Chapter 23: Zou

Thirteen and Robin found the rest of the crew near the Smile factory. Thirteen saw a man in a bib on the ground and said "Pinky's crew?" Franky nodded and said "The most hardboiled man I've ever met." Thirteen looked at Robin and said "What does that mean?" Robin shrugged and Thirteen sighed, he went over to the man on the ground and looked at him saying "Is he a good guy?" Franky nodded and said "Decent." Thirteen shrugged and said "Well, the rest are dead so..."

Zoro said "You killed them all?" Thirteen said "Minus the stone guy and this guy in the ground." Zoro nodded and said "Impressive." Thirteen chuckled and shook his head as he sat down, waiting for Luffy to finish.

A while later

Thirteen looked up and saw the birdcage dissolving and looked over to the battlefield, he got up and flashed over to the wreckage. He saw Luffy standing over Doflamingo, Luffy looked over and said "Thirteen!" Thirteen smiled and flashed next to him saying "Pinky's finished?" Luffy nodded and Thirteen said "Should we kill him?" Luffy rubbed his chin and said "Nah, he'll go to Impel Down." Thirteen nodded and pounded his fist into his palm as he said "That'll make the marines stay on the island so he doesn't escape! We can slip away! You're pretty smart for an idiot." Luffy scratched his head and said "I didn't even think about that.." Thirteen ignored him and chained Doflamingo to the ground with stardust chains.

He looked at Luffy and said "You think Kaido'll be mad?" Luffy grinned and said "I hope so! I want to kick his ass!" Thirteen grinned as wrapped his arm around Luffy's shoulder saying "Me too!" the duo laughed and did a little dance, Law teleported over and saw the duo dancing. He sighed and walked over, the two looked at him, then each other and grinned, they grabbed him and started dancing again. Law tried to get free, but he couldn't escape, he sighed and started dancing too.

The rest of the crew showed up and gasped at the dancing Law. Zoro said "These idiots! There are still marines here!" as if on cue, Issho and his marine group showed up.

Issho felt the three and Doflamingo and walked over, the trio stopped and Thirteen grabbed Issho and forced him to dance too saying "Hey Issho! Country's free, you can try and brutally kill us later!" as he laughed and danced, Issho was stunned, he had no response for that, he was an Admiral and he was dancing with a pirate.

Robin rubbed her forehead and said "I think I know why he's blind now..." the rest nodded and Luffy laughed before joining Thirteen and Issho, Usopp joined in too and the four started dancing. A marine with a mask shouted "Let the admiral go, you damn pirates!" Thirteen said "Lighten up kiddo! Shouldn't you be comforting the civilians? Also why are you screaming? Do I look deaf to you?!" the man choked on his saliva and Issho said "Go find any survivors and treat the injured. I'll take Doflamingo into custody." he sighed and said "Can you let me go now?"

Thirteen and Luffy chuckled and let him go, he shook his head and cuffed Doflamingo. He dragged him away saying "You have 3 days before I make my decision to chase you or not." as he left with his marine group. The crew grinned and Kyros appeared and said "You can stay at my house." the crew followed him to his house and Thirteen and Luffy collapsed into a bed and started snoring, the rest slumped to the ground, exhausted.

3 days later

Thirteen was sitting in Kyros' house and stealing books while the rest were listening to him explaining why he wasn't going to see Rebecca. Bartolomeo kicked the door and said "Sengoku and Tsuru are here! We need to leave now!" the crew thanked Kyros and left, Luffy said "I'll meet you at the docks before running away, Thirteen went after him and the rest went to the docks.

The duo landed at Rebecca's window, Thirteen blew a hole in the wall and grabbed Rebecca saying "Hey." Rebecca blushed and squeaked out a "Hey." Luffy said "We're taking you to your dad!" Rebecca nodded and the trio left.

The marines saw them and started shooting at them saying "They kidnapped the princess! After them!" the citizens heard the marines and saw Thirteen holding Rebecca, who was blushing and started chasing after them with pots and pans, one woman even had a shoe! One man threw a book at them and Thirteen caught it saying "I didn't have this one! Thanks!" before flying away and laughing.

