Let's Do This! (One Piece)

Chapter 4. Conversing with Garp

"Ruwa..." Garp called as he looked down at her from atop a barrel that was sat near the house.

The Spiky haired girl stopped her swords and turned to her papa, "yeah?" She asked as she tilted her head towards him.

"Your weird cousin passed the exam, even the tenth level, but he wasn't assigned as a vice admiral. Akainu used your brother to make it so that Ryoka was only a rear admiral!" Spoke Garp as he looked down at his young daughter.

He knew that the same if not worse would happen to her not only because she was young and a girl but also because she was Dragon's sister, he was angered that Akainu dared to use Dragon against his nephew.

But after talking to Ryoka his mood lightened, "How did Ryoka take it? Did he laugh it off or challenge Akainu?" Asked Ruwa with a glint in her eyes. Ruwa despised Akainu and wanted to electrocute the bastard for all the supposed 'justice' he was serving onto others. But, she figured that was Ryoka's job. He seemed the type anyway, to grow past what people expected of him and to serve his own type of justice, and do whatever he felt right in his soul.

Garp huffed at her words before laughing it off, already used to his daughters knowing nature, "Bwahahahaha!!! That weird brat laughed him off, and then challenged him." He grinned as he spoke of his nephew.

Ruwa smiled as she remembered meeting the male for the first time. She felt that his personality was a mix between Luffy, Garp, and Mihawk. He was just as unpredictable and as much of a loose cannon as those three, she also knew that he held a gift much similar to her own soul tree. The Spiky haired girl wondered who his watcher/Teacher was, or if he had one to begin with. On the other hand, she pondered her own goal. 'I want to help fix this world, to give the people better lives and more hopeful futures. My ultimate goal is to make sure certain events don't happen.' She thought to herself as she fixed her eyes on the wood post in front of her. Her mind flashing to a certain freckled hothead, yeah, she definitely wanted to make sure that didn't happen. These days, she was learning another one of the techniques that people who possessed the Soul Tree had, Gentle Fist. Apparently most people that were able to use the Soul Tree/Forest were also pretty dominating fighters AKA kick ass and take names later type of people. Zoran had previously given her a textbook about the original Soul users, at least what is known of the originals, most of which came from the anime Naruto. The soul users were that of the Hyūga and Uzumaki or at least of some relation too them or were from the Naruto Universe at some point. This would also explain why she could use the Hyūga clans fighting techniques so fluently and grasp onto most of their concepts easily. Or how she practically breathed in the information of Fūinjutsu. Another factor that she attained was that she was directly related to another Soul user so it made her that much more likely to get the Soul Tree in the first place. Being able to use not only a Nodachi and katana. She could also make use of just her hands and feet which would give her a stronger defense then most in this world that were useless without their swords. A good thing to notice was that while using the Gentle fist techniques her eyes didn't change whatsoever on the outside. Internally she had the same eyes as any other Hyūga clansman, outwardly though her eyes didn't even have veins present when she used the techniques. Which was perfectly fine for her, although it did raise the question of what she read from the textbook she received a while back, it didn't specifically say how or why other worlds got the soul Tree or how it even came to be. She wondered at times if the soul Tree—Forest, just was always there or if it was born from a mischievous or meddlesome god. Either way, these last few months were fought long and hard to the point of exhaustion and breaking the point of exhaustion to pieces.

"Also," Garp spoke again breaking Ruwa from her deep musing. "I wanted to tell you that Luffy was asking about you." He said before laughing at Ruwa's curious expression. Last she remembered Luffy had no clue about her, "Bwahahahaha! I forgot about that old picture of you and Dragon in my pocket while dragging Luffy up to Dadan's. He was looking for meat and found it, wanted to know who you were and about Dragon. But I popped him in the head so he shouldn't ask." He said with a closed eye grin on his tanned face. Ruwa seriously could of face palmed if not for the fact that she had Hōsenka in her right hand and the other was still poised to attack the post with Tsuchi. With both hands occupied she just dropped her head forward, face posting the weathered wood with dark squiggly lines appearing on her head, anime style.