"Island just up ahead you guys!" Nami called out to the Strawhat crew. Luffy started to cheer happily as they approached the rather small island ahead. The rest of the crew stood out on the balcony of the Merry starting to prepare for their dock onto the shore. "Alright! Docking positions boys!" Nami commanded again to the crew.

Both Zoro and Sanji jumped off the ship to the island and put a stoke into the ground. Chopper transformed into his human form and threw the anchor overboard while Ussopp threw a rope to the two on the island for them to tie down on a stoke so the ship would stay in place.

Sanji looked out at the island. They had docked near a part of the island that had lots of trees so that if there happened to be a marine base nearby the crew and the ship would be safe for the moment while the log post set itself. Sanji noticed a road through the path of the dense forest. "Look Zoro, there's someone walking out there." Sanji ducked and pulled Zoro to the ground in case it was a marine.

Zoro looked out where Sanji had pointed. Besides being absolutely pissed off about Sanji touching Zoro, he saw a person with a white shirt walking very slowly. The person looked old since they were hunched over. "I think we are fine." Zoro stood up and called to the others to comedown as well.

Sanji continued to watch the person instead of focusing on the two beautiful crew mates climbing down the ladder. As he watched the person he gasped and ran towards the road when he saw the person collapse on the ground. Zoro noticed his partner running and looked for the person that was currently on the ground.

"What's Sanji doing?" Luffy asked laughing. "A person just collapsed over there. Come on guys let's see if we can help." Zoro pointed to the collapsed person and followed after the cook.

Sanji ran passed the branches and thorn bushes and finally made it to the road. He looked over to the person that had now gotten up and continued to walk slowly again. "Hey are you alright!" He called out, the rest of the crew following behind him.

"Hey who is-" Luffy stood in front of the cook and stretched out his neck to get a glimpse of the person. But he stopped as he noticed the person's hair and face. It was a girl around their age with bright blue hair. "VIVI!" The whole crew screamed.

The girl gasped and then started to run away from the crew. "Wait Vivi!" "Come back Vivi!" the crew screamed out to whom they believed to be their princess friend and chase after her. "Guys that can't be Vivi! Isn't she in Alabasta? We would have seen her ship along the way somehow!" Zoro yelled out as the crew ran ahead while he stayed in place.

Suddenly the girl stopped and turned to face the crew. She had on a white coat with a grey undershirt showing and black shorts, shoes and black fingerless gloves on both of her hands. She held her hands up making a triangle in the middle of her palms and suddenly more and more figures of the girl surrounded the crew.

The strawhats stopped and gasped as they found themselves face to face with an entire mob of this girl. "Whoah! Definitely not Vivi!" Luffy screamed out and punched a clone of the girl. Zoro quickly drew all of his swords and ran passing the clones of the girl. However, she was a crafty girl because when he came into her sight she quickly made some more copies confusing the swords men into who was the real copy.

"How the heck is she doing this?" Chopper called out fighting off some of the clones. "She must have a devil fruit of some kind!" Sanji replied kicking one. As he did it disappeared in a puff of smoke. "Hey once you beat them they go away guys!" He called out to the crew. "Okay!" They responded and continued to fight.

As Zoro looked around the five copies of the girl trying to decide which one was the real one, he noticed out of the corner of his eye a figure going into the forest. He quickly avoided the clones surrounding him and made his way over to the girl escaping from his path.

She stopped running and screamed out as Zoro lifted his swords ready to attack. But it wasn't him that she was screaming at. The girl fell suddenly clutching her arm and stomach as she landed. Zoro pointed his two swords in his hands to the girls head warning her from attacking but she hardly even noticed.

The rest of the crew made their way to the swordsman and looked at the girl. She panted heavily and attempted to pick herself up but fell once again with her body going limp. "Hey what's the big idea attacking us!" Nami yelled at the girl but she continued to breathe heavily.

Chopper pushed Zoro out of the way, "Wait wait! Move she's hurt!" He transformed to his human form and lifted her back to the ground holding her torso in his big furry arms. As her limp arm fell from her stomach to the ground, the crew noticed blood staining her grey undershirt. "Oh no, is she okay Chopper?" Luffy asked looking at the painting girl. She moaned in pain and opened one of her eyes. "I won't let you take me." She whispered softly trying to free herself from Chopper's grip.

