"Bend your feet a little, hold your cup right, princess! Why are you gripping it like that!" My tutor glared at me as she went to see my stepfather for a 'little talk'. Ugh, why do I have to learn etiquette, it's not like I'm gonna marry a prince with manners. All men are the same, well, almost all the men.

"Luffy, how are you lessons doing?" I was startled by the voice, but I felt relived. It was my mother, I looked up to see her and she was still looking young and youthful. My mother is very beautiful, to me, she is the most beautiful human I have ever seen in my whole life. I don't know why but when my mother smiles, I feel like all the worries in my life are immediately gone.

"T-they're going well.." I saw her smile brightly and smiled back at her, I really love my mother, just.. why does she have to marry the king.. ugh. The way he looks at me is disgusting. I don't want to tell her what he tells me at when she's not at the palace. It's really disgusting, I just want to kill him. Aren't I enough to be with her? She just has to go and marry a filthy so-called king.

"Well, that's great, Luff. I'm going to be out of the country for a little while, in the meantime, take care of your siblings." Siblings? SIBLINGS? Ha, they don't even look like me, neither do they look like you mother. Mother, you have the darkest blackest hair I've ever seen, the most silkiest I have ever touched, your hair is soft, even though it's a little curly/wavy. And your skin, your pale ivory white skin, mother, you look like an angel. Why do you have to marry him? Mother, why can't I see my real father?

"Yes, dearest mother." I replied to my beautiful mother as she walked to the door and closed it behind her. I looked around my room and saw a mirror with makeup cleaner beside it. I cleaned my face throughly, I truly didn't look my mother either, I had a very dark black hair, fair skin, a little chubby face, my nose wasn't lean like my mothers. I had a sharp nose though. My cheeks weren't pink like her either. I miss my mother already.

I started to think of my mother when the door opened and my older brother came in and sneered at me, I hated my older brother from the minute I saw him. He had brown straight hair, his bangs were a little longer then mine, it reached his nose. He had a sun-kissed skin, while his cheeks were a lot redder then mine. Not that my cheeks were red anyways.

I just hate him so much, he always comes in and sneers or glares at me and tells me to go down because dinner is ready. His brother is a lot kinder then him, though, I still hate both of them.

"Dinner is ready, put some makeup on or you'll scare our guests." Guests? We rarely have guests. I immediately got ready, though my maids put my makeup on, I didn't know how to. The most annoying thing is I feel like there's oil on my face, and the glued lashes are just too much, I already have some lashes.. well, short; very short lashes.

I went downstairs and saw the guest, he looked at my age, a little shorter then me though, he had a blonde short curly hair and blue eyes, a fair skin, he wore a long full-armed blue jacket, but he wrapped it to his wrists. He had a handkerchief on the middle of his neck, attached to the inside of his jacket, he wore white booty shorts. Booty shorts, really? But nonetheless, he looked cute, and.. uh.. good.

Kind.

"Hey, I'm Sabo!" I forget I was staring at him when he came to me and greeted me, he put out his hand.. I stared at it.. and then shook it. I looked at my father, a face that said 'Who's this boy?' he smiled at me, a fake smile.

I looked confusedly at the boy, and then the mother came in and faked a smile and said, "This is going to be your wife now, Sabo. You will get married to her when she becomes 16." I looked at Sabo, he looked confused too. I guess he didn't hear the news either, but still. I'm just 10! I'm not old enough to hear this decisions, at times like these. I really wanted mother to come and smile at me and take me away to my real father.

"B-but... I want to be a pir-" his mother stomped her foot angrily, "Hush, boy. No more of that nonsense son! I didn't raise you this way! This is an order; you will not talk about this at the palace again. Do you hear me?" she said strictly, I felt sorry for him, thought what did he want to be?

"Do YOU HEAR ME?!" she asked again, this time, she was more louder, he flinched and looked at her sadly and nodded.

"Yes, mother." At that time I really, really felt sorry for him and held his hand and took him to the dining table, my older brother looked at me sadly, then glared at the boy I was holding hands with. I sat at the dining table while his mother looked at him with a smile that said 'we're going to be in the royal family now son!' I knew all the womens that wanted me to marry their sons, were either divorced, or a few low on the anarchy list.

"I'm Luffy, nice meeting you Sabo." I blushed, it was quite embarrassing to just introduce myself just now. It was a quite and very awkward silence in the room till the maid brought the platter and the dishes, she put them in front of each of us, I looked at the food once again, I really hated the palace food. It was small, short, and really not much, it was just three bites of four bites and I'm already done with it.

