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When Kidd first saw Trafalgar’s wanted poster, his immediate thought was this guy is both insane and neat.
There is something about Trafalgar Law that took his interest like metal to magnet (ha, that was a joke that he always found amusing, considering his power is magnetism), and without realizing, he always looks forward to what the Heart Pirates up to from News Coo. Wire always teases him that his ‘crush’ for the Heart Pirate captain is so blatantly showing everywhere, but he just ignores it, hey, there is nothing wrong with wanting to know who’s you compete towards the one piece, right?
Definitely not that smug smirk that always on Trafalgar’s wanted poster. If he collected all Trafalgar’s wanted poster from the moment that guy surfacing from North Blue, that was nobody business, right? Kidd is a captain himself, he needed to keep himself up to date with his rivals, thank you very much.
He almost feels elated when they finally meet each other at last. Not the sappy or romantic first meet, of course, Kidd doesn’t even sure if Trafalgar knows about his existence, but quite eventful remembering they first meet was on a fucking human auction house. He grinned when he noticed that the Heart captain was seated leisurely in a few rows in front of him, with his two ridiculous looking hat gremlins and that polar bear. He looks relaxed, and damn those earrings look so good on him.
“Oh look,” Wire snickered beside Killer, “Boss’s crush,”
He ignored the comment, but apparently Killer has another thought.
“Please don’t start another fight in here, would you Kidd?” Killer voice was even, but Kidd knows that he was annoyed, “wait till this auction is ended,”
Kidd licked his lips, “no promises,”
“Asking him for duel was not gonna make him impressed of you,” Killer rolled his eyes behind his mask, “you can just ask him out like a normal human being, ya know?”
“And where was the fun of that?”
Killer sighed.
“Let it go Kil,” Wire still snickered, “Boss here is a lost cause,”
Killer sent an unapproved look to his crewmates, but Wire just laughs. Apparently, Wire’s laugh caught attention one of Trafalgar’s gremlins, the one with orca hat and flashy sunglasses, he studies them for a bit before whispered something to his captain, in return, that said captain tilted his head to their direction, and for the first time ever, Trafalgar acknowledged Kidd and his crewmates presence.
One of the first things Kidd realized was the other captain is absolutely stunning with golden molten eyes that couldn’t captured on his wanted poster, and those smirk really widened Kidd’s own grin.
Trafalgar Law sends him a middle finger and those smug grin that basically win every attention that Kidd has before shifted his attention towards the human auction main stage.
“What a feisty guy, I like it!” Kidd grinned like a madman, while Killer beside him face-palming himself.
“Here we go again,”
Kidd can hear Killer’s mumbling but opted to ignoring him since he kind of busy ogling the Heart captain.
It was when the Straw Hat crew making their entrance.
“O, that Straw Hats,” Heat commented, “the captain wasn’t with them, though,”
Kidd made face. The Straw Hat pirates with Monkey D. Luffy as their captain. That monkey’s bounty was slightly behind Kidd himself after their stunt in Enies Lobby last time, which is totally ridiculous and crazy in Kidd’s opinion. It also irked Kidd to no end since the newspaper reported Enies Lobby incident covering the story for weeks resulting the other pirates accomplishment seems pale to compare, and in addition there is no news about the Heart pirates too covered in newspapers during after incident phase.
Kidd decided he really doesn’t like the Straw Hats after they went on and hog all the attention.
“Let’s hope the captain doesn’t showing up,” Wire also eyeing the Straw Hats crew, “I heard their captain always brings trouble everywhere he goes,”
Killer rolled his eyes again, “yea, right, like ours wasn’t,”
Wire snickered.
It didn’t take long until the chaotic monkey himself decided to show himself. Blasting into the human auction with a fucking flying fish and shouting with joy upon spotting his mermaid friend on the stage. After that, everything went south so fucking fast. There are commotion and the freaking Celestial Dragon involved, and that stupid monkey decided to punch Celestial Dragon square in a face, and his fucking swordsman had the audacity to whine to his captain that he wants to cut the bastard himself after aforementioned Celestial Dragon shoots their merman friends in plain sight. Wire was absolutely fucking right. That monkey does brings trouble wherever he goes, and apparently his crew also as insane as him. What a fucking wonderful news.
The human auction shop went chaos and everyone trying to save themselves. Then more of Straw Hats appeared with more flying fish rider, and one of them landed on another fucking Celestial Dragon.
Goddammit this crew was insane to the boot.
“Luffy, where is Camie?!” one of the freshly landed on top of a Celestial Dragon—which is now losing his consciousness—with long nose asked, and the monkey pointed to the main stage.
“Over there! We’re getting out of here as soon as we can get that bomb thing off her neck!” the monkey stopped to punching one of the guard near him, “there are battleships and an admiral on the way!”
“WHAAAT?!”
“Oh, the marines are already here, Straw-Hat-ya,”
Kidd feels like the world has stopped. He promptly remembered that the Heart pirate’s captain also there with them, he looked thoroughly amused with the situation, and seemed like he was observing Straw Hat Luffy with so much interest on those golden eyes.
It caused something unpleasant in his stomach, and no, Killer, this wasn’t jealousy, for fuck sake.
Straw-Hat Luffy turned his gaze towards the Heart pirates captain, “Who the heck are you… and what’s with the bear?”
That doesn’t falter Trafalgar’s smirk, “if it’s the marines you’re worried about, they’ve been here since the auction started, they’re surrounding the entire auction house,”
“What?! Seriously?!”
Trafalgar look amused with the monkey’s reaction—and hell that kind of unsettling for Kidd—but then continued, “I don’t know who it is they’re after, but I doubt they expected anybody to start attacking Celestial Dragon,”
“You’re… Trafalgar Law!” Nico Robin eyeing the man that her captain talked to, “Luffy, that man is a pirate!”
Trafalgar smirked again and the monkey gasped.
“The bear too?!”
That monkey is totally ridiculous. The Heart pirates captain was basically in front of him, and he more concerned about the bear that Trafalgar has?! There must be something wrong with his head for fuck sake!
The craziest part was when the dark king Rayleigh showing himself leisurely and knocking up all of the guards inside the auction house with his Haki, before setting the mermaid that monkey intended to save free.
What an absolutely fantastic day.
“Oh, I’m sorry, you guys are pirates hanging around to watch, eh?” Dark King Rayleigh smiles, “and if you just took that blast without any trouble, I guess you’re not amateurs either,”
“Oh,” Trafalgar looks amused, “to think we’d run into a man like him in a place like this!”
Kidd gritted his teeth, another person who took Trafalgar’s attention, eh? “Dark King Silvers Rayleigh! What a legend like him doing here?!”
“Oh, please,” Rayleigh smile, “here on this island, I just go by ‘coating engineer Ray-san’, I wouldn’t go throwing that name around too much! I’m an old man now,” he said lightly before kneeling in front of the merman, “you okay, Hachi?”
Kidd tsked, “Old man my ass,”
The monkey blinked, “old man, what was all that about you wanted to see me?”
“Let’s talk about it later!” Rayleigh still smiling, checking on the merman the Celestial Dragon shoot, “first, we need to worry about getting out of here,”
At the same time, marine outside the human auction house started to use their den-den speakers.
