This is going to be based on an AU of Unidentified Fantastic Object. It's essentially the same plot with variations so the Buddhist Youkai is still trying to unseal Byakuren, Nue is still stalking them and Kogasa is still looking for someone to scare.

Disclaimer: Touhou Project belongs to Team Shanghai Alice (Or just ZUN) and One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichiro and the quote I used in the summary is from 'The Origin of Paradoxical Commandments' by Kent Keith.


Once upon a time there was a Buddhist nun that worked alongside her brother. They lived a happy life tending to their temple until the gentle and loving brother died.

As the sister mourned she began to fear death; the same death that claimed her dearest sibling.

So she started to try to find the secret of eternal youth, eventually drifting away from the Buddhist arts to a more demonic magic. With this black magic she found her answer.

But even with this her worries did not end. During her search she became a Youkai. And with humanity losing their belief in magic and putting their faith in science, the powers that maintained her life was fading.

Thus she needed to ensure the prosperity and longevity of Youkai. To humans; she posed as a great Youkai exterminator. And yet in truth; she honoured and protected the Youkai for her own selfish benefit.

As the years passed she witnessed the struggles of Youkai, as they daily fought to live in an increasingly hostile world. Eventually her heart yielded and she began to earnestly aid the Youkai.

In order to gain the trust of the Youkai she constructed a temple dedicated to the god: Bishamonten. It was a Youkai that she appointed to be the gods's disciple and thus head the temple. By doing so she earned the trust of the nearby Youkai and loyalty of Shou Toramaru and his 'aide' Nazrin.

One day she was charged to exterminate a Youkai that was sinking ships. Rather than exterminate the ghost phantom she confronted her as a normal human and allowed the Youkai to capsize her ship. Instead of perished, the nun rose up from the murky depths atop a shining ship which she then granted to Minamitsu Murasa for the ghost to escape binds that kept her in the cursed oceans and earned her gratitude.

On another she encountered a girl with a cloud spirit. The pair had often been seen near human villages and was always driven off in fear. Providing a shelter and hospitality they never had, the nun let them stay at her temple. For giving them a home; she had earned the loyalty and trust of Ichirin Kumoi and her Nyuudou protector: Unzan.

Eventually her secrets were revealed. Instead of helping humans to kill Youkai she had been helping them live. Despite all the aid and help she freely provided to humans; the nun was labelled a "Demon in Human form" and sealed into the depths of Makai.

The Youkai she had saved tried to rescue her. But their strength could not prevail over the strength of all the humans present and they too were sealed deep underground.

A millennium passed by before the Youkai that she had aided escaped their seals by luck of a geyser blowing. Without hesitation they agreed to rescue their saviour with the exception of one. Nue Houjuu only wanted to not be left alone after being sealed for one thousand years.

The Youkai set sail on board the ship that was given to Murasa. Their destination: Makai.

They gathered the necessary pieces to unseal her. Through the course of it; Shou had lost the Pagoda of Bishamonten; though luckily Nazrin found it in the hands of an umbrella Youkai. After bringing Kogasa Totara along with the Pagoda back on board they finally started the final stage of their plan and entered Makai.

And they were successful. They managed to unseal the nun without a problem. That was when their saviour shouted for them to escape.

You see, the original sealers were not so arrogant to believe that a single seal would work. They were well aware of the nun's reputation among the Youkai and there was a number of them which would have the power to force open the seal.

And so they had a contingent; a second hidden seal that would activate when the first was broken. For they had decided they were too lenient to the nun. Instead of being sealed in hell she deserved to be cast off from the plane altogether.

And any that would try to set her free would deserve to share her fate. It was a win-win scenario; there was no way for them to lose out. Either the demon would remain trapped for eternity or she would be gone from the world. Either outcome would benefit humanity.


He didn't know what went wrong. He had chased down the ones who had attacked the World Noble to an isolated barren rock island. Perhaps they knew he was going to catch up or they just wanted to confront him there. It did not matter because the Celestial Dragons wanted bloody vengeance for the attack and despite his own personal distaste with the so called Saints, he was a Marine. And he knew his duty.

