DISCLAIMER; I DO NOT OWN ONE PIECE, IT IS OWNED BY EIICHIRO ODA

It was a beautiful night at Sandr. The sun was setting, the clouds were turning a gorgeous orange and pink color and people moving about in the village to get ready for their nightly activities.

Which consists of scouring the premises for one child and pleasuring another with all her desires.

"Have you found him?!" His grayish silver hair was stuck to him like a second skin and panted, he estimated the time he ran and was surprised to think that it had been over three hours and for a four year old child that was impressive.

He looked over his shoulder and saw a light closing in quickly cursing his luck he resumed his run, despite his body and lungs screaming at him to stop... he wanted to but the consequences of him doing so were somethings he just didn't want happening to him tonight... or any other night. With those thoughts in mind he ignored the burning pain and ran for dear life.

It had been two years since his parents were hunted and left him to fend for himself, to be honest he never knew what crime they committed, they weren't even pirates orhave a bounty on their head but for some reason the Marines came banging on their doors and killed them. Then they tried to kill him, but by the orders of a Admiral at their base they couldn't, but that didn't stop them from brutally beating him every chance they got though.

"How persistent are they?" He muttered to himself as he hid behind a barrel, "They must have to give up some time, I don't think I can run for much longer."

His legs and arm (tired from when he had to hold on a pole above some men to avoid them) felt like they were made from god damned plutonium and his lungs feels like they were on fire... he would know.

He felt heat from behind him, fearing for the worst he turned around and saw that it was the princess they cherished crouching beside him.

"Are you playing hide and seek?" Her innocent golden eyes glowing in the dark even after he killed the torch, "Can I play too?"

"... Sure," He had to lie, sticking with her would just make things harder for him and to do that he had to risk a couple of seconds, "I seek you hide, you game?"

"Mhmm!" She happily nodded before pouting, "Shi makes rule! No peeking!"

"Of course, alright then you better hide because, one... two... three..." He covered his eyes with his hands and counted to twenty, even if he knew she was in the barrel in front of him he still had to trick her, "Ready or not, here I come!"

He peeked in the barrel and saw her giggling with her eyes closed and moved away, making noises to fake that he was still looking for her.

If you wanted to play hide and seek you have to be silent, yet noisy to confuse your opponent.

His ears picked up noises behind and picked up his pace, his announcement must've been heard by some and if he's caught by one... its all over.

To play hide and seek, you must be aware of your surroundings.

"I heard something over here!" His red eyes dilated at the sound of them running towards him in front of him was, in front of him was Shi hiding in a barrel and a dead end, still giggling, to his left was a very high fence, to his right was where the footsteps were coming from, behind him was a cart with a variety of sharp object like knives and forks and other things he wasn't familiar with and a building.

He was cornered, with his only means of escape was if he climbed that fence... he picked up a slab of wood and covered the barrel, dense enough to stop the sound, but light enough for Shi to take it off later. If he was caught he at least wanted her innocence to not be robbed by the sight of his mangled body.

He was close, oh so close, but a man reached up and plucked him from the fence and roughly threw him on the ground another pinned him there with a pitchfork through his arm and a iron pole on the other, he forced himself to not scream, not shout and most definitely... not cry.

"We're gonna have fun," The man smiled, "Bring me it,"

A woman who he once thought actually cared for him came in holding a melon and a brick that looks very heavy.

"Here," She made out with the man after dropping the brick on his legs to ensure he didn't escape, "Spoiled rotten, just like you asked."

His eyes widened, while his stomach was way stronger than most kids his age he highly doubted he digested the trash he ate earlier and that was confirmed when he felt something moving in his stomach.

"Open wide!" The man cut the melon into large pieces that couldn't fit in his mouth, "This'll taste good... I promise."

He closed his eyes as the woman forcefully opened his mouth and the sliced melon slowly inching closer to him.

Either everyone there was blind, or was too distracted by his soon to be torture, or just plain stupid. The eight slices of melon suddenly changed shape, juicy red substance with worms digging through it turned to a dark black and grey color... the worms were still there though, but it looked like they died.

'What's taking Zero so long?'It had been a while since their game started and Shi was staring to get bored, 'Huh?When'd that get there?'

She pushed the slab and was happy to see she was able to remove it. However, she was very, very far from happy at what she saw once her head got out.

Zero was there... crucified, blood flowing freely from the long and deep cuts at his arms, legs twisted beyond comprehension and the most soulless eyes she had ever seen on him.

"Z-Zero?" She carefully stepped out of the barrel and came closer to him, 'Please don't be dead, please don't be dead, please don't be dead.'

"Oh my G-God!" She gasped at the amount of blood that was splattered on... just about everywhere, from the fence, to the ground and even the barrel she was hiding in! None were spared from the blood bath.