The trio landed in front of Kyros' house and Luffy knocked on the door saying "Kyros!" he grabbed Thirteen and ran away, Rebecca watched them go and blushed remembering Thirteen holding her. Kyros opened the door and saw Rebecca blushing, he was shocked and said "Those damn bastards!" Rebecca smiled and said "Hey dad!" and hugged him, he smiled and hugged her back before saying "Why are you blushing?" Rebecca said quietly "No reason.." Kyros felt his eye twitch as he said "Is it the Tiger kid?" Rebecca's face turned even more red and Kyros snapped "TAHT DAMN BASTARD! I SWEAR TO GOD!"

Thirteen heard Kyros screaming and laughed his ass off as he ran with Luffy to the docks, they found Law talking to Sengoku and Thirteen grabbed Law and said "Hey former fleet admiral, mind if I borrow him? Thanks." Law sighed and said "See ya." as Thirteen flashed away, Sengoku watched them go and sighed before turning to his goat and feeding it some rice crackers.

The trio ran to the docks and Luffy said "Keep going, i'll meet you on the ships." Thirteen nodded and flew away with Law as Luffy said "Straight punch from the front!" and attacked Issho, who was both amused and angry at Luffy for telegraphing his attacks.

Thirteen laughed and landed with the rest of the crew, waiting for Luffy.

A while later

Luffy came back and the ships sailed away, rubble started floating above them, and the ships sailed faster. Civilians swarmed the docks screaming "Damn Straw Hat! He kidnapped the princess! Don't let him get away!" another one said "There's also that cool tiger guy! Get him too!" Issho chuckled and shook his head, he couldn't drop the rubble anymore, he moved it over ships trying to attack the gladiators and dropped all the rubble on them, allowing the gladiators to flee before smiling to himself and walking back to the marine camp wondering what the duo looked like.

The ships sailed away from Dressrosa and escaped.

The crew was on the Yonta Maria, Luffy was sitting in front of a giant sake cup with his arms crossed and a frown on his face. Sitting in front of him were Cavendish, Hajrudin, Leo, Bartolomeo, Orlumbus, Ideo, and Sai. They all had smaller sake cups and were pledging allegiance to Luffy, who said "No! I want to be the free-ist man in the world. I don't want to command anybody!" the 7 said "We want to follow you though." Luffy snapped "I just want to be the king of the pirates!"

The 7 shrugged and said "We're going to follow you anyway." as they drank from their cups. Zoro walked over and drank from the sake cup saying "Good sake!" Thirteen drank some and nodded saying "Nice." before he looked at the rest and said "You have a library on this ship?" Robin grabbed him and said "No." Thirteen said "Is increasing my knowledge bad?" Robin felt her eye twitch and she shook him saying "I know exactly what you're thinking!" she shook him so hard a book fell out of his shirt.

She picked up the book and said "How to find a needle in a haystack." she felt her lips twitch as she snapped "WHO WOULD EVER NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DO THAT?!" as she threw the book, it flew around Hajrudin's head and hit Usopp in the face, he picked it up and read a bit before saying "SO DETAILED!!" he looked around and slipped it into his overalls before hiding.

Hajrudin said "Time for the celebration!" Everyone cheered and started partying.

A while later

The crew got on Bartolomeo's ship and separated from the rest as they sailed to Zou. Thirteen was getting excited and worried, he didn't know how Robin was going to react to Carrot, he knew Carrot wouldn't mind but he wasn't too sure about Robin. He started talking with the navigator and they followed his vivre card of Inurashi as the ship sailed to Zou.

The crew was sitting at a table when Bartolomeo said "You're bounties are updated!" Thirteen perked up and said "Big advance?" Bartolomeo said "Not for everyone.." as he led them to a room, where he had a mural of the crew, bounties, signatures, and newspaper clippings. The crew was stunned and looked at the bounties.

'Straw Hat' Luffy 500 million

'Pirate Hunter' Roronoa Zoro 320 million

'God' Usopp 200 million

'Black Leg' Sanji 177 million

'Devil Child' Nico Robin 130 million

'Iron Man' Franky 94 million

'Soul King' Brook 83 million

'Weather Witch' Nami 66 million

'Cotton Candy Lover' Chopper 100 beri

The crew looked at their new bounties and Luffy grumbled as he said "Not high enough..." Thirteen chuckled and said "Maybe one day.." as he looked at his own bounty.

'White Tiger' Silvers D. Thirteen 1.5 billion

Thirteen clapped and said "250 million more.. So little.." Robin, Franky, and Usopp said "That's more than all of ours!" Thirteen waved and said "Hopefully when we take down Kaido it'll go up by a billion or more!" Luffy laughed and said "I hope so too!" the duo chuckled and Zoro smirked "Higher than that shit-cook. Hehehe" the crew celebrated again as the ship made it's way to Zou.

