"JANGO, EXPLAIN YOURSELF!"

"W-w-well you s-see…you said that these ki-kids wouldn't be a pro-problem" Jango stuttered.

"Yes, I did…I knew they would come and try to stop us…but what I did not understand that you fools would all be so useless" Kuro yells with raging fury.

"I-I we…I" Jango try to explain to his Captain the situation they were in when Sham spoke.

"Who are you calling useless?"

"How dare you speak so ill to us" even Buchi is facing up his Captain.

Zoro gaze on the Nyaban Brothers to see they clicking their claws together in threatening manner and they to snarl angrily at their Captain, Zoro, commented in his mind either those two are really brave to stand up to their Captain or do they want to die that bad.

The duo then commented on how they plundered countless Villages while Kuro was fooling around as a butler.

As Sham and Buchi are getting close to Kuro, the Captain begin to move his feet in fast pace and tapping so lightly on the ground as if he didn't touch it, Sham and Buchi are grinning like wild fiends with thirst of blood as they finally got close to Kuro, and then they slash at Kuro. However, Kuro disappeared into thin air.

Zoro and Luffy were stunned at the dark man's swiftness, and he's even more stunned when Captain Kuro appeared before him, his back facing Zoro and on his hands is coated with furred gloves and ten blade katanas that look like long cat claws.

"When did he get behind them?…and that weapon" Zoro muttered, Sham and Buchi are frozen in shock, then again they're not supposed to be surprised, they knew how fast their previous Captain was almost as if he's teleporting himself in lightning speed.

"Who…did you want to kill?" Kuro asked as he crossed his arms and clinking his blades together, both Sham and Buchi got pissed by his mockery and turn around to strike him again but Kuro disappeared again like ghost. Jango watched the deadly display played in front of him and mumbled to no one.

"There no doubt about it, it's his Pussyfoot Maneuver technique" unaware to Jango that Nami had just heard his Captain's skill.

"The…Pussyfoot Maneuver" Nami whispered, Sham and Buchi are keeping in high alert for any sign of Kuro but prove to be difficult since his move is super-fast and hard to point out where he is because his speed is about a hundred meters in four to five seconds, so it makes it hard for the Nyaban Brother to see where he is; even Zoro has a hard time to find him which made him irritated.

Not moment too soon that Captain Kuro finally emerged from his vanishing act right behind the Nyaban Brother holding them captive using his ten katanas way too close to their faces like caged animal. Sham and Buchi didn't dare to move, but their body tremble uncontrollably at the sight of the dreaded blades that send thousands of Marines and Pirates to death.

"Hmm, you're right…I'm not as fast as I used to be" said Kuro darkly making the Nyaban Brothers cry like children, Nami gasped at the sight and thought.

'I can't believe it; Zoro had trouble with them using one sword, yet he easily…' Zoro may have his monstrous strength and incredible precision but compare to Kuro; he may lack the strength, but he has high level speed and agility that he cornered the Nyaban Brothers before they can blink.

'Captain Kuro still has it, his Pussyfoot Maneuver, is silent movement, even if you had fifty assassins, and he can kill 'em all without noticing anything, no one has ever escaped from him' he thought gruesomely and stare at his Captain. Then he remembered how his Captain always pushed his glasses up using the tip of his palm.

'After three years, seeing that old habit of his, the way he adjusts his glasses as if he still wears his Cat Claws to avoid scratching his face…this proves he never forgot how to kill' Jango thought as Kuro begin to smirk.

"You know; it seems I've becoming soft after staying on this island for so long; I'll give you five minutes to make up for your mistakes" then to everyone's surprise, Kuro released the Nyaban Brother free and to say the two brothers and the Crew were glad to be spared.

"If you don't finish them off in five minutes…then all of you here…will die by my hands" he said causing many of them to shiver.

"Ahh! Of… of course! Captain Kuro, sir, we can manage in five minutes all we have to do is get rid these two" Jango pointed at Zoro and Luffy.

"Five minutes will be more than enough to kill them" he laughs tensely while Zoro and Luffy glance at him.

"The guy who's barely able to fend off our attacks…" said Buchi.

"We'll finish of him in five seconds flat" said Sham cockily.

"We're counting on you, Nyaban Brothers!" said Jango, then he saw the little girl passed him by and then she kicked Zoro's swords to him.

"Zoro! Take it!" she yelled, and Jango gaped that he let that bratty girl out of his sight, about to attack her, but was held back by Luffy's Venus Whip.

