"Are we there yet?" Whined Luffy.

"You've asked that sixty-seven times already," Kuina and Nami yelled in unison.

Kuina looked towards Kuro, "What the heck are you doing!?"

"Staring at the water with Luffy," Kuro answered boredly.

Sleeping Zoro opened his eye, "Magic carpet?"

Kuro stared more bored at the water, "I want to but a pirate needs to travel on a ship."

Nami shark toothed, "Who decided that and we're not even on a ship but a boat!"

Kuro turned to Luffy, "Want to ride a magic carpet."

Luffy looked at Kuro with skepticism, "Kuro I may not be the brightest guy, but I know that a carpet won't float on the sea and there's also the fact we don't even have a carpet."

Kuro's jaw dropped, and the other three were impressed with Luffy's intelligence, maybe he wasn't a dofus after all.

Luffy's stomach grumbled, "Kuro I'm hungry."

The others immediately decided to take their thought back, they'd already lost their entire food stock and Luffy still wanted to eat.

Kuro started laughing and gave Luffy a meat stick from within his coat.

Luffy's eyes brightened and he started gorging on it.

Kuro, Zoro, and Nami only wondered why and how Kuro was keeping meat in his coat.

Kuro laid back and looked up at the sky, "Cap, I think we need a cook to cook delicious food for you."

Luffy brightened at the idea, "Yeah!" he finished the meat stick and threw the bone into the ocean.

Kuro could still see that he was still hungry and handed him another meat stick from his shirt.

Nami screamed, "How are you doing that? There's no way you had another in your shirt."

Kuro put a finger to his lips, "A magician never reveals his trick."

"Reveal it," Zoro and Kuina stated as they couldn't find how Kuro did that.

"You're a magician?!" Luffy beamed.

Nami was half believing, "I don't believe it."

Kuro smiled and put his hand into his coat, everyone watched carefully.

He pulled out a coin and handed it to Nami, everyone didn't seem to be impressed by that.

"This coin isn't just any ordinary coin, It's a lucky coin that will bring wealth to whoever holds it."

"Wow," Luffy beamed at the coin.

Nami stared at the coin with doubt.

Zoro and Kuina felt like Kuro was bullshitting again.

Kuro pulled out another meat stick and Luffy started eating it.

Kuro put on a fake sad face, "You don't seem to believe."

Everyone stared at him in doubt while Luffy fully seemed to believe him.

Kuro sighed, "You can keep the coin Nami, anyway, we've arrived," Kuro pointed at Orange Town.

Everyone looked at the town with excitement, being on the boring ocean really made them like the land.

Let's go, let's go," Luffy cheered, "Faster faster," Luffy pointed.

Kuro smiled and started rowing faster.

Kuina looked at Kuro as if she was looking at a liar, "So Kuro, tell me which of the so-called transcendent legends is here?"

Kuro slowed down the rowing and grinned, "He's a transcendent legend who sailed with Gold Roger and is on par with red hair Shank, Buggy the clown."

"Shank?!" Luffy eyed Kuro with interest.

"You're definitely lying," stated Kuina.

"I gotta go with Kuina on this one," stated Zoro.

Nami was skeptical, "His bounty is so low, you're definitely lying."

Kuro seemed to sweatdrop, Usopp was supposed to be the liar though.

Kuro started rowing faster, "I won't tell you more but just know that if Mihawk fought him fair and square, the best outcome for Mihawk would be a draw."

Hearing the disrespect Kuro just spat, they were pretty confident he was lying now.

They got to the dock and got off.

Luffy started jumping around as he looked around in awe.

Luffy had really never been off his island so going to new places was like a whole new experience for him.

They went into the town and walked around.

"Why is it so quiet?" questioned Nami.

Kuro shrugged, "I don't know maybe there is a transcendent legend here?"

Nami waved at him with a sigh, "Yeah yeah."

Luffy looked around, "Where can we find him?"

Kuro looked at Kuina.

Kuina closed her eyes and detected a loud place filled with cheer, "Follow me."

They followed Kuina and busted into a party with a clown Captain.

Buggy became surprised than angry, "Who dares to interrupt my party?"

They stared at Buggy."

"That's him?" questioned Luffy.

Kuro nodded grimly and the other three were starting to be impressed by Kuro's acting.

"So we just got to beat him up and take his map?" tilted Luffy.

Kuro was about to nod but then realized something, Luffy didn't really beat someone up unless they were the scum of the earth.

Kuro shook his head, "It's best to negotiate with him first, Kuina and Zoro can't really take him on fair and square."

"What was that," Kuina and Zoro glared.

"How dare you ignore me!" Buggy yelled, "Fire the cannon at them!"

The pirates who didn't know who they were turned the cannon towards them and fired a buggy ball.

