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-Ace, Sabo and Luffy are the same age. All three are 10 years old where this story begins. I will inform you how old they are as they grow.

-Luffy has not eaten the Gomu-Gomu no mi or any other devil fruit for that matter. He, along with his brothers will get devil fruits later in the story.

-Luffy does not know about Ace's father.

-Luffy does know about his own father.

-Ace and Sabo do not know about Luffy's father.

-Sabo is the youngest of the three, but only by a fey months.

Ace, Luffy, Sabo: 10 years old

Luffy ran a hand over his bandaged eye for the thousandth time that day. All they wanted was to be free, what was so wrong with that? It seemed the whole universe was against them. Sabo was a caged bird, once free but captured again by the very people that were supposed to love him. Most would think that he had it all, family, money, power. But he didn't, he didn't have the one thing that all humans run on... Love. He lived for so long without that, that's why he ran away, left his 'home'. It was the best choice he ever made, that's how he meet Ace, that's how he meet him. But when he was finally happy the world got in the way. Sabo's family took him right back, -no, he went back himself, to save his sorry brothers asses.

Damn it! Luffy put curled up on the cold wood floor. Why couldn't he protect them!? Why was he so weak!?

Ace was an abused kitten. For whatever reason something changed him. What could have been an innocent child was turned into a untrusting, and almost suicidal boy. When Ace meet Sabo he finally found something to protect, when he meet him it just added to that, because Ace was the oldest brother. That's why he had to take care of them, help them, cover for them, right? NO! They took care of each other! If Ace continued thinking like that he would end up being the one that killed Ace, Because he was weak and couldn't protect his brothers. And that was exactly how Ace went missing. Fighting off Bluejam like that. If only he hadn't been injured by the bastard, if he wasn't the bandits wouldn't have taken him back, he could've helped Ace fight and by a miracle maybe defeat him, if not, dying with his brother was more then he could ask.

He himself wasn't much better then the two. He grew up knowing his existence was a sin, he just tried not to think about it as of later. Before Shanks came he hated his life, not knowing what he wanted to do with it. When he meet Shanks he found something to reach for, an ambition, a reason to keep living. When he was dumped with Dadan he came across Ace and Sabo, now his sworn brothers. They did everything together, never left each-others sides. Until Sabo's parents took him back. After that everything fell apart, they worked for Bluejam unknowingly aiding in the death of hundreds. After that was fire. He shivered. Not something he wanted to remember for a long time.

And after everything they did for him he was busy felling sorry for himself while they were either dead or dying, wither it was mentally or physically.

He jumped to his feet groaning afterwards when he felt an his injuries burn in protest at the fast movement. He ran out of the bandits house as silently as could. After he made it outside he raced to the Grey Terminal, only one thing on his mind; He was going to help Ace and Sabo! Suddenly he caught a glimpse of something sailing off in water. His eyes widened when the thing was in-fact a boat, that wasn't the shocking part though, the flag that waved on-top was what caught his eye. Sabo! That Was Sabo! He charged in that direction.

Finally, he arrived by the water. His expression turned to one of horror. The ship next to Sabo's shot his down. The ship was broken and burning, Sabo couldn't be seen. He jumped into the water, swimming as fast as he could. He was never a good swimmer, he regretted not trying hard enough before.

After what felt like a decade for Luffy, he found Sabo sinking to the ocean floor. He grabbed Sabo by his jacket and held him close to his chest, snatching his hat at the same time. He saved Sabo, now he needed to take him to Dadan's so he could find Ace and Dadan

Sabo groaned in pain as he sat up on the bed.

Wait, bed?

Last time he checked, he was on a boat, not a bed. He put a hand do his head surprised to see his arm wrapped in white bandages. What happened before? He remembered sailing away and then there was a fire and he was trying to put it out and the other ship... Shot at him... Oh.

Was he in heaven? Seemed a little to shabby.

"I see you finally woke up." He whirled around eyes wide.

"Dadan, you died too!?" He yelled. Said woman stared at him for a long moment before sighing.

"Your not dead, Sabo." She said.

Sabo blinked. He could tell that he wasn't dead, how else would he be feeling pain? But making fun of Dadan was something he just had to do. "No, no. I'm sure I'm dead." He said with an inward smirk.

"Your not dead." She repeated.

Oh this was going to be priceless. "How else would I be in hell?"

Dadan blinked. What? "First, you're not dead. Second were did you get the idea of being in hell?" She asked.

"You're here."

Dadan raised her eyebrows. She didn't get it, glorious. Suddenly her face turned red as a tomato and she glared at the blond. "You damn brat!" Sabo laughed out loud, that was great. Dadan made no movement to hit the boy, only yelled insults. Had it not been for the fact that the blond boy was injured, he would've been in for a hell of a beating.

After a few minuets of Sabo laughing his ass off and Dadan turning shades of red that were never seen before, they calmed down, and a tense atmosphere came upon them, and Sabo knew exactly why; he almost died, left his two brothers alone. There was no way they would take him dying well, they would both go and try to murder the one's that killed him -not that he was dead- and then end up dead themselves for attacking a celestial dragon. Yes he did recognize that ship; it was the one that people worse then his own parent's were on. "So, how'd I survive?" He asked with hidden guilt.

