Summary: No one ever said that it'd be so difficult to look after idiots. Though, really, with these guys, I should have expected it. Or: In which an SI is the Pirate King's Straw Hat.

It's a nice day today. Calm, sunny. It's the perfect day to go out for a walk.

Oh wait. I don't have legs.

Yep. I don't have legs, or arms, or a living body. How the hell I still have a consciousness is a complete mystery

It wouldn't be so bad if I could speak to someone once in awhile. Except I can only talk to people who wear me.

Hmm? Wear me? Is that what you're asking made-up-audience-in-my-head-I-talk-to? Well that's because I am not alive, but I'm also not a ghost.

I am a Hat.

Yeah, you heard me right. Hat with a capital H.

Don't judge me! I'm a Hat that remembers being a human! How much more special does a hat need to get to earn that? Not at all, that's what. Now stop distracting me.

Where was I…? Oh right! I am a Hat - a straw hat to be precise - and because I am a Hat, I have no mouth to speak with, no limbs to move with, no eyes to see with. I can still feel my surroundings, but that's limited to about a mile of distance at any one time. It's not all that useful when there's not a single intelligent soul around.

However! There is ONE way, I can communicate with the outside world. Care to guess what it is?

Hey! No need to be so rude! Jeez, and here I was trying to involve you in my internal monologue. See if I ask you anything ever again.

Well, anyways, you're right. I did say earlier (I did NOT forget! Shut up!) that I can talk to people who wear me. And it's not just that!

When someone wears me, I can see what they see, taste what they taste. Basically, I'm connected to their body on an intimate level.

No they are NOT my body puppets! I can't make them do anything, I just experience what they do.

Anyways, I have a theory. Since I am so closely connected to these people when I'm on their heads, my thoughts spill over to theirs and I hear theirs in kind. That's the only reason I could figure out for why I can only talk to those people anyways.

Why don't I then? Ahehe… I might have gotten too excited when I realized what I could experience if a person wears me. And, well, I might have been branded cursed after the person I belonged to at the time freaked out and tried to burn me. I don't even know how I did that. I panicked and all I could think about was how I really really didn't want to find out if I could die as a hat.

Which leaves me here. In the middle of an empty field. Alone. With no people within the mile of distance I could feel.

Yeah. This really bites.

So, yeah. This started when I was reading an SI-OC Insert called Tell it to the Marines by Tsume Yuki (It's awesome, go check it out!) and I thought it would be awesome if Luffy's actions could have been influenced by someone who knows what's going to happen and doesn't hesitate to change things. Only problem was, I couldn't figure out who would be able to do that without being a Mary-Sue like character. Especially since they would need to be by his side near 24/7. Then it hit me. What does Luffy refuse to be separated from at all times? HIS HAT. Only. It was also the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger's hat. And it spiraled on from there.

I'm not going to be spending ridiculous amounts of time on this, but I will write for it whenever the mood strikes me. I like it enough not to drop it anytime soon, but I do have other things to work on.

The POV will switch from First-Person to Third Person starting the next chapter. It will keep switching, though there will be more of the latter than the former.

The next chapter will be up in a day or so, and I'll try to keep up with this. I just got the idea and I need to write, write, write! I don't have a beta though and I don't intend to get one just yet for this story, so that'll slow me down a bit since I'll have to go through things carefully.

Kudos to This Bites by Xomniac/The Cross-Brain, in case you don't get the reference at the end. (Though really, who doesn't know about that frankly godly story?)

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