Sanji stood in the Captain quarters looking out the back window. It wasn't long before Nami walked in, "Sanji," Sanji turned and faced her.

"What's up?"

"We need to talk."

"About what?"

"I don't know how long I can keep this up."

"Mm, the truth about Shishi."

"Yes," she sighed, "Even I am a little confused about it and I've been raising him for the past 14 years."

"Do you remember being pregnant with him?"

"That's the thing Sanji...I don't." She reaches in a drawer and pulled out an envelope, "In here is the truth, Luffy told me to give it to Shishi when he turned 14."

"I see."

"I haven't read it, but I'm scared that if he reads it and finds out that I'm not actually his mother it'll devastate him."

"I see," Sanji then went over to the fireplace and threw his cigar in it causing the fire to light. "Well, bring him in here and have him read it in front of you, you can see his reaction then."

"And what if it's not the reaction I was hoping for?"

"I don't know what to say." Sanji then put his hands in his pockets, he then walked out the door. He looked out at the bright afternoon sky and then at the ocean. He looked around and eventually found Shishi at the edge of the boat again, he walked over to him. "Shishi," he placed his hand on his shoulder, "Captain needs to see you."

"Hm. What for?" He then turned and walked into the captains quarters. He saw Nami in the room with the envelope in her hand, "Hey mom, what's up?"

"Close the door."

"Okay." He shut the door behind him, he then walked across from her with the fireplace between them.

"Here." She handed him the envelope, he went to take it and she quickly pulled it away. "There's something I have to tell you about this."

"What is it?"

"In this envelope are some major secrets. It's a letter from your dad."

"Cool, What about?"

"..." she sighed, "The things is, I'm not sure if I'm actually your mother."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't ever remember being pregnant with you."

"Is that bad?"

"It could be..." she sighed, "In here should be news on if I'm really your mother or not." She then handed him the envelope. He took it and looked at it, he swallowed and continued to look at it.

"No..." he said softly,

"No? No what?!"

"You're my mom!" He then threw the envelope into the fire, "No stupid piece of paper will ever change that!" He then ran and wrapped his arms around her. Tears gathered in her eyes, she smiled and wrapped her arms around him in return. She then looked into the fire, as the envelope burned away she then saw part of the letter, it read.

Shishi please take care of your beautiful mother Nami and let her know that I love her very much

Nami smiled and placed her hand on the back of Shishi's head. "You're my mom...nothings going to change that..." he said softly.

"I know, and you're my son." She ran her fingers through his hair, "I'm sorry I scared you like that. I just didn't want you to be hurt." He held tighter to her not wanting to let go, "You're a pretty neat kid you know that right? I know that where you're at right now your father couldn't be more proud of you. I'm extremely proud of you too." Shishi smiled he then pulled away from her and looked up at her.

"Thanks." He said, "Oh, I need a new tattoo."

"Why?"

"Mine kind of got cut off."

"What?!"

"Yeah." He showed her the big slash across his chest, "I've got like this minus sign instead now." She sighed.

"You know what, keep the scar. It looks good."

"Really?"

"Yeah, your dad had a scar on his chest too." She then grabbed a picture and showed it to him, "Before we had you I always joked that the X on his chest marked the spot."

"I see." He folded his arms.

"You really do kind of look like him. You'd need to cut your hair a bit but besides that you and him look identical."

"Nah, I like my hair long. I might cut it once it reaches my shoulders."

"Alright," she smiled at him, he smiled back. "Oh, did I see what I grabbed off the side of the ship the other day."

"No."

"It's pretty cool." She went over to a drawer, she then held up a flyer and showed it to him. "Tada!"

"Woah! My first bounty poster!" He said grabbing it and looking at his face on the paper, "No wait..."

"Wait What?"

"...they didn't get my nose right." He said showing her the picture. The nose did look a little off but nothing too major to where it changed his whole appearance.

"It looks fine, but hey, you can finally put it in your collection. And it's a first print."

