Heya peoples! This is my first fanfiction and when you review, please give advice so I can improve and get better at writing stories. This is a story of a more serious and smarter Luffy, there will be HUGE changes comparing from the cannon story. I hope you will like it! Enjoy!
Chapter 1: A New Perspective
An island somewhere in East Blue, in Dawn Island, on a small windmill village. A young boy is sitting in a bar on his favorite seat. The young boy has a stitches under his left eye, wearing a white T-shirt with a blue anchor on the front, and blue shorts. A lady with green hair, looks like the bartender walked over to the young boy.
"Luffy, are you hungry?" asked the lady who looks very worried about something.
"No, I'm fine Makino" Luffy said with a sigh, following a growl from his stomach.
"Luffy, it's not good for a growing boy like you to not have something to eat." Makino gently said with a comforting smile.
"I am fine, really. I just don't feel like eating anything right now" Luffy said as he got ready to leave.
Just then, they heard a cry from outside the bar. A man looked panicked and was yelling "Pirates are coming! Pirates are coming!"
Makino rushed over to get the mayor while telling Luffy not to exit the bar, which he did until the pirates came in the bar.
Luffy sat at his favorite seat while watching this grown man with red hair, three scars on his left eye and a straw hat. Luffy sat there quietly observing how a pirate acts, if they have any manners at all, and if they suddenly attack out of no where. Luffy has already figured out what will play out if the pirates continued to do what they did. Luffy watched as the grown man started to get sleepy, he was obviously drunk. Luffy wanted to try on his hat, even if he was a pirate he doesn't seem like the type to attack out of no where. He went for it.
Just then, the grown man grabbed his arm, lifting him up and stared at him with dilated eyes.
The bar has gone silent as Makino told the grown man to unhand Luffy.
"If you hate me because of this, then you shouldn't drink to the point where anyone can sneak up on you, ya Drunkard." Luffy said as cold dead eyes trained upon him.
"Hmm?"
"Ha! he got you there Boss!." said man with the silky yellow hair with a blue and white spotted headband "I'm Yasopp, what is your name?"
"Luffy. Monkey D Luffy, Nice to meet you, Yasopp" He answered with a calm look on him, his eyes still looked as dead as ever.
"Monkey D? You wouldn't be related with Monkey D Garp, are you?" asked the man with the straw hat.
"Yes. He's my grandfather."
The room was silent. it was like everyone was saying the word 'WHAT?' without moving their lips.
"THAT CRAZY OLD GEEZER HAS A GRAND KID?! HECK I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HE WAS MARRIED! What kind of woman would hook up with a guy like him?" asked a pirate in awe with a chunk of meat in his hands. He's a fat looking person wearing a striped green and white T-shirt that also matches with his head band, and has weird glasses or was it goggles?
After the shock slipped by, the man with the straw hat spoke, breaking the silence.
"I'm Shanks, the captain of these drunkards. How do you feel about him? is he a good grandfather to you? Or does he even acts like a grandfather?" Questioned Shanks, who seems to be interested in the Marine Hero's outside of work life.
"Grandpa never stays here, he... he doesn't care about me if I get hurt or not... I dislike him," stuttered Luffy as he squeezed the last words out.
Shanks, not wanting to push on him too hard, sighed and asks, "I see, so he's not even trying to be a proper grandfather."
"Yeah, and I like Makino better because she is a mother figure to me," smiled Luffy as he slightly lifted the unnerving mood.
"Welp, I'm going fishing now! Shishishishi, do you want to come Drunkard?" Laughed Luffy when he started to walk out the door.
Showing a huge grin on Shanks' face, he answered, "I'll be there in a sec! You'll go on ahead, kay?"
"Okay!" Chipped Luffy as he ran out the door.
After Luffy had left the bar, Shanks turned to Makino and asked "Did something happened here?" in a bit of a serious tone.
"What do you mean?" questioned Makino.
"I meant did something happened here for Luffy to think that?" answered Shanks worriedly
"Do you mean, when Luffy acted cold towards his grandfather?" Makino questioned again.
"Yes, it seemed a bit unnatural to say the least" answered Shanks as he waited for Makino to answer.
"I know it is a bit unnatural at his age, but there is a reason for that" said Makino as she tried not to get too emotional. "Would you like to hear it?"
"Sure, only if you think we should know about someone else's past" Shanks said with a soft voice and a tender smile.
"I think Luffy should make more friends, so he could have someone else to share and connect with" Makino said quietly. Her eyes became a downcast and started a story that silenced the whole bar, "It all happened 3 years ago"
Flash Back
"Luffy! Luffy? Where are you?" Yelled Makino as she was searching for a young boy who seems to be missing for 3 days. The green haired women desperately searching for him become more frantic and worried as the minutes pasted by.
"LUFFY!" She yelled at the top of here lungs, not knowing where he might be. She yelled and yelled, but not having an answer she was hoping for. With no clues or even an idea of where he might be, she had to returned to the bar and try again tomorrow when the sun is up.
