THE CHILDREN Set Sail!

Disclaimer: I'll let Aoi do this for me today…

Aoi (startled): Huh? Oh…uh…okay…uh…let's see…

Normama (sweat dropped): Uh…feel free to take your time…

Aoi: No, no…I'm good…alright…here it goes… (Taking a huge breath)…Normama doesn't own either One Piece or Zettai Karen Children. Please don't go suing him! Also thank you for reading and reviewing whenever you can!

Normama (sweat dropped): You did that in one breath?

Aoi: …

Normama (worrying): H-Hey! Are you alright?

Aoi: …Give me…a minute…catch my…breath… (Inhaling greatly)…okay, ready now!

Normama (sweat dropped): O…Okay? Uh, anyway back to the story…

Aside from Sanji (whom for some reason had stayed in the Galley), everyone else observed the soaked stranger they had rescue from drowning as he recollect his breath.

He was a relatively tall (compared to the average sized Luffy) male cross dresser who wears a flamboyant ballet clothes with a swan theme, a pink overcoat with the Japanese character for "Okama Way" on the back, and blue medieval clothes. He also seems to be wearing heavy makeup.

Finally, the stranger spoke up, in the poorly feminine voice. "Thank you very much! You are wonderful, no swanderful, people. My life has been saved by pirates I don't even know! I will never forget this! …Might I have a cup of warm soup?"

"AS IF WE COULD," Everyone aside from the Children shouted in response, "WE'RE STARVING TOO!"

"Oh! Okay, nevermind..."

"So anyway," Luffy suddenly sounded in his own manner, "you can't swim, huh?"

"Well of course~ !" the stranger gave a goofy grin, "I had eaten a Devil Fruit…"

"A Devil Fruit?" the Children sounded at once.

"Really," Usopp chimed in, "What kind?"

The stranger gave them a creepy wink. "You all really want to know~ ?"

Although they were freaked out, everyone nodded eagerly.

"Well," the stranger hummed, "I must wait for my ship to come back anyway. So I might as well put on a show…" The stranger suddenly stood up and faced Luffy. "BEHOLD MY POWER!"

Without warning, the Stranger heavily palmed Luffy in the face, causing the rubber captain to be sent flying into a pile of debris.

"Luffy!" Kaoru shouted in surprise and worry.

"What are you…?" Zoro growled as he began to draw his swords.

"Wait, wait, wait~!" the Stranger spoke up…in a childish tone. "I told you this all part of the show~!"

"W-What…?" Zoro managed as he got another good look at the Stranger's face again.

Everyone else stared in surprise as well as the Stranger's face…now resembles Luffy's!

"What the…" the Children exclaimed in surprise.

"SEE~ ?" the Stranger noted in Luffy's exact tone, "This ain't a joke!"

"HUH?" Luffy staggered as he recollects himself, "HE'S ME!"

"They're identical!" Usopp exclaimed, his mouth hanging open.

"Hey, Shiho," Kaoru whispered to the Psychometrist, "Is he using an Illusion? Hypnosis maybe...?"

"No," Shiho whispered back, "it a genuine look. I can tell…"

"But how...?" Aoi blankly stated.

"Surprise, surprise?" the Luffy-copycat laughed, "And with the swipe of my left hand…" the Stranger swipes his hand across his face, causing him to return to his original face, speaking in his original voice. "…I go back to normal! This is the power of my Clone-Clone Fruit!"

"The voice…" Nami managed.

"Even their physique is the same…" Usopp added, his mouth still hanging open.

"That's…AMAZING!" Luffy exclaimed, his eyes sparkling.

As he did, the Stranger went and touched everyone's startled face with his right hand.

"Well," the Stranger commented, "Actually, it's not necessary for me to hit you for it to work…"

Swiping his right hand across his face, he suddenly became Usopp… "If I just touch your face…"

Then Aoi… "…With my right hand…"

Then Shiho… "…I can imitate anyone…"

Then Zoro… "…I want at anytime…"

Then Chopper… "…Their strength and weaknesses…"

And finally into Kaoru… "…And even their personality…"

"WOW!" the Children, Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp wowed, "COOL!"

"And don't think it's limited to my face," the Stranger continued as he changed into Nami, "My body is also included~ …"

Without a warning whatsoever, the Stranger began to open up his shirt…still as Nami!

"OMG," Kaoru screamed in surprise, drooling in the process, "Erotic Moment~ !"

But before the Stranger can reveal anymore…BONK…Nami clonked him on the head hard, turning him back to his original form.

"STOP…IT!" Nami growled, her fist still sizzling with rage.

"OUCH~," The Stranger whined in pain as he fell to the floor, his swollen bruise still sizzling from the impact.

"Hey," Aoi asked with a sweat drop, poking the Stranger, "Are you still alive?"

"NAMI," Kaoru complained, "WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KNOCK HIM OUT WHEN IT WAS JUST GETTING GOOD?"

"WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S FOR?" Nami countered angrily, "AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? ARE YOU SOME KIND OF OLD PERVERT GEEZER IN A LITTLE GIRL'S BODY?"

"Well," Shiho commented with a nervous chuckle, "that's one way to look at it…"

"Anyway," the Stranger stated, recovering from the hit, "I'm sorry, but that's all I can show you…"

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Luffy suddenly injected.

