meeting buggy the clown and Haki
as Kushina Zoro and Luffy were sailing the next day Kushina woke up later than Zoro and Luffy and realized she had tears streaming down her left eye and thought 'well this is gonna get annoying eventually' Kushina then looked at Luffy who then asked "hey Kushina why were you crying." Kushina replied saying "I don't wanna talk about it." Luffy took note of what Kushina said and with a serious face nodded.
Luffy then nodded and then turned around and started to look into the distance while saying "I'm starving." to which Zoro replied before Kushina replied saying "when the hell're we gonna reach land?" to which Kushina then said before Luffy could reply "when our captain recruits a navigator." to which Luffy just replied saying "I wonder when we're gonna reach land, Nah, I'm sure we will, sometimes." and Kushina just deadpanned but didn't care since she was here so she wouldn't become a mass murders since that wouldn't help her and the place she wants to commit the mass murder is not a place her parents would want her to. Kushina then realized tears were coming out of her left eye again but ignored it and decided to try to use her new devourer ability with her energy to devour her tears.
Kushina first laced some of her internal energy into her left eye as she put some of her devourer intent into it and the tears then started to be devoured right after they left her eye as her left eye started to glow in a blackish light.
right after that Kushina felt the boat tip left and right as she looked up and saw Luffy's hat fly into the air and then launched herself towards it and caught it before it could fly off and then promptly landed in the water and started to float while she looked at her tails slightly upset they got wet for no reason.
Kushina then promptly swam toward the ship that was currently moving away from her and reached it in about ten seconds then looked at the hat and decided she would give a gift to her new captain as she filled it with void energy as it gained the color black for the straw and the red turned blood red and handed it to her captain as she said: "there now it won't fall off your head as long as you don't take it off and no one else can touch it unless you give them explicit permission."
Luffy then looked at the straw hat with a mixture of relief and worry as Kushina then said "you also don't have to worry about it ever getting damaged and if you wanted you could use it as a shield." Luffy took the hat he felt himself somehow gain a connection with it and looked down at it while Zoro said "hey, you're gonna drop it again if you space out, isn't it important?" Luffy replied "yeah, thank you Zoro" Luffy then look followed by both Zoro and Kushina looked and Zoro said, "A bird" and Luffy said "let's eat it" and Zoro said "huh? how?" to which Luffy just replied saying "just leave it to me." Luffy then extended his arms to the top of the sails and launched himself while saying "gomu gomu no rocket." Kushina watched what happened afterward and started to giggle while saying "we need to chase after him." Zoro immediately started rowing as fast as he could following after Luffy and saying "Moron! what the hell're you doing?!" with Kushina just laughing at Luffy while he started yelling for help.
as 'they' were rowing Kushina and Zoro heard someone yelling from the water "Hey! Stop! You there! Stop!" Zoro commented, "Shipwrecked people, at a time like this!?" Zoro then yelled "I can't stop! Jump in on your own!" Kushina then watched as three pirates jumped onto the ship.
as all three pirates got onboard their little ship Zoro commented then saying "hehe I'm impressed you got on!" all three of them comically yelled "Are you trying to run us over?!" which earned a chuckle from Kushina as the one in the middle said "Hey! Stop the boat! we're members of Buggy the clown-sama's crew! This boat is ours now!" as Kushina and Zoro immediately glared at then saying "Huh?!"
Soon two of the buggy pirates were rowing the boat while the one in the middle was saying "We had no idea you were the famous Pirate hunter Zoro" then all three of them said, "please forgive our rudeness." Zoro just replied saying "thanks to you guys we lost sight of our friend. just keep paddling straight ahead. knowing Luffy, hell manage something once he spots land." once Zoro finished saying that Kushina started ignoring the three dumbasses since the last time she ate a human she found out they don't taste very good and put her head down on Zoro's arm and started purring slightly and lost track of time while falling asleep.
(A/N note In this novel I have werecats set as creatures who instinctively know how to interact with their own soul and Kushina instinctively followed through with her bet with Zoro and made them siblings by sharing the same blood and adding her bloodline as an extremely dormant bloodline inside Zoro)
Kushina woke up a little later as they arrived at the island as they got out and were leaving the dock an explosion was sounded on the island as everyone looked at it and Zoro asked "what's that explosion?" as the three dummies said One of buggy-sama's beloved buggy balls!" and Zoro asked in confusion "buggy balls?" and Kushina said "There a cannonball buggy made that can decimate a town, to be honest, it surprising that kind of technology is even in the east blue much less that buggy the clown is here but that is probably Buggy's purpose for being here since he doesn't want to ever go to the grand line until he's strong enough it's surprising really as Buggy's been there before but he probably realized more then most the dangers the grand line can bring." as Zoro just looked at Kushina and said "Thanks" while nodding.
"We should probably hurry to where that was shot from as that's most likely where Luffy is." as they started running towards where the cannon was shot from Kushina grabbed onto Zoros wrist while pulling him to make sure he wouldn't get lost. and they soon reached there while hearing a commotion then Zoro and Kushina climbed to the roof and saw 3 pirates about to stab a young woman as both Kushina and Zoro run towards them as Zoro stopped them from attacking Nami and Kushina covered her claw in void energy and slashed at the cannon that was pointed towards there captain as Zoro said "hey now... How many of you are taking on a young girl at once." to which Kushina just deadpanned and said "Zoro think about your phrasing and how that sounds. actually you wouldn't get what I meant when I said that so don't think about it." as Luffy then yelled out "Zoro, Kushina" as Kushina then ignored all the clamor around her and walked over to Luffy while walking towards Luffy and started inspecting the cage he was in and clenched her fist and punched the cage before anyone else could say anything.
as They started talking about who Zoro was and Kushina didn't pay attention until Buggy started saying he was gonna kill Zoro which Touched Kushinas already currently very fragile nerve that had already been cut at and almost severed when her Aniki Itachi killed her parents as her energies started to pour out of her body as apparently, her haki spilled out of her body as she had eaten some haki that was residual in the atmosphere which was still extremely residual but was enough to kickstart haki production in her body which she didn't take note of as she was devouring way more Nature energy which was dwarfing the amount of ambient Haki she was devouring which everyone In the one-piece world naturally emitted Haki as it was in essence just will being transformed naturally by the body into energy.
As Kushina felt her will spill out of her body everyone around them fainted except for Buggy who had experienced Haki before and he only started to feel it was a little bit hard to breathe but realized that all of his supporters had fainted and realized he wasn't this women's opponent since she had both broken the concrete cage Luffy was in and she also had conqueror Haki which knocked out all of his subordinates. as he decided it was right to be cautious as his opponent had conqueror haki so he decided to take her seriously as he started to make use of his haki to be ready to fight as Kushina said with anger apparent in her voice "Buggy the clown I do not wise to have a conflict with you because I have a great deal of respect for your former captain so don't play around with your threatening my Aniki's life."
As Kushina's hair started flying into the sky and her Haki started' to put pressure on everyone around them but being less on Nami Zoro and Luffy with creaking sounds coming out of Buggy's bones and his crews.