Chapter 1

The Kidd Pirates have landed on a new island in the Grand Line not that long ago and walked into a little bar to have a few drinks.

The island was pretty big, yet there was only one town on it as the rest of it was wooded areas.

They heard that the island was famous for it's vicious beasts and it wasn't advised for foreigners to enter the forests, unless they wanted to be ripped to shreds.

"Another rowdy bunch I see." the bartender, a middle aged blond chuckled from behind the bar.

"Do you have a problem?" Kidd asked glaring at him.

"None. I like people like you. It always makes for good entertainment. The name's Jet by the way." he grinned at the red head.

Kidd smirked and his men cheered.

"What's the big deal with the forest?" Killer asked curiously.

"It's inhabited with mutant animals, result of an experiment. Used to be a lab up there but it's long been shut down." he explained.

"Might check it out." Kidd grinned.

"Not you too. What don't you people understand about dangerous?" he asked with a sigh.

"Someone else went up there as well?" Killer asked.

"Yeah. A few days ago, a young woman arrived here and asked the same questions. She then left this little guy here and went into the forest. Haven't seen her for 3 days now." Jet explained gesturing to a golden lion tamarin(monkey). It was casually eating a banana with a belt around it's waist with a flintlock pistol and a bag of ammo strapped to it.

"That thing's with her?" Kidd asked looking it over.

"I think she said his name was Sid. He ate a Devil Fruit. She just left him here to watch her stuff." Jet said.

"Interesting. Who is she?" Killer asked but before the guy could reply, the door was knocked in by a pretty big golden tiger as it rolled towards the bar. Before it could crash into it, it's body was surrounded by white flames and shrunk. The flames died down and a woman was revealed in place of the tiger.

"Izumi. You're alive." Jet said surprised.

"Of course. Sid, this one's the hundredth." she said grinning at the monkey.

She was average height, well toned with tangerine orange hair that had a full white fringe and reached down to her mid back in layers, yellow eyes and she was covered in blood. She had tiger ears and a long white fluffy tail with orange stripes. She wore black skinny jeans with a dark red body hugging tank top, high-top black converse and a black long cardigan tied around her hips.

She wiped the blood from her mouth and walked towards the door. Before she could walk out, a giant bear with enormous claws walked in. It let our a loud roar as Izumi smirked and flattening her ears against her head, she let out a tiger's roar as well.

She ran at the bear and landed a kick to it's chest, sending it flying back outside. They could hear the fight and roaring from the two as Jet looked a little surprised at the bear.

"That was the woman?" Killer asked him.

"Yes. She's quite something." he said moving behind the counter as the monkey jumped behind it.

"What do you need little guy?" he asked Sid. He showed him some cards with words on it and he prepared the meal Sid asked for.

"Done. Hundred beasts of Yajuu Island defeated." Izumi walked back in grinning and sat down at one of the tables opposite the Kidd Pirates.

"That's unbelievable. How did you do it?" Jet asked as he put a plate of food and a glass of milk in front of her.

"Skills. Thanks for the food." she grinned and dug in as Sid jumped to the table and sat down in front of her. He started to talk to her in monkey.

"Lion . . . bear . . . rabbit . . . boar . . . adrenalin." she smirked at the last word. She was obviously talking to him and understood what he was asking and answered as he asked what she was fighting and why.

"I'm not exactly bleeding out. I don't need your nagging, I won't die that easily." she glared at him, finishing off her food and chugged the milk.

"Izumi. You can use one of the rooms upstairs to clean up. On the house as well as your food." Jet said grinning at her.

"Thanks old timer." she grinned and taking her black backpack from him, ran upstairs with Sid close behind.

"Kidd?" Killer asked with an eyebrow raised under his mask at the red head's expression.

"She's joining the crew." he grinned.

"She's promising." he agreed.

Up in one of the rooms, Izumi stripped and got in the shower. She let the warm water wash the blood from her body and hissed as her wounds ached. She had four claw marks on her left upper arm and right side ribs. She also had a lot of small cuts and a lot of bruising on her body.

She turned the water off and dried herself with a towel.

"That was fun. I need to write it down and spice it up a little." she chuckled and walked out of the bathroom, grabbing some clean clothes from her backpack. She pulled on a black pair of underwear, black shorts, red bikini top and put her converse back on.

'Come here and I'll wrap your wounds.' Sid said as she could understand him.

"They're not that serious." she frowned.

'They're deep enough.' he growled as she sat down on the bed beside him.

He wrapped up her arm and middle as best he could and all of the more serous cuts.

'Here.' he said and put the first aid kit back in her bag.

"Thanks." she smiled and tied her long black cardigan that had a hood around her hips again.

