Celebration and goodbyes

“Keep still!”, Zoro demanded.

Right now you were doing the splits on top of two boulders, which in turn Zoro was balancing on his outstretched arms as he was in a lotus seat outside the city walls.

“This feels the wrong way around”, you objected, as your legs started to ache.

“I can't really claim I improved as a swordsman, if I can't replicate what I did against Mr. 1. I can't have it be a one off.”

“Exactly! In case you got lost in your head: I'm the one who has to train their raw strength, you have to meditate and refine your technique.

There was a sudden strained sound and my haki told me that Zoro's eyes snapped open.

“I hope you're not just relaxing up there”, came the voice from below after a few seconds, “You're supposed to keep up your dynamic tension. Let me worry about my meditation down here.”

You chuckled at the obvious excuse, but it wasn't like he was wrong. It wouldn't hurt you to train the endurance of your leg muscles in other ways than running.

---

All in all live in Alabasta was pretty carefree for all its guests.All its guests?

No! A small outpost of unfaltering marines won't stop resisting the local good mood.

“Master Chief Petty Officer Tashigi, why are you digging a trench?”

In front of a by now thoroughly annoyed Captain Smoker Tashigi had been pacing up and down without acknowledging him. From what he could tell, she was doing so since the end of the civil war.

“Ah, I'm sorry Captain! I didn't notice your arrival!” For about two seconds her legs struggled with the decision to either continue pacing or stand and turn to face smoker.

“It's probably best if you retake command now.”

“Why don't you first debrief me in detail. I take it, it's somehow related to what you've been doing.”

“Ah … yes …”

“... ”

“Sorry, so when you relinquished command, I focused our efforts on evacuating civilians and arresting stragglers, especially because as you know the king never asked for military aid of any kind.

During the fighting me and a squad of men unexpectedly encountered the king, escorted by a woman, who he referred to as 'Nico Robin'. To us he claimed, that she was his bodyguard, escorting him to the catacombs for his safety.

When I called out the obvious lie, Nico Robin chuckled stating, that she was indeed taking him to the catacombs and that she would ensure, that he would not be harmed. Then she told us to get out of the way and threatened us.

When we attempted to arrest her, she revealed her devil fruit ability, which enabled her to summon a multitude of limbs. She easily subdued us. To our surprise however, despite to how she threatened us, she only held us down, while she chained all of our rifles together by the trigger guards with our own handcuffs.

She said 'You can thank the princess, but if you try to get in my way again, I won't go so easy on you' and let us go. While we were busy reclaiming our weapons and handcuffs, we saw something, that at first glance appeared to be a sand cloud flying towards the catacombs.

Checking with my binoculars I was able to recognize it to be Sir Crocodile, who appeared to be significantly injured. We could see a broken nose and he was holding his arm. His legs were turned to sand, so I could not see any injury, but it seemed like he was straining.”

Tashigi took a deep breath. Now it was time to tell what she had not mentioned in the report she had given via Den Den Mushi to HQ.

“A short time later we encountered Strawhat Luffy. Judging by his appearance he was the one, who had fought Sir Crocodile. His clothes were covered in sand and his skin was full of scrapes, like he's been attacked with … sandpaper.

I can not accurately explain, why I did, what I did next: instead of attempting to either arrest him, or in the very least try to convince him to leave the city so my work would be easier, I instead directed him towards the catacombs. I hoped that he would take out Sir Crocodile or at least weaken him enough, that I could **** his surrender.

It turned out I was right. I took the statements of the royal guards and the king. They claimed, that Nico Robin had been working with them to expose Crocodile and denied the presence of the Strawhat pirates in the royal palace. Both obvious lies, however I decided not to press them and made my report to HQ, which I believe you heard.”

With all that said, she sat down on the edge of the trench she had trudged into the sand.

“Very well. From what I can tell you not only acted to the best of your ability, but also achieved the best possible outcome: Crocodile and his co-conspirators are mostly in our custody, the number of civilian casualties is minimal, non of our men died. There are only two of Crocodile's top agents un-accounted for, one of which the king claims was actually working for the king, and the marines can't take credit for taking Crocodile out themselves. However I don't think HQ would take issue with that.

You only learned the identity of Crocodile's men after the civil war and neither of us could be expected to be able to arrest a Shichibukai.

What is it you're worried about?”

“In a sense it was HQ's orders I received as a response to my report.”

Smoker grit his teeth at the thought of these orders. They were tone-deaf to say the least:

“Prevent anybody from leaving the country, until all persons of interest were accounted for. The persons of interest are:

1. Nico Robin

2. the Strawhat Pirates

3. the remaining Baroque Works members

Prepare description or sketch for a member of Marine Photography Department of the following persons:

1. 'Demonchild' Nico Robin

2. 'Piratehunter' Roronoa Zoro

3. 'Bloodline' Sabishi Yuri

Attempt the arrest of any person of interest, should the opportunity arise.

DO NOT LET ANY PERSON OF INTEREST LEAVE ALABASTA!

Captain Hina's Black Cage Corps coming to reinforce and receive the prisoners.

Further orders and information to follow.”

A hopeless optimist would maybe think, that since HQ didn't want a photo of the Captain, they were not hunting for him.

And sure Smoker didn't want to accept the reality, of what HQ was about to do, but he wasn't that naive. The Strawhat's last picture was only a few weeks old. It was still recent enough.

