(Serious) Assembling the Crew! Touji Kimuai enters!

Hiroki docked her grand boat in the dockyard of a small island she had arrived at. She wasn't here to cause trouble, only to re-stock her supplies for the journey ahead of her. She took her rucksack from below deck, and then headed across the large oak panneled galley, before emerging into the bright sunlight. 'Seems like a nice enough day...' She thought to herself as she jumped down off the high side of her ship without the need of dropping down the walkway ladder.

She then set off into the main town, dipping in and out of shops that she had to go to. First she started with food, then moved along to drink and finally stopping at a clothes shop. Hiroki was the kind of woman who liked to change her outfits when she thought one got old, so she found many new ones along with some new shoes, and paid for them all.

It was days like this she was glad that she could easily get away with her disguise which was a long black trench coat that covered the tattoos on her arms which were always tell tale signs that she was the "Heartless" woman on wanted posters. She found a small tea shop and sat in a booth near the window. It would be nice to find some new crew members while she was here. But where would one start looking?...

Touji was in his room and had just finished packing all the things he needed into a backpack, he could still here his grandparents down the stairs talking but with one final thought touji decided that he would leave and sail the world. He wrote down a note and jumped out off the windows into the backyard garden, in a while he was over the fence and heading towards the main town but before he could leave he first had to find some food to carry and more importantly a crew to join.

Touji travelled through the alley ways and stopped at a building corner, he saw some men who were carrying a small amount of food. He saw his opportunity and ran towards them grabbing the bag and continuing running. The men were furious and began to chase him, while Touji looked back and was focused on the men chasing him he didn’t realise the small tea shop in front , by the time he had realised it was too late and he crashed through it. The men were still just behind; Touji got up and wiped the dirt off then began to look for his bag which he had dropped during the crash, both the food and his belongings.

Hiroki jumped up to her feet and saw a boy had come crashing through the window of the booth next to her. He dropped a bag of food which landed on her table, nearly spilling her tea. She sighed, downed the warm drink and got to her feet, standing between the boy and the two angry men who were chasing him.

"Now... are we going to go away quietly, or will I have to kill you with all these people watching?" She warned in her soft voice, gesturing behind her at all the gawking customers. She shrugged one arm out of her trenchcoat, and then the other, letting it fall to the floor. Her right hand snatched her kanata and she held it up to both the men's throats. "If I were you... forget about the food, and get away with your lives." A sadistic smirk crossed her lips. "Because the only reason I haven't killed you yet, is because there is a boy watching."

The men looked at Hiroki, and then her arm which had 'Death' scrawled across it. They then gulped and backed up.
"Hey, kid. Are you alright?" The woman turned to the boy on the floor and offered him her left arm to help him up.

Touji saw the woman get up and fend off the men that were chasing him and were now running away; she turned to the boy and offered to help him. Touji couldn’t help but to smile when answering in excitement, “Yes I’m fine...Thank you.” He grabbed onto her hand and got up to his feet, he suddenly realised that he was still looking for his bag and spotted it at the table the lady was, he got it and wore it on his back.

He then turned towards the people in the shop and apologised about the damages, whilst touji was about to thank the lady again he took a good look at her and noticed that he had seen her face before, he reached into his bag and took out a bounty poster which was in between others that touji had collected of pirate’s who’s crews he could try to join.

“You are the ‘Heartless’ Hiroki Hart aren’t you?” He asked facing the lady and smiling.

A small and rare smile graced Hiroki's lips as she nodded.
"That would be me. May I ask why you have one of my bounty posters? Just out of curiosity." She had now slowly started to walk out of the broken window, looking back over her shoulder and nodding at the boy for him to join her.

She picked up her trenchcoat and held it over her arm as she waited for the boy to come by her side. Her only exception to her name 'Heartless' was of course children. She could never hurt anyone that wasn't an adult. Her motherly nature came out when she was around them. Plus, this noy intrigued her. Something about him told her he was no ordinary boy.

Touji heard her words and followed her as she walked off, “This is great...” He said, “...I have posters of all the pirates that i thought were strong enough for me to join their crew and one of them just so happened to be you...” Touji continued to mumble happily about how he was sent here and about him running away from home.

After he had finished talking about his previous situations and why he had Hiroki's bounty poster then he thought to himself, This could be my chance to joining a crew, so he run up in front of her and asked her directly, “I'am Touji Kimuai... Please, CAN I JOIN YOUR CREW!?” He shouted as he waited for a reply.

