Kaede

"Ah why'd we have to find this place of all places." I say letting out an annoyed sigh as I sprawl out on one of the lawn chairs near Robin and Nami who were relaxing.

"What are you talking about? It's nice to relax once and a while. Why don't you change into a bathing suit? Just looking at you in all that is making me sweat." Nami says and I glare at her before letting my head flop back onto the chair.

"I still have two questions that I need to get answers to." Robin says sliding the sun glasses she has on her face onto her head.

"Ah from Lovely Island. So what's your questions?" I ask turning onto my side so I can look at Robin.

"First off you're a girl?" Robin asks and I nod.

"Yup, since you were asking for clarification you still get two questions. I'm in a somewhat generous mood since I haven't been spotted yet." I say and I ignore the wide eyes Nami's directing towards me.

"Leroy over there." A yell resonates through the air and I look towards where it's coming from to see a group of the host running in this direction.

"Shit I'll answer the rest later." I say standing up and starting to run away from the group.

"Akito you're up."

"Yes sir." Akito says and I hear a set of footsteps approaching me at a fast pace before I'm tackled. I slide a couple of feet before continuing to crawl away with Akito hanging off my legs. I continue to crawl until a set of feet place themselves in my path.

"You have paperwork to do director." Leroy says and I start struggling when he grabs me by the back of the shirt.

"Let me go Leroy. I don't want to do paperwork. I want to enjoy my vacation." I say struggling as he drags me to the office and I see the two girls staring at me with a raised eyebrow when I grab onto a post.

"You can enjoy it after you do the paperwork you missed. You swore that whenever you were here you'd do some paperwork." Leroy says and I let go of the post.

"Shit I did, didn't I?" I say dragging my feet towards the office.

"Yes you did now get in that office and do your thing. There should be a swimsuit in there for when you're done as well." Leroy says opening the office door and shoving me through before I can say anything about the huge piles of paperwork.

"There's a reason I left Mike in charge." I yell sitting down and pulling one of the piles towards me.

"Yeah he quit three months ago and Dorian's been handling the management since then." Leroy says from the other side of the door.

"God dammit." I yell before freezing time and finishing the paperwork as quick as I can. I take a nap before changing into the bright green swimsuit Leroy had picked out and I snap my fingers unfreezing time. I walk out the door only to be stopped by Leroy.

"Is it done?" He asks and I shove him into the room.

"It's done." I say as I walk away.

"How's that possible? It's been less than a minute." Leroy yells and I make my way back over to where Nami and Robin are still relaxing.

"Paperwork's a pain." I say flopping down in the chair I was laying in before.

"Hey guys we need food." Luffy says running over with Usopp, Chopper and two girls following behind him.

"Akito food," I yell and I see Akito wave in the distance.

"What's going on?" Sanji asks walking over completely missing me as he walks to the table that Nami and the two girls are now situated at.

"Here you go." Akito says dropping the food off before heading back to work but he stops beside me. "Did you finish your paperwork?"

"Yes I finished my paperwork." I say rolling my eyes before lowering my face back into the chair I was laying on. "Now let me sleep."

"Fine, fine." Akito says going to leave again but Nami stops him this time.

"What about the payment for the food?" Nami asks and I sense Akito pointing at me.

"It's her treat." He says before walking away and I half raise my hand to wave before giving up to try to go back to sleep.

"We can not let such a beautiful lady pay for our meal." Sanji says and Luffy bounds over before sitting on my back.

"Thanks sis." Luffy says and I let out a grunt.

"Your welcome, now get off." I say and Luffy jumps off my back.

"I didn't recognize you at first. You look completely different." Robin says and Luffy looks between us.

"Are you starting to tell people?" Luffy asks.

"I owed her answers to two of her questions due to her keeping my bounty secret." I say.

"Oh, what-?" Luffy gets cut off as Nami lets out a yell and I'm thankful for that since he was probably going to ask what one.

"You mean everyone on the ship has a bounty?" Nami says and Luffy nods.

"We're worth over a billion now." Luffy says laughing and I shake my head at him.

"Only you would be happy about that idiot." I say.

"That's for sure." Nami says sighing before turning back to me. "So what's your bounty?"

"370 Million Beri." I say and Robin gains a smirk. I think she believes she just found out my main bounty which is nowhere near it.

"Anyway who are these two?" I ask directing the attention towards the two girls who were quietly eating this whole time.

"I'm Lina and this is my sister Sayo." Lina says. "Thanks for the food."

"It's no problem." I say giving them a small smile and I side step the jump hug Luffy was aiming at resulting in him flying into one of the pool.

