Strawberry Black Cat:This was named without much thought....same for Luffy's mom (Miyuki)

Strawberry Black Cat: Anyway thier ages are a follows, Nami is 5, Luffy is 6, Ace is 8, and Miyuki is 28

Strawberry Black Cat: I'll finish DWIDoHA eventually, it's on a hiatus now.

Strawberry Black Cat: So now, Firehart! Disclaimer!

Firehart: Strawberry Black Cat DOES NOT OWN One piece! (But she does own Ichigo and Miyuki!)

Luffy and Ace were coming home from shopping with their mom on a snowy Thursday morning. Normally they would be in school at this time of the day but because of the blizzard they had the night before they decided it would be best for the children to stay home that day. Though Luffy's mom still had to go shopping because of her 2 sons' and her daughter's ungodly appetites. Well actually Ace wasn't really her son and Ichigo was still on milk but they ran out of food quickly and she had to go to the store or they would run out.

Luffy and Ace were a few meters away from their mother, playing as they were walking back to the house along the shoreline of the ocean, being careful not to get wet when Luffy spotted something in the snow. "Onii-chan who's that?" Luffy asked Ace while pointing at what appeared to be a badly injured girl lying in the snow where the waves were meeting the shoreline.

"I don't know…" Ace said back "I've never seen her before…anyway let's go see if she's alright" Ace finished while running up to where the girl was with Luffy close behind.

"Where are you two going?" Miyuki asked "We need to get home incase the blizzard resumes"

When Luffy and Ace got to where the girl was they could see that she had cuts, scrapes, and bruises all over her body and that she didn't look any older than 3 or 4 years old. "Mama! Look! There's a girl here!" Luffy yelled to his mom with excitement in his voice.

'A girl?' Miyuki thought 'How can there be a girl here when there was a blizzard last night?'

Miyuki went over to where the 2 boys were to see if they were telling the truth, expecting the 2 to be lying. After all why would a girl be lying in the snow when it was less than 20 degrees outside? When she got over to where Luffy and Ace were she saw that there really was a girl there. 'Odd…I don't ever remember seeing a girl with orange hair in the village before…' she thought. 'She's dressed oddly as well…' Miyuki thought to herself 'Aren't those…summer clothes…?' "Excuse me, little girl? Are you alright?" Miyuki asked the girl, shaking her a little.

Much to her surprise though the girl didn't wake up. Miyuki shook the girl a little harder when she noticed that the girl was soaking wet. 'She couldn't have come from another island could she?' Miyuki thought "There's no way…there was a blizzard last night, if she had been sailing the ship would've been destroyed'

"Do you know who she is mommy?" Luffy asked

"No…" Miyuki said back "In any case it's below freezing and she's dressed in summer clothes, let's bring her back to our house and warm her up, we can tell the police about her later"

"You two carry the groceries so I can carry this girl and Ichigo" Miyuki finished

"Haaai" said Luffy and Ace back, they hated to carry the groceries because when they had to carry them they couldn't play while they walked home.

Miyuki handed the groceries to the two boys and picked the little girl up. When she was picking her up from the sand she noticed a necklace that looked like a hand-carved tangerine made of wood on a thick string that had the letters N A M I delicately engraved on it.

'Nami?' Miyuki thought 'Is that her name or is it some kind of reference to the ocean?'

Some minutes of walking later

Miyuki put Ichigo in the crib she had saved since Ace was a baby and then turned her full attention to getting the little girl that Luffy had found warm. "Luffy" She said "Could you go and get the thermometer?"

Luffy of course only being 6 didn't really know what a thermometer was and asked "What's a thermometer?"

"It's the magical stick I use when you two get sick to show how hot you are, it's in the bathroom" She said back

"OK!" Luffy yelled back already running off towards the bathroom

While Luffy was getting the thermometer Miyuki was getting a fire started and was wrapping the little girl up in blankets. 'Her clothes are wet too…' Miyuki thought to herself "Ace" She said "Go and get some of your old clothes"

"How old?" Ace asked back

"From when you were 2 or 3" Miyuki answered as Ace ran back to where she kept their old clothes.

"I found the magical stick!" Luffy shouted as he ran back carrying the thermometer

"Good job" She said to Luffy while patting him on the head.

After she was finished praising Luffy she put the thermometer in the girl's mouth and waited a few minutes for it to register. When a few minutes had gone by she took the thermometer out of her mouth and looked at it. "About 92 degrees…" Miyuki said "She's got hypothermia, we need to warm her up"

"Ace!" She shouted "Have you found some of your old clothes yet?"