“Aa, aa, criminals! We suggest you hurry up and release saint Roswald and his family immediately! An Admiral will be here any minute, so you’d be best off surrendering yourselves right away! There’s no telling what’ll happen if you don’t! Damn rookies!”
“Looks like we’re involved in this whether we like it or not,” Trafalgar voice sounds amusing, which is also sounds very attractive for Kidd by the way if anyone care, he continues, “they’re acting as though we’re his accomplices!”
Kidd took it as cue to show off at Trafalgar, since this whole mess mainly caused by that damned monkey, so he grinned, “Well, I got to see firsthand how crazy everything went, I’m not exactly complaining, we’ll heading ahead if you don’t mind,” He glanced towards Trafalgar, who raised one of his eyebrow, pleased that Trafalgar now pay him some attention, Kidd continued, “we’ll take out the marines outside while we’re at it so you don’t have to worry too much,”
Apparently, that was wrong move because that pushed the wrong (or was it right?) button inside the monkey and Trafalgar. That Monkey is insisted that he doesn’t need help, and Kidd can go ahead while he clearing up the way, and the hottest, and irking part, was Trafalgar actually disagree with them both and tell them to fuck off so he can finish the marines by himself. Kidd had to restrain himself so he wouldn’t attack the Heart pirates captain and kiss him shamelessly. That probably might gave that monkey a scarred life, but Kidd honestly doesn’t really care about the teenager.
Whatever.
Eh, Kidd happy enough to have a chance to fight alongside Trafalgar.
It irked him though when they finished ‘cleaning up’ the marines, Trafalgar decided to pay more attention to that monkey who somehow got smaller after using his power. Lame ass.
“Oh my, what’s wrong Mugiwara-ya? You look small,” Trafalgar commented with his seems to be permanent smirk.
The monkey apparently doesn’t understand whether Trafalgar made fun of him or not since he just shrugged, “really?”
Trafalgar really looked like he had time of his life, and Kidd really wanted to punch that monkey in the face.
Eventually they split up to avoid the Admiral, but Kidd wouldn’t forgot how interesting Trafalgar Law would be.
He can’t wait to meet the Heart pirate captain again in the New World.
Kidd didn’t understand.
He doesn’t understand at all.
At first, the news of Fire-Fist Ace execution blew up the world, and he purposely delayed their departure to the Fishman Island so they can have front row seats on Whitebeard versus the Marines shitshow. It was insane, and great by the way, Kidd knows whatever conclusion reached on this all-out war, the world wouldn’t be same afterwards.
Kidd is also not alone, he can spotted almost most of Worst Generation’s ships, each of them hovering with distance just enough from each other and from the raging war, he even can spotted the streak of yellow from Trafalgar’s submarine from afar.
They were in this together after all.
The one Kidd wasn’t included in his prediction, is how the fuck is the monkey fell down from the sky, right in the middle of raging war, and went out yelling about saving his brother.
His brother.
His fucking brother.
Portgas D. Ace apparently is Straw-Hat Luffy sworn-brother, and that monkey father is Revolutionary Dragon. Not to mention his freaking grandfather is actually the hero of marine, vice admiral Monkey D. Garp. He wouldn’t believe it if Sengoku wasn’t the one who spewing monkey family tree in a middle of war. Truly a terrifying family.
What a time to be alive.
The war still raging though, and everything becomes more interesting. The monkey, apparently just fresh from raiding the impenetrable Impel Down, and coming directly into the war with bunch of prisoners from the worst prison, making his way to save his brother. Kidd feels like he need to give that monkey a little bit credit, he has guts after all, if not categorized as crazy. Kidd pretty sure that the monkey is definitely the craziest one in the family. And that monkey family was crazy enough to begin with.
That part, Kidd understand perfectly.
The only thing Kidd didn’t understand was why Trafalgar’s submarine rushed into the battlefield after Akainu successfully claimed Portgas D. Ace life and targeted the monkey after. Why the golden eyed captain risk everything, even his own freaking crew safety and his own safety, just to resurface near where the clown, who holding unconscious monkey and wounded Jinbei, running.
Kidd can’t hear what kind of conversation that Trafalgar and the clown had, but whatever it is, Trafalgar actually convinced the clown for handed wounded Jinbei and monkey to Trafalgar’s bear reluctantly, just at the same time with the freaking Red-Hair Shanks and his crew appeared.
Kidd knows that the war has reached its conclusion and narrows his eyes when he spotted that Trafalgar catches that monkey’s infamous straw-hat which thrown by the clown before submerging his submarine once again.
Kidd doesn’t understand.
Why?
Why Trafalgar saved that monkey?
Why Trafalgar risk so many things just for that monkey?
Why it has to be that monkey?
Kidd started to run every single possibilities scenario why the fuck Trafalgar decided to save the damned monkey that he can think of. Trafalgar Law is a mysterious man with many plans, and he is very dedicated to his plans judging from how calculated every move that the Hearts pirates ever made. There must be some fucking reasons on why the Heart pirate captain decided to save that idiot monkey.
It has to.
Was it fame?
The monkey is famous. But Kidd is also famous. He even has higher bounty from that brat, even though his family wasn’t as crazy as the monkey.
Was it strength?
The monkey is also strong. Kidd know this. You can't conquer paradise if you not strong enough. But Kidd is stronger.
Was it to put debt on that monkey?
But why? For what?
If Trafalgar needs any help, Kidd would be happy to offer. Hell, he’ll even went to the hell and come back for Trafalgar Law if it was needed to be. Besides he knows that he could work together better with Trafalgar rather than that monkey anyway. So, why?
“Kidd,” Killer voice sounds so distant, but now Kidd is kind of busy with his thought. So, he ignored his best friend.
“KIDD,”
Kidd turns his head to Killer, annoyed, “what?!”
“We should go from here,” Killer doesn’t seems bothered by how Kidd reacted, “the war has ended,”
Kidd made face, “I know,”
Killer sent him unreadable look from behind his mask, there are silence between them for a seconds, before asked, “are you okay?”
“Fucking fantastic,”
“Kidd,”
Kidd huffed, there are so many why inside him now, that he can’t even comprehend, and he also know that Killer wouldn’t let it pass either, so he decided to turn his back and walk across the deck, “let’s go to the New World!”
Most of his crew cheered. But Kidd ignored all of them. His thought still following that yellow submarine, which already left for God know where, with many millions questions running inside his heads.
Why, Law?
Kidd doesn’t hear about Straw-Hat pirates after paramount war ended. Well, that monkey had a little stunt for coming back to Marineford with Rayleigh and Jinbei to rang the bell and pay respect to his late brother, and it became a huge news around the world, but after that, he disappeared from the face of world.
There was no news from that monkey, and people started to speculated. Some of them said that the Straw Hat pirates disbanded. Others said that that monkey is dead. Kidd doesn’t believe all of it. Kidd knows that the monkey is well and alive—he had Trafalgar patched him up after all, it’s such an insult to say that Trafalgar did lousy job on that monkey—and Kidd knows that the monkey is still somewhere around, bidding his time.