"That's right." Shishi smiled, he collected bounty posters like a kid would trading cards. His favorite one was Charlotte Katakuri. Shishi admires Katakuri for his size, strength, and pure power and he had always wanted to have a match with him even if it was for training purposes. He then looked at the poster again, "Man, this is pretty cool." He then looked up at her, "Hey, can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Does Sanji mean something to Carameil?"

"Carameil? I have no clue. Why?"

"Carameil seems off about Sanji, even though it's probably over nothing."

"I see. Is that all?"

"Yeah, pretty much." He smiled, "Thanks for the poster." He then turned and left, he went below deck to his sleeping quarters, it was nothing special. Just a few sandbags and a barrel, on a shelf nearby was his piles of bounty posters. He then set his poster on top of the most recent pile and then he sighed. He turned and walked back above deck, he saw Carameil trying to seduce Milion again for whatever reason she had. His major question was, where did Carameil even find a new set of clothes? She wasn't wearing what she had on yesterday. Shishi looked out at the ocean and sighed, he had left his precious Cheeseburg Island behind as well as his true love.

He went to the edge of the ship and sat down, it wasn't long before Pinku found him and stood next to him. "Hey," She said getting on the ledge and sitting next to him. "What are you looking at?"

"Not much, I've just been thinking."

"Thinking about what?"

"What I want to do with my life until I become King."

"I see," she looked him up and down, "Maybe you need to a new style."

"New style?"

"Yeah, Maybe you need to change your clothes and try something else. A new style can make you feel new and fresh, maybe it's what you need to be a king."

"Hm, that's true. A king shouldn't look the way I do in these raggedy old clothes." He nodded, "Yosh! Alright, next Island we go to, I'm gonna get some new clothes!"

"Sounds like a deal, if you want I could help you."

"Sweet, you can be my royal...Uh...person who helps me chose clothes."

She just giggled, "Yeah, of course."

"Pinku, can I ask you something?"

"Of course, anything."

"When I become King...do you think I'll marry Princess Hammy and she'll be my queen?"

Pinku blunked a few times, jealous filled her cheeks and she felt as if she needed to murder the princess if she was going to get a shot with Shishi. "Why?"

"Well, she's just so beautiful you know? She's stylish, and is overall a nice person."

"Aquired target. Must eliminate Princess Hammy." Pinku thought to herself. "Does it have to be Hammy?" She asked aloud, "I'm sure there's plenty of other girls who would love to be your queen."

"Yeah but I haven't met them yet. Trust me, I know a queen when I see one."

"Well...what about me?"

"You?" He looked at her, "Hmmm...sure, but you'd have to wait until after Hammy died. Then maybe you'd be my queen."

"Oh, ok." She smiled, she then turned away and made a rather intense and sinister face, "All I need to do is kill Hammy and he will be mine!!!" She thought, she then turned back to Shishi and her face returned to normal. Shishi sighed and then looked out at the ocean. "What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing really, just wondering what the next island is that we're going to explore." The Straw Hat crew came to their destination. It was a nice looking island that seemed mostly steampunk and industrial. Shishi jumped up and looked at the city that was in view from the dock, "It doesn't look like they have cheeseburgers here..."

"I'm sure it'll be fine." Carameil said walking up to him, "So what do you say? Wanna go explore?"

"Sure," he turned and looked at Pinku, "Want to come with?" She nodded and stood up. The three of them walked onto the dock and then went I to the city. Shishi looked around at everything, the air was humid and smelled of copper and various other assorted metals.

"Hey Shishi, while you're here want to get some new clothes?" Pinku asked,

"Sure, I like the style of everyone here."

Carameil leaned over to Pinku behind Shishi's back, "Are you sure you want to get him new clothes? He'd probably trash them in a week."

"It's the least I could do." Pinku said back to her. Shishi looked over at a weapons dealer. He walked over to the dealer and looked at what he had. Carameil then grabbed a sword and looked it up and down, Carameil then raised an eyebrow and turned to her friends.

"Could someone please explain to me why this sword has a trigger?"

"Maybe it's a style." Pinku said, "Maybe it gives the sword some mystical powers."

"It gives it something I'll tell you that." Carameil said putting the sword away.