"Hey wait, we won't hurt you. Please rest, you are badly hurt and I can heal you!" He yelled as she tried to move.

"Geeze wonder what happened." Zoro put his swords back and crossed his arms.

"Damn. I thought she was Vivi." Luffy pouted.

"Me too..." Nami sighed.

"Whoever she is, maybe she was running away from them." Robin stood away from the group and pointed down the road. The crew surrounding the girl looked up at Robin and what she pointed at and noticed a group of people charging down the road.

The crew screamed and ran into the forest. Chopper continued to carry the girl in his arms trying to hide her from the mob that ran passed the area they had just been in. "I need to get her to the ship, guys!" Chopper whispered and started to pass through the forest to the ship. "Guys, we still need to try to find the market to get supplies." Nami ordered the crew making a circle once everyone made it out of the forest.

"Here's what we are gonna do! Chopper you take care of the girl as best as you can without wasting any of our good medicine. Zoro and Robin you guys stay and guard the ship just in case. Sanji, Luffy, Ussopp and I will try to find the market area and try to see what the heck that mob was about. Got it?" She barked to the crew. They all nodded in agreement and followed through with Nami's orders.

Once Chopper, Zoro and Robin made it on the ship, Chopper wasted no time in helping the girl so he liad her right on the deck instead of in his medical room. Chopper got out from his book bag some medicine and bandages and pulled up her shirt where the cut tore into the side of her ribcage area on her stomach.

"It seems odd that she would just start to attack random people doesn't it?" Robin stated to the two sitting across from Chopper looking at the blue-haired girl. She had her blue hair pulled into a bun but it was so tangled and messy Robin knew that she had not designed it to be a messy bun. She had even noticed some debris and blood in parts of her hair. She then looked at her face. She looked to be around 18 or so, if she had to guess and she had a few scrapes and cuts bleeding on her pretty little face. Being compassionate, Robin wiped off some of the blood off her face with her thumb causing the girl to moan from the sting of the cuts.

"There! That's as best and as quick I can do!" Chopper smiled. He looked over to Zoro, but he had already been sleeping against the mast of the ship. "Do you think maybe she's a criminal?" Chopper asked Robin. She smiled, "I don't know, but we are considered criminals as well so she can't be that dangerous." Just then the girl started to move her head from side to side. Robin not wanting to take a chance held down the girl to the ground with her Hana Hana fruit power in case she decided to attack them again.

The girl opened her eyes and gasped at the sight of chopper and Robin in front of her. "Calm down! We won't hurt you if you don't hurt us!" Chopper calmed her down. She stopped fighting against Robin's power and nodded to the two. The girl coughed and tried to sit up but fell due to the pain in her side. "I'm sorry." She spoke softly. "Don't be sorry. You didn't really do anything!" Chopper smiled turning back to his original form. The girl gasped at the sight covering her eyes. "Oh sorry! I'm a reindeer, but I ate a devil fruit and can talk and have many different forms to fight and stuff. My name is Chopper by the way! And this is Robin and over there is Zoro! We are pirates!" He smiled pointing to the two people.

The girl nodded this time and picked herself up. "Nice to meet you. My name is Tomoko Kimiko, but you can call me Kimi." She smiled at Chopper and Robin. "I didn't mean to attack you and your pirate crew. I was being chased after by a mob that attacked me earlier." She scratched her head.

"Your lab! Are you some sort of scientist or doctor or something?" Chopper smiled. Kimi smiled back. "Yes actually I am a scientist. My father and I work in our family lab. But our village became upset about- um- something and attacked our home."

Robin looked concerned at the girl. "What do you mean they became upset?" She questioned. The girl frowned and looked at her lap. "It's best you not get into it. Thank you for helping me, but I'll be on my way now. I have to get my father back." She stood up shaking.

"Your name is Tomoko huh?" Zoro's voice stopped the girl in her tracks. She turned around and looked back at the crew. "Y, ye...yes?"

"I know that name. How do I know that name?" He smiled evilly. Chopper looked upset. "Wait what do you mean! Is she bad!" He ran behind the green-haired man.

