A New Beginning
Summary: Luffy witnessed the death of her own mother. Due to the traumatic experience it left the seven year old mute and distanced herself from the people around her. A new life begun when the Gol family took the young child under their protection.
Genre: Alternative Universe, Angst, Mentioned death, Drama, Family, Slice of life
Disclaimers: One Piece © by Oda Eiichiro
Chapter 1
Seven year old Luffy doesn't know what has happened. She roamed her brown eyes around the unfamiliar Japanese style garden before her. She saw the newly built playground from the corner of the garden. There were different kinds of bonsai, orchids and flowers to the other side of the garden.
Everything was so unfamiliar with Luffy that it was starting to make her so uncomfortable. She tried to imagine her previous home. Their garden was bit smaller than this. To the right was where their tool shed, next to it was the clothes hanger, and her mother also grew couple of vegetables from the other side of their garden. She could still imagine her mother humming softly while hanging their newly washed clothes. Luffy could still remember how her mother would waved at her while she was inside the living room busy playing with her dolls.
All she could remember that day was she was coloring one of her coloring books when her mother, Makino, rushed inside her bedroom. The dark haired little girl yelped when she was suddenly lifted from her seat and was placed her inside her closet.
"We're playing hide and seek with Papa, Lu-chan," she said after placing the child inside. "Papa is 'it' and you will hide here. Don't make any sound, okay?"
It has been too long since the last time she saw her Papa, so the thought of finally being able to play with her parents excite the child. Luffy eagerly and obediently sat inside, and clasped her tiny hands over her lips. She giggled while being oblivious with the anxiety and fear appeared across her mother's face.
"Luffy... promised Mama that you are not to leave this closet or make any noise, okay? Not until Mama and Papa tell you otherwise, okay?"
"What does 'ow-de-wis' means, Mama?" Luffy asked, tilted her head to her side in confusion.
Makino laughed softly, "I'll tell you someday. But promise, Mama, okay?"
"Mm'kay!"
"Pinky promise?" Makino lifted her small finger to her daughter.
Luffy eagerly intertwined her small one with her mother, "Luffy pinky promise, Mama!"
Makino stared at her daughter, she was smiling despite the tears streaming down her cheeks. The older dark haired lady leaned forward, and with her forehead softly resting against her daughter's, Makino whispered, "I love you so, so much." She sniffled, allowing a couple of tears to cascade her cheeks more before she reluctantly closed the door.
Waiting patiently, Luffy could still hear her mother talking from the other side of the door. And then she heard rushed footsteps and banging of doors. Luffy heard her mother speaking before someone bellowed something 'bitch', or whatever that means.
She heard someone crying. Was that her Mama? Fear was slowly creeping inside the child's small body, Luffy whimpered 'Mama' lightly. She wanted to run to her Mama. It frightened her that there are people yelling and crying outside the closet.
But she kept still.
She remembered her pinky promise with her Mama, and pinky promise means she must keep her promise at any cost, because Mama said so. As fear started to consume her, tears formed and rolled down her cheeks. Lucy's small body started to tremble as well as her heart started to pound hard.
"Where the fuck is your husband?!"
"I don't know! I swear, I don't know!"
"You lying bitch!"
SLAP
"If you are not willing to share anything, then maybe if we get hold of your daughter you will play along, no?"
"NO!"
"Search for this bitch's daughter!"
"No! Not my baby! Please, not Luffy!"
When she heard her Mama said her name, Luffy almost jumped out of the closet. With trembling hand, Luffy lightly touch the closet's door. With her light pushing, the door opened slightly but not enough to be noticed by people outside.
With blurred vision due to tears, Luffy peeked through the slight gap and she could see a man with black hair wearing dark colored sunglasses and has a broad flat nose. The man had her mother by her hair, and her mama was crying while whispering 'not my baby' repeatedly. There was also a very tall man standing by the window, who was idly looking outside the street through the window.
