p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"strongI have some high hopes for this story so I hope you like it. Oh by the way, parts of this story are based on All Time Low's song, 'The Reckless and the Brave' so listening to that may be kinda helpful, although I'm sure you don't have to./strong/span/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"strongDisclaimer: I don't own One Piece, I don't have the imagination, the determination, or the skill to continue a very interesting story for fifteen years. Not to mention I was born the same year One Piece was created./strong/span/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Mama! Come see what me and Daddy made!" I yelled with to my mother with a large smile. As she walked over to me and Dad she asked, "What did you make me this time, honey?" "Go sit down! I'll bring it to you!" I yelled happily to her as I made the final preparations to my creation. "Here you go! Try it! Try it!" I said as I put down a bowl of rice pudding in front her./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"You know I love rice pudding, what did you add to it this time?" she asked as she ate a spoonful. "Is this... raisins and almonds?" "And brown sugar!" I added. "It's delicious! Thank you pumpkin!" "You're welcome!" I exclaimed as I went to wash the dishes./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"emAfter she finished eating, mom went over to Dad and said, "She's so grown up now." he nodded and said, "She is. But she still looks like a miniature you. I keep expecting her to slap the back of my head like you do."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongem*SLAP*/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Just like that... itai." he sighed as he rubbed his head. "All joking aside, have you noticed the increased amount of pirates around here lately? It's starting to worry me." "Worry span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"you/span who's brother is a famous pirate? Really?" she said with amusement flickering in her eyes, but it quickly was replaced by fear as she heard an explosion nearby./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"What was that?!" she yelled as she looked out the window. Pirates were raiding the village. "Oh no..." she said with a look of horror in her eyes. "Haruto! We need to leave! NOW!"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Mama! What's going on?! I'm scared!" I asked her as I ran up to her. "Honoka! Kanon! Come with me!" Dad yelled as he led us to the basement. "Honoka, go with Kanon through the underground passage and don't turn back!" he yelled as they heard screaming directly outside./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"emMom's eyes widened as she realized what he was planning on doing. "No! We're not leaving without you!" "You have to! They'll kill us all if I don't!" he yelled but then his eyes soft and whispered, "Please..."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"emMom's eyes started to water but nodded her head none the less. He sighed in relief but then said, "Honoka, Kanon, please remember I love you both more than anything." and then he ran back upstairs and locked the door behind him./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Mama? Where's Daddy going? What's going on?" I asked Mom with a shaky voice. "We're going to visit your uncle for a while, but we can't be late so let's hurry." Mom answered with a fake smile as they started running through the passage./em/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I woke up from my nap slightly sweaty so I went to take a shower and clear my head. 'emIt's been a while since I've had that/em emdream.../em'I thought as I dried myself off and started getting dressed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"After I was dressed I was walking down the hallway until I heard a loud crash and rushed to my uncles room where the sound had originated. "Oji-san! Are you alright?!" I asked as I burst through the door. "I'm fine Kanon. Though I can't say the same for whoever fired that damn thing." he grumbled. "Why don't you go downstairs and help the eggplant while I find whoever was responsible."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I nodded and jogged downstairs only to see Patty-san lecturing Sanji about something again. "It's a restaurant's duty to serve it's customers! Just how do you explain injuring our precious customer?!" Patty exclaimed while I sighed, 'emNot again.../em' "Oi! Sanji! What the hell did the customer do this time?!" I yelled in irritation as I walked towards him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"He looked over at me, anger mostly gone, and said, "Oh, hey there Kanon." as his anger returned he gritted out, "He dared to waste our precious food, not to mention insult a cook." I sighed again but also nodded. I knew Sanji can't stand it when anyone does that. Unfortunately most people learn that the hard way./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I saw the customer Sanji beat up mumbling about our 'empoor service/em' start yelling, "I'll close down this restaurant! I'll report this place to the government!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"As he finished talking I saw Sanji's face darken. 'emThis isn't gonna end well.../em' I thought. "You're going to report us are you now? Well, then I guess I have no choice but to kill you right now." Sanji replied. 'emHe's pissed, I just hope everyone is smart enough to stand back.../em' I grimaced. "No! Stop!" I heard one of the cooks yell as a bunch of them tried their hardest to restrain him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strong*CRASH*/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"Everyone stopped what they were doing to see the cause of the crash. It seemed like Oji-san kicked someone through the floor. 'emI'm guessing the kid under him is the one responsible for that cannon ball.../em'. "Shit. The ceiling of my beautiful restaurant is," Oji-san started as he looked at the hole in the ceiling. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU DAMN BRAT!" "YOU DESTROYED IT YOURSELF!" the kid yelled back./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;""SIR! Please help us stop Sanji!" one of the cooks restraining Sanji desperately yelled. I sighed and walked away to get to work on the dishes in the kitchen as Sanji and Oji-san fought again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"As I started on the huge pile of dishes I started lightly singing one of my favorite songs by 'All Time Low'./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemLong live the reckless and the brave/em/strongbr /strongemI don't think I want to be saved/em/strongbr /strongemMy song has not been sung/em/strongbr /strongemSo long live us/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemLooking out at a town called Suburbia/em/strongbr /strongemEverybody's just fighting to fit in/em/strongbr /strongemLittle rats running mazes, having babies/em/strongbr /strongemIt's a vicious little world that we live in/em/strongbr /strongemLooking back at a life on the other side/em/strongbr /strongemI realize that I didn't fit in/em/strongbr /strongemDidn't hate it but I didn't quite relate it/em/strongbr /strongemTo my precious little world/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemSo long live the reckless and the brave/em/strongbr /strongemI don't think I want to be saved/em/strongbr /strongemMy song has not been sung/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemAnd long live the fast times, so come what may/em/strongbr /strongemI don't think I'll ever be saved/em/strongbr /strongemOur song has not been sung/em/strongbr /strongemLong live us/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;""Hey Kanon, I'm gonna go give a guy the marines were starving some food, can I have a couple plates for it?" Sanji asked as he came in. "Of course. Though I'd suggest something soft if his stomach isn't used to food yet. I'll mix up some ginger tea for him." I replied as I got to work. "Thanks Kanon."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"We soon finished making the meal and I followed Sanji out to where the starved man was. He was beat up and bloody -no doubt by Patty-san- so we put the food in front of him and sat down./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;""Eat." Sanji said as the guy noticed the food. He scarfed it all down in under a minute and said when he was almost finished, "I don't know what to say... I've never had such delicious food... in my entire life!" he started. "I'm so grateful! I thought I was going to die! I thought it was all over for me!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I knew emthat/em had made Sanji happy. I smiled as well as Sanji asked, "It's damn good right?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"Then we heard someone yell from the second floor, "Lucky! You got some food!" he appeared to be the guy Oji-san kicked through the second flour. "You were almost about to die before too! Hahahaha! Hey cooks! Join my crew!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"emThat/em/span was a surprise. Apparently not just for me either because Sanji and the injured guy intelligently said, "Huh?"/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"That went better than I thought it would. I hope you liked it!/span/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"P.S. more information will be revealed about Kanon as the story continues./span/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"P.P.S. Sanji may seem a little OOC around Kanon in this chapter but that's only because they grew up together./span/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"strongDisclaimer: I don't own One Piece, I don't have the imagination, the determination, or the skill to continue a very interesting story for fifteen years. Not to mention I was born the same year One Piece was created./strong/span/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Mama! Come see what me and Daddy made!" I yelled with to my mother with a large smile. As she walked over to me and Dad she asked, "What did you make me this time, honey?" "Go sit down! I'll bring it to you!" I yelled happily to her as I made the final preparations to my creation. "Here you go! Try it! Try it!" I said as I put down a bowl of rice pudding in front her./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"You know I love rice pudding, what did you add to it this time?" she asked as she ate a spoonful. "Is this... raisins and almonds?" "And brown sugar!" I added. "It's delicious! Thank you pumpkin!" "You're welcome!" I exclaimed as I went to wash the dishes./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"emAfter she finished eating, mom went over to Dad and said, "She's so grown up now." he nodded and said, "She is. But she still looks like a miniature you. I keep expecting her to slap the back of my head like you do."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongem*SLAP*/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Just like that... itai." he sighed as he rubbed his head. "All joking aside, have you noticed the increased amount of pirates around here lately? It's starting to worry me." "Worry span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"you/span who's brother is a famous pirate? Really?" she said with amusement flickering in her eyes, but it quickly was replaced by fear as she heard an explosion nearby./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"What was that?!" she yelled as she looked out the window. Pirates were raiding the village. "Oh no..." she said with a look of horror in her eyes. "Haruto! We need to leave! NOW!"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Mama! What's going on?! I'm scared!" I asked her as I ran up to her. "Honoka! Kanon! Come with me!" Dad yelled as he led us to the basement. "Honoka, go with Kanon through the underground passage and don't turn back!" he yelled as they heard screaming directly outside./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"emMom's eyes widened as she realized what he was planning on doing. "No! We're not leaving without you!" "You have to! They'll kill us all if I don't!" he yelled but then his eyes soft and whispered, "Please..."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"emMom's eyes started to water but nodded her head none the less. He sighed in relief but then said, "Honoka, Kanon, please remember I love you both more than anything." and then he ran back upstairs and locked the door behind him./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"em"Mama? Where's Daddy going? What's going on?" I asked Mom with a shaky voice. "We're going to visit your uncle for a while, but we can't be late so let's hurry." Mom answered with a fake smile as they started running through the passage./em/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I woke up from my nap slightly sweaty so I went to take a shower and clear my head. 