Chapter 3

Timeskip 6 years later

Kaen's life has been pretty chaotic until he reached the age of 6. It turned out that he was 3 years older than Luffy. He was taken care of by a female marine and Admiral Tsuru. He calls her Big Sis Tsuru because once he called her grandma, she gave him the mother of all beatings. Worse of all, both his grandpa Sengoku and Garp did not help him at all, the nerve of them. Grandpa Garp, that is what he told me to call him, took him to his training camp where he showed how he would train recruits and marines under him. The good thing is that Grandpa Garp trains ever since he hit 5 years old for a year. His body lost a lot of his baby fat. His maternal grandpa Sengoku gave him everything and often took time off to visit. Though Kaen knew it was an excuse to avoid the "Dreadful Paperwork". Today, Kaen was excited because he saw a golden treasure box this morning meaning he got his devil fruit. He hoped it was the Mera Mera no Mi or even Yami Yami no Mi both of them are such strong ones. Ace could have used them more diversely like making a fire net to trap them or holding back the fire then releasing it at one point. It would make a beam like attack good for range. Kaen presses the golden treasure box causing it to make a beeping sound.

"Ding! Host received the following:

Appraisal

Mera Mera no mi: Model: Yami

5x Talent

Do you accept this Y/N

Kaen was confused and excited at the same time. He got 2 of his favorite fruits into one but does not understand how it differs from the norm. So he presses the description on the bottom to understand what he received.

Appraisal: Host is able to identify different proficiency or devil fruit on the enemy. Host simply needs to look at the person and say or think appraise giving you to look at their mastery over Haki, Swordsmanship, Devil Fruit, Rokushiki, Shipwright, Special Ability or Skills.

Mera Mera no mi: Model: Yami is a logia type fruit allowing the user to control, create and transform into black flames. The difference between this fruit and the normal Mera Mera is these flames are far hotter and can even burn flames. One special ability is these flames can ignore most weaknesses and limitations of normal flames and can incinerate anything. Weakness: Flames cannot be used underwater(like Amaterasu from Naruto).Unable to use Devil Fruit against the Yami Yami no mi, cancels both devil fruits powers. It also had the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.

5x talent: You will do things at a 5x pace like Haki, Swordsmanship, Rokushiki , Cooking and other skills. It will not affect your devil fruit powers at all or bloodlines. You must practice in order to get stronger because it does not give you instant-op abilities.

Kaen eyes widened at this knowledge, he basically gained one of the strongest devil fruits comparable to Kaido and Whitebeard's devil fruit powers. He quickly presses the yes button accepting the gifts. He does not feel any different except in his hand is the devil fruit. The devil fruit's appearance had both Mera Mera and Yami Yami no mi. It was a black colored fruit, composed of many flamed-shaped components with swirl patterns on each one, and has a swirled stem on the top. Kaen was so excited and bit the devil fruit forgetting one thing that every devil fruit shares, the taste. Kaen felt like eating rotten eggs with rotten milk almost throwing it in the process.

Suddenly Kaen felt like someone was burning him in a fire without the pain, just the warmth. He started to hear crackling coming from his hands. When he looked at, his hand was on fire. He quickly started to blow on before reminding himself, he ate a fire devil fruit. He looked at his and tried to control his flames to spread around his body and to enter his logia form .It took him a few tries to get it right before smiling in excitement and joy. He quickly thought of the fireball ninjutsu and tried to mimic the actions minus the hand signs. He quickly breathe in and imagined a fire in him.He quickly said "Great Fireball" and spewed out a fireball the size of basketball. This made him Kaen feel a bit letdown before he started to do it again. If he could not do it on his first turn, he would practice hundred times until he mastered it. After 4 and half hours, he was able to master the Great Fireball and even learn another technique called "Flame Bullet''. He could barely use these moves a few times because it consumed a good amount of his stamina.

Kaen was thinking of showing his grandfather Garp and Sengoku his devil fruit to help develop his powers without telling them of the special abilities the flame possessed. Kaen quickly went back to Marineford where he lived with his Big Sister Tsuru to show it to her as well. If he remembered, she possessed one as well called Wash Wash Fruit allowing her to literally "wash and hang out to dry" people and objects as if they were clothes, making the user a Laundry Human. She could make evil pirates nicer and unable to move or fight against her. When arrived at the room, he could see Tsuru reading reports she got from the recruit training. He quickly ran up to her and in a loud voice to tell her about her fruit.

"Big Sister Tsuru, I have powers." Kaen tells her in a pretend childish voice and with excitement.

"What are you talking about Kaen." Tsuru showed a bit of interest and worry as she asked. She had a bad premonition in her heart as she asked.

"Look I ate a weird fruit. It tasted really bad but it granted me powers. Look!" Kaen says as he lifts his hand up engulfing in black fire making her drop the paperwork.

"Kaen where did you find that fruit. When did you eat that fruit, tell me." Tsuru asked in a worried way when she say his hand of fire. She knew he had eaten a devil fruit when he said powers, she thought maybe a small paramecia type but it turned out to be a undocumented logia type fruit. Granted it looked close to the Mera Mera no mi fruit ability but the flames' color was orange with yellow and red highlights.

"I found it on a tree in the forest around 5 and half hours Big Sis Tsuru. Did I do something bad?" Kaen pretends to be scared and starts to tear a bit up.

"No Kaen you did not do anything bad, it's just what you have got surprised big sis Tsuru okay. We need to show your powers to Grandpa Garp and Sengoku, okay?" Tsuru says in a comforting tone as she calms down Kaen from fake-crying(but she does not about it).

She quickly takes him to Sengoku's office where they see Sengoku doing paperwork and Garp eating donuts and doing his favorite pastimes, annoying Sengoku.