Chapter 3

"The Tear Trough Man's ability!"

Luffy looked at Itachi in surprise. He stretched out his rubber arms, grabbed the railing, and jumped in front of Itachi, surprising him. "What happened to your arm?"

"As for the arms, I am the rubber man with the rubber fruit," Luffy said, showing Itachi how to blow up like a balloon. He took a big breath, and his stomach swelled up like a balloon.

"Rubber..." Itachi looked at Luffy and then at Skeleton Brook. The strangeness of the ship was beyond his comprehension. "Tear trough man, what happened to you just now? Why did you look at him? This man fainted just like Zoro did just now."

Luffy was still floating in the sky, spinning and talking to Itachi. "Ah, Nuobaga!"

Zoro shouted at Luffy, "Don't look into his eyes, be careful of getting caught." As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Straw Hats was reminded.

"Yes, you haven't explained your origin yet," Nami stood up. Although she looked at Itachi, she didn't dare to look into his eyes.

Itachi let out a breath, jumped onto the deck, and looked at everyone. "Please rest assured, as long as I don't initiate the Genjutsu, no one will fall victim to it."

Seeing Itachi approaching, everyone looked very nervous, but Itachi was very calm. "I'm Uchiha Itachi. I was originally a ninja from Konoha Village in the Land of Fire, and later became an S-class rebel ninja. Now I am a member of the Akatsuki Organization." If he hadn't seen this group of people so confused, Itachi would never have introduced himself like this.

"Uchiha, Itachi..." Luffy scratched his head and said, "What a difficult name to pronounce!"

"Akatsuki Organization..." Robin held her chin in thought. She had never heard of this organization.

"Wait a minute!" Nami exclaimed in shock, "You seemed to have said you were a ninja just now!"

"Yes, ninja." Seeing everyone's reaction to the word ninja, Itachi nodded. Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp suddenly became very interested in the word ninja, and all three of them's eyes shone.

"Do you know how to use Ninjutsu?"

"Escape technique, shuriken! And clone technique!"

"I can barely do it," Itachi nodded slightly.

Brook murmured, "Ninjas...if they are the origin of ninjas, they should be from the country of Wano."

He confirmed again, "You just said your country is the Country of Fire, are you sure it's not the Country of Wano?"

"OK, Fire Nation," Itachi looked at the talking skeleton.

"That's very strange." Brook had been sailing for decades, and he had never heard of a place called the Land of Fire. Robin also searched her memory. In the past two years, she had been staying with the Revolutionary Army and traveled to many countries. She had also never heard of a place called the Land of Fire.

Nami asked, "Which part of the four seas is the Country of Fire located in?"

"Four seas?" Itachi was puzzled, "I don't understand what you mean. The Country of Fire is one of the five major countries. It is connected to the other four major countries by land. There is no large ocean around it." He was very surprised, the Fire Country was a big country, how could anyone not know about it? There are seven people in the Straw Hats. What are these people talking about?

Itachi and the Straw Hats were once again confused. At this moment, it suddenly started to get cold on the Thousand Sunny.

"What's going on? I feel like the temperature around me has dropped." Sanji exhaled a puff of smoke and looked around. The surroundings are getting darker and darker, and the sunlight is gradually disappearing.

Nami looked around and said, "It may get cold next, so please put on your coats."

"Will your body get cold? But..." Before Brook finished speaking, Chopper answered, "Brook doesn't have a body that can get cold. He's a skeleton, so he won't get cold, right."

Upon hearing that he had been robbed of his words again, Brook lay on the ground depressed. "Qiao Basan..."

"Why are you here again, Brook!" Usopp glared at Brook.

"Coat?" Luffy exhaled the breath in his stomach and came to Itachi again. "Tear Trough Man, did you bring your coat?"

"No." Itachi couldn't figure out why he appeared here with a physical body, let alone wearing a coat.

"Hey, wait a minute." Luffy ran to the cabin, took a coat, and handed it to Itachi. "Nami said, it might get cold next, so put it on."

"Don't just trust outsiders!" Zoro hit Luffy on the head with the handle of his knife.

Itachi took the coat with some hesitation, but finally said thank you and put it on. He found that Luffy really didn't seem like a person with many thoughts.

Itachi continued, "Anyway, I can explain my origins to you in detail later, but I still want to know first, where are you going?"

"Of course it's Fish-Man Island! Fish-Man Island 10,000 meters under the sea!"

"Under the sea, Fishman Island..." Although Itachi felt that Luffy was talking nonsense, he was indeed in the deep sea with this ship. "Okay, I'll beg you all to give me a ride first." Itachi bowed to everyone.

"Don't say such polite words, just come together if you want to go!" Luffy laughed.

Zoro, Nami, and Usopp stood in a row: "I told you not to trust outsiders so easily!"

"What's the matter? Didn't the tear trough man subdue that person just now?"

No matter what others said, Luffy was always excited. "Speaking of which, aren't we going to the deep sea? Why are we going to a cold place?" Luffy asked Nami.

Frankie answered, "The deeper the water is, the colder it will naturally be below."

"Frankie is right," Nami nodded and explained to everyone. "There is not only a temperature difference between the seabed and the sea but also a difference in currents."

At this time, Brook, who was lying on the ground, raised his head and said, "At the bottom of the sea, there are deep currents invisible to the naked eye. They are completely different from the surface currents."

"Are there any currents under the current? Brook, you know so much." Usopp smiled.

"Yohohoho!" Brook laughed, "I've lived a lot longer than you."

"That skeleton..." Itachi looked at Brook in confusion. Just now he didn't understand why the bones could talk.

"Ah, one, a dozen seven-thorns," Brook thought about the pronunciation of Itachi's name.

Before he could finish speaking, Luffy spoke up, "Brook is a user with the Underworld Fruit ability. His ability is to resurrect from the dead, so he turned into a skeleton."

Brook lay on the ground depressed again. "Luffy-san, why do you always steal my words?"

"Stop being so depressed!" Usopp slapped Brook's head back and forth.

Fruit? Itachi's doubts did not diminish at all. He remembered that the man named Luffy also mentioned that he was a rubber fruit user.

"In short, the currents in the sea are complex, some rise and some dive. What we are going to ride now is the descending current that descends from the surface to the deep layer." Nami said, "Now we should be at a depth of 4,000 meters. After riding on the up and down currents, we can follow the currents to Fish-Man Island."

Luffy, Zoro, and Chopper all tilted their heads, expressing that they didn't understand. Itachi also sighed, "The deep sea is 4,000 meters deep. It's really magical." He had been on many missions to fight on the sea, and several times he used Kisame's ability to sneak into the seabed to fight, but he has never been to such a deep seabed.

While several people were talking, they had already lowered their guard against Itachi. Robin, who was sitting on the bow reading a book, suddenly felt the change in the current outside the bubble. She stood up and shouted, "Everyone, we are here."

Hearing this, Luffy and Chopper jumped up and ran towards the bow of the ship.

"Is there a top-down current ahead?" Zoro also temporarily put down his vigilance against Itachi and stood on the bow. In front of the Thousand Sunny, a huge waterfall-like current several kilometers wide appeared in front of everyone. The Thousand Sunny was slowly falling under the influence of this waterfall-like current.