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It was Nami!
For a moment, Kaden just stared at her as she power walked away from Arlong Park, a stormy expression on her face.
After him coming to his senses over thinking about her, after deciding saving those people outweighed any personal desires of his own, after even deciding to make a plan to use Arlong and his cronies to make up for not getting to see her-
He came at one of the rare few times she was on the island after bringing back her stolen loot?
Was this karma? Was this the world itself telling him that following the path of the D. was better than the path of the Celestial Dipshits?
Or maybe it was just coincidence. Either way, he wasn't about to miss the chance to meet her.
With a thought, he directed his flame cloud down towards her, the glittering orange cloud zipping down through the air and carrying him down right in front of her.
Nami stopped in her tracks, eyes widening in shock at his sudden and abrupt appearance, "W-what the!?" she sputtered.
"Sup?" Kaden lifted a hand and greeted her with a grin, "I'm Kaden, and I'm looking for some information about things going on around here and since you just came from Arlong Park, I figured you'd be in the know."
It was only a little white lie. Actually, not even really a lie because everything he said was the truth, so it was more just an omission of all the facts.
Nami goggled at him for a few good seconds, but points to her, she quickly smothered her emotions and gave him a wary look, "…Kaden, right," she repeated his name, "Why are you here? And what's with this freaky cloud you're sitting on?" she asked, eyes moving from his face to gave the flame cloud a quizzical look, and something else.
He didn't even need to use observation haki to feel the greed coming from her. He could almost predict and hear her thoughts, 'What a freaky cloud. It flies, how? Wait…if I could get my hands on….it!'
It was almost telling really how her face shifted from wary to a bright inviting smile.
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She had no idea who the hell this kid was. He just appeared out of nowhere, sitting cross legged as he pleased on a glowing orange cloud of all things.
What the absolute hell?
She forced a bright pretty smile on to her face even as her mind ran a mile a minute as she took stock of him. He was a teenager, broadly built, bright blonde hair, shining blue eyes, sunny smile. Younger than her, maybe around fifteen years old, sixteen maybe?
The boots and pants he was wearing looked like the types marines tended to wear, but that long red coat with the gold pauldrons? It screamed either privateer or pirate. But, there was no way a kid like this was an actual pirate, right?
Her eyes flickered to his shoulders where the hilts of two blades stuck out noticeably over them and a massive sack sat behind him on the large cloud. Gosh, where did he get that thing? She'd never seen anything like it. And with how fast she'd noticed it zip down to get in front of her…
Well, she could already feel plans beginning to form in her mind. If she could get her hands on it and fly around she could seriously speed up her travel time and have way easier escapes from tough situations when she went back out on her journey to steal more cash.
She had already stolen just shy of eighty million beri, just twenty more to go! And then she could kiss Arlong and his filthy crew behind.
"This? It's just a flame cloud," the kid, Kaden shrugged pointing at the cloud, and the way he casually said it, sounded like it wasn't anything special at all, most likely meaning he could get his hands on another one or maybe even more and- "It's just one of the abilities given to me by my Devil Fruit."
Nami's plans for getting her hands on the cloud ground to a halt, "Devil Fruit?" she gaped at him, was he serious? "They're real?" she goggled at the boy.
She'd heard the stories, but even being part of Arlong's crew for the past eight years now and having been travelling all over the East Blue to gather up the funds to buy back her village, she'd never saw one in person and thought it was just a myth.
"Oh yeah sure, they're pretty common on the Grand Line," the kid casually dropped a massive bomb, "And I've only been here in the East Blue a few days to be honest, but I know there's quite a few people in this sea with them. Like I ran into a pirate group I hunted down with two of them the other day, a paramecia and even a logia. Honestly, gotta say it's crazy a logia was just bumming around East Blue, but then she was pretty damn weak, it was honestly kind of sad."
Paramecia? Logia? She had no idea what he was talking about? Different classifications she assumed, and Logia if the way he talked were pretty…strong devil fruits?
And on top of that, he just casually revealed he came from the Grand Line. Even the few times she overheard Arlong and the others speak about the place, she knew it was filled with utter monsters.
What the hell was a kid this young doing in the Grand Line? And what was he doing in East Blue now?
'He said he just hunted down a pirate group,' she thought, ones with devil fruits at that. If there were pirate groups with devil fruit users, then they were probably some of the highest bounties of East Blue.
…If he was here hanging around not far from Arlong Park, after admitted to hunting another pirate group.
Then there was only one conclusion to make.
"You came to take Arlong's head?" she blurted out, and despite herself she felt her hands clench into fists. She had to make this kid leave. Devil Fruit or not, he was just some dumb kid, Arlong was a fishman, and had a whole crew of them. He was just going to die, and she'd vowed before, to make sure she didn't have to watch people die by his hands ever again if she could do something about it.
"Pretty much," Kaden shrugged in confirmation, "I heard him and his cronies had more or less enslaved the people around here and were paying off the useless marines in the area to look the other way from him. I didn't like the sound of that, so I decided to come shove my foot up ass and take his head."
He was confident, Nami would give him that. And going by what he said about fighting devil fruit users before and pirate ones at that and implying he killed them, he was no doubt strong.
For a human.
"You should leave kid," Nami told him, her bright smile evaporating and being replaced by a serious frown, any thought of getting her hands on his possessions fleeing her mind, "I get you think you're strong, and you probably are. And it's nice of you to want to help the people here…but pick another target, you're just going to die if you try and take on Arlong."
The kid, Kaden blinked and stared at her for a moment.
Before erupting into laughter, "Chadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada!"
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I rolled a bo3 1d100 with a DC of 75 for the possibility of Nami being there. We got a 17, a 6 and an 87. So Nami was there. Yes, I did indeed roll dice. And the dice gods blessed us with Nami.
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"Chadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada!"
Arlong paused mid-chew of a large phalic banana he'd just put inside his mouth as the most ominous laughter he'd ever heard in his pitiful fishy life echoed from off in the distance.
"Arlong-san! You peed yourself!" Hachi gasped suddenly.
And yes, he realised as he looked down that he in fact had pissed himself like a little girly boy bitch. As such, he decided to burst into tears like the clearly superior BirdsEye Fish Finger he was.