The Gorosei wanted attention to be taken away from the treacherous Shichibukai they themselves instated and so in the coming paper there would be new bounties and the attempted coup would only be a side-note in the story of Luffy's rampage through Alabasta.

But until that paper came in, he did his best to not think exactly that.

Because Nico Robin had been made their number one person of interest Smoker had taken the liberty to try and find out what he could about her.

The earliest reports he could get his hands on had so much blackened, that he could just as well have burned the papers before reading them.

What he could read was the official reason for her ridiculous starting bounty of 79.000.000 Beri: At age 8 she had sunk six battleships. Allegedly. The only other person who had any remotely similar claims to fame was Charlotte Linlin's rampage in Elbaf at age five and he'd like to think, that Nico Robin was not in the same weight class as a Yonko.

Her current bounty photo had been taken when she was 16 and had not come with a raise in bounty, further reinforcing, how much of a farce the initial one was.

Whatever had happened when she was eight, the Government really had not wanted her to live so she could tell anybody about it.

“You think these orders are wrong.”

“N-No! I … Wrong is maybe not the right word …”

“I don't like them either. Sure the Strawhat is a pirate and has to be captured as such … but these orders imply a wrong sense of priorities, especially when considering what we know he had done so far.”

Tashigi nodded to herself. Even back in Logue Town the charge had technically not even been piracy but flying a black flag. Strawhat's victims were mostly way worse pirates and the odd highly corrupt marine officer after all.

And now they would receive a substantial increase in their bounties for the crime of saving a country from a crisis the World Government had enabled.

---

Fortunately Terracotta, Igaram's wife and the royal cook, could compete with Sanji in terms of speed and had about a days head start when Luffy woke up. Upon being being told, how long he had been out of it, he exclaimed how he had missed out on his five meals per day and started devour food at such a speed, that not even your sixth sense allowed you to determine just how he did it.

One moment the cart that had been brought in to serve as the meal for the entire crew plus Vivi, Cobra, Pell, Chaka and Igaram, was overladen with food, the next it looked like it was on its way to bring clean dishes to wherever they were stored.

After two more servings of the same size Luffy was sated to the degree, that he could be caught up on what had happened since his fight against Crocodile.

The plan had been for the dinner to be a relaxed affair, but between Luffy trying to eat anything within reach (reach meaning the entire room for the rubber-man), Zoro asking for booze at every opportunity, Usopp and you retaliating against Luffy stealing your food (he by spiking it with hot sauce and you by trying to stab him with your fork), and the generally inability of the crew to remain calm unless there was a serious threat to your lives, the dinner quickly turned into a rowdy party.

Then there was the altercation between Zoro, Chopper and you. When the swordsman reached over the table for a piece of meat Luffy hadn't noticed behind some vegetables the doctor noticed something: “Zoro, why can't I see your bandages?”

“Huh? Because I took them off. I couldn't move right while training. What's the matter to you?”

“What's the matter to me? I am your doctor! That's the matter to me! And I specifically told you to stop your training until you're fully recovered!”

Chopper looked, like he was about to strangle Zoro.

“To be fair: He was mostly doing meditative exercises, not like he was doing strength training or something stupid like that”, you tried to protect your trainer from your doctor.

To no avail, since no **** in the universe could prevent Zoro from causing himself injury: “Wait, you thought that breathing exercise I did with you was all the training I did? Of course I did some strength training! I need to get way stronger!”

You and Chopper facepalmed simultaneously.

You decided to wait, until Chopper was done, to get your jab at Zoro: “You do realize, that cutting is not a matter of strength, right? Or would you like to call Don Krieg the strongest swordsmen of the East-Blue? After all, I bet he has a sword somewhere and I bet when talking in terms of raw muscle he's stronger than you.”

“You trying to tell me something?!”, he got into your face.

“Yes. Hey Terracotta, can you bring us a few raw eggs?”

A few seconds later both of you had three uncooked eggs lined up in front of you.

“Now what?”

“Now let's eat some yolks. However I don't think we should waste the egg white, so I'll just send the rest of my eggs back”, saying that you took the steak knife and bisected the first egg lengthwise. It was a clean cut and the two halves just fell apart with its content safely contained like in tiny bowls. The yolk of the egg however was still intact so you could simply scoop it out of the half it was in with your soup spoon.

You turned to Zoro, who had understanding dawning in his face, and gave him an expectant look. He took his own knife and swung at one of his eggs. Egg white was splattered all over the table to the annoyance of Nami, who was sitting opposite to him.

“Your using strength instead of skill”, you spelled it out to him, while cutting your second egg, “Focus on not cutting the yolk and cutting the shell without cracking and the white without spilling just comes naturally.”

He grabbed the next egg, and again you could tell before he did so, that he would again just splatter it. So you quickly used your knife to stab his egg to his plate.

“Gently!”

This prompted him to throw his plate with the egg and the knife at you. You returned fire with a couscous like substance made from Sandora-riverbank-moss.

“Haha, moss on the moss-head!”, Sanji shouted out, forgiving of the food wastage.

Zoro leapt over the table to get at him, Chopper went after him to strangle him for taking off the bandages.

Soon Luffy, Chopper and Cobra were dancing on the table with chopsticks in their noses and the guards were laughing along with your antics.

