Dawn Island was in the middle of a heat wave; yet the people of Foosha Village kept going along with their busy daily lives. The village and the surrounding farmlands was the main crops for the city on the other end of the island.
As the village people carried on as normal, they barely noticed the pirates coming to dock. The villagers was took one look at them and continued on as normal; it was nothing new to the older villagers for pirates to come and dock, as different pirate came and when every few years or so.
That for one villager it was new; five year old Monkey D Luffy had never seen pirates before, only head of them from his grandfather and the mayor.
From the safely of his home Luffy watched the pirates; leaning forward he had his arms folded on the windowsill staring through the glass.
The pirates strolled passed his house which was near the seafront and close to the dock, they laughed and talked loudly as then went along.
Luffy's eyes follows the man in front, the one with a straw hat upon his head; bright red hair stuck out from under and reaching down to this shoulder. Against the black cloak he was wearing, the red hair seems to be bright still.
"How can he wear that thing in this weather?" Luffy hears from behind as his grandfather comes closer to the to window and gazes at the pirates, "Red Haired Shanks?! What's he doing in these waters?"
"You know him, Grandpa?" Luffy asks as he unfolds his arm and turns and looks up at his only family member he ever known.
"That little punk is nothing but a trouble making," Monkey D Garp answered as he continued to stare, his eternal grin stayed on his face but in his dark eyes Luffy could see he was displeased. "Good thing I chose to be here a little longer. I bet you would have ran right up to greet them."
A grin appears his the child's lips, much like the older man's; Luffy's grandfather was right. If the old man had not been there he would have gone up and asked if they are a bad as his Grandfather made them out to be.
"Yeah!" Luffy said as he moved away from the window, "Can I go?"
"No." Garp said firmly, bending down to pick up his grandson, and place him on that Luffy's little legs wrapped around his middle, "Good thing I was here." Garp mumbles again as he walked away from the window and heads towards the kitchen, "I was meant to have left last week, but you caught that cold."
Garp had taken the last few years off of work to raise his grandson, now that Luffy was five he was going to leave him to live between to villagers.
"Shishi~ Grandpa," Luffy said smiling into the old man's neck, he loved his grandfather and hated when he left to go places even for short periods of time. He was also hating the fact that he was leaving for a long time.
"Luffy," Garp says as he lifted Luffy up and sat him on the table, "What do you think about coming with me? However I am not babying you any more, you are five now. "
Luffy blinked and frowned his grandfather once left him before in a forest to made his own way home and by looking at other children in the village, he knew that his grandfather was a little strange.
"YEAH!" Luffy cheered as he raised his arms in the air, laughing wildly; he did not mind if his grandfather was different, just as long as he did not leave him alone.