"Wooooah, this is cool." Shishi said grabbing a red gun off the shelf. It mainly looked like a pistol, the weapons dealer smiled.

"Ah, you've got good taste." He said, "That is the single most powerful gun on the face of the planet!"

"Woah, really? What's it called?"

"Charlotte Magnum."

"Coool..." Shishi said looking the gun up and down, "How much is it?"

"Mm, it's not gonna be cheap. That there gun never misses and can blast through any solid object! But you look like a young man who knows what he's doing! So I'll sell it to you for..." the suspense on the price was killing Shishi, he absolutely had to know! "Two hundred-sixty be-"

"Sold!" Pinku said, Shishi looked at Pinku. She smiled, she figured if she bought it for him then maybe she'd be higher on the list of being his queen. She reached in his pocket and pulled out a sack of money and handed it to the sales person.

"Looks like your girlfriend really likes you." The man said to Shishi as he took the money. Shishi looked over at Pinku.

"Gee, Thanks."

"Don't mention It." Pinku said tossing her hair out of the way of her cheek expecting Shishi to kiss her cheek. Shishi smiled and gave her a pat on the head. Shishi then looked to the sales person.

"Thanks, this is really cool!"

"Yep! Don't go firing it at the wrong people." He said,

"Yosh!" Shishi then put the gun in his belt. "Come on, let's go look around at what else they got to sell." Shishi and his friends then continued through the city.

"So tell me, why'd you buy him that gun?" Carameil asked, "He's just gonna end up shooting his toes off."

"He's my friend, why wouldn't I buy him something nice?"

"Yeah, but that seems a little expensive."

"So? He really likes it."

"If you say so."

Pinku nodded, she suddenly grabbed Shishi's arm, "Hey look, there's a clothing store." She said pointing to the left of them, Shishi looked over at it.

"Neat." They walked inside, Carameil thought it was a little convient that everything in the store was all made for pirates. "This is my kind of store," Shishi said looking around at everything, Carameil rolled her eyes. But while Carameil was here she might as well should do a bit of shopping. Shishi looked around, he saw a red vest that had coat tails on the back of it. "Do you think this would look good on me?" Shishi asked Pinku, she nodded.

"Yeah, you'd look very cute in it." She smiled, "Or...good, or however you want to look."

"Hmmm," he looked at it again, "I think I'll pass." He walked through the store with Pinku following shortly behind him.

"Is your favorite color red?" She asked him,

"Why?"

"Well, everything you've stopped to look at has been red."

"Has it?"

"Yeah."

"Hm," he said, "I guess my favorite color is red. I always thought it was pink, pink's a nice color." He said looking at something else. Pinku blushed and smiled at him. He then found a hot pink vest that had black lightning bolts on it, he smiled, "I really like this one."

"If that's what you want you can get it, I've got plenty of money."

"You sure? You've already spent so much on me already."

"I'm sure."

"Ok," he smiled at her, she smiled back. After a while of looking at each other Shishi cleared his throat and then grabbed the vest.

"Alright! I'm ready!" Carameil said walking over to them, Shishi and Pinku groaned when they saw how much stuff Carameil had. "What?"

"That's a lot of clothes." Shishi said, "Are you sure you need that many?"

"Yes I do Shishi, because unlike you I don't want to wear the same clothes for the rest of my life!"

"Ok..." Shishi looked to Pinku, "Hey, you should get something too."

"No, I'm fine in what I have on."

"Well if you're ever gonna be my queen you'll need something better looking then what you have on."

Pinky's eyes became hearts and steam blew out her ears. She suddenly ran off to look for something to put on, "Your Queen?" Carameil asked, Shishi nodded,

"Yeah, I need to consider all girls I meet as my Pirate Queen."

"Am I on that list?"

"Well..."

"I'M NOT?!?!!!!"

"Well, you seem to hit me a lot."

"That's because you're an idiot!!!" Carameil glared, "That's rude that you didn't even consider me to be your queen."

"Do you want to be?"

"No." She said quickly, "It's just rude that I wasn't even considered!"

