From Ninja to Pirate

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Love without lust.
Who would've imagined?
Such thing exists?
Yes, as it so happens. 

Our two main characters,
Who love without lust.
It isn't imaginary,
Just some 'fiction' you'd say.

If you must. 

-noelicoan

"Captain!?" Aki cried out in surprise, when she saw Natsuki walk on the water with a baby, and a small chest decorated with flowers. 

"Ah, Autumn. Perfect timing. Can you go get Fuyuki please? This is something that includes him as well." 

"Alright. I'll leave you two... three, for now, but I will be getting answers later. Understood?" She said good naturedly. 

A few seconds later, Natsuki was in her cabin, where she didn't sleep, but did all her work. She heard someone knock twice, thrice, then once. 

"Come in."

"What's this I hear about a baby?" He asked, floating in. 

"I found her. Kurama and I thought that she was possibly a gift from the gods. A distraction from my drinking and smoking of sorts." Natsuki said, but then she began to panic. "Oh my god! How am I going to raise a child!? I'm the last person you would go to for babysitting!!"

"Natsu. Calm down. Start from the beginning." Fuyuki said, motioning her to breathe in and out. 

"Okay... So, earlier, when I went to go on a walk, I heard a cry, and when I went closer, I noticed there were cries of a baby, coming from this chest." She started, gesturing at the flowery container the child was peacefully sleeping in. "I opened it up, and here I find a child who looks as if she could be the daughter of us two." 

The atmosphere became awkward, and I'm sure you'd be confused as to why they would be. 

Friends would've just laughed this off as a joke, but their situation was different. And to find out why, let us jump a year back, during the seasons and Luffy's training with Rayleigh. 

"Natsu, do you ever just wish for all this pirating to end. So you can settle down, and start a family or something?" he said one day. 

"No. Not really? why? Are you thinking of betraying me?" She said jovially. 

"No no no! Not in a million worlds! Just wondering. But why?"

"Didn't I tell you? Oh schnitzel. Well, you see... I'm asexual. I don't feel any sexual attraction to anyone. Therefore, I won't have kids, with my consent of course, unless someone decides to rape me. Which would result in one dead man and an embryo which wouldn't exist in the first place." she said simply. 

"Oh... oh!" Fuyuki seemed slightly disappointed by something, but he didn't show it clearly. It wouldn't be noticeable, with the exception of Natsuki, who had known him longest. 

"What's wrong?"

"Well, you see... I may or may not have liked you for four years?" He said, rubbing his neck incredibly awkwardly. He was planning on confessing, but his ideals were not at all similar to how it turned out, in any way shape or form. 

"You telling this to me now?" She said sceptically after a moment of silence. 

"Yeah..."

"Well, I do like you Fuyuki. You know I do. But I've got a full plate right now... Ace's died, Luffy and the rest of the seasons are depending on me... I don't think I can worry about a relationship as well..." 

"I know. That's why I didn't exactly want to tell you just yet..." 

"I really do appreciate your feelings Fuyu, and when my plate isn't as full, I may be able to be with you. But at the moment? I really, really can't."