A special thanks to Cerryblossemaddict for her review.
In this chapter I have a christmas present for all the readers, more about it at the bottom.
Chapter 10: Selvanio Part 2
When Nami, Sanji, Robin, Ace and Kid reached their last stop at, the meat booth, Sanji was very pleased about the good quality of the beef the seller had to offer and told him what he needed. While Nami haggled with the seller, who wanted 6'300 berries, but Nami only had 5'020 Berries with her (and she was trying to get it for 4200 berries plus a carriage for their purchases) Ace approached Kid and said: "admit it, you know that woman from before?"
"Still don't know her!" Kid insisted with an aloof voice.
"Still not convinced that we are good people?" Ace asked with raised eye browns.
"I have my reasons to distrust folks like yours." Kid answered stiff and walked to Nami and the seller before she stopped bitterly the haggling, "stop annoying that man, I'll pay the difference"
After Kid had put out her money from her bag and gave 600 hundred berries to the seller (Nami had managed it to bargain the price down to 5'620 Berries) Nami gave disgruntled her last Berry to the seller. Before they went to the meeting point everyone loaded their purchases on the carriage, which Sanji will have been pulling.
Luffy, Zoro, Usopp and Chopper were waiting at an old well: Zoro was meditating (/sleeping) while Luffy, Usopp and Chopper were kidding around. "Finally! Now we can go to eat something!" Luffy yelled delightedly when he saw the rest of his crew Ace and Kid.
"We had just fifteen minutes ago brunch." Usopp said supinely.
"What?! Did you spend the whole money on food which was meant for our provision?" Sanji asked strictly.
"Yes…" Usopp and Chopper answered sheepishly, "But what should we have done Luffy was all a sudden disappeared, and when we found him it already was too late." The two defended themselves
"Don't act like you didn't were hungry at all." Zoro said mature with one opened eye glancing at them.
"AND WHY HAVEN'T YOU STOPPED THEM!" Sanji yelled as he saw that Nami was depressed, because all of her money she had taken from the ship was gone, and they didn't even have provisions to get back.
"SINCE WHEN DO I HAVE TO PLAY THEIR GOD DAMN BABYSITTER?!" Zoro retorted aggressively.
When Kid noticed that the people around the group looked exasperatedly to them and started whispering on the quiet while some of them were pointing at them she approached Zoro and Sanji and whacked their heads on each others.
"I can see stars dancing around you my shining star…" Sanji, who felt as well as Zoro to the ground, mumbled staring up to Kid.
"Nami I'm still hungry can we go to a restaurant?" Luffy asked his navigator.
"Luffy…" Nami snarled ominously, "Even if we would have money left now… WE WOULDN'T GO TO A RESTAURANT!" Nami yelled after she breathed in.
"BUT I'M STILL HUNGRY!" Luffy shouted whiningly back.
"For gods sake I'll lend you the money, you can give me the money back later." Kid said strainedly but added when she saw how Nami was about to say something against her compromise, "Never mind! Let me invite you for lunch… but please just be quiet!"
"You're the best Kitty-Cat!" Luffy yelled enthusiastically and wrapped his arms round Kid.
On Kids forehead pulsed a vain while she punched Luffy on his head till he was lying on the ground. Kid passed Luffy and walked towards a tavern, mumbling death wishes, while Ace helped Luffy to get back on his feet, before the Straw Hats and Ace followed Kid.
"All right, you can order whatever the heck you want, just stop acting flashily!" Kid said still hackled up while the group entered the tavern.
"Yahoo!" Luffy yelled and passed Kid to get to the bar.
Kid let her head hang and muttered in discontent, when she heard Luffy yelling his order to the barkeeper while Zoro ordered a barrel beer for himself as the waitress passed him.
"You have to accept that it's a physical impossibility for Luffy to act unobtrusively… just go with it." Robin said mature with a smile while the group sat down at a table in a corner of the tavern when Luffy approached them.
While the waitress brought the barrel beer and took the order from the rest of the group, Kid observed warily the room. "Excuse me…I'll have only a jar of water with a glass, please." Kid ordered politely but restrainedly after the waitress asked her a second time what she could bring for her.
"Never thought, I'd see you ever act good and proper." Ace teased Kid as soon as the waitress was gone.
Kid glared to Ace, his attitude pissed her totally off. `Calm down… it could turn out really bad if someone recognizes me!` Kid thought and was thankful that the waitress brought the first load of their order.
Kid watched indifferently how Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin and Ace were eating regardfully to protect their food from Luffy. "That was really delicious!" Luffy yelled when he leaned back in his chair holding his filled belly after half an hour, "Thank you Ki… Wuah!"
With a crash Luffy landed on the floor because Kid had thrown her empty jar on his head. "Haven't I told you, you shouldn't attract negative attention?" Kid asked grimly.
Luffy looked at her before he started to laugh: "Hihihi… don't worry Kid it's not like someone's chasing us…" but Nami gave him a clot.
"You keep forgetting that the Marine is after us, and here could are some bounty hunters as well!" Nami said sharply.
