Heavy footsteps reverberated through the air like war drums being struck at full force as the mountain of a man, Daikoku, walked through the wooden hallways of his large estate. His daughter and her husband had just left on a business trip to the south blue, trusting him to take care of their daughter for the next two months. The issue was, he had no clue where the little rascal had run off to. She had been holding her mother's hand with a daydreaming look on her face for the entire time she had been here, but the second her parents left, she disappeared.

He was starting to get frustrated, and although it had been nearly a decade since he last did it, he activated his observation haki, and laughed out loud at how rusty he had gotten. The range was now barely enough to cover his entire estate, but lucky it was enough to pinpoint the position of the little girl in the corner of the inner yard, a small park he had designed himself in the middle of his estate.

He turned around and leisurely walked through the long halls, he could see the girl sitting with her knees hugged to her chest, watching something intently in front of her. Daikoku was curious, and quickened his pace. When he entered the yard, he decided it would be fun to play a little prank.

His right foot tapped down on the ground in a blur, actually touching the ground 10 times in the time it would take a normal person to do it once. He appeared behind the 6 year old and ruffled her hair with a hearty laugh, "Whatcha doin' there, Shiki-tan?"

The lack of reaction made Daikoku lift an eyebrow looking down on the girl, but she didn't make a single sign to indicate she had registered his presence. She just sat there, swaying slightly as he messed with her hair, with her arms hugged around her knees, looking at something in front of her. He was about to ask again, but she was faster.

"A lion!" she childishly called out, letting go of her knees with her left hand, and pointing at what was in front of her. A detailed lion head, made of the very ground she sat on, about half as big as her, and almost as big as she was as she sat down. It was even moving as if it was real, roaring quietly but proudly.

"A lion," all that Daikoku could do to respond was repeat what she had just said. Why was there a lion made of earth in his inner yard? Then he realized something. He didn't notice the lion before now, most likely because it just appeared out of the earth. His granddaughter did not comprehend the danger behind the beast of earth.

Before he knew what he was doing, his large fist had crushed the lion into the earth in a single slam.

Now that the danger was dealt with he ruffled his granddaughters hair again, "It's alright now, Shiki-tan, I dealt with the scary lion monster!" he reassured loudly with a large grin, though froze when the girl whose hair he was molesting pushed off his hand and turned to him with an angry pout.

"Dai-jii go away! You broke my lion!" she yelled before turning back to the ground in front of her, crossing her arms on top of her knees against her chest, before concentrating, without noticing that she was letting go off the angry pout in favor of watching in glee as the earth started to rise.

Daikoku once more regained the ability to move, which he had lost upon seeing how cute his granddaughter was when he saw the earth move. Did her granddaughter eat a devil fruit? Now the he thought about it, he noticed something else amiss. He kneeled down to the ground to the point that his cheek was touching the ground and looked toward his granddaughter to see that Shiki, like he had seen with his haki, but not believed, was not sitting on the ground. She was floating a centimeter above ground.

At first, it was like time had stopped for Daikoku, like all of those battles he had decades ago, where his mind and his haki had worked fast enough to where it seemed like time had stopped for a few seconds, and in the heat of battle, those few seconds were when he could think the clearest. Here too, he thought clearer than he had in decades, analyzing and comparing what he saw to what he had experienced and heard.

After the moment was over, his brain slowing thawed, and the thoughts slowly caught up with him.

"Oh my lord, Shiki, you have eaten the fuwa fuwa no mi.."

Shiki looked up at her grandfather curiously with childishly wide eyes, as she tilted her head.

"Fuwa Fuwa~~?"

~oOo~

"Dai-jii, I'm flying!" Shiki called out from where she was levitating through the trees of the inner yard. It had been a few days since the fuwa fuwa incident, and Daikoku had decided that he wanted to train his granddaughter, both in the use of her devil fruit, as well as in his own specialty, swordsmanship.

And to be frank, he was excited. This had to be fate, for her daughter to name her daughter Shiki, and for her to eat the fuwa fuwa no mi. He didn't know when she ate it, and he suspected even Shiki didn't know. But it didn't matter, he knew enough about Shiki the Golden Lion's fighting style from experience, and he wanted to teach his granddaughter the basics in swordsmanship, and her devil fruit, so that she herself could develop a unique fighting style that may even trump the Golden Lion's.

Teaching her the Golden Lion's, or his own fighting style would be detrimental, considering he made his fighting style due to being comfortable swinging large swords, and he suspected the Golden Lion developed his fighting style on his own too.

He caught Shiki in his arms as she flew down towards him at full speed, before spinning her around while laughing loudly.

"Hahaha! You flew like a bird! I almost mistook you for one!"

