I go crazy when I think of you

I lose control and I fall down low.

I can't think with logic,

But you always seemed to know.

I thought back, and you were always there.

Lurking in the corners of my mind I never saw.

You shined the sun into those corners,

Gifting it with the emotions that were so raw.

So now you're gone,

What did you think would happen.

Think that we'd function

In this world we're trapped in?

Our only ray of hope is now forever gone,

So wait for us in heaven where happiness is postponed.

-noelicoan

"Zehahahaha! Shanks!" Blackbeard laughed, appearing, now that the powerful beast was gone. His cowardly acts disgusting everyone. "Did you defeat that beast? It seems to be gone, but thanks!" He laughed, the horrid stench called his existence still hanging in the air.

Kurama growled, speaking through Natsuki, whose eyes turned blood red and slitted, her voice a few octaves lower and gruff. Blackbeard took a few steps back.

"So is that your daughter? Isn't she a beauty?" Shanks growled, and one of Kurama's eyes appeared again, giving her a heterochromia look.

"o't o dr Tah" Father and Fox spoke as one, and Natsuki felt safer than ever, wondering why pirates had to be this way. She knew so many who were kind and good natured, yet she new an equal amount of awful horrendous pirates, such as the Necrophilic Pirates and the Blackbeard Pirates. It was the same with marines as well. Like the ones who robbed her brother today, and the ones like her grandfather.

Teach cowered in fear, and ran off secretly with his new crew.

For once, Shanks didn't care.

"Natsuki!" She heard a familiar voice yell, and she smiled, turning towards a man in a blue hoodie, holding a crooked stick.

"Hullo Fuyu. You alright?" She asked tiredly. Her eyes were half-shut, and she fell right into Fuyuki's embrace.

"I'm fine! But you!" He asked her worriedly, and soon the rest of the seasons joined, ignoring the two famous pirates behind her, running straight to their captain.

"We were so worried! Doctor's orders! No more fighting!" Uki yelled, using her rain to wash away the blood stains in her clothes.

"Since when were you the doctor?" Natsuki chuckled and closed her eyes. She didn't open them after a few seconds, and Winter bounced her slightly, only just finding out that she had fallen asleep.

"Why don't you come on our ship. We can catch up after she wakes up." Shanks offered, and only then did the seasons notice him.

"You're Natsu's dad!" Haruki exclaimed.

Aki punched his gut, and Haruki rubbed the spot, mumbling something about mean sisters and stupid plant growers.

"Sorry for his rudeness." Aki apologised, glaring at Spring before she turned her face into a smile.

"I don't mind! But let me take care of this mess first." Shanks' face turned serious as he turned to the broken Marineford and it's soldiers. The men stared at the destruction with awe, muttering rumours as they pointed at Natsuki, who remained in Fuyuki's embrace.

Akainu, who tried to jump to Natsuki again was stopped by a young Marine Soldier, with pink hair, a green bandana with round glasses on his head.

"LET'S STOP THIS! STOP FIGHTING!! IT'S A WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE!" He exclaimed, thinking of each and every soldier who had a family waiting for them back home. "WE'VE LOST IN THIS WAR! WHY KILL MORE PEOPLE WHEN YOU CAN JUST GIVE UP, SAVING THOUSANDS! CAN'T YOU HOLD YOUR PRIDE AND EGO DOWN FOR EVEN A SECOND TO SAVE THOSE LIVES!!??""

"Who are you? You've cost me precious seconds. A soldier who doesn't serve justice has no place in the Navy!" Sakazuki yelled, his hands dripping magma.

Coby, a young marine soldier who worked hard to get his place, shut his eyes hard, accepting his fate of death.

He waited more seconds, but the blazing hot impact didn't come. He slowly opened his eyes, to see a sword protecting him. He looked up to a man with red hair, three claw marks on his left eye, and only one arm.

"Well done young man. For better or for worse, those few seconds of courage will profoundly influence the fate of this new world." He said.

Kizaru trudged up, holding his stomach with multiple wounds inflicted by Natsuki. He tried to attack Natsuki's father, but a voice stopped him first.

"Don't move, Kizaru."

"Woah woah. Benn Beckman..." the world finally noticed the arrival of the famous pirates.

"That ship! Why are one of the Four Emperor's here!?"

"IT'S RED HAIRED SHANKS!"

"I've come, to put an end to this war!!" Shanks announced, picking up Luffy's hat which had fallen during battle. "Buggy! Give that to Luffy!"

"Huh? Your Straw hat?"

"I have a treasure map I want to give you..."

"R-really!? Hold on! I'll take it to him right now!!" he flew off, leaving his feet behind.

"Boss! It's been ten years since you last saw Luffy! Shouldn't you go see him?" Lucky Roo asked, munching on a slab of meat.

"I wish I could." Shanks was thinking back to his memories, remembering the promise he made with Luffy, that Luffy would only give it back to him, when he had become a great pirate. "To see him now, would violate our agreement. Right, Luffy?"

"Ice Age!" Aokiji yelled in desperation to capture the Straw hatted pirate, but his attempt was futile, the submarine no longer in the reach of his ice.

"NO TREASURE MAP!??? YOU LYING JERK!" Buggy tried to strangle Shanks, who dodged his question.

"I was in a hurry. Anyway, it's been a long time Buggy."

"Don't give me that! Don't forget, I still hold a grudge against you Shanks! You used me as your errand boy!!" Buggy complained as his followers silently fanboyed about their captain.