Later, a man with light blue spiky hair appeared on the door way, he pushed his blue tinted sunglasses upward, "The child is nowhere to be found. She might still be at the school or something." His deep voice sounded muffled through his mask.
"Then have someone go to that school and get the kid."
"NO!" Makino attempted to stop the blue headed man, but she was harshly thrown down the floor by tall man by her hair.
Her cheeks were stained by her tear as she grabbed the man's pants. "Please, not my daughter. Take me instead! Not my Luffy!"
The blue headed man impassively gaze at the begging Makino before twisting his body and walked out of the bedroom.
The tall man gazed maliciously and leaned his face towards Makino, "I don't have any use of you anymore. I only need your daughter to get what I need from your husband." From the holster on his backside, the man pulled a gun and pressed it against Makino's forehead, "Goodbye," he whispered before pulling the trigger of his gun.
A loud band echoed inside Luffy's room, which startled the confused and scared little girl. Everything went to slow motion, her dilated brown eyes followed the movement of her mother. Makino's body toppled sideways and red liquid begun to pooled under her mother's unmoving body.
The mixture of shock, confusion and fear stunned the seven year old. Why was her mother suddenly lying on the floor? Why was her mother not moving while the bad man before him was laughing so loud, which spooked the little girl more. That red liquid scared Luffy, too. It was the same red liquid that came out from her when she tripped and hurt her knee. What was that again? Blood? Why was there so many blood coming out from her Mama?
She wanted to scream to her Mama. She wanted to be hugged by her Mama or her Papa, if he's here. She wanted those strangers out of her room.
Mama. Mama, please stand up.
Her brown eyes begun to constrict and solely focused on her mother. Her body kept still, her senses become detached from her surrounding and everything went eerily silent. She was unaware that the two intruders hurriedly jumped out of the window, and then men in marine uniform flooded inside her room.
Three of the marines exited the room— probably to chase down the two intruders— while the other two policemen scanned the nursery room. The officer with black hair and freckles across his cheeks grimaced while staring down at Makino's body.
The other one, a little bit smaller from the other man and has a short brown hair, made a sign of a cross and then shook his head.
"This is horrible. Damn those bastards. You think they got the kid?"
"No, it was a good thing I asked Marco to secure the safety of Monkey D. Luffy earlier. He probably got the kid by now."
The paralysed Luffy twitched a little when she heard her name. She could barely hear two voices from the outside of the closet, but one certain voice seemed to dominate the other, at least for her. She tried to call out to whomever the owner of that voice, but no sound comes out her lips.
She wants her mama.
Mama... Suddenly everything blacked out. She swayed a little before her body fell down to the floor of the wooden closet.
A muffled sound of blag was heard which alerted the policemen. They immediately pulled their respective guns and aimed it towards the closet near them. The black haired man nodded to his partner before slowly approaching the closet.
He carefully grabbed the closet's door handle, he mouthed 'on three' to his partner and in response the other policeman lifted three of his fingers and started counting.
"Three!"
The black haired policeman pulled the closet's door in haste, revealing the unconscious Luffy inside. Both men gasped.
"Isn't this—,"
"Damn it! Call for an ambulance!"
To be continued
Oh gosh. I've been around FFN but I'm a little bit disappointed that the site has only few gender - bent Luffy stories. So the idea of making my own is the reason why I wrote this story. It will be a slow update, but this will also a short one. Barely passing 10 chapters or so. How exciting this is going to be!
So, yeah, Makino is not Luffy's biological mother, but I used her in my story instead, beeeeecause! I sucked at making Original Character. It would take time to even think of my OC'S name, because I would be 'The name should have connection to the character, or the story, etc.' So to save myself from going through the painstaking trouble, I made Makino as Luffy's mother instead. Heh. How lazy of me.
And also, this is an Alternative Universe type of story. Means, I am using the original OP characters but different genre or world.
And! Lastly, English is not my fort, even though I love writing, I still have so many flaws when it comes to writing stories in English. So please, bear with me if you so many grammar mistakes and whatnot.
Peace out, people! :)
Love lots,
Gummy :)