1 PIECE another time travel

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

"Yamato…" Kaido was near sober as he stared somberly at the paper that morning. His son was in Paradise and apparently married. His son had no trouble using his real name of Yamato or showing his real gender to the world now even if he did admit in the newspaper that some days he felt like a boy and others he felt like a girl.

His son was alive again. Alive and far from where Kaido could see and reach and protect him. Had been killed, likely by this Blackbeard bastard that one of Linlin's kids (the mirror girl he thinks it was. Didn't her name start with a Bru sound? He wasn't sure after all Linlin had so many kids and some of them had such weird names. Who the hell names their kid 'High Fat' for fucks sake?) had told him about.

According to Linlin's kid, a sensible lady apparently since she hadn't bothered mincing her words and had even wished him a happy hunt when he said he would kill Blackbeard, Blackbeard was trying to weaken each of the Yonko in turn.

First by attacking Red Hair and leaving him scarred.

Then joining Edward, only to later backstab him and kill one of Edwards boys over a devil fruit that (and he agreed with them) they believed to be very powerful.

Then killing one of Big Moms younger daughters, the sensible one he had talked to had called her something like Galete or Gelato or something like that started with a G at least, and he had the gall to even admit he was the black sheep of the Whitebeards. Apparently she was also the one in the newspaper alongside his son (and yes he knew his childs birth gender but Yamato had wanted to be called a boy last time he had spoken to his son and therefore he would refer to Yamato as a boy unless his son told him otherwise himself) who was in Paradise and married to a new Pirate Captain that must be something strong or cunning since he apparently saved and then married the children of two Yonkos.

Finally…this Blackbeard bastard killed his son. Killed his heir. Killed Yamato. One of the few things in life Kaido had that was worth living for. And this Blackbeard bastard had taken that away from Kaido and even blamed Donflamingo for it (although his pet Warlord had admitted that he had flirted with Yamato before, something that had not eased Kaido's ire in the least) so that Kaido beat his little pet down to a pulp almost himself. Therefore weakening the Beast Pirates and Kaido…

Blackbeard was a crafty person. Having managed to kill and then revive the children of two Yonkos and systematically weaken all four Yonkos.

Kaido wasn't sure how his child had apparently been saved by the new Pirate on the scene, Straw Hat or something like that was his epitaph right? Not that it really mattered to him in the long run. He knew his son wasn't going to be coming back here unless it was to free Wano and to be honest…as long as his son was healthy and happy and they didn't do anything too stupid then he didn't even care about what happened to Wano.

They could have Wano as long as they were strong and his son was healthy and happy and he seemed to be from what he gathered from the papers. And oh how reading how Yamato had viewed his actions had hurt.

Sure Kaido hadn't been happy with his son wanting to play at being Oden and had tried to break him of it the hard way but…everything he had done had been to either make his son stronger or to get him to go back to being the happy excited child he had been before Oden had came along.

He knew he wasn't a good parent, hell by all rights he probably shouldn't even be a parent but…he was. He was a father to a beautiful strong hard headed stubborn son/daughter whatever Yamato wanted to be. He had lived by the Might makes Right rule for so long he hadn't seen anything wrong with trying to make sure his son was strong. Stronger than anyone or anything so that no one could take his son away from him without one hell of a fight.

He had never meant to make his son feel as if Kaido didn't love him. He loved his son, so very much, but he never knew how to show it unless he was training him or making him stronger.

But now reading how he had treated his son, reading how his son recalled the cave with the kind samurai who had let him eat all of the food so that the small child didn't starve, reading how Yamato recalled and described each of the training sessions (Yamato called them beatings, poundings and it was true. He did beat his son. He hadn't mean to make his son feel as if he wasn't loved though he just wanted to make sure his son was strong and that he could survive and hopefully give up the Oden nonsense and live a life of being strong and also being safe.) in precise detail even to how many bruises and broken bones he had gotten from them.

He had probably failed as a father. Although he knew that Yamato still liked his 'uncle King' since he still used that name even up until his death and he hoped that what Yamato had been saying to him at the very end that day had been an 'I love you' back but…he doesn't blame his son for resenting him. He knew he hadn't been a good father, had never had an illusion of being one…

Reading about the pirate crew that Yamato had ended up joining however, reading about each of them had somehow been beaten or abused when they should have been safe…Kaido was happy for his son. Happy that his son looked happy. Happy his son was alive.

Happy his son had found a good family.

Make no mistake, when he eventually met the rest of Yamato's crewmates and especially his sons husband, Kaido was definitely going to fight them and make sure they were worthy…but if they were truly making his son happy then he probably wouldn't kill them.

Keep them on the island where he can keep his son close under his watch and safe? Oh definitely. Kill them when they seemed to make his son happy and at east with himself? Nope.

Kaido was content that his son had found people who had understood him and what he had gone through, even if each of them had suffered in a different way or from different forms of it, each of them were indeed part of the 'Battered Kids Club'.

And Kaido was content and rather happy that his son had found others like him and they had become a family, and he was definitely grateful that this Straw Hat Captain had saved his son and taken him in without any hesitation from the look and sound of things.

(And if what he had learned about Linlin's kid that had died, Galette according to the paper, and how Linlin had lied to and manipulated and abused her and the Demon Lady for something that Galette had no control over….if what he had learned had made him very pissed at Linlin? Well…

All he could picture was Yamato in Demon Lady's position. Abused and manipulated and having a child at a young age because of someone older and crueler and sneakier. And then having her child taken from her and raised by her mother, having to have her daughter so close and yet be unable to treat her as more than just another sister.

The thoughts of Yamato, of Kaidos Kid, going through what Demon Lady had was enough to nearly send Kaido into a rage and straight into dragon form immediately.

Linlin better not come near him anytime soon or else he'd show her just how much he's grown from that weak brat that got captured by marines and needed her to give him a devil fruit out of pity.)

Kaido stared at the newspaper in his hands and gave a small smile at seeing the wide happy grin on his sons face as he hugged Linlin's granddaughter. The Galette girl who had apparently married Yamato and Straw Hat and that female Vinsmoke, Poison Pink he thinks the newspaper called her, who were all married to her and each other as well.

Married and apparently had learned some information that they were happy to share with the world in the article and Kaido knew that Linlin was probably throwing a fit about it over at her islands right now but he would have a very different response. After all while the Galette (his sons wife, one of them at least, which made her his daughter…) girl was the one carrying the baby Kaido knew his son. His son was going to be the parent of that baby just as much as Straw Hat or Galette would be.

That baby wasn't going to be Yamato's by blood but blood didn't always determine family. Wasn't going to change how Kaido viewed this news in the slightest.

Before he knew it a chuckle began to reverberate in his chest before it bubbled up to his throat and poured out of his mouth in a loud laugh that startled everyone around.

"We're having a party!" Kaido roared to the whole of Wano with the newspaper clutched in one hand tightly and a wide grin on his face.

"Make sure everyone gets plenty of food and drink! Beast Pirate or not the whole of Wano is celebrating!" Kaido yelled for all to hear and he didn't even care about how this might make him seem soft or anything. If anyone had an issue with his orders then they were free to start digging their own grave. Save his low ranking laborers some time.

"May I ask what we're celebrating Master?" Black Maria, a newer recruit who had risen the ranks quickly, asked as she stared at him curiously while Kaido held the paper high over his head.

His next words causing more than a few subordinates to choke on something and King to let out a disparaged noise and dive for a paper of his own to see what the hell his captain was talking about.

"I'm going to be a granddad!"