"I don't think so." Luffy smiled.

Kuro was surprised at what Luffy did. 'A whip of light? I wonder...'

"Hey! Don't go kickin' my katanas!" Zoro yelled.

"How about saying 'thank you' instead?" Nami exclaimed; Zoro threw his sword up and grabbed both the hilt of his swords and at the same time the sheath of the two swords had been removed, then he put his Wadō between his teeth and then the sword he had thrown came back down, and Zoro grabbed it in time.

"Thanks" he mumbled through his white sword and now he is fully equipped to take down those annoying felines.

"It's useless" Sham exclaimed.

"Even if you have all three of 'em the result's still the same" said Buchi. As the Nyaban Brother holds out their claws to strike the green-haired Swordsman, Zoro put his two swords behind his Wadō and said.

"You guys don't get it" before can anyone can blink, Buchi and Shan could've sworn they saw a tiger's head appeared behind Zoro.

"Tiger Trap" he swings forth a forward slashing the Nyaban Brother with three large claw marks on each chest, and Kuro wasn't all that worried.

"Four minutes to go" said Kuro and the Nyaban Brothers fell on to the slope in front of Luffy, Nami and Jango in defeat.

"Using three swords and three sword techniques are…totally different things" he said with satisfaction that he beat those punks.

The fleet of Pirates are completely flabbergasted including Captain Jango to see two of their strongest men been defeated by one man with a single strike, Usopp is amazed by the Swordsman's amazing skill and had grown to respect him more, and Nami is both amazed and stun by Zoro's crazy powers. Luffy grinned at her First mate.

'I can't believe that the boy has defeated our trump card with only one strike just like the puny girl…just who exactly are they?!' Jango stares at the crouching Zoro before he get up and points his sword at Kuro, who seems to unfazed to whole things.

"Don't worry, in less than five minutes, there won't be anyone left." Zoro said in a fighting stance.

Zoro twitched when Kuro smiled a crazy smile that can make anyone froze in fear and then just like that his smile vanished and adjusts his glasses.

"Three minutes" said Kuro that made Zoro cringed at the stone-hearted killer, Jango watching his Captain and the green Swordsman exchanging words when someone grabbed his ankle.

Buchi was alive but barely.

"That bastard…I'll kill him 'cough' Captain…please hypnotize me." the Buchi lift his head up slowly, and Jango was stun to see tears streaming down on his face, he didn't know if it was from the stinging pain on his chest that Swordsman inflict on or fear toward his Captain that would surely kill him if time runs out.

"Please, Captain" Buchi begged, Kuro notice Buchi's still moving and not dead then he looked at the unmoving Sham seeing him he's breathing and alive too.

"You spared them…you're too soft" Kuro commented, Zoro took glimpse.

"Guess all the blubber had protected his vital points" when Zoro turn around knowing that the fat cat will stand and fight him again but froze at the horrific show that made him part his lip and almost dropped his prized sword.

Jango hypnotized Buchi and all of sudden his body started to twitch and to get bigger, more ferocious, and his teeth have sharpen into big fangs. Buchi has become much stronger; his wounds are gone, and he is ready to spill mayhem. He stomps on the ground making it crack under his feet and roar like lion, Zoro is in deep shit.

"Get him Buchi, kill him!" said Jango with smirk that would grantee that he would win this time, the green Swordsman doesn't stand a chance over a super-human Buchi.

Nami and Luffy gritted their teeth at  seeing the situation has turned bad

"So you're back for more" he said, he picked up the hilt of his sword and kick it upward and grab it the hilt of his blade between his teeth with ease and set on his fighting pose.

"Nami, I'm gonna handle the hypnotist. You get somewhere safe." Luffy said.

"Anyway, I've done all I can now the rest is up to you" she groans as another surge of pain swells on her shoulder.

"The battle isn't over…we can lose this fight" she said as she holds the pain, and Luffy nodded in agreement and smiled.

"Nami"

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"Do it…for the treasure" Nami said in such a honorable way.

"Yeah yeah, the treasure I get it" she picked it her hat and put it on and walk a bit till she saw the familiar caretaker that pretended to be Kaya's butler.

"Time's up, you know the deal all of you will die" he uncrossed his arms as move his fingers together to kill his own Crew.

"Klahadore!"

A voice stopped him and he turned to see Kaya walking around and up.

'What! Why in the world is she here?' he thought angrily, he removed shocked face and put on unemotionally one.
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