'emIt's been a while since I've had that/em emdream.../em'I thought as I dried myself off and started getting dressed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"After I was dressed I was walking down the hallway until I heard a loud crash and rushed to my uncles room where the sound had originated. "Oji-san! Are you alright?!" I asked as I burst through the door. "I'm fine Kanon. Though I can't say the same for whoever fired that damn thing." he grumbled. "Why don't you go downstairs and help the eggplant while I find whoever was responsible."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I nodded and jogged downstairs only to see Patty-san lecturing Sanji about something again. "It's a restaurant's duty to serve it's customers! Just how do you explain injuring our precious customer?!" Patty exclaimed while I sighed, 'emNot again.../em' "Oi! Sanji! What the hell did the customer do this time?!" I yelled in irritation as I walked towards him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"He looked over at me, anger mostly gone, and said, "Oh, hey there Kanon." as his anger returned he gritted out, "He dared to waste our precious food, not to mention insult a cook." I sighed again but also nodded. I knew Sanji can't stand it when anyone does that. Unfortunately most people learn that the hard way./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I saw the customer Sanji beat up mumbling about our 'empoor service/em' start yelling, "I'll close down this restaurant! I'll report this place to the government!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"As he finished talking I saw Sanji's face darken. 'emThis isn't gonna end well.../em' I thought. "You're going to report us are you now? Well, then I guess I have no choice but to kill you right now." Sanji replied. 'emHe's pissed, I just hope everyone is smart enough to stand back.../em' I grimaced. "No! Stop!" I heard one of the cooks yell as a bunch of them tried their hardest to restrain him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strong*CRASH*/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"Everyone stopped what they were doing to see the cause of the crash. It seemed like Oji-san kicked someone through the floor. 'emI'm guessing the kid under him is the one responsible for that cannon ball.../em'. "Shit. The ceiling of my beautiful restaurant is," Oji-san started as he looked at the hole in the ceiling. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU DAMN BRAT!" "YOU DESTROYED IT YOURSELF!" the kid yelled back./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;""SIR! Please help us stop Sanji!" one of the cooks restraining Sanji desperately yelled. I sighed and walked away to get to work on the dishes in the kitchen as Sanji and Oji-san fought again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"As I started on the huge pile of dishes I started lightly singing one of my favorite songs by 'All Time Low'./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemLong live the reckless and the brave/em/strongbr /strongemI don't think I want to be saved/em/strongbr /strongemMy song has not been sung/em/strongbr /strongemSo long live us/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemLooking out at a town called Suburbia/em/strongbr /strongemEverybody's just fighting to fit in/em/strongbr /strongemLittle rats running mazes, having babies/em/strongbr /strongemIt's a vicious little world that we live in/em/strongbr /strongemLooking back at a life on the other side/em/strongbr /strongemI realize that I didn't fit in/em/strongbr /strongemDidn't hate it but I didn't quite relate it/em/strongbr /strongemTo my precious little world/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemSo long live the reckless and the brave/em/strongbr /strongemI don't think I want to be saved/em/strongbr /strongemMy song has not been sung/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongemAnd long live the fast times, so come what may/em/strongbr /strongemI don't think I'll ever be saved/em/strongbr /strongemOur song has not been sung/em/strongbr /strongemLong live us/em/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;""Hey Kanon, I'm gonna go give a guy the marines were starving some food, can I have a couple plates for it?" Sanji asked as he came in. "Of course. Though I'd suggest something soft if his stomach isn't used to food yet. I'll mix up some ginger tea for him." I replied as I got to work. "Thanks Kanon."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"We soon finished making the meal and I followed Sanji out to where the starved man was. He was beat up and bloody -no doubt by Patty-san- so we put the food in front of him and sat down./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;""Eat." Sanji said as the guy noticed the food. He scarfed it all down in under a minute and said when he was almost finished, "I don't know what to say... I've never had such delicious food... in my entire life!" he started. "I'm so grateful! I thought I was going to die! I thought it was all over for me!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"I knew emthat/em had made Sanji happy. I smiled as well as Sanji asked, "It's damn good right?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"Then we heard someone yell from the second floor, "Lucky! You got some food!" he appeared to be the guy Oji-san kicked through the second flour. "You were almost about to die before too! Hahahaha! Hey cooks! Join my crew!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"emThat/em/span was a surprise. Apparently not just for me either because Sanji and the injured guy intelligently said, "Huh?"/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"That went better than I thought it would. I hope you liked it!/span/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"P.S. more information will be revealed about Kanon as the story continues./span/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.2px;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"P.P.S. Sanji may seem a little OOC around Kanon in this chapter but that's only because they grew up together./span/strong/p
