Luffyko looked up at the slim girl as she leaned out the window to talk to the caretaker, "Excuse them Kurahadol, these people are…"

"You don't need to tell me. I will listen to your explanation later. For now, I'd like all of you to leave this are at once. Or do you people have something to say?"

Luffyko nodded and gave a grin, "Yeah, we'd like a ship see…"

"Definitely not." Kurahdol said as he readjusted his glasses. "Usopp, I hear the rumors about you all the time, you are pretty famous in this village, aren't you?"

"Really?" Usopp laughed as he tried to keep himself from falling out of the tree he sat in.

"So, you have faced all kinds of danger before. That's really something at such a young age."

"You may call me Captain Usopp. That way my name can spread around."

"Captain eh? I've heard stories about your father."

Kaya saw Usopp flinch, "Kurahdol, cease this at once!"

"You are just the son of a low-class pirate."

Luffyko looked at him from under her hat, her normal grin gone. Zoro looked at her and silently let his hand drift to the hilt of his sword, ready for anything.

"Although anything you do won't be much of a surprise, but would you please stop pestering our lady."

Usopp glared down at the caretaker, "You called my father a low-class..?"

You come from a totally different world from our lady. Do you want money? How much do you want?"

"That's enough, Kurahadol!" Kaya yelled. "Apologize to Usopp at once."

Usopp looked at the girl and saw how far she was hanging out the window, "Hey Kaya, that's dangerous."

"Why should I apologize to such a barbaric man, my lady? I am only speaking the truth. I do sympathize with you." He told Usopp, "You must be filled with hatred. Hatred for your father for abandoning you and your mother to look for treasures as a pirate!"

"Kurahadol!"

"You bastard, you'd better stop insulting my father!" Usopp yelled as he jumped from the tree using a line attached to the branch he had been sitting on. Once the hook retracted he closed his gadget bag and glared at the caretaker.

"Why are you so agitated?" Taunted Kurahadol as he adjusted his glasses. "It's times like these that you should just do what you do best; lie. Just say that you have nothing to do with your father, or he's not you birth father."

Usopp lunged and punched the caretaker sending him to the ground, "Shut up!"

"See that?" Kurahadol asked as he sat up and readjusted his glasses, "He immediately turned violent. No wonder they say, like father like son."

"Shut up! I'm proud that my father is a pirate! Being a brave warrior of the sea, I'm very proud of him! Although it's true that I'm a plain old liar, but a pirate's blood flows within me! That kind of honor is not something that can be imitated. I'm a son of a pirate!"

"Pirates are warriors of the sea? You're pretty naïve to have that ideology. But this does prove that barbaric blood flows through you. You like to lie and would resort to violence whenever something upsets you. Your ultimate motive is to acquire our lady's wealth and that's why you get close to her!"

"What are you saying?"

"Whether or not you have any ulterior motives, just the fact that your father is a pirate is proof enough!"

Usopp grabbed the butler's collar and got ready to punch him, "You've insulted him again!"

"No stop Usopp!" Kaya yelled from her window. "Please don't resort to violence again. Kurahadol is not a bad person. He's only doing it for me, he's overprotective."

Usopp let go and his hand was slapped away, "Get out of here. Don't ever come to this house ever again."

"I get the picture, I would've left even if you didn't tell me. I won't come back here."

Zoro watched as Usopp left and the kids began to yell at the butler only to have Luffyko join in. He sighed and lightly hit her in the head, "Why are you butting in all of the sudden?" He saw the children get scared and Luffyko tried to walk over to him so he quickly held her back.

"Let go of me! What the hell?" Luffyko yelled as Zoro's strong arms pinned her against his chest.

Nami tried to help bring the girl under control only to raise the amount of screaming going on in the garden, "All of you leave at once!"

Zoro and Nami managed to drag Luffyko and the children away. "What a mean guy." Luffyko said with her cheeks puffed out.

Nami sighed and looked at the girl, how little did she know about the outside world? True the man had been rude and said awful things, but that's life. How did she not understand? "That's just the way some people are."

"Well I don't like him." She said as she crossed her arms. She looked and saw Nami and Zoro not paying attention and slipped off and began to look for Usopp, "He needs to be cheered up." She said with a grin as she ran off looking for him by the coast. When she saw him she found the perfect way to cheer him up. She silently climbed a tree and held on with her feet as she dropped down in front of him, "Yo! So this is where you were." She said with a grin as the startled boy moved away from her.