After the dinner the bath was a welcome relaxation.

“Normally we only use this big bath after a large rainfall, but I think the occasion justifies it, don't you think”, Vivi said, while she was cleaning Nami's back.

“Definitely. To bad I won't be having a bath like this for some time. Can't really have a bath like this on a ship going through the Grand Line”, she answered as she was doing not just your back.

You for your part were just about melting under her ministrations and did your best not to start moaning: “You should really know better than to say stuff like that.”

“I agree”, said Vivi, who was doing her best to pretend that she didn't notice what Nami was doing, “As big as the Grand-Line is, who's to say, that there isn't something like a bath ship.”

“Yeah and since it most likely belongs to a Tenryubito, we can just take it!”, you laughed.

Vivi didn't find it as funny: “Don't joke about stuff like that! You can't just attack one of the World Nobles!”

“Vivi, you've been to the Reverie before, haven't you? Tell me honestly: How long do you think Luffy could remain within earshot of a World Noble before sending him on the shortest way possible back to Mari Joa?”

Vivi let out an exasperated sigh: “It's really only a matter of days, before you guys officially declare war to the World Government, isn't it?”

“You know it!”, Nami laughed.

And Vivi laughed along with you. For a moment the world was simple. You hadn't found the courage yet, to tell her, that you'd be leaving in one day. And you knew already, that this would mean goodbye for the princess. Sure Luffy, was willing to take her into the crew, but it was clear, that she would not leave both her home and her people behind.

You should be paying attention to Nami talking to Vivi about that, but something else was getting your attention: On the other side of the partition something was going on. Luffy and Usopp were uncharacteristically silent, but there was some shuffling directly at the wall. You focused your haki and were astonished.

“That's your daughter!”

“Dad, what the fuck?!”

Nami was much more relaxed about all of the men except for Zoro and Carue looking over the wall. With the towel wrapped around herself she faced them: “I see how it is …”, and with that she dropped the towel, “That's 100.000 from each one of you!”

Nefertari Vivi: 40/100

Nefertari Vivi: 48/100

“I'm suddenly very glad, that we have our own room and Carue likes to sleep in front of the door”, you said to yourself.

“As am I!”, the princess agreed and the way she was looking at Nami was even more unambiguous than what your Devil Fruit had just told you.

All three of you were still dressed in nothing but your towels, when you reached your room. As it was already late evening there was no light coming in through the windows and it was dark in the room.

And still you could Vivi's face getting red as she was struggling to express what she wanted.

So you took that burden off her. You dropped your towel and from the corner of your eye you could see Nami doing the same while you addressed the princess:

“Vivi, do you remember, what my Devil Fruit does?”

“It lets you know, how much a person likes you?”, came the answer in a meek tone. Vivi was clutching her towel to her chest now and was rubbing her legs together.

“Yes”, you answered as you got closer and slowly reached for her towel. She did nothing to stop you. In terms of raw strength she was significantly stronger than you and even Nami. If anything you were doing was going to too far she could easily break both your arms, before Chaka and Pell would storm in to break your everything else.

And she wasn't so much as twitching away from you, as you proceeded to open her towel and continue explaining: “But not just platonic affection. But also physical affection. Lust.”

By now her towel was on the floor as well and you were whispering in her ear.

“Back on the ship you still had a civil war to worry about, so we were fine to just let finger yourself, but this time...”

“We expect you to properly partake”, Nami finished whispering into her other ear. She had sauntered around the princess and was now pressed against her back sandwiching her inbetween the two of you.

“Fuck!”, Vivi moaned out.

Nefertari Vivi: 70/100

“That's the idea”, you said firmly while planting a kiss on her ear, “any objections?”

Her answer was that her hands, which had been hanging limply by her side, grabbing onto your ass, pressing you into her further, and kissing back.

For a few moments that was all you did; Sometimes you would lean past Vivi's head to kiss Nami, sometimes you and your girlfriend would kiss on either side of Vivi's neck, but for the most part you just stood there next to the bed, with your arms writhing over Nami's and your back and Vivi's side.

**** for something to grab, but utterly unwilling to separate enough for anything to become accessible.

Than someone stumbled and all three of you fell onto the bed in a heap of laughter.

Finally separated there was finally enough space for Nami and you to actually look at Vivi's naked from.

She was fuller than even Nami, who similar to yourself, had started getting some meat in the right places, since Sanji was feeding you. Her long blue hair went all the way down to her back and was now framing her large breast like an aura.

You tentatively reached out with your right hand to touch her left boob almost afraid that if you were to go too brashly the image would shatter and you'd wake up to find it just a dream. As your perception zeroed in on your target, you were suddenly woken from your trance by some giggling coming from your right.

Vivi's other boob had saliva on its nipple. The source of the giggling was next to it. Nami's was looking at you while almost her entire left hand was already in Vivi's pussy.

“Come on, she's not going to break!”, she said between fits of laughter, which Vivi was visibly struggling not to join.

Becoming aware of what you had to look like, you joined in yourself and kissed Vivi on her lips, you right hand joining Nami's left and your left grabbing onto Vivi's tit.

“Fuck!”

That was Vivi, as you finally let her lips alone for a second, before Nami could take your place. You didn't mind. There was a beautiful tit, that could keep your mouth occupied. Down lower your teamwork was no worse.

