Prologue: Arijii and the Devil Fruit
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece. I do own Arijii Hikara, Deiz Hikara and Julienne Hikara, Mrs. Paiawata and the Hachi Haci Fruit
"Arijii! Wake up! It's your eighteenth birthday!" Mrs. Hikara yelled to her daughter.
"Coming mother!" Arijii Hikara, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hikara, ran from her room to the living room.
"I'm so proud! My little Ari is so grown up!" Mr. Hikara said.
"Father! I'm eighteen! Ari is such a little girl's name!" Arijii smiled.
"Ari dear, we have a present for you!" Mrs. Hikara smiled.
She handed over a small box to Arijii as Arijii opened it.
"It's a…fruit? I'm eighteen! I can get fruit!" She said, shocked.
Mr. and Mrs. Hikara sighed.
"That's no ordinary fruit. It's one of the Devil Fruit, the Hachi Hachi fruit," Mrs. Hikara sighed.
"Hachi…isn't that the number eight?" Arijii observed the blue and pink fruit.
"It enables the eater to gain the power to fly and turn invisible-," Mr. Hikara was cut off by Arijii.
"Let me eat it!"
"Ari no! It's for a price! You turn into an eight year old for forever and can't be able to swim!" Mrs. Hikara shouted.
Too late. Arijii gobbled down the fruit and at first, felt normal.
"Well, I feel like myself, Mommy," Arijii said.
"Waaaah! My little eighteen year old…is eight! I knew we shouldn't have gotten the fruit! We should have sold it!" Mrs. Hikara cried.
"I'm sorry!" Arijii cried, like an eight year old.
"Ari…there's a way to change you back into an eighteen year old and not live forever. But no way for you to totally reverse the effect. You have to…" Mr. Hikara stopped.
"My…heart…" He collapsed onto the floor.
"Daddy?" Arijii shook him.
"Oh no! Deiz! Wake up!" Mrs. Hikara shook him.
"What's wrong with Daddy?"
"He…had a heart attack. I'm afraid there's little that we can do…" Mrs. Hikara cried.
"You stay here while I go to the hospital!" Mrs. Hikara told Arijii.
"Are you Arijii Hikara?" A man approached the Hikara household.
"Yeah."
"I have bad news. Your father, Deiz Hikara…he's left us…And your mother, Julienne Hikara…she had a serious trauma attack…she was in a coma for quite some time..." The man bowed his head.
"Daddy and Mommy are gone? But…where will I go?" Arijii cried.
"Mrs. Jain Paiawata."
"No!"
Arijii sobbed out her heart as she followed the man to Mrs. Jain Paiawata's house.
S.E.: I am so good!
Chi: It's horrible. It made me gag
Natasha: How rude!
S.E.: Exactly!
Natasha: No, how rude is that?
S.E.: That?...uhh...my head hurts