On Zou

The Sunny stopped and the rest, along with Caesar landed on top of Zunesha and walked through the city. They were stopped by Carrot, who said "Who are you people?" Nami said "We're looking for a polar bear. Also I have a friend who loves rabbits, he'll probably faint if he sees you." she giggled and Carrot eyed them suspiciously saying "I have a husband." Wanda showed up and said "Come with me." the group followed the duo and Sanji saw all the Minks and said "Garchu." a bunch of minks nuzzled on him saying "Garchu!" Sanji almost exploded, coincidentally, there were only female minks around.

Nami rubbed her forehead and said "No wonder Thirteen said not to say that." Carrot froze and Wanda said "You know Thirteen?" Nami nodded and said "He's on our crew. He said he had a wife here... Do you know where she is?" Wanda chuckled and pointed at Carrot, the rest looked over and gasped. Nami rubbed her temples and said "Of course it is.." Carrot said "Is he here? He better not be. I told him to not go out of his way to bring you all here."

Sanji looked at Carrot and cursed the damn tiger bastard over 9000 times in his head, she was beautiful. He grumbled and started saying garchu to every woman he saw. Chopper touched his hooves together as he said "Um have you seen this woman?" as he showed Wanda and Carrot a picture of Milky.

Wanda felt her eye twitch and said "That's why he wanted the picture..." Carrot said "He didn't show you any pictures of me?" Nami shook her head and said "Almost every other mink though." Carrot clenched her fist and said "He did, did he?" Wanda chuckled and said "He was a big problem here." the crew was curious and said "He was?" Wanda looked at Carrot and said "Nobody goes anywhere near Carrot anymore." Nami burst out laughing and Wanda led them to the city.

Back on the Going Luffy Senpai

Thirteen shivered for some unknown reason and shrugged, forgetting about it. Robin called him from the room and said "Are you coming?" Thirteen chuckled and said "Coming." as he walked into the room and hugged Robin saying "You might have to be quiet this time.." Robin giggled and said "I try my best." before kissing him and bringing him down to the bed.

A few days later

The ship got to Zou and Luffy said "A giant elephant?!" Thirteen said "It's called Zunesha. It's always moving so it's impossible to actually find the Minks unless you have a vivre card or you come across it by chance." the crew go on the Sunny and waved goodbye to Bartolomeo as his ship sailed away.

Thirteen went to his room and put all the books he stole onto his book shelf and nodded in satisfaction at the dozens of new books before going back to the deck and riding on a drawing that Kanjuro made. The drawing climbed up Zunesha's leg and Kin'emon and Kanjuro got into an argument, not noticing the monkey Mink flying down from above, the rest ducked and the monkey hit Kin'emon and Kanjuro, sending them off the drawing and back down on to the deck.

The rest looked and Zoro said "I'm not going down there." Thirteen said "Let's just continue, they'll get back up. Also I can just fly up the rest..." Luffy said "Let's go Ryunosuke!" Thirteen sighed and Ryunosuke continued climbing.

Eventually Ryunosuke reached the top and turned back into ink as Luffy, Usopp, and Franky cried shouting "Ryunosuke! Noo!" Thirteen sighed and said "Let's go into the city." the group followed him. Thirteen was talking about the Minks and laughing as he talked about what happened when he was training, he warned them again "Don't say garchu." Luffy said "Why?" Thirteen sighed and said "It's a greeting but the Minks are extremely friendly. They nuzzle as a greeting so unless you want to be swarmed by nuzzling Minks, I suggest you don't." Zoro nodded and said "Thanks for the heads up." Law nodded as well and said "Almost got nuzzled." Robin was amused and the group continued before stopping in front of ruins.

Thirteen stared at the ruins and his body exploded into flames and electricity as he growled. An invisible wave exploded from his body and spread throughout the entirety of Zunesha. The crew breathed heavier and Luffy said "Calm down. You awakened your Conquerors and it's overflowing right now!" Thirteen roared to the sky and Luffy pinned him down yelling in his ear "RELAX!" Thirteen took a deep breath and calmed down.