Quite a smart move, Kidd says so. But nonetheless, Kidd is happy that monkey and his crew didn’t hog all attention from the newspaper so he can actually keeping tabs on what’s Trafalgar doing these days. Kidd can’t be happier if the Straw Hats decided to retired altogether since they are such a menace in this society. He low-key didn’t admit that if they decided to retired, that was one less pirates who actually attracted Trafalgar’s attention, one less rival, Kidd would say.
Kidd moods went up when they decided to dock somewhere around New World for supply a few months after the war happened when he recognized Trafalgar’s yellow submarine. His mood became better when they found the bar where the Hearts lounging along with their captain.
“Well, well, apparently Surgeon of Death is in town,”
Trafalgar shifted his gaze from his orca-hat gremlin and gave Kidd middle finger, “Eustass-ya,”
Hey, Kidd likes how Trafalgar pronounced his name a lot.
“Still had that shitty attitude, eh?”
Trafalgar smirked, and oh boy, that was hot, but he didn’t collaborate more.
“The fuck are you doing here?”
“Having a great time, actually,” Trafalgar said in light tone, “before you came,”
There are multiple ‘oooooh’ from Trafalgar’s crew, and someone shouting, ‘shoots fired!’. That doesn’t falter Kidd anyway. Few of Kidd’s own crew even snickered. Whatever, Kidd would deal with it later.
“Such a brat,” Kidd sounds amused.
“Mind you,” Trafalgar tone doesn’t change, “I’m older than you,”
Oh, that Trafalgar is older than Kidd? That was news. Older man also hot too. Kidd grinned, “and what are you suggesting me for? Started calling you old man or something?”
“Let’s see you try, I’ll cut you up and feed you to sea monsters,”
That threat was really hot, Kidd had to admit. Kidd faked a shudder before grinned again, “ooo, that was scary one, old man,”
There are other rounds of ‘ooooooh’, and someone shouted again ‘now we had one-one! Place you bet now!’
Trafalgar sent his crew disapproval look which they took cheerfully.
This is really interesting.
It took a while before Kidd own crew started to mingle with the Hearts, which is fortunately a lively bunch, unlike their hot captain, and Kidd decided to sat at stool next to Trafalgar. Trafalgar’s orca-hat gremlin is actually capable to read a room and left both of the captain together. Good move, orca-hat.
“Really,” Kidd lower his voice, “what are you doing here?”
Trafalgar’s one eyebrow shoots up, “none of your business, Eustass-ya,”
Fuck, Trafalgar need to say Kidd’s name more.
Kidd doesn’t wavered, “you are a wanted man, you know,” he raised his hand, and the waiter hurriedly served him some beers.
“Oh, believe me, I know,” Trafalgar said that in amusing tone, “I thought it was bounty poster for,”
“Wanted more after your little stunt on Marineford,”
Trafalgar side eyed Kidd, “still not your business,”
“Seeing you here means that monkey somehow survived, eh?” Kidd really doesn’t want to bring that monkey into this conversation, but he also needed to know why Trafalgar acted that way, “what are you planning on him, Trafalgar?”
Trafalgar didn’t answer immediately, he opted to nursed his own whiskey. Kidd wasn’t a patient man, but he already wondering these past months, so he didn’t mind to wait again a little bit.
“Nothing,”
That answer caught Kidd off guard. What?
“Nothing?” Kidd parroted dumbly, confused.
“Nothing,” this time Trafalgar’s voice sounds positive, “it was just a whim,”
“A whim,” Kidd repeated again. Still dumbfounded.
“Yea,” Trafalgar tilted his head, “what? Surprised?”
“But why?” Kidd voice sounds louder than he intended, and once again Trafalgar raised his eyebrows.
“Are you dumber than your look?” Trafalgar asked back, annoyed. Kidd blinks.
No. No. No. No. No. This can’t be happening.
“Are you telling me that you went to the war, risking your life, and had to face Kizaru afterwards just to save that monkey?”
“Well, you can say that,” Trafalgar said in unamused tone, “why is everyone asking me that,” He continued, more to himself.
“You gotta be shitting me,” Kidd frowned, “for that monkey?”
“What is your problem, really?” Trafalgar narrowed his golden eyes, “I believe I already told you that was none of your business, Eustass-ya,”
Kidd stared at the Hearts captain, who looked thoroughly annoyed now, still couldn’t believe what he just heard. This was not what he expected. Not even once.
“Aren’t you gonna use him later?” Kidd found himself asked.
“No,”
“Are you trying to make him your ally?”
“No,”
“Then why?”
“Look, Eustass-ya,” Trafalgar said in dangerously low tone, “I didn’t plan shits with Straw-Hat-ya, and I don’t think I owe the world or you, explanation for what I did,” he sent Kidd a murderous look, “so, fuck off,”
“That was so uncharacteristic of you, Trafalgar,” Kidd trying to disagree, but Trafalgar laugh mockingly.
“And you think you know me,” Trafalgar said it like venom in his mouth before standing up and picking his nodachi, didn’t even spare his crew a glance, “we’re heading out now,”
There is a round of protests around the Hearts, but they obliged either way. Kidd hasn’t giving up.
“Look, Trafalgar, that wasn’t an insult,” Kidd tried to reasoned, “I just confused,”
“Yea, like everyone are,”
Kidd gritted his teeth, “I am not everyone,”
Trafalgar sent a look on Kidd, before letting out another mocking laugh, “you just sound the same,”
“If an ally is what you seek from Straw-Hat, I can do better than him,”
Trafalgar studying Kidd for a bit, “I didn’t do ally shit,”
Kidd wasn’t convinced, “You know I can help you,”
“Fuck off, Eustass-ya, I’m warning you,” Trafalgar turned his body and walk out from the bar without sparing Kidd or his crews another glance with the Hearts in tow.
“Way to go, Boss,” Wire commented, glancing towards the exit, “ah, now I wouldn’t know how Jean Bart’s story end,”
Kidd didn’t pay Wire any mind.
“I told you asking him out like a decent human being is better,” Killer put down his own tankard, glancing at Heat, “do you think Penguin will gave me his number if I ask nicely?”
“I don’t know, why wouldn’t you try?”
“Yeah, I’ll consider that, next time,”
Kidd went back to his beer. Next time. Maybe he needs to clarified many things next time with the Hearts captain too. If he has the chance. Maybe he doesn’t need to bringing the monkey into the conversation too next time. That monkey wasn’t even physically here, but he still capable to mess out whatever between him and Trafalgar.
Kidd found himself disliking the monkey even more. Curse you, Straw Hat!
Kidd and his crew didn’t run into the Hearts for a few months after that. Kidd still keeping tabs on them though, and it actually displeased him when he read that Trafalgar Law himself sending the marines 100 living and beating pirate’s hearts—fuck Trafalgar’s power is so attractive—after the Rocky Port incident in order to became a warlord.
A warlord.
What the fuck is Trafalgar thinking?
It was the first thing he asked when they actually found the Heart pirates on a fall island, three months after the marine named Trafalgar Law as one of the warlord.
“Hello to you too, Eustass-ya,” Trafalgar greeted him with a neutral tone, lounging beside his polar bear navigator with a newspaper on his hand. Kidd raised his eyebrows.
“I asked you what the hell are you thinking now?” Kidd asked annoyingly, and swear to God, Trafalgar still gorgeous like always. Kidd really need to keep himself in check.