"Tomoko Yukiko is the name of a former warlord from a few years back. The girl was removed when she killed and destroyed an entire marine base." Robin answered. Kimi gasped and looked like a deer in headlights.

"Yeaaa. But that's not me. That is just a cousin of mine. I have no relation to that woman!" She yelled defensively.

"But that name is also famous for a family of inventors that have created multiple inventions for various types of the government and organizations." Robin stated again.

Kimi leaned against the railing of the ship. "Yes, that is the family I am from. But I promise I am not a part of the government or anything! You see the whole reason I'm in this situation is because of the government! They became upset because my father and I refused to build another request and they raided our house and took my father with them." This caught the three crewmate's attention.

"The government took your father?" Chopper asked the girl. She nodded with a frown. "Yes, and they tried to take me too, but I tried to fight them off as best as I could. I couldn't save him, but I somehow got away. And the angry mob was after me as well. The government threatens that if I didn't build their device I would lose my father forever and the village would be taxed until I died. They are trying to kill me so that my poor village isn't taxed." She wiped a tear from her eye.

"I'm sorry, but I wouldn't want you all to get in trouble too, so I'll be on my way. Thank you Chopper for your care." Shesmiled and went to jump off the ship but stopped when she heard a voice. "HEEEEEEYYYYYY! The girls awake!" Just then Luffy stretched his arms out and hopped onto the boat. Kimi stood shocked at the sight of the boy's arms stretching, while Luffy continued to smile at the girl. "HIIIIIII THERE!"

Kimi took a few steps back. "Sorry don't mind him." Nami climbed up the ladder to the ship along with the rest of the guys. "HI, I'm Luffy, the captain of this ship, this is Nami our navigator, Sanji the cook, Ussopp our marksmen, Chopper the doctor, Zoro my first-mate and the swordsmen, and Robin our archeologist! Who are you!" Luffy stretched his neck to Kimi's face. She yelped and took another step back. "Would you stop scaring this beautiful young lady!" Sanji kicked Luffy on the head. "Hey I thought you guys were going to get supplies." Zoro asked the crew.

"We tried," Nami started, "But we couldn't find the town." She frowned. "That's because we are on the opposite side of the island." Kimi stated. The crew looked at the girl. "I'm sorry. My name is Kimiko, but you can call me Kimi. I can take you to the village if you'd like."

"But Kimi, wouldn't you be attacked by the people of your village if you lead us there?" Chopper asked. "Why would you be attacked?" Luffy questioned the girl.

"Well, you see...the government wanted my father and I build them a new weapon and we didn't want too. So for the refusal, they attacked me and my father in our lab and took him away. Then they told the village that they would continually tax the people until I had died. That's why they were trying to kill me while I was walking down the road." She made her way back to the edge of the railing. "I'm sorry that you had to use your supplies to help me, but thank you so much. I can try to help you guys find the village if you like-" Luffy stomped on the floor of the ship.

"You're trying to help us even though you're the one that needs help! I can't have that!" He punched his fist. She smiled.

"No no, I'm fine. I really must try to go back to my home and try to get my father back. Maybe they would take me instead of him-"

"NO!" Luffy yelled.

"We can help you, Kimi. Don't risk your own life!" Sanji held Kimi's hand.

"No, I wouldn't want you guys to get hurt. Honestly I'm fine...I just really need to find and make sure my father is okay." She looked down.

"No, we will help you! Besides I just love to beat up marines!" Luffy smiled. "Yea! Come on let's go help Kimi!"

Kimi shook her head. "No. Please. I. I can do it. Please don't get involved. I wouldn't want you all to get hurt. You guys have been so nice already." She sighed. "Please just let me take you to the village and then you guys can go on your pirate adventure!" The crew looked at Kimi with their mouths dropped.

"Well you heard the girl. Let's head to the village." Zoro stood up and walked by the girl. "Besides, we don't want to get involved with some meaningless fight anyways. Let her solve it." He patted her shoulder. Kimi looked like she would cry at any second. "Isn't that what you want? To do it all by yourself, even though it didn't work out that well the first time."