With your haki fully trained on Vivi you could feel the slightest twitch and so you could easily find her g-spot even though you were not that familiar with her body. Nami of course was by now an expert in working with you and so you took terms touching her there, rubbing her clit and penetrating her as deep as you could.

Vivi couldn't withstand your combined effort for long and screamed her first orgasm for the night into both of your mouths as you went for a three way kiss.

“Wow! I never would have thought, I could feel this good”, Vivi sighed still very much out of breath, when you let her come down. You had withdrawn your hand for the moment to like a bit of the delicious juices she had squirted over your arm of.

“I'm sorry I didn't make you feel good though.”

Nami and you started laughing as Vivi started to get a worried look.

“What are you laughing about?”

Instead of answering you whispered into each others ears and quickly reached an accord.

As Nami started crawling towards Vivi's head you retreated further down.

“Why are you talking, like the night is over? You didn't plan on sleeping just yet, did you 'Princess'”, Nami drawled in her best seductress voice as she swung her leg over Vivi's head, to position her pussy right on top of her face.

“Wha..?”, was all the princess got out, before you got going again. Nami was sitting on Vivi's face smothering any sounds she could make and massaged her boobs with a firm grip, while you got started on not just her pussy but also her ass.

Vivi's squirting orgasm had left your right plenty lubed and you could insert your index with practically no resistance, so you quickly added your middle finger. All the while you didn't leave her pussy alone. You started by licking over her labia and letting your tongue dance around her clit.

Quickly your free hand got to work as well, pumping in and out of her pussy and only touching her g-spot for the fraction of a second before pulling out again.

Just as you decided to add you ring fingers into the mix you heard a slap. As you looked up you saw Vivi's left hand firmly gripping Nami's ass just as her right found your head and pressed your mouth roughly against her center.

“Uh, the princess wants us to go hard”, Nami said, leaning down quickly to press a kiss on your forehead before really riding Vivi's mouth rather than holding her pussy over her mouth.

Wih that invitation, you decided to go hard as well: You started to nibble, almost bite at Vivi's clit just hard enough, that it was still mostly pleasurable, and instead of just adding one finger per hand you went all the way. You pumped both of your arms into her pussy and ass at the same time as hard and fast as you could.

Once again you were happy for your Devil Fruit. After all you had her unable to do pretty much anything and Nami riding her mouth so hard, that it looked like she couldn't breath.

Nefertari Vivi: 100/100

But she was loving it, so who were you to stop.

Still being sensitive from having just had the best orgasm of her live so far, it wasn't long she was cumming again all over you.

But this time you didn't plan on letting her come down. Not yet anyway.

After all your girlfriend hadn't orgasmed yet.

You managed to get eye contact and Nami seemed to understand what you were going for and eased up a little bit on the princess, hoping that it would allow her to last a bit longer. She even took one hand of her tits and started stroking her own pussy, so she would come a bit quicker.

That was needed, because several minutes of constant orgasm were wearing her down. She was getting slower and you guessed that if Nami hadn't started helping, she would have probably gone into an unresponsive state of pure pleasure, before getting Nami off.

Not that that wasn't how you wanted her to end up before going to sleep, but all in due time.

Finally Nami came. With a scream that made all your previous efforts to stay quiet moot, she sat back on her heels to squirt all over Vivi's face and tits.

You came up with your tongue out to get as much as you could into your mouth before you shared it with Nami in a deep kiss. Beneath you Vivi didn't appear to be entirely conscious and started licking the pussy closest to her. Which was now yours.

You started moaning into Nami's mouth.

“Someone's stamina is lacking”, she mocked while dropping back and pressing your face into her cleavage.

You like that. It was one of your favorite places to rest your head after all. You grabbed her tits and pressed them together smothering yourself for a few seconds, before moving your head enough to take one of her nipples into your mouth.

You could stay like this forever. In the state Vivi was in, she wouldn't make you come soon and even if Nami's tits were smaller, they were still absolutely perfect in your eyes.

So you were a bit disappointed, when she suddenly got up and separated herself from you after a quick peck on the lips. She didn't go far however.

A dominant hand on your back made you lean forward and a gifted tongue entered your asshole.

You found a pillow just in time to muffle your groan of pleasure when Nami slapped your ass hard without withdrawing her mouth.

You started shaking and grinding your hips on top of Vivi's face, who was still lapping at your cunt, which earned you another slap, this time on the other cheek. A few times you tried to change things up, whether it was turning your pussy to Nami or just trying to turn head to look at her and each time a slap on your ass made your arms buckle and bury your head in the pillow.

After less than a minute Vivi seemed to have recovered somewhat. There was a short pause, as she got her bearing to a certain degree, only to then go back at your pussy with not just more gusto but also her fingers.

You came almost immediately.

“We REALLY need to work on your stamina!”, Nami joked, before once again stopping you from moving of your own volition with a slap.

Then she whispered something to Vivi, that you couldn't make out and you felt them shuffling around beneath your tights.

You couldn't resist the temptation to try and look and received another slap.

Or rather two slaps. One left and one right. But both performed with a right hand.

You didn't have to wonder, what they were up to for longer however, because seconds later you felt a familiar, and extremely welcome sensation.

The sensation of an extremely greedy mouth going to town on you pussy.

