Seeing that Kuro was all fine, Luffy smiled and started dancing with him.
The others saw the scene and became relieved, they really thought Kuro was going to die.
Kuro looked at Nami, "Nami do we have bounties yet?"
"Bounties?" everyone perked.
Kuro grinned, "Yeah, you know, the thing you receive after becoming pirates."
"We're going to receive bounties!?" Usopp stammered.
Sanji blew a smoke, "Well obviously, we are pirates."
Kuro looked at the sky and saw a news coo, "Looks like it's arrived.
The news coo landed by Nami and Nami paid for it.
She gulped as she took out the bounty poster.
A scared and shocked face was all everyone could see.
Luffy launched towards her, "I want to see."
Nami's hand loosen and the bounty poster fell to the ground.
Everyone checked the bounty poster.
Killer Kuina had a bounty of seventy million berri.
Demon Zoro had a bounty of sixty million berri.
Crackhead Kuro had a bounty of ninety million berri.
Strawhat Luffy had a bounty of one hundred million berri.
Zoro was happy with his bounty but was a little dissatisfied that Kuina's was higher than his.
Kuina felt her bounty was a little bit too low but she didn't care too much.
Everyone thought Kuro's bounty was not too high and not too low.
As for Luffy's bounty, the crew couldn't understand.
"Why is Luffy's bounty so high?" questioned Kuina.
Kuro added up the bounties, "It's because navy headquarters deem our pirate crew to represent a threat of three hundred twenty million berri."
"Oh," Usopp fisted his palm.
Luffy smiled and jumped around.
Sanji tried his best to recover Nami from her shock.
Kuina and Zoro thought thoughtfully.
"You know what this calls for Cap?" Kuro smiled.
"What?" questioned Luffy.
Kuro yelled, "A celebration, party on the Merry, let's goooooo!"
"Yeah!!!" Luffy screamed.
Sanji made a ton of food and the strawhats proceeded to party till they dropped.
Arriving in Lougetown, the strawhats split off to do their own things.
Sanji bought an elephant tuna fish.
Nami bought new clothes and necessary supplies.
Usopp bought crafting materials.
Zoro got two new swords for free.
Kuina decided to get a tatoo and eyepatch.
Luffy headed toward the execution platform.
Kuro was on the street playing the harmonica begging for berri.
Looking up at the sky and seeing it get very stormy, Kuro could feel that Dragon was here.
With a steady pace, Kuro walked back towards Merry with a hat full of berri.
Around him, he could see marines pass by.
Reaching Merry, he could see he was the first one to come back.
Getting Merry readied for sailing, Kuro waited for the crew to come back.
As the rain started to fall, Kuro pull out an umbrella.
Nami and Kuina came back to the ship first and jumped on.
"Kuro get ready to.." Nami stopped seeing that he had prepared to sail long ago.
The three waited and Sanji and Usopp soon reached the ship.
Only Zoro and Luffy were left.
The storm quickly grew stronger.
"I really hope Zoro doesn't get lost," Kuina muttered.
Kuro laughed, "Highly unlikely but I think lady luck is on our side."
Right as he said that, Zoro and Luffy showed up.
They jumped onto the ship.
"Sail away now!" Nami yelled.
Merry started sailing and the Marines arrived at the dock.
Smoker and Tashigi passed through the crowd and looked at the departing ship.
Kuro blew a raspberry at they and Luffy proceeded to make silly faces at them.
Kuro yelled at them, "Ladies and gentlemen, today you will always remember as the day you almost caught us strawhats, farewell suckers, khakhakhakhakha."
A tick formed on the Marines along with Smoker.
"Ready a ship, I'm chasing after them," Smoker grunted.
Nami looked at the map and it wasn't making a damn sense, "Kuro, the map says we have to go up a mountain, any idea why?"
Kuro stopped feeding Luffy for a moment, "That's the reverse mountain where Merry will have to sail up."
"Oh," Nami nodded.
Nami knocked him on the head with shark teeth, "That doesn't make a damn sense at all."
Kuro rubbed his head and pointed at the mountain, "Look, the water is going up."
"Wow," Luffy beamed.
Kuro took in the sight with a smile, "Make sure Merry doesn't crash into the rocks Cap."
Everyone became awed as Merry climbed up the mountain and Luffy protected her.
Reaching the top of the mountain where it was cloudy, they started sailing down.
Luffy looked at what seemed to be an island in front of them, "What's that?"
Everyone took in the sight and started panicking as they realized they would crash into it.
Kuro admired the sight, "That's an island whale Cap, try punching it so it opens it's mouth."
"Ok," Luffy prepared to swing a punch.