Dadan thought for a moment."...Luffy saved you when your ship was shot down by a Celestial Dragon's ship." She said with a firm voice. "You've been asleep for a week now."

His moth fell open. That long!? "Damn! Where are Ace and Luffy!?"

"Sleeping in the next room." She looked at the wall, indicating that they were in that room. "They've been really stressed lately, need a lot of sleep" No duh! Their little brother was taken away from them, said little brother almost died, and god knows if they were part of that fire, either way they suffered great loos and suffering from it.

"Oh." Was all he said on the outside. But he gave a look to Dadan that was asking her to tell him what happened after he left, hoping she understood.

She did. "They didn't come back after you left, so I don't know what happened in-between." He nodded in understanding. "They got stuck in they fire, don't ask why, I don't know." So they were part of that inferno of burning trash and flesh. "The Bluejam pirates attacked them, both were badly injured, Luffy almost lost his eye. We saved them, I stayed with Ace to fight, Luffy was taken back here. A few days after that Luffy saved you, brought you back, and then helped -dare I say saved- us."

Sabo gripped the white sheets that laid over him tightly. Damn it! He should have been there for them! He grit his teeth.

"They almost died in that blasted fire, you know." He looked at Dadan with pained eyes, she looked back at him with almost the same expression. "Bluejam almost killed 'em both."

"Where is he now?" He asked with an almost incoherent voice, shaking with rage.

Her frown depend in thought. "Don't know. Haven't seen him since. Hopefully dead." If was a high possibility that the m

"Yeah..."If not..." He didn't continue, he didn't need to, Dadan understood what he was thinking. The blond child looked up at her. "Can I go see them?"

"... Sure brat." She stood up, he followed her example, setting his bare feet on the cold wooden floor. They walked to the next room over and entered. Ace and Luffy were on the ground both curled up in fetal position, a surprise for Sabo as they were usually sprawled out. He walked over to Ace intending to wake him up. His process was interrupted by a growl from Ace.

Sabo listened closely after he thought he heard Ace say something, soon he heard it again. "...Damn it..." The raven boy was still asleep therefore he was sleep talking. Not long afterwards he heard something from Luffy too.

"... Shut up you bastard..." The sleeping boy said. "Can't breath..."

Ace turned to his other side, still in fetal position. "Don't die..." Sabo's heart clenched. He never heard his brothers sound so helpless. "... Hot..." Sabo felt anger, no, fury. His brothers were strong, that fire couldn't have done that much it was just a stupid fire, that they were stuck in, full of burning garbage... That they basically grew up with... And burning humans... And they were suck in it... Oh. Stuck in blazing heat, suffocating, smelt like burnt garbage and flesh, people screaming bloody murder all around, and then they were attacked by prates... Who wouldn't be traumatized? Even if they were monsters, that was a terrifying thing.

He felt guilty that he couldn't have helped them"Ace... Luffy..."

Dadan looked at the three boys with pity. "Shit. Those nightmares just haven't stopped."

Sabo shook the two raven haired brothers. "Wake up."

Said boys groaned and opened their eyes slowly -was opening their eyes slowly- their eyes shot open and they sat up quickly. "SABO!" They yelled.

Luffy put his face in-front of Sabo's face with a worried look. "You're awake! How are you feeling!? When did you wake up!?"

Ace did the exact same thing barraging Sabo with questions. "Are you okay!?

Sabo "Yeah I'm good! What about you?"

"Fine." Luffy and Ace answered simultaneously.

Sabo snickered. "Thanks for saving me Luffy." Luffy nodded with a small smile on his face.

Dadan smiled at the brothers. They inseparable. "Go back to sleep brats. You need rest." She told them.

Ace gave her a 'soft' glare. "Stupid"

Luffy rolled his eyes. "Whatever."

Sabo just pouted. "Fine." But they complied and snuggled close to each-other.

It had been just one week after Sabo woke up and they were almost completely healed, and up-and-kicking. It was supposed to bee a good day, the bandits finally allowed them to leave the shack they called a house, but they already ran into trouble.

Ace kicked the air as he tried to free himself from a man's hold, a pirate for sure, probably a Bluejam pirate. "Let us fucking go!" He yelled.

His brothers were in a similar state, Sabo being held in one pirates arms like a sack of potato's, and Luffy was being pinned down to the dirt ground by another man. "Get the hell off of me!"

Sabo growled as he tried to bite the man that was holding him hand, but he just moved sabo to a more uncomfortable position where he couldn't hurt the pirate. "Leave us alone!"

Through the forest another man stepped out. Ace, Luffy and Sabo's eyes widened in fear when the shadows over the man cleared and revealed his face. It was unquestionably Bluejam himself. Said pirate captain gave a cold grin. "Knock them out." He said.

"Got it captain" The pirated holding them said in sync.

"You brats are going to make me rich." Was the last thing they heard before their world went black.

I'm really sorry for the short chapter. But I'll make up for that by updating soon (probably).

Please review, tell me what you like and what's wrong with it.

Also I need an idea for what Sabo's devil fruit is going to be! I already know for Ace and Luffy but for Sabo I just haven't decided yet, so please help!