Author's Note: Happy birthday, Zoro! My birthday gift to you is that you get to do all the Author's Notes and Disclaimers!
Zoro: Yipee. So, anyway, in the new chapter of "One Piece: Parallel Works", the plot thickens, and... It's all because of that flowerpot that hit Yuki-Rin at the end of the last chapter? The hell? Anyway, moving on, the authoress of this fic doesn't own me or any other canon One Piece character.
Ch. 39: "The Stockholm Syndrome Pirates."
"Ageha, looks like Yuki-Rin's not waking up."
"Hmm... Better try some smelling salts."
Yuki-Rin awoke with a jolt.
"Where am I?" Yuki-Rin asked Ageha and Aki.
"You're on the Hyperion. Aki brought you here after you got injured in that earthquake," Ageha explained. But, a puzzled look remained on Yuki-Rin's face.
"Who's Aki? What's the Hyperion?" Yuki-Rin asked Ageha.
"I'm Aki," Aki said, pointing to herself. "And, we're on our ship, which is named 'the Hyperion'."
"But, who's the blonde lady?" Yuki-Rin asked Aki. Ageha's face turned to horror.
"Do you NOT know who I am? I'm Ageha Midori, the doctor of the Capricorn Pirates!" Ageha explained.
"The Capricorn Pirates? Am I... A member of that pirate crew?" Yuki-Rin asked Ageha.
"Yes, you are. You're our captain," Ageha explained as she pulled out pictures of Heathcliffe, Kartik, Molly, and Kazuma. "Here, do you recognize any of these four people?"
"Hmmm... I don't think so. I'm sorry," Yuki-Rin said. Ageha sighed.
"This is one of the worst cases of amnesia I have seen," Ageha said, shaking her head.
"Cheer up, Ageha, i'm sure Yuki-Rin will recover," Aki said, trying to re-assure the doctor.
"You know what? I think i'm gonna go for a walk. Maybe something will trigger my mind and i'll remember something," Yuki-Rin said before she left. Holden, Soren, and Heathcliffe then entered the room, covered in food.
"What happened to you three?" Aki asked the Sarutobi siblings.
"Food fight," Heathcliffe answered casually.
"I see," Aki said, nodding her head. Outside, Yuki-Rin was studying the Hyperion, trying to figure out if she was a part of that crew.
"That ship doesn't look familiar to me at all," Yuki-Rin commented to herself before turning around and running into Kazuma.
"Hey, Yuki-Rin!" Kazuma said as he gave Yuki-Rin a hug. Yuki-Rin's face turned red.
"G-Get off of me! I don't even know who you are!" Yuki-Rin cried.
"But, Yuki-Rin, it's me, Kazuma Miyafuji, your boyfriend! I'm not Roscoe!" Kazuma pleaded before he grabbed Yuki-Rin's face and kissed her. Yuki-Rin gasped, pushed Kazuma off of her and to the ground, and ran off, with her head bowed.
"Man! What the hell has gotten into her?" Kazuma commented as he got up from the ground. A few minutes later, Ageha gathered up the Capricorns for an emergency meeting.
"Amnesia?" About half of the Capricorns said.
"Yes, amnesia. Apparently, during the earthquake, Yuki-Rin got hit in the head by something, and it seems like she has forgotten who we are," Ageha explained with a sigh.
"It can't be helped. It could take a long time before Yuki-Rin regains any memories of us," Sebastian said as he shook his head.
"It seems like every island we go to that has a long rest time for the Log Pose, Yuki-Rin unwillingly and unknowingly gets the rest of us into very odd escapades. This isn't new, and, it doesn't surprise me," Kartik explained.
"Kartik, there is one problem to this. Yuki-Rin ran off. Apparently, Kazuma kissed her and she mistook him for a pervert," Hana explained. Everyone looked to Kazuma, who sweatdropped.
"Uhh... Please don't look at me like that," Kazuma said, embarassed.
"Sorry, Kazuma, but, you're the one to blame on making things worse," Ageha apologized.
Unbeknownst to the Capricorns, Yuki-Rin was nearby, sitting on a bench a few blocks from where the Hyperion was docked.
"Man, I don't know who these strange people are. All I know is all the info about myself and possibly how I came to the Grand Line. I just hope I can get some of my memories back," Yuki-Rin said to herself.
"Excuse me, are you trying to find yourself?"
Yuki-Rin looked up, and saw a girl about her age. She had orange hair turned into a ponytail and blue eyes. She wore a purple-and-black, striped, sweater that was off of one shoulder, black skinny jeans, and black sneakers.
"Well, I do know who I am, but, I just need to know what i've been doing here on the Grand Line and if i've been with anybody," Yuki-Rin explained.