"As if they stand a chance against us!" Luffy grinned at Nami.
After the waitress brought the bill and Kid looked at the final total and looked bewilderedly in the round. "Are you nuts?! 30'850 Berrys!" Kid yelled in shock, "How am I supposed to pay that I have only 27'290 on me!"
"You said we can order whatever we want!" Ace smirked while Kid checked the bill and she saw that a certain someone had ordered several times the most expensive dishes (for Kid it was clear that it was the fire jerks' fault)
"You…" Kid snarled hateful but before she started to yell at him she reconsidered her anger and put her hands on the table and rose from her chair. Kid, who was tensed up, walked around the table, took Ace' cowboy hat away and approached the bar. "What the heck!" Ace yelled but Kid gave him another hateful glare across her shoulder and he mumbled, "Gosh she really doesn't get jokes."
"You have to admit that you enjoy it to tease her…" Robin chuckled, what caught Luffys attention for a second, but then he saw a leftover of one of the pork and his mind was lost, while Kid was talking to the barkeeper.
"Don't be ridicules… she's annoying as heck…" Ace said casually and ended that discussion.
At first the barkeeper, Kid was talking to, seemed to be really displeased, but then his face lightened up a bit and he nodded. While the host searched for a free chair Kid started to fish out of her messenger bag some wooden pieces on which were some metal hinges attached. After Kid pulled out an Allen wrench of her bag she took her coat off before she began to screw the wooden pieces to a guitar together. When the Barkeeper brought her a chair Kid took of her coat and hung it over the back of the chair, as well as Ace' hat before she took her guitar and tuned it, then she sat on the chair and begun to play an oriental melody. While Kid was playing the melody to get into the rhythm, some of the guests at the tavern stopped chatting and listened interested to the foreign sound.
"Awesome she's a musician!" Luffy said enthusiastically.
Kid paused playing the guitar and said loud enough that every person who was listening would understand it:
"Secret"
Kid slapped her hand genteelly against the guitar before she played it again and sang:
"No one knows what happened
Of the people that I see
Nobody figures it out
They just can't apprehend
No one knows the problem
That's affecting me
Just can't entrust them
'Cause I know what it's all about
Dolefully glances won't help at all
I'll make it by myself just let me fall
I can do it by my own
Just leave me alone
Don't bother me
Why won't you see?"
While she was singing Kids eyes looked through the rows of interested listeners, while also the rest of the tavern started to fall silence, when she sang the refrain:
"This is my secret
I'll never let you know
It stays my secret
That I won't ever show
This is my secret
I'll never let you know
It stays my secret
That I won't ever show"
Kid really was hoping that nobody would recognize her as the little girl who ran away from home, while she sang the second strophe:
"Stop question about it
I keep it wrapped tight
You'd better won't elicit
Fear the beast inside
Like a deep black sea
Where everything is concealed
Though it's haunting me
I will never let it be reveled
Dolefully glances won't help at all
I'll make it by myself just let me fall
I can do it by my own
Just leave me alone
Don't bother me
Why won't you see?
This is my secret
I'll never let you know
It stays my secret
That I won't ever show
This is my secret
I'll never let you know
It stays my secret
That I won't ever show"
Kid stopped singing and played a solo before she adjusted the speed to a slower rhythm and accelerated the rhythm, while she started to sing the last refrain.
"This is my secret
I'll never let you know
It stays my secret
That I won't ever show
This is my secret
I'll never let you know
It stays my secret
That I won't ever show"
Kid became silent while she played a last time the slow melody. Afterwards the last tone was played Kid stood up, grabbing after Ace' hat: "If you liked that song, please show me your appreciation of this performance by contribute some allowance to the bill of mine and my companions." Kid said with an elegant word choice and let the hat passing around. Meanwhile Ace' hat was passing around Kid played another enchanting melody, which also appealed to the fans of the regional music (western style).
After Ace' hat returned to Kid she saw that it was filled with money, she rose and walked to the table of where the Straw-hats and Ace were sitting, counting the money.
"That was awesome! I didn't know you're a musician!" Luffy said thrilled in a loud tone, "Now you have to join my crew for sure! Then we can enjoy your music everyday from now on! This is gonna be so awesome!"
Kid stopped sorting the money and laid it on the table before she said in her cold voice:"listen up there is no way that I'd ever join a pirate crew."
"Why not, it's going to be fun…" Luffy said lacking in understanding.
"I don't want to become a pirate and that's it." Kid insisted.
"But how am I supposed to get on without you, my lovely Kitty-Kid!" Sanji whined and suddenly Kid sensed some glances on her.
"How often should I say that I don't want anybody to call me this way!" Kid said grimy, "And stop making a fuss the people are already staring at us! Now grab your stuffs and let's keep going." Kid said after she recognized how two men hurried to the bar so they could pay their bill.
"But where should we go to? I don't think that money will cover the bill and a harborage." Nami interposed.
"We're going back to the house, right now." Kid said lowering her voice so the two men, who were passing them, wouldn't get a chance to hear what she'd been saying.
