"Are you sure you guys aren't related? Cause I swear both of you know seem to be in sync with the whole," you waved a hand to your face quickly, causing your casual expression turn to a serious and expressionless one, then waved it back over to your own one,"thing you've got going on."

You leaned against the railing next to the cannon Crocodile was sitting on, Mr. 1 being on the other side of the cannon gazing at nothing as he stood. You were hoping you can distract yourself from your dark thoughts to enter your mind so you decided to sit closer to the once Warlord and talk to him to death. All he's been doing was smoking his cigar as he let you basically talk to yourself as he only sometimes glanced down from his position and gave low grunts. Mr. 1 said nothing and did nothing the whole time, making you frown as you leaned forward to look at him.

"Do you talk? Of course you do, but something that's more than five words?" You asked with a raised eyebrow. You spotted him glance upward towards Crocodile, seeming to ask for permission, making you frown once Crocodile gave a small nod and Mr. 1 giving a "Yes."

You furrowed your brows. "Hey, you don't have to ask for permission to talk to me you know." You said, this time, Crocodile actually spoke.

"He's my subordinate Silver Blood, of course he has to ask for my permission." Crocodile said, not even bothering to look at you as he answered for Mr. 1 otherwise known as Daz. You raised your head to look at the sand man, eyes slightly narrowed. "Well then, I give him permission to talk to me. I after all, am talking about him." Mr. 1 slightly widened his eyes and then looked up at Crocodile once more, but Crocodile was paying him no attention as he finally looked down at you.

"You don't have authority over him." You narrowed your eyes once more up at him. "Oh yeah? Would the same thing apply to Mr. 3?" Crocodile brows furrowed.

"What does that fool have to do with anything?" He questioned with his low voice.

You stopped leaning against the railing, "I don't know. Let me go ask him." You said as you quickly walked away to go find Mr.3, ignoring how Crocodile lowly called your name. You found the man observing Buggy take command and delight as he talked to the prisoners. You called out to him, making the man jump as he looked over at you and started sweating nervously as he greeted you and casually asked on where was Mr. Crocodile. You tilted your head in suspicion.

This confirms it. Because of this so called rumor between you and Crocodile, Mr. 3 and Mr. 1 are trying to distance themselves from you to not 'disrespect' him.

"You need to tell me straight up Mr. 3, who started the rumor within Baroque Works." Mr. 3 widened his eyes.

"How did you know?!"

"Mr.2 kindly informed me of that fact. Now, answer me. I need to know."

Mr. 3 rubbed the back of his neck as he but his lip in thought. "A-ah, well...it was just something that everyone thought. B-Boss was sometimes seen with you by subordinates so I-I guess that's how it started?" You crossed your arms as you looked at the man.

"That doesn't explain why you want to keep your distance from me. Answer it directly. Which part of the subordinates? The lower ones? The middle?" Mr. 3 stuttered out an answer, crying within himself as he thought that he's going to die.

"...w-well it seemed to be t-the higher ups S-Silver Blood." He swallowed as he looked up at you only to widen his eyes as he saw your expression turn blank, then rage, then flustered, then rage again.

'Her face can't decide on what expression to make!' He said to himself.

"Oooooo~, I'm going to kill him. I'm going to kill him. That little arrogant lizard, I swear I am going to—!" You cut yourself off, your face red with anger and embarrassment.

"What kind of rumors? How far did it go?" You asked Mr. 3, who merely glanced away with a flushed face.

"W-well...you know...u-um." Mr. 3 didn't know what to say to that, there was many. How the boss bought her extravagant food, how she didn't fear that scary hook, and how close they seemed to be as they walked together... suggesting a closer relationship then mere business partners or friends.

Mr. 3 slowly brought the tips of his index fingers together, trying to show you discreetly as he didn't even want to look at you as he brought his fingers together several times to suggest what he meant. When Mr. 3 put his hands down and looked up, he fell back on his butt from your face.

"WHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!"

All the prisoners fell over from the sudden thunderous shout, causing the ship to shake from the force as they laid on the ground and felt themselves shaking as they looked over at the famous deadly Silver Blood. Even Buggy was suddenly afraid of the woman, getting flashbacks from his time in Roger's ship with Silver.

You were breathing hard with clenched fists, as a raging aura seemed to surround you for the observers as steam seemed to come out of your nose. Luffy leaned over the railing above you in concern and then yelled out in shock, eyes coming out of his sockets.

"OI! What happened to (Y/N)?! She looks like a demon!"

Jimbei was sweating to himself as well, while Crocodile narrowed his eyes as he gave a scoff. "Idiot."

"YOU ARROGANT LITTLE LIZARD!! YOURE DEAD!!"

Everyone but Crocodile and Mr. 1 paused.