"That idiot." Nami says and Sanji gets ready to get him but I beat him too it since I was closer. I jump into the pool and surface a second later with the idiot underneath my arm.

"Thanks sis." Luffy says after spitting out a shit ton of water.

"Don't go doing random jump hugs. You're luckily there wasn't a gorge behind me like last time." I say standing up and squeezing some water from my hair.

"Shishishi that was fun though." Luffy says and I stop on his back causing him to laugh.

"That was not fun. You went bounding down into it and I had to drag your rubber ass out of it." I growl at him and Luffy laughs again.

"Sorry about him Mellorie. He's an idiot." Sanji says walking up beside me and I shake my head.

"I already know that. I am his sister." I say and Sanji drops his cigarette at that.

"That idiot has a sister?" Sanji says and I nod.

"Yes he has a sister." I say.

"You have a sister Luffy?" Sanji yells walking over to where the idiot trio's surrounding a water raccon.

"Yeah." Luffy says looking up at Sanji.

"You have a sister?" Usopp yells while Chopper just looks over at me and waves.

"Yeah and she's hot." Sanji says and I wave back to Chopper.

"You think almost every girl's hot." Usopp says and I turn over to Robin.

"I'll answer your questions later. I've gotta check a few things." I inform her and she nods.

"I'll finish my questions later then." Robin says before I walk off to check out what Dorian has done to my resort. Wandering through the halls I check out all the new additions that he's added and when I turn the next corner I collide with a muscular chest.

"Sorry." A deep voice says and I identify it as Zoro's easily.

"It's fine." I say stepping back and I look at Zoro to see him in green swim trunks and a white tank top. I see Zoro look me over as well before he tilts his head to the side.

"Kaede?" Zoro asks and I blink at him in surprise.

"That's the first time someone's guessed correctly who I was." I say tilting my head at him.

"It's your aura or something that lets me identify you." Zoro says and I raise an eyebrow.

"You sure it ain't just you 'cause I can hardly sense you for some reason." I say and Zoro steps closer to me.

"I'll admit that I didn't expect this." Zoro says looking down at me as I look up at him.

"What? Me being a girl?" I ask and Zoro continues to stare at me.

"Yeah, as well as you knowing Kuma." Zoro says and I let out a sigh dipping my head down. I end up hitting my forehead against his chest since he's so close.

"I guess I have some explaining to do." I say before lifting my head back up. "Come on." I say taking a few steps down the hall towards my room before grabbing Zoro's hand and continuing to the room that's always locked.

"Yeah you have quite a bit of explaining to do." Zoro says walking up beside me and we continue our way to the office holding hands. I try to ignore all the comments from random visiters that keep saying how cute of a couple we are, especially how we match. I take Zoro down an employee's only hallway before stopping at the last door in the hallway.

"Are we even supposed to be here?" Zoro asks looking around as I pull out the key to the room in front of us.

"It's fine." I say unlocking the door and pushing Zoro inside before following behind him. I lock the door behind us and see Zoro looking around the room in curiousity. The room was extremely large considered to normal size rooms. A huge king size bed was placed on the one side of the room pressed against the wall. Other items you'd find in a bedroom were all over the room in places I had picked out. Most of the left over space was just filled with random not really important stuff. I ignore the living room section that's in the middle of the room and opted to sit on my bed. I place myself right in the corner as I hug one of my pillows. Zoro walks over and climbs onto the bed to sit beside me.

"So are you going to start explaining?" Zoro asks a couple seconds after we sit in silence.

"I guess so. You can't tell anyone else what I tell you though. I need you to promise me that." I say looking at Zoro who nods.

"I promise." Zoro says and I look down hugging the pillow tighter.

"I guess I'll start with the biggest thing." I say letting out a sigh before looking Zoro right in the eyes. "I'm cursed. Not just any simple curse either it's the curse of the fruits, the devil fruits. I can identify information about people who have devil fruits with ease thanks to that; I also have the ability to use every single fruit out there as well as the ones that have been lost to the world and if I focus enough I can even strip someone of their devil fruit ability." I say looking down not wanting to see his expression as I give the details on my curse and I stay silent waiting for him to hate me or to leave. When he does neither I look up to find him looking at me carefully before he wraps his arm around me and pulls me into him.

"That explains quite a bit actually. So you used a devil fruit when we first met then?" Zoro asks and I nod. "Can you still swim?"

"Yeah unlike devil fruit users anyone who carries this curse is an extremely great swimmer. So the World Government eventually found out about this and on my sixth birthday they got there hands on me. I was stuck in their clutches for three years, and I met Kuma in those three years, before escaping." I say cringing before recalling something. "You remember how crocodile has a hook instead of a hand?"