Hai gaiz~ Kai here again.

SPACING IS TEDIOUS WORK! AH! *freaks out* - Ryuu

STFU Ryuu. And sorry about making you do the spacing. But anyways... AMMY! :3 Yeah, Ammy is Ryuu's character in this story, like Kuroki is Ryuu's in FSC (Flip Side of the Coin). I hope this chapter is less crappy... Enjoy~

-Kai

Chapter 2
~Regular POV~

"You know, you guys are different from all the other pirates I've saved," Kenya said suddenly. Luffy, Zoro, and Kenya were all sitting around the dining room table.

"Really?" Luffy said, spread out on the table. "Sanji! I want food!" he complained.

"Yeah, coming in a minute!" Sanji yelled back from the kitchen.

"Yeah," Kenya said, stifling a sneeze. "You guys are the first pirates who actually believed me and actually took me on their ship. Most of the others didn't believe me and got themselves blown up. That, or they just ignored me when they saw me swimming towards them."

"Well, not all pirates are bad right?" Luffy said, bouncing up and down in his seat as Sanji began serving food.

"Guys! Lunch is ready!" Sanji shouted. In a few minutes, the Straw Hat Crew was all gathered around the table stuffing themselves with food. Kenya sweat dropped as she saw them fight over the food, Luffy being a tangle of arms and legs with Franky. Usopp sat there in uncharacteristic quietness, sniffing every once in a while.

"Um, Sanji-niichan?" she asked a bit hesitantly. "This soup is a bit bland."

"Really?" he asked, sipping it. "Oh, you're right. These idiots just wolf down food like there's no tomorrow so they never tell me if something's wrong."

"I think it's fine!" Luffy broke in, gulping the soup. "I want seconds!"

"Yeah, yeah," Sanji sighed, standing up. "I'll go make some more. But really, we're going to run out by tomorrow with the way you guys eat."

"I'll go help you," Kenya said, standing up and following him into the kitchen.

"Oh... sure," he said absent-mindedly. "Don't break anything." Kenya rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, whatever."

~Sanji's POV~

 "Can you cut this up?" I asked Kenya when we were in the kitchen. I handed her a carrot. "Don't cut it too thick or thin. And don't chop your fingers off." I gave her a knife, which she examined.

"It's kinda dull," she said, spinning it in her hand. She gripped it firmly and began dicing the vegetable with such speed that her hand was a blur.

"You're pretty good," I said, handing her another thing to cut up. I picked up the chopped up carrot and dropped it in the soup.

"Well I have to make my own food at home," she said, quickly chopping that up as well. "Can't let myself starve, can I?"

"Can you get the salt for me?" I asked. "It's up there." I nodded up towards the cupboard above us. She barely reached it as she stood on her toes, but she handed the salt shaker to me.

"Don't forget to add more this time," she reminded me.

"Hey... You said you had to make your own food, right?" I asked. "Do you live alone?"

"By human terms... Yeah," she answered. "But I do have a family. I was just about to ask her more when Luffy poked his head into the kitchen yelling, "Sanji, are you done yet!" I sighed and rolled my eyes, lighting a cigarette.

"In a minute. Kenya, go serve the soup."

~Regular POV~

"Not hungry," Usopp murmured, excusing himself from the table. Chopper hurriedly finished his own food, following him.

"Ne... Usopp seems to be getting worse," Nami said worriedly. "Do you think he'll be alright?"

"I'm gonna go take a look," Kenya said suddenly, hopping out of her seat. "Where's Chopper-kun and Usopp-niichan?"

"Zoro, go take her there," Sanji said, pushing Zoro out of his seat with his foot.

"What? Why me?"

"Because you're done with your food! Now go!" Sanji shoved him out the door. Zoro muttered under his breath as he lead Kenya to Usopp's room.
"In there," he pointed. He wandered off to his room. (Kai: Or at least, where he thought his room was. I mean, seriously. He has such a bad sense of direction that he gets lost on the ship. You'd think that after three months of living on it, even Zoro would be able to remember where all the rooms are...)

"Hey, Chopper-kun," Kenya said, opening the door. "Anything I can do to help?"

