tampered | LOG; on-going

LOG; on-going

When; Jan 6th
Rating; PG? PG-13?
Characters; Jyabura [

maten_rou] and Robin [

blackhibiscus]
Summary; A lot of stuff has been going on for the past 24 hours and both need to talk about it.
Log;
Robin had lost count of the times she'd been involved in any kind of drama since her arrival in the City; but according to others, she had always brought bad luck wherever she went. Maybe that also worked in the City, who knows.

When she reached the carousel, she quickly scanned the crowd for Jyabura, but he was nowhere to be found. She sighed and waited silently while staring at the ground, musing about what the future could bring.

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Jyabura did not waste time when he spotted Robin at the carousel, though he thought there might be a hundred better places to meet than at this fucking thing.

Silently he almost sneaked upon her and put his hand on her back carefully. "Too crowded place for heavy discussions" he said briefly and started to walk in any random direction that was far away enough from apartment 9, his hand still on her back. "So, things are getting out of hand" he said after a while in a silent tone. There were too many people getting involved in that thing all of a sudden. "And by that, I mean our hands."

Robin jumped when she felt a hand on her back, but recovered quickly after she heard the familiar voice. She let herself being pushed around, literally, even though she would've probably attacked anyone else who wasn't a friend of hers.

"I assume you mean that too many people know about us right now." she said while looking straight ahead of her. "Or are you talking about the arrival of your comrade?"

"I'm not exactly sure who knows about us" he said. "Your pirate crew does, right? All of them? Didn't that swordsman arrive some days ago?" Well, he was definitely not up to playing games today and wanted to get things straight forward as fast as possible. The thought that any other than Robin or him handled the whole incident pissed him off more than anything he could come up with now. This was their business and no one would interfere.

"You mean Kaku? He won't harm you." he said certainly. "Still, keep being cautious towards him. But I think if your cook keeps badmouthing CP9 like that, he will end up hurt. By both the giraffe and the cat." he added. He hated that fucking cook for many reasons, but if Kaku and Lucci killed him, this wouldn't improve the situation at all.

"Yes, they do. Swordsman-san now knows vaguely what's going on, but I don't think he's really interested unless he can beat someone up." she said. She liked that Zoro had finally arrived; in fact, she liked it a lot. It was one person less to worry about.

"I already told Cook-san not to interfere and I gave my captain the same message. They told me that they won't meddle with this until I get hurt, which I think," she said with some empathy, "will never happen. I can't keep them from telling things to other people, though."

"On my side, Kaku knows. About Lucci... I don't know. I wouldn't be too surprised if he knows already, and if he finds it out in the future, it wouldn't surprise him too much either. He's still our biggest problem, though."

He directed her towards a less crowded part of the City, but still with no actual aim. Maybe taking a random walk was just the right thing. "I don't care about anyone but this cook of yours. The other two had no business with me, and I'll be glad if things keep going like that. Still, if your cook is still offended that I couldn't gain him the peace he wanted between our groups, he shouldn't fuck things up that way. You all have reasons to hate us, but making other people hate us doesn't make anything better." Well, it seemed like he had to tell that cook by himself, maybe he'd get it then. That fucking idiot.

"Did you tell anyone else beside your nakama? I'm getting the feeling too many people aside our parties are getting involved and I don't like it."

"You need to tell Lucci and make it clear that you don't want him involved. It'd be wiser than letting him find out by himself." she mused, thinking about the possible consequences; the most positive one she could think of was that he'd be too disgusted to even touch her.

"As for Cook-san... He won't interfere until I'm in trouble. If he does, I will definitely talk to him" Robin didn't want to start a fight between her and her crew mates, but if it was going to be that way... so be it. She knew that they'd forgive her, no matter what; it was also for their sakes, after all.

"Yes, I told Isane. She asked me a lot about CP9 because of the things she heard about Kaku from Cook-san. She also knows I'm pregnant and she'll be checking up on me every once in a while, she's some sort of doctor after all." she said with a smile; even if she didn't know Isane for a very long time now, she trusted the girl. "But Naoto also knows, but she says that you told her. Why did you do that? She's one of the last persons who should know."

His expression told tales about how much he wanted to tell it Lucci. In the end, he could end up hurt, really badly hurt. But it was the only good thing to do. "Alright, I will tell him as soon as possible. However, I have not the slightest idea about how he's going to react. If you're not going to hear a thing from me, you know what happened" he said almost amused. While the whole matter was bothersome, that was reason enough to start up a good fight with that bastard.

Jyabura trembled when he heard the name 'Isane'. Why the hell? She had good reasons to be distrustful towards both Kaku and him, especially now that Kaku had fucked it up with his stupied lies. Still, there were so many excellent medics in the City and it just had to be the girl that was getting involved into the whole trouble. Awesome. "That's good to hear. I liked her from the very beginning. Still, I'll need to clear up things with her. Enough with the rumour mill already."

He gave her a confused look. "I didn't tell her! She found it out by herself. She may have a horrible taste in men, but she's not stupid." he admitted. He liked Naoto from the very first moment just like he liked Isane (maybe for the same reasons) and felt sorry to involve her in all that. But as Lucci's girlfriend that was inevitable.

"I'll kill him if that happens." she said serenely. Honestly, she would, even though she knew that she wouldn't stand a chance.

"I told her everything I know about CP9, though. She seemed... desperate and I wanted to help her." Robin admitted, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. Isane didn't seem like a person who would tell everyone immediately, but she had many friends... they'd have to see how that would work out.

Robin looked at him with a worried look on her face, questioning the "stupid" part. People do stupid things when they're in love. "You do know that she could be a threat at one point, right?"