Hiroki smiled kindly, also amused by the guts this boy had.
"Well I'm afraid that joining my crew isn't as simple as just asking, dear. You'll have to show me what you can do, of course." She laughed slightly before her ears picked up on the faint sound of shouting,

"Hey, there she is!" A commander of the island's Marines pointed to her and she cursed under her breath, drawing her kanata.

"I want you to run to my ship, hide on board." She called to the boy behind her. "That's an order! As part of my crew... you have to do as the captain says." She smirked, deciding in that split second that this boy would in fact be the First Mate of her Pirate Crew.

Touji the commander pointing towards Hiroki, she ordered him to get back to the ship, Touji turned to her after he had realised that he had finally join a crew.

"Thank you... Captain!", he thanked her smiling just before turning round and running in the direction of the docks, he didn't really know which ship belonged to Hiroki but he knew that he could recognise it by the flag.

After a short while he saw the ship in a distance and ran faster towards it in the docking yard, That must be it, he thought to himself as he continued to run.

Hiroki drew her other kanata, and held them in a crossed postition, smirking as she waited for the Marines to attack her.
"Don't let her get away!" The commander barked, and the first dozen of Marines came barrelling at her. 'I hope to god that kid is ok...' She thought to herself as she lunged forward at her attackers, slaughtering them easily.

"Don't make me laugh!" She mocked, spinning on the spot and launching herself off the ground before slashing through the shoulder of a marine next to her.

"Get your guns." The commander than said bluntly, and Hiroki then had 10 guns staring her down. She raised an eyebrow and kept her kanatas in front of her in an offensive postition. "Ready... aim..." Before the commander could give the order, Hiroki sprinted straight towards her targets, cutting down half of them in a line. Then the remaining Maries opened fire on her, a rain of bullets heading towards where she was stood. She weaved in and out of the bullets, narrowly missing each of them before she had those men on the floor dead. All that remained was the commander, who was stood frozen in fear.

"I might take it easy on you... If you surrender now." Hiroki said smugly as she stood at the commander's side, her right kanata at his throat.
"N-Never!" He gulped, and Hiroki sighed before pressing enough pressure into his neck so it was slit open.
"You can't say I didn't warn you." She shrugged, and started off back towards her ship.

Touji was just sitting on the edge of the ship kicking his legs and waiting for the captain, he saw a figure in a distance which looked like Hiroki so he called out, "Hey, Cap'n...I found the ship!"

Hiroki laughed and nodded her head, before going up onto deck herself and pulling up the wooden board.
"I can see that." She smiled slightly and put it down the side of the banister, before leaning on the banister herself and looking at the boy properly. "Hey kid, you got a name? It helps for a Captain to know the names of people in their crew." She said in a teasing tone before going to the top where the wheel was postitioned. She spun the wheel round completely, checked her map, and then set the course quickly for the next island in the chain of them in the North Blue.

"Yep, I'm Touji Kimuai" he said jumping onto the deck and walking down the deck to the back now facing the town, he looked out at the sea and back at the town he had just come from, "Wow, it sure feels good to be leaving this place and going onwards to another"

Hiroki laughed and nodded her head, still concentrating on her set course.
"Something about the sea breeze always makes leaving home feel that much better." She smirked slightly and steered through some rocks blocking her path.
"Why did you want to leave anyway? That island didn't seem so bad." She said absently, watching the sea crash against the walls of the island.

"I didn't leave because it's bad or anything..." He said still looking back at the sea, then he turned and faced fowards to the sea, "...I want to sail the world." He explained then he walked over to the side and put his bag next to a wall. "What about you, what's your story,... What made you the pirate you are today?" He asked curiously smiling waiting for an aswer.

Hiroki continued to smile slightly.
"A dream of yours? Dreams are a powerful thing, they give us extra ambition to go places and do things other people would ever think of." She said wisely. One would think she was an old lady, and not a young woman by the wisdom spoke in her words.
"To be honest, there's not a lot to tell about my life. It was boring, over-protected... that kind of thing." She shrugged lightly and watched the seas ahead before joining Touji. "My mother was killed when I was about your age, so I decided that I would find the person who had done this. My goal, or dream, is revenge. Plus, to get a bit of recognitcion along the way." She laughed lightly, the breeze ruffling her shoulder length black hair.