At first the fight was progressing heavily in his favour. His opponents were fleeing and not even tried to hit back, content with just seemingly escaping him. It was until he actually managed hit one of them that their leader struck back.

The blows were powerful; powerful enough to match even Garp. It was only made worse by the extreme speed she moved at. Kenbunshoku Haki let him predict and see attacks before they actually happened. It was useless if you couldn't dodge it regardless.

Still he wasn't an Admiral for nothing and he fought her to a standstill. Shockwaves emitted every time they traded blows. Despite his overwhelming size and the hardness of his transformed body, she was matching him with every step. For an Admiral to be stopped by someone that no one knew about… perhaps he was getting too old for this crap.

Then she started using her powers. Jumping into the air she literally flew away from him. With his size, there was no way that he could keep up with her speed, so she easily managed to put enough distance between them to start her own attack.

It was beautiful yet so deadly. It was that scroll of hers; the one that automatically drew runes into the air behind her. From it she created something in the air; from his angle he could only make out four bright and beautiful flowers that were connected to something behind her, which screamed out danger to him.

His instincts were not wrong. Rather than engaging him in melee; she had instead chosen to bombard him with light. It reminded him of Vice Admiral's Borsalino's "Yasakani no Magatama", except instead of a barrage of weak bright yellow bolts of light, she used a massive variety of light.

There were long, thin sharp lasers that pierced him, balls the size of cannon balls and shared the same effect, thousands of bullet sized blue bolts, and sheets of colours insisted on attaching to his body before exploding. There were all of these and they were in the thousands, each and every single one locked onto him as their target.

He tried to endure, he did. Every step was filled with pain as he trudged to get close enough to hit her. And amidst all of that he did, he was only meters away from her, his eyes meeting hers on level ground as he drew a fist back. Then she simply flew further back as his fist met only empty air.

He was defeated he knew. His transformed size was a humongous target and one had to be an idiot to miss. He could revert back to normal but he doubted he would fare any better, without the endurance his Hito Hito no Mi Devil Fruit he would have fallen long ago. Dodging all this light would be impossible anyway.

He marched on regardless, his arms protectively in front of him to shield his body for all it's worth. With his current speed he would never catch up and he couldn't escape now. The fight could only end in one way.

"Why aren't I dead yet?" the wounded Admiral choked out. Beside him; the woman sat beside him; a glowing fingertip healing the bruises on her body. Her gradient hair that shifted from purple to brown was a stark contrast with the solid black afro of her downed opponent.

All around them was ruin and destruction. The entirety of the island had been torn apart during their clash. Ruptured earth and fissures scarred the barren landscape of the small island. It was good that the island was essentially just a humongous rock otherwise hardly anything else could have survived.

Off in the distance; a large platoon of Marines rushed to save their downed leader. They ran and skipped over gaps as they desperately tried to beat the flying palanquin ship, coming from the opposite direction, to where the pair was currently situated.

"Do you want to die?" the young lady beside him responded as she finished the last of her healing. Fixing her ruined black and white dress; she stood back to full height and looked down at the man who identified himself as Admiral Sengoku.

"You've already beaten me and killing an Admiral would make you famous overnight. Just… finish it already." Sengoku spat out. He didn't know what this pirate's game was but it was tiresome. He was a dead man already; there was no pirate that would miss out on a chance like this. He closed his eyes as he waited for the inevitable.

The faint sound of drumming footsteps reminded him of one last thing. "You can kill me but let my men go." If he couldn't beat her; then it was unlikely that any other Marine present could. With the woman's own crew drawing closer; it would be a slaughter for his Marines. He wanted them to at least live and warn the world of this new threat.

"Hmm… I'd rather not." He heard in reply. His tired fist clenched in anger. So she was the merciless type of pirate; the type to just kill everyone and be done with it. With her strength; she could easily just ignore his men as targets but she had instead chosen to just slaughter them all… and there wasn't anything he could do about it.

