Luffy : The Straw Hat Shinobi

New Beginnings

**** Prologue (-Luffy- age 7) ****

"Mommy" said a concerned Luffy said, "Where's daddy?" A woman with long black hair down to her back and glowing blue eyes stared out the crack in the curtains with a serious face, "Hush baby" said Koyhiko trying to gather herself together. Her husband Dragon had went out to the village just before the mountain bandits attacked about an hour ago. She turned to her son and stared at the boy black wild hair and bright brown eyes staring back at her with a concerned look on his face. From the village nearby they could hear the screaming and the fires burning everything down, Koyhiko quickly hid as someone passed the house she feared the worse for her beloved but she could not grief, she had to stay strong for her son. At that moment Dragon burst in the door not even giving enough time for koyhiko to see who it was he shouted "Koyhiko, Luffy quick get out, now!"

As he said this thump sound was heard over the chaos outside and Dragon hit the floor with a kunai sticking out his lower back. Two men wearing dark hoods and leather armour rushed in, Dragon turned around with a horrified look on his face obviously he had not expected anyone was following him. "Well well well, it was a good idea following this geezer eh Mufa." the man to the left exclaimed. "Yeah and he led us to more slaves as well boss will pay us extra for finding stragglers.

Dragon stood up weakly, "Damn I thought I avoided them." "Koyhiko take Luffy and get out of here I'll hold them off for as long as I can." He took a clumsy fighting stance and looked at the two opponents who were less than threatened by the man. "Oh, so this old man thinks that he's a match for us what a joke, look he can't even stand up straight." Mufa said. "Should we keep him alive, the boss might not be happy if we kill one of his precious slaves?" "Nah sure he won't miss one of them".

Dragon lifted his arm up and took off his signature straw hat, "Luffy take this so you will always remember daddy ok." He threw the hat in Luffy's general direction and the boy came out his hiding place as did koyhiko and picked up the hat his father loved nearly more than him. "Oh a woman and a kid is it then I was hoping for more men they pay for a better price but I'm sure we can have some fun with, her before we bring them back eh Mufo." "I agree with you there, now lets go"

The two men rushed in bringing kunai out from under their cloaks and brought them near their chests ready to strike. "Luffy, Koyhiko, GO NOW!" Screamed Torkio as he stood with a pool of blood dripping on the floor. Koyhiko reluctantly complied; she picked up a Crying Luffy and the hat on the floor running out the back door into the forest. Luffy saw as he looked over the back of his mother's shoulder, Dragon had punched one of the men to the floor but two against one wasn't a good match-up for him so Mufo had stabbed him in the abdomen as he did that Dragon let out a violent scream and threw a punch at Mufo. He dodged it easily and the other man stood back up. He revealed a piece of paper and threw it at Dragon.

Dragon looked at the paper for a split second in confusion until it started to sizzle. "Shit" as he said this the men ran out the house but Dragon's injuries made him not fast enough to clear the blast. Kaboom! there was a huge explosion and the house went up in flames. Luffy let out a wail as he looked at his mother but she let out no noise but tears ran down her face rapidly. They ran outside view of the house and kept on running through the thick forest. It was almost night and the skies were getting dark, they heard the screams start to lessen as they ran. Koyhiko's mind was rapidly trying to think of what to do she quite a good knowledge of the forest as her and Luffy played hide and seek here more than a few times but after what felt like an age of running she slumped against a tree.

"Is daddy ok" asked a whimpering Luffy tears rolling down his face," I don't know Luffy but you have to stay quiet they'll be looking for us. Her mind raced "what shall I do I've got to keep Luffy safe but there is not much else apart from..." A lightning bolt struck her mind "Konoha" she murmured. "Konoha is only at the other side of the forest if I can make it there and inform them, we could repay those bandits for what they have done and have a place to hide". Koyhiko stood up and but her husbands hat on Luffy which was really too big for him and lifted him up again to continue her extensive workout session.