“Fuck, yes Namiiii!”, those were the last coherent words you spoke that night as Nami rammed fist her into your pussy and Vivi did the same thing with your asshole.

You two lover were relentless and brought you to three orgasms before slowing down and switching arms.

“Consider this thanks for the training”, Nami said with a kiss to your naval.

“And saving the country”, Vivi said with a kiss just above your ass.

“We'll get to that”, Nami said with a chuckle but before anybody could respond she resumed her effort to destroy your pussy. Vivi found it impossible to talk over your lewd moans and joined in again and you were made to cum two more times, before you could no longer support yourself on all fours.

But like Nami had alluded to, the night didn't end there. You were not quite lucid for all of it, but the gist was, that she was fucking Vivi into a coma and you got to help.

One moment you found her on top of you 69ing you while Nami spoke words of encouragement and kneaded the princess' boobs, then some time later you could see a blue head of hair on the lower edge of your vision, felt your tits being caressed by a mouth and a pair of hands and heard a slapping sound.

Later still your vision was obscured almost entirely by orange and blue hair. You felt lips on the sides of your head and heard occasional moans and felt two wet hips grinding on your thighs.

At some point you apparently woke up again and fingered Vivi while pressing her face into the mattress with your legs.

---

You woke up feeling comfortably sore and something heavy on your chest and your head resting on something that was soft, but firmer than a pillow. Opening your eyes revealed the thing on your chest to be Nami, who had already been awake.

“I didn't want to wake you. You look so cute like this.”

“Look who's talking”, you laughed. In response to the sound your headrest moved. Turning your head you saw legs to your left and boobs to your right.

You got up. From the hip down Vivi was still completely drenched in her pussy juice. Her pussy was red and gaping so much, you could tell even though her legs were almost closed. Her mouth was open and drool was dissolving your and Nami's dried juices that had been sprayed all over her face. Her eyes were neither fully closed nor opened, but rather lidded and staring vacantly ahead.

A quick check showed, that she was still alive.

“I think we should ask Chopper to look after her. I'd feel bad, if she would still be out of it when we want to say our goodbye.”

“Are you going to get him? He could take a look at my wrist as well. I think I overdid it.”

“You think?”, you laughed, gesticulating at the situation you were in, “Maybe we should invest in some toys.”

“Ughhh, I guess, but we'd have to spend money on those!”, your girlfriend whined.

“And right now I'm really comfortable and still I'm going to get up, do my morning exercise and do my best to get cleaned up before getting Chopper.”

“I love you.”

You kissed her forehead: “You don't have to tell me, I love you too.”

You were extremely glad, that your doctor was mostly not human; He checked on Nami's wrist and brought Vivi back to consciousness without getting distracted by the cause of those issues and when asked not to mention it to the others his response was an impassive: “Why would I. That's doctor patient confidentiality.”

So you could be forgiven when you expected a pretty calm breakfast (by your standards).

Just after Sanji and Terracotta finally got to an agreement, whether he should let a lady cook for him or help in the kitchen, Chaka came in with a Den-Den Mushi.

“Do you know someone named 'Bon-Bon'?”

“Bon-Bon?”

It took you a moment, but you quickly realized, who would know that you were in the palace, had the audacity to just call and ask for them and introduce themselves as 'Bon-Bon'.

Bon Clay: 85/100

You took the snail: “Bon-Chan is that you?”

“AAAHH YURI-CHAN!”, the Okama screeched so loud that you got pity for the snails even as your own ears were ringing.

“It's so nice to hear a friendly voice!”

Your crew mates were looking at you questioningly. You held up two fingers. Vivi and Nami understood immediately and started whispering in the other's ears. This way you got to witness their reactions one after the other as Bon Clay went through a tirade of how much they looked forward to seeing you again, that you found yourself unable to politely interrupt to ask for the reason of the call.

Luffy and Chopper were delighted when Nami told them, who you were talking to, Usopp was more cautious, Zoro seemed annoyed and judging by Sanji's face he figured it out before Vivi did tell him. He looked like he had been **** to eat an entire basket of lemons peels and all.

“I'm glad to hear you're alright. I was afraid the hangover might've killed you!”, you said in a joking tone.

“It almost did, alright, but what can you do? Guess where I'm calling from?”

“That's what I mean! I would've thought you'd be still be laying down. I have no idea where you are. Tell me!”

“I'm on your ship!”

You barely managed to keep a hold of the snail as Sanji, Zoro and Luffy jumped at it to scream at the caller.

“Why are you on the ship?”

“Haven't you been paying attention? Captain Hina arrived with her Black Cage Formation to seal of the harbours and blockade the delta of the Sandora. It would've been in the way and they might've been **** to sink it!”

“I guess we'll owe you then. Where did bring it?”

The guys had calmed down enough, that you actually could hold the conversation with Bon Clay, where you both did your best to not make it too obvious what you were saying exactly in case of a marine wire tap.

It took nearly ten minutes and a taxing workout of trying to evade Luffy, who tried to get his hands Den-Den Mushi as he tried to get more words in with who he had now decided was a friend.

“We'll meet you there when we get there. Now I believe I have someone else … “ before you could finish the sentence Luffy had taken the snail from your hand and was now demanding that Bon Clay imitate various people, not leaving the spy no opportunity to explain, that over the call the only effect would be a different voice.

---

“I take it, you have made a decision and are now struggling with a plan of action.”

