Yo, everybody! How's the story so far? I feel like its going in a slightly fast pace and Akira is not participating a lot. Anyway, I think I mentioned this before, but I don't really like Nami, so Akira will also have somewhat of a dislike for Nami, he's not going to pick on her, more like put her in her place politely and innocently.

Akira will still care for Nami of course.

Anyway, continuing on with the story.

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Akira's POV:

"Yo, Captain! How's the food?" I asked, probably appearing out of nowhere in there eyes.

Zoro almost spit out whatever he was chewing. "DON'T JUST APPEAR SUDDENLY!" I giggled childishly, "Gomen, gomen~"

"Anyway, now that all the action is over, who the hell are you?" Zoro demanded.

My mouth curved into a smirk. "Allow me to introduce myself properly, my name is Meredith D. Akira, first-mate of the Straw Hat Pirates. My partner is Eve." Eve popped his head out of my hood and climbed out onto the table and gave a small bow with his head at Zoro.

"First mate, heh?Nice to meet you. Why do you wear that damn white hood anyway?"

I smiled, "Well, its intimidating isn't it? Not knowing what your opponent looks like frustrates the enemy and messes up there play. You could say this is the image I was going for since I don't want to be underestimated, but after today I realized everything is to easy so I decided to discard it. Who knows? It might be fun watching people losing..."

I dramatically took off the white hood and stood there tipping my white fedora flashing a playful wink at Zoro. "...to a 12-year old child!" Zoro's mouth dropped and his eyes widened in shock as I jumped down from my stilts and made them disappear with a snap of my fingers (while in reality I just put them in my SAO invisible inventory)

"YOUR 12?!" Zoro exclaimed standing up suddenly in shock.

I was sitting next to Luffy, calmly eating in a good manner unlike my captain. I smiled at Zoro. "Yes, I believe I just said that. Meredith D. Akira, first mate, and 12-years old. Nice to meet you too!" I went back to eating leaving Zoro in shock.

Luffy looked at Zoro confused. "What's wrong, Zoro? So what if Akira is a kid? He's strong!" Zoro sighed, "You know what? You're right, as long as your strong then its fine." I bet whatever respect I gained from him through my strength was evaporating and he probably thought it was all a fluke since I'm a child.

"Wow, I feel so loved." I said happily with silent sarcastic.

I finished quickly since I wasn't such a big eater as the other two. Wiping my mouth gently with a napkin I did my 'first-mate' job which was taking things seriously or at least somewhat seriously.

"'Kay, down the business, I was able to get Coby and Helmeppo to become Marines under the training of Vice-Admiral Garp." I pretended not to notice Luffy stop eating for a moment and shivering before going back into eating for comfort I think.

Luckily Zoro didn't seem to notice since he seemed impressed that I was able to get the 'great Vice-Admiral Garp' to train a pink headed crybaby and a floppy yellow thingy.

Coby was currently hiding in a corner since I blatantly refused to listen to any of his annoying excuses of screaming about how he can't be trained by Garp. Something along the lines of 'Impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible x infinity.

Surprisingly Luffy, instead of hitting him like usual, gave a very very sympathetic pat on the back.

I innerly laughed.

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After leaving Shell Town on the small boat Luffy had, I tried to relax and meditate to go into mental training.

Unfortunately, Luffy almost pushed me into the water thinking I was dead.

"Fufufu~ I wasn't dead Luffy, just meditating." I said patiently, standing on the bow of the boat since I had to dodge at the last moment before I fell into the water and probably losed control and turn into a mermaid again.

"Really? I want to try! Show me how!" Luffy ordered. I smiled happily, "Even if I showed you, you probably won't be able to do it since you tend to stray off easily. Meditating is about focusing on the endless void. In other words, thinking and focusing on one thing for a long period time." I stopped as I saw that my point was proven when Luffy was off to the other side of the boat poking the sleeping Zoro.

Instead of being annoyed, I chuckled in amusement. Taking out a notebook (since I didn't want to show anyone my laptop) I began to write down notes I was planning to put in the logbook or write down files when we do get the Going Merry. I also made a note to buy some glasses later, just for laughs and to get into the 'serious mode'

"Hey kid, how exactly do you fight anyway." Zoro, who was now awake and annoyed of Luffy's poking asked me.

My hand stopped for a moment before I closed my notebook with one hand. I smiled a close-eyed smile and Zoro. "I would appreciate it if you called me by my name and not 'kid' or 'brat'." Zoro 'che'd and waited for my answer.

I sighed but I'll probably gain his respect sooner or later. Probably. I put my notebook back into my backpack as I got out a craft kit since it'll probably take some time before any action started.

I got out various pieces of small metal and started tampering with it and carving in designs reminding myself to heat these later to make them look shinier. "Well, as for how I fight I think I just showed it to you earlier-"

"You fight with metal fans using them like swords?" Zoro interrupted looking somewhat interested.

I paused for a moment before continuing gently hammering a gold piece to look like shells. "...I suppose I like to use my own style of fighting. Free-style you could say."

Zoro hummed.

Finishing two gold shell pieces I added earring holders on. And no, I'm not going to wear these. I just like crafting. I was thinking of giving them as a gift to Robin or Nami or selling them.

My hands stopped for a moment and my face shadowed when a sudden thought came up.

I'm in another world where the technology isn't as high tech or has as much info as my world does. Meaning I could use my world's knowledge to there limits.

Dozens of ideas came to my head, both responsible and mischievous. '....I could work with this..'

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Sorry about the short chapter, I was writing this while I was at school.

The next chapter will be bigger I promise.

Ok, now I should better run since I'm almost late for class. ;P