That was most probably the best thing he had heard since his first arrival in the City. He knew as well as her that it was impossible, but he took it as a compliment. As a mighty good compliment. "I'd pay to see that." he smirked.

"That is ok. We have no reason to hide. This place is not ruled by the World Government and we're not on a mission either. Plus, I absolutely do not want a bunch of Shinigami to become my enemies, for what reason ever." He felt like this was enough to say. He told two or three of his friends that he was a government assassin on the Grandline, but didn't mention any further details.

He turned his hand on her back into a comforting embrace around her shoulders as answer. "I know. But I also know that she'd had no chance against me and I doubt she could do anything against your nakama either. She is strong without any doubt, but not that strong. And Lucci is still the bigger danger." He wondered how fast and relatively easy they had cleared up the biggest issues of the very chaotic last 24 hours. Would have been nearly impossible merely a month ago.

Robin sighed and leaned into his touch, feeling comfortable for the first time in days. Even though they had a bad start, she enjoyed his company now and didn't really care what other people would think.

"I'm just afraid that we'll get so many enemies at one point only because I'm pregnant and you happen to be an assassin. I'm tired of hearing from my nakama that I should be careful." she admitted more easily than she had expected from herself. She appreciated the fact that her nakama looked after her, but the constant "we'll kick his ass" attitude was starting to make her very uncomfortable with the whole situation. Why couldn't they just accept it? After all, she had done that too.

"They have reasons to, considering who we are" he said. "Or rather who we were. Kind of." He wasn't sure. He couldn't stop being an assassin just like Robin couldn't stop being a pirate and it didn't matter if they weren't in their own world. "We can't change who we are, but um... they don't know that we..." Well, what? They had some kind of relationship, though it was a very weird one. Not only due to the whole circumstances.

"That we actually like each other" he continued shyly, "like... a lot." Holy Jesus, that was ridiculous. Of course they did and more than that. "And secret meetings and the like are not typical for a twosome anyways. It's... I'd like to meet you more often and without all that hiding and stuff."

Talking about facts and plans was easy, but talking about feelings was horribly awkward for him.

"Even if we can't change that, my nakama need to trust me and stop worrying. I've told them countless times that it's fine, but they don't seem to listen. Apparently you've traumatized them rather badly, especially Cook-san." she added with a slight hint of amusement. Even though Sanji acted very serious about it, she knew that she had probably broken his heart.

And upon hearing Jyabura's request, she knew that she was going to pulverize that already broken heart. "That would be nice, yes." She smiled. "However, you don't want to come near the Going Merry and building nine isn't very safe right now. What would you suggest?"

"Yeah, me and the cook will not get along ever, I fear." he said, but with no sign of amusement on his face. "They need time, a lot of it. It's way too early for me to get on that ship, even if I wanted to" he added thoughtfully. No matter what they tried, as soon as one problem vanished, another one popped up, but even more annoying. God just had to be a cat...

"See ummm, you should make it official or the like, but don't scream it out. They won't understand yet, but they need to know. It surely is really fucking weird, but nothing to hide. Anymore." He remained silent for a while, thinking about the problem they had with their locations. "Well, we could share an apartment, even if we don't live there constantly, but that would be also an open invitation to anyone who's after us. It would only make sense if you don't stay there alone for even a minute. At least we'd have somee private space this way."

"I understand. I probably would've done the same if one of them were in my situation, so that's not really a problem." she pondered, trying to imagine what it'd would've been like if say, Sanji had gotten the glassed secretary pregnant. Robin couldn't blame her friends; she would've reacted the exact same way.

"Also, that reminds me. How did Lucci react?" she inquired, looking at him hopefully; she prayed that the man had stopped being oh-so keen on killing her. "If we do take a shared apartment, we'll have to keep the location secret anyway; I wouldn't want my nakama barging in on any moment. That could deliver some... awkward situations."

He automatically grimaced when the name of that bastard was mentioned. "Oh, he acted all 'holier-than-thou' disgusted and pretended to not care much. Totally fake, but apparently he's too busy with fucking up other people. The situation towards him stays quite the same." Jyabura knew Lucci would have a bad influence on Kaku, who has always been two-faced. Or loved to be manipulated. Or both, whatever. As long as he only had to deal with his nice side, he didn't give a fuck.

"Awkward?! What are you planning to do there?" he asked her with lifted eyebrows and badly acted innocence while running his fingers over her throat, but a bit too... wolfish. "You may admit that you loved the risk of the unlocked door that Christmas evening. Because, well, I did too!"

"As long other things are occupying him, I'm content. I don't want to walk around this city fearing that I could have my throat ripped out at any moment." Robin said relieved, hoping that she could finally feel safe for the first time since she knew about Lucci's presence in the City. Well, he did say that he would follow her anywhere.

"You know what I'm talking about." she said with a teasing smile. "It's not like we need a whole apartment just to talk."

He stopped and gave her a tight hug. "Some throats will get cut, but none of people you'd bother about, don't worry" he said in secretive anticipation of what he'll do to the squarenose very soon.

"You can count me in for everything you want to do there, be it talking or hanging around or the fun stuff" he continued and gave her a kiss on her cheek. "And now that we're close to that café anyways, let me take you out. I could need a coffee" he added and took her by the hand.

"I don't want to know what you've got up your sleeve, as it's probably a bad thing." she said, returning the hug with a sincere smile; she hadn't felt this safe in ages. Maybe being with him wasn't so bad as she thought at first, even if he was a CP9 agent. People... could change. She had seen that over the past few weeks, and a drastic change at that.

She couldn't be more happier.

"Sounds great."

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