“I guess, I shouldn't be surprised, you'd be able to tell … sir!”, Tashigi added that last part after a few seconds.

“So, how does your plan look like so far?”

For the first time since he had taken her under his wing, Smoker saw Tashigi hesitating to tell him something.

“Sir, seeing as you and Captain Hina are in command … “

“I haven't technically taken back command from you yet and upon my recommendation Captain Hina will follow whichever course you advice for the capture of the Straw Hats.

Of course the official responsibility for whatever consequences, positive as well as negative, will still be on me as the highest ranking officer present and involved.”

“So, say that I were to give Captain Hina bad advice. Advice that could jeopardize the success of her mission...”

“As long as the advice isn't so bad, that it is immediately obvious. What is it you'd advice?”

“Can I get back to you? There's a bounty hunter I'd like to consult.”

---

You were looking forward to lunch, hanging out with Nami and Vivi, when you were again sought out by Chaka.

“Ehm, Yuri? I think there is a Marine officer, who wants to speak to you.”

“What do you mean, you 'think'? I thought you've just been turning them away, when they came looking for us.”

“Well, she was very insistent, that the person she was looking for is not a criminal, but a bounty hunter. But otherwise she's describing you very good. A young woman with dark skin, who some still manages to look pale; distinctive green eyes; curly hair, that is cut short in a shoddy way, as if she had done it herself without a mirror; expert martial artist, but doesn't appear to have any muscle whatsoever on her body.”

You winced. While the description of your hair had been 100% accurate, as in you hadn't used a mirror to cut your hair ever since your father died, you had, apparently falsely, assumed you were doing a good job.

“This Marine officer wouldn't happen to be a woman by the name of Tashigi?”

“Yes, that is her name.”

“That's the one from Logue-town, right? The one who looks like Zoro's childhood friend”, Nami asked, which you answered with a nod.

“She's been following you all the way from the East Blue? What does she want from you?”

“Well Captain Smoker's been on Luffy's heels out of pride I guess. Before him no pirate made it past him out of Logue town”, Nami explained, “Neither he nor her made the impression, that they would go out to send some stupid threat or something like that. For that matter I'm not entirely sure, why he hasn't made an attempt to arrest Luffy. It's not like he doesn't know he's here.”

“Well, not officially. As long as we deny that you're here he can't exactly raid the palace. As long as he doesn't see Luffy himself coming or going.”

“I'm not wanted by bounty yet, so only one way to find out, what Tashigi wants.”

As you approached the room Tashigi was waiting in you scanned it with your haki:

She had come alone and right now was clutching her head theatrically.

“AHH, this migraine. It seems the stress of the past week is finally catching up to me!”

“Ma'am, do you want us to call the doctor?”

“Or maybe just a glass of water?”

“If you could lead me into a room that is less well lit?”

And so you entered a room that was conveniently so dark, that Tashigi could not see, if someone who might or might not have a bounty on their head were to enter. The room in question was tiny. If the door was opening inwards, it would have bumped into the small table on the other side of which Tashigi was sitting.

You sat down on the chair right in front of the door.

“Hi!”

“Hi, I was surprised to hear, you wanted to talk to me.”

“I'm afraid this isn't a purely casual visit. I received orders to get accurate descriptions of Nico Robin, Roronoa Zoro and Sabishi Yuri so MPD can get a shot for new bounty posters.”

“None for Monkey D. Luffy?”

“He already had a photo taken recently. They'll just update the bounty. Maybe a newspaper article, maybe not.”

“Well I'm sure I can get you photos of Zoro and I … I mean this Sabishi Yuri person … Do we have to keep this up?”

“I'm afraid I'm not finished. To bad you intend on not disclosing your information on where the Strawhat pirates are right now. But this brings me to the next point: Captain Hina is arriving in Nanohana as we speak. She is expecting my advice on how to capture them when they try to leave the Sandora-river.

The question is, how much influence would my advice realistically have? Could my mistake lead to the Strawhats escaping?”

“Seeing, as they are probably completely unaware of their situation, you shouldn't take your responsibility too lightly. What is Captain Hina's plan?”

“Standard procedure would be to first lock down all the harbors. That has probably happened by now and the entrance to all waterways leading inland would be blockaded, which here is only the Sandora. To keep risk low the blockade would be kept up for as long as possible.”

“Hmm, the way I see it, this is a solid strategy. Their ship is tiny and not very fast. So they will probably prefer to fight Captain Hina on land.

My advice would be to wait for them, then, as soon as you see them, get close. Fire some shots to scare them, but what you want to do, is drive them back up the river.”

“Directly into Smoker's arms. Who had beaten Luffy before and whose Devil Fruit none of the Strawhats can counter. Are you sure there is no way they could make it out of Alabasta, if we do that?”

“None. They don't know what situation they're in. If they were, they could find another ship and then staff one with decoys.”

Tashigi nodded: “If there are multiple ships coming down the Sandora tomorrow, I'll assume, that the ship we had impounded in Logue Town is the decoy.”

“Absolutely. Only an absolute moron would go with an easily recognizable caravel, that is a known pirate ship over something that could feign being unaffiliated with the Strawhats.”

“Good to hear … “

“You wanted something else?”

“When we met, you stopped yourself from sleeping with me, because you felt that I wouldn't want to sleep with you if I knew that you … liked pineapple on pizza.”

