara a look and then turned back to Marco who had put his hand on her shoulder.

"Angelique have you had something to drink?"

"Oh I'm drunk on you alright" she slurred and pressed up against him forcefully. Marco only smiled and brushed it off smoothly. He didn't notice the look in Kirara's eyes, but Angelique did. "gimme a kiss my darling~"

To Kirara's horror she watched as he laughed and leaned to kiss her on the cheek, before she turned her head and captured head passionately kissing him on the lips. She hurried away from the two of them. Heart throbbing with dread and mind spinning.

'That was nothing! She's drunk, she woulint do that. Right?' she thought in panic as she started to run away from that. She hurried to the next door she saw and hurried inside. Going into the library.

"Hey hey! How much did you have to drink?!" Marco hissed and pushed her away. Angelique glanced over to Kirara to see that red bundle of ugly hair go through a door. She smirked and turned back to her pray,

"Not much at all, but since we have gotten rid of that little pest then we can get to your fair well gift." She started to button down her shirt.

"Err—thank you Angie, but I thought you didn't want any of that?" he pushed her away from her softly, she frowned and presses up against him harder.

"Hmm? Aah that was the past, we've done it so many times before, and now since I'm leaving then I wanna do it one more time."

"I'm not doing anything with you." He glared at her and slipped away from her to follow Kirara,

"Oh come on! I'm much more desirable then her, I mean… think about it." she put her hand on her hip and ran her hand threw her hair shortly cut black hair, she had perked the ends and painted her lips a fiery red, in a short tight black dress. Clearly made for picking up men. "Can you honestly say that you don't want this" she ran her tongue over her lip.

Marco glared over his shoulder. "Like you said, that was the past." With that he walked after the red haired girl. Leaving Angelique fuming with fury.

Kirara sat in the large chair and ran her fingers across the pages of the book Eve had given her. Who was she kidding? How on earth could she compete with a woman who looked like Angelique? She had everything perfect about her body, and she was a nurse, nearly a doctor. Kirara was a performer, she danced and sang for her money, and usually money was not what she wanted. But money was the currency of all society. So when they gave you money for performing it meant you're good. And then there were women like Angelique and Eve who were insanely extractive and smart and good at pretty much everything. Meanwhile Kirara herself never even had the chance to learn to read…

And the worst part was that she could've been like them, even better and prettier then both of them, but no; she decided to run away instead. And become a traveling performer!

The circus had only been a temporary stop and with her brother they became very good contortionists, and even very good with the trapeze…

Eve and Angelique and every other woman on the ship was insanely educated and well listen in every way, and knew how to take care of everyone, meanwhile she only knew how to take care of herself.

"Kitten?"

Marcos voice.

"Go away."

"Why, you wanted to talk to me"

"Something tells me you would rather talk to Angelique…" kirara hissed in a low voice. Putting the book on the table she curled up into a ball and buried her face in her knees.

"No, you are so much more interesting to talk to." she glanced up to see Marcos face, keeping some distance but still there, he was smiling softly. It cheered her up just a little bit.

"…I'm not like them you know…"

"Like Angelique you mean?"

"Yes… I can't do what they do and I can't even read. But... you still want me instead?"

There was a short silence at that moment, when their eyes met and Marco moved closer to her, he pushed her knees down and apart.

"Just you…" he whispered, just an inch away from her lips.

"b-but-mrhm" her lips were captured with great force. Her hands sneaked over his shoulders and pressed up close.

"It will only be better now." He hummed into her ear. Kirara felt herself on edge, a fluttery feeling she didn't know existed…

'I'm afraid this will only get more difficult…' she thought and closed her eyes. She was completely captured by him now, and her she could not do anything about it.

It was horribly wonderful.

Aaw sorry for making boring chapter… I'm doing my best with a writer's block and I can't do anything about it! I'm sorry!

Anyway, next time the story will be better when I get my inspiration back. Then I will get to the real thing… and their real adventure.