"Hey, how do you like it? When hope turns to despair?" Zoro asked as he tied a bandana around his head.
"Huh? Hope? Despair?" Tesoro muttered.

#flashback#

"No! I promised! I promised to buy her!" Tesoro yelled.
Stella had tears in her eyes as she got pulled away by Tenryubitos. They took her with a smirk.
'If only I had the money.' Tesoro thought.
A voice got her back to reality. 

"Please! Don't take my sister!" a childlike voice yelled.

Tesoro lifted his head and looked at this girl. She looked like she wore a rag of some sort. She looked like a homeless but yet still had clean (h/l) (h/c) hair with (e/c) eyes. Tesoro looked at this and felt his heart rate go faster by a second.
"Don't take my sister! I'm better! I can sing, I can dance, I will never cry! Just don't take Stella! Don't take my sister!" this child pleaded. 
"I don't care-ehhh. Maybe I'll buy you next time-ehhh?" the Tenryubito said as he continued to drag her. 

The (h/c) head girl then fell to her knees.
"Nooo." the girl said but didn't cry.
Soon the girl was caught with Tesoro and was put in a cage. Tesoro got curious and started a chat since the Tenyrubito is asleep and the kid is sitting right beside him.
"Hey. Uhhh. What's your name?" Tesoro asked.
"I'm (y/n) (l/n). My sister told me all about you." (y/n) smiled.
"You know me?" 

The (h/c) haired girl just nodded.
"She told me that you were handsome and can sing and make her laugh." (y/n) said quietly.

"That's nice. I liked her." Tesoro said. 
Afterwards, he got nudged in the shoulder.
"Don't lie. Those eyes I saw weren't alike. That was definitely a love." (y/n) pouted as she commented.
"I've been see through." Tesoro surrendered as he lifted his arms.
This let (y/n) chuckle. In the worst timing that is. 

"HEY! Who told you that you can laugh-ehh?" a voice said. 
The Tenryubito that took them away stood there with a smirk. This caused the child to stand up and walk towards the cage doors.

"I'm sorry master, I laughed without your permission." (y/n) said as she bowed down her head. 
The Tenryubito raised his legs and stomped on the girls head.
"I'm sorry-ehhh. I couldn't hear you-ehhh. Say that one more time-ehhh." the Tenryubito said.
"I'm sorry master, I laughed without your permission." the (y/n) head girl repeated. 

Blood trickled down her head as stomps and stomps were landed on top of the poor girls head. 
"Now laugh for me. I want you to laugh and tell me who made you laugh-ehhh." Tenryubito demanded.

The girl didn't answer but only laughed. But slowly the voice faded as the girl fell sideways. Lifeless.
"Tch. Too weak-ehh." Tenryubito said as he slammed the door closed.
Tesoro secretly walked up to the girl and pulled her so she could be hidden from plain sight. 
"Why didn't you say my name?" Tesoro asked as he tried to use his cuffed hands and T-shirt to clean the wounds that (y/n) got. 

(y/n) then opened her eyes.
"Because Stella told me that you were here golden star. I can't ruin a golden star that's my sister's." (y/n) smiled.
"Thanks." Tesoro thanked as he tried to stop the tears from coming down.
Tesoro looked at the poor girl in a dimly lit up room. The girl that has purple marks on her arms and legs on her (s/c) skin. Her (h/l) (h/c) hair bloody and messy. Her eyes were either black or purple. Yet she still lived and is protecting her star.

"I've hope." The child said, "That one day someone will realise that the Tenryubito is wrong and will save us."
"Yeah... Let's hope." Tesoro answered.

#end#

"THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR ME IN THE FIRST PLACE!!" Tesoro shouted as he stabbed the ground. 
'If there was...'she' could be standing here with me... Stella would be with me also with (y/n). It's all because money runs the world.' Tesoro thought as he clutched his golden star gloves.
"It's all because of  GOLD!" Tesoro shouted with all his lungs. 

REQUESTED BY; FatimahTmah