Past & Future

Siria groaned with pleasure as Sanji's tongue danced through her mouth. Shifting her position she straddled over him and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her lungs burned. Reluctantly she pulled away from him, drawing in several breaths as Sanji continued to kiss over her skin and down to her neck. Hitting her soft stop she arched into him. "S-Sanji…"

"Sorry," Sanji mumbled against her neck.

Siria shivered at his warm breath washing over her skin.

"I missed you so much." Sanji sucked her neck again.

Siria giggled. "I've been back for over a week now."

"I don't care." Sanji lightly bit down on her. "I'm going to continue to kiss you until I feel like stopping."

"I know," Siria said. "You've been kissing me since I got back."

"Do you want me to stop?" Sanji asked.

"No." Siria ran her fingers through his hair. "I just don't want to go too far too fast. Or too soon."

Sanji pulled back. "Are you worried we might cross that line?"

"I don't know," Siria said. "I do love you. And you make my body so hot. I guess I'm not sure if I'm ready for that yet."

Sanji nodded. "Don't worry." His eyes lingered on the bruise that was fading from her cheek. "I won't hurt you or force you to do anything you don't want to do."

Siria press her forehead to his. "One of the many reasons I love you. You're amazing."

"You are the amazing one. You put up with tall that crap from the Eris family twice." Sanji ran his hands down her sides.

Siria sighed.

"Something on your mind?" Sanji asked.

"My brother," Siria said. "I'm second guessing all of this. What if he doesn't want to meet with me?"
"Don't be stupid," Sanji said. "Of course he does. And it's his choice whether he comes with us or stays behind."

"I know. But I'm worried about either out come," Siria said. "If he stays then he'll have to continued to live with his parents' control. And if he does come he won't be familiar with how to fight."

"It's not like you knew how to fight when you first came here," Sanji said.

"I know," Siria said. "But we got lucky, in a way, to get all that training from our friends back in the Kamabaka Kingdom."

"I'm sure it'll be fine," Sanji said. "After all we're in the New World. That mean's your brother is familiar with the events here."

"I guess you're right," Siria said. "I know he can use his light powers to blind people attacking him."

"And he can create shadows for you," Sanji said.

"I never thought of that," Siria said.

"So stop worrying. Everything will be fine," Sanji said.

"Yeah." Siria smiled.

A knock came on the door. Brook said, "Hey, we're about to arrive."

"Thank you, Brook," Siria said. They stood and left the room. Gathering on the deck with the rest of the crew, they sat down beside each other on the mast bench. "So are we all ready to do this?"
"Yeah!" The crew nodded.

"I just hope it works. I really don't want to fight a bunch of people with light powers," Usopp said. "I had enough of that two years ago with Kizaru."

"At least this time we're more familiar with such powers," Brook said. He pulled sunglass down over his eyeholes. "And we're prepared."

"They can still knock off our sunglasses or make the light too bright for them," Usopp said.

"I just hope Siria gets enough time with her brother," Chopper said.

"Bringing him to my house should give them enough time to talk," Brendon said. "But I will ask the cook to prepare the master and mistress's nightcap with sleeping potion just in case."

"Just don't get yourself into trouble," Siria said.

"Don't worry," Franky said. "We've got him covered."

"It'll be fine," Nami said. "You just focus on your brother. We'll handle the rest of your family."

"That sounds so weird. You all are my family," Siria said.

"And we always will be." Sanji squeezed her hand.

"How do you know this cook will do it?" Usopp asked.

"Because she's my wife," Brendon said.

"Oh." Usopp nodded. "Okay then."

Just as they pulled up to the island the moon was high in the sky. Siria's exhaled. She was glad they made it here at night. The chance was much lower of getting caught. Brendon didn't know for sure if anyone would notice her. So they didn't want to take any chances. A few minutes later the ship pulled into the harbor. The crew followed Brendon through the alleyways of the town. A large statue caught Siria's eyes. She paused to look at it.

"That's the statue of the first person to ever have the light power," Brendon said. "Our history says he founded this island and town."

"One of Siria's ancestors," Robin said. "Interesting."

"Let's go," Siria said. They continued walking. Her eyes darted around the town. It looked like any other town she had seen before. The houses and buildings varied in shapes and sizes. A few people lingered on the streets. Their cheerful voices mixed with the crickets. Trembling she reached for Sanji's hand. His warm rushed over at the connection of their skin. She relaxed. They reached the edge of the town and headed up a winding path to a two-story house looking over the town. The windows were dark signally no one was home.

