Opposites Attract

How Quickly We Fall

Now, everyone knows the story of how The Straw Hat crew became separated beginning the 'not three days but two years' promise.

Each member of the crew was stranded on a distant island with obstacles that would unknowingly train them for the journey to come.

While the crew trained and survived, their Captain embarked on the most dangerous rescue mission to date, making friends and forming alliances along the way.

Even scattered across the four seas the Straw Hats stayed together mentally, never forgetting their crew mates and their promises to the sea.

All except for one.

The secret to being a Straw Hat was being peculiar.

With a rubber man as a Captain, Luffy expected nothing but awesomeness from his crew.

A cyborg, a talking reindeer, a living skeleton, and a proclaimed devil child of wisdom were just some of his eccentric crew mates. Not to mention a sticky fingered navigator, a Casanova chef, a tactical sharpshooter and a pirate hunter turned pirate himself.

It was worth mentioning that the latter member used three swords simultaneously.

Luffy took pride in his found family and encouraged everyone to be special and great, but at times Ina simply didn't fit in.

She wasn't a Devil fruit user and although almost half of the crew weren't either, they made up for that slight with other powers of their own.

Ina stood out being the only civilian on board. She tagged along with Luffy on his grand adventure just because he asked her to.

It wasn't easy growing up with Luffy and Ace as friends but it did provide her much needed security whenever the town's bullies came looking to start trouble.

Ina remained a positive in the boys lives and offered them warm smiles and words of encouragement throughout the bad times and in return, they fought off the bullies that always picked on her. 

She believed in their dreams and shed no tears when Ace and Luffy each set to chase them.

Luck would have it she left Foosha Village a little after Luffy did and they crossed paths out on the open sea.

Luffy promised to keep her away from the harsh realities of a pirate's life in exchange for company and to this day Ina maintained her innocent name.

No bounties had been issued for her and she wasn't associated with The Straw Hats in any capacity that the public knew about.

How she managed such a feat, no one was really for certain but she kept her end of the bargain and stuck by Luffy's side even as he continued to assemble his dream pirate crew.

Everything was going well (perhaps a bit too well) when their luck ran out.

Fear.

The feeling was so heavy in the air she could almost taste it.

Witnessing her fellow crew mates disappear before her eyes was a traumatic experience, one that Ina failed to process mentally.

She heard the desperation in Luffy's voice to retreat but it didn't register in her brain. One after another everybody met the same fate, simply vanishing into thin air.

Frozen in fear Ina couldn't cry out as she locked eyes with her devastated Captain even as he too was sent flying.

It was eerily silent in the clearing as the haunting shadow of Kuma loomed over her. It amazed her how someone of his stature could be so quiet.