Ok, I've decided to stay off canon now. I'm sorry for anyone who wanted to me to keep going canon but I just don't know how to fit Cerise into all this and I don't have the courage to make Ace or Whitebeard die. I don't know how to make her fight in the war either. I may change my mind, but it's rare.

This chapter of the story is basically featuring a jealous Marco and a lovestruck Cerise. It's focusing more on the comedy side.

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece or the devil fruit used by my OC.


It had been a couple of months and both Cerise and Thatch were pretty much healed at this point. Cerise had changed a bit in appearance, she'd grown maybe an inch or two, her skin wasn't as rosy anymore, and her hair was now at her shoulders, with cute, light curls that Izou had done for her. She still had that one strand of hair sticking out the top of her head, the one that Izou still gushed at to this day.

She was currently listening excitedly to some of Pops' stories from when he was younger. She beamed up at him, "Did you ever feel agowilt?" she asked with question in her eyes, waiting for an answer. Pops just blinked down at her and Cerise gave an embarrassed laugh, "Did you ever feel sudden fear?" she repeated and Pops nodded.

"Of course." He answered, "Everyone gets scared." Cerise gave a nod of understanding and looked up at the sky. There were some pretty, nasty-looking clouds if you asked her, but they blocked the sun, so she couldn't really complain.

A crew member ran up to Pops, panting, "Pops, Akagami's coming!" He shouted in alarm and Pops nodded.

"That brat better have brought some good sake this time." He mumbled lazily, looking down at Cerise as she kicked her legs nonchalantly. "Cerise, I'm gonna need you to go below deck." He was met with confused brown eyes.

"But why?" she asked worriedly. Pops hated when she did that, asking questions when someone told her to do something. Because whenever she got her answer, she wouldn't do it. "Who's Akagami?" she asked and Marco quickly jumped in.

"Someone that you won't like, now stop asking questions and get below deck." He told her calmly, yet sternly. Cerise shook her head slowly and jumped down from Pops' lap, turning around to look at both her father and her brothers.

"Why do I need to get below deck? You guys have never told me to go below deck before." She mused and flinched at the sound of someone hitting the ground. She looked at one of her brothers to see him unconscious. Her eyes grew wide in confusion as Marco commanded for all those who were weak to go below deck. That's when she felt it.

A strong wave of some sort. She couldn't really explain the feeling, but it was definitely intense. So intense, that Cerise felt a surge of weakness run through her for a moment. She stumbled over a bit before regaining her step and spun around to look at whoever was the source of that wave, ignoring all the others who fell as a man with red hair walked towards Pops.

The red-haired man had quite a serious look on his face as he looked at Pops for a minute before breaking out in a languid smile. "Yo, how's it goin'?" he asked happily, as if he and Pops were the best of friends that'd met after two years of being apart.

Pops just raised an eyebrow, "I'm hoping that you brought some good sake?" he asked, eyeing the one-armed man carefully.

"You betcha!" Akagami laughed out and showed the big bottle of sake that he had, it was inhumanely huge too. That's when he heard a growl of frustration from the crowd and looked to see a certain pineapple head scowling at him.

"Look at what you did, Akagami!" Marco pointed an accusing finger at the red-haired man. Marco felt a tug and looked down at Cerise, who was pointing and staring at Akagami.

"He's Akagami?" Cerise asked, a serious look on her face as she continued to stare at the red-haired man that talked to her father. Marco gave a nod and wrinkled his nose in disgust when Akagami looked at him.

"You're Marco, right?" He asked and smiled brightly, "Why don't you join my crew?" he asked with a laugh. Marco simply yelled at him to shut up and felt Cerise clench his pants a little tighter, which made him look down at the girl in worry. He flinched at what he saw.

A. Blush. A blush. A fucking blush was laced on Cerise's face, with a soft look in her eyes as she gazed at the red-haired man. It looked like pure

Marco shook his head, no, no, no. It wasn't a blush. She was not in love with Akagami. She was just running a small fever… Yeah, that sounded right; a fever.

'Yeah, a fever of love~', Marco's conscience told him with an evil laugh, but he ignored it.

"Cerise, are you ok?" he asked, getting down on one knee and putting a hand to her forehead. He hoped to whatever gods were up there that Cerise was just sick. There was no way that she was in love.

