Hey, I'm back, remember when I said the Marineford time travel story would be the one I would make into a full-fledged story (with this one being a close second)? Well I lied, mainly because this one goes further back so I have more material to work with, that, and I'm not that good at social and battle scenes (I have a form of autism so it's kinda hard for me), for that same reason if there is anyone willing to beta for me, please pm me, but enough of that, lets start chapter 2 of this story

Legend:

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Sunny/denden mushi talking"

'Sunny thinking'

"Attack name"

"Talking attack name more talking"

Scene change:time, additional details

Story start:

Chapter 2: lots of revelations and brothers

Everyone was shocked there was a ship talking and apparently sailed to this place on its own to seek out its captain. And of all people the captain was their little anchor, Luffy.

Shanks, despite having seen some weird stuff in his days on the grand line, this one took the cake, and it was happening in east blue of all places

"Who are you?"shanks asked the ship

"I'm the Thousand Sunny the ship of the strawhat pirates. And that boy in front of you is my future captain"

"Future captain?" shanks asked "Wait; don't tell us here out in the open, can you tell us in private?

"Sure my captain trusts you, so I will too, come on board"

Shanks and crew saw a figure waving at them from the ship, motioning them to come aboard "Luffy you stay here okay?

On the ship inside the lounge

"So you are a klaboutermann, I presume, though I don't see the damage that would create a klaboutermann?" Shanks half asked after he came inside with only Ben Yasopp and Roo being allowed to follow him

"Yes I am but the circumstances of my 'creation' are very different from others"

"How so?" shanks asked

"To expain that I have to tell you something important, I'm from the future, and traveled to here from raftel"

Again, eyes were popping out of heads

"What!" was the near unanimous response (only ben remained silent but it was obvious he was shocked too.)

"You came from the future?" ben asked

"Are you saying Luffy made it to raftel?" asked shanks at the same time

"Yes to both questions, but at the island my crew was annihilated by the one calling himself Blackbeard. The trauma of losing all those who loved me awakened my consciousness and their love for me enabled me to travel back to the beginning"

"The beginning? You mean Luffy?"

"Yes in another time you bet an arm on and you gave the hat that once belonged to your captain to him"

"So you know who my captain once was." That wasn't a question, it was a statement and the answer was "Yes"

"So earlier you mentioned in another time,what did you mean by that?" that question came from Yasopp

"It means that whatever I change won't change my past but merely created a branch in time and space created at the point I entered this time, the two timelines run parallel to each other, unable to interact except for me traveling to this 'branch'"

"That was… informative" shanks said "but I have one more question, who is this Blackbeard you are speaking of?"

"… Only if you promise to not act on this information until 'the new age' begins"

"That I can promise, but only if you tell me when this new age starts"

"In my time it started ten years from now with the death of whitebeard at the hands of Blackbeard, his last words to the world were 'one piece exists' before dying, standing up"

*Whistle* "Damn, I knew that old geezer was strong, but to die standing up, that is on a whole 'nother level" was yasopp's answer

"But who is this blackbeard?" was asked by Ben

"The one who will break whitebeards ironclad rule of not killing a crewmate, his name is Marshall D. Teach, member of the whitebeard pirates' second division"

"Well, that complicates things"

"Yes, whitebeard having a traitor on board is certainly a problem, especially since we don't have solid proof"

"Don't worry yourselves with it I will do my best to train Luffy and his crew, I am born from their affection after all, I know all they knew"

"Alright we will take your word for it. Anything we can do to help?

"Yes, you can help me train Luffy in haki, I know for a fact that he has the ability to use all three"

"I see, Yes let's do it"

Back on the docks: after shanks talk with the Sunny

Luffy was getting tired of waiting, so he was getting ready to sneak aboard when shanks came back out

"Hey anchor! You can come aboard now"

Shanks would have sworn Luffy teleported to him right after he said that

"Let me explain what is going on…"

One lengthy and serious explanation later

"…and that is why I'm going to help you train"

"…. *snore*"

'He fell asleep!?'

"Huh … oh… yea so Shanks, who's ship is this again?"

"That was the beginning of the story!"