She dried her hair with a towel and cleaned up her mess. Grabbing her back pack, she lobbed it over her shoulders and Sid jumped on her back as they walked downstairs.

Izumi unwrapped and popped a lollipop in her mouth as they got to the table they were at before and she sat down with her back facing the pirates. Pulling out a book, she started to write in it.

"Who did those bandages? They're so messy." the Kidd Pirate's doctor, Heat said cringing at the sight.

"How long until the log pose sets?" Kidd asked Jet.

"About another few hours, counting from when you walked in here." he replied.

Izumi was engrossed in her writing when Sid said something to her and pulled the finished stick from her mouth.

'Eustass Kidd is looking at you. He's one of the new rookies. The most feared one I hear.' he said looking back at him.

"That so?" she asked smirking and hooked her right leg on the table, she then leaned back in her chair so she could see upside down. He looked her in the eyes as she stared back curiously.

She thought he looked pretty cool with the spiky red hair that was held up with his goggles, the furry coat and she noted how toned his body looked, even upside down. But what caught her eye the most was his tangerine orange eyes that seemed to pierce through her.

Sid then jumped on her chest and a look of panic flashed in her eyes as she fell backwards, crashing onto the floor.

"Damn it Sid. That hurt." she growled holding her side as she sat up, glaring at said monkey.

He made a lot of noises at her and she shot up with her tiger ears low.

"Take that back right fucking now." she growled annoyed.

'No. You were ogling him.' he said in monkey, repeating it amused. Before she could grab him, Sid grew and turned into a gorilla.

"Oh you wanna fight? Let's go!" she yelled grinning and sent a punch at him that he blocked.

'You're injured. Stop being so aggressive all the time.' he said unamused and grabbed her by the left wrist, lifting her in the air.

"It's just scratches. Fight me." she growled but couldn't get out of his grip as he grabbed her other wrist and held her up like that.

'You lost a lot of blood. Calm down.' he said as she was kicking her legs about.

"My blood loss is the least of your worries. Let go already. Sid!" she struggled.

"Guys. Not in here. You're injured. How long will you keep this up woman?" Jet frowned at the two as Sid let her down and she turned around with a huff. Sid turned back to his smaller monkey form and Kidd walked up to the two.

"Izumi right?" he asked grinning down at her.

"Yup. You're Eustass Kidd?" she asked, returning his grin.

"Join my crew." he suddenly said, taking her by surprise. Sid made a lot of noises at his request but Izumi shut him up with a glare.

"Alright. Why not?" she grinned. Sid jumped onto her back and pulled at her face angrily from behind.

"Ah don caaa wha yuu shink." (I don't care what you think.) she said with his hands still hooked on her mouth and he pulled at her cheek.

"Well, you're one weird woman." Kidd chuckled.

"Get off." she growled at Sid, throwing him at a table and turned back to Kidd.

"You're gonna show me around my new home or what?" she grinned up at him.

"Haha. This way." he laughed and led her to their ship after she grabbed all her stuff.

"Are you a Devil Fruit user?" he asked as they walked through the town.

"No. I'll tell you later but Sid is. He has a Zoan Fruit, a Gorilla." she said as said golden lion tamarin was sitting on her shoulder.

"Why does he have a gun?" Killer asked from her other side.

"Cause he can use it." she chuckled.

As Kidd looked at her a little closer, he could see that her skin had very faint golden stripes, like a tiger's stripes.

"This is it." Kidd said as they boarded the dark ship.

"Killer. Show her around then bring her to my room." he said and walked off, leaving her with the blond.

"I'm the first mate, so you will answer to me beside Kidd." he said as she saluted him, grinning.

He showed her the galley, infirmary, crew's cabins, the bathrooms, storage rooms and finally Kidd's room.

He knocked on the door and after they heard a 'come in' they entered.

"Sit and tell me what you are." Kidd called.

His room was quite big with an on suite, big double bed, closet, draws, table, chair, bookshelf and a couch in it.

She sat down on the couch as Kidd was sat by his desk and Killer just stood by the door as Sid jumped down beside her.

"First off, my name's Tora D Izumi." she said smiling at Kidd.

"I am the last of my tribe. I shouldn't let anyone know but since you are my captain now, I think you need to know." she said in thought.

"That's fucking right." Kidd said smirking.

"I was born on an island in the New World called Tama Island. It was located in the calm belt. The island's inhabitants were half feline by blood." she explained and tugged at her tiger ears to make a point.

"I am capable of shifting into a tiger as you saw earlier and the fire I did it with is under my control. It is nothing like a Logia ability or a Zoan. I can shift to any size tiger I want and my body can't turn to fire, I can only control it." she said holding her palm out as a ball of fire appeared.

"Impressive." Killer said smirking under his mask.

"What happened to your island? You were talking past tense." Kidd said, picking up on her words.

