She hates you,

You hate her,

Days go by,

All in a blur.

She knows you,

You know her,

She likes all things

With tufts of fur.

She tells you,

You tell her,

Things gone wrong,

Things in a stir.

She calls you,

You call her,

She loves you,

And you love her.

-noelicoan

It took a while to calm down the raging girl. Kanki and Uki were like water and oil. The moment they saw each other, all they expressed was hate.

"Who's this little brat!" Kanki yelled at the small blue haired girl.

"This 'little brat' just saved a man you nearly killed! A thank you would be appreciated! Natsu-nee!? What are you doing with this kind of man!?"

"Excuse you! It wasn't my fault that this snow dude takes my glove off to touch me! Why should I thank a person who insulted me without finding out what happened first?"

"Because I saved his life you daft idiot! Be more alert for goodness sake! It's a bloody glove! Wouldn't you notice if he took it off!?"

"Uki-"

"-Besides! Why would Fuyuki-nii touch your hand on purpose!?"

"Uki!" Natsuki stopped her before things got any worse. "Uki. This is Kanki. Our new crewmate. Kanki, this is Uki. The one I was talking about, who can control rain."

"WHAT!?" They both yelled at the same time.

"You heard me. Also, it's good to see you two are already such good friends." Natsuki smirked, watching the two of them shake their heads in denial so quickly, it could tear off any second.

Natsuki quickly scanned over Fuyuki to check if he was alright, and relaxed when his vitals were fine. "Sahara-san. Thank you for letting us take your son."

"Please take good care of him. He's the only part of my family I have left."

"Of course." Natsuki smiled kindly at the old man, and Fuyuki nodded as well. Kanki went to hug his father, and Uki lost her snark.

"Take care of your body. Say hi to mum for me." Kanki didn't say goodbye, and it wasn't necessary.

"I'll be looking forward to see your bounty Kanki! Good luck!" Natsuki gestured for Uki and Fuyuki to hold her shoulder, and she herself held Kanki's shoulder. With a flicker of lightning, they all disappeared, reappearing on board their very own Kaizoku-gunkan.

Kanki managed to only throw up in his mouth, impressing even Uki.

Autumn and Spring who were anxiously waiting for Natsuki; jumped up, as four presences entered their sensory zone.

"How'd it go?" Haruki asked impatiently. "Did you find a new member?"

"It went fine. Let me introduce to you, our sixth and final season, the season of dryness: Kanki." Kanki awkwardly bowed, rubbing his neck.

"My name is Kanki. Apparently I ate the kasa kasa no mi. The dry dry fruit. So please don't force my gloves off, if you don't want to turn into a thin stick." He warned, looking down. Fuyuki slapped his back.

"Sorry about that mate. Natsuki wanted you to understand that we're capable of healing anyone who's affected by your powers."

"Well, I don't doubt your capabilities, but I'd rather not have this little midget shout in my ear every time she has to use her powers to heal ones who are affected by mine." He pointed at the small girl of rain, who was over two heads shorter than him.

"Hey!"

"See what I mean?"

"Well, my name is Aki. I'm the season of autumn. I don't have a fruit, but I specialise in martial arts."

"I'm Haruki. I'm the season of spring! I ate the camouflage fruit, so unless you can use haki, well even if you can use haki, you can't see me!"

"Everyone here knows haki?"

"Yeah. You too?"

"I learnt it from my aunt, who was a marine officer. She died a year back."

"I'm sorry for your loss."

"Nah it's fine, I know she'd have punched me in the gut if I mourned for her."

"She sounds nice." Aki smiled, and Kanki smiled back.

"Alright, but where are we?"

"We're on the calm belt."

"What? Why aren't we eaten by sea kings yet?"

"Because this is a marine ship."

"Oh. That's smart."

~o0o~

So for the next two years, Haru, Uki, Natsu, Kan, Aki and Fuyu trained nonstop.

They would sometimes visit islands separately, causing havoc on each one, though it was only to save the poor souls on each island. Natsuki's younger brother, Ace was doing the same as the second division leader for one of the four emperors'. He became known as the 'Fire fist Ace', after gaining the flame flame fruit, boarding White Beard's ship.

Talking of fruits, Aki also received a fruit, which was completely on accident.

"What's that?"

"What's what?"

"The thing floating about a kilometre from here." Haruki said from the crows nest, training with his sensory.

"I don't know. Fuyu, Kan, can you go get it please." Natsuki was currently dealing with Aki, who was fighting her without hesitation. Once in a while, Aki would win, and Natsuki was so proud!

