Bittersweet meeting

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Hours? Days? or a whole week?

Katakuri lost his sense of time.

 Pushed into a wooden box, small and uncomfortable, he only noticed or more feel how he was flying around and crashing from one hard ground to another. Bumping against the wood with his head, let himself feel dizzy.

''Get this piece of shit out of here. We are almost here.'', a rough voice was heard from the outside and again he felt his dark world moving. Feeling sick in his stomach he closed his eyes to calm down, but a salty smell reached his nose and let his eyes shot open once again. Katakuri noticed a small light coming through one little gap in the wood. Quickly he leaned torwards it and was met with the sight of the open sea.

''So i am on a ship...'', he thought, but was interrupted by a sudden push. The wodden box was smashed and Katakuri was pulled by his hair. It was relieving to smell fresh air again, but the shouting and boots which kicked his chest weren't that pleasing. Nevertheless he kept as silent as possible to keep his pride.

''Well princess we are here!'', one agent pulled him up by his handcuffs and his look fell onto the fortress of Cipher Pol. 

''Welcome to Impel Down, where all your wishes come true!'', they laughed mockingly and pulled him along. Katakuri heard stories about this place. It's a prison for the most dangerous criminals and pirates. The sight alone gave someone goosebumps, but there wasn't much time to comprehend the situation. Already used to the pushing and kicking, Katakuri was kicked into a dark cell with a rack in the middle of the room. The blood marks on it showed him that it wasn't something fun.

''Put him on the torture rack.''

This was the last thing he understood, because the next hour his mind and body only focused on surviving. Or did he really wanted to go on?

The first thing he remembered was the sudden unbelievable pain on his back. He could feel how his skin exploded by the rough whips of his punisher. Followed by cutting his soles and splashing salty water on it for ultimate pain. And everything happened with laughing, shouting and spitting over and over again on his head. Enjoying his stressed and strained look they finally cut his scarf to relieve his face. Shocked he tried to avoid their laughing gazes, but they didn't let him. Taking his head roughly, one agent looked amused into his face.

''We can end your life right here and now big mouth, but that wouldn't be fun. You will stay here and be our test object for all kinds of tortures we want to try.'', he whispered happily. At that moment he just wished to fall uncouncious, but sadly his body was stronger. His blood was boiling of rage from that evil harassment, but there was nothing he could do. Hiw shameful to end up here. He even couldn't explain anything to his siblings who sure were devasted after hearing about his leaving.

''Are you playing around again?'', a new voice appeared and let the agent step back annoyed. His vision already blurry from the pain, Katakuri noticed new agents who entered the cell. He could care less in his situation. Hearing them asking who he was and how he got here, his look fell onto a feminine body dressed in a black tight suit. Lifting his head he was met with beautiful eyes, which looked quite familiar to him. They were so mesmerizing, sparkling in such a cruel place and staring down onto him without any sign of hatred or amusment. It was sadness.

Did he know her? She still locked eyes with him, but she didn't say a word, while the others were laughing and making fun of his pitful state. Katakuri wasn't able to think clear. The pain was too intense to finding out where he had seen this woman before. Feeling dizzy he let his head fall down and closed his eyes.

''Let's get something to eat. We make a break.'', a soft voice called out and let Katakuri sigh in relief to get a moment for himself. He couldn't remember her, but he felt grateful that she helped him. He could tell by her soft look that she sure was different. The agents agreed happily and quickly left.
Consumed by darkness he tried to sleep for a moment or more blacked out of the exhaustion.

Some time passed and a small light appeared at the door. The sound of footsteps let Katakuri open his eyes and he was met with the female agent from before. Feeling his sore throat he had to cough, which reminded him of the bad wounds on his body. Growling in pain he tried to hold back, but suddenly felt a cold liquid on his lips. Noticing a glas of water touching his chin, he quickly took some big gulps. Gasping relieved Katakuri came back to his senses and watched the woman who gave him the needed drink confused.

''Why...?'', he asked suspicious, while she gave him a soft smile and sat down before him. 

''Don' t you remember me?'', she asked hurtly and in an instant he felt guilty about forgetting such a lovely person. She was acting so sweet and didn't stare at his features like others would. How could he forget? Slowly she reached up to her ponytail and opened her hair, which framed her face perfectly.
Watching the beautiful woman in awe, he was deep in thought and slowly her appearance and mostly her breathtaking smile helped him to put the pieces together.

"Could it be...", he thought amazed.

''(Y/N)??'', he asked stunned and she laughed happily. There was only one girl who wasn't a relative and didn't run away from him of fear. And this was her. She was one of the few who knew his face since childhood, because she always played with his sister Brùlee.

''Long time no see Katakuri Charlotte.'', she spoke softly and her look fell onto his bad wounds.

''Yeah, its been a long time (Y/N).'', he spoke while smiling sightly. An expression only she was able to see.

''I remember now. You helped my sister back then as we were kids. You treated her wounds after these bastards attacked her.", Katakuri spoke angered. It still pained him that his fight with the bullies lead to that his sister got hurt.

"Totland's people were monsters...", (Y/N) spoke sadly and avoid looking at his bad state. He always was fighting hard and endure so much pain. She hated to see him suffer so much. For her he was a man with a pure heart. Hiding his insecurities behind a scarf to be the perfect brother of the charlottes and avoid causing his siblings any pain by showing his image.

"You weren't...you were a great friend of mine and never were shocked of my face. Thank you for always supporting me. ", he spoke honestly and let her heart flutter. Flustered she scratched her head and avoid his intense stare.

"so you left to become one of these people?", Katakuri asked interested and watched her now serious expression worried.

"I hated to see how you were bullied. Your sister didn't do anything and got attacked by these idiots. I wanted to become someone who could stop bad people and get their right punishment. So I decided to leave Totland and since then I work at Cipher Pol. And why are you again in trouble? ",(Y/N) asked jokingly to light the mood.

Chuckling Katakuri gave her a knowing smile. " Sooner or later I expected that I would end here or die. I already knew that my life would be on the line after following this path. But to be honest I didn't realize that my mother could be that cruel.", he spoke with a strained voice and told her about the incident with the blackbeard pirates and how one failed duty brought him here.

" selling her own son to get informations... Unbelievable..", (Y/N) spoke shocked and took a cloth to clean his face. The cold and soft fabric felt amazing on his sweating skin. Sighing in delight he closed his eyes to calm his nerves.

"No matter what is going to happen... I won't give up this easily.", he whispered confident and looked into the worried face of his long time friend.
Sighing deeply she took the glas and cloth and stepped back.

"I know you would say that. Sadly I have to leave now. They will come back soon...", she whispered and left him alone in the darkness again.

In a way Katakuri didn't feel exhausted anymore. She helped him to pull himself together. He would take whatever they had planned, because there was still someone out there who believes in him.

"Come on, come on. Give me all you got"

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