Brendon turned on the light upon entering the building. "You all wait in here. I'll go tell my wife the plan. If all goes well Kiran will be here about ten o'clock. Help yourself to anything you need."

"Thanks," Siria said before he left them. The rest of the crew scattered around the living room while she remained on her feet and paced. Several times her eyes went to the moon to check the time. She was on her fifteenth glance when Sanji pulled her to the couch with him.

"Calm down," Sanji said. "You're going to worry yourself sick."

"I'm sorry," Siria said. "Maybe we shouldn't have-"

"No." Sanji placed his finger on her lips to silence her. "You're not going to second guess this again. You're just nervous. Calm down and breath."

Siria nodded. She drew in a breath and slowly exhaled it. Before much longer Luffy fell asleep. His snoring filled up the otherwise silent room.

"Typical." Nami huffed.

Siria leaned against Sanji's shoulder and closed her eyes, falling asleep in the process.

…

"Hey, Siria," Sanji called. "Wake up."

"Hm?" Siria looked up at him.

"It's almost time," Sanji said.

"Oh." Siria sat up. The last five minutes flew by. She fiddled with her fingers as she waited for the door to open. Any second now her past and future were about to collide. The doorknob turned. Her lungs squeezed. She clung to Sanji's arm. They stood up together. The door opened. Brendon stood there with a black hair woman and a young man with blonde hair and light blue eyes. She swallowed.

His eyes found hers. They widened. "It's you."

"Uh, yeah. Hi." Siria gave him a timid wave.

Kiran rushed over to her.

Siria opened her mouth to speak but he threw his arms around her.

"You're really here!" Kiran hugged her tightly.

Siria stiffened in his hold for a minute before relaxing. She hesitantly wrapped her arms around his waist.

"We should give them time alone to talk," Robin said.

"Let's go." Zoro grabbed Luffy's ankle and pulled him outside. The captain kept snoring. The door closed.

"I can't believe you're actually here." Kiran held her at arms length. His eyes scanned over her then narrowed on her cheek. "Are you hurt?"
"Oh that." Siria touched her cheek. "Don't worry about it. Just a bruise."

Kiran nodded slowly.

"So…we're siblings, huh?" Siria said.

"Yeah. Twins. I can't believe it," Kiran said.

"It's hard for me to believe it too," Siria said. "But I can tell that we really are twins."

"I can feel it too." Kiran smiled. "I'm so happy we could meet."

"Me too," Siria said.

"And I'm sorry our parents got rid of you," Kiran said taking her hands in his. "I don't agree with them on that. If I knew sooner I would have tried to come find you."

"I know." Siria nodded. "Brendon told us all about it. And it's okay. I don't blame you. You were also a baby at the time."

"I wish I could change that," Kiran said. "I want you to stay here. Now that you're back I don't want you to ever leave."

Siria's heart thumped. "I'm sorry. Even if I could…" She looked at the door before looking back at her brother. "I belong with the Straw Hats now."

"You don't want to stay with me?" Kiran's smile vanished. His arms fell to his sides.

"It's not that I don't want to, I do want to stay," Siria said. "It's just that Sanji and I are a couple. And if our parents didn't want me then there's no way they're going to let me stay. I've already accepted they hate me."

"I see," Kiran said. "I guess I can't argue with that. To them it's like you don't exist. But I know they remember you."

"You could come with us," Siria blurted out. She flinched when he gave her a confused look. She hadn't meant to blurt that out. "Sorry. I met to ease that into the conversation not just jump right in."

"It's okay," Kiran said. "I actually thought to leave many times before." He paused before continuing. "Tried a couple of times. But our parents, especially our mother, are just so controlling. Escaping might not be so easy."

"I'm not asking you to decide right now," Siria said. "We're going to stay here a few days. I know this is a big decision. We're both overwhelmed. But one thing we know for sure is I can't live here if your…if our family despises me."

"It's not really you they despise. It's what you can do," Kiran said.

"I don't understand why they think of me like that," Siria said. "I have control over my powers now."

"That's good to hear," Kiran said with a smile. "I'm glad you're flourishing."

"I wasn't always." Siria gave him a quick summary of her life.

"You were a slave?"

Siria nodded. "That's why I'm so grateful to the Straw Hats. They saved me."

"I see." Kiran lowered his eyes to the floor.

"I know this is new to us both, but they have already said you can sail with us," Siria said. "Of course that would make you a pirate."

"A pirate?" Kiran's eyebrow rose.

"Do you not pay attention to the newspapers?" Siria asked.

"I do but I was too busy looking for you to care about anything else," Kiran said.

"That's right. Brendon mentioned something about that," Siria said.