"Zoro!" Ussopp and Nami yelled at the swordsmen.

Kimi sniffed, "All right. You win..." She looked up with tears in her eyes. "Can you guys please help me and get my father back!" She cried. Zoro smirked, his plan working. "OF COURSE!" The whole crew cheered. Kimi smiled through her cries. How lucky was she to have so many people want to help her.

After the crew and Kimi ate and talked over a plan to get her father back, they all headed out around midnight. Kimi had said that her father had been taken aboard a Marine ship that was about to set sail the next morning. Their plan was risky but Kimi was assured and reassured by the strawhat's that they could help and recover her father.

Kimi and the crew used a back door entrance to her lab on the edge of the village. As they entered the lab area the crew was amazed at the wreck of her home. How this girl was still standing they would never know. "Kimi where is the-" Nami asked but was cut off by gunfire.

"She came back! Fire at will!" The group heard. Luffy pushed Kimi out of the way and reflected the bullets back to the men.

Kimi found the object she was looking for. "Got it guys! Let's get out of here!" She yelled. Luffy, Sanji and Zoro all rushed to the men blocking the entrance attacking them with each of their own special attacks.

"What is that, Kimi?" Nami pointed to the small rectangular box she was holding. Kimi simply just smiled and opened it revealing a small pair of black glasses. "I'm near sighted and very badly far sighted so when it comes to fighting, I've gotta have these!" She smiled putting the glasses on her face. She quickly readjusted her gloves on her hands, put on the important pair of glasses and placed her hands in the triangle position she used to activate her devil fruit power.

Clones of Kimi appeared next to the men fighting them off so the three boys didn't need to. Once all of the marines were knocked out, the group headed out of Kimi's destroyed home and sneak through the shadowy areas of the village to the bay where the marine ship that held her father docked.

"Your father is most likely to be held captive in a cell of some sort," Robin started before the group split up and attacked the ship. "So on most marine ships, the holding area for prisoners is in the middle of the ship. But each ship is different on a holding cell location specifically." She ended. Kimi didn't feel too good that her father may be locked in a cell onthat terrible ship.

"Okay guys, Kimi you go with Luffy and Robin. You guys try to find her father at all cost and try to be quiet Luffy!" Nami reminded her cheerful captain. "The rest of us, Sanji, Chopper, Zoro, Ussopp and me will distract the ship if needed."

Everyone nodded understanding the master plan. Hopefully the second group would not be needed, but just in case, they had backup.

Kimi, Robin and Luffy hoped onto the ship and cautioned that they might have been spotted. Robin used her devil fruit and sprouted multiple eyes around the ship to look out. "We are un detected." She smiled to the worried Kimi. "Let's hurry!"

Luffy grabbed Kimi's wrist and pulled her across the deck and into the stairwell area. Once the three were inside, Robin used the same fruit power to try to find the correct area to go. "It's down this way." She whispered pointing to the end of the hallway they were in. "But there are two guards blocking the room in the inside." She warned the two. Kimi nodded and sneaked down the hallway with the other two behind her. "This is it." Robin stated as they approached a door at the end of the hallway. Kimi looked at the big metal door and hesitated for one or two seconds, but quickly pushed the door aside revealing two big muscular men on either side of the door.

Luffy sprung into attack attacking the man on the right while Robin held down the two men so they could not alarm any one and covered their mouths so they could not scream out. Luffy continued to fight the men while Kimi ran passed and to the cell on the side of the wall.

"Father!" She cried and ran to him holding onto the cell bars. "Father, please tell me you are okay?" She looked at him through tears. He appeared to not be moving and she could see that his hands were bound in front of him by chains on each of his wrists. "Kimiko?" A soft voice whispered. The old man stood up and walked over to the edge of the cage. The man looked very beaten up, he had cuts and lashes all over his body and face, his clothes (similar to Kimi's grey undershirt, white coat and black pants) were torn up as well and he had dusty blue hair that was similar to Kimi's also.

"Father!" Kimi smiled and hugged the man through the cell. "Don't worry me and these wonderful people are going to help you escape." She cloned herself and each of the clones worked on trying to pull the cell walls apart. After about five minutes, the clones succeeded and Kimi's father escaped through the opening.

