A.N: This time we have a story about Vivi and Kohza, set some time after Arabasta arc. Enjoy!

Hatch 4: Different Winter

Kohza sneezed for the fifth time that morning, asking: "Your majesty, remind me again why did I have to come along on this trip?"

Cobra laughed, saying: "It's good for you to see some world too, isn't it?"

"Yeah, but couldn't I see some warmer place?" the blond asked "This Drum Kingdom definitely isn't my favorite place to be; it's too cold and white."

"Leader, stop complaining" Vivi said "It's not really that different from home; over there it's so yellow and hot, isn't it?"

Kohza frowned, knowing the princess was right, but still said: "Hot and yellow is better than cold and white."

"It's called snow" Vivi said with a giggle. Kohza blushed, yelling: "I know that!"

The father and daughter laughed. When Cobra managed to stop he said: "Now now you two, we're here on a vacation so let's try to enjoy it."

"It's not like I want to complain, but a warmer place would've been better" Kohza said, crossing his arms "Nothing good comes out of snow."

"But this is your first time seeing snow and an actual winter, isn't it?" Vivi asked, but Kohza just turned his head away "You don't know what all you can do with snow."

"Like what?" Kohza asked with a raised eyebrow. Vivi smiled, saying: "Let's go out and I'll show you."

Kohza hesitated, he didn't want to go out; it was too cold. But if he didn't go Vivi wouldn't get his point. He sighed, saying: "Fine."

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"I don't really know about this, Vivi..." Kohza muttered as they sat in a big, blue sled on top of a hill, ready to slide down "Isn't this dangerous?"

"If you're scared we can switch to a smaller hill first" Vivi said with a smile, completely sincere. Kohza however, didn't like it "I am not scared."

"Then let's go" Vivi said with a smile, starting the slide down before Kohza could protest. Their sled went straight down and it wasn't as terrible as he had thought it'd be. Unfortunately Vivi didn't really know how to stop it and they slid right in to a huge pile of snow. When they got out Vivi patted some snow away from her clothes, laughing nervously: "Well, that wasn't so bad, was it?"

Kohza only gave her a blank stare while cleaning his own clothes from snow.

"...maybe we should try something else." Vivi decided "How about we build a snowman?"

"A snowman?" Kohza asked "As in a man statue made of snow?"

"Yeah" Vivi said. At Kohza's blank look she said "C'mon, its fun."

"I doubt it" the blond said, but followed Vivi's instructions anyway. When they finished the snowman Kohza asked: "Why is it called a man? It doesn't really look like one."

"...now that you mention, it really doesn't." Vivi said with a sweat drop "But there are other things we can do, too!"

"How about going back inside and sitting in front of a fire with a hot cup of coffee?" Kohza suggested.

"That does sound good" Vivi said "We'll do it later."

Kohza sighed, knowing he couldn't get out of this.

"Okay, what's next?" he asked. Vivi smiled, saying: "Follow me."

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"This was a bad idea" Kohza muttered as he tried to get up on the ice ring, failing miserably. Vivi managed to stay on her feet, but she wasn't really doing well either.

"You just need practi- ow!" she started before falling down "I mean, we both need practice."

"Or we could do something else" Kohza said, glaring at the giggling children who were skating like pros.

"...yeah, maybe that's for the best" Vivi said "And I know what we should do."

Kohza groaned, not liking the sound of it.

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"You've gotta be kidding me" Kohza said, staring down from top of the hill. Vivi's idea had been snowboarding "This is worse than all of your earlier ideas put together!"

"C'mon, it could be fun" Vivi said, her smile faltering as she looked down "And we've survived worse..."

"You haven't done this before either, have you?" Kohza asked, but Vivi just smiled unsurely, saying: "First time for everything, right?"

"Right..." Kohza said "Well, here goes."

Both slid down on their borrowed snowboards, both of them falling down quickly, Vivi slightly before Kohza.

"I hate this place" Kohza muttered, glaring at the laughing children that skillfully slid past them "And I hate the locals."

"Nice sliding, tourists!" one kid yelled as he passed by. Kohza considered going back to his snowboard and sliding after the kid to teach him a lesson, but decided against it. It probably wouldn't end well.

"Can we go back already?" the blond asked. The princess sighed, saying: "Yeah, let's go."

When they were walking back Vivi was suddenly hit with a snowball.

"Ow" she complained, holding her shoulder. Kohza turned to glare at the direction the snowball had come from, seeing a bunch of laughing children.

"They seem to think they're funny..." Kohza said, irritated.

"Remember that they're just kids" Vivi said hurriedly, not wanting her friend to cause trouble.

"Right..." he said and they started to walk away again, but when a snowball hit Kohza he whirled around, yelling: "That's it! You kids are going down!"

"Kohza!" Vivi yelled, but her friend ignored her, scooping up some snow and throwing it at one kid, getting a direct hit. The kid that got hit blinked, looking at his friends before nodding. He scooped up some snow and yelled from the top of his lungs: "Snowball fight!"

Kohza and Vivi were both first timers, but that didn't stop them from returning the fire. The princess had felt unsure at first, but a few snowballs on her face later had changed her mind. The kids were going down.

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"Welcome back" Cobra said as his daughter and her friend returned "How was your day?"

"Snowy" Vivi said, smiling when Kohza added: "And cold."

Cobra laughed at them, glad that he didn't need to go outside. Cold weather really wasn't his thing and by the looks of it not really Kohza's, either.

"Well then, come here and have some hot chocolate" the king said "It looks like you need it."

A.N: Next we'll take a look at what Robin was doing during the time skip.