"So what's it like being a pirate?" Kiran asked.

"Well, it's tough. But we also have a lot of fun." Siria waved to the couch. "Let's sit." They sat down and she told them about some of their adventures. "And that's basically how it is."

"Wow. Sounds amazing yet scary," Kiran said.

"It is." Siria nodded. "So what are your fist impressions?"
"I think you're amazing having gone through all of that," Kiran said. "Though I'm not sure if it's the life for me."

"I understand." Siria sighed.

"But I still want to get to know you. You said you're going to stay here a few days, right?"

"We can stay for four days," Siria said. "Think you can make a decision in that time?"

"I'm sure I can," Kiran said. "But my, our parents won't let me go so willingly."

"You don't have to worry about that. My crew is really strong," Siria said. "If you really want to leave this place then we'll get you out of here."

"Are you sure? None of them looked that strong to me," Kiran said. "In fact they all looked rather thin."

"I assure you they are strong," Siria said. "Would you like to meet them?"
"No. I'm not interested in getting to know them," Kiran said.

"Oh, um, well," Siria said, slightly confused.

"But I will if I join your crew," Kiran said. "We will, after all, be living together."

"That's true." Siria nodded. She spent another hour along with her brother before calling her crew back inside. Over the next couple of hours they spoke about how they were going to try and get Kiran to the ship.

"I should get back now," Kiran said.

Siria nodded.

Kiran hugged her before he took off.

Siria watched him go from the window, wondering if they could really pull this off in such a short amount of time and without anyone getting blinded.

…

Siria adjusted her sunglass on her nose for the hundredth time in fifteen minutes. Their plan had already been started. Her crew was heading over to Kiran's house to break him out. She wanted to go but they all figured it would be better if she didn't. Despite not having been seen for years they were certain her parents would know who she was. Since she was a cursed child anyone would probably notice her. And every time someone came close to the ship she had to duck down and keep hidden until they were gone.

Her part in the plan was to basically over look the town from the Sunny and not get involved. She had no idea if that would work. Luffy always managed to mess things up some how. And this was her brother they were trying to free. She gulped when a blast came from the town. Smoke rose up from her brother's house. She wondered what happened.

It shouldn't be much longer until the crew came running to the ship with her brother with them.

But something was wrong. She could feel it.

"Be ready," Bran told her.

He had sensed it too.

Suddenly multiple light beams came down on the Sunny. The light faded revealing fifteen people surrounding her.

"Crap." Siria stood ready. She eyed all fifteen of them until her eyes landed on someone that struck her as familiar, and not just because the woman shared the same facial features with her and Kiran. Her eyes widened. "It's you."

"How cute." The woman smiled coldly. "The freak noticed who I am. I'm touched."

Siria shivered at a cold chill running down her spine. This woman, the woman who gave birth to her, was very cold, heartless. There was no other way for her to describe it.

"I had a feeling you would come and try to destroy my family someday." Rachel, if Siria remembered the correct name Kiran gave her, eyed her up and down. She hummed. "Not exactly what I was expecting. I figured you'd look worse."

Siria clenched her fits.

"In fact, I'll make that happened!" Rachel shot her hand out. "I'll make you regret coming here!"

Siria dodged a light beam.

"Attack!" Rachel ordered.

The other fourteen lifted their hands. Suddenly Sanji came out of the ship and kicked them down. He landed beside Siria. "You okay?"

"Yeah." Siria nodded.

"Oh, it has friends." Rachel shook her head. "No matter. You can't beat us."

"We'll see about that," Sanji said before charging into battle. He kicked people and jumped to avoid their attacks. Thanks to his observation haki he got a small leg up on them.

Siria faced off with her mother.

"Cute. He'll fight for you too." Rachel fired at her.

Siria flew into the air.

"Not so fast!" Rachel leaped up into the air. She spun around and landed her heel on Siria's shoulder.

Siria gasped at the strength the tall, thin woman had. She went flying back to the ship deck. She forced herself to sit up.

"Did that surprise you?" Rachel flipped her hair over her shoulder. "Did you think we only used our light to fight? That was a foolish mistake."

Siria gritted her teeth. She was at a serious disadvantage being surrounded like this and not understanding how strong everyone really was here. Her eyes started to wander away from her mother to the sounds of her crew fights coming closer. Quickly she caught herself. She knew she had to keep focused. Her crew would be just fine. They would be here soon and they could leave. They would get away. Somehow.

"You," Rachel snapped. "Why did you come back here?"

"Come back? I never choose to leave!" Siria snapped back. "You two are the ones who got rid of me because of some stupid superstition! Because I didn't belong among the light!"

