Silver Infinity ((Kamukura X Komaeda))

Chapter Seven: Captain To Crew

Perhaps it wasn't fair for him to feel this joy, but Komaeda couldn't help it. The sun pouring down warmth across his shoulders, the gentle winds through his messy hair, he felt... Energized.

His thin fingers gripped at the ship's railing and he allowed himself to look down into the water. The blue ocean waves splashed against the dark wood, giving himself the feeling of gently rocking as though sitting in a baby crib once more.
It wasn't Komaeda's first time on a boat, obviously, but the last time he was this happy, it was the day he got his own ship.
Perhaps he was feeling the adrenaline of rebelling, or it could be... Yeah.
His gaze melted upon the dark Captain at the wheel. His long hair sweeping against the winds, eyes deadlocked ahead. Izuru remained focused on steering, but Komaeda couldn't tear his eyes away.

He was a true pirate. A pirate he could only hope to live up to.
Komaeda was really... He was really standing on the ship of the King of Pirates, of the man that stole his heart.
Unlike in the tavern, Izuru was allowing himself to wear a large hat, red feather sticking up from the ribbon tied neatly around it.
With a heavy inhale, the pirate pulled himself away from the rim and made his way to the stairs leading up to the wheel. As he walked, Komaeda could feel the ship moving under his feet. It was rather soothing if you didn't have seasickness, of course.

"A crew of thirty men and women," The King's voice escaped his lips with a hush as the man approached. "And you still attain to pester me."
With such a monotone voice, it was hard to tell if he was being playful or not but seeing as he wasn't shooed off, Komaeda forced an awkward smile and stood beside him.
"I've looked at everyone on deck but you still capture my attention the most."
"Is that your trial at flirting?" Izuru's black eyebrow rose ever so slightly before he focused back on steering the ship. "It needs work. You could have stated I was copper and tellurium if that was the course you fancied this conversation to go."
Komaeda thought for a long, unable to wrap his mind around what he was just told. Finally, the dark man exhaled.
"Don't hurt your brain. Look ahead, what do you see?"

As Kamukura looked ahead, Komaeda caught a flash of sunlight glimmer in the pirate's eyes.
Of course, he nearly said 'beautiful' aloud, but caught himself and followed where those red eyes were directed at.
"I see a lot of water and no land," Komaeda confirmed with a second passing. "But there's something under the waves I think. Sure the surface is pretty to look at but imagine all the things just below it we've yet to see."

The Captain seemed to need a small fraction of time to absorb his words because he remained still. Eventually, he sighed, closing his eyes. "I see the horizon. The unknown, or rather, the beyond. If I go there, perhaps I'll find..."
"Find what?" Komaeda couldn't help but ask when the man trailed off.
"An end." Izuru reopened his eyes before releasing the wheel. "Our course is set for Japan." The topic was changed as quickly as it had started. "If we want to find the treasure, perhaps we shall start from Hajime's roots."
Turning his back to Komaeda, the black hair tumbled down Izuru's back, sweeping around him like a silky, delicate cape.

"Until we arrive, locate something to perform. I wish to go to my quarters." He waved a slender hand before holding his hands close to his sides, almost uncomfortably so.
"Before you leave," He couldn't help but call after the Pirate King, who looked back with mild curiosity. "The hat is really pretty." Komaeda offered a smile, which the man returned by sliding a finger along the hat's rim and continuing down the stairs once more.
He didn't remember such a large hat the day they had fought, or in Aka's tavern. He couldn't help being a tad curious but well, it was just a hat. It wasn't that important. Once Izuru vanished beneath the ship's deck, Komaeda released the heaviest sigh he could muster and looked out across the ship.