"Well, you've come to the right place. Come with me and my crew, and we'll be a-okay!" The girl said.
"A pirate crew? Well... Well... My name is Yuki-Rin, and I know I was on a pirate crew before I lost my memories!" Yuki-Rin explained.
"Perfect. I'm Yuriko Tsuchimiya, captain of the Stockholm Syndrome Pirates," Yuriko introduced herself with a hint of boastfulness in her voice. She then grabbed Yuki-Rin by the wrist. "Now, come on! We must meet the other crew members!"
"But, I –" Yuki-Rin said before Yuriko cut her off.
"Up-bup-bup! Do you want to find out who you really are, or do you –" Yuriko asked Yuki-Rin before Yuki-Rin cut her off.
"Yes! Yes, I want to find out who I am!" Yuki-Rin anwsered.
"Good! Now, let's go!" Yuriko said before she dragged Yuki-Rin off.
Before Yuki-Rin knew it, she was sitting down with Yuriko on the ship of the Stockholm Syndrome Pirates, Helvetica.
"We're about to have a late lunch. Are you hungry?" Yuriko asked Yuki-Rin.
"I guess. All this thinking about myself is making me hungry," Yuki-Rin said as a boy with spiky, black, hair and black eyes entered the room. He wore a black, long-sleeved, collared shirt, a dark blue suit vest, black pants, and black boots and he carrried a puppet that looked oddly like him.
"Zheng, put that away!" Yuriko said to the newcomer before turning to Yuki-Rin. "Yuki-Rin, this is Zheng Nakamura, our musician. He's a bit on the dark side, and, it creeps some of us out. Don't worry, you'll get used to it."
"Uhh... Hey, there, Zheng," Yuki-Rin said nervously as she shook Zheng's hand.
"Pleasure's all mine. What brings you onto the Helvetica today?" Zheng asked Yuki-Rin, who remembered something small, but very important, from her past – When Heathcliffe joined her crew.
"You're... Really going to accept me into your crew... For who I am?"
"Heathcliffe," Yuki-Rin said to herself.
"Who's Heathcliffe?" Zheng asked Yuki-Rin.
"I think... I think I have ties to a boy named Heathcliffe," Yuki-Rin said. "I lost my memories of what my job is and how I came to the Grand Line."
"That sucks. I lost my girlfriend before coming to the Grand Line, so, I guess we're even," Zheng explained as a woman with light-blonde, wavy hair, blue eyes, and glasses came into the room. She wore a green, checkered shirt, white jeans, and orange sandals, and she carried a couple trays of food.
"Yuriko, the food's ready. Get Tetra, Megumi, Hyung-Win, Rai, Kazura, Genevieve, Yuno, Fredrich, Bao-Bao, and Teinosuke," The woman explained.
"Excellent. Yuki-Rin, meet Aida D. Marni, our chef," Yuriko explained.
"Pleased to meet you," Yuki-Rin said, ignoring the fact that she regained another memory, this time, of Karin.
"No, Karin, please leave Kartik alone."
"You look like somebody I know. She had her hair in the same style and she also wore glasses like yours," Yuki-Rin said to Marni.
"Why, thank you. I always thought I looked like Karin Kotetsu of Cipher Pol Five, save for the chest area. I usually think of myself as a more modest version of her," Marni explained as she set the trays down on the table. Yuki-Rin giggled to herself.
"Hey, guys, it's time for dinner!" Yuriko called out.
"Alright, alright, we're coming."
A whole group of pirates entered, including a black-haired man with a spiky mullet and a business suit, a gray-haired girl with her hair tied up in a high ponytail, a girl with short, green hair and a matching jacket, a blue-haired teenager wearing glasses, a silver-haired, tanned boy, a woman with short, gray hair, a girl with short, blue hair, a blonde-haired teen with a rifle, a boy with dirty-blonde hair, and a black-haired boy with glasses.
"Guys, this is Yuki-Rin. She's an amnesiac who has came to us to find out who she is," Yuriko introduced the pirates to Yuki-Rin.
"Hi," Yuki-Rin said.
"I'm Kazura Shion, the first mate," The black-haired man in the business suit introduced himself.
"I'm Tetra Yamine, the tailor," The silver-haired girl introduced himself.
"I'm Megumi Mint, the navigator," The green-haired girl introduced herself.
"I'm Hyung-Win Park, the carpenter," The blue-haired boy with glasses introduced himself.
"I'm Rai D. Patel, the swordsman," The tanned boy introduced himself, revealing his Indian accent.
"I'm Genevieve Greene, the archaeologist," The woman with the short, gray hair introduced herself.
"I'm Yuno Hirabayashi, the thief," The blue-haired girl introduced herself.
"I'm Fredrich Bellamy, the gunner," The boy with the rifle introduced himself.
