Chapter 44: Reactions

At marineford.

A certain man was looking through the newspaper eating rice crackers. He saw one thing and laughed. "Bwahahaha! 100 million! That's pretty good!" He crunched on a rice cracker and the man in the room with him sighed. "Garp, how many times do I have to tell you. You can't just cheer for random pirates! You're a marine! The marine's HERO in fact! You can't cheer for pirates just 'because it's fun'!"

The man eating rice crackers looked up. "Why not?" He asked the other man in the room. Sengoku the other man felt a tick mark appear on his forehead. "I'm not doing this again. You already know why. Just get out of my office. I'm trying to work."

Garp looked solemn and confused, as if he didn't understand what he did wrong and was upset he was being scolded by his friend. He just slowly stood up and walked to the door. Before he reached the door he looked at a hole in the wall next to it. "Hey Sengoku. That's not supposed to be there. You should probably get it fixed." He said as he walked through the wall on the other side of the door causing there to be two holes in the wall on either side.

Sengoku sighed. "Oh well, just another day." He said out loud before he froze. "NO! Why am I getting used to it! *sigh* I need to quit soon. I need a goat." He said as he called the maintenance crew for the third time this week to get the hole in his wall fixed.

When they arrived one of them whispered to the others. "I hear this happens multiple times a week. Apparently the fleet admiral has really bad anger issues as every time a hole appears in his walls people hear him yelling."

Sengoku heard this and snapped. "I don't make the fucking holes! I just yell at the idiot who does make them!!" The repair crew was stiff with fear. "Y–y-yes sir!" They all yelled as they saluted. After they finished the repairs the one who spoke before whispered to the others. "See! I told you! Huge anger issues!" They all nodded scared of the fleet admiral who would put holes in his own wall constantly.

Sengoku heard this and just smacked his head on his desk in despair. Causing it to crack. He almost cried as he had to call the maintenance crew back once again. Who just assumed he got mad for no reason again and destroyed his desk in anger. Poor Sengoku. He really deserves his pet goat.

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In the new world.

Shanks saw the newspaper with Luffy's bounty which still had both Luffy and Kai wearing his mask in the picture. He smiled to himself and thought back to the good old days in Foosha village. "I should visit Makino again." He nodded to himself before going back to what he was doing. Proud of Luffy and excited for what's to come when they meet again. "Taking down a warlord less than two months after you set sail isn't bad, kid."

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Back with Smoker.

Smoker was listening to his call and sighed. After he hung up the phone he said. "Fucking bastards. I don't want a promotion for something I didn't do." He was starting to get pissed at everything that was happening. He picked up his phone and called a certain number.

"Hello. This is Jean's jean shop. We 'jean'erally don't take customer complaints. But how may I help you?"

"That was shit." Smoker told the person on the other end of the phone. Who clicked his tongue. "Sorry, Smokey, I have to come up with these on the spot. I'm not some magician who can always be perfect." Smoker just shook his head. "Where are you?" He asked the man on the other end.

"Hey Cricket! Where are we?" Smoker heard the man ask. He heard someone answer his question but couldn't make out what he said. "Mhm. Thanks! No idea where I am Smokey. Damn bastard just won't tell me." Smoker punched his desk. Not this again! "Fucking brat I can hear them answering you!" He yelled out before he heard something happening on the other end of the phone. "I'm not an idiot Cricket! I heard you say we were on Jaya! I just didn't wanna say it out loud!"

Smoker felt a vein pop on his forehead. "So you're on Jaya!" Kai just answered. "Yeah. That's what I JUST said Smokey. Keep up will ya?" Smoker punched his desk again. "I swear I'll murder you one day!" He yelled out before he took a deep breath. Then he told Kai. "We both got promoted. You need to go to marineford to receive a promotion with me."

Kai was silent for a moment before he said. "Yeah, no. Not gonna do that." Smoker was shocked. "What do you mean? You're not gonna do that?" Kai said. "I'm just not. What are they gonna do? Fire me because I didn't accept a raise? Just tell them some bullshit lie about me catching the Straw Hats for me and say I'm busy." Smoker choked. He was sort of right. Were they really going to fire him for not accepting a promotion? Then he realized the last part of what Kai said.

"What do you mean bullshit about catching the Straw Hats?! You are supposed to be actually trying to catch them!?" Smoker yelled out. "Err… yeah let's go with that. I'm trying really hard to catch them right now so I can't make it. My apologies Captain Smoker, but please pass on the message that I won't make it." Kai said as if that solved all of his problems. But honestly why would he care? It's not like he would get fired for this. Even if they tried to, Garp would stop them from firing Kai.

Plus if he got fired it wasn't the end of the world. As long as he didn't have a bounty he didn't really care. It's not like he needed the money, being a marine just made his life easier in every way. He could get away with certain things and gain access to certain places. Also it was a huge information network and he made a lot of connections. Now some people might call this an abuse of power. To those people Kai would say. You're right! But you can't do anything about it! Wahahaha!

Anyway, Smoker heard this and just sighed not responding. Kai picked up on his change in attitude and asked. "Did you finally listen to my advice about Hina? You seem a lot more calm today." Smoker yelled. "IT'S BECAUSE SHE'S IN THE OTHER ROOM!" As he lost it when Kai mentioned Hina again. "Wahahaha! There's the Smokey I know!" Hina burst into the room. "What's wrong? Why are you yelling?" Kai just started laughing. "WAHAHA! Smokey! You really did get a second date!" Smoker was just about ready to strangle the kid when Hina blushed. "Smoker, have you been talking about Hina behind Hina's back? Hina doesn't like guys who do that."

Kai was losing it. "WAHAHAHA! Yeah Smoker! Hina doesn't like guys who do that." Smoker was livid. "I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" His yell stunned Hina. Who accidentally said out loud. "Hina likes that." Smoker and Kai both froze. A second later Smoker was ready to rip Kai's head off for whatever he said next. "*ahem* I have to go now. Lovely talking to the both of you. Goodnight." Kai said as he hung up the phone.

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Back on Jaya.

"WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kai was rolling on the floor laughing. He got up a bit later still chuckling and he wiped tears from his eyes. "I guess I was wrong. Hina does like guys who yell. WAHAHAHA!" He fell back down to the floor laughing again. He couldn't wait to tell Zoro, he would love this! He would tell Sanji too but he would probably just ask for a picture of Hina and faint from blood loss when he saw it.

Cricket and his two followers were looking at Kai weirdly as they didn't understand a thing that was going on right now. They just added it to the pile of weird things Kai had done during his stay along with when he practically made Bellamy piss his pants, forgetting about the incidents.