She kept her gaze on Akagami and slowly turned her head to look at Marco with a, dare he say, lovestruck look in her brown eyes, "What's his name?" she asked and Marco growled angrily, possessively pulling, more like dragging, the girl away and into the medical bay. He had Cerise sit down in a chair and put a thermometer in her mouth and checked her temperature. It was normal, so that meant she wasn't sick. You could practically see the heart floating around Cerise if you squinted your eyes. You could also see the gloomy cloud that was hovering over Marco.

Cerise was… lovestruck.

With Shanks of all people.


Some of the commanders had quickly took notice of how weird their 1st commander and their youngest sister was acting.

Cerise was hanging around Shanks, wanting to know everything about him and his adventures and Marco, oh poor Marco. He looked like a homeless man who'd been beat up by a gang of burly men. In other words, Marco looked completely upset. He seemed to be stalking Cerise as she sat with Shanks and asked him many questions or complimenting him, a big blush on her face and hearts in her eyes, and a finger fiddling with her hair. "Wow, Shanks, you're so cool." She beamed up at the man. Marco watched from a distance, bags under his eyes and his lovely, gloomy cloud growing stronger with aura.

Thatch and Ace sweat dropped at Marco's sudden change in behavior. Ace held up a shaky finger as he spoke up to Marco, "Uh, Marco, bro… are you ok?" he asked the 1st commander and Marco turned very slowly to look at them.

"Do I look ok?" he asked through gritted teeth, the scariest look possible on his face.

Ace ran away screaming and Thatch almost, I said almost, pissed his pants.


"Cerise is in love with Shanks?" Nia asked slowly, trying to process everything that Marco had just told her, Izou quietly listening in. Marco nodded, an exasperated look on his face.

"I know right?! It's unbelievable!" he screamed out, throwing his hands into the air. "To think that she'd fall in love with h-" he was interrupted by a gushing Izou and Nia.

"That's adorable!" They giggled out. "Our little Cerise in love with the handsome Shanks! That's just too cute!" Nia added, jumping up and down with Izou. Marco growled angrily at the two and Izou smirked. He knew exactly what was going on now.

"Marco, are you… jeeealouus?" Izou stretched out the word jealous to really get under Marco's skin and watched as Marco flinched at the question and shook his head.

"No. I'm not jealous. I just don't like the idea of Cerise liking Akagami, that's all." Marco boasted out and crossed his arms with a 'humph.' Izou just gave a knowing smirk and walked outside with Nia before sticking his head back inside to look at Marco.

"Akagami's giving his goodbyes by the way."

Marco peeked outside only to have his jaw drop at what he sees.

Shanks was down one knee and had his lips, his cursed lips, placed on Cerise's blessed forehead. You could hear the wood of the wall the Marco was gripping break as all the other commanders 'awwed' at the two. Cerise had a look of pure bliss on her face as she clasped her hands together, her blush spreading over her entire face as Shanks left off the ship.

She shivered at the sudden aura that she felt and turned towards the medical bay to see Marco, his eyes practically shining deadly as Shanks and his crew left off the ship. She gave a small chuckle and a nervous smile before sighing and going towards Marco.

She met up with her older brother and sat down on one of the beds with him. "You're not mad are you?." She greeted quietly and Marco just gave her a small glare. Cerise gave an embarrassed smile, "Haha, sorry. It's just that, Shanks is so cool and… hands-" A hand was clamped over her mouth and she looked up at Marco with a teasing look.

"You are not allowed to say that!" Marco snapped, "I'd rather you fall in love with Ace before you fall in love with Akagami." He muttered and Cerise made a disgusted face.

"What the hell?!" she shouted, "That would be incest! I can't do that! I'd marry an old ass man before I fall in love with my brother."

Marco just sighed and hugged Cerise close and Cerise sighed, "Marco-nii, you'll always be the coolest in my eyes." She muttered softly and Marco felt a light blush crawl onto his face.

"Right after Pops." She added quickly after.

That night you could hear a giggling Cerise running away from an angry Marco.


I'm sorry that the chapter isn't that good, or it's not in my opinion. I just needed to get this chapter out of the way. The rest of the chapters may be Cerise getting a little older in each chapter and more comedy in it. I know some of you like overprotective brothers, right? Sorry that the chapter isn't that good. I'm going to start working on my Law x Child Oc story since that was the most voted on. The next chapters may be updated fast or slow.

Comments are appreciated. JA NE~!

Agowilt- sudden fear

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