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."

"I understand. Tell me when your plate is empty alright? Cause I've been thinking that I may possibly be asexual too. So my feelings are completely based on your personality. I hope you can understand."

"I do. Thank you Fuyu. Friends for now?"

"Friends for now." They both shook hands, and that was that.

So now, with a 'daughter' who looked like them, with ice white hair and night blue eyes, it was almost as if they really did have a daughter.

"Did you name her?"

"Yeah. She's Asuka."

"Nice name. Tomorrow's bloom. From the chest I'm guessing?"

"Yeah. I thought that she could be like a purpose to live properly. For that flower to bloom tomorrow. For Asuka."

"She's our daughter from now on. Yeah?"

"Yeah. She's our daughter." Natsuki agreed, and rested their foreheads on each other's.

~o0o~

"So guys, I'd like you to meet our daughter, Asuka!" Natsuki announced the next morning. Fuyuki, Asuka and Natsuki spent the night looking into Asuka's likes and dislikes. Simply by letting Natsuki transform into a type of colour, or even a type of food.

Asuka seemed to be around one years old, and her birthday was decided to be the 25th of April. The day she was found.

"Woah! She looks like a perfect blend of Winter and Summer!" Haruki said as a joke.

"You mean as in Natsu and Fuyu? Or as in her skin colour and features and stuff? Care to elaborate?" Uki snarked.

"Well, she does look like the daughter of Natsuki and Fuyuki, but then again, those two look like their own season represented as a human, so she looks like the mixture of the two seasons as well. I mean, she looks pale, but tan at the same time. How do you explain that!?"

"True." Kanki agreed monotonously.

~o0o~

Two years had past. You might think that this went by quickly, and maybe for you, but for the seasons. It was a long, long, long two years.

They had to learn how to calm tantrums, how to change diapers, how to get a child to behave. Everything!

Aki, who had the most experience with children taught the others, but some were still afraid to touch her, even with gloves. i.e. Kanki.

The girl grew up into a child who mainly spoke gibberish that only her mother and father could understand, and she seemed to be growing into an exact replica of her mother, in every way except her skin and hair colour, which never seemed to get darker as it usually did with most children.

"Mummy! Mummy! Can I see Kura please!?"

"You really like him don't you?" Natsuki laughed, bouncing the small girl on her hip.

"He's funny!" She giggled, remembering the giant fox she often dragged out from her mother's seal.

Natsuki touched her stomach, and the seal shone dimly. The fox was pulled out, and hauled onto the deck of the ship, which was certainly large enough to hold the massive demon.

"Natsuki! Why disrupt my perfect sle- oh... Hi Asuka...." Now, don't get him wrong. Kurama loved the small daughter of his 'sister', but sometimes she got a bit too... clingy. Yes, that's a good word. Clingy.

The last few times he was out in the open, she pulled on his tails and his fur to keep him with her, and though he appreciated her affection. He wished for it not to be so physical.

Whilst Asuka and Kurama played, Natsuki walked over to a den den mushi, and dialled a number.

"Hello? Garp speaking."

"Hi Ojii-chan! Haven't talked to you in a while!" Natsuki pushed in before his rambles began.

"A WHILE? A WHILE? You haven't spoken to me properly in three years! I tried to look for you, but I couldn't find you! Where were you? Go make a vivre card right now!"

"That's a thought. And I'm sorry I couldn't talk to you in a while. I didn't want our calls to be traced by others, and I don't mind as much now. You see, I may or may not have a daughter?"

The other end went silent.

"Ojii-chan? Hello? Ojii-chan?"

"Who is the father, and I demand you to put him on the phone right now." Natsuki shivered at the voice, and called out for Fuyuki to come to the phone.

A few minutes later, Fuyuki stood by the phone, paler than usual, and handed the dial back to Natsuki.

"I hope you didn't threaten him granddad. He didn't get me pregnant you know? We just adopted the child, since it looked like god wanted us to have her."

"Oh, then it's all fine. Tell him that my warning isn't valid anymore. Gahahahaha!" He laughed, and Natsuki let Fuyuki's colour return immediately.

"Would you like to hear her voice?"

"Yes!!!!" Natsuki called her over, and her little hands took the receiver.

"Hello? Who is this?" She asked in her light, petite voice.

Nothing but sobbing could be heard from the other end, and Asuka looked at her mother, confused.

"This is your great grandpa. What's your name?"

"Great grandpa!! Hello! I'm Asuka! I'm Nastuki and Fuyuki's daughter, and if you try to kill me, sell me, or be rough with me, your life is on the line mate." She replied with her well rehearsed lines that Kanki and Uki forced her to remember.

"Well, I'm your family. So I would never do that my little princess." Garp replied, his cheeks reddening with happiness.

"I thought I was your little princess!" He heard Natsuki's voice in the background, and he got a few shades greener.

"Mummy! Stop teasing grandpa!" He heard his great granddaughter argue, and his protectiveness somehow managed to get stronger. "Well, mummy says that you need to get back to work, so bye bye!"

Garp tried to argue, but the line was cut off, and he nearly cursed.

Next time he'd just have to go meet her then.