Somewhere on the other side of the island, a young boy was running, fearing for his life. Apparently he spotted a beautiful butterfly and followed it, when he realized he was lost, he picked a random direction and head there, thinking it was the correct way. Moments later he found himself trapped in a boar trap and was caught by the Hot Sauce Pirates. Seems like the group of pirates was searching something called a Poneglyph hidden somewhere on this island the only way to find where it might be the had to get as much information out of this kid. And the only solution was torture. They tied Luffy to a pole and it began.
Luffy screamed and yelled for help, sadly nobody came.
"TALK, TELL ME WHERE THE PONEGLYPH IS!" yelled the Hot Sauce Pirate as he swung a baseball bat at Luffy's head causing his head to crack and he screamed louder. "ANSWER ME KID" another swing and Luffy was barely conscious.
"IF YOU DON'T TELL ME, I'LL HAVE TO KILL YOU! SO TALK!" yelled the Hot Sauce Pirate as he swung the baseball bat again, this time it broke Luffy's jaw and he has lost several teeth.
"I.. Don't k-know what y-you're talking a-about" stuttered Luffy as he tried to stay conscious. This pattern continued, each time losing more and more blood, breaking more bones and the light that he sees starts to fade into darkness.
8 hours had passed, Luffy was thrown into a tiny cage like jail cell. Its had rusty metal bars, blood stain all over the ground, and a nasty armpit scent floating in the air. His shirt was all ripped up and covered in blood, so are his pants. He recently got a car under his left eye where a pirate stabbed him. It hurt, but he doesn't have enough energy to scream nor the will to continue to live. He was both starving and dehydrated, his vision was getting blurry, 'This is it' He thought as something caught his eye. There was a greenish fruit on the table in front of him. It looked weird, it was it some apple or something? No, this fruit has weird swirly patterns on it. Even if this fruit is poisonous, Luffy was too hungry to care about any of that and reached for it.
"Yuck!" Said Luffy as he stuck his tongue out after taking a huge bite out of it "This tastes DISGUSTING!" Luffy gagged as he tried not to throw up.
After the disgusting after taste Luffy stood up, feeling much better, but something changed. His scar underneath his eye was healing rapidly and closed, leaving the scar stuck in his skin. All the bruises and cuts on him started to heal. This sudden phenomenon surprised Luffy leaving him stunned in place. He couldn't find his voice, so he stood there staring at himself, not knowing what just happened.
"What's going on down there?" A voice shouted from upstairs. It belonged to one of the Hot Sauce Pirates.
"Uh oh," Whispered Luffy who had just snapped out of his trance. This wasn't good If I stay here any longer, They'll kill me! Panicked as he tried to think of a way to escape this dump.
As the footsteps echoing louder, there wasn't much time before the pirate reaches him. What do I do? What can I do? How am I suppose to escape? While questioning himself he suddenly realized something. "That fruit...I think I know what that is! Its' a-" Before he could finish that thought, someone cut him off.
"AH! WHERE IS THE NAMA NAMA NO MI GO?!" Screamed the angry looking pirate. After his panic attack he turned and asked "DID YOU EAT THE NAMA NAMA NO MI?!"
"Yeah" He answered bluntly because he is too honest. But he immediately regretted that.
"YOU! HOW DARE YOU CHEEKY LITTLE MONKEY! WE WERE GOING TO SELL THAT! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH THAT WAS WORTH!" The pirate shouted as he screamed in Luffy's face.
Before Luffy knew what happened blood was spilled. There was a root like thing piercing through the pirates stomach region. There was a giant bloody hole that spilled blood like a waterfall.
The man's body fell to the ground lifeless "Heh, it's kind of a... good thing you ate.. t-the fruit" whispered the pirate which was unclear but Luffy tried to hear as much as he can.
"What do you mean?" asked Luffy
"Since y-you ate... Devil F-Fruit.. y-you... not s-swim" and with one last cough, the man was dead.
This stunned Luffy, he didn't know how to react. 'Me eating a Devil Fruit? Was that what the fruit was called? and what did he mean? I can't swim? Because I ate something called a Devil Fruit? Should I trust him for what he said? Well a dying man telling you something would be a 99% the truth... I'll take that as a warning'
While Luffy was standing there another pirate starting walking down the stairs. This isn't good, if someone finds out about this, he'd be dead for sure! He had to think fast.
...
There was only two choices, either try to fight all the Hot Sauce Pirates with his new ability that he still can't control or jump into the ocean and drown to death. Both choices means killing yourself. But If he chooses to fight, there would be undescribable consequences.
'Its the only way without getting killed.. I'll take the risk' Luffy thought as he got ready to fight.
"There he is!" one of the Hot Sauce Pirates yelled "Look, one of our men are down! You little brat, your gonna pay!" The pirates charged at Luffy, having a sword in one hand and a loaded gun in the other.
