I do not own Onepiece or Naruto-enjoy-
A young girl about the age of six ran down the cobblestone stone road with a grin on her face and an apple in her hand, behind her a sweating red-faced overweight man was trying his best to catch up to the young thief hollering after her breathlessly. Ducking into an alley way the child hid in he shadows until she could no longer hear the man, once she deemed it safe she brought the apple to her face with a smile and took a bite savoring the taste.
After finishing her meal she left the alley and blended seamlessly into the crowd, she made her way to a flower shop sneaking her way to the back. Stopping at a certain window she tapped it three ways and counted to ten under her breath, at ten the window opened and a girl the same age as the thief popped her head out and smiled down at the dirty girl.
"Hey Sakura!" she called out to the thief, Sakura beamed up at the girl
"Neh Mei-chan, can you come out to play today?" Sakura asked hopefully, Mei's smile fell as she let out a frustrated sigh
"I'm not even allowed outside today!" she exclaimed, "Dad says someone saw pirates on the island, but I think he's bluffing" she said letting out a sigh, a breeze came tugging softly at Mei's short brown hair and Sakura's own pink locks.
"Psh I can protect you from any stinky pirates so come on, I found an awesome new hiding place!" pleaded Sakura, Mei pretended to think before giggling and climbing over the window sill. Sakura cheered and grabbed her hand immediately taking off running into the streets with Mei laughing happily behind her.
Together they played happily; running around chasing each other, climbing trees, and watching the clouds. As they were playing a game of hide-and-seek, Sakura was carefully and silently weaving her way around bushes silently giggling to herself as she heard Mei's counting fading with each step.
'There's no way she'll find me this time!' she thought triumphantly, but noises in the clearing she knew to be up ahead made her pause and turn curiously. Warily she made her way to the noises and carefully peered over a bush, stifling a gasp she couldn't believe her eyes! Real pirates! It sounded like they were arguing over something but she couldn't make out what, looking around the camp she saw a weird-looking fruit and as if on cue her stomach clenched in hunger reminding her that she only had an apple all day. Checking on the pirates once more she slowly made her way to the weird fruit silently applauding her thieving skills as she wrapped her hand around it. Eyes closed she took a careful bite to taste it, eyes widening at the delicious taste she quickly ate the fruit not noticing the pirate camp had gone quite until a large shadow fell over her.
Shocked she scrambled back and tried to get to her feet quickly, a large hand moved in to grab her but Sakura's reflexes kicked in ducking quickly she turned and ran into the forest.
"After her!" yelled the pirate that just tried to grab her an evil look fell upon his face as he watched the pink haired girl disappear into the forest.
Sakura clenched her teeth as she ran to where Mei should still be counting, tears pricked her eyes knowing that she's putting her only friend in danger but she just couldn't leave her friend alone in this forest while pirates where searching for her! If they found Mei who knows what they'll do! Sakura's eyes widened in panic as she redoubled her efforts, getting closer Sakura took a deep breath before yelling
"MEI RUN TO TOWN!"
Breaking into the clearing she saw Mei stare at her confused before it slowly morphed into fear, grabbing her hand Sakura wasted no time in dragging Mei along not daring to slow her pace for even a moment. A sudden pull on Sakura's hand had her falling back, shocked she looked back to see that Mei had fallen.
"Mei get up hurry" begged Sakura, but Mei only shook her head as tears fell from her eyes, Sakura tried to help her up but it was too late and four large men burst out surrounding them. Grabbing a rock Sakura held it up as a weapon but the men only laughed, grabbing both Mei and Sakura.
Mei said nothing but continued to cry even as they were thrown to the ground, Sakura quickly went over to Mei and wrapped an arm protectively around her, glaring the man who sat on a barrel before them.
"Girl do you know who I am?" he asked stroking his beard whilst smirking, Sakura glared at the man, her apple green eyes narrowed into daggers as she spat at the man.
"Your nothing but a stinking pirate!" she yelled, the man's smirk widened, he stood slowly before reaching down and grabbing a fistful of her hair before lifting her up of the ground.
"You got guts kid, I like that, so I'll give you another chance. Do you know who I am?" he asked, Sakura said nothing as she clenched her teeth in pain, whimpering below him caught his attention as he looked Mei who was still laying on the ground.
"Is this your friend?" he asked Sakura grinning, bringing his foot back he slammed it into Mei's stomach causing her to cry out in pain, Sakura thrashed wildly
"Don't touch her!" she yelled, "Mei!"
The man laughed at her feeble attempts before pressing his foot on Mei's hand making her cry out once more, "Now think carefully before you answer, do you know who I am?" he asked, Sakura looked down at Mei before looking him in the eye
"Pirate" she answered, the man rinned nodding
"Good girl, but not just any pirate, they call me Captain Wolf." he said, Sakura's eyes widened still not knowing who he was but knowing that a pirate captain was something to be feared. Seeing her fear had him chuckling in satisfaction
"Now then do you know who's fruit that belonged to?" he asked sweetly, to scared to speak, Wolf growled before putting pressure on Mei's hand again. Sakura jumped at the sound of her friends cry
"Stop! It was yours! I'm sorry! I was just hungry!" she cried out helplessly,
"That's right it was mine, but you see that was a very special fruit you ate, a devil's fruit whose power was supposed to be mine... but now it's in you. Do you see the problem now?" he growled out angrily throwing her to the ground, Sakura crawled over to Mei before whispering apologies and promises to protect her. Wolf getting annoyed kicked Sakura away from Mei, the men surrounding them laughed and cheered at this, grabbing Mei he sat on the barrel once more placing the sobbing child on his lap as he pressed a knife to her cheek.
"Stop! Please don't hurt her, I'll do anything!" she pleaded, Wolf grinned
"I was hoping you'd say that, you little girl are going to join my crew, since I can't have the power for myself I might as well have you" he said, Sakura's eyes teared a bit before she nodded, he smiled before tossing Mei to one of his men. "Great! Oh and just so you don't get any ideas of misbehaving or running away, your little friend is comming to! Isn't that great!" he cheered mockingly, Sakura's eyes widened as her hands shook, Mei's cries grew as heard what the Captain said. Before Sakura could do anything something hard hit her head, and everything went dark.