"Kimi, who are they? They look like those people on the wanted posters...Pirates?" He looked very confused. Kimi just smiled.

"Yes father they are pirates, but they offered to help me and healed me from the attack earlier. They are nice."Luffy and Robin had finally knocked out each of the guards and turned around to face Kimi and her father. "Good to see ya old man!" Luffy smiled. "We must hurry if we are going to be escaping." Robin noted excusing the introductions for later. Kimi nodded, "Come on father let's go!" She cloned her body again and the four clones she created lifted her father off the ground and ran away from the cell.

Luffy lead the group followed by Robin, the clones caring Kimi's dad, and then Kimi. They ran up the stairs and to the edge of the boat where they had jumped on. "Hurry up you guys!" Nami yell-whispered from below. Robin jumped down first followed by Kimi's clones caring her father. Just as Luffy and Kimi were about to jump they heard a noise from behind them. Quickly turning around they came face to face with a huge orange haired marine captain man with soldiers all behind him.

Luffy put his arm out in front of Kimi blocking her from attacking. "Run Kimi, I'll deal with them." He said sternly. Kimi stood completely stunned; no one had ever helped her before in her life. Why all of a sudden were these people helping for no reason whatsoever?

"So Tomoko, you rounded up some pirates to help you?" The man boomed. Luffy wasted no time for small talk, "Gum Gum rocket!" He punched the captain and some of the men behind him out of the way. "Hurry Kimi, run!" Luffy motioned for her to jump off. She tried but just then a crouched Zoro and tall standing Sanji stood on each side of Kimi both ready to attack anything.

Kimi still stood in shock. "Why are you helping me this much? We can just-" She looked back at Luffy. "You're a good person." Luffy cut her off. "And you're my friend." And the boys ran into action attacking the men. Kimi stood in absolute shock.

"Friend?" She whispered.

"Kimi! Look out!" Chopper's voice ran through her ears. While she had been distracted by Luffy's words, one of the side generals ran passed the boys and ran to Kimi with a strange pair of cuffs in his hands. He twisted Kimi's arm behind her and clamped the cuffs on her wrist. Completely caught off guard Kimi tried to fight back with her devil fruit but she felt suddenly weak. Sanji noticed the oddly shaped handcuffs from a previous adventure. "Hey those are sea prism stone cuffs. Kimi can't use her fruit power." He informed the others. "Luffy be careful in case they-" But it was too late, Luffy became cuffed as well from another general.

The general grabbed the now weakened Kimi by her wrists and threw her over to the other side of the ship in a pile of cannon balls. The heavy balls crumbled on top of poor Kimi crushing her for the moment. "Kimi!" Sanji yelled and ran over to the girl. "Don't get distracted crap cook!" Zoro blocked the marine captain from attacking Sanji with his giant sword. "Thanks Marimo." Sanji replied and continued to help recover Kimi from the crushing balls.

"Hey guys..." Luffy stuck his tongue out. "I don't feel so gooooooooddd." He complained from the sea prism stone cuff on his arm.

"Damn fool." Zoro groaned out trying to figure out a plan to get the group out of the mess.

Kimi's clones eventually disappeared leaving Kimi's father still handcuffed but now sitting on the ground. "Please miss." The man looked up at Robin. "Is there any way you all could release me so I can save my daughter and your kind friends." He asked very tired yet very protective towards his daughter. "I don't know what she's been going through since they took me, but you all have seemed to have taken care of her. Please let me offer any supplies you all may need for your quest. That is if you-" He tried to reassure the group but Ussopp already jumped at the offer. He plucked the lock with one of his fancy gadgets.

"Ah thank you sonny. That is a very interesting craft you have there." He rubbed his red wrists and stood up. "After this I'd love to chat with you about that object." He smiled. Just before Ussopp had a chance to respond, the man disappeared.

"How did he just jump up there? I thought he was hurt?" Nami asked puzzled. Robin smiled. "Apparently Miss Scientist and her father are strong devil fruit users."

"WOW!" "HE'S SOOO COOL EVEN THOUGH HE'S OLD!" Chopper and Ussopp's eyes lit up at the old man.