She ran through the forest taking breathers behind trees to catch her breath and then continue then after a while she thought it was safe enough to go onto the path so she didn't get lost. That was quickly proven as a mistake, the two cloaked men from earlier threw kunai one striking Koyhiko's ankle making the woman fall and drop Luffy. The two men jumped down from a high up tree and stood just in front of Koyhiko. "Thought you could outrun us eh, you stupid woman" Mufo said and he kicked her in the gut, she let out a small cry of pain and looked at the men in terror. "Luffy...Run" but her words went on deaf ears, Luffy just sat there with the hat covering most of his eyes he was in shock and couldn't move or think straight to hear her. Mufo picked Koyhiko up by her robe, "We're going to have some fun with a pretty thing like you.

Koyhiko stared at the man angrily and bit down hard on his giant hand. "Ahhgggg" Mufo said angrily as he dropped koyhiko a small amount of blood running down his hand. "Little bitch bit me" the other man laughed at his misfortune Mufo pulled out a kunai and cut a weaker Koyhiko on her leg. Blood spattered out onto the muddy ground. Rain started to fall down on them creating a perfect scene for tragedy. "You going to take it, or are you going to do it the hard way." An irritated Mufo asked Koyhiko. Koyhiko turned her head in defiance. Mufo didn't take this so well. "You little bitch." Mufo lifted his arm up ready for a punch "Have the decency to look at someone when you are spoken to." His fist moved at a great momentum Koyhiko closed her eyes to embrace the strike. Smack birds from the nearby trees flew away in fright at the sudden noise.

Koyhiko opened her eyes to see a small but strong Luffy blocking her from the assailant with a fist hitting his forehead. "Luffy I thought I told you to run you will die if you stay here." Luffy smirked "Mommy if I ran away what would happen to you if I ran" Luffy said as blood ran down his forehead, he was then punched in the gut and sent flying by an enraged Mufo "You little shit don't act so strong your just a little weakling" Mufo pulled out a kunai and rushed towards the boy. Luffy stood up and just dodged the swipe of the kunai he then fell back against a tree; a deep cut appeared just under Luffy's right eye it would never heal fully if he survived the encounter. "Now die you piece of shit," Mufo screamed and threw the kunai at Luffy, Luffy curled up in a ball and shut his eyes tightly. The kunai went hurling towards Luffy's head.

Thump the kunai struck, blood went everywhere. Luffy opened his eyes to see his mother kneeling over him panting. "Thank god you're alright luffy" she said weakly, "Mom" Luffy said tears swelling up in his eyes. "Luffy listen to me this time, Run as far away as you can and don't look back." she put her hand inside her robe and brought out a blood splattered picture. "Take this Luffy and treasure it always as well as the hat you be strong for us ok." Luffy nodded slowly and took the picture. "Now Go" Koyhiko shouted as she turned to the men taking the kunai out her back screaming in the pain it caused she charged at the men. Luffy reluctantly complied with his mother's last order to him and ran the opposite way. But he looked back to see his mother stuck down and a kunai implanted in her head.

Luffy's heart broke at that moment and the pain he felt was unimaginable he just wanted to stop and take on the men that had murdered his family, but he wasn't nearly strong enough from the blood falling from his cut and the awkward running from taking a full mans punch to the gut Luffy was in an awful state. He ended up tripping about a twenty feet from his attackers. He weakly turned round to see his attackers close in on him he had started to lose consciousness from blood loss and not having any rest. The last thing he saw was his attackers being engulfed in flames as he drifted into unconsciousness the let out a faint smile.

(The next day)

Luffy awoke to see him in a bed inside what looked like a hospital ward his forehead was covered in bandaging and his stomach area was covered in bruises. He then remembered the experiences of the night before and wondered how he had survived or if it was all a dream from a nasty knock on the head. Just as he started to get his surroundings three men walked in all wearing a forehead protector that looked like a leaf and flak jackets with black trousers. As he studied the men he noticed one of them held his father's straw hat and he knew that last night was real.