Wanda showed up and saw Thirteen, she started panicking and said "Thirteen!" he got free and grabbed Wanda's collar saying "What happened!" Wanda stammered "I-I-It wa-" Inurashi appeared and said "It was Jack from Kaido's crew." Thirteen looked over and saw his missing leg and said "Where's Carrot." Inurashi was silent and said "I want you to calm down." Thirteen was getting a bad feeling and shot forward passed them as he spread out his observation haki.

Inurashi said "Wanda bring them to the rest, now!" as he ran after Thirteen. Wanda nodded and said "Come with me please." the crew was confused and Luffy said "What happened?" Wanda gulped and said "Nothing good, we need to get there before Thirteen does." the crew got serious and followed after Wanda towards the direction of the Minks and the rest of the crew.

Thirteen passed through the Minks, who immediately got out of his way and saw the rest of the crew, minus Chopper and Sanji, Nami said "Hey!" Thirteen ignored her and shot passed the group. He broke through a door and saw Carrot lying on a bed, covered in bandages. He grabbed Chopper by the horns and said "What happened?!" Nami came inside and Chopper said "She's critically injured, she needs blood. A lot of it."

Thirteen snapped "Take mine! What are you waiting for? She's F, were the same!" Chopper said "I need more than you can handle!" Thirteen shook him and growled in his face "I don't give a single fuck how much you need! Take my blood! Now." Chopper was struggling and said "You'll die!" Thirteen threw him through the wall and grabbed Miyagi saying "Do it." Miyagi sighed and nodded.

Thirteen was sitting down with a needle in his skin, drawing his blood as the rest of the crew showed up and Luffy said "What's going on?" Thirteen said "Nothing." Chopper was tied up and had his mouth stuffed as he cried, Nami was tied to a chair and couldn't speak either. The crew frowned and Zoro said "Why are they tied up?" Thirteen said "They.. are.. injured from.. the attack. I tied them so they don't.. hurt... themselves." he had trouble focusing as his vision got a little blurry.

Chopper struggled and tried to break free as Thirteen passed out. Zoro ripped the stuffing out of Chopper's mouth and Chopper said "You have to stop him! He's going to die! He's been draining his blood for a while now!" Luffy frowned and said "What happened?" Chopper said quickly "Carrot fought against Jack and got seriously injured! She lost a lot of blood and she needed a lot more or else she wouldn't make it, but the amount would kill any single person!"

Miyagi took out the IV from Thirteen's arm as he collapsed to the ground face first. Robin froze and stared at Thirteen before rushing over with tears in her eyes as she felt his pulse, it was still there but it wasn't very strong she snapped "Chopper! Fix him!" Chopper checked him and said "You fought before this?" Luffy nodded and said "Against mingo. He lost blood there too." Chopper snapped "He's probably extremely weak already!" Robin grabbed him and said "Fix him!" he said "I'll try my best but I need blood." Luffy said "I'm F." Zoro said "I'm X F." Franky said "I'm X F too."

Pedro walked in and said "I'm F as well." a bunch of other minks with F or X F type blood volunteered as well. Chopper nodded and took them all.

A while later

Thirteen was lying in a bed with 8 IV's in him as he got blood from nearly every person that had either F or X F blood. Robin was sitting next to his bed and staring at him in a daze, the rest of the crew watched him and Chopper took care of him and Carrot at the same time. Inurashi and Nekomamushi were explaining about Minks and what happened before they got here. Eventually Kin'emon and Kanjuro showed up and said "Is Raizo here?" Inuarashi and Nekomamushi nodded and brought them and the rest of the crew to a secret place, Robin stayed even at the mention that there was a poneglyph there.

While the crew was away Robin sat in silence with Thirteen, she wondered if he would do the same for her. Carrot woke up and slowly sat up, Robin looked at her, she didn't quite know what to feel, she knew that Thirteen loved her just as much as he loved herself, but she was also the reason Thirteen was currently comatose.

Carrot looked around and saw Robin and Thirteen, she didn't know who Robin was but she bolted from the bed and said "Thirteen! What happened?!" as she grabbed his hand and teared up, she wasn't fully healed yet and fell back dizzily but she crawled back and held his hand tightly as she cried. Robin said "He gave you his blood and saved your life. If he didn't get blood from other people, he would've died." Carrot was stunned as she cried "So it's my fault..." tears fell from her face as she pressed her forehead against his hand and mumbled "I would rather die than see you like this..."

Robin sighed and sat in silence with Carrot before saying "I'm Robin." Carrot said "Carrot. Nice to finally meet you." Robin said "You know me?" Carrot nodded and said "He talked about you and Carla all the time.." Robin looked at Thirteen's face, he knew he could possibly die but he still had a smile on his face, she wiped her eyes and smiled herself before talking to Carrot.