He jolted in surprise as a smooth hand was placed onto his chest. Opening his eyes he found the woman now using the same healing power as before to close his wounds. There was a grim expression on her face as his ribs snapped back together; making a loud chilling noise that made the hardened Admiral wince. Yet he felt no pain.

"What are you doing to me?!" he demanded as he struggled to lift his hand to swat hers away. Why was she healing him? Or was she doing something else entirely? No. He was sure of it; it was the same power she used to heal herself, his own rejuvenating body could attest to that.

"I'm healing you." She replied simply; her eyes not straying as she focussed on healing. Now she moved her fingers to his right arm where the same process was repeated. Flesh and bone mended with great efficiency as her healing touch passed over.

"Why?!" he angrily demanded again. It was shameful for him to have an enemy take pity on him. Or perhaps not… she did already state her intention to kill him and his men. Perhaps this was some ploy for her to languish in his torment; keeping him alive just long enough to witness her murdering his men.

"All life is precious. You shouldn't be so quick in giving up yours." Was the only reply he received. The woman finished the last of her healings; getting up out of her crouch she took in her handiwork. Sengoku shared this look as he tilted his head to find his entire body clear of the burns, bruises and cuts from their battle.

"Life is precious? Ha! Then tell me why you murdered the whole crew of the World Nobles's ship." He accused. The cause of his mission was this. Only a yesterday; a holidaying World Noble was intercepted and without warning they were attacked by a flying ship. Only the World Noble and his immediate servants survived because the guards sacrificed their lives to distract the attacker.

"World Noble? Do you mean the obese man with the bubble over his head?" she innocently queried. "Well he was trying to kill an innocent man for a petty reason and proceeded to attack us when I stopped him. We defended ourselves accordingly. And we never killed anyone there. I made sure of that." She insisted without waiting for a response to her first question.

She didn't kill them? He had seen the bodies himself. Despite himself he found that he was starting to believe her. He had seen her fighting style. It was mostly close combat with thousands of bolts of energy in support. The guards had all been killed with bullets. But then he hadn't seen what her crew could do so he couldn't pass judgement yet… but he was also aware of the cruelties World Nobles was capable of. It was possible that they got angry at their failure and…

"Don't move! Step away from the Admiral!" his marines appeared to have finally reached him. Panting heavily from their exhausting full on sprint; they nevertheless trained guns and readied swords against the woman. Sweat dropped from their faces as they nervously faced this obviously powerful foe.

"Stand down!" Sengoku shouted out. The Marines hesitated but reluctantly lowered their weapons. He grunted with effort as he propped himself up to sit. Tch. He was going to have to beat some more sense into his men. How did they expect her to not move and step away from him at the same time?

"You aren't going to kill us?" he questioned one last time. His arms glowed golden slightly but quickly faded as his strength faded. Even if his body was healed; he was still heavily fatigued.

This did not go unnoticed by the woman who raised an eye. Luckily that was all she did and didn't make any hostile response. "I never intended to."

"But you just said you'd rather not leave us alive!" He shouted. She seemed surprised by that before recognition dawned on her face. Her face then became slightly flustered for no reason.

"Huh? Oh I meant I rather not kill you." She clarified. "I'm sorry for the misunderstanding." She gave a slight apologetic bow in recompense.

Before he could respond a large shadow overlapped them. Glancing up he found himself staring at the underbelly of the flying ship from before. Various forms could be seen somehow flying down towards them.

"I suppose I'll have to leave now." The woman noted. Her feet lifted off the ground as she began to ascend back to her ship. Conversely the rest of the crew of the flying ship stopped their descent as they awaited their leader.

"Wait! Who are you?" The World Government needed to know. Someone with the strength to beat an Admiral mustn't remain incognito. He had to warn the world of the threat she could pose.

"Hmm… ah. I apologise for not introducing myself despite you already having done so. I'm Byakuren Hijiri, a humble Buddhist." She answered. Her face then became full with thought as she observed Sengoku.

"You know your transformation actually reminds me a bit of Buddha's golden statue." She mused as she ascended towards the ship and left him alone with his men.


