Chapter Nine: Surprise! Surprise!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece. I do own Arijii Hikara, the Juuhachi Juuhachi fruit, the Hachi Hachi fruit, Victoria aka Victory and Reagard.

Review time!

Iwin Ulose- I love thick plots too! That was a funny chapter. I must warn you, this chapter isn't as funny as the last eight.

Inumaru12- It could be Santa Claus...I know you're special (steps away)

MeraNova- YEAH! COOKIES! (munch munch) Who knows...

Air Water Princess- Oh yeah! I did forget to mention it! It is after Arlong, thanks for bringing that up! Remember, this story is AFTER ARLONG!

uhhhh that's it for reviews! Now on with the fic!

Arijii looked behind where Red Eyed Mack was.

"Zoro! You saved me! But mostly, I saved you!" Arijii smiled.

"You did NOT save me! I could have gotten that dagger myself!" Zoro said.

"Riiight. And my name is Bob," Arijii sarcastically said.

"It is?" Luffy asked her.

She slapped her head.

"Of course not."

She happily skipped along to the cookie shop, where there was only one cookie left.

"MINE!"

She walked through the door and grabbed the cookie.

"Yum…chocolate chip!"

"You know, Zoro, she did somewhat save us," Sanji walked up next to him.

"I hope it doesn't go to her head…" Nami said.

"Thank you for saving our village! Here's some food, clothing and some miscellaneous items!" The mayor of the town congratulated them.

"Of course, I'm the one who saved your town," Usopp said, proudly.

"No you didn't! I did! " Arijii said.

"Good. We got food, now, let's go," Zoro said.

"Bye!" Luffy waved to the mayor as they left.

"Oooooh! I got…a new dolly! Woo hoo! She's even prettier than my old one!" Arijii danced around with her new doll.

"I wonder how that got into that sack of miscellaneous items…" Sanji wondered.

"I wonder how you can use a big word like that, Sanji," Luffy scratched his head.

"Oooooh! She has purple hair, green eyes, and a blue dress! I like her so much!" Arijii grinned.

"What are you gonna name it?" Usopp asked her.

She thought.

"I dunno. Eh…"

Silence.

"I know!"

"What? Princess Zoro the Second?" Nami sarcastically said.

Arijii shook her head.

"No. Her name shall be….Victoria! I'll just call her Victory for short!" She announced.

"Interesting," Sanji said.

"Yep!" She said, shoving it in his face.

"So…about you and that Juuhachi Juuhachi fruit?" Nami asked.

"I…I'll explain. I didn't tell you before because if you guys knew what the Juuhachi Juuhachi fruit was, you would try to find it and…and…I would be kicked off the ship! I-I-I trusted Luffy with my secret, but it turns out I blurted it out! Waaaaaah!" Arijii started to cry.

Everybody except Luffy felt guilt, because they knew they would have probably done it.

"The Juuhachi Juuhachi fruit can reverse my age problem, and make me age normally. But it won't cure the Devil Fruit Powers the Hachi Hachi fruit gave me. If I don't find that fruit in four months, even if I do eat it, it won't do a thing…" She looked sad as she looked away.

"So…you have a year to reverse the age affect?" Sanji asked her.

"Yeah. That's it. I've known about the Juuhachi Juuhachi fruit since my parents died," Arijii recollected.

Flashback six months ago:

"Hey look, hahaha! You have to live with the Devil Woman! Haha!" Little kids were making fun of the eight year old Arijii.

"It's not funny!" She cried.

"C'mon, brat. Time for bed!" Mrs. Jain Paiawata appeared.

"But it's only five thirty!"

"You go to school at eight!"

"That's no fair!"

"Life's not fair, brat. Keep this up, and no supper for two weeks!" She dragged Arijii home.

"Now, go to bed!"

Arijii looked outside her window and saw a huge ship.

"Hmmm…." She snuck out of the house and headed for the pier.

She saw two men, talking. One was fat and tall, while the other one was short and thin.

"So's I says to Reagard, 'Hey, whatcha gots there?' And you knows whats Reagard says? Reagard says, 'I gots a fruit!'. I says, 'Whats kind of fruit?'. He opens ups the chest and says, 'This fruit cans reverses the effects of the's Hachi Hachi fruit! It's a calleds the Juuhachi Juuhachi fruit. One of da few in da world'. I says, 'Reagard, you're a genius! You could sells it! And Reagard solds it to…."

Arijii heard no more. She heard enough. She had hope. Arijii would find the other Juuhachi Juuhachi fruit. She went back to her house and went to sleep.

End of flashback

"Your parents…died?"

"Yeah. On my birthday. Six months ago," Arijii sighed.

"Y'know, if you sail with us, we could find it!" Luffy said, excitingly.

She smiled her famous Arijii smile.

"I would love to, but…"

"But what?"

"I want to find it alone. I had loads of fun with you guys but…I vowed myself I would find it!" She said.

"Ooh! Shiny!" She pounced on the floor.

"For a moment, she sounded so adult like," Nami commented.

"It was scaring me. It didn't sound like her," Zoro said.

S.E.: What will Ari-chan do?

Chi: I dunno?

Natasha (wearing a We Love Sanji fanclub t-shirt) : Go Sanji!

S.E. and Chi: o.o0