Thirteen was sitting in a white space happily and hoped that Carrot was okay, he wondered if they would be sad that he died, he sighed to himself and said "I hope they're okay.." he hard a voice say "They are." Thirteen turned around and saw a tiger Mink, who smiled and said "Hey Lucas or I guess Thirteen now."

Thirteen said "Dad?" Byakko nodded and said "How are you?" Thirteen chuckled and said "Dead. Where are we?" Byakko chuckled as well and replied "Well, not quite. You have some good friends and I don't know how to describe it.. I guess you can say we're in the middle of life and death." Thirteen sighed and Byakko said "Cheer up kiddo, you won't be joining me just yet." as he laughed, Thirteen said "How are you here? What are you really?"

Byakko smiled and said "I got to visit you! It's the least I can do for now being in your life. Sorry about that, there were.. complications." Thirteen said "What complications? You were killed. It's not your fault." Byakko coughed and said "Well anyways, I came to see you and apologize. Me and your mother have been watching you.." he grit his teeth and blue flames burst from his hands as he said "I wish I could've killed those bastards myself!" Thirteen looked at his hands and said "You have my fruit too?"

Byakko smiled and said "It was mine before I died kiddo, though I must say you used it quite differently." Thirteen smiled and said "How did you use yours?" Byakko waved his hand and a living tiger made out of stardust appeared next to him, it roared and Byakko said "Not too shabby eh?" Thirteen nodded and said "Cool!" Byakko laughed and waved his hand, the tiger jumped on to his body and Byakko got tiger paw gauntlets and a tiger helmet.

Thirteen was amazed and said "You can do that?!" Byakko smirked and said "Anything is possible. You took a different route kiddo. But anyway we don't have much time left, I need to tell you something important." Thirteen listened and Byakko continued "I was with Roger on his ship, as you know already." Thirteen nodded and Byakko sat in front of him and said "I met a man named Oden on his ship. As we sailed we got closer and became friends, before he died I was one of his retainers, there were nine others. Unfortunately when Oden died I had to escape with your mother from Wano, not too many of the other retainers knew this. Inuarashi and Nekomamushi knew but they never told you."

Thirteen said "What does it have to do with me?" Byakko poked his forehead and said "You have to continue for me kiddo. You're going to Wano anyway, you might as well know the truth, I know it's asking a lot of you, but I hope you can finish what I started. Oden... He did me a lot of favors and if he didn't help me escape from Wano, Me and your mother would have died. I can't ever repay that debt.."

Thirteen silently looked at him and said "This is the first time i've met you, and you want me to be some retainer?" Byakko sighed and said "I'm sorry Thirteen, I know it's been hard for you." as he stretched out his hand and patted Thirteen's head before continuing "I was never a father. I would give anything to go back and protect you." tears fell from his eyes as he added "I know i'm a stranger to you, and i'm sorry I couldn't be there for you or your mother. You two were the best things of my life."

Thirteen teared up and stay silent, this man was his father, someone who hadn't been there at all, how could he forgive all the years of suffering, he might say it wasn't his fault but he couldn't mean it. He clenched his fists and said "Why did you have to die! Even before I got sold the other kids made fun of me for not having a dad!" as he cried, Byakko hugged him and said "I know kid, I know." Thirteen cried loudly as he held on to Byakko tightly.

Byakko said "I had to keep you safe, Kaido knew where I was. He would've killed you and Leila too." Thirteen held tightly and said "Kaido killed you?" Byakko nodded and said "I couldn't stop him but I guaranteed your safety. I'm sorry kid, it was the only way." Thirteen felt Byakko disappearing and he struggled to grab on to him again as he said "Dad!" Byakko smiled as he disappeared and said "Time's up kiddo."

Thirteen cried and screamed "Wait! Don't leave me again!" Byakko rubbed his head and said "I'll always be with you kiddo." he poked at Thirteen's heart and said "Right here. Me and your mother are always watching, stay safe." Thirteen cried as his vision was blurred through tears and Byakko smiled "I love you kiddo. Be careful out there." as he completely disappeared and Thirteen screamed "DAD!!" as everything went black.