“You mean, because I am a pi … “, you shook your head ad the absurdity of what you were about to say, “ a pineapple lover. Still am.”

“Yes. I have given it some thought an even though I still think pira … eating pineapple on pizza is wrong, I can't help but think, that you and your friends are good people. And as long as I never hear about you actually … putting a pineapple on a pizza, or using one off … those nice pizza cutters for a pizza with pineapples on it, I think we could still get intimate.”

“A quick heads up: You mentioned my friends. I've gotten close with one of them and she's right outside this door and listening.”

“Oh, I hope I didn't get you into trouble!”, she apologized, though she could quite stop herself from snickering.

Nami: 20/100

Nefertari Vivi: 15/100

“Oh, believe me: I'm not in trouble. I just wanted to let you know” you said, with a grin and leaned forwards to peck Tashigi on the lips.

Due to the darkness however you misjudged your distance and instead of a light peck you more or less headbutted her.

“So much for not in trouble: You just assaulted a marine!”

“What are you going to do about it? Duel me in this room?”

“Absolutely. If I win you have to abandon your pi...neapple ways.”

With those words she swung her sword at you and would've cut you in half, if you hadn't evaded.

Which was really impressive, since the room was barely big enough to hold Tashigi's sword horizontally, and yet she managed to swing it without so much as scratching a wall.

As soon as she heard your chair scratching over the floor, she pushed the table to trap you against the war.

Having seen that coming, you were already below it came up with your body pressed against hers with your knife drawn and at her throat.

“Now, I could demand, that you … eat some pineapple”, her sword came back up and was now at my throat.

“But I'd much rather call this a draw where we have something we both like the sound of.”

“And what might that be?”

This time my kiss didn't miss.

“What we started in Logue Town!”

“Your girlfriend...?”, Tashigi moaned, as I put the knife away and let my hands roam beneath her shirt.

Nami: 50/100

Nefertari Vivi: 45/100

“Is enjoying listening to us!”

Tashigi's sword, somehow already in its scabbard, clattered onto the floor and your shirt was ripped open.

“Hey!”

“It's not like you'd get questioned about it”

You retaliated by spinning at hip and pressing Tashigi's upper body on the table and immediately pulling her pants down.

As expected she was wet and ready for your tongue. You licked for a few seconds until her legs suddenly locked around your head.

Tashigi let herself fall back so you were laying on the floor. Then you heard a bang and a curse.

She had attempted to lean forward to eat your pussy. Which was beneath the table she had just hit her head on.

“You all right?”

“Shut up.”

You got back to work as you felt Tashigi carefully moving under the table and pulling down your pants.

Tashigi got to work quickly; after running her tongue over your pussy up and down twice she immediately pushed her index and middle finger in and started pumping.

“Wow, enjoy a little, do you have somewhere to be?”

“Literally yes! I'm a marine on duty, remember?”

“Sorry.”

With that apology you got to work to make her cum as quickly as possible. Since she was already plenty worked up you could just put your fingers in and start pumping while circling your thumb around her clit whenever you were not licking or sucking it.

Tashigi for her part didn't want to be found lacking and doubled her effort.

After only a short time you were both cumming, Tashigi squirting into your mouth before she slumped down on you.

“Thanks, I really needed that.”

“My pleasure. Literally”, you said with a grin, “Be careful with the”

Bang.

“Fuck!”

“Table … I guess, it's best if I leave now to let you sort yourself out. If all goes well, we'll probably never see each other again.”

Tashigi rolled of you and struggled to get out from under the table.

“Yeah, that's probably for the best … Goodbye, Yur … I'm mean stranger.”

There was so much sadness in her voice, that you could barely bear to get up.

“Goodbye, Tashigi.”

---

There were more farewells to be said.

In the late evening, when the Cobra and the guards thought you were sleeping the crew had assembled in Vivi's room.

“Come with us”, Luffy tried to decide for Vivi.

“Luffy stop, it's one thing when you say this to people, who have nothing better to do, but youknow that Vivi isn't like us. She's not someone who has no life outside the sea”, you scolded him.

“Well …”, Usopp spoke up, “I could have stayed in Syrup.”

Luffy, Zoro, Nami and you laughed.

“Hey, what's so funny?!”

“You were going to sea with not even a boat!”, Nami called him out, before becoming serious again and turning to Vivi, “We know you'd like to come with us. We also know that you can't. At the very least not right now.

Now, the log-pose hasn't locked to Alabasta yet, but the marines don't know that. After all you did tell them, that you arrived them the day before Luffy ran into Smoker in Nanohana.

What we're going to do is go east out of the Sandora river. We won't have the time to stop but if you do decide to join us, you'll still be able to come aboard from the harbour at noon before we go to the open sea and then change course to the island the log-pose still points to thanks to our visit to Drum.”

While Nami had explained that for the last time the guys had already carried our supplies down and loaded up Eyelashes the camel and the Supersonic Duck Squad.

“We have to go.”, you said softly as you were already hanging onto the rope out the window.

Nami almost froze up at that and Vivi pushed past her to press a goodbye-kiss on your lips.

That made you loose your grip. Thankfully below you was your captain, who wasn't even mildly bothered by a person with a backpack dropping onto him.

“Thanks, can you catch Nami, too?”

“Sure! When is she coming?”

