Cause if you never leave home
You never let go
You'll never make it
To the great unknown
Till you keep your eyes open
My love
So tell me you're strong
Tell me you see
I need to hear it
Can you promise me?
To keep your eyes open
My love
~keep your eyes open- need to breathe
Feeling overwhelmed was an understatement, as the group crowded in her usually empty was strange
"YOU CAN CONTROL TIME! SUGOI!"Luffy exclaimed bursting in excitement, his face grinning very close to the redhead head's face, making her flinch.
She could only watch as an orange haired woman reprimanded the male
A dark haired woman seemed to be the only one among the new group to notice how overwhelmed Eve felt.
"Ah Red-san I apologise" Robin smiled at the girl who shyly looked away.
"I-its f-fine b-but c-could y-you b-be c-careful n-n-not t-to w-wake s-snow"
"Snow?"Usopp looked round the small room for another individual, but then noticed the small reindeer next to a smaller white fox.
Luffy too noticed the small fox
"WOW A FOX!"
"URUSAI BAKA!"
Luffy nursed a bump on his head, as a blonde approached eve
"Ah young lady are you okay? A young lady such as yourself shouldn't be so-"Sanji didn't get to finish serenading Eve with his usual sweet talk, due to a certain mint haired swordsman's blow to his side. Holding his rib cage, he would have insulted the marimo but a glare he hadn't seen on his nakama face stopped chuckled, a smug expression on his face before turning to face Eve once more.
"Has this marimo tried to taint y-"
"URUSAI ERO-COOK!"
"ENOUGH!" the two men joined Luffy in nursing their own bumps to the orange head smiled at the redhead, as if pretending she hadn't just beaten up her crew in front of her
"Ah ah, gomen, i apologise for my captains rudeness."
"C-captain?" eve frowned confused
"That's right we're pirates! I'm Nami the navigator"
"I'm Captain Usopp" Nami elbowed the long noise sharpshooter in the gutt making him fall to his knees in his pain
"That's Usopp our sharp shooter, The blonde is Sanji our cook, the dark haired woman is Robin our archelogist, You've already met Zoro our swordsman and first mate as well as Chopper our doctor"
She directed her attention to the now fully recovered captain.
"And that Baka is Luffy"
"THE NEXT PIRATE KING!"Luffy butted in
Eve tried to remember their names as she bowed
"A-ah i-im Eve. I-ts n-nice t-to m-meet you!"Sanji's eyes turned to hearts as she stuttered
"EVE-TAN IS SO ADORABLE!"
A blush filled her cheeks and she pushed her glasses up to cover her eyes.
"a-arigato"
Sanji then passed out, resulting in a panicked eve, who was reassured by chopper that his usual happened.
Luffy was looking around her home puzzled.
"Neh Eve is this where you live?" Eve nodded but then sadly looked at her broken door
"Hai, demo m-m-y d-oor um"They all looked at her door to see it off its hinges, with the front covered in graffiti, that they had failed to notice when their captain charged in.
Robin frowned at the mess but mostly at the harsh words on the door, luffy though appeared to remain oblivious.
"Neh are you a monster?"Eve nodded without hesitation. Only for Zoro and Chopper to intervene
"NO SHE ISN'T!"
Eve blinked,stunned.
"Um… I-I'm a w-witch"She muttered.
Luffy began to ask her the same questions chopper had, only to be disappointed to find that she couldn't do so.
"Captain-san isn't there something you wanted to ask?"Robin smiled and this jolted Luffy's memory
"THAT'S RIGHT!"He looked at eve in the eye
"EVE JOIN MY CREW"
Eve was speechless and zoro just sighed
"Baka"
Usopp joined
"Yeah luffy you're supposed to say will you join my crew, not state it" This explanation seemed too much for Luffy who just sighed.
"ah but that's too long"
"So what do you think eve? Wanna be a pirate?"Nami grinned but was surprised when eve hung her head
"A-arigato demo, I don't t-think i-I should" she fiddled with her gloves nervously
Luffy who had been expecting her to agree straight away, frowned
"Huh?"
She looked at the chains by the bed, and it was then that they noticed the dry blood across the chains.
"I-I haven't left this forest t-too m-many t-times before, p-plus I'm w-weak a-and i-I'm n-not n-normal"She looked at them sadly
"I-im a w-witch! Y-you s-should b-be scared!"
"Eve-Tan"Sanji trailed off sadly as he looked at the redhead, she looked as though she would cry
She tugged at her red hair, brandishing it in front of them.
"I'm c-cursed! A-and m-my red hair is-"Luffy stood up and surprisingly lifted the light eve over his squeaked.
Zoro quickly shot up
"Oi luffy"
His captain turned to face him and the others
"Take her belongings and snow to the ship, once we have supplies we leave"His usual goofy ness was gone, as he ignored the thrashing girl.
"Luffy this is kidnap!"Nami yelled frustration and disbelief in her voice.
"I ain't leaving her here Nami"He smiled suddenly breaking his serious mood "I want her to be nakama!"
No one apart from eve argued at that.
"Aye aye captain"
Zoro couldn't help feel his mouth twitch at the flustered redhead, maybe kidnapping her wasn't such a bad his departing looked at Zoro, hoping the man would save when she did so, he felt his face heat up at her red face, watery golden eyes and the general look of helplessness she had. Robin and Nami noticed this and couldn't help but snigger (mostly Nami) .Ah they were going to enjoy watching this develop.
Eve was struggling to get a coherent sentence out of her mouth and instead lifted her dark hood over her red hair, as if hoping the hood would make her magically disappear.
"p-put m-me down"She cried and once again began to futilely hit his back, in hopes he would let go.
Luffy was happily humming to himself and imaging what their cook would make them for dinner,his thoughts drifting to meat. He would have drooled at the thought, but the taps on his back snapped him out of his daydream.
"Neh Eve who said you should be chained you up"Eve stopped her flailing as he continued to speak
"Who said you're a monster,who said that red hair is ugly, who said to write those words on your home-
"I er"
He looked at her over his shoulder
"And who said that you can't leave this island and be a pirate" Eve remained silent for a moment and then sighed trying to not look at his blinding goofy smile
"l-luffy, you d-on't u-"
"You ain't answered my question Eve!"
"I d-don't understand, i-its j-just t-that l-ife t-turned o-out l-like this… and its f-ate t-"
"THAT'S RIGHT FATE"She squeaked slightly at his energy. "It was fate that we met, right?"
Eve didn't get chance to respond to his words as they reached the ship.
"OI FRANKY!"
With her feet finally hitting wood planks she found herself on a huge ship, she didn't really get chance to look around their surroundings as a blue haired man approached them.
"Luffy? Where are the others a-"It was at this point that the cyborg noticed the small red headed Franky she seemed like she didn't want to be there and was eyeing the floor as if waiting for it to swallow her whole.
"Franky this is Eve, she's gonna join our crew"Franky nodded
"It's SUPER to meetcha, I'm the shipwright"She raised her head, he saw the unease in her golden orbs and also the scar across her cheek.
"Its n-nice t-to meet you, demo i-I n-"
"Franky look after her!"the blue haired man nodded and then noticed the serious expression on his captains face as he watched the towns people.
"There's something I've gotta do"
And with no other explanation the captain of the straw hats jumped off the ship and headed into town leaving Eve in the hands of the cyborg.