Why didn't anyone tell me that one chapter is missing? I apologize for that mistake… but still that's not good… it's probably because I was so eager to show my new Ideas for that story that I left out one of my favorite chapters (because of Kids interaction with everybody). I hope those people who had read the next chapter already will read that one as well even though it isn't too important to the plot.

Chapter 13: different dreams

When Luffy got up stairs he stood in front of closed doors he didn't know where room Kid could be so he went ahead and opened the first door. The room he entered was the parents bedroom the bed sheet was laying untidy half on the bed half on the blood-smeared floor while a first-aid-box was laying in front of it but no sign of Kid.

"What are you doing here?" Kid asked taming her anger, after she noticed that someone was entering that room she went to check.

"I was looking for you!" Luffy answered honestly, "Are you okay?" he wanted to know as he saw how Kid was starring at the bed.

"Sure" Kid responded brusquely, "Do me a favor and just let's get out of that room." Kid requested and turned around to go to the next room.

"What's on your mind?" Kid asked when she went to the baby crib.

"Usopp's really sorry, he didn't mean to be rude… you have to know that he's a liar and poser but in truth he's just a chicken." Luffy tried to explain Usopps' reaction without even knowing what the problem was.

"You can tell him he shouldn't bother his chicken head about it." Kid said simply

After Luffy heard that he started to laugh as he snorted: "What?"

"stop laughing, it's just a wordplay…" Kid explained with a shrug of her shoulders.

"I just imagined Usopp with a chicken head on his shoulders." Luffy laughed, after he composed himself, he added, "So your still coming with us?"

"Let's say it won't fail at Usopps' remark…" Kid started to say turning around.

But before Kid could continue Luffy smelled the meat Sanji was roasting and he cut in: "Great! Supper's almost ready, let's go eat!" before he run off leaving Kid behind.

As Kid heard Luffy bluster the stairs downwards she just let her head hang, but suddenly a gentle smile appeared on her lips as she put her hands on the babies' crib.

Later that night Ace was still laying awake while the male straw hats where snoring loudly. He was thinking of Sabo and how he felt when he received the message of his death, of course it was hard for him and Luffy but still they got each other. If it wasn't for Luffy he'd probably would have become as bitter as Kid or even worse. From time to time Ace looked upstairs to the second room where the crib stood. He felt somehow sorry for Kid but still there was something about her that bothered him. Suddenly Ace concluded that it probably was for the best to check on Kid. He went the stairs up and entered the same room as the night before. Kid was standing in front of the baby crib. "How are you doing?" Ace asked leaning against the door frame.

A shrug of Kids shoulders showed Ace that she didn't know what to answer. When Ace approached Kid who was facing away from him, he saw the picture of her and Tommy in lying on a pillow she was staring at. "I think I understand now why you act how you act… I myself lost a brother when I was a child." Ace said soberly.

When Kid didn't react to his avowal Ace looked out of the window as he asked: "Tell me one thing, many people in your situation would have quit their life, so why not you?"

Suddenly Kid looked up and stared as well through the window before she said toughly: "I'm not a weakling as my father used to hammer into me."

Ace looked with an esteemed expression on his face at Kids reflection for several second, before he turned around without any further reactions and went to the door.

But suddenly Kid turned around and said with a rough voice: "Wait… just because we have something in common doesn't change anything between us, for me you'll always be a bloody pirate."

"I expected nothing less from you, you stupid shrew!" Ace responded perkily across his shoulder before he left the room with a sassy wave of his hand.

At dawn Kid was still standing between the baby crib and the window, still looking outside. After Kid took the picture from the pillow in the baby crib, she left the room, to waken up Nami and Robin. As Kid stood in the door frame she knocked loudly on it with the back of her fist. Both Nami and Robin woke from their sleep with a start. "Kid… Are you okay?" Nami mumbled as she realized that it was Kid leaning against the door frame and remembered about the horrible stuff she had heard the day before.

"Would you take your stuff outside and tell the others to do the same." Kid said soberly.

"Of course, we'll do that." Robin responded and started to grab her things, for her it was a clear thing not to question that request.

As Kid left Nami and Robin alone in the room Nami struggled out of the bed sheets and run after Kid. "Kid, are you mad at us?" Nami asked concerned.

"No, I've just came a decision for myself." Kid answered, she really wasn't mad at them anymore, she just didn't know how to cope with the situation.

Nami returned with a smile on her face to Robin. "Robin I think Kid is going along with us!"

"How does that come?" Robin questioned.

"She just said that she made a decision for herself, It could be that she's really joining our crew," Nami explained packing her stuff together.

"Well, that or she's going to commit suicide." Robin mentioned pessimistically when they vacated the room.