He looked out at the sea then at hiroki when she started to talk about revenge, he looked up at her for a while then replied when she had finished, "Wow, thats some deep stuff right there" he said looking over at his bag and realising the it was just sitting there. He picked it up then turned toward Hiroki and asked, "So where can i leave my stuff?"

The smile never left Hiroki's face. She had no emotion for her mother now apart from anger and the bitter taste of revenge every time she talked about it. Thing was, she was a good actor.
"Below deck and to the left there's a long corridor of rooms. You can take your pick of which one you want. My room's on the right hand side corridor, so you won't manage to go into mine by mistake." She chuckled softly and looked ahead. The sun was begining to set. "Go get your stuff un-packed and come to the galley. I'll make us something to eat." She got up and stretched, before heading down herself and into the galley where the kitchen was located.

Touji took hiroki's direction and went down to the long corridor, wow what a big ship. He thought to himself as he tried to remember were the captain had said he should go. "Ah right, Left...Definately Left,...erm...yeah left" He said to himself still getting used to the new ship, there were some rooms on the left and Touji went in to one. He went in and the was a desk, a bed and a small round air-tight sealed window were he could look out into the sea.

He unpacked all his stuff and walked out of the room with the bounty poster, he walked back up to the main deck, next to the edge. Thinking that he had no more use for the bounty posters he just let them go and saw the fall into the ocean before he walked towards the gallery were he had seen Hiroki go to.

Hiroki had gotton food prepared for two people. It seemed odd to her that she had to make an extra portion after all the years of her being alone. Kind of like she had a family. She shook that soppy thought out of her head, and sat herself back on the countertops, watching the food closely so the rice wouldn't burn.
"Ah, have you found yourself a room I take it?" She asked as she heard footsteps enter the galley. The table was laid in the diner type area, and she had tidied up all her maps and charts from the maple wood surface. Since she was used to no one complaining about mess, she just let the ship get untidy without noticing.

"Aye, that i did, the ship's quite messy though." He replied smiling, he looked down at the laid out table with food on it, he went and sat down at a seat and looked over to Hiroki, "So, got any idea of which island we are going to next?" He asked whilst at the table trying to make small talk.

Hiroki chuckled to herself.
"Sorry about that. After being alone for a while I just let the size of the ship put me off cleaning it. Besides, there's no one around to tell me it's a mess, so I just get used to it." She shrugged slightly and attended to the rice before it could burn, and then tipped some delicately between two plates next to her. "And I was thinking of a bigger port town that's only about a day away. That way, we can find more crew postitions to fill up." She then put the scorching pan in the sink to cool down and poured the chili mixture over the rice.

"Hope this is ok, one of my dad's recipes." Hiroki then brought through the boiling plate and set it down in front of her new First Mate, before getting her own and bringing it through. "Well, dinner's always a good time to discuss stuff. So tell me, what are your skills as a Pirate? What do you like/ interested in? And what annoys you?" She then asked, taking her fork and raking it through the chili to cool it down.

Taizu began to eat it while it was still hot, "Mm...this is nice..." he said before he continued replying to Hiroki's previous question,"...ermm lets see...my skills as a pirate, well i don't really have any main skills, i can fight if needed to well but then again i can't swim anymore and as for what i like, well i like a lot of things, adventure, food, visiting new places and meeting new people general things like that..." He stopped for a while to think and have another bite before he could continue, "I hate marines, seeing people in distress and fighter..." He continued to eat and finished his food fast,"...Anyeh-thing else yah wah-nah- knaw-?" He said trying to speak with his mouthfull.

"Ah, unable to swim, eh? You've eaten a Devil's Fruit." Hiroki chuckled slightly and continued to eat until she had finished. "I was tempted to eat one once, but I chickened out because I lost the ability to swim." She got up from her seat, and stacked her plate on top of Touji's.
"And yes, that is all I need to know. I can gauge quite a lot on your personality through what you have told me." The right side of her mouth twitched up into a half smile as she took the plates out into the kitchen. "You go and do what you please, there's a games room straight out of here. Plus, you need to be up reasonably early tomorow so we can land the boat."

Touji goes out but instead of playing he chooses to clean the ship, "Where are your cleaning supplies?" He asks entering the room again only minutes after.

Hiroki thought for a minute. It had been so long since she had actually done any cleaning on board that she had forgotten where she put them.
"Hmmm... They're in a cupboard near the rooms." She then finally said, wiping down the stove and cleaning the kitchen. At least now, the ship was going to be more organised with Touji on board. It was always a plus when one could actually find things.