“Now? I just think about what should we had for dinner today,”
Kidd tsked, Trafalgar still annoyingly hot as always, “I mean why the hell you think becoming warlord was a good idea?”
“Ah,” Trafalgar instructed the bear to leave them alone before glancing at Kidd, “and do tell me, why it wasn’t a good idea?”
“Are you fucking kidding me?” Kidd blinked in disbelieve, “you became a fucking government dog!”
“You can say whatever you want,” Trafalgar nodded, shifted his attention to newspaper in his hand, “honestly, I don’t give a shit,”
“Trafalgar!” Kidd hissed, “what the hell are you planning?!”
“Eustass Kidd,” Law said without looking up from his newspaper, “that was none of your business,”
“So, you do planning on something,”
“I like to be in control,” Trafalgar said simply, “again, I fail to see why you insisted to know whatever I planned,”
“You’re joking, right?”
“This is out third meeting,” Trafalgar still refused to look at Kidd, “you are not more than an acquaintance, I believe,”
“Killer is trying to date your Penguin!” Kidd really want to punch something, or kiss Trafalgar senselessly if he had that option, either way he is frustrated, “that doesn’t mean anything for you?”
“Whoever my crew decided to see is none of my business,” Trafalgar said evenly, “but I must say Killer had a good eye, Peng is very kind,”
“I don’t understand you at all!” Kidd huffed angrily, “first, that monkey and now this?!” Okay, Kidd had to admit that monkey incident still left him bitter after all.
For the first time since Kidd arrived, Trafalgar put down his newspaper and clasped both of his hand together, “Eustass-ya,” He said, “the only thing I don’t understand, is why you are so persistent to involved yourself around me, we’re not even friends,”
“Exactly!” Kidd frowned, “we’re not friends and for fuck sake I don’t want to be friends with you!”
“It is decided then,” said Trafalgar, “since we considered each other as enemies, you don’t have to know whatever I do, right?”
“Wait, that wasn’t...”
“Boss,” Wire suddenly appeared, “the marine is here! We need to go,”
“Oh, look at that,” Trafalgar gestured at Wire, “your crew is calling you, Eustass-ya,”
“I haven’t finished with you, Trafalgar!”
“Yes, you have,” Trafalgar said dismissively, “unlike you, the marine would not do anything to me, like you said, I’m their dog, now,”
“You...”
“Boss! They have a fucking pacifista!”
Kidd cursed and jumped from his seat, “until next time then, Mr. Warlord,”
“Let’s not meet again, Eustass-ya,”
Kidd is fucking pissed.
Pissed when he saw Trafalgar and that fucking monkey chained and trapped inside the cage that intended to be public exhibition for Caesar Clown newest bioweapon. Together. Don’t get Kidd wrong, he’s like the sight of chained Trafalgar—he looks so stunning on that winter coat of his, by the way—but he can’t believe that of all people who can be there at the moment, that fucking monkey is the one who chained beside Trafalgar.
This is fucking ridiculous.
Kidd started to hate that monkey.
“Hey Kidd,” Killer gestured towards the broadcast screen, “aren’t that Straw Hat Luffy?”
“So, he is alive after all,” Kidd spit his words mockingly, “finally back, eh?”
“He’s with Trafalgar,” Killer frowned, “I wonder if Penguin also there,”
“I told you chasing around that flightless bird was waste of time,”
“Hey!” Killer rolled his eyes, “just because you don’t have any luck with Trafalgar, doesn’t mean you can insult mine,”
Kidd grunted, standing up from the sofa, not even spare another glance to the broadcasting screen, “this is such a waste of time,”
“Eh why?” Wire whined, “aren’t you happy to see Trafalgar again from screen, Boss? We haven’t met them since forever,”
“Well, newspaper rarely covering them after they became warlord,” Killer agreed, “God, I missed Penguin,”
“Boss,” Heat appeared, Nodded at Kidd, “they were ready,”
“Oh!” Wire jumped out from the sofa excitedly, “they finally here?”
“I surprised they even come,” Killer also standing up, glancing towards Kidd, “remember, Kidd, please be friendly,”
Kidd just rolled his eyes, “yea, yea,”
The four of them walked out from the broadcast room and headed to the south part of their hideout. They not even reached there before they heard some loud crash.
“Oh, for fucks sake!” Kidd yanked the south building door open, “would you not destroying things on my hideout, you fucking weirdo DJ!”
Scratchmen Apoo laughed, kicked one of available chairs, “Hiya Captain Kidd! How nostalgic to see that disgusting face of yours!”
“Fuck you too!”
“Boss, sorry!” some of Kidd’s men cried, “we couldn’t stop him!”
“Well, I thought you might hiding sniper somewhere!” Apoo laughed with that distinctly laugh of his, which is annoy the hell of Kidd, what a stupid way of laugh, “when you get summoned by the enemy, you go there ready to fight!”
Kidd sent Killer an annoyed look, “See?! This is why I don’t want him to be here for fuck sake, Killer!”
“Cool down, Kidd, you said you want a powerful one,”
“But not him!”
“The one you desire is kind of unavailable, so we need to compromise,”
“KILLER!”
“You still feisty as always, Kidd,” Apoo laugh maniacally, letting out a cymbal sound from part of his body like a fucking weirdo he is. God, Kidd hate him.
“Shut up you fucking DJ wannabe! I fucking kill you!”
“Oh, that’s the spirit! I’m ready, come! Check it out!”
“This is foolish,” Basil Hawkins standing up from his chair, cleaning up his tarot card neatly, “I’m going home,”
“Wait, Hawkins!” Killer hurriedly stopped Hawkins from leaving, “don’t be so hasty!” he then sent a look for Kidd and Apoo who already on each other throat, “would you stop it already?! We’re assembled here to talk about an alliance offer!”
“An alliance?” Apoo stopped his punch, raising one eyebrow towards Kidd, Kidd take the cue to punch the damn DJ.
“Yes! An alliance you fucking menace!”
“Hey, you just hit me!”
“Because your face annoy me!”
“You had it rough,” Hawkins commented, glancing at Killer. Killer face-palm himself.
“You have no idea,” Killer said with a sigh, “now, we have everybody attention, can we sit down and talk about it?”
Hawkins studied Killer for a bit before sit back on his chair, “I’m listening,”
“I’m fucking kill you if you hit me again, Kidd, you hear me?”
“I’ll punch you harder next time you damn piano tooth!”
“Kidd,” Killer said with a warning tone, “sit down,”
Grunting, Kidd went to sit down beside Hawkins, as far as possible from the damned DJ. Killer tilted his head and Kidd automatically know that he is sending Kidd one of his unapproved look.
“Remember, Kidd,” Killer said flatly.
Kidd let out a breath and counted into three in his head before trying to remember why the fuck he has to sit down together with fucking Apoo and Hawkins at the south building. He need them in a way. He need to prove himself somehow to Trafalgar, so the latter can believe him and Kidd might be able to convince the elder to finally join hands in forces with him. He need to prove that he is strong and dependable first, of course. And in order to do so, he needed this fucking alliance. God he just wanted to do that alone is possible, honestly.
