The Dreamer.
Teaser: Luffy finds a little girl, and Zoro's been turned into a Child. What's a Cook and Navigator to do when the kids decide that they are Mommy and Daddy.
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or any of its characters, although Kira and Saya are my own characters. I only recently started reading One Piece so this story takes place after they meet Chopper although I don't know what happens in Arabasta I'm saying this takes place after that, and Vivi is no longer part of the crew. Sorry if this is confusing but its just a plot bunny I had.
Chapter 1:
Nami still couldn't believe what had happened as she tucked the blanket of her bed around the two small bodies. One moment Zoro and Luffy had stepped off the ship, the next Luffy was shoving two tightly wrapped bundles into her arms telling everyone left to stay on the ship. Luffy had stayed on the shore until their log pose had set before coming back on board and ordering them to set sail.
"Oi, what about that stupid Marimo?" Sanji had asked as he took one of the bundles from her arms.
Luffy's face only hardened as he pointed to the bundle in Sanji's arms, then he turned and stalked towards the ram's head at the front of the ship, staring out ahead of them at the sea. Usopp had looked back and forth between his captain and the crew before rushing over to talk to Luffy to see if he could find out something more. Nami knelt down to the deck as Chopper and Sanji tried to unwrap the bundle in his arms, but she somehow had known what they would find.
"AIEEEE!!!" Chopper had started screamed
The crew looked down into the sleeping face of a child, who looked like Zoro, right down to the three earrings in his ear. Nami had then unwrapped the bundle in her arms revealing a little girl, her eyes shut in sleep her strawberry pink hair was drawn back in a small braid an. In her hand was clenched something silvery on chain that dangled from between her tiny fingers.
"Luffy, what happened out there?" she whispered her question as she hoisted the child into a more comfortable position on her hip. Sanji had done the same with the mini Zoro, seemingly not noticing that his had was rubbing small circles on the child's back.
"Can you put them in your room Nami?" Luffy had asked her, "I'll explain once we're farther away from this place."
The request was odd, normally their Captain was more flamboyant and hyper, but there he was asking and talking as though he wasn't an oversized child. Nami had only nodded in response then beckoned Sanji to follow her as she went to her room. Gently she brushed her fingers through the green locks of the one child, before she gently removed the tie from the pink haired one.
"Sanji, how are we going to be able to take care of Two children" Nami asked as she felt his hands on her shoulders, her eyes filling with tears.
"I don't know Nami-swan, but right now we need to know what happened" Sanji whispered as he helped her to her feet, "And Luffy is the only one who knows so we better get back out there."
The sun was just beginning to rise in the east as they joined the rest of the crew on the deck, Luffy jumped down from the ram's head and slowly walked over to the group. Everyone sat patiently waiting as their captain shuffled towards them. His head bent down so the rim of his straw hat covered his eyes hiding all emotion in his face.
"That island is cursed," Luffy stated suddenly, "Only children or people who have eaten a devil's fruit can stand on the ground without becoming stone."
"What?" they all asked as one looking back over their shoulders at the distant dot of land behind them.
"But then how is it that those two weren't stone?" Usopp blurted as he bolted up off his seat.
"There is a woman living there," Luffy responded stiffly, "She's eaten a devils fruit, one that lets her change people into children, she tries to keep people away so she won't have to do that, because … there is no cure."
"You mean, that child is actually Zoro?" Sanji asked incredulity. "But then what about the girl?"
"Kira, the woman on the island, asked me to take her with us," Luffy muttered, "Zoro was already changed when I found him. She said he would still have his memories and all of his skills, but he would react like a child. She also said that I had to grow up, since we'd have to take care of them…" he trailed off looking over towards the cabin.
The group turned to see what Luffy was looking at only to see a small tuft of pink hair and two silver eyes peering at them from just behind the door. The eyes widened suddenly then disappeared at being discovered. Nami motioned for everyone to continue talking as she slipped towards the door.
"So, one more mouth to feed," Sanji stated as he stretched, "And two children on top of it, we will have to be more careful how much you eat Captain, or we won't make it to the next port before we run out."
"Ah, I'll need more medical supplies." Chopper interjected, "Children always end up getting hurt, we need to be prepared, and I'll need to give them both physicals to make sure they are healthy."
Nami could barely see the girl as she hide near the door jam. The little girl behind the door gasped slightly on hearing this asshe leaned against the door putting her small hands over her face as she cried silently. Nami couldn't take it anymore the sadness that she had only glimpsed in the child's eyes. She opened the door suddenly making the girl fall backwards Nami watched as the girl cringed waiting for the pain that never came as Nami caught her in her arms and lifted her up.
"Well, hello there little one, I see your awake now, what's your name?" the bright orange haired woman holding her asked.
Tears filled the little girls silver eyes as Nami contemplated what an odd color for her eyes to be, but somehow it suited the little child. The girl shook her head, not answering as the tears slipped down her cheek. Two of Nami's fingers slipped under the girl's chin and gently pushed her face up.
"It's ok if you don't want to say, My name is Nami," Nami told the little girl in her arms looking directly into her eyes "You can tell us your name when your ready."
The child shook her head then put both of her little hands around her throat then once again shook her head. Copper watched the pantomime a bit longer from his spot on the railing before he hopped off and walked over to the girls saying "Nami I don't think she can talk."
"Ehh?" Nami's voice rang out with a question she couldn't even phrase. But the little girl in her arms just smiled sadly and nodded. Then she made a motion with her hands trying to show she could write. That gesture Nami understood immediately and she set the little girl down while she ran back to her room to get some paper.
Luffy and Usopp were blathering on about something when she got back as Chopper was gently pressing his hooves to the girls throat. Sanji must have disappeared into the galley for he was no where to be seen on the deck. Gently Nami handed the girl a pencil and the paper she had brought. Quickly the little girl squatted to the deck and with deft fingers wrote on the piece of paper, then handed it back to the orange haired woman named Nami.
"Oi, everyone, come here. Meet our new member, she can't speak, but she can write, and her name is…Saya." Nami hollered over the sound of the waves and wind.