"Yay! Usopp is better!" Luffy shouted, dancing around the ship. "Kenya, you're awesome!" He leaped down to hug Kenya.

"No, I just got better on my own," Usopp boasted. Chopper's eyes were shining with admiration.

"Can I learn from you?" he asked Kenya eagerly.

"You're doing great yourself," Kenya argued. "Besides, I really only take care of myself."

"Thought you said you had a family?" Sanji asked.

"Yeah, I do have one," Kenya said. "But my mom and dad are dead and my brother refuses to live with me. So I'm all alone." She had a solemn face.

"That's tough," Nami said sympathetically. Kenya snickered.

"That was a lie," she said happily. "But really, I do live alone." She looked out over the sea. "Hey, I see my island! We should get there by the end of the day."

"You're a good liar," Usopp complimented. Sanji and Nami sweat dropped, wondering if that really was a compliment.

"I bet I could aim better with the cannon than you though," he said. Kenya smirked.

"You wanna try?"

"You're on!"

"OK then, I'll explain what we're targeting," she said. "You see that flag out there on the island?" Everyone squinted and they could barely make out the outline of the flag waving in the wind.

"Whoever can hit that from here wins," Kenya said. "Or at least come closer to it. You wanna go first?" Usopp blanched. That was a loooong freaking way, and that flag was tiny. But if she thought she could hit that, she must be crazy. Right?

Right?

"Sure, I'll go first," he said, confident that he would shoot the cannonball closer than she would.

"On second thought, lets go at the same time so we can compare easier," Kenya said thoughtfully. "Anytime you're ready."

"Alright... Ready... Set..."

BOOM! BOOM!

 "Holy shit!" Sanji yelled, clamping his hands over his ears. "That is LOUD!'' Nami watched the cannonballs fly closer towards the flag through her binoculars.

"Kenya's is going too far to the left!" she called. Usopp smirked. He would win this for sure.

"Wait! What the!" Kenya's cannonball bounced off Usopp's, causing both to explode. Kenya grinned.

"Nami-neesan, watch the fragments," she said. Nami obliged, keeping track of the flying fragments. She gasped with shock when she saw that one of Kenya's fragments fell exactly on the flag, pinning it to the ground.

"Kenya wins!" she shouted.

"Hey, that was luck!" Usopp protested. "One of my fragments could have hit the flag too!"

"Nah, the cannonball was going too far left when my cannonball hit it," Kenya said. "The fragments never would have touched the flag."

"Well, I have one word to say," Sanji said. "That was freaking AMAZING!"

"That's four words you moron," Zoro growled. "Now who was the idiot who woke me up with the cannons?"

"Sorry Zoro-niichan," Kenya apologized with a sheepish grin. "But then again, nothing but cannons can wake you up."

"True that," everyone else agreed while Zoro sweat dropped.

"Yeah, yeah," he muttered, shouldering his kantanas. "So when are we getting to the freaking island anyways?"

"Couple of hours," Kenya answered. "Be patient. Meanwhile, let's go get dinner."

"LAND! IT'S LAND!" Luffy yelled.

"Oh my god, not this again," Zoro groaned as Luffy ran all over the ship. AGAIN. "I've already been through this once..."

"Yippee!" Luffy yelped as he leaped from the ship to shore. The Thousand Sunny gently bumped against the island's shore as the Straw Hat crew followed Luffy's lead. Kenya stayed on the ship, however, whistling. As she did, everyone looked towards the sky as they heard the screech of an eagle.

"Kairi!" Kenya yelled. "Gimme the glove!" The eagle released a leather glove from its talons, which Kenya picked up and put on her right arm. Kairi, the bird of prey, flew closer and grasped the gloved arm, once again taking to the skies.

"I wanna fly too!" Luffy shouted, jumping up and down. "Lemme fly!" Kenya nodded to Kairi, who let go. Kenya landed lightly on her feet.

"Here," she said, handing Luffy the leather glove. "How strong are your arms? If it isn't very strong, Kairi can accidentally rip it off your body..."

