"Kuro I'm bored," Luffy whined.
Kuro opened his eyes and looked at Luffy.
Besides Nami who was navigating, everyone was asleep.
"Hi bored, I'm Kuro," smiled Kuro.
"You know that's not what I meant," Luffy deadpanned.
"How do I know that you know that I know what you meant?" tilted Kuro.
Luffy blinked and tried to think, "Arrrrhhhhh," he grabbed his head.
Zoro and Kuina woke up from his yell.
"What's wrong," Kuina looked around.
"Are we under attack!?" Zoro scanned.
Nami sighed, "Kuro made Luffy think too hard."
"Oh," Zoro fell back asleep.
"Stop that Kuro," Kuina fell back asleep.
Luffy's stomach grumbled and he looked Kuro dead in the eye.
Kuro looked back at him dead in the eye.
There was silence and the wind blew by as Nami wondered what in the world was happening.
Kuro narrowed his eyes.
Luffy narrowed his eyes.
Kuro held his fist over his palm.
Luffy held his fist over his palm.
"What are you two doing?" Nami whispered.
"I don't know," Kuro whispered back.
"Me neither," whispered Luffy.
Kuro looked somewhere else and pointed, "Hey look a bird."
Luffy turned, "Where?"
Whether Kuro gave Luffy a meat stick or not will never be known.
Arriving on the beach of Gecko Island, they got off and stretched themselves.
They really needed a ship where they could relax their bodies.
Luffy was about to run off when Kuro grabbed his shirt.
Everyone including Luffy wondered why.
Kuro looked serious, "Listen up Cap, this ain't any ordinary beach, we'll have to storm it like Normandy if we want to get past it, are you ready?"
"Normandy?" the other three questioned.
Luffy could see how serious Kuro was and nodded as seriously as possible.
Kuro nodded and started walking, he looked back at them, "Remember, no honky, also last one to reach to reach Syrup Village is a clown."
Kuro started running and it took a moment for them to realize but they chased after him.
A projectile flew towards Kuro and hit him in the head.
Kuro fell to the ground like a dead man.
"Kuro!!!" Luffy yelled.
'What?!' was all the other three could think.
They looked toward the direction the projectile came from and saw Usopp.
Kuro breathed like a dead man and Luffy looked down with worry and panic.
"Kuro are you ok!" Luffy voiced loudly.
The other three didn't really feel any threat from Usopp who looked terrified at having killed someone and they looked at the fallen Kuro.
Kuina and Zoro knew Kuro was definitely faking it.
Nami had seen Kuro take a cannonball hit and she was sure a small slingshot projectile wouldn't kill him.
"Talk to me Kuro," Luffy cried.
Kuro smiled weakly, "Sorry cap, looks like I won't make it," Kuro laughed a little and coughed blood.
Luffy thoughts ran as he tried to think of saving Kuro, "No Kuro you'll, you'll make it, just eat meat."
The other three watched with blank faces as Luffy took out a meat stick from Kuro's coat and fed it to him.
Kuro ate the meat, "Oooooooaaaaahhhhh," standing up like a rising man having escaped death, Kuro could see that Luffy was filled with relief and joy.
Kuro looked towards Usopp, "Bring it on!!!"
Kuro charged and they watched as Usopp seemed to panic.
Usopp quickly fired projectiles at Kuro but Kuro simply dodged them.
Seeing that Kuro was finally closing in on him, Usopp trembled and fell on his butt.
He thought Kuro was going to kill him and but Kuro simply ran past him.
'Huh,' was what everyone thought.
Nami suddenly realized something and started running.
Kuina quickly realized something why and started running.
The two of them passed Usopp without harming him.
Zoro and Luffy became confused as to why the other two ran past Usopp.
Luffy looked towards Usopp with calm, "I'm Luffy, who are you?"
"Uhm, I'm Usopp," Usopp blinked.
Luffy remembered something and smiled, "Ah, you're Yasopp's kid."
Zoro watched as the two of them proceeded to introduce themselves further as if it was natural.
He watched as three kids revealed themselves.
Still, something was eating at Zoro's mind.
Zoro looked towards Usopp, "Do you know why the others ran past you?"
Usopp seemed to think to himself, "Ah, maybe it's about how he said the last one to reach the village is a clown?"
Luffy and Zoro paused.
The two looked at each other.
Usopp started sweat dropping as he could see what the two of them were thinking.
"Usopp counts right Zoro?" Luffy smiled.
Zoro liked the idea and smiled back, "Yeah."
The two immediately started running and Usopp realized he was going to be the clown.
Kuro took out a fishing pole and started fishing.
He was here to chill while the others fought with their lives on the line.
Seeing two crabs, he grabbed them.
He faced them against each other.
"One shall fall and one shall stand."
The crabs clicked their claw at him and scuttled away.
Thinking about it, who didn't want to see people get cut up and beat up?