He looked up just in time to see our navigator appear in the window with her back to the opening. Then she suddenly froze up again and dropped backwards.

From the window the blue-haired princess was waving goodbye with her left hand, hiding her right behind her back and sporting a mischievous grin.

Thanks to the Supersonic Duck Squad you reached the meeting place with Bon Clay, the former Mr. 2 before sunrise.

You weren't really surprised, when he went to hug Sanji, who stopped him with a foot to the face.

“Bon-chan, as much as we would love to just celebrate seeing you again, you called us for a reason. Please tell me, you have a better plan to get past the blockade than I.”

“You have a plan, Yuri? I just knew that me and my boys wouldn't be able to get through that blockade on our own.”

You buried your head in your hands, before delivering the bad news: “They are looking for us specifically. A single ship will have a hard time getting through that blockade. However if two ships come at the blockade at the same time, they will assume we are all on one of them and focus all their attention on that, allowing the other one to slip through.”

“So it'd be a gamble”, Bon Clay surmised.

“No. They don't expect us to be crazy enough to stick with the known pirate ship. They will concentrate on your swan ship first. So. The choice is entirely yours. You can stay here and try and slip past once they've seen us and maybe relaxed the blockade.

You can come with us and try and sell us out in the hope, they'll ignore you then.

Or you can just sail next to us and almost certainly get captured.”

“I guess this is karma, is it not? I threw my lot in with that lout Crocodile and his obviously evil Baroque gang, so now I can either safe myself or my friends. But definitely not both.

I will have to talk to my men. I won't make this decision on behalf of them.”

And so, while you were loading up the Going Merry, Bon Clay talked to his men. Unsurprisingly you saw a few of them taking off their ballet shoes and left the ship in normal boots.

While you were unsure which of your crew mates had noticed, none of them brought it up. And so neither did you.

Bon Clay put on a happy mask and cheered on Luffy, who did a game of mimicking various people, not just using his malleable body but also a surprising skill of imitating voice and speech patterns.

“You foolish fool! I am so great. And evil. You're niceness is pathetic you pathetic fool. Did I already mention I'm evil?”

“Ga-hahaha! It's too perfect! Thank god you didn't get my Devil Fruit or I would've thought he really managed to sneak on you ship! Let me try to do Mr. 1!”

He proceeded to change his appearance into an amalgam of various people to make a simulacrum of Mr. 1. Which was especially funny, because he used Mr. 1's actual body as a basis.

Instead of the shaved stubble that Zoro had described, Bon Clay had given himself a shining bald head. Below a very small forehead was an extremely bushy mono-brow, which almost obscured the tiny eyes. The nose was extremely long, which fit with the similarly long face and at the bottom there was a thin mouth with almost no chin below it.

“I am the best killer”, Bon Clay intoned in a dry monotone, “Be professional. A personality is a weakness.”

Zoro, who other than Nami, was the only one who had seen the man gave an acknowledgment of the joke in his own special kind: “I thought you were still busy bleeding out.”

The way through the blockade was as gut wrenching as you had feared. Bon Clay and his men made their way west ward. First you had to resist the urge to try and deflect Hina's iron spears from tearing into Merry's hull, with any skills which would give your identity away. That meant Luffy was not allowed to stretch his limbs and Zoro was not allowed to cut them up to lessen their impact.

You had to hold Luffy back, so he wouldn't jump around the deck cussing out Hina.

And then you had to just stand there and watch as Bon Clay touched his cheek and did just that.

The six crew members visible on deck had disguised themselves as Zoro, you, Nami, Usopp, Sanji and Chopper in his Heavy Point.

The effect was just as expected: The blockade dissolved to turn into a mobile fleet with the goal of chasing the only minimally more mobile ship back up the river it had just come.

As his ship turned and just before he would leave their sight the proud queer waved goodbye one last time.

---

This still wasn't the last goodbye.

Though that one was on a much lighter tone.

As promised at about noon the Going Merry passed close the east harbor of Alabasta.

And as instructed Vivi was standing there next to Carue, who had presumably carried her there. She waved for a few seconds and when she was sure, that you saw her, she picked something up from the floor.

A stick was stuck into the floor and then Carue held one corner of a piece of cloth and Vivi another.

Proudly facing you was the princess of Alabasta displaying the flag of the Strawhat Pirates as she bade you farewell.

She would not join you. But the princess would always be one of you.

When Vivi was to far away to see, you finally addressed the passenger, who had been on board ever since you had met up with Bon Clay.

“We're on the open sea, you can come out now.”

“And here I thought I was being discreet. What gave me away.”

“There's not that many people, whose ears and eyes spontaneously appear on the walls.”

“In that case”, the voice now came from inside the Merry and the door opened, “is it to late to ask permission to come aboard, Captain?”, Nico Robin asked as she stepped on the deck.

_Hi, ten-tackle again with a message to the readers.
You might think, that I took half a year to write this chapter.
This is technically false!
It took me only three weeks to write this chapter. But then my laptop crashed and it didn't save.
Rather than rewriting as much as possible then, when it was still relatively fresh I instead opted to procrastinate my hobby.

On an entirely related note I'm still looking for someone to act as an editor of some kind (checking in once in a while and making sure the version I upload has no mistakes like typos).
If you are willing please DM me. Naturally I'd be willing to return the favor._

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