She felt her stomach shift and turn as bile rose up and ending up with her puking. After her moment, she touched his face and chest. He's alive! Words couldn't express how happy and relieved she was right now.

"I'll get you help," Shi removed the various tolls still impaled in him and winced at how stuck they were to the rock. She didn't question on how and he was still alive, with all the blood lost and all.

"S-Shi," She heard her name being uttered behind her and saw her bodyguard in training standing there with a bloody knife and pitchfork.

"U-Umi!" Shi backed away from the blue haired girl, whose eyes turned feral when she saw a speck of Zero's blood land on her shoulder.

"You bastard!" Shi tucked into a ball on the blood stained ground and braced herself for the pain... slowly opening an eye. Shi was shocked to see Umi stab the person she worked so hard to get along with, the only person that treated her normally and questionably her best friend.

"U-Umi?!" Shi cried, "Z-Zero is-"

"Shi, get away from him!" Umi lifted her on her shoulder and carried her like a potato sack, "You'll be fine! He won't hurt us anymore!"

Shi struggled, "Let me go! Zero is! Zero is-"

"He's dead!" Umi shouted, "He had a chance before, but now? I don't think so, forget about him! He just cared for your money after all."

'No, that isn't true, he can't be dead! The Zero I know won't be killed that easily, after all he's Zero and Zero doesn't get killed easily!'Shi cried as she her struggle became fruitless as she became more tired and gave one last glance to Zero. She cried harder when she saw the betrayed look in his half-dead eye.

"Zero," She yelled, "Umi, I order you to let go of me!"

"S-S-Sh-Sh-Shi," His voice came in broken whispers, his vision was blurry and not being able to hear anything than the deafening ring in his head did not help him at all he saw the only person he could call a friend run away, "W-w-wh-wh-why?"

He was amazed by how much blood they managed to squeeze from his small body, but he was more shocked that Shi was leaving him to die. Maybe she wasn't, but who really knows, he doesn't.

Despite being recently beaten up, he somehow found the strength to remove all the weapons impaled in him but was unable to stand up after falling, laying in a pool of his own blood. Was he going to die? Strangely, he found himself not caring about his own death maybe Shi's recent betrayal still shocked him and therefore numbed his heart of all emotions, even despair.

"Zero!" Shi had successfully escaped Umi and lost her in this maze they call an alley, "Zero!"

Seriously, there was a new turn every corner and she swore someone placed a curse on it to make you lose your sense of direction, it was a miracle she found Zero so quickly.

He wasn't moving, he wasn't breathing, he was getting colder by the second, but he had the faintest heartbeat she had ever heard and most of all, she barely couldn't feel his life force and addicting presence anymore.

"Zero, please, don't die on me!" Shi cried, "You're my only friend... you can't leave... not yet..."

"Then will you eat this?" An old man's voice asked her, "It can give you the power to save your... friend over there, but at the cost of something dear to you."

She didn't question how, when or why the old man was here but what he said had piqued her attention. If she can save Zero, she would eat anything, even the most deadly of poisons.

He was holding a very,red apple that had flowing water like designs on it, it also held a very powerful and frightening aura.

"Chi Chi no Mi, or the Blood Blood Fruit," She tilted her head in confusion, "You don't not know of it? No matter, eat this and it will give you the power to save your friend."

Shi cautiously took the apple, smelling it, she quickly recoiled as if she shot with a bullet point plank. She glanced at Zero and the fruit and the old man, if what he said was true, and then Zero might live to see another day! With her.

Quelling the nervousness, she opened her mouth wide and took a big bite her eyes widened at the horrendous taste, but forced herself to swallow it. Not noticing the smile the old man wore.

As if a dam in her mind was broken, information and instructions rushed her memory, very vague information but information nonetheless. She gasped at the way her new power was supposed to be used.

Manipulating blood, that was her power. It allowed her to solidify the blood around her to use as weapons, or have it flow around her like a snake protecting its young. Being able to save anyone that is dying from blood lost no matter what as well, it didn't give her the reason.

Zero was dying of blood lost and was almost all out of blood.

Shi's golden eyes gained a tint of red to them as the blood around them liquefied and flowed at a steady pace back to Zero's body, it felt weird having something drain her energy every second.

"S-Shi..." Her hope skyrocketed once she heard him whisper her name and her body warmed up, life now was great.

"I-Impossible..." The old man muttered to himself, a side effect to the power of the Chi Chi no Mi was the tremendous drain to the user's very own life force, so why? Why was that girl not getting older... in fact, she's becoming more... he quickly snapped back to his senses before his mind took a turn for his second head.

He was not a Pedophile and a Lolicon, and most definitely not a pervert... nope; he was a 100% pure in mind.