"Hijiri! Are you okay?" Minamitsu Murasa asked in worry as soon as Byakuren had got back on board the palanquin ship. The black haired ship phantom was dressed in her usual sailor shirt and skirt and wasted no time in ushering her into a room. She shook Hijiri in worry as the Buddhist nun smiled through it and tried to reassure her friend.

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me Murasa." Byakuren reassured.

The captain of the palanquin ship brushed off her reassurances. Even if the nun had no outward injuries she could easily feel that Hijiri was seriously hurt. Her healing may have closed her wounds but they were still tender and easy to reopen. Stupid Hijiri. Even when it's obvious that she's not okay she'll still try to pass herself off as fine so as to not worry them.

"Excuse me. I've got the bandages." Ichirin Kumoi opened the paper door and entered the room with a set of clean clothes in her hands. The girl had light purple wavy hair and eyes with the same colour that were also filled with the same worry of Murasa.

As benefiting a Nyuudou user; the purple cloud spirit that was Unzan floated gently near her shoulder. Even from the face that formed with the clouds; traces of worry could be detected.

"Ah! That's fine, I already healed my wounds. Thank you for the effort." Byakuren told her. It was then she noticed the 'Youkai' behind her.

Shifting nervously behind Ichirin and Unzan was the fish 'Youkai' they had liberated from the Saint's ship. He had a broad chested and had quite a lot long curly hair that surrounded his dorsal fin. His head was downcast and an air of guilt hung around him.

"I'm sorry. If you hadn't helped us then you wouldn't have had to fight an Admiral." He profusely said, his head bowed down to the person that had liberated him from a life of slavery. Tears were in his eyes as the guilt and shame swelled in his heart.

Byakuren moved quickly to reassure the fish man. "It's hardly your fault. I consciously made the decision to aid you and I will reap the consequences." She adamantly maintained. Slavery was an evil she couldn't condone and she couldn't just leave them to suffer under such abuse.

"But you're enemies of the World Government now?! Don't you know what that means?!" he demanded. Couldn't they understand? By freeing him from a Celestial Dragon they had provoked the World Government and by defeating an Admiral; they just placed themselves near the top list of people the World Government, and by extension the Marines, wanted dead.

Having one of their strongest military assets defeated just after one of their precious descendants of Kings being shamed by an unknown was something they couldn't ignore. Their image of undisputed strength would be tarnished and he knew from history that that was something the Gorosei constantly sought to maintain.

"You just hurt their pride and they can't let you get away with that without tarnishing their reputation. Hell! They might send two Admirals next time!" he shouted in frustration.

"Then so be it. I will not second guess my decisions when they are the morally correct one." She stubbornly said. Beside her Murasa gave a nod of support while Ichirin edged closer to her master. "And there is nothing I can do anyhow. What I've done cannot be taken back."

"Now, where is this Fishman Island? We'll take you there before going our own way." The monk said as they planned for the out their course.


"Bwahahaha!" the thick laughter echoed in the small office of the Fleet Admiral.

"Shut up Garp! You've been laughing for the whole last hour. This is no laughing matter." shouted an enraged Sengoku. Undaunted the Hero of the Marines continued his laugh as Fleet Admiral Kong shuffled some papers behind his desk.

"Don't bother Sengoku. He'll keep this up for a few days at least." Kong dismissively said. The muscular man didn't even lift his eyes from his work as he said this. Sengoku fumed at this but remained quiet.

"Now back on Byakuren Hijiri and the Buddhists." Kong took on a more serious tone as he mentioned the subject of the meeting; Garp even miraculously softened his laugh as he turned an ear to listen.

"We have no information on any of these individuals you spotted. Essentially we are completely in the dark." The Fleet Admiral directly stated.

"No identifications, no records of them, no past bounties. There isn't even any record of their flying ship." He said in disgust. "I find it difficult to believe that a complete unknown defeated you, Sengoku. If not for all your wounds, I would have thought you spent too much time with Garp in a bar."

The Admiral in name brushed his superior's assumption aside. "And what is her bounty going to be then?"

