This is a story that I used to have posted a long time ago. Recently I have gotten the urge to finish it and so I have decided to go through each chapter and change/edit things to fit my current writing style and to take the story in the direction I choose. Since this was posted before, it may seem familiar to some readers. A lot of the main plot points will be the same, especially in the beginning but there will be changes.

When a name is bolded black it will mean that the POV is changing to that character, just so nobody is confused. (:

Please read the tags before you begin reading. The first chapter is not that bad (It's more of an introduction to the brothers and their personalities) but it does get a lot darker moving forward.

I hope you enjoy and thank you for reading!

Chapter 1

..Luffy..

Sighing in annoyance, he tugged at a loose strand on his faded out red t-shirt. His eyes flicked over to his shirtless older brother, who was rolling his eyes while leaning back on one of the kitchen chairs. The chair wobbled unsteadily but Ace wasn't deterred, not even when Sabo smacked the back of the chair in anger. The kitchen fell silent for a long moment as both of his adopted brothers stared daggers at each other, he was suddenly very nervous of the fact that he was between the two angry males.

"This is your fault, Ace." Sabo hissed while slightly leaning over his lap to get closer to the other, soft blonde hair tickled at his chin and he scooted back, allowing the two brothers to glare at each other coldly. Sabo's only indicator that he was nervous was the tapping of his gloved fingers against the wooden table in front of them.

Ace on the other hand showed no signs of nervousness, just heated anger. "Oh, fuck you! We all agreed to do this, and that sicko deserved what he got!" The chair screeched loudly as Ace threw it back onto the ground and stood to tower over Sabo. "The only reason we got caught was because of you!" Ace stabbed his finger into Sabo's chest, "I told you to keep watch and instead you just had to stare at Nojiko. If you hadn't gotten distracted, then we would have seen the front door opening!"

Sabo stood now, face a dark red, "How can you blame me for that! She came out of her house in those skimpy shorts, any guy would have gotten distracted! Plus, she was staring at us! We were already as good as caught! You're the one who came up with that forsaken plan in the first place! You arsonist!" Sabo hands were flailing wildly now.

"Unless." He spoke up and his brother's eyes quickly glanced down at him. "Unless, you happen to swing for the other team." It wasn't exactly a good time to joke but his words did ease the tension and caused both of his brothers to crack a fond smile. Ace opened his mouth but before he could respond the door swung open angrily, a greyed haired man stormed into the small kitchen.

Their grandpa, Garp. All three brothers gulped.

Their grandfather's voice was surprisingly calm as he spoke, " I just finished talking to Saint Charloss on the phone and I finally convinced him not to press charges." He let out a small sigh of relief, but he couldn't relax, there was obviously a catch. "But only on the condition that you three are to be sent to GLCA."

"WHAT!?" All three brothers yelled at once, he was standing now, right beside his horror -stricken siblings. "Fuck that!" Ace yelled, taking a hasty step towards the greyed haired male, his freckled brother looked ready to kill the older man and Sabo was quickly restraining Ace with strong arms. "Let us not be hasty!" Sabo barked, to Garp or Ace, he wasn't sure.

His mouth felt dry like he'd eaten a handful of sand and after smacking his mouth open and closed, he found his voice. "GLCA is a three-hour drive from here! That is where they send delinquents and troubled kids! We aren't- We-." His voice trailed off because that's exactly what he was, a troubled kid, hell, a criminal even, they'd set the priest car on fire in broad daylight. His brothers constantly partied, and he skipped school so much that he was failing all his classes.

"You boys," Garp sighed loudly, looking drawn and just plain tired. Usually they'd just receive a hard punch to the head for getting into trouble and the fact that their grandfather wasn't exploding in anger just showed how serious this situation was. What they had done could have sent them to jail, they could have gotten criminal charges, but it wasn't their fault, not really.

Saint Charloss had asked for it. He'd deserved it! For all the winking at him at congregation when nobody was looking, for whispering profanities in his ear, and for finally smacking his ass one day after church. He was sixteen now, but this had started when he was only fourteen! He was supposed to be able to trust the church and instead he'd been preyed on by the sicko! So yeah, he'd deserved to get his car torched, hell he deserved even worse than that!

When he'd finally confessed to his brothers what was going on they'd come up with the plan to set the priest car on fire as a warning. What they hadn't been expecting was Saint Charloss to walk out of his house the exact moment Ace had started the fire, catching all three of them in the act. The man wasn't supposed to have come out and while he did admit that trying to burn a car in the middle of the day was foolish on their part, did it really have to resort to them being sent to GLCA?

"But grandpa!" He tried to interrupt. " You haven't even heard our side of the story, we had a reaso-."

Garp slammed his fist down onto the wooden table, silencing him. "I don't care what reason you had to set the preacher's car on fire! This is unacceptable. You boys have been causing problems for the last two years, bad grades, shop lifting, arson, and now this. No. This is none negotiable. You three will be going to the Grand Line Correctional Academy and that's all there is to it. I am responsible for you three and I will not watch you go down this road of destruction any longer."

