Chapter 33: Her Devil Fruit.

= Days Later =

It's noon and Rin is watching Luffy trains by stretching his hand, punching stones, trees, wild beasts and other stuff.

"Status." Rin whispered to the system.

Name: Rin

Age: 16

Strength: 52

Stamina: 97

Charisma: 81

Abilities:Cooking (level 2), Herbology (level 1), Baking (level 3), Chemistry (basics).

Combat Skills: Bo Staff (level 5), Gun (level 3).

Special Abilities: None.

[ status will be updated from time to time ]

' I've been getting stronger over the years but I haven't bought the devil fruit that I wanted yet. I learned chemistry because I wanted to make poisonous bullets for my gun but it seems I need to learn how to make bullets first. '

"Rin! Let's go hunt a crocodile! I'm hungry..." Luffy said while rubbing his stomach.

Rin laughs and said "Okay! Let's go."

= The Next Day =

Rin is sitting at the same shore Ace set sail.

"System, open the shop function." Rin commanded. She glide through the devil fruit list. "There it is. The forest forest fruit." She bought the fruit and it appears at the system's inventory. Rin take it out and look at it. It's green and it got the shape of a pear, but it got brown swirls and a small tree as it's stem.

' I finally have the money to buy it. ' Rin thought.

Rin almost took a bite but stopped. "Wait... in the anime the devil fruit taste disgusting..." She bought a bottle of water from the system. "Okay. I'll take the smallest bite possible and drink lots of water that way I won't taste the fruit."

Rin took a small bite, swallow it as fast as possible and drinks the water.

"Ugh... I swallowed it as soon as I bite it but I could still tasted the fruit..." Rin whined to herself. "Nevermind that! Let's try it out." She puts one of her hand out and some small plants starts growing from her palms.

"Nice!" Rin said.

She didn't tell Luffy about her power and she practices her power secretly every time she could.

= Weeks Later =

It's dawn and Rin is at a secluded spot in the forest practicing her power. She made a animal puppet and tried to moves it but the puppet's movement is stiff and looks unnatural.

"sigh... I can make lots of puppets at the same time but I can barely move any of them..." Rin puts her hand on her chin like she's thinking. "Hmm... Uh-huh!" She thought of an idea. "Maybe if I move my hands like Kankuro controlling a puppet, I can move the puppet easier." She tried the new the idea and finally the puppet moves smoother than before. "Yes!!" She screamed happily at her achievement. She played with her puppet for a while before going back.

She went to see Luffy and saw him waiting for her.

When Luffy saw Rin he smiled and shouts "Rin! Come on let's go train!"

Rin smiled happily and said "Yeah! Let's go. How about a few match between you and me?!"

Luffy nodded. "Uh-huh! Okay!"