"Stop, I don't want to be eaten," Nami cried.
"Me too," Usopp exclamined with fear.
"I'll protect you Nami-Swan," Sanji exclaimed with heart eyes.
Kuina and Zoro prepared to brace for impact.
Nami tried to held Luffy back but he managed to send a punch towards the whale.
The whale opened it's mouth with pain and swallowed the strawhats.
The strawhats screamed with terror and panic.
Arriving inside the whales stomach, they met Crocus who proceeded to swim through stomach acid like a champ.
Two sneaky sneaker tried to kill the whale but Kuina managed to stop them, ain't no way they were going to die inside a dead whale.
Crocus led them out of the whale and proceeded to them it's story.
Kuro squatted in front of Vivi and stared at her strangely.
"What are you looking at?" She stammered.
Kuro smelled her and Nami knocked him on the head, "What are you doing!?"
Kuro rubbed his head sheepishly, "She smelled strange so I wanted to take a closer smell."
"Strange?" Nami, Usopp, Vivi, and Mr.9 exclaimed.
Kuro nodded sagely, "Yeah," his eyes narrowed, "I smell the blood of royalty."
"Royalty?" Nami, Usopp, and Mr.9 exclaimed while Vivi seemed to panic.
"Are you saying she's royalty?" Usopp stared.
They looked at her and could see her sweating.
"I mean, I guess," Nami sighed, "what about it?"
Kuro shrugged, "You're the money keeper, thought you might wanted to keep her hostage and exchange her for money or something."
Nami smacked Kuro on the head, "I'm not that low!"
Kuro laughed and turned to watch Luffy fight Laboon.
Leaving Laboon with a promise to come back, the Strawhats set sail.
Kuro started singing.
"Somebody once told me
The marines was gonna catch me
I ain't the sharpest Strawhat on the Merry
Captain Luffy was lookin kinda crazy
And I was into crazy
I arm wrestled him and became a pirate
Well, the days start coming
And they don't stop coming
Fed up with bounty hunting I became a pirate
Didn't make sense not to live chasing my dream
My life's gonna get hard but imma have fun
So much to do, so much to see
So what's wrong with taking to the sea?
You'll never know if you don't go sailing
You'll never shine if you don't go wanted
Hey now, you're a pirate
Set the ship sail, go adventuring
Hey now, you're a wanted criminal
Get the cannons ready, get rich
And all that booty is gold
Only shooting yourself isn't cool
It's a salty place and they say it gets saltier
You're infamous now, wait 'til you get arrested
But the pirate scums beg to differ
Judging by our wanted poster
The sea we sail is getting stormy
We're wanted for life so might as well do what we want
My world's is fire, how about yours?
That's the way I love it and I'll never get bored..."
Everyone listened blankly to Kuro sing except Luffy who was jumping around with a crazy smile like a maniac.
Kuro finished his plagiarized song and Luffy got up in his face.
"Before you ask Cap, I am not a musician, I am a singer, a musician plays instruments but I can't play instruments."
Luffy smiled, "Yay, we got a singer!"
Kuina smiled, "Well that was quite a unique song."
Zoro nodded, he felt it fits kinda well.
Nami and Usopp tried to process the song as it went on repeat in their head.
Sanji wondered if Kuro had more songs.
Arriving at whiskey peak.
They were welcomed by a bunch of people.
"Let's party hard!" Kuro yelled.
Immediately, the strawhats started partying till they dropped.
Kuro wasn't much of a drinker so he became unconscious.
He heard loud sounds and felt was being carried.
Suddenly, Kuro heard a loud explosion and fell out of the hammock.
He could see he was inside the Merry.
Going out to the deck, Kuro could see everyone staring at him with surprise.
Looking up at the ship rail, he could see Nico Robin who had lost her smile at the sight of him.
But Kuro didn't care, cause he wanted to throw up.
Getting to the edge of Merry, everyone watched as he threw up.
Usopp whispered to Nami, "Uhm, are we supposed to do something."
Nami had a blank face and a blank smile, what was happening shouldn't be happening.
Nothing was making sense to Nami.
Their lives were currently in danger and everyone was just watching Kuro throw up as if it was natural.
After finishing throwing up, Kuro headed back to the sleeping quarter.
Everyone couldn't make sense of why he was doing what he was doing.
Robin stared at Kuro carefully, "Aren't you surprised I'm here?"
Kuro suddenly had a shocked face and touched his face, "Oh no, it's Robin Hood, here to steal from the rich and give to the poor, good thing I'm a poor pirate now, well goodnight everybody."
Kuro shut the door and everyone went back to having a face-off with Robin.