"I found Luffy's old clothes but I can't find mine!" He shouted back

"Just bring some of Luffy's old clothes then!" She shouted to Ace

Ace came back a few minutes later with some old clothes that Luffy wore when he was 3 "These should do" Miyuki said "I need both of you to go to your room alright?" She continued

"Whyyyy?" Luffy asked, not wanting to go to his (and his brother's) room

"Just go" Miyuki said pointing at their room

After she heard their door shut she changed the girl into the dry clothes and put them on a rack a few feet away from the fire so they could dry out. She then bandaged up the girl's wounds and put her onto a makeshift bed on the floor made of blankets close to the fire. "There" Miyuki said "That should warm her up"

"Can we come out of our room now?" Luffy asked whining

Miyuki sighed 'I swear that boy has no patience, just like his father' "Sure, come on out" she said

Luffy and Ace came out of the room to see the girl wrapped up on blankets on the floor. "Are we gonna keep her mommy?" Luffy asked

"No" Miyuki said to Luffy "We're going to report her to the police as soon as she wakes up, her parents are probably worried about her"

"Awww" Luffy whined "I really wanted a little sister"

"Luffy…" Miyuki said "You already have a little sister"

"But Ichigo's too little to play with me and Ace!" He complained

"Luffy, we need to get her back to her Mommy and Daddy, they're probably searching everywhere for her right now" Miyuki told Luffy

Luffy looked disappointed after she said this "In a few years Ichigo'll be old enough to play wit you guys ok?" She told him, trying to cheer him up

"But she's only 1!" Luffy said "It's gonna be a long time 'till she can play with us!"

Miyuki tried to explain to Luffy how they weren't the girl's family and why she couldn't stay here but Luffy was dead set on her becoming his sister. After awhile Miyuki gave up and cleaning the small house. She had to admit, one of the good things about living in such a small house is that it was easy to clean and that she could heat the whole house with just one fire.

After she was about halfway done with cleaning the house Luffy said to her "Why isn't she waking up?"

"Her body's probably trying to recover" Miyuki answered "She was hurt pretty badly"

The next Morning

The next morning Ace woke up finding that Miyuki had fallen asleep in a chair that night. 'Did Miyuki never go to bed?' Ace thought 'It's morning…I guess I should wake her up' "Miyuki, it's morning" Ace said while shaking her gently.

"Hn?" Miyuki said, only half-awake

"It's morning" Ace repeated

"Huh…" She said looking around "Oh! Ace! Go and wake Luffy up will you?"

Ace walked back into his and Luffy's room and walked back into the room with Luffy, who now had a large bump on his head. "You two can go get dressed and brush your teeth while I fix breakfast" Miyuki said pointing to the bathroom.

About 15 minutes later both of the boys were dressed and ready for the day and Miyuki was still fixing breakfast. Luffy was sitting next to the girl they had found the day before that was still sleeping. Then Luffy saw her starting to stir a bit. "Hey, I think she's waking up!" Ace, who had been nearby said.

Miyuki took the frying pan off of the stove and ran over to where she had put the girl. When the girl finally opened her eyes they all saw that they were a beautiful shade of maroon. Miyuki was the first to ask something "Excuse me, but do you know where you are little girl?" she asked

The girl shot up only to fall back down from the throbbing pain in her head. She then looked at the people in front of her with eyes full of fear. "Shhhh" Miyuki said to the girl while patting her softly on the head, trying to calm her down "It's alright, we're not going to hurt you"

The girl tried to get up again, only to fall back down as she did before. Miyuki then noticed that the girl's face was flushed and she was still shivering. Miyuki put one of her hands to the girl's forehead and found that it was surprisingly warm. "Luffy…" She said "…Go get the magical stick again"

"Why can't Ace get it?" He whined

"Go and get it or you don't get any breakfast" Miyuki said back

After hearing this Luffy ran back to the bathroom as fast as he could to go get the "magical stick". A few minutes later he came back with the thermometer and said "Here you go" while handing it to Miyuki.

Miyuki put it in Nami's mouth and waited a few minutes for it to register. After she was done waiting she took the thermometer out of the girl's mouth and looked at it. "This isn't good…" She said "She has a fever now…probably from being wet at the shoreline for god-knows how long"

"Ace, Luffy" She said "Go and get the doctor, it would be a good idea to get her checked out"

"So…" Luffy said "Are we keeping her?"

"No!" Miyuki yelled at him giving him a bump on the head "Just go and get the doctor!"

And with that both boys went off running in the snow to go get the village doctor.

Strawberry Black Cat: Will you reivew this chapter? Pretty please? I worked realllllly hard on it. *kitty-cat-eyes*