Meanwhile up on the ship Sanji recovered Kimi from the pile of cannon balls and stood her back on her own two feet. "Thank you so much Sanji." Kimi thanked and brushed off the dust off her lab coat. Their attention quickly drew to the other side of the ship where Kimi's father had just joined the fight.

Kimi gasped, "Father! Please do not fight. You are in no condition to go against them!" She tried to yell over the crowd to her father. But the captain of the ship stood in the way.

"Tomoko! You dare to try to fight the marines after you and your daughter deny the government yet another invention to make! You are owned by the government have you forgotten your place! And now you bring some low life pirates into the situation!" The captain yelled.

The strawhat boys watched closely. Even though they didn't understand the whole story, they at least wanted to make sure Kimi and her father would be okay. "You two are no good than these disgusting, PIRATES!" That was the last straw for Zoro and Sanji, just as they were about to attack, a bright red light lit up the area around Kimi's father. The red light came from the man's hands and he hit marine soldiers in the face to blind them from the light.

"What is your father doing?" Sanji asked as he tried to take off the cuff on her wrist. "He ate the Element element fruit, so literally he controls all of the elements of the periodic table." Kimi smiled at her father's ability. "What the-?" Sanji looked flabbergasted at what she had said. "That's different." He looked back at the old man.

"NOW! Elle elle, Fe!" The man yelled out and his arms turned into Iron. He used this to attack the men instead and when all of the men on the deck were defeated, he struck the captain. "Got it!" Sanji yelled out using a pocket knife to unlock Kimi's cuff. She rubbed her wrist, "Thank you so much Sanji!" She smiled. He nodded and then rushed over to Luffy who was lying on the ground. "Ughhhhh Sanji. I'm soooooo tireeeeedddd." Luffy groaned. Zoro had been trying to take off the cuff but he had been unsuccessful. "Move outta the way marimo." Sanji pushed Zoro and used the same tool that worked for Kimi's cuff as Kimi ran to her father.

"Father, please be careful!" She called out to the old man. He nodded blocking the Captain's sword with his Iron arms. He pushed off and the captain fell back. "Kimi take your friends off the ship quickly! Elle elle, CL!" He called out and Kimi gasped in horror.

Quickly she ran over to the boys, "We have to go now!" She pushed the finally un-cuffed Luffy off and onto the ground.

"Hurry!" She pushed the other two off and jumped as well landing on top of Luffy's rubber bouncy body. She looked up and saw the air around the ship turn green yellowish followed by sounds of coughing and screams. Nami ran over to the group. "Kimi, what did your father do?" She asked looking up.

"My father ate the Element element fruit, meaning he can use all of the elements of the periodic table. Right now he just used chlorine, which is a very toxic gas. He hasn't used that element in a very, very long time." She explained. A few seconds later, her father jumped from the ship next to the group.

"Father!" Kimi ran off and hugged her elder father. "Kimiko, I'm so glad that you are safe." He hugged and kissed his blue-haired daughter. "Father, what are we going to do? The government is really going to be after us now. We are in so much trouble..." She cried looking down.

The Strawhats regained their composure looking at the father and daughter. "Don't you worry sweetie. We will be fine. Somehow we will make it work in the end." He assured her one last time with a hug and then looked back at the Strawhats. "Please, I have made a promise. Come back to my home for the rest of your stay here in our small village." He smiled.

Luffy grinned. "Hey thanks old man! Kimi you and your dad are soooooooo cooooool!" He yelled. Nami hit him on the head. "Shut up, it is still late you know! We don't want to wake up the village that is after Kimi!" The group nodded and followed the two back to the destroyed lab that Kimi had brought them to earlier.

The group settled in the living room telling stories of the Strawhat adventures while Sanji made an entire feast for the group in their small kitchen. Once Luffy and Ussopp stopped their hilarious story, Nami looked at Kimi and her father. "So what all do you guys do here in this tiny house?"

Kimi's father smiled, "I am sorry my friends, but I have not introduced myself. My name is Tomoko Kazuhiro and of course you know my daughter, Tomoko Kimiko. We are scientist as you can see from my now very messy laboratory, but for the last five years we have been forced to work and create for the government." Kazuhiro explained while the group ate various foods Sanji created.