He had expected a bounty of around a few hundred bellis. Someone with much power and not being afraid to use it against World Nobles was going to be hugely problematic. Thus he was surprised that she had received a bounty of a measly two hundred and seventy million bellis.

"Oi oi, even I can tell that that's a bit low. Shouldn't it be higher? She did beat the crap out of Sengoku." questioned Garp, voicing what was on Sengoku's own mind, though the last part could have been phrased better.

Kong didn't flinch as he gave his answer. "The Gorosei has decided to cover up your loss Sengoku. It was on an isolated island with only them and your Marines to witness it."

"And what's stopping them from spreading the news?" Sengoku asked in exasperation. The World Government was too paranoid at times. Even if they covered it up, thanks to Garp the news was probably all over Marineford already.

"The Gorosei have come up with another brilliant idea that will solve both this and other issues. I'm sure both of you are aware of Kaido." The other two occupants of the room nodded solemnly, Garp's usual attitude dissipating at the mention of the infamous pirate.

"Just Whitebeard alone would be enough to challenge us. If by some chance Kaido and Whitebeard ally against us…" he trailed off as he let the implications sink in. The might of the two combined could quite possibly be enough to defeat the Marines and topple the World Government. A world ruled by those two would be anarchy and something no one wanted to see.

"And with this newcomer: Charlotte Linlin also on the rise, we find ourselves surrounded by overwhelming foes. To overcome this, the Gorosei has decided to essentially recruit pirates as privateers." Kong finished to an angry Sengoku and a frowning Garp.

"This is madness!" shouted an enraged Sengoku. "What has possessed them to do something as crazy as this?"

"I have to say this is stupid as well. There's no way this would work." agreed Garp, showing some unusual maturity for the discussion.

Kong gave out a sigh at their protests. "They're already set on this and there's nothing we can do to change their mind. I'm just telling you ahead of time."

Cogs turned in Sengoku's brain as he calmed down; World Government willing to recruit privateers from pirates. They were going to somehow get Byakuren Hijiri to keep her silence. They needed strong pirates to match the growing strength of other pirates.

"They want her as one of them." He concluded out loud. Kong didn't seem surprised by his conclusion; rather he had been expecting it. In comparison Garp was lost on what he meant.

"Someone with the strength of an Admiral and according to your report; isn't outright hostile and even spared your life. Her only crimes thus far have been murdering the crew of a World Noble and stealing the slaves. Though considering that the World Noble himself seems to have survived and the crew was all shot by a gun, something that she never used against you, I doubt the validity of her crimes." Kong explained.

"This all hinges on her accepting. As you said, we know nothing about her aside from my personal interaction. What if she refused?" Sengoku inquired. This was the arrogance of the World Government in play again. They make too many baseless assumptions that would have dire consequences, even if they prove right most of the time.

"We'll know soon enough. They already sent her a letter about it." said Kong.

"Ah is that so…" Sengoku appeared calm for a moment. A calm period passed before the storm.

"What!?" he shouted out in surprise only a moment later. His face now red from all the shouting he had been doing recently.

"The bosses are being unusually bold with this. What happened to their subtlety?" asked Garp as he commented on the behaviour of the World Government. His question went ignored as Sengoku began demanding the details from Kong.

The Vice Admiral cracked a small smile. Any bigger and Sengoku would likely notice. He may as well observe and remember this. It was rare for the proud Admiral to let loose his emotions like this. His defeat affected him far more than he realised. Such moments always made good blackmail for when he needed someone to do his paperwork.


"Are you certain this is it?" Byakuren asked of Fisher Tiger. The salmon-pink Fishman nodded as he eyed the Sabody Archipelagos in the distance.

"Yes. We can continue the rest of the way from here." assured the Fishman. Tying a bag of rations and water around him, he prepared to join his fellows already in the water.

"You know we could have taken you directly there." Murasa stated and offered at the same time. The 'dead' sailor was seated on the railing of the ship, uncaring of the perilous drop below. Seeing as though everyone here somehow could fly; her lack of fear was not unjustified.