"You're a curse! Look at what you've done to our home!" Rachel waved her hand around at the destruction her crew had caused. "This wouldn't have happened if you didn't come back here! We want nothing to do with you!"

"You're delusional! I didn't do anything wrong! I didn't ask for these shadow abilities! Why blame me from something I have no control over?! And my crew is liberating my twin brother! You have no right to hold him here!" Siria said. "We will be a family on our own!"

"I'm protecting him! I don't want him to fall under your curse!" Rachel said. "You already tried to take my husband away from me when you were born!"

"What are you talking about?"

"He wanted to keep you despite knowing what you were," Rachel spat. "But I set him straight. A curse like you should never have been born. You should have just been killed from the start."

"I'm not cursed!" Siria shouted. Her shadows jumped up around her before merging with her body. She flapped her wings. "Kiran wants to leave! And I'm going to help him get away from here!"

Rachel clenched her fists, her eyes burning with rage. "I won't let you take my son away from me! Everyone attack!" She rushed forward. Throwing her hand out a bright flash of light shot towards Siria.

Siria swiped her hand, bringing a shield of shadow up.

Another light beam broke through her shield. Again and again they shot light beams at her, breaking through her shadow shields.

"This isn't working," Bran said.

"I've noticed." Siria dodged a kick from behind. As she landed her leg was kicked out from under her. She gasped. A hand knocked off her sunglasses. Rachel was hovering over her.

The woman shoved her hand towards Siria's eyes. "Stay away from my son!"

The light stuck into her eyes before she could close them. Her surroundings were replaced with a bright white light before fading to black. The voices of her crew screamed out to her, but she found herself unable to respond.

…

"Mama! Mama!"

Siria rolled onto her back to the sound of two small voices calling for her.

"Mama! Wake up!" Sound of feet rumbled into the room. The bed shifted.

Siria opened her eyes. Two pairs of blue eyes stared down at her. Their curly eyebrows twitched with annoyance. Their blond hair pulled back in identical pigtails.

"Mama!" they said.

"What is it?" Siria asked.

"It's almost time!" they said.

"Time for what?" Siria asked.

"Mama, how could you have forgotten?!" They puffed up their cheeks.

Siria giggled. "I didn't forget. I know what today is. But we still have plenty of time."

"But he'll be here any minute!" they said.

"Are you two bothering your mother again?"

All three looked to the door. Sanji leaned against it with a smirk.

"Daddy!" The girls got off the bed and ran over to him.

"I told you to let your mother sleep," Sanji said. "She's really tired."

"But Uncle Luffy's coming today!" they said.

"I know he is," Sanji said. "But he's not coming until later."

"Not fair!" The girls pouted. "We want to see him now!"

Sanji chuckled. "You have to have patience. Go play now and let mommy rest."

"Okay."

Sanji sat the girls down. They disappeared out of the room. He walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed. "Sorry about that. I turned around for a second and they were gone."

"It's okay." Siria covered a yawn. "They're just excited."

"I know." Sanji placed his hand on Siria's rounding stomach. "But you need to rest. This little one is causing you so much trouble."

"I'm fine." Siria placed her hand over his. "It's not like I haven't done this before. And he's just restless. He's not going to be like his sisters wielding light."

Sanji nodded. "I'm still worried. Anything could go wrong."

"You're sweet." Siria smiled.

"Siria? Siria?"

…

"Siria? Siria? Siria?!"

Siria shifted. His voice remained distant in her ears. With each call of her name his voice became clearer and clearer.

"Come on, Siria! Open your eyes! Please! Siria!"

Siria opened her eyes. Dark spots lingered in her vision. Slowly it began to fade away with each blinked she took. Sanji's worried expression finally appeared in her vision. His soft hand cupped her cheek. "Sanji?"

"You're okay." Sanji relaxed.

"Let me see." Chopper leaned close to Siria's face. "Looks like her eye sight is going to be okay. I'm so glad." Tears formed in his eyes. "I was so worried about you. I thought you were going to be blinded for life!"

"What happened?" Siria asked.

"Your mother attempted to blind you." Sanji took her hand and helped her sit up.

"That's right. Wait! What about Kiran?!" Siria looked around the infirmary. "We're on the ship? What happened?"

"He's fine. He's on the deck with the others," Sanji said. "We managed to escape thanks to Bran's help. A massive cloud passed over her at the right time. He managed to shield you long enough for us to get you away. And he managed to protect your eyes. So you're not going to go blind."

"I see," Siria said. She searched inside of herself for her shadow friend. She found him deep asleep. "He's worn out."