"Lady Leviathan!" Shi turned from the pleasurable feeling of using her power for Zero, to the crowd of townsfolk... she could see that they were all part of the cult that worshiped her and when she saw the bloody weapons at their hands, and the crazed smiles they were sending their way. Her vision turned red and a moment later, the whole ground they were standing on abruptly erupted for the spikes of solid blood.

It was a brutal massacre, no mercy whatsoever was shown as she ripped the civilians to shreds with her new power and the reason why, was simple. They hurt Zero, so she hurt them. They tortured Zero, so she made sure they felt tremendous pain. They almost killed Zero, so she made sure she killed them.

Really, it was all just to protect Zero.

The old man had his jaw slacked open, he just made a mistake, a monster... and he never felt so proud and accomplished in his entire life. Too bad she would die soon though; she already had the majority of her raven hair turn to pure white.

His eyes popped from their sockets when he saw it turn back to raven moments later.

"S-Shi," She turned around as if she had not just massacred a few hundred of people just moments ago, brightly smiling at the now sitting Zero.

"W-What?" He had... no words, absolutely no words. He swore he died; him meeting the Grim Reaper was proof of that, so how was he alive and why was Shi covered head to toe in blood? "S-Sh-"

"Shhh," Shi whispered, "Everything is alright, you almost died but I saved you.

"These people?" Shi gestured to the now dead bodies with gaping holes in various parts of their bodies, "They tried to hurt Zero again, so I decided to take care of it."

"Shi... what... happened to you?" She wouldn't... she couldn't kill this many people, or even one, but she did... she did for him too.

He didn't know how to feel about that.

"Zero, something great happened to me! I finally realized the purpose of my life!" Shi hugged the still, extremely wounded kid with the strength that could break iron doors in a single strike, "I live for Zero's sake! My entire reason for living and being born is all for Zero!"

"What?"

(13 years later)

"Show yourself! I'll kill all of you!"

A young women with raven hair, beautiful golden eyes that are slightly tinted red a gorgeous face and a very gifted body and was wearing a kimono, immediately made her way out of the deck where a man with short black hair, a blue hoodie and black pants were cutting things up in the ship, "Hey! Who're you?!"

Upon hearing her voice the man brandished the massive piece of metal he called a sword, "It's none of your business, I'm here for revenge!" He then lunged at her and swung his sword, forcing the women to dodge, but damages the banister instead, "Don't move!"

The women sighed, "You're attacking us, so yeah, I think who you are is somewhat a must to know."

"I've killed many pirates, an infamous pirate like you..." The man charged at her, "Shouldn't try to kill my precious sister!"

'Pirates? That's what they think we are?'The woman raised her eyebrow, "Sister? Sorry, I can't remember killing a girl in the past month I think you got the wrong ship. "

"Like hell!" The man swung his sword and hit the mast and as a result it got stuck there.

"Now I can't remember me killing someone's sister," She smiled, "But I do not appreciate you damaging our ship. So please... rest for a while."

She delivered a hard blow to the man's head which knocked him out.

"Shi, what's happening so early?" A young man with grayish silver hair, red eyes, expressionless face and a cloak covering a black vest over a white shirt with plated leggings said, "Who is this?"

"Zero, dear, please go back to bed!" Shi chirped, "I'll be back in a sec!"

"BROTHER!" A young girl with purple hair that slowly turns to royal blue as it goes down, red and yellow eyes, beautiful face, small but gifted body and a sense to gothic clothing.

The younger girl's brother miraculously jumped to his feet, "Sekai! You shouldn't be her- LET GO OF HER YOU SICK, PERVERTED, BASTARD!"

Sekai was blushing despite being held hostage, why? Zero was holding her with one arm across her chest, binding her arms and another arm with a dagger that's made from bones; she knows it's sharp because it just lightly cut her neck. His aura made her feel fear, and oddly comfort and nostalgia. Like they had met before, it made her heart throb lightly and the feeling of his arms pressing onto her breasts was... now was not the time for her to think like this... she can do it later.

"Tell me you're reason and you will be harmed no further," He muttered to the strangely blushing girl, did she not realize her situation?

"LET GO OFF MY SISTER FIRST!" Sekai's brother roared.

"U-u-um, m-my brother is a bit overprotective," Sekai admitted, "So when he heard two well known criminals is heading for our town, he just... he acted without his mind. I promise you, Shura is not a bad person, just an overprotective brother."

"I see," Her breathing hitched when his hold tightened, "Why did you destroy my ship?"

"TO KILL YO-"

"Brother!" Shura glared at Zero who was holding Sekai, who strangely looked like she was enjoying her position, and that glared turned from being able to burn wood, to turning anything to magma.

"... I-It was the only way I knew would draw you're attention," Shura pouted, "Let go of my sister."

Zero released Sekai, who mentally groaned at him for doing so and was about to walk back to her brother. But they hit a particularly suspiciously large wave.

Sekai had trouble holding her balance; almost fell of the ship before Zero caught her, much to her pleasure, Shi's jealousy, and her brother's justified anger.