Sabo looked at his food and grinned a little, we started to eat, when we finished, my stepfather told me to go to my room and bring Sabo with me. I nodded and went to my room, I was not one to take orders, but hey, I'm bored as hell listening to Sabo's mother and my stepfather talking.

I entered my room and told him to follow, he came in and sat in the nearest couch, I sat at the chair infront of the table and we started to talk, he told me his hobbies, his dislikes, his likes. He told me he wanted to be a pirate, and then it was his turn to ask me what I wanted to be.

"I want to be a princess and marry a very rich noblemen." He looked at me sadly,

"I asked you what you wanted to be, not what you are destined to be." At that moment, everything stopped, the tea I was sipping on fell and I blinked before regaining my senses, he looked at me worriedly. I immediately apologised and took a tissue and wiped the tea on my dress. I was going to call a maid when I felt a hand on my hand wiping my dress, I looked beside me and saw Sabo.

"T-thanks.." I scratched the back of my head and smiled at him, I finally thought of what I wanted to be.. I wanted to be.. a pirate. Like Sabo, I finally decided.

"I want to be a pirate." he lifted his head and looked at me bewildered, and then smiled.

"Then let's run away and make a group together?" I nodded at him, I wasn't thinking but I felt like his words were right.

"Sure!" I said, not minutes after his mother came into the room and he left with her, I went to my window and looked at the car he was inside leaving. My stepfather came in and wrapped his hands around my waist and said disgustingly,

"You'll be a big girl now.." I felt fear swell inside of me, I knew what he meant, and then the bell rang and he left, angrily stomping outside. I looked at the window and noticed my real grandfather come. I ran downstairs and hugged him tightly. My stepfather crooked a smile (forcedly) and welcomed him inside. My father discussed with my grandfather, I heard something about him wanting me to become a marine, and then I heard something about me hunting pirates.. what?

Hunting pirates? Are pirates bad? I didn't know, so that night, I went to my grandfather and asked him, he told me everything about pirates, he even told me about a legendary pirates called Dragon, though he had a sad face whenever he talked about him. I couldn't sleep that night, I wanted to be the Pirate King now. After hearing about Gol D. Roger, my world perspective suddenly changed.. I really wanted to be a pirate, and so, that night, I thought about really running away.

The day afterwards, everything went normally, I talked to my younger brother, though, he was blind but he saw the world really brightly, not this angst cruel world I found in my eyes. His eyes though, they were beautiful. Not like my mother, they were green, green like the forest. But they didn't look clear, they looked very soft and white. I don't know why, but I started to like him, not hate him, maybe hate his family and brother mostly, but him, I like. Heh.

I went to my bed when I heard a soft knock on my windows, I looked around me to see if anyone heard that and went to the windows, confused, I saw Sabo. He pointed at the rock, that I didn't notice, at my windows, barely on it. I took it out from the windows frame and read the paper, it said.

'LETS RUN AWAY'.. and that was the day I began crossdressing, I met Shanks, who usually gave me funny looks, not knowing I was a girl, I forgot that I told him I was abandoned. The newspaper was filled about a princess who is missing, and so, the legend of the missing princess began in my country, and it spread almost everywhere. The country was very rich of trends, it gave it best. But if the princess is gone, the palace will crash down. I felt kind of happy that I left though, a lot more happier, but when I am reminded by my mother, I feel very dissapointed and sad, and probably very empty inside. On the newspaper, there was a picture of me, sitting neatly, and looking at the photoman, though I look so very different no one would recongise me expect my mother. I put lots of makeup that day. The worst day.

I met Ace before Shanks, he helped me crossdress, he didn't mind me being a girl though, he considered me a boy because of my andro looks. Heh.

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But it's nice though, I get to eat more food, that doesn't take four bites to finish. Food that takes a whole day to finish, and it's large, chicken, meat, everything. When Shanks left, he gave me his strawhat, I treasured it from that day on, and then I started meeting my Nakama, I created my crew. The Strawhats, none of them suspected me, well, Sanji kind of did, and Zoro gave me funny looks, I bet Robin knew though, and well.. Chopper, he agreed to keep it a secret, his sense of smell is really sharp. Everyone else was a little stupid to notice though, I played the role of the idiot kid. I was sometimes idiotic though, my memory of the palace felt very distant. And now, I'm living a really nice life with my crew, and that's when I get put into a bubble and transfered into a women-only island. And the worst thing is, their chasing me with their arrows!

TBC (this is where Ace dies by the way)