Welcome to this One Piece Spirited Away AU. I saw this post on tumblr about a One Piece Spirited Away AU and was immediately inspired. In the original post Zoro was Chihiro. That's all I'm gonna say. Don't wanna spoil who's who. But you're free to make guesses as to who you think will be in place of certain characters.

Please enjoy and don't forget to review. Also do watch Spirited Away its an amazing movie. Definitely something Studio Ghibli would be proud to have under their belt.

" Adventure! Adventure! Adventure!" Luffy cheered happily in the back seat of Nami's car, haphazardly waving around a meat bouquet that his brother Ace had given him. It was a little parting gift. Luffy was finally moving out of Ace's house and was going to live with his friends in their own apartment two towns over.

" Oi oi! Sit still Luffy you're shaking the vehicle." Zoro turned his head from the passenger side to the back seat, given the straw hat wearing boy a firm look.

Luffy did stop moving around but still vibrated in his seat, a face splitting grin across his face as he bit into one part of the meat bouquet. " Shishishi! Sorry Zoro! I'm just so excited. I finally get to live with my friends! We'll have so much adventures."

Nami chuckled from the driver's seat, keeping her eyes on the road. " Nice to see you so happy. But if you spill any meat in my car, I'll make you pay for the cleaning services plus extra for bringing that thing in here when I told you to wrap it up and put it in the back with the rest."

" Kay Kay Nami!" Luffy nodded, mouth full of ham.

Ussop sighed and looked out the backseat window, staring at a true blue sky, fluffy clouds and blurring trees. He was on the left of Luffy, who was wedged between himself and Sanji, who was pouting out the other window. Something about " that stupid mosshead getting to sit beside the beautiful Nami-swan" or something of that nature.

" I still think this move is a bad idea." The long nosed man grumbled. Not bothering to list any reason for his concern.

" No offense Ussop, but you think everything is a bad idea. Your paranoia is borderline crippling. " Sanji absent mindedly tapped on the glass. Stars he needed a smoke, but he couldn't as he was in a closed area and Nami would get pissed at him making her car smell.

" Geez, someone is particularly acidic today. Way to wound me." The curly haired man feigned hurt, hiding his actual hurt.

" Sorry."

" I have some suckers in the glove compartment. Zoro, reach forward and pass one to Sanji-kun." The orangette took a hand of the steering wheel and pointed a thumb to the back seat.

" Sure." Zoro said, reaching forward, opening the compartment and passing one to the tightly wound chef, not bothering to look at which one he grabbed. He felt a rough kick in his back that was muffled by the stuffing in the seat. " What the hell was that for!"

" Of course you'd give me a green lolly to piss me off. Stupid marimo." Sanji still stuffed the lollipop in his mouth.

" I didn't do it on purpose." Zoro defended. " Besides, you're still eating it. So I don't see what the problem is." He reclined a bit further in his seat, and putting his arms behind his head. He needed a nap.

Sanji, surprisingly didn't have an answer for that. Or rather, he was too busy on focusing on curbing his craving to pay the wannabe swordsman any mind.

Nami sighed wistfully at the peace and silence in her vehicle. Luffy wasn't complaining about hunger. Zoro and Sanji weren't arguing and Ussop wasn't pathetically rambling. " Today is a truly beautiful day."

O-O

" I may have taken a wrong turn." Nami squinted at the dirt road in front of her, the vehicle bouncing around on the rocks. This was impossible though! She was never wrong when it came to travelling to distance places.

" You sure? Your ability to navigate is second to none as far as I know." Sanji raised his only seen eyebrow and peered outside. They seemed to be in some forest like area, the road path they were one were covered it small stone structures that looked like tiny houses.

" Oi. What are those tiny house things?" Luffy unbuckled his belt and stretched over Ussop, face plastered against the glass window.

" Those are shrines Luffy." Zoro answered. " Some people think spirits live in them."

" Uwaaa! That's so cool! I hope the spirits like their tiny houses. I hope I'm going to like our new house too!"

" Sp-sp-spirits?" Ussop shivered, a frightened look on his face. " If that's the case then I definitely think we should turn around. We don't want to anger the spirits and have them curse us for the rest of our lives!"

" Don't be dramatic Ussop. I said people "think" spirits live in the shrines. Not that they do. Besides. We can't reverse anyway. We're on an incline. If we try to reverse, gravity will pull the car back super fast and kill us all."

" What!" Luffy and Ussop shrieked.

" Now you're being dramatic Zoro. We're not on an incline that would kill us. We're on a decline that would kill us. It would kill us super bad because my brakes aren't working!" Nami pressed on the brakes, but it only made a hollow sound like air and the speeding vehicle lurched forward.