Thirteen sat up abruptly with tears in his eyes, he ignored everyone and ran out of the house stumbling. He ran to his dad statue and fell to his knees as he cried while mumbling "Please come back..." before passing out at the foot of the statue. The crew followed him and found him lying in front of the statue, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi sighed, while Luffy picked him up saying "Who's that?"

Inuarashi said "His father." the crew gasped and looked at the statue, Robin looked up at the statue and she could feel it smiling at her, she smiled back and whispered "I'll take care of him.." the statue shook slightly before going back to normal as the group left, Carrot left some flowers on the statue and smiled before walking away.

A while later

Thirteen woke up and sat up seeing everyone, his ears twitched and he said "Hey." Luffy smiled and said "You're awake!" Thirteen smiled and nodded saying "What did I miss?" Chopper slapped him saying "WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DIE FOR YOU STUPID IDIOT.." he went off on Thriteen, who grabbed him and threw him face first into Milky's breasts while chuckling, Chopper mumbled "Garchu.." before falling to the ground, unconscious with hearts in his eyes. Milky giggled and picked him up.

Thirteen said "Anything else?" Nami shook her head and said "Sanji left." Thirteen said "Sounds like it wasn't a mutual break up." Nami grinded her teeth and said "He went to get married on Whole Cake Island." Thirteen whistled and said "He's faster than me!" Carrot grunted and pinched him, hard, he sucked in a breath and said "Calm down. Anyway, we're going to get him right?" Luffy grinned and nodded, Thirteen licked his lips and said "I can't wait.. Hhehehe"

Suddenly Zunesha started shaking

The group was alarmed and Luffy said "The elephant is asking for help." Momonosuke said "I can see ships! There's a man with tusks on one of the ships! It's Jack!" Thirteen grabbed him and said "Where is he little pervert." Momonosuke said "In the front of Zunesha, I ca-" Thirteen chuckled sinisterly "Don't bother. I'll take care of it.." he got up and walked out the door saying "I'll make it as painful as possible." before disappearing, Robin said "You might not want to watch Momonosuke. What happened to Sugar wasn't a fun show to see." Nami said "Sugar?" Robin explained what happened to Sugar and everyone got chills.

Thirteen jumped off Zunesha saying "Don't worry, I got them Zunesha." Zunesha made a grunt in response and Thirteen flew towards Jack's ships, he spread his arms out and summoned multiple shooting stars destroying all the ships, except the one Jack was on, before landing on the ship.

Jack looked over and said "Who are you?" Thirteen chuckled and said "The one who killed you." before reappearing behind Jack and kicking him in the head, sending him flying into the railing of the ship. Thirteen charged at Jack's crew and killed them all before getting punched by Jack, going flying into a wall. Thirteen set fire to the ship as he fought Jack punch for punch.

Thirteen remembered what happened to Carrot and growled as an invisible wave of Conquerors haki spread out and pressured Jack as Thirteen pushed him harder and harder, Jack had really thick skin, Thirteen was having trouble getting through it, he punched Jack in the face, shattering his mask.

Thirteen said "A fishman? Looks like i'll have to kill you normally then." he grinned like a devil and said "I like that way better anyways." as he held his hands together and made 8 copies of himself. They all shot their hands forward and 9 beams bombarded Jack, causing a big explosion. Thirteen grabbed Jack by his horns and stood on his shoulders as he pulled as hard as he could, Jack tried to reach up and grab Thirteen but he jumped and slammed him into the deck.

Thirteen stood on top of the bloodied Jack and grabbed a star sword out of the air before saying "I wonder how fishman tastes" and stabbed Jack in the shoulder, causing him to scream. Thirteen kicked the sword and cut Jack's arm off, he stabbed Jack in the other shoulder and did the same before slashing across Jack's torso, his sword was burning white with black electricity crackling off it, the guard was in the shape of a star and the bottom was a half sun, half crescent moon shape.

He stabbed it into Jack's legs and severed them as well before saying "Do you enjoy being tortured? You remember the rabbit Mink you almost killed on Zou? That was my wife." he grabbed Jack's sickles and turned them black before saying "I hope Kaido enjoys my gift!" and stabbed both of them into Jack's chest, one punctured his heart and the other went through the other side, Thirteen cut off his head and placed it in the middle of the sickles and clapped "I should be an artist!" he chuckled and grabbed Jack's corpse, he put it on a small boat and tied and anchor to it before flying back up to Zunesha and patting the elephant's trunk and returning to the group.

