1.) Hustler
Inspired by MehLikey 's Story 'Just His Luck'.
This is my own version of Grimmjow being thrown into the OP world as an Adjuchas. Things are different. Very different. I am not trying to ridicule MehLikey, I just really really like the idea of Grimmjow being forced into the One Piece world. I'm just adding my own story to the idea concept.
Hope you enjoy and I'm hoping to get some more organization with my stories, and when I update.
—(xXx)—
A young raven haired boy whistled as he walked through the forest. His strawhat hanging loosely around his neck as he bounded from one thing to the next looking at everything he could lay his eyes on.
He knew he should probably get back to the treehouse he and his brothers lived in, but he had been bored!
Luffy pursed his lips in a pout before scratching his scalp as he looked around.
Ace and Sabo had told him to stay in the treehouse while they went out and hunted. Usually they would have taken him with them, but a rare freak snowstorm had hit their island last night and set a cold freeze over everything.
Yea it had been fun at first, and the three of them had played for a very long time in the white cold fluffiness, but then the three brothers had gotten hungry so they had gotten ready to go hunting.
His two oldest brothers had told him to stay because after scaring away three animals that could have been dinner, they gave up on their youngest brother trying to help this time around. Luffy pouted, it wasn't his fault he didn't know how to be silent when he walked on snow.
Though he bit his lip as he thought of how many animals had disappeared after the snow had fallen.
What would they eat if all the animals where gone?
Luffy froze, tense, as he heard a sudden snapping behind him and a menacing growl. He spun around and connected eyes with a glowing blue gaze in the darkness beyond the trees.
He heard the snow crunch as the creature took a step forward, slowly, and then whatever it was started to approach faster. Before Luffy could run he was suddenly pinned underneath a heavy form, his shoulders felt like they had large round wood pillars on them.
He snapped his eyes back open and stared up fearfully, and slightly awed, at the white panther growling in his face.
Luffy shook in fear, as tears welled up in his eyes. But he didn't try and move. He probably couldn't if he wanted to, but there was something that whispered to him, that despite how it looked, the panther wouldn't hurt him.
He stared into those blue eyes as they stared back, the panther's eyes looked a little glazed over, and full of pain, Luffy didn't know why though, it's not like the panther was the one about to be eaten. It was as the growling slowly started to fade that he realized the panther was panting and shaking above him, and hadn't even taken another move to try and kill him.
He blinked and felt something wet fall onto his cheek. He estimated where it had come from and looked at the panther's shoulder to see a huge gash wrapping around the panther's back, over half of his neck, and onto his chest and stomach.
He felt bad for the panther and shifted his arm a tad, trying to free it, the panther growled for a moment at the movement, before it stopped and lowered its head, not intently towards Luffy, or to get closer to the boy, but from tiredness and pain.
Luffy could see that in the white wild cat's actions and hesitantly shifted again to free his arm.
His arm was free, but it made the panther shift his weight again. This time the cat didn't growl but his paw landed on the ground with a soft thunk.
The panther swayed and Luffy scrambled backwards when he saw the beast start to fall.
Luffy blinked down at the panther, who now had it's head in his lap, that had gone to sleep suddenly.
Sabo had said that was when someone fell unconscious. Not the funny ones like Ace's sudden sleeping.
Luffy tentatively reached out a hand out to pet soothingly behind the panther's ear. The white cat sighed and nuzzled his hand in its sleep, Luffy smiled slightly before he looked at the fur that was slowly turning crimson by the panther's blood.
He pulled his other hand, that had instinctively gone under the panther's head, away from the panther to see it covered in blood and he whined lowly in the back of his throat.
He didn't want the panther to die!
—(xXx)—
Ace heard the screaming first.
He had immediately stopped dead in his tracts to listen better, shushing Sabo when the boy turned to ask him why he stopped helping pull their dinner to the treehouse.
A second later both boy's head snapped to the right when they clearly heard Luffy's voice yelling their names.
Ace cursed as he dropped their kill, running in the direction he heard his baby brother, barely registering Sabo at his side.
Two things registered in Ace's mind when they came upon the scene their baby brother was in. One was that there was a big ass white panther (PREDATOR) on top of HIS baby brother and that there was blood EVERYWHERE.
His mind filled with rage and he darted forward, his pipe raised about to strike the panther for touching his baby brother, when he was stopped cold by Luffy throwing himself over the panther and yelling. "WAIT!! ACE WAIT!"