"Why are you forced to do that?" Nami asked confused. "Well you see my oldest daughter worked for the government and ratted me and Kimi out in our town. The government wanted us to live on some sort of palace, but this is me and Kimi's home. There was no way for us to leave it." He smiled rubbing Kimi's back. Nami noticed that Kimi looked like she was about to throw up from the story but her father continued anyways.

"So whenever they want something from us, they pretty much beat us into a corner until we did. The last invention they wanted was too much. I'm tired of them bossing around me, a 50-year-old man, and my beautiful, 20-year-old, daughter. So we fought back. But in the end we failed and I was taken captive." Kimi looked down and tears formed in her eyes.

"Father we should be packing instead of telling stories." Kimi cried. "They will find us and this time force us to live at their command." She looked up with a beat red face. The old man just shook his head smiling. "My sweet, we will, but for now let us relax. We never have company." He smiled to the group. Kimi stood up and shook her head.

"No father." She looked at Luffy. "Luffy, I'm sorry. Thank you for all that you have done for me! Please take what you need from our home because it will most likely not be here tomorrow." She started to cry but continued to look at the crew. She cleared her throat and sniffed, "Good night everyone." And she walked away into a room.

The air seemed very thick and Kazuhiro leaned over in the chair and rubbed his temples. "That girl of mine..." He sighed.

"Old man!" Luffy stood in front of Kazuhiro with his arms folded. "I want you and Kimi to join my crew!" He commanded. The old man laughed.

"WHAT!" The strawhats screamed.

"Luffy, we can't just make them abandon their scientist stuff and become pirates!" Nami hit him once more on the head.

"You are so quick to make decisions like that!" Ussopp yelled.

"I will not join you or your friends. However, I want you to drag Kimiko by her feet to your ship." Kazuhiro looked up and smiled. This made the crew extremely confused. "What?" They all asked again. "I'm serious Captain Luffy." He stood up and put his arm on his shoulder. "I have never seen my daughter so happy until you all came to this island. Never in her life have I seen her smile that much in one day. Or laugh." He said with a heavy heart. "Please, take her. She needs to get out into the world. I've had my adventure before and now she needs one." He smiled at the young captain.

"But do you think she will go Mr. Kazuhiro?" Robin asked, "She seemed very intent on staying with you." She noted.

He nodded."What father says, happens. No questions asked." He winked and looked back at Luffy. "You must promise me, though, there are people out in the world that will stop at nothing to kill or hurt Kimi. Please promise you will take care of her and your crewmates, Captain..." He looked to all of them.

"Of course old man, I never leave a mate behind or down, I guarantee it. These are my best friends, and I protect them with my life as they do for me and the rest of the crew!" He nodded. Kazuhiro smiled along with the crew, "Then take what you need Captain Luffy and set sail tomorrow for the world!"

The next day, Kimi woke around the afternoon and walked out into the living room. No pirates. She became a little sad by this thought because she at least wanted to say goodbye to her 'friends' before they left. She went to wake up her father but he was not in his room. She searched the lab area and again he was not in there either. Frustrated, Kimi walked outside to look for him out by the deck or something and she still didn't see him. Confused, she decided to check the area of the island that the strawhats had docked their ship.

As she walked down the road way and through the forest, the voices of the strawhat pirates grew stronger as she got closer to the shore. She made her way out of the forest and smiled as she approached the pirate ship. "Ahoy up there!" Kimi called out to the arguing pirates on the boat. They all looked over the rail and waved. "KIMI! HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING! GET ON THE MERRY!" Luffy smiled.

She waved back. "What's the merry?"

"Our ship! Come on I'll pull you up!" Luffy stretched out his arm and pulled Kimi up to the boat. "Wow, that's useful!" She laughed but stopped as an arguing voice caught her attention. She looked and found her father arguing with Ussopp about some sort of crazy invention thing that Ussopp held in his hand. "Father, why are you here and not at home getting ready to leave?" She asked walking up to the two.

