"Why does she keep following us?!" Ace complained. He and Sabo, a close friend were going out to the dangerous jungle, looking for lunch and dinner. Behind them, was an upbeat happy girl by the name of Luffiko.
"Ace, let's be friends!" She shouted, wanting his attention. Ace merely ignored her, running. Sabo followed suit. "Ace, she really wants to play with you," Sabo said. "Well, I'm not gonna let her!" The two boys dashed to a nearby pont. "Ace, come back! Don't leave me here!" She pleaded. The two made it to a large pond.
"Alright, I'm gonna catch a huge one!" Ace said, jumping in the water. Sabo watched in anticipation. "Oh yeah? I can catch a big one, too!" Luffiko said, jumping in the water.
"Wait, you ate a devil fruit, so you can't swim, right?" Sabo reminded her. "Oh…oh yeah." She pouted. Ace came out the water with a massive fish. He and Sabo prepared the fire to eat it. Luffiko looked at it in awe and in drool.
"Hm, what are you looking at?" Ace said coldly.
"Gimme that fish!" She replied, stomach growling.
"No! Get you own!"
"I can't swim, stupid!"
"Too bad." Ace was finishing up the fish when Sabo looked at the rubber girl. She was making a sad, pouty face. "Ah geez," Sabo sighed. "What can you do?" Sabo threw the tail towards her.
"I…wanted the whole fish," She said, swallowing the tail. Ace got up, annoyed by her. "Why are you so round?"
"I ate a devil fruit!" She boasted. "You're like a balloon." Ace sneered. He kicker her upwards and launched her to Sabo. "Hey, she's like a ball!" Sabo kicked her back to Ace. "Stop kicking me!" She told them. After a minute, the two kicked her up to the sky and ran off.
"Come back!" She yelled. "I'm gonna kick your asses!" The two laughed all the way to the jungle. There, Ace tried every trick in the book to deter the young girl away from him and Sabo. Knocking trees down in her path to even pushing her off a bridge, Ace wanted nothing to do with young Luffiko.
A week later, the young rubber girl came to the porch of Dadan's house, in a scarred mess.
"Luffiko, what the hell happened to you?!" The mountain bandit yelled.
"I fell down a bridge and some wolves had their way with me." Everyone jumped up in shock. "I told them I was too cute to eat, but they went and chomped on me anyways." She made a cute, sad face. Everyone fell for her charm. Ace made a face.
"She lied…?"
The next day, the quest for Ace's acknowledgement continued. And each day, Luffiko kept getting shunned and shunned. Be it casually asking to be friends or even trying her cutest puppy dog face, it only resulted in denial, and for the latter, a punch to the face. Said action resulted in a fist of scolding love by their grandfather, Monkey D. Garp.
"You, hitting girls?!" He yelled at his grandson.
"It's okay, gramps!" Luffiko said, defending her. "With my rubber body, I can't feel punches at all!" She smiled. Garp inherently knocked her on the head. A nice sized lump developed. "Gramps, that hurt!" She cried loudly.
"What have I done?!" He picked her up. "Don't cry, Luffi! My little future Marine!"
"I'm gonna be a pirate!"
"No grandkid of mine is gonna be a pirate!" He began stretching her face up and down. "Stop stretching her like that, you old bastard!" Ace yelled.
"Bastard?!" He continued to scold his grandchildren all throughout the day.
"We'll need a nice ship, and a sturdy one at that," Sabo said to Ace. The two were talking about sailing out to sea. A noise came from the bushes. It was Luffiko.
"Hey, Ace! Sabo!" She smiled. "Hey, Luffiko!" Sabo greeted her. "Where's the treasure?" Ace grew tense and grabbed the girl. "What do you know about it?!"
"Nothing! That's why I asked!"
"If she finds out…"
Luffiko was tied to a tree. "Don't do this to me, Ace!" She yelled. "You meanie!" "We can't just leave her here." Sabo said. She smiled at him.
"Right. We should kill her." Her face went into a horrible pan. "ACE IS GONNA KILL ME!" She began to bawl her eyes out, screaming aloud. "YOU'RE NOT MY FRIEND AT ALL!" A noise was heard nearby. Ace and Sabo hid, leaving Luffiko tied to the tree.
"I HATE YOU ACE I HATE YOU SO MUCH!" She was bawling loudly. Suddenly a large shadow was over her. It was a scary looking man with a group behind him.
"It's Porchemy!" Sabo said. "We have to help her."
"You, did you mention Ace?" He asked. Luffiko pouted her lips out and looked away.
"No."
"You're lying to me."
"No I'm not."
Porchemy growled. "If you won't talk, then I'll make you talk!" The brute took away the young rubber girl. "They're taking her away!" Sabo yelled. "Ace, we can't let him hurt Luffiko!"
Ace gritted his teeth.
At an abandoned house, Luffiko was tied to a rope hanging from the ceiling. "I'm not saying anything to you," Luffiko said. She pouted at the brute.
"I'm gonna smash you flat!" Porchemy yelled, picking up a hammer. "I'll still be cute, so nyeh!" Some of the men with him double over from the cuteness. Porchemy slammed the hammer as best as he could with all his might. But the rubber girl was unscathed.
"Told you so!"
"You…you're a devil fruit user, aren't you?" He pulled her nose. "Yeah," She said stuffily. "I ate one! So what?!" Porchemy went and got a pair of spiked gloves. Luffiko saw them and quivered in fear.
"Tell me where Ace is!"
"No!"
As Porchemy went for a punch, he stopped. Luffiko made a cute face. "Y-you wouldn't punch a cute little girl like me, would you mister?" Some of his men swooned over her but Porchemy immediately punched her in the face.
She screamed loudly. "It hurts!" Porchemy continued to punch the girl over and over. But no matter how much he hit her, she didn't budge or tell the whereabouts of Ace.
"I've had enough of this," Porchemy said, pulling out a sword. Blood, sweat and tears covered the ground under the rubber girl. Suddenly, Ace and Sabo came to the scene, coming to rescue her.
"Luffi!"
"There they are!" Porchemy went to confront them but the boys were too fast with him. Somehow, they even managed to defeat the hulking tyrant.
Later that night, Ace came to Luffiko in a huff.
"What did you tell him!?" He demanded.
"Nothing!" She replied, sniffling. Her face was covered in bruises. "He ruined my cute face…" "You didn't say a word at all? Why?"
"Because I want to be friends with you," She confessed. "I don't have anyone else, and there aren't any other girls around, so you and Sabo are the only ones I can go to." Under her wounds was that cute face that even Porchemy could resist. Ace looked at her and saw her sincerity.
Okay, he said. I'll be there for you. And Sabo, too.
"Right!"
The rubber girl smiled; having gained the friendship she so yearned for.