Okay, this is actually a story that was originally written by Caime-chan but I asked since it was offered if I could rewrite it and she said yes. I was going to make this Zoro/OC at first but I started to write it and Ace/OC came into my head. I know I have already done one but with the way the main character is, I think that it might fit. I hope you like and I hope that the main character doesn't seem too much like a Mary Sue.

This Is Me

Chapter 1 In This World I Live In Pain

In the corner of a small room that was pitch black for the time of night it was lay a small bundle that was hidden under a thick blanket. The child of only six, teary eyes that she couldn't clear in the fear that ran through her. The sounds of heavy footsteps reached her childish ears even though they were outside her room, made the girl jump but she quickly settled down.

A drunken man who was supposed to be the girl's father walked into the room with the bottle of rum in his hand and he looked at the empty room, his drunken mind finding nothing. The small girl stayed still and even though she was only six, she prayed that the man would go away for she wished him not to be there anymore. Sadly for her, the man had finally discovered the girl that was trying to hide on her bed and walked towards her.

A blow of pain that filled the girl, waking her up and putting her in a nightmare.

The girl that the dream belonged to bolted straight up and stared around her empty room, sweat dripping in her hair. The black and blonde mess was sprayed out on the thin covers that surrounded the girl who brought a hand to her face and took slow breaths. Crystal rubbed at the clear blue eyes that her mother had named her after and stared at the window that revealed her neighbor's house, no smile greeting to building.

"I wish that was only a nightmare." The teenager said as she watched the ceiling as it did nothing.

The girl had lost her mother when she was three and her father had lost his job when she was ten. Ever since then he had needed to gain money for the filling of his beer gut and he had decided that his daughter's body would be the best way to do so. Crystal rammed her hands into her head and got the images of those nightmarish thoughts out of her head before standing up and getting ready for school.

Five years had passed since she had been forced to deal with the old men and ones that felt like getting laid who paid her father generously for what they did to her. Crystal knew that it wasn't going to be long though, there was only three more years before she could leave this place and finally be free. After that, she would live in a place that she felt happy and that she could get a job.

Crystal smiled as she got dressed before quickly sneaking out of the house and pass her drunken 'father'. The girl happily ran down the streets, smiling and saying hello to the neighbors and random people on the streets; giving them no reason to think anything was troubling her. Crystal would not ever let people see she was weak, never again for that was completely out of the question.

"CATTY!"

A girl, piercing green eyes and beautiful curly brown hair, turned towards the running girl who was smiling and waving at her. The girl put the book she was reading away and waved back at her childhood friend who stopped in front of her, panting slightly.

"Hey Crys," the girl said recalling her friend's nickname which made Crystal smile even brighter.

This was the reason why she loved her friend for the girl was always there to make her smile. Catty knew about Crys's father's and the man's beats on her but she didn't know anything else for Crys wouldn't tell her. The crystal eyed was not going to have her best friend pity her.

"You know, you should get your hair cut already." Catty said grabbing a piece of the butt long hair and messing with it.

"Yeah, but I can't afford it and Mom had long hair too though she always put it up in the prettiest ways." Crys said and Catty sighed before they entered the large school building that consisted of over three thousand students.

School for Crys had always been her sanctuary for it was where she could learn without any stress of home. That was how she actually met Catty in the first place for they had both been in the library at the same time. Catty had noticed that Crys only read school books and cared about studying and would bug her everyday about it till they eventually became friends though Catty's original goal was never successful. Catty had tried to get Crys into anime and manga but it never worked and the only things that she would do was listen to Catty's rants and such.

However because Crys had been listening to Catty's story and not paying attention to the clock that was in the library, that day her father beat her bad. He hit her over and over again and Crys stood as he did so but did nothing against it for that would only drag it on. When he was done and allowed her to dismiss, Crys looked at him with dry eyes before turning away and heading towards her room.

Crys got a bad feeling as she walked home by herself once more for as she walked, the wind seemed to blow away from her house as if it was scared of it. Crys looked at the building and a shiver ran down her spine as she stared at the run down building and the dirty windows. Crys sucked in a deep breath and walked to the door and warily opened it but became straight and dignified as she entered the house.

Her father was sitting in the chair where he could see her as soon as she would enter the house. A beer was in his hand and a smirk, something that Crys had only seen a few times in the past years, was evident on his face. On the inside, Crys was panicking and wanting to run but the girl stood strong in front of the man before he stood up and walked up to her.

Crys knew what was coming and what that look meant. It meant that whoever had come over today was bad and that there was no getting out of it. Crys was led pass the usual room that was saved for this sort of thing and her eyes widened as the man that she was sadly blood related to dragged her to another. Crys's feet skid against the floor for she didn't want to go to that room, not that room, anything but that place.

The black haired girl was flung forward into the darkness by her father who closed and locked the door behind her. Crys instantly got up and was on her knees, banging against the door and begging to be let out. The girl rammed her raw fist against it and flinched when she heard the flash of the light come on and turned to look at the five men in the room, each one was drunk, had a perverted look on their face and were moving closer to the fifteen year old girl.

"No!" Crys said as she backed away, she hated these guys. "I'll do anything I swear to god but please not like this!"

The men smiled at her resistance and reached for as Crys tried to fight against them and if it had only been one, the girl would have been five but there were five of them. They grabbed at her body and began to tear at her clothes before deciding who would go first.

This room was one that Crys feared more than anything else in the world. More than her father who was the one who put her through hell. More than even the scariest of the pirates that Catty would tell her about. This room was Crys's nightmare for no matter how bad the client, no matter how bad she screamed, no one would hear her.

This was the Silent Room, the place where Crys's hard shell would crumble.

Hours passed and the door to the room opened and a sixth man walked in and the other five out. The men each paid the newcomer who happily took the money before looking at the pathetic looking heap on the floor. The man sighed at the fact that the girl was moving but smiled as he saw her pathetic self. The girl resembled her mother far too much and he hated that.

The black haired man grabbed the girl by her arm and dragged the naked girl out of the Silent Room and to her own bedroom. Crys was thrown on her bed and the girl curled into a ball as the door was slammed shut behind her. It was minutes before the girl was able to move though pain still filled her as she did so. Crys grabbed the first clothes she found, a pair of shorts and an over sized t-shirt that covered the shorts completely before collapsing on the bed again.

"I want to leave this place." Crys said as she painfully gripped the sheets of her bed. "I don't want to stay here anymore."

Crys felt heat in her eyes as for the first time in five years tears began to pour out of her eyes as she lay there. The girl forced her face into her pillow knowing that punishment would come if her father were to hear her cry. That was the reason that she never did so anymore for it was looked down upon.

"I want to live in a different world."

Once agian, i hope you like^^