This wasn’t 100 percent his idea anyway, Killer just talk about the possibility to form an alliance with the others to take down one of the yonko as form of proving themselves after he read about other pirates alliance in newspapers, and Kidd know there is no better chance to win Trafalgar’s attention from this. So, rolling with the alliance they are.
“You said you want to form an alliance,” Apoo said, he took the furthest chair from both Kidd and Hawkins, “why?”
“To bring down a yonko,” Kidd said simply.
Hawkins put out his cards, starting to shuffle them, “A yonko,” he repeated Kidd’s word.
“You think that if we’re team up we can beat a yonko?” Apoo clarified, eyeing Kidd suspiciously.
Kidd rolled his eye. Remember, Kidd, “Yeah? Why? Got scared?”
“You wish,”
“Do tell, Kidd,” Hawkins drew cards from his deck, line them up in front of him, “who is this yonko we talked about?”
Understand that Kidd successfully grabbing both of the other two worst generation member’s interest, he grinned.
“Ever heard of Red-Haired Shanks?”
Kidd FUCKING HATE THAT DAMNED DJ.
That piano tooth had the audacity to betray both Kidd and Hawkins in the heartbeat, plus that fucker is actually Kaidou minions all along. Fucking traitor. Kidd and Hawkins actually trying to beat Kaidou’s men before it became clear to Hawkins that they are out of their league, before he decided for submitting to them as their subordinate to safe himself and his crew. Kidd doesn’t really blame him, but it was such a waste of deal and he surely doesn’t want to work under anybody—anyone who tried to make Kidd their subordinate can go to hell—so Kaidou decided to separate the Kidd’s pirates before throw him off to Udon Prison in Wano. He doesn’t even know where Killer or Heat or Wire or every other else is. He just hope that everyone is safe. Fuck Kaidou. Fuck Apoo in particular.
The most bitter part from this whole shitshow is the news that stated Straw-Hat pirates now allied with Heart Pirates, and successfully overthrown the Donquixote pirates from Dressrosa, right before Kidd’s alliance got ambushed by Kaido’s men.
This particular news left a very unpleasant feeling for Kidd, as he still remember that Trafalgar himself told him that he didn’t do alliance shit.
What made the man change his mind?
And why the fuck with that monkey?!
Kidd couldn’t phantom what the Heart captain was thinking at all, and couldn’t help this annoying feeling to the fact that the golden eyes captain has choose the monkey over himself.
Was it this what they called as jealousy?
Kidd couldn’t believe himself when there was another uproar on Wano, where he is currently being imprisoned, saying that someone is challenging Kaidou whatsoever, and resulted the very same monkey got throw off in Udon Prison.
Just his damned luck.
“The fuck are you doing here, monkey?!” Kidd said it with his most threatening tone when they put that fucking monkey next to his cell. Are the guards dumb? Can’t they put the monkey somewhere else? They must be dumber than they look if they decided to put that monkey next to his cell.
“Gizao!” the monkey greeted him with cheerful voice upon realized who was his next-door-cell-neighbor, “I didn’t know you were here!”
“I am asking why the fuck are you here, monkey!” Kidd gritted his teeth. This monkey is absolutely unbelievable.
“I’m going to kick Kaido’s ass!”
“No, you won’t!” Kidd narrowed his eyes, “because I am the one who gonna do it!”
“No, can do, Gizao,” the monkey smiled so wide, it physically annoying. Kidd would love to punch his face if these prison bars and stupid sea stone shackles didn’t limited his movement, “Me and Torao gonna do it!”
“The fuck is Torao?!”
“Torao is Torao, Gizao, don’t be silly,”
“Don’t call me Gizao, you monkey ass!”
The monkey had the audacity to ignore him, “Torao and I gonna defeat Kaido together! We’re allies after all!”
That had Kidd short circuited. The fuck is this monkey said? Allies?
It almost immediately dawned to him. That Monkey is allied with the Hearts. With Trafalgar Law himself. Since the monkey is here, so Trafalgar must be here too. The monkey and Trafalgar target was Kaido all along. Shit.
“Don’t tell me Trafalgar is here, too,” Kidd couldn’t hide his harsh but worried tone. He already lost track of where Killer and his other crews are, he cannot lose Trafalgar too. This made the monkey raised an eyebrow.
“Of course he is here,” the monkey said it like it was something as natural as breathing, like the sky is blue and trees are greens, “he is my ally after all,”
The monkey’s affirmation of ‘ally’ word rubs on Kidd like salt into wound, like saying to Kidd that Trafalgar is monkey’s. And it irked Kidd, “that wasn’t what I mean, you fucking dumb monkey!” Kidd punched the prison’s bars till the said bars were rattled, “I am asking if Trafalgar is here in this damned prison!”
The monkey didn’t flinched, but something in him is different, he didn’t gave off stupid vibes like earlier, Kidd could tell, and the monkey is actually giving him his undivided attention, “of course he’s not, I wouldn’t let them captured Torao,”
Kidd let out a mocking laugh, “yet, you were here,”
“Yeah, to beat Kaidou,”
“You gotta be fucking kidding me!”
“I didn’t joke, though, I am going to beat Kaidou,”
Kidd blinked at the monkey with unbelievable look, “What the hell Trafalgar thinking? Picking you as his ally?”
“Oh, that’s easy,” the monkey didn’t offended at all with what Kidd had implied, he just grinned easily, “because I am me,”
“Fuck you, monkey!”
“No, thanks, I have Torao,”
Kidd want to strangle him so bad now.
“I’m so going to kill you when I break out from here!”
“Eh, Torao will be sad if I’m gone, Gizao,”
“FUCK YOU MONKEY!!!”
“No thanks, I have Torao,”
Kidd kicked the bar between him and the monkey with frustrated noises, and the monkey just laughs like it was funniest things that he ever said.
Goddammit. It’s gonna be a fucking long night.
The monkey actually proved his words. He fucking beat the shit out of fucking Kaido of the hundred beast.
Kidd was kind of speechless.
Well, Kidd did great too. He beat that Big Mom with Trafalgar Law, no less, and fighting alongside the golden eyed captain has been the highlight of this damned war. Kidd, together with Trafalgar Law.
Kidd is beyond happy.
He still a little bit pissed that Trafalgar picked that monkey as an ally, for sure, of course, but his team up with Trafalgar against Big Mom already serve as proof that their combo are working, that he and Trafalgar could do this together. There is no need to include that monkey onwards. He had to made sure that Trafalgar picked him as an ally after this after what they were experienced together. Monkey can bring down Kaidou alone, so he’ll doing fine by himself.
That’s why, when he went to look for Trafalgar, he feels annoyed when he found the older captain slide close one of sliding door towards the monkey’s recovery room in the one of many available room at the Flower Capital castle.
“You gotta be kidding me,”
Trafalgar put on his fluffy hat before glancing at Kidd, “Now what, Eustass-ya?”
“You still checking on that monkey? Doesn’t he had that raccoon doctor with him?”
“First, Tony-ya is a reindeer,” Trafalgar commented with an even tone, he rested his long nodachi on his shoulder, “Second, I can check on whoever I want, so kindly back off, will you?”