"*Sigh*, this ship is yours form the future" said ben "and shanks is going to train you"

"Cool so this is my mystery ship and Shanks is going to train me! When are we starting?"

"Right now"

"Please don't throw me into the jungle"

"What? No! I'm going to teach you haki"

"haki?"

"A mystery power everyone has" ben supplied

"Oh, I get it"

"Let's start with observation haki, observation haki is is kinda like a sixth sense that allows you to dodge attacks and… to boring?" he got a nod "I'll demonstrate, attack me as often as hard and as fast as you can."

Luffy obliged intent on paying shanks back for all the times he called him anchor but shanks dodged every time sometimes even with his eyes closed and even announce what he did before he did it, after a while shanks told Luffy to stop and explained what he did, he then told Luffy to hide in the village and wait for him to find him, so Luffy hid, and was found in no time despite choosing the best, most hidden spot he could think of, again shanks explained how he did it and Luffy was ecstatic, he really wanted to learn the observation haki now.

"Not now, first the other two" Shanks said "now attack me as hard as you can I won't move this time"

Again Luffy obliged only this time he hit him, but when he hit him it felt like he punched one of gramps fists of love, so he asked what that was, and shanks explained, this time he asked Luffy to sit still for a second and he flicked his forehead and told him that thanks to his rubber body he had an increased resistance to blunt attacks but that with haki you could bypass those defenses and flicked Luffy again, this time using haki he screamed out in pain for a moment and then got really exited

"Not yet Luffy, only one more to go"

He unleashed a concentrated wave of conquers haki at Luffy, enough to knock him out if he didn't have conquerors haki and that way confirmed he did have it

"What was that" he managed to wheeze out, still overwhelmed by the wave of power shanks let loose

"That? That was conquerors haki" Shanks said "it allows you to knock out weak willed opponents and is only found once per million people and you, Luffy, are one of them"

"Really!? Cool!" Luffy said "teach me"

And teach him shanks did, he mostly worked on unlocking Luffy's potential as a conqueror, but he also gave Luffy and the Sunny exorcises to unlock and train the other two, he even theorized that, since the sunny gained sentience and a corporal humanoid form that it could be capable of using haki and leave the ship and travel with Luffy on land leaving her true 'body' behind as a temporary empty shell, he didn't know how right he was. Though he discovered that on the last day of training them on land, and was shocked to learn both Luffy And the Sunny had managed to awaken their potential as conquers "you learn something new every day" he muttered/ commented, half in shock at the development

Some more intense training without shanks, and Luffy being allowed on one of the trips of the red haired crew (with the sunny following, of course) for more training later: the day shanks sets sail

"We are leaving now, do you wanna come with us?" shanks asked despite knowing the answer

"Thank you shanks, but I don't wanna be a pirate on your ship, I'm gonna make my own crew and surpass you, I'm gonna become King of the Pirates!"

"And I'll be there to help you all the way"Sunny added

"Is that so? Well then, here take my hat, it once belonged to my captain and it is very precious to me, promise me that when you become pirate king you will bring it back to me, okay?

"Okay" was the somewhat sad reply

"Remember your training, and if you keep training I'm sure you can do it." He got a nod" Especially with the help of Sunny, bit keep her hidden, you don't want your grampa to find her, do you?"

Luffy shook his head in response "I will keep her a secret, I promise on this hat"

"Okay, see ya anchor, meet you at the top!" he said before shouting "Set Sail!"

Luffy stood here waving together wit Sunny until the ship disappeared from the horizon, not knowing his grampa would return in a month

"Let's go and hide your body" Luffy said a while after shanks and crew disappeared over the horizon

"Okay, let's sail around the island and let's see what we can find"

Mount Corvo: 1 month later, Garp is dragging Luffy to his new home

Okay I will be honest; this meeting goes entirely like cannon so I won't repeat it this includes meeting Sabo and Luffy getting punched with spiked gloves

Mount Corvo, near gray terminal: 2 months later, 4 months before the gray fire and Sabo's 'death' in cannon