One of the men sat on the chair beside his bed. "Now son, what's your name", asked the man "Lluffy sir", he murmured, "Right now, Luffy I know this is hard to take but you are in Konoha hospital you received a lot of blood loss from last nights attack on your village... you are the only survivor." Luffy just sat there registering everything the man had just said, he thought maybe his dad had avoided the blast last night in the house but he had now been told that he died. He tried to hold his tears but the tears swelled up as he thought about this he was the only one.

All his friends and family died or were captured by the slavers and taken away before these people had gotten there. " I know this must be hard for you." the man tried to act as if he knew the pain Luffy was going through but he did not he had all his friends right in Konoha and his family was still there when he got home but insisted he knew Luffy's pain. Luffy knew this and wanted to yell all his anger right in his face but he didn't, he remembered who saved his life and wasn't going to act disrespectful or ungrateful. A fourth man walked in he was in his mid twenties and wore a flak jacket like the rest but had his forehead protector covering one of his eyes and a mask to cover his nose and mouth. "Oh Kakashi-san what brings you here" asked the man that told Luffy that his whole life was destroyed. "Oh nothing much just in the hospital to see Guy, who's this." He pointed at Luffy. " This is Luffy he was one of the villagers in the nearby forest that got attacked by the remnants of the Kaguya clan that attacked the Hidden mist a couple of years back" "Kaguya clan?, who're they I've never heard of them why did they attack our village". "Well what are you going to do with the boy he's obviously shocked and whets the point of asking him questions he's about five he's not going to know why they did this or anything." "I'm not asking anything like that Kakashi" the man obviously irritated at being lectured. "I'm just telling him what's going to happen to him and what we're going to do for him" He turned to Luffy.

"Right Luffy I need your surname and your date of birth" the man on the seat asked, Luffy looked at the man who was giving him a creepy smile. "Why do you want that for?" Luffy asked suspicious by what was asked. "So we can make you a Konoha citizen and have you moved into an apartment." Luffy looked for the first time in the past twenty four hours like he was happy. At least these people are trying to help me I guess I can adjust. "Can I have my hat back first please?" Luffy asked innocently, the man complied and gave Luffy his hat and Luffy put it on in a flash of an eye and gave an ear to ear grin. Kakashi smiled at this and turned round to head out the room. "See ya" he waved over his shoulder and walked down the hall. "The man turned back to Luffy," Now could you tell us your information please." he asked again with a less creepy smile. "I'm Monkey. and I was born on the 5th of May." he said in a clear voice. The man looked at Luffy intrigued by his answer. "The Monkey clan, that's your clan" he said in a suspicious way. "Yeah is that bad?" Luffy asked. "No no, right Luffy we're going to go sort this stuff out and we'll be back later today ok." Luffy nodded and as the men were just about to leave the room Luffy quickly asked, while panicking looking for it " Where's the picture I had did I lose it in the forest." The man turned and pointed to Luffy's hat. "It's in there" and he walked away, Luffy slowly took off his hat and as he did the picture fell out. He looked at the blood stained picture lying on his bed and started to cry. He promised himself that day, he would not let anything happen to people he loved ever again.

Sora the newly appointed Jonin who had talked to Luffy headed straight to the hokage's office. As he stood in front of the hokage and gave his briefing about Luffy. "The boy looks mentally stable and was quite cooperative with us and he has no medical problems according to his charts so he's in a good condition." The hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen sat wearing his usual robes of red and white and the hat that symbolised him as hokage. "The most interesting part is that he is from the Monkey clan, they were thought to be wiped out during the last ninja war." the hokage said. "He could be a great asset to the village but we can't force him to join the academy." "Sir" Sora interrupted, "I'm sure Luffy will join the academy because I heard him as I was leaving the hospital that he was going to get stronger to protect the people he loved." Sora explained and then asked, " Hokage-sama, what did the Kaguya clan want out of this." The third Hokage looked at Sora, " well they would probably want to rebuild they're forces from nearly everyone of the dying in the attack on the mist." But why so near another hidden village." Sora eagerly asked, "The kaguya clan were a clan that only knew how to fight they never planned anything big and never thought of the consequences. They have a very rare Kekkei Genkai that lets them control bones that is the only reason they have survived but it only happens once in ten generations." "So they're like the Monkey clan, Luffy might have they're Kekkei Genkai." Sora suggested. "He could but it's very unlikely it happens randomly and it hasn't been seen since the second great ninja war." Sarutobi explained. "Right, Sora go get this kid sorted and report back here straight after." "Hay" Sora saluted as he said this and shunshined away.