"I'm a rubber man, I'm fine," Luffy said impatiently, shoving his hand into the glove. "Hey eagle!" he yelled, waving his arms in the air. "Let me fly!"
Kairi let out a short screech that sounded like, "Shut up, you impudent human!"

"I'm flying! I'm flying!" Luffy said ecstatically as Kairi soared through the air, grasping Luffy's arm very tightly.

"That eagle is tame right?" Nami asked, sweat dropping.

"Yup," Kenya said with a grin. "Kairi is like my older brother. He's thirteen."

"Is everyone in your... family animals?" Robin asked. Franky and Brook shaded their eyes as they stared at their captain screaming with happiness in the sky.

"Yeah," Kenya answered. "Should I call my 'mom' for you guys?"

"What's it gonna be this time, a freaking wolf?" Franky asked.

"What's wrong with that?" a voice growled from the woods. Everyone whirled around in surprise to see a shining white wolf with black claws and shimmering blue eyes. The wolf paced towards the group, snarling at all the males near Kenya.

"Hey Ammy!" she said happily. "These are my new pirate friends!" The wolf let out a sigh.

"How many does that make?" the wolf asked. "Twenty one? Twenty two?"

"Nah, twenty three," Kenya said. She noticed everyone staring at her, including Luffy who was now on the ground.

"Is... that wolf... seriously... TALKING!" Nami asked, pointing a shaking finger at the wolf. The wolf snapped at the finger.

"Yup," Kenya said cheerfully, taking the glove from Luffy's hands. "This is Amaterasu, or Ammy for short. She's 300."

"... Days old?" Brook asked doubtfully.

"Nope. Years."

"Do you insist on staring at me like some beast from your nightmares?" Ammy asked with a sigh. "What Kenya failed to explain is that I ate the Seikitsu Fruit, or the Life Fruit. I can't die."

"... Life story as an explanation please?"

"You really are imbeciles," Ammy said, rolling her eyes. "Do I have to spell everything out for you? My pack had been starving so when I found this weird sun shaped fruit, my pack ate it. However, my mate insisted that I eat most of it, so I lived longer than he did. Fifteen years ago, my pack was massacred by wolf hunters. My mate and I, the only survivors, escaped to this island. Two years after that, we found Kenya. My mate died two years after we found that. And so I acted as her mother figure. We have other animal friends, such as Kairi, who you've met. And before you ask, none of the others can talk. Only I can. After living for 300 years, I learned." Luffy stared at her with his mouth hanging open.

"Is he a retard or something?" Kenya whispered to Zoro.

"I dunno," he answered. "He might be."

"That. Is. AWESOME!" Luffy yelled, leaping into the air. "Kenya, you have an awesome life!"

"Hey there, don't call Kenya by her first name," Ammy snapped. "No man can get close to Kenya unless I permit it! And that includes you, Roronora Zoro!" Zoro blinked in surprise as he heard his name.

"Ammy knows the names of all the pirates ever," Kenya said proudly. "Because she really has nothing better to do." All of the Straw Hat crew sweat dropped, save for Luffy and Chopper who were staring at Ammy with eyes of admiration.

"Ammy, can you take these guys to the house and lead them to their rooms?" Kenya asked. "I'm gonna go with Kairi and find the others."

"If you insist," the wolf replied with a sigh. Robin noticed a necklace with a fang hanging from the wolf's neck.

"Is that fang...?" she trailed off suggestively.

"Yes, this is the fang of my deceased mate," Ammy said, holding it up with a paw. "If you have any more questions, ask along the way to the house. I'm hungry and I don't want to stand around here answering everything you have to ask." The wolf lead the group into the forest, leaving Kenya with Kairi. The eagle screeched impatiently.

"Hush, Kairi," Kenya murmured. "We'll leave the choice to them... No matter how much I want it myself."

OMG another cliffie! Don't you just hate cliffhangers? That's why I'm so... bad at them. XP

Anyways, reviews?

IF YOU DON'T REVIEW, I SHALL STALK YOU AND TORTURE U IN MANY MANY WAYS!...I DON'T MEAN IN THAT WAY PPl! :D -Ryuu

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See ya, thx for reading~

-Air Beast

(KAI)