Hi! This is just a little note from me beforehand. Anyways, this will not be a love story. This is the story of a father trying to become a family again. This is the story of a broken family. There will not be any love at all in this story, unless it is family love. No lemons, no kissing. NOT A LOVE STORY. If you want one, check my account like...2 months later. I might have one up, lol. My life. So sad. Anyways, if you don't want to read it, that's fine by me. I only wrote this because Akainu is such an unloved character, but his part in the story and personality are so vibrant. You can clearly see what he wants, what he hates, and how he would act. I created Cuffs to act as his equal, to make him doubt what he believes in. I got most of the information from the One Piece Wiki, and I tried to have all the facts line up. Just a heads up, Jade is twenty-one before the time skip, and twenty-three after the time-skip. If you haven't realized already, there will be spoilers. One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda, I probably don't even own the plot line. Start reading, and I hope you'll enjoy!

Luffy walks into the bar, happily cheering as he and his crew mates celebrate defeating Crocodile. Luffy raises up his mug of sake, and proclaims, "To the Straw Hat Pirates! May all our dreams come true!" As they're cheering, a hooded figure sits in the back, waiting for someone's eye to catch him. After much celebration for most of the night, Luffy sees the hooded figure. He grins, and staggers up to him. "Who are you?" He asks, generally curious. The figure didn't speak, just stared into his sake. "Hey! Old man! Who are you!?" Luffy shouted again, reaching his hand out to pull back the man's hood. The man struck out, grabbing Luffy's arms before it reached his hood. Everything stopped. Luffy could see him friends rushing towards him as he stood there. He could see the corner of the man's mouth twitching upwards, and hear the talk of other people socializing around him. "Who are you?" Luffy whispered this time.

"You don't need to know my name." The man smirked at Luffy. "Hey, kid. Luffy of the Straw Hat Pirates, right?" Luffy nodded, a little reluctantly. "Well, that's great. I have a proposition. I won't ask you here though." Luffy nodded and followed the man out the door. The man stopped at the docks, and glanced around to make sure no one was watching. "Alright. Here's the thing. I need a favor. But only you can do this. No one else. Got there?" Luffy nodded. " You'll be heading to Sabaody Archipelago, right?" Luffy nodded. "Ok, in Sabaody, you'll find a girl. She'll have a black hat, silver cuffs around her hands. I need you to give this ring to her." The man held up a ring with a snake coiled around it. The snake had two blood red eyes. "Do you swear to give this to her? You need to see that she takes it. It'll...It'll save a family somewhere." Luffy nodded, his face serious for once. As Luffy walked back to the bar, the stranger's voice was echoing through his head. Save a family somewhere. Whose family needed saving? His crew was still partying, but Luffy couldn't join their happy atmosphere. All he could do...was think about that man. 'Why did he want me to do that?' Luffy shrugged and rolled the ring around the table. He might as well give it to her, then maybe he'll find some answers.

? POV

I sighed as I finally reached Sabaody Archipelago. The Captain I was traveling with clicked his tongue, and I sighed and handed over a few hundred beri to him. "That's all I'm paying you." I told him firmly. The Captain sneered and spit at my feet. I stared at him dangerously. "Do that again. I dare you." The Captain sneered again, and spit in front of my face. I calmly wiped the spit off, and cracked my knuckles. "It's a shame too." I sighed. "I thought you might do that, and if you didn't have any objections, then maybe I would have given a few extra. But now, look what I have to do. I have to get my hand dirty now." I sighed again, and took off my gloves. My silver cuffs glinted in the sunlight. Fire drifted out of my cuffs, and I had concentrated on pushing the air to make the fire into a ball. I grinned as the Captain grew more scared, and tried to flee. I smirked again and forced the wind against them, binding them in place. I sneered at them as fear was openly displayed on their face. "You know, you crew members have been nice to me. Maybe I should spare you." I sneered again as their faces lit up with hope. "Stupid idiots. I don't forgive, I don't forget. You may not have been disrespecting me directly, but you didn't really defend me, did you? That's as bad as directly disrespecting me. You don't deserve to live." I sneered again and hurled the ball of fire at them, making sure to burn the ship as well. I turned away from them, smirking as I heard their screams. I took off my hat and stared at their Jolly Roger. I stuck my tongue out at it, and burned the Jolly Roger off. I fanned it out to get rid of the smoke, and placed it back on my head . My hat was blank now, ready for me to join a crew. I sneered at the burning ship once more. They crossed me, they deserved this. I sighed, and mentally scolded myself. 'I really need to control my anger. How am I supposed to get of this island now?'