Sora spent the rest of the day at Konoha archives creating Luffy's background for konoha citizenship he also applied Luffy for a small apartment with allowance to keep him going since he had no one to look after him. That took most of the day he then headed to the hokage's office then got paid for a C-ranked mission and got the rest of the day off. As he headed home to his wife Nami who was a three year promoted chunnin. On his way home he passed the hospital and remembered his promise with Luffy that he would come and visit him in the hospital after he was done sorting out Luffy joining Konoha. He headed to Luffy's room as he opened the door " Luffy hey I came to visit" as he opened the door fully he saw that the bed Luffy was in bare he quickly turned and ran to the reception " Where's Monkey D Luffy." He asked rapidly. "Oh he asked to use the training ground outside so we let him out with a medic to supervise" Sora sighed in relief as he walked out to training ground 27 to see Luffy.

Sora exited the hospital to see the big training ground, he saw Luffy running round the outside of the track. Sora walked over to the medic, "How long has he been doing this for" he asked curiously. "Well he's been doing the running for about an hour and before that he was practicing kicking and punching against one of the tree trunks," the medic pointed over to a tree near the forest behind the compound, the tree stood with the bark knocked off it and thinner from where the boy had been hitting it Sora wondered how it was still standing from the beating it took. As Luffy passed them he saw that his hands were covered in blood and his feet starting to swell when Luffy had gotten a few feet away from them to collapse on the ground not even trying to break his fall. Sora and the medic rushed over to the boy, Sora turned the boy over and was happy to see that he just collapsed from exhaustion from the way he was snoring. Sora let out a sigh and then helped the medic lift Luffy up to his room and lay him on the bed. He left the hospital with a smile on his face he thought to himself how he was starting to like the kid.

As the months past Sora came to visit Luffy at his new apartment in Konoha, he had come to like this boy and in return Luffy enjoyed his company Sora had told Luffy about the Ninja academy and Luffy happily agreed to attend when the new class started in three months. Sora helped Luffy to learn about chakra and showed Luffy how to utilise it and showed him some of his techniques mostly Raiton ones since that was his element. Luffy was hard to teach and Sora had to explain it slowly so the boy didn't get lost, Sora also couldn't get over the way Luffy loved meat the boy could eat about six stone worth of meat and want more. Sora eventually introduced Luffy to his wife Nami they were both quite young, Sora being 23 and Nami turning 21 in 3 months. Nami was a short girl with long black hair and glowing green eyes and mostly wore a light green tube top with darker green spots on it and a tight pair of trousers when off duty. Luffy and Nami hit it off great and Sora was happy to see Luffy come out of his isolated shell and converse with people other than himself.

Luffy was really happy when he went home that night having met Sora and Nami had really cheered him up but with his time without Sora Luffy continued to train his physique in hoping of getting stronger. He had overheard some men walking past one day that the Monkey clan had been a very strong clan that had a unique kekkei Genkai. Luffy had pondered about this for a while and as he was walking home he decided to go to the library and tries to find out why the men said that as far as he knew his father Dragon was an ordinary man who had no special powers. He entered the library and asked the librarian where he could learn about clans, The kind woman directed his to a quite large part of the library and said if he needed any help to just ask, " Can I get that one up there" Luffy said pointing to a book that said Kekkei Genkai of famous clans/ Deceased clans. The woman looked at the boy puzzled but shrugged it off and walked over to get a ladder to reach the book, she came back in a short time and brought the dusty old book down for Luffy, "This book might be a bit hard for you to read young man, if you want help to understand anything just ask I'm free since no-ones here." Luffy thanked the woman and then sat down on a chair and stared to scan through the book looking for something that might help him understand his heritage. As he skimmed the book he saw a page entitled " The Long Lost Kaguya clan Kekkei Genkai" Luffy remembered that the Kaguya clan was the clan that had killed his parents that thought brought up bad memories and Luffy tried to shake them off by reading about they're kekkei Genkai.