"Well I see you mainly as a friend, and not as a Queen. I mean even a King has great friends too. Right?"

"Well...right but..." she sighed, "Juat forget it."

"Alright."

"Shishi, What do you think of this?" Pinku called from the dressing room, Shishi walked over to where she was. She had some jeans on that came down to her calves where they were cut off, she had white cloth wrapped around her breasts and a black vest. "Well?"

"Woah..." he said a little speechless, she actually looked really good.

"Wait! Wait!" She grabbed an orange sash and wrapped it around her waist and tied it off like a belt, "How about now?"

"You look amazing Pinku..." Carameil looked over at Shishi's face. Carameil smiled, even though Shishi didn't know it, he was totally into Pinku.

"Thanks." Pinku smiled at him, Shishi smiled back. "I guess I'll get these then."

"Mm!" Shishi nodded. The three of them paid for their clothes and then left the store. Once outside Shishi removes his current vest and put on his new one. Carameil looked at him.

"Why dont you close up your vest?"

"This is how my dad wore his vests. I like it."

"I see."

Shishi smiled, he then looked at Pinku who was in her new clothes. "What should we do now?" Soon am explosion went off, people screamed and started running. Shishi looked in the direction of the explosion, steam was pouring into the air. Shishi then clenched his fists, he turned to Pinku and Carameil, "You two head back, I'm going to investigate."

"What?! No! You're coming back with us!" Carameil said grabbing his arm, "Now! Let's go!"

"No, I gotta figure out what it is." Shishi pulled his arm away and then ran off. He continued to run towards the explosion. He turned a corner as another explosion went off, he quickly stopped and covered his eyes as steam flew towards him. The steam cleared and he looked up, he saw a giant mechanical dinosaur of some sort tearing apart the buildings. It shot fire from its mouth and knocked over several buildings. Soon a woman ran over to him.

"You have to run!" She said. "There's no stopping these creatures!"

"Creature? You mean it's alive?!"

"You have to run!"

"No! I'll protect this village, now get to safety." He pulled her off of him and she ran past him. He looked at the mechanical creature and clenched his fists. He ran after it until he got infront of it, he quickly stretched his body out and wrapped it around two parallel street lamps. The creature advanced and eventually tripped over Shishi's body. Shishi quickly returned to normal. "Yosh!" He then climbed on top of the creature, there seemed to be a door on the back of its neck. He reached down for the door.

"Look out!" Shishi was quickly grabbed and was then rushed to the ground. Shishi looked up at who grabbed him.

"M-Milion?"

"Hey," Milion stood up and helped Shishi off the ground, "What is this thing?"

"It's a creature, but I saw a door on the back of its neck." Shishi said as the dinosaur then stood back up.

"I see." Milion then pulled out a lighter, he turned it on and then blew on the flame. The flame made a massive stream of fire that engulfed the dinosaur.

"Wait! What are you doing?!"

Milion finished blowing fire and put the lighter away, "Tell me Shishi, What happens when you rapidly heat metal and then suddenly cool it down?" Milion then took a bead of sweat from Shishi's forehead, he then made it into a giant wave of water which he used to cool down the dinosaur and making it a statue. "It sets." He then lowered his hands and the water then fell to the street and washed away.

"Woooah..." Shishi then walked over to the dinosaur, "A Devil Fruit let you do all this?"

"No," Milion said, "It's the tribe that I belong too, men can control fire, and women can control water. They never crossbred until my parents met. As a result I can control both." He put his hands in his pockets, Shishi then started to climb the dinosaur, Milion tilted his head in confusion, "What are you doing?"

"I'm getting to the door, I want to know what makes these things work." He then came to the door, he twisted the large knob and then pulled the door open. He then stepped inside.

"No! No! No! What is happening to my beautiful creature!!! How dare they! How dare they! HOW DARE THEY!!!!!" Suddenly the voice was followed by a cough, "Damn it..." Shishi then found himself in a cockpit. There was a teenager with some goggles on, he was pushing buttons and cranking knobs. He then looked over at Shishi, he screamed and then jumped out of his seat and walked to the other wall. "WHAT THE HELL?!?!!! DONT SNEAK UP ON AN EVIL MASTERMIND LIKE THAT!!!!"

