Hello everyone! Here is the next chapter!

I had a lot of issues making this for some reason, but here it is! I hope it is okay and that you will enjoy it

This might not be the most interesting as I had hoped for it to be, but it is something

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Marco could only hear ringing in his ears, staring at where Ace had been, just blood, flesh, and organs left, spread across the floor and walls, Sakka and Tsukuru laughing. Sakka then looked at him. "You see, little Acey was right! Imagine that. Cho Yosei isn't as dangerous as you think Marcus. Yes, I know who you are. We just… amplified her, so you would think she is. Yes, she is very dangerous, but mostly to us. My powers," Sakka held her hand up. "You see, she can take other powers for a period, and I can't have that, you do see that, right? We need to keep her contained, and her blood, oh, her delicious blood, made us stronger. You can't get her. And she is still bloodthirsty as she was, if you take her out, you die. Just like little Acey."

Marco didn't know what to do, and felt like just screaming, which he almost did, when a hand grabbed him by his arm and dragged him to the side, and Marco turned his head and blinked as his eyes landed upon Ace, who yelled "Run!" Marco was already somewhat running as Ace dragged him, but now did and he spoke. "How, yoi!" Ace shook his head a bit. "Later!" Good enough for now, and he heard Sakka and Tsukuru yell after them, but they were soon around a corner and ran, before they found a large door, and it had a thing beside it, like a small box, and Ace opened the box, where a weird Den Den was. It had a small body and just one eye, and was red. Ace then moved a hand to his pocket and took out an eyeball and showed it to the Den Den, who seemed to scan it, before the door opened, and they walked inside and the door closed.

Marco looked around, this must be the surveillance room. It had many screens with images from the place, and it was a lot. They had really expanded a lot. He could see the occasional guard, but he could also see a screen that displayed a bunch of what looked like dead bodies. Ace then looked at the screens, before he saw the rest of his family and the assassins on a screen, and Ace moved to type something and some doors opened around them, before Ace pressed a button. "Walk to your left, then head into the large room." He could see the ones on screen nod, before they walked that way Ace had said, and Ace grabbed his arm and headed out of the room and down the hallway, before they found the others, who seemed glad to see him and Ace, and just as they were about to have a reunion, a group of people came, it looked to be 3 guards, being on the alert. This was bad. Everyone got ready, but they couldn't cause a ruckus right now, so Marco took a step forward, moved his hand a bit. He hadn't done this in many years, but he hoped it would work. As he moved his hand, Marco said "Head the other way, nothing to see here." With a stern voice.

The guards blinked, before they looked at each other, the one in the middle speaking. "Nothing here, head to sector 3." And the one to the left repeated this on a Den Den, before they left, heading on. As they did Ace looked at him. "Excuse me, how did you do that?" Marco looked at Ace. "I will tell you how after you explain how you are alive after I saw you explode, yoi." Ace hummed. "After this, we will have a long chat and explain things to each other. Now, we need to head this way." And they headed the way the guards came from. Trevor moved a hand up. "Wait! Woah! What do you mean Ace exploded?!" Ace hummed. "Will explain later, now, we need to move." They all nodded and did.

After walking for a small bit, not talking much, they got to a door that had some markings on it, it was locked from this side, and Ace moved a hand to open it, when Marco moved a hand to stop Ace's, Ace spoke. "Marco, if you ever have had one sliver of trust in me, use it now. Trust me." Marco felt conflicted, but nodded and moved his hand away from Ace's who then opened the door. The door that contained Chi Yosei. When the door was opened, Marco stood ready, but the room seemed empty, which was odd. Ace then went in and grabbed something, before he headed to the exit and Marco spoke. "Where is she?" Ace hummed. "In another room, already released her." Marco blinked, feeling shocked. "You… have?" Ace nodded. "Yes, she is over here." And led them to another room that was close by, opening it, to show Chi Yosei.

She looked exactly as she had all those years ago. Fair skin, long white hair, but her eyes were silver, they had been red last time. She looked shocked to see all of them, and Ace took a step forward. "It is okay, they're with me." Chi Yosei then looked at him. "I… remember you." Marco didn't know what to say, and Ace spoke. "He didn't know. He knows more now, but he didn't know." Chi Yosei nodded, and Ace looked at them. "This is Yuki(Means snow), her real name." That name made sense, she looked like snow with her fair skin, white hair, and silver eyes. But Marco felt confused. Why had she said her name was Chi Yosei then?