The Shikotsumyaku is the Kekkei Genkai of the Kaguya clan that only appears about the tenth generation at a time though the Kaguya clan are nothing but savages they were feared for this ability to control they're bones at will though not much is known how this Kekkei Genkai is used in battle it is known that the user can have limitless amount of bones and can harden them to defend against almost any attack the bones cannot grow themselves so if the user cannot see the opponent attack then he can be killed users of this ability tend to die earlier than others for overuse of the calcium in they're body ( unsure if true).

Luffy was intrigued by this and wanted to know more but sadly little was known about this since the kaguya clan were not allied to any hidden village. So Luffy continued his search and once he got to the last page he had given up hope, until he caught a glimpse of the word Monkey under the title next volumes include. He had a flicker of hope but it was late and he wanted to head home on his way out he asked the librarian if there was a second book for that subject but she said that the author died during the third great ninja war. Luffy's heart sank at this news but asked if the librarian knew anything about the Monkey clan. Luffy was glad to hear that the Konoha Archives centre had knowledge for rare kekkei Genkai's, Luffy thanked the woman and headed home to head to the archives the next morning before training.

On his way home Luffy saw two men cornering a young boy with bright spiky blonde hair, shouting and cursing at him, the boy was whimpering and obviously wanted to get away but the two adults were not letting him get away, Luffy started running towards the group as he was running he saw one of the men lift a arm ready to strike the boy. Luffy overheard the other man say "Awwww you scared boy uve got no one to protect you how's it feel to be all alone bet you feel pretty worthless". Luffy was enraged by this comment as he was alone apart from Sora and couldn't stand people like that as he neared them the man struck the boy down. Luffy unable to hold his anger Luffy roared with anger and struck one of the men in the back. They were civilians not ninja and with Luffy's training he was easily a match for the men, as they turned with surprised looks on they're faces Luffy punched them both in the face and they hit the ground with a thud one of them got up and took a swing at Luffy but Luffy dodged the clumsy punch with ease and kicked the man in the ribs that brought him back to the ground the other man brought out a scroll and opened it. Inscribed on it with ink it said "Lightning" as it opened a lightning bolt shot at Luffy who took the attack head on as he couldn't dodge it. Surprisingly the attack didn't hurt and Luffy was shocked by this as were the men by they're look of they're faces and they got up and ran shamelessly away from they seven year old boy who kicked they're asses. Luffy content that he wasn't hurt turned to where the boy had been but was surprised to see that he was gone and scanned the area looking for him but shrugged it off and walked home content with his good deed.

The next morning Luffy was still pondering how the lightning hadn't affected him that he forgot to go to the archives. Until Sora got there for training and Luffy hit himself on the head for being so dense that he could just ask Sora if he knew what it was, "Sora-san" a timid Luffy said, "What's the Monkey clans kekkei Genkai" Sora looked at Luffy in surprise but had expected with the news of a member of the Monkey clan living in the village he was sure he would be asked that question at some point by Luffy. "Well Luffy the Monkey clan has a vey unique kekkei Genkai or so I'm told as it hasn't been seen since the second ninja war only very few members ever obtain it." Sora paused looking at the young boy listening intently made him give off one of his creepy smiles as Luffy called it and continued. "The Monkey clan's kekkei Genkai gives them the ability to become a rubberman they can never revert this though and it is obtained if you are able to by a traumatic event and it requires no chakra to use. They can stretch they're body like rubber, how far depends on how the user trains. Its techniques are unknown so we can't give much information about it they can take blunt objects and not feel a thing and are immune to lightning." This last piece of information struck Luffy that might be the answer to why he survived last night he decided to keep it to himself and asked another question to Sora. "Then how do you know you have it Sora-san" Sora thought about it but came up with no conclusion, "Sorry I don't know that one, if that's you done lets see if you can use chakra yet this will be the last time I teach you then your going to the academy and I'm going on a long mission so lets make the most of it."

