Questioning

Rizu POV

I look out leaning against the rails as Chase lays down on the floor and Hina and Smoker are somewhere on the deck smoking. Marine HQ slowly becomes bigger and I clench my hands and sigh out. "What cha sighing about?" Chase asks still laying on the floor by my feet. I turn around and slide down to the floor next to him. "Nothing much." I say. Chase raises his eyebrows at me. "Doesn't seem that way. Even without seeing your face, I know something is bothering you." he says.

I sigh and a smile makes its way on my face. "I just don't really like coming to HQ that much. Brings back memories...and-" I cut myself off and lean my head against the side of the ship. "Bad ones?" Chase inquires while looking at me. "Bad ones." I say and Chase sits up to sit next to me and holds the mask that I gave him in his hands.

"Well don't think to much of it." he says and I nod. Chase changes the subject "So once we get there what will you being doing?" he asked. I hum and look over at Z "Instructor Z said that we'll be staying at HQ for a bit. He has some stuff to do and meet up with the higher ups as well. They had a bit of information that they wished to discuss. So I'll be around and may accompany him around the base if he needs. Other than that I'll be around." I say.

I look into the sky and get a ping in my chest feeling something and a wave of feelings wash over me. I clench onto my hands and open and close them. 'What is this?' I think to myself and lift my hand to clench onto my short now. Chase looks over at me and knocks on my head. "Oi, what did I say. Don't worry about stuff." he says.

I'm knocked out of my thoughts and let go of my shirt to look at Chase. I nod my head at him and shake the feelings off. "Yeah..." I say.

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"Docking!" a marine yells as we dock and other marines rush around to grab ropes and the anchor.

I grab my bags as the Chase does the same. I clench my hands as we dock at the bay. I follow Chase as we file into a line to get off. Z walks off first and leads us off the boat. "Men, finish up the ship. We'll be staying here for a while before we leave again. Stock up and prepare the ship." Z says to the men. After that he looks at the four of us. "Rizu, you'll be accompanying me for the remainder time here. The three of you, I'll leave you to your new duties." he says to the three older marines. They nod their head and salute. "Thank you sir!" Chase, Hina, and Smoker says.

Z chuckles and nods his head. "You guys will head to the main office and you'll get your new stations. They'll probably send you off within the week." Z says before putting his hand out to them. The each shake his hand and salute.

Z turns around and motions for me to follow him. I turn towards the three of them and lift up my mask to show my mouth. "Thanks for training with me and being my training partner. It was nice, I hope to see you guys again when you get higher up in the ranks." I say and give them a smile. Hina nods and pats my head and Chase puts his mask on the side of his head. "Definitely I'll be making it to vice admiral soon, just before you know it." Chase says with a smile. I nod my head at him and smile. "Be safe kid." Smoker says to me giving me a pat on the head.

"I'll be seeing you soon. Maybe I might just end up in one of your squads." I say and send them one last smile before I put my mask fully back on and turn around to catch up with Z. "Kid I'll see you around!" Chase yells at me and I turn around slightly to wave at them.

Once I catch up with Z, he puts a hand on my head. "We'll be making you stronger before sending you off to become higher in ranks. So for now you'll be joining in with me." he says with a small smile. I nod my head. "Yes sir!" I say.

Z chuckles lightly and starts heading towards the building where all higher up marines go. I follow him into the building and walk by his side as his aide. Soon enough we get to the meeting room where Z will hold a meeting which they wanted to discuss with him as he was a formal admiral.

Z knocks on the door and we hear a "Enter." He looks down at me and motions for me to follow him inside. As soon as I am inside the room I close the door and see a desk with a plague that says Fleet Admiral Sengoku on it. My eyes widen slightly seeing who we were meeting and remember what Rosi-san had said to me all those years ago.

I walk behind Z and stay behind him and out of sight. "Sengoku." Z calls out as Sengoku turns around and turns to us. "Z, it's been a while. How have you been?" Sengoku asks. Z puts out his hand for a shake which Sengoko takes. "I've been good. What about you?" He asks back. Sengoku nods his head. "Good as well. I called you in because I wanted to discuss something." He said as he sat down in his chair. Z raised his brow.

"Your former student Sakazuki who is a Vice Admiral at the moment....." Sengoku started and my eyes became wider hearing that name. Z raised his eyebrow. Sengoku sighed. "I just wanted to be the first person to inform you of this. He blew up the evacuation ship from Ohara, the buster call from the world government was a success however, he took it to the extreme." Sengoku finished.

I clenched my hands together and my breathing became off. 'Blew up? Killed innocents? For what? Buster call?' I think of all sorts of things coming to my mind. Z clenched his fist and hit Sengoku's table. "That idiot student of mine!" Z exclaimed. "He killed those people for what?!" he yelled. "He claimed that possibility that a scholar could be hiding on board. If that was so than the mission was a failure." Sengoku explained and leaned his head on his hands. "Seeing you like this was one of the reason's I wanted to talk to you." Sengoku stated.

Z clenched his fists. "There's more?!" Z states angrily. Sengoku nodded his head. "Hm. But it's not bad. I have received word that there's a young student that you have been training for a while. I wanted to have an update on that." Sengoku says and adds on. "That had also caught my interest. From what I know, this person wouldn't stay at the same base for more than a couple years." He finished.

My eyes grew even wider piecing the information together and still trying to understand what my father had done, ignoring their conversation. 'I thought absolute justice was...That's not justice.....That's cruel. Not-" My thoughts were cut off by the voice of Z. "I dropped off three of my students who are ready today and brought one of them here with me at the moment." Z says and looks behind him. I stand there stiff.