They all walked more into the room, seeing that Ch- Yuki wasn't dangerous. But as they did, he saw Yuki's eyes changing, growing more red and her breath coming more out in puffs, just like he remembered. He was about to yell for them to get out, when Ace walked over to Yuki. "No. Remember, in- and out, in- and out." Ace moved his hand a bit up and down as he spoke, breathing calmly. Yuki nodded and did the same, before she opened her eyes, the red tint now gone and the silver eyes back. Ace smiled at her. "See, you can do this." Yuki took a breath. "I… this isn't wise, Ace. I am dangerous." Ace shook his head. "No, you think you are, but you aren't. Just breathe. You can do this. I believe in you." Yuki blinked, taking a deep breath as she closed her eyes, before she looked at Ace and nodded. Ace nodded back. "Good." Ace then handed what he had grabbed in the room earlier to her, seeming to be a small book and a pen, and Yuki took it and put it away in a pocket.

Ace then looked at them. "This will be… hard. But we need to deal with Sakka and Tsukuru." Marco blinked. "How? Tsukuru is…" Yuki nodded. "There is a way. But it will be tough." Ace nodded. "But we need to, not only for your sake, but everyone's." Trevor spoke. "What is going on?" Ace looked at them. "Sakka and Tsukuru are the reason Yuki is blood thirsty. Or, not them exactly, but their ancestors who had their powers. If we deal with them properly, Yuki will be cured." Everyone nodded, Moira speaking. "Do you have a plan?" Yuki looked at Ace, who nodded. "Maybe. But we need to do it perfectly." Trevor nodded. "We will do our best, what's the plan?" Ace nodded and started to speak.

-x-

Whitebeard stood with his group, as they had divided into 3 groups, one had him, Trevor, and most of his commanders. The other had Ace, Yuki- as Ace could calm her it seemed like- Mika, and the remiding commanders. Then there was the last group, which was Marco, Daisuke, Moira, Hanzo, and they had been given a layout of the place by Ace, who had grabbed a map he had found. So they knew where to go and where Sakka and Tsukuru most likely were, and they would head around and try to make this plan work. His group would head to the surveillance room, and Ace had given an eyeball to Trevor, to get into the room. How Ace had gotten the eyeball, he didn't want to think off.

When they got there, they had a Den Den to each of the other groups, and they would lead them and warn them about things ahead. He then saw the other two groups were already moving, when he saw a group of guard heading towards Marco's group, so he had Trevor warn them, and when they met the group, Marco did that thing again, moving his hand and making them turn around, he needed to ask what this was, how Marco managed to do this. It was amazing.

Then he saw Sakka and Tsukuru heading towards Ace's group, so Trevor told them about it, and Ace said good, and they headed the other way, looking to make sure to make some noise so Sakka and Tsukuru would follow. Which seemed to work, Sakka and Tsukuru heading after them. Trevor then warned Marco and his group, and he really hoped this would work. If not, he would soon watch his children get killed.

-x-

Marco hoped this would work, and they soon met Ace and his group as they just scouted a bit and to calm Yuki and have Tsukuru and Sakka follow them. Yuki did have a moment when they met that Ace needed to calm her again, which seemed to work. Ace was so amazing. Then they heard footsteps, and Ace looked at them, which had them nod, before Ace looked at Yuki, who took a breath, before she held her hand out to Ace, who moved his hand to hers, and Yuki looked unsure, and Ace smiled at her. "It's okay, I trust you." Yuki nodded and moved her other hand so both of her hands held Ace's. Yuki then closed her eyes, taking a deep breath, seeming to concentrate, and there came a slight hue around Ace, before beside Yuki, stood another Ace, but he now saw that this Ace had silver eyes and not black. That was probably how Ace had exploded earlier, it wasn't really Ace. That made sense.

Ace then looked at the fake Ace. "You need to get Tsukuru to chase you." The fake Ace nodded. "Where?" The voice was exactly like Ace's, and Ace said which way to head and the fake Ace did. And they went after, but stayed a bit behind. Ace also stayed more behind, so he wasn't visible at first glance. He also gave ear plugs to Yuki, so when they met Tsukuru and Sakka, they couldn't control her, as she was told by Sakka to listen to their words. When they did inevitably find Sakka and Tsukuru, the fake Ace stood ready, before he ran off in another direction, and Sakka spoke. "Tsukuru! Take him down!" Tsukuru nodded and ran after, and Sakka looked at them. "I can handle you."

Sakka then grinned, before she spoke. "Chi! Kill them!" Yuki didn't move, as she had the ear plugs in, and Sakka seemed to get something like that and growled. They knew that if Sakka touched any of them, it was over, so they needed to play this carefully. They got ready, and those who had guns took them out, but Sakka didn't seem to be any scared of it, and when one was fired, Sakka avoided it perfectly, before she charged at them. They had, if they could, covered most of their bodies with clothes, as Sakka needed to touch skin. She almost managed to touch Izou, but thankfully missed when Ace came and kicked her away. Sakka was also very agile, seeming to even be more agile than Ace, doing summersaults, jumping off walls, and being light on her feet. It was after a bit, when Marco managed to kick her in the back, and she faltered a bit, that they got an opening.

Yuki ran, silently, from behind her, sliding a bit on the ground on her stomach, before she reached Sakka and Yuki touched her ankle, where she lifted up the pant leg, closing her eyes, and when Sakka got she was there and moved to touch her arm, Sakka almost yelled. "Kill them!" Nothing happened, which had Sakka's eyes widened. "No… No! NO!" Sakka took a step backwards, and Yuki moved to touch her cheek. "Sleep." Sha said, her eyes shining a bit, and Sakka did, falling asleep. But as she did, Marco felt frozen as memories came back to him. Memories he didn't know he had forgotten. How when he was gathering the group to help contain Yuki, what was Sakka's ancestor, had made Yuki keep quiet, placed the seal on him and told him to forget this, as well as many more memories. It was so overwhelming Marco needed to move a hand to the wall to keep upright, and Yuki moved to sit on the floor, looking overwhelmed.

Thatch then moved a hand to his back. "Hey, you good?" Marco tried to speak, he really did, but he didn't manage, which had Thatch and the others worried, when Ace spoke. "Give him a minute. Now that Sakka's powers are gone, he is most likely getting a lot of memories back, that is overwhelming." How did Ace know this? He looked over at Ace, who was looking at Yuki, giving her some words of comfort. Ace was so amazing. Marco then closed his eyes and just let the memories come, before it passed a couple minutes later. When it did, he looked at Yuki, who he now remembered her name was Yuki, she had said it, but all he believed was a lie, something Sakka's ancestor, who he now remembered her name was Washa(means teller, as in story teller) He had been played by her all these years. It had all been lies.

They then moved Sakka to the room Yuki had been in, the one which was to contain her, but would not contain Sakka, and eventually, it would have Tsukuru as well, if all went well. Then as Sakka was contained, they got an update from the ones in the surveillance room on where Tsaukuru was, and headed that way, and Tsukuru was still chasing the fake Ace, which was good.

They then walked and made it so Tsukuru would head into them, and they soon heard running and saw the fake Ace running, and he stopped, looking at them. Ace spoke. "You did well, your job is done." The fake Ace nodded, before he closed his eyes and disappeared. Ace then went to where the wall went to the left and did his best to stand close to the wall, so when Tsukuru came, he hopefully wouldn't see him right away, as he was right by where the wall ended. He then looked at Yuki, who came over to him and stood close to the wall as well. Then they heard footsteps running, before Tsukuru's voice. "Oh Acey! Where are you?!" Ace then moved and made some motions with his hands, most likely sign language, which had the assassins nod, and stand ready, so they did the same. Then Tsukuru came, grinning at them and walked just past Ace and Yuki. "Oh! Looky here! More prey." Tsukuru then lifted his hand, when Yuki moved, but Tsukuru saw it and moved away as he growled. "You can't take my powers!"

Then as Tsukuru lifted his hand to snap his fingers, Ace threw something at him, which created a cloud of smoke, most likely a smoke bomb. When it went away, Tsukuru looked disoriented. And Ace moved fast, getting a sword out from its sheath, and Ace moved and cut off Tsukuru's right arm, making him tell out in pain, moving his arm the the shoulder as he moved to one knee, before he got up and looked at them, moving his hand at the ready to snap his fingers, looking at them angrily, almost snarling as his teeth were showing. This was it Marco felt, they were screwed. And then Tsukuru snapped his fingers, and Marco didn't know who would explode, or if they all would. But after a few seconds, nothing had happened, and Tsukuru looked mad and shocked, before he snapped his fingers again, harder. But once again, nothing happened. Ace then chuckled. "Skin contact." Tsukuru, and them, looked at Ace, who held Tsukuru's capitation arm, and Yuki also held the around it, and Marco got it. It counted as skin contact.

Tsukuru yelled and tried to run at Ace and Yuki, but when he was close, Yuki moved her hand to stop Tsukuru, holding around his throat, stopping him in his tracks as she was still very strong, before she said "sleep", her eyes shining a bit as she did, and Tsukuru fell asleep, falling to the group hard. Ace then moved and grabbed a piece of Tsukuru's white jacket, tearing it, before he tied it around Tsukuru's right arm, just above where it was cut off, before he looked up. "We can't have him die." That had them moving, and they managed to stabilize him. Moira also did her best, as she was the doctor for the Red Cloud. When he was stable, they moved him to the room Yuki had been in, Sakka was still there and still unconscious as well.

When they closed the door, a group of guards came, and Marco got ready to try and divert them with his powers, when one spoke, looking a bit lost. "What day is this?" Marco blinked. What? Ace moved forward. "Probably been a while since Sakka got you. Why don't we head to a place I can explain?" The guard nodded, before one man saw Yuki. "Hey, should you be out?" Yuki looked a bit uncomfortable, but Ace spoke. "She should. The ones you are supposed to guard are now behind this door. I will explain. One needs a doctor to check on him now and then." The guard nodded, and they went to the surveillance room, and Ace explained it all, and Marco listened.

Ace then took it from the top. How long ago, the ones who had Sakka's powers then, found Yuki, and that her powers were amazing. She could steal powers and amplify powers, and was very strong, and that person didn't like that and 'cursed' her, by touching her and saying something along the lines of 'you will now be blood thirsty every time there is a heartbeat, with the powers of a mighty warrior, you will kill'. Yuki also confirmed this. Then the person told Yuki her name would now be Chi Yosei, as she would be a blood fairy, killing all and she was tiny. And so it started. The only one Yuki couldn't kill, was the person who held the powers, as it was said to not harm that person. The one who had Tsukuru's powers had also shown up a bit later, and so they joined forces. And many who died, died by their hands as well, to keep it up.

Things had then gone their way, the person with the powers had had a child, telling them about their powers and teaching them how to use Yuki for her blood, as her blood would make them stronger. And when it came time for the ones with the powers to die, their child would take over, having a fruit ready to contain the Devil Fruit, and then eat it themselves. And that was how it had been for a while. Then Marco showed up and took Yuki, making the ones who had Tsukuru and Sakka's powers mad, before they went in search for Marco and Yuki again.

When they had found them, the one who had Sakka's power had quickly touched Yuki and told her to keep quiet about them to Marco, and then they joined to help keep Yuki 'contained'. It was all lies. Then Sakka's ancestor had touched Marco and made the seal, as well as erasing some of his memories and making him believe lies and fake memories, which was what Marco had gotten back when Sakka lost her powers. When Marco left this place all those years ago, Sakka and Tsukuru's ancestors took over, and with each time their powers were transferred, they lived longer and longer as they used Yuki's blood, needing it to keep being as strong as they were.

But each week, Yuki got one hour to shower, and had managed to send a message that someone had eventually found it and it got back to Ace. A very small note she had put in the drain, and a Raven found it, bringing it to Dust, and then to Ace. And so it had started. The note was made of her own skin, as she healed fast, almost at a regenerative speed, which was thanks to Marco. Yuki had taken a small amount of his powers. It had taken many decades, centuries, but now Yuki was free.

When Ace was done, the guards looked stunned, but looked to believe it. So with some words, they left them to figure things out and to contain Sakka and Tsukuru. When they died, to have a fruit ready, and when they had the powers of the fruit, to call Ace or Moira, and they would handle it. It sounded like a good plan. Ace did say it could take a long while, many years. And if any of the guards didn't want to, it was also fine. The guards had looked at each other, before they all said they would do this, to help do something right, after all the wrong stuff they had done. It was very good. Ace then said how to contact him or Moira, giving a couple feathers from Dust to burn, as well as the Den Den number to the Moby and The Red Cloud, before they left, heading out of the place.

They then got back to the boat, which was a mostly silent affair, when they got to the boat, Yuki took a breath as they were by the sea. "I have missed the smell of the sea." They looked at Yuki, and they got it, she had been trapped for so long. Marco decided to ask what was on his mind. "What will you do now, yoi?" Yuki hummed. "I think I will head to Jinn. I think my purpose lies with her." Marco nodded. "Sounds like a plan. I am… sorry, about everything." Yuki smiled at him. "So am I." Marco smiled. "Want to hitch a ride to Jinn, yoi?" Yuki blinked. "I… can?" Marco nodded. "It is the least we- I can do, after everything." Yuki blinked, before she smiled, and moved to hug Marco. "Thank you. I know you just went by what you believed was right, from what they made you believe was right." Marco nodded and hugged back. "I still feel bad for it, yoi. But I am glad you're okay." Yuki nodded and let go of him. "I am as well. I am… free." Yuki looked at Ace. "Thank you." Ace shook his head. "No, it is nothing. You deserve to be free." Yuki smiled.

Thatch then looked at Marco. "Also, what the fuck was the-" Thatch moved his hand as Marco had done to make people back away. "Like what? How did you do that? And teach me!" Marco hummed. "It was something I was taught many many years ago." Moira hummed. "May I ask how many years ago?" Marco seemed to try and think. "Many. It was my aunt who taught it to me, yoi. And Jinn said I was 2287 years old, so around 2250-2260 years ago I think. Many on my island knew it, it works on those who were called 'weaker' minded, yoi." Moira was only 1220 years old, if he remembered, so she wouldn't know this.

Thatch blinked. "Can… can you teach me?" Marco thought for a second. "I am not sure how to teach it, yoi. We never got to the stage on how to teach before she died." Thatch blinked. "Oh… I am sorry. But that is so cool!" Moira looked at Marco. "Can you do anything else?" Marco hummed. "I am not sure, it has been many years since I have done this. Was unsure if that would even work, but I am glad it did, yoi." Moira nodded. "Very interesting. You are a man of many talents." Ace chuckled. "Why do you think I chose him? Although, this was something new, yes." Ace then looked at Marco. "You should practice more things from when you were young, and get back your ancient powers." Marco blinked. "Ancient powers, yoi?" Ace hummed. "Well, it is over 2000 years old powers. I would label that, and you, as ancient. And one day, we will be ancient together."

Marco smiled. "I like the sound of that, yoi." Moira hummed. "Idea. Why don't you and Maarco train together? Been a while since you've trained now Ace." Ace groaned. "Oh come on! I can't do it!" Moira lifted an eyebrow. "You can't, since you don't train." Ace huffed. "I don't like it." Marco hummed. "I like this idea, yoi. Why don't we try." Ace looked at Marco. "You're an ass, you know that? I don't want to!" Marco hummed. "I know. But at least try, okay? Let's say, half a year? If it doesn't work, or you don't get better, we stop, yoi?" Ace sighed. "Fine! But I will hate it! At least until I maybe manage." Marco just chuckled.

Moira then looked at Yuki. "Should you need it, I am here if you need help, as well as all of us. But we should leave now. The Red Cloud has been left alone for way too long without me." Ace nodded. "Yeah, you should go, you took all the good leaders as well." Hanzo moved a hand to his chest. "Aww! I'm a good leader?" Ace hummed. "You're decent, better than the ones now, now don't make me regret saying it." Hanzo chuckled. "I won't." Hanzo looked at Yuki. "Hope you find your purpose with Jinn." Yuki nodded. "I do too." Then the assassins, save for Ace, Trevor, and Mika, left, heading to the Red Cloud for now, needing to settle some things there and there was most likely a lot of work that had piled up as so many had left.

As they were gone, Marco looked at Yuki. "We can head towards Jinn now, but it will take about a couple weeks, if that is okay for you. If not, Ace can take you." Yuki smiled. "I would love to take the calm route and stay here, if that is okay." Marco looked over at Pops, who nodded, saying it was fine, and Marco looked back at Yuki. "You will always be welcomed here." Yuki smiled. "Thank you." And then she looked at Ace. "And thank you." Ace smiled. "No, you deserve to be free, free from them." Yuki smiled, and hugged Ace, who did hug back. When they parted, Ace smiled at Yuki. "Now, why don't we find you a room to stay in, and you can relax some?" Yuki nodded. "Yeah, I would like that a lot." Ace smiled. "I figured." Marco was just glad it had all gone fine, no one had died, and Yuki was now free. He didn't expect it would go like this. But he was glad it did.

And that's the chapter, hope you enjoyed!

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