Luffy and Sora continued to train throughout the day but when training Luffy's mind wandered away from reality that the possibility was that he could have this ability of a rubberman after the days training Sora bid farewell and headed home, Luffy stayed at the training ground and decided to see if he had it. He put his arms behind his back and thrusted them forward and as he did so they went a lot further than they should have and headed into the forest Luffy was star struck at the idea of having a very rare ability but as his body wasn't used to this he followed his arms and hit a tree head first but he didn't feel a thing so he wasn't crying like last week when Sora hit him into a tree that hurt "so it must have awakened last night when I helped that boy" He thought to himself as he stood up. He gave an ear to ear grin and started jumping up and down at the thought of being soooo awesome. He thought it was a good idea to keep it a secret from everyone even Sora for when he graduated so until then he would practice in secret. It was a brand new beginning for Luffy as he ran home to get ready for the academy tomorrow.

/Present day/

Luffy had been at the academy for five years and he had come a long way since being a small weak kid when he came to Konoha. He had worked out almost every day improving his fighting skills and his Gomu Gomu (Gum Gum) powers hidden from everyone even Sora who he hadn't talked to that often since he was a jonin and had lots of missions to do, he talked to Nami sometimes and she was just promoted a jonin last year so wasn't as busy as Sora had had talked and spent time with Luffy at least once a week with a few missions in-between. He had become good friends with Rock Lee another student at the academy who was as hard working as he was. Lee had no ability for Ninjustu or Genjutsu and he only had moderate taijutsu but was certain he would prove he could be a good ninja without any of those things and Luffy respected that and Lee liked having company instead of being made fun of for not using ninjutsu and genjutsu by the other kids. Luffy didn't usually talk to anyone else apart from Lee they all hated him for beating up two civilians which they over exaggerated big time by saying he was a demon and should be executed. Luffy was rubbish at genjustu but was quite good at ninjustu, with kenjustu he only knew the basics and he hadn't even tried fuuinjustsu. He now wore his Straw Hat with a string attached to it so he didn't lose it in a fight he also wore black shinobi trousers but wore a red coat opened so it showed his torso and his cut from the night of nightmare as he called it left a scar under his eye.

He sat with the newly received forehead protector with the hidden leaf symbol on it strapped on his belt of his trousers smiling with Lee sitting next to him with his on their head. They had both graduated form the academy the last day and were waiting for Iruka-sensei to read out the teams they were being assigned to.

"Yosh I hope I will be in your team Luffy" said an enthusiastic Lee, "Me to Lee we would be a great team" They both smiled at each other but turned they're heads to the desk where Iruka walked in everyone went quiet. "Ahemm, right so you have all now graduated from the academy and you will be assigned to your jonin sensei. But…. Only three teams will be promoted to genin so do your best to impress your senseis or you will be here for another year." Every one in the room was shocked by the news and there was shouting about how it wasn't fair and why this was happening. "You will all be told by your senseis why this will be happening. Right team 1" As Iruka stated the teams Lee and Luffy were getting anxious by what was going to happen. "Team 6, Neji Hyuga, Tenten and … Rock Lee" Lee was visually disappointed by not being on Luffy's team but was even more annoyed by being on Neji's team. Neji hated everyone and was so sure that you couldn't change your destiny that you should give up if you weren't born for greatness. "That's rubbish unlucky Lee we can still train together if we pass hopefully" Luffy said trying to cheer the obviously upset Lee. "You are right Luffy I will do my best so that we can become great ninja together. " Team 9" Iruka said. "Money D Luffy." Luffy looked up in anticipation. "Saishu Fushoku and Rin Kyoryoko"

Disclaimer: Hey guys Taytaz here, this is my first fic and hoping to continue this story. However any reviews to how I wrote this would be very much appreciated and any things you think I could improve on would really help me. Thanks guys and hope u enjoyed it.