"Kimi, I'm leaving, but you're not going with me." He walked over and placed both of his hands on his daughter's shoulders. "You are going with these wonderful people and are off to see the world. I've even brought all of your stuff onto the Going Merry already." Kazuhiro explained. "But father you she-" Kimi started but was cut off by her father, "Your mother would not be upset with this decision, she would have wanted you to be free and to explore and conquer the world. Besides, you are going to be lead by the man who's going to be king of the pirates. Isn't that right, Luffy?" Kazuhiro looked back at the boy.

Luffy laughed, "You got it mister!"

Kimi looked stunned. "Father, I...I just. Well. I. I guess..?" She looked back at the smiling crew and then back to her father. "Okay! You've convinced me! But I'm going to miss you so much!" She hugged him with a smile. She looked up at him, "I'm going to miss you too, but always remember me, my beautiful daughter." He looked down at her crying and hugged her tightly.

"You will be happy. I know it." He whispered as held her hands. Kimi still had on the same black gloves that she had worn since the crew meet her on the first day. She actually had on the same outfit as when they first met her, but she changed into a clean pair of the exact same clothes.

"Goodbye my daughter. Here are my most important notes that I would never let you look at when you were little. Now they are yours!" He pulled out from his jacket a thick brown book with papers sticking out of it. Kimi looked at the book and held it close to her chest as Kazuhiro kissed her on the forehead and walked away from her. "Goodbye Strawhats! Take care!" He waved and jumped off the ship.

"Bye old man!" Luffy smiled and waved as Kazuhiro used his devil fruit powers to give the Going Merry a boost. Kimi stood still holding the book and looking down remembering everything she had done in her life on the island. It was going to be sad to leave it all behind but it would also leave behind many painful memories as well.

"Goodbye Kazuhiro!" Ussopp, Luffy, and Chopper all waved.

"Hey Kimi, go say goodbye to your dad." Sanji shook Kimi's shoulder interrupting her thoughts. She looked up and smiled even

with tears in her eyes. "Yes, thank you." And she ran to the side of the ship. Still holding onto the book with one hand Kimi waved goodbye. "I miss you already!" She called out and then handed the book to Ussopp. "Hold this for a second." She then cloned herself with one clone by her father and made it hug him. "Be safe father! I love you!" She waved and made her clone disappear.

The crew watched as Kazuhiro became smaller and smaller on the island until eventually the island was out of sight. Kimi refused to move from the side of the deck, even after Ussopp handed her back her father's book. After about twenty minutes or so Nami walked over to the blue-haired scientist, "Kimi are you okay?" She asked patting her back. Kimi looked at her. "Yes, thank you. I'm sorry."

"You've got to stop being so sweet." Nami said agitated. "Come on I'll show you where your things are." She led her around the ship and then brought her to the women's quarters where Kimi's suitcases were stacked in the small room. "Thanks Nami.

You're so nice," she smiled and sat down by the boxes putting the book in a small bag. "No problem. Now since you're the newbie you get watch duty tonight!" She winked. "Until then, do what you like and then be in the kitchen for dinner quick or you may not get food due to our Captain's rubber belly." She walked out of the room.

Kimi smiled and decided to grab her normal notebook that was packed in the same suitcase and her favorite note taking pen and walked out to the deck of the ship. "Hey Kimi! Come over here! Look at my favorite spot!" Luffy laughed and pointed to the goat head on the front of the ship. She smiled and walked over to where Chopper, Ussopp and Luffy were playing.

"I see it. It looks very nice." Kimi smiled and sat on an empty chair. She flipped through her notes and found the last place she had stopped at and read her notes before it. She looked up and noticed the crew. Sanji working in the kitchen, Robin and Nami talking together while picking the tangerines that were on the ship, Zoro was laying down across the dock sleeping, and the three playing by the front of the ship.

"Hey Kimi whatcha reading!"

"Kimi do you like to read! I like to read, so does Robin!"

"Hey there Kimi you've got to check out this idea I have!"

The three laughed and tried to distract Kimi from reading. She smiled and closed her eyes forgetting about her notes. "I'm so happy and I've only been here for about an hour or so." She thought. She looked up at them and laughed at the silly faces Luffy, and Chopper made. "Is this what it is like to have friends? I never want this moment to end. I love being a pirate. And a Strawhat Pirate at that."