"Stop saying such a thing." Nami said a bit rattled as they passed the two rooms, to walk the stirs down, now they had the duty of waking the rest of the group. Nami first awakened Sanji so he would start cooking breakfast, what would make the waking process a lot easier. Of course Sanji was thrilled when he heard about Kids request and ran off to cook. After Nami and Robin managed to shoo the rest of the crew and Ace out of the house, they both left the house as well. "Every one is out of the house now; we're waiting outside for you!" Nami yelled from the door.

While Sanji was dishing up breakfast Nami seemed to get more and more nervous, because of Robins earlier words. Half an hour later Kid excited the house, in her hands holding the bed sheet from the parents' bedroom. "Thank goodness…" Nami mumbled under her breath as Kid approached them, tying a knot into the bed sheet.

"Are you ready to go?" Kid wanted to know soberly seeing that Sanji, already had packed everything together after breakfast.

"Yes!" the Straw Hats and Ace answered as they stood up.

"Could you light this up, please?" Kid asked Ace holding the bed sheet up.

Ace let his hand without a word burn and lit the bed sheet on fire. Kid turned around, looking a last time at the ruins of her childhood before she let the bed sheet rotate and threw it up through the window of the parents room.

"Let's go to Selvanio!" Kid said unemotionally turning away from the house and walking ahead. `I will leave this please for ever behind.` Kid thought while the rest of the group followed her in silence away from the glade.

After the group covered almost half of the way Nami got the courage to pace forward to Kid. "That was sure a hard decision." Nami said hypothetically as she saw how Kid looked frowningly ahead.

"No it wasn't… I just had to take that step…" Kid replied calm but her expression didn't change, "If you have to talk to me then please change the subject."

"Well, I do have a question to this Island." Nami started a bit embarrassed, "can you tell me from where I can have an overview of the whole Island, something like a high mountain.

"No there isn't a mountain this high. This Island is simply to huge; it even crosses the calm belt and lays partly in the north blue." Kid immediately explained.

"What, really? How do you know that?" Nami asked interested.

"It's my home island" Kid answered simply.

"Any chance you know the geographical coordinates?" Nami wanted to know taking out her notebook; maybe she could still draw a map from this Island with Kids help.

"Not with a hundred percent accuracy, but they are around the 5th and 7th parallel from the Equator and around the 25th to 37th north it's a bit shaped like a diamond but it has a delta estuary in the north edge which is why Salando has as the only city a rich flora because no one else is living in that area close to the calm belt." Kid explained while Nami was scribbling the data in her notebook.

"So there's a river which comes from the north blue. That's so interesting I can't wait to bring that on paper!" Nami said enthusiastically and added, "You have to know my dream is to draw a world map!"

"Is that so?" Kids asked but she wasn't interested in it at all, her mood even sank a bit more.

"I have a question concerning this island as well, Kid." Robin said, closing the lines, "Have you ever seen a boulder with ancient hieroglyphs on it or heard about Porneglyphs?"

"No, never seen, never heard about it, so you won't find one on this Island." Kid answered quickly.

"Are you sure? It's really important to me" Robin explained.

Kid looked a bit annoyed at Robin and said: "As I said there's no such thing on this Island."

"I'm Sorry, it wasn't my intention to doubt your words." Robin apologized, "It's just my dream to find out about the true ancient history."

"Nami-Swan, Robin-Chan, Kitty Kid!" Sanji yelled after them as he ran towards them holding some really pretty flowers he just found on their way and added as he reached them, "I have found some very pretty flowers, which resemble to me your beauties." He added while dealing out the orange and the yellow flowers to Nami and Robin, who just accepted the flowers to get Sanji away again.

But when he wanted to give the blue flower to Kid, she just looked at the flowers disgruntled and said annoyed: "let me guess your dream's to become the greatest Casanova ever."

"No, my dream's to find the all blue, my dearest." Sanji said happily because he mistook Kids caustic remark as showing interest for his dream and for himself, "But I would be happy to be your Casanova!"

Kid didn't have any words for that, all she did was shaking her head in disbelieve while pacing on, how could someone remain convinced about something in such an annoying and stupid way.

"Isn't that wonderful Kitty-Kid is interested in me!" Sanji said.

"You're a hopeless case…" Nami muttered frustrated while pushing Sanji further.

"don't be jealously my Nami~Swan I have enough love for each one of you!" Sanji responded while Zoro approached them after Chopper had instructed him in which direction he has to walk, again.

"Stupid ero-cook…" Zoro mumbled as he pass walked his three crew members, of course loud enough that Sanji could hear him.

"What was that you shitty moss head!" Sanji started to argue angrily.

"You heard me right!" Zoro responded aggressively and the two started to trail their strengths while Luffy was cheering for both of them.