"Oh it's just you." He breathed in relief then glared at her, "Can't you greet normally next time?" She just stared at him with her silly grin in place and Usopp looked at her with suspicion, "What is it? What do you want?"

"Nothing really." She said as she dropped to her hands and began to do a walking handstand away from him till she landed on her face, "ouch." She muttered. She let them sit in silence till she began to bang her sandals together.

"Damn caretaker. How dare he insult my father."

"Yeah, I don't like him either. It doesn't matter what anyone says about Yasopp, he's still a great pirate." Luffyko said as she watched the ocean.

Usopp grinned and moved to sit beside the girl, "Isn't that so? In this age of pirates, my father sails the ocean without knowing what's ahead. I feel really proud of him. However, that bastard dares to step all over that pride. I will not forgive him for it."

"But will you ever get to that lady again?" Luffyko asked.

"Don't know. If that caretaker comes to me and begs, I might consider it."

"That caretaker?"

Usopp nodded, "Yeah, that caretaker." He looked at her then realized she was pointing at him. He quickly pushed her head down and leaned over the cliff to see him, "That caretaker, why is that caretaker here?"

"Owe! That hurts!" Luffyko whined as Usopp tried to silence her so he could over hear the coversation between Kurahadol and another man. "Who is that weirdo?" Luffyko asked as she looked at the strange man with the caretaker.

"I don't know. I've never seen him before. Who is he?" He listened to the conversation until they talked about the name of their plan, "Did he say assassinate?"

Luffyko looked at the horrified face of Usopp and then looked down at the two men, "Hey what are they talking about?"

"Keep quiet! That's what I want to find out." Usopp felt the dread and terror sink into his body as heard the caretakers true intentions and identity, "This is bad. We just overheard something really bad."

Luffyko just clapped her feet together, "Hey, what's going on? It seems there is going to be trouble."

"Weren't you listening to their conversation? We're done for, they're real pirates!" Usopp said as he looked at the tiny girl. She may know Shanks and her and her friends had said they were pirates, but they had to have been lying. The swordsman looked like the only one who could be a pirate. The girl beside him was clearly too small to be a true pirate. "That Captain Kuro is said to be the smartest and also the cruelest among all the pirates. I heard that he was caught and executed by the Marines three years ago. But Captain Kuro is alive! Living as the caretaker, Kurahadol! He's been planning on how to inherit Kaya's wealth since three years ago! The village will be attacked, and Kaya will be in danger! Terrible! This is really terrible!"

Luffyko looked at the boy and then looked down before standing up. Usopp looked over and saw her and gasped. "Hey if you stand up they will see you!"

"Hey, you down there!" Luffyko yelled, "Don't you dare hurt the lady!" Usopp collapsed when she yelled, what could she be doing?"

"Who are you?" The stranger asked.

Usopp grabbed her arm and tried to drag her away, "You idiot! They'll see us! Hide, quick or they'll kill us!"

"Well…well if it isn't Usopp."

Usopp screamed, "I've been spotted too!"

"Did you hear anything?"

"No no...Did you say something? We are just passing by. We didn't hear anything."

"I heard everything." Luffyko said. As Kuro gave a look to the man he stood with.

The man sighed and walked forward, "Guess it can't be helped. Hey you two, look carefully at this ring."

"What?" Luffyko wondered as she looked at the strange ring the man held.

"This is bad. It's a weapon duck!" Usopp told her as he tried to hide himself.

"With one, two, Jango, you will fall asleep. Got it?"

"Hide quick or we're done for!"

"One…Two…Jango!"

Usopp watched as the girl pitched forward, "Hey what's wrong, you'll fall." She continued forward and fell from the cliff hitting headfirst. "Shit…that guy…he killed her!" Usopp listened as they continued their plans not carrying if he overheard. "Tomorrow…"

"You hear that Usopp?" Kuro asked with a smirk. "Nothing you do will affect my plan."

"Damn it…" Usopp said as he stood up and backed away from the cliff. Once he was away from the cliff, he ran towards the village. The girl had died, she had been cheering him up and now she was dead. However, he wouldn't let anyone else die, he would save his village and Kaya.