"It was destroyed 19 years ago by a Buster Call. The Government thought my people were too dangerous so they had them all killed. I was only able to survive because I was only a baby and a marine officer took pity on me. I don't know who he was but he took me in secret to an island called Ruby Lagoon in the Grand Line where I grew up and met Sid." she explained scratching behind his ears smiling.

"I see. How old are you?" Kidd asked curiously.

"20." she replied.

"Any skills?" Killer asked.

"I'm a writer, tattooist and I also sing a little every now and then." she grinned.

"Interesting. What do you write?" Killer asked.

"Whatever comes to mind usually. Short stories, my adventures and stuff like that." she smiled at him.

"Show me some." he said walking up to her.

"Okay." she grinned, digging her book out of her bag.

"Here." she handed it to him.

"You can leave now." Kidd said and Killer walked out with her.

"Do you want to meet the crew?" he asked.

"Yup. Can I ask a question though?" she smiled up at him.

"Sure." he replied.

"Why do you wear a mask? Can you show me your face?" she grinned up at him.

"It's personal and no." he frowned under his mask.

"Too bad." she chuckled as they made it back up on deck.

"This is Heat, our doctor." Killer said as they walked up to him.

"Hi. I'm Izumi. Love your hair and stitches." she said grinning up at him, which surprised him.

"Thanks. It's nice to meet you too. Let me re-wrap your wounds. Whoever did this, just failed." he said frowning at the bloody bandages.

"Hear that Sid. You're a failure." she said snickering at the monkey on her shoulder as it squeaked in protest.

"Come on." Heat said and dragged her back below deck and into his infirmary.

"Do you get injured a lot?" he asked grabbing some stuff.

"Yeah. You'll be seeing me here a lot." she said sticking her tongue out.

"Oh dear." he frowned and treated her wounds properly.

"How did you get these?" he asked wrapping her arm.

"I was fighting a hundred beasts." she grinned.

"From the island right? I heard that they were very dangerous." he said glancing up at her.

"It was fun to fight them. They just kept coming." she chuckled.

"Haha. A knack for danger, I see. Are you a Devil Fruit user?" he asked.

"Nope." she smirked.

"I should probably do a check up. Stay here." he said and walked off to grab some stuff including a clipboard.

"I will ask a few questions first and I want you to answer them honestly." he said as she nodded.

"Full name?" he asked.

"Tora D Izumi." she replied swinging her legs from the bed she was sitting on as they didn't reach the floor.

"Age and date of birth?" he asked after he recovered from the surprise of the 'D'.

"I'm 20 and was born October 31st." she grinned.

"Height and weight?" he asked and she told him an estimation as she didn't know the exact numbers.

"Any allergies or intolerances?" he asked.

"No allergies but I will kill a bitch if they feed me onion or kiwi." she frowned making him chuckle.

"I'll tell Jake that. He's our the chef." he said amused.

"Now for the physical." he said and put the stethoscope buds in his ear.

He placed the metal bit on her chest as she hissed from the cold and he listened for her heart. Making her turn around he checked her lungs as well.

He also checked her eyes, throat and ears.

"Can I ask what you are?" he asked and she told him about her powers.

"I think we're done here. You're perfectly healthy." he said smiling at her.

"Thanks Heat." she grinned and jumped up.

"No worries. You were meeting the crew right? Sorry I pulled you away." he said as he put her file in a filing cabinet and walked out with her.

"Don't worry. I got to talk to you." she smiled.

"Wire. Dude, wait up." Heat called as the tall guy turned around.

"Holy fuck you're tall." Izumi said with her ears sticking down.

"Little tiger girl." he smirked at her reaction.

"This is Izumi." Heat said. To be fair he was pretty tall as well.

"Hi. This is Sid." she said recovering quickly and gestured to the monkey on her shoulder who just waved.

"Nice to meet you." Wire smiled.

"Meeting the crew?" he asked.

"Yup." she grinned.

"Have fun." he grinned ruffling her hair.

Heat then took her to the galley, where Jake was preparing dinner.

"Jake. Come meet our new crew mate." Heat called as a man in his 30s stepped out of the kitchen. He was average height and thinner looking than most. He had messy long green hair that reached down to his mid back with sideburns and dull green eyes. He wore dark brown cargo trousers with a white t-shirt and a thin dark grey trench coat over it with the sleeves rolled up and he wore no shoes.

"I heard we got a newbie. So it's this little lady here?" he asked smirking at her.

"Hi I'm Izumi and this is Sid." she smiled back as Sid waved at him.

"And a monkey?" Jake raised an eyebrow.

"He's my best friend. Don't underestimate him." she smirked.

"That so?" he chuckled.

Heat then took her to the deck to meet the rest of the crew.