"I should say so," Sanji said. "It looked like he was really struggling against all the light."

Siria placed her hand over her heart. "Then he deserves a good long rest."

"We got really lucky," Chopper said. "Our sneak attack caused a lot of confusion with the people of the island. They weren't prepared for a fight like that, especially with Luffy."

"I'm glad we took into account their light as a weakness," Siria said. "And that we had experience fighting against Kizaru."

"Yeah. I don't want to know what would have happened if we didn't really plan for this," Sanji said.

Siria swung her legs over the side of the bed.

"Are you feeling well enough to get out of bed?" Sanji asked.

"Yes. I'm fine," Siria said standing up.

Sanji stood up with her, his eyes roaming over her.

"I'm okay." Siria patted his chest. "I want to go see my brother."

"All right." Sanji offered her his arm and guided her out of the infirmary with Chopper following. Sounds of an argument greeted them the closer they got to the deck.

"What's going on?" Chopper asked.

"Only one way to find out." Sanji led them forward. They looked below to see Usopp and Luffy arguing.

"I'm telling you we do not need cushions like that!" Usopp said.

"What?! Yes, we do! It would be awesome!" Luffy said.

"They're arguing over cushions?" Siria blinked.

"Hey, Siria," Robin said. "You're looking better."

"I'm feeling better," Siria said as they walked down the stairs. "So what's going on here?"
"Your brother was complaining about the lack of comfort on the ship," Nami said. "He suggested really large cushions. And Luffy agreed."

"I see." Siria looked to her brother. He was sitting on the mast bench.

"Honestly, Siria." Kiran stood and walked over to her. "I have no idea how you can deal with all this." He waved his hand around, gesturing at the ship, before snapping his fingers. "Hey! Cook! Bring me something to drink. I am thirsty."

"I might be the cook but I'm not your servant!" Sanji snapped.

"Looks like Kiran has a lot of learning to do if he's going to blend in with us," Usopp said.

"He's been waited on hand and foot his whole life," Brook said. "It's going to take time to get use to being a normal person."

"That's why we should get the cushions!" Luffy said. "It'll make things better for him and the Sunny!"

Usopp slapped Luffy on the cheek with the back of his hand. "Just shut up."

"Sanji, will you pleasing bring us something to drink?" Siria asked.

"Fine. I'll do it for you." Sanji pecked her lips before heading to the kitchen.

"Thank you." Siria took her brother's arm and steered him back over to the bench. "Kiran, you're not living in a mansion anymore. You can't order the crew around like that."

"I can't?" Kiran blinked.

"No, you can't." Siria patted his arm. "But you'll learn. Things are going to be very different from now on. You're going to have to do a lot of stuff for yourself."

"Yeah." Kiran rubbed his neck. "I'm sorry. I guess I am use to living a certain way."

"It'll be fine," Luffy said. "And a lot of fun. You're going to love it here."

"I made drinks for everyone." Sanji returned a few minutes later with a tray balancing on his hand. He passed them out then sat beside Siria.

Siria watched him. The dream, or vision, she had about them being parents flowed back into her mind. "You know." Sanji looked at her. "You're going to make a great father."

Sanji snorted his drink through his nose. "What?!"

"Huh?" The crew paused and looked at her.

"What?" Kiran's eyes narrowed onto Sanji.

"What a second! Don't give me that look! We've only kissed!" Sanji said.

"I don't care what you are to her!" Kiran grabbed for Sanji but the cook leaped away from him. "You had better not get her pregnant until you've married her!"

"That's none of your business!" Sanji whipped around and faced the man. "If we want to have sex then we will have sex!"

Kiran's face reddened from shock and probably embarrassment before screaming out again and chasing after Sanji while screaming how he was going to castrate the cook.

"Well, things sure got more lively on the ship," Robin said.

"Maybe I shouldn't have said that," Siria said.

"Why did you say it?" Zoro asked.

"Well, when I was out of it, I had this dream or something about us having twin girls. I was pregnant with our third child," Siria said. "I couldn't help but thing how natural Sanji would be as a dad. It just kind of came out."

"How interesting," Robin said.

"Do you think it's possible we'll have twins? I mean if we do get married and all," Siria said.

"I say it's highly possible," Chopper said. "You and Kiran are twins after all. They probably run in your family."

Siria hummed in thought. Her eyes went back to Sanji and Kiran. She knew Sanji could easily defeat her brother, but instead he continued to run away from Kiran. She smiled. Things were definitely going to get more interesting now.

…

Author's Notes: I'm burning out. That's why these last few chapters are so bad. So I don't know if I'll continue from this point with this story.