Thursday, September 21, 2006

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well i hope every one liked the action yestersday.....oh, our feild trip? disasterous! it all turned out to be a sex ed class! i never get TOO queasy with stuff like that, but i almost passed out on this class.....and no one cared! 1 of my friends who always passes out on crap like that got all the "are you ok?" stuff....i didn't care as long as i got out of there! but everyone thought i just left so i could comfort him....so yea...enough about me....here's the next part....


Zoro and Sanji explained how Yumi had supposedly turned on all of them. They also told how Michiyo and Yumi had battled it out, and how Yumi cheated last minute. Well, it was more of Zoro telling them. Sanji pretty much kept quiet. He had fallen behind in the group and walked slowly. Noticing this, Nami came up beside him. “Hey, you ok?” Nami
Looked at him, slightly worried. “Yea, I’m fine.” He said with a small smile. Nami patted him on the back and said “We found boatloads of treasure!” Sanji smiled a little wider.
Back on the ship, Chopper worked frivolously to help Michiyo. After that, he checked on Sanji’s head and Zoro’s leg. “How is she?” Zoro asked as chopper came out from her cabin. “She took quite a beating, but she’s fine.”

The others went back to the cave to get the gold, while Zoro stayed with Michiyo.
He stared at her for a long time. “What goes on in your head?” he wondered aloud. After another few moments of staring, he shook his head. “What’s wrong with me? I’ve never felt like this before…” he thought to himself. The more he thought, the more tired he got. Until finally, he fell asleep.
Michiyo awoke to the same pain in her ribs. Only now it was actually bearable. She rubbed her eyes and attempted to sit up. She looked around. She was in her cabin. Her gaze traveled until she could see Zoro sleeping in the doorway. She smiled to herself and quietly got up. She realized she was wearing one of Nami’s shirts. She picked up her backpack and headed for the door. She quietly stepped over Zoro and headed for the edge of the ship, where her boat was still tied to Luffy’s.
Just as she was about to get in “Leaving so soon?” she turned to see Zoro standing behind her. “Where are you going?” he asked. She turned to Zoro. “I hate saying goodbye.” She said quietly. “You’re…you’re leaving?” Zoro looked at her hard. “Thank you for helping me and for letting me join this crew but…” “It’s Yumi…right?” he finished for her. “We’ve been friends for a long time. We’ve been through a lot together. I really don’t believe that she is capable of doing something like this. Zoro…I have to go after her.” She tried not to cry. Zoro reached down and grabbed her pack. “Zoro…” before she could finish, he threw her pack into her boat. “You better get going then.” He looked down. Michiyo, with tears in her eyes, threw her arms around Zoro’s neck. “Thank you…”she whispered. Zoro put his arms around her. For a long time, they both sat there in that embrace. Finally, Michiyo reluctantly pulled away. “How can I be sure you’ll come back?” said Zoro, half jokingly. Michiyo thought for a minute. She took off her bracelet and secured it to the handle of Zoro’s sword. “Keep this as a reminder of me. As long as you have this, I’ll come back.” Zoro looked at her for a long time. He leaned towards her. She took a step back. “Let’s not make this anymore painful.” She said looking down. “I will come back…plus, I do want my bracelet.” She tried to smile. “Also, those lessons you promised me…” she tried to joke but her eyes kept getting watery. “Tell the others I said goodbye.”
Just as she was getting into her boat someone said “Hey! Where are you off to?” Zoro and Michiyo turned to see Sanji. Michiyo got out of the boat and walked over to Sanji. She looked at him for a long time before saying “I will find and help Yumi.” She turned to address Zoro too. “I swear, I will find you again on the open seas. And if you will still have us, we will rejoin your crew.” She gave Sanji a friendly hug good bye and also gave Zoro one last embrace. But this time, she leaned up and kissed him on the cheek.

Michiyo got back into her boat and began to sail off. She didn’t dare turn around. She didn’t want Zoro to see the tears in her eyes. She couldn’t point it out, but there was something about Zoro that made her heart lurch every time she thought about him. Her mind wandered back to when he kissed her. A few more tears slid down her face. “Ha… this is probably how Sanji feels about Yumi.” She thought with a smile.

During all this, Yumi also sailed into the distance. “I’m so sorry.” She said aloud. “If only you all knew why I had to do this…” tears rolled down her face as she bit her lip. Her heart hurt when she thought about what had happened. The pained look on Michiyo’s face when she slashed her back. Or the horrified look on Sanji’s when she pulled the trigger. “I…I will make this up to you guys. Someday.”

Michiyo wanted more than anything to be apart of the Straw Hat Crew. It was like being part of a family again. A weird family but still a family. But, she couldn’t even think about being in a family with out Yumi. Right then and there, she made one more solid promise to herself, Yumi and the crew. “I promise that we will all be together soon. Yumi, What ever it is that you’re going through, I will help you get through it…” she looked up at the setting sun and sighed. “I promise…..”

there WILL be more tomarrow!
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