He landed back with the group and saw Momonosuke throwing up, he chuckled and cleaned his hands of the blood before saying "Finished~" the rest shook their heads and Luffy said "Was he strong?" Thirteen frowned and said "Not really, he just had really tough skin.." Inuarashi and Nekomamushi coughed and Thirteen grinned "To me at least.."

The crew chuckled and Luffy said "Let's party!" Carrot grabbed Thirteen and sped off as the rest went to the banquet hall, Robin followed after the two.

Carrot got to her house and grabbed him saying "What's the big idea?! You save me from death, but you want to die yourself?!" Thirteen said seriously "I would rather die, then watch you die. Any of you actually." Robin walked in and said "Is that true?" Thirteen nodded and said "I would do the same for any of you, my life isn't the same without you three in it." Carrot teared up and snapped "You think we'd want you to die for us?!" Robin nodded and said "I agree." Thirteen shook his head and said "It doesn't matter, I did it once, i'll do it again. I don't deserve to be happy if I can't protect the ones I love."

Carrot shook him and snapped "There won't be a second time you idiot!" Robin sighed and said "You really are an idiot.." before walking away saying "I'm going to the banquet hall." Thirteen reached out and said "Ah wait!" she turned around and Thirteen grabbed her and kissed her saying "I love both of you, please don't be mad. I'm sorry..." he hesitated but finally said "Can you both stay with me tonight?" Carrot nodded and Robin said "Like.." Thirteen said "No, not like that. Just sleep." Robin smiled and nodded before leaving. Thirteen smiled and Carrot leaned on his chest as she said "She's nice."

Thirteen stroked her hair as he said "Yeah, she is. She's probably feeling pretty conflicted right now though." he sighed and said "I just want you three to be okay with each other, you don't have to be friends." Carrot kissed him saying "I want to be her friend~ She talked to me when you were asleep, we had a nice conversation" Thirteen smiled and said "What did you talk about?" Carrot knocked on his head and said "You. What else?" Thirteen chuckled and said "I missed you.." Carrot wrapped her arms around his neck and said quietly "Me too.. and thank you for saving my life, but I don't want to be saved if it means you have to die.."

Thirteen kissed her softly as he said "There was no time. I didn't have another option. What are you doing fighting anyways?" Carrot mumbled "I was excited you were coming and I wanted you to.. to think I was strong now so I could join you." Thirteen stroked her cheek with his thumb as he said "I know you're strong. I don't want you to fight against people Inuarashi and Nekomamushi couldn't beat." Carrot looked into his eyes and said "Please don't leave anymore, it was so hard the last time.. Take me with you." Thirteen sighed and said "I can't make the decision, you know that."

Carrot nodded and got an idea before saying "Okay.. Can we.." Thirteen picked her up and walked to the bed while kissing her as he said "That was the plan." before chuckling and slowly taking off her clothes, he said "You got bigger?"

Carrot blushed and said "You weren't here so I sorta um-" Thirteen chuckled and bit on her nipples saying "Sorta what?" she moaned and was embarrassed as she said "You already know what." Thirteen slipped his clothes off and kneaded her breasts as he said "I don't know" Carrot moaned and said "Please put it in.. I have waited for so long.." He kissed her and slid inside as she moaned and said "I love you so much." he smiled and kissed her as he said "Me too.."

A while later

Thirteen and Carrot joined the banquet and ate a bunch of vegetables, much to Thirteen's dismay. Luffy complained the whole time about the lack of meat and Zoro just drank. The party ended and everybody went to sleep, Thirteen grabbed Robin and Carrot and went back to Carrot's house.

He was lying down on the bed in only shorts as he sighed happily, Carrot only had a shirt on and Robin was the same, they were on both sides and he wrapped his arms around them both saying "Too comfortable." the duo giggled and snuggled into him as he slowly drifted off the sleep, the girls looked at each other and Carrot grabbed his waist tighter and pulled him closer to her.

Robin sniffed and wrapped her legs around Thirteen's leg and stuck close to him as she rested her head on his shoulder, Carrot grit her teeth and put her leg over Thirteen's and leaned her head on his chest. The duo silently competed before falling asleep with smiles.

(Author's Note)

Hey guys! We're back! Did you miss me? Probably not. ANYWAYS the mini rivalry begins! Hhahahah you might be asking yourself, where's Carla going to sleep? Well the answer is simple, she sleeps literally on top of Thirteen, being the smallest and has the most chest coverage of the three. She's too cute, everybody likes Carla!

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