"But we couldn't buy anything for Eqrado yet." Robin remembered the others.
"We have to go to the town hall tomorrow morning, there we can make applications for the nourishments of Eqrado without charges."
"I don't wanna walk six hours through the forest, only to walk another six hour walk", Usopp complained while the rest were taking their stuff.
"You can give your thanks to mister Fire Fist!" Kid accused Ace with a look of reproach on him.
"What? Why should that be my fault?" Ace asked angrily.
"Because I'm absolutely sure, that you are the one who ordered the filet mignons and the crème brûlées and that's why the bill is so high!" Kid argued bad tempered and her worries that she already was in trouble receded into the distance, to important was the feud against this boastful pirate.
"Even if I ordered five filet mignons and three crème brûlées, you said we could order what ever we want, so stop bitching around!" Ace retorted headedly.
"Come on, stop that" Nami said while she took her bag from her chair.
"It doesn't make any sense to dispute about it, it already happened." Robin tried to reconcile but without success.
"You ignorant pirate, I helped you and your friends to get here, even though I hate your gut's Not that you care, but don't you think I have better stuff to do than play babysitter? I guess that's in the nature of shitty pirates to act all selfish!" Kid explained her point of view.
"Have you ever listened to yourself?!" Ace said furiously "Geez what ever made you hate pirates, it's your own fault!"
"How dare you to speak to Kid like that!" Sanj edged him self into the dispute.
At the last words of Ace Kids face became even more sinister before she closed her eyes. Kid took her half filled glass and emptied it at once and slammed it back before she rose from her chair putting her money on the table as she snarled icily: "I'm so sick of this, goodbye forever…" and Sanji became silent.
Kid turned away from the table and walked towards the door. "But Kid you can't just let us hanging…" Nami, Lysop and Chopper began to complain in a worried tone and wanted to follow Kid, but then Kid gave them a horrific glare across her shoulder and the three froze in shock.
After Kid had left the tavern Sanji yelled at Ace "What's gotten into you, go and apologize to Kitty-Kid!"
"No way, it's not my problem if she can't take criticism!" Ace said indifferent.
"That really was redundant; we don't know what happened back then." Robin addressed mature.
"Right, you know just as good as I do how some pirates are!" Nami added.
"She's the one who act like she's something special" Ace returned
"She is something special!" Sanji said and was lost in a dream of him and Kid together.
"Yo people let's go, otherwise we won't reach the house before the sun goes under!" Zorro said and rose from his chair.
"What about our Casanova?" Usopp asked in a bored way pointing with his thumb at Sanji.
"Just leave him behind…" Zoro answered indifferently but Sanji just woke from his dream.
"What was that? Have you been talking about me, moss ball?!" Sanji asked angrily jumping up from his chair.
"Who else should be meant, ero-cook?!" Zoro gave the insult back.
"Where would you go anyway? You have the sense of direction of a stone!" Sanji retorted, but before Zoro insult him again both of them were wacked by Nami.
"I love you when you're mad Nami-Swan…" Sanji mumbled half-consciously.
"Let's leave" Ace said while Robin went with Kids' money to the bar and gave it to the host before she returned to the table.
"But what do we do about Kid?" Nami said worriedly she didn't want to give up on her plan.
"Yeah, I want her in my crew!" Luffy insisted on his own plan.
"Forget about her, you'll find another musician, little bro!" Ace said indifferently.
"I think he don't know his brother at all." Usopp muttered to himself while Chopper nodded in agreement.
"No I want her in my crew, so you better apologize to her!" Luffy demanded.
Ace just looked at Luffy with one risen eyebrow, as if he would ever apologize to that shrew: "What a great crew member who just take off when ever she feels like it!" Ace assessed a bit haughtily, "but right now I can't do anything anyway."
"regarding that point your brother is right, I think we should leave things as they are for today, maybe Kid just needs to compose her mind and comes back to the house later on." Robin said but by reconsideration Kids grudge against pirates she added, "or she may comes back to stab us all while we're asleep."
"I don't want to be stabbed while I'm sleeping, in fact I don't want to be stabbed at all" Chopper said fearful while Usopp was shivering.
"Don't be ridicules, Kid would never do such a thing" Nami said allaying Robins accusations.
"Robin's right, let's go back to the house and wait for Kid while Sanji cooks supper!" Luffy decided eagerly and so the group left the tavern.
On the way to the entrance of the city it didn't took long for Ace to notice that he and the others were observed and persecuted by someone.
That song above is originally a German song that I've tried to translate (I know normally songs aren't completely in rhymes, but I couldn't help myself I like to rhyme (if there are some parts in that song which don't rhyme with each other or don't make sense please consider that I'm not a native English speaker, but I really tried my best)) the Singer is called Maya Saban and the song is called Geheimnis (Secret), if you like you can check the melody out on youtube. Please let me know if you want more of this translated songs (not that every song I used for that ff is in German, but I could translate some of it) or if I should search only for English songs.
I wish you all a happy Christmas and a merry new year ( or better said the opposit XD)!