Ace and Sabo really enjoyed having Luffy as their little bro despite him sometimes disappearing for a few days and then reappearing afterwards saying he went training, they knew their little brother couldn't lie to save his live (although if he wanted he could keep his mouth shut in conditions that would make Ace tell the whole world about his father)so they believed him, they also noticed that after each of his 'solo training sessions' it was getting increasingly harder to beat him in their 100 daily fights until one day he beat them once every day he was present , that number went up until he scored a draw with both his brothers. And despite the Ace and Sabo's attempts to follow him when they saw him leave on his 'training trips' he always managed to shake them off somehow

2 months later, 2 months before the gray fire, the day Luffy scored a draw with both brothers

The three brothers by bond were playing in their tree house after their daily battles when Luffy said he wanted to show them something cool

Other side of Dawn island: almost midnight

"Are we there yet?" Ace asked, and with good reason, it was already dark and they had traveled almost to the other end of the island

"Almost there, had to take the long way around because you guys aren't rubber like me"

"How considerate" Ace grumbled

A short while later they came upon a bay with a cove, the sea outside the bay was riddled with sharp rocks that made the place unsuitable for a harbor and the perfect place to hide something

"So this is where you wander off to when you go on one of your solo training trips?" sabo asked

Luffy nodded "I want you guys to meet someone"

Luffy led them into the cove and there they found…

"A pirate ship!" the two elder brothers exclaimed

"Yep, I also want her to meet you guys; Ace, Sabo the Thousand Sunny she's kinda like a little sis to me. Sunny; my brothers Ace and Sabo."

"Pleased to meet ya" a cheery voice said

Ace and Sabo looked around for the voice

"What are you guys looking for?" Luffy asked "Sunny's right there"

"You mean the Ship!?" the two exclaimed again

"Yes he means the ship" Sunny said somewhat irritated, materializing her klaboutermann on the figurehead and waving to the bros

"It's alive!?" Sabo exclaimed

"Don't call her an it!" Luffy shouted "she's a girl"

"And yes I'm alive; I have a consciousness, haven't I?"

"She's a mystery ship, and she is helping me train haki"

"Haki? Is that what you used to beat us?" the brothers asked

"Yes, but that is not the only thing, I'm also training my rubber abilities" he said

"But what is haki?" Ace asked

"Haki is… a mystery power"

"What he means is that haki is a power that every sentient being can use" Sunny said "And yes that includes me"

"And what does it do?" ace asked, he got a wave of power in response that left him and Sabo wheezing for air on the ground

"It can knock weak and weak willed people out for example" Sunny explained "That was for calling me an it by the way, and to check something"

"Check what out?" Sabo managed to get out after recovering a little bit

"If the two of you are potential conquerors, congrats by the way, you passed"

"So Ace and I also have that conquerors haki thingy? Cool." Sabo said exited at having such a power at his disposal

"Yes it is, so are you guys staying here or are you guys going back?"

"Why don't you come with us?" ace asked

"I can't go for more than 5km away from my true body. And I wanna stay hidden from Garp"

"Okay, we will stay for a few days and then go back to the treehouse, but we will come and visit sometime soon" Sabo decided

"It's decided then, let's teach you guys about haki, and work towards unlocking it." Sunny said "and Luffy since I'm better at explaining anyway you can go train one of those techniques you were working on."

Luffy nodded an ran back into the forest to train whatever technique he wanted to keep hidden from the bros for the moment

The bros meanwhile listened intently to the explanation of haki, cooasionally asking some questions about haki until ace asked on very of topic question

"What is Luffy doing that he doesn't want us to see?"

"some techniques that are very dangerous to both the opponent and himself until he masters it" Sunny answered "I do not want to say more, let's get back on topic, shall we?

Sunny explained the last bit about haki and then want on explaining the training methods to both unlock and strengthen/control it. After the explanation the boys with the help of Sunny set to work right away preparing themselves for everything the world could throw at them

To be continued by me

Yes I gave Sabo conquerors haki, it will come in handy during the gray fire event

And no I'm not making sunny into a mary sue, at least, I try not to, I'm still new at this so forgive me if I do make her a mary sue

Please review I wanna know how I'm doing

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