After a few moments of you calming down with deep breaths and eyes closed, you felt calmer. Although, your face was still flushed.

And not from anger.

Your face turned scarlet once more as you grumbled to yourself, making sure to not look over at Crocodile. You may have overreacted a little bit, just a little. But how else were you supposed to react to that?! Bon did say the rumors said they were lovers, but why couldn't it just be innocent little kisses? Nooooooo! It has to be the full on action.

You groaned.

The prisoners made sure to stay away from you and give you space as you sat on the opposite side of where Crocodile was situated. How the heck can you look at him now without blushing like a farm girl? You then growled to yourself, it's his fault in the first place! You want to beat him up! Just a little, you don't want to kill him. You did after all say you were fond of the man, although you're rethinking that now. You weren't actually going to kill him. You're not that short tempered and easily flustered...
right?

Luffy glanced over at the woman who grumbled, then growled, going back to grumbling with a red face. Luffy looked at Crocodile with a frown.

"Hey!" Crocodile gave him a dry look. "What'd you do to (Y/N)?! She's acting all weird!"

Crocodile looked towards the woman with a red face as she muttered quietly while tapping her fingers on the floorboard nervously, making sure to avoid his eyes.

"Why don't you ask her yourself Mugiwara?"

He had his suspicions on why she was acting like this. Though, Crocodile didn't expect such a degree of anger towards him. Silver Blood was truly too innocent if something like a mere rumor would get her so flustered. His gaze turned towards Mr. 3, who was staying close to the other prisoners while he nervously sweated.

His silver eyes narrowed.

Perhaps he should get rid of him, because of what the fool revealed, Gin Chi called him a degrading name in her anger. And there was a reason that rumor only existed in Baroque Works, he kept it that way. All the idiots around her are already enough of a challenge to deal with, he didn't need more from his own organization when he had it. Although, Crocodile's lips upturned to an arrogant smirk.

The Red Hair has certainly lost the lead, from what Crocodile was able to catch from the conversation between Silver Blood and Straw Hat. The woman was upset with him for hiding information from her about her father. Even he was aware of her interest in trying to find him. Silver Blood does not appreciate lies and deceit, she's famously known for defeating such men from both pirates and marines alike.

And although she was not aware of this rumor before, Crocodile glanced back at the woman managing to catch her looking towards him and then quickly looking away with a red face as she started muttering and face palming hard, she does not seem to be truly upset with him.

No. She's flustered. Like the naive and innocent woman Silver Blood was. Crocodile's smirk widened. It appears she does not know how to properly look at him now, something that amused him greatly.

It was then the Gates of Justice started to open.

You glanced up and saw the doors open slowly, causing you to narrow your eyes in suspicion.

'They weren't supposed to open...someone must have used the control room.' You frowned. Who would do such a thing? You saw Buggy standing in the railing in the front with a pole in his hands as he raises his arms to the heavens. You snorted at the display as the prisoners called him divine. Luffy and Jimbei looked on in confusion, calling out their bewilderment, you stood up and walked over.

"Someone must've infiltrated the control room. There's no way any marine out there would want us to come in."

Luffy eyebrows furrowed.
"As long as we get to Ace, I don't care."

"True", you muttered in thought as they passed through the gate, "still, something is off about this." You finished with a slight frown. Jimbei spoke up, thinking in his mind that you seemed to have calmed down, "Perhaps someone from Whitebeard's crew got in?"

Crocodile's low voice interjected, "If that were true, what reason would they have to open the door? The only ones who are aware of our intent to get in Marine HQ are the marines themselves."

You rubbed the back of your neck in slight frustration, a slight blush on your cheeks when you looked over at Crocodile when he was speaking as well as some irritation from what he did.

"No matter. We got in. It's the marines problem now." You finalized. Ivankov then stating, outside of Inazuma's room where he was healing, that Ace's and Luffy's father will come. You rose an eyebrow, trying to remember if Garp ever mentioned his son when you were younger. Your eyes lightened in recognition. Of course, Monkey D. Dragon. But you're sure that he said that Dragon was just the father of Luffy. It was then that Luffy revealed something you didn't expect.

"Oh... Me n' Ace don't have the same dad! Ace's dad is Roger, you know. He was awesome, but he never met him. So Ace'd be pretty mad if I told anyone."

Your eyes widened as the ship shouted in shock.

"WHAT?!"

"Oh yeah, this is a secret." Luffy added.

"WHAAAAAAAT?!"

Was would be the correct term, but you understand more on why the marines wanted to publicly execute him. Like they did with his father. You scowled at the thought that marines seems to think a crime of being born from a pirate is a great one. Your eyes darkened as your mind went back to what you learned.

"If it weren't for Garp the Hero, you wouldn't have even gotten close to being a marine Silver Blood...!"

You spoke up before your mind went to the dark abyss once more.

"This explains on why they wanted to publicly execute him. In the most morbid of terms, the apple does not fall far from the tree."

"You would've ended up the same way (Y/N)-san," Jimbei replied causing you to look over at him,"if it weren't for your belief in Luffy-kun coming to Impel Down, they would've executed you two months after Ace."

Luffy whirled at you in shock. "They were planning to execute you too (Y/N)?!" You smirked in amusement.

"Key word: planning. Obviously it won't happen now." A question then formed in your head as you turned to Luffy. "Which reminds me. Luffy, was Hancock the one that helped you to come to Impel Down?"

Luffy grinned and nodded.

"She's the one that helped me come there and get in. I really owe Hancock for that!"

You tilted your head. "Odd...she has a strong hate for men you know. So I'm kinda shocked that she was willing." Luffy told you that Hancock was super nice, even sneaking in a bunch of food in when they were in a marine ship to Impel Down.

More question marks appeared on your head.

"The hell? Did she somehow fall for your charm Luffy?" You said bewildered.

"What charm?" The prisoners dead panned as they looked at the laughing Straw Hat.

"Yeah! I thought she was bad at first but she really isn't (Y/N)!"

You grunted, muttering a "Yeah right."

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WARNING

The day of me putting this story in Temporary Hiatus is growing closer and closer.

Not only because of the amount of college tests I have, but because of the fact that I need to catch up to One Piece so I can figure out what exactly I'm going to do for the rest of this story.

So yes. This story will still continue after the Marineford Arc. MAYBE, PROBABLY, even after the Dressrosa Arc.

I will see.

For I have still not reached the Dressrosa Arc yet. And school is making it difficult for me to watch ANYTHING.

So bare with me if this story suddenly stops updating.

It will only be temporary.

Do not fret, ^-^.

Your story still isn't over.

(Moving on~)

You were aware of Luffy's father, but not Ace's. There's no way Garp would've told you that, even if he did see you as a granddaughter. You didn't personally know Luffy and Ace when they were young either so...

Yeah.

Awww, aren't you adorable?

Can't even look at the Sand Man. XD

Sorry guys. No more visits from the men once again from here on out.

The War is Coming.

So just bare with only the votes below here.

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Main Pairings
Shanks: 27
Mihawk:37
Crocodile:15
Doflamingo: 18
Smoker: 21
Lucci: 17

Side Pairings
Kaku: 4
Paulie: 2
Buggy: 5

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By: Jo_h3e