'Lizard?' Everyone took a glance at Crocodile who said nothing but give a slight twitch of the brow. You immediately used Soryu as you paced towards Crocodile with a flushed face yelling and cursing, Luffy looking back and forth and wondering what was wrong until he spotted the Gates of Justice and pointed it out loudly, grabbing you suddenly with his arms as he told you they were here. You growled lowly, not taking your glare off of Crocodile who seemed he could care less about the spat you were having, which made you angrier.

"ARGH! LET ME GO! ILL KILL HIM, ILL KILL HIM, ILL KILL HIM!!!" You yelled as you thrashed and continued to curse loudly, Luffy frowned as he had to strain with his arms to pull you back, his feet dragging and making marks on the floor from how hard he was trying to control the mad woman. Jimbei then quickly assisting the Strawhat with sweat coming down his scaly brow as he held Luffy and pulled.

"Gggh! (Y/N)! You can beat Crocodile up later after we rescue Ace!!" You blinked and calmed down some at that as you heard your friends name. Seeing this, Luffy slowly let go as his arms snapped back to his sides. Jimbei doing the same, as his hands went back to the steering wheel with a relieved sigh. You quickly went towards the opposite side to where a cannon similar to the one Crocodile was sitting on. You put your arms on the bottom and crouched.

"What is she doing?" A prisoner asked.

You did a quick countdown as you strained your arms and began to lift the huge cannon up the ground. The prisoners gaped in shock.

"Ahhhh!! She's lifting it?!"

"The hell is she going to do with that?!"

You slowly lifted up above your head, your arms straining against the heavy weight they aren't used to, but your adrenaline was pumping you up. The prisoners heard you mutter to yourself that you have to rescue Ace, then proceeding to throw the cannon towards them.

"Agh! SHE THREW IT!"

"She threw it towards us!"

"AHHHH!! It's my fault! I shouldn't have said anything!!" Mr. 3 spouted as he watched the cannon fly over him. Wait...

The cannon did not land on the ground but, was actually going for the Gates of Justice.

A loud thunk was heard as the large cannon met the end of its nonexistent life to hit the biggest and strongest doors of the government.

"Damn it! Let us in! We need to rescue Ace!"

'She transferred her anger towards the door?!' Everyone thought in realization in their minds. Buggy was rethinking his feelings towards the woman, if she didn't look so sexy while doing that. Or maybe he's actually a masochist.

Who knows?

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XD

X'D

You called him a lizard! XD OH GOSH!
What's wrong with you?

Or more like, what's wrong with him? If you guys didn't get it, Crocodile was indeed the one that started the rumor. What the subordinates have seen and heard from the people of Alabasta didn't help.

But yeah. XD

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((CONTINUES FROM LAST CHAPTER))

Paulie: *blushing full force* GET OFF YOU SCANDALOUS CRAZY AUTHOR! GET OFF!

Smoker: *sighs in exasperation but is also blushing* I was hoping this would never happen again.

*everybody else walks in*

Shanks: *sees what's going on* Dahahaha! This is amazing! But I think we should thank everybody now no?

Lucci: Is it necessary? This was basically a thank you to the readers already.

Hattori: Coo~

Doflamingo: A little more won't hurt, government dog. Let's do it~

Kaku: *shrugs* Yeah. Come on guys.

Crocodile: As long as we can get it over with.

Mihawk: Agreed.

Buggy: GYAHAHAHA! YES!

Shanks: Alright! *looks at readers and smiles* Thank you to you readers! Dahaha!

Mihawk: *looks at them, and tilts his head forward with a small smirk* For your views.

Doflamingo: *sticks his tongue out and tilts his glasses down to see one of his eyes* For your beautiful comments~

Crocodile: *inhales his hookah and looks at them from the corner of his eye with a smirk* For even glancing at this foolish story.

Buggy: *does a sparkling magnificent pose with a smug smirk towards them* FOR VOTING FOR ME! GYAHAHAHA!

Kaku: *sheepish smile at them* For allowing the author to make new friends.

Lucci: *looks at them with his dark eyes, and smirks* For dealing with our many clashes here and...abuse towards you in the story.

Hattori: Coo~Coo~

Paulie: *trying to push away the still on top Author with a blush* FOR STAYING WITH THIS CRAZY AUTHOR ALL THIS TIME! GET OFF!!

Smoker: *has already given up but moves his eyes towards the readers* Thank you all, for everything.

Author: *stops trying to hug the men below her and looks at the readers with an embarrassed but proud smile on her cheeks* THANK YOU EVERYONE! FOR THE 50K VIEWS! AND FOR 50k MORE TO COME!

*Everybody*

Thank you.

Main Pairings
Shanks: 27
Mihawk:36
Crocodile:15
Doflamingo: 18
Smoker: 21
Lucci: 14

Side Pairings
Kaku: 4
Paulie: 2
Buggy: 5
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(Honestly I'm having trouble remembering if I showed all of these already or not. Forgive me if there's repeats. I have trouble tracking the art down.)

By: @Jo_h3e