Kuina, Zoro, and Kuro's observation haki flared.

Luffy stretched out his hand and caught the buggy ball.

The buggy pirates and Buggy himself became shocked.

Kuro sighed, "Looks like negotiation broke down. You decide how you'll deal with this since you're the captain."

"Don't worry captain, let me try him out," Zoro grinned.

Zoro rushed into the crowd of pirates like a demon and started cutting them down.

He reached Buggy and sliced the man in half.

Kuro screamed, "Holy gun, you just killed someone."

Zoro became flustered wondering why Kuro said that, their original bounty hunter life wasn't easy and their target did sometimes die.

Zoro observation haki flared and he blocked Buggy's attack.

Everyone looked with shock.

"What the!?" Zoro questioned.

Buggy's eyes narrowed, the swordsman in front of him definitely had observation haki, what was a guy like that doing in the East Blue?

One of the pirates suddenly recognized Zoro, "That's Zoro, one of the three demons."

Realization dawned on Buggy and he immediately wanted to run away.

However he couldn't look like a coward in front of his crew, besides, the three demons were swordsmen and he was immune to chopping attacks.

With confidence, Buggy started swimming his knife wildly.

Zoro blocked and attacked back but no matter how many times he cut Buggy up, the man would be okay with his severed body parts floating.

However, Zoro was still physically stronger than Buggy.

With a wave of air left, Zoro appeared behind Buggy and Buggy split into many parts.

Buggy reformed back and glared at Zoro.

Nami couldn't believe it, "No way."

Kuina rubbed her eyes, "Am I dreaming?"

Luffy was woahed, a guy who can't be killed after being sliced apart, he wouldn't have believed it if he didn't see it.

Buggy turned from Zoro to glare at the others, "So you're here for my bounty huh, I knew this day would come."

Buggy yelled out loud, "Initiate plan barrage."

Buggy's crew got up and started fleeing.

Buggy's feet started running away with his crew as he flew up.

Kuina observation haki flared.

Buggy pulled out a machine gun.

Kuro's mouth hanged opened.

Kuina did not like the look of that, "Take cover!"

"Eeeeeeee," Nami tried to find cover.

Zoro stood his ground against Buggy and Luffy stood still since he was confident bullets wouldn't harm him.

Buggy started firing a barrage of mini buggy balls.

The ball flew and exploded upon impact.

Laughing crazily, Buggy fired like a crazy clown.

Luffy stood against the barrage and felt as if he was getting a bunch of rocks thrown at him.

He moved to the side to run and the rain of barrages fired after him.

Zoro and Kuina fired an energy wave at Buggy but it did no harm as Buggy dodged or form back.

'What the!?' was all Kuina and Zoro thought.

There was no way they were losing to a crazy clown right?

Luffy seemed to be tired of getting chased by bullets and launched his leg up into the sky.

Everyone except Kuro's eyes widened.

"Stamp!"

Luffy brought his foot down on Buggy and the pirate captain fell to the ground.

Kuro winced, that seemed very painful.

Kuro turned to Nami, "You should start looting."

Nami got out of her shock and went to loot the buggy pirates.


Sailing away from Orange town, Kuro read the newspapers as he chilled and relaxed.

Luffy was happily munching on the food the mayor of Orange Town had given him, he was really glad Kuro hadn't gotten him to beat up an innocent pirate.

Nami was looking at all the loot she collected and was very happy with herself.

Kuina and Zoro stared at Kuro, they didn't know if they should apologize to him for not believing or doing something.

"Where to next captain?" Kuro questioned.

"To the Grand Line," Luffy smiled.

"But Cap, didn't you want a cook, I've heard there are very good cooks at Baratie who can fight."

Luffy's eyes beamed as he ate more food, "Then to Baratie!"

Kuro put on a sad expression, "But Cap our small boat doesn't have a kitchen so they probably can't cook for us, how about we get a ship with a kitchen first?"

Luffy fell into thought, it's not like they could burn their boat to start a fire so the cook can cook, looks like they really needed a kitchen, "Where do we get a ship?"

Kuro fell into thought, "We can get it at a shipyard but that's very far away and I'm sure you want to enter the Grand Line soon."

Kuro touched his chin, "Hmmmmmm, I know a guy who knows a guy, we can probably get a boat from them."

Nami turned from the loot, "Who?"

Kuro smiled, "He's called Kuro of the hundred plans, last I heard, he killed another Kuro and is currently living the life as a butler. Another name he goes by is Klahadore."

Kuina and Zoro perked up, they could feel that they knew this Kuro guy.

Nami closed her eyes and grinned, "I feel like you're lying but I also feel like doubting you is going to come back to bite me."

"Another Kuro?" questioned Luffy with a mouthful of food.

Kuro nodded, "Yeah."