Actually, now that Kuro thought about it, he had done a lot of violence ever since being born here.
Opening and clenching his hand, Kuro wondered if he was still human.
Humming to himself, he waited for a fish to bite the bait.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Kuina and Zoro were cutting down pirates.
The pirates knew who Kuina and Zoro were and wanted to flee but they knew Captain Kuro would kill them if they did.
Luffy sent a barrage of fists that knocked them out one by one.
Usopp sent projectiles flying which distracted them.
Nami swung at those that managed past them.
Quickly and surely, all the pirates had been taken out.
Usopp cheered, "Yay we did it!!!"
"Let's beat up that hundred Kuro," Luffy yelled.
"Oh really," Kuro of the hundred plans appeared.
He scanned them one by one, "I don't quite see Kuro of the so-called thousand plans, where is he?"
"Nowhere you need to worry about," Kuina threatened.
Kuro looked at her with disdain, "I see you've taken out those rabbles and ruined the plan I've been working on for years."
"You don't say," Nami smiled.
Kuro pushed up his glasses, "You all seem quite confident in yourself, I'll clean you all up."
With that, Kuro disappeared.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Kuro of the thousand plans hadn't caught a single fish.
"Well, this is boring."
Sighing and getting up with the fishing pole, Kuro disappeared.
Seeing Hundred Kuro curring up his own crew member really pissed Luffy off.
The guy was officially in Luffy's bad people book.
Although Kuina and Zoro had observation haki, they couldn't really use it since Hundred Kuro didn't know where he was even going or attacking.
However, they were able to catch barely him with their eyes.
Seeing that Hundred Kuro was about to cut Luffy, Zoro and Kuina blocked it together.
Without stopping, Kuro moved on to attack.
Kaya showed up and saw the scene, she was horrified.
"Kaya what are you doing here!?" Usopp panicked.
Hundred Kuro heard and turned his direction to attack Kaya.
He wouldn't kill her, he was just going to relieve some stress on her.
Usopp yelled for Kaya to get away and stood in front of her.
Kuina, Luffy, and Zoro rushed toward Hundred Kuro.
Before Hundred Kuro could slice into Usopp, Thousand Kuro appeared and grabbed both his arms.
Kuro smiled at Kuro, "Kitty Kat says what?"
"What?" Was all Kuro could say before Kuro slammed his head into his.
Becoming unconscious, Kuro fell to the ground.
"That's revenge for Kuro of ten plans," smiled Kuro.
With that, Kuro disappeared.
Gifted with the Going Merry, the strawhats set sail with Usopp as a new crew member.
In the crow mast, Kuro yelled out loud, "Attention mortal, I claim this crow nest as mine to sleep in, hold on never mind."
Kuro jumped down and was about to head into the boys sleeping quarters when Luffy grabbed him.
"Kuro where were you and after the fight?" Luffy questioned curiously.
Kuro smiled, "I was at another entrance in case the pirates show up there, after the fight I was pretty hungry from running all the way from the other side so I went to get food."
"Oh," Luffy was about to let go when he remembered something, "Wait, you have to tell me stories and give me meat stick for all the times I went hungry without you."
Kuro laughed and sweat dropped, "Alright alright."
Kuro pulled out a bunch of meat sticks and Luffy started eating.
The two sat down together.
"What kind of stories would you like to hear Cap?"
Luffy seemed to think to himself, "Tell me the coolest thing you did as a bounty hunter."
Kuro seemed to think to himself and suddenly had a story.
"Have you ever heard about the tragedy of Robin Hood?"
"Robin Hood?" Luffy tilted.
Kuro smiled, "She's someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor."
"That's so cool," Luffy beamed.
Kuro nodded with a smile, "Yes, it's not a story the marines would tell you."
"Tell me tell me," Luffy smiled and tore through the meat.
Kuro seemed to reminiscence, "You see, a buddy of mine by the name of Trust Me Bro once asked me to hunt down a kid with a bounty of seventy-nine million berri. I scoured the seas for many years and never managed to find her. She hid so well she might as well not even be real. Anyway, I kept digging and digging till I uncovered her story. You see, the island she was from was hoarding knowledge about delicious food, robots, ships, sky island, mermaids, and all sorts of knowledge you can think of... A knowledge that was very forbidden was being studied by the island. When the world government found out, a buster call was ordered and all the people on the island died except for her. If I had to describe her, she's a very tough lady with a very tough will. One day I met her and that was one of the coolest days ever. Although I did scare her and that makes me a little sad."
Looking at Luffy, Kuro could see that he was thinking about many things.
The meat stick wasn't being bitten so Luffy must be in some serious thought.
Far away, Kuina looked at Zoro, "Cap?"
"Cap," Zoro replied.
The two had been together with Kuro most of their life and there was definitely no hunting for Robin Hood or Trust Me Bro.
