yourhatred | twenty-five crows (朱) action/voice

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twenty-five crows (朱) action/voice

[Private message to Sasuke, left this morning]

Are you still here, little brother?

[End message]

[Itachi has remained surprisingly unaffected by the current event, something he is positive of and incredibly glad for. While such events had helped move along his relationship with Law in the first place, he has no desire to add further complications on top of this.

Not wanting to remain cooped up in the house, and hoping that any chance for him to be affected from here on out has since past, the ninja can be found feeding birds near the fountain at the center of town. It's been a while since he's done this, despite it being a past-time he enjoys. It's also a good way to get out and learn about current events without simply sitting with his journal laid open all day.

The only odd thing about this scenario is that, despite the variety of birds that can be found within the village, the majority of those alighting to pick at the scattered breadcrumbs are crows.]

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My mistake.

At least worth a mention, then.

Well, he's the strongest swordsman in the world, and I've sort of know him for decades. Aye, he's worth a mention, if not much else.

Ah, I see.

There's an interesting mix from your world, isn't there?

Aye. Though I'm surprised a little. Law and Luffy are rookies, there's one marine, and then Mihawk? And Shanks has shown up a couple of times, but he never stayed long. There's a pattern, but I can't seem to isolate it.

From my own experience, most who have arrived have generally had some sort of connection to others in their world in the form of shared acquaintances.

[Thinks that over. And nods.]

Maybe that's why Ace always keeps coming back. He knows everyone.

Perhaps.

Do you know of any one individual who might be the connective link between you all? I have, as of yet, been unable to tell if it's that centered, but I'm not willing to rule that out.

Just Ace. Maybe his brother Luffy, but even then, it's more like a bridge.

[That gets a curious tilt of Itachi's head.]

A bridge?

Between the old world and new. That and it's like some of us only know of each other in connection through Ace or Luffy. Or both of them.

[So the issue of connection between people still stood.]

Are either of them here now?

Ace is. [And then he goes home too orz]

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The other name is familiar as well. I feel as though we may have crossed paths before.

...Though despite my theory being mostly correct so far, the Malnosso don't always keep those major connections here, so I end up wondering the point of it.

[Unless their ideas about who the connecting party is are wrong.]

Ace has been brought back seven different times though. Maybe they were just trying to get it right, eh?

He's usually pretty familiar to a lot of people. He gets out a lot. Orange cowboy hat and a billion freckles. He's friends with Law too.

I may have seen him around. [If not often. But Itachi has been here long enough to see someone with that description come and go more than once.]

I'm guessing you two are close.

He's my best friend. And my baby brother. I don't think there's anyone I'm closer with.

And you don't believe your view of him and his position in relation to others might be somewhat biased?

Not really. Ace is Ace. When he got in trouble, Pops and I had to round up ever ally I could. We had over fifty thousand ready to risk their lives just to give him a chance to survive, and some of them were just people he'd only met once, but they were willing to risk a war that would tear the world apart.

Ace means the world to me in a lot of ways, but he had that effect on a lot of people. I just gave up fighting it years ago and came to peace with the terms of it.

[The grin fades a little. He came to peace with Ace becoming an instantly wildly important part of his life, but not with the removal of that insertion. It was strange really. Back then, he would have sworn anything that coming to terms with Ace being an inevitable part of his life would have been the harder part, but it had wound up so easy. Losing Ace? It was becoming ever bit as difficult as losing his father. Or maybe it was just that he lost them both at the same time.]

[Itachi nods his head. He won't dismiss a bias, but it does seem like Ace is a fairly important individual in the pirate world.]

He has something of a presence, then.

[Marco obviously cares for him a lot, and the fact that he can't keep track of him in Luceti has to be bothersome.]

I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to put together a list... Though singling out such individuals even just for the sake of records might not be the best of ideas.

Very much so. He's the kind of kid who changed the world just by existing.

Mah, probably not a good idea, though it's interesting to consider.

Sometimes we must sacrifice organization for the sake of keeping such ideas from the wrong eyes.

Aye. Though I'm willing to bet that the Malnosso already have a good list of it themselves. Hell, if they aren't trying to bring people here, just send them home, it might be why Ace kept getting sent back so often.

This is true.

What we really need is some of their intel, but figuring out how to get that is nearly impossible, and we wouldn't even know if we could trust it then.

Aye. Could just be a plant, yoi.

Exactly.

It's a rather unfortunate situation all around, at least in that respect.

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