9 Chapter 9

It was morning in the first half of the Grand line, the weather was still sunny, or it was just that Kisame had a neck for avoiding storms.

"Itachi, I didn't know you were such a great cook."

"...."

The Uchiha was slightly shocked with what he had done. He had cooked before is in previous life, but this was far better than what he thought.

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Cooking recipes for dummies.

Basic cooking set.

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He had won the two items from a lottery draw, and all he did was follow the instructions, but he never expected things to turn out this good, maybe it is because he is someone who always followed instructions.

'When was the last time I did something for myself.'

Itachi could be described as someone who always did what people asked him to do. From his days at the Ninja Academy to when he was reanimated.

His dream was to protect the Hidden Leaf village, and if the Uchiha clan hadn't made plans to attack the village, then Itachi might have been the first Uchiha Hokage.

"What are you thinking so deeply about, Itachi." Kisame's face turned a little serious, "I am not an introverted person like you, but at times it is always good to not think much about things."

He was the same. Kisame was a carefree person, but he always listened to orders, to the point he murdered his own team members to stop the information to be passed on to the Konoha shinobi.

If Madara (Obito) hadn't manipulated the Hidden Mist Village from the shadows, then Kisame might have had a different ending.

He did think about this before, but just like he said, it was better to let things go. Nothing could be done about it.

"You know...it's rude to stay silent when someone is talking to you, Itachi."

"You talk too much."

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A few hundred meters from where Itachi and Kisame's ship was, a group of Marines where also heading in the same direction.

"Captain! I spotted a suspicious ship up ahead! No! They just seam to be ordinary sailing instead!"

The scout's voice echoed in the whole navy ship, and some of the Marine's had already taken out their gun getting ready for combat.

A girl with silver shine black hair and a pair of eyeglasses looked over to their boss who was smoking nonchalantly through the whole situation.

"What should we do about this Captain Smoker, Sir?!"

"Check who they are first. They maybe pirates disguised as ordinary sailors."

It was common for some crafty pirates to disguise themselves in order to avoid the Marines and other pirate ships, not only that, but they would even terrorize an island looking like that.

"Captain there seems to be only two people of the ship! And their ships seems to have bumped into something before"

Hearing the scouts shout, Smoker became even more suspicious about the group. 

"There is no way sailors could acquire damage! There are definitely pirates who lost their crew after a fight. Check their wanted posters."

The Navy ship started going towards the Scorpio, and Tashigi started checking out the wanted posters to check out the profiles of the two man, but...

"Captain Smoker, Sir, we seem to have a problem."

"What is it Tashigi?"

Tashigi saluted, "Sir...the pirates on the ship don't seem to be in any wanted posters."

"!"

It was surprisingly to find Pirates in the Grand Line without even one crew member with a bounty. The possible conclusion Smoker could make out of the whole situation was that the were a new pirate crew.

'For them to do that they have to be extremely brave, or ridiculously stupid.'

Thinking of an image of a certain kid who wears a straw-hat entered his mind, and just the thought of that guy made him make a conclusion to the matter.

"Everybody prepare to apprehend those pirates."

"Yes Sir!!"

"But Captain Smoker, Sir..." Tashigi still had some doubts, but her sword was still firmly in her hand, "What if there are just a group of sailors instead, won't we be attacking innocent people then?"

Smoker smirked as he bites his cigar, "Tashigi, when was the last time my suspicion had ever been wrong?"

The young lady answered firmly, "Never!!"

"Good then, it is time to kill some pirate scum."

"Yeah!!!"

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Near the entrance of the Grand line, Big Top could be seen heading towards its first island, and the crew members were all in high spirits.

"Hahaha! Back when we were Pirates in training, this place was scarier than it is now! These days it is just a straw in the park for us Buggy Pirates!"

At the chop chop man's words everyone cheered up, even Alvida was finding the entire situation to be far better than she expected.

"The Grand line isn't so bad after all, I thought bombs would be already flying at us by now."

Mohji who was laying his head on the big lion Richie smiled, "With Captain Buggy there is nothing to fear, we can even face a whole Marine fleet."

"Hahaha! That's right!" The Captain in question felt extremely proud of himself, "Even if the admirals were to come here, I would send them back in a flashy way!"

"Captain!!!"

The crew felt even more relieved hearing their Captain's words, but they should have checked out the snot coming from his nose.

'If even a Rear Admiral were to come here we all could be dead! My Buggy balls won't even make much of a difference! We have to find that straw hat and get out of this godforsaken place!'

The moment Buggy's thoughts came to rest, an unexpected surprise happened.

"Katsu!!!"

Boom–!!!