A Taste of Forever (Katakuri x Reader)

Chapter 47 - A future...

TW: family planning (at least somehow) >> family planning and all things related to that will from this moment on become a constant TW just like the ones I have put into the story description. It will therefore not be introduced individually anymore.

"If you insist, the island is safe."

"Kata, you are the best," you beamed as you locked eyes from beside him, your legs dangling off the railing as you faced an uninhabited island.

Totto Land was only a few more days away, and you were a little ahead of schedule. The last few days on the sea had been calm. Aside from the occasional overconfident pirate crew challenging you and consequently being obliterated, nothing much happened.

Whatever had made these pirates believe they had a sliver of a chance against Katakuri was still a riddle to you. Sure, after Whitebeard's final speech, many pirates had sailed to the New World to find the One Piece and confrontations with yonkos and their affiliate crews had therefore become more frequent, but most of the rookies severely overestimated themselves.

Katakuri still had a bounty of 'a whole freaking lot', and going up against him was equal to a quick and easy death sentence. At least it was quick. Most other pirates, your in-laws included, didn't have the courtesy to offer quick endings.

Whatever their reasoning was, it gave you more opportunities to use your devil fruit. This was the only positive that came out of those confrontations as unlocking your awakening was becoming more important by the day.

Soon you were going to meet your mother-in-law again and you'd be lying if you claimed that you were looking forward to seeing her. After all, the last time you met she had almost killed you and that didn't even include all the dehumanising things she had said to you, about you, and your relationship as a whole. But those were only words, silly semantics she had never cared about your input on, but your fruit was something else.

Something of importance.

Something with a purpose.

Something that, if it was up to her, would have never been yours in the first place.

But alas, things did not always go to plan, even for the most powerful woman alive, and now it had become your purpose to unleash its purpose.

After all, it was your job to please her as her good daughter-in-law, and what kind of daughter-in-law would you be if you didn't make her happiness your top priority?

Not a living one, for sure.

Life was never meant to be fair.

So, regardless of how much you struggled with making the impossible possible, you knew what you had to do if you wanted to avoid your demise.

Awaken the fruit, unleash its power, and do the one thing that distinguished you from 'all the other toys Katakuri could have' as she had oh so nicely put it.

All of it was turning your stomach into a bottomless pit whenever you thought about it.

The cherry on top, though, the thing that still made you the most downtrodden, was the laughter in her voice when she had ridiculed you. It still made your skin crawl, and the fact that you hadn't made any progress in awakening your fruit so far surely wasn't helping your dwindling nerves either.

At this rate you were never going to align your inner will with the one of the fruit, but you sometimes wondered whether it really was a bad thing for you not to align with a fruit that was primarily used for its military power.