Sengoku raises his eyebrow and moves so he can see behind Z. "Rizu." Z calls out to me. I look up at him and walk forward so I stand to the right of him. Sengoku's eyes get wider for a bit as he looks at me. "It's this girl...." he says.

I salute. "Sir." I say and wait for him to say something. "Sengoku you know her?" Z asks and Sengoku continues to stare at me. Sengoku grabs his beard and starts stroking it. "I've seen her. When Sakazuki told me about this person I thought they would be older but I've seen this girl around at HQ a couple of times years ago." Sengoku said and took a closer look at her.

"I believe Garp had also told me about a masked girl that he has trained from a couple years ago. Sengoku added as he looked at me. Z nodded his head. "Yes, she has told me that she has been trained under Garp for some while." Z states as he looks at me. Seeing that I wasn't saying anything, Z went ahead to introduce me. "This is my student that I took a while back from 2 years ago. Her name is Rizu."

I nod my head as I put my arm down and look at Sengoku, trying to focus on the task at hand. "Rizu." Sengoku says as he looks at me. "I'm quite curious, but seeing that you have trained not just under a Vice Admiral known as a hero but a former Admiral. What are you doing here with the marines as such a young age seeing that I first saw you here in your uniform years ago. How old are you now?" Sengoku questions.

Z looks down at me also wondering of my story. I hesitate a bit before answering. "I'm 15 years old now sir. The reason why I am here or was here at such a young age when you probably first saw me was due to....." I stop and think of how I should word this considering that he said what not to do.

"Go on." Sengoku says. I nod my head. "I was taken in since my mother has passed away. That person took me here to the navy." I said and mentally sighed thinking that I would be fine and not questioned any further.

Sengoku nods his head. "I see." a short silence came over as Z looked down at me. "Rizu, who was this person who took you in? Was he family?" Z asks and I look up at him and my eyes widen from underneath my mask. I slowly nod my head. "....Yes, he is family in a way...He's a marine officer." I say and try to leave it at that.

This answer causes Z and Sengoku to question my answer. "Rizu who is this man? I have information that you often leave bases to go to a new one and train under. That it not a normal routine that our men have. We don't transfer our men every 2-3 years after each time. Though we like to keep them stationed at one place unless needed. So who is allowing such thing?" Sengoku says as he stares at me. "So that's what your getting at." Z says sternly and looks down at me with a raised eyebrow. "Rizu you won't get in trouble just tell us." Z says.

I open and close my hands. My mouth opens and closes as well not sure on what to say. They both look at me. I hesitate and look seeing that I will not be able to get out of it. "....The man who took me in was....." I stop and see their faces telling me to go on. I continue "Sakazuki." I finish and their eyes widen.

Sengoku holds a face of confusion. "Girl, how is our vice admiral related to you? You say that he is family in a way." Sengoku says. "He is my father..." I say and look ahead. My hands become sweater and I become nervous. "Your father?" Z asks as he looks down at me. "Sakazuki has a child?" Sengoku now asks as he looks at me.

"Is that true?" Sengoku asks me and I slowly nod my head. "So your name is Rizu Sakazuki then." Sengoku says as he strokes his beard. I shake my head and speak up. "I do not take his name for certain reasons but my name is Rizu D Tamashiro." I say and they raise their eyebrows at me.

"Tamashiro?" Z says and his eyes widen. "I remember that long ago on an island that we saved from pirates their was a girl who held that name. She was memorable and Sakazuki often would take vacation and head to that island." Z says and my eyes slightly widen hearing this. "I see....." Sengoku says as he strokes his beard. "Thank you, I wanted to clear somethings and make sure things were going alright." Sengoku cleared up.

I nodded my head but the feelings that I had on the ship came back to me. My hands began to shake a little bit, seeing this I grabbed my hands and put them behind my back. Z pat my head and looked down at me. "Rizu, you can go and rest for now. I need to discuss some of my matters with Sengoku." Z says and I nod my head.

"Oh before you go." Sengoku calls out to me. I look back at him. "I would like to see your face. Please take off your mask." Sengoku asks and my hands start to tremble some more. Not to disobey the order I lift up my mask just to show my bottom half of my face. My hands continue to tremble and shake which Sengoku and Z narrow their eyes at. "Your making her-" Z stopped his sentence as I slowly lift the mask off my face. 'Just take it off. You will be considered suspicious and you'll be going against an order. Or they might not believe you. Just do it!' I screamed at myself as I lowered the mask and looked straight into Sengoku's eyes.

Z widened his eyes a bit and nodded his head. "She does look like the girl from long ago and a mix of Sakazuki." he stated and Sengoku nodded his head getting a good look at my face. "Why do you wear that?" Sengoku asks and Z stops him from anymore. "Sengoku enough. Rizu you may go. Thank you for telling us stuff and even going to show us your face." Z says as he pats my head and gives me a smile.

My eyes widen. 'Why isn't Z.....why doesn't Z give me the same look he does? Why? Am I just disgusting to him or ....' I put my mask back on and salute. I head out of the room and make my way out of the building. From other men around I hear some shouts and commands. "Men! Get the docks ready!"

I turn and head towards where my room is. Soon enough I make it to my room and close the door behind me. I place down my mask on the desk and fall face first into the bed. "Just what kind of day is this?" I say to myself thinking of what happened not to long ago. "I'm.....I'm so screwed." I mumble as I shake and put my hands on my head.

A take deep breathes and calm myself down. I turn on my back and stare up at the ceiling. "Mom..." I say before I slowly close my eyes.