"Ha you are a bunch of idiots, fighting all the time against each other!" the straw hates, Ace and Kid heard a voice from a tree. Immediately Nami, Ussop and Chopper were starring nervously up to spot one of the man the day before sitting in the tree.

"I was wondering when you would expose yourself, you annoying mutt. Kid said after she turned around with crossed arms.

"What you knew he was following us, why wouldn't you tell us!" Usopp whined.

"He's not that big of a thread." Kid explained simply, "He's just the remains of a once powerful network which already felt apart."

"Your wrong, of course there are some of the members which turned their backs on me, but since our leader passed away I'm the one who took over, and they're all going to pay for their betray as well as you, and my fellows will help me." the man explained his plan and suddenly the straw hats, Ace and Kid were surrounded by some masked figures (twice as many as the day before)

"Kid… do you still think he's not a big thread?" Usopp asked frightened while Sanji stood in front of Nami and Robin to protect them. As Chopper changed into his monster form to seem more intimidating Luffy and Ace changed into fighting positions even though they weren't impressed. When the man jumped from the tree and said as he walked towards Kid: "If you are going to apologize I will over think your punishment this time." Luffy and the rest of the group looked a bit confused at the man, he sure did change quickly his mind, but then he added as he stood in front of Kid with a smirk "and with a bit of luck you're giving birth to a bouncing baby boy."

Kid chortled and said with her calm frightening voice: "As if…" before she added disinterested "Guys, let's keep going, I'm fed up with hearing this crap." and she turned around to go ahead.

"Hey you'd better…" the man started to say as his hand moved in Kids direction but before he could grip Kids arm he already was laying with his face in the mud while Kid was wrenching his arm up into the air and pushing his face with the other hand deeper into the mud.

It took some moments till he cried from pain what was the sign for the rest of the masked figures to attack. Zoro took out two of his swords and ran through the rows of attackers which where approaching him, Sanji, Robin and Nami. Zoro sabered the enemies without problems while Sanji kicked his opponents who were trying to attack from behind into a coma. While Nami Usopp, who had taken out his slingshot, Chopper and Robin were running into the bushes Luffy hit a great amount of the masked figures KO with his Gum Gum pistol shotgun. Ace took out some foes but without using his devil power meanwhile Kid already piled three piles with unconscious men. After the attackers did give Kid a wide berth Kid took a sit on one of the piles watching the straw hats and Ace fighting of the rest of the enemies, as she saw how they were fighting, for her it became clearer and clearer that the crew wasn't just a bunch of weaklings some of them had really potential in fighting. Even Robin used her Devil Fruit power to break the backbones of one or two enemies. But as outstanding some of the group were, the weaker seemed Nami, Usopp and Chopper who were hiding in the bushes, even though Usopp here and there shot some rotten eggs to distract the enemies. After five minutes all was over again; suddenly when the few opponents who were still able to walk fled the group heard Kid clapping into her hands. "I'm actually impressed… wouldn't have thought that you have fighting potentials, even the disoriented nut is really good with his swords!" Kid acknowledged with a highly reserved voice, of course she knew now that she probably would have been in trouble if Luffy, Zoro, Sanji and Ace would attack her at the same time (one on one they wouldn't stand a chance against her, against two of them she still wouldn't have any problems of defeating them of, but she would struggle if three of them would team up against her yet she'd be superior eventually).

"I should hope so too… my goal is to become the best swordsman." Zoro responded to Kids remark.

"Guys, shouldn't we keep walking?" Usopp asked glancing around still nervous about the masked figures from before.

"The faster we get to Salando the sooner we get the nutrition for Eqrado, the chicken's got a point there." Kid admitted.

"I'm not a chicken!" Usopp protested but when Kid looked at him with her intimidating face at him he squeaked in fear and added as Kid changed the position of her left eyebrow, "Well, maybe now I'm still a chicken but one day I'll become a brave warrior of the seas."

And the second Eyebrow changed positions leaving an astonished yet skeptical expression on Kids face but she also seemed to be annoyed in a way.

"Chopper before your goal pops up out of nowhere, just tell me what your dream is?" Kid asked annoyed massaging her nose bridge, because it was obviously to her that it would be mentioned sometime.

Chopper looked surprised by Kids reaction at her and answered: "My dream… ah my dream is to find a medicine which cures every disease in the world!" While he transformed back to his reindeer form.

"My dream is to find the One Piece so I can become Pirate King!" Luffy stated happily because Kid seemed to show interest in the goals of the crew members.

"You already addressed that unnecessarily when you introduced yourself, so why do you have to put in your two cents now? That's nerve-racking, so stop it!" Kid responded harshly before she paced forward in direction of Salando, she didn't care to be polite enough to hear Aces dream.

Hope you're not distracted by my earlier mistake…