"Yeah, you're AWESOME!" Kaoru jumped in.

"Do some more~!" Chopper cheered as Usopp whistled.

"Uh," the Stranger blankly stared before widely smiling and did a pose, "Well if that's the case, it looks like I don't any choice but to continue~ !"

"YAY," Kaoru, Usopp, Luffy, and Chopper cheered.

"He changed his mind?" Aoi wondered with a sweat drop.

"He's easily persuaded…" Nami noted.

"Clone-Clone Memory," the Stranger proclaimed as his face switch between different faces, "Once I touch a face, it will forever be mine!"

"Sweet~," Kaoru, Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper cheered.

"Idiots," Zoro mumbled from the sideline.

Nobody noticed Vivi's look of shock as she saw one of the transform faces.

After about five minutes of face changing, comedy acting, and the 'The World's Funniest Face', the Stranger was finally done.

"Heehaw~," the Stranger finalized, "How do you like my special performance? I usually don't show this to people…"

"You're amazing!" Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, and Kaoru cried.

"Glad you think so~ ! I'm glade we became friends!"

"YEAH...!"

"This ain't no joke~!"

"THIS AIN'T NO JOKE~!"

"Idiots," Aoi lowly mumbled as she watches the Stranger dance with the four in arm-lock.

"Somebody please kill them already," Nami added with a sweat drop, too humiliated to look at her brainless crewmate.

"I would," Shiho joked, "But Zoro already destroyed my gun…"

That's when Nami notice a paddle boat with a swan-like design approaching from a distance.

"Hey, there's a boat coming this way," Nami sounded, before turning to the Stranger, "Is it yours?"

See the boat, the Stranger jump onto the rail, his back to the Straw Hats.

"Oh my, my, me!" the Stranger noted, "Is it time to leave already? Too bad…"

"WHAT~," Kaoru, Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper cried out in disappointment.

"Don't be sad, my pals!" the Stranger suddenly declare to them, "Separation is inevitable! But please keep this in mind…" The Stranger turns to them, with tears in his eyes, and gave a thumb up. "…Length of time means nothing to true friendship!"

"…WE GOT IT~!" the four exclaimed with tears in their eyes, "WE'LL SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN!

"FAREWELL!" the Stranger bid as he jump back on his ship as it began to sail away, "Let's go my merry men~!"

"AYE-AYE!" his crew cheered as the boat sail away, "MR. 2 BON KUREI!"

The four child minds glee as their friend sailed off, until their mind register what had been shouted twenty seconds later. In fact, everyone on deck jolted in surprise.

"WHAT?" Everyone exclaimed, "MR. 2!"

"That was," Vivi staggered, "Mr. 2 Bon Kurei?"

"Vivi," Luffy asked, "Didn't you recognize his face?"

"Yeah," Shiho added with a sweat drop, "It's a face you can't really forget so easily…"

"No…" Vivi slummed to the floor in disbelief, "I never met Mr. 2 or the Mr. 1 pair. I didn't know that he had any powers either! But I had rumors about Mr. 2…like that he was a huge okama, talks like an okama, wore a swan coat, which had 'Okama Way' written on the back…"

Everyone else sweat dropped as Luffy, Usopp, Zoro, and the Children did a pose that could easily be translated as 'You're kidding me right?'

"Are you blind?" they found themselves asking with a sweat drop, "You should have notice…"

"But the thing is," Vivi continued, "one of those faces he showed off to from memory…was my father's!" At that, everyone jolted in surprise. "What in the world…will he use my father's face to do…?"

"Well," Zoro pondered on the subject, "if got to be a ruler…he could definitely do some bad things with it…"

"We just let a really dangerous guy get away!" Usopp added in frustration.

"He was an enemy?" Chopper asked innocently.

"Well," Aoi adjusted her glasses, "In our world, criminal ESP user can use hypnosis to become someone else and do a lot of things like slipping away or make that someone look bad in many ways. So it will be dangerous if turns into an enemy…!"

"Assuming," Nami added, "he finds out that we're his enemies…!"

"If he uses his memory to turn into one of us," Shiho bite her nail, "We won't be able to trust each other…"

Everyone swallowed at that thought, until…

"Really," Luffy wondered without worry.

"Actually," Kaoru hummed, "I think it was good that we've met him…"

"HUH?" Everyone exclaimed, aside from Zoro who understood.

"Kaoru," Shiho exasperated, "Don't be so dense…"

"You too, Luffy," Nami joined, "don't you realize…"

"Wait hold on," Zoro cut in (not literally), "these two actually have a point…" Everyone stared at the First Mate. "Now that we know what we're up against, we can make some…preparation!"

Normama: "Cut! That's a wrap!"

Shiho: "This chapter sure is one of the shortest..."

Kaoru: "AW! We almost had a good erotic scene there!"

Aoi (slapping Kaoru on the back of the head): "Like HELL you'll get to see one!"

Kaoru: "Hey, Normama, will there be any erotic scenes in this story?"

Normama: "... ... ... ..."

Aoi & Shiho: "What's with the silent?"

Normama: "...Anyway, please review this chapter, if not the story thus far! And don't worry, some action will finally take place next chapter..."