5 Setting Sail Pt.1?

{No Ones P.O.V}

It's been seven long years since Kizaru had, had that conversation with Luffy and he hadn't seen him since, during this time however Kizaru had continued to get stronger both with and without using his devil fruit also getting much taller now standing at around 9'6 and is moderately built you could tell he was definitely packing some power in his limbs, he had also continued to go to gray terminal and had saved up a fair amount of berries which he had spent buying a ship a few months ago as of now it was only about as big as the thousand sunny but in the future he might decide to get a bigger, he had also built quite a reputation there more so than the fearsome ASL brothers, mainly due to the fact that he had been going for much longer than them, just yesterday Luffy had told him he was going to be leaving in two days, considering he told me yesterday that means he's going to be leaving tomorrow, luckily I have already stocked up on the essentials such as food and drinking water, Kizaru was now on his way to the bar to say goodbye to makino and maybe brag to luffy about his ship, he arrived to the sound of laughter, heading inside he see an absolutely hammered silver haired male standing at roughly 8'2 with a drunken blush on his face, which was adorned by two crimson red eyes and a happy grin, he was wearing a black short sleeved t-shirt with a red trim the was also a pocket on the left side, followed by black cargo shorts which also had a red trim, he was wearing the weirdest footwear Kizaru had ever seen consisting of red socks and black sandals, even stranger was the fact that he appeared to have two metal beer mugs strapped to a belt on his waist, all Kizaru could think in that momemt was 'who is this idiot?'.

Seeing how hammered the guy was, he decided to ask one of the people lingering around the bar how much the guy had, had to drink, imagine his surprise when he's answered with "he's only had one beer" Kizaru nearly face planted right then and there, he decided he should go talk to him when he saw the guy trip and fall into another man who was sitting at the bar and enjoying his drink only to have it knocked out of his hand and spilled all over his jeans, he instantly turns to the culprit and punches him right in the face, sending him to the floor while yelling "fuck off mizuki" the now named mizuki got up while pulling one of the beer mugs off of his belt.

{Kizaru's P.O.V}

'I'm not going to lie, i'm very interested in what's about to happen' my interest in mizuki sky rocketed when he yelled "come and have a go if ya think your hard enough!" and proceeded to slam the mug into the guys face sending him through the wall then immediately going back to drinking, during this he had not spilt even a drop from his original drink, all I could think about in that moment was how much I wanted this guy in my crew, I walked over to him and introduced myself to him "Hi, i'm Borsalino Kizaru and I want you to join my" he just looks at me straight faced and says "no" then returns to drinking so I challenge him to a drinking contest on the condition that if he loses, he joins my crew he accepts thinking there is no way he could lose, he loses near instantly, "honestly I have never seen anyone who gets drunk as fast as you mizuki" mizuki looks at me and says fine I will join your crew but first I need to kill bluejam" I look at him in confusion "why do you want to kill bluejam?".

At this he gains a look of pain and suffering and replies "he killed my parents in front of me years ago"

I look at him in sympathy, but I am still confused about something "how old are you?"

"19, why?"

i'm a bit apprehensive about telling him but he deserves to know "Bluejam was killed in Gray Terminal when I was seven years old"

he seems really surprised about this news "and how old are you now?"

"I'm 17, I was pretty lucky to find you because I am starting my journey to become the pirate king tomorrow and would be thrilled if you would become my first mate, so how about it?"

he looks at me for a bit before finally replying with "well I have nothing better to do and you seem interesting so yeah i'll stick around"

I can't help but smile at that, I then told him about us leaving tomorrow and he agreed to meet me at the docks, I then went home to spend my last night of peace in a familiar place.

It was on my way home that I realised that I probably shouldn't use my devil fruit too much before the grand line, not only would it put a target on my back but I wouldn't gain much experience fighting strong opponents if I just destroyed them with a beam of light through the skull, though that is just if I want to stay under the radar for a bit or not, for the latter I could just go all out from the beginning it was to these thoughts that I fell asleep.