"Shanks!" Marco called.

"Marco, stop fighting and retreat." He ordered. Meanwhile, Mihawk had awakened from the state Natsuki put him in, and noticing his rival's appearance, walked away despite the disagreeing voices.

"I agreed to fight Whitebeard, but I never agreed to fight red Haired Shanks." came his blunt reply.

Shanks opened his mouth, his overwhelming presence shutting them all up.

"Everybody listen. Withdraw now and allow me to save Ace. We'll see to the burial of Whitebeard and Ace. You've already broadcast the battle throughout the world. I won't allow you to go on, making a spectacle of their deaths." He glared at Sengoku and Sakazuki in particular.

"I don't mind!" the fleet admiral yelled back, despite his men's protest. "That's fine by me, Red head. I'll take responsibility for this."

"Thank you." Shanks replied, even though he himself wanted to lunge at the man who killed his captain's son... his daughter's brother.

"Hurry up and treat the wounded! THIS WAR IS OVER!!!" Sengoku announced, and the people hadn't an idea whether to celebrate or not. The war was over. Whitebeard was dead, and the past pirate king's son was dead, yet what they had seen through the screen told a different story.

The story of the pirates they never thought they'd see. The story of a beautiful sibling relation. The story of a sister avenging her brother.

It told them that they weren't some other-worldly people, that pirates weren't all heartless, and had family and emotions just like themselves.

Much was learnt that day.

But the threat was still undoubtedly there. Six warriors who fought like the god of war itself, especially the captain, the daughter of the sea emperor, Shanks: The Striking Vixen.

She was a threat that nobody had expected to rise so quickly. Her presence was subtle compared to the rest of the pirates, with a small number of crew mates and inconsistent rise of bounty, appearing and disappearing out of nowhere. She was a threat which was simply, there.

Today she proved otherwise. She was one of the strongest out there. The whole of her crew was. Her enormous figure as a fox. Her power to beat the strongest swordsman and an admiral within a second. Her connections with all famous pirates.

To anyone, she would pose as a threat. Anyone who didn't see her as a threat were either her family, or the dumbest people in the world.

~o0o~

Later in the day, the whole of the ex-Whitebeard Pirates, along with the Red-Haired Pirates and the Seasonal Pirates stood in front of the two graves of Whitebeard and Fire Fist Ace. All except Natsuki.

She stayed behind, wanting some time alone to grieve for her brother, and so that she could visit her brother's grave when there was no one there.

She left her father's cabin and appeared in the middle of the sea nearby.

She yelled, punching the water beneath her. The water, as if it were contained until a few seconds ago, with a fatal hit from Natsuki, burst, making a massive geyser in the middle of the sea.

The pirates on the island had no idea what was going on when a massive wave of water splashed onto the island, draining the devil fruit users' strength.

Breathing heavily, she lay on the surface of the water, glaring at the sky, as if looking directly into Ace's eyes.

"You fucking idiot!" She yelled, not caring when the tears rolled off her face.

"I'm sorry Luffy, Natsuki... I'm sorry you didn't get to save me... I'm sorry."

"Why should you be the one who's sorry! I was the one who was powerless! I was the one who wasn't smart! I was the one who didn't notice quickly! I'm the one who should apologise!" She yelled, looking up to the sky, remembering her last moments with her younger brother.

"Nobody wanted me. It couldn't be helped..."

"I wanted you! You're my brother! Why wouldn't I!? You're such a... you're such an idiot..."

"If you ever see Makino again, please give my regards...huff...Dying makes me nostalgic of people I knew a long long time ago... But there's one thing I've left undone... I wasn't able to see your dreams through the end... But you... I know you can do it... You're my little brother! You're Natsuki's, Sabo's and my little brother... We know you can do it! Natsuki, I'm sure you'll be greater than any pirate out there! You're my pride! Just like you are Luffy!"

"You should've told Makino yourself! You should've travelled the entire world and told her yourself! You should've been there to see Luffy become Pirate King! You should've been there to see me be greater than any pirate out there!" She let out a strangled sob. "YOU were my pride! You all were! MY pride!"

"Just like how I swore back then... I have no regrets!"

"What I really wanted wasn't fame... All I wanted to know was whether or not I should've been born... Huff! I can't even shout anymore... Luffy, listen to my next words carefully...huff...Tell everybody what I say to you."

"You never go-got the chance... you never got the chance to tell the world how wrong they... how wrong they were! You never proved to the world that you weren't your father! You never surpassed me! You liar!!!"

"Pops and Fellow Pirates! Luffy, Natsuki. I've always been such a helpless person... huff, huff... I was demon spawn... The son of a devil!"

"No... No you weren't..."

"Thank you... For loving me!"

"AAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed and screamed, the skies turning grey as lightning crackled and thunder boomed, crying down on her, no such thing as apathy in the rain they poured.

She cried with the heavens, sending the ocean into turmoil as it began to turn and churn, hiccupping as it cried as well. The hiccup sent Natsuki under water, but she didn't care. She slowly sank to the bottom of the ocean, watching the sun slowly get eaten by the sea, and spit out the moon once it soothed the heat of the sun.

Holding her breath, she looked up to the sky from a kilometre under the surface, closing her eyes as she let the oxygen in her lungs slowly let her float to the top.

She stayed at the surface for a while, drenching wet.

When the moon came directly above her head, she decided it was time to visit her brother.