Kidd frowned, “I don’t understand,”
“Well, aren’t you not understand many things?” Trafalgar lifted an eyebrow, “that wasn’t exactly a breaking news,” he turned his back and started to walk across the empty hall of the castle.
Kidd following him, “You said you didn’t expect that monkey to follow you,”
“I didn’t,” Trafalgar said simply, “have you not meet Straw Hat Luffy? It’s impossible to made him follow you,”
“You also said that you didn’t do alliance shit,”
“I have my own reasons,”
“Why him?”
Trafalgar stopped his walk, he turned his back so he is facing Kidd, crossed his hands and staring directly into Kidd’s red eyes, “why not?”
That had Kidd taken a back, “aren’t you always said that monkey never follow the plan you made?”
That was kind of true, during their battle together against Big Mom, Trafalgar had ranted many times how monkey didn’t really follow the plan or how he ordered Trafalgar around unconsciously, they fight like other people around them doesn’t really matter to them, and that monkey always laughed his way out from each Trafalgar’s scolding. Judging from how often they fought, Kidd assumed that Trafalgar would fed up with that monkey’s attitude very soon.
“I did,” Trafalgar agreed, and for once, Kidd felt a little bit relieved, before Trafalgar continued, “that wasn’t means that he is not a good ally,”
Kidd feels whatever hope he had crashed an instant.
“But why?”
“You always asked why,” Trafalgar pointed out Kidd habit every time they met, “don’t you have any other questions beside that?”
“But, you always done something unbelievable with that monkey!” Kidd insisted “it’s just, it wasn’t like you,”
“Whatever I do, I suppose it wasn’t your problem either,” Trafalgar said simply, “I thought we’re established that a long time ago, wasn’t we agreed that we’re enemies? Straw Hat-ya decision to bring you into this operation to bring Kaidou down was his side of selfishness, please still consider us as enemies,” once again Trafalgar turned his back on Kidd, he continues his stroll.
Kidd blinked, Trafalgar still considering Kidd as enemy. That somehow saddened Kidd, and before he can think, he asked, “why him?”
Trafalgar stopped, glanced at Kidd, “pardon?”
Kidd knows there is no turning back now, so he repeated, “Why him?” Kidd feels like his voice doesn’t sound like him, it feels like other people asked instead of him, it was so foreign, it had Kidd shuddered.
“What do you mean?”
“Why are you pick that monkey?”
Trafalgar studies Kidd for a bit, “you really want to know?”
“At least you can tell me as much right?” Kidd gestures towards where the monkey room is, “After all, everything seems to be revolved around that damned monkey,”
There were a pause between them.
“Do you believe in miracle?”
The fuck is Trafalgar saying now? Miracle?
Kidd didn’t answer.
“Straw Hat Luffy is the man who could made the impossible, possible,” Trafalgar continues, staring straight into Kidd’s eye once again, “does that enough answer for you?”
Kidd couldn’t believe his ears, “miracle?” he repeated Trafalgar’s word, “you pick him because he brings you miracle? Are you crazy?”
“You are the one who asked,” Trafalgar shrugged, “it’s up to you for believing it or not, doesn’t really matter to me,”
“Why it has to be him?” Kidd pressed, Trafalgar couldn’t be seriously mean that, it was ridiculous! If its miracle that Trafalgar seeks, Kidd is sure he can do something about it. It’s for Trafalgar after all, “why not me?”
Trafalgar’s face was visibly confused, “what do you mean?”
Kidd take a deep breath, it’s now or never, Kidd, he reminded himself, “look, Trafalgar, I…”
“T’rao,”
Both of Trafalgar and Kidd turned their head towards the origin of voice, standing there, with a sleepy face, full bandaged and half yawning, stood the monkey himself, the famous Straw Hat Luffy. Kidd really want to punch him for ruining this moment.
Why the fuck that monkey had to be waken up now?!
“Hey,” Trafalgar automatically extended his hands, that accepted by that Monkey, who yawned again, “you okay?”
Kidd could swore that Trafalgar said that with the softest voice Kidd ever heard.
“I’m hungry,” the monkey said, started to drapes himself towards Trafalgar, wrapped his legs three times on Trafalgar’s hips, and Trafalgar just simply carried the monkey like it was natural for him. It’s sickening, who is monkey think about Trafalgar? His caretaker or something?
Before Kidd could berate the monkey, he heard Trafalgar chuckles.
Kidd couldn’t believe himself, what?
“You always hungry,” Trafalgar said lightly, while he positioned his nodachi better so he can carried both the monkey and his sword, “let’s go to the kitchen, shall we? I think Black Leg-ya already prepared something for you,”
That Monkey had the audacity to snuggle into Trafalgar’s crook, and let out an agreement sounds. Trafalgar just sighed before he turned his gaze towards Kidd again.
“Sorry, you we’re saying?”
And everything clicked on Kidd. How they behave around each other, how that monkey started going overly possessive when Trafalgar involved, and how Trafalgar acknowledged the monkey in his personal space. This wasn’t only an alliance for them wasn’t it? Either way, Kidd know he can’t butted in now.
Kidd is already lost.
To that fucking monkey, no less.
Wire would have a fucking field day of laughing if he ever know it.
“Eustass-ya?”
Kidd blinked, Trafalgar raised one of his eyebrow in question, while carrying his sword and half-sleep monkey, waiting for Kidd’s answer.
“Ah, nothing,”
And really, what else Kidd supposed to say?
Trafalgar tilted his head, but then the monkey whined, “hungryyy,”
“Don’t be a baby, Straw Hat-ya,” Trafalgar voice far from annoyance, “let’s go,” he turned once again and walked off, “later, Eustass-ya,”
Kidd didn’t answered. He just stared at the direction where Trafalgar and the monkey left. And he could swear he can see that monkey grinned at him so wide before they disappear into one of alleyway.
Kidd huffed, eh, but there is no way that dumb monkey realized his crush towards Trafalgar right?
He turned his gaze towards the outside part of Flower Capitals castle, watching the joy that had been celebrated since Kaidou’s fall.
Others doesn’t need to know that he already lost his chance with Trafalgar before he can even tried to asked out the man, moreover, Trafalgar doesn’t really showed that he himself realized what Kidd trying to do for him in these past years.
It’s better like this, right? Kidd thought himself, there is no need to tell him anyway.
There is another chaos erupted upon others realized that the monkey finally regained his consciousness a few floor behind Kidd, and Kidd knows he doesn’t want to be involved more than this. He needed to get off this place at once.
He had to go somewhere where neither Trafalgar or that Monkey could find him.
He let out a small baby den-den from his pocket, dialing a number.
“Yea, Kidd?”
“Killer, let’s set sail earlier,”
There’s a pause. Kidd prayed for whatever God, asking for once, that Killer wouldn’t asking his reasons.
“Okay,” Killer answers, for Kidd surprise. He didn’t say anything either, that enough for Kidd.
He put back baby den-den into his pocket and take a last look into outside of castle.
He need to got out from here. The faster, the better.