"So you're the maker of this thing?"

"SO WHAT IF I AM?!?!!!"

"I was just wondering, you hurt a lot of people!"

"SO WHAT IF I DID?!?!!!" He paused, he then smirked, "I did?"

"Yes, you did."

"Oh...well I mean...AHA Of course I did!!!" He then laughed, Shishi frowned.

"Are you okay dude?"

"I'm fine!! I am just fine!"

"Alright, why are you doing this?"

"I wouldn't expect someone like YOU to understand! You and your punk rock vest and all!"

"Punk rock?" He looked at it, "I think you mean pink, not punk."

"No, punk rock, it's a style..."

"Punk rock?"

"Yes! Punk rock! ALL the kids areninto that! Even though their minds should be on scientifc discoveries!!!!"

"I discovered these whole island that was dedicated to Cheeseburgers, does that count?"

"It does not." He said flatly, Shishi scratched the back of his head and shrugged. "Who are you? You look familiar."

"Shishi."

"Shishi? Like Sushi?"

"Sushi? Are you a woman?"

"WHAT?!"

"My friend Carameil said that Sushi is a woman's best friend. Since you know what it is I thought maybe you we-"

"DO YOU SEE BOOBS?!?!!!"

Shishi looked him up and down, "Nope. I suppose not."

"Listen here you little punk! This here machine is a scientific breakthrough! Something that I don't expect you to understand!"

"Mm, Who are you by the way?"

"Who am I? WHO AM I?!?!!" He then laughed, "I AM THE MOST ADVANCED MIND THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!!!" He then smirked and looked at Shishi, "My name is Stem."

"Stem?"

"Yes, Stem! Because imagination, you know, stems out in the brain!!! Not that you would have one!!!"

"Okay, so listen twig-"

"I AM STEM!!!!"

"Stem...right," he sighed, "You can't go around riding your thing here and tearing the city to bits."

"And why not Huh?!"

"Because people get hurt."

"Ha! What would you know about people getting hurt?!" Shishi glared, he then reached his hand across the room and grabbed Stem by the collar, "WHAT IS THIS?!?!!!" Shishi then dragged Stem outside the dinosaur and down to where lots of people were gathered. He dropped Stem.

"There." Shishi said, Soon a really tall man with a beard and sunglasses walked over to them. He looked down at Shishi.

"Did you capture this boy?"

"Yeah, plus he was kind of getting on my nerves."

"SILENCE YOU WORTHLESS WO-" Shishi quickly used his halo to harden his hand, he then quickly stretched his arm sending a jab to Stem's face knocking him out cold. The tall man smiled, he then turned to everyone else.

"My fellow friends! This young man has saved us from the mechanical creature and has collected the bounty for the young boy Stem! We must reward him!"

"Nah, I don't need a reward. I was just doin the right thing you know?"

"No," the man said turning to Shishi, "We must." He then turned to someone, "Fetch the reward money."

"Eh, no really I'm fi-" suddenly a massive sack of money was dropped in front of Shishi, Shishi quickly opened it and looked inside, his jaw dropped and his eyes dazzled.

"One million! Just like the bounty said! Is there anything else you'd like?!" The man asked,

"Yeah, do you have a spare bounty poster for him?"

"Yes, why?"

"I just collect them is all."

"Hmm, interesting collection." The man then grabbed a poster off of a building and handed it to Shishi, "Here you are young man."

"Mm! Thank you!" He folded up the poster and shoved it in his pocket. He then looked to Milion, "We should get back." Milion nodded, Shishi then turned back to everyone else, "It's been nice meeting you!" He then picked up the sack and put it on his shoulders. He waved and he and Milion headed back to the ship.

"So what are you going to do with all that money?" Milion asked,

"I'm gonna first pay back Pinku and Carameil for all the stuff they got me."

"Mm." He said, "So What's Carameil's deal with me?"