Shiki giggled in response, and he stopped spinning her, before putting her down to the ground carefully, and standing up with his hands behind his back.

"Now, Shiki, I am going to teach you about your power. The power you used to fly in the sky, as well as create that lion, is called the power of a devil fruit, are you paying attention?"

"Uhh, a devil fruit is what makes me fly and make lions?"

"Good girl, now, your devil fruit is called the fuwa fuwa no mi, or the float float fruit. It lets you float and control anything you touch, as well as yourself, though you can't float other people or animals. You can control anything you touch very precisely, as you could create such a beautifully detailed little lion. That requires good control, I'm proud."

"Uh-huh!" she blushed at the praise, squealing into her hands happily.

"Now, while making a small lion like that is very good, you could do even cooler things with that fruit if you want to. You could even make entire islands float! You could even shape those islands into lions if you have the control!"

"Woahhh!"

Daikoku couldn't help but let his teaching persona slip for a second at her innocent response. Levitating islands out of the water and turning them into lions would be big news, in fact, something similar had already made it into the news before. Shiki the Golden Lion had once decided to levitate a small island, and split it into thousands of spears that he sent flying towards a navy fleet in pursuit of him, and completely annihilated them.

"Moving on, as a devil fruit user, you cannot swim. It is impossible for you to swim, because if you enter a pool of water, it will rob you of your energy, your ability to use your devil fruit, and you will sink like a hammer. So don't you try to go for a swim, ne? But instead of swimming, you can fly! Who needs the water when they have the sky anyways?"

He noticed after saying that she couldn't swim that she almost started crying, but the tradeoff of swimming for flying seemed to set her mind at ease. Really, a child. He smiled softly.

"Since you will be here for 2 months, I have decided to take it into my own hands, to train you in using your devil fruit, and how to use a sword!"

She gasped exaggeratedly, "Really? Like the sword the prince has in a story?"

Daikoku chuckled, "No, more like this."

He drew the sword he always had sheathed on his hip, and swung it lightly. An white crescent arc flew the way he had slashed his sword, and cut a boulder in half before dissipating. He'd have to get a new one, or maybe..

The old man looked over to his granddaughter who gasped once more at seeing what he could do with a light swing of his sword, and how it sliced a boulder in two.

"Let's use this chance to learn what your devil fruit can do, shall we?"

He started walking over to the boulder leisurely, and Shiki who realized that she was supposed to follow him floated off of the ground, and floated over to sit on his broad shoulder, the right one.

"Now, Shiki-tan, touch both halves of the boulder, and try to make them one again."

Shiki excitedly floated down and touch both of them with a light slap, before focussing on the task at hand. The boulders floated back, the opposite of what they had done when they were cut, and it looked like time reversed itself from them, because they cleanly were glued together without so much as a crack.

"Okay, Shiki-tan, now split the boulder into two halves again, and shape both of them into lions."

She nodded and got back to it. Once again, she cleanly did what she was told, and the lions looked as detailed as the first one she made, but Daikoku noticed something.

"Hmm, now put them back together again."

She looked curiously at the old man, who simply gestured towards the lions and crossed his arms. She got to work right after that.

"Great, great. Now split it in four piece, two of which you should shape into dragons, and two of which you shape into lions."

She tried doing it again, just as cleanly, but Daikoku could clearly tell that the process was slower, and a bit less detailed.

"Now repeat that, but this time, 6 pieces, two of which you shape into dragons, two lions, and two birds."

Sweat ran down her forehead as she was making these. It obviously strained her a bit, but this was what he was looking for. Signs that there was training that could be done.

"Okay, this time, I want you to split it into four equally large pieces again, but I want you to choose four different animals on your own to shape them into."

It always pleased him to see a dedicated student of his trying their best, and this was no difference. He saw himself as her teacher in anything other than name, because he was her grandfather, not her teacher in name.

She struggled heavily with these, and the end result was four barely detailed animals, a snake, a mouse, an elephant, and a giraffe, though all of them only had the basic shape, lacking all of the heavy detail she was putting on the lion, and his granddaughter was panting and sweating.

"Okay, I think that's enough for today. I think a shower would be great, before we can get you a treat!"

"Candy?"

"Yep, there will be candy. Hmm, I think I had some cotton candy around that I bought a few days ago."

She gasped, "Cotton candy? The candy that's white and feels all fuwa fuwa?! I want it!"

"Hahahaha! First you will need a shower, young lady!"

~oOo~

Chapter numero uno, finished!

So, I know that I just started on Miyamoto Shizuka, but ffs, this got stuck in my mind way too hard after I got recommended a youtube video on Shiki vs Luffy.

Go ahead and check out my other dozen or something unfinished fanfiction, I guarantee most of them will have a good first or second chapter XD

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