Luffy didn't know what to do, he used his arms to block. Unlucky as the pirate sliced his entire arm off, strangely it didn't hurt nor did it bleed. Luffy was confused why when suddenly his arm grew back if this wasn't surprising enough, his arm actually 'grew' back because instead of a normal arm, it was a hawthorn vine and it went quickly out of control. It stretched and grabbed one of the pirates and flinged him towards the others smashing them through the ship causing sea water to flood in. Luffy was still freaked out on what just happened. Then he quickly saw the water rising and remembered that he couldn't swim, he ran up stairs as fast as he can. When he reached the top he encountered the captain of the Hot Sauce Pirates who called himself Hot Pot. His hair is made up of several small flames, same goes for his both his beard and mustache. His body doesn't look physical as red ooze seek out from his body. Luffy was shaken but tries to face this monster.
Hot Pot was disappointed in his crew when they lost to a brat, he was so mad that the ooze started to bubble like lave and charged at Luffy yelling out "Sauce Sauce no eruption!" Balls of flames flew at Luffy, Luckily he dodged before it him. Luffy kept running dodging the balls of flame which seemed to bounce?
'Seriously, what is that?' Luffy thought as he tried to do his vines or whatever that can save him, it didn't work for a while until he almost got hit by one of his 'Meat Balls Leftovers' or what not. Luffy than tried to pierce Hot Pot like the other guy he killed, but for some reason his attack went through his target.
"What" Luffy stood there dumbfounded and completely stunned.
"Heh, you can't hurt me kid. I ate the Sauce Sauce fruit, it is a Logia type, it means that physical attacks won't work on me. Whatever you throw at me it will just go through me, even if you can't hurt me, I can still hurt you."
"Dammit" Luffy cussed 'What do I do? I can't even touch him' panicked as he tried to find a solution. 'Wait a second, Logia can regenerate parts of your body and heals it? does that mean I am a Logia too because my arm can grow back and I can heal when I'm injured?'
This realization gave Luffy a great idea, what if he push Mr. Hot Pot into the sea? They were both Devil Fruit eaters, and this could actually test if that man told the truth or not. Besides he can't win like this, this was his only choice.
"Hey Spaghetti, I want to see you try" Luffy mocked as he smirked towards the triggered captain.
"Kid, WHAT DID YOU SAY? SPAGHETTI?! YOU MUST HAVE A DEATH WISH!" Hot Pot charged Luffy at full speed firing more of his 'Meatballs' at Luffy who's still dodging him like a monkey playing with him. Luffy led Mr. Spaghetti to the railings, dodging his final attack before disappearing then reappearing behind the captain catching him off-guard then kicking him into the water.
"AAAGHHH, CURSE YOU BRAT gjisfig..." With the last bubble, he disappeared into the sea and didn't show and signs of resurfacing.
"Huh, I guess that man told the truth" Luffy concluded before realizing that the ship was sinking quickly. "That's no good" Luffy sweat dropped as he threw his arm on shore landing it on the closest tree and gripped on to it as he retracted it backwards crash landing on the beach of his island.
Luffy lie there looking up to the sky and thought 'This was only the beginning'. Suddenly he heard someone calling for him, at first he wasn't sure if it was his name he was hearing but the closer he walked towards it, the clearer it was that he had concluded that it was his name.
"Luffy? LUFFY!?" screamed as the voice belonged to a woman he felt it was too familiar.
"Makino?" questioned Luffy as a green haired woman appeared in front of him.
"LUFFY? is that really you?" Makino said as she gave Luffy a giant hug that almost suffocated him. With teary eyes Makino said "I looked every where for you! Where were you? You made us all worry about you!"
"Sorry to worry you Makino, I, ran into some trouble" Luffy then explained to Makino everything that has happened to him, the Nama Nama no mi, the Hot Pot Pirates and their captain Hot Pot and his power Sauce Sauce.
"Is that so?" Makino said as she began to tear up again. "Well, let's go back first and tell everyone that you are okay, next time be more careful okay?"
"Okay, by the way, Makino? This Nama Nama fruit. Is it bad that I have it?" asked Luffy as he recalled the times where he killed the pirates.
"Uh, they're not bad, but try to learn how to properly control it before you try to use it again" answered Makino while making a comforting smile.
"Right. Next time I'll try to have it under control." Luffy smiled as they walked back to their village.
End of Flash Back
The room was silent. No one knows what to say after hearing about Luffy's past.
"But what does that has to do with Luffy hating his grandfather?" asked Yasopp.
"Well, I believed he dislikes his grandpa because he didn't show up to help him, because Garp said that he would come to Luffy's rescue whenever he is in trouble and when he didn't come, he started to distrust and dislikes his grandpa for making him a not trust worthy promise." Makino answered as her eyes shadowed a bit.
"So, that's how it happened" Shanks said suddenly "I think I understand his pain. Well I think i should get going to go fishing with Luffy" Shanks said as he looked at Makino "Don't worry we will help him" Smiled Shanks as he walked out the door 'Luffy I didn't know a child like you would go through such dramatic events, I hope you can be happy once I show you how having a life can still be fun.'
Woo! Chapter 1 finished! I hope you guys will enjoy this smarter/serious Luffy. I may be busy do to school, but I hope you be patience with me and please tell me if you have any questions in the reviews! (^u^)/ See ya!