He blinked at the younger as Sabo darted around him immediately pulling Luffy away from the wild cat before kneeling and checking Luffy over, pulling at his clothing and turning the rubber boy's head this way and that. "Are you ok?! Are you hurt?!"
Luffy shook off his hands and looked back at Ace, who was glancing back at them occasionally in worry but overall kept himself in between the panther and his brother's and trying to keep his eyes on the unmoving wild cat. "I'm fine! It's him that's hurt!"
Sabo stared at his little brother as Luffy looked at him, a frantic expression on his face, as tears gathered in his eyes. "The big kitty! He's hurt! He's gonna die! I don't want him to die!"
Ace watched his little brothers, as Luffy cried, the panther was dying?
Sabo sighed and looked a little nervous and sad as he looked away from Luffy's face for a moment before trailing his eyes back, scratching the back of his head in the process. "Luffy, things die all the-"
Luffy cut him off shouting. "I KNOW THAT! BUT BIG KITTY IS A GOOD KITTY!! I don't want him to die.." he said the last part in such a small voice that both older brothers felt their hearts crumble.
Ace sighed as he walked over to the panther, kneeling at its side to assess the damage.
It took a moment and when he was done he looked back to his brothers with a grimace only to be met with the pleading and desperate puppy dog eyes of his baby brother.
He stared at Luffy's sniffling form for a moment longer before he sighed, looking at the panther again. "Luffy.. run back to the treehouse and grab some of the blankets.."
Luffy's face lit up in eager urgency and both older boys watched as Luffy darted back in the direction of their home. Sabo had a slightly stunned and bewildered look as he watched him go.
Sabo whirled around to Ace, an annoyed look on his face. "Ace! We know that beast probably isn't going to live! Shouldn't we just put it out of its misery instead of wasting the blankets we do have!?"
Ace whirled his head to look at Sabo and snapped right back to the blonde boy. "You wanna be the one to lay next to Luffy while he cries about how we didn't even try to help! Yea he'll probably die anyways but, at least this way Luffy will know we tried and won't try and sneak out and get himself hurt while trying to nurse a corpse back to health."
Sabo grimaced before backing out of the argument. They both knew Luffy had a bleeding heart for those around him that he found good. If they didn't at least try and help the panther Luffy would do it behind their backs, possibly getting himself hurt, and when the panther died it'd be a bit before Luffy would notice, because, although the boy did know the difference between the living and the dead, he wouldn't think to check. Besides he'd probably be heartbroken.
At least this way they can say they tried to help, and they could hold Luffy while he cried after the wild cat died. And they could always steal some blankets from Dadan later.
They'd give him a funeral and everything if that would help Luffy feel better.
Luffy burst back into the clearing, stumbling from the awkwardness of the blankets, and rushed over to Ace and Sabo. When he got to them Luffy say down on the snow covered ground and laid them in his lap.
Ace and Sabo sighed, looking at each other before they each took a blanket and approached the white wild cat.
The froze though when they spotted the bright blue eyes open and watching them. The panther hadn't moved. Hadn't even indicated he was awake, he was just watching them.
Ace was the first to move again, slowly approaching. The panther tensed up and something in the back of Ace's head told him the more than anything, words would help him here. He didn't know why but that instinct had helped him before, he wasn't about to ignore it.
"Hey, we just want to help. We'll just try and stop the bleeding for now...Don't try and kill us for this."
The panther chuffed before relaxing and moving his head slightly for better access to the wound, he never took his eyes off Ace though and instead stared at every movement any of the boys made.
Ace figured that was the closest to acceptance he was going to get, and moved placing the blanket against the wound on his neck, and pressing down, holding pressure over it. He heard Sabo swallow before kneeling beside him and placing the next blanket and grabbing another from Luffy, who picked up all the blankets and put them next to Sabo before moving around to the panther's head.
Luffy kneeled in front of the panther and Ace watched out of the corner of his eyes as the two watched each other. Luffy then smiled and lightly started petting the panther's head.
The panther didn't move but he did let out a weak scoff in something that sounded scandalized and Luffy giggled weakly, still full of worry and his throat a little sore from crying. "It'll be ok Mr. Panther. We'll help you."
Ace and Sabo shot each other a look before moving to make sure the blankets where securely tied onto the panther's body.
They hoped so, Luffy would be heartbroken if they couldn't help 'Mr. Panther'.