Fuyuki and Kanki discovered that combining their powers made ice, so Fuyuki made it snow on the sea, and Kanki jumped down, hands first, freezing the sea. They walked over to the object Kanki saw earlier, to find it was a chest, covered in sea stone.

"Natsuki or Aki, only you guys can open this!" They called, and Natsuki appeared with a flash. She tottered over, and using Kusanagi, split the box open perfectly in half. The content was what surprised them.

"Aki!! Come here!" Aki also arrived, and Uki and Haruki came over out of interest.

"What is it?"

"I believe a devil fruit has been delivered by a god..." Natsuki knew all this nonsensical whatnot about the seasons and the devil fruits was happening because of Kami, the goddess of her previous world. She couldn't be sure, but how else could you describe such utter nonsense?

"A devil fruit? Do you know which one?"

"Let me check with my dictionary..." Natsuki, who had revealed nearly every single secret she owned, did exactly as she said she would. "Apparently it's the nobi nobi no mi. The growth growth fruit... A fruit which allows the user to grow any plant from a seed or make a monster plant by making something grow even more." The fruit was shaped like a raspberry, with swirls on each bump. It was a hot pink colour, which didn't seem very appealing, but Aki gulped, and took a bite out of the fruit.

Immediately, she tried to spit it out, making the rest of the devil-fruit users laugh, as they had experienced the exact same thing before.

Nothing changed to her body, though when Natsuki brought out a potted flower from her room, it started growing and growing when Aki touched it. The flower became massive, and they had to drop it into the sea because of how quickly it was growing.

In a minute, there was a flower which stood almost twenty metres tall, from the ocean surface.

"Okay, you need to learn how to control your powers and how to reverse it. We've got a year and a half of training to get through, and I have no doubt that you'll do fine!" Natsuki encouraged and Aki looked at her hands with slight worry, which was soon overpowered by excitement.

"Leave it to me!!"

So now, with her new powers, and the crew causing havoc, they each had a bounty which was too high for someone who supposedly resided in the East Blue. Especially Aki, Fuyuki and Natsuki, who were the main people who defeated the three admirals.

The Striking Vixen, captain of the Seasonal Pirates: Akagami D. Natsuki

Jack Frost, vice-captain of the Seasonal Pirates: Kurama Fuyuki

Forest Fighter of the Seasonal Pirates: Aki

Ryokuryuu of the Seasonal Pirates: Haruki

Drying Desert of the Seasonal Pirates: Kanki

Raining Miracle of the Seasonal Pirates: Uki

They looked at their posters in awe. Uki complained slightly when Kanki just had to mention the difference of price on their heads, but that only made her want to train more to overpower him.

It was obvious to the rest that their rivalry was in relation to their powers, considering how she had powers of rain, and Kanki had powers to dry her rain up. Though whenever the either of them felt insecure about the power they possessed, they were always there for each other, and were secretly the best of friends. Just like the time Natsuki just happened to overhear. She was walking on deck when she noticed Kanki climbing up the mast.

"My turn in the crows nest." Kanki said as he got to the top where Uki was.

"Took you long enough! I was freezing!"

"Yeah, yeah." Kanki sat down and looked up at the starry sky. "I'm glad I joined you guys. Everyday is so fun." He just whispered to himself.

"Me too. I mean, I'm glad I joined, not like I'm glad you joined!" She covered up.

"Uki, do you know what a tsundere is?"

"No?"

"Well, that's what you are." Natsuki almost gave away her position from laughing.

"What's a tsundere?"

"Ask someone else. You're going back down in a second aren't you?"

"Yeah, but I'll stay up here for a few more minutes."

"Is this about yesterday?"

"Yeah..."

"It wasn't your fault. I mean, it wasn't your fault that it began to rain in your room after a bad dream."

"It was though... If I were stronger, our precious memories on the walls wouldn't have got wet. If I had control over my fruit more, we wouldn't have had to run away from the room when it began to rain acid..."

"You can't reverse time. All you can do is to go forward, rather than look back on it and regret." Natsuki nodded, faint smile on her lips as she walked away. That night, Uki stayed up with Kanki, looking up at the stars as she fell asleep.

So, although they often had heated arguments, they were actually some of the closest in their small family. With Fuyuki and Natsuki with the roles of father and mother, Aki the eldest sister, along with Kanki the eldest brother, then came Haruki and Uki.

When Natsuki's youngest brother left Dawn island on his seventeenth birthday, Natsuki was already 22, Fuyuki 25, Aki 20, Kanki 21, Haruki 18, and Uki 14. They decided to finally show themselves officially to the world, as the Seasonal Pirates.