"There's a huge Marine base in GR-66. I don't want to bring you guys into anymore more trouble for my sake." he reassured them.

A fishman would be inconspucious on the islands but considering the proximity to Fishman Island, not an uncommon sight. He just needed to hide his slave brand and no one would suspect a thing. A flying ship with people not shy of showing their powers was surely going to attract a lot more attention.

He walked up to the railing and prepared to hop over before he stopped with his hands on the rails. Murasa and Byakuren raised eyebrows at his sudden stop and was going to ask what was wrong before the former slave swiftly turned and gave a deep, formal bow.

"Thank you for everything!" he gave his most sincere thanks before quickly hopping off the railings; a few seconds later and the heard the splash of the large fishman impacting the water.

"So is the fish Youkai gone now?" a voice said from beside them. What was only a rope then transformed into a small girl with short black hair and a dress of the same colour. Three red metallic wings jaggedly shifted on the right side of her back while the three blue tails on her left flowed with the wind.

She leaned on her trident as she looked over the edge to watch the fishmen swim towards the Sabody Archipelago. "I don't get why you would help him. No one's going to award you for this. Heck, he said the World Government was going to punish us."

"I don't need material rewards for doing good. The feeling from helping others is enough." answered Byakuren without hesitation.

Nue snorted in derision. "That's generic as hell." She noted but didn't comment any further as she floated away, most likely to find Kogasa and mess with the umbrella Youkai.

"Hmmm… Murasa could you make sure Nue doesn't persuade Kogasa to do something silly again." Byakuren requested of the captain of the ship; a trace of apprehension in her voice.

Murasa shivered as she remembered the latest experiment by Kogasa. The Umbrella was only with them by chance and Hijiri, feeling guilty about dragging her along, allowed her to continue her 'scares' as long as they weren't harmful.

Unfortunately her 'scares' aren't the least scary for the Youkai on board which now lead the others to pretend to be horrified so her feelings wouldn't be hurt. With the eggplant umbrella she carried around, she didn't really have the ability to hide effectively either. And then Nue happened.

Needless to say; they no longer had to pretend to be surprised. With Nue polluting her head; her 'scares' had switched to 'surprises' and they were truly surprising. Just yesterday; she suddenly walked up to Shou and used the tongue of her umbrella to lick the tiger Youkai. The next day it was a drunk kiss to Unzan, who despite not actually feeling it was plenty surprised.

Murasa wasn't looking forward to today's surprise. Nodding, she stalked off to find Nue and keep her away from Kogasa.

Byakuren mused to herself as she was left alone on this side of the deck. Ichirin and Unzan was patrolling somewhere and Nazrin was probably sleeping somewhere while her mice acted as look outs. Shou had volunteered to cook and she had just sent Murasa after Nue and Kogasa.

The Youkai Magician wondered about what she was going to do in this mess of things. Only a day after being resealed, or released, they were somehow now considered criminals according to Fisher Tiger.

It was unfair how things played out. It was true she attacked first but that was only in defence of Fisher who was about to be executed for speaking out against the Saint. She hadn't hit that hard but the man crumbled instantly with a single punch to the chest. One thing led to another and she was forced into a duel with a man who resembled a giant gold Buddha. Now she was probably a criminal wanted for execution; not exactly how she wanted to play things out.

The flapping of wings brought her attention to the sky. A small bat with a wide cheeky smile was gliding towards her ship. In its grasps was a pure white envelope.

Her eyes widened in surprise as it dropped the letter directly in front of her. Flipping it over she found the letter addressed to "Byakuren Hijiri, Captain of the Buddhist Pirates"

'Buddhist Pirates'? She didn't know whether to be laughing at the ridiculous name or feel ashamed for associating Buddhism with piracy. She didn't do either as she realized that if this was delivered to her then someone knew where they were.

Gently opening the slip she found a long letter. Her surprise grew as she read the contents of the letter. Finishing it she took to leaning against a wall for support.

As she thought over the letter a plan began to form in her mind. Whereas before she had no idea of which direction she should take in this new world, she finally had a semblance of an idea.


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