"That sick fuck found out Luf-." Ace spluttered out but stopped quickly when he placed a hand on his brother's arm, Ace had almost spilled that he was gay to their grandfather. While he didn't find it a big deal to be gay, Garp would. It might even cause the situation to be worse, so he just shook his head sadly, there was a possibility that if he allowed Ace to tell what had happened their grandfather would resort to drastic measures like sending him to some kind of rehab or just plain kicking them out and even if Ace kept out the fact that he was gay, Saint Charloss wouldn't.

And just like that, they were sentenced. Sentenced to a school year at the Grand Line Correctional Academy. A strict school known to reform trouble making kids.

..Ace..

"Fuck him. Fuck GLCA. Fuck Saint fucking Charloss. Fuck that old man." He grumbled to himself. Grabbing another pair of shorts from his drawer and shoving them into his duffel bag. He hated life right now, not that he didn't hate it most days but right fucking now he hated it a whole shit load more. Himself and his brothers were being forced to go to some dumb ass correctional school while the pervert Saint Charloss laughed from the side lines.

His hands balled into fist and he flung the current pair of shorts at the wall, it hit the paint with a sad thud. "Have fun laughing when you don't have a ride." He yelled, as if Saint Charloss could hear him. "Saint. Hah!" Anger rushed through him as he thought of the things the pervert had whispered into his little brother's ear. Sick bastard. When he got back from this stupid school he'd shove his foot up the guy's ass.

A quiet knock brought him out of his thoughts. "Come in." He muttered angrily. Regretting his tone when Luffy slipped in through a small space in the door, shutting it softly after. His little brother's face was downcast, and his eyes were watering. Forgetting his packing, he ran over to his brother. Pulling him tightly against his chest. "It's not your fault Luf." He mumbled, rubbing his brothers back. It wasn't hard to tell that Luffy was blaming himself for the prison sentence they had gotten earlier and that was the last thing that was needed, it wasn't Luffy's fault that some sick bastard set eyes on him.

Luffy didn't reply, only let out a choked sob that broke his heart.

..Sabo..

The quiet sobs from behind Ace's door caught his attention, Ace rarely cried and that meant only one thing. Luffy was in the room, his little brother had always been a crybaby, innocent, and trusting, which only made it worse that a man, a priest at that would take advantage of him. Things were going to be hard for a long time and while he wanted to coddle Luffy, he also needed to let his brother grow up and harden. The world wasn't a kind place.

With that thought he entered Ace's room, fully ready to give Luffy a speech about life, that was until he saw his two brothers cuddled on the bed, Luffy sniffling, his face buried in Ace's neck. The sight made his heart squeeze painfully and all plans faded from his mind. All he could do was walk over and join them on the bed, tugging both of his siblings into his arms. If only he could keep them forever, safe and sound. "Shh... we will be okay, we will still be together like always. Everything will be okay. It's okay." He repeated the words until Luffy's cries stopped and they all fell asleep, limbs wrapped together.

He couldn't imagine what he would do without the two that he'd learned to call brothers.

..Luffy..

The last night at their house was the same as it always was. Watching movies and playing video games, of course with the occasional fight between Ace and Sabo over who was the better big brother. In his opinion they were both equal, not that they ever listened to him. Both of his brothers had a similar opinion of him, they thought him to be a child. He couldn't even remember all the times he'd begged to go to a party with them and was turned down. 'You wouldn't like it Luffy.' 'That kind of place just isn't for you.' 'We can play games later.' He'd try to tell them that he'd been to parties before and liked it just fine, he always tried to tell them things and they never listened unless it concerned his safety or wellbeing and so he'd given up. It wasn't that his brothers didn't love him, the problem was that they loved him too much. It was something that he'd grown used to over the years and while it used to upset him, it didn't anymore, its just how things were.

On that night he'd fallen asleep on couch between them, it was something that happened often but for some reason it was unsettling, instead of safe and warm, he felt anxious and unnerved. For some reason, he couldn't get rid of the feeling that this would be the last time he was with his brothers this way. It wasn't a logical thought; his brothers would never leave him, and he knew that but something in his gut wouldn't settle. Something just didn't feel right.

..Ace..

Garp didn't tell them goodbye. The old man woke them up early, told them to take their own truck and get on the road. That was it, after years of raising them, that's all he had to say. He was fuming inside but remained calm for Luffy's sake, nerves were already running high as it was and throttling Garp wasn't going to help. He should've known the geezer would get rid of them the first chance he got.

The ride to their new prison hadn't gone as bad as he'd thought it would. Luffy slept most the way, mumbling about meat and pirates, he'd always been a sleep talker. Sabo didn't say much, mostly just stared ahead, only moving to change the radio when he didn't agree with a song. They stopped once at a gas station, halfway through the three-hour drive to relieve themselves and buy some snacks. Sabo scolded Luffy when he tried to buy five bags of beef jerky and that was the most exciting part of the trip, if you could even call it that.

