Patry for the first time and you ..." She lowered her gaze and tears formed in her eyes.
Zorro and Sanji stared at her puzzled and her cheeks shimmered a light red.
"Please ..." she sniffed. Sanji handed her a handkerchief.
"Of course, Akiko cutie!"
"Are you starting again!" Zorro grumbled.
"Are you jealous?" Replied Sanji.
"No!!"
"Then you don't have to mind either, do you?"
"That's not the point!"
"Then what about, huh?"
"You do everything that is not riveted and nailed down!"
"You don't care, right?"
“It's not me!” And the fight between the two continued. Akiko clenched her hands.
"How could I believe for a moment that this could be resolved peacefully and without violence?"she asked herself.
"You are simply insensitive, and women don't like that!"
"And you suck yourself up everywhere!"
"How was it?"
"You heard right!"
"Say that again!"
"You're a-"
"STOP NOW! BOTH OF EVERYONE! YOU WILL TAKE YOU ON LIKE THE LAST IDIOTS !!" Akiko shouted and the rest of the crew covered their ears. Akiko narrowed her eyes. Shouting like that was really bad for her injuries. Sanji and Zorro looked worried.
"Are you okay?" Asked Zorro.
"Probably not, or are you blind?", Sanji snapped at him.
"At least not as blind as you, you crazy wooden spoon!" Akiko was fed up.
"Ouch !!" both shouted. Akiko had cooked them over with full force.
"You really are the biggest idiots there are!", She got angry and went back to the others. "Let's forget the bastards!"
"Good idea!" Agreed the others.
"And that's why I suggest that we really make it!"And that is exactly what was done. As soon as the sun had set, the wine corks popped and it was celebrated for all its worth. Starting with the feast that Sanji had prepared up to the stupid things that Luffy and Usopp did.
Hours passed and it was way past midnight. Still, there was no question of quitting!
Akiko stood at the railing and thought. Finally the nightmare was over!
"Thanks Luffy!" She said to herself and smiled.
“No problem!” Startled, she turned around and saw a grinning Luffy standing next to her. "I gladly did! After all, you are one of us!" Akiko didn't know what to say. "We are friends!"
"Really?" She asked, almost in a whisper.
"Well, logo! What else?" She nodded.
"I'm glad it's over now. I don't know how it would have gone if I hadn't met you guys. I would probably still have to take orders from this Ann!"What did you actually do with her ?! "
"Let them run away."
"YOU HAVE SOMETHING???"
"Let them run away." Akiko looked at him in disbelief.
"And why? I thought you wanted to finish her off ?!"
"I did!"
"You let her go!"
"Just." Luffy looked up at the sky. "You should start all over again!"
"Ann killed hundreds of people!" Protested Akiko. "Why should she get another chance? I don't understand!"
"She's not a bad person! On the contrary."
"And what is it that convinces you so much?" She folded her arms. Impossible that there should be anything like a good core in Ann!
"She became a pirate for the wrong reason!"
"Oh yes?"
"Ann was mad at Zorro that he just left and wanted to kill him. That's why she became a pirate. She damaged the reputation of the pirates! For a real pirate, grace is worse than death. And I believe she is Akiko looked at Zorro and the others."So what? Does that justify that she also kills and tortures other people? Just because he didn't respond to her ?! I think you are forgetting a crucial point, Luffy. That she took the lives of many innocent people or enslaved them." had nothing to do with this thing. She did it for the purest pleasure. "
"Don't be so stubborn!" He said to her.
"I'm not stubborn!" She yelled at him. "I just don't see why she deserves a second chance!"
"Because you got one too!"
"How?"
"You tried to kill Zorro too, didn't you?"
"B-but, that was only because ..."
"Because Ann told you to? Wrong! I think that you knew very well in your subconscious that she would not let the eight hundred people live. Nevertheless, you wanted to save them and betrayed your friend!"
"That's not true!" She interrupted him. “She didn't give me a choice!” Luffy didn't listen and continued."But Zorro helped you anyway, didn't he? He trusted you because he knew you were still friends! He might as well have let you down! So Ann gets a second chance too. It's that simple!" And with that he had silenced her. If she thought about it carefully, he was right. Zorro could really have ignored them! And even when she tried to kill herself, he didn't need to pay attention to her. Still he had helped her !!
"Okay, what you say is true!" She finally said. "Luffy, thank you!"
"It's okay! But I would be interested to know why Zorro never said that he knew Ann ??"
"Probably because it was just disappointing that she changed so much. Besides ..." Akiko paused for a moment and looked back at Zorro, who was laughing loudly with the others. "Besides, it's a pretty private thing. Maybe he didn't want to remember it ...""Or hurt you!", Luffy added and she looked at him in horror. "Said Nami anyway. But I have no idea what that means!", He said and scratched his head. "Anyway, I'm going back to the others! Are you coming, Akiko?" Akiko nodded, smiling, and ran back to the rest of the crew. You don't have to know that either! , she thought and sat down next to Zorro, who was a little bit drunk (* can take a lot, right? *).
She had finally finished with the past and now she would finally enjoy the new life that she was allowed to live. With friends who were there for you, who would not let you down!
"Exactly! I'll tackle it !!", she thought aloud and jumped up. Too loud and too moving, however, as she noticed when the others looked up at her.
"What's the matter with you? Did you drink too much that you are already talking to yourself?", Zorro asked her and pulled her down again.
"Nonsense! Not as much as you?", She replied, turning a little red."Do you want a fight, redhead?"
"As far as I'm concerned, idiot!"
"How was it?"
"Dumbass!"
"Stop it!"
"No! I don't think about it!"
"Now they're arguing again!", Nami sighed.
"Be happy! Then there is often something going on!", Nojiko smiled at her little sister and looked again at the two arguing roosters that were attacking each other.
"You are an idiot!"
“Shut up!” Akiko stuck out her tongue.
"But that's enough!" Said Zorro and the two of them moaned until they broke off laughing and (almost) held each other in each other's arms.
How could she have believed she could get along on her own for even a moment? This gang of pirates really were the best friends one could have! There was only one such friend in the world, and she was the one who had her.
"Idiot!", She said again and pinched Zorro's arm. Then the two looked each other in the eye and smiled at each other for a while.

End! For this chapter of course ". -> Part 11 begins again with a new title, so to speak.I don't know how it is, so just check whether part 11 of me is unlocked, right?
Quick tip how to proceed? Okay, for once (but only a small one):
- The Alabasta story is over -> So Nico Robin is in Luffy's gang
- there will be a big crisis between Akiko and Zorro
- a new character is added for a short time
You will see, however, whether all of this is adhered to. I can't promise anything ...
So, don't worry, be happy !!!
Your pirate Nami