"Beats me dude. Women are a mystery." It took them a while but Shishi and Milion finally made it back to the port. Shishi made the climb back onto the ship before he then plopped his sack of money onto the deck. Suddenly footsteps ran across the deck and Shishi was tackled in a hug.

"DONT RUN OFF LIKE THAT!!!!" Carameil said squeezing him tightly.

"Carameil...I can't breathe..."

"I don't care!!! You don't just run off like that and leave your friends behind!!!"

"Help me..." Shishi cried out as hard as he could. As soon as Carameil stopped squeezing the life out of Shishi the gang started to sail off again. Shishi sat on a ledge looking out at the sunset, it wasn't long before Pinku showed up and sat next to him.

"Hey!" She said with a smile,

"Hey," Shishi smiles, "Anyways, I've been meaning to pay you back."

"No, it's okay, think of it as a birthday present from me."

"You sure?"

"Mhmm."

"Alright."

"Where do you think we're going next?"

"I don't know, there's a lot out there." Shishi smiled, "Why dont you pick where we go next?"

"Why me?"

"I don't know, if you ask my mom I'm sure it'll be okay."

"No, I'm fine just going wherever you go."

"Alright." Shishi then pulled the gun he had out of his belt and looked at it, he then passed it to Pinku, "Here." She caught it and looked at it, "You can have it."

"What? No. It's yours."

"I'm probably not going to use it ever."

"No. I want you to have it." She passed it back to him, he caught it and looked at it, "You never know when you'll need it. I have as many guns as I want, this one is yours. I bought it for you. It's a gift." She

smiled, "If you want, I can teach you how to use it."

"Really?"

"Yes, of course." She smiled warmly at him and he smiled back. Her eyes softened at him, she then leaned forward to kiss him, Shishi had no clue what she was doing so he leaned back.

"What are you doing?"

"Hm?" She opened her eyes and looked at him, "Oh! Nothing! Don't worry about it!" She said sitting up, "Just tired is all."

"Maybe you should take a nap."

"Yes! I will do that!" She then got up and quickly walked away.

"Weirdo." Shishi thought to himself. He then looked back at the ocean, he frowned when he spotted something. He stood up and looked closer, it was a girl on a raft. He then turned to Nami, "Hey! We need to stop! Someone's down there!!!"

"WHAT?!?!!"

"Slow down!" Shishi then turned to the girl, he reached his arms out and wrapped his arms around her waist. He then slowly pulled her back in towards the ship, he pulled her up and onto the deck. He then rolled her over and looked at her face, "Ah!" He jumped, he then sighed. He knelt down and plugged the girl's nose and started doing mouth-to-mouth. Shortly after he did compressions, the girl then coughed up some water. "Oh thank god..." Nami walked over to Shishi, she looked down at the girl and smiled.

"Carrot?!" Nami said a little excited, the girl then looked up at Nami.

"Nami!" Carrot stood up shakily, and then wrapped her arms around Nami after nearly falling on her.

"Woah, take it easy." Nami said, "What are you doing here?"

"I escaped..." Carrot said getting her feet underneath herself. She looked at Nami, "The others, he has the others!"

"Who has the others?"

"I...I..." she rubbed her forehead, "I don't remember...all I remember is seeing our friends...and then an explosion and now I just woke up here."

"Mm," Nami frowned, "Well it's okay. You're here now. Sanji is here too. Do you still know your way around?"

"Mm..." she nodded,

"Alright, go lay down." Nami then looked to Shishi, "Can you take her to a nice place to rest?" Shishi nodded, he then wrapped his arm around Carrot and then helped her to a place to lay down. He took her to a nice comfy room with a nice bed, he laid her down and pulled the blanket over her. Carrot looked up at him.

"You look like your mom a bit..." she said with a soft smile,

"Really? What makes you say that?"

"Mostly in your eyes...and the thickness and softness of your hair."

"Thanks." He said with a smile, "Need anything else?"

"No...I just need rest...thank you..."

"You're welcome." He gave her a smile before he turned and left. He then came up onto the main deck, a thick fog had rolled in. "What the heck...?" He looked around he then ran up to Nami, "What's going on?"

"I don't know, but from the looks of it something serious."