" Whoa!" everyone shouted, as the care sped down the dirt road, bouncing over potholes and rolling over ditches.

Luffy just laughed wildly, enjoying the ride as he slammed into Ussop's and Sanji's sides. Somehow, their grunts of pain when the boy accidentally elbowed them made it a little bit funnier. " Wee!" Luffy laughed.

None of them noticed the strange stone statues that were scattered through the forest.

Nami pulled on the emergency brakes, and squealed to a stop right before they crashed into a stone figure. The car gave one final lurch before stopping. All there was were the sounds of huffing, sizzling and the popping of boiling water under the hood.

" Hey! We didn't die!" Luffy beamed. Everyone else just groaned.

The five friends piled out of the car and looked around to see where they were. It needed a chance to cool off anyway. It was mostly just dense forest, but in front of the statue was a strange building. It looked old, the red paint was peeled off in many places and the sign at the top of the arch was faded and for the most part unreadable. Many of the characters had faded off overtime, becoming nearly impossible to read.

Luffy peered into the arc that lead to a deep dark hallway. "….mhmmm so it's a mystery building then?"

" What?" Nami turned her head towards Luffy.

" There's a bunch of forest, a weird statue and a dark hall. It's a mystery building!" then Luffy gasped, gaining a look in his eye that filled everyone else with dread.

" Oh no." whimpered Ussop.

" IT"S AN ADVENTURE!" Luffy cheered and barreled down the hallway, the echoing flaps of flip flops growing distant with each passing second.

" Oi Luffy wait!" Zoro shouted and chased after Luffy.

Nami gave an exasperated sighed and dragged her face down her hand. " Wait for me you idiots!" She chased after them, leaving Sanji and Ussop to follow her.

" Come on long nose. I have to beat those two brainless idiots for making my sweet Nami-swan run after them. Ussop wordlessly followed.

The hall seemed to stretch and stretch, being nearly endless before opening up to what looked like to be some sort of waiting area. A very dusty waiting area. Dirt particles drifted through the air like snow, the beams of light streaming through carved in windows highlighting it. Sitting behind various towering pillars were a bunch of equally dusty wooden benches. Sanji slid a finger across one of them, a caked layer of dirt about as thick as a long finger nail sat on his finger. He rubbed it off.

" Looks like the caretaker of this place really let it go." He commented, switching his lollipop from the left side of his mouth to the right.

" We can think about caretakers later. Right now we have to find Luffy!" Ussop said almost panicked.

" Found him!" Nami called from the other end of the waiting area, waving to the blonde and brunette.

Luffy was standing in the open air, wide grin on his face and arms stretched wide. A cool breeze flowing and blowing through his red and beige striped shirt. " Wow this place is so pretty."

It really was, for miles there was tall green grass dancing gracefully in the wind. In it were paths of stone that led to aged but not decrepit house like structures. There were more of the strange stone figures scattered through the grass, sticking out with peaceful, silly or even sometimes scary faces carved onto them. Thick clouds that looked like you can sit on without the threat of falling through drifted lackadaisically through the air.

"What is this place?" Nami breathed, standing next to Luffy, who continued to grin.

Zoro looked all around. The statues, the houses and the back of the red building that appeared to have a large clock tower. " A place in which we should leave. I feel an…energy here. We should probably go. And not touch anything."

Luffy whined. " But my adventure…"

Sanji rolled his eye. " Tch. Don't listen to him. You can have your adventure. A peaceful and calm adventure that doesn't involve touching anything. We can take a walk around and then turn back. The car should be cooled by then."

" No no no! I actually kinda agree with Zoro on this one. This place seems strange. Otherworldly almost. Like…a realm not for humans but we accidentally found." Ussop stood next to Zoro.

" Every place you're not used to is strange." Nami countered. " Besides no one is here. So we're not going to get in trouble if we stay for a bit. We're also double not going to get in trouble if we don't touch anything."

" Why are you guys emphasizing that I shouldn't touch anything so much?" Luffy tilted his head.

" Everything you touch you destroy." The four friends answered their rubber brained companion, all with dry voices and expressions that told that they've had this conversation numerous times.

Luffy huffed through his nose. "Fine, I won't touch anything. But only because this place is super pretty and I really don't want to accidentally destroy it." He crossed his arms and pouted showing that he wasn't pleased. " Still, It won't be a real adventure if I don't get to touch anything."

Everyone else just chuckled. Little did Luffy know that soon he really would have a true adventure unlike which he had ever experienced before.

And so the tale begins! Don't forget to follow and review. Constructive criticism is super appreciated. Updates are going to be a bit sporadic. Till next time !