Now. Here they were. In front of an old and as much as he didn't want to admit it, charming building.

He did not fail to notice that a large iron fence enclosed the whole school, which consisted of seven buildings. Sabo parked in the rather large parking lot, next to two shiny red sport cars. Their truck stuck out like a sore thumb, with its rusted handles and scratched up paint. "Well isn't that fancy." He muttered, eyeing the red cars. This school obviously costed some money to get into. So, their grandfather had enough money to put them in some strict, rich, correctional school but not enough to buy them a decent truck or help Luffy with getting a telescope that he'd wanted for his fourteenth birthday? Made no sense.

In the back of his mind he knew the old man was secretly happy to be rid of the three boys. After all it wasn't like Sabo or Ace were his biological grandsons. Luffy was the only one who happened to be related to him. Garp had taken in Sabo when he was half beaten to death at the age of six and had then taken him in two months later when his parents abandoned him.

They were simply charity cases to make Garp look good. Luffy on the other hand was dropped off by his father, sometime around the year mark of Sabo and himself living with Garp. Luffy had only been four then, it was a memory that was still as clear as the day it had happened.

..

"Ace, quiet! I'm working." Garp yelled over the pelting of the rain and the howling wind. The old man was able to work with a storm going on but couldn't handle the sound of his new toy? He groaned in annoyance and reluctantly dropped the crackling rocket ship that he'd been playing with to instead crawl over to Sabo who was drawing in one of Garp's old notebooks.

"This place sucks." He mumbled, afraid he'd be heard by the working man.

Sabo's shoulder lifted and dropped in a slow shrug, "It is better than my other home. I don't get hurt here." Blue eyes lifted to meet his and he tried to not flinch as Sabo's injured face came into view. "What are you drawing?" Changing the subject seemed the best option and Sabo slid the notebook toward him. A sunflower was halfway drawn on the corner of the page, "Oh that's-."

The door flew open, startling everyone in the house.

"Dragon?! What are you doing here?!" Garp was yelling and crossing the distance of the Livingroom to the front door in a few large steps. The man named Dragon was holding a wrapped-up bundle against his chest. The two adults were yelling but he couldn't stop watching the wiggling bundle, at first, he thought it was an animal, but he was proven wrong when another little boy poked his head out of the tattered blanket. His big eyes scanned the room and landed on the rocket on the floor, the wiggling grew frantic. "Da- I wan that."

"Shh. Luffy not now." Dragon held the little boy tighter, fists clutching the blanket in desperation. "Father, please! Th- The relations between the Donquixote pack is hostile, even more so than before you left, they are out for blood. A whole family was killed last night, even the children. It's too late for me to back out now but I would never be able to live with myself if Luffy was harmed because of my job. I'll come back for him when he is older but please, just for now, take him. He needs to be distanced from all this, I can't work when I am worrying about his safety. You are the only man I trust to keep him safe, you'd been a hunter for years, one of the best. Garp he is your grandson! I know we had a falling out when I decided to stay in the organization but I- I had to! People are being slaughtered every day because of those beasts, it is my duty!"

He didn't understand the words very well and he had no idea what the man was yelling about but he could see the passion in the words. Garp was pacing now, "Stop begging boy! You knew the dangers of bringing life into this world, especially in this time of mutiny. Those mutts have grown in number in this last decade alone, we went from monitoring a few packs to losing control of everything. The higher ups have no idea how many of those beasts are out there right now, they wanted to make peace and now look what's happened. Back in the day we had the Donquixote pack quivering and on the run and now you say that they are running rampant and killing hunters? This is why I left the organization, nobody knows what they are doing anymore."

"Dad," Dragon's voice broke, "Please."

..

He still didn't know the meaning behind the words spoken that day and sometimes he wondered if he'd imagined the whole strange conversation. What he did know for sure was that he gained a little brother, one that he would die to protect.

It was hard, but he tried not to be too mad at the old man, he did give his best attempt to raise them but after a few years he'd given up. Only coming by once a week or so to check up on them. Sometimes he'd just send Dadan, the hateful hag over to see if they'd burned down the house yet.

As they walked up to the gate he noticed how Luffy bit at his lip and pulled at the hem of his shirt. "Don't be nervous." He said reassuringly. Luffy nodded but still inched closer to Sabo the closer they got to the gate. A guard stationed at the gate waved them over. "Here goes." He muttered. Sabo elbowed him. "You are?" the guard drawled.

"I am Sabo; these are my brothers Luffy and Ace." Sabo gestured at them and turned back to the guard politely. "Our grandfather, Monkey D. Garp. Should have enrolled us already." The guard looked over then critically and then clicked a few buttons on the computer of the booth he was sitting in.

The guard was silent for a few minutes before he turned to them with a cruel smile, "Welcome home."

...

Since a lot of this story is already written and just needs editing, chapters should come out every few days and they should all be a bit longer than the first chapter. (I'm shooting for 6k a chapter moving forward.)

Thanks again for reading and I hope you will all join me on this crazy ride!