"I'm Teinosuke Fujimori, the doctor," The black-haired boy with the glasses introduced himself.
"And, i'm Bao-Bao, the merchant," The dirty-blonde-haired boy introduced himself.
"Nice to meet all of you. Now, let's eat!" Yuki-Rin said.
"'Nice to meet all of you. Now, let's eat'?" Teinosuke wondered to himself.
"That's my kind of girl!" Bao-Bao said before the crew and Yuki-Rin sat down to eat a meal of meatloaf, potatoes, and salad that would be more appropriate for a family than a pirate crew.
"So, then, I said to my client, 'Woah, hey, back off'. But, that just made him angrier, so, I –" Bao-Bao told to everyone. But, Yuki-Rin wasn't really following the conversation, as she was conversing to herself in her mind about this pirate crew.
"These people... They seem unsettling. VERY unsettling. Yuriko projects herself as somewhat of an egotistical bitch, Kazura and Rai are too serious, Zheng's got his puppet-thingie, and it seems like Bao-Bao is the most unsettling. Everyone else... Well, they seem nice," Yuki-Rin thought to herself, shuddering a bit. The sounds of a cowbell and a cow mooing brought her out of her inner thoughts.
"Oh, my God! Teinosuke, I told you to get rid of that thing!" Yuriko yelled, pointing to a cow that just entered the room.
"No, Yuriko, it's my cow, so, I decide what to do with it," Teinosuke argued as he walked over to the cow. "Yuki-Rin, this is Eleanor, my cow. She's a real sweetheart, but, Yuriko hates her, claiming that she's just dead weight around here."
Yuki-Rin then laughed so hard, she fell to the ground. The Stockholm Syndrome Pirates sweatdropped.
"Don't tell me she hates the cow, too," Teinosuke whispered to Yuno. Later that night, Yuki-Rin sat on the bed of her assigned room, unable to sleep.
"Okay, this crew is seriously unsettling. It's either that, or... Or I miss my crew," Yuki-Rin said to herself before she got up and went to the kitchen for a glass of milk. But, from the doorframe, she saw the Stockholm Syndrome Pirates sitting at the table, still awake.
"If Yuki-Rin does not regain all memories of her past life by the time we leave, she is coming with us, no questions asked," Yuriko stated.
"Yuriko, you can't force Yuki-Rin to do that. What if she does have a crew on this island to come back to? And, what if she's the captain of a crew?" Kazura asked Yuriko.
"It's not my problem. That crew can just deal with it," Yuriko explained.
"It's obviously their problem, Yuriko! That crew – if Yuki-Rin has one to come back to when she gets her memories back – would lose a potentially valuable member if we forced her to come with us!" Hyung-Win explained.
"You're just saying that because you DON'T want a share of One Piece when we – and if – we find it," Yuriko said coldly before she got up and left the room, running into Yuki-Rin. "And, what do you want, Yuki-Rin?"
"Oh, I was just on my way to get a glass of milk to help me go to bed," Yuki-Rin explained.
"Alright then. Good-night," Yuriko said before continuing on to her room. Yuki-Rin breathed a sigh of relief.
"Heathcliffe, Kartik, Karin - whoever you guys are – come get me, please!" Yuki-Rin thought to herself.
Ending Note: Capricorns, you should really go and find Yuki-Rin before Yuriko and her crew run off with her. Here's the Stockhom Syndrome Pirate's crew status if anybody was curious.
Captain - Yuriko Tsuchimiya
First Mate - Kazura Shion
Swordsman - Rai D. Patel
Musician - Zheng Nakamura
Chef - Aida D. Marni
Navigator - Megumi Mint
Carpenter - Hyung-Win Park
Tailor - Tetra Yamine
Archaeologist - Genevieve Greene
Gunner - Fredrich Bellamy
Thief - Yuno Hirabayashi
Doctor - Teinosuke Fujimori
Merchant - Bao-Bao
Mascot - Eleanor the cow
I've got good news! The SBS Question corner is not dead! Yeah! Hotspot the 626th asks this:
"BTW, will any of the crew ever get bounties? I was always curious about that."
Zoro, answer this.
Zoro: Well, Aria probably already has a small bounty due to Revolutionary work in the four blues. But, a future crew member will most likely get a bounty, since he (or she) was on a notorious pirate crew before he (or she) joined the Capricorns. The Capricorns haven't been doing anything that would attract that Marines' attention as of yet, which is why they don't have bounties. (Save for possibly Aria, who may just be flying under the Marines' radar in the Grand Line, since she's more well-known in the four Blues)
Me: Thanks, Zoro. Remember, keep sending me SBS Questions in reviews and/or PMs, and I will answer them at the end of the chapters. Until next time, bye-ni!