Kash had token post on the deck, leaned against the railing looking out toward the water. This was her usual place whenever on the ship. Distant from everyone else and never bothered. She wondered where they would be going this time. As she noticed before, Leparo seemed to be getting more serious about this pirate crew. Hiring a shipwright was a sign of that. However she didn't feel like this crew had what it took to make it, not yet at least. Sure Leparo was strong and she was strong, but strength wasn't enough. And who's to say they are strong enough?

Kash remembered all the tales of the vile pirates that existed beyond the grandline. Her father is a marine after all and now her brother as well. The marines were their own beast of people fighting in the name of morals, if the marines were considered to be good, then the pirates that they fight against had to be nightmarish. However Kash didn't buy into any of it, the idea of you're only good or bad. She wanted to be free. Sure, bounty hunting sort of put her on the side of the marines but she never cared if the people she went after were truly bad or not. It was just the game and she needed money to play. They could escape or fight AFTER she got paid. At that point it wasn't her problem.

Kash would leave her own mind for a moment as she heard a loud bang of something falling...or in this case being thrown. There was commotion on the ship and it seemed to be coming from the captains quarters considering that's where everyone else was looking toward.

"You bitches find something to do other than gawk. Be useful," Kash would say in her typical harsh voice. The shipmates groaned in disdain for her orders but they would follow. Meanwhile, Kash would make her way to check on Leparo.

By the time she got to his open door, she could see hear him sobbing. His back was to her and she didn't say anything but watched. She wasn't sure what to say honestly, she wasn't good at being the shoulder to cry on. Was this all related to that note? Then suddenly Leparo walked over to his dresser and grabbed a box. Kash didn't recognize it at first but the Leparo would go to open it and the golden shimmer would reflect in his eyes. Leparo seemed hypnotized because he didn't seem to notice Kash standing in his doorway, at least not that she noticed. Leparo would move the devil fruit toward his face.

"WAIT!!!" Kash shouted but it was too late, the first bite had already been taken. She just stood there, watching him eat the fruit like he had been starved. She never knew someone could eat so aggressively.

"I swear to Gold Roger, if you freak out on me, I'm going to kick your ass..." she said, trying to sound as confident as possible but she did not know what would happen next. He was upset and just ate a devil fruit. What if the ability is affected by his emotions? She did not know Leparo for being very rational, just impulsive. Kash would put her hand on her the hilt of her sword in preparation. Waiting to see what the reaction would be.

Kash just stared as she waiting for Leparo's reaction to the fruit. Her hand tight on the hilt of her blade. Good thing he had hired a shipwright because she would destroy the entire ship if she had to. Leparo would finish the fruit and look toward Kash. All those emotions he exhibited before were gone from his face, even though the tears still glistened off his cheeks. Yet those eyes of his, they had changed. What used to be pure golden eyes had literally been tainted by darkness, giving him a primal look. That with a smile that Kash had only seen her brother give off but...with fangs. What kind of fruit did he eat?

"Leparo..." Kash would start to say cautiously but to only hear the bloodlust in his voice as he suggested testing the fruit's powers out. Kash would snap out of her state of cautiousness and began to realize that what she was worried about having to do will probably take place.

"NO. I think you need to sit your ass down and get a grip. I don't know what that note was about or who but I'm not going to excuse this behavior. So Leparo, I'm going to say this once, if I have to draw this blade. I'm collecting a bounty today," Kash would look directly in Leparo's corrupted eyes with her own cold blue irises. She was serious. She didn't want to but she would if it meant stopping him from doing something stupid he would regret for the rest of his life.

By this time, a crowd had generated behind Kash. The other shipmates were trying to get a good look at their captain. Some of them beginning to mumble things like: "Who do you think would win?" "I wonder what kind of power he has." "She's going to kill the captain, I knew she couldn't be trusted." Kash would just turn her head slightly to give a single glance that would silence them and send them scattering about the ship to find something to do. Then she would return her eyes to Leparo, waiting for him to give her a reason.

Kash wouldn't say anything when Leparo would finally speak. He wasn't himself, or rather he wasn't the Leparo she knew. If anything he began to annoy her now. He was letting his emotions and this new power, whatever it was, get the best of him. Leparo would dismiss her threat, which she wasn't surprised by, but he compared himself to her brother in such a way that she couldn't even take him seriously anymore. He was really becoming delusional. It was true Leparo was strong, stronger than she or her brother perhaps, but to compare himself to her brother as if his strength was his defining characteristic? It was laughable.

Kash would close her eyes for a moment, gather her thoughts, calming herself down and letting go of it all. This was exactly what she hated about staying with people to long. She really could've attempted to take his life for saying something so idiotic, but she cared. And she hated that she cared, especially right now. Leparo would even bark orders at her to get ready to set sail. Yeah, he definitely had forgotten who she was. Her silence should be all he needed to know how she felt about the way he was behaving right now. If he knew her well enough.

Kash would turn her back on Leparo and walk back to her usual spot on the ship deck. Again not saying anything to him or anyone. She would look out to the water and would simply wait for whatever was to come next.

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