Tsuna's mouth gaped like a fish as he stared wide-eyed at the tiny red flame licking the remaining ashes of the once wanted poster. A feeling of confusion swept over him as the brunette inwardly debated whether this was real or just another figment of his imagination caused by homesickness. The latter seemed more plausible because surely, he couldn't use his flame however hard he tried before, not when the cow fish nearly devoured him for breakfast (or lunch), not when the said cow (not fish) sent the boat flying into the island, not when the corrupted marines chose to attack him instead of doing their supposed job, so why now? And his flame was orange not red! But then again, at the same time, Tsuna had a nagging feeling that what he saw was not a hallucination, and his intuition was never wrong, as he had learned to his cost.One glance at his stunned crewmates further confirmed the existence of one exotic red flame. Then all at once, the crew directed their gazed on an equally baffled brunette, demanding an answer.
"Is it just me or did Tsuna's hand just burst into flame?" Sanji was the first to voice out his question, one hand holding a new cigarette to replace the dropped one while the other hand rummaging through pockets in an attempt to find the lighter.
"So you mean the flame is not the hallucination caused by my mind going into frenzy mode?" Usopp inquired with incertitude, his question was left unanswered however, as the crew just gave the long-nose teen a blank stare.
"You have a frenzy mode?" Zoro asked incredulously with a frown decorating his face.
"No" the sniper muttered, clearly unsure of himself. The crew still kept on the stare while Nami (probably the sanest of them all) just sighed as she rubbed her temple to ease the upcoming headache.
"The red flame was real alright, since everyone of us could see it and i'm sure as hell that my mind was still normal enough not to have hallucinations, i still want to have my sanity intact thank you very much" the navigator heaved another heavy sigh as she and the others once again turned to a certain brunette with a questioning gaze.
"I don't know anything i swear" Tsuna blurted out with his hands raised defensively, his crewmates still looked unconvinced though, but before they could utter a word, a hand raised excitedly followed by a cheerful voice of a certain rubbery teen.
"Hey i know!" This made the others look at Luffy in surprise, clearly baffled by their captain's rare moment of (hopeful) intelligence. The straw-hat teen paid no mind to the intense stare as he just gave them a toothy grin.
"It's a mystery flame" Luffy exclaimed as his grin seemed to widen. The crew facepalmed in unison, muttering some incoherent insults under their breath. Tsuna on the other hand, didn't seem to be fazed by Luffy's utter stupidity, having dealed with Ryohei for 27 years and all, still the way Luffy dubbed everything as 'mystery' really confounded him sometimes.
"Is it possible that it was a devil fruit power?" Nami's sudden exclamation made all of the crew look on with interest.
"You mean like Luffy's power, the one granted by eating a devil fruit?" Usopp asked with his hand on his chin in a meditative manner.
"That was the most possible explanation i can think of" Nami shrugged, ignoring the fawning Sanji in the background as she fixed her gaze on the brunette.
"Did you eat any devil fruit recently?"
"I'm not sure, i don't even know what a devil fruit look like" Tsuna said while trying to recall any possible incidents "i think i remember eating some strange fruit when i raid- explored a marine ship back in Cocoyashi island"
"Did it taste good?" Luffy asked eagerly, cutting Nami in the middle of her questioning.
"Nah, it tasted like crap, literally" said the brunette while sticking out his tongue in disgust. The straw-hat teen on the other hand, just grinned wider.
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FanficWhen the Vongola Decimo died in a battle against an enemy famiglia, he didn't expect to wake up finding himself on a small boat floating on the open sea with a cow-looking giant fish staring down at him in hunger. "Well, karma is always a bitch" he...