The secret's night // Val & Ichi
inkablaze
[ ✄ ] It had probably been a surprise for her crew mates that she was a devil fruit user heck it was something new for her as well! Ichi didn't know that the fruit she had eaten even had a name and that it was such a disturbing one at that. Always keeping away from water and eventually when she fell from the sub and almost drowned. After the little fright she got and talk - more like scolding - she had with the captain she was siting on the deck and looking up longingly in the night sky.
Maybe it had come a bit as a surprise to her crew mates but Ichi had perfect control of her devil fruit abilities. Not that she had this control from the beginning - she had to practice a lot after all to get this kind of control over it.
She was restless now thought. Of course Ichi told Law about her sneaking off from time to time and that she actually just went of to fly in her owl form. She never did leave the submarine out of sight though, now her crew mates also knew about her weird power. Ichi had feared to tell them that she could do that because of the fruit. Correction. The devil fruit.
Did they view her as a monster now? They wouldn't right? But.. there were still things that her crew mates didn't know about her, which her captain told her to keep secret under all circumstances. Jean Bart had told her the same thing because even though this was her new place where she belonged, her new home, not everyone would be comfortable around her anymore if they saw her back and that specific mark. It was a miracle that the brand on her back wasn't visible when she turned into her owl form and her clothes kept intact even in that form.
Not noticing the soft footsteps she only turned around surprised when the person who was approaching her sat down beside her. "Val..?" said redhead who was sitting now beside her stayed silent for a while. "Val?" Ichi tried again and looked with a questioning gaze at her crew mate and friend. Did she hate her now that she knew that Ichi ate such a fruit? Soon enough all the insecurities the green haired female always felt made themselves noticeable because tears gathered in her one visible eyes.
"V..-Val you don't hate me now do you..?"