"T-Thanks," She muttered, her blush returning tenfold as she can now feel her heart throbbing rapidly and see his face close up, "C-Can you hold me u-until we reach the i-island? I-I can't swim."

"I was about to ask that as well," Shi's eyes literally glared with jealousy at his words, he never tells her that! "The seas around here are known to be violent. Rough sailing is common here and deaths are not so far behind."

"Y-Yeah," Sekai buried her head into his chest as he stood almost a head taller than her. She glanced at the other woman that was here and found her to be effortlessly manning the helm and promptly looked somewhere else because if looks could kill, she would be dead a hundred times over. Her brother was glaring at the guy's back with justified wrath and to her in shock.

"S-Sekai," He motioned for her to come over to him, she shook her head, missing the heartbroken look her brother sported before she held onto Zero tighter as something bumped into the ship.

"W-What was that?!"

"Probably some rocks," Shi grunted, still glaring at the multi-hair-colored girl. Zero was hers and hers alone and no one would change that.

"...Something's coming," Zero warned, "Sekai, right? I recommend that you hold on to me, we're in for a bumpy ride."

That was all she heard before complete and total darkness over took her.

"... What... happened?" Sekai groaned then coughed out some sand, "Zero? Lady?... Brother?"

"You've awoken," She looked above her and saw Zero holding some coconuts in his hands and some black substance holding a handful of fish in it.

"Zero..." Sekai noticed that they were on a beach with some planks here and there, two particularly large ones sticking out the most and Shura and Shi nowhere to be found, hopefully they made it as well.

"Something destroyed our ship," He frowned, "Before I lost consciousness I saw that we all landed on planks I can only remember a single black eye and then the first thing I see is the two of us on this island."

"We were lucky..."

He glanced at the full moon that shined brightly before them, "That was a few weeks ago."

"How long was I out?!" Sekai wasn't a heavy sleeper, her brother often complimented her ability to wake up to the slightest of sounds and sometimes scolds her at night for reasons she doesn't know, she heard flesh meeting flesh but that was it.

"I made you eat and drink to prevent you from dying," Sekai then just now noticed her state of clothing, it was a cloak... Zero's cloak and under it was nothing but her bare skin.

"You're clothes were in tatters so I ripped them off and gave you mine," Sekai blushed at the possibility he saw her naked body, "I put too much force in my grip and ripped your underwear as well, for someone you're age you are well develope-"

"Ahhh!" Sekai lunged at him screaming in embarrassment all the while, "Forget it! Forget it! Please, forget it! I'll do anything!"

"C-calm down," Even when his head was shaking he still kept the calm look on his face, "I did not do anything, just gave some hot meat and pure liquid for you afte-"

"Ahhh!" She was blushing from the dirty thoughts rushing into her head, stupid Shura for his influence, stupid Zero for his wording, "Stop! Just stop!"

"Very well," Zero handed the tomato faced girl a coconut and some cooked fish, "Eat these, it will give you some strength."

"Mmm," Sekai meekly nodded,"... Tasty..."

"I was unable to find some fruits so please ration those..." He stared at Sekai as she devoured fish after fish and eventually released a quiet belch muttering a 'excuse me.'

"... You have quite an appetite," Zero said, "Do you want more?"

"... yes, please," She quickly took the food given to her and soon devoured them like their brother not too long ago and drank coconut juice after asking Zero to open it for her, "Thank you for the food."

"Stand up," Zero said, "Now that you are awake, us two need to search this island for any sign of civilization."

"What about the Lady and Shura?" She asked.

"Shi is more than enough to take care of herself..."

(With Shi)

"ZERO! ZERO! ZERO!" Shi was turning giant boulder, trees, and houses and even killed the local life looking for Zero, "ZERO! ZERO!"

(Back)

"... And you're brother is someone able to care for himself as he took care of you..."

(With Shura)

"SEKAI MY PRECIOUS LITTLE SISTER WHERE ARE YOU, COME BACK TO YOUR BIG BROTHER!"

"Shut yer yapping!" A man with tribal marking on his body kicked Shura's already bruised and bloody body as he was being hung by a rope by his legs. His sword was long gone and even if he had it wouldn't have done him any good because he was like a giant ball of rope right now.

"We eatin' human tonight, boys!" The man roared and several identical looking men cheered.

(Back)

"Zero..." Sekai sweatdropped, "What... are you doing?"

"Getting out food," Zero focused the sharp stick in his hand and readied his body to pounce on the helpless bunny, "Fish cannot sustain us for long, this should last us the knight."

"B-But!" Sekai was silenced as he places his finger on her lips, "I-It's an innocent bunny!"

"Survival of the fittest." Zero said as he held the bunny over a hot flame, Sekai was somewhere in the bushes taking a leak.