Kidd had been avoiding the Heart pirates and the Straw hat pirates like a plague after Wano. He stopped collecting the Hearts related article—mostly because his first mate already hogging them all, gushing in quietness whenever they spot Penguin’s picture from the article, so there is not much left for Kidd to mop around, he’s happy though, that Penguin still like Killer after everything happened in Wano—and the Straw Hats achievement altogether. It’s quite hard task, if you ask Kidd, since the Straw Hat apparently determined to hog every single attention they could have, with or without the Hearts. Country in a dire situation? The Straw Hats for the rescue. Overthrow corrupt government? Hell yeah, the Straw Hats at your services. Rescuing some old lady from man-eating tree? Ma’am, it’s such incredible luck that the Straw Hat is docking in nearby port so they definitely could save the old lady. Man, they are sure a busy bee bunch. Akainu could cry on his fleet admiral chair considering the people started to leaned towards the Straw Hats. Not to mention the Straw Hats Grand Fleet. Those bunch hold a new meaning of chaotic, more like their great-captain, making names for themselves, claiming territory right and left, and for some reasons, keep growing larger than they used to be. They multiple like a roach, and for fuck sakes they all annoying.
Then the biggest war and revolution in history happened, and Kidd had to see them all in one place against the world government, trying to claim One Piece.
“Gizao,” the monkey screamed in delight when he spotted Victoria Punk, launched himself from his Thousand Sunny and landed on Wire’s face, before marched into Kidd happily, “it’s been a while!”
“The fuck are you doing in my ship, monkey,” Kidd hissed with annoyed tone, “go back to your lion now!”
“But I haven’t see you like forever!”
“Because I don’t want to see you,” Kidd grunted, “Now, scram,”
“He’s right, Luffy-ya,”
Kidd eyes went wide.
Trafalgar Law, flesh and blood, teleported suddenly into the Victoria’s dock, landing graciously beside the monkey, and Kidd fuck you not, seems more gorgeous than the last time Kidd saw him in Wano. Trafalgar look stunning as always, his panda eyes decrease in visible rate, and for once, he look lively and very happy. That had Kidd feels like someone punched him in the guts mercilessly.
“But, Torao!” the monkey turned his attention to Trafalgar with frown, “you said yourself last time Peng would be delighted if we can visit Gizao for his birthday!”
Kidd raised his nonexistent eyebrow, glanced at Trafalgar with questioning look. Trafalgar just sighed.
“That I did,” he said flatly, “but preferably when we’re not about facing the government, no?”
“But Peng would be pleased!”
“Later, Luffy-ya,” Trafalgar said sternly, and Kidd couldn’t help to notice the different nickname Trafalgar used for that monkey.
“Luffy-ya?” he couldn’t help himself to not parroting what Trafalgar had been said, and Kidd swore to God that he think he saw Trafalgar fucking Law blushed a little.
“Fuck off, Eustass-ya,”
“Okay! Later then!” somehow, the monkey managed to intertwined his hands to Trafalgar before stretching his arms towards his own ship, “Let’s go, Torao!”
“Now I already told you that I hate….”
Trafalgar couldn’t finished his sentence since the monkey already catapulted both of them into the Sunny. Kidd blinked.
Did the monkey just cut him off?
“What a menace, that Straw Hat,” Wire commented while nursing his face, “it was horrible,”
“Tell me about it,”
That was kind of the last time they saw each other in person. After the war, Kidd deliberately flee away before the monkey even wake up, with so much protest from Killer.
“I just saw Penguin like for one day!” his first mate protested, “could we wait a few days more before we left?”
“We’ll met them again when this chaos ended, and when the Straw Hats or his stupid Grand Fleet wasn’t around,”
“And when was that?”
Kidd didn’t answer on that.
Apparently, the day that Killer has been waiting for arrived in a form of an invitation, a few months after the monkey claimed One Piece and grabbed the title of Pirate King, much to Kidd’s annoyance. And how the fuck the crow can found them considering they don’t really have any other form of communication with the Straw Hat itself is a wonder.
“Holy shit,” Wire commented when Killer opened the parchment, “those two are getting married!”
Kidd choked on his beers, “what?! Who?!”
“Straw Hat Luffy,” Heat narrowed his eyes, reading the parchment line one by one, “and Surgeon of Death, Trafalgar Law,”
Kidd feels like Skypiea itself had crashed on his head, “what?”
“I’m sorry for your crush, Boss,” Wire patted Kidd, and no, Kidd wasn’t forget to strangle him, he just kind of stunned with the news at the moment, “should we ditched the wedding?”
“Absolutely not!” Killer sent Wire a dirty look, “Peng would be there and I want to be there!”
“Yea, but it was boss’s crush,” Wire sent a glance to Kidd, who still frozen om his spot, “you think it was a good idea?”
“We fleed from them like twice!” Killer insisted, “you are their friend, Kidd,”
“But…”
“Hold it, Wire,” Kidd spoke, the other crews went silent, “when will it be hold?”
“Dressrosa, in one month,”
Kidd suddenly had this idea and started to grinned like a madman, “well, we’re not that far from Dressrosa, we’ll sure can make it in time if we change our route now,”
Killer punch the air in happiness, “yes!”
Wire sending Kidd a worried look, “you sure about this?”
“Very sure,” Kidd said with certainty tone in his voice, “we’ll go to Dressrosa and crashed their wedding!”
“KIDD NO!”
“KIDD YES!”
Killer spend the next three weeks nagging at Kidd so the latter would not crashing on monkey and Trafalgar’s wedding (for Penguin’s sake, of course). The nagging itself was so annoying that Kidd had to given up and come with compromise.
He would not crashing into the lovebirds wedding, in one condition: if not provoked.
Killer seems happy enough with this compromise, believing that Trafalgar would somehow keep the monkey in the line, while Kidd had a little bit doubt on that considering how the monkey behave if Kidd and Trafalgar were around each other. Don’t get Kidd wrong, and it might be a slightly seems like a paranoia, but he is almost sure that the monkey somehow trying to sabotage whatever moment Kidd and Trafalgar had. There is no proof or anything like that whatsoever though, so Kidd kept it for himself.
They arrived at Dressrosa a little bit ahead of schedule, and had a day before the actual wedding took a place. Dressrosa itself already on festive mood, hanging so many sunflowers and queen of the night, they also somehow made the entire country matched color palate for the occasion. For a pirate wedding, this counted as exquisite. Since the Straw Hats also had tendencies to save countries wherever they went, there are also some royals who attended this damned wedding, and by some, it was at least dozen of them. They even invited a whole bunch of navy. Kidd recognizes Monkey D. Garp’s ship. It only take a time till Dragon shows up with his revolutionary army. Kidd kind of pity Trafalgar now (and low-key thought that he better marrying Kidd so he wouldn’t involved on that disaster family).
Killer let out a disappointment sigh when they went to the wedding venue and couldn’t locate his lover there.
“Penguin still preparing with Torao,” the ‘Devil Child’ Nico Robin sent them an apologetic smile, “I can’t tell you where they are now, but he’ll be here at the ceremony,”
Killer just nodded, and decided that they’ll take a stroll within the city limits till the ceremony began.
“The whole country celebrates them,” Wire commented when he received one of sunflower flower crown from one of volunteers, “it’s so weird seeing people celebrate pirates,”
Kidd couldn’t agree more.
They are hanging out in one of less crowded alley when Kidd spotted a man with a burn scar and top hat walking through the crowd. Kidd grinned.
“So, Dragon decided to attend his son wedding, eh?”
The Top Hatted man, Flame Emperor Sabo stopped his tracks, stared to them and let out relieved sigh. Kidd raised his nonexistent eyebrow.
Huh?
“You are Luffy’s friends!” Flame Emperor said, almost seem happy, “unfortunately, I didn’t know if Dragon-san come today or not,”
Kidd grunts, “then why your revolutionary ass here? Did Dragon send his number two just to skewer Trafalgar? I thought it was daddy’s Job,”
Flame Emperor seemed to ignored the daddy comments from Kidd, but didn’t opposed the idea to skewer Trafalgar, “I’m Luffy’s brother,”
There is a pause before Kidd laughter filled the air, “the Flame Emperor is that monkey brother?! Now, that was hilarious!” Kidd’s crews snickers at his back, “man, Trafalgar didn’t know what kind of family he’s going to married to,”
“Kidd,” Killer spoke, his tone sounds annoyed, “we already talked about this,”
Kidd grinned to him, like he just heard something funny, well, this is something funny, “I just stated the truth, Killer,”
Flame Emperor didn’t look very appreciative now, “look, I need to know where the ceremony will be held,”
Killer turns his gaze to Flame Emperor, “didn’t you received the invitation? You said you are Straw-Hat’s brother,”
Flame Emperor look like he just bite something bitter and crunches his nose, “yeah, I kind of burned it before read the whole thing,”
Kidd laughed again, louder, “I like you, Flame Emperor!” he said between his laugh, man! This is hilarious, “you are interesting!”
Killer sent another unimpressed look to laughing Kidd before turns again towards Flame Emperor, “it’s on the Flower Hill,” he said, pointing at other side of the town, “you can find the Devil Child there,”
Flame Emperor nodded at Killer, “Thank you, Killer,” he raised his hat a little bit, eyeing the direction Killer just pointed for him.
“You wouldn’t find Trafalgar or Straw-Hat there though,” add Killer, “they weren’t there, we’re checked,”
“What do you mean, they are not there?” Flame Emperor frowns, Kidd hasn’t stop laughing.
“We went there to pay our respect, you see, saying hello and shit,” said Killer, “and they weren’t there,”
“Paying respect my ass,” Kidd said, his laughter still echoing, “those punks need to learn their lessons, I need to give them one or two,”
“Kidd, you are not gonna crash their wedding,” Killer stressed the word ‘crash’, “just because you pissed since they didn’t tell you they’re engaged, didn’t mean you can fight them,”
That caught Kidd off guard, “I didn’t pissed off about that!”
Killer rolled his eyes behind his masks, “yeah, yeah, you just jealous that Trafalgar picked Straw-Hat over you,”
Kidd laughs died down and he look at his first mate scandalized, “I did not!”
“Okay, okay,” Flame Emperor intervene Kidd and Killer’s banter, “thanks for the information, guys, I think I’m gonna ask Robin, then,”
“Oh, good luck,” said Killer, ignored Kidd’s protested rants, “see you at the ceremony,”
Flame Emperor glanced towards Kidd a little bit then towards Killer, “you too?”
Killer just waves his hands, and the Flame Emperor left.
Kidd grunted by himself before standing up, “I’m going back to Victoria,”
Killer shot him a questioning look, “you said you’ll behave at the wedding,”
“Doesn’t mean that I would attend the wedding,” Kidd ignored Killer’s look, “I’ll be at Victoria if everyone need me, have fun,” he said before left his crews at the alley.
As Kidd thought, coming to this damned celebration was a huge mistake. Seeing someone you like getting married to another person, and had a whole town celebrate it for them, is kind of worse.
Kidd already know he didn’t have a chance with Trafalgar since he saw the older pirate carried Straw Hat with that sense of familiarity, and already come into peace terms with that. Trafalgar deserve to be happy, and if that means him getting married to that ridiculous monkey, so be it.
It still bother him a little, but Kidd knows that Trafalgar wouldn’t look at him like he look at the monkey.
It almost twilight when he opened his sixth bottle of beers on the deck of Victoria Punk. Fuck all, if they want Kidd to celebrate with them, he’ll celebrate this damned day for sure, even if he did it from Victoria Punk safe docks, faraway from where the ceremony will be held in few moments.
“You are like Zoro, Gizao, getting drunk before the ceremony began,”
Kidd stopped chugged on his sixth bottle, looking towards the head of Victoria Punk. There, in the glimmering light of sunset, standing the man that Dressrosa celebrated today as he’ll began a new journey called marriage. He wore a fancy suit with dark blue and a little bit yellow accent, and his Straw Hat hanging loosely on his neck.
“Monkey,” Kidd nodded, “aren’t you have somewhere to be?”
“Aren’t you too?”
Kidd snorted, “No, I am not,” he said, shakes his sixth bottle, “I don’t have a fucking obligation to see you, of all people, getting married,”
The monkey just hummed, he jumped on Victoria’s deck, “and why are you here, Gizao?”
“Killer nag at me to see his beloved Penguin,” Kidd continued to chug on his beer, “and what I am suppose to do? Ignore him?”
“Well, you did that twice,” the monkey said simply, “I am surprise you even show up now,”
That had Kidd stopped to drink, he looked at the monkey with a wide eye, “you knew,”
The monkey nodded, “that I am,” he said lightly, “I’ve been told that my people observation is good, actually,”
Kidd didn’t know what to say, beside the fuck?
“Torao didn’t realize, by the way,” the monkey continued, strolling into the deck of Victoria leisurely, “he realize many things, cautious about everything too, but his fans wasn’t one of them,”
Kidd gritted his teeth, “I am not his fans,”
The monkey just nodded, “sure, whatever,”
Kidd narrowed his eyes, “did you come here to pick a fight?”
“Right before I walked on altar? God, no,” the monkey shakes his head, shuddering a little bit, “Nami and Torao would not hesitate to commit homicide on me and I am not sure if I can die twice to please them,”
Kidd didn’t laugh. He hold his beers bottle so hard his good hands turn white, “and why are you here?”
“You know, I always like you, Gizao,” the monkey nodded again, he nodded a lot by the way, it started to irked Kidd, “you are a good friend, I have a wonderful time back at Udon,”
“You gotta be shitting me,”
The monkey ignored it, “Then, Torao said absentmindedly once that you always asking him why wherever you guys met,” he stared at the sunset, “and after I see you again at the raid, I know,”
This is getting on Kidd nerves, he trying to control himself so he wouldn’t punch monkey’s face at the moment, “your point?”
“I just want to say thank you for looking out for Torao,” the monkey grinned, “you are a good friend,”
“you wouldn’t be here if you only want to say thank you,” Kidd sneered, “the fuck you want, monkey?”
“I want you to witness our wedding, since you already here,”
“Hell no,”
“It’ll be fun, Sanji made a lot of meat,”
“Fuck you, monkey,”
“But you can’t have Torao though, since he’s gonna be mine,”
That sobered Kidd up. The monkey grinned so wide before he hopped once again go Victoria Punk’s rail and launch himself toward Flower Hill. Kidd really need to punch that brat now.
“STRAW-HAAAAAT!!!”