New Age?

"Alex, why do you have red eyes? Are you about to cry?" Nojiko mischievously asks him when she notices how tear eyed he looks right now while looking towards the fire that's was going on.

'He's cute when he shows his emotions like that at least he's not an unmoving rock.' she thought when she saw his reddened eyes' she thought

He couldn't steel his heart enough not to be fazed at all.

'So what I might start crying soon, but that's cause I'm not some killing machine or some cold, and indifferent person I'm human and not an unfazed doll.' he cursed inside his mind.

Alexander didn't bother answering back.

Time went by, and Alexander and Nojiko stayed with the Straw Hats until the night came, and the fire started to stop burning.

With that, the Straw Hats began to move towards Water 7 again.

"Nojiko, I think we can wait a day or two before we come forward and reveal ourselves?" he softly asked her.

When he turned around, he noticed that Nojiko was sleeping on his back with a satisfied and happy smile on her face as she used his back as a pillow.

He just smiled at the sight and told Earth Eagle to begin flying back to there ship slowly so they wouldn't wake her up.

Sometime after that, they arrived at the ship, and Earth Eagle landed softly on top of the ship, so Alexander went down from it's back and picked Nojiko up and retrieved Earth Eagle to his Bey form.

He walked with Nojiko, the silently sleeping beauty in his arms, with an exhausted look on his face.

When he reached Nojiko's room, he went in and laid her softly on the bed.

--------In a land far far away--------

"What did you say!!?" in an office, a tall, fair-skinned, and muscular man with a long, braided goatee and a mustache were petting his goat before hitting his office table hard when he heard the news coming from the Den Den Mushi.

"As I was saying, some brat with a 4 million bounty destroyed the whole "Buster Call" Warship Fleet in seconds after it arrived at its target." Aokiji could be heard coming from the Den Den Mushi.

"How are you so certain that the brat you are talking about only have a 4 million bounty destroyed the whole fleet of warships?" Sengoku asked with a hint of curiosity

"I looked around the wanted posters a little before finding his wanted poster." he said while yawning lightly.

"Are you 100% certain that this is the person you are talking about because if you are wrong, then another person might get harmed and hunted down." Sengoku seriously said.

"I'm certain that this is the person anyway I have to go see you around." Aokiji said lazily before ending the call.

Sengoku looked at the wanted poster in his hand.

"Seems like a New Age is coming, and it will turn the world upside down."

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A young man with long golden colored hair with beautiful nordic blue colored eyes groggily woke up to look in the ceiling in confusion, trying to figure out.

'Where I'm I it looks like him still on the ship, but this isn't my room!' he thought.

When he laid back in the bed again, he turned his head to the right to see a pair of eyes beautiful ocean blue eyes staring at him in confusion.

"Good morning Nojiko! Have you had a goodnight's sleep?" Alexander said in the calmest way possible.

Nojiko was ready to attack the person next to her before hearing Alexander's voice and calming down a little.

'So it was only Alexander! WAIT!!'

When she thought things through, she began to grow a little flustered.

While Nojiko looked at Alexander in a daze, he took the opportunity to start kissing her gently.

When Nojiko felt something pressing on her lips, she noticed that he is kissing her.

She wanted to push him back, but this is the moment she has been waiting for Nojiko have been waiting for him to take the step she has begun to love him, in the beginning, Nojiko wasn't that sure. Still, now when they have been spending practically every moment together, she has been able to understand her feelings for him.

She never wanted to take the step she has always thought that the man should be the one to take the first step instead of the girl.

So putting all her hesitations behind and started fighting back.

When Alexander started kissing her, he had expected her to push him back and scream at him, but he didn't expect her to start kissing him.

A few minutes of on and off kissing, Alexander and Nojiko were lying in bed in each other's embrace, staring at each other with love and affection.

They could have done it then and there, but they both felt that it wasn't time yet for that they had all the time in the world for that later right now they wanted to live in the moment.

"Making me the bad guy for destroying this moment, but I just want to tell you that I love you, Nojiko." As he said that with a loving voice, he kissed her gently on the lips

"You should've said that before kissing me, idiot." She laughed lightly before kissing him back on the lips gently and continued staring at him with love and affection in her eyes.

When she kissed him, he began wanting more, so he started kissing her again.

After another round of kissing, he and Nojiko laid in bed again in each other's embrace.

'Here is where I want to be the rest of my life.' he thought