Later...
Kaya sat in her bed coughing as she heard a knock on the door, everyone had left her home. Clahador rolled in a tray as he called out, "Mistress Kaya, your food."
"No. I... I do not want it... because it's not delicious."
"Don't say that, the chefs will be sad. They are trying very hard to come up with food which will makes you healthy." said the butler, with a bandage or two on his face. Kaya just remained silent.
Then she spoke words which shocked the butler, "Why did you say that? I understand that it's my fault, that I did not tell you about Usopp-san. However, you should not have said something like that to him."
"Can I sit here? " he asked as he pointed to the bed, to which she agreed.
"It's been three years since I arrived at this house. I've never forgotten that day. I used to work on a ship, but they fired me because I did not complete my work. I walked and walked until I arrived at this village. At that time, I did not have a job, I did not have the money, and I almost died of hunger. Your father helped me out of my poverty. To me, your father is the one who saved my life. And you are the daughter of the man who saved my life. I know that it's not good to get involved with your personal life too much. However, Usopp is not a good person. If something happened to you, I could not face your father in heaven! " he said as he finished out his story with tears of sadness.
"I know that I was too hard on him. Are you angry at me? " asked the butler as he seemed to calm down.
"It's not like that. I am very grateful for you are caring, but you misunderstand Usopp. He is not a bad person at all." she told him as she started to smile again.
"It doesn't matter if he is good or bad." said the butler as he stood up and pushed his glasses up again.
"Clahador, you are a really narrow-minded person."
"Yes, I am."
In the village...
Zoro and two of the Usopp pirates were sitting against a fence, one which Nami was sitting on. Nami was asking Zoro a question, "Where's Luffy? "
"Maybe he went to look for Usopp." replied the triple sword fighter.
"If you are looking for the captain, you have to go to that place? " said Ninjin the carrot headed boy, which prompted his pepper-like friend.
"Yes, at the coast. Whenever he becomes stressful, he always goes there."
The two of them asked them, "Do you want to go? "
"No," was Zoro's reply.
"By the way, where's your other friend? " asked Nami as the reply came back asking about Tamanegi.
"He's always disappearing." said Piman as he tried to answer the question.
"And he comes back over reacting about something." finished Ninjin for his friend.
"Ahhhhh! Danger! " cried out the voice of Tamanegi as he ran up to the four people by the fence. He continued, "We are in trouble now. There is a person who walks backwards. There is a weird guy who is walking backwards towards here."
"Liar! " called out his two friends which were countered with the words about it being true, before Tamanegi pointed the man out. Who was walking all the way, backwards. The man twirled in a circle and revealed himself as a man in a white shirt, black coat and pants, white gloves with matching belt and socks and black shoes. On his chin was a striped like beard of red and black, grayish like hair hung from his face which was masked with red tinted heart-shaped glasses. This hands were on his belly and his black hat as he tapped on one foot.
He turned to them and asked, "Hey! Who told you that I am weird? I am not a weirdo."
"But you looked really strange." said Nami as she looked at the man in question.
"Don't be stupid. I am just a regular hypnotist."
"Hypnotist? That is cool! " "Why do not you show us your trick? " "Yeah! " called out the tiny pirates.
"What? " asked the unusual man.
"Don't be stupid. Why do I have to listen to someone that I do not know? You should not show your trick the first time you meet someone. Listen! Look at this ring! " he said pulling out a round circle of steel with what looked like a fine edge on it.
"Why did not he just say that in the first place? " asked Zoro as he started to sweat.
Swinging the circle back and forth before the boys, the man spoke, "When I say 'One, Two, Jango', you will be sleepy. Understand? One... Two... Jango..."
With that four people hit the ground, three boys and one strange man. Which caused Zoro to call out to the people before them, "Why the hells are you sleeping too?!? "
Under a young tree by the sea shore...
Usopp was sitting under a tree as he was trying to think, when a straw hat boy dropped down in front of him upside-down. The young man said, "Hey! You are here."
"Ahhhh. It's you? Next time do not scare me like that again." shouted Usopp in a loud, and scared voice.
"Yasopp is your father, right? " said Luffy as he landed on his hands and stood on them.
"Eh? How did you know? " said the shock long nose boy as the straw hat sat in front of him on the ground.
"I met him when I was younger."
"WHAT? YOU MET MY FATHER? " said the 'Captain' as the shock of the matter hit him hard like a club to the skull.
"Yes. You look a lot likes Yasopp. That is why I thought that I had met you before. You are story helped me to remember."
"Where is he now? " asked Usopp, suddenly filled with joy over the news of his father.
"I do not know, not exactly. He has to be with Shanks for sure. Yasopp is my favorite crewman."
"Re... Really? "
He is with Shanks the Red-haired, right? " said Usopp as a second of quiet passed before speaking in a yelling tone, "Did you say Shanks